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★ you scared? your heart's beating super fast.

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Spade no Kuni no Alice - Otomate Style Covers

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Chibi art of Alice and Boris :D

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ボリス

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Spotify Playlist

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🎃 Happy VERY LATE Halloween 🎃

This chibi CG was inspired by this drama CD translated by @dialovers-translations ♡

Seriously, thank you for all the hard work translating these games and CGs 😭💞

I got a little creative and made Noctis cosplay Bernkastel, and Laito cosplay as Alice from the Heart No Kuni No Alice otome game. Kanato is dressed as Miku's Clover Club module!

This CD had me in tears (´∀｀)

I love how they all ganged up on Ayato and that it was implied that he was wearing heels LMAOOOOO

You should go give it a listen!!

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same as it ever was

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I’ve been thinking for a while about Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Lookingglass and specifically how these stories get adapted into other media and how seemingly every adaptation ages Alice up to make her a young adult rather than a child in ways that invariably feel inaccurate. I think the problem is that the original stories from Carroll are all about how a child views the world and how strange and confusing everything is to them since they don’t yet understand what stuff is and how it works, and that is then amplified and reflected in her dreams. The caucus race, for example, is how a lot of children probably view politics, like it’s this weird, arbitrary competition with no real point and confusing rules and processes. This is the same sort of thing we see with stuff like the court scene, or painting the roses, or even just the way that she keeps growing and shrinking because growing up is confusing and the eat me/drink me stuff is a great way of showing how confusing it is for children to still be little and yet be growing into a larger body that they aren’t used to. As such, an adult version of these stories would have to be completely different since that core theme would have to change and so would Alice’s perspective along with it.

One way this could work is by having Alice be a teenager on the cusp of adulthood, so then the core theme shifts to something around the transition from childhood to adulthood, the confusing nature of all the new tasks and responsibilities you have as an adult, and gender roles and expectations. Carroll, at least in my opinion, used these stories as a way to make poignant social commentary in how he showcased the ridiculous nature of society and all its arbitrary, confusing rules and norms through this lens of a child’s dream. Having Alice be a young woman on the verge of becoming an adult could also very well lend itself to similar commentary, especially when it comes to gender norms and patriarchy, but that commentary would look different from how it did in the original. The setting of Wonderland works for a child and Carroll’s original story, but that setting would have to change for an older Alice, and that’s where I feel that all the adaptations I’ve seen with an older Alice just don’t get it right. I think Tim Burton’s live action films are a good example of what I’m talking about where they make her older for no real reason but then infantilize her and make her very childlike so they don’t really have to change Wonderland itself aside from adding a plot. 

That’s another key point here — it isn’t just that Carroll’s novels don’t have a plot, it’s also important that they don’t and everyone who keeps adding a plot to these stories is missing the whole point. It isn’t a linear narrative, it’s a glimpse into how the main character is processing the world around them in the middle of their greater story that we the audience never really get to see because the whole point is that little glimpse. We aren’t supposed to have the whole story of Alice growing up or learning how things work or any of that; we are only meant to see this little bit of how confusing and stressful that whole process is for her, and everyone keeps forgetting that. The whole story ends with the culmination of her anxiety about that process and how she feels like she doesn’t know anything and she’s constantly in danger of getting in trouble because she just doesn’t know stuff yet but then she is delivered from that fear and danger by the end of her dream. The whole point is that, at the end of the story, she is still a child who is growing up and yes, it is stressful and difficult, but she is home and she is safe and she is able to come out of that anxiety and go back to just being a kid without a blade at her neck. 

