10 Years of Blogging, Looking Back at this Journey
Looking back on 10 years of blogging. From my first cringey posts to becoming Blerdy Otome, this has been one hell of a ride!
Tag: Personal
So, I’m a Fujoshi: A Look Back at My Growth Within the Boys Love Fandom
Growth is a normal part of life. I am not the same person I was a year ago, a week ago, or even yesterday. Everybody goes through changes and so too do our our tastes. Some things remain constant over the years, while others don’t. What I liked yesterday, I…
Holding Game Developers Accountable for Half-Hearted Representation: Thoughts on Ertal Games’s Apology & Reflexion
As a content creator I’m often approached by developers and publishers who want me to cover their game or product on my various social media platforms. They’ll send me a game with the understanding that I’ll play it and cover it as Blerdy Otome. Most of the time, these are…
Confessions of an Otome Gamer: It’s Okay NOT to Play the Latest Game
It’s been a while since my last Confession and that’s because I didn’t have anything I needed to get off my chest. But, it’s a new year and with it comes the promise of new game releases and the inevitable pull we as gamers feel to keep up with the…
Is This Otome? – Inclusivity in the Otome Games Fandom
So, apparently there has been some discourse in the otome games community—I mean, when is there not drama—concerning using the term “otome” for more inclusive titles. There have been some folks in the fandom who are upset that folks are using otome as a catch all term for any game that…
Confessions of an Otome Gamer: Indie Otome are BETTER than Otome Games
I know, potentially polarizing opinion incoming–don’t @ me. But, if you’ve been following me for awhile it shouldn’t be such a big shock that I prefer indie otome games over the more “traditional” Japanese otome games. I mean on a very basic level, indie otome games are much more accessible…
Fangirl Friday – Battle Brides, Roomies with Benefits, and Virgin Wizards
Hey Blerdy Tribe, how’s your week been? We finally made it to Friday and for those of us in the States, Monday is Memorial Day, so we get a THREE DAY WEEKEND!! Since I get every other Friday off during the Summer this marks my 2nd three day weekend in as…
Fangirl Friday – Heroes, Demon Daddies, and Manga Madness
Hey Blerdy Tribe, how’s your week been? We finally made it to Friday and let me tell you this has been one hell of a week, so ya girl is ready for the weekend! We have this big conference coming up at work next week, so there’s been a bit…
Shut Up and Let Me Enjoy My Otome: Elitism in the Otome Games Community
Elitism in the otome games community has been the bane of the fandom since the beginning and I’m tired of folks bashing otome game localizations and Western fans of the genre. It seems like every time a new otome game localization is announced, folks who have played these games in…
Confessions of an Otome Gamer: How I Got My Hakuoki Kyoto Winds Art Book
I started this series as a way to get personal with you all and share my thoughts about things happening in the otome community or share fun stories and anecdotes about being an otome fan. So, for the new year I wanted to share a story that is definitely one…
Do You Have Any Game Recommendations?: A Short Guide on How to Ask for a Game Recommendation
I have been running this site for a little over five years and there is one question that has plagued my blogging experience: Do you have any game recommendations? It’s not that I don’t want to give game recommendations. Hell, I give them all the time, to friends, family, complete…
Visual Novels Are Long or Why I haven’t finished that review yet…
Blerdy Tribe, I’ve been rather inactive lately and for that I apologize, but real life got kinda hectic for a while there and I just didn’t have the time or the energy to read through 100k+ visual novels. I’m human. But, that brings me to something that I have been…
Confessions of an Otome Gamer: Otome Game Fans are REAL Gamers
So, when I wrote my anime gatekeeping essay, I was actually attempting to write about gatekeeping in the games community. But, I ended up running super long with the intro and rather than writing a ridiculously long post on gatekeeping, I decided to split the difference and write two separate…
Hi, I Like Anime! YES, I’m a REAL Anime Fan!
gate·keep·ing /ˈɡātˌkēpiNG/ noun the activity of controlling, and usually limiting, general access to something. We are all familiar with the term “gatekeeping” at this point in the game, especially if you run in many of the nerdy circles of the internet. Because, let’s face it the nerd community isn’t always…
Being an anime fan back in the day was a STRUGGLE
I was browsing Crunchyroll and I ran across the anime Demon Lord Dante and man did it trigger some serious nostalgia. For those of you that don’t know—Demon Lord Dante is a supernatural horror series by Go Nagai, the man behind Devilman and Cutie Honey. The 2018 ONA, Devil Man Crybaby is based on Nagai’s Devilman series and…
Blerdy PSA: I Am Tired Of This!
