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So my brother came up to me after having watched Black Widow and said that I had so much in common with Yelena because jokes and sarcasm and I was... so flattered in a weird way cause I’ve never had someone go up to me and say “hey, this fictional character is so much like you” let alone say that I’m funny (especially from my brother). 

Now I gotta see this movie. 

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Okay, I don’t know everything that’s going on because I don’t follow the same people and I don’t always check the tags, but... yikes. A few things.

Homophobia is homophobia, not an opinion. Not a belief. If two men or two women love each other and want to get married, that has no impact on your life no matter how much you bitch about it. 

I’m sorry, calling someone your fandom mama or queen is kinda weird. I mean, I guess it’s fine, just... don’t be weird about it. If they’re looking out for ya and catching you on your BS, that’s alright, but don’t be all like “oh momma!”

They may be fictional characters, but they’re fictional minor characters. Stop. If you find them objectively attractive, that’s fine, just remember... they’re high schoolers.

Tag your NSFW, please. Some people aren’t comfortable seeing it, some people are minors and don’t want to/shouldn’t see it. 

This isn’t part of it, but... why do y’all (a general y’all) ship women with men in a position of power/just plain creepy, but are more resistant to shipping a woman with another woman?

This also isn’t part of it, but it’s been bothering me for awhile. Hating Madison because she’s ‘dumb’ isn’t a valid reason and you’re an asshole.

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Until PB either states it outright themselves or in-game, characters like Maxwell and Hana do not have canon orientations. Until that time, should it even ever come, players can HC characters’ orientation however they like so long as they do not offend or attack other players. You can HC Hana as bi, she can HC Hana as a lesbian, they can HC Hana as Pan. Leave them alone. Seeing themselves in characters is important to readers. 

Now, IF PB comes out and says Maxwell is gay, for example, then that’s it. Deal with it because (1) he’s a fictional character and (2) he belongs to PB. They created him.

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High School Story, Choices Edition: A Thought Dump.

long post is long, under the cut

When I first saw the announcement that there would be a High School Story book in Choices I was beyond happy. High School Story is a story that is and would always be very dear to my heart. Yes, this post is going to get sentimental. Fucking deal with it. I love High School Story, most of all the characters. I loved the storyline, but I will admit that, after a certain point, things get... flat for lack of a better word. Not that it goes down in quality, but... you're just reminded how much of a ‘never ending school year’ it was. There was no sense of time, but despite this it never lost its core aka being a high school story... heh heh. However, now that I found out it was getting a Choices book, everything changed. There’d be a concept of time and yes, a definite ending. We’d have to say goodbye, but High School Story could finally have that overarching plot like TC&TF. 

Before I get on with the main point of this post, I just want to say that I LOVE the Choices edition of High School Story. It easily fits into my top 3 books. The book is amazing. The characters, most of them anyway, are original and exciting to get to know. The story is interesting, retains the core of HSS, and leaves you impatiently waiting for your keys to restore. There are issues here and there, but most are just small nitpicky things. Emma seems too much like a YA protagonist for my tastes. Caleb is practically a younger clone of Sean (he even has similar relationship drama, except worse), and a few canon mishaps. The only real problem I have, which isn’t really a problem just me being sad and confused, is that I don’t get why they made this a High School Story book and not just a normal high school book. 

It follows a new MC and a new core cast of characters and while, yes, the original gang are still there, they’ve been, for lack of a better word, reduced to minor roles. Sure, characters like Mia and Julian, and Ezra have subplots you can explore depending on what extracurricular activity your MC chooses (I’ve only done cheerleading so far), but... they’re not relevant to the plot. You could remove or replace with original characters, renamed the book ‘The High Schooler’, and it would not have changed the book. For players who never played the original High School Story it’s like ‘who cares, cool story with cool new characters’, but for original players... there’s this weird feeling I’m sure (kinda sure) we’re all sharing. Here we are, in our senior year of high school, ready to share new adventures in the Choices storytelling format with our old friends. Except, they don’t know us. They walk off, but it doesn’t really set in until I meet Autumn. She catches me alone just like in the beginning of the original High School Story. Of course, she’d remember us. She was our first friend after all or at the very least we’d kick off our friendship again, like an AU or something of the original story. Except, she doesn’t. Autumn takes our picture and runs off without even asking for our name. I turn around and meet Emma who we become friends with. Don’t get me wrong, I think Emma is a cool character, but at that point, I put my tablet down and sat back. I didn’t cry or get mad or anything. It’s just a game, after all. Not that big deal, but... it was a really sad moment. We later learn that the original MC, the one we played as in the original High School Story, graduated before the original gang (despite them all being in the same grade) with I’m assuming Katherine and all the A-listers. So, their MC is gone and our MC is hanging out with Michael and Caleb and Emma, but every so often I feel like turning around and seeing the original gang at a table, having fun, and wanting to tell them ‘its me guys!’, but I can’t. 

That’s why I don’t understand why they made a High School Story book and not a high school book. Sure, I get that new players might be a little confused with their MC suddenly knowing a whole group of people, but PB has done that before with Hero. You know, we go into Hero for the first time and suddenly Poppy has been our friend since high school and we’ve been crushing on Grayson since high school. If they wanted to avoid that, they could’ve made an AU. Retold the tale of High School Story in a different way. Sure, old players would know what would happen, but it had been so long, years maybe, and the writers could have a chance to write things differently in a way they might’ve been limited in within the original pixel-style app.

But in the end of the game, Choices’ High School Story is a great book. I’d play it again and again and I’d recommend it every time. I’m just... sad.

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My friends found out I’m a jr and now they’re calling me RePete.

RePete

Repeat

I give them an A for creativity. 

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I really do god damn hate people sometimes. Like, really? Fuck off. They do something offensive, we get offended, then they get on our case for being sensitive or some shit about us being a special butterfly like fuck you. You’re the one being a bully. You’re the one who thinks it’s fun to pick on someone. I’m so sorry that I was hurt by your attempt to hurt me so you could feel good about your pathetic self. That was sarcasm, by the way. Just wanted to let you know since you’re dumb as shit. You’re an ass, fucking realize you’re being a ass and grow up. People get hurt when you say hurtful things. Is that concept so hard for some people to grasp? Like I fucking learned that when I was a little child, how long should I wait till you get a clue?

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So, to recap how my day has been going in the last hour. I went shopping to pick up a few things cause my fridge is near empty. I guess there was a flood or something at the store cause the ceiling tiles are damaged and they had to get rid of ALL the self-checkout and 10-items-or-less lanes. So, only SOME of the normal lanes are open and they are all long af. I try to use my critical thinking skills and get all detective-y to see which lane will be the shortest/fastest. Welp, not only did I pick wrong, the 2-year-old of the mom in front of me decides to stare me down. When I finally look him in the eyes, he points at me as if saying ‘you’ then sticks his entire hand in his mouth and partially regurgitates some cookies because... why not. Then he drops the bucket of cookies he had been eating. So, I try to look away before the kid starts flinging cookies at me and in the coke window fridge thing I see a coke with my crush’s name on it. I think cool and send her a pic of it. fast forward 30 minutes (im not even joking that’s how long it took me to get out of there) and I lost the coke. Like, poof out of thin air because... why not.

Now just you wait, my crush is going to get me back and say “hey, save that coke for me” and the loser ass that I am will probably be searching for it within the four weeks till she gets back from internship because... why not.

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I have all these bits and pieces of different original stories and fanfics laying around on my flash drive, but whenever I try to work on one, I instead end up rereading part of it for an hour, fixing my grammar, or playing around with the font before giving up to watch TV.