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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 17/10/2026

Oh I forgot they'd have a page like this how sweet 🥹

Photo of a magazine where there are several columns of names of supporters for Continue? magazine, in the centre are our names, "Mei-Li & Angus Coolan"

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 15/10/2026

I miss when magazines would come to you in clear bags this felt so nostalgic 🥹💖

Our copy of Continue? Magazine in special edition colours

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 13/10/2026

Incredible things happening at the Best and Less

Christmas themed baby onesie that says, "I'm a little cracker" and it's with a Christmas cracker

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 02/09/2026

Got a chance to take some pics but yes they are! I can't remember if the first one did this as well but most are AR as well! I don't know if they did all of the AR ones but I know they got Marcomatic in on at least a few of them.

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 21/07/2026

Can you tell Origins is my fav 🤪 Also, two choices it forced me to do again 🙃

My top 10:

1
Alistair
2
Isabela
3
Merrill
4
Lucanis
5
Varric
6
Neve
7
Leliana
8
Shale
9
Morrigan
10
Zevran

My top 34 rankings because the others I never had in my parties:

1
Alistair
2
Isabela
3
Merrill
4
Lucanis
5
Varric
6
Neve
7
Leliana
8
Shale
9
Morrigan
10
Zevran
11
Josephine
12
Davrin
13
Sten
14
Cullen
15
Sera
16
Dorian
17
Emmrich
18
Cole
19
Aveline
20
Fenris
21
Bellara
22
Wynne
23
Taash
24
Harding
25
Iron Bull
26
Vivienne
27
Cassandra
28
Bethany
29
Anders
30
Solas
31
Blackwall
32
Oghren
33
Carver
34
Sebastian

Ranking Bethany or Carver like the choice in DAII

Ranking Lucanis and Neve like the choice in DA:TV

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 25/05/2026

The Pharmacist was right, I WAS overdressed running errands 😂 To be fair, the one time I'm not needed in nursing clothes, I'm just gonna wear my old clothes.

Selfie wearing a black shirt, skirt, and shawl thing combo and sheer black stockings.

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 22/05/2026

We did a game jam about her a couple years ago, she's iconic! (Please just feed the game bird and not your neighbirds 😭). teamacidburn.itch.io/snagged

Screenshot of our pixel art jammed game with background based on a real part of the local river. In the foreground there are public barbeques that people are free to use and that's where NPCs come in to sizzle up some sausages with an NPC to the right with sunburn, tongs, an iconic drink, and an iconic hat).

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 24/04/2026

Incredibly important life update in the form everyone's familiar with 🐣

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 19/03/2026

Do I know anyone who would be interested in a blank copy of a baby clothes tracking spreadsheet? I made it for my own peace of mind and to track what we have for the first to know more about our needs for our one day 🤞 second. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Screenshot of a Spreadsheet called "In House, Baby Clothes, Somewhat Worn" that tracks what baby clothes we have by size and type with tallies per individual item.

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 18/03/2026

rate my setup (i'm playing both)

Picture my partner took of me playing Slay the Spire 2 on a tv on a coffee table while playing Slay the Spire on my phone. Both are Defect runs, the StS2 one is in Multiplayer with my partner also playing as Defect. You can see part of our main tv to the left at the top that's from his computer.

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 11/03/2026

I'm Mei-Li, a Freelance Producer working with small Indie teams, and I'm #WhatAGameDevLooksLike 💜 I adore supporting people to focus on the parts of game development that they love, seeing their creativity and passion bursting through. I'm also taking some time off soon as a first time mum 🥹

Photo of me in a green dress, standing sideways to show off my belly at 35 weeks pregnant.

