Weirdness: Round three

[Té Rowan]

If you haven't already heard or read that the surname of this Vil Schoenheit guy in Twisted Wonderland is the German word for beauty... well, you just did. You are now all out of excuses for not knowing it.

[Té Rowan]

https://soranews24.com/2025/05/08/welcome-to-japans-smallest-natural-mountain-where-you-get-a-climbing-certificate-at-the-summit/

Bentenyama is still the reigning champion. It has a climbing season which opens on June the first (6.1 — the peak's altitude in metres above sea level).

[Té Rowan]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12295645/1/Imperial-Servant by TheWorldsTallestLeprechaun. Straight Ranma, stalled at nine chapters.

A succubus finds out the hard way that Ranma is not the lothario Gos painted him as.

Only the first three chapters of this story exist on AO3.

[Té Rowan]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64938394 — "Izakaya Rescue" by BenchpressHibiki. Straight Ranma one-shot.

Ranma rescues Hiroshi from a dire situation.

[Té Rowan]

http://web.archive.org/web/20050227155544/http://www.valorphoenix.net/index.html

This seems to be the most promising spot for those that might want to re-read Valor Phoenix's fics.

[Té Rowan]

https://soranews24.com/2025/05/28/saitama-women-arrested-for-dueling/

Seems to be true that the Saitama (wo)man is Japan's equivalent to US's Florida (wo)man.

[Té Rowan]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/49029676 — "Happy Birthday" by ScribblingSteve. Straight Potterverse, 39 chapters so far.

You'll find Pixie Stix, betrothals, hot chocolate, chaos and beached canon. Poor Dumbledore... Oh, and Lucius would've been a great treble.

[Té Rowan]

https://soranews24.com/2025/06/12/why-you-should-be-worried-if-someone-calls-you-uehara-san-in-the-japanese-workplace/

Harabarakaramara...

[Té Rowan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_eRWbpQKbg — CSR: Signal Box to Driver (Real life radio transmission)

Real life can throw some right odd wobblers at you.

[Té Rowan]

My brain came up with this verbal noodle incident this morning: "Reagan's Nodoka statement".

[Té Rowan]

https://archive.org/details/s-02-e-02s-to-hell-with-babe-ruth — "Hawaii Five-0" anno 1969.
https://archive.org/details/get-smart — Should you?

[Té Rowan]

You have heard too much James Last if you can't imagine Mozart's "Ave, verum corpus" without bass guitar.

[Té Rowan]

https://archive.org/details/MusiqueAsphaltVolumeOne

How avant-garde are you? Enough for electronic music?

[Té Rowan]

https://soranews24.com/2025/06/26/our-search-for-the-coldest-place-in-tokyo-to-escape-japans-heat-wave-takes-us-below-the-earth%e3%80%90pics%e3%80%91/
Way cool.

https://soranews24.com/2025/01/21/new-japanese-maid-cafe-has-strict-age-limit-for-maids-no-one-under-65/
Way cute.

[Té Rowan]

(sigh) I passed this age test, too...