An Absolutely Horrible, Evil Oneshot Idea

An absolutely horrible, evil oneshot idea

Dabi dies sometime before he can reveal his identity to the world.

Since he was such a big unknown, his genome is tested to find any relatives so the heroes might learn who he was.

Endeavor gets the worst phone call of his entire life.

A little something for Linguistics Tumblr.

So the Crunchyroll newsroom isn't a "room" so much as a Slack channel. We have news writers all over the US, in Australia, and in Japan. This means we have something akin to 'round-the-clock coverage, but it also means that our schedules respective to each other are skewed. For example, when the East Coast contingent is starting their day, the Japan contingent is shutting down for the evening.

Because of that, we started experimenting with greetings that could apply when Party A was coming in for the morning and Party B was leaving for the night. One person came up with "konbarning": a combination of "good morning" and "konban wa" ("good evening" in Japanese). It stuck.

Over the following months, "konbarning" got shortened to "barning" and other permutations. Now, a year or some later, this is how we announce our arrival:

Japan playing the Haikyuu!! theme song after beating Argentina in volleyball is so iconic

fyi, women’s sports in japan is plagued by men who show up to events to take pics w/ infrared cameras that reveal undergarments or skin. It’s gotten so bad that japan’s women’s volleyball team at the paris olympics have sported uniforms that absorb infrared rays.

“Sex essentialist!!!!”

Okay, “uterus haver, ovary owner, bleeder, pregnant person, front hole” believer. You got me there fr.