#can't believe one of the people that made the game is named yuri

[neeko-system]

SIGNALIS SPOILERS AND WHATNOT~~

finished my second playthrough of signalis, was going for the artifact ending. then loaded my save and got the memory ending. such a good game aaaa

the memory ending made me cry, it was really heartwrenching when ariane said sorry i dont remember, i just crumpled. watching elster be so exhausted was a lot.

not really sure if i understand the artifact ending. i feel like either its really vague (on top of all the other vagueness) or if im missing something. it kind of feels like a burial of arianes memory? like elster dies and we see ariane thikning about her and elster dancing in the wrecked ship? i’m not sure. maybe someone could give me their interpretation of it?

i also found out that theres a difficulty setting and really wished i had set it to survival before my second playthrough. woulda been nice!!! I do have one more ending so i might play the game again but might also just watch it on youtube and play the game again some other time(gotta let it ruminate so i can go back in with different eyes), I wanna get all the achievements anyways.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

all in all i fucking love this game a lot. very rarely do i replay a game so soon after playing it for the first time. its really tragic i’ll never get to experience this game for the first time again, but, so it goes. its such a beautiful game i will be thinking about it for a longgggggggggggg time. ive been wanting to talk about it so badly for so long but none of my friends have played it yet kyaaa!!! >_<

its crazy to me that the game exists the way it does. the style, the mechanics, the story, the music, everything about it oozes so much passion and care and thought. very few games have made me want to stare at every part of it to figure out how they made it look the way it did (THE GAME IS SO STYLISTICALLY RICH LIKE HOIW DID THEY DO ALL THAT) and the game mechanics are so nice to my brain, everything is so tactile and clicky and inventory management and ammo management and horror stratgey and the flesh and rust and death and love and lesbians and robots and anime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

amazing game thank you rose engine, i hope they make more stuff because i really want to see it

edit:(thinking about the first time i played compared to the second. i was considerably less scared since i had a clue of waht was going on but the fear that i felt playing the first time was special to me. i really like games with stories about ‘time loops’ because the replay-ability is baked in in a cool way. especially with how the game throws information at you, viewing things again having experienced perspective shifts from information is really cool. seeing scenes again re-contextualized makes my brain go ^-^(hots quest ding sound) but going in completely blind and being afraid of everything (i especially remember being scared of the dream beach, i had literally no clue what to expect and it was nice) it all had a different flavor than the second time which is cool because i feel like i experience that kind of emotion change *with* elster. (girlie needs a FUCKING cuddle nap)

the way the game balances reality and the surreal i think is super neat. i love surrealist dream stuff a lot and i think that a video game is a super good medium for that kind of experiential stuff that really inspires me to wanna make video games. especially because then theres also this super nerdy sci fi stuff going on about robots and space regimes and magical tech(my favorite) and planetary systems and military systems and all that good shit. i similarly wanna get nerdy about stuff like military logistics while also telling a story about gay robots and girls that keep missing each other just barely in the space time continuum. i love that the game tells you a lot but also is vague and also says fuck you (affectionate) stop looking for answers and just feel it. it explains just the right amount to not feel esoteric while keeping enough vague to leave a lot up to interpretation/figure it out by playing it again/thinking about it. it plays with themes and reality and reoccuring symbolism and all that good shit that makes stories addicting to think about.) ((also one of the endings requiring beating the game once among other things that keep between playthroughs, yummyyy. games that know they are games/stories/worlds that are aware of themselves., thats good shit right there))

[yuri-is-online]

... right so who wants to hear my deranged theory about Yuri Tokyo Debunker with no evidence backing it up I believe only as a joke.

The mutual mommy issues and classical music interest made me think that Yuri and Jin could be related. A lot of Yuri's... yuri-ness screams second child syndrome, I couldn't find where or if it was even said but Yuri seems to indicate he was raised to be a doctor. We know Jin's dad is the head of the entire institute, the institute also has a medical branch. Based on what we know about Jin's dad he seems like the old school political dynasty sort, if he had two sons raising one to take over the Institute and the other to oversee its medical branch makes a lot of sense. It would also make sense for Yuri, as the baby of the family, to maybe be closer to their mother than Jin was. If Jin was expected to take over for their father, it makes sense for his dad to monopolize his time and not allow him to spend as much of it with his mom. Yuri could have spent almost all of his time with her, and if Mama Kamurai was particularly sickly (or cursed) Yuri's interest in becoming a doctor becomes extremely significant. It is clear both Yuri and Jin love their mothers, whoever they are, but if she was the same woman their hatred for each other can be explained by a sibling rivalry. Jin resenting Yuri for being mommy's "favorite" and h Yuri hates that Jin is daddy's favorite and gets all the money to do whatever he wants with while he's stuck writing expense reports for his vital research. Jin could even be blaming Yuri for being unable to save their mom, it certainly seems like Yuri is blaming himself already.

