Senior Research Paper: The Otaku Community

Please note that this is the incomplete essay since I didn't have time to cover everything I wanted due to my deadline, but the essay WILL be updated when I have the time.

In Which Mabel Tells a Story: Friends

Story time bloggykins! This is about how I became friends with David and Cooper. Sometimes I wonder how I ever stayed friends with them.

David:

I met David through a mutual friend named Andrea. It was freshman year and I didn't have many friends, so I was pretty close with Andrea. Anyways, my cousin was graduating from high school and going off to college that year, so my whole family decided to take a road trip to see him graduate. It was all the way up in New Hampshire, so it was a pretty long drive from Chicago. Why is this road trip important to the story? Well the thing is, I sorta forgot to tell Andrea. And the girl can hold a grudge. So when I cam back, she decides that I needed to be punished with a prank. The prank was this: I would come to lunch, the only time I saw her, and she would be pretending to be crying. David would be there, pretending to console her, and he would explain to me that she was so upset and depressed by my sudden loss that she was in such a horrible mood. I, of course, freaked out and decided to buy her a cookie to cheer her up (this was back when my school still sold cookies and slushies in a snack bar). Anybody who knows me well enough knows that me buying someone food is the highest form of love from me since I'm so cheap and poor.

David, the little asshole, had accompanied me and when I had finally bought the cookies, has burst out laughing, no longer able to believe how fucking gullible I was. And I admit, I kinda was. When he explained the truth, my first reaction was to threaten and lash out at him. So the first thing I said to him was "I'm going to break every bone in your body," which he replied with "Not unless I run you over first." The whole thing was hilarious to me that I burst out laughing and he followed pretty quickly. Since then we found out that we had a class together (architectural drafting) and were both in anime club. It's safe to say that we've been best friends since then.

Cooper:

Cooper is a ... special case of friendship. He sorta just appeared. We actually forgot how he became David and I's friend. That is until a few months ago when we were reminiscing during lunch. It all started in sophomore year, during, surprise surprise, lunch. Our group had coalesced over the year and had solidified into part of what is now considered the Otaku Sages Crew. Anyways, David had a different lunch period than us, but Jacob had managed to slip in with us this year. We already had become a bit known around the anime circles and we all tended to have the same classes. But one day during lunch, a kid just appeared out of nowhere. He pulled a ninja on us, just popping up on us, sitting next to us, and talking. We were all really confused, but no one wanted to say anything, so we let join us. It soon came to the point where everywhere we went, he would pop up, saying something like "Hey guys, I've been looking for you."

But despite being a bit creepy, he really wasn't too bad. I mean, he talked about the coolest video games and he liked anime too, so it wasn't too bad. And he bought us food! Real food! Not the crap the school gave us. And anyone who gets us food is good in our books. Ever since then, he sorta just stuck with us, and he'a been one of my best friends ever. Coops is just one of those people just kinda appears in your life and you don't know how it happened but it's ok because the Coops is pretty cool. 

Happy Birthday Coops and Communist Snack Locker #2

Today is Cooper's birthday and he is now eighteen. Aww don't they grow up so fast? He can now legally do what he probably has never done: read porn. *ecstatic clapping in the background* Now I don't have a photo of Coops mainly because I never got around to it and because my phone is an utter whore and will no longer take photos. So here's a sorta description of Cooper: massively tall (but shorter than Jacob), tanned cos he's part Italian, black, and I think Polish if his last name is any indicator. And he has the most curly fluffy goddamn hair I have ever fucking seen. Like goddamn it's like he's a floofy princess or something. It's like he has clouds for hair. It's the groups favorite pastime to pat his hair. So damn soft. According to him, to achieve this level of fluffiness, one must think fluffy thoughts. Happy birthday Cooper. And remember, we will steal your birthday food.

Now for our second subject of the day: the Communist Snack Locker. Inventory has fluctuated to this:

•One and a half boxes of Blue Raspberry KoolAid

•One box of peanut butter go cups

•One container of homemade Blackberry & Strawberry jam

•One slightly bruised apple

We now just need bread and we can make sandwiches. Awwww yiss.

Have a good day whoever's reading this~!

Communist Snack Locker #1

Goooood morning Otaku Sages (or to anyone who reads my blog for that matter). Today is the first day of the Communist Lunch Locker. To those that don't know, the Communist Snack Locker is just a snack locker here at Lane Tech to be used for the Communist Lunch Table.

The CLT isn't really communist, but just a table in lunch where everybody shares food. And I mean everyone. The practice started sometime my sophomore year, where everyone in the group could finally go outside to eat lunch but had no money to do so. So we would all steal food from someone who did in the group. 9 out of 10 times this was Cooper. It's gotten to the point now that we just pool our money and send someone out to get the food. But since no one is actually rich enough to do that everyday, we now have a snack locker to feed ourselves during 6th period lunch (which is the period for the main CLT). Any affiliates to the CLT who are not in 6th period may use the Locker as long as they have permission and access to a key. So far the Locker is stocked as thus:

•  Two boxes of Blue Raspberry KoolAid
•  Two pieces of quesadilla (the bread, not the delicious cheese between tortillas)
•  Homemade Blackberry/Strawberry jam made by my me
• An already opened package of knock off Oreos

Any changes and/or additions to the Snack Locker will be posted here to keep log and inventory of what we have. You can ignore it if you like.