March 6th is Michiru Kaiô/Sailor Neptune’s Birthday!

So how can you celebrate?

♆ Rewatch or reread your favourite Neptune-centric chapter, episode, or musical! She is a key character in most of Sailor Moon S, and in particular episode 093, which explores her passion and skill for the visual and musical arts, episode 097, which juxtaposes her against fellow water-Guardian Sailor Mercury, episode 106, which explores how she met her girlfriend Haruka Ten'ô/Sailor Uranus, or episode 107, where she teaches a children’s art/sculpture class. A portion of the SuperS special also features her prominently, asking her to make a difficult choice over Haruka’s safety.

♆ Sailor Neptune has two official image songs from the 90s anime, Senshi no Omoi [“Mind of a Guardian”] and Unmei wa Utsukushiku [“Destiny So Beautiful”]. In the Sailor Moon musicals she shares a duet with Sailor Uranus, Choubi! URANUS to NEPTUNE [“Super Beauties! Uranus and Neptune”], and also shares the Sailor Moon Crystal season 3 ending with her, ETERNAL ETERNITY.

Here’s a playlist of all these songs and other Sailor Neptune BGM cues!

… and here’s a bonus playlist for her duets with Sailor Uranus!

♆ Treat yourself to some finely-prepared sashimi, Michiru’s favourite food. Alternative, avoid kikurage mushrooms, her least favourite.

♆ Michiru’s most well-known hobby is her music, being an accomplished and famous violinist. Why not explore local talent in your area and catch a live show, attend a classical concert as Michiru often did herself, or listen to some violin arrangements online - perhaps this one?

In addition to a musical artist, she’s also a visual artist, favouring painting and sketching anything from portraits to landscapes to surrealist mindscapes, so bust out those art supplies and ask a friend or cousin to model for you.

She enjoys swimming, both competitively and for pleasure, so you could go for a trip to the pool or take it a step further by going for a swim at the ocean, the source of her strength.

Michiru is also an avid collector of makeup, so if you have a collection of your own, try a refreshing new look with some products you don’t use as often, look up some tutorials on YouTube, and take this yearly opportunity to discard anything expired and no longer safe to use. Just… don’t mention lipstick, alright?

♆ Dress like Michiru for the day! Michiru always styled herself elegantly, choosing outfits with long billowing dresses and skirts, off-the-shoulder blouses, and semi-formal blazers. When she did go casual she tapped into her element with a “beachy” vibe. She favoured pastels, often blues and cool pinks/purples, and though didn’t wear dark colours as frequently was partial to deep wines and maroons. A common accessory was an understated, minimalistic gold necklaces, often a choker. Her hair, which ranged from above shoulder-length to waist-length depending on the adaptation, was usually worn down and curled into waves that framed her face, but she would sometimes wear it with a headband or tied loosely with a ribbon into a fountain ponytail.

As Sailor Neptune, her image colours were navy blue and deep aqua/teal with a gold accent. In the manga, she had a golden sun charm affixed to her choker and wore several different earrings, but most frequently golden ringed planets dangling from gold studs (as canonized in Crystal), sometimes with six points around the planet like a stylized sun. In the anime, she wore simple teal studs, and the sun on her choker became a jewel with gold embelishments. Her iconic shoes were teal heels with criss-crossed ballerina-like ribbons around the ankles. For makeup, when she transformed, her nails turned teal/sea green, and she gained a pale pink lip gloss.

She also liked the “pair look” trend of matching her outfit with Haruka’s, if you feel so inclined!

♆ Stunt on your friends by just being ridiculously good at your hobbies! So much better than them that they feel unqualified to stand in your presence! If you can somehow incorporate a lemon in a ridiculous fashion, all the better!

♆ Fav and read some Sailor Neptune fanart and fanfic on sites like Pixiv, Twitter, and AO3 - or contribute your own new content! Don’t forget to tag!

Feel free to reply and reblog with your own ideas of how you’re going to celebrate Michiru’s day!

Happy Birthday, Michiru!

January 27th is Haruka Tennoh/Sailor Uranus’s Birthday!

So how can you celebrate?

♅ Rewatch or reread your favourite Uranus-centric chapter, episode, or musical! She and her girlfriend Michiru Kaioh/Sailor Neptune are key characters in the entire S season, and episode 106 shows the backstory of how they met. Episode 98 follows her getting stuck handcuffed to Sailor Moon and separated from the other Sailor Soldiers as they avoid the monsters of the week. Also, she does this.

♅ Sailor Uranus has two official image songs in the original anime, Kaze ni Naritai [”I Want to Become the Wind”] and Initial U. While Kaze ni Naritai was performed by her voice actress Megumi Ogata, Initial U was performed by vocalist Risa Ohki - though Megumi later released her own song Kaze ni Naru [“Become the Wind”] with a very similar melody to Initial U. In the Sailor Moon musicals she shares a duet with Sailor Neptune, Choubi! Uranus to Neptune [”Super Beauties! Uranus and Neptune”], and also shares the Sailor Moon Crystal season 3 ending with her, Eternal Eternity.

