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crimsonbits · 1 year ago

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This might be very petty and might ruffle some feathers but the Number One Touhou Fandom Sin I'll never ever forgive is the amount of content (which thankfully is much, much rarer these days) that takes characters whose appeal is that they are confident and egotistical loveable jerks, with as many flaws as unearned bravado, and turns them into lobotomized submissive and/or "moe" versions of themselves.

And honestly maybe it's because I'm not even attracted to women to begin with, but I feel like this is motivated by Very Specific reasons. And, let's be clear, there isn't really anything morally wrong with that or anything (maybe besides the weird sexist undertones of this being done to female characters all the time. Also we're assuming the characters are coded as adults to begin with, obviously) but damn if it doesn't make me viscerally uncomfortable. Especially when it's clearly done outside of NSFW content/not meant to be that. I do think it plays on very sexist tropes most of the time.

Like, taking away these traits from these women and not allowing them to exist as actual characters outside of the "anime girl" trope box. Reduced to an unrecognisable mirage of their canon self. Let them be the overly-confident pathetic assholes with a heart of gold that they already are, instead of just waifubait. I know the absurdity of saying that to Touhou fans is like speaking to wall, but I was put on this earth to complain so, lol.

#crimposting #touhou #negativity warning lol #hope I don't regret posting this lmaoooo #it used to be more common in the past

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serpentface · 6 months ago

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Tigran: launching into a story about a time when he was 7 and watched a guy get eaten alive by dogs, completely unprompted and unnervingly blasé about the whole thing.

Etsushir: not listening, warming his hands over the nightly allotment of yams, smoking.

Palo: this is the tenth time he's heard this story, not listening, wondering whether Etsushir is smoking tobacco and where the hell he got it and can he have some?

#Lore:#Tigran has kind of a psychological fixation on people being eaten by dogs. Which is rooted in childhood trauma but it's hard #to tell because he loves dogs and always seems weirdly enthused by the whole concept.#More lore:#They're cooking on a dry dung fire which is very common in the region in general- largely grassland and savannah. Most of the #formerly wooded areas are deforested both on a long scale due to the drying climate and on a short scale of human use.#Wood is a valuable commodity and grown in agricultural regions and harvested with coppicing or otherwise imported by sea.#The northeast has an intact forest that hasn't been widely exploited due to distance from urban centers and impracticality of #transport over land and that's pretty much it.#The Highlands also retain woodlands within the interior but the formerly surrounding forests have been heavily exploited #(due to proximity to major rivers) and were fully wiped out within the past century.#The fact that cremation is the default and expected funerary practice and also used in most sacrificial offerings heavily #contributes (cattle and khait dung is allowable for these purposes due to the animals' sacred status but not considered preferable).#(associated with lower class funerals)#Anyway bottom line dry dung is going to be what the majority of people use for everyday fuel needs and also what pretty #much everyone on the pilgrimage is using (which the wealthier members are unaccommodated to but these guys are)#etsushir #tigran otto #palo apolynnon #the white calf

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lyxchen · 25 days ago

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I feel like I'm digging myself deep into a hole and finding nothing, trying to figure out more about In-ho's family

#i've been hyperfixating for probably over an hour #just googling and looking at pictures and squid game wiki and using google translate in hopes that it's not translating wrong #i'm tired #this hyperfixation is strong #but idk i'm not getting anywhere #all i found out is that gihun's mom and junho's mom have the same first name for some reason #idk is mal-soon a common korean name?#also i found out that the data they get for the files on the players is just data that you can find by looking a person up enough #because in gihuns file for family there isn't any father listed and the same goes for inho #also for inho the only parent that is listed is his stepmother and not his actual mother #also junho was born when inho was 16 #that's not a hidden detail that's just math #anyways #idk they could be not putting names of parents because it's important or maybe it's also entirely unimportant #i'm rewatching (or trying to) season 1 actually for an entirely different reason but i've been hung up on this for too damn long and now #it's getting dark outside and i feel like i #*like i've wasted my whole afternoon for basically no information #idk i'm thinking too much about backstory but if we look at seasons 1 and 2 we can see that squid game is really not a backstory heavy show #ore more like #there's not really any flashbacks and most backstory stuff/stuff from the past is only ever mentioned in like a throwaway line #if we're talking about family and all that #anyways i need to Stop or i'm gonna freak out #okay i'll tell you what i actually wanted to do and that's draw #and specifically do that 'do you think we would find each other in every universe trend' with saebyeok and jiyeong #but for that i need to watch the marbles game conversation they had and so i'm watching until that maint now #*point #so #if you've read up until now you're welcome or i'm sorry... idk #squid game #hwang in ho

