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I totally agree with this. I started watching random Pokémon playthrough and challenge videos on YouTube and, while I'm not saying I'd ever do a nuzlocke or whatever (I'm a casual gamer if anything), it's still interesting to watch. Like I got really into Mah-Dry-Bread's videos where he does crazy solo and team runs, usually Gen 1 runs with super weak Pokémon, or some kind of theme like using only gift Pokémon. He doesn't just play Pokémon; he does crazy challenges with other games too, like Fallout New Vegas with only recharging weapons and some Elder Scrolls stuff. He's also really honest about how YouTube works (like how he hardly ever takes sponsorships because he only wants to "sell" his viewers stuff he can be honestly enthusiastic about) and has an overall casual vibe (he has a running gag about telling people to comment "because comments are good for the YouTube algorithm," usually when he finds a Pokémon fossil, and often mentions in his outros that he's got to go make food cause apparently he's so busy he forgets to eat). He also prides himself on being the top streamer of this one Nancy Drew game (you know, those Nancy Drew PC games you find in like the bargain area of Walmart's game section).

Or Papasea who I got into via his "Playing Pokémon as Nintendo Intended" series where he finds official player's guides (the paper ones) for Pokémon games and plays games exactly how they say to, even if it doesn't quite make sense. (Some of the jokes from the first video, like saying to "hammer away" at the opponent or defeat them in "two shakes of a lamb's tail," have become channel staples).

People who make videos explaining how to do things in games really help me too. I have a whole playlist of reference videos for ACNH, cause I didn't get the game till a month after it came out, and I hadn't played any Animal Crossing games since the OG GameCube one (which I only played for like a week, quitting after realizing I couldn't keep up with the "game keeps going while you're not playing" mechanic on a console game, especially since I was in college at the time). I've saved a lot of ones for the more recent Pokémon games too.

I also have channels like Did You Know Gaming and The Gaming Historian to thank for educating me on older games I missed out on. Like I usually avoid shooters because I played one James Bond game in the past and sucked at it. But their videos on the Metal Gear series got me really interested (though to be fair, Metal Gear is more of a stealth game). So when the Metal Gear Solid remaster was announced last year, I was actually excited! Did You Know Gaming's Region Locked series, which covers games that weren't released in the U.S., is also pretty interesting.

The Gaming Historian, meanwhile, has introduced me to some crazy retro peripherals, as well as some interesting gaming history. When I discovered old Sonic the Hedgehog Game Gear games on the 3DS eShop, I used his video on the topic to decide which ones were worth it.

I also definitely applaud fansubs; I might not have discovered subtitled anime as early as I did without the VKLL Sailor Moon fansub tapes a friend lent me. It's also made some older and more obscure anime (and live-action stuff) more accessible. I was also involved with the Sailor Moon fan translation group Miss Dream from its earliest days, first just as a forum member, then briefly as a staff member, doing some English-to-French translation and even writing their error reports on the Kodansha USA manga release. I even appeared on their short-lived podcast to promote Myu Corner!

I also have fansubs to thank for introducing me to the Girls x Heroine franchise, a franchise of tokusatsu-style magical girl series which has a small following on YouTube. (I was looking on YouTube for live-action magical girl transformation references for a story I was working on, which led me to a video of an Idol Senshi Miracle Tunes transformation from a Japanese channel, which eventually led me to a fansub of Miracle Tunes that somebody uploaded).

Fan music is also an underrated part of fandom. I've seen some cool fan remixes out there.

There are definitely lots of ways to participate in fandom. Sure, I like fanart and fanfics, but I'm not great at art and while I do like fanfics, I haven't written any myself in a while (I did do some writing for one for Camp NaNoWriMo July last month, but I've been working on that one on-and-off for 11 years *nervous laugh*). So it's nice to see there are other avenues.

as a subtitler im incredibly biased as i say this but. shoutout to forms of fan labor other than fanart and fanfiction. fanart and fanfiction are awesome, don't take this as a dig at those, but i have a big appreciation for fans who provide closed captioning/subtitles/translations of works out of love n passion; fans who recap and explain aspects of the original work; fucking SPEEDRUNNERS, holy shit, shoutout to speedrunners and challenge runners in video game communities. lots of things that fall outside the scope of what comes to mind when people think of fanart/fan labor are integral parts of a healthy fan ecosystem

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For Sailor Moon Opening Song Medley

I am working on doing a medley of Sailor Moon opening songs, but had limited it to TV size ones, doing the '90s anime, PGSM, and Crystal. But I realized limiting it to TV versions cuts half of Crystal (Eternal and Cosmos, which were movies rather than TV seasons) out of the equation. So...what should I do?

