One high and two lows

ILLIT and IVE released new albums!

ILLIT showed their song previews in early October, like, 3 weeks before the songs came out. Glad the songs were awesome and fire and I wasn't disappointed by them. I love Yunah. And the You're Under Arrest outfits are so cute, I love Iroha's short hair, and Minju's bangs, and Wonhee's brown outfit. I miss Moka. Sad she's not in the vocals. Also Cecile Believe worked on "More" and I love that. So did Brooke Candy to a higher extent, but I know less of her, unfortunately.

Look Can Kill's title song was released early but the EP is out today. I did not listen to it yet. I'll listen to it in a few minutes. Rei's outfit is so cute, I want that hairstyle.

Event

Recent events, as well as lesser known but not local events, are currently making me stressed.

I feel like a huge response right now is "but what about rehabilitation? people doing XYZ because of this is doing too much" like guilty until proven guilty I guess...

While I am part of the demographic that can get away with not talking about it, I do want to apologize for not talking about more known, specific recent events. I haven't been talking to it to people in real life for "obvious reasons." That's probably why I never made a public statement, as important as it is.

The worst thing for me to do when I'm stressed or sad is to accept invitations. Especially from strangers or online stuff. I got more important things to take care of.

My goals for this month as of October 4

Deadlines:

• Finish Lab Report 4 by October 6
• Study for Chemistry midterms by October 8
• Sakai Moka birthday art by October 8

No deadlines:

• Finish Lab Report 2 (almost done, but very late)
• Finish Lab Report 3 (not done at all, but late)
• MV concept art (technically there's a due date but it's far away)
• Iroha solo animation
• Continue cleaning room

For these next four days, I think I want to do this:

1. October 4, get started on Sakai Moka and Lab Report 4
2. October 5, spend a lot of time on Lab Report 4 (I had a hard time with Lab Report 2 but not with Lab Report 1 and likely not with Lab Report 3, so we'll see here)
3. October 6, Lab Report 4 due. There is no lab this week, but I think there is a lecture. There's also a quiz due that day, but I might turn it in on the 4th or 5th.
4. October 7, get Moka fanart done and study for midterm.
5. October 8, study more for midterms then submit it.
   My other class's (class'? class's? I just realized for some "class's" is the preferred spelling) midterms is just obeying instructions in a software correctly so I can't really "study" let alone "train" for that.
6. October 9 onwards, Lab Reports 2 and 3 and MV (all three are for school). The other two are not for school and thus are lower in the hierarchy.

August thoughts

A braindump of internet stuff:

• I'm on stage 40-30 of CookieRun: Crumble, meaning it's a GingerCraven level! Wish me luck 💞
• I'll probably need to organize teams and strategies for each enemy, since it's a loop of the same 9 pages, and even some non-main boss enemies, like the Rowdy Bikers and the 10 assassins in the town square, can't just be defeated by a generic team.
• I can't tell if "If you like Hooti Frutti you're sexist" is equivalent to "If you ship Lapis Lazuli with Jasper you're just as bad as an abuser" or even worse. Because, like, Lapis Lazuli and Jasper are not real. But the problem with Hooti Frutti is not the characters they got to sing this song, there's no characters, these are real women. I just don't know if "If you like Hooti Frutti you're sexist" verbatim is aiming at the issue.

Cookie Run Cookie Fun

New Cookie Run update is focused on Pure Vanilla Cookie and White Lily Cookie. Pure Vanilla Cookie might be trying to save White Lily from death or something? I don't know, the full story isn't out yet, and I'm not even through the first half. I am a bit worried that these episodes are being released back to back. I hope the next update doesn't deal with the main story (like Linzer Cookie or Jagae Cookie), at least directly (like Seltzer Cookie). Actually, bring Linzer Cookie back. Where is she and Creme de Brulee Cookie? If it took two years for a proper Macaroni Cookie and Cheddar Cheese Cookie return, then where are our playable mystery Cookies? Not that Mystery Cookie.

Nether Queen Cookie seems awesome so far. I got her on my third pull so I'm a bit more confident. For some reason, with Povidone-Iodine Cookie and Ananas Dragon Cookie, I was having a hard time in the Arena, even after I got them. And no, it's not just because they were pity copies so there was an influx of people who got their pity copies. In June, I had a much easier time fighting with Venom Dough Cookie than Povidone-Iodine Cookie. Now I have Nether Queen Cookie and Povidone-Iodine Cookie in the same team, and all seems well. Also, Nether Queen Cookie is dark-skinned. If "they're just cookies," why are so many of the cookies pale?

I think CookieRun: Crumble might just be the game to break the "poorly-performing Cookie Run game" curse. We'll see. I'm enjoying it so far, though the repeating quest cycle is a drag. Dark Cherry Cookie is a guest in CookieRun: Kingdom and she speaks in beeps and boops, which is very fun. But apparently I have to beat stage 10-30 of Crumble to get her in Kingdom and I wish it didn't take this long to get there.

Amazing Digital Circus Predictions

Oh, what do you know, I didn't go back to most of my social media by now. Huh.

But I will be seeing The Amazing Digital Circus Episode 9 in theaters so I'm going to be giving my predictions:

• Probably more confirmed than theory, but the Digital Circus characters are digital duplicates of humans. Additionally, we will not see their human faces. 3 years of speculation.
• Caine, Bubble, GummyGoo, and other AIs and NPCs will not come back. Abstractions, e.g. Ribbit, Kaufmo, Queenie, and Scratch, would still be alive, and we find out why people abstract.
• Bubble is the blue circle, but his name would still be Bubble (Though it could be Abel? Based on one of the Easter eggs saying "Caine & Abel," Abel is not just something the Abel mannequin thought would sound cool).
• The Circus characters will still be able to imagine things.
• The computer Kinger was typing on was not the PC's real terminal, it's a simulation of a computer inside a computer simulation. But alas, Caine will not come back.
• The Wackytime thing in the terminal seems very strange. It could likely either be the same thing that Bubble's hate comments came from (either Caine's dark thoughts or Abel-Bubble), or a more ambiguous entity that shows no ill will towards anyone.
• We will find out who C&A are. Perhaps not who founded it, but we'll learn something about them that isn't what mannequin Abel told us about them. Just two 25-year-old libertarian guys who started out in their mom's garage and aim to "lax" the boring technological world.
• There will be a moment where I should probably cry a lot (perhaps a Pomni/Caine scene or a Ragatha/Kinger scene), but I don't. I mean, when my favorite character died, turned into a ghost, and hugged his daughter, I didn't cry. But maybe there will be a scene where the baby Trauuma hugs the mommy Trauuma and the real Traumma steals my tears, allegedly to revive Solcière's mentor, but in reality, to turn back to his original, larger form.
• I will not notice anyone who stinks in the movie theater. If the theater is a bunch of shy people who probably project onto the characters, they'd probably square up like they're going to a gala. Also, my nose is not strong, so I don't think I'll notice. It's my first fandom event, though, so we'll see.