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aalghul · 10 months ago

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I don’t think it makes sense to assume that Jason was mocking Mia’s past. At all. The thing that got jason painted as violent back in the 80s was his anger against rapists…how does that turn into mocking a victim? and that entire story was written by winick. Do we honestly think winick intended to communicate that? The same writer who made Jason’s first kill a man who was trafficking children? Who had Jason pause in his mission of madness to make sure those kids were found by the right people so they wouldn’t be in further danger?

#let’s knock on our skulls and kick our brains back into gear okay?#you can maintain that it wasn’t well executed or that the role mia played here bothers you #but you can’t say jason was mocking her for that or even seriously trying to hurt her physically #he was bsing like 90% of the story with his constant ‘we should all kill anyone who inconveniences us! speedy and GA should try to kill me #if they want to win’ like we understand that yes?#but that last part of his convo with Mia was the one serious part #he was wrong! of course he was wrong about ollie. but this was also Jason’s first time meeting ollie #it was ridiculous and unnecessary on his end and it put mia thru the emotional wringer for nothing #but that wasn’t the Intention. it was a stupid thing done by someone who never expected anything to come of it but still said what *to him*#was a way of offering advice #and as for the ppl who go ‘stop reaching abt jason being a victim and just read Mia instead’#a) there’s more to Mia’s character than her past. anyone who thinks that fits Jason’s past wouldn’t necessarily like mia bc they’re not the #same character #it’s the same way that if jason was confirmed to have been a victim of SA as a kid then all of Mia’s fans wouldn’t love him like they love #her? this is common sense. anyways stop being assholes online and just recommend characters too ppl nicely #b) more than one character can have experienced a similar form of abuse. also common sense #c) it’s not an unreasonable hc #d) it doesn’t hurt you personally. none of this killed your grandma #once again: hate whoever you like but choosing the interpretation that doesn’t make sense just to make up a #‘valid’ reason is serious loser behaviour

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saturnniidae · 7 months ago

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Thinking about my 'Nadders being able to mimick human speech like parrots' concept again but with a slightly darker take on it?

Deadly Nadders are a fiercely loyal species and are social, so what if when they perceive a threat to their flock they gradually learn to lure people away using human voices (likely the sounds of children or people calling for help) to either A) if you're lucky, just get tricked into walking to the edge of the forest/area so you don't find them, or B) get lost in the woods so the Nadder can spineshot you out of sight.

I also think Changewings could do something similar considering their gaze is hypnotic (in the comics didn't Hiccup get hypnotized by one and almost walked off a cliff?)

#this partially is inspired by one of my fav pkmn zoroark that's been #said to use its illusions to make people get lost or go mad if they get too close to its den #anyways i feel like this would be a like super defensive high stress thing since nadders arent particularly agressive #or its probably more common in those that have had bad experiences with humans in the past and are more cautious #or ones that have babies/eggs to protect #httyd #rtte #deadly nadder #stormfly #httyd headcanon #kind of #might use this idea for my fantasy au thing bc i want the magic forest to be an offputting hellscape for humans #moth.txt #deyas dragons

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grumpy-detective · 11 months ago

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please, not to kinkshame or whatever the term would be, but if you are gonna post rpf fics, DO NOT post it in the main tags of the creator/person

#schlatt #jschlatt #this post brought to you by the frustration of having to constantly block people while going through the schlatt tag #just want to look at cool art and sometimes gifs of sclatt #but instead i see x reader fics with him #i have the tags blocked so i can instantly block those people but some people don't even use those tags #dont want people to dislike u or ur stuff?#keep it out of the GOD DAMN MAIN TAGS #feel like it used to be more common to keep shit like this out of the main tags #but idk if i'm just looking at the past with rosetinted glasses

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nemesis-is-my-middle-name · 3 months ago

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this is a tiny pet peeve but i think its kinda odd that people seem to like. forget, or maybe just neglect to take into account, that yellow, for whatever reason (whether he's an alt universe john or a fresh piece of this universe's KIY that kayne went and ripped off) has ALSO been trapped in the dark world prior to being with arthur and has exactly as many Feelings about it. this is a very load bearing character trait imo