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The manga industry, especially JUMP, needs to hurry up and do away with weekly scheduling for mangaka. There needs to better regulations put into place for their health and safety because this is pitiful. Two weeks - monthly updates should’ve already been the standard for the manga industry at this point. These money grabbers will only continue to put the lives of these artists at stake for the sake of capitalism unless some serious changes are implemented.

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Also from my main blog. This is a really cool find IMO.

Sailor Venus's original actress actually recorded the song "Venus"! This cover is based on the original Shocking Blue version, not the more popular Bananarama version.

Thanks to the Sailor Moon Awesome Music page on TV Tropes for making me aware of this! You can find out more about the album this is on here.

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Reblogging this from my main blog.

If you've ever watched the DiC/Cloverway dub of Sailor Moon, you might know that there are actually three songs in the dubs of S and SuperS that were never released on CD. These are "Tear Our Hearts in Two" (which replaced the usage of "Ai no Senshi" in the episode "Birthday Blues, Part 2"), "Love is In My Heart" (which replaced "Watashi-tachi ni Naritakute" during the scene where Chibiusa flies on Pegasus's back in SuperS), and "Let's Fight!" (which replaced "Sailor Team no Theme" during the fight between the Inners/Chibimoon and the Amazoness Quartet).

So apparently back in 2020, Esther Thibault, the lady who sang these songs, filmed herself performing these songs and uploaded them to YouTube. I never knew who sang these songs, and apparently neither did most people, as Esther admits she was never credited for her work. Her videos use the Japanese karaoke tracks, since unlike with the DiC dub, Cloverway (the company that dubbed S and SuperS) didn't actually change any of the original background music. For these three vocal songs, they kept the same music and just wrote new words. (The DiC/Cloverway dub theme song, "Sailor Moon Theme," is similar - while the lyrics are all new, the melody is very similar to the original opening "Moonlight Densetsu").

After watching these, I felt I should definitely share them. The particular gem here is "Let's Fight!," because I've heard a TV rip of that song, and the lyrics are very hard to distinguish behind all the dialogue. This version, stripped of most of the dialogue, finally makes those lyrics clear.

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This popped up on my YouTube home page. It's great getting to hear Anza sing all these old songs after all this time! They included "Moon Revenge" (a song from the anime, specifically the R movie) in this medley as well, which was a surprise!

Surprisingly Anza's voice hasn't changed a ton from when she was in myu so long ago. It sounds more mature, for sure, but still quite recognizable.

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After reading a couple nonfiction books from the library (one being the "clean living" book seen in the first pic), I decided to read some of the mangas downloaded to my Kindle.

The first one I read was Magilumiere: Magical Girls Inc, which I already posted about. As for the others in the first pic, I actually finished The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash first after Magilumiere, but since I finished it and My Stepmother and Stepsisters Aren't Wicked on the same day, Goodreads listed them weird. Then yesterday I started the manga in the second pic, My [Repair] Skill Became a Versatile Cheat, So I Think I'll Open a Weapons Shop.

The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash is one of those "reincarnated with a past life's memories in a fantasy world" kind of fantasy stories, which I think is an Isekai subgenre?? Usually it's used with "reincarnated as a villainess" stories, though, and this doesn't seem to be that kind of story (unlike other similar stories, we're not told where the main character, Ivy, came from or how she got reincarnated into this world at the beginning - only that she has memories of a past life...so that already is different). Anyway, in this story Ivy gets ostracized when she's identified as a "starless," basically someone who has magic but at a zero-star level, which makes her magic so weak she's basically useless. Even her own family rejects her, and later the kind fortune-teller who helped her learn how to survive in the forest dies because the village chief heard she associated with a "starless" and refused to provide her with the healing potion she needed. After this, she takes off, using the survival skills and basic magic bags the fortune teller provided her with to get by. Having no money at first, she's forced to salvage through town dumps for resources, or eat whatever animals she can capture with traps (she does have a monster taming ability, as the title suggests, but hers is so weak she can only tame super weak monsters). She eventually manages to make some money from selling field mice she captured, and even snakes in one chapter (those she sells to the apothecary). A few chapters in, she encounters a super weak slime that even she, with her weak power, can tame. After naming her Sora, they set off together, and Sora ends up being more useful than Ivy expected, since it can absorb both organic and inorganic matter (most slimes in this world can only do one or the other). It may even be able to heal, if the ending of the volume is any indication. (According to the bonus short story, though, Sora is not very good with directions lol).