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 12/02/2026

Haven't posted about this publicly online yet but if you saw me any time from July 2025 (like in Japan), you saw me pregnant 💜💚 This is also to say I'll be on leave for three-ish months from late March. So keen to meet them! 🐓🐓🐎

$Picture my partner took of me at 33 weeks pregnant. I'm standing next to a cool tree that you can only see a tiny fraction of in the wetlands of Meeanjin (Brisbane, Australia).$

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 31/12/2025

2025 was a massive year for us, doing so many things I had only ever dreamed of and some things never thought were possible. Snorkeling and sailing on our own in the Great Barrier Reef is probably one of the highlights of our life now so I hope I'll always remember it (no underwater pics) 🐢🐠🐬🦈🐙⛵

Selfie of me and Angus at a lookout over Whitehaven Beach on Whitsunday Island. We also walked that beach and the sand is blindingly white and fine (if you dropped your phone on it... Might need a new one kinda deal)

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 11/12/2025

I wish I didn't get this combo in the demo because I ultimately could not save it unless I just left the game open, but this is how addicted to Dogpile I got 🫣 OPTIMISED 🐶

Screenshot of the game Dogpile (on Steam) in their Demo where I managed to get tags that work so well together that I could not lose. I don't recall what each of these tags do for the alt text but you can see that I earnt $4473 and was up to 30k bones. I have one of many dogs in the yard, 2x 5's, and a rock.

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 08/12/2025

The reason they are a frog though is twofold: First, I thought they were also a frog initially because of their character selection tile shown here, I thought it was a frog on the side that has a ball in their mouth. Second, we have Striped Marsh Frogs in our pond and we love them.

Screenshot from an early version of Slay the Spire on the character selection page where The Defect is selected.
It reads:

The Defect
HP: 75/75 Gold: 99
A combat automaton which became self-aware.
Ancient technology allows the manipulation of orbs.

Cracked Core
At the start of each combat, Channel 1 Lightning.

5 Unlocks Remaining
0/300 To Next Unlock

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 08/12/2025

My birthday was last month but since I didn't post em then, I'll do so today on our Anniversary 💚💜 Every year for my birthday, my husband @angus.coolan.games makes me an acrylic charm of a character I'm obsessed with in that year. This year it's my fav from Slay The Spire ⚡❄️🌑🔋 #SlayTheSpire #Defect

Two acrylic charms of The Defect as a Striped Marsh Frog from Slay The Spire. It's double sided so you see one has the Holo covering the entire side (left) and the right you see it around the outlines (right).
The reason they are a frog is that from their portrait, I initially thought the character was a frog robot.

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 04/12/2025

Honourable mention to the Tempopo OST as I cannot pick a true fav, but I always default to Winter being my favourite season for the music ❄️ Jeff van Dyck - Snow Wonder (Success)

Screenshot of some Tempopo gameplay in the Winter level, Island 48, Get Moving. Tempopo are getting around and Hana is conducting.

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 04/12/2025

Additionally I could not escape the KPop Demon Hunters hype. Saja Boys - Your Idol HUNTR/X - How It's Done The former I listened to on repeat on a 9 hour flight, it was great, I am normal 🙂

Screenshot of the Saja Boys music video for Your Idol. There are five demon guys in various poses.

Screenshot of the HUNTR/X music video for How It's Done. There are 3 women with various weapons in various poses. Ideally when posting it will look like they are walking towards the other pic of the Saja Boys to git em.

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 04/12/2025

In lieu of any algorithm, I'm just going to post my favourite new songs of 2025 (esp good if your service doesn't do summaries), so #My2025inMusic : Lil Nas X - HOTBOX Coheed and Cambria - Searching for Tomorrow Sabrina Carpenter - Tears Chappell Roan - The Giver

Screenshot of an early clip of Lil Nas X's HOTBOX. He is in a jeweled outfit and the text reads, "YALLLL I had aluminum foil, tape, a 30 inch wig and a dream!" This clip is the reason I was RABID for the song and was edged for like a year or two while he waited to release the full thing and I was not disappointed. Perhaps song of the year for me.

Screenshot of the Coheed and Cambria music video for Searching For Tomorrow where it is fully animated. This screenshot shows the band playing in front of a crowd.

