The 'Department of What on Earth' Information Board No. 4: A Special Feature on the Witty and Sophisticated M.eri

Welcome to the back alleys of the note city. It is time to think about the Monday that will surely blow us away again next week, let out a grand sigh at the Monday that is here right now, and count down the days until the next holiday.

The 'Department of What on Earth' is a department that was suddenly born out of nowhere, diagonally across from the 'Department of What Are You Talking About' and the 'Department of Who Cares,' to arbitrarily explain and guide people to articles that one can only think are 'what on earth'.
I aim to be a department where I have fun, and the person being explained might sometimes feel a sting, depending on the case.
Finding 'what on earth' back-alley dwellers and enjoying them is the only management philosophy of this department.
And this is part of my 'oshi-goto' (supporting my favorite).
If I can contribute even a little to the goal of Section Chief Konishi Kinoko (my favorite), who spent three years all alone in the back alleys saying 'What are you talking about,' then that is all I need. I started with just that feeling.
But, it has been half a year since the person saying 'What are you talking about' was no longer just one person.
...I wonder if they will collapse.
I am sure I am not the only back-alley dweller who has secretly held that thought. So, from now on, I intend to support them in moderation.

The person and article to be explained and guided will be decided by my own judgment and prejudice from among the back-alley dwellers. Whether or not you follow me or how often we interact on a daily basis does not matter.
The only rule is that it must be something you can only think is 'what on earth'.
Please feel free to use #WhatOnEarth.I will not collect them, but one day I will suddenly capture you without notice.

Itsuki-san has created a 'What on Earth' style festive banner.
Please download it and color your articles cutely and fun.

Now, the person to be captured by the 'Department of What on Earth' this time is M.eri-san. Her deadpan writing style is highlighted by a sharp sense of humor. I imagine she tells stories that are like 'suberanai hanashi' (stories that never fail to be funny) without changing her expression at all, without using any punctuation, and ending them with 'What are you talking about.' I have never met her, so this is all my delusion.

Well then, M.eri-san, I have attached a table of contents, so please proceed to your favorite section as usual with the back-alley traditional art of 'pretending to read and skipping.' Readers, please proceed while thinking 'What are you talking about,' 'Who cares,' and 'What on earth.' You will not understand anything even if you read it all. Now, if M.eri-san were to write about this experience, she might say, 'I was in front of the 'Department of What on Earth,' and the back alley is bustling again today. I hear a woman in a sushi-patterned skirt mutter 'What on earth' the moment she sees my face. My heart felt restless,' while doing a little possession act. Have a good trip.

The 'Getting Settled' Section

Eri-san cannot get on board with the sauna boom at her workplace because she is not good with saunas. But she also feels a slight sense of envy. She goes around interviewing her unique colleagues about what is good about saunas. In a boom, there is often an instigator. Detective Eri, while repeating interviews about sauna love to her colleagues, manages to make contact with a person who is a sauna master.
#WhatAreYouTalkingAbout

The master gives precise advice about the 'crampedness' that is the cause of Eri-san's dislike, and recommends a certain spa in Yokohama. What did she experience there? By the way, I cannot help but feel an intense sense of familiarity with Ayaka-sama, the caregiver who appears in the story. I will not say what it is. Please feel it. Perhaps Ayaka-sama could have been me.
#WhoCares
#WhatOnEarth

The 'Flower Picking' Section

It is poop. It is a story about poop. A woman who talks about poop periodically appears in the back alleys, and she is definitely one of them. I have not reached that state yet, and in fact, I spend my days with a face that says 'I don't do things like poop,' so I feel a slight envy at how she has let go of everything, but whether I can talk about my own poop is another matter. I can talk about the poop of the pug sisters.
#WhoCares

Why do people talk to you only when you are carrying a bomb near your anus? If that place is the workplace, you have no choice but to respond. Eri-san on this day also runs around looking for an empty toilet, a great struggle of running east and west. Colleagues stand in her way. The road to the land of peace is so harsh. I understand the feeling of not being able to care about punctuation. It might be necessary to have a major human body update, such as implementing a signal that even a third party can understand how critical the bomb you are carrying is. In the city, the number of toilets and people do not match.
#WhatOnEarth

The 'That is Destiny' Section

Eri-san is loved by so-called distinctive people in society. She calls herself the 'Hoi-Hoi Auntie.' Among them, an essay looking back on a heartwarming exchange with a particularly impressive middle-aged man. I also want to meet such people, but I only get asked for directions by broken-English-speaking Asians, which is not very interesting. However, for some reason, I am only asked how to get to Mitsukoshi in front of the Mitsukoshi basement entrance, so I feel like I have only improved my pronunciation of 'Here it is.'
#WhoCares
#WhatOnEarth

There are mysterious star alignments, aren't there? My husband has a star alignment where orders do not go through at restaurants, and I have a star alignment where I miss important opportunities at the very last moment. In terms of life fulfillment, Eri-san is surely head and shoulders above the rest. As the person being suddenly approached, there may be times when it is nothing but terror depending on the case, but in terms of episodes that can be enjoyed and sublimated into an essay, I feel envy. I can only pray that such a star will come around to me.
#WhatAreYouTalkingAbout