I think what I'm most curious about, besides what the butterflies mean in the poster, are what the stars mean. Because it's seen in like 2 or 3 shots in the trailer so if the stars still move when the circus is dull... that probably means something really big.

LEAK DISCUSSION BELOW, NO FULL SPOILERS, I HAVEN'T ADDED MY SPOILER CENSORSHIP THING YET SO SCROLL IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ THIS

Based on a TikTok video of someone who saw the leak, there may be actual exploration of Jax and Zooble's dynamic, as well as Jax and Ragatha's, to the point they might not make amends. But that's just a guess. The TikToker censored themself.

There's a popular penguinz0 video about the situation, and it mentions something that does seem plausible to happen, but, as far as I will see it, is alleged: a song from a Black artist(s) is covered by an Asian artist at the end of the episode. 

June 3rd at 2am, I go to the theaters in around 35 hours, I scrolled through the TADC TikTok tag to find leaks but tried to also avoid getting too much.

The players will probably give grace to Caine for putting them in those nightmare scenarios. Who didn't see that coming?

Apparently, the characters find out who their real selves are, and we also see live-action actors portray them, possibly in the same shot. This alone does not confirm or deny "they get out of the circus alive" theory or SOMA/clone theory; for all we know, it could be a dream scenario. Someone on TikTok said the reveal of the human names/appearances of the characters is a "minor spoiler."

I will say, though it was obvious, if the names revealed are actually leaked material, anyone who guessed Kinger's name was Grant was right.

And I also forgot to mention, due to theory evidence, like Gooseworx saying she related to Jax the most, I found the "Jax transitions" theory plausible. Apparently, that's canon. Jax might not come out immediately to the other characters, though.

At least I went out of my lane deliberately to find the spoilers. My TikTok FYP has been kind not revealing leaks of this episode besides a user semi-censoring themselves. However, it also showed me a 3 minute clip of that leaked Avatar movie, which looks amazing, by the way, but it was so good I knew I had to check if it was a leak or not, and it was.

(Edit, August 2nd: I also got spoiled that Gangle's mask in Episode 4 would make one last appearance. This is correct, for better or for worse.)  

June 4th came and went.

The digital circus characters are in fact digital files that can't escape the circus.

We have seen the human faces and names of the cast. However, they are non-speaking roles.

Moon, and presumably Sun, may or may not have been affected by the deletion. The Gloinks and the Gloink Queen are seen alive in the end, meaning GummyGoo, Princess Lollylalu, the mannequins, and other NPCs are most likely also alive. Scratch was brought back to the circus as his regular self, but we don't see Ribbit, Queenie, or Kaufmo in present day, abstraction or not, unless that aquatic abstraction was one of them. The Ribbit hand monster is not in the movie.

Caine is the red AND blue circle, and the blue circle is the one that freaked out. But I think Bubble is faceless or something. He possibly (too?) left the circus but I forgot. The circles are left unnamed.

The characters build the circus back together and it got its color back.

I do not really know where Caine was at besides "the deletion void," but I still believe Kinger's computer could never be able to delete Caine in a permanent way.

Caine was the Wackytime terminal. I feel dumb for thinking it was not. But I believe it was the blue circle who initiated it, not red or red/blue together.

We don't really know what C&A was besides episode 8's description, but we know Scratch's real name!

The Pomni/Ragatha, Pomni/Kinger, and Pomni/Jax scenes were supposed to be the tearjerkers. I was closest to crying in the first of those three, but I didn't.

I thought the theater would be sold out. It seemed to not be. If anyone stunk, I didn't smell it, and I showered and smelled like roses.

The leaks are real. Though the Jax trans thing was just heavy symbolism, not a declaration.

Hiatus(?)

Today I announced that the inactivity on my social media platforms is no coincidence, and announced an indefinite hiatus from my social media presence as an influencer. Well, it's more like a regular hiatus, one where I do actually want to go back. But because of prior inactivity, I felt like I was already on "regular hiatus", albeit not intentional.

My public presence as Roboreverie would be halted. My public presence as A ZU NA Land would be made intentionally sporadic. 

But, if I were to be honest, I imagine I would come back as Roboreverie in the span of... tomorrow. I mean, I hope not, the whole purpose of the hiatus to think smarter, not harder, become more intelligent, and live actively as a human being. I'd rather have a spiritual journey than make another Roboreverie video, Ghostbusters or not.

But we will see. 

Cynicism

Okay, I think I'm done with ChatGPT and Gemini for good. This time.

This isn't an airport, don't announce your departure.

But I think I started getting way too cynical.

Movies 

•  Theater movies aren't that interesting anymore. But this is due to a few reasons:
• 1. Many of these movies are survivors of the writer's and actor's strike. Many of the "better" movies didn't survive this and will likely come around later.
• 2. The movies you are interested in are PG and PG-13 and I am no longer a kid or a teenager. The R rated movies that do appear I end up not as interested in.
• 3. You got movie cynicism in your head and you think all the movies are bad because people keep rating them 2-3 stars.
• 4. You are literally getting less marketing. You saw 6 instances of Avatar: Fire and Ash before it came out and that's wild because you saw someone wear a Fire and Ash hoodie 2 days before the movie came out. Also SpongeBob 4 came out a week ago and you saw marketing for it and you thought it looked ugly so you probably thought its marketing budget was smaller than it was.
• 5. You just need to see more movies point blank. There's thousands of them but we can only make so many at once. You saw Poor Things while it was out of theaters and you thought it was great.
• 6. The big 3 flooding the theaters: sequels/prequels, remakes, and reboots. Sequels in particular seem to be slowing down.
• I think the only 2025 movies I saw were KPop Demon Hunters and The Electric State; the movie you heard nothing but praise (and a few critiques paired with a "I love this movie" sandwich), and the movie for which in terms of movie reviews, the only good one said "it's a good movie to show the kids and turn your brain off to, and if you worry about the Millie Bobbie Brown Chris Pratt movie not adapting the grim source material properly, cope."
• I heard Sinners and One Battle After Another are good. Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein, too. Hundreds of Beavers is the most independent of all these films on this bullet point but people said it was awesome. This, the aforementioned KPop Demon Hunters, and more are proof the movie industry is not all dead inside.

I don't think it's because of disinterest.

