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Video Game Review: Butterfly Soup

Today’s entertainment review is going to be on the visual novel “Butterfly Soup”!

Short:

High-class memery and relatable gay asian girls playing baseball? It’s already A+++.

Not-as-short:

This is literally my favorite thing in the world at a time when queer Asians just don’t exist in media. Let’s all bow down to our Lord Brianna Lei for creating this masterpiece.

First of all, the humor is such high quality! I mean, I don’t know about other people, but I found it freaking hilarious. Second of all, I am particularly attached to this game because it hits so close to everything I even though I don’t even like baseball. Being a queer Asian girl in the Bay Area finding something with pretty much this precise demographic that’s never portrayed in media ever? Damn miracle. I can discuss media representation in another post, but for now let me just discuss the representation in Butterfly Soup, because I relate to and love every single one of them. Here is a list of similarities between me and the characters:

Diya:

  • Extremely shy
  • Content to sit near louder friends and listen to them talk instead of joining in
  • Have a morning routine of lying in bed for ten minutes being tired
  • Avoid confrontation like the plague
  • Hearing problems. I can’t actually claim this, I’m just bad at auditory processing
  • Weak immune systems from sleep deprivation
  • Don’t talk to parents much because everything becomes a lecture or criticism
  • Male-dominated interests that people just have to comment on

Min-seo:

  • Likes weapons, should not be using them (for different reasons)
  • Loves Diya
  • Short hair
  • Short
  • Tiny hands
  • Emo music
  • Uncomfortable doing “girly” things, has rejected gender roles since child
  • Parents disapprove of said rejections
  • Kind of dumb sometimes
  • Uses profanity incorrectly
  • Hates most vegetables, salad, and standalone tomatoes

Akarsha:

  • Extremely weird
  • Says things that don’t make sense
  • Is the “annoying” and “ugly” one in the friend group
  • Forgets to return things
  • Parents excessively brag about intelligence
  • Doesn’t feel smart
  • Stressed out and feels pressured by parents, copes by making jokes
  • Feels lost, doesn’t mind dying
  • Accidentally killed a small animal in elementary school
  • Likes junk food

Noelle:

  • Parental expectations
  • Too weak to open water bottles
  • Bad at sports
  • Not very social
  • Takes a long time to get to really know and consider interesting
  • Likes classical music
  • Appreciates math (!!!)
  • Weak immune systems from sleep deprivation

In general there was just so much to relate to, especially with the Asian American household experience – the traditional and conservative values, the insane pressure from parents to be successful, the unspoken culture of getting hit, the smart-but-not-smart-enough kids at the bottom of the top, the generational gap in the experiences of Asian parents and children in the U.S., and the distance that creates. Other than that, the game references real gender-related experiences I’ve had as a female with non-feminine interests and behavior. And the game manages to deal with all this while being extremely funny.

Anything else I think of will be added later. Nevertheless, Butterfly Soup is an amazing game that I would recommend to anyone even remotely gay, female, or Asian. You can download it here for free, but honestly, please donate if you can because she deserves it! I wanted to donate so bad, but my dad can see everything I do with my credit card, so please, someone donate for me! Because if there’s any game I’d pay to play, this would be the one.

Gummy’s Gum

Gummy’s smile no teeth all gum Gummy’s gummy bears hurt her gums Gummy sucks gumdrops sucks her thumbs sucks her gums Gummy just a child let her have some fun .Gummy

chews gum, bubble Bible branded gum Gummy pink red bubble gum bubble pop gum Gummy plick pluck at the goo on your lips with your thumb Gummy stick that gum back between your teeth between your gums .Gummy’s

boyfriend like Michael Bublé chews blue gum Gummy chews pink gum Gummy wants to chew blue gum blue Bublé bubble gum Gummy wants to plick pluck at the blue goo on her lips with her thumb Gummy wants to stick that blue gum blue Bublé bubble gum back between her teeth between her gums .(Gummy your boyfriend Michael is a bum Gummy your Michael Bublé is a dumb bum ,hon ,Gummy’s Michael Bublé chews blue gum) .but

Gummy think pink ink pink blades in the rink but Gummy pink lipstick plink plunk clink in the sink but Gummy it’s still sunny don’t pink jinx your kink; but Gummy you only have pink red gum Gummy pink red strawberry raspberry cherry berry bubble gum but Gummy you can shred red but not blue but Gummy keep your cherry a cherry is

Pure . but Gummy sewing red threads thimble numb on your thumb but Gummy you only have pink red bubble Bible gum Gummy you shed red cada mes a red mess but Gummy you should only hum Bible gum pop songs .Gummy

but some people named Gummy chew blue gum Gummy wants to be a Gummy who chews blue gum a Gummy who blows blue bubbles pops blue Bublé gum .Gummy under one sucked her own gums but Gummy fifteen-and-one wants to suck someone else’s gums (someone’s blue Bublé gum) .but

Gummy honey bun don’t be dumb but Gummy people who chew pink gum choose pink shoes Gummy Listen pink shoes tied up and laced pink bow in your hair toes pointed like a crow but Gummy you must glow but first keep your head low like a doe let your feet float as pink bubbles you blow and Gummy blue gum is a foe .Gummy

wants to play but Gummy you can’t play because Gummy your thumbs’ll fumble and tumble and you’re a punk who can’t punt because Gummy you can’t punt because you’re a runt because Gummy you’re a runt because you have a c— Gummy

red dim sum plump as a thumb Gummy red dumplings blood red as a drum Gummy why do you have purple bubble gum ?but Gummy brand purple gum ain’t brand Bible bubble gum (Gummy your dumb Bublé blue is a bum) but Gummy don’t you go blowin’ purple grapes with that gum .but

Gummy what good is a plum when you been smiling pink gum in your gums but Gummy Bible brand bubble gum says raspberry blue isn’t true but Gummy would you choose a musician over a God ?a God who only gives you Bible pink bubble gum .Gummy why so glum can’t you stick with his pick and chew Bible pink gum ?done

Gummy’s pink gum in her tum Gummy now blows (not) blue bubble gum Gummy yummy ruddy rum chases Bible gum down her tongue Gummy just a child let her have some fun Gummy has some fun chewing (not) blue gum blue Bublé bubble gum Gummy has some fun plick plucking sucking fucking her boyfriends gums Gummy

cherry red ruddy rum drumming in his tum Gummy are you proud you won ?proud your princess is (not) a son and Gummy blue plus blue equals red lips plump as a plum Gummy blue and blue don’t make red !don’t make rose bud red bloody dead in the mud Gummy what did you do Gummy ain’t no runt Gummy

has some fun rum-pum-pum of a gun and pops blue bubble gum