







My friend's thoughts on this lovely fandom and the game we all love.
So, my friend and I are really close and we preety much like the same stuff. We both really like horror games, novels, movies/tv shows, serial killers, we have the same favorite characters (we even simp for the same characters), we adore Madea and Lucy Darling, we like preety much the same music and we love, LOVE, twisted remakes of our favorite childhood fairy tales.
But, unlike me, she absolutly loves anime and manga. She's a huge fan of Yaoi (Japanese media about gay men). I was never a big anime/manga fan and, for a while, she respected that. Until she caught me watching "Cherry Magic" clips on my phone. That's preety much where everything started.
She imideatly pulled me into her world of anime and manga and started shoving down my throat animes like "Death Note" and "My Hero Academia" and also insisted that I read BL with her. That was when I found out she likes the TOXIC BLs. And I'm not talking about the top being abusive or distant towards the bottom, no, I mean, the top ASSAULTING the bottom, torturing him or even shooting him! That's the type of stuff she likes! "Killing Stalking" and "Jinx" where the first BLs she gave me to read. When she said "Let's watch an anime", I was willing to try and she put "Death Note" which, honestly, ain't bad but also ain't my cup of tea. I liked "Spirited Away" much more. After that, MORE BL. Dude, I just wanted to watch "Cherry Magic" because it reminded me of "Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children" and I didn't want abuse or violence and she almost forced me to read "Killing Stalking".
The thing that really made me snap was when I found out she was a fan of those anime recreations of "Alice in Wonderland". You know them, those like "Twisted Wonderland" and those interactive novels or however they're called. I really dislike those. I finally snapped and told her
Me: "Ok, you know what, if I have to go through all of this, then so do you!"
I went home with her and I started filling her head with "Fran Bow", "Little Misfortune", the wives of Ivan the Terrible and Henry the 8th and "American Mcgee's Alice", but unlike her who yelled at me, I tried to be as polite as possible. I told her about "Fran Bow" and even showed her a bit of gameplay and she seemed to enjoy it, then I started speaking about "American Mcgee's Alice" and here is where things went down hill because, the moment I showed her the trailers, she looked disgusted. After I was done explaining her the lore of "Alice Madness Returns", she was like:
She: "Dude, how can you like that! It's horrible!".
Me: "I know, this game is preety heavy once you know what it is all about."
She: "No, I mean, how can you like this version of Alice as a whole! It's horrible!"
Me: "Excuse me?"
She: "Yes! What this game developer did to Alice It's horrible! I mean, he basiacly turned her into a sexy killer like so many others did before him?! Why do you like this? Is everything you hate!"
I told her about how Mcgee defended Alice from EA and she said:
She: "Wow, he sure changed a lot".
And then, she gave me the blow to the head, the one I was never expecting her to give me.
Me: "Sadly, the third game was canceled ...."
She: "Thank God! EA saved the world from another shity adaptation."
That really shatered me. After all I did, after trying to be as polite as possible to her, even after she called me a "cultura-less man" for not liking the same anime as her, a "homophobic" for not liking the same BLs as her and an "idiot" for not liking those anime-goon-material adaptations she likes so much she now had the audacity to insult OUR favorite game! She even called the fandom a "Dead Wreck!", but after I showed her that Mcgee's is back and working on a new game and that the fandom is still alive and keeps growing she said:
She: "You're all insane"
And she LOOKED at me as if I was really mad! But then, after that, I really had enough. I looked at her, I smiled wide, showing all my teeth and told her:
Me: "Well I'm sorry, but can't help you dear. We're all mad here!".
I then kicked her out.
(Sorry from grammar errors, I'm really mad!)