Screenshot of Sabrina Carpenter's music video for Tears. She and the other main person in the music video are having a dancing break.

Screenshot of the Chappell Roan music video for The Giver. There are 5 images of her in various work outfits and the text reads, "SHE GETS THE JOB DONE!"

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 20/11/2025

(Actual answer: It's more likely than you think!)

Skeet 79 characters too long to be published so I screenshotted it so I could post it in it's entirety, reads:

Anyone else grow up convinced that you wanted to be an Architect (eg. from The Sims) then after all the years of interest and exploration you did, you only find out when you're in the Architecture degree at Uni that it's not for you at all, to then realise one day years down the line that you actually wanted to build experiences not places, or is that just me and Osama Dorias?

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 23/10/2025

We're officially off the (power) grid! Also they were playing with them again and asked a lot about it (and were surprised our big babies were goldfish, they get big if they are given the space to).

Picture of our pond in Spring that is a kidney pool converted 5 years ago. You can see thick sea grass, water lilies, papyrus, parts of a Thalia, and many many fish if you look closely (gold fish easy to spot, rainbows and other native fish are there but extremely camouflaged).

Picture of our pond in Spring that is a kidney pool converted 5 years ago. You can see thick sea grass, papyrus, a range of small water plants, logs sitting outside the water and the river behind it, and many many fish if you look closely (gold fish easy to spot, rainbows and other native fish are there but extremely camouflaged).

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 14/10/2025

Post you from a different era. I used to make new cosplays for each con every year so roughly 3-5 per year and one time 7 🤯 No wonder I burnt out hard after a decade 😂 This is an early Cheshire done in 2011, my second year of doing it. I eventually did another version for a Secret Six group 💚

Picture of me crouched pulling a sword out from behind me as Cheshire (DC) for a Rogue Gallery group at Supanova Brisbane (back when John? hosted). Self made outfit that looked accurate from the outside but don't look on the inside 😬

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 12/10/2025

What a wonderful MIGW this year was. So emotional and loving, truly so lucky when we are able to come and see everyone. On another note, I want to see the Steam graph for Harvester purchases over the last week 👀 Wish we had more time to talk about it together 💔

Selfie of 'The Best Worst Games in History' panelists of PAX Aus 2025. There are 6 people who are dressed in outfits hinting towards Harvester characters (Stephanie, 2x Steve's, Hank, Mom) and also Hatsune Miku 💖

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 12/10/2025

Waiting for a mate and @ifycomedy.com appears 🤯 So beyond lovely meeting him and just so so so cool to have a chance to chat 🥹🥹🥹

Picture of Ify Nwadiwe and myself in the halls of PAX Aus 2025.

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 11/10/2025

Spent today boothing with another game I'm working on, Schrodinger's Cat Burglar 🐱 Such a lovely day seeing people getting excited about the cats and engaged with the puzzles 🥹

Selfie of Developers behind Schrodinger's Cat Burglar in front of their PAX Aus 2025 booth.

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 08/10/2025

We made it to Melbourne! supposedly...

Window display of a hacker or security alien. There's a camera so I tried to fit in and take a selfie with them.

What looks to be a Japanese vending machine except the prices are all over double what they should be (and in AUD)

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 07/10/2025

Fold phones are a truly marvelous technological advancement, they allow us to be so much more productive. In other news, Slay the Spire and Balatro being on mobile has ruined our lives.

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 01/10/2025

Fair warning, this game has been called the "goriest, most confusing, and above all stupidest horror game ever" by PC Gamer and not sure what we will cover, but if you can handle violence and gore, come join us for our panel about Harvester (1996) on PAX Friday at 6:30pm in the Fruitbat Theatre.

