---------------I totally know what I'm doing. What do mean that I'm sweating nervously? No I'm not.
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Shows: Walking Dead, Teen Titans, Digimon, Pokemon, Soul Eater
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Music: Almost Anything
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-------Couples: Dear lord, I can almost ship anyone..my friends make it into a game sometimes heh----------------------------------
Video Games: Tales of Symphonia, Pokemon, Kingdom Hearts series, Animal Crossing
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Enjoys: Reading Fanfictions, looking at fanart, watching fanpairing videos, making amvs and normal music videos----
Today I made the unfortunate discovery that Jim Carrey was once a conventionally handsome prettyboy. As in, you could describe him as “elegant” and possessing “chiseled good looks” and wouldn’t be off the mark. With a neutral expression on his face, he looked… pretty. Serene.
But the moment he displays an emotion, the illusion is shattered. It’s like he went and used some exclusive mods in character creation that altered the way reality affected his face. Physics just work differently for him. He is an average-looking dude under the eldritch forces that animate his face.
Do not go to the liquor store on 90th and MacArthur, around 10-14 Black men will be standing out there with vans and they will try to snatch you up, the Arab dudes who own the liquor store are in on it do not go there during the night, if it wasn’t for my boyfriend being with me last night they would have got me #staywoke
Don’t go during the day either! My cousin and sister seen these vans in broad day light. They were scared shitless. They kept their distance, and no harm was done. I showed them this post a week later, they should’ve been warned sooner. PLEASE REBLOG THIS!
If you skip too many cutscenes, the game won’t give you highlights on your map to show you where to go, because you didn’t pay enough attention to have made the note on your map yourself.
A list for anime fans that are sick of how gay anime tends to cater to straight peoples fantasies. These are more mature and have an actual plot/are made for queer people.
Antique Bakery - Shoujo comedy otherwise titled “Seiyou Kottou Yougashiten: Antique” and 西洋 骨董 洋菓子店 in Japanese. It has 12 episodes and also a live-action adaptation! It follows the lives of four men working in a bakery. The owner and waiter, Tachibana, comes from a rich family and was kidnapped as a child. Haunted by nightmares of the experience, he decides to open up a cake shop. Yusuke Ono is the patisserie, and went to highschool with Tachibana. He’s known as “the gay of demonic charm” because men often fall for him regardless of their orientation. Eji Kanda is a former and injured young boxer with a major sweet tooth working as Ono’s apprentice. Finally, Chikage Kobayakawa is a childhood friend of Tachibana sent by Tachibana’s family to keep an eye on him. He’s very clumsy and struggles with training to be a waiter.
Bloom Into You - School romance anime titled “Yagate Kimi ni Naru” and やがて君にな in Japanese. 13 episodes long with an English dub available. Yuu Koito is a freshman who’s never experienced feelings of love. When a junior high student confesses to her, she feels nothing and delays her response, entering highschool without giving a reply. While there, she meets Student Council President Touko Nanami, who shares her lack of romantic feelings. Touko encourages her to turn the junior high student down, and the two girls bond over their similarities. Things seem to be going well until Touko admits that she’s developed feelings for Yuu.
From The New World - Psychological Sci-fi drama titled “Shinsekai Yori” and やがて君になる in Japanese. 25 episodes long with an English dub available. Though the two female love interests are featured below, the show also has two male love interests and all the main characters are heavily implied to be bisexual. Following an outbreak of psychokinesis in 0.1% of the population, a transformation sweeps rapidly through the world. The ability to manipulate matter sends earth into an era of chaos and violence before the psychic humans are finally able to cobble together a fragile peace by isolating themselves from society and creating a new world for themselves thats bound by comolex rules. Inside the town of Kamisu 66, 12 year old Saki Watanabe has just awakened her powers and is happy to rejoin her friends- Satoru Asahina, Mamoru Itou, Maria Akizuki, and Shun Aonuma- at a special academy for people with powers. Things arent as happy and peaceful as they seem though when Saki begins to question what happens to those without powers..
No. 6 - No. 6 is a science fiction dystopia taking place in a city known only as “No. 6”. Shion is a privileged boy from an elite family, on the right track to becoming a well adjusted and functioning member of society when he meets a boy named Nezumi, on the run from authorities. When he gives him shelter and is discovered, his entire world is cjanged and the privileges his family had are stripped from them. Years later, after finding a mysterious body, the two men are reunited. English dub available, 11 episodes.
