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Books Read in 2022

You Will Get Through This Night by Daniel Howell // January 1st

Sun, Moon, Star by Kurt Vonnegut // January 2nd

The Bad Guys in They're Bee-Hind You! by Aaron Blabey // January 5th

The Bad Guys: Episode 1 by Aaron Blabey // January 6th

The Bad Guys: Episode 2: Mission Unpluckable by Aaron Blabey // January 6th

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi // January 6th

The Bad Guys: Episode 3: The Furball Strikes Back by Aaron Blabey // January 7th

The Bad Guys: Episode 4: Attack of the Zittens by Aaron Blabey // January 7th

The Bad Guys: Episode 5: Intergalactic Gas by Aaron Blabey // January 8th

The Bad Guys in Aliens Vs Bad Guys (The Bad Guys #6) by Aaron Blabey // January 8th

The Bad Guys in Do-You-Think He-Saurus? (The Bad Guys #7) by Aaron Blabey // January 8th

The Bad Guys: Episode 8: Superbad by Aaron Blabey //January 8th

The Bad Guys: Episode 9: The Big Bad Wolf by Aaron Blabey // January 8th

The Bad Guys in the Baddest Day Ever (The Bad Guys #10) by Aaron Blabey // January 9th

The Bad Guys in the Dawn of the Underworld (The Bad Guys #11) by Aaron Blabey // January 9th

The Bad Guys in The One (The Bad Guys #12) by Aaron Blabey // January 9th

The Bad Guys in Cut to the Chase (The Bad Guys #13) by Aaron Blabey // January 9th

Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi // January 10th

Timekeeper by Tara Sim // January 15th

Leonard Cohen: On A Wire by Philippe Girard // January 16th

Out in Central Pennsylvania: The History of an LGBTQ Community by Barry Loveland and William Burton // January 18th

Minecraft: Guide to Creative (2017 Edition) by Stephanie Milton // January 19th

What to Do When I’m Gone: A Mother’s Wisdom to Her Daughter by Suzy Hopkins and Hallie Bateman (Illustrator) // January 22nd

Will and Whit by Laura Lee Gulledge // January 24th

How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual by Rebecca Burgess // January 24th

The Stinky Cheese Man: And Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith (Illustrator) // January 26th

Heartstopper: Volume Four by Alice Oseman // January 31st (reread)

Heartstopper: The Mini-Comics by Alice Oseman // January 31st

Nick and Charlie (Solitaire #1.5) by Alice Oseman // February 1st

Blankets by Craig Thompson // February 2nd

Ultimate Minecraft Master Builder by Jonathan Green and Juliet Stanley // February 3rd

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie // February 3rd

The Art of Encanto // February 5th

Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke // February 5th

Lore Olympus: Season 1 by Rachel Smythe (likely Volumes 1-4) // February 6th

The Art of The Mitchells Vs The Machines by Ramin Zahed // February 9th

The Art of Luca by Pixar, Enrico Casarosa, and Daniela Strijleva // February 9th

Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami // February 15th

Drama by Raina Telgemeier // February 16th

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone // February 16th

Becoming Unbecoming by Una // February 17th

This Winter (Solitaire #0.5) by Alice Oseman // February 17th

Solitaire by Alice Oseman // February 19th

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman // February 20th

Heartstopper: Volume 1 by Alice Oseman // February 21st (reread)

Heartstopper: Volume 2 by Alice Oseman // February 21st (reread)

Heartstopper: Volume 3 by Alice Oseman // February 21st (reread)

Heartstopper: Volume 4 by Alice Oseman // February 21st (reread)

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden // February 24th

The Witch Boy (The Witch Boy #1) by Molly Knox Ostertag // February 26th

The Hidden Witch (The Witch Boy #2) by Molly Knox Ostertag // February 28th

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell // February 28th

The Midwinter With (The Witch Boy #3) by Molly Knox Ostertag // February 28th

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett // March 4th

shades of lovers by Catarine Hancock // March 5th

The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen // March 8th

Loveless by Alice Oseman // March 11th

And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell, and Henry Cole (illustrator) // March 15th

