#i mean its not a chapter but hey

[oceanwithouthermoon]

i always feel bad when i see how the point of a lot of saiki's personality traits flew right over the heads of a lot of fans due to him being an unreliable narrator and a tsundere lol.. so a lot of things he says are immediately proved to be untrue and often just him putting up a front, but some people dont pick up on it..

like i see a lot of "haha saiki would never want to watch a romance movie" guys there is an entire chapter (170) dedicated to him being like "i much prefer mysteries to romance stories.." and then immediately becoming absolutely enamored with a romance story.. he was lying, guys, LMAO

less specific ones include:

"i hate children, they annoy me" *goes out of his way to help kids, comfort them, be kind to them, etc.*

"i only use my powers for self gain/my own convenience." "anyway my mama told me to never use my powers selfishly so i always use them to help people and i try my best not to use them for personal gain<3"

"those guys are so annoying, i would never hang out with them willingly." "yeah it took them about two sentences to convince me to go with them. their thoughts seemed like they really wanted me to go, so i did. i didnt want them to be upset. not that i care about them or anything."

(sorry i post about this kind of thing a lot, i just giggle a lot at how the entire manga is so easily misinterpreted and thousands of people have watched the show but didnt pick up on the main characters most defining character traits and frequent bits.. i think there needs to be a masterlist or something disproving all the extremely common misconceptions about saiki k lol)

[transmasccofee]

constantly tiptoeing the line between “Saiki k is a gag manga and a lot the gag is that it explores and exaggerates typical anime tropes” and “its still very earnest and there are clearly parts that are meant to be taken seriously”

like you can almost always tell bc Asou is a very talented writer and can convey tone in his story really well, but sometimes the stuff he throws in as a joke makes u go O_O

[silverskye13]

Rereading RnS on vacation, and I noticed something I'd forgotten about.

Who was the Hels that Martyn and RK knew who stopped being and then became again but didn't remember anything or anyone?

Additionally, still caught off guard by how much they hate/dislike/can't be in each other's presence right now. And smirking at the begrudgingly assisting Helsknight like 'dude this small wet cat of a Hels is going to change the way you think forever stop looking like you want to pitch him out a window sometimes'

Skizz's helsmet is the one in question. He showed up first as Ender!Skizz, got taken by the universe, and then showed up again But Different. Helsknight also refers to him when Red has his botched intervention in chapter 9:

“Did you give this lecture to your pet enderman before he left?” Helsknight snapped, his voice an angry growl. “Don’t think he found much peace.”

[completeoveranalysis]

[5]

Let’s just go ahead and file this under PAGES THAT ARE PHYSICALLY PAINFUL TO LOOK AT

I don’t even have commentary I ONLY HAVE DISTRESS

OH NO SURELY THAT’S ILLEGAL

Also why does this look so good

Why is this so fantastic to look at

The worst things are happening BUT THE DRAMATIC FRAMING IS TO DIE FOR

I MEAN YEAH OK HE ABSOLUTELY WOULD DO THIS BUT I REALLY DON’T LIKE IT

MIN-MAX SYAORAN INDEED

OH

YEAH

YEAH OK

FAI AND KUROGANE COMPLETELY TAKEN OUT IN A SINGLE GIANT ATTACK

YEAH

YEAH IM FINE DONT WORRY ABOUT IT

[chaosduckies]

And yet another midnight writing urge. THIS IS THE FIFTH NIGHT IN A ROW- my body cannot keep up with how fast my mind makes decisions TwT

