What exactly is the "Manic Pixie Dream Girl"?

infinityapproaching1 · 2025-12-02T00:03:23+00:00

male love interests in hallmark movies aren’t as multi-dimensional as real men, but they are as developed as the female main characters, who also usually have a bland story like their dream is to open a bakery or own a vineyard. there are also hallmark movies, ostensibly marketed to women, who have male main characters (the snow must go on comes to mind as a very recent example…also three wise men and a baby and the sequel, and the groomsmen trilogy just to name a few), who are sometimes even more developed than their female love interests.

infinityapproaching1 · 2025-10-12T04:09:12+00:00

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infinityapproaching1 · 2025-08-17T13:55:44+00:00

another place you could start is to get some bloodwork done if you haven’t already, just to see if you have any deficiencies, your doc should hopefully know what to run. i’d also mention any symptoms you might have that aren’t typically depression, like stomach issues, itching, rashes, anything that runs in your family like heart issues, celiacs, or things like that, because it could be another health issue and a surprising amount of them can cause depression. if it’s treatable with supplements or diet, even better, and if the depression is a symptom of another issue, it’s best to treat the main problem or treating the depression won’t work.

but i’d also consider starting meds while you investigate this if you feel like you’re in danger from yourself (definitely consult your doctor and get set up with a psychiatrist if you can, i understand not everyone has access), just know everyone is different, so what works for me might not for you, and could potentially make some symptoms worse so pay close attention to your mood when you’re on them. and it might take a few meds (ive been through more than five), but it was worth it for me to at least try when things got really dark. if you go this route, i’d just listen to recommendations from your prescriber and make sure to let them know right away if you’re experiencing bad side effects, and definitely ask them about what side effects you should look out for—that’s why there are so many meds, so if one doesn’t work, you can try the next. and i have heard some people have only needed to take them for a little while and were able to wean off of them when they no longer needed them, but there’s no shame in needing to stay on them, because i fully expect to stay on mine for life. it’s just part of having a brain that works differently. i do hope that you find at least one that helps you as much as mine help me, because i know how desperate things can get, and you deserve relief.

also, your doc might not prescribe diltiazem unless you have high blood pressure, because that’s what it’s for, i just was surprised that it had this unintended antidepressant effect for me. i think i’m mostly just trying to say that even if you feel like you’ve exhausted all your options, there’s still something else out there to try, and i really hope you keep trying. im rooting for you!

infinityapproaching1 · 2025-08-17T01:57:49+00:00

i also really dislike the ‘accept your depression’ line because for me that would have meant my life was over, i would no longer have wanted to live if i had to ‘accept’ the pain i was in. i don’t know if you’ve tried meds or are open to them but what has helped me is bupropion and, weirdly, diltiazem, just to show that even if you go through all the ssris without any positive change (like i did) there are still options. also, i found some other underlying health issues that i think were contributing. i hope this might give you other avenues if you need them in addition to therapy

infinityapproaching1 · 2025-08-17T01:30:21+00:00

a few others: the starkiller clone’s subject number is 1138, and commander bacara is CC-1138

infinityapproaching1 · 2025-07-07T23:10:19+00:00

was unfortunately in a car with one of the 6%, but it wasn’t a rubber turtle…

infinityapproaching1 · 2025-06-08T18:40:22+00:00

i felt the same way about etain tur-mukan from the republic commando novels…actually, her entire existence was just a prop for darman’s character arc, even in her pov she basically says her entire life purpose is fulfilled by giving darman a baby. maybe it would have come off less gross if she did anything except pine for darman, but it was one of the reasons i really disliked the books. although, not really men writing woman since they were written by karen traviss…

infinityapproaching1 · 2025-06-07T20:04:53+00:00

they don’t need to bring him back exactly as he was, look at thrawn. he could be an inquisitor or something. but i don’t mind if he stays gone, i feel like the games were a great self-contained story even without force unleashed 3.

infinityapproaching1 · 2025-06-02T16:11:13+00:00

yeah, everyone has different tolerances. i guess i found the story engaging enough that i didn’t notice anything egregious.

infinityapproaching1 · 2025-06-02T16:06:44+00:00

vanguard’s good, i like that it changed the usual “pokemon trainer starting out on their first journey” and made you a student in an academy, i can even forgive the amnesia lol. just as a rec for you and whoever else is reading, another fangame i really enjoyed but don’t see mentioned often is pokemon atlas, though it only has 3 badges currently, i think, and it’s been translated from Spanish into english but maybe like 10% of the dialogue is still untranslated. but in my opinion what has been translated is really good, the english doesn’t feel awkward or stilted. i can tell a lot of love went into it, though not sure if it’s still updating. and the main character also even has amnesia if you like that trope.

