Introduction

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 Hello and welcome! 

This blog is to be my media diary for a course during my studies at TAMK. 

For now, I don't want to set a theme for it, but rather just write about topics that pique my interest. Most likely it will be love letters directed towards different aspects of media I really like, so you might expect a lot of stuff revolving around games, films, tv series and anime. Or in some cases very much the opposite, posts about what I don't like and why. Or just entirely something else. 

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