Katie The Baka

Se olharmos pelo mundo vemos que cada vez mais caímos num buraco de negro de coisas negativas, o nosso próprio país está cheio de imensas revoltas e más ações do nosso governo. No entanto, gostava de gastar um pouco do meu latim a falar de uma das medidas que foi crescendo e tornando-se numa das melhores coisas que temos ao nosso dispor na atualidade. Que medida é essa perguntam vocês? Pois claro, a resposta não poderia ser outra se não a implementação do passe metropolitano.  Na minha família ninguém, pelo menos por agora, tem a carta de condução, pelo que durante a minha vida toda sempre usei os transportes públicos. Tirando alguns usos dos táxis de longe a longe, todas as nossas deslocações sempre foram feitas pelas camionetas da rodoviária e o metro de Lisboa. Isto acarretava uma mensalidade do passe para mim e as minhas irmãs, assim como os preços a vulto dos bilhetes do metro ou da Carris quando nos dirigíamos ao centro da grande metrópole. Como podem imaginar, já era um peso...

O meu interesse pela leitura sempre esteve presente desde que comecei a ler os comics da Turma da Monica e do Tio Patinhas na minha infância. No entanto, ele foi pouco estimulado, na minha família são raras as pessoas que partilhem o meu gosto pela leitura. Se juntarmos o meu maior interesse por hobbies um pouco mais interativos como a televisão e os vídeo jogos, temos o resultado da ignorância da leitura durante a adolescência, pelo menos tudo o que não eram mangás e as maravilhosas fanfics criadas por fãs.  Felizmente, no último ano voltei a ganhar essa paixão graças ao meu adquirido interesse na franquia “Percy Jackson” que me levou a ler sete livros que simplesmente adorei imenso. Entre está renovada paixão comecei a pensar em que outras literaturas poderia explorar e acabei por me deparar com “Os Maias” de Eça de Queiroz, um livro que me aborrecia com as enormes descrições na escola. Esta experiência correu muito bem, pois ao contrário da pequena Katie, a versão adulta achou o...

  Ultimamente tem estado presente um horrível sentimento de puro ódio contra minorias, mas um em particular que tem chamado particularmente a atenção este ano é o ódio contra personagens femininas, especialmente no que diz respeito as protagonistas de vídeo jogos. Sempre que vemos um anúncio de um jogo onde em vez do tradicional protagonista masculino e branco, temos uma mulher com as mais variáveis características, é despoletado um ódio enorme online. No fundo, o Online em si já representa o problema, basta olhar para o Twitter, a minha infeliz plataforma de eleição, para ver que todos os tópicos são controversos e geram drama.  No entanto, perante o anúncio dos jogos “The Witcher 4" e ”Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet” estas questões existenciais sobre o estado do fandom de vídeo jogos voltaram a apoderar-se da minha mente. Trazendo uma questão bastante profunda, os homens gostam realmente de mulheres? Nem brinco verdadeiramente, claro que sei que muitos amam e são respeit...

  It's been a while since I've thought about this little blog of mine, a long time since I've felt the urge to come back and share some of my dumb words with my sweet void. As usual, my life has been pretty hectic, with lots of new things and new experiences, all pretty exciting but at the same time all pretty demoralizing. As you probably know, I've always been a shy and quiet kid, my teens were spent in my room alone playing video games inside the closet. This made me lose a lot of the experience in life one should get in its teenage years, this never bothered me before but lately I'm starting to see some of the consequences.   It's starting to really bother me how little I know compared to my friends and as I get to finally experience the things I missed in my younger years, I noticed how frustrating it is to deal with a world that already knows double of what you know. Going out at night and drinking, getting into my first relationship all these things start...

 After the disaster of John Wick, I adventured myself, now with a new group of friends, into another April big release. We went to see Super Mario Bros The Movie. Mario is a character that pretty much everyone from grandmas to little kids know. It's Nintendo biggest mascot and one of the most iconic game characters of all time.  Like I've shared in my text about Warioware, I've obviously heard about him and interacted with his games in some capacity before. But only this year have I really sit down to play the games and fully experience the classics.  Nonetheless I like the Mario Universe and I have always been head over hills for his way cuter brother Luigi. Peach has also been someone whose design I liked but always saw as a mere damsel in distress with little agency. Bowser you know Internet has made me see him kinda of as a kinky dude. Then you have Mario itself who I honestly never really cared about.  Going into this movie I was a bit apprehensive, some people ...

 To celebrate my gorgeous friend Sensei birthday, we gathered with friends to our usual theater get together. The movie we we're going to watch, was one that made us all very excited. It was none other than John wick 4 after all, the ending of the tale of this legendary man. This is a well known franchise loved by many people that follow it since the beginning, me, I started with zero knowledge about it when I went to see the third movie in the past with the said birthday boy. John Wick 3 was outstanding, the characters we're fun and the stakes were high. It was like the build up to an epic finale where we would finally witness the important pieces in the board start moving. I left the movies thrilled by the action and eager to see the story of this develop into a big epic.  Later on I also got to watch the first two movie's and they we're very entertaining as well. We gotta love a man that treats his dog with such care.  So basically all the cards we're set for a g...

  I've been following anime for many years, now, but unfortunately, long gone are the days when I would watch every single thing that aired in all the seasons. These days, I still consume a good chunk of it, but less frequently, falling more into my gamer side and also diversifying to other media and experiences. One thing that still pulls me to this old hobby and forces me to actually consume all the good shows I observe on Twitter are my amazing friends like Momo and Sensei. Nothing like having great company to make watching a great show more interesting. Even bad shows can be great with good company.  MagiRevo was one of those animes. I knew a bit about it from seeing some funny scenes from Mutual's on Twitter, and I probably would only have watched it many years from now, but Sensei turned out to really love this one, proclaiming that I needed to watch it immediately. So setting up a date, we gathered in my house and spent the whole day, non-stop watching this Yuri masterp...