I feel like there’s a whole bunch of cultural trends I’m missing here XD
I only know about cucumber trends from the scare-the-cat trend.
What if I told you that I sometimes eat a whole cucumber without cutting it because I’m too lazy to cut it. I bite off the ends and chomp chomp 
If we’re going with that, my answer is “give me the entire thing“.
that’s a very russian way to eat a cucumber! are you, by chance, undercover? 
Hmm 
I’ll leave it as a mystery
Her history is a mystery, eh? 
It’s a mhistory XD You read it like “mistory“. The “h“ is silent, obviously 
I realized I hadn’t asked the question that immediately popped in my head.
What did it taste like?
Worse than grass and twice as tough.
Okay, actual question for you: is there anything about your world building that u wish made less sense?
Less sense? XD Not more sense?
Yes. I meant what I said and said what a meant lol
An elephant’s faithful one-hundred percent 
I have no idea because everything makes sense to me, and there’s nothing I can think that I wish made less sense XD
sad. This world needs more good chaos and lesss bad chaos :((
Right, we need to be fun chaotic like the crazy good stuff that happens in Between Roses
If I thought something made less sense, I would work out hard to make it make sense in the world even if the reason might be wild and chaotic
And if I ever thought something in my world building made too much sense, I would probably be feeling insecure about it. It should be good if it makes sense. For me, I’m confident in the bit of lore in my worlds that I have figured out. I’m fine with what I have so far
Ye
Topic: Growing up in Japan as a Japanese-American
I was born in the states and came to Japan at two-and-a-half years old. Of course, I don’t remember life in the states at all.
Often people ask me if I ever “go home“, but I don’t consider U.S. my home (often they ask me after I’ve already told them I don’t remember living there 
). I consider it a place to vacation to in the summer.
Japan, when I was 3–15, maybe even 16 wasn’t so international or something, idk, but people would often stare at my mom and I if we were talking in English. I don’t just mean kids. I mean adults, too, as if we’re aliens from Mars or something.
If people knew my mom was American, they’d ask me to speak English. Did I? No. I was and still am much an introvert and would rather be Japanese in Japan and not a spectacle, thank you very much
I faked my English ability all the way to high school, so that I wouldn’t stand out.
Anyway, do you have specific questions about what it was like to grow up Japanese-American in Japan? Btw, I’m totally fluent in both languages. All my education from kindergarten (3-6), elementary school (7-12), junior high (13-15) until high school (16-18) was in Japanese.
College was different because I joined an English-based program and was surrounded by Chinese, Korean, and some European students.
God, relatable. In Canada esp, when I moved, I was always asked to speak Russian if people knew I was Russian. It didn’t matter that my English was native, I was still a freak in their eyes 
But tbh Canada is like a more socialist America. :(( so id understand why it would happen 
I find it so weird when people think if someone is from another country, they’re a spectacle or a freak
Do people ever try to “relate“ to you when they find out where you’re from?
People LOVE to tell me they LOVE sushi as if they expect every single person in Japan to eat sushi all the time
Inspired by an actual conversation I once had when I went abroad to the states
Them (American student): You’re from Japan?
Me: Yep!
Them: I love sushi
Me: (what do they expect me to say to that?) oh nice, I’m not big on sushi actually
Them: 
Me:
Them: Do you watch anime?
Me: Not really. Maybe pokemon a little bit?
Them: Do you know [ names a popular anime that I’ve heard of maybe ]
Me: Yeah, it’s popular. (what the heck is this “i want to relate to a Japanese person small talk“? Don’t you want to know about ME?)
Them: Do you go to Akihabara?
Me: I’ve been a few times. It’s popular with tourists.
Them:
Me: (are you done?)
Most people didn’t really ask me much, they just stole my shoes and hid them in the snow
Couldn’t find my winter boots for like 2 days, had to go home without them
It was -24C outside btw
Though I did find the comments about me eating blood very satisfying
For context, I was eating beets soup, and everyone called me a vampire after lol.
Well, I’ll take it 
After that I started after chasing people with things they found disgusting so they were the ones scared it was very amusing to see their faces contort into a giant grimace, sweat pour from sprinted after them and their foreheads, and them just turn and scream and run the hell away from me while I taunted them if they want to try any of my food
ooooooh nooooo