magicalhanayo
[color=green]♥ ♥ Happy Birthday Hanayo! ♥ ♥ [/color]
This is my third time hosting a birthday party for my number one school idol, Hanayo Koizumi! The display I made this year was full of love - I made a cake, cookies (they say "Love Hanayo"), and onigiri!
I made onigiri for the first time for her birthday this year! I've always made rice on Hanayo's birthday, but now I'm addicted to making onigiri, they're just so cute!
I think Hanayo liked them, success!
Another small thing I wanted to do this year was paint my nails using her signature green! I went with a very simple black and green and I just adore them!
Me holding hands with my Hanayo doll, featuring my special "From Hanayo" bracelet" and my personal favorite Hanayo pieces~
This year, I also wanted to try to write a letter for Hanayo. This year is my 7th year with Hanayo as my best girl, not just in love live, but in general, so it was very special! I try to show my love for her in a lot of different ways - physically with my collection of the cutest Hanayo's, in the games by tiering for her events and saving for her cards, to just everyday by thinking about her and admiring her strength!
I'm not entirely sure how to end this, so I'll just say again that I love Hanayo very, very much! She's been with me for so many years, through so many parts of my life, and I can't thank her enough for being my perfect idol. Thank you Hanayo, for being so precious and sweet, and for being so passionate about what you love! I love you and will keep doing my very best right alongside you!
ThiccHanayoFan
Here is my first time entering a fan contest for Hanayo's Birthday! My biggest celebration I've ever made for Hanayo. Before I start, I apologize this is a bit of a long post, please take a look!
[color=green]Happy Birthday Hanayo![/color] 💚 2021
So much sweat, stress, and many tears went into making this celebration possible. I hosted a HanayoWeek tag on instagram and I was anxious the whole week to show everyone what I was setting up for hanayo. It was awesome to see other fans show appreciation for hanayo as well. It was a stressful week but I think it was worth it in the end for my precious gohan goddess.
Wearing my hanayo apron and waving my penlights to cheer Hanayo-chan on!
FOOD 🍙
I had to make the onigiris the day after the celebration. My rice fell apart when I was trying to assemble my onigiri. I cried so hard from all the stress and hard work from the day before and the day of Hanayo's birthday.
I was originally going to make cupcakes, cakepops, chocolate covered strawberries, and have a side of fresh fruit but after my rice had broke on me when I was trying to assemble my onigiris.. I gave up. I also made the cakepops but the cakepop was too heavy after dipped in frosting and the stick didn't hold onto the ball D:
[color=green]Love mail ♡[/color]
❀ To Hanayo, ❀
Happy Birthday, my princess! ♡
[color=purple] ♡♡ Your most defining characteristic is how much you love rice and how much you love to eat rice to most people. People seem to think that you’re an ordinary girl but you are so much more than that in my eyes. You prove that even an ordinary girl who loves to eat can also be a super amazing idol on stage! To be able overcome an intense social anxiety, from being preserved and quiet, and not being able to speak up for yourself, to a shining idol on stage is definitely amazing. The spark in your eyes light up my world and the burning passion I can hear from your singing makes me adore you even more. I can’t express my gratitude and my love enough for you. I’m so sorry it took me almost 5 years of us knowing each other, for me to finally throw a big celebration for you. I strive to do more for you the next few years, I will continue to support you, my #1 idol. ♡♡ [/color]
Why do I love Hanayo?
Hanayo’s personality reflected mine a lot at the time when I started to get more invested into Love Live! Being quiet, reserved, and letting others make decisions for me. I struggled a lot with making friends and trying new things out because I was afraid to embarrass myself. My social anxiety used to be really bad when I was younger. Her enthusiasm when she’s talking about idols reminds me of how passionate I get when talking about interests of mine, I’m not afraid to show my enthusiasm for it. Her passion for something she loves like idols is amazing.
What made me love Hanayo more?