If this was the case, I think whatever injury Jin has sustained probably was the breaking point between the two. Yuri probably doesn't want to lose his brother, he seems like the sort who would really desperately want big brother's approval. If Jin turned his help away in disgust then of course that would nuke the relationship between the two dorms. If Yuri really was just Jin's younger brother (oh how phrasing it like that would irritate him) then of course everyone else would see his behavior as a temper tantrum and not a concern. He's just mad daddy doesn't love him, give it a rest. Yuri will get over this soon enough, he's a grown adult... right?

This would also mean that Yuri didn't need to ever have been placed in Frostheim. He always could have been in Mortranken, he just associated with Frostheim because he is the younger brother of the King. And why he hates Darkwick General so much and is so insistent on doing his own thing: he wants to prove he is more than his family name. That he can cure people, that he isn't his father's puppet. This would probably further drive the wedge between him and Jin, that's something Jin wants to do himself but can't on account of being the oldest son. He sees his little brother as privileged in the same way his little brother thinks he is.

Counter Arguments/Rebuttals:

They do not look much alike. Zenji and Jiro + Hyde and Sho do, so the game making them look different is my biggest reason I think this could be wrong. They don't need to be related for their dislike for each other to make sense, it would just be deeply tragic. And could potentially set up an arc where Zenji chews Jin out for being a shitty older brother, he loves Jiro so much he would die (and probably did) defending him. Why is Jin ignoring his brother? Has he no heart? (not to mention why Yuri is so attached to Jiro, little brothers need to stick together)

Different last names. I think this could be explained by Yuri using his mother's maiden name to separate himself from his family, which would further irritate Jin because how fucking dare he use their mom's name like that?

Like I said, this doesn't need to be the explanation for why Yuri and Jin hate each other. He very easily could have just been a student there and failed to help Jin through his injury. It makes just as much if not more sense. My one real reason for holding onto brother theory when that one works is that... fuck that's a lot of students transferring out of Frostheim. Almost too many to make sense if you go with Haku having originally been there too. It almost feels like it makes more sense if Yuri has always been in Mortranken... but not by much when you take into account everything else you need to believe in order for brother theory to be true.

[wizardsvslesbians]

Isaac here, with another recommendation response masterpost! It's a long one!

Anon said:

oh my godyou guys HAVE to cover metal from heaven by august clarke as the next thing to add to the list i just saw the reviews and it literally looks like main wizlez for the first time in quite a while

We actually have had an ARC of this one for some time, and we were intending to cover it! And I bounced off it real hard. So that's on me. Once it comes out properly and there's an audiobook I'll take another crack at it.

Seiya said:

“A Sweet Sting of Salt” by Rose Sutherland is for all the girlies who read Charity and Sylvia and wanted more of that. or, 19th century Nova Scotia selkie lesbians. the wizard is less a wizard and more a condemnation of the selkie folktale in general, but also the vibes are nice and this was a nice book

We're going to need a vibes are nice book - the vibes have been either rancid or very complicated for too long and I'm missing the simple days of boat lesbians and The Duke. Also it would be nice to follow up "Selkie Stories Are For Losers" from our last short story roundup.

Spiralochete said:

Not wizlez, but if you're ever in the mood, I would love to hear you guys discuss Borne by Jeff Vandermeer. It features a non-narcissistic parent of an extremely monstrous child, and I think it would produce interesting discussions in conversation with some of the previous entries in the podcast. I also think that the ecological themes would be an interesting change of pace. There are no prominent lesbians, but there are definitely wizards. If either of you have bounced off Jeff Vandermeer previously (I know that some people do), it's definitely a bit more accessible than the Southern Reach Trilogy.

I liked Annihilation! Then Authority bored me enough that I never bothered to finish it, so I'm, like, medium interested in this as a concept. Sounds like a guest episode, and so we'd need a guest who wants to cover it.

Anon said:

i think i might have just watched the first actual bona fide wizards vs lesbians film i've ever seen other than adolescence of utena, and i'm shocked i never heard of it before: harmony (2015), but for the podcast you guys might be more interested in the novel of the same name it's based on by project itoh (who i believe is also famous for having a kojima game dedicated to him posthumously). the novel is less explicit in the romance between protagonists (antagonists?) tuan and miach, which might be a point towards reviewing the film rather than the book, but it's up to you guys! really, really interesting stuff from this film, despite its flaws. it's good scifi

Any skepticism I might have had about this went out the window when I saw that Michael Arias co-directed the film. He directed Tekkonkinkreet, which is one of my five favorite movies of all time, one of the only pieces of media that makes me cry no matter how many times I go back to it, so I, at least, will be giving this a shot. Can't guarantee any more than that.