I Was Born For This by Alice Oseman // March 16th

Minecraft: Wither Without You Volume 2 by Kristen Gudsnuk // March 17th

Cemetery of Mind by Dambudzo Marechera // March 17th

Prom House by Chelsea Mueller // March 19th

The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon #1) by Kay O’Neill // March 19th

Sheets by Brenna Thummler // March 21st

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado // March 24th

Heartstopper: Volume 1 by Alice Oseman // March 25th (reread)

Heartstopper: Volume 2 by Alice Oseman // March 25th (reread)

Heartstopper: Volume 3 by Alice Oseman // March 25th (reread)

Heartstopper: Volume 4 by Alice Oseman // March 25th (reread)

Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee // March 26th

The Tea Dragon Festival (The Tea Dragon Society #2) by Kay O’Neill // March 27th

The Tea Dragon Tapestry (The Tea Dragon Society #3) by Kay O’Neill // March 27th

As I Descended by Robin Talley // March 31st

Coraline by Neil Gaiman and adopted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell // April 3rd

Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle // April 5th

Five, Six, Seven, Nate! by Tim Federle // April 7th

Nate Expectations by Tim Federle // April 8th

Home Body by Rupi Kaur // April 9th

Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry by Elizabeth M. Karle and Catherine M. Pittman // April 11th

Chainbreaker by Tara Sim // April 18th

Heartstopper: Volume 1 by Alice Oseman // April 18th (reread)

Heartstopper: Volume 2 by Alice Oseman // April 18th (reread)

Heartstopper: Volume 3 by Alice Oseman // April 18th (reread)

Heartstopper: Volume 4 by Alice Oseman // April 18th (reread)

Minecraft Volume 1 (Graphic Novel) by Sarah Graley, Sfé R. Monster, and John J Hill // April 21st

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing From Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo // April 25th

Heartstopper: Volume 4 by Alice Oseman // April 25th (reread)

This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews // April 26th

Monet: Itinerant of Light by Salva Rubio with Efa (illustrator) // April 28th

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy // April 29th

Minecraft Volume 2 (Graphic Novel) by Sarah Graley and Sfé R. Monster // April 29th

Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden // April 29th

This is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, And Us edited by Katherine Locke and Nicole Melleby (contributions also by Eric Bell, Lisa Jenn Bigelow, Ashley Herring Blake, Lisa Bunker, Alex Gino, Justina Ireland, Shing Yin Khor, Mariama J. Lockington, Marieke Nijkamp, Claribel A. Ortega, Mark Oshiro, Molly Knox Ostertag, Aisa Salazar, and AJ Sass) // May 1st

The Mermaid, The Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall // May 4th

Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection by Yao Xiao // May 5th

Heartstopper: Volume 1 by Alice Oseman // May 5th (reread)

Cheshire Crossing by Sarah Andersen and Andy Weir // May 5th

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli // May 7th

Broxo by Zack Giallongo // May 7th

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo // May 9th

The League of Super Feminists by Mirion Malle // May 9th

The Wild Robot by Peter Brown // May 11th

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y Davis // May 14th

Paper Girls (Volume 1) by Brian K. Vaughan // May 15th

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger // May 16th

Everyone in this Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily R Austin // May 17th

As The Crow Flies by Melanie Gillman // May 17th

The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical by Saundra Mitchell with Bob Martin, Chad Beguelin, and Matthew Sklar // May 18th

Spring Awakening: A Children’s Tragedy by Frank Wedekind and translated by Jonathan Franzen // May 20th

Always Human (Season 1) by Ari North // May 20th

The House with a Clock in its Walls by John Bellairs // May 22nd

The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli // May 23rd

When Stars Are Scattered by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson // May 23rd

The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe // May 23rd

Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel // May 24th

Eva Evergreen, Semi-Magical With by Julie Abe // May 27th

The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon #1) by Kay O’Neill // May 27th (reread)

Always Human (Season 2) by Ari North // May 27th

What Kind of Woman: Poems by Kate Baer // May 27th

Strangelands #1 by Magdalene Visaggio with Darcie Little Badger and Guillermo Sanna (Illustrator) // May 27th