My Stepmother and Stepsisters Aren't Wicked is, as you might guess from the title, a take on the classic Cinderella story. Except in this case the Cinderella character, Miya, is the illegitimate child of a rich man, and that man's wife and daughters (the titular stepmother and stepsisters) take her in when her mother dies. But while she expects them to be really mean, they're actually really nice! But the mother is still stern and intimidating, and the daughters are spoiled and always trying to one-up each other, so their kindness kind of comes across in a comedic tsundere sort of way. Miya constantly worries that she's offended them, only for them to respond completely positively, no matter what happens. It is funny, but at the same time I feel like such a gag might get old after a while. Not sure though.

As for the last one, My [Repair] Skill Became a Versatile Cheat, So I Think I'll Open a Weapons Shop, like I said, I just started reading it. It's a fantasy about dungeon exploration, much like the Delicious in Dungeon series I've been watching on Netflix recently. But this one obviously has a different story. The main character, Luke, is a seasoned adventurer with 15 years of experience under his belt, but since his only skill is [Repair], a skill which has next to no usage in combat, he's still an E-rank adventurer (the lowest rank that is allowed to do dungeon raids). He finally got recruited by a powerful hero to join his dungeon raiding party, only to be treated as their pack mule and ultimately betrayed by the hero over a relatively minor issue (that doesn't even seem to be his fault). Left by his former party mates in the dungeon to die, he resolves to at least find a way out, even if all he has is his [Repair] skill and an old sword the hero gave him out of pity. Fortunately for him, he's able to make his [Repair] skill evolve seemingly subconsciously (hence the "cheat" part of the title, I guess), which, combined with finding a shortcut by punching a hole in a rock wall with his sword (something even the hero in his party couldn't do), allows him to finally escape after 2 weeks. He then helps save a samurai girl named Sakura who is cornered by a dragon by lending her his sword, and then using his [Repair] skill to heal her (he's not sure he can at first, since the skill doesn't usually work on living things, so when he succeeds he's as surprised as anyone - also doing so DOES make him pass out for half a day, so he's not crazy OP, like heroes in these stories often are). After making it to the settlement where Sakura and her friend Sylvia (daughter of the local innkeeper) are living, he decides to take a break from adventuring (at his level, he can't re-enter the dungeon he came from by himself anyway, as adventurers can only enter dungeons that are at their level or below, unless they're in a party with a leader of the right level, which Luke was before) and use his [Repair] skill to open a weapons shop, since the town doesn't have one currently (probably because the forest where Luke found Sakura and Sylvia just recently got classified as a dungeon). And, as far as I've read, this seems to go well (the fact that he helped kill a dragon certainly helps bring in customers). He does get into a bit of trouble with some local knights, though, because the members of his former party have gone missing, and since he got out alone, he's a prime suspect behind their disappearance. Also, he harvested mithril from the wall he broke, which only certain people are allowed to harvest (though to be fair he didn't know it was mithril, so he gets a pass there, though the knights still make him replicate how he broke the wall as proof of his story). And that's about where I'm at in the story.

Definitely enjoying my reads so far!

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Oh yay the anime is coming out in the fall! When I saw Wikipedia said "Q4 2024" I thought I'd have to wait till winter. I hope one of the streaming services here picks it up so I can watch it.

Kabushikigaisha Magi-Lumière (Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc.) - New Key Visual and PV. Premiere: Fall 2024

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For the '90's ones at least, it might've also been the approaching new millennium. People seriously believed (at least in the U.S.) that when we transitioned to the year 2000, the computer grid would get all confused and completely collapse, meaning the end of civilization as we know it. That didn't happen, of course, but people still believed it. (The only series I can think of with this specific focus though is Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, where Manon/Jeanne was tasked with sealing the demons found within pieces of art before the end of 1999, or else God would be overthrown or something like that).

Did you notice that in the 80's and 90's there seems to be a trend of animanga and anime movies that plots focus on the apocalypse? It reminds of how also in the 80's and 90's, the Western world had showed a trend of movies that focused on dystopia and cyberpunk. Coincidence or something else?

