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#this is perfect

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Home Sweet Home - Earthbound

(It's actually Pollyanna but don't tell anyone)

While I was studying, I had the sudden urge to just make something quick. It's weird to say quick because it still took a few hours to do but hey I did it anyway.

I was supposed to do the original Pollyanna track but I guess I wanted to do the slower Home Sweet Home version justice.

I have a habit of sneaking in melodies from other songs in the soundtrack and while I love the gimmick part of me feels like I use it as a crutch to keep the song interesting. I suppose when I lazer focus on the main melody and build around it I can make it work.

It's just ironic considering the game is about collecting the 8 Melodies.

I'm also using the Windows MIDI again and mixed it after to sound a bit nicer. It's just a bit annoying because I literally have no idea what I'm doing when I do mixing.

The MIDI visualizer I use is super cool but I can't seem to get certain notes to show up properly. No clue why and I'm too lazy to fix it.

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Good morning!

I’ve been a bit sick again recently and I’ve only just gotten better. It’s also been very hot so I basically just used my sickness to camp in my room to avoid the sun and the heat.

By chance, I was just reminded of the book Pollyanna. I probably think it’s one of my favorite books/probably IS my favorite.

I don’t read a lot and I’ve veen getting into it recently but I guess it really started with Pollyanna where I’ve finally learned how to actually enjoy literature.

When I was young, I read a bunch of Captain Underpants and Diary of a Wimpy Kid. I think I had like 5 or 6 books on each series before I stopped.

In school they made us read too but the only book I really liked that they told us to read was The Giver. I guess the twist really only working through the medium of text is probably the first time I went “wow” reading something ahahaha.

Funnily enough they made us read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Great Glass Elevator too but I couldn’t be bothered to actually read them. Don’t get me wrong, they’re probably good books but my child brain was wondering what Goku was up to that week you know?

As a side thing, I had book reports on Great Glass Elevator and we were assigned to do chapter reviews with an illustration. I didn’t read any of it but somehow I passed. My evil method was to copy the illlustration at the start of the chapter because I have no artistic talent and just start writing word for word the book into the page. My penmanship was so bad because we were required to write in script. I was left handed so it just looked terrible to the point of illegibility and I got 7/10s every time.

Anyway, back to reading in general, I was thinking about Pollyanna.

One day, the internet cut out for like two weeks and I was bored to death so I read the book. Playing Terraria Calamity mod solo wasn’t good enough to keep me entertained.

That book really messed me up. I was just a fan of Earthbound and my favorite song ever is the vocal version of Pollyanna so it seemed like it was a good idea to check out the songs namesake.

Boy how I was both wrong and right.

SPOILERS FOR 111 YEAR OLD BOOK

Within the first few chapters learning about Pollyanna’s deep sadness about her fathers passing under her cheery attitude had me tearing up. Such a sweet little girl shouldn’t have such sad thoughts.

As the book went on I just grew to love our protagonist more and more. Everyone she interacted with would just be infected by that cheeriness that she always carried and it was so sweet.

When the big thing happend and she loses her ability to be happy anymore really got to me. It literally was a car crash out of nowhere. I was so invested on those last few chapters and when Aunt Polly asked how to play Pollyanna’s game I ugly cried for like 20 minutes straight. Heck I’m tearing up thinking about it again.

I’m glad everything worked out in the end and it resolved happy. I don’t know how much more my heart could take.

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Pollyanna is just one of those things that’s so good I don’t think I can bring myself to read it again. The feelings are too strong that I need a few more years to really comprehend it.

I used to goof around with this stupid OC/Create a character named Pollyanna that I would always make and say that she’s my daughter. I couldn’t think of a name at the time and settled naming her after the song from Earthbound. Little did I know I would grow so attatched to the name that I genuinely want my actual daughter to be named Pollyanna.

Anyway, that’s just some stupid thing I had in my head while laying in bed. I have an arrangment of Home Sweet Home from Earthbound that’s just Pollyanna so check that out if you wanna hear what my feelings for that book sounds like.

#ggsgarbage #pollyanna

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mahou shoujo meteion

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#nice!

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Running with the burrito I just got (stole) from Chipotle while a HATER cop tries to catch me:

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eartbound

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Senshi's "I have to feed the youngsters" moment is so funny on first reading and fucking devastating on a second read through 🥲

#:(

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im perfect

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Hi!

So about two days ago, I went to an impromptu pool party with my friends. It’s summer and it’s pretty hot here nowadays so it was probably one of the best things to do.

Something strange happend during it though… I somehow exponentially became a better swimmer.

I can’t really explain it because normally I have no clue how to swim. I used to just stand at the bottom of the pool and keep my head up that way to get around.

First I noticed I was able to just float without needing any help with like a board and second was that I was suddenly able to swim, starting from one end, about 2/3rds of the pool without touching the floor.

