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Hi! As soon as I made this profile I realize I made the mistake of making my username the purpose of this account because now people would have trouble referring to me without my name upfront. Oops. For now till 4 weeks, simply refer to me as the character in my profile picture, Shijima! I'm 19 years old, and as for my gender, I don't have a clear view for myself, so refer to me as whatever for now.
I've made this account with the goal of simply writing about my life in here, and to write little bits of literature here and there. Drawing isn't my best suite at the moment but I do love writing! ^w^
I like the works of Tsukumizu (Girls' Last Tour and Shimeji Simulation), Yume Nikki and the equally dreamy fangame Yume 2kki, Pokemon, Roblox, and most importantly, reading literature! Especially classic works such as the Sherlock Holmes canon and H.P Lovecraft, etc.
My online activity is sporadic and few so I'm not active a lot of the time, but I'd don't mind a conversation .w.
Nowadays, I've been handling my phone use a little better, scrolling through YT Shorts exhausts a lot of my motivation and desire to do anything. But sometimes I just feel guilty when I could not sit down and just read a book straight! Especially when a book that I've currently set in my mind to read is a more difficult read. I read more manga than novels more because the story is both drawn and written (and sometimes the visual goes SO HARD), but I also want to continue The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope. Its my first introduction to the Victorian era of literature-though I didn't know this, just thought the title sounds cool when I had my eyes lain on it in the bookstore-and so far for me it is a plot of a family making means, but I know there is more to that if I truly invest my time on the novel.
I want to be able to be more media literate because I want to enjoy to the fullest the media I really enjoy and to reflect that by making the magnum opus I dream of writing! But due to the predatory methods of companies attempting to fetch in engagement to their social media products, I feel like I'm the Ulysses ogre.
And heck, even I don't know if I fully grasp my favorite mangaka's writing of the manga I indebt my life to, but all I've felt from reading it is existentialism and isolation from how Shijima experienced life; detached, apathetic. Light spoilers for those who didn't read Shijima Simulation, I'll just rant here:
The inability to relate to others to a more personal degree, yet, she still feels fear, gratitude, and eventually, the desire to connect. She never seems to express so much as the lively egg-head Majime, when this girl's desire for connection made her cling to Shijima. And that is how I got attached to the personality of Shijima!
In the age of fast content, time for reading is so much a need when now the people around me, even my family, endlessly scroll through their phones. And I don't deny falling victim to this too, but, I sometimes break through the mold to read and write. There is so much cool things to see out here in spite of where the world is heading, and we, you and I, have the privilege to see AND make cool things! What is the use of that privilege if we amuse ourselves to death?