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So I'm currently part of a yaoi group chat on LINE but it's dying down. If someone is in a lively yaoi gc, can you add me? My LINE user ID is:
magicmau5

Hi, I'm a member of three foreign language learning group chats on LINE (main language is English but we try to speak in the other languages as we are able and give one another encouragement). I moderate the Japanese and Mandarin Chinese ones, and am just a member of the third for Korean. I want to know if anyone is interested in joining one or more of the groups? I know it's hard learning a foreign language by yourself so we pool resources and tips. I currently have a MEGA file sharing service set up to share Japanese resources like Genki textbooks. Lately we've been sharing a live study room with cameras on Gooroomee, a Korean service (of course that's optional). Since I also study Spanish, I was wondering if anyone out there would be instead or also interested in a Spanish learning group chat on LINE? Caveat: these groups are devoted to learning languages and we don't discuss yaoi etc, though. I am a member of a couple yaoi groups if you want me to give you info on those lmao. Please contact me using my LINE user ID: magicmau5
Or respond to this question with your own LINE user ID.

I have:
Haikyuu, the whole Karasuno lineup in one figure
MDZS, both main characters, separate figures
Hitorijime My Hero, both main characters together
Saezuru, both main characters separately and one of them together (these figurines are too goddamn sexy, I love them....)

I like buying otaku type merch but I don't exactly collect them. My biggest haul of merch is from the AoT fandom, with all sorts of merch types like t-shirts, drink coasters stylized with the 4 shields, keychains, chibi titans (titans are adorable!), stickers, you name it. My fave merch is a one-of-a-kind coffee mug from Etsy which is stylized after the original Starbucks green and white logo. The main figure is a badass Mikasa and the logo says "Attack on Titan Coffee" instead of "Starbucks Coffee" lmao. If I buy merch, I order them from a variety of places like Redbubble, Etsy, Amazon, Ebay, and AliExpress.

I would upload pics but it would be too embarrassing (￣∇￣")

Hi there, I have previously posted about this but since we have a new feature I'd like to ask the question again. Is there anyone interested in learning Japanese or is in the process of teaching themselves Japanese? I moderate a group chat on the LINE app and we currently have 173 members. This Sunday, we will start doing free classes, and we'll be doing it on a weekly basis. The teacher will focus on beginners, those at the JLPT N5 level and JLPT N4 level. If you are interested in this, check out our new website: https://sites.google.com/view/japanese-otaku-corps/home
Feel free to contact me on LINE at user ID: magicmau5
Also, if you're learning Chinese (Mandarin), Korean, or French we have group chats dedicated to learning those languages as well. We just don't have classes for them yet.

Hi all, I need friends on Twitter and IG. I have more friends on LINE but I'm always looking for more! I'm interested in BL, some shounen, seinen, and of course anime. My fave anime is Gintama! I also study several foreign languages as a hobby, while my major is in math with a minor in computer science. If you want, we can also add each other on the LingoDeer app.

You can use my usernames on the apps...
Twitter username: magicmau5
Instagram username: mariposa.mnw
LINE user ID: magicmau5
LingoDeer username: magicmau5

Or you can go to the direct link:
https://twitter.com/magicmau5
https://www.instagram.com/mariposa.mnw/
(No direct link for LINE or LingoDeer)

Looking forward to hearing from you!
- magicmau5

I love the author Jorge Luis Borges. He seemed to write about stuff like he was on acid, but what he wrote always turned out to be mind-boggling and lyrical in ways that challenge a reader's conceptions of reality. I always wish an artist would adapt one of his insane stories to a manga or better yet, a webtoon with full color pages...

Borges once wrote about a man called Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who had a daydream in 1797 on a summer day in a farm town near the British town of Exmoor. He'd just begun to read a non-fiction history book, when he fell asleep almost immediately. The section he'd read just before nodding off described a man from ancient Persia called Kubla Khan. Kubla Khan was an Ottoman Emperor made famous in the West by Marco Polo (who traveled from Europe to Asia between 1271 to 1295 AD). In Samuel's dream, the words on the pages of his book began to sprout and grow like a living thing. Asleep, he saw realistic, vivid images of Kubla Khan's magnificent palace along with words describing them. After a couple of hours, he woke up and was completely, utterly sure that in his dream he'd created an extraordinary, detailed 300-line poem called "Kubla Khan" (persumably Kubla was an important character in Samuel's dream - this is important!). He tried to write the poem down, but his smartphone buzzedd with a tweet (lol that part's not true). While he was writing, someone interrupted him, and when he tried to finish writing down the poem, all he had left were vague images that made only 50 lines but were nonetheless very beautiful. He called it "Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment."

Now let's talk about what's in the poem, Kubla Khan and his palace, who was a very real person. Years after Samuel lived, translators discovered some information about Kubla that Samuel had never known, and nobody in Europe could have known until the early 19th century. Kubla (remember, he was a real person) had done something strange, that makes sense to me but may scare you. You're about to hear something like a ghost story, except these ghosts lived and probably are still out there, doing something strange in someone else's dream (or dreams), as if they themselves are unceasing poems that will continue to hop from person to person until the end of time (please god, do not let t be like Being John Malcovich).

Remember I just said that Samuel dreamed of Kubla (who lived in the late 13th century) and he wrote his dream-poem in 1797 AD (the late 18th century). That was published in 1816 AD (the 19th century). Then, about 2 decades after he published Kubla Khan, Europeans got a hold of the translation of an ancient Persian book called Compendium of Histories by Rashid al-Din. The Compendium of (Persian) Histories was published in the 14th century (1300-1400 AD). There are only small bits of the Compendium left, but there is a certain line written by a descendant of Kublai (the Persian spelling of Kubla), Ghazan Mahmud. It reads, "East of Shang-tu, Kublai Khan built a palace according to a plan he had seen in a dream and retained in his memory." There is absolutely no evidence to show that Samuel could have ever told Ghazan or Rashid to write or publish that. There is also no evidence to show that Kubla and Samuel knew each other.