Revolutionary Girl Utena - Titled “Shojo Kakumei Utena” and 少女革命ウテナin Japanese, Utena is fantasy/romance anime set in a school called Ohtori Academy. It follows a girl named Utena Tenjou, who’s always dreamed of being like a prince. She meets Anthy Himemiya, a strange girl referred to as the “Rose Bride” who is dueled over by the school’s student council in hopes of winning a tornament and gaining the power to “revolutionize the world.” The romantic relationship between Anthy and Utena is more explicit in the film, but the Anime has several more explicitly queer characters and moments. Family and sexuality are two of the most reoccuring themes throughout the show. English dubbed, 39 episodes + 1 film.
Simoun - Titled シムーン Shimūn in Japanese, 26 episodes available and only English subtitled. Simoun is a planetary romance/coming of age Anime taking place on an earth-like planet named Daikuriku. The people born there are all born female. In the nation of Simulacrum (a land with a monopoly on helical motor tech that other lands covet and wage war against) all girls grow up until the age of seventeen, before travelling to the “holy place” and selecting their permanent sex. Simulacrum is defended by airships known as “Simoun” that can only be piloted by priestesses known as “Sibyllae” which are girls who havent chosen a permanent sex. Doing so prevents them from piloting the ships. This story follows the girls as they nake important decisions regarding their futures while a war is waging.
Sweet Blue Flowers - Coming of age romance Anime titled “Aoi Hana” and 青い花 in Japanese, 11 episodes and only English subtitles available. The story follows Fumi Manjome, a lesbian high school girl and her close childhood friend Akira Okudaira. It follows both girls and their friends as they enter highschool and face new struggles and challenges such as dating, coming out, and realizing others in their lives might be queer as well.
Wandering Son - Titled “Hourou Musoko” and 放浪息子 in Japanese, subtitled only, 12 episodes long. The story follows two young transgender children from elementary school all the way through high school. Shuichi Nitori is seen as a boy, but she longs to be recognized as a girl. While in the 5th grade she encounters Yoshino Takatsuki, who everyone believes to be a girl but is actually a boy. The two bond over their similarities and become close friends. Wandering son touches on many topics from pubery related worries to binding to transphobia.
Whispered Words - Titled “Sasameki Koto” and ささめきこと in Japanese. 13 episodes, only subtitled available. The series follows Sumika Murasame, a 15 year old student secretly in love with her female best friend, Ushio Kazama. Ushio also likss girls, but only cute small ones- which Sumika is definitely not. The two friends get to know another two girls in their class who are a couple, and contemplate starting a “girls club” for lesbians. The series tackles several topics surrounding sexuality and gender.
Yuri!!! On Ice - Titled ユーリ!!! on ICE in Japanese. English dubbed, 12 episodes. Yuri on Ice is a sports-comedy Anime series about figure skating. After a crushing defeat in The Grand Prix Final, 23 year old Japanese figure skater Yuri Katsuki returns to his hometown and puts his career on hold. But after a recorded version of him performing a routine by his idol, Victor Nikiforov, pops up online, his entire life changes. Victor shows up at his family’s hot springs and offers to coach him.
I was at the store today looking at lemonade and this old guy comes up to me, and initially I was expecting him to be a creep, but then he was like
“You look like someone who would appreciate this. Why do cows have hooves and not feet?” and I didn’t know, so he said “Because they lack toes (lactose)”
And I couldn’t help but laugh, and so he’s like “Hey if I can make someone laugh it’s worth it. What do you call a bear with no teeth?” and I slapped his arm and was like “A gummy bear!”
Then he asked “Why did the cowboy go to the petstore to buy a doxon terrier?” so I said I didn’t know and he was like “He wanted to get a long lil doggie.”
I told him I was gonna go home and tell my dad these jokes cuz he likes this kinda stuff, so before he left he started pulling out his wallet and was like “Hold on, I’m going to show you my pride and joy. I never get to and I show it off every chance I get.”
I assumed it was going to be his grandkids or something, but then he hands me this piece of paper that was cut out of an add for some kind of soda and it just says “Pride and Joy” on it.
