#I am obsessed with this on a normal level

[jupitermchai]

Welcome to existence… Drum roll pleaaaase!

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Stoner Meliodas character sheet!

[dreamsfoxx]

Any fan of Cookie Run Kingdom ?? I got dragged into it by my friend Kuro 10 days ago and I've been non stop bombarding them in our DM... Maybe I should ramble about it here too hehe

Here is me petting Wildberry Cookie

Also I'm in love with Dark Cacao Cookie....

When I saw this frame of him I said out loud "I'm worried for you... But damn why do you gotta look so hot when you're miserable ? 😩"

Anyway I'm now simping for cookies, to be added to my long list of hear me out... 😮‍💨

[eri-pl]

My dear mutuals, I just realized something.

So, there's been talk recently about breaking Papita out of Mandos and I suppose more of us may need help at some point... but we need one fundamental thing if we are to be able to save one another from some terrible prison (or, idk, recognize each other in a supermarket...):

we need to have a song in common

Like, seriously, the default scheme for breaking someone out from somewhere is: character A start singing, character joins them, character A finds character B and gets them out. Except...

I'm not sure there's any song I could sing together with any of you.

We need to make a list of songs that we all know well enough. Seriously.

[larrythefloridaman]

WOAH, HE'S BIGENDER? I DIDN'T KNOW THAT!

[feral-teeth]

[dekubreaksbones]

I just finished reading Vigilantes and here's my review: I love number 6 he is my son my boy my favourite little lunatic <333

[nothing0fnothing]

No because one time I was crying because my mom made so many horrible remarks about my body and my weight and how nobody would ever want to be my friend or want to marry me if I continued to be fat and then she got uncomfortable because I wouldn't stop crying even after she told me to so she followed all that up with "I know it's hard to hear but the truth hurts."

I was eight.

[alukaforyou]

Does your irl bf know about your sukuna obsession? If he does what does he think of it it's really cute! 🤗

i dont obsess over sukuna to him specifically but i do regularly mention "my anime husbands" in general and how much i love them, show him pics of figs i get and sexy fanart i come across sometimes 🤣 he thinks its funny 👍🏻

[xavalav]

look at my blorbos Now

[tilebytiles]

funniest news ever. arctic monkeys might lead me to getting tested for adhd

[balladetto]

there is nothing that quite confirms link has A Future more than seeing any older counterpart alive and happy and starting to thrive or wanting to thrive. like oh. that can be me one day :) that’s it that’s the post

[mildcicada]

favorite color?

[ptsd-tiger]

hey so, I know people will get mad at me for saying this, but I am very kindly asking y’all to destroy this mindset as soon as possible. extended honeymoon phases in relationships always leads to later abuse. this is because when later interactions do not uphold the same level of infatuation, someone will inevitably end up feeling like they’re no longer enough for the other person, causing a spiral of clinginess and agitation until one finally drops the other like a sack of trash.

if your life completely revolves around your partner, I literally do not care how “cute” everyone says you two are. you need to fucking get away before it’s too late.

"honeymoon phase" i am literally healthily insane and obsessed for the entire duration of the relationship. skill issue

[valeriehalla]

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????

[whumpfish]

Here he is, friend!

(Mage, but whatever. They're witches. They're elemental witches.)

Like the majority of folks who got mage power when they "awakened," Song Chiyul can summon/control fire. (Nobody knows why they're mostly fire-wielders, they just are.) Unlike the majority of mages, he started off as a trained fighter, a kendo expert--but he lost his arm in one of the earlier gate openings. The monsters pouring out of the gate were being fought by professional monster hunters, who were absolute shit at working together despite doing this for a living, and the monsters started breaking into houses to kill civilians who'd been ordered to shelter in place, including him and his family. He put in a more concerted effort than the professionals, but only had his wooden training weapon to fight with. Needless to say, it didn't work out. He was the sole survivor.

This is Song Chiyul from Solo Leveling: Arise. So the premise is that dimensional gates to other planes inhabited by monsters started randomly appearing, and the monsters started to come through them. Luckily, the phenomenon came with a side effect, the "awakening" phenomenon among people, whereby random humans began literally waking up one day to find they had superpowers, which they're able to use to fight monsters. Super strength, enhanced reflexes, summon weapons, that kind of thing... and elemental magic.

Why do I love this guy so much? For one thing, he's a disabled character in a monster-fighting game, which I don't think I've ever seen before (though my video game experience is lacking.) More importantly, his disability doesn't disappear when he gets his powers--he goes through the whole game with the one arm. He also has one of the whumpiest backstories out of all the characters, so. There's that. He goes through rehab mad at the world, but as he starts healing, he starts putting his efforts toward protecting younger/less experienced hunters who are still often just wound up and let go by professional guilds when gates open, settling into the "dad friend" role--and turning down every guild who scouts him so he can keep doing it.

He also has the best (and dadliest) in-combat lines out of everyone. Fight me.

As you can see, the image quality is better in the dossier... but you also can't see his missing arm. :/

Now, if you want the mage who is explicitly referred to as a witch in the game, there's Alicia Blache, a French hunter and ice mage who runs the European Justitia Guild...

Alicia Blanche, sometimes called "the witch who was raised by snakes"

...eeeeeeexcept she doesn't. She's being controlled by her PA, Elena, who has elected to use her psychic powers to give her emotional and psychological abuse of the girl who's supposed to be her leader and bff an extra boost.

Like I said, the whump in this game is top-notch... and it's not one of those monster fighting games where characters have cool backstories, but all you really do in-game is fight. The fights are built into a webcomic storyline, so it's basically like playing a supernatural horror k-drama. So you get to see Song Chiyul be a boss-ass dad friend in real time.

Witchy Wednesday!

An Agatha All Along witches poll for ye! Not a Marvel fan? Tell us about your favorite witch in the tags.

[rooolt]

I’ll be like “haha playing my silly stupid video game that doesn’t require any actual gaming skills to succeed and is more than anything pretty colors and something to do with my hands during the commercial breaks of jeopardy” and then I try to look up basic tips online and I’m haunted by vile tier lists and words like “meta” and “build” and I shake and cry and fall to pieces because that’s scary why would I put in that much mental energy, THE HORROR