Anon said:

i know you only rarely cover graphic literature but tbh the more i think on it the manga land of the lustrous not only counts as (enby) yuri but also absolutely fits in the lesbian space atrocities/wizlez genre, the tragedy and war and double crossing and mental illness stuff with the initial motivation for everything being a gay crush that ruins everything.

I'm gonna be real with you: I had such a viscerally negative reaction to the anime when it came out that it would take a lot for me to dive into the manga. Toooo many lovingly rendered amputations.

Anon said:

have you guys ever read stuff by qing jun mo xiao? her baihe serials all are very much in wizlez mode as far as i can tell - clear and muddy loss of love has a full english translation available online, i dunno about female general and eldest princess but it's getting english volume releases!

There is an english translation online, but it's definitely fanwork, and with all respect to the person who made it it's probably best if we wait for an official release. When that does happen, I'm all for it.

Short recs:

the passion by jeanette winterson is a vintage wizvwlw novel i found recently which is magical realist napoleonic wars in venice - it might be of interest to you guys

On the list it goes!

the women could fly by megan giddings def looks like wizles, maybe it's worth checking out since it looks pretty interesting

On the list it goes!

i've not read it, but the light brigade by kameron hurley looks like interesting wizlez to me if you wanna check it out

I suspect we haven't done any Kameron Hurley books yet for a reason, but on the list it goes!

And finally, presented without comment:

Look I'm aware that due to the time commitment which is on par with reading Homestuck and the audio format it's basically impossible to cover all of it. But fellow wizards vs lesbians listeners should know that the magnus archives probably counts as wizards vs lesbians. There are a million wizards, women fall in love, and lesbians definitely attack the wizards. plus there's an assortment of bad mothers and monstrous children. It somehow has a coherent plot and themes by the end as well, if you can stick with the motw format long enough. However it's mostly wizard pov

[amemenojaku]

Hisami and Zanmu for 1 on that ask game!

When I started shipping it if I did: Since day 1 when I read Hisami's dialogues, like most people I believe lol. I mean, how can you see her and not start cheering for her to get what she wants... Since it's still pretty recent I can add that two lines in particular made me seriously consider it and think about it beyond 'this is nice/funny': when Hisami tells Zanmu that she doesn't have to hold back around her, and when Zanmu tells Hisami that she knew Hisami would mess up on purpose, and that she'll give her a reward anyway - both are about danmaku obviously, but it got my brain gears turning >:]

My thoughts: They've slowly but steadily been going up my favorite ships, especially for the past 2-3 months... They work well together. Obviously I'd love the ship in touhou where one of them has a big fat actual canon crush on the other one, I've been in this hole since 2010 or something so Hisami's kind of a gift... but also in general I think it's a good spin on the boss/henchman trope when the boss is some mega charismatic chessmaster who could probably get anyone they want on their knees and yet their subordinate is one of the only people they can't fully predict/control. The wild card aspect is really funny to me and I love seeing fanworks where Zanmu's like... fondly sighing at Hisami's antics.

Things done in fanworks that annoy me: I think there's too many fanworks where Zanmu looks generally uncomfortable around Hisami despite never doing so even once ingame, and also too many fanworks where Hisami harasses Zanmu, sometimes to make very early 2000s jokes in very poor taste... I won't name anyone but there's a few big yuri artists on twitter who do that and it makes me want to bash my head against the wall when they get praised for it just because their artstyle looks good..... On a more positive note there's a few people who've been creating constantly good content of this pair and I think given a year or two nature will be healing!!

Also I'm of the opinion that Zanmu's fairly tall herself, just a bit shorter than Hisami, so I'm not big on the crazy size difference stuff (funny coming from a seishin fan, I know......)

Things I look for in fanworks: MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING!!! Getting to know each other past the infatuation (in Hisami's case)/the curiosity (in Zanmu's case) in deeper ways. I promise this isn't about sex lol (I do think about that too but not here rn) I really want to see how their relationship can grow and I especially want to see Zanmu enjoying it (as a petty reaction to the stuff listed above...). In their case I think physical intimacy would be a good setting for that kind of scene where their emotional bond grows, so that's what I'd go with if I were to create something like it, but anything can work if it's done in good taste imo. And in general I want to see Zanmu answering Hisami's affections with a positive emotion... whatever it is... I'm desperate.......