I’m pretty sure it’s because, at that time, the Cold War was ongoing and the threat of a nuclear apocalypse was very much on everyone’s minds.

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So the other day I read the first volume of a manga called Magilumiere: Magical Girls Inc., which is set in a world where, kinda like MHA with superheroes, magical girls are a common sight, and being a magical girl is treated like a normal job. Basically, they function as exterminators for these monsters called kaii, and there are multiple companies, of all sizes, that employ magical girls for this purpose.

Anyway, the manga was really cool, but we all know that magical girl transformations (especially techno-magic ones like in this series) look best animated. So naturally, I looked it up to see if there was an anime adaptation. And there is - just not yet. This manga only came out in 2022 in Japan (and it's running in Shonen Jump+, no less), under the title Magilumiere Co. Ltd (Kabushiki Gaisha Majirumie in Japanese) and it only started being released in English by Viz in March of this year. And while an anime version is planned, it's not due out till Q4 of 2024. So I have to wait.

The cast and staff seem pretty good, though. The anime is being made by J.C. Staff (the studio behind many well-known animes, like Azumanga Daioh, the A Certain Magical Index franchise, Saiki K, Food Wars, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and Shakugan no Shana), alongside Studio Moe, which seems to be a pretty new studio with not that many credits. The composer, Makoto Miyazaki, also did the music for One Punch Man and Spy x Family. The script writer Shingo Nagai has also written for Symphogear (so he's no stranger to mahou shoujo). The director, Masahiro Hiraoka, doesn't seem to have much directorial experience (most of his credits on ANN are for artist work, most of which seem to be tied to Studio Moe, which as I mentioned, doesn't have very many credits), but I can overlook that. (Interestingly, a lot of his artist work has been in CG art, including CG for both HeartCatch and Suite PreCure, which makes me think the transformations and maybe attacks will involve CG, though I guess that's expected nowadays).

The cast is interesting too. The two main girls, Kana and Hiromi, are being voiced by Fairouz Ai and Yumiri Hanamori respectively. They previously appeared together in Tropical Rouge PreCure as Cures Summer and Coral respectively (and just last year reprised those roles in the movie PreCure All Stars F), although interestingly here Coral's actress is playing the energetic Hiromi, while Summer's actress is playing the much more reserved and intelligent Kana, which if you know Tropical Rouge is a complete opposite of their Cure characters. But then they have range - Fairouz is also the voice of Jolyne from JoJo and Alisa in Pokémon Concierge, while Yumiri has also played Hayasaka from Kaguya-sama (a character with a varied personality, apparently). So I'm not worried.

The two characters above are the resident programmer at and the boss of the titular Magilumiere. (Yes, the boss is a middle-aged male cosplayer. He's just weird like that). The programmer's name is Kazuo Nikoyama, and rather hilariously given his design, he's going to be voiced by Daiki Yamashita, the same actor who voices Izuku in MHA (I guess the resemblance to Izuku may not have been a coincidence 😂). As for the boss, his name is Kouji Shigemoto, and his planned actor is Rikiya Koyama (Kogorō Mori/Richard Moore in Detective Conan/Case Closed, Jōichiro in Food Wars, and Emiya in the Fate franchise).

Rounding out the currently known cast is nice-guy office worker Midorikawa, who is going to be voiced by Ryota Ohsaka (Keiji in Haikyuu, Sadao/Satan in The Devil is a Part-Timer, and the Japanese voice of Cat Noir).

Anyway, sounds like an interesting series! Unfortunately, Volume 2 of the manga doesn't come out in English until June, so I'll have to wait for that too.

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Idk why but a Demon Slayer Mario Party-esque game just sounds really funny to me.

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I haven't had this happen for Sailor Moon in particular but definitely for other things I've written. I created a Time Lord character for a pre-Time War Gallifrey Doctor Who Instagram roleplay someone was starting (which, sadly, never got off the ground) and I went WAY overboard trying to worldbuild Gallifrey, since official sources (at that time, and honestly, even since) don't tell us very much, even though it's supposed to be The Doctor's home planet. (This is probably because, in New Who, Gallifrey's been destroyed in the Time War, and in Classic Doctor Who, The Doctor ran away from Gallifrey and made a determined effort to stay away from it as much as possible...heck, the planet didn't even have a name until 10 years into Classic, because the writers apparently didn't want to bother).