#the nemesis speaks #mv liveblog #malevolent spoilers #standard ''fandom hermit'' disclaimer most of my perception of common hc/characterization here is just osmosis from fics ive read #this is why i lean way more towards the ''alt timeline john'' idea than anything else #bc how does it work otherwise. did kayne grab a new piece of the king and then. stick it in the dark world to finish cooking?#i mean i wouldn't put it past him i guess it just seems like a needless logistical investment on his part #anyway more to the point. in terms of personality/character i think both of them are several layers removed from the king atp #and it's BECAUSE of the dark world. BECAUSE they went through this process of being helpless and fighting for their lives #that's why yellow is Like That. this is why he bites.#you think the king would be that goddamn defensive and scared and easily cowed by threats?? fuck no. hes better than that #relatedly i think ppl overestimate how much yellow actually remembers of being the king #and correspondingly underestimate how much the persona really is just a mask he grabbed at to defend himself from arthur #''ok you're saying that i am this thing and you hate and fear it so i'll become it and then you'll stop snapping that fucking whip at me''#like cmon. you make a guy feel so fucking lost and small and helpless and then tell him that he used to be a fucking GOD #what is he supposed to do besides lean into that idea in hopes of getting any of that power back to defend himself with??#yellow my poor lil meow meow... my sad wet cat who refuses to admit he is wet or sad...#anyway i'll stop doing character analysis in the tags now #malevolent #malevanalysis

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wtfgaylittlezooid · 2 months ago

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I can’t tell if this is some kind of depression or if Ep 11 made me feel worse

#it’s less of the actual episode and more of just how. inescapable the critique and negativity around it is #and I know why people don’t like it the critiques and opinions are valid but #this fandom is normally so positive and upbeat #at least with the other fandoms I’ve been in with common bad writing it was easy to skip past because they were used to it #I tried indulging it thinking ‘ah seeing others pov and offering my critique would help’#instead it jus made me super insecure about my writing triggered my rsd. hough

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priafey · 3 months ago

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things the US needs to address:

the collective psychosis that leads people to make posts like these

#in case it's unclear what i mean:#1.) blaming gen z men or any of the listed grifters is useless idpol #2.) half of your country did not 'vote against [your] collective best interests' lmao #if you truly believe that you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the position your country occupies in the global economy #and the benefits conferred onto its citizens for supporting the imperial world order #3.) i feel like OP kept this point purposefully vague (ofc social media has on effect on the common good. what effect specifically?)#but i'll still respond by saying #social media has helped immensely in exposing how often traditional news outlets lie retract revise and outright fabricate information #the more aligned with bourgeois interests they are the worse it is #the past year of western media's reporting on the genocide in palestine has done nothing if not highlight the incongruence #between what people see n share on the ground and what narratives corporate interests deem fit to disseminate through traditional channels #the importance of following independent (which does not equal 'unbiased') journalists has never been greater #4.) 'lazy minds and lack of empathy' empathy is not some bulwark against fascism. it can actually serve to further it quite easily #idk what OP is trying to get at here. lazy point = lazy response #5.) i can't say anything here that isn't summed up better by that tweet that's like #'american *sees something american happening americanly in america*: what are we a bunch of ASIANS?!?!???'#cause there's just nooo way politicians and public figures in the US could spew reactionary nonsense and get a huge following #unless the evil russians had a hand in it #cause it's not like the US is racism central or anything #come on now #(for those unaware i'm citing this tweet bc orientalism of this kind has historically been directed at russians/slavs in addition to #people from MENA and asian countries broadly)#6.) see point number 3 above; trying to police AI is a fruitless endeavor; people need media literacy in order to #understand the interests of the parties involved in the coverage of any event and better discern the truth about what's happening;#identifying the bias inherent to any news channel and then examining how that bias impacts its reporting does far more to help dispel #misinformation than just labeling anything you don't like or you think influences people the 'wrong' way as misinformation #anyway i'm done. clown.#sansgwilie

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variousqueerthings · 7 months ago

