Magical Diary Squee

2012-01-18T09:41:59Z

I've now done all five romances as well as various side plots and I adore this game. There's some moderately in depth non-romantic storylines I totally missed the first time through. The love interests cover a nice range, you don't get to dictate your player's responses that much within each romance but there should be at least one to suit anyone, and even the ones that aren't my thing were enjoyable. All but one of the romances can be played as a friendmance (in some cases simultaneously with another romance, which can useful if you screw up :D) and most of the dialogue is the same, I think you could play as aromantic and still enjoy it. And nobody bats an eyelid at same sex relationships/asexual characters etc, and there's acknowledgement of non binary gendered people though you can't really play as one (I did anyway :))

Once again, ensemble cast with lots of canonically queer women plus speculative elements = my eternal devotion. I tried the demos for some other dating sims but either they were too straight or it was mostly being a secretary doing photocopying in her lunchbreak (FUNTIMES) or it just didn't click.

And now even though NOBODY CARES I am going to do a picspam and squee. No major spoilers but if you don't want ANY info you should go play it first, or at least the free demo.
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Ivan Bilibin

2010-05-19T13:39:50Z

Are people familiar with the Russian illustrator Ivan Bilibin? I grew up with translations of his books as a kid and adored them, and it's only recently it struck me that those whose mothers are not arty types of somewhat Eastern European extraction may be unfamiliar with him. So: look at his art! Isn't it the prettiest thing you have ever seen?

(Answers of "no" will not be accepted :P)

I was inspired to look him up after getting an idea for a fairy tale influenced piece, but now I feel a little intimidated by the awesome. Alas the books I had as a kid with their cool russian covers don't seem to be for sale any more, but I'm definitely going to try and find some way to buy a book of his pictures, because they are much richer in person. I can't remember if the text that came with them was any good, since we had a couple of versions of those folk tales.

(EDIT: here's some of the stories, ah such a nostalgia trip)

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