Soft Science by Franny Choi // May 29th

Sick Kids in Love by Hannah Moskowitz // May 30th

Child of the Moon by Jessica Semaan // May 31st (reread)

Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall // May 31st

Check Please! Book #1: Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu // June 2nd

Check Please! Book #2: Sticks & Scones by Ngozi Ukazu // June 3rd

Turtles All The Way Down by John Green // June 4th (reread)

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens // June 8th

Ever After by Olivia Vieweg // June 9th

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender // June 10th

Spinning by Tillie Walden // June 10th

The Awakening Storm (City of Dragons #1) by Jaimal Yogis // June 19th

Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir by Maggie Thrash // June 20th

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones // June 22nd

In Real Life by Cory Doctorow // June 24th

The Bookshop of Second Chances by Jackie Fraser // June 25th

Ms. Marvel, Volume 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona (artist) and Ian Herring (colorist) // June 25th

In the Dark: The Science of What Happens At Night by Lisa Deresti Betik and Josh Holinaty (illustrator) // June 25th

The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls // June 27th

Circe by Madeline Miller // June 28th

Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour // June 30th

Displacement by Kiku Hughes // July 2nd

In A Blink by Kiki Thorpe with Jana Christy (illustrator) // July 4th

The Space Between by Kiki Thorpe with Jana Christy (illustrator) // July 4th

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games #0) by Suzanne Collins // July 6th

A Dandelion Wish by Kiki Thorpe with Jana Christy (illustrator) // July 7th

She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen // July 8th

A Diary of the Plague Year: An Illustrated Chronicle of 2020 by Elise Engler // July 9th

Open Wide and Say Arrrgh! (The Bad Guys #15) by Aaron Blabey // July 13th

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing From Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo // July 14th (reread)

OCDaniel by Wesley King // July 16th

From the Mist by Kiki Thorpe with Jana Christy (illustrator) // July 17th

Wedding Wings by Kiki Thorpe with Jana Christy (illustrator) // July 17th

The Woods Beyond by Kiki Thorpe with Jana Christy (illustrator) // July 17th

Overthinking About You: Dating With Anxiety, OCD, and Depression by Allison Raskin // July 18th

The Poppy War (The Poppy War #1) by R. F. Kuang // July 18th

Educated by Tara Westover // July 25th

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley // August 2nd (reread, for school)

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston // August 11th (reread)

Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father- And How We Can Fix It by David Goldhill // August 14th

Autoboyography by Christina Lauren // August 16th

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong // August 20th

Bingo Love by Tee Franklin // August 22nd

The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall // August 23rd

Man’s Search For Meaning by V.E. Frankl // August 25th

Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles // August 26th

She Gets the Girl by Rachel Lippincott and Alyson Derrick // August 27th

Jaws by Peter Benchley // August 28th

The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan // August 28th

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei // August 28th

Redesigning the American Lawn: A Search for Environmental Harmony by F. Herbert Bormann, Diana Balmori, and Gordon T. Geballe // August 29th

Next to Normal by Brian Yorkey // August 31st

The Universe in the Rearview Mirror: How Hidden Symmetries Shape Reality Dave Goldberg // September 1st

Love Poems by Various // September 2nd

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green // September 4th

Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear by Michael J. O’Loughlin // September 6th

Love is a Revolution by Renée Watson // September 7th

Love From A to Z by S.K. Ali // September 10th

Comet Fever by Donald Gropman // September 10th

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy // September 14th

Alone in Space: A Collection by Tillie Walden // September 14th

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky // September 15th

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid // September 16th

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare // September 19th

Minecraft: Wither Without You Volume 3 (Graphic Novel) by Kristen Gudsnuk // September 20th

Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris // September 22nd

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo // September 25th (reread)

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun // September 30th

Jerusalem: Or on Religious Power and Judaism by Moses Mendelssohn // October 1st

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Volume 1: The Crucible by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa // October 2nd

The Baby-Sitter’s Club Graphix #1: Kristy’s Great Idea by Ann M. Martin // October 2nd