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: It's difficult for me to imagine Hisami with anyone else, although I do think she'd have physical relationships with a bunch of women while her feelings for her boss are still unrequited. Zanmu on the other hand I can picture being interested in a few other characters like Reimu or other onis or even the sages, but ultimately not as something she'd commit to and take seriously. The only real endgame is still zanhisa haha

My prefered future/ending for them: Whenever Zanmu considers them close enough to tell Hisami to drop the honorifics and overly reverent language when they're alone, and whenever Hisami feels comfortable doing that would be the ideal "endpoint" for me because of all the things it implies :) I don't care if at that point they actually consider themselves in a relationship or if they just aknowledge there's something going on. Though if they do get in a relationship proper I imagine they'd be very discreet about it. Also I think Hisami should get a promotion so she can directly work as Zanmu's prefered right hand arm man. woman. her everything. her confidant. her silly rabbi

What is their favorite activity together: Probably drinking. I imagine with how old she is and hanging out with onis Hisami's built up a decent hold on alcohol, and Zanmu appreciates it. They reminisce about their respective pasts and talk about the inner workings of hell and Zanmu gets a huge ego boost from showing off her 4D chess plans and Hisami praising her for it

[aita-blorbos]

AITA for abandoning my WIP?

Hello everyone! You'll have to forgive me if this is a bit awkward... I am a writer and cosplayer, but nonfiction is really not one of my talents!

So umm... I started this project, some months ago. A real masterpiece! You see, I'm actually pretty internet-famous for my earlier works, so this time I tried something a bit more... exciting. To raise the stakes and add to the delicious drama of it all, I decided this latest project would use real people.

Aaaah, and they were absolutely perfect! I wrote up incredible backstories for them all, and I even added an artificial intelligence unit that my best friend put together for a touch of extra realism (the illusion of an audience was crucial for this project, so the AI predicted "votes" and "chat responses" based on commentary on my previous projects)! Then, finally, I wiped their memories and replaced them with my own writing, set them up in my ultimate fictional world, and watched their real, authentic decisions play out! I, and my best friend, participated in this project, but I did have to wipe her memory along with everyone else's... or else she'd remember building this virtual world machine! And that just wouldn't do.

So, well.... The first few tries were a little bothersome to work with. No matter how hard I tried to tweak their personalities and give them motives, they always ran out of time and left me having to reset! But, ah... I knew from the start that working with real dolls would have its challenges. That's where the stakes are! If I could just overcome this, it would be the best death game ever written!

So eventually, when my beloved first protagonist actually made an attempt to kill... and failed... I stepped in and finished the job. Just a little bug in the system, not a big deal. And from there, it was absolutely perfect! Death after death after death, everything lining up exactly as it should. The perfect drama, the perfect despair, exactly as it should be!

I continued to moderate from within the game, and luckily, no one even tried to kill me! Though, my self-insert was simply a boring old plain jane, so it's not exactly surprising....

There were a few tough spots... and right when I thought the project was tying itself up for a beautiful finish, one of my players somehow ended up convincing the AI to release us, and send us back to reality.

Now... everyone is quite mad at me for placing them in my incredible fictional reality. None of them are certain who they are, or which of their memories are real, and normally I would simply overwrite their memory and start over again, but... here is where I might be TA....

I believe that one of the characters I've written, as played by a very beautiful and talented person, has taken my heart. She was one of the first to be killed, but instead of anger like everyone else, she held my face and told me that her god has forgiven my sins!

Aaaah! I can't help but squee just thinking of it! How can one person be so talented, so beautiful, so charming?! The way I'm feeling, I might as well be a yuri protagonist!

So, well... now I'm reluctant to start over. This girl is technically a character of my own creation, or at least her memories are. But after so much effort, and sacrifice, and torment endured by the other 14 participants... WIBTA if I give up on my project to elope with this girl?? She wants to lead a cult in my name, which I find just sooooooo romantic and hard to turn down!! But should I instead press onwards, and continue writing my perfect story??

[submitted by @mx-shingujis based on a canon-deviant au fic idea that I will probably never get around to writing!]

[neko-naruto]

like old times

summary: how The Mastermind brought Blue into the killing game

warnings: implied death, amnesia, light angst

authors note: i choose to believe in yuri attempts and name related angst for Blue, come get ur juice Kenikari fans

"You'll be in the game again," The Mastermind boldly declared, no screen between her and the one she spoke too.

"What?" She asked, voice empty of emotions other than terror.

"You're the survivor are you not?" The Mastermind asked, "I need someone to play the traitor, a double agent."

She stepped back, "I'm not playing your game again."

The Mastermind stepped forward and gripped her by the wrist with one hand and clawed into her mandibles with the other. Her nails dug into flesh gently, but just enough that it made her prey whimper. "You'll be playing Kenikari again whether you like it or not, Blue."

"That's not-"

"It is now, I haven't chosen all the contestants yet, someone might know you," The Mastermind explained, "We can't have them recognizing your name, can we?"