But hey, possibly chapter 2 of Friends in Small Places tomorrow? 👀

[csoisoi]

azz's love language with iruma: words of affirmation

azz's love language with clara: words of exasperation

[nihiltism]

ok so while my ds is getting sand poured into it at alarming rates I'm thinking about how jrpgs in specific have a really weird desync with How Important Death Is. like some address it better than others but it very frequently happens where if you take a step back youll go "am I wild or is everybody just like, Really down with murder in this game". and consequences for said murder, especially in a characterization sense but even just actual physical consequences, don't really happen? unless it's a vehicle for conflict but like. when it is a vehicle for conflict it feels weird because why are These Guys actually taking the fact we killed somebody in broad daylight seriously and coming after us for it while all the other npcs and even the main party took it like it was another saturday evening

see I Think where the issue lies is in the fact that everything is in its own little world when you're in a battle? like. when you fight an enemy and you get leather out of it it's seen as something the enemy Drops and not. their hide. when you defeat a character in a battle it does just feel like you Defeated them. unless there's dialogue afterwards that says otherwise you don't even mentally assume you killed em you just wounded them enough to make them flee or dissolve or whatever. and it's Weird to just. have that assumption there because for a lot of games it really isn't clear if you're killing them or defeating them !!

that last point is extra important when you have the specific brand of Skittish Hero / Noble Hero Who Doesn't Kill People / Rational Hero In Way Over Their Head or whatever where you really don't think they Would kill a guy just to get them out of the way. in that case it's REALLY weird because it's hardly brought up. even if it Is brought up that that guy Sure Did Die the mc doesn't tend to actually have a reaction ??? and I don't know why this is ???? like Any written reaction would be more interesting than nothing even if the guy doesn't have a full on crisis about taking another life having them go "oh shit, The Consequences" would be nice. really anything except (oh cool we can advance the plot now).

I will also mention that Some deaths do matter plot wise but very frequently what makes them matter is how much of it is linked to an in game battle I think. if your mc just finishes a fight and comes back to the overworld and the guy's Disappeared or Dissolved or whatever it means they don't matter. if the guy's still around after the fight it means it's more significant, especially if they're still alive but wounded or Really Shaken Up. because this clears up the indistinguishable line between if a battle is lethal or not and if a character decides to deal a finishing blow now it's Way more telling of their character. even though this is basically the same thing that happened in the (killed In A Battle) scenario. just with more dialogue. I will also mention that the person who deals the finishing blow is Rarely Ever that good hearted protagonist and often they'll even go :0 at somebody else committing a murder despite them instigating and helping murder quite a few people. just. In Battle. so it's less bad. I guess.

this is leaving out the fact that in party deaths are often a Major Major Blow because like. ok that's fair. that's A Guy You Knew that's understandable. anyway I don't really know where I'm going with this I just think it's interesting how in these types of games death can swap from not mattering at all to mattering a Lot and if u don't think about it too hard u don't even question it. I'll probably be putting some examples in the tags idk

[waywardsalt]

tbh i might go ahead and put dungeons in as a part of the bellum x linebeck fic's plot since like. 1) struggling to actually figure out a main plot and having dungeons as sort of bit points to hit and be little bits of fitting exploration and bonding and 2) i do kinda want to do dungeons. i like thinking of them and again i do think its fitting.

[fair-lead]

textbook mentioned gravitational waves/radiation and i almost imploded in my seat

[lesbiangiratina]

… there are 2 testament centric chapters id love to scan even just for my own enjoyment but the thought of taking these books apart makes me sad. Maybe if i just. Squish it down hard enough itll look okay. I just want to have new testament images

[hefcumin]

I started reading what happens next and I need an update right fucking now

[astro-inthestars]

AUAUGHHHGHHHAHHHGHHUHHUHGHHH

My school starts tomorrow show's joever :(

[major-victory]

Chapter 1 of DTB: Dark Matter sitting at a cool 1,700 words so far, and I have maybe another 800 to go? Heck, maybe even another 1,300 words, actually, depending on how much I need to actually write to tie off this scene...

I was hoping to finish it tonight, but I didn't have as much time as I had hoped. Oh well. Excited to post it tomorrow then hueuheuheuheuheuhe

[annoyingtrashcanman]

i love Renée Minkowski so much

[salmonentrees]

after most of a week staying at a friend's place i can now write again! love peace & joy on planet earth etc etc. now i just have to make it good

[o-winterqueen-o]

another day another ao3 writer muted because they tag their side ships and divorced / unrequited ships in the relationship filters and I'm SICK OF IT