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[Ceola Roefaro]

SoI put the question out on Twitter, and the majority replies came back Commander, which made a lot of sense, obviously. But nearly as many people also mentioned Golgari, which pleased me too. Before I wrote regularly about Commander, I wrote a lot about decks I played in various competitive formats, and anyone who read me regularly no doubt noticed an affinity I had for green and black.

That goes all the way back to the beginning of my Magic story in 1994 when I opened up an Unlimited starter deck and found Force of Nature staring back at me. I quickly fell in love with big, bad green creatures and played them whenever I could. Of course, the big problem back in the wild early days of Magic is that spells were so much better than creatures. You could invest four and five mana and all your hopes and dreams on some big giant creature, and your much cleverer and smarter opponent would use two mana and counter it or kill it with something like Terror.

At one point when I was lamenting the woes of being a green mage with a friend of mine, he pointed out there were black cards that brought back creatures from the graveyard, and no matter whether they got there by being countered or killed, I could get them back. I quickly became a huge fan of pairing up the best green creatures with black recursion spells like these.

I remember the first game I played with Oath of Ghouls. I started out with a Birds of Paradise, and my opponent killed it with a Lightning Bolt. I cast Oath of Ghouls and passed the turn. On my upkeep, I got back Bird of Paradise and then I cast Spike Feeder. My opponent tried to kill it with an Incinerate, and I removed the +1/+1 counters to gain four life. Then on my next upkeep I recast Spike Feeder and Birds of Paradise, and the look on the face of my burn opponent was amazing.

My love for romance novels and movies led me to write fanfiction on online forums. When netizens appreciated my writing style, I felt motivated to write more stories for them. I still vividly remember one online user advising me to work on a real novel and get it published. However, at the time, I was completely oblivious to such an idea as I knew nothing about writing and getting a book published.

A romance novel comprises two main elements: a central love story between two characters and an emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending. It also contains several other elements such as passion and commitment. Romance novels can be found in various subgenres such as contemporary, historical, fantasy, and suspense. My favourite romance subgenre is contemporary.

For a writer, writing a novel is one task while getting it published is an entirely different one and an extremely challenging one. In fact, I would say the process of writing and getting published is an exhausting yet satisfying experience.

With the help of the same company, I managed to distribute my book across the leading bookstores in the country and sold copies on my social media platforms. Following the nationwide success of my debut novel, I started working on my second. However, for the second novel, I had different plans as I intended to get it published via the traditional publishing route.

When by the end of 2019, Pakistan halted all trade, including books, with India, it was an unexpected blow to all the Pakistani writers whose books were published in India and brought for sale in Pakistan. Repercussions of the book ban also greatly impacted Pakistani bookstores where the majority of the book consignments were delivered from India at relatively cheap prices and had less delivery time compared to the UK and US markets.

Due to the ongoing commodity ban between the two countries, I could not think of getting another book published by an Indian publisher as there was no possible way to have my book available for sale in Pakistan. Also, without any sale in Pakistan, Indian publishers did not see any point in picking up a book by a Pakistani author.

That is what led me to the decision of setting up my own publishing company titled Sasha Publishing. Fascinated by the publishing industry, I had always wanted to set up my own small publishing setup but due to lack of resources and experience, I could not make the decision.

In 2022, I took a leap of faith and started my own company. My fifth book The Cold Heart, a romance psychological thriller, has been published under the same publishing wing and has already won the hearts of hundreds of readers.

For the veteran residents, the challenges of maintaining any form of low-carb diet in Japan are very real. Japan is a country with an undying affinity for rice and noodles, and the concept of a low-carb diet has yet to see the boom it has had in Western countries such as the US and the UK. However, fear not as in this post I will share with you all the ways you can stay true to your ketogenic diet while helping you discover low-carb foods and keto-friendly Japanese foods.

Back to being keto in Japan. As previously mentioned, it is relatively hard given the abundance of rice in the Japanese diet, however by no means impossible. There are a variety of keto-friendly options in Japan that you can take advantage of while living or on a trip to Japan. If you are going to go out, you can find a variety of low-carb options on the おつまみ (otsumami, appetizer) or 単品 (tanpin, single dish). A prime example of how you can eat out on a low-carb diet with this method would be the yakiniku plate on the tanpin menu at Matsuya.