AI and "soul"

I am tired and I do not want to explain this as much, but I used AI for three specific reasons, and one of them was to discuss philosophy.

It is common to say "I don't like AI. It's soulless and it's not human." And you're expected to not question that and agree with them.

Sure, the water usage and electricity usage is bad. And a bunch of other things. But why does it matter if AI has a "soul" or not?

I think they called it materialism. To treat everything as physical. The other definition is to value things entirely external, like AI, above spiritual things.

I questioned if the subjective mind is objectively real and if we have things that objectively think about things inside our minds.

I figured the reason about the talk about "souls" and "human essence" was because of humanism, and more so anthropocentrism. I learned about antihumanism. It's not the same as misanthropy. It's anti "humanism", meaning it critiques the philosophy of "humanism" and humans being the center of the universe.

I figured it was hypocritical to be a meat eater and not be a humanist, even though a tenet of humanism is likely also not to eat meat. And probably even more so hypocritical for someone who doesn't like to be sniffed by dogs to be an anti-humanist.

I don't think there's a "natural" thing in this room besides some dead flowers. Not even myself. We've been "human" for so long that if we were ever animalistic, it would be evolutionarily unwise because the only reason many people are as pale as they are is because of migration and, in many cases, racism.

I tried to read Wikipedia summaries about Althusser, I got distracted by the elephant in the room about him. Knowing the crimes philosophers did is like YouTube comments on Mr. Krabs videos saying "Don't let this distract you from the fact that Mr. Krabs sold SpongeBob's soul for 62 cents."

Anyways, soul. Selling soul is a common metaphor. I don't think it's the case for all AI. Penny Parker and the SnapCube team did voice dubs for their AI Dungeon Sonic story where Shadow says "how could a doctor who thrives on death be so afraid to die?" I don't think SnapCube uses AI anymore, and they probably didn't sell their souls for that AI Dungeon thing. But I think I sold mine after I found out ChatGPT uses underpaid workers in Kenya to review chatlogs, and then I kept using AI for 3 years.

I talked to Google Gemini about soul and it said that believing in having a soul, in a world that tries to reduce you to numbers, is actually pretty countercultural. That you refuse to sell yourself because you see yourself as precious, or rather, sacred.

Sure, I could stop believing in souls. It seems... accurate, right? However, believing in at least one subjective, mostly human-constructed thing, like having a soul, is like joining forces with someone who barely aligns with your own but is a stronger fighter than you'll ever be.

Star Detective Pretty Cure

On the day I made my shinkansen and plane Precure titles, the title for the next Precure series was revealed: Star Detective Precure!

So far, none of the Cures seem to have leaked. The closest one was a keychain that had the line width of the other keychains wrong and almost the exact same head accessory as Cure Friendy.

Unfortunately, this was also the first year an AI image was spread as a leak. I think NanoBanana Pro just released when it was made. It even retained the Gemini logo even though that was easy to remove. Luckily, no AI leaks since that one arose. Leakers knew we wouldn't fall for that twice...

...actually, there's a second one that doesn't look like AI on the surface but might be. Had a yellow Cure named Cure Watson who had two different forms with two completely different faces... whatever "completely different" means for an anime style. They also had three of the four Cures share first names with real Cures, Madoka, Arisu, and Akane, which had never happened before. One of the Cures had a hiragana surname even though that doesn't seem right (it's usually kanji, or katakana if they aren't Japanese). And one of the Cures, whose theme color was brown, had a smoking pipe! I couldn't tell you if it's true but I think the image is AI.

Edit:

Designs leaked, likely either on the 16th or 17th. I believe they were all leaked on designs of surprise cards you get when you buy Pretty Cure gummies. The Cures were:

• A purple Cure, purple hair and blue eyes, strawberry blonde hair in civilian form.
• Cheerful, probably a bright-eyed dreamer. While her Cure form is purple, her civilian form looked more... pink? I am not a fan of the lilac color for her, but that's probably only because it's so ubiquitous in Pretty Cure, and it's actually quite rare for hair colors. Most likely the lead Cure, as she is the sole Cure on the boxart of the transformation item.
• A pink Cure, pink hair and purple eyes, purple hair in civilian form.
• Tsurime eyes, rare for pink Cures. You got Melody, Miracle, Butterfly, and Black and Summer if you count them as pink Cures. Her civilian outfit seems to be mostly red. She reminds me of Tomoyo Daidouji for some reason. Or Arale Norimaki. Or maybe there's someone she actually looks like a lot more and I'll be like "OH! That's who she looks like!" She's the only other Cure who appears in merchandising, so it can be assumed that the team starts as a duo, in spite of there being more Cures leaked.
• A green Cure, or perhaps blue.
• She kind of looks like a peacock to me. Very elegant. She is the only Cure in the leak to not have her civilian art, which is weird because there's an image of the rest of the Cures in their civilian forms and she's not there.
• A black Cure.
• The third black Cure since Cure Black, following Cure Joker (a novel-exclusive Cure) and Cure Kiss. She has blonde hair and... amber eyes? She is absolutely a standout compared to the 87 (now 91) Cures we have now, let alone the Star Detective cast. Dirty blonde hair in civilian form, which is quite rare as well. I actually have the least to say about her because of how mysterious she is.
•  A male (or at least masc) supporting character.
• He has yellow hair and goggles, a lab coat, and is overall represented by the color yellow. Most likely not the same as the civilian form-less green Cure. He also has a animal for, a yellow creature with the same goggles.
• Three other fairies.
• A pink koala/bear, a purple fox, and... another fox but green? The koala was also featured in boxart.

Merchandise listings showed that the four Cures' names are Cure Answer, Cure Mystic, Cure Arcana Shadow (shown in some listings as Cure Arcana), and Cure Eclair!

 

The Cure designs are less detective-y than expected, so people guessed all the detective Cure names in the book not knowing how much the team will stray away from the theme (previous series in the past few years went all in, naming Cures after onomatopoeiae). Cure Answer is the most likely name to get right out of the four (mine were Cure Case, Cure Mystery, Cure Glass, and Cure Mark). Though nobody probably expected Cure Arcana Shadow. One of the few Cures to have three words in her name. On the top of my head, I can only think of Cure Southern Cross (which, fun fact, is a longer name than Cure Arcana Shadow in letter count but not syllable count) and Cure La Mer, and even with her, the "La" part is an article determiner. Arcana Shadow is two separate nouns!

 

Mascot names have also been listed in merchandise listings, those being Pochitan, Mashutan, and Shushutan. I predict Pochi is pink, Mashu is purple, Shushu is green. Nice to have these guys because for three seasons in a row the Cures fully transformed as a group didn't have animal sidekicks to yell at them thinks sigmas wouldn't think twice about like "not giving up" and "looking to your left". Baby sh*t.

