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@melancholiholic.bsky.social

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She/her 23 ace 日本語を勉強しています Visual novel enjoyer | Made some video essays | Artist sometimes | Bachibro | Higurashi Sotsu apologist https://melancholiholic.straw.page/

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Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · Jan 10

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I'm Melancholiholic, or Mel for short! Stories & storytelling are my passion. I enjoy writing, reading, writing about reading, and there are rumors of me being an artist too.

Visual novels are my muse.

Learning JP & annoying about it (it's too much of my life not to be).

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Things I often yap about:

When They Cry
Chainsaw Man
Sonic the Hedgehog
Your Turn To Die
Yakuza/Like a Dragon
Final Fantasy XIV
Kagurabachi
Rewrite

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1h

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 1h

Yakuza (Steam) sale on Gamebillet buff.ly/7sL7Gvv

Like a Dragon buff.ly/2XtNLyT

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

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Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 11h

Why are Atlus fans like that

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Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 12h

#MelPockets

Shiroha is literally me irl

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 16h

Doing god's work

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.

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the homophobic boy detective @gaorush.bsky.social · 1d

evil witch pulled me aside on my way to the costco and told me "check this shit out gay boy" before hitting a vape and blowing the smoke directly into my eyes and the last thing I saw was her on her broom cackling away and nobody else there saw it

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Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1d

The true immersive Umineko experience...

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Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · Aug 9

Isn't that all of them

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Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1d

Charlie, he couldn't dodge it, so sad, but I could. I've been told I'm the best at dodging bullets. They say sir, you've never taken a direct hit once. If I was on that stage it never would've happened, let me tell you, never would've happened

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you too oomfie~

Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1d

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Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 10d

If you've heard about a VN and you're kinda interested just read it. It's probably kino. More than other mediums the chance you stumble on peak is extremely high

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Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1d

JPDB rates the difficulty to read it in Japanese really high so it'll definitely have to wait

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Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1d

Out of morbid curiousity maybe

A large part of it is very good but it's built on promises and completely soiled by failing to deliver on said promises in every way

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Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · Jan 3

Sonic is so cool I wish I could run

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Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe I'll check it out sometime... not really motivated to after what became of the main series lol

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Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1d

Let me know if you ever want advice or recommendations!

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Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1d

The pattern is actually a compound word with noun + verb that ends with su in noun form which makes it shi. If you look at it in Japanese:

鬼隠し
綿流し
祟殺し
暇潰し
目明し
罪滅し
皆殺し
祭囃し

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Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1d

Don't even get me started with the mess that is AFO and Shigaraki. Instead of having a legitimate reason to resent the society that abandoned him, Shigaraki was raised from BEFORE BIRTH to be a super evil inherently bad guy and never had any agency from the beginning

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Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1d

All Might learns that there's more he can offer the world than the destruction of his body for others. In the final battle, he goes out to destroy his body for others.

I thought the story was about how villains are a product of the society's ills. In the end they all get killed and nothing changes.

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Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1d

It'd be hard for me to know where to begin. The worst of it is that it completely let go of its central themes, or what I thought were. Deku has to learn to value himself more as a person. The little dialogue we get in the last battle amounts to him still treating himself as a weapon.

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Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1d

MHA is probably the biggest disappointment I've ever experienced in terms of stories. I genuinely thought there was something great there, I followed it intently for years, only for it to crash and burn and cast off nearly everything I liked about it, undermining every theme I cared about

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Mel @melancholiholic.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite types of posters is actually the anime fan who is hyped about anything that comes out. One Piece season 50 gonna be fire. Every isekai is peak actually. Obscure shoujo ai let's goooooo

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