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Otome Recommendations and Reviews

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1. IKÉMEN REVOLUTION

Rating: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

A super fun otome and one I would suggest for people who plan on playing one. The story and art is beautiful and the soundtrack is a masterpiece. The characters themselves are very diverse when it comes to their looks and personalities and I adore them a lot. The international version of the game is two years late though, but if you plan on getting the Japanese one, it’s all up to date and production. The character development is so good and you’ll just love the characters in general.

2. IKÉMEN SENGOKU

Rating: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Here’s a fan favorite. This is a fairly old game and the IOS version is a bit buggy in displaying the characters sometimes. But the story and characters themselves are awesome as frick like you will love them so easily. It’s updating as well but is up-to-date in production so you’ll be getting the same content as the Japanese version. It has a stage play, apparently an anime-in-progress (don’t hold me to that) and the game is just the best. I love it and I know you’ll love it.

3. Dangerous Fellows

Rating: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Where do I start— oh yes, Eugene is best boi. This game is awesome and is one of the only otomes I’ve come across with a zombie apocalypse as it’s setting. I love the concept and characters (except for Scarlett, you’ll know why) and the pacing is good on my end. However you’ll need to spend a lot of money on the choices and items and overall, the game singles you out to make-do with one character who’s route mainly consists of the free choices. You can get money though by logging in and such or playing the tapjoy games but it’s time consuming and honestly really disrupts the flow of the game. The routes are mainly just one timeline of events with the character interactions more on the character you appeal/are appealing to (think of Mystic Messenger with choices.) But overall, my experience with DF was a good one and I hope to see more— I.e that one game that’s in full Korean,, please I need an English version I’m begging you.

4. Wicked Wolves

Rating: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Hey werewolf fans where you at. So this game is pretty decent and the characters are so well developed and diverse. Though the only complaint I have is that the “bridal lessons” (lessons you take to earn intimacy and such) is one-by-one and you don’t have the option to do all of it at once. This very much frustrates me but isn’t really bad and I wouldn’t mind if they didn’t change it. The story is kinda different for each character and it’s honestly a bit refreshing to know that a character has a different story in comparison to another. Overall, a good game which I’d recommend.

5. Mystic Messenger

Rating: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Oh yes, the infamous mystic messenger. So my issue with this mainly coincides with the fact that I have no time to log in every single hour of every day because I’m a bloody high school student— but the game itself was enjoyable. I like the characters a lot (aka Zen because yes) and the experiences in each storyline are diverse for each character yet still sticks with the main concept and event that’s happening. The concept of a text-based otome is new and I love it. Though hourglasses are what really pushes my buttons, since you have to pay using them to go back to play through chats you’ve missed. And I’ve learned this the hard way— you can’t progress if you haven’t, which is, understandable but it’s honestly too much trouble. Overall an enjoyable game, though it caused a lot of sleepless nights on my end.

6. The Arcana

Rating: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

I love this game. The art and graphics are beautiful, the interface is neat, easily traversable and unique to the game. The soundtrack is the best out of all of the aforementioned games, the character design and art, the mini games, the character development— I could go on and on. Though it does have a flaw like DF, where you have to pay for some of the choices, but it’s not as bad or needed and is just convenient for the player. This game is great for both guys and girls as well as for anyone in between or neither! You can choose your own pronouns and are introduced to a roster of characters of varying genders and have the same experience and content as any other player. This is a personal favorite which I love very much! The game is still updating for the last two routes, but you can enjoy still with the other four characters as well as side stories!

7. Princess Closet

Rating: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

The name will throw you off, I promise you that. But it’s not so bad and is honestly the most convenient and easiest otome out of all of these in the list. They don’t have challenges or trials where you need a certain amount of intimacy or any paid options. Heck, you can blast through the game on your first day if you can seeing as you don’t need anything to keep playing through the episodes like tickets or all that. Most of all, the plot is great and the characters are diverse. The interactions are great and suits the character’s personality a lot. The soundtrack ain’t too bad either!! It’s a chill and cute game for laidback otome players.

8. Shall We Date: Blood and Roses AND Shall We Date: Angel and Devil +Reaper

Rating: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

(I put them together because I had the same concerns and overall rating for them)

These games comes from a title of a lot of other otome games like Mononoke kiss and all that. But B.A.R mainly focuses on monsters and vampires while ADR focuses on angels and demons (if you couldn’t get it from the title itself), the interface is the same trademark kind you’d see in the other titles of the Shall We Date series but the characters themselves as well as the plot are likeable. It’s been a while since I’ve played this game so I’m not sure if they changed some bugs I saw, but my main issue were the challenges. The challenges would take so long to complete and were the most frustrating thing in the entire game, most so for me to drop it and move on. It’s a good game with a lot of potential but the trials needs to be a bit more convenient for the players for them to able to enjoy the character and storyline.