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain // October 2nd

Just Roll With It by Lee Durfey-Lavoie and Veronica Agarwal // October 2nd

The Sun Will Come Out by Joanne Levy // October 9th

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed the World by Erik Larson // October 11th

Café Con Lychee by Emery Lee // October 14th

Bacchae by Euripides // October 17th

Never Been Kissed by Timothy Janovsky // October 18th

A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo // October 21st

Heartstopper: Volume 2 by Alice Oseman //October 22nd (reread)

America’s National Parks by Alexa Ward and Mike Lowery (Illustrator) // October 23rd

Frog and Toad CD Audio Collection by Arnold Lobel // October 24th

The Golden Hour by Niki Smith // October 27th

May the Best Man Win by Z. R. Ellor // October 28th

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe // October 29th (reread)

Heartstopper: Volume Four by Alice Oseman // October 30th (reread)

On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder // November 5th

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas // November 6th

Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s A Nightmare Before Christmas by Shea Ernshaw // November 7th

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon // November 8th

Queer Eye: Love Yourself. Love Your Life by Antoni Porowski (I’m assuming they’re all credited but antoni is just first cause alphabet) // November 9th

Kiss Her Once For Me by Alison Cochrun // November 12th

The Unseen Body: A Doctor’s Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy by Jonathan Reisman // November 14th

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi (editor) // November 16th

A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger // November 20th

I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston // November 22nd

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Illustrated Collector’s Edition by Omar Khayyámd and Edward Fitzgerald (Translator) // November 23rd

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu // November 24th

When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller // November 24th

Compass South by Hope Larson // November 25th

Chemical Gardening for the Amateur: Gardening Without Soil Made Easy by Charles H. Connors // November 26th

Beloved by Toni Morrison // November 27th

Skulduggery Pleasant (Skulduggery Pleasant #1) by Derek Landy // November 28th

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Toulane by Kate DiCamillo // November 28th

Holes by Louis Sachar // November 29th

Playing With Fire (Skulduggery Pleasant #2) by Derek Landy // December 9th

Bob by Wendy Mass // December 10th

Jerusalem: Or on Religious Power and Judaism by Moses Mendelssohn // December 12th (reread)

Heartstopper: Volume Two by Alice Oseman // December 14th (reread)

Heartstopper: Volume Three by Alice Oseman // December 15th (reread)

Heartstopper: Volume Four by Alice Oseman // December 15th (reread)

The Family Roe: An American Story by Joshua Prather // December 16th

Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares (Dash & Lily, #1) by Rachel Cohn and David Leviathan // December 20th

The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily (Dash & Lily, #2) by Rachel Cohn and David Leviathan // December 21st

Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily (Dash & Lily, #3) by Rachel Cohn and David Leviathan // December 21st

Junie B., First Grader: Toothless Wonder by Barbara Park // December 22nd

Heartstopper: Volume Three by Alice Oseman // December 24th (reread)

The Art of Living by Thich Nhat Hanh // December 24th

Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega // December 24th

Eight Days: A Story of Haiti by Edwidge Danticat // December 25th

Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. by Noor Hindi // December 26th

The Accursed Vampire by Madeline McGrane // December 26th

Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries Who Shaped Our History…and Our Future by Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl (Illustrator) // December 28th

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski // December 31st

The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho // December 31st

Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov // December 31st

The Tea Dragon Society by Kay O’Neill // December 31st (reread)

The Tea Dragon Festival by Kay O’Neill // December 31st (reread)

The Tea Dragon Tapestry by Kay O’Neill // December 31st (reread)

And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson // December 31st (reread)

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juhihuji · 4 years

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About Me!

“Answer these questions, then tag 8 people you’d like to get to know better”

@might-guys-acorn tagged me so me type word fill answer now :•)

Also including pics n videos cuz I always end up having to Google ppl’s answers cuz I don’t know about things lmao so leaving it under the cut cuz loong poost

1) Birthday: June 27th

2) Zodiac: Cancer!!!!!! Ox???????