This is huge because I’ve had swimming classes in school and I’ve been to other parties where my relatives were trying to teach but they all fell flat. Something about that day just clicked.

Honestly, I think the real reason why is that since the start of the new year, I’ve been trying to just be more healthy by exercising about 3 times a week. Just alittle bit every monday wednesday and friday and I won’t push myself if I can’t or don’t feel like it.

When swimming, I guess you use your core a lot and I felt it when I tried going across the pool a few times. I even noticed that when I would get out of the pool, I used to just flop over the side like a wet fish but now I actually have the upper body strength to pull mysef out with just my arms.

It’s better FEELING the improvements over physically seeing it I suppose.

I always assumed when people work out, the goal is to get big muscles and that just makes your life better or whatever.

When I did my amateur research I actually found out that strength and muscle mass aren’t necessarily linked. I then found out that you can train for different reasons like losing weight, gaining muscle mass, flexibility and the one that I found and resonate with is strength.

The first few attempts I had over the years, the goal was always: “do thing untill ???” but I think this time I’m funneling my training to just be stronger in general and not really caring about the aesthetics of it.

Being able to subtly notice all the little things I can do now is just crazy. I’ve really had a misunderstanding about my personal goals and what I eventually want to achieve.

Hopefully by the end of the year I’ll have done something that would make me go “wow I’m strong now”.

Anyway, it was just something interesting that I’ve noticed. I’ll be able to smash a head with my bare hands eventually…

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Loml

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a what-if i've been thinking about for forever... trucy knowing the truth before anyone could tell her

#i would certainly love to see more of this #ace attorney

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Hear me out dungeon meshi fans

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hermes showing off his baby to hades and hythlodeaus

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Hello!

(I have a nasty habit of wanting to write only about bad things so let's talk about something else)

I've somehow read all of Dungeon Meshi within the last two days or so. Time well spent I'd say...

The first time I've even heard of Dungeon Meshi was seeing all the Twitter clips from the first episode of the anime. I thought the premise was cute so I decided to take a peek at the anime with a friend.

The first two episodes were alright but at the time it didn't quite grip me as much as I thought it would. While I loved all the characters doing their thing, it was missing something that would really hook me in you know what I mean?

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If you haven't seen any of it yet, please go and check it out it's pretty good. I wouldn't want to ruin anything about it for the blind.

After the second episode I just put it off for a bit but a month to so later, I saw a twitter clip or maybe it was a teaser that was about Falin's resurrection. I was astonished to see not a digested corpse coming out of the dragon but a goddamn skeleton of what's left. That was what I was missing in order to get hooked so my interest was fully piqued.

So now I've gotten around to reading the whole thing and MAN was I surprised. The world is so interesting, the characters are all loveable and it gets surprisingly dark every now and then. It touches on alot of themes that I like involving death and the stains of time.

My favorite manga of all time is Berserk so the moment the manga started getting into that stuff I was fully invested.

One of scenes that really stood out to me were Marcille's nightmare and how it sets up that bit near the end. I don't really know much about elf lore and I just beat Baldur's Gate 3 so it was interesting to learn more about how an increased lifespan is just sadness for the elf in question.

Seeing Laois get touched by her nightmare and immediately starts aging and freaking Marcille out just made me go "OH NO IS THAT WHY SHE'S AFRAID" and it makes me sad to think about life without your loved ones.

Another one is Senshi's backstory with the Griffin and how he had to live a long time with that gnawing thought at the back of his head. It thoroughly explains why he's so adamant about eating a balanced meal and how living as healthy as can be is so important to him. I honestly teared up pretty bad seeing those final panels of him eating the hippogriff stew.

I suppose my only nitpicks is that we never really got to hang out with Falin enough. I would have loved to see more of the gang interact with her since from the flashbacks and what little time we do get with her, she's a sweetheart too.

There's also Itsuzumi and how I personally don't think her arc was fully done but at least she had her moment with the succubis.

These are very minor and there are even more minor ones and honestly I don't mind them very much because the story is already like a 10/10.

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The volumes kept ending at cliffhangers so I couldn't stop wanting to read more and more so I ended up binging the whole thing.

I'm glad I did though because the manga went into detail a couple of things I've been thinking about recently too. It just nice to see and read thoughts about the little things that bother me right now. Even if it is through a silly manga about eating monsters.

Honestly, the manga influenced me maybe like 10-30% as to doing a bit better with how I treat myself and my health.

To close it off, I gotta say I really loved it and I'm excited to go through it again with the anime. Hopefully my friend won't mind if I drag them with me since I left them at ep2 hehehe.

TLDR: FARCILLE IS REAL DON'T LET THEM TELL YOU OTHERISE

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #how is this now one of my favorite things ever #please watch it or read it #it's good #dungeon meshi spoilers #dunmesh spoilers