Then when I transferred said character (and a few others) over to Tumblr roleplay, I kept doing said worldbuilding. For the OC Time Lord character, I had only outlined her previous regenerations so I would know her backstory, with the assumption that the story of her current regeneration would be built through the roleplay. But then I ended up turning said bullet points into short stories of their own (though, me being super wordy, they weren't very short). I even made a roleplay profile for her using the old Doctor Who LARP gamebook that they published back in 1991 (along with later supplements that were released online). I also submitted her, as well as my two New Who OCs (from a completely different fanfic world), to this Tumblr roleplay called New Gallifrey, which is an AU where the Tenth Doctor basically turns evil after the events of Series 4, breaks into the time lock surrounding the Time War, steals the Untempered Schism (this thing that is important to initiation into the Time Lord Academy), and massacres all the Time Lords, then uses the Untempered Schism's power to take over Earth and become its ruler. In it, my two New Who OCs live in the resulting c***sack world and become part of the secret resistance, while my Time Lord OC mostly stays in hiding (so Ten won't know there's a Time Lord he didn't kill) but helps the resistance from the shadows. (Unfortunately, nothing came of that application).

The only Sailor Moon OC I've done (well, aside from a summary for a weird Harry Potter "Witch Scouts" AU) was Sailor Grimm. I created her after re-watching one of the Mugen Gakuen musicals, which features these minor characters called the Grimmseijin, the sole survivors of a faraway planet that was destroyed by the Death Busters on their way to Earth. All of them are a family (except for Moss, who is revealed to secretly be Grimm's princess) and talk about wishing they could fly, which was a talent the Grimmseijin used to be known for, but thanks to the Death Busters destroying the hostie of the planet (basically like its soul), they've lost the ability. That's why at the end of the musical, when the Death Busters are defeated and everything's restored, Sailor Moon wonders aloud whether the Grimmseijin (or, as she calls them, the Hoshinos, which was their cover identity on Earth) were able to fly back to their planet, and Mars (who ironically was the most antagonistic toward the Grimmseijin at first, but to be fair they were openly trying to obtain the Silver Crystal, believing it could revive their planet, which to the Senshi would obviously make them look like enemies) reassures her that they surely were able to (see video below starting at 2:09).

This got me thinking...if, as stated in Stars, planets throughout the universe have Sailor Senshi, did Grimm have a Sailor Senshi before it was destroyed, and if so, what happened to her? That led to me creating Sailor Grimm, though she didn't properly take shape until I drew her for a DeviantArt contest years ago, and I didn't start properly writing her fic until Camp NaNoWriMo April 2022. Due to coordinating colors being what they are, she ended up kinda looking like a Sailor Jupiter knockoff though, which is discouraging. This was because, since her powers are nature-based, and her powers are tied to the Rose Crystal (not to be confused with the Barazuishou from Sailor Moon: Another Story), which is pink, she ended up with a green and pink color scheme, like Jupiter, albeit in different shades, and with pink hair. This was intentional, though, because I had given her nature powers because the Grimmseijin's names in the musical all came from roses (this inspired the Rose Crystal too). And green just seemed like a nature color to me. I did incorporate the power of flight and the wind powers the Grimmseijin appear to have in the musical into her powers also. Also for some reason I decided she would be older, around 19 in Earth years, because that seemed more fitting for an experienced Senshi who'd had to protect her planet on her own. (It also better justified my plans for her to interact mostly with the Outers, since they would have similar motivations to take out the Death Busters without mercy). I took what canon I could get from the Mugen Gakuen musicals and filled in gaps with stuff from the S manga (on which those myus are based) as well as original stuff. I also brought in the Galaxy Cauldron from Stars, mostly cause I had to figure out a way to get Grimm to Earth. (I also gave her the LARP gamebook treatment, using the Sailor Moon gamebook The Sailor Moon Role-Playing Game and Resource Book, which uses the same stat system as the short-lived Sailor Moon collectible card game). It's still a story in progress, but I'm pretty proud of it so far.

(Oh, and I forgot, I did create another OC Senshi, Sailor Buttercream Sparkle, for a group on DeviantArt back in 2013. I never wrote a fic for her, though I did write details about her in the description of the drawing linked above).

But I think I got off topic...😅

Does this happen to anyone writing in the Sailor Moon fandom?

You try to write a scene set in the past life, and your brain over complicates it by trying to world build for all the past life kingdoms, and now you wonder if you should write a prequel about the past life? 😂🙈

At this point I have as much notes on the kingdoms as I do for my EoT plot.

