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isaksbestpillow · 3 months

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5 and 6 for bl tropes

5. Second Chance Romance

My favourite trope! I don't know what that says about me, but I just love a second chance romance even though I wouldn't want a second chance with any of my previous romances. I especially love queer second chance romance because often the reasons that lead to the breakup involve societal pressure and problems with self-acceptance. I can't fix an old relationship that fell apart because of my own internalised phobia, and while I now know it wouldn't have worked out anyway because of personal differences, it's still nice to find forgiveness in a story.

Anygays!!! After writing all that, I'm actually going to reinterpret this trope for my own purposes haha. Because I really want to answer More Than Words. It's based on the prequel to my favourite manga, In the Apartment.

First off, everyone please go watch this show, it's so moody in the best of ways and the acting is incredible!!! (It's Amazon Original in Japan) Mieko and Makio are best friends and high school classmates, Eiji is Makio's older university boyfriend who they meet at their part-time job. They're inseparable as a trio, but they're also young and stupid, and over the years their dynamic changes irrevocably.

It seems many many on Mydramalist at least were disappointed in this show because they thought there would be a happy ending for Makio and Eiji, but the thing is, this is not a story about them as a bl couple but about Makio as a young queer man. There is a happy ending for him, with someone else! A person can have more than one big love in their life.

I know I'm viewing this show differently because I've read all three volumes of the manga whereas the show stops at volume two, so I have that knowledge of Makio and Sugimoto as the endgame otp, but even without that knowledge I think this is such a wonderful story about second chances, not with the same person but with someone new. Even if you fucked up in the past, you can still start over with all your regrets. I mean, not everyone gets to live happily ever after with their first love and best friends from school!

6. Coming of Age

Itsay my beloved again! I love how it captures such a short period of time with such intensity. That's being young! Now if a month passes literally nothing changes for me or my relationships but in the past that was such a long time, a month.

Thank you for the ask!

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miniwolfsbane · 2 years

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Going to the American Girl website like

"Yes, I would like to see the latest in dolls and doll accessories please!" XD

Unfortunately, the SUPER CUTE Loveshack Fancy shoes sold out, but they're being overpriced on eBay, as per usual. Possibly THE deciding factor in fixing my account to be up and running again. (I hate making phone calls and that requires a phone call.)

I wanted to get the cute Care Bears sleeping bag, but I was already going a little over my budget (shh!), so I figure I'll watch it into next month. Also did not get Courney's fanny pack. (I used to carry one with me all the time before I got fatter, as a tweenager.)

It was tempting to buy even a few of the LoveShack Fancy collection because it looks like it's being discontinued soon. But I decided on the cute little sweater for Penelope, my Our Generations doll (I've never had an American Girl doll. More on that in the blog if you search for it), and the Care Bears doll nightgown and socks because they discounted it by a LOT. It must be noted I like the 80s-90s Carebears of my childhood better, just because the designs look better and they wore actual clothes, but beggars can't be choosers, and having carebears in the line is AS CLOSE as we'll probably ever get to having AG-related MLP stuff. I mean, could you imagine it? ((Head explodes)).

Now I have to find the motivation and go through my interest saves to make Pelope some rocking clothes with my fabric hoard and do her hair up like Noonian-Singh in Strange New Worlds because HOW CUTE IS HER HAIR?! THE LITTLE BRAIDS OH-EM-GEE!!

Anyway, I got up at 5 am, how are you? XD

Worst, I found sparkly shoes like what Build-a-Bear has. I don't dress up Penny as much as I used to, but she needs those shoes. aaand I found red high tops on Amazon for her, as well as other colors. And roller skates! I used to roller skate as a kid (I sucked at it) but Roller King had this CPK doll in their display case with little doll skates and I always wanted it. (I still have my CPK from when I was born. Kinda family tradition from a family friend with a huge collection, both my brother and I got one from her. I still have his and consider them brother and sister. Yes, I'm a weirdo.)

Eh, at least dolls redirects my attention from ponies and Sailor Moon shopping. (I have a Sailor Moon monkey the size of King Kong on my back and need to give the merch a break. Possibly decided to put off buying Mercury/Venus bathing suits until I can lose the weight enough to get out of the plus-size section. If I did that, I wouldn't have to buy suits twice.)

Okay, done ranting. Time for chores, sims, iced coffee and other stuff.

#American Girl #shopping #Our Generation doll #cute #Star Trek: Strange New Worlds #Noonian Singh #Hairstyle #omg #my life #want list #dolls #collection #collecting #doll collecting

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minijenn · 3 years

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Hi so I'm interested in getting into the Kingdom Hearts series but I dont know which games to start, which games to avoid, and whether or not some of the games are canon or not. Could you help me please?

