Update: I Picked Up The 1st Volume Of Strobe Edge And Decided That It Wasn't The Series For Me, Put It

Update: I picked up the 1st volume of Strobe Edge and decided that it wasn't the series for me, put it back, and went on to peruse through the horror section in my school library

I'm now in my manga/graphic novel reader era. Not that I didn't read manga before but now I'm just looking at my school library's comics and manga collection for some more to read.

(damn I'm soooo happy that my school has manga in an already amazing library, like, my previous school library had one or two cupboards of books worth reading and comics didn't exist there🥹)

What I read so far:

The Rose of Versailles

The Girl from the Sea (Molly Knox Ostertag)

The Prince and the Dressmaker (Jen Wang)

47 Ronin (the graphic novel)

And I plan on reading Strobe Edge soon :)

I only read the 2nd and 3rd graphic novel mentioned because I LOVE stories with plots that I usually don't see. I took the Girl from the Sea because I was pleasantly surprised to see a sapphic book in my (somewhat conservative) library. And the Prince and the Dressmaker is about a prince who loves crossdressing!

How to write IB essays:

As told by my economics teacher when he was telling us how to write our IAs and told is that it would be good for any subject with essay questions.

There are three criteria to achieve:

Evaluate: Evaluations give grades 6-7, with 450 words on it

Apply: Applying knowledge gives levels 4-5, here we should give explanations and if there are any diagrams explain that as well, with 250 words on it

Knowledge: This gives grades 1-3, here we should write down definitions and background information, with a word count of 150 words.

How to write it:

Intro: State and explain the dilemma, justify its importance, and use minor citations.

Body: Here we should show off our knowledge, using definitions, diagrams with explanations of any, basically used to analyse the situation. This analysis is then used to evaluate.

Note: it is useful to underline or highlight important keywords or statements in the assignment or exam paper, it shows where all the work is done and also leaves a good impression on the examiner.

oscar x rosalie

HEY WE CAN’T BE TOGETHER BUT LETS SIT TOGETHER ON MY BED AND HOLD HANDS AND I’LL STROKE YOUR FACE SENSUALLY

IS THAT A PLAN

Another point I would like to add is- the reader's are literally reading the character's DIARY. Where the character writes about her thoughts and feelings regarding people. Most of the time in Nikki's actual interactions with others, she doesn't say all that stuff to people she actually cares about.

Nikki is not MacKenzie's bully. It is the other way around. Has Nikki done mean things? Yes. But I'm telling you, Dork Diaries Tiktok fandom, that Mackenzie Hollister has done way worse.

She locked people up in a fucking storage room locker. She tried to get people expelled. She constantly flirts with and comes on to a guy who shows literally no interest in her. She bullies people. Mackenzie Hollister is not the fucking victim of the series just because she met someone who was a bigger bully than her(Tiffany).

Nikki Maxwell, despite being a "I'm not like other girls!"girl, isn't a bully. She might say mean things in the heat of the moment, or she might do stupid shit, but she isn't a bully. Not like Mackenzie. Nikki might get overly annoyed with her family, she might have an attitude as well, and she sure as hell has communication issues, but guess what? She's 14 years old. She's going to be that way. I was her age once and let me tell you, we are all very annoying at that age.

I don't know. Maybe I'm ranting about the wrong things, but it's really fucking annoying seeing people on tiktok say that Mackenzie, a popular rich girl who constantly harasses and bullies others, is more of a victim than Nikki, a dork who comes from a middle class family and gets bullied relentlessly by the most popular girl in school.

Nah fr I was pretty creeped out by some of André's actions, bro tried to poison Oscar's wine out of 'love' and this is why I ship Oscar and Rosalie.

If this was like certain other manga/anime then André more like Yandré.

ROSALIEEEEEE! where have you beeeeeeeeen how could you leeeave(Andre asks the same thing haha WHO KNEW WE’D EVER AGREE). OSCAR GOT SEXUALLY ASSAULTED BY A JERKWAD WHEN YOU WEREN’T AROUND. COME BACK AND BE GAY WITH HER SO ANDRE CAN DIE OF LONELINESS.

I guess the reason she’s not in the anime as much as she was in the manga is because people didn’t like her. PEOPLE ARE WRONG. HOW COULD THEY LIKE A SEXUALLY ASSAULTING JERK LIKE ANDRE AND NOT ROSALIE. OH HAHA NEVER MIND WE ALL KNOW WHY.