[color=red]The anime. [/color] In episode 3, Rin tries to convince Hanayo to try out the track club while she was grabbing a flyer of the 2nd year’s concert. Hanayo can’t bring herself to say no to Rin and ends up being dragged to the track club. I relate to this because I would let others make decisions for me because I was afraid of speaking up for myself. (https://youtu.be/SWf93eJp-BM) link to the scene
Episode 3 of LLSIP where the second years were handing out flyers to their first concert and Hanayo takes it and says she will show up to support them. Later on, The second years standing on the stage shocked in disbelief because the seats are empty. Hanayo running to the auditorium and asking “Am I too late?” Her being the first supporter to show up makes me so sob. She is so genuinely passionate about idols and wants to support others who also want to become an idol. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mscyUor2sQ0&feature=youtu.be) link to the scene
There are scenes in the anime where Hanayo talks about other school idol groups, and she’s super passionate when talking about these school idols.
Thank you so much for reading! This will conclude my post for hanayo's birthday post ♡♡
LinOfExecutions
GUILTY HOLIDAY
Here’s my entry for the School Idol Café contest :D
Since the theme was Home For The Holidays, my first thought was of course a gingerbread house, but I wanted something savoury, and then I thought, but what if GUILTY KISS were left Home For The Holidays and, uh. Left to their own devices. So that was the concept for this. Guilty Kiss being left with lots of ideas and ingredients and zero supervision, producing their own take on a gingerbread house.
Without further ado, I proudly present…
The CASTLE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS, surrounded by its ABYSS OF STEWSHINE, and which can only be reached by braving the trembling BRIDGE OF THE YEARNING OSTINATO.
The castle is Black Like Yohane’s Soul, the sea of Stewshine comes with its own sea monster and complimentary rocks, and the piano keys on the bridge are a tribute to the many, many hours spent idly improvising fragments of melodies while daydreaming about smouldering older GL manga love interests.
And because it has to be pretty and delicious, here are pictures of the Stewshine on its own and the castle’s cross-section. It’s a Pâté En Croute, a kind of cold meat pie that is usually Not Vertical.
Now, for the process and contents! The Pâté is filled with an assortment of meats, as well as poultry livers and shiitake mushrooms, marinated in Madeira wine, herbs and spices (and for the livers, lemon juice). To make the dough black (I couldn’t NOT make it black), I used both black sesame seed paste and squid ink for a double shot of DARKNESS.
The real challenge was finding a mould that would work: Pâté en Croute is usually long, rectangular and horizontal, so of course I couldn’t find one that would work vertically, especially not one specifically made for this purpose, and I wanted it to cook vertically so it wouldn’t collapse on one side, and so I could make battlements. So I stacked a bunch of tart circles on top of each other, baked supports of salt dough around them to keep them in place, and then held the whole thing together with some string while baking. It was an experience, but hey, it worked, and the battlements baked perfectly without breaking! The last step was pouring Madeira jelly through the vent to make sure there are no gaps inside, but in the end I had pressed the meat down so well that I barely needed any at all. So before serving, I also glazed the whole thing with the rest of the jelly, to make it extra SHINY.
Now, unlike Mari Fricking Ohara, I unfortunately can’t afford to spend 100k yen on ingredients, so I had to do with something a little more reasonable for my stewshine, but I opted for a some fun ones to make up for it. The soup base is fish soup stock, in which I simmered some haddock, shrimp, mussels, shiitake mushrooms, a dash of squid ink, and added some PURPLE POTATOES because it’s Mari.
The sea monster and the top of the bridge are made of homemade kamaboko (japanese fishcake) made with the rest of the haddock. I made it a little denser than normal so I’d be able to shape it before steaming. The structure of the bridge is made from leftover dough, and the piano key pattern is painted on with more squid ink. I cut some of the potatoes into the shape of rocks and steamed them before placing them around the castle base, and used some slices as base to hold the sea monster parts.
And after all that work, it was time to finally enjoy!
Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed this GUILTY HOLIDAY full of Guilty Kiss energy!
