As you age, you don't necessarily stop liking things you liked when you were younger. Otome games are super nostalgic for awkward, dramatic young love (without all the heartache). But as I age, I've grown to love Mature Men. I never thought I would when I was younger. They were icky back then!
Anime boys are not real boys, so I'm not too worried about it, but Japan's always trying to fuck with me. Like this shit: Jack is 16 years old. Really? Lilia is over 700 years old. Really?
I'm a Gen Xer and I've loved anime since the 90s. That love eventually grew into a love of otome games, which always give me a huge mental schism. You're always a teenager in otome games. So here I am, a grown woman, pretending to be a kid again, trying to romance boys more than half my age.
Things I like: • Ensemble Stars (2wink ❤️) • Obey Me (Diavolo ❤️) • Twisted Wonderland • Devil Butler with Black Cat | AKNK (Lamli ❤️) • ONF | 온앤오프 • Apex Legends • Fallout, The Elder Scrolls • Dragon Age, Mass Effect • Tokusatsu • Otome games generally Genderqueer, any pronouns, pan, Gen X
VatnaLilja
And I've also (slowly) been working on versions of my #fanfictionvatnalilja.neocities.org
All that being said, I mostly write reader-insert stuff in the worlds of Apex Legends, Fallout, and TES (I feel no shame about reader-insert works, and neither should you). My works can be found here: archiveofourown.org/users/vatnal...#fanfiction
I eventually quit my day job because of chronic migraines and have been practicing part time for about a 1.5 years now while I recover from burnout. I also stopped writing as much while I figured out what I wanted to be when I grew up--I've done a lot more staring at walls in the last 1.5 years.
Hello! I am a former IP attorney who wrote #fanfiction to cope with all the garbage I dealt with during my day job. It was also a nice way to practice a different type of writing other than the stiff, formulaic legal writing I did daily.