9. 7 Hotties All My Husbands

Rating: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Oh god yes. This game was the best from when I played it, the characters were so diverse and likeable as well as intriguing. Their different personalities alongside the ever-so-dramatic plot would keep you hooked for a LONG TIME. The trials were doable and convenient, the characters were loveable, they had enough interactions and the overall experience was breathtaking! An otome I would suggest for those interested in a dramatic romance where the plot thickens over time! And if you usually drop a game because there’s nothing after the main routes, they have side stories and events too!

10. Wizard Tower

Rating: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Alright, so playing this game was awesome and overall I miss it a lot. I say I miss it a lot because I haven’t played in a very long time. This is because the game crashed a lot on my phone so I had to delete it. Though the plot itself resembles a Korean telenovela, the characters are the core of this game and is the reason as to why I love it so much after so long. Sylvester, my personal favorite, was a sweet boy and I honestly want to go back and replay the game if it’s been fixed. The plot and routes honestly made me swoon a lot, especially when it came to Sylvester.

Honorable mentions

Love Academy: Togo

Rating: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Gosh darn it. So the company that made this game no longer exists so the game and the rest of the Love Academy series isn’t accessible anymore. But this game was the first otome I’ve played and is the most memorable one. I loved the characters, the plot, the art, the soundtrack— I’m really sad I can’t play it anymore. I might find it’s apk file somewhere but my paranoid ass probably won’t get it since as I said, I’m paranoid. But the game was such an amazing experience and honestly I just wanna spend time with Togo again because he was just that loveable.

Not sure if this really counts but—

ENSEMBLE STARS

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Yes I know there’s six stars.

Ensemble Stars is an amazing game, it’s not a traditional otome (it is classified as such on Qooap) but it comes in a more card-collecting type of game where you can interact with the characters! Which btw, there’s like 54 of them.

The version of the game I’m playing is in Japanese tho, but there’s the Korean and Chinese versions too if you can understand those languages. It’ll be getting the English version most probably after the anime drops in a few months (June/July) since well, yes.

(Edit: the news about an english server is a rumor going on since the anime has been well-recieved as of late. There is no official announcement sadly :’)) )

The game is super fun and enjoyable, and to be honest the experience is either you’re super laid back and enjoying the time spent with characters or you’ve gone mad trying to get dias to get more cards. There is no in between.

You can choose the characters you want to “romance” and you can interact with them all at once (wow angas) and they have such an amazing soundtrack!! The game features different idol units which have their own songs and all that and it’s so cute! The songs are great and I love them a lot. (To those living in Japan, I envy you a lot since you can watch their live shows.) speaking of live shows, picture vocaloid concerts but instead of Miku or Luka or smth it’s groups of cute boys. They have physical copies of their albums—

So that’s gonna conclude this list! If y’all have any questions about these games just ask me!

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run bts! ⟶ ep. 51 (1 / 2) 🎠

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"The story of a boy who became a man... By becoming a bear."

This movie is way too under appreciated in my opinion… The fandom is practically non-existent…

And I don’t understand why? The plot was fantastic.

All of the characters were lovable.

There was no one that you absolutely could not stand.

The “bad guy” was actually the main character, Kenai. Which was an interesting twist for Disney.

But by building a bond with this young cub (Koda), and seeing the world through the eyes of a bear, he realized that he (as a man) had been the monster… Not bears.

I mean, talk about character development…

Koda: Those monsters are really scary… Especially with their sticks.

And for me, this scene right here was one of my most emotional Disney moments. You can’t even here Kenai telling the actual story… But you can see their facial expressions and you can just feel it. You know exactly what he’s saying to Koda.

Kenai: Well, I have a story to tell you.

Koda: Really? What’s it about?

Kenai: Well, it’s kind of about a man… and kind of about a bear. But mostly, it’s about a monster.

… Koda… I did something very wrong.

Okay, but on a lighter note?

The animation was incredible.

Amazing.

It was a powerful movie about brotherly love, guidance, and responsibility, and it truly is one of my favorite Disney movies ever.

Not to mention the soundtrack is amazing. You can’t go wrong with Phil Collins.

The fandom will never be huge, but the movie definitely deserves more credit. If you haven’t watched it, I highly recommend it.

Brother Bear

nearsightedgirl

I want to remind everyone that this movie is where the “quit telling everyone I’m dead” “Sometimes I can still hear his voice” joke came from.

xxmileikaivanaxx

This is still one of my favourite Disney films ever.

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L I L I E S

my tumblr is dusty lol

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There is no flame that will light forever, so she is ‘burning to oblivion’. Personal project. Prints are available from eugenpoe.bigcartel.com #art #artwork #graphic #design #drawing #illustration #skull #darkart #witch #inktober #match #flame

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the best thing you will see all year

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LOVE YOURSELF

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DELETING CORRUPT CC

PART 2

Some CC won’t show up in game but we can delete it by downloading SIMS 4 TRAY IMPORTER

STEP 1) Download and Install

Once you click the link, scroll down and find where it says “Google Drive”.

It’ll take you to this page.