However, IF one built a palace shown to him in a dream, and his descendant later writes that he actually did it, AND another person made a poem about that palace, including the actual name of that person who dreamed of and built the palace, it makes logical sense to say that at some point Real-Kubla and Real-Samuel did cross paths in perhaps something like Dream-Persia. Now who came back from Dream-Persia -- was it the Dream or Real Kubla, the Dream or Real Samuel? Because, how can one dream of oneself in a dream, without anyone being a counterpart to you in a Dream-Land? Perhaps, Dream and Real Persia are exactly the same, but mirror images of each other?

Basically, the story written by Borges was based on historical fact and uses his creativity to highlight how sometimes dreams can mess with reality. I personally wish I could see a badass webtoon based on this story, in which Samuel meets Kubla in a dream (maybe BL, maybe not hehehe) and Kubla is so impressed by Samuel that he makes some changes to his life in the real world when he wakes up....this is a little like an isekai but not really? Kudos to those who have read the story I'm referring to, I think you can find it in Borges: A Reader but I forget...

Hi we have a nice group chat on LINE that is mostly devoted to talking about yaoi and shounen ai. We also just talk about random things. There are about 400 members but not everyone is active so I thought I'd invite people to join. Just respond to this message or send me a message on LINE, user ID is magicmau5

Hi there! It's magicmau5 again. I moderate a LINE group chat focused on makeup, beauty, style, and funny TikToks. We have about 30 members and we're mostly pretty active. Is anyone interested in joining? I honestly am in about 40 or maybe more LINE group chats but this is one of my favorite ones! You can meet people from all over the world and discuss your makeup routine, things you've recently bought or want to buy, solutions to common problems, etc. Here is the group invite link: https://line.me/R/ti/g/QbJ84lkKB-
If you need to use the QR code, send a direct message to me in LINE using my LINE user ID: magicmau5
ヾ(☆▽☆) I look forward to speaking with you!

I moderate a group chat on the LINE app for people interested in learning Mandarin. I was wondering if anyone wanted to join? We have things like a "word of the day", links to free resources online, chat in Mandarin as much as we're able, etc. We used to have classes as well using Discord but that stopped because the main teacher became busy. I might be able to get a different teacher if there is enough interest generated.
If you're interested, send a message to LINE user ID: magicmau5

I am a moderator of a group chat on the LINE app for people interested in learning Korean. Is anyone interested in joining? I post a "word of the day" in Notes on a daily basis with a vocabulary word, pronunciation (Romanization), and use in an example sentence. We post links on free Korean resources on the web. We also share files for Korean resources using the cloud. Ideally, I'd like to recruit someone to act as a teacher for classes as well but so far I haven't found a suitable person. As far as becoming a member, we welcome any level learner, from complete newbs to fluent speakers.
If you're interested in becoming a member, send a message to LINE user ID: magicmau5

I am a moderator of a LINE group chat for people interested in learning French or those already fluent in French. Is anyone interested in joining? In the future, I'd like to recruit someone to act as a teacher for classes but so far I haven't found a suitable person. As far as becoming a member, we welcome any level learner, from those completely new to learning the language to fluent speakers. Mostly, the language spoken in the group chat is French but the members also speak English sometimes. Oftentimes people will ask homework questions and receive replies from those native to France or French-speaking countries.
If you're interested in becoming a member, send a message to LINE user ID: magicmau5

Hi! Not sure if anyone is interested, but I am a part of a LINE BL chat group, and I started two language learning chat groups also on LINE. One is for Japanese and one is for Chinese (Mandarin). If anyone is interested, contact my LINE ID: magicmau5
or send me a private message here on mangago. Thanks! ╮(￣▽￣)╭

I want to start seriously learning Japanese and I have a few resources but no one to learn with. If anyone else is interested in joining a LINE chat group for basic Japanese, reply to this with your LINE user ID and I'll add you. Or, contact me directly on LINE, my user ID there is also magicmau5.

Hi! I'm a fujoshi (technically kifujin or 貴腐人), 35, looking for LINE friends around the same age (30s, older 20s). We don't have to talk about yaoi since I'm pretty busy lately and don't have a ton of time for manga or webtoons. I'm studying Korean, Spanish and Japanese in my spare time so if you're interested in any of those that's great too. Contact me here or on LINE, my user ID there is: magicmau5

Hi! I run a Japanese group chat on LINE and our teacher has left us pretty abruptly...we need someone to replace that person if possible. The teacher is responsible for teaching a beginner class and an intermediate class for an hour each, one day a week but if they can't make it it's fine to reschedule too. Previously due to the limitations of the teacher's computer, we could only do a voice chat style teaching lesson but if the person who next volunteers is capable of it, we could do it on Discord, Zoom, or LINE itself as a shared screen video feed. We are currently discussing the possibility of remuneration for a teacher and have not come to a conclusion yet. Many of the students are minors without jobs and can't afford to pay for lessons.
As a teacher, you don't need a professional qualification, just the desire to share your knowledge of Japanese, and a knowledge of Japanese around the N2 level or so. Although that's not a hard and fast rule either. The only rules we have on the group chat are that we are respectful of each other and don't post explicit stuff like yaoi, yuri, hentai etc because the focus is on learning and not yaoi, yuri or hentai. If that sounds interesting to you, or if you just want to join as a regular member of the group chat, add me on LINE and send me a message, my user ID is: magicmau5