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yumemigaoka2023-06-10 01:40 pm
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Yumemigaoka Rainbow Pride 2023!
⭐ Who: Everyone!
⭐ When: June 10th – 11th
⭐ Where: Yotsuba Park, around Koubai
⭐ What: Yumemigaoka Rainbow Pride weekend!
⭐ When: June 10th – 11th
⭐ Where: Yotsuba Park, around Koubai
⭐ What: Yumemigaoka Rainbow Pride weekend!
RAINBOW PRIDE
Since the last week or so of May, there's been posters and advertisements scattered around Yumemigaoka so everyone's known it's coming - but if you're a new arrival maybe you're still a little surprised when the weekend of the 10th rolls around and brings the 6th annual Yumemigaoka Rainbow Pride event with it! Though it's a relatively recent tradition to the city, those that take part in it seem to have turned the whole thing into a well oiled machine with a cozy festival on the 10th followed by the parade around the city on the 11th.
The weather turns out to be just right for the whole thing - apart from some passing drizzles on the 10th, the weekend is mostly dry and sunny with only a chilly wind dampening the mood occasionally. Other than that, it's perfect weather for a celebration!
Whether you're here for solidarity or just to show your support it's sure to be a good time, so why not stop by?
YOTSUBA PARK
- The first part of the Rainbow Pride proceedings is the cheery and lively Rainbow Festival hosted at Yotsuba Park. There's a small entry fee of a few hundred yen, just to help offset some of the costs of running the whole thing, but once you're in and you've got your little hand stamp you're free to stay as long as you like and to come and go as you please. And as it happens, there's plenty to see!
The festival is set up a little like a summer festival at a shrine, with a central "street" of stalls and vendors leading up to the open air stage that's been set up to pump out live music. While there's some food and drink stalls at the top and bottom of this little central street, the majority of the stalls are vendors and sellers with various Pride related goods, art or are otherwise independent queer artists and crafters with some cool goods to offload on the nice folks at the festival. Those of you who attended the DU's anniversary event might find things a little familiar and... well, given that this is the DU we're talking about it shouldn't come as a surprise that there's a big overlap between "Dreamers" and "people who go to Pride".
Apart from the stalls, the main draw of the event is the stage that's been set up for today's festival. A few announcements and speeches get made from up on here but for the most part it's here to provide the promised live music for the event. The music lasts more or less all day with at most a half hour break in between acts and while it's mostly smaller, independent musicians and groups you might also spot a few familiar faces up on stage!
- 🌈 Ai Hoshino (
liedol) will be performing a small set of three songs – a newer solo song and two from her B-Komachi days for old time's sake.🌈 Connor Murphy (
yourattention) is busting out some choreography from a performance planned for a Pride event back in the States – just uh... try not to pay any attention to how much cussing there is in the backing track.🌈 Rue Lette (
loungelizard) will be making an appearance in a killer look put together just for Pride with sax in tow and some equally killer lipsync.... and plenty others to follow!
The event itself is an all day affair, getting started at around 9:30 in the morning and wrapping at around 10pm, with the live music acts wrapping at 8pm - consideration for the neighbours, yanno? The event is mostly a family friendly festival but the food and drink stalls will start serving alcohol at around 4pm and the final few hours of the festival will turn into a full on party!
Don't get too crazy on Saturday though - as the organizers remind everyone at the closing ceremony, there's still the Rainbow Walk through the city on Sunday so make sure you're fresh faced and ready for that!
KOUBAI
- Bright and early Sunday morning, everyone shows up fresh faced and raring to go (or, you know, dragging themselves along the pavement and longing for death and/or an alka seltzer) for the second leg of the Rainbow Pride weekend – the Parade! It's a briskly paced march that heads out from the front of Koubai's most central train station and loops around the district twice before breaking off and heading to the plaza just out front of the Dreamer Union. A much more relaxed answer to yesterday's celebrations has been set up, with a few food trucks and stalls and a large tent set up with seating in the shade and out of the glare of the sun.
Once everyone's back at the tent, there's some speeches and toasting from the organizers, some cheers and promises to be back here for the next year... but mostly, the idea is to relax, unwind and just enjoy spending some time and solidarity with the people you just marched with. Maybe you'll make a new buddy or two on the way!
