Do you know enough about me to hate me? I think you will soon.
I generally move through life with a very solid ethos that has served me really well thus far-- the more anyone knows about me, the more they will probably hate me. This ethos doesn't compel me to lie-- I think it's kind of pointless to make shit up to someone who knows literally nothing about you when their imagination will suffice-- no what I end up doing is ommitting as much as humanly possible and sharing as little as I can get away with. Now, I am a being of numerous contradictions. I have lied to people, mostly my coworkers, about things such as "do you play video games?" I answer that I play Genshin Impact, which they have All heard of. Every person on the planet has heard of Genshin Impact now and a lot of them don't even think it's weird. So I tell them I play Genshin Impact and not the considerably stranger Girls Frontline 2; or Honkai Star Rail; or Reverse1999; or Azur Lane (god forbid); or Blue Archive (god forbid).
When people ask me stuff like "what did you think about Signalis?" I tend to answer with the least possible amount of information. I might say something like "eh" or I might say something like "I was not interested in it" or I might say something like "wasn't for me" or I might say something like "did you like it?" (I don't use the latter one. I don't actually do that sleight of hand shit a lot I don't think it actually works. I think if I said that someone would turn around and then ask so what did you think about Signalis? and I'd be right where I fucking started.) I don't need to do any of this. I don't actually care what most people think about me. I have a wife and that's the only person I'll ever need to impress ever again. That's why you do that-- that's why you get married. But I do this mainly to minimize the amount of time I spend interacting with people who I know will not like me or want me to answer honestly.
Another contradiction is I'm often a very opinionated person, and that I hold opinions that are very likely to offend my erstwhile audience of readers. I write ostensibly for like lesbian english speakers but I tend to find the media they all enjoy not to my taste a lot of the time. For example: unlike every other lesbian trans woman I know, I do not like Signalis-- I beat it in like 8 obnoxious hours, and I found it infuriatingly tedious to play, I don't really like how the robot women look, and I think the eastblockian dystopian anticommunism stuff is Corny, because I'm the person that I am. I've played every corny anticommunist game on the planet, much of them made by Americans, the corniest people on the planet-- but Germans are like the second corniest people on the planet, when it comes to corny anticommunist aesthetics. I don't have to put up with Any of this. I'd rather just play games with straight people in them. And I don't have to put up with that either. I recently played 43 hours of Atelier Yumia (which was: "good mid") and that has an inkling of yuri and a shitload of craftjank that I had to drink caffeine to get through. I can play that instead. And I did play that. If you are angry that I don't like Signalis, I'm not important to you-- you can just ignore me forever. I'd love that actually.
That's not even the point of this post. I'm not even like 1/24th of the way through the point of this post yet.
I haven't even introduced what this post is *about* yet.
Recently I developed an opinion that is pretty dangerous-- I remembered the 2016 anime "Izetta the Last Witch" (which I remember as being: pretty bad) and I remembered the 2023-2024 anime "Witch from Mercury" (whichy I remember as being: pretty bad) and I wondered-- which of these two shows with a red-headed witch in it is the better show, with a red-headed witch in it. So on a lark I did something insane. I rewatched Izetta the Last Witch. And I tried to rewatch Witch From Mercury-- but despite Miorine's little blue dress from that one episode (very good) I just couldn't make myself rewatch all of Witch of Mercury again. I thought if I had to rewatch all of Witch from Mercury again I would lose my absolute gourd. So this post will only be about Izetta the Last Witch. Until the like end of the post or whatever probably I won't be able to stop myself from comparing it to Witch from Mercury which I don't like--
THE POINT OF THIS POST HAS ALREADY COLLAPSED COMPLETELY-- I ALREADY LOST THE PLOT--