Here’s a playlist of all these songs and other Sailor Uranus BGM cues!

… and here’s a bonus playlist for her duets with Sailor Neptune!

♅ Enjoy Haruka’s favourite food, a refreshing salad! You can also abstain from her least favourite food, natto - fermented soy beans, a popular breakfast food (if you aren’t Haruka).

♅ Haruka’s hobbies are all about going as fast as possible to “feel like the wind”; you could participate by going for a run or watching/trying (dirt) bike/car racing. She loves virtual racing as much as the real thing, so bust out your copy of Mario Kart or head to the local arcade to blow some change on a moto title.

Haruka is also a talented pianist, so if you don’t dabble yourself, listen to a few classical pieces.

And you could always model for one of your artistic friends!

♅ Dress like Haruka for the day! Consistent elements are to follow the “rule of cool” with loose shirts over a form-fitting bottom half featuring leather-look materials, or keep a casual, sporty look with short/cut-off sleeves and lots of denim. She’s also partial to a two-piece suit, but dresses them down with a casual/unbuttoned undershirt and statement jewellery. She favours all shades of blue, black, and a yellow/gold accent.

She also liked the “pair look” trend of matching her outfit with Michiru’s, so you could style your outfit with your partner, best friend, or cousin.

As Sailor Uranus, her image colours are dark blue, yellow, and gold. She wears a gold hoop earring in just her left ear until her Super power-up, where they get a bit heftier and she gets one for each ear. Her iconic shoes are dark blue ankle-boots with moto-boot inspired straps/belts. As she transformed, her nails turned a deep night-sky blue, and she gained a very pale pink/clear lip gloss - any of which would make a significant accessory on her birthday.

You could also wear a cologne in her honour, as her signature fragrance was so distinct it almost cost her secret identity.

♅ Fav and read some Sailor Uranus fanart and fanfic on sites like Pixiv, Twitter, and AO3 - or contribute your own new content! Don’t forget to tag!

Feel free to reply and reblog with your own ideas of how you’re going to celebrate Sailor Uranus’s day!

Happy Birthday, Haruka!

January 6th is Hotaru Tomoe/Sailor Saturn’s Birthday!

So how can you celebrate?

♄ Rewatch or reread your favourite Saturn-centric chapter, episode, or musical! She is a key character in most of Sailor Moon S, so why not rewatch the series finale? For a more light-hearted one-off, try episode 117, where she is encouraged to deliver a love letter to an athlete she admires, or episode 118, where a Daimon turns her house into a living board game and she must save the Sailor Soldiers to fix it. In episode 112 she meets Chibi-Usa for the first time, their friendship being core to the latter half of the S season, especially in episode 115. She’s also key in the beginning of the fifth season, Sailor Stars, and episodes 168-169 detail how she came to live with the other Outer System Soldiers.

♄ Sailor Saturn is the only main character not to receive an image song in the classic anime or Crystal. However, she has two key songs in the original Musicals - TO A BRAND NEW WORLD and THE WORLD DIED OUT - and a duet with Chibi-Usa in Un Nouveau Voyage, Chiisa na Kagayaki [“A Small Glimmer"]. There are also several instrumental BGM tracks dedicated to her, including her theme from the S OST.

Here’s a playlist of all these songs and other Sailor Saturn BGM cues, plus original songs by her voice actress Yuko Minaguchi!

♄ Enjoy Hotaru’s favourite food - buckwheat noodles, or soba, which can be prepared hot or cold. Alternatively, her least favourite food is milk if you’d like to abstain for a day.

♄ Hotaru collects lamps and prefers low, mood lighting, much like her name (firefly) might suggest. Relax and meditate in a room lit only with decorative lamps and/or candles and engage in Hotaru’s other hobby, reading - but don’t strain your eyes!

♄ Dress like Hotaru for the day! Hotaru famously wears very dark colours, especially black, sometimes navy and green, and trends to monochromatic outfits with a pop of accenting colour like red or gold. She prefers to keep the majority of her body covered (particularly because, in the manga and Crystal, she has scars covering much of her body) and prioritises keeping warm. Her style is generally neat, timeless and occasionally veering into “preppy”. Iconic accessories include her knit shawl tied with a rose brooch, fully opaque tights, and a berry beret. She also keeps on her person the Taioron Crystal pendant given to her by her mother, so more abstractly, you could wear something given to you or passed down to you by a family member.