 

No comments on the transformation items, nice the kiddos are getting watches again. I think Delicious Party is the only other series with magical watches.

 

I won't lie and say I'm not impatient for the release of the official website. Those feel like breaths of fresh air to finally find out about Aikawa Niina and Yuzuki Mikan and Cosmos and Aurora. Lol, sorry, those are my PreCure OCs. I know, I have hundreds of them.

Precure ideas

I have two Precure names that I may use in the future, both relating to transportation and the innate human experience.

Passion Express Pretty Cure! (パッションエクスプレスプリキュア！)

About trains (mainly shinkansen) and expressing yourself. The main Cures are nerds and punks, and the lead Cure is red, and a "nihilist" (there's no such thing as nihilism because if there's no meaning then why are you telling me). There are five Cures.

Lost Air♥Precure (ロストエア♥プリキュア)

A new name for Stitched Essence Pretty Cure. About planes and expressing creativity. The Cures have a flight attendant motif and the main art expressed in the series is handicrafts, especially sewing and knitting, to differentiate it from Arc-En-Ciel. The name is a bad pun on "lost art". 

Talking about "innate human experience" when I complained about the term in and out of this blog. 💀 It's like if humanity in general is sacred or something. 

Finally continuing Dandadan

I watched Dandadan Season 2! It didn't get as much hype as Dandadan Season 1. It could be for a few reasons: The opening was not done by Creepy Nuts this time and they're known for making viral songs (like in Mashle). People know more about... the scene in S1E1. The incident where someone edited Momo and Okarun to be Black got viral and people didn't like racist Dandadan fans berating the artist. Or, perhaps, anime hype may or may not last as long as their first season airs.

But yeah, I watched episodes 10-12 of season 1 and episodes 1-5 of season 2. Probably the most episodes of any anime I watched in 1 day, 8, though I'm not sure if that's actually true.

I am watching the manga as I read along with the manga and I stopped at episode 5 because it seems that we have reached the point where our volumes might be synced up! I stopped somewhere near volume seven. I have volumes 8 and 9, but none after that. I predict Dandadan season 2 doesn't cover anything beyond volume 9. A character who I believe will only have a "last scene of the anime" role in season 2 is the primary cover character of volume 10. I believe volumes 11, 12, and 13 are available internationally, while volumes 14-18 only have official Japanese copies for now.

Spoilers for Dandadan (manga and anime) below: 

Life update and, unrelatedly, dopamine

I got my wisdom teeth removed recently!

I don't think it counts as a surgery because the teeth just popped out and didn't need to be broken. 

I wasn't able to keep them (I think I was allowed to but I wasn't given the time to ask), which was notably the only thing I talked about while on anesthesia. Two comments about keeping wisdom teeth, and nothing more.

So far, I had mashed potatoes, applesauce, macaroni and cheese, and a banana. It would be a BRAT diet if I were allowed to have rice and toast, however, the BRAT diet is a bland foods diet and right now I can only have mushy foods. So no chewy cookies, that leaves crumbs. And no popcorn - crunchy food that leave kernels in your teeth, butter in your mouth, and most of all isn't mushy. I only note these two foods because they're the only foods so far I craved after my surgery. Luckily, I could have vanilla pudding, I tried flan for the first time recently and it was great, but that would be my first actual sweet (the applesauce is unsweetened) since the removal and I don't want to risk that so soon.

Ooh, I made breadstick knots in the oven without help a few weeks ago, maybe when I fully recover, we can celebrate with cinnamon rolls? I found this awesome tutorial which included making brown sugar. And shokupan! Oh, how I'd love to make that.

Okay. Dopamine.

This is how dopamine obsession looks in women. /ref

There's different types of ways to find dopamine. In the least medical most pseudo-health terms possible, there's short-term dopamine, which leads to immediate but very short gratification, notably scrolling and most gambling, and long-term dopamine, like climbing mountains and actually earning things.

I found a type of dopamine that's in the middle of that: crediting artists on Pinterest and finding the sources of certain things. I found some Winx fanart that I was like "wow that looks cool but no artist is credited" so I googled it and I found the artist (innocenceclub) and I added it on that.

Here's a big thing to note: it's pretty hard to get a pin off of Pinterest. I don't think you can delete your own pins, and to copyright claim your work and have it deleted, I believe you have to give your full name to Pinterest and be comfortable with your name being shown to the email inboxes of everyone who saved your pin. So if your real name is Song Kyungmi, it's going to show "Reporter's Name: Song Kyungmi", regardless of if you put your pen name or not.

So that's one unfortunate thing about Pinterest, but if this system wasn't there, Pinterest would either have been a DIY crafting baking site like it seemed to be directly aiming for in the 2010s, or it would have died.

But yeah, that's it. Maybe instead of just scrolling on Pinterest I can just comment "hey this is the original artist". And/or follow the original artist.

Memories, dreams, more AI stuff

Day before yesterday, I went to a comic store I haven't went to in years and got two volumes of Bocchi The Rock. There was Dandadan, which I've been trying to read. I'm at volume 7 and I also have volumes 8 and 9. But while the store had volumes 11 and 12, they didn't have volume 10. I also went to a good restaurant and ate flan for the first time. Very good. And common around here, actually. The whole experience was great; but unfortunate that not all of the family could come.

Yesterday I dreamt my account got hacked by an account called "Are You Even Human?", which somehow got access to the account, and while I successfully removed their access to the account, I also deleted my own channel in the process.

Then I dreamt about HUNTR/X, the Ghostbusters, and the Dandadan characters (dubbed "Team Supernatural" in the dream - Okarun, Momo, Aira, Jin, and I think even Kinta) being in the same class. I watched Half Life VR But The AI is Sentient all the way through recently, so I wonder if the series had influence on this dream, or if Team Science will be there in the future.

I'm just gonna spout out nonsense about AI

• AI agentic browsers. Perplexity's Comet. ChatGPT Atlas. Opera Neon. Gemini in Chrome. Copilot Mode in Edge. Dia, made by the people who abandoned Arc because they thought Dia was cooler. They honestly do seem like toys. Privacy used to be the buzzword of technology. Now it's AI, and these browsers don't care. They want to add things to your shopping list. All of them are Chromium. I wanna say Comet and Atlas are Mac-exclusive.
• Microsoft Mico. New AI mascot. Probably does the same things as Copilot. You can turn it into Clippy. Clippy would never do this.
• ChatGPT released Sora 2. That won't be a nightmare. For some reason it has its own "social media" filled with other Sora videos. Sora videos are watermarked by default, but you can bypass that. People are making racist videos of famous dead people. 