Blue goes lax a bit and nods slowly, "Can't have them recognizing my name."

The Mastermind lets go, "I'll let you pack your bag."

"How come I get a bag?"

"Didn't your traitor also have a bag?" The Mastermind asked, "Pack whatever you want, pictures, books, video games."

Blue just nods before leaving to pack her bag.

-/-/-/-

"You're kind of cute," The Mastermind said rather bluntly one day as she plotted her game.

It shocked Blue from her state of being zoned out, "What?"

"I don't hang out with people very often, I should've grabbed you at the last second possible instead," She hummed as she spoke before spinning her chair to face Blue with a grin on her face, "Or maybe I shouldn't've let a cute person into my lair."

"How long until the killing game starts?" Blue asked, shoving aside her captors statement plainly.

"You're no fun, can't even humor me," She rolled her eyes before turning back to her papers, "Couple weeks, you can go through your old friends rooms if you want too."

Blue freezes again, "Their rooms?"

"I left them untouched, aside from removing the bodies of course," The Mastermind's sick smirk is unseen by Blue, but she can hear it on the tone of voice.

"Whatever. I'm heading to my room,"

-/-/-/-

She knows them.

Not all of them, but enough to know that The Mastermind did this on purpose.

What she hates the most is that she can't say anything to them because it'd spell her doom if she made them aware of their past, sparked a cure to their amnesiac state. She can't risk that.

They don't trust her.

She wonders if it's because she disappeared from their lives for weeks without any contact three years ago.

She wonders if they can remember that they lost contact with her even though they can't remember her face.

She wonders if her being remembered by them would be beneficial to their survival or not.

[xoteajays]

See? Talking about school is boring.. School is a boring subject to me.

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Traditionally, if I ever did create an Alice In Wonderland character, the first character would be my version of Alice... Which I could still do for one of my characters. Or I could just kill Arisu for that role. But that is like a whole ridiculous situation though. There is too many characters in Wonderland, yet I can't seem to pick a couple for some reason. So I am seriously hating this right now. What the fuck. Maybe I should get to rewatching Borderlands for some ideas then. And I know dormice's the easiest one but that characters seems to be used by many people - including you. So part of me thinks... I don't even know what I think.

I knew the two girls were the Tweedles. If I used any of the animals, in the same of animals characters who weren't already used by anyone - for whatever reason, then I would have to choose gryphon over turtle.

See! You confused their names. But Tatta's his name, I actually had to search his name because I forgot his name. Anyway... Yes. Depending on sources you read, people believe he is either the lizard or turtle in a story like this. Bill The Lizard really seems more fitting in my opinion.

Well.. If I decide to have one of my characters as a talking flower, then you already know some details about that character. So there's that.

And if there is some chance that I do have a dormouse character, one detail I know is that I want my character to be short. So that's just all I have at the moment. I'm going to have to rewatch Borderlands again.

Nijiro's height depends on the site you might be on.. Some sites listed his height as 5'7, and other sites list his height as 5'6 ¼ (168 cm).

Tao's height is 5'1 (155 cm), Yuri's height is 5'2 ½ (159 cm).

If you wanted their exact heights.

But yes. Those two girls are shorter than Nijiro. Except his character's always around the taller female characters in just about every scene.

Oh! That game. Now I remember. I thought that was the game.. Since I remember Kuina was in a few club and spade games before they did almost die by the Spades King. Because I remember a spades by that she did by herself, where you she to use martial arts to fight everyone to survive (and I read a similar situation with an original character in a person's story too). And I remember Kuina and Ann working together, they had to actually climb ropes and play dodgeball to win that game.

I would be killed in that game. I've never climbed rope! And if I did, I'm sure it would be difficult for me to knock someone over while not ever falling to my death. I would definitely be killed in those spade games.

The only water based games that I could remember at the moment is the distance game (with Arisu and Usagi). Where they had to stay in a bus when the dam broke, killing the other players except the one guy.

And the light bulb game. Where Arisu was with Ann, Kuina and Tatta's team. They had to figure out which lightbulb was working behind that metal door while trying not to drown or get electrocuted in the game.

I just woke up. So my mind isn't completely here yet. So I don't know.

Oh! And Heiya's game where was she almost drowned in the stadium, but she still survived by crawling out through the damaged buildings.

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This is why I'm a vegetarian. And If I'm being honest, I always have so conflicting feelings about people eating meat. Like.. Some part of me can respect that it's their choice to eat meat but another part of me is disgusted over certain animals they would eat. Every culture tends to eat animals other cultures wouldn't eat for whatever reason. So that's never made sense to me. Regardless of the animal, every culture also eats many 'exotic' animals too. I can't do it. I care more about animals.