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It's possible it's from the recently released HD remake of Apollo Justice. Either that or the Phoenix Wright games are not set in the "present day" of when they were released (the fact that, in English, they are set in a version of Los Angeles that does not match any version of L.A. that I've ever seen, in person or on TV, makes the setting questionable anyway).

(oh wait just realized it has the remake logo...oops 😅)

The song is A New Era Begins! 2024.

Yes, that song has 2024 in the title.

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I love how @sailorsoapbox used this manga panel of Ami (which is I think from the "Ami-chan no Hatsukoi" manga story) for these mobile wallpapers telling you to get the heck off your phone and study 😂

(There are other background options too...I only downloaded one of each design)

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Anza Moon had a lot of "play/show within a play" stuff, probably just cause it had a lot more dialogue in each play in general (technically this is true for later Bandai Myu eras too, but it seems more noticeable in Anza's era). The Stars myus had these parts that parody Japanese period dramas (and have nothing to do with the myu's plot, they're just to show how messed up time is due to Galaxia killing Pluto), and also a built-in "music festival" that mostly exists to give the Starlights' actresses a reason to be idols. The SuperS myus open the second act with a full on circus show. The outfit above is from the opening number of the Eien Densetsu myus, "Orleans no Sei Senshi," and is supposed to be from some movie or TV drama that Usagi and her friends are in (how they got cast in this I don't remember). Not sure about the Mars samurai thing.

Dawg did you know Sailor Moon was a knight at one point in the stage plays??? And that her fit would make Utena proud??? [x]

also Mars was a shiny samurai which is also epic

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As a self-diagnosed autistic woman, can confirm. Just the other day I was thinking about how I really didn't care that much about being popular until I hit junior high. I don't know if it was social pressures or adolescence or puberty (which started at 13 for me) or what, but I suddenly started worrying a lot more about what people thought of me, even though deep down I still probably didn't really care. Like I wasn't that even into what was trendy or anything (I was a teen in the late '90s/early 2000s, so the trendy things were, like, boybands like N*Sync and Backstreet Boys, and I wasn't into that). Even when I was briefly friends with this popular girl in 8th grade, it wasn't even that fun, really. (And it was a weird situation too - I switched homerooms halfway through 8th grade, and this popular girl just randomly decided to befriend me...it was kind of like a Mean Girls sort of situation, where I was Cady and this girl was Regina, only in this case the popular girl was way nicer than Regina).

Now, to be fair, I have Asperger's (I know that's not an official diagnosis anymore, but based on my symptoms that's how I define it), so I'm technically "higher functioning" than some autistic people, but I'm pretty sure I still mask a lot.

Unpopular opinion: when it comes to the relationship dynamic between Neurotypical and Neurodivergent girls, the neurotypical girls often act as "social correctors" (basically, people who set the rules on how certain people are supposed to act and carry themselves) because they learn social skills/rules earlier due to the many invisible expectations put on them, as well the punishments given when they aren't meant, and thus, ND later girls pick up on it due to the necessity of being socially adapt as a girl and mask, this starts earlier depending on how much a society is gendered.

There's actually been a lot of research into the fact that, for many years (and to a lesser extent still today), autism was very under-diagnosed in girls for exactly the reasons you laid out. Love and peace to all my autistic brethren, but let's be clear- girls face a lot more pressure to conform to societal standards than boys do.

In my experience, girls are also better at masking for that reason. Speaking from personal experience, I felt intense pressure as a young girl to fit in, be pleasant and inoffensive, and not be "weird." I'm not saying that boys don't face this pressure, they very much do, but it's just so much heavier for girls.

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I haven't watched Madoka yet either...I'm honestly kinda scared to, but at the same time it's so iconic I feel like I should watch it. (To be honest, not sure which "magical girl deconstruction" show is more creepy, Madoka or Magical Girl Site).

Also if you want more Madoka vibes, may I suggest Yuki Yuna is a Hero. I've only watched the first season (originally there was only one 12-episode season, like Madoka, but a couple more seasons have since been added, though half of season two are these movies based off the prequel novels). The art style reminded me a lot of Madoka, and it has a similar "magical girl series that starts off light but gradually turns very dark" plot. You can watch all three seasons on Hidive.

Love that I am once again seeing these kinds of Tweets this day in age.