Hope
Yup, being terminally online does leak out sometimes 
It isn’t necessarily tied to Obama politics per se, but the connotation is to make fun of people by using the word to describe delusional states, similar to how “copium” is being used to make fun of people that cope. It still might be too early to attempt to reclaim that word, so I’ll just change it to “inject hope in the veins” in the previous post and leave it at that 
June 18th, 2025
- 119 reviews on WaniKani
- 15 lessons on WaniKani
- 64 reviews on Bunpro
- 3 lessons on Bunpro
- 3 stories on Satori Reader
Kinda brat frfr, even with cheating grows pretty fast ^^
One thing that makes Japanese really difficult compared to English to me is that short sentences have long meanings, and when the narrator reads out a sentence that is shorter in Japanese than in English, I can’t manage to imagine the sentences fast enough before the next one comes, so I’m feeling a bit tempted to finally click that speed setting on Satori Reader and slow down the recording a bit until I can understand what the sentence is saying 
also,
THATS ME THATS ME C:
I was wondering how was secretary in Japanese, and 秘書 seems to be the winning ticket, nice to finally get to know it ^^
also,
pretending I didn’t read this one xdd
On the topic of summer vacation though, I heard the new Phineas and Ferb are really good, but I haven’t watched them yet. I need to make my summer really brat, but I don’t really have that great of a time to do a summer if I want to do a September, so stay tuned ^^
Today’s new grammars on Bunpro were all familiar and all related, so maybe they won’t have to add to the pool of ghosts ^^
Life
I promised Lucy Dacus, here’s Lucy Dacus ^^
Unfortunately, for those who tend to avoid my political contamination zone spoilers, the whole post will have bits and pieces of politics today, so content warning: skip over to the next one if those topics do trigger you, I promise, I’ll get less political in the future as well ^^
…maybe except for this one xdd
There is a service with rental cars in Berlin that’s called MILES, but as a rite of passage, as soon as a new car joins the service force, it is customary in Berlin to rub off the last dash from E on the sticker to give it the name it deserves ^^
And also, Tommy Cash is coming to Berlin! I’m probably not going, but he’s still pretty cool ^^
And yeah, everything in GolyBidoof universe builds on top of each other, so yeah, the concert did take place on Warschauer Straße I just mentioned a few days ago xddd
Anyway anyway, before we go to Lucy Dacus, the supporting act that Lucy selected was a British trans woman going by her stage name Jasmine.4.T, and she was pretty fire ^^
In this case, .4.T is a reference to “T4T” - dating which involves two trans people, (trans for trans), so she wanted to make a reference for being there for the trans girlies ^^
Her genre of music is called rAISING AWARENESS AND LETTING PEOPLE KNOW THAT SOCIAL ISSUES EXIST AND IT WOULD BE NICE TO FIX THINGS and she makes it loud and has fun with music, the audience was banging their heads even more than most of the acts of Lucy xddd
Her whole band was composed of at least queer people, so that was really neat to see on the stage, she dedicated one song to homeless people, there was an interval where she was screaming “FREE FREE” and people in the audience were screaming “PALESTINE”, she was making a fundraiser for her British woman friend who got detained for allegedly smashing Israeli drones in the UK and she brought up the point that in her country, trans rights have been eroded significantly and she no longer would count as a woman on official documents, which also was an inspiration for one of her songs, where she was singing her soul out singing that she feels like she has a woman soul.
So with me, 
trans women are women trans rights are human rights thank you ^^
Apparently Jasmine performed as a supporting act for Lucy Dacus before she transitioned a few years ago, so, hey, building a network of connections that last, gj Lucy ^^
After her act finished, she went off to sell off her CDs, and I was like “heck yeah i’m sponsoring this one” 
and got it signed immediately ^^
And then, here she is, in flesh and blood, Lucy Dacus.
For those who don’t know who Lucy is, I found her years ago thanks to her album called Historian (me! me!) and the most popular song on it called Night Shift, which has hundreds of millions of listens on Spotify now. After her breakout album, she was 1/3rd of an act called Boygenius together with Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker (who she is dating right now) and this tour is inspired by her new album called Forever is a Feeling.
Lucy is doing sung poetry with all sorts of backing music, she’s very romantic in her work, her work also often is interpreted as queer and a part of lesbian representation. She knows how to play different types of guitars and she was switching them over the course of the performance, sometimes whispering a poem acapella, sometimes there’s a violin in, sometimes shredding an electric guitar to express how upset she is. I’ll be posting some quotes from songs as I get to them ^^
If I stay busy, maybe I’ll forget how I feel and go on living life as I planned it
Her setlist went through all of her hits across the years, even though it was focusing mostly on the new album, it didn’t skimp on the previous ones either ^^
There is one track on the new album that’s her and Hozier, and today Hozier wouldn’t come, but that didn’t stop Lucy from using a part of her staging crew to come and play Hozier’s part for the Bullseye song ^^
Also, relevant to this one:
^^
At the end of her performance, Lucy sang “Forever is a Feeling” and went through the gap in the door to fake out the end of the concert. But then she came back for an encore ^^
The encore was her Boygenius song, True Blue, and then I was like, “whew, what a great concert, I only wish she would sing Night Shi-”
What a banger concert xdddd
After the concert, credits started rolling…
…sadly, Lucy only had vinyls and not CDs, so I ended up getting a sticker…
…and then rushed back home after the concert ^^
I was surprised how many songs I knew and how dedicated people were to her performances, there was something like a 1000 people in the venue, but it felt very intimate and everyone was on the exact same page. I love concerts like those, because you develop a thread of connection with a performer as well, but I’m sad Lucy didn’t stay for autographs. She has a concert tomorrow, so, ehhh, understandable ^^
Also, tag your Polish friend to give them a heart attack, Kunst am Bau ^^
What a day. What a concert ^^
I was so happy I managed to come and I enjoyed myself so much at it, went back with her songs on my headphones and arrived home with notes ringing in my ears C:
I don’t know what would be the other performers I’d enjoy as much as I did Lucy Dacus today, so having something as rare as her definitely is novelty ^^
Either way, German tomorrow and it’s really late already, so take care everyone and see you tomorrow!