Getting into philosophy

This is going to be bare-bones but I...

I use AI. Privately. I used it occasionally in the past for public works (it's the reason Shion Igarashi is a former delinquent don't tell anyone), and my series Pearl Princess Pretty Cure and Pretty Cure Smile Star were AI-assisted, however, both series have since gotten rid of their AI roots. Or at least Pearl Princess did. Well, okay, the name Tama Hamasaki was AI-generated and she's only blonde because of AI BUT the name was just too good sorry probably not going to change it in spite of Tamaki Hamasaki.

There are plenty of reasons why AI is bad:

• LLM AI's sample data comes from the internet, with the majority of it coming from copyrighted works (If you create something, it automatically gets copyrighted. You have to turn it public domain, creative commons, etc., yourself, not the other way around).
• Companies are using AI in spades and is affecting jobs, particularly creative jobs and factory jobs.
• The spread of AI-generated misinformation or "hallucinations" caused by the very nature of AI.
• Inappropriate use of AI in regards to real faces, particularly of women and children (Perhaps I should use "humans" or "all people" instead of "real faces", especially that "fake faces" harm real people too, but I don't know, "real faces" seems right for what I'm insinuating).
• AI slop, scams, and spam. Scams and spam pretty much all use AI in the modern day, while slop can be more easily produced, flooding the media market of choice for capital gain.
• Over-reliance on AI can make you dumb. Also blindly believing in AI can make you dumb but even if everything AI says is true, it can make you think of generating things instead of actually doing them.
• Environmental impact. Though it's a bit messy, though I heard some things.
• AI uses a lot of electricity, so it needs to use a lot of water to cool its systems.
• I heard some people say some of the water AI uses "disappears", but I need to be smarter in order to believe that sometimes water can't just evaporate into the sky to be used another day. But it's probably true.
• It is said that AI uses 10x the amount of energy as a regular Google search. Though nowadays Google searches might take 10x more energy than it used to /j 
• Unfortunately, a lot of AI impact to the environment is undisclosed. 

But the philosophical reasons... well, actually, they don't matter in terms of more immediate, less metaphysical harms. But philosophy and ethics are what underlie why we do things. So I have questions. For example:

• Does AI do everything for you? Do "prompts" matter? Does "direction" matter?
• Are you using AI to help you or to ease you? Like making things quick and easy for you... or even using it as a dopamine boost because "wow I am not typing this myself this is so cool".
• Where does support for AI start and end? Because it seems like a lot of people just love love every single piece of technology that was made up to 2014, minus cryptocurrency (which isn't exactly AI but it is technology), and that Sophia robot. And they love that one AI that detects cancer cells before humans can. But many say that Generative AI should stay out of the arts. Yet Kasane Teto, which uses neural GenAI, is loved. Some projects that use GenAI, like Glorb, who sings and writes lyrics themself but uses AI-generated SpongeBob character filters, and Neuro-sama, who uses various sorts of GenAI technology, are loved, especially since they have a lot of human effort.
• The word "soulless" gets thrown around in AI discussion, though I think is more important is that the word "soul" gets thrown around in AI discussion. One may say "I don't believe in souls, is AI okay now?" The response would be "you don't have to believe in souls to not support AI for the 'there are plenty of reasons why AI is bad' reasons listed above." Okay, then why are you throwing around phrases like "there are souls in all human art" like it's candy if it's so irrelevant then? 
• Many anti-AI sentiments say to support humans instead of AI. Technically not objective but definitely fair and just. But what does that mean? And how do we go around it?
• And many anti-AI statements say "it's doing NOTHING. it is not HUMAN. it has no SOUL. you need FLESH AND BLOOD. reject artificiality." That's where I'm probably most hung up about, which I'll get into sometime, probably not in this blog post, or even on this blog, but some time. 

I've also been trying to figure out why I use AI:

• The world is not easy. It's not going to hold your hand. AI companies purport their product as an assistive tool first and foremost. As someone who felt like I couldn't do anything, I would probably find solace in AI.
• AI can generate things quickly. In seconds. The country is in a "convenience culture". I think a YouTube comment said that a single Simpsons defines American culture, where Skinner's mom wanted all of her groceries in one bag whilst demanding the bag not be heavy. I usually ask for "niche" questions or generations. Instead of asking for answers on a forum, or even drawing or writing or doing the thing I message AI to do myself, I go the easy way out.
• Additionally, Google is worse now. While I have extensions that make the experience better, Google has a lot of AI. I did manage to hide the Google Gemini AI from searches, though! There's also an extension that removes certain sites from Google search, namely sites whose sole purpose is for AI. But even then, the sites Google shows were forced to appeal to its SEO. 
• Validation. The "yesman" praise that is very common in AI. I heard someone say it's a common feature in all LLM chatbots, but I do not know if it's intentional or just a consequence of its programming. Like when AI says "your message is more profound than 99% of the people who chat with me." But the "yesman" praise of AI is a way of AI saying "I'm here and I'm listening to you".
• Novelty. It's a brand new toy. It can do all sorts of things. ChatGPT actually just had a "dev talk" where they introduced a new AI agent tool, and added some third-party apps users can "directly talk to" on ChatGPT, including Spotify and Zillow. It's like when a gacha game adds a new character or a toy line adds a new vehicle and outfits for all of the characters.

And my own limits. I used to be less strict, but now my personal rules are: no videos, no music, no pictures except if you ask really nicely with two cherries on top, use Microsoft David/Zira/Mark instead of AI TTS, limit AI speech synthesis to those Google AI podcasts and even then you should not do that, no AI templates, no AI coding, and only use AI creative writing if you're willing to completely throw it away and forget about it, meaning, do NOT post it publicly on any circumstance.

As for AI research... a lot of people do permit it as long as human-written references and resources are involved, though for some, it's a no-go. One Redditor, for example, said "asking if using AI is cheating is pro-AI propaganda; AI is a plagiarism machine and that's why it should never be used."

I've been using it a lot for philosophy, and what I trick myself into believing isn't psuedo-therapy but it totally is. My philosophy teacher told me not to use AI, not just because of misinformation, but also because of misuse of terms. Philosophy uses many common words that take new meanings in philosophy, something AI would either misunderstand or attribute both meanings to when the common meaning may not apply at all to something. And using LLMs for therapy is bad is because AI is not human.

And I'm finally going more away towards AI because if predictive LLMs, by their very nature, are not good for the epistemological, they cannot be good for the metaphysical.