Click and download the one that says “Sims4trayimporter”.

This may or may not pop up, but just click “no thanks” if it does.

STEP 2) CREATING A SIM

Now in order for this to locate what file is corrupt, you need to create a sim wearing the corrupt clothes.

MAKE SURE YOU DO THIS STEP BEFORE OPENING “Tray Importer”

Then you just save the “household” to your library.

Next, EXIT the game and open “Tray Importer”.

STEP 3) DELETING FILES

Your saved sim should be there, so click it and this will show up.

Click “CC” and find the file that is corrupt and RIGHT CLICK. then click “Show Containing Folder”.

It will take you to where the file is and you just have to “cut” and “paste” it OUT of your mods folder and then delete. NOTE: You can only delete files when Sims 4 is not open.

Hope this helped!

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Mini SAI guide - "Blending (color blending)", "Dilution (opacity mix)", and "Persistence" settings.

I’ve had a general idea what these things did but wasn’t completely sure what their specific functions were. I decided to sit down and figure it out, and I have thrown together a short reference guide for anyone who is confused about them. I know there are multiple translations of SAI floating around, so if some of these terms don’t sound familiar, just know that I’m talking about the three settings that appear under the texture in the brush tool settings (note that this won’t apply to any tool types except for brushes and watercolor brushes).

I don’t claim to be an expert so if you find I’ve made a mistake, let me know so I can update it, thanks! :3

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BLENDING (Color Blending)

This controls how readily the brush will inherit any colors you are painting over with it. For example, a 0% blending setting will pick up no existing colors, treating it as if you were painting on a transparent layer. A 100% blending setting will ONLY pick up existing colors (provided there are any). So at 100%, the color you’re using won’t even show up, unless you move to a transparent area. Blending is not affected by transparent pixels, so if you’re drawing on a blank layer it will have no effect.

So you can see from this example that the color I’m using gets harder to paint as the blending increases and more of the existing green is absorbed, until at 100% it is just completely turning green.

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DILUTION (Opacity Mix)

This controls how readily the brush will draw on a blank (transparent) part of the layer. A 0% Dilution will result in the brush painting very easily onto a blank surface, while a brush with 100% dilution will literally not paint on blank parts of the layer at all. Dilution is ONLY affected by transparent pixels. So it won’t do anything if the whole layer is already filled in (even with white). Dilution can be thought of as the inverse of the Blending setting in some ways.

So in this example, you can see that as dilution approaches 100%, the color I’m painting with basically becomes invisible. In fact, if you were to switch to binary color mode and look at this layer, there would literally be nothing there anymore!

Keep this in mind - if you ever can’t paint for some reason, check your dilution setting, it might have gotten accidentally bumped to 100!

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PERSISTENCE

This one goes hand-in-hand with blending. Basically, it controls how easily a brush shifts color as you are blending from one color to another. Rather, how long it “persists” if you will. Like blending, Persistence is only really relevant when painting over existing color so it’s mostly unaffected by transparent pixels. Basically, the higher the persistence, the longer it will take for the color to shift as you make a stroke, and subsequently, from which color to which other color it is shifting is dependent on the blending setting.

So for this example I’ve done the same test with three different levels of blending. I turned off all pressure sensitivity (actually I just used my mouse) to emphasize the effects in a controlled environment:

If blending is at 0%, persistence fails to have any real effect. With pressure on, there is only the difference of having to push harder, but the results will be the same as far as I can tell.

At a happy medium of 50%, persistence increase causes the orange that the brush is picking up to last longer as it goes into the green, until it never shifts to blue at all.

At 100% blending, there was never any blue in the first place, because as we already know, full blending causes you to only pick up existing color. So the persistence setting changes only how fast the orange changes to green.

Persistence is dependent upon the blending settings, so having them somewhere in the middle will probably produce the most optimal results.

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CONCLUSION

Ultimately how you use these is up to you, and is largely dependent on what kind of brush you’re making and what it will be used for. And most of these settings are meant to be used together in unison, so play around with them a lot!

If you are confused, or not sure what settings you want or what settings you should be using, a safe bet is to put them all at about 50% - that will produce fairly average results that are easy to work with, and it’s easy to remember in case you want to experiment but don’t want to forget your settings in case you decide to switch back.

Hope that helps!

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nODO for those who need help with sai!

#useful #important #reference

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since there’s apparently some sort of confusion on the matter (read: people are idiots)

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i am seeing a lot of reposting lately, so here i am reblogging my own post. also, reverse google tends to only work for stuff like deviantart or twitter, so if you want to find a pixiv artist, use saucenao.

i cannot stress this enough, y’all need to stop supporting blogs that steal art. i don’t care how pretty the art is or how badly you want it on your blog.

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Other sites you can use: ctrlq.org Tineye.com

Remember its not that hard if you make an effort on it!! If you feel like the image you saw is from a tumblr artist/has a tumblr account try using the mobile app rather than the desktop because its a lot harder to skim through multiple blogs on the desktop!!