#Interactive Enternainment

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PORTRAYALS OF PALESTINIAN X JEWISH LOVE STORIES IN BRAZILIAN TELENOVELAS

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So, as many brazilians, I grew up with telenovelas as the main source of national enternainment.

An interesting characteristic of brazilian telenovelas (specially the ones produced by the channel Rede Globo, the most powerfull TV channel in the country) is that, besides the extra production value that can go to cinematic levels, above the usual budget of other latin american telenovelas or british and US american soap operas, is that they experiment with mixing the escapist love story with discussions of serious real life topics in the side plots: politics, street crime, drugs, mental ilness,domestic violence, sexuality, etc. are themes frequently explored in brazilian telenovelas.

In recent years, there were also international real life topics incorporated to telenovela plots, besides the brazilian reality, including, more recently, two attempts of exploring the Israel x Palestine in love stories between born in imigrant families from those two regions.

One a late night telenovela, the other an evening telenovela.

I would like to present the resume of them here, and how they were received by audiences at the time:

Pérsio and Rebeca (Amor a Vida, 2013-14)

2013's Amor a Vida (Love for Life) included the subplot of the romance between medicine doctors Pérsio (Mouhamed Harfouch), of palestinian origin, and Rebeca (Paula Braum), of jewish origin. The two originally entered in frequent verbal fights before becoming a couple, and when they did, it started as a secret to Rebeca's family, and there was a period they expent broken up because the character of Pérsio revealed that he had a past as a member of a terrorist cell and considered being a bomb man before coming to work in Brazil as a doctor.

But eventually they reunited.

When it camed to reception of this subplot, the average brazilian viewer wasn't much involved because there were already a lot of other subplots to be invested in (particularlly the romance two male character that became the first kiss between two man in a mainstream telenovela), and some leftist groups who were acompanying this story interested in how it would explore this real life conflict were left disapointed, repudiating the reveal of Pérsio as a former terrorist as stereotypical and feeling that it simplified too much the complexity of the real conflict between Israel x Palestine.

Ali and Sara (Órfãos da Terra, 2019)

2019's Órfãos da Terra (Orphans of the Earth) was a telenovela of the 18:00 p.m time spot that experimented in exploring the theme of refugees who were coming in mass to Brazil (particularly from Siria, during the height of the US x Siria warn news) and their descendants. One the plots included inside in this theme was the love story between Ali (also played by Mouhamed Harfouch), the owner of a restaurant, and Sara (Verônica Debom), a customer who learns belly dance with Ali's sister Muna (Lola Fanucci).

Ali was the grandson of the palestinian imigrant Mamede (Flávio Migliaccio), who had lost his home in Gaza during the destruction caused by the Israeli Army.

Sara was the granddaughter of the jewish imigrant Boris (Osmar Prado), daughter of the flower shop owner Eva (Betty Gofman) and sister of Davi (Vitor Thiré), a young woman who was serving in the israeli army due to the encouragement of his grandfather, and against the will of his mother and sister.

The old patriarchs Boris and Mamede were neighbors, and started the story hating each other so much that they wouldn't bear the interactions between their dogs, even less so the romance between their grandchildren.

Sara at first pretended to be a gentile, thinking that Ali would reject her if he knew she was jewish, but that didn't happened: the two kept the relationship strong after she told the truth, and had the support of Sara's mother and Sara's and Ali's siblings to be together.

Despite their grandparents schemes to separate the two and make marry people of shared cultural background (which provided a light hearted comedy), Sara and Ali fortunally got happily married.

The two families ended supporting each other trough sad moments, like Davi's death while serving in the Israeli Army and Mamede's development of Alzheimer's when, and had happy moments like Ali and Sara welcoming twin children.

Unlike the more controversial aproach of 2013's Amor a Vida, the portrayal of the love story between a Palestinian and an Arab in Órfãos da Terra was much better received by audiences and critics, by the levity and the respect in wich the two groups were portrayed, without either being villanized, and the strong trust between the two characters that became the couple.

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Hello dear writer! Please write some headcanons about the toxic relationship of Muzan and reader. Bc lets be real, while Muzan IS a smooth man, we all know that when he is moody, your death chances triple. Lots of power imbalance. I'm curious how would he act around a human that knows they are a demon. trow in some NSFW too if you get inspired ahaha. Thank you! I wish you a wonderful day!