3) Height: 5'3.75″ but uuuh I’m a 5′4″ in my heart

4) Last Song I Listened to: Had both these tabs open so either “Something For Your M.I.N.D.” by Superorganism or “Omen Classic” by Tobacco. The latter is described by commenters Loungers film as “super gross,” and Seth Testerman as “Super horned up and ripe hairy hole.” Perfectly described. I would have to agree.

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5) Hobbies: I’m in front of a tablet all day so I just be drawin’! But besides that I guess I’m a little bit into 3D modelling, just simple low poly stuff. Painting sometimes. I like reading visual novels n watching animated stuff. I...collect pens....I’d love to get into doll customizing and resin crafting in the future. Wish I could do more 2D animation stuff too.

6) Last movie I watched: I guess I don’t watch a lot of movies...so Rock n’ Rule I think. Cool soundtrack, sick animation and aesthetics. Takes place in a 80′s sci-fi dystopian future world that’s super grimy and really sexy. Reminds me of Akira a bit and I cannot believe something so nasty and beautiful could come out of Canadian animation.

7) Favorite Books: I don’t rly read books! The last one I read was Ocean of Milk by Daniel Euphrat. Surreal horror about a dude who discovers a new drug, joins a cult of little kids, then tries to climb this play structure that goes into the sky. Super trippy, pretty unsettling, the world feels terrifying but also fun n unique? It gets nutty. It’s the last book I read but also my favourite...not just cuz it’s the freshest in my memory but I rly did love it.

8) Dream Job: My dream job is to live off making content I love making. Probably art, maybe games, whatever my little stinky heart desires. I really want people to enjoy content that I enjoy making.

9) Favorite Color: I’d say pink but I’ve been rly into the black/orange combo lately. For all things, as a colour theme for design or an atmosphere to exist in lmao, so maybe subconsciously those colours mean something to me...

10) Meaning behind my URL: Oogh it’s probably something angsty, and I use the name for everything so it’s not too closely related to my art or anything. The idea was that I believed every person in the world was rotten in some way or another. Like, the nicest, sweetest person you know probably has something about them that might be considered awful or disgusting, and it would change how you view them if you found out about it. I felt like I wanted to know about people’s rotten cores so I could either know who to avoid or who it was safe to bond with over mutual depravities. I think relating to and feeling comfortable with other people on such a personal level can mean a lot to us, but sometimes it’s too shameful or too harmful, and we can’t do it. So those parts of us are left unshared forever. I was just coming right out and admitting that I’m rotten without waiting for someone to dig it out of me, but I still think we all are so it just felt like stating the obvious. It was low effort in that way, like naming myself human. Also I thought it was edgy and cool xd

For me now, I guess it represents a space on the internet to expose my yucky, decomposing core of shameful lust, and ppl come into it to let my throbbing zombie heart inject its tendrils into their rotten cores and uuuh ngl it’s kinda hot 🥵 EW okay

I don’t rly know many ppl ummm!!! I tag @vulpixune @stephdaninja @niobil @psychoticallymegumi @explosiveglitterqueen @aerrylath uUUUUH ok that’s all idk I’m sorry I hate to b a bother ehh <:•3 (also sorry if u already did something like this I just don’t know who to tag!!!!!!) just ignore this if u want <<<<<:•3

#bad rambles in here #text post

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recentanimenews · 5 years

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Ni No Kuni: Wrath Of The White Witch Is A Charming RPG That Made Me Sob

A few weeks ago, my son was born. And if you've ever been a parent or have been around infants in general, you spend a majority of your time together playing a game called "Oh my god are they breathing?" Night and day, you feed and change and watch them, checking for the tiny rise and fall of their chests as they sleep, unaware that you're currently the most paranoid person on the planet hovering above them. But, despite my constant half-sleep, I fell in love with this stinky little potato person and have found myself firmly becoming a Dad Guy, a guy that gets emotional at the slightest mention of love or children or parents or a combination of those three things.

So maybe I wasn't in the best state to play Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, a game that starts with a child losing his mother. Or maybe I WAS in the absolute best state to play through it, because y'all, I have sobbed through portions of this game.

