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Mechanical Lullaby Event Story (12/03)

Part 1~4 | 5~8 | 9~12 | 13~16 | 17~22 | 23~26

Part 9 - April and Meir

Meir (Osaka Sougo): I bought the groceries for today.

Meir: What should I do to make my customers say it’s delicious?

Meir: …… I want them to eat my food happily… yeah, just like that boy’s smile over there――

April (Yotsuba Tamaki): Yumm―――!

Meir: You!

April: Huh? What?

this was a stupid idea that i couldnt get out of my head since i saw his roomba

MEZZO!!!!

It’s currently fighting a bitter battle to the death against the raspberries attempting to invade from the east while trying to annex the patio.

Could go either way at this point TBH. Unless, of course, I take a shovel and the blowtorch out there and battle both back to within their original boundaries.

The dogged determination and patience of one person to do what is Right and Necessary may not always win the day or even be noticed, but it will tip the balance just a little in the direction of good.

“[T]he innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’.”

Help when you can, lift when you can, work as you can, but never be afraid to ask ‘will I get paid for this?’

Everyone’s got hidden depths.  Some people have beautiful hidden mountain glades filled with adorable doe-eyed bunnies.  Some people have black oubliettes filled with nightmares and worse. Endeavor to be the sort of person that has both sorts of depths as neighbors.  Plumb them with caution.

Find a place to call home, and know it so well you can tell what street you’re on by the feel of cobblestones through your boots.

You can always come home again, but that doesn’t mean you’re moving backwards.

There is never a bad time for a pun.

There’s also never really a good time for a pun.

You might as well just stay braced for a pun at all times, and ride them when they come with as much grace as you can manage.

The fact that you can replace ‘pun’ with ‘disaster’ in the last three rules says a lot about the human race.

Many people can survive absolutely anything as long as they know where their next meal is coming from. Others can not survive much, no matter how many meals they know about, and there’s no shame in that, nor admitting that, nor leaning on others to get there.

You can protect children and you can teach children, but never perfectly in either case.

You may not be able to change the world, but that doesn’t mean you have to stand for any sort of nonsense in your personal life.

Everybody has somebody.  It could be a friend, a lover, a spouse, a writing partner, or even That One Person You See At The Coffee Shop each day.  Sometimes they exist to comfort you.  Sometimes they exist to drive you absolutely mad.  Be open to either as a form of self-improvement.

Death comes to us all, but memory is long and time is tricky.  The end for you is, most likely, not really the end for everyone else.  

If you know the end, if you can see the end, there’s no need to be resigned.  Keep walking on cheerfully, whistling right up to the precipice, and let people remember you by the beautiful song you leave in the air.

-she talked with war veterans and people with disabilities to accurately depict characters with those backgrounds

-she also researched military corruption extensively

-she fought to bring in more female characters with her editors who opposed it

-she has told her readers that there is no shame in leaving an emotionally toxic situation and you should never feel ashamed of it

-she based the situation with the ishvalan people off of a real displaced indigenous group called the ainu people in hokkaido to raise awareness of their situation

-she criticizes the notion of self sacrifice being a noble thing especially since it’s such a prevalent theme in most shonen manga

-she worked on a farm with a lot of hardworking women and wanted her work to reflect just how complex real women can be rather than overdone anime stereotypes

-she has stated that she thinks there is value in not repressing anger in the face of injustice, and she thinks it’s good to use that anger in constructive ways

-she has emphasized in her story that you don’t always have to forgive the people who hurt you

-she worked on and alongside several other manga one shots, illustrations, character designs, anime adaptions, movie adaptions, and light novels all while having three kids over the course of her career