#if this has any typo it'll probably be corrected later on

[m00nj3w3l]

Well here I am (ONS chapter 128)

Ok I'm finally writing out my thoughts about ONS' 128. Idk how long it'll come out (extremely long as I'm writing it it seems...) and also as always I want to hear others' opinions on this, but as a warning it will be mostly negative. I actually did a similar post back at the start of the year with BSD, but BSD at least managed to bounce back full force and do what it needed to do while ONS shows no signs of that.

I'll break it down into the following points:

>I'm also getting tired of the flashbacks (as many already did)

>I miss the Shinoa squad (will touch upon Mitsuba specifically and y'all probably know why)

>The belief that MikaYuu fans are getting much better content and why I think that's bs (will probably mention my theorem of "Mika, along with literally all the women of the franchise, got hit with the mysoginy stick")

So let's go I guess, under the cut so I don't clutter my non-ONS followers' dash.

>The flashbacks: I... Did not mind them up unti now, if I've got to be honest. Let's be serious here everyone probably expected a batshit crazy backstory for the characters, ESPECIALLY Yuu and Mika, and that's what made me not really complain. Now it has been like? 8 chapters of ONLY flashbacks??? Only things of the past with NO break and NO POV switches to at least let us know wtf is going on in the outside world. Christ. The fact that irritates me the most is that all of this adds nothing to the plot either!!! What are the MCs supposed to do now that they've seen one of them (WHO HAS BEEN 4 DIFFERENT SPECIES TOO SINCE THE START OF THE SERIES???) sacrifice for the 3rd time!!!! AND IN THE PAST AT THAT!!!! HOW IS THIS USEFUL FOR THEM OR ANY OF US AGHHFHGHHG. We got other gays going at it tho and that's just funny to me. This is just a BL masked as a battle shonen lmaoooo.

>The Shinoa squad: I feel like this is obvious. Where tf are they? They obviously are looking out for where Mika and Yuu are, how did we not see them again yet??? Some progress in their hunt (let's call it that) for those two??? Shinoa literally threatened to kill Mika (and, for a number of reasons, let me say this: ew.) I'd at least like to see her and how she's doing. And didn't Kagami promise us Mitsuba would get more screentime soon? THIS IS LITERALLY A PERFECT SETTING. SHOW ME HER AND SHINOA BEING IN CONFLICT CUS SHE WORRIES ABOUT HER FRIEND AND WANTS HER TO COME TO HER SENSES!!! SHOW ME HOW THEE LITERAL KIDS ARE DOING AFTER BEING ASKED BY A FULL ON 24 Y.O TO CHOOSE THEIR FAMILIES OR THE WORLD LIKE BE SO SERIOUS THE SETTING WAS *DECENT* (wouldn't say perfect cus I'm not the biggest fan of the "bring everyone back" plot but ok) FOR IT ALL I'M *explodes*

>MikaYuu: Oh boy ok here we go. So since I came back after my rewatch and catch up to this manga which resulted in hyperfixation again I noticed that the narrative of MikaYuu shippers getting better content cus a lot of the chapters now focus on them is... common. And for a while I just thought "ok" and moved on but now I'm fully on convinced it's just. Not true. Not because the content isn't there, I would be lying if I said that, but because it's... Not good. Good content, for me (as someone who clearly loves these two if you scroll for even 2 minutes down my fucking tag), would be seeing actual growth between them, some actual substance in what they are doing as of rn, and we are not getting any of that. Since when did we see them actually DO something? Last time we saw Yuu in his actual body and actually saying something was last chapter and he was EATING. Then we went back to them just passively staring at everything that went on. And to add onto this, I dislike demon Mika as a plot IN GENERAL because it recessed any development both for HIM and for Yuu himself. Yuu acts stupid (wtf happened to him after Nagoya I'm being so serious Nagoya Yuu I miss you so much) as shit cus anyway Mika IS strong enough to let him get away with it but not enough to oppose Yuu at some point and this was addressed as a problem for like 2 seconds and then nothing. Oh my God. And not only that but this fucking thing also shows that Mika did, indeed, also get hit with a mysoginy beam, but that's another topic I want to talk about in another post if anyone even really cares about it.