We never see anything remotely comparable with adaptations that feature an adult Alice. For one thing, I think a lot of people tend to feel judgmental about the ‘it was a dream’ ending but, for these stories, I think it’s very important that this is all just a dream and not a real place. Having Wonderland be a real, tangible place that Alice goes to where she can choose to stay at the end of the story defeats the entire point of the freaking story. If the point of the story is how the main character is processing the difficult experience of growing up or even transitioning from childhood to adulthood, then it is necessary that the character return to their normal life at the end of this story. Now, if we have an older Alice on the cusp of adulthood, I could see a version where she learns a thing or two in that dream and comes out of her dream with a different perspective, but Wonderland is very much not supposed to be a place where she chooses to stay because it’s meant to be a more stressful rendition of her own world. In some ways, I feel like Coraline does a better job of telling this story with an older protagonist than any of the actual adaptations I’ve seen and I do think that, with an older Alice, it would be necessary to venture into more of a gothic lens or even horror.

I’ve recently been reading The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson and I actually feel like that is a pretty good take on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with an adult protagonist who ‘chooses’ to stay in ‘Wonderland’ at the end, even though I’m pretty sure Jackson wasn’t directly inspired by Carroll with that story. An adult Alice choosing to stay in Wonderland works, in my opinion, if that ‘Wonderland’ is as awful and stressful, or even horrifying, as it is meant to be and yet the protagonist still chooses to stay because that awful world is still better than her normal life. The way that Nell is originally disgusted and horrified by Hill House but, by the end, is desperate to stay because the house wants her and she craves that deep level of belonging more than she fears this horrifying place is the sort of thing that, to me at least, can work in an Alice-inspired story. Regardless, I think it’s easy to look at Carroll’s stories as adults and just see silliness and whimsy and forget that, to the protagonist, it’s frightening and stressful. I think people also lose sight of the nature of the stress, confusion, and fear that Alice feels in those stories and feel the need to add a plot, like having her fight a war, because they forget that the whole fucking story is man vs. nature and man vs. society and those are the fucking conflicts; we don’t need ham-fisted plot and conflict.

Anyway, I’m just really sick of people adapting stories they don’t even bother to understand (like Mike Flanagan with Hill House 👀) and how something can be adapted so many times and yet, still, no one has done it correctly. At least Quinrose’s Wonderful Wonder World series managed to showcase Alice really growing into adulthood and carving out a place for herself while developing as a person without sacrificing her morals and convictions, so that’s cool but did we really have to make it an otome game? I find it fascinating how many variations of this story end up aging Alice up for the purpose of then having her get into a relationship with some character from Wonderland and end up staying there. Heck, even freaking Ever After High has it baked into the story that Alice still lives in Wonderland with her son and, with all the Storybook of Legends shit, it’s pretty clear that the original Alice was not a small child when she first went to Wonderland based on Alistair’s age. EAH is another one that almost gets it right because they do have the right amount of age-appropriate stress and anxiety tied to the environment and structure of Wonderland, which I appreciate, but then it’s a physical place and also the characterizations and relationships don’t feel very accurate. But yeah, I just wish someone would really do it right because it’s been bugging me for ages.

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I love Otome Game protagonists with strongly defined personalities👀

(Ceres is no girlboss but I want to worship the ground she walks on)

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Clover no Kuni no Alice ~Promise Red~ Light Novel Translation (Complete) Summary: Sequel to White Calling. By arrangement with the Boss of the Hatter Family, Blood Dupre, Alice is now living temporarily at Heart Castle until the Assembly period is over. However, for some reason, the Prime Minister, the White Rabbit Peter, is behaving strangely and suddenly starts to avoid Alice….. Despite not knowing what he’s thinking, her feelings for him continue to grow—In the midst of their estrangement, what fate does the bewildered Alice choose!?

Prologue ACT 1 – What awaited after falling was a white rose ACT 2 - Phantom silver, secrets of the roses ACT 3 – Heartbeat that calls for a singular red ACT 4 - Taking a breather, ash-coloured love ACT 5 - Hearts that must be spoken to be understood ACT 6 - Inseparable person, beloved family ACT 7 - Red eyes make a binding promise Epilogue

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Troubleshooting my cut machine and playing around with laminate sheets 🎉

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