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[starry-blue-echoes]

yeah the Yukako/Koichi pairing doesn't sit well with me at ALL considering how her debut episode went. like, if you swapped the genders of the two of them there'd be people baying for blood instead of thinking they're a cute couple

yeah :///

like, don't get me wrong, like I said I absolutely adore her introduction episode. It's the perfect amount of absolutely terrifying and you can really feel how helpless Koichi is in this situation. Yukako is much stronger than he is and way more unpredictable. Her temper is absolutly terrifying and you can really tell he's walking on eggshells around her

but the whole reason the episode worked was because it was framed as Yeah What Yukako's Doing Is REALLY FUCKED. That it didn't matter the gender of either party, that her being a girl didn't make this okay and it didn't frame it as Koichi being at fault for not accepting her affections. What she was doing was obsessive and making him uncomfortable and Koichi didn't like it and that was okay

It made it expressly clear several times throughout the two parter that it was completely out of Koichi's hands and in no way his responsibility, that Yukako was being unreasonable with him and what she wanted out of him, and then Cinderella smashes all that to pieces

[princesscas]

"edit images with AI-- search with AI-- control your life with AI--"

[koobiie]

shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this

[clownsuu]

I could NOT get this out of my head for the life of me

[nariarts]

Spent a ridiculous amount of time last night obsessively editing my hand written zines in Photoshop to take away any tiny blemishes so they were definitely readable.

Whatever. Understand or don't.

[psykopaths]

Manifesting ✨️

[humming-fly]

I love how Gerald was trying to keep Shadow from spoiling anything about the future meanwhile literally everything Shadow says and does around Maria is the biggest death flag ever

[l0tt1ee]

[ed-recoverry]

Reminder that caregivers of children are, by definition, supposed to provide shelter, food, and clothing. They did not do you a huge favor by providing this. It was the bare minimum of the job description that they voluntarily signed up for. You are not indebted to your caregivers for giving you the very basics.

[prokopetz]

One of the reasons the walrus-versus-fairy thing was so contentious is that not only did the person who originally posed the question strongly believe the correct answer was obviously the fairy, their reasoning for why the fairy was obviously more surprising was that seeing a fairy would instantly refute the validity of human reason as a tool for understanding the universe and bring your entire worldview crashing down. The sensible response is, of course, to point out that people don't work like that, and realistically nobody is going to see something mildly inexplicable and fall to their knees wailing in existential despair unless we're living in an H P Lovecraft novel, but I'm not gonna lie, I'd probably pay money to read a story about a dude having a full on Lovecraft protagonist breakdown in response to seeing Tinkerbell.

[atissi]

i don't really like when people say dungeon meshi is accidentally good autistic representation, because while i understand not wanting to make conclusions without explicit confirmation from the author, there's always the weird assumption that non-western authors somehow don't know about things like neurodivergency/queerness/etc. (on top of the assumptions that east asian authors are somehow more naive or oblivious to "western" social issues).

given that dungeon meshi started being published in 2014, it's not really a "work belonging to its times"—it's as contemporary as any other media we discuss on this site, which means it should be fair to assume it engages with contemporary topics (and at the very least, you shouldn't say that the representation is accidental with so much confidence)

but anyways, the chapter "perfect communication" in ryoko kui's "terrarium in a drawer" is some of the most straightforward autistic representation I've seen, and from now on I'm going to assume that laios's character writing is absolutely intentional in that regard:

[lovertm]

x x

[stars-bean]

M*A*S*H | 2.17 - "For Want of A Boot"

[sourpeachsayshi]

okay, but a man talking you through your orgasm. a man who smiles the second you climax and is all "there we go,", is smoothing his hands over your trembling thighs and says "you're shaking so hard, baby," who has to keep your hips down as he tuts "easy, sweetheart, easy, that's just the second one...", who exhales a laugh under his breath as he sweetly inhales the back of your neck, his palm cupping your pulsing cunt when he points out "too much for you, my love? are you getting sore?"