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by  Yowu Chan

art republished with artist’s permission

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CARDCAPTOR SAKURA (1996) dir. MORIO ASAKA: KERO & STRAWBERRIES

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one gifset per episode ｡･:*: cardcaptor sakura

S1E03 ━ Sakura’s Heart-Racing First Date (April 21, 1998)

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The Model + The Photographer 

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Cardcaptor Sakura - Itsumo Sakura-chan to Issho (1999)

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★ 【balabling】 「 happy birthday sakura 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter

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one gifset per episode ｡･:*: cardcaptor sakura

S1E01 ━ Sakura and the Mysterious Magic Book (April 7, 1998)

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by  びっと

art republished with artist’s permission

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based af have a good day 🙏🏾🙏🏾

thanks man LOL

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i think what people often get wrong when they accuse dream stans of being too “parasocial” is that…. they don’t realise how rare it is that we have someone like dream with such a massive platform.

like do people not realise how lucky we are to have someone like dream who basically got the entire gsa up in his fanbase – and instead of pulling some edgy shit like Other Creators and going down the route of mocking the idea of “stans” and alienating them and making them feel weird about being invested in him in a “cringe” way (fanart, fanfics, stan accs etc.) he actually embraced it wholeheartedly and showed vocal support for us right from the beginning, even though i could absolutely GUARANTEE to you that he initially thought his fans were gonna just be the typical gamer 16 year old boys because that was typical of the era that he grew up in. and it would have been so, so incredibly easy for him to go down the pewdiepie route - where he could refuse to learn and grow and simply continue making “edgy” jokes and cultivating a fanbase of kids who don’t have the life experience or critical thinking skills to comprehend the impact of having a role model like that. he could have been the next pewdiepie, making so many bigoted comments that everyone simply becomes desensitised to it, where every single “dark humour” edgelord would flock to him and defend him with everything they have. this is still the norm in the gaming industry. misogyny, homophobia and racism are still the most convenient punchlines for some of the biggest names on twitch, youtube, you name it.

but he didn’t. instead, despite slip-ups along the way, dream took the opportunity to educate himself, to listen to his fans when they called him out for his mistakes, to actively unlearn the ignorance that was instilled into him as a kid and to publicly denounce what he had ever done wrong. and more than that, he never stopped being thankful for the community around him. anyone who has just seen a handful of his tweets can attest to the fact that he is probably the most grateful person to his audience and he tries to show his appreciation as much as physically possible despite all the other responsibilities he juggles. and yet despite all this, because of where he erred here and there in his past, dream has managed to become the internet’s scapegoat for every problem they have with anything. ever. hating dream is quite literally the norm - a trending hashtag in the uk and the us to get him “deplatformed” fuelled by people who didn’t even know what was happening but just wanted to take part in making fun of him.

so to go back to how we’re all “parasocial” and “brainwashed” and “manipulated” – have we considered that it’s been made clear time and time again that no matter what dream does, no matter how much he apologises, he’ll never be perfect enough for hyperwoke chronically online covid teens, and he’ll never impress the wider internet dudebros because he’s too cringey, and he won’t even get the respect of people whose careers he helped (completely out of his own generosity and willingness to support, may i add) because hey, it’s so much easier to make a snide remark about dream stans for a quick joke than it is to keep your mouth shut, right? of course dream is parasocial - the only people who ever actually have his best interests at heart and don’t try and make him out to be some awful irredeemable villain are his fans. which is exactly he tries to show how much he cares about them. but of course that still isn’t good enough for some people because sure enough allegations about “pedophilia” and “grooming” start flying about from the freaks who have no concept of basic human decency.

ultimately whether you like dream or not that’s completely your prerogative and i’m by no means trying to change your mind, but dream deserves a hell of a lot more sympathy than he receives and it is endlessly unfair that he is expected to deal with the entirely disproportionate amount of hate he gets. 

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An English patch for Klonoa Heroes: The Legendary Star Medal is now available. 

At last, every aspect of the game is now translated into English. The patch can be applied to a Japanese Klonoa Heroes rom using programs such as Floating IPS. 

Credits: RayCarrot (Hacking, Main Programmer) Raccoon Sam aka Vervalkon (Graphics, Title Screen and Menu Background Logo Creator, Graphic Design, and Technical Art Support) StarryScarab (Translation, Script Translation) Altair (Script Editing/Revision, Script Translation, Proofreading, and Editing) rcs709 (Graphics, Graphic Design) Megahog2015 (Graphics, Graphic Design and Technical Art Support)

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adding onto this now that my mind isn’t riddled with leftovers from a depressive episode - expies are a common thing in fiction. no matter what you do, you cannot get rid of them. and there will always be the chance that an expy is better than the ‘original’, so to speak. there are many an expy of rei ayanami, gundam characters, togashi used expies of his main characters from yu yu hakusho in hunter x hunter. fuck, jojo’s bizarre adventure part one had expies of characters from fist of the north star.

many expies can be considered spiritual successors, so to speak, and from a writer’s perspective - there is nothing wrong with that, either.

if you keep restricting your mindset to ‘sonic characters in comics must be completely original’, you’ll never expand your horizons and end up having a close-minded view of what writing should be.

people should be allowed to mess around with their writing, have creative endeavors for what they’re able to write with sega, and i’ll gladly accept surge & kit as original characters & expies. if you don’t like the fact they are, you may as well read something you enjoy or... i don’t know? complain about the other anime, manga, comics, and cartoons that use expy characters because oh boy! i have news for you!

there was never such thing as originality in writing, everything has been done, and the most writers can do is innovate their concepts and rework them into something that’ll make the characters ‘theirs.’ to fit into the universe, to simply have fun writing for their jobs and passions, rather than listening to faithless, unconstructive criticisms sourced from people that probably don’t understand what they’re really criticizing.

again, this is sonic the hedgehog. it’s not supposed to be a deep melodrama where you have n*zi echidnas and the author’s self-insert trying to bang sally acorn.

edit: by the way, sonic the hedgehog is also built on expy characters from the beginning with orbot and cubot being based on decoe and bocoe. sonic, shadow, and silver are basically goku, vegeta, and future trunks. super sonic is a super saiyan. like, please...?