So the best thing you could get if you want to get into the series is this. (ignore the price tag Amazon has on it you can buy it at Walmart for like $20). It includes every game/cutscene movie in the series (except for the mobile game and the recently released Melody of Memory). Either way its the perfect collection to get you caught up to speed (I got caught up back before this complete collection existed so back then there were two collections you had to buy before they compiled them into just one lol). Either way, it includes basically every single thing you’ll need to get the (almost) complete story of KH. When it comes to what you’ll want to experience with it, here’s my take on things (in order of how you should play/watch them and what they are in that collection):

Kingdom Hearts (full game playable in the collection): Absolutely MUST play, its a great game and its story is the most simple in the series, very fun and charming and sets up some of the major characters (namely our main Destiny Trio) very nicely. Even if its not the first timeline wise, you’ll want to start with KH1 because of how it introduces the series and its concepts and characters in the most simplistic of ways

Chain of Memories (full game playable in collection, but honestly? I recommend just watching the cutscenes online its NOT fun to play through in my opinion): Again experience the story of this one at least. Its the direct sequel to KH1 and its where things start to get... kind of confusing. To fully understand what happens in this one, you may have to revisit it more than once, I’ve watched through it twice now and I’m still fucking baffled by a lot of it tbh but it sets up 2 so for that its worthwhile I guess?

358/2 Days (Cutscene Movie in collection); So you can watch all of the cutscenes in this one on the collection in a few hours. Its a pretty touching and emotional story focused on the Sea Salt Trio though it does have some... kind of confusing tangents in it too tbh. Either way its well worth the time to look into to learn more about certain characters, as well as the inner workings of Organization XIII

Kingdom Hearts 2 (full game playable in collection): MUST play, its fantastic tbh. Its often cited as the fandom’s favorite for a reason; it builds a TON on what KH1 set up, offers some really fun Disney worlds, and its plot is absolutely fucking batshit and I love that about it. Highly recommend this one for some of the character moments in it especially there are some really funny, really touching, and really heartbreaking scenes in this one, its a wild ride

Birth By Sleep (full game playable): MUST play though its kind of not that great to play in my opinion? Then again I suck at KH games so I might not be the best to ask in that regard XD Its story is great though, focusing on the Wayfinder trio and their absolute tragic backstory. Speaking of backstories, this a prequel, set like 10 years before KH1, something important to keep in mind going into it to avoid confusion (though you do see younger versions of some characters that show up in the “present” games so I suppose that helps lol)

Re:Coded (cutscene movie): Ugh... honestly? You can skip this one, it adds fucking nothing and its boring as hell to get through. If you really wanna sit through it, feel free to but its mostly a big old confusing waste of time if you ask me, one that doesn’t really add much to the story at all.

Union Cross/KHX/Back Cover: Ok so this is where it gets really confusing. Union Cross is the KH mobile game which I don’t recommend playing because from what I’ve heard its very grindy and basically its “pay to win”; so instead, I recommend getting caught up on this one through watching the “cutscenes” or reading through a plot synopsis online; This is another prequel, set waaaaaay before any of the other games and it has some... stuff thats significant mostly for the sake of KH3 and whatever will likely come after it more than anything else; Its story is... fine. Confusing as hell, but fine. Back Cover is a movie that’s on that collection that tells the story of the Foretellers and its boring as shit but I would recommend at least knowing what happens in it to understand the story of the first Keyblade War.

Dream Drop Distance (full game playable): Absolutely recommend this one, its a delight to play through and has a really fun (but also hella fucking confusing) story (confusing is a word thats very often used to describe KH for a reason XD); Its set after KH2 and follows Sora and Riku and its basically building up towards KH3 and elements that show up there. Again, highly recommend this one its one of my favorites of the bunch

Fragmentary Passage (full game playable): Though that game is only like 2 hours long. This is sort of another prequel though its also set during KH1 and you play as Aqua, who I’m in love with :) It was kind of made as a KH3 tech demo and that’s why its so short but its pretty fun and its story is compelling enough to keep you going as it continues building the way towards 3

Kingdom Hearts 3 (full game playable): Absolutely play this one; I may have my problems with its story, but its a hella fun time gameplay wise and its story has... its moments where its not fucking stupid. Though some of it is fucking stupid and I just have to deal with that :) Anyway KH3 is the conclusion of what’s called the “dark seeker” arc, which is really just the arc where we have Xehanort and the Organization as antagonists, tho knowing this hell series I’m sure they’ll all fucking come back someday :P Anyway its the culmination of a lot of things throughout the series and while some ends aren’t tied up the best, others are beautifully here. Totes recommend even if I personally have a very love/hate relationship with it ^_^

Re:Mind (bonus online purchase): This isn’t a game but its KH3′s DLC and it likely isn’t included in that story so far set. It basically adds more onto KH3′s ending and sets up for whatever game will come next after it (and also sets up MoM)

Melody of Memory (not included in set): The newest game in the series and a rhythm game at that; its largely just a recap of past games and their events, but the gameplay is really fun and addictive, plus KH music slaps. It does have about 15 minutes of brand new story content tacked onto the end of it, which again, is setting up for whatever game likely comes next, but if ya wanna skip it, I wouldn’t blame you, its waaaaaaay too expensive right now, I’d honestly just wait for a price drop :P

Dark Road: This is another mobile game and it basically tells Master Xehanort’s backstory; I personally haven’t looked into this one because I don’t give a single fuck about that asshole’s history but ya can if you want more context into his character I guess :/

And those are all the KH games. There’s a fucking lot of them and I hate them all. I also love them all. I basically love/hate this entire hell series,, so much so that I decided to write a shitty angst fic about it (which I highly recommend if you do actually go through all of the KH games, Keys to the Kingdom is basically an AU of KH3 and also sort of a “fix it fic” of sorts XD its a good, tragic time all around XD (forgive the shameless self promotion)) Anyway, enjoy the insanity that is KH!

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