Hey Hey Heroes, Travelers, and Wandering NPCs~ I planned on having a review up today, but I think right now, this is more important. While most of us are still sheltering at home while ‘Rona rages on outside, here in the States, we’re still reeling from the most recent string…
Crocheting While Otaku: Keepin’ It Casual
Hey there Heroes, Travelers, and Wandering NPCs, it’s been awhile since I last wrote about crocheting, and I’m going to be honest with you guys, I didn’t have anything to share because I just wasn’t in the mood to make anything new. I had to fulfill a custom order a…
Confessions of an Otome Gamer – Using Guides and Walkthroughs
Hey, Hey Heroes, Travelers, and Wandering NPCs! I’ve been running this site for the past five years, and it just occurred to me that I don’t really talk at length about my gaming process. Sure, I drop a passing phrase or two every now and again in my reviews, but…
Self-Care in a Time of Social Distancing – How I’ve Been Taking Care of My Mental Health from Home
Hey hey Heroes, Travelers, and Wandering NPCs! I hope you all are doing well wherever you are in the world during the current COVID-19 pandemic. These are some troubling times and while we weather this storm, it’s important that we all remain safe! Many countries have already enacted stay-at-home mandates,…
Betcha Can’t Read Just One: Reading FanFics is a Slippery Slope
Y’all ever hear that old Lays potato chip slogan, ‘Betcha can’t eat just one’? It was well before my time but, I find that it pretty accurately sums up my relationship with Fanfiction. No matter how hard I try, I can never seem to read just one. It always starts…
Crocheting While Otaku: My First Craft Fair Experience Pt. 1 – Selling in Person
Hey there Heroes, Travelers, and Wandering NPCs, it’s been awhile since I wrote one of these and honestly, it’s because I’ve been trying to keep up with this season’s anime… I know shocker! But, things have finally settled down enough for me to bang out another Crocheting While Otaku post!! This time…
Super Special Awesome 500 Follower Collaboration Extraveganza w/ Two Happy Cats!!
Righteo, hey hey Heroes, Travelers, and Wandering NPCs, today I’m bringing you guys a super special awesome collaboration post! A little while ago I hit my 500 follower milestone here on WordPress and I was playing around with ideas for what I could do to celebrate this momentous occasion when…
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero is 2 Years Old!!
I am terrible with dates and anniversaries, so imagine my surprise when I received a WordPress notification that my Blogiversary was on August 18th and not the 11th like I thought… whoops. The 11th was actually the day I made my first ever blog post, so it’s still a pretty…
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Melanin Monday: I’m Black, I Like Anime, and Other Nerdy Things… So What [Part I]
Hey, hey all you wonderful Heroes and Travelers out there it’s Monday, and that means another Melanin Monday post!! For those of you just joining us, Melanin Monday is a bi-weekly post series that I started for Black History Month, where I talk about Black and Brown skinned characters in anime, manga, video games,…
Why I’ve Been So Quiet…
First, I want to say that I’m going try to keep this post short, sweet, and to the point, because let’s be honest, if you really cared about why I’ve been kind of quiet on social media or on this blog in general, you’d have tried to reach out to me…
I Date Hot Guys on My iPad: A Love Affair with Virtual Bishies
This post has been a work in progress for over a year, but I could never quite work out how write it out, until the other day when I went to play a game in my backlog and I actually groaned… can you believe that?! Lately, I’ve been so caught up…
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero has 200 Followers… Woot!!
So I received a notification from WordPress telling me that I now have 200 wonderful followers!! 200!? This blog has only been around for a year and I never imagined that I’d reach 50 let alone 200 Followers! Guys, I still remember the days when I only had 5 followers and I barely had…
Wait, Are those Guys Kissing?!: My Yaoi Journey- Part I
So, there’s something that I have been meaning to get off of my chest for awhile now and it is important that I say it now. …I…like…y…i…. Ah, there I said it, I feel so mu-, oh, you didn’t quite catch that? I’m sorry, let me say that again then… ahem……
I herd u liek…Hoenn: An Ode to Pokemon II
2016 marks 20 years of PokémonTwenty years, has it really been that long?! Twenty years later and I still love Pokémon. I don’t think I’ll ever not love PokémonSo with that being said, nostalgia has struck again, as I have said before in an earlier post, Johto and the Gen 2 Pokémon…
Hit me right in the Childhood: An Ode to Pokemon
So recently I’ve been having a strong bout of childhood nostalgia. Maybe it has something to do with my graduation date looming menacingly on the horizon or maybe it’s my inner adult trying desperately to win against my dogged reluctance to admit I am an adult (if that makes sense?)…