After being reborn as a child after the events of S, however, she shows a preference for brighter, happier colours! Naoko even invisioned baby-Hotaru as being something of a little fashionista, so today is the perfect excuse to blend poppy childhood throwbacks with a touch of adult style.

Alternatively, as Sailor Saturn, she has quite a few iconic accessories. Her unique sleeves are shaped like flower petals, and her brooch is a many-faceted crystal star. Her earrings are crystal drop pendants attached to small silver ringed planets, and she wears the gothic purple lace-up knee-highs of everyone’s middle school dreams don’t even pretend like she didn’t dictate your early-2000s “emo” fashion choices. She doesn’t seem to wear makeup, but her “transformation” from Sailor Moon: Various Emotion for the (amusingly) Sega Saturn implied she wore white/silver/nude nail polish. Saturn’s colour palette is purple and maroon with a silver accent.

♄ Hotaru lives with chronic pain as a result of the lab accident which almost took her life as a child. Though the cybernetic components in her body are fantastical, their impact on her life are very much not. Hotaru often finds it difficult to keep up with others due to fatigue and limited mobility, and on days with bad flare ups can barely get out of bed, making it hard for her to maintain friendships - a very real issue people with chronic pain deal with every day. If one of your friends, family members, or someone you know is dealing with chronic pain or illness, or another invisible disability, take the time to reach out to them and let them know that you’re there for them, whenever they have the time and strength, on their terms. Flexibility and support makes more difference than you know. Just make sure to respect their limits and privacy, too.

♄ Write a letter to someone you admire! It can be nerve-wracking summing up the courage to put your thoughts into words, especially if you deliver it to the person yourself, but it always means so much more when you do, as Hotaru learned when she got to meet her track-and-field role model. Write it on paper and send it via snail-mail, or take advantage of the many digital avenues to send someone some fan mail! (Just don’t use Tumblr’s actual fanmail function. Nobody likes that thing.)

♄ Go for a picnic with some friends to enjoy nature and fresh air! It’s good for the mind, heart, and body!

♄ Revert to baby mode and get adopted by a throuple!

♄ Fav and read some Sailor Saturn fanart and fanfic on sites like Pixiv, Twitter, and AO3 - or contribute your own new content! Don’t forget to tag!

Feel free to reply and reblog with your own ideas of how you’re going to celebrate Hotaru’s day!

Happy Birthday, Hotaru!

December 5th is Makoto Kino/Sailor Jupiter’s birthday!

So how can you celebrate?

♃ Rewatch or reread your favourite Jupiter-centric chapter, episode, or musical! Start with episode 025, her introduction and the first instance of her famous “senpai crush”; then move to episode 039, where she crushes… again, this time on a handsome figure skater; episode 049, where her close friend Shinozaki is put in critical condition by a Cardian and she goes looking for revenge; episode 055, where she expresses her love for alien-turned-senpai Seijuro by way of homemade lunch box; episode 096, where Makoto gets a crush on Haruka and learns to explore her own presentation; episode 105, where she loses to a Daimon in a contest of strength and starts to second-guess her abilities; episode 134, where she visits a friend from her old school whom she encouraged to pursue writing; or episode 147, where Makoto waits for her “prince charming” Tiger’s Eye at a dance and launches a thousand MakoAmi shippers yes I see you there.

♃ Sailor Jupiter has several official image songs across different canons you can play for her big day:

90s anime: Anata no Sei Janai [“It’s Not Your Fault”]; STARLIGHT ni KISS Shite [“Kiss Me In the Starlight”]; Wasureru Tame ni Koi wo Shinaide [“Don’t Fall In Love to Forget”]; WE BELIEVE YOU Live Action: MIRACLE DANCE NIGHT; LOVELY YELL Crystal: cherry pie Musicals: Zigzag Slash She was also given a totally new image song in Dic’s original English dub that took the place of “Anata no Sei Janai” in episode 49, Rainy Day Man.

Here’s a playlist of all these songs and other Sailor Jupiter BGM cues!

♃ Whip up Makoto’s favourite foods, meatloaf and cherry pie. Unlike some other fellow Sailor Guardians she’s not a picky eater and has no least-favourite food, so why not challenge yourself to try something new or revisit an ingredient you thought you hated? You never know, you might grow to love it!

♃ Makoto’s very self-reliant, and her hobbies reflect her practical nature, particularly as she had to look after herself from a young age after the deaths of both her parents in a plane crash. She’s also intentionally pursued hobbies considered traditionally “feminine” out of concern that her outward appearance and mannerisms don’t convey who she is inside.