In my own "AI generations", too, AI has messed up. Once it said that [group of male characters of human intelligence 1] recognizing and respecting the sexual boundaries of [group of female characters of human intelligence 2] is scarier than if [group of male characters of human intelligence 1] didn't. Hello? Do you know what "Man vs. Bear" is even about?
Another time it called a manipulative milkman character's tactics "soft white power" (rather than "soft power"). You can see the problem with that.

I realized I can't transition neatly to my next topic, so I'll just go out and say it.

One popular post against AI is, "Why would I look at this if you didn't have the time to make it yourself?". It's about people having the dignity to respect audiences by showing them something they actually made instead of something they prompted.

But I've been thinking, does this apply to AI-generated content not made to see the light of day? "Why would I generate this if I didn't have the time to make it myself?"

So I've been researching dignity. And I found this article on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and while I read the whole thing, I got disappointed that I was actually thinking of integrity instead of dignity.

I haven't read this article yet but I think it will help me on AI.

Yeah. That was two hours of research for nothing.

Also I had a dream about The Amazing Digital Circus episode 7 and for some reason Kinger tortures Jax. And Pomni and Jax go to the supermarket and that helps Jax become a better person. And then Caine starts dancing with pink guards and Precure Kigurumi dancers to "Koi wa Chaos no Shimobe Nari" from the Nyaruko anime and "UFO" by f5ve.

Precure news

So, if I ever talked about M1ssEas around here, I will be talking about her again.

M1ssEasChan2009, or Aiko as I will call her, is blocked from the Fandom of Pretty Cure Wiki for one year. It was mostly for edit warring between her and the new administrator, Akari. Aiko edited multiple pages without permission, but the main one is on Aria Flower Pretty Cure.

I'm not exactly sure if I agree with the block if Aria Flower was the final straw. Akari was the original owner of Aria Flower, then Aiko adopted it, and then Akari decided she changed her mind and returned to the series for herself. Aiko was credited for adopting the series for a short time, but Aiko wanted her name removed. This started an edit war, probably 2-3 edits from each side, and then Goten blocked Aiko. While it was, in fact, an edit war, and Aiko could've said "hey, could you remove my name?" instead of editing the page 3 times, I feel like Aiko should have a right of removing her own pen name from a page. A day after Aiko's block, Akari decided to remove it herself! However, at that time, Aiko would also put "this character's name was X but it was given to Y for reasons" without permission, so Aria Flower is not the only reason for her block, and it's only as extreme as it is because of the rules.

Aiko is blocked for a year because the rules for account blocking is 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and finally, 1 year. 5 chances.

Aiko was like, "You know what, I quit! All the series I have are up for adoption." Putting up 100-200 Precure fanseries for adoption once you get your final block is... not cool, and definitely not learning a lesson, especially so soon. The Pretty Cure wiki didn't have a rule for this... until now.

 The rules already stated when it comes to adopted series are:

• If a series is up for adoption, it must be mentioned on the page itself or the comments (or the discussion board, which is unmentioned).
• If nothing is mentioned there, you must ask someone permission to adopt the work, either on their message wall or on the discussion board. (The loophole that I don't have to ask permission if the page or comments says the series is up for adoption is the reason I own Rainbow Star Goddess even though its owner hasn't logged on in five years).
• If the original content creator's account is permanently blocked or disabled, their works are not eligible for adoption.

The third rule is slightly edited so now if someone is temporarily blocked or disabled, like Aiko, their works are not for adoption until the block goes away. Two other rules are added:

• Blocked users' series cannot be for adoption except in the case that a blocked user adopted their own series. In that case, the series is open for adoption, BUT you must ask either the original creator or a previous owner of the series permission to adopt the work.
• The original creator is allowed to re-adopt their work, as they are the original creator. (I believe this is what happened to Aria Flower Pretty Cure) But if problems occur, please contact an admin.

Okay, listing my adopted series here, and how likely I think they are into going back to the original creator. I'm cocky so most of them are going to be unlikely:

• Pretty Cure RPM, Go On and its sequel, and La LOVEtta - Extremely unlikely. Ahim de Famille, the original owner, has quit years ago, and disabled her account last year. I haven't made much story changes to RPM, but I did make pages for the remaining four legendary Cures for RPM. I gave whole new civilian names and personalities to the Go On Cures. And I renamed the Cures for La LOVEtta and made a page for one Cure.
• Tenjo Megami Pretty Cure - Unlikely. While she comes back from time to time and has not announced a formal leave, its creator is not active on the wiki. I renamed all of their civilian forms, except for keeping Hana and Hikaru's civilian names. Cure Aphrodite and Cure Apollo are still the first and second Cures of the group, and their mascot is still named Aurora.
• Candy Time Pretty Cure - I... don't think so? The creator is Vegas Aisaki, whom, unlike other FoHS associates some people think are sockpuppet accounts of who-knows-what, Vegas still has her account. But I don't think she wants to risk a permaban like Bloo just did for changing "Mikazuki Aiko" on some collab pages to "REDACTED". One of the names, Akio Aiko, was made by the same person who made Asterism Star. The series was originally a BFDI-inspired Tropical-Rouge ripoff, but I wasn't keeping up with BFB at the time so much has changed. Yue Murasakiiro keeps her civilian name, Cure name, and color, but the other four, they've been completely distanced from BFDI, but still keep their Tropical-Rouge inspirations. Those four change their civilian and Cure names. Dorayaki City I think was made by Vegas but maybe not. I plan on changing that name too.
• My Friends Pretty Cure and Eien no Tsubasa Pretty Cure - The creator is Akari Minashima, who I'm friends with. Very unlikely unless I turn out to be a horrible person. With My Friends in particular, I was (I think) the first of a few people she was going out to to ask, "hey, do you want to adopt this"? And she's interested to see the series continue. The lead Cure, Cure Symphony, as well as Cure Beat, was neither of ours. It belonged to that fake leaker from 2011 with the fake Suite Precure designs. Very unlikely they will come knocking at our door saying "remove Koto and Uta from your series", when in 2011, they loved to see the theories and headcanons that Cure Beat and Symphony were Waon and Seika from the actual Suite series. Yuzu and Sumika are original characters, as the caveat while adopting the series is that the two leads, Yumika (now Masaki) and Kizuna, were to be removed and placed into Akari's OC squad. I turned the Futari wa representative, Nezuko, into a new character and renamed her to Kuni. As for EnT, I renamed Bihaku to Hakua and added a new character named Kazuya.
• SuperClown Pretty Cure - I don't think so. Both creators have been inactive for years.
• Reverie Rainbow, Pastel Jubilee, Local Dreamer, Heavenly Jewel - Unlikely. At the time, the creator, Charisma Mitsuumi, wanted all of her series to be adopted. Even with the ones currently not open for adoption, they're scrapped. Note that Heavenly Jewel was previously adopted by a now permabanned user, and the character Kou Suishuu is my own creation.
• Pretty Cure WORLDWIDE and Rebirth - Unlikely, as the series were up for adoption because its creator was leaving. He even made art for Brianna and Ember, with the latter being based on my design!
• Smile Star, Star Age, and Synergy - Not adopted but they're all based on things not made by me. Smile Star and Star Age were based on fake leaks, with the latter being based on Gundam AGE, while Synergy was based on an advertisement campaign by the government of Kagoshima. I don't think any of the three parties will be knocking at my door telling me to cease activity, unless I do something particularly vile regarding Synergy. Speaking of local commercials, I found another PSA parodying Pretty Cure (and Madoka - considering it was about signing bad contracts). Maybe that Cure can be a sixth ranger? - I didn't create the series names or the Cure names "Cure Sirius" and "Cure Spica", but I created the rest, including Cure Aquila from Pretty Cure All Stars DX Gen2.
• Rainbow Star Goddess - Unlikely. The creator is inactive.
• Rebel Onis Go! Pretty Cure - There was a time where the creator, Ann, said we were "former friends" or "former acquaintances", one or the other, but I know what happened. We just didn't talk anymore. She apologized and I forgave her. She is still on the wiki and I don't think she misses Rebel Onis at all. She'd probably readopt it if I turn out to be horrible.
• Surprise Star - Surprise Star had three owners before me: Lucy, who isn't active all the time but she still edits, Antelope, who wants to return to the wiki by adopting one of Tomoe's series so I don't think they'll retouch this series, and Amane, one of Aiko's pen names. So Lucy would be the most convenient person to re-adopt the series. I don't think so, though.
• Gems Pretty Cure - Created by Aya Marino, who is no longer on the wiki. Later adopted by Vegas, so I have the same reasons it's unlikely for her to take this series as I do for Candy Time.
• Nyan Raid and Asterism Star - Nyan Raid was created by Binky/Lumi, Asterism Star was made by Miu (one of Aiko's pen names), but adopted by Binky and Becca/Usami as Akuma and Tenshi and completely revamped from the ground up. Neither user is "every day" active but they are still active. They probably just have a lot of other stories on their plate and that's why I got to adopt these two series. Like everyone else here, I don't think Binky would slip under me and re-own the series, but the latter was originally the threequel of a saga and now it's the sequel of Gems. I REALLY need to get onto Nyan Raid, though.