Recently re-released for the Nintendo Switch, Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch concerns a young boy named Oliver who lives in Motorville. After being rescued from an automobile accident by his mother, his mother tragically passes away from a heart problem, leaving Oliver distant and depressed. However, he's soon visited by his doll-come-to-life named Drippy who tells him that he has to save another world from a sorcerer. Oliver doesn't seem so hyped about being the Chosen One until he finds out that every person in his world has a "soulmate" in the other one, and that he might be able to bring his mother back by visiting a great sage that looks a lot like her.

From the beginning, the wonderful art style of the characters and the setting seemed remniscient of the work of Studio Ghibli, and it turns out that my Anime Spider Sense wasn't lying because Studio Ghibli collaborated with developer Level 5 to create the animated sequences. Level 5 used Ghibli as inspiration when designing just about everything else, too, and I'd consider this a wise decision as Wrath of the White Witch looks both unique amongst its RPG peers and classically Ghibli. So even when you're running around the overworld, trying to dodge (or run into battle with) monsters, the experience is sublime. I don't fully recommend using "IT'S LIKE YOU'RE ACTUALLY PLAYING KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE" when telling others about this game, but I also don't don't fully recommend it.

So, I've established that the game is gorgeous (and written by Akihiro Hino, who directed Dragon Quest VIII, one of my favorite Dragon Quest games), but how does it play? Well, here's where it might divide people. When you collide with a monster, the battle area is free to roam around in, as you control human characters and one of many "familiars" that you can switch in and out. Each character and each Familiar has their own set of customizable attacks and abilities (which you gain as you level up or complete certain objectives,) so you'll want to mix and match to take on all beasties. For instance, Oliver is great from a distance, but he'll get eviscerated up close. So you'll want to consistently pair him with Familiars that are a bit...punch-in-the-face-ier.

At first, this system feels a bit chaotic, but you soon get the hang of it as battles are plentiful. Then, as the difficulty moves up, the chaos returns and I was forced to get the hang of it yet again. Eventually, I stabilized into being perfectly mediocre at monster fightin', but every once in a while, I found myself overwhelmed, as if my skill level, the game's battling system, and the AI of the enemies weren't lining up. Again, this isn't so much a con as it's just a battle system that takes time to get used to. It's good, and can have a lot of depth, but you have to be willing to practice a bit to feel like you're mastering the art of the Familiars.

As for the characters that you're not locked in combat with on a regular basis, they run the spectrum from delightfully designed and enchanting in personality, to just kind of Garden Variety Ghibli Cute. Oliver is a pretty standard child protagonist, and the main villains Shadar and the titular White Witch almost looked like Nintendo 64 Legend of Zelda characters (and I mean that in the best of ways).

Oliver's human allies are fun but not totally memorable, and they often left me wishing we got more characters like King Tom, the giant cat ruler. Plus, bosses like the Guardian of the Woods and Moltaan set the bar pretty high, design-wise, so going through a roll call of standard RPG supporters when it came to the people that Oliver pals around with was fairly disappointing at times.

But none of this was enough to lose me, as the core of Wrath of the White Witch is about Oliver growing up through helping people. And buddy, that is a theme that I can get behind. See, Oliver has the ability to restore pieces of people's hearts, helping the downtrodden and distressed to continue on, whether their motivations are touching or comical. So in this way, Wrath of the White Witch tells a story about not just loss, but moving on from loss and contributing to the world in positive ways. This is where a lot of my aforementioned crying took place, not just because I have a son now and I can't fathom being taken away from him, but because there's so much there that I want to impart to him.

Wrath of the White Witch doesn't provide a lesson plan for helping someone through grief. Grief is often unknowable and personal and affects us in a variety of weird, unexpected ways. However, it does provide a portrayal of grief that is aspirational, where we cope with it even without knowing that we're coping. Where we continue to help those around us because the good people around us are all we have. Where, even when we've lost what's most important to us, we're still important to others.

Though I'm not the biggest evangelist of Studio Ghibli, I'm so glad that they're around to give us movies that don't talk down to the younger part of their audience. And I'm glad that I got the chance to play Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, an RPG that I needed right now.

