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Journaling Prompt: The romance of summer! What do you love? Write about anything you feel sentimental about or that gets your heart pumping.

I love music. I play it as often as I can. I wear my earphones basically 24/7 outside of my room, on music tracking sites they note how much more I listen to music than the average person, I don't watch YouTube videos of people talking because it irks me that I could just read whatever they want to say while I get to keep my music on, and even within a culture that loves music I thought that I felt music more deeply than others when I was very little. (I now think that's probably not true, not because I have proof of otherwise, but because I'm less self-centered and "the world revolves around meeeeee"-brained than I was when I was 7. Hopefully.)

I also love animation. It's cool when someone can draw well, but you know what's cooler? When someone can make dozens or hundreds of drawings that, when seen in rapid succession, imitate movement. It takes a lot of patience and skill, and I always found it more appealing than live action. And when I thought anime was the coolest thing on earth, naturally my love for the art form quadrupled.

Now imagine... what if... some sicko combined music AND animation and created some kind of animated music video...

You're right. That would be really weird. Thank GOD no one's done it before.
( Jumpscare )

This time it's assorted things about gender and sexuality, and then a bunch of entertainment stuff you can enjoy.
( *shake shake* )

Since I'm free from the chains of review catch-up. It's late and I should be getting to bed though, so I don't have much to say right now.
( Read more... )

Here is the previous part. Not that you have to read these in order, or all of them, or any of them, really.
( GG Strive: Dual Rulers + Super Mario Bros. Wonder )

Four days ago I started a really long post reviewing (badly, because I am a bad reviewer and critic) things I've finished in the past few months because I felt like I should. The post started like this:

I really need to learn to just make posts as soon as the idea is in my head rather than hold on to them, so that I won't have to make posts like this and push other post ideas back. Procrastinating these long things that only get longer as I hold out sucks a little. I'm using a template for most of these because otherwise I won't write anything that makes sense or reads well, lol.

You see, because I procrastinated writing review posts I now had to write 8 in one. Except... no I didn't. I realized late last night I can make and post them a few at a time. I've already finished 6/8, but some of them are really long, and some were even truncated for the sake of not having a miles long post. If I separate them I can talk more. So here goes!
( Legend of the Galactic Heroes )
( Gokicha!! Cockroach Girls )
( Grandia )

Eisen Appreciation Post

(using only pics from the manga which i just read)

I was nearing 100 saved links, so here we are.


Not that I'm going to post them all in one go. Hell no. I organized them into groups, and I'm going to post 2 or 3 groups max per linkdump.

As for my life, I've been a little busy lately. In a few days I'm going to opposite side of the country to visit a friend for a month. She has to really impress me, because this will determine if after graduation I'll move to Seattle and stay with her or stay in the comfycozy South and feel warmth on my skin 3/4 of the year. Until I leave, I've been working to put out an update on my site - an update I won't drop without completing work on a brand new second website, a fansite where I mostly translate stuff. :p And I have to clean and stuff... yeah, you know how it is. I also have a summer Japanese class, but I'm not stressing it.
( 👻 )

This marks the end of Three Weeks, although for me it was more like Two Weeks :p I wasn't even going to write this, but I realized if I don't I'll have created only 13 posts for the event, which is... Look, I'm not superstitious, but when things are within my control I don't want to take chances.

The conclusion I've drawn from the past 3 weeks is that either A. this site is cooked, or B. I'm cooked. Probably a lean towards B. Oh well. So it goes. ^{(Point A reminds me of a post/rant I could make about Tumblr users' general unwillingness to try other sites or *gasp* to make a real actual normal blog. So called "bloggers" when they might have to actually blog: [insert gif here cuz im not gonna go find one])}

I've also learned that I like writing, but I can only do it when there's some kind of deadline. I wrote all that stuff willingly, and I think someone who doesn't like writing wouldn't have written as much as I did, so yea. I saw that I really really need to work on my art, so I started a self-study course on the fundamentals a few days ago... Which is currently on pause, because it requires printer paper and I don't have any. I had JUST asked to go to the store the day before, so I want to wait a while before I ask again.

Hm... Yup, I think that's all I have to say. 'Till next time.

I was going to post nothing today, but I came across this and then later this, which seemed to me like the world really wanted me to not ignore this exercise. I normally don't like talking about my gender so openly, so please clap.

( Gender talk )

Something for the 90s-loving yume, fu, and himejoshi!
(Even if you're not a joshi you can join in on the fun too, just as I do ❤)

Because why read Wikipedia or something when you could read a post on a blog, right? I highly recommend reading this on a webpage where you can open and close the cut tags.

Thank you for your attention! For the sake of my mutuals who watch me reshare illustrations of lanky, godlike men in confusion, for the sake of those who see my art and wonder who these strange people are, and for the sake of those curious about video game or joseimuke history, I have written this. I will mainly focus on the first game Angelique (1994) and its rereleases, but I'll be sure to mention characters and such from the other games too.

The Basics

Angelique is a series of video games along with a media franchise encompassing anime, manga, novels, drama and music CDs, and much more. It's a series of simulation games - with one JRPG aberration and two digital board games - that forms part of the otome umbrella. In fact, it's the first otome game in history! (What is an otome game?) It's made by Ruby Party, who had to fight to prove making a game aimed just at women would work out. It's also part of their Neoromance series, a franchise of dating simulation games for girls. (Others include Harukanaru Toki no Naka de/Beyond the Stream of Time, Kiniro no Corda/La Corda d'Oro, and Neo Angelique. Maybe you've heard of them!)

The first game released in 1994 and centers around an exam to choose a new Queen for the universe. As the current one loses her power, her aide Dia leads the exam to choose a new one. Two girls from Smolney Girls' Academy on the Main Planet, Angelique and Rosalia, are chosen and whisked away to compete for the throne. To win they must properly harness the powers of the all-male guardians to nurture their own continents. Whoever fully cultivates their continent first gets to be Queen. Obviously it will go better for you if you're in the guardians' good favor, but be careful -- the Queen must be entirely devoted to her work in supporting the Universe. Or, put into other words, girls with boyfriends can't be queen.

( Do NOT underestimate how long this post is. )