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wheres seasons greasons

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Roses are red, that much is true, but violets are purple, not fucking blue.

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also I know I'm on a AMCE kick but the obvious parallels between Teixcalaan and America keep kicking me in the gut.

the export of literature, poetry, media. Teixcalaanli epics as a parallel to Hollywood movies. the unspoken expectation that one should, of course, be fluent in the references and know the cultural context and be aware of the political shifts happening there even if one is from a sector (read: country) outside the Empire (read: the USA). the subtle and not-so-subtle mix of xenophobia and xenophilia aimed at visitors.

the idea that you're uncivilized for having missed out on "ubiquitous" experiences - "All 90s Kids Played With These Seven Forgotten Toys", "what, have you really not seen that movie? it's a classic!" "wait, you listen to American Music there? don't you people make your own?" "how have you not heard of [American band] before??"

the conflation of My Country and The World. that post about how Americans will never include their country in their address, even on international orders. thinking about how i know more about American politics than those of my own country, because those are what I see online every minute of every day.

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Don't give me tools to use.

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Don't give me tools to use.

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Don't give me tools to use.

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I just noticed...that the final animation never posted 💀

BUT LAST BUT NOT LEAST…LUMITY!! 💚💜

THANK U ALL SO MUCH FOR YOUR SHIP SUGGESTIONS BTW 😭💝❤️ THEY WERE A BLAST TO ANIMATE 🥺 HOPE YOU ALL HAD A HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!! >:] 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Slowpoke girl enjoying the cool morning spring(???) weather

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This is Nicole. She is an amazing Canadian wood-splitting machine.

I have a huge pet peeve about people swinging axes and sledgehammers without using the kinetic chain. You have to use your entire body to get real power in your swing. And in so many movies you see actors just trying to chop things with only their arms. But Nicole has perfect form. And cute pajamas.

I'm not sure if she is technically a lumberjill. I think she just refers to herself as a wood splitter. Either way, she is badass.

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time for doomed yuri with an iconic pose

sua by @pantherfam-blog

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Anyway I think everyone involved in TTRPG spaces needs at least one bad game that sucks to just be completely obsessed with. Just one absolutely dogshit game that just won't leave your thoughts and that you can expound on for hours on end. It's good for you.

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I am so utterly fascinated by “Saki”, the 18-year-running mahjong manga in which you, the reader, become gradually, frog-boilingly aware (over the course of nearly two decades’ worth of mahjong tournaments) that none of these girls are wearing underwear and most of their boobs are slowly expanding.

I need you to understand that I have, like, an anthropological level fascination with this comic. From the perspective of someone who is also a comic artist and writer, two things delight me about it:

the fact that I understand completely how an artist gets from “the fans can have a little hint of skirted asscheek” to “the pussy is completely out on center page” over the course of 18 years; and

the way in which the pussy being out is treated by the characters and diegesis as being utterly unremarkable.

Okay. Point 1. The frog-boiling.

Let me put this in perspective for you. There was already a meme about how the characters in “Saki” don’t wear underwear when I was in middle school. I am thirty now. Okay? And it’s still going.

In the time since, this has stopped being a joke. It is now indisputable canon. This is not because anyone outright says it at any point. It’s because the underwear ran out of places to hide. I’m obsessed with this thought: somewhere in the over 20 volumes of “Saki”, there is a panel in which underwear was objectively deconfirmed. And it would be so hard to figure out where that panel actually is. Maybe the artist didn’t even realize it when she drew it! The frog? Boiling!!

And of course there is also the breast expansion. I don’t know how to put a spin on this. They are just expanding. Like, this happens a lot with artists: you define a character as being, in your mind, “the one with the big boobs”, and over the years you emphasize that trait further and further so that the signal doesn’t get lost in the noise. It’s just that normally—in like a wildly popular manga series about mahjong published by literally Square Enix, for example—normally there would be a point at which the boobs stopped getting bigger. Like, an editor would step in or something. Or you would get to the point where you cannot draw the character in the same panel as her mahjong tiles without her breasts spilling over the tiles, and you’d go, “Well, this is now untenable.”

That did not happen. There is no ceiling. The frog is soup.

Point 2. The complete and utter mundanity of all of this.

It’s like this, okay: there’s no shortage of trashy ecchi manga out there. There’s a million other comics doing wildly bawdier things with wildly more improbable bishoujos.

The vibe with “Saki” is different.

It’s hard to explain this, but it feels like the world of the comic is fundamentally uninterested in the fanservice happening on the page. I cannot describe it as “leering”, because I cannot conceive of a person in the story from whose point of view one would leer. I think the artist is probably into it—I can’t imagine anyone is making her do this—but “Saki” the comic has no opinion on the matter.

There are essentially no male characters in “Saki”. Like, there was one guy? Kind of? At the very beginning? But he is gone now. They put him back in the toybox. He does not exist. It appears to be some level of canonical that in the world of “Saki”, almost all humans are women. Those women are sometimes romantically into each other. According to comments the artist has made on Twitter (which I cannot source), they have lesbian baby technology, so it’s no problem. It’s so much not a problem that the story is about mahjong, instead of any of that.

So, like, the fiction here appears to be this: this is the, like, meta-narrative of the fanservice of “Saki”, right: it’s just normal that they don’t wear underwear and their boobs are arbitrarily big. It’s been normal. It was normal before the story of the manga began. It’s just how things are. Nobody bats an eye about it, and if they do, it’s in sort of a lesbian kind of way so like what’s the problem, we love lesbians here. This is literally normal for girls.

The fanservice simply diffuses into this all-encompassing aura of disembodied, ambient sluttiness. The framing of the panels demands you acknowledge it, and the story demands you already be over it, because it’s mahjong time now, and we’re playing mahjong.

Do you get??? why I’m so fascinated??? Are you not a little enraptured???

Anyway, I have no idea how to end this weird post. I guess the conclusion is that women stay winning????

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"but the genres i want to engage with aren't written with girl characters almost ever, let alone well!" you have three options. one is to find an indie creator working her ass off to create this on her lonesome and her comic/novel/audio drama is free or on itch.io for like 3$-15$. secondly is to try new genres and surprise yourself. thirdly is to roll up your sleeves and make it.

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Flower hair🌸🌺💮and vines too ⭐🌟✨

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🌿rusalochky🌿