REVIEW ROUNDUP:

+ Beautiful visuals that are either created by Studio Ghibli, or Ghibli-inspired

+ Wonderful themes about grief, loss, and redemption

+ Exploring the world and its various areas is never tiring

+/- Battle system is extremely fun, but takes some getting used to

- Some of the side character designs feel uninspired in comparison to the rest of the game

You can pick up Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch for the Nintendo Switch here!

Have you played Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch? What was your favorite aspect of it? Ever played any other Level 5 games? Let us know in the comments!

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Daniel Sent Us Back to KINDERGARTEN for A Day!

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Who will graduate from Kindergarten in less than 24 hours? It all started when Rebecca Zamolo created “FIRST KISS in UNDERWATER DATE.” Next Matt and Rebecca posted EXTREME HIDE AND SEEK with REAL COP But We are PREGNANT.” Finally the Game Master Network created “EXTREME HIDE AND SEEK IN BOXES CHALLENGE!” Now Rebecca and Matt along with best friend Daniel and Maddie are back in kindergarten for 24 hours. First we start with arts and crafts but our teacher is a kid. Who is in charge right now? Is this a kids vs adults challenge? Rebecca is a chatterbox and won’t stop talking while Daniel is a know it all. Matt is the stinky bully and Maddie is super quiet. We might not pass this grade. Do you think we have a chance? Thank you for watching my funny entertainment comedy adventure vlog videos in 2022!

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newsmatters · 3 years

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Chewy sends pet paintings to keep customers from straying - art and culture

Chewy sends pet paintings to keep customers from straying – art and culture

Danielle Schwartz didn’t ask for an oil painting of her cat. But she loves the portrait of Stinky that hangs in her upstate New York home, a surprise gift from an unlikely place: an online pet store. It’s one of the more than 1,000 free paintings that Chewy sends to select customers each week — even during the pandemic — tapping into people’s obsession with their fur children and, it hopes,…

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Chewy sends pet paintings to keep customers from straying - art and culture

Chewy sends pet paintings to keep customers from straying – art and culture

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Tagged by : @inevitablyuncertain, @fivehundredmillionlittlebells and @devotedlystarstruckartisan  Rules: answer the 20 questions and tag 20 amazing followers you would like to get to know better. Name : Dan/ Daniel Nickname : smelly, stinky, dan dan the ___ man, Zodiac sign : Sagittarius Height : 5'7″ or abt 173cm? Orientation : bi/pan but leaning towards dudes Ethnicity : white Favourite fruit : grapes, cherries, most berries Favourite season : winter/beginning of spring Favourite book series : none bitch i cant read Favourite flower : yellow flowers no bias Favourite scent : food smells, my grandmas house, my mama Favourite colour : yellow and darker teal Coffee, tea, or cocoa : uh ice coffee but hot chocolate is very good Average sleep hours : 6-7 Cat or dog person : BOTH ARE GOOD. i like the company of dogs more tho Favourite fictional characters : markus (ti), magnus (taz), morty (r&m), hunk (vld), hau (pkmn sumo) Dream trip : oh dear um. idk to some quiet lil town with some pals going to cafes to draw n chat. somewhere cold and not busy. like country melbourne was real nice. some place with nice scenery or cool art i dunno Number of followers : 226

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#pls i love them sm #i thought they’d be neat for a valentine’s day thing #idk why #i just really wanted to draw a dan fusion #fusion lads au #fusion!lads #rtgame #rtgame daniel #call me kevin #callmekevin #rtgamecrowd #terroriser #the gaming terroriser #jacksepticeye #stinky plink art

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emergencyplumberschicago · 5 years

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Hello From Chicago – Part 4 – A Personal Tour Of The Chicago Cultural Center

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Chicago, Arlington House, Sunday, October 23, 2005, 6:15 am

Yesterday, after our lovely Austrian breakfast we went downtown to the Chicago Cultural Center, the main downtown information hub for tourists, to ask some questions about the Pullman Historic District, a planned industrial community, built in the 1880s by industrial magnate George Pullman, creator of the famous Pullman sleeper cars. We figured this would be an interesting place to visit since it brings together architecture, social and industrial history, and it would really give us insight into one of the most interesting personalities of Chicago's history.