The main premise of Galaxy Countdown was adopted from StarQueen22, I believe, and it was up for adoption for 5 years. If she wanted it, she would've removed it before I asked her. /j She is also not that active on Fandom of Pretty Cure Wiki.

Good and bad news

Adopted two new Pretty Cure series: Nyan Raid Pretty Cure and Asterism Star Pretty Cure!

• Nyan Raid Pretty Cure is about abandoned robots in a cat cafe and their cats while their entire society becomes destructive. I think I'm going to size the cast down. Maybe just to Haruki, Momo, Yuki, and Fuku, the four characters with images? No, not four, or else I'll think of it like Pastel Café.
• Asterism Star Pretty Cure is about a catastrophic event that sends all inhabitants of an alien planet to Earth.

The bad news is for some reason there was a millisecond of a blackout/power surge. It was a sunny day. And it was so short that several of the technology did not restart (ex. my speakers, the oven, and microwave) I have a power surge protector on all my tech, but when I started up the PC, it was asking me for a Bitlocker code, and told me the computer couldn't load my stuff correctly because "SrtTrail.txt" wasn't working or something. I think SrtTrail is a file specifically for startup, maybe for logging the startup itself? It said I could either shut down the computer or somehow continue.

I click continue. I got some "Windows is updating" repairs, I hope that fixes the problem, whatever it is, because I can now log on, but I don't think it will. I heard some people that skip the Bitlocker process (which I did) get the Bitlocker message every time the system starts up, which suggests a bigger issue in the computer, even with the repairs the Advanced Repairs couldn't do but the Restart could somehow.

I am typing this on my computer. Thank God, The Lord Almighty, because a LOT of those files aren't backed up.

Probably just some corrupted non-personal Windows files, wait, not "just", corrupted Windows files is a huge deal!

Note to self to try this before shutting down/restarting PC for the day/night.

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4141868/d-windows-system32-logfiles-srt-srttrail-txt
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4040228/how-to-deal-with-srttrail-txt-error?forum=windows-all&referrer=answers 

Getting stuff at the store

• Got an LED heart mirror that I thought the reflective part was scratched. It looked like a protective film, and it felt like one, and it quacked like one, I was just too afraid to peel it off.
• I also got a Hot Topic-exclusive Mitsuri Kanroji Funko POP that my sibling is annoyed that I got, since I never seen Demon Slayer and I don't know the context. I think she's just really defeated or drained from combat. It will fit nicely with my Ghostbusters Funko POPs, including my duplicate Egon Spengler that I painted the box of and my Abby Yates Funko POP that's currently in the shed.
  Also, why does she get a unique eye color and "shape" when the other Funko POPs, but Sailor Moon, for example, just gets the black button eyes?
• Complimented a cashier's Miku pin. 

If I had 10,000 dollars...

 I would probably conduct a SynthV chorus where I made all the women sing whatever I want. And I would also buy music production material and learn music theory.

What happened to Make a Wish?

If you noticed... Make a Wish Pretty Cure is gone! Why?

It's a racist series, short and simple! My sources for that series is "just be a regular human being and do extensive research and not do what Aladdin did" and I took that... and made a series with a genie that's lazy and sings about the bazaar of miracles and a fox named Sahara.

Also, I just realized the name is much too similar to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

I think I may need to write an apology about that series on the discussion board.

But you may notice that the series is replaced. What is Mushi Deka Pretty Cure!? Well, that's Maboroshi Detective Pretty Cure's new name! I hope you're excited for it!

I didn't do much changes to Maboroshi Detective since I made it. Besides the title change...