SFW:

-Chances are that you are a) another one of his play-things when he’s got to pretend he is living as a normal human, or b) you have something very unusual about you.

-If it’s the first one, you’ll end up dead just like the rest.

-But he was actually curious when you found out he is a demon and you didn’t scream, or run, but just smiled at him instead while you whispered ‘i knew it!’

-He pretty much keeps you for enternainment and out of curiosity. He wants to see how far you are willing to go for him, and will probably kill you or leave you to the upper moons to deal with if he ever gets bored of you.

-You have to do everything as and when he says. Do not confront him, do not question him. He makes sure you know that from the very beginning.

-If you ask him to please turn you into a demon, he will refuse. You would still be inferior to him even as a demon, but he is a little bitch and would turn you into a demon only if he feels like it.

-Even though he is scary as shit when he gets mad, he never hits you or hurts you (not if you are human, at least), but you’ll have to learn to live with his tantrums, and get used to anything you own getting wrecked when he makes one.

-If you are a demon though, he may chop off your head if you are the one making him mad. He knows you won’t die because of that. Not unless he wants you to.

-He will constantly remind you of your own mortality, and how he can end you with a flick of his wrists. 

-Sometimes he will cup your chin with his hand, his red eyes staring into yours, ‘I love you, Y/N. Do you love me as well?’ You know better than to give the wrong answer, and honestly he is so charismatic you still fall for him despite the obvious warnings.

-He loves seeing your reaction to those words he says to you. How amusing, with how little you get satisfied.

LEMON:

-Despite obviously holding back a lot of strenght, he still bruises you and marks you when he fucks you.

-Especially because there is a lot of angry sex.

-He is one hundred percent dominant. There is no place for questioning that.

-Muzan will love to bite your neck and thighs. And will always draw at least a little blood so he can taste you.

-He will also enjoy choking you, to the point where you feel dizzy and almost pass out. He gets so turned on by the fact that he could just press a little bit more and break your neck.

-Definitely has a praise kink. Tell him how amazing, how strong, how perfect he is. He will be a little less rough with you if you do that, and may even indulge you if you want to try new things.

-When he is feeling more playful, he will like to leave you alone and naked in a forest at night, instructing you run away before hiding. Then, he will hunt you down, and fuck you senseless once he finds you.

-He is also into spanking. Having you bent over his lap as he makes you count the times he spanks you brings him big joy. Especially when you cry and beg him to stop from the pain.

-If he ever gets jealous of any of the upper moons interacting with you, he will have no qualms on fucking you right in front of said upper moon, commanding them to watch until he is done with you.

-He would rather stay dressed during sex, only lowering his pants enough to be able to fuck you.

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-Lettuce

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Microsoft and Sony share the rights to a game

A very strange thing, Sony, along with the other competitor in the game console market, Microsoft, have come to share a property that no one thinks they care about at this point.

After purchasing Insomniac Games last month, Sony finally confirmed that it owns the rights to all the properties that this studio has developed. These include Sunset Overdrive, the 2014 game that was initially…

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Week 11

Prototype 

1. Message to people

To motivate users, enternaining is helpful to keep them on active. They can chat in message, send progress photos and video, also can make a call.

2.  From sharing my daily diary with friends and family, users can feel more motivated and encourage them to interact with this doing the tasks. 

3. Developed design to find ‘Goals’ easier and faster. 

User Testing R1

Feedback

- The letters are too small 

- Maybe I can add more animation elements 

- More engage with icons/animations. they looks too dry.

OLD VS NEW

Left: Original App, Right: My Design

I’m focusing on categorising and design visualisaion.

User Testing R2

Got feedback about visualisaion and animation. I’m not really confident to animate each icons anad ekements but I think it will be looks more natruala and friendly. Since myfitnesspal is not really a friendly design, I need to consider on visualisation and playful elements. 

User Testing R3

People still said the workds are little small. I need to change words size 10 to 12, 14 to 16 and 20 to 22/24. In User Testing R3, I have realised that my settings of grids is not accurate. Since my purpose is better UI Design, I need to set up a new grid plans.