Her most oft-portrayed hobby is cooking, which is both something that brings her personal satisfaction and a way for her to express her love for the people closest to her - she shares her lunch with strangers, serves her friends fruit sandwiches & tea when they meet at her apartment, and daydreams about giving a personalised boxed lunch (bento) to her sweetheart. She’s also a natural teacher, showing the gang how to make curry (which becomes the one dish Usagi can make) and cookies, and showing Motoki how to make hayashi rice (“hashed beef”). Why not host a little dinner party or pot luck for your friends, teach yourself a new recipe (or teach someone else a favourite recipe of your own), or simply celebrate food by patronising a small cafe/bakery like Makoto dreams of owning someday?

She’s also a demonstably skilled sewist, making anything from stuffed toys (apparently, her specialty is teddy bears), to knitting, to bespoke patterns for her class’s maid cafe stall at their high school festival. If you’re a beginner, why not start with some simple DIYs or by altering clothing you already own/thrift, and if you’re experienced, now is a good time to revisit that project you have lying half-finished in the back of your crafts cupboard you keep saying you’ll finish someday when you unpick that one bit I SEE you there.

Makoto loves flowers and has quite a green thumb, perhaps influenced by the Japanese element she draws her powers from - wood. She tends to the strawberry patch at their high school with great success, and though she is often associated with roses, her favourite flower is actually the sasanqua (a type of camellia). She loves flowers so much that she dreams of being a florist someday, a dream she actually achieves in the live action! Pick up a new plant from a local nursery, fill your house with flowers from an independent florist, or start your own produce garden in your back yard, flower pots, or a small indoor terrarium/windowsill. If you don’t have the means to tend to a garden of your own, why not look into seed bombing with plants native to your specific area to combat invasive plant species. Or simply visit your favourite nursery, arboreum, or public garden to surround yourself with nature!

For sports, Makoto is proficient in martial arts, specifically karate (in the original anime) and judo (in the manga and Crystal). She’s also shown to be naturally gifted at ice skating thanks to her past life as Princess Jupiter, since it was a popular sport in the Moon Kingdom, pulling off even very difficult moves like lifting her partner over her head. Check out some local martial arts classes in your area or take some friends to the ice rink! She also enjoyed, and was quite good at, ballroom dancing, so take your partner or a small blue gal pal to some dance lessons - just not ballet, which she can’t quite finesse.

♃ Dress like Makoto for the day! Particularly in the first season, Makoto stuck mostly to “tomboyish” fashions, again reflecting her practicality and sporty side, rarely daring to wear skirts or dresses. However, as the series went on we learned that she in fact admired traditionally “feminine” clothes but feared they wouldn’t suit her. With encouragement from her friends like Usagi and role-models like Haruka, later seasons saw her branch out into a secondary style, with a more mature, “womanly” edge than the young, girlish styles of her friends - though she still enjoyed her original “boyish” fits. Wardrobe staples include casual jackets/hoodies, cable knit sweaters, slacks, shorts, loafers, and sneakers, and later midi skirts, turtlenecks, and bodycon mini-dresses. She wore a lot of green in varying shades, but also orange, teal, and increasingly pink.

As Sailor Jupiter, her image colours were dark green and “sugar pink”, and she wore green ankle boots accented with bright white laces. Her most iconic accessories were her pink rose earrings which, unique amongst the Sailor Guardians, she wore both transformed and not, even throwing them once as a makeshift weapon. Her nails were painted apple/avocado green from her second transformation onwards. Her hair, which to the disbelief of her teachers was naturally curly, was usually worn in a high ponytail with a bobble hairtie (plain teal in the 90s anime, green with petal-like accents in the manga/Crystal/PGSM) and two locks falling over her ears, though she did sometimes swap the hairtie for a ribbon or scrunchie.

Makoto didn’t seem to wear much makeup but did wear cologne/perfume, almost certainly rosen/floral; in fact, it’s one of the first things Usagi notices about her when they meet. If you don’t already have your own signature scent, browse for some local indie perfumers to find something that speaks to you - or look up how to make your own!

♃ Makoto wears a belt of potpourri around her waist in the manga and live action, so you could try mixing a blend of your own dried flower petals and displaying it in a bowl or tucking it in sachets amongst your clothes. In addition to the obvious rose petals, consider including oak leaves or pine needles for an earthy, woodsy note.

♃ Fall in love with someone you met 3 minutes ago!

♃ Crack some skulls!

♃ Clean up your living space! It’s good for the body and the mind.

♃ Fav and read some Sailor Jupiter fanart and fanfic on sites like Pixiv, Twitter, and AO3 - or contribute your own new content! Don’t forget to tag!

Feel free to reply and reblog with your own ideas of how you’re going to celebrate Makoto’s day!

Happy Birthday, Mako!

Mako kicking butt!

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Creí que lo había resuelto, pero volví a fallar y como puedes leer, otra vez estoy aquí.

No te miento, he pensado en maneras drásticas de terminar con esto, pero soy demasiado cobarde y aún albergo esperanza, ¿de que? No lo se o me da pena admitirlo, aún mi inconsciente te busca.

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