Screenshot of Harvester scene where a character is holding up a large sheet of paper with text edited over it:
The Best Worst Games in History
present
HARVESTER
Fruitbat Theatre
6:30pm PAX Friday
PAX Aus

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 01/10/2025

Better late than never? Flying down on Wednesday so missing out on a lot but excited to celebrate our fellow Finalists at The AGDAs 💖 @ PAX on a panel, 'The Best Worst Games in History' and around supporting 'Schrodinger's Cat Burglar' featured in 'PAX Rising'. #MIGW #GamesWeek #PAXAus

Where I'll be Games Week 25

Ticked events are:
- Game Worlds, ACMI
- The AGDAs
- Parallels
- PAX, 'The Best Worst Games in History'panel
- Megadev

Unticked events are:
- High Score
- The Launch
- GCAP
- Games 4 Change
- Technically Games

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 24/09/2025

New phone, new hair, new top, who this? (This year's Freakon merch is so 😍😍😍)

Selfie of woman with new haircut framing face, new Freakon merch, taken on a new (to me, but secondhand) phone.

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 22/09/2025

Hey uhhh has anyone ever found what looks and kinda feels like a soft egg in their garden that also has a date written on it?

Photo taken at night of a small garden bed with an egg that was burried a little deep in there but when we dug it up and turned it around it has written on it:
18/7 B
Like it seems like a date 18/JULY but what's B? Is that even a date?

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 09/09/2025

Now THIS is love 🥹😍🤯

In our couple server, in channel "james" (games),
Angus (my husband) posts the following:
VY6TEZKY
You're going to LOVE this seed
I gotta watch you play it
I won't spoil it

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 02/08/2025

If you see this, post a castle

'The Castle' (1997) cast photo and their personal castle behind them, after all, "a man's home is his castle".
It's considered on of the greatest Australian films of all time.

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 01/08/2025

It truly is Bluey's World and we are just living in it 😌

Picture of the banner right outside Brisbane International Airport Arrivals that has a picture of the main four of Bluey's family to the right. To the left the sign reads:
WELCOME TO BRISBANE AIRPORT, THE GATEWAY TO
BLUEY'S WORLD
BRISBANE

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 25/07/2025

Suddenly trapped in the Higurashi Shrine as a huge storm sweeps through Shirakawago.

Next to previous photo the door to the outside where it is pouring rain currently. You see the thatched houses this area is known for.

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 24/07/2025

Was a bit too busy to post much BitSummit stuff but we are in the best town in Japan and I have to show it 👽🛸 #Hakui #RoadTrip

Poster advertising the Cosmo Isle Hakui, UFO and Space museum. Most is in Japanese which I can't meaningfully alt text.

A street sign in Japanese which I can't meaningfully translate for alt text BUT the icon is the Hot Spring icon with an Alien in it.

A street sign in English and Japanese that roughly google translates to, 'Welcome to UFO Town'. There is an alien in a spaceship to the right of the words.

A tote bag with black text and imagery. The image is of two Men In Black type people in suits each holding the hand of a grey alien who is so small it looks like they are holding the hands of a small child.
The text reads:
UFO AND SPACE SCIENCE MUSEUM
COSMO ISLE HAKUI

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 15/07/2025

Not even 24 hours after leaving Australia and we were back in Australia (Pavilion, Osaka World Fair, Japan)

Portrait photo of four friends standing in front of fake eucalyptus trees in an exhibit of the Australian bush.

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 01/07/2025

It feels unreal to be holding a game I worked on but @origamedigital.bsky.social's Umurangi Generation is here 🥹🥹 I'm so stoked we got to do the character cards and disc the way they are too, @gaiakuaoz.bsky.social did such wonderful art again for them! #IndieGame #PhysicalRelease

Photo of my hand holding a PS5 copy of Umurangi Generation which is also the PSVR version as well.

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 16/06/2025

The Queensland Games Festival 2025 was wonderful and I'm so glad we got to exhibit Tempopo again now that it's out. I hope y'all enjoyed the day including our year putting together and hosting END GAME. Getting to show the game and chat to Devs and players all day made my heart so warm 🥹💖

Selfie with Tempopo puppet I made and the Queensland Games Festival 2025 art that is on the TV behind me. Two of my arts in one picture.