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[Ango still doesn't have a house to store his ill-gotten gains, but now that he's got a semi-steady job, it's probably time to leave his comfortable park bench and start looking for a cheap apartment. He's been getting by with public baths and coin-operated laundromats for the past month and a half, but now that it's Japan's rainy season, it's a pain to dry clothes on trees in the park.]
So, you come to these things often? It's my first Pride in Yumemigaoka... seems pretty wholesome so far, but I hear that shit gets wild after dark. Gonna find an after party and try to sweet talk my way into an actual bed tonight.
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Do I look like I go to these things often? Here I thought I reeked of hetero-masculinity.
[Says the guy literally wearing rainbows. And camo pants. It’s a Look(tm).]
Been to a couple in the States, first time here. The difference is pretty stark - I mean, I’d already be drunk by now, for example.
[It is like, 12:30pm. He takes another sip of his beer.]
You need a wingman? I might know a guy. By which I mean - the guy is me.
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With a wingman like you, bro, we're gonna reach the sky!
[And crash and burn, most likely. This is the kind of plan that's very likely to end with both of them ending up sleeping in a gutter instead of the soft bed Ango is envisioning... but hey, it wouldn't be the first time.]
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[If only a poorly executed pun.]
All else fails, I've got a nice couch you can crash on. Granted, it's gonna have me on it as well, but - beggars, choosers. Could be worse, right?
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[Ango still feels that paying rent is capitalist oppression, but after last month's thunderstorms washed out half his camp, he's developing a renewed appreciation for walls and roofs and electricity.]
A pilot, huh? I used to be a novelist... pilot is much cooler. I bet you can do a barrel roll. Rolling over in bed was all I accomplised on most days. But now I can actually work from bed! Living the dream, man!
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[Narrators voice: he did not.]
What are you, one of those hotshot work-from-home types that sends emails all day?
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[It doesn't sound like a thing, but Ango doesn't actually know the difference between a barrel roll, and aileron roll, and a jelly roll. The sum total of his aviation knowledge comes from crusty old American memes, even crustier American movies, and drinking too many miniature bottles of liquor on an American Airlines flight.]
Me, I got a job with the Dreamer Union a few weeks ago. I guess it's not technically working from bed, but it's close enough!
[He doesn't mention that it's just a data collection job that involves carrying a clipboard and marking down the number of Torments he sees in different areas. It's the lowest level of DU grunt work, suitable for newbie Dreamers with no practical skills.]
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[Misfire grins, then pulls something out of his pocket - a sandglass, silver in frame and full of a soft pink sand. He holds it up to Ango.]
Check it out - we're coworkers. You a Dreamer too?
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[Ango pulls a chain necklace from inside his shirt to reveal a silver sandglass filled with sparkly purple sand.]
I literally just started though... I'm still a part-time minimum wage Dreamer.
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[Delivered with a fingergun, so it's as good as a promise.]
So, what's your name, loser?
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[Ango shoots back with his own finger guns. Brandishing guns is how Americans say hello, right?]
So you're like, my mentor now? Guess I oughta introduce myself. I'm Ango - it's written with the kanji for "cheap and easy" which kinda tells you everything you need to know.
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[He grins.]
Call me Misfire. Long story. [A brief pause.] Actually - it's not. It involved a gun, a bet, and a minor misunderstanding. Don't worry, nobody got hurt. Well, not that badly.
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[Ango's certainly had his share of minor misunderstandings, most of which have ended with somebody (usually Ango) getting punched in the face. As far as he's concerned, if you leave a misunderstanding with more or less the same number of fingers that you started with, it's a win.]
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[He doesn’t quite appreciate how lucky he is for that one.]
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[Ango is also extremely lucky that none of his antics have led to jail time... yet. He's probably blacklisted in the entertainment industry, though, and his publishing agent has stopped returning his calls...]
Guess we've gotta stay out of jail if we're working for the DU, though... they've got a squeaky clean image to uphold. I don't think they're gonna let us be celebrity idol Dreamers anytime soon.
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[The term 'deadbeat' not even said like an insult.]
You're crushing my dreams here, Ango.
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But we're gonna have to put in the practice! Lucky for us, I know a good karaoke bar with cheap drinks~
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When's practice?