People disgust me when it comes to this.

Really? Australian is really different than America. We'd have squirrels everywhere were I live. One of the more common rodents for us here.

But I have seen one possum! Just a few months ago, the possum was just walking up and down my street. Which is so bizarre because we'd never get possums in my neighborhood. And not during the day time.

I think both variations of possums are really adorable in the own way.

Question! How does Aguni care about more.. the Dormouse or Heiya?

Yeah. I've actually thought of making a whole other place, besides the Beach hotel, for characters to stay at just because I fucking hate how the Beach is run there. Because invasion of privacy bothers me much more than you know.. Actually. I could imagine a scenario where only one of my characters (in the same situation as Arisu and Usagi really were tied up in the room where Hatter and counsel was explaining all the rules and regulations of the Beach). I could imagine her getting a near death experience because she refuses the rules (which would've gotten her killed), but my other characters convince Hatter or counsel not to kill her. Mainly Hatter since he cares about these stupid rules in this situation, just because he's mentally unstable now. I don't know.

But at the same time, all the drama happens at the Beach hotel every time too. I don't know. So that could be taking away major details for this story too. But I really hate the Beach. That's a whole dictatorship.

And not just because of the Beach.. But I hate the background people there. Eating, sleeping, drinking, fucking. They are partying too much for me to want to be in that place. Like an introvert at a house parties or clubs. That's what it would feel like living there. I'd really rather die.

So I know that can't be helped. Most characters who are named after the book counterparts in some obvious way; Arisu's Alice, Usagi's the word for rabbit, Chishiya sounds like Cheshire, so on and so forth. So that isn't surprising to me. I just never realized how many people have used that name for dormouse characters though. But not surprising.

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I know. It seems like there are certain types of people are using the AI system to everything. Taking art away from artists, writing away from authors, music away from musicians. Which is actually a bad thing as it isn't only taking jobs away from people. But also causing more bots to be created. I already can't tolerate the bots. This is getting worse.

But for the people who do use AI systems.. I hope those people die.

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Karma! The 'real' friends of the don can't take his business because in a situation like this.. They arrested all the drug dealers, took the drugs and the money. Have fun trying to rebuild that. Ya fucking cunts lose.

And then they're losing some limbs, maybe their lives too, that would work for me. Kill them, kill them.. Do it! Kill them. They deserve to die.

So the male cop and Chinese associate care about each other in their own way? Well.. That's awkward. Try explaining that to other people.

That is very awkward... Hopefully they can repair the relationship with the cops. I don't know. That's so awkward for them. I don't know.

To be fair! Other than the drug dealing friends betraying him - and I'm saying before this whole situation. Since you have said they'd actually planned on betraying him before by selling extra drugs on the side so they could get more money. Even though that happen, they really did warn him that there were traitors in their mafia gang. And not to even trust either of them. Especially the female that they knew was a cop.

This is so awkward.

So this bizarre to me? I know, I know... Everyone has a keepsake from another person throughout this case. Watches, rings, necklaces. That is something I know about. But why place your wedding ring there on that grave? Did the cops divorce, or get separated? Because I think it would've made more sense for the necklace and watch being placed.. Not the necklaces and wedding ring. I don't know. That's very bizarre.

If you wanted.. That relationship could have been a polyamorous ship between those three. If you couldn't decide on a ship for any of them.

Everything will make more sense to me whenever I watch this series..

- 💋

i don’t think kuina and ann played the rope climbing game, i think it was just in the montage. they did play the dodgeball one tho. that woulda killed me. i’ve got horrible balance and aim.

yea i think those were the only three water based games. i considered putting my card soldier or dormouse in the distance game but i don’t think they’d really add much?

i was thinking of basing a club game off a scene in from the movie ‘follow me’ (it’s ….. an okay movie. not great, but i like trash horror for background noise while doing other stuff, like writing or building lego). anyway, there’s a scene in the movie where one character is stuck in a glass box slowly filling up with water and the other characters have to figure out how to get her out. i feel like i could turn that into a workable club game, but with a different solution since in the movie they just busted the top of the box open. and that’s boring. i wanna do a thing with keys and puzzles.

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we have like one or two introduced species of squirrels, but no native species. so we’ve got possums instead.

since aguni has known the dormouse longer, i’d say her. but heiya is a very close second and he likes heiya more than the card soldier at least.

i know ann’s supposed to be the white queen, but you could make it like the white queen’s kingdom. like with the chess pieces and the white king and lily. if you keep ann at the beach, it could be run by the lily character. or for an extra bit of spice, the white king and ann could be exes. since they have flipped the genders of some characters, like usagi being female but the original white rabbit being male, the white king could also be female. but that’s just my queer!ann agenda popping out.

unsurprisingly there’s not a lot of given names using the kanji for nezumi - and i don’t think nezumi is commonly used as a given name anyway, understandably since it does mean rat - but there are a decent handful of surnames using the kanji for nezumi, like nezumiya or nezumida or nezuo.