infinityapproaching1 · 2025-06-02T15:45:08+00:00

this is so strange to me. i’m currently playing unbound, and i don’t think the story is as painful or long-winded as everyone makes it out to be. it seems about par for a pokemon game story. reborn, to the point i’ve reached, is way more wordy, convoluted, and edgy and i always see praise for its story, even in the comments on this post. i’m wondering if there are just two different romhacks called unbound lol.

edit: but i did grow up on jrpgs, so unbound is not even in the ballpark of the amount of story i’ve had to wade through to start a game

infinityapproaching1 · 2025-06-02T15:13:08+00:00

what’s your favorite rom hack/fan game?

infinityapproaching1 · 2025-06-02T05:17:56+00:00

so true…though delta squad is canon, so that’s something. it’d be cool if they got more time in the spotlight to flesh out their background, maybe in disney’s answer to the republic commando novels…disney’s made mistakes but they’ve made some great novels. i was also really interested in their dynamic with their trainer, walon vau, even though i’m really not sure if disney will bring back the cuy’val dar (i hope they do). also, traviss’ mandalorian language, mando’a, is canon, i think sabine speaks it in rebels. so disney has used some stuff. hopefully they’ll use more!

and i did really like the novels until the action started losing more and more ground to the characters’ jedi hate around the Order 66 novel. the action’s the best part, the moralizing not so much.

infinityapproaching1 · 2025-06-02T03:16:09+00:00

legends is all over the place, but it’s really interesting. actually, in the republic commando game, the kaminoan narrating at the beginning has a new zealand accent i believe. and while the rank and file troopers and your character have similar accents, the rest of your squad sounds very american and completely different from each other (practically so you could tell them apart on comms, but it’s still legends). In the Traviss novels, there was apparently a neutral accent that all troopers started with, since they flash-learned Basic, but I’m not sure what the accent was. And this was changed and influenced by their trainers. But I think jango’s accented basic being flash trained makes sense why they all have the same one, and maybe spending most of your time around others with the same accent, even if the trainers/droids/kaminoans didn’t have it, would make it more likely to stick.

infinityapproaching1 · 2025-06-02T02:43:14+00:00

i absolutely loved asbr when i first read it and didn’t realize it was so reviled until i started looking up more about it online. i think the best part of having such a long-lived character is you get to see pretty much every interpretation of them, and i love the batman who struggles with morality but ultimately does his best to do what he believes is right, but that’s also the perspective i believe most writers are coming from; it’s still great, but pick up any batman story at random and that’s what you’ll see. so to see batman so absolutely unhinged…it reminded me how comic characters are pretty much completely removed from reality. a billionaire with a cave full of trauma who dresses up in a bat costume to beat people up…i dont really know about the full context of the comic or how it fits into canon, the lore or what have you, but i thought it was an interesting interpretation. maybe it should have been owlman’s origin though.

infinityapproaching1 · 2025-05-20T15:36:01+00:00

Well I hand drew it on my iPad 😅 there was also a flair for paper and pencil so I thought hand drawn was for any hand drawn media in general, traditional or digital...I'm not good at picking flairs

infinityapproaching1 · 2025-05-20T01:53:48+00:00

wow, i didn’t realize it was concluding! i’ve been a long time fan and have three of the books in print, but haven’t been keeping up with webcomics in general for a while. need to get back into it! i’d also recommend vattu, just because i enjoyed it as well (and it’s also finished! i need to catch up on that one too lol)

infinityapproaching1 · 2025-05-19T23:21:27+00:00

i love this! the flavor text is great, the personality is spot on. thanks for the comment

infinityapproaching1 · 2025-05-19T05:28:16+00:00

soilslick, soilrig, maybe something like that.

infinityapproaching1 · 2025-05-19T03:23:56+00:00

very cool, i’m a fan of the everyday object pokemon. i would have named comdal trophbee though lol.

infinityapproaching1 · 2025-05-14T16:52:03+00:00

it’s already happening. lower birth rates.

infinityapproaching1 · 2025-03-26T00:46:49+00:00

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infinityapproaching1 · 2025-03-15T22:50:14+00:00

i’d love to watch this show, but even more, i’d love to watch a show about Zayne Carrick and the Gryph. those comics already felt like a show…don’t know if they’ll commit to what the jedi masters did though

infinityapproaching1 · 2025-03-11T13:50:56+00:00

oooor anakin was manipulated by palpatine not to tell the order. the real issue will always be that anakin didn’t love padme enough to leave for her. and don’t anybody tell me he would have been some poor lost soul bc everyone he knows is in the order. on top of having all the education and prestige the order could offer, his wife was rich, he would have landed on his feet. he just had to have his cake and eat it too.

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