The 'Warriors Protecting World Peace' Section

Eri-san works as a nurse at a large hospital. From the beginning, which depicts the delicate and quiet nursing scene, the atmosphere of the hospital room changes completely due to one uninvited guest. At Eri-san's request, four warriors, including her, gather. It is necessary to touch upon the weapons carried by the warriors. One is definitely an over-spec superior weapon, and the remaining three fight with their bare hands. What will be the outcome of their battle?
#WhatOnEarth

And Eri-san, who finished the battle, has a quiet dialogue with another... the fifth warrior. A warm and calm silence fills the former battlefield. A single voice falls there. I want to offer prayers to the warrior who finished the battle, and words of appreciation to the warriors who will likely be called out to battle from time to time in the future.
#IsntItNotWhoCares

Everything, laid bare. Department

This is eri-san, who skipped her staff health checkup. She says she had no malicious intent and simply forgot, but since it was her day off, she was in high spirits, pampering her heart and body with cup ramen and beer. It’s unhealthy. Why is it that the unhealthiest things taste the best and soak into your very soul? I have to say, this must be the will of God. God must be telling humanity to all be unhealthy and live happily.
#WhatAreYouTalkingAbout

No matter how much you skip it, you can't easily escape a mandatory health checkup. Instead of the mobile clinic, she ended up having to get her checkup among medical specialists she knows. If it was going to come to this, she should have remembered yesterday. Even a medical amateur like me thinks so. However, M.eri is a woman who never falls without getting something out of it. She runs around on a covert operation to finish her checkup peacefully. What will be the fate of eri-san?
#NothingShortOfCrazy

An invitation to the back alley💌💋

Starting this month, collection is from Monday to Saturday, in the 2nd and 4th weeks.
Communications will be issued the following Monday.
Please make sure not to make any mistakes.

The familiar Stand.fm reading live!

October 16th (Wed) 21:00~
This is the third reading live hosted by persi-san. It's a weekday night, but for those who are available, please join us.
Both the writers and readers are completely new compared to before. I'm looking forward to it.

Night Salon Tico's Room Pre-opening

A night salon quietly opened in the back alley, limited to one guest per day, where I, Megumi Tico, act as the hostess to welcome you.
It's still a pre-opening, so I'm just drinking and talking to myself. I messed up the microphone settings on my earphones, so the sound quality is quite amusing.
From next time, I will welcome one guest and have them talk.

【Announcement】 The official opening date has been decided!
October 12th (Sat) 22:00~
The guest for the first night is the organizer of the reading live and the back alley festival, persi-san.
I will be asking the person who created the current back alley audio distribution culture in detail about their thoughts on Stand.fm, the reason they decided to connect the back alley and Stand.fm, and more.
I want to pick up comments too, so if the time works for you, please come with your favorite drink and snacks.
Furthermore, starting around 21:20 on the same day, a program called 'Tico Tribe's Small Room' presented by Tico Tribe entertainment manager Genchon-kun seems to be starting too.
As soon as I know the details, I will let you know too. I only vaguely know what he's going to do.
……What even is the Tico Tribe? lol

#ExcitementOverflowing

In closing

Starting this autumn, the back alley will enter a new stage. Let's savor the journey so far and the prospects for the future over and over again in the archives.

While listening to this broadcast, there was a song that kept playing in my head.

Isn't that smile just too cute?

Everyone's favorite AI sister's “Everyone is a Hero”
This song, you know, I feel like it connects to the wish Konishi-san mentioned: 'I want you to come to love writing' and 'I don't want you to quit.'

Let's write while playing and having fun.
It's okay to rest if you're tired, and the right answer only exists within yourself.
Of course, it's the reader who decides whether something is interesting or not.
But before that, you can just make your own writing the right answer yourself, right?

This is my personal theory, but breaking your pen is a loss of culture.
“The Pillow Book,” “Hojoki,” and “The Tosa Diary” were not written by professional writers.
Well, back then only the intellectual class could write, so the writers were limited to aristocrats and monks, but even so, they were people who had other jobs and wrote in the gaps between them. That is what has remained even after 800 or 1,000 years.

Things that only exist in your head gain unique value when put into words. They may even remain for the far, far future.
Things in your head don't rot, as Konishi-san also said. That's why we can still empathize with essays from 1,000 years ago, and think, 'What they're doing is basically being an Instagram girl who is also a fan of Empress Teishi.'

I dedicate this song to Aoi-san's project here.

#SongsEnrichTheHeart

The philosophy of “The 'It's Crazy' Department” is to 'find and enjoy Logi-users who you can only think are crazy.' Logi-users are crazy in general, but we will capture the talent that is especially so.
Therefore, even if it doesn't have the #ItsCrazy tag, articles with #WhatAreYouTalkingAbout or #WhoCares are all targets without exception.
If you would be troubled by being captured by “The 'It's Crazy' Department,” please let us know. We will reply with 'What are you talking about' or 'Who cares.'

Well, Monday, which didn't blow me away, is about to come to an end.
I think I'll be blown away next week, so let's enjoy this week as well.

See you later.