The dude was super funny, so that was a good high light of my day. When we said goodbye I glanced down and saw he was holding a bottle of straight vodka.
Talked about this on Twitter a few days ago, but it really has me interested that whenever antagonists have told Sora that he’s weak on his own, Sora has never actually disagreed with them.
He always launches into his speech about his friends being his power- and they are. Sora’s bonds are his greatest strength. But in KH3 I think they are making a really smart move by possibly having this also become his greatest weakness. (This is one of the reasons I think Riku’s arc is so great- because they also had his greatest strength- the desire to protect what matters to him- be a fundamental part of his fall to darkness.) By the time DDD rolls around, Sora has completely internalized the idea that he is useless without his friends, and that none of his power comes from himself. This is a very dangerous belief, yet it’s also one that we see reinforced even by Sora’s friends.
Donald/Goofy KH3 quote: “Sora’s useless without us.”
Though they don’t mean any harm by it, nonetheless having the same type of sentiment expressed by both villains and friends (and friends turned villain) alike is good cause for Sora to have come to lack a belief in his own power.
In KH3, Xehanort seems to have realized that Sora is unstoppable as long as he has his friends, so what better way to break Sora than to remove the source of his strength? In the Final Battle trailer, Sora witnesses all his friends being taken from him, and in the end it seems he is left completely alone. This is where we see Sora’s greatest strength become his greatest weakness.
“I was only able to fight because everyone was by my side! I can’t do this alone.”
Sora has so much faith in the strength of his friends, yet so little faith in himself when he is left isolated. This is where I’m hoping we will see Riku helping Sora to grow and believe in his own strength- and we got a glimpse of it in the final trailer:
Riku saw firsthand Sora’s internal strength in KH1 when Sora was abandoned by his friends, fought his way into Hollow Bastion with nothing but a wooden sword, and the strength of his heart won the keyblade back from Riku. Much like Sora helped teach Riku to not isolate himself so much and accept the help of others, Riku might help teach Sora that even when alone he still has immense inner strength. Sora and Riku have represented both sides of the extremes- complete reliance on oneself (Riku) and complete reliance on others (Sora) - and show only a balance between the two is strongest.
Another way to look at this dynamic is the strength of the Light and the strength of the Darkness within KH itself. Light is almost always associated with bonds to others, while Darkness often has its users isolate themselves and rely on their own power. Riku fell to Darkness believing he had to rely on himself to protect his friends, while Sora did the equivalent and “fell” into Light by relying solely on his friends. Riku defeated his own Darkness and mastered it after learning he can both rely on himself AND his friends, thus gaining similar mastery over Light and Darkness in balance.
Sora, as shown in KH 3D, has absolutely zero resistance or control over Darkness, either his own or external. While his power in the Light is shown to be vast it comes from the bonds he has with others…and his extreme level of faith in others over himself as mentioned before. Without any faith in himself he basically leaves himself open for Darkness to slip in through other emotions (anxiety anyone?) and is why he is such a huge target for the Xehanort Organization. Someone like Sora could derive a massive amount of power from the other Seekers after bonding with them, a corrupted version of the power that Light brings out. And in stripping away what amounts to a shell of Light, Sora would be easy pickings to Nort and switch over..
..because what Sora has in Light is hollow. He is externally powerful but mainly as a front that he himself doesn’t realize. His Light is a glass canon in effect, and that is what this game is going to examine and, it seems, break. Whether Sora comes out of this stronger or weaker will be dependent on how much he grows, and with an interesting amount of evidence to suggest that the big Clash happens either in the 2nd third or at the halfway point of KH3, we are probably going to watch Sora lose everything and learn to rely on himself “Baptism by Fire” style.
Wow. These are EXCELLENT points. What you said about Light being associated with bonds and Darkness being associated with isolation tracks really well with something I was talking about a while back- how Light can be seen as “connection” while Darkness can be seen as “the absence of connection”. And the idea that Sora’s Light is basically a glass canon, giving him immense offensive power against dark forces but very little defensive power, also gives some more context to why Riku, someone associated with darkness, would be more defense focused (his fundamental character trait being a desire to protect, having a reaction command in kh2 that is entirely for Riku to create a dark shield around Sora, becoming a Dream Eater, etc).
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