• I changed Ichika's Cure name from Cure Honey to Cure Abeille (bee in French) so she isn't confused with Cure Honey. However, in the Euphonia Timeline, Cure Honey has been renamed to Cure Tender, so... should I change it back? My ignorance made the Cure Abeille name public...
•  I changed Soyogi's surname from Sakurai to Kocho because Sakurai was later taken by Sayaka Sakurai from Pretty Cure WORLDWIDE!, which I'm not sure if I introduced it to the blog yet. The surname "Kocho" is more closely related to Soyogi's motif, the butterfly.
• Note, however, because of Soyogi Soyogi (as well as Soyoka Soyokaze and Soyo Ibara from other Haruka Hibino series), I may have to change Soyogi's first name too.'
• Mirage Akashi's real name is Tsutsuji Akashi. Why hide her first name but not the more incriminating last name? I don't know. I'll have to figure that out. 
•  I changed the names of the Gokiburuze to Gokibururu. I don't know, I just that sounded better to me. It's a pun on "gokiburi" for cockroach, and "brrrrrr". I was on Google translate and typed that in and I thought it sounded cooler.

I may do some more political correctness for the Euphonia Timeline. I know people say "don't let the haters get to you" but... haters? Who's hating on Aurima being Eimi's "brown best friend" more than myself?

Oh, I changed Takara Tsukuda's name to Eimi Manaka. I don't know if I told you. I want to update Coralie and Jade Yukimura's pages, too, but not for name changes.

• I don't know if I will actually change her name but I will admit it, Kokoro Akamine's name is as such because I wanted her to have a Japanese name like the other three. While Iori and Rei's counterparts, Egon and Ray, are Jewish, they are also white so I can just make Iori and Rei Japanese and Jewish (which I have done for Reine but that's another regret, not pointing out Iori, Rei, Kimi, and Itaru are Jewish), Kokoro's counterpart,Winston, is 100% Black so it's not my place to make her 25% Japanese.
• But what WILL change about Chojo Gensho is episode 2 (or 3?). It has Rei being accepted into the Heavenly Kingdom by two rhino guards because she is blonde, but Konatsu and Iori are denied because they were brunette, which was supposed to lead to an episode where Kokoro is unaccepted because she is Black. Yeah, no. Fuck that. Not only is Rei a redhead and Iori is blonde now, but in what way is this storyline... okay?
• And what I also hope to change about Chojo Gensho is Meili Lei's ethnicity. She is based on a Hispanic character, Melanie Ortiz. And just because Meili's name is Meili Lei doesn't mean she can't be Hispanic. The reason why I made Meili Chinese is because the way the Ghostbusters found Melanie in canon was on a trip across America, so I wanted Meili to be close to where the Chojo Gensho girls lived, but not too close, so I chose China. The thing is... Japan is an island. I don't think you can go from Japan to China by foot in any capacity. Also the Chojo Gensho girls don't meet Meili via a road trip! Konatsu first meets Meili while the latter is on duty as a police officer... in Japan. And while I brought up that just because Meili is Chinese and born in China doesn't mean she's not Hispanic, I made Meili when I was 14-15 and didn't know Hispanic wasn't a race 🤦. So yeah. That was to be changed.

Other things that could be considered problematic:

• Ophiuchus being inspired by George Kurai and thus they both share weird relationships with their respective protagonists. I think I toned it down for Ophiuchus years ago but I need to reread the page... I'm just scared.
• Heavy metal being antagonized in Pretty Cure La La La! despite it being a very positive genre... when you're not looking at it in a vacuum. Princess Carnage, and by proxy Kotone, are inspired by Barb, and thus they get redeemed, but I need to make it obvious neither are pure evil.
• The whole concept of La La La. It's like a Let's Go Luna style show where the girls go all over the world to meet others. But I feel like that reinforces overtourism.
• Kumiko Konoe, especially her relationship towards Hoshi Nijihara, is probably ageist and sexist.
• Again, I feel like Aurima is just the Indian best friend of Eimi. I gave her a fatal flaw... defending others problematic actions. What, does her life not matter?
• Miwa Aizawa's faceclaim is Yuzu Aihara from Citrus. Why does that anime have such a pretty art style?
• I was gonna make Kureha Mizuki Romani at some point. But after seeing feedback from Romani people, I figured it's a really bad idea, as the Romani culture is a closed culture.
• The Lunar Pretty Cure being Japanese is a bit more forgivable but the Dragon's Book cast? I got away with it at first because Kung Fu Panda was loose inspiration, but now, it's a closer adaptation and the kung fu master's name is Tatsu? How come all nine characters, including Syun's brother, are Japanese in a story  is not shy to take place in China? I don't care that Jack Black is not Chinese.
• Most of the twins in the Euphonia Timeline are not good representations of twins. The most obvious case is Cat and Kat from Nightmare Fantasy, who I may or may not remove, seeing neither of them have pages. Renata and Tosca, with their whole personalities being "yin and yang", fall into this, too. I feel like I avoided this with the fraternal twins Junko and Sayuri, though. And I hope I can avoid it with Hitomi and Futaba with Fruity Girls.
• Some may claim the Amitié cures are whitewashed. I say, technically not when they're voiced by four white women and one of them is sometimes voiced by who I'm guessing is a half-Asian half-white woman when she sings (Kazumi Evans - it seems clear cut but it's better to be safe than sorry). Except there is some concept art of Twilight Sparkle as a human with dark skin. Idk she'd probably still be voiced by Tara Strong 😐. But also they technically are whitewashed because I imagined Aira to be brown, especially when her name was still Sumiko, but the Picrew I used only had pale skin so I took advantage of the fact nobody saw Sumiko's appearance before and made Aira pale.
• Pollulu being unconsciously named after "delulu", short for "delusional", which is considered to be a slur.
• The ethics of the Merm4id girls being aged down but Michiru remaining the same age.
• The New Dreams Pretty Cure acronym being "NDPC", like "neuro-divergent pretty cure", and the lead Cure being interested in trains.
• Natsumi Isaki can be considered an antisemitic character, or at least her fantasy creature can be. The alternatives are not much better, she'd have to be an elf to fix that problem.
• How are Miwa Aizawa and Keiko Hibiki supposed to work in a kid's show?
• Removing Hinata and Tsumugi's blood relation to each other as Zeus and Hera.
• The villains from Carnival Kind are based on characters pretty much transphobic and homophobic but the movie's such a cult classic it warped itself around to being "woooooosh". I ended up calling the Rocky Horror characters "transexual transvestites" (I'm genderfluid but uhhh) like Frankenfurter did to himself (and himself only iirc).
• Charcoal Jones will either be fine or not fine. Same with Jaya.
• Brownie from Reverie Rainbow. Brownie is named after a fairy but you know that it's gross to call any brown person that. 

TIL... oh my god...

Today I learned I was spelling Seulgi's name wrong the whole time... I've been spelling it Selugi and thus I was pronouncing it wrong too.

😱😱😱😱

This is embarassing. Seulgi is my favorite idol in my favorite girl group and I've just been... spelling her name wrong (in my mind) for years.