Anyway, Penman is still one of my favorite authors even after a decade, and her books are always a delight because she was fantastic at humanizing complex historical figures in fiction while doing her best in keeping her novels historically accurate from her research. RIP🕊️

The novel has a sympathetic but complex view on Richard and doesn't depict him personally killing the Princes in the Tower. I now hold the opinion that the real Richard was mainly responsible for his nephew's disappearances and likely murdered them. Occam's razor after all.

Lmao I complain about this in summers as well but then when I had been in Japan in summers, I complain stores don't pump the AC on high enough 🤣

My boyfriend also had to explain this whole americano VS estadounidense and America VS América confusion when I was confused about why his favorite football team is called Club América lol

As a gringa from the U.S (or un estadounidense en español), I was raised growing up to think the word "American" only refers to people from the United States. That's what it is in English. Now I understand "americano" in Spanish refers to anyone from the American continent(s).

I also spotted some Slowpoke merchandise in the ticket prize area! It's kinda funny seeing all these here 😆
But Round1 here has much better prizes than Dave & Busters do, as some of them are imports from Japan or Korea and are not licensed products designed for Western markets

The arcade has a mix of common U.S arcade games and Japanese arcade games. I grew up with Dance Dance Revolution in the 2000s but it's nice to see them again with the resurgence of arcades
The food stand is also selling drinks collabing with Ado and Metaphor: ReFantazio 🥤

I know teens can be annoying and crazy at times but I also feel bad for them 😕

It's kinda crazy how Rebecca Ferguson has become more of a Hollywood star over the years since this show because she was an unknown internationally when TWQ released. Now she's Lady Jessica in Dun