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he was trying to leave it behind! he didn’t want to be part of the gang anymore! if his dumbass friends had just chilled the fuck out for another week, they coulda just snatched the whole situation out from under the cop, since as far as they knew, he was just some guy! but no! they jumped in early and all got arrested while the boss actually got away for a couple days there.

they definitely cared about each other in some kind of way. i don’t know if just platonically or romantically tho, which adds to the awkwardness, especially since she gets away in the end.

i think they might’ve broken up by the end? like they got promoted together and he wouldn’t even look at his wife and then he leaves his ring on the boss’ grave? idk. feels like a bad time for them and the wife was questioning if they could ever go back to what they were after this whole incident.

and the boss died in the wife’s arms too. like. he really died in the arms of his first love …….. in front of her husband who shot him. wild.

they shoulda kissed. For Me. if they’d just gone the polyamory route none of this would’ve ended this badly for all of them. nobody was fucking happy at the end. they were literally all miserable.

[mevekagvain]

Chapter 121 - I hope none of the birds affected by the sleeping gas died from falling from a height, especially if they fell on concrete. I don't think the gas itself would affect the birds but it also very well might since they can't handle as much due to being much smaller animals or from not being able to handle the chemicals used.

Chapter 122 - Shark's expressions are so hideous 🤢

- At least Raizel knows how to be nice by sharing food lmao. Frankenstein beaming like a proud father of a 2-year-old who's doing that is definitely not praxis though.

Chapter 124 - Shark being astounded that nobles care about innocents is amusing. I suppose that aside from the Elders, the Union members think nobles consider other species to be inferior or like cockroaches or toys.

- Although I do find Frankenstein plotting to teach Seira cooking so she can cook for Raizel when he can't extremely funny, I do also find it somewhat disturbing. He's essentially making a teen girl do child labour. Yes she and Regis are imposing on him and I do think they should be doing some manner of chores, but making her cook lavish meals? I also know she's doing it willingly but it still makes me cringe since something being one's choice doesn't negate it being bad. And yes technically she's 'of age' since she's 217, whatever that means since she's still obviously a teen compared to Raizel who actually is an adult going to school with children (which is a whole other can of worms), but aside from her position as clan leader she's very obviously not viewed as an adult by most.

Chapter 125 - On one hand I'd love to get a front row seat to the internal drama within the DA-5 lile M-21 but otoh I don't want to die a painful death or get beaten up.

- So like obviously Seira knows that Raizel and Frankenstein aren't ordinary humans unlike Regis but it is hilarious to think she just told the truth to two men she thinks are frail innocent humans.

Chapter 127 - You'd really think that the Union would be investing more into memory altering drugs but nah. The only ones they have will also fuck your brain up. Really not a good idea when most of your agents/experiments obviously have been administered aforementioned drugs. If it was only used sparingly on civilians I'd get it but it's quite widespread so...

Chapter 128 - As much as Frankenstein complains about the mess the kids make, he enjoys having them over as much as Raizel does. Soft hearted bastard.

Chapter 130 - The girls bandaging M-21 up even as Regis fights has them being smarter than like 90% of other characters in media. They're the real reason he didn't hit the dust immediately smh.

Chapter 132 - I still think the coming of age ceremony has a 50% chance of actually being them ingesting drugs that are the equivalent of stat boosting items in games but also ya know, real world drugs that fuck you up. The other 50% is just them getting much stronger after they turn 200 because their bodies are just like that and it truly is purely ceremonial and a fun tradition like children's day or girl's day or birthdays rather than something that actually affects them.

- Lol Kranz, Regis won't be leaving a corpse if he dies. Purebloods are just special like that. Can you imagine if they did see a pureblood dying? They'd regret killing them so bad.

Chapter 133 - Raizel commanding Frankenstein to stop his experiments is definitely something, like bro maybe he was figuring out electrolysis, not like you know what he was doing. Plus it's not like Frankenstein listened completely. Man has a lab under his house and it wasn't built after Raizel woke. I guess he only stopped modification experiements on others and only did checkups on himself but didn't stop experimenting for other stuff like idk, better fertiliser.

- Kinda amazing Takeo didn't get stabbed in the heart.

Chapter 137 - I know it's just because Gejutel likely explained the lord's powers to him but the idea that Regis knows what a blood field is because Raskreia does demonstrations to entertain little kids is making me giggle.

