maria

few people have been born to love macarons as i was..... and yet i so rarely eat any........

two year old nephew seeing a guy with hot pink hair: it so gorgeous.......

Char (Char's Counterattack version) staring wistfully at a glass of whiskey. The meme says "Bothered. Dehydrated. Outside my lane. Unhappy. Unfocused. Languishing."

Good morning

yes i'm looking at aurora/melusine art (spoilers obviously) x.com/uzoooin/stat...

sigh.... i wish everyone had the same yuri vision of lostbelt 6.................

Tiné #strangefake

and now he's in the mood to be chased around the house so i'm over here sweating like crazy because he's not satisfied unless he's done 20 laps with me right behind

puppy loves to vomit and then immediately try licking me

whenever my puppy gets the hiccups he looks around like What the fuck was that?????

#drakengard #DOD

this is how i sound talking about my favorite girls in jrpgs sometimes

Inked it

(turns on my tablet) fujishima. inomata. this one's for you (fucks up drawing a stick figure) (turns off my tablet)

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a bespetacled girl with long hair tied into pigtails, wearing a full-length dress and cape

Philia Felice from Tales of Destiny

like moments where you go "oh that's not what was said in jp, but that's how it *would* have been rendered in an official release..." lol it's so awesome. i'm having a great time

life bottle's eng localization is also really fun in that it's dated in ways that feel super true to official localizations of the era LMAO it's honestly really cool and admirable.... i'm learning from it........

i'd put it all on the line for stahn aileron. he's such a sweetie pie. a cutie patootie. tales games are some of the best at making charming little guys

tales of destiny is so good......

the most woke misogynist

lockstyling something interesting and then when they /check the gear underneath is all lvl 1 seasonal gear (none of it matching)

anyway i'm sure otome scholars and historians have gone on about this at length already. just shower thoughts

obviously it's not as though villainesses haven't existed elsewhere for ages. it's just interesting that otomes, which are played by a far smaller audience than the one that reads/watches stories referencing them, are presented as games where you commonly make enemies out of other girls. they're not

evil or incompetent villains out of other female characters. i don't know how to articulate this well literally at all and there's more to it than this. but it kind of #makesyouthink

on an "intro to feminism" level it is sort of interesting how a trope that's never *really* existed in dating sims for girls— because historically you've been able to make friends with any love rivals, or to simply "beat" them without ruining their lives or killing them— exists now to provide easy

(staring thoughtfully into the distance) i really wish i was a beautiful fairy princess

you know, off the top of my head i can't remember an otome game that actually sends the rival/"villainess" to super hell. i need to fish them out