hi my names bea. i'm a non binary lesbian thing that likes rpgs and yuri and other stuff. my pronouns are they/them. i am late twenties years of age. i currently live in the united states but hopefully i can live in the united kingdom with my wife some day.
i was on cohost! and i have an account on twitter (currently x) but like god what a miserable place.
what else to know about me...
i can read japanese! a bit! i took two years of classes at university but honestly i learned to really read it by uhh. reading it lol.
by which i mean:actually using what i had learned to read manga that either wasn't fan translated or wasn't fan translated enough. the way it goes is that it's hard when you start and very very slow, but the more you read the more you see all the patterns and learn different vocabulary and phrases and grammar items. so yeah if you want to learn japanese definitely start today! learn to read/write hiragana and katakana. download anki on your pc/mobile and make a deck with the new words you learn (so long as they are actually used commonly (most dictionaries will mark these!)) i really really recommend it i am so so so happy that i made the decision one night at school to go down to the library and print out practice sheets to learn kana. i've heard a saying "the best time to plant a tree was 10 years ago. the second best time is now." and it's true af so get on it if you have any interest. and definitely start using it as soon as you can!!! if you have something that motivates you like "i want to read this manga it's my favorite and i want the closest to the author's writing possible" or "i want to play this game but the available translations are not to my taste" it'll keep you going and you'll just have a really good time and also along the way become more competent. it's awesome.
i used to play fighting games lots and i liked them lots and had aspirations to be really good but i don't have any of that anymore. so if you remember me from the under night main discord or even the melty blood ada discord or my netplay tournament discord turned archetype earth / inugami korone fan-art discord: im still bea but i don't really play those games anymore. which is pretty sad to think about because for all the years i played under night it had dog butt (bad) online play. but at least when i played it off line it was cool. under night two came out and i wouldn't say it caused the end of my interest in the genre but it put the last nail in the coffin. being honest: i don't like losing lol. playing the games when i'm not either winning or being a complete idiot clown was never fun. pre-uni 2 vatista was fun because you just do whatever you want and it works and if you do nothing you can beat anyone who doesn't know better. i wanted to like the games really but i ended up only really having fun when i was winning or when i could win. so anyways that's done with lol.
ok but enough about stuff i don't like! i really really like rhythm games! they're really really fun. my favorite that i spend the most time playing at the moment is sound voltex. i don't have an arcade nearby so i play on my pc using an arcade-style controller and a monitor that rotates. my controller is a faucetwo+ with 100g omron switches and 20g sanwa springs. the buttons are the stock djdao ones though bc i don't have money to dump on sanwas lol. it's lots of fun. i've been playing since ~april 2024. currently i'm playing level 17s mostly and 18s a little bit. something i really like about the game is that it feels like there's sooooo much idk how to put: stuff that's too hard right now that i have to work my way up to. the difficulty levels 15 and up scale soooo hard. as in like going from 15s to 16s is a significant jump and even more so for 16s and 17s etc. there's lots of hard stuff to play and when you can play those, there's something harder to work on after. there's also just a ton of songs. it's got songs from undertale! there is one TORIENA song. and it's good. what i really really enjoy about the game thus far is feeling that i'm getting better at playing it. when you fail a hard song the first play and come back later and do much better. when there's a part that doesn't make sense and is hard to hit correctly at first and then it just. eventually it clicks and you can do those bits without thinking too much about it. when you start to get clears and hard clears on a higher difficulty level than you're used to. there's so many moments of "oh im getting better" and it feels really really good every single time.
also i really like yuri. i love to read yuri manga