Chapter 140 - So the Union only came upon Frankenstein's research 540 years ago... that's only 40 years before Raskreia became lord. Interesting.

- Ah yes... the classic joke of Tao not teaching Takeo korean properly. It's also very amusing envisioning Tao teaching the DA-5 members korean.

- ARIS ARIS ARIS. God she looks adorbs. Also I love her referring to DA-5 as 'my children' and 'my babies'. Aris >>> all other scientists. Amd hi Yuri :)

Chapter 141 - Yuri listening to Aris insulting Crombel repeatedly,,, he probably enjoys every aspect of it from knowing she's not aware he's his underling to being able to hear someone insult Crombel.

- Once again union members don't know jack shit. They think werewolves are extinct while Maduke and Lunark are literally Elders 😭🤡😭

- Werewolves having a small population never made sense to me even with the whole thing about them not having mind control and thus keeping away from humans secretly since even civilians are stronger than humans on average but like why tf would wolves have such a low reproduction rate? And that's why I hc that 90% of them are just homosexual.

Chapter 142 - D doesn't consume your lifeforce bro. That's just the drugs causing heavy strain on the body, etc etc. The rest of your explanation was fine but talking about lifeforce or vitality makes no sense.

- We all know Yuri's smart but the fact that he tries to get Frankenstein as a subject by scouting him first is very clever. It's believable too since Frankenstein is supposed to be quite handsome.

Chapter 144 - Well we don't know of Crombel microchips his Assassination Squad but Aris canonically microchips her experiments 🤣

Chapter 147 - Okay but this panel... she's hot. I'd let her dissect me <3

- If this was some other media I'd talk about the symbolism of the attack looking like a rapier and go on for a paragraph but this is Noblesse so it's obviously just a coincidence lmao.

- "A living robot" so like... a cyborg.

Chapter 148 - Yuri getting pissed at being attacked and retaliating but pretending it was him being loyal to Aris... Love it. Also he must be really confused as to who tf Frankenstein is since as one of Crombel's most important lackeys he'd definitely know about such a powerful experiment under him if they existed and thus unlike Aris knows that he's not been sent by Crombel.

Chapter 149 - Yup def confused, especially when he realises Frankenstein's power is like Crombel's.

Chapter 150 - Girlboss,,, also it's been years and I'm still wondering... why is her outfit like that? Neon genesis evangelion girlboss does have a ring to it though.

- Ah yes, Taivra time.

Chapter 151 - Okay yeah I feel so bad for Takeo but also Aris is so good at manipulating him and and and iwi. The fact that she can cry on command though... impressive.

- "From the beginning you were an only child. That's why I got you to experiment on." Okay cool time to ignore that again for my own amusement of having all of noblesse's named modified human women be related to Takeo.

- Okay I'm obsessed with strawberry milk myself but strawberries do not taste anywhere near that good. Not even the sweet ones.

Chapter 153 - Yeah no I don't agree that Takeo losing his will to live is an insult to your comrades M-21. You could have said all that in a gentler way. Just because Takeo was luckier than you experiment wise doesn't mean you get to be so rude.

Chapter 154 - M-21 misleading Tao and Takeo to thinking he's being experimented on and then turning around to laugh at them when they find out it's just ramyeon... mood.

- I really do wonder what 12th Elder's military medals are for.

Sidenotes - Hammer being smart <3 I honestly didn't remember that part of him and I'm glad he's not given purely negative traits. He's the only reason Shark lived past 2 chapters tbh.

- Truly, D is one of the worst letters of the alphabet to have named the drugs DA-5 uses. The other bad choice would be P. On the opposite end of the spectrum, T would have been a great choice for the irony. Not that it matters since the inspiration for the drug from name to physical transformation is obviously 🍆

- Nobles being so nonchalant about murder is kinda fucked up like yeah they suck but you can't just kill them??? Lukedonia my beloved your justice system sucks. I do hc they can't just do this in Lukedonia though or to other nobles even if outside of Lukedonia, it's just that the jurisdiction of nobles doesn't apply outside of Lukedonia and they do on some level think of themselves as a superior species so they're fine with just... killing people.

- Aris obsessing over handsome men as experiments and treating them like toys but ignoring women altogether? Not experimenting on women? Gaslight gatekeep girlboss,,, a feministe of our own,,, perhaps even a... lesbienne. But yeah I just love how she acts and I love her and how she interacts with Yuri. And yeah he's cool too.

- Tbh aside from how short the skirts are and the white blazers, the Ye Ran uniform really reminds me of my own school's uniform. The colours are exactly the same. We just didn't have blazers since it was a forever summer tropical country, only jumpers for if it got too cold in the air conditioned rooms. And for some people who grow up in tropical countries... 25°C can be too cold.