So... Yeah. I'm not tired (I only started catching up in March after my rewatch, so I'm still curios about how this will go), but I AM sad. I really miss the earlier arcs and the potential they all had that now seems like a long lost memory. Can we all collectevely just go back to the Nagoya one like if the series stuck to that path I would be able to excuse its flaws up until a point because GOD. The eyeball with its Seraph shit or whatever the hell it was doing was cool tho.

As always y'all can tell me what y'all think, but I'm mostly expecting this to get lost in the void given how dead the fandom is. So yeah, see ya.

[kitkatt0430]

Hi! I'm trying to set up my own Calibre library for fics and your tutorials were so helpful! Thank you for writing them!

I even downloaded some fics and every column works fine except the #rating_level, because it only fills gen works with ratings. I wrote everything the way you showed, I only changed the colours for them "green, yellow, orange, red, blue" comma seperated and space. But even when I restart Calibre, it deletes the space between words and commas.

Here's the screenshot for showing:

I only added some custom columns that you showed the same way I saw in your tutorial + personal.ini to access archived stuff and mature fics.

Do you have an advice to what to do in this case? Thank you for the help in advance! (Or just for the answer!) I'm so sorry for the dumb questions, I'm such a loser when it comes to technology :_D

So when I checked my own columns - I didn't end up assigning colors to the rating levels, but I did for my status column (Completed,In-Progress,Unfinished with the colors green,red,yellow)

So looking at both my rating_level and completion_status columns, none of them have a space after the comma either so I think that's just how Calibre prefers it? comma separated values but not comma-space separated. It could be that entering them with the comma-space is the problem and Calibre is only correcting it visually when displaying the column data to you when you revisit later but the space is still there in the data itself.

So one option is to delete clear out the values/colors for the column, re-enter them with the separating comma but no space (so the spaces within a fixed value such as 'Not Rated' would remain but there would be no space added before the N). This makes sense to me since as a software engineer I have to be aware that the computer will interpret the strings 'Not Rated' and ' Not Rated' as not equal due to the leading space.

You might also delete the column entirely and then remake it with the values entered so that they're only separated by commas and no spaces just to be really sure. Either way, once you've saved the changes and restarted Calibre, you can do a meta-data only update on a fanfic you've already downloaded that didn't get the rating set to see if it'll set correctly this time. (If you remake the column instead of updating the existing one you'll need to re-add it in the fanficfare settings again too before trying to update the meta-data for a fic and probably re-update all the meta-data for all your fics.)

Another thing to consider is it could be a bug in the interaction between the version of Calibre and the version of the FanFicFare plugin that you've got. if resetting or recreating the column doesn't help then you may want to update both to the latest if you haven't already. Or close to the latest in Calibre's case, as the current version of Calibre (7.25) has a txt file conversion bug that 7.24 didn't have. So if you're planning any txt file conversions maybe wait for 7.26 and upgrade to 7.24 for now instead. (i have a number of txt files i'd like to convert to epub but I have to wait for the next release because downgrading is too much of a pain.)

Looking at your screenshot, I don't think typos are your problem. But I also have mild dyslexia and cannot be fully trusted to spot typos. (Which is presumably why I can reread a fanfic I wrote, find typos I missed despite several editing passes, fix them, and then reread the same fic a few months later and find something else entirely has been misspelled all this time.)

If none of that helps, then you could consider deleting the rating_level column and creating a new one that uses 'Text, column shown in the tag browser' instead of the fixed set of permitted values. It will mean you can't assign colors to the different ratings, but once the new version of the Rating Level column is assigned in the FanFicFare settings it should grab the rating info from there forward without any problems. It'll accept any text as the rating which isn't necessarily a bad thing if you're pulling from multiple sources and not just Ao3.

[clericlost-a]

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