Photo at the Queensland Games Festival 2025 of the stage during END GAME, a usually Dan Vogt hosted puzzle that Lee May and myself put together this year so he could have a break. To the left, Sly is making sure the slides are functioning (and my computer stays on 😭), close to the centre is Lee and I hosting, and to our left (picture & house right) are our contestants Juno, Tex, and Meg.
The slide reads "US (The Lee May / Mei-Li Collective) VS ALL OF YOU" meaning that it's a cooperative game where the contestants and audience are against the hosts.

Photo at the Queensland Games Festival 2025 after END GAME before networking where 5 of the organisers are on stage, 2 each flanking Truna the lead, and she is saying very nice things about how it all came together, hence my very obvious sad 🥺 type face. The slide description lists thanks to the community support, organisers by name, and the days exhibitors.

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 12/06/2025

If you're around Brisbane, @tempopogame.com will be at the Queensland Games Festival tomorrow! I'm also hosting END GAME this year with my opposite, Lee May! And I'm ALSO also stoked my Goa gets to surf their way through the city this year 🏄‍♀️

Photo of myself holding the Tempopo puppet I made under the 4ZZZ sign at their studio.

Social Media heading of the 2025 Queensland Games Festival poster art featuring our mascot Goa (a pink and purple Mahogany Glider) surfing on the Brisbane River (aka the Brown Snake) in front of the Brisbane Powerhouse (the event venue) and clouds shaped like game related icons.

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 09/06/2025

Second year in a row of making the poster art for the Queensland Games Festival. I'm really proud of this one as I was able to do something I wanted to do the first year: A full poster illustration featuring our mascot, Goa, and the Brisbane Powerhouse. #Art #QueenslandGamesFestival

Poster I made for the Queensland Games Festival where a Mahogany Glider named Goa is surfing on the Brisbane River (The Brown Snake) in front of The Brisbane Powerhouse.

free to enter • free to play • free to learn
• locally made games •

www.queenslandgamesfestival.com

Queensland Games Festival

14 June 10am - 6pm @ The Brisbane Powerhouse

Brought to you by:
International Game Developers Association (brIGDA)

Hosted By:
ZED Games

Proudly supported by:
Australian Government | Screen Australia
Brisbane Powerhouse
Queensland Government | Screen Queensland

Wren Brier
Cam Rogers Legal
Forts | EarthWork Games
Witch Beam
Supaglu
TIGG
Gameloft Brisbane
Technically Games

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 31/05/2025

I'm fully leaning in to the lifestyle

Selfie mainly of my outfit, at Airlie Beach. Wearing sunglasses and a cap that reads:
WOMEN WANT FISH
ME FEAR ME

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 29/05/2025

The eye watches you play Tempopo. The eye does not judge how long it takes to complete a level. The eye just cares that you try 👁️

A room built to look like a fancy, old timey lounge room with a huge monster eye sticking through the wall.

The TV in a fancy painting frame in another part of the fancy eyeball living room with Tempopo playing on the screen.

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 29/05/2025

Not one but TWO games I've been Producer for are showing tonight 🌹🐱 I'll be showing @tempopogame.com but nearby @abandonedsheep.com will be demoing 'Schrodinger's Car Burglar' as well! Two cool games by two lovely teams 💖

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 22/05/2025

She will never tell 😭😭

Screenshot of a text convo between my Ma and myself. I ask her, "I do wanna perm my hair! Who is your hairdresser?" And she replies, "Noooo!" And I reply, "😭😭😭"

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 22/05/2025

Quoted selfie for reference but do I really not look like I can pull off a 'Success Perm'? My Ma had it consistently from her early twenties up to just a year or so ago in her mid sixties and she looked great but just doesn't think I should do it 😭

Screenshot from the show 'Fresh off the Boat' characters Jessica (Constance Wu) and Louis Huang (Randall Park) where they both got "Success Perms" to impress her side of their family. They are both absolutely rocking it and I know it is a wig for Jessica at least, it is too perfect.

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