To get more information about this neighbourhood we talked to one of the volunteer greeters who staff the Chicago Cultural Center and offer their local expertise to visitors free of charge. The Chicago Greeter program today offers 150 greeters speaking 20 languages and the Greeter program is one of the best ways of getting to know the city through the eyes of a local resident.

As a matter of fact, I had registered electronically for a Chicago Greeter Tour prior to my departure, but something had gone wrong with my registration and as a result I was not assigned a greeter. The good thing is that the City of Chicago also offers "InstaGreeters" - local volunteers / experts who take people on downtown walking tours without the necessity of a prior registration.

This is how we happened upon our very own personal InstaGreeter tour: Chicago Greeter and local expert Don talked to us a bit about the Pullman Historic District, but the more we talked, and the more he saw that we were really interested, he asked us whether we wanted a 20 minute tour of the Chicago Cultural Center. Considering that this is a Chicago landmark we readily agreed.

The Chicago Cultural Center was originally dedicated in 1897 as the city's original Public Library. It is an impressive limestone-faced building with intricate details, marble staircases, patterned ceilings, beautiful floor mosaics and two impressive stained glass domes. The cupola on the south side of the building is the world's largest Tiffany stained-glass dome.

Today the Cultural Center houses one of the city's Visitor Information Centers , various galleries, exhibition and meeting spaces, the Landmark Chicago Gallery which displays photographs from the permanent collection of Chicago landmarks, the 294-seat Claudia Cassidy Theater as well as the Studio Theater and various other facilities. You can even get married inside the Chicago Cultural Center.

Designed in the beaux-arts style by the Boston firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, the Chicago Cultural Center was completed in 1897 and dedicated as the city's original Chicago Public Library. Completed at a cost of nearly $2 million, this remarkable monument was inspired by the neo-classical style of the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893.

To start off, Don told us that the name of the city of Chicago is an Indian word for "stinky onion swamp". He also explained that Chicago is a city of superlatives: 3 of the world's 10 highest buildings are located here. Chicago is also widely considered to be the birthplace of modern architecture and a living museum of architecture, showcasing some of the world's most famous architects including Frank Lloyd Wright, Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan, Mies van der Rohe and Frank Gehry.

Chicago likes to do everything big. The world’s largest public library is located here: the Harold Washington Library Center houses 2 million books. Chicago is also home to the largest building in the United States (excluding the Pentagon): the Merchandise Mart has 90 acres of floor space, housed in an Art Deco landmark. Buckingham Fountain in Grant Park is one of the world's largest fountains. Chicago also has the only river in the world that flows backwards. Engineers reversed the Chicago River in 1900 for sanitary purposes. Here's another interesting fact: Chicago also has the largest Polish population outside of Warsaw.

Our local expert Don took us through the building and showed us the two stained glass domes, the exhibit halls, the photo collection of Chicago landmarks, and to keep going along the line of superlatives, Don gave us a brief synopsis of Millennium Park, located right across Michigan Avenue from the Chicago Cultural Center. The idea for Millennium Park was conceived by famous mayor Richard M. Daley, and with the help of private sector donations Millennium Park has become one of the most impressive outdoor venues anywhere. The project cost $495 million, of which $220 million were financed privately.

Our Chicago Greeter Don, a former vice-president at Motorola, is very knowledgeable about the history of Chicago and very passionate about his city. His pride in his city is obvious, and there is a lot to be proud of. For me, Chicago's waterfront including Grant Park, the lakefront trail and its beaches are some of the most awesome features of this city. In total Chicago has more than 7300 acres of parkland, 552 parks, 33 beaches, nine museums, two world-class conservatories, 16 historic lagoons, 10 bird and wildlife gardens, and it's not surprising that Chicago has won numerous awards including "Best City in the World" and other accolades.

With Don's help we got a great overview of the Cultural Center and a bit of insight into Chicago's interesting history. It was the perfect preparation for our tour of the Pullman Historic District, an industrial community created by George Pullman, an industrial despot, yet a foresightful social entrepreneur who, according to Don, was universally despised.

Armed with a bit of background knowledge we were looking forward to our exploration of Pullman's social experiment.

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