Subject: May I recite for you before I join you all on your noble journeys?
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Posted on: 2020-12-25 05:44:38 UTC

Greetings and Merry Christmas. You may remember seeing my name, a not-so-clever reference to Ki no Tsurayuki, on the wiki as someone who suggested a badfic from a fandom not yet covered by the comm – Touken Ranbu – on the claimed list. I don't know what took me so long to formally join the Board, but here I am, as a seasoned ficcer and Das Sporker, qualified JLPT N2-level Japanese user and Japanese culture enthusiast, to introduce to you all the bad, Suetastic, weeabooistic horrors I've encountered in my fandoms: major focus on Touken Ranbu and Onmyōji (2016 mobile game by NetEase Inc.), minor focus on Bungo to Alchemist.

As those familiar with Das Sporking may know, I am hardcore into tanka poetry and always sign off my DS posts with them (except tables of contents). This is how I will end this intro: with my own amateur home-spun verses.

小夜中に 薄茶と香る 花椿
真冬の雪に にほひそめたり
Sayonaka ni usucha to kaoru hana tsubaki
mafuyu no yuki ni nioi some tari
Camellia blossoms that smell like weak tea in the night are starting to bloom in the snow of winter.

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