Hello everyone!

It's been some time since my last post, but with Fashion Dreamer coming out soon, I thought it was time to revive this blog. If any of you were around way back when, you might remember Aesthetica, a fan project that was meant to be a spin-off of Nuances, the in-game fashion magazine for the original game and Trendsetters/New Style Boutique. Before the imminent release of Fashion Dreamer, I wanted to make a special homage to the Style Savvy series of games - and that's how this final issue of Aesthetica came to be!

Bask in nostalgia or indulge your curiosity as we look through all four games in the series! You can download the zine here (pdf format) or view it on GDrive here! Once again, thank you very much to the community for making this possible, and I hope to see you in the virtual world soon! :D

Featured Links Rose Garden, a Rosiemilla fanmade VN by sevendaysfriend/rosiemillas Aesthetica, a fan project headed by razzberriezz - Issue 1 || Issue 2 || Issue 3 || Issue 4 Style Savvy Challenge Compilation - may be very outdated!

new style boutique guys that just give me such gyaruo vibes with their outfits, so many of the masculine bold outfits are so gyaruo and i love that

want to see a certain style ? request on the asks page || want to submit your own images ? send them over to our submissions page

If you ever previously enjoyed the gm4bot for style savvy and are sad it ended, or if you just want to entertain or challenge yourself with daily style savvy prompts, please try my new challenge account, which is essentially a clone of gm4bot. It has randomly generated categories from wheels I made, or special prompts. Your outfit can even get reblogged!

Why I think Fashion Dreamer is the spiritual successor to Style Savvy / Girls Mode / Style Boutique

The latest Nintendo Direct just dropped and it showed a trailer to a brand new fashion game. (Trailer below is Japanese, but there was an english trailer in the direct)

From the art style to a couple of hair assets, even a few poses, it looks and feels similar to the Style Savvy series. Developed by xSEED / Marvelous, Fashion Dreamer has almost everything Style Savvy fans have been asking for, the ability to create your own fashions, dressing up boys and even playing as them. In this game, you play as a fashion influencer, you can dress up customers, buy clothes from other people, and take photos like in previous games, but now you can walk around the town.

Right now syn-sophia is developing for the last 3ish years along side takaraTOMY for Idol Land Pripara which is on the verge of release this spring (fingers cross it actually releases this year). The last Style Savvy game released in 2017 on the 3DS, and Styling Star felt like the series’ last hurrah and probably won’t be making a major coming back anytime soon. (Heck I could be wrong)

I’m looking forward to playing Fashion Dreamer and seeing if it lives up to what I expected. (Lol I might do a dedicated review, who knows)

UPDATE: SYN-SOPHIA IS ON THIS PROJECT, I AM A SILLY BUNNY

Directly color picked from Teagen Lesbian pride flags and icons - Style Savvy Trendsetters Teagen the photographer

how did i never think of this

men only have 3 poses and the first 2 are very similar and boring but 3rd is randomly extra lol

MY favourite guy

A Trendsetter’s Flashbacks #3: Mono-Tone?

Pink. Piiink. Eh, not quite, no. But I really like how those two look together.

Just you and me and me and you just us and our mutual very close friend Steve

splatoon twt just dropped this what the fuck?!?!!?!!!!!

Can we see what's at the bottom of the lake if there is anything?

swanatello

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a few intensely angry/tired marcilles just because

agejo gyaru outfit ☆ pink and black is one of my favourite colour combos ever (despite never wearing it irl! my personal style tastes are so so different from what is on this blog, it's kinda funny, i love so many styles, just not on myself (one of the many reasons i'm hoping fashion dreamer will have a good array of men's clothes due to the gender lock 😭😭))

want to see a certain style ? request on the asks page || want to submit your own images ? send them over to our submissions page

Winter Trend: Cute Cardigans! Just one piece of clothing but it is versatile for all winter outfits. Flirty, Girly, and Classy Feminine. Me featuring Genevieve

Worry not for the Nameless Red Disciple, they just went down to the river to chill with the river turtles!

Re: Zuko sexism and fandom: I think that a LOT of people are just genuinely unwilling to actually view Zuko's bad behaviour as actually consequential. He gets "forgiven" by the Gaang and he has a big dramatic duel and then he rules the Fire Nation so it's fine actually. If it wasn't fine he wouldn't have been forgiven, like Jet! They use the lens of end-of-series Zuko, influenced by how the Gaang forgives him, to then retroactively handwave away his earlier behaviour and view it as if end of series Zuko is just misguidedly doing those things, rather than it being an actual expression of what he believes in and his morality at that point in time. Part of it is an abundance of sympathy and projection because he's the most explicit (and arguably only explicit, because other child abuse victims are never injured or attempted-murdered that we know of, and that's the bar for many viewers. Neither are any other than Zuko positioned piteously or as victims of Serious Injustice.) child abuse victim in the show and we see so MUCH of his internal struggle. For like a whole book. There's also a consistent trend of viewing the Fire Nation as Yes, Actually, being better than the other societies, they just shouldn't have tried to spread it via war, so yes Zuko is ✨indoctrinated✨ but in a feminist galaxy brained way not a bad fascist way. So the colonialism would've been fine if people had just agreed with how great the Fire Nation is! Pretty much the entirety of Zuko's bad behaviour is handwaved away as "he's a good guy who had a bad life! We forgive him for all of it, he's trying!" And to a lot of viewers, it's also "he's also hot and I've had a crush on him since I was like 14!". He's genuinely a huge asshole to pretty much everyone around him like, almost 24/7, for the majority of the show. And he has his reasons but he's still caused a lot of harm, and that we see? he's basically only revised his views on violent colonialism, making his Anger other people's problem, and some parts of racism. He only ever addresses what he's done to the Gaang and Uncle to. Does he buy Song another ostrich horse? Does he give Kyoshi reparations? Did he ever find out if that farming family with the kid Lee were harmed for harbouring a FIRE NATION PRINCE? What did he do to apologise to the Southern Water Tribe? Whatever he did to apologise to and thank Mai, if anything, I can guarantee it wasn't enough. That's just his personal stuff, never mind his policy choices as the New Fiery Dictator. It's so boring and frustrating how much people gloss over his jagged edges, because without those edges his narrative and how he fits into the world and story just collapses completely.

you’re so right about all of this. I think his final scene with mai is especially emblematic of how his resolution is framed as “and they all lived happily ever after” even though I remember perfectly well how he treated that poor girl so I’m just yelling at her to run away the whole scene. although I will say that stealing song’s ostrich horse was probably his most justifiable crime just bc if I was a disfigured burn victim and someone tried to touch my face without asking I’d also consider committing petty theft against them. ngl. he still does owe her a new ostrich horse though. and of course framing his ascension as some grand victory is thematically/telelogically appropriate, but I highly doubt he would be like. good at firelording. but that’s for another post. ppl really like smoothing out his edges and treating him as if he’s beyond reproach when everyone only finds him so compelling in the first place because his flaws are so obvious, so they assume he’s more “complex” than the other characters (and also more relatable, but that’s for another post too). it’s actually kind of funny if you think about it. “he’s the best because he’s so noticeably flawed and therefore so complex but also I love him so he doesn’t have any flaws actually and is probably a feminist socialist who loves eating pussy and listening to women.” and this is also lowkey how ppl talk about sokka too but at least sokka does actually do those things, zuko doesn’t even pretend to😭 anyway. i keep saying today that you guys couldn’t handle revolutionary girl utena, but you guys REALLY couldn’t handle revolutionary girl utena…