Tag: Confession
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Unpopular Opinions Tag
Taking a brief break from the saccharine fanfiction to talk about unpopular opinions on media! Saw this on my pal C. M. B. Bell’s blog Iridium Eye a few years ago and knew I had to give it a shot… Popular series I don’t like: Game of Thrones. It doesn’t feel fair to […]
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Confession: I am Nozaki-kun (Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun)
Sentai Filmworks 2014 Sentai Filmworks 2014 One of my favorite Rom-Com anime is Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun. It follows an adorable, plucky highschool girl named Sakura as she tries to win the attention of her long-time crush, the stoic and unaware Nozaki-kun. But when Sakura finally gathers the courage to confess her feelings, Nozaki-kun mistakenly thinks she’s […]
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Competitiveness and Identity
Competitiveness: the drive to push yourself in order to win. Competitiveness can bring out the worst in people. It can push people to break the rules in order to get ahead. It can result in “sore winners”: the people who rub their win in your face, or those who think winning is the only way. […]
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Confession: I Don’t Look for Relatability – I Look for Emotional Sincerity
I have a confession: I don’t really care about a character being relatable. Let me rephrase that: I don’t need a character to be like me in order to connect with them. That may sound like a novel concept considering relatability is one of the “buzzwords” of fiction (as writer Matt Colville would call it)1, […]