Now for the pice de rsistance! Take a gander at the list I have compiled for your reading pleasure. An eclectic mix of the best in low-carb, ketogenic chow you can sink your teeth into whilst here in Japan.

Tansuikabutsu 炭水化物 (carbohydrates) and toshitsu 糖質 (carbs from sugar) are the words you have to look out for; if either of these goes over 50g during the span of a day, you are not having a very successful keto day.

Miracle noodles are a kind of low-carb noodle alternative you can find in Japan. Made from the konnyaku potato, it is a venerated low-carb noodle alternative in Japan and indeed, in different forms across the Far East.

The miracle comes from the fact it contains nigh-on zero calories alongside being fat-free, gluten-free, protein-free, and sugar-free. It gets its unusual superpowers from its rather high abundance of fiber which the body finds difficult to effectively digest. Shirataki noodles are usually sold in a sachet full of water in the chilled section of supermarkets. On a side note, be sure not to mistake konnyaku noodles with its rather similar-looking cousin 春雨 (harusame), glass noodles, which are significantly higher in carbs.

To summarize, it is more difficult to be keto in Japan than in other countries, but by no means impossible. Take advantage of low-carb hacks such as the 単品 (tanpin) and おつまみ (otsumami) menu to stay away from large volumes of carbohydrates and stay wary of the 炭水化物 carbohydrate value on the labels of products.

I only partly agree. There are many LGBTQ fans, but definitely not the majority. The people I know who listen to her music are 90% straight men or women. She is appreciated for her quality music and especially her angelic voice.

I don't know for you all guys but I am absolutely silent on social networks. My friends know I like Lana but that's it + my best friend (male) is a fan too, is straight, and does not tell the world about it.

Personally, I think she connects with people that are very sensitive, feeling everything a bit too much, and people that have struggled in their lives. And all LGBTQ+ people have struggled at some point, which makes me think it's the reason why some queer fans are attracted to her.

I think that the whole idea of her being "un-PC" in her early days (as a certain member loves to talk about) needs to be talked about cautiously and carefully and with a lot more nuance than often given to it, but I think it plays a role in why she attracted the demographic she did in the BTD and Paradise days that has been sustained with leaks from her Lizzy era since. There's that quote from a critic about her (earlier) stuff being desperate, shirt-tugging, "don't leave me" that the critic hated, and I definitely think it's there.

She presented love as an undying devotion with elements of desperation, doom, death etc. that really didn't fit into the zeitgeist at the time because of shifting discourses. The whole femme fatale themes of film noir and to some extent, the 80s (so a lot of the films and ideas she grew up with) weren't popular at the time. I think a big part of why so much of her *active* fanbase is LGBT people and women (and of course the overlap) is because she was a contemporary female artist singing about that destructive and obsessive love while no one else really was, and making it look (and sound) glamorous and sexy. For LGBT and/or girl teens and young adults, there were relatively little artists willing to explore that side of love that you feel so strongly, because (for good reasons) a lot of discourse about love and attraction has been critical. That's probably why there's a lot (a LOT) of overlap between Lana fans and people who want to uncritically enjoy things like Lolita (particularly the Lolita "aesthetic") and CMBYN. Lana gave people spaces for people to be desperate and completely devoted with BTD and Paradise, and then followed up with UV as one of the best break-up albums. Most of the diehard BTD and UV stans don't really like HM as much, as far as I've seen, and I think part of this is because HM is a lot less dramatic in its lyrics and themes and is where change started to happen.

Might be misunderstanding but her detachment from the fanbase is kind of unprecedented in the stan age. The whole "Lana hates us and that's okay" thing definitely contains a grain of truth. I think she has a very understandable disdain for a lot of her fanbase, because a lot of her fanbase have very little respect for her and so she's kind of broken away and doesn't share much of her life now. She doesn't hate her fanbase imo - she clearly likes Win Edwards, who despite all the jokes is in some ways the ideal fan from her pov; clearly adores her but respects her boundaries. A lot of people here see going to every show as weird and obsessive but she's had much worse and much more dangerous than that, which is probably why she doesn't really interact with her fans much unless she's got something to sell. This inactiveness inevitably gets caught up in the "Lana hates us" narrative though.

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