I’ve Been Catching Up On The Dub For Bleach Thousand Year Blood War And I Cannot Recommend Enough That

Alright, I know April’s almost over but as it is still Autism Acceptance Month, I wanted to talk a little about it. Just wanted to share what being autistic is like for me and some of my special interests.

I was diagnosed with ASD and ADHD when I was 8 years old. Back then, I was technically diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome but that was merged into ASD in 2011 so I’ll just refer to it as ASD. Anyway, I didn’t really know what that meant until I was seventeen and actually did some research. Learning that a bunch of my behaviors and certain feelings I had were actually because I was autistic was…. I don’t know, relieving? Things started to make more sense. Before this point, all I knew was that I didn’t understand social cues and I was very specific about what I liked and disliked. It did not help that I was also on ADHD medication that exacerbated the negative parts of autism. Since that day, I’ve learned so much more about myself and I learn new things about autism everyday. I’m not angry or upset that I’m autistic. I was (and still kinda am) mad at the people who didn’t explain it to me properly when I was younger but that’s beside the point. I’ve learned to accept it and I’m a lot happier because of it. I don’t need people to be aware of me. I just need people to accept me.

Okay, that was a lot. Hmm. Anyway, SPECIAL INTERESTS, LET’S GO!!!! 😃

My primary special interests are manga, anime, and video games. And within those special interests are even MORE special interests. For example, some of the manga I have a huge interest in include Bleach, One Piece, Fullmetal Alchemist and Jujutsu Kaisen. There’s a lot more but there are too many list. On the flip side, the anime I like differs slightly. I don’t always like anime adaptations of manga I like. For example, I really don’t care for either the Bleach or One Piece adaptations (Bleach TYBW is the exception). There are certain scenes from each that I really enjoy watching and they both have great soundtracks and great voice acting in both the original Japanese and the english dubs, but weird choices that differ from the source material and huge pacing issues make them hard for me to watch. On the other hand, there are certain adaptations that I prefer to the source material, such as Demon Slayer or Mob Psycho 100. These two in particular take the original material and enhance it greatly. What’s more, there are certain series where I really like both the original manga and the anime (Chainsaw Man and Jujutsu Kaisen to name a couple). Also, I love original anime, like Space Dandy, Oddtaxi, Gurren Lagaan, Appare Ranman, and Vivy: Flourite Eyes Song. It’s really cool to see original content in a medium that is primarily adaptations.

Starting a new paragraph for video games. This might be my big special interest. RPGs, Metroidvanias, platformers, action games, puzzle games, party games, etc. I really love video games. Favorite series include but are not limited too: Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Kingdom Hearts, Pokémon, and Xenoblade Chronicles. In case you couldn’t tell, I’m a big Nintendo person. If I had to pick a genre, I’d say RPGs are my favorite, whether they are turned based or action oriented. My top three favorite games of all time are Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, and Kingdom Hearts II. Favorite Pokémon generation is three though Scarlet is my current favorite game. I could go on about how I love different combat and level up systems in different games, how I love that the sidequests in the Xenoblade games add to the worldbuilding and give them so much depth, how I love watching videos analyzing background lore in games like Hollow Knight or Breath of the Wild or videos going into detail about how dark series like Kirby or Splatoon are, or how even though the story is insanely stupid I adore Kingdom Hearts for how sincere it is. But I feel like this has gone a bit longer than I originally intended.

Anyway, a couple of notes really quick about Autism Acceptance Month and autism in general:

Don’t support Autism Speaks. They are a hate group focused on trying to “cure” autism.

Don’t use the puzzle piece when talking about autism. It is ableist. Use either the gold infinity symbol for autism or the rainbow infinity symbol for neurodiversity.

Vaccinations don’t cause autism. Whoever came up with that can burn in hell.

I think that’s everything. If whoever is reading this is autistic, I hope you had a great Autism Acceptance Month.

I don’t plan on advertising my Twitch everytime I stream but I might start doing posts at the beginning of the week to be like, “Hey here’s my schedule!” or something. So that’s what this is.

Tonight @ 7:30 pm (CT): Paper Mario

Thursday @ 7:30 pm (CT): Paper Mario

I’ll probably talk more about what my plans are for future streams soon. I plan to play a lot of older games that I’m familiar with but I’ll mix in some newer games every now and then. But for now, more Paper Mario!!!! Woo!

Twitch

StillWill76 - Twitch

StillWill76 - Twitch

Going live in a few minutes! Should be a fun time!

So I mentioned it a few times before but I stream sometimes. I used to stream pretty regularly up until this August. I started to feel burnt out and decided to take a hiatus. On Tuesday, the 29th, I will officially be coming out of hiatus. I will be playing Paper Mario (N64) on twitch.tv/stillwill76 at 7:30 pm (CT). Part of the reason for my burnout was trying to keep up with every new big game that came out that I was interested in, so I’ll be playing some older games on my channel for a bit. I don’t think I’ll post here everytime I’m about to stream but I will post when I start a new playthrough of something. I stream every Tuesday and Thursday at 7:30 pm (CT) so if you just sit back, relax and watch me be okay at video games be sure to tune in. I can promise it’ll a pretty chill time. :)

Twitch

StillWill76 - Twitch

StillWill76 - Twitch

Bowser Progress:

WE GOT LEGS! Currently working on the head now.

This is my cat, Ichigo. I realize he is not orange but the color of his fur does look like a shihakusho so the name still fits. He is very cute. That is all.

I was watching the new Bleach episode this morning and realized something really funny. It may only be funny to me but I thought it was worth sharing. Spoilers if you haven't seen the latest episode yet:

Okay, so Nel drops in on Ichigo to tell him Hueco Mundo has been attacked and I'm like, "Yay Nel!" Then Pesche follows shortly after and I'm like, "Ehhh, okay." Until I realize that Pesche's voice sounds very familiar. Specifically, it sounds like Takehito Koyasu. I look it up and yup, it is him. Now why is this so funny, you might ask? Simple. Because it means that this guy,

is voiced by the same guy that voices

Dio Brando from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.

Again, this may only be funny to me, but it's really funny.

Bonus fact: Takehito Koyasu also voices Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo from the series of the same name. Also really funny.

A Frenchman and some British men go to Egypt

Anime Watchlist for Summer 2023

Holy shit! I'm posting on Tumblr!

Okay, with that out of the way, watchlist time!

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War: The Seperation

Bungo Stray Dogs Season 5

Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2

Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead

The Duke of Death and His Maid Season 2

Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon

There will probably be more added to this list as I learn about more shows but that's it so far. Although, I also plan to catch up on shows now that I'm getting a HiDive account. Such as:

Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible

Insomniacs After School

Otaku Elf

just to name a few. Should be a fun season.

New Kubo Art: The Original Gotei 13