{"id":7673,"date":"2016-05-29T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-09-12T16:16:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T20:16:06","slug":"writerly-bundle-17-palliate-ao-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/writerly-bundle-17-palliate-ao-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Writerly Bundle #17: Palliate, Ao No Exorcist Second Movement, & Goji Pop"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nWelcome to this week’s Writerly Bundle! A post where I hope to inspire you with three of the world’s greatest things: music, words, and tea.<\/p>\n

When I think of pop, I think of soda, when I think of soda I think of my favorite kind of soda called ramune! This popular Japanese drink that comes in many flavors, including pineapple, lychee, and melon, and opens in a very unique way, pops up on occasion in animes. It actually has a marble inside that keeps the drink extra fizzy!<\/span><\/div>\n

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\npalliate<\/span><\/div>\n
\nverb (used with object), palliated, palliating.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n1.) <\/span>to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n2.) <\/span>to try to mitigate or conceal the gravity of (an offense) by excuses, apologies, etc.; extenuate.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nExample Sentence: Ramune can palliate any problem.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nThe Song:<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
\n“Ao No Exorcist Second Movement”<\/span><\/div>\n
\nfrom the Blue Exorcist<\/i> soundtrack<\/span><\/div>\n
\nby Hiroyuki Sawano<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nIn Blue Exorcist<\/i>, you guessed it, the group at one point drinks ramune! I wish I could find some pics of it for you because it’s such a funny scene, but alas. Blue Exorcist is a great anime, some of the theology is a little rocky, but the character development is great. Hiroyuki Sawano (my favorite anime composer also doing Guilty Crown<\/i> and Attack on Titan<\/i>) does it again with this techy soundtrack. Most of the Blue Exorcist score is synthetic. This piece is very intense and upbeat with its scratchy synthetic noises with the strings and choir added in the background. This is great for a fight scene, a triumphant scene, or a mission scene in a science-fiction novel.<\/span><\/div>\n
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