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liliqa · 3 years

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Hello everyone! Are you ready for Halloween? ‘Cause we are! We present to you Sweet Elite Halloween Week!

This year at Arlington, the students prepared a long list of events for Halloween. There’re 7 special themes for each day of week!

DAY 1 - HALLOWEEN COSTUME EVENT

Prepare to be the star of Halloween and wear your nicest costume!

DAY 2 - CANDY HUNT

Participate in a candy hunt and search for candies on campus!

DAY 3 - TRICK OR TREAT

Go knock on the dorm’s door and be ready to give the weirdest treat to surprise anyone!

DAY 4 - WATCHING A SCARY MOVIE

Pick the scariest movie and watch it with you roomies!

DAY 5 - MASQUARADE

Find the best mask and prepare for dancing with strangers at midnight!

DAY 6 - HAUNTED HOUSE

Sneak out to a haunted house and take everything to escape out of it!

DAY 7 - FORTUNE TELLING

Finish your night with a mysterious look into your future!

RULES:

Edit, drawings, writing, cosplays and all sorts of art are welcome for this event as finished pieces or just as wip. Be creative, you can show us your oc or stick only with the main 10 characters. It’s alright, as long as it’s connected to Sweet elite.

Stealing or heavy use of tracing art is prohibited.

Other than that, have fun with the concepts, it would be lovely to see your participation and remember to have fun! You can skip days or do more than one thing for a day, it all depends on you.

Don’t forget to tag us or use the hashtag #sweet elite halloween week (with spaces)

We’re looking forward to seeing your creations! See you next week!

#sweet elite #dulcet games #otome

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liliqa · 3 years

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Okay so here it goes cause if I don't say it I'll explode: unpopular opinion.

So, for context, yesterday someone asked Serena on twitter about the canon orientations of the main 10 and she answered that she doesn't give orientations to her characters, aside of a "hint" for Neha and Karol (since they have crushes, so you can tell that at least they like that gender) and that everybody can headcanon whatever they want. Which, is odd to me cause people will headcanon regardless of their canon orientations.

This is not the first time this conversation have happened, once in the discord server she even gave her own personal "head"canons, which really rubbed me the wrong way, even if they weren't "canon" (which is strange you know, she's the author).

It might sound silly but character orientations are actually important. They are in terms of visibility and education in our actual world. I'm not talking only about VNs and dating sim games, but in all games that include being able to date characters, giving them an orientation makes people learn about boundaries, makes them feel represented and also gives different lights to the character's development.

Also, to me, as a LGTB person, writing a character that I, the creator and writer of them, "headcanon" as, for example, homosexual, but then make them able to date every gender, is actually doing my character dirty, and in the case of not being able to hide it well and end up writing an homosexual-coded character, to the players too.

I've also read some articles which I agree with that talk about how not labelling your LI characters (in case of being able to being dated by every gender) is washing your hands, and in some cases it's just like "yeah just make everyone happy without actually saying they are LGTB". If you want to make a game about characters who can be dated by everyone just create characters that are attracted to every gender. And tbh, in that case label them or at least say they are attracted to every gender, not just wash it away with words like "they're what the player want them to be" cause in my opinion that's damaging to the LGTB community.

With this I'm not saying that having headcanons is bad and that fans shouldn't have headcanons: go ahead, that's really nice and I have my own headcanons too. But when the author "has" (how an author has a *head*canon?) and they aren't coherent with the game they're creating, and doesn't take risks just to "make everyone happy", in the end they're damaging the characters, the fans and the LGTB community.

As a fellow bisexual it really hurts me how this world, and the gaming community always invisibilizes us, and Serena had the power of giving people attracted to every gender the representation we deserve and threw it in the trash.

And don't be fooled, Sweet Elite doesn't have good LGTB representation. Apart from this, take other example: the only canonically non-binary character is Dr. Kim, they almost don't appear and they have little to no relevance in the game.

I just wanted to say this because this is my opinion, and it's something that triggers me and I needed to say it. You can think whatever you like, I just wanted to let it out, I clearly don't like her but I'm not cancelling anyone cause that's bullshit.

#reblogging 'cause it's important #sweet elite

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