#I HATE HAVING OVARIES

[residentsimonminor]

RAHHH MY TUMMY HURTS IM GONNA CRY :(

[cringefail-clown]

i actually love how my parents made an 180 from "NO SEX. SEX IS WHERE BABIES COME FROM." to "please. there are options. no sex required. well even fucking raise it for you."

[randomnameless]

tbh, I stopped caring about houses that much when I found out that it's an otome/dating sim game with srpg gameplay sprinkled on top. In other FE games, you either gather supports by pair ups or by having units standing against one another. And mechanics like cooking in Fates were done to get some more stat boosts. And even if the avatarization of the game started with New Mystery, Robin and Corrin feel more like customizable characters than an avatar for the player.

In houses, Byleth is like every typical dating sim protag, that does not speak and the few times they do is by having the player choose options that may raise heart points with a character or lower them, you have to find lost items and when you give them back you gain heart points, you have to give them gifts to gain heart points and cooking now doesn't give you any beneficts in battle and only works for, you've guessed it, getting heart points. And let's not kid ourselves, tea time is like the "dates" in otome games, in which you can spam gifts till you raise the affection to the max. The only thing that distincts those points from the otome ones, is that those are necessary for proficency and for unit classes.

Heck, we even have a ring to give to the chosen blorbo in order to get a special custom made cutscene, when in pasts games getting an S support gave you a broken unit to deploy and a little blurb of text during the credits. And of course, calendar/day systems are also common in these tipes of games too.

People complained about awakening and fates for turning the franchise into a dating sim, but 3Houses is literally one in and of itself, and yet is praised as peack FE experience and as peack srpg.

(I could also argue that is because of this otome nature why the characters are "tell don't show" with their given trauma, unlike in pasts games when it was "show don't tell" (Nino, Reison, Camilla, Leif, Soren...))

Well,

When you put it like that, it becomes obvious that the other games (FEH, Engage) mentionning Fodlan are stuck on the uwu monastery part of the part 1 and not the, y'know, events happening that will lead to part 2 because as you said, the SRPG aspect is just "sprinkled on top" lol

However, the "pair up your units and build their relationships!" has been a non gameplay mechanics for decades now (FE4's was a gameplay mechanic, it had no support convos - FE6 added the support convos and gave a small gameplay boost but it didn't commit and we had no endings, FE7/8 had endings, FE9 had convos but FE10 removed them and yet had endings depending on the pairs, etc etc) even without avatars.

Then we entered the avatar era and if it added the "my waifu and my bae" shenanigans, FE13/14 were still more centered on the story aspect that on the "dating sim" aspect, as in, even if you could raise affinity with a character by doing X or Y, it wasn't really coded in a minigame - came FE16 which you analysed perfectly : tea time, gifts, eating, S-support CG, etc etc.

That being said, FE is a RPG, meaning it has characters : you play FE for the solid gameplay but you also build characters, and imo the best way to develop and write characters is to interconnect them with other characters, and/or with the plot/lore.

Sure, Arden functions as a wall/tank. But through the 5 lines he has, you learn that he is part of a group of knights, has friends who often tease him but is relied upon by those people and takes pride in that, he'd also like to find a wife someday and has self-esteem issues.

Is he as developped as, say, Xillia's Alvin? Hell no! But they're characters from two different genres, Arden has those 5 lines that puts him above any "generic" armor.

(I find it interesting how UO and in a way, FE11, gives you the opportunity to play with generics instead of playing with named characters, in UO generics will turn out to be better since you can change their growths, but they're generics. Do you want the RPG of the Tactics/Strategy aspect?)

So, I'd say that support conversations are important, I love Saias and Ralf to bits, but I'm sure I'd love them more if they had more lines. And since support through battle can be a chore (hello FE GBA and trying to get Bartre and Karla's supports when she joins 2 chapters before the end!), I initially welcome any way to grind those supports faster lol.

However, it can quickly spiral in, well, the otome mechanics we have in FE16 - if you want to build support then why not have an entire mini-game for that, and meals and chorals and whatever else?

It's all about finding balance between developping your characters without turning your game in a dating sim or what I'd call "playing the sims and pairing those dolls with those other dolls you like".

Still, let's not kid ourselves, nowadays the "dating sim" aspect of the series is, while decried by some, very popular - and FE is first and foremost, a series that has to sell.

3H is not peak SRPG not peak gaming experience or even in FE gameplay that'd be FE5 but I can't ignore the fact that its dating sim aspects might be part of the reason why it's still very popular.

[lexiconisfunny]

You know what? I hate everyone. I’m such a hater. I have hateries and hatilleries. I’m so filled with hate I have hate-gasms when people do things I hate. In fact I’m not just a hater I’m a full on loather with loathair and loatheries.

[slayedpoet]

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[ilikeyoshi]

it's still over a month away but i'm SO glad i get to talk to a trans-friendly and trans-educated obgyn in march. need these reproductive organs GONE. pmdd ruining my damn life.

[buckleyseddie]

:/

[godbroccoli]

watching media art screenings in my chamber of aesthetic pleasure

[salsedine]

Me, telling everyone that with this new pill my period is much more manageable. Yay!

My uterus/ovaries/idk: cool cool cool, have you ever wondered what it would feel like to burn from the inside? Wonder no more! 😊

[milo-is-rambling]

View from my bed 👍

[angstandhappiness]

ADORABLE

More baby Mel but with parents QUQ

[cameronmitchelljohn]

Burn my ovaries . burn Them right now

[urhoneycombwitch]

Ur literally the funniest person I’ve never met, don’t you DARE listen to that uterine-induced bad brain talk 🫵🏻

🥺

thank u my Angel. my phone always wants to capitalize that pet name. I’ll allow it because it fits the Sarah/rebelfell theme 😇🪽👼☁️

[swag-system]

Insane how awful being on my period is. They should pay me money to do this shit

[punkgemjasper]

I can deal with my period suddenly coming back after years, I can deal with the pain, the blood all of that but what I can't stand is the ravenous hunger and the near constant fucking nausea that comes with it.

Made worse by the fact I'm type 2 diabetic and controlling it with my diet so it's not like I can stuff myself with bread, chocolate, pasta, pizza...you know all the fucking comforting carbs that people love to eat when they're like this.

(I can have rice but in small amounts and dark chocolate. Yes I'm a weirdo who loves dark chocolate. But it's just not the same...)

[venisontransmission]

Transferring my cramps to Alastor bc I can