(Image ID: Twelve Sanrio arcade themed patches. From left to right: my Melody with two strawberries in a garden, Keroppi with two apples in a garden, Hello Kitty with a ballon and cherries. Badtz Maru collecting a one up, a Hello Kitty themed arcade machine, a pixel Keroppi, a pixel Badtz Maru, Lala and Kiki riding a shooting star coin operated ride; and four more pixel sprites of Hello Kitty, PomPomPurin, Kuromi, and My Melody.)
This is gonna be the first of my Sanrio inspired series of buildings since the Little Twin Stars are my favorite characters.
You can find the tray files and cc links in the description box of the youtube video.
I'm still planning to rebuild some of my old builds and also new ones not related to Sanrio but I don't know when cause I really don't have enough time and this next two months are gonna be crazy for me x_x
Thanks to all the cc creators @sims41ife @hydrangeachainsaw @syboubou @sims-kkb @soloriya @felixandresims @pictureamoebae @sunshineandrosescc @prismaplanetsims @paper-lioness @dopecherryblossomheart etc
before i made this sideblog i made this video in the event that i eventually would make a lalaloopsy centered sideblog. well since i have made the sideblog here's the video
eww imagine being a nerd watching videos about math history and science for fun ugh couldn't be me (veritasium bobbybroccoli miniminuteman 3brown1blue my love /p)
Okay so in general the new Monster High songs don’t quite stick with me other than the introduction songs for Lagoona and Frankie getting stuck in my head or Twyla.
But the new song with Cleo singing about her insecurities is REALLY sticking with me unlike the other ones, like it just brings out Cleo’s character a little more I guess, and then her seeing that she has people in her corner that love her, support her and SEE her. It’s just so sweet and also the song is just plain good I love it.
I thought it was a nice touch in Persona 5 Royal that the scene where the player is given the option to choose to have Joker enter a romantic relationship with Makoto takes place in the Lala Escargot’s Okama bar “Crossroads!”
Although Atlus as a company unfortunately has a track record of including homophobic & transphobic stereotypes in several of their games, even in P5 which has that AWFUL 3-minute-long scene where two predatory gay men sexually harass Ryuji, which is played for “comedy” (which the Royal edition at least tried to censor & rewrite for the American localization, wherein the two men were now instead overly enthusiastic drag queens who mistake Ryuji for one and wanted to give him a make-over after they saw him exit the Crossroads bar…), I honestly thought that the bartender Lala Escargot was a more positive example of a genderqueer character in the game. While the game never specifies whether Lala is actually a trans-woman or just a drag queen, she’s at least never treated like a joke since the all the other characters respect her pronouns, she acts as a responsible voice of reason, and she repeatedly defends Joker during Ohya’s confidant line whenever the drunken journalist tries to offer him alcohol (Lala doesn’t put up with Ohya’s bullcrap). And I know that I’m alone in that opinion that Lala is one of Atlus’ more positive or less problematic examples of LGBTQ+ representation, since I’ve seen other players compliment her character as well!
Still, even though I thought Lala was a solid step in the right direction (even if it's still imperfect) despite P5’s other problems with queer rep, I do hope that Atlus tries to do better going forward in future games, especially considering that the Persona franchise is no longer being directed by Katsura Hashiro since most of the widely criticized queerphobic content occurred under his leadership. Heck, even the Royal re-release for P5 (which rewrote the aforementioned homophobic scenes to make them less problematic) had a different director, Daiki Ito, who thankfully gave us more queer-coded bonding moments between Joker & Akechi (I totally ship them together as boyfriends, similar to how I also ship Joker with Makoto).