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i turn 24 today. To celebrate, I made this comic to be a spiritual successor to lead balloon, a comic in which I talked about the darkest period of my life so far.
A lot has changed since my 23rd birthday and this one. My priorities have shifted a lot, in ways that I think are mostly good. But i think the best part about today is that suicide has gone back to being a far away notion. I'm really lucky, and I'm grateful for that.
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GUESS WHAT?
The last couple of weeks have been NOT so pleasant for your dear Trevor at ExplosionGifd HQ but THINGS HAVE HAPPENED AND WE ARE ENTERING A NEW GOLDEN AGE I CAN PROMISE YOU THAT! A lot of things might change around here and some things might stay the same! I don't know things are moving quick! But stay tuned because I have A LOT planned and I'm excited to enter this new period of peace with all of you 💀❤️
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Have you seen GAP the series?? Personally I thought it was trash. So bad, but I heard they changed the script so many times so it was bound to happen. I didn’t watch Marvellous Dream but everyone says it was bad too. Now Loyal Pin is starting and I don’t want to give that a chance either. What the heck, Idol Factory? I’m not saying they’re masterpieces but their BLs are good. Why can’t they make good GLs?
i have indeed watched GAP but i have to admit that it’s hard for me to be as objective about this show as i usually try to be with all the media i consume, because while part of me KNOWS it’s not the best series, im also very fond of it for what it represented as the first fully fledged GL we’ve ever gotten
im also aware i tend to be more forgiving towards GLs compared to BLs, mostly because BL shows have been around for years and were allowed to sometimes be pretty bad as they experimented and tried things out, while as it often happens with women i feel like a lot of people expected GLs to be nothing short than perfect from the get go and refuse to allow even the smallest misstep
all this being said, my marvellous dream is you was definitely (and unfortunately) not a good show (albeit i did weirdly enjoy some parts of it), and if you already didn’t like GAP you for sure wouldn’t like mmdiy either, because sadly i think this series has all the flaws GAP had but magnified 10 times: the main pairing keeps running around in circle about the same misunderstandings over and over again, the miscommunication goes through the roof, the relationship is very unbalanced, there are way too many characters who are there just for the drama and aren’t given enough space or depth (people saying we only got crumbs for chainpun in we are, well, let me tell you….. it can be worse ;;;;;;;), the pacing is a mess, and im sure im forgetting something else too. there could have been one saving grace in my marvellous dream is you (the fantasy element), but even that was neither explored nor narratively used at all
what i think it’s interesting is that both series were adapted by novels from the same author, so i do wonder which of those issues are due to the original material and which ones are due to idolfactory itself, because while an adaptation can definitely try to fix certain things, it also depends on how much artistic license they can actually take (this is why im very curious to see how GMMTV is gonna adapt pluto and us, since they’re also stories from that author)
as for the loyal pin, i haven’t been able to start it yet (petition to get an extra day in the week just to watch my shows), however im really looking forward to finally be able to, because this time the original novel is from a different author, so im hoping it won’t have the same issues when it comes to the plot and the characters
so yeah, i do think that there are some stylistic choices that are very typical of idolfactory that they should probably revisit (for example, having a big cast and pretty long episodes), but when it comes to GL specifically maybe they just didn’t pick the best material (or the right one for them as a company), so i hope the loyal pin is gonna be their turning point and that future projects will get better and better!!!!!
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Thinking about how in 2019 I saw a doctor because I couldn't breathe and they told me I was fat. So I started trying to work on it but after camping I went to urgent care because I quite literally couldn't breathe. Of course I made an appointment with the doctor and they kept telling me I'm fat so I went to an asthma specialist later and had to be put on steroid inhalers for almost a year because my lungs were so shredded and destroyed.
Then in 2021 I saw the doctor because my ear was clogged and they did the water tube treatment thing but she had looked at me with such disgust and disdain while doing it I thought I did something wrong. Now my ear doctor that I had to seek out specially because they said my ear problems are because I'm fat(?) and had allergies (and then they tried to sell me an mlm allergy cure all) said that the bad ear cleaning possibly led to a 3 year long raging ear infection I thought was allergies this whole time. And now I might have permanent hearing loss in my ear.
Needless to say I stopped going there ages ago but man... they were pretty alright up until about 2020.
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