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i do sometimes think about community histories that come from similar spaces, especially pre-certain-words-being coined, and while i do understand the drive to go "no you [x identity] go away, this one is for us!" because often certain queer communities are woefully ignored and talked over, i also have an instinct for wanting to bring communities together because they were often one and the same community, or the words were conflated in certain ways and there's almost never a "this one is for us" that is as neat as people like to pretend (flashbacks to "butch and femme are lesbian-only terms" although ofc sometimes it really is importantly a closed community term, like the word "stud")

sometimes historically you cannot neatly map a label onto a person/group/event/idea because that terminology was different, and we cannot go back and ask what would work best using today's terminology anymore than we can travel to the future to see what it'll evolve into that might work better than today, but also maybe it's important to find some middle-point between a lack of clear terminology and community spaces that are divided into their own, clear sections

but in order for people to not feel overlooked and mocked the work needs to be done from all facets of the queer community to go outside ones own personal identity to make a history queer rather than "just" [insert x here]. and i hope that one day that work will make us more unified as a series of political and philosophical ideals and less disparate groups without bleed-through or overlap, even when one personally may feel quite easily placed within an identity

idk, it's the idea of "personal identity" vs "political coalition" but it's also just quite sad to try and box us in again

#there's a lot within this... thinking about anne lister's rainbow plaque being protested because it included the word *genderqueer*#as well as lesbian #thinking about words like *qpr* and how the ace and the aro community comes from many of the same community groups and ideas #and how ive been very happy for the word aspec to come into use because it also further broadens the Possibilities for the *A*#but also how aspec identities exist within all the other alphabet letters (especially visibly bisexual histories)#thinking about how the trans community cannot continue to ignore intersex history and our part in perpetuating marginalisation #but also how intersex and trans history has often been the same history and cannot be called neatly one or the other #and what this means for our potential futures as visibly othered bodies. what that common ground needs in order to exist #thinking about how so many of us with perhaps clearer distinctions today #would have been in very different community spaces in the past (the likelihood that i might have been a lesbian is one i think about a lot)#(despite my attractions mapping more neatly along queer men aesthetically)#(but also thinking about people like zinaida gippius or dora carrington... for me personally... but also lou sullivan... it ain't that easy #queer stuff #queer history #queer community #queer coalition #queer solidarity #queer politics #queer rights

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itspileofgoodthings · 1 year ago

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also I had a breakthrough today that I had in fact overthought a Specific Problem to Death and that I had created a monster in my own mind and that’s why it felt like I was being eaten alive every time I tried to solve it.

#not to put too fine a point on it but that’s what happened with the whole is Maria going to become a nun question tbh #and I needed a counselor to say to me objectively and yet also crucially without any knowledge of me or my past:#you have overthought this and now you’re terrified of it #anyway it’s so obvious but it came home to me today. slowly.#like it was just like. Oh. You did it again #you’re terrified of this because you have thought of every possibility and every outcome and every twist and turn and shadow—-#until it has become a bloated demon in your mind that is totally separated from reality #while made up of real facts and details! and tbh I know it’s a common problem #but the anxiety chokehold I can put myself in is something that is so impressive and so disturbing #I can render myself absolutely helpless through the meanderings of my own thoughts #and what makes it worse—immeasurably worse—is that I get OUT of problems through careful thought and analysis #I’m programmed that way #so I can’t escape it by the usual means. I have to back away from the monster and see it and NAME it and then it can die away.#and only THEN can I apply my usual ways of going about things. I don’t know it just all clicked today #these past few days have just been bringing it all to a fever pitch for me #anyway I guess it’s also important to me that I still be allowed to be analytical about it!!! I have to use my brain!!!!!!!#in my desperation I have tried to shut it off to feel only with my heart. To try to catch the whisper of God’s voice in the wind #but tbh I am meant to use the gifts I have! But only in the right context #and that’s only after the demon has been killed or more accurately —deflated #my counselor has been so good about this tbh. she’s so matter of fact and blunt and salt of the earth and also she sees how my mind works #and wants me to be able to use it!!#so I’m just going to tell her that I did the bad thing with this other problem and can she help me find a way forward #ANYWAY THE MONSTERS TURNED OUT TO BE JUST TREES

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arolesbianism · 1 month ago

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Finally got around to designing this girlie! Her name is Compound, and she’s the leader of a goddess bless party of adventurers! Which is to say she is a huge suck up and absolutely unwilling to acknowledge that she and her party are completely and utterly unqualified for any of the missions they’re being thrown at

#keese draws #oc art #oc #shes ofc part of the same crew as pledge and orthodox #girlie does not know she’s a side character <3 #she has always been very loyal to the insight goddess and has worked tirelessly to get into a blessed adventurer party #she very much is willing to do whatever she’s ordered to by the goddess but outside of that she tends to be too sepf righteous to listen to #others and as such she can often come across as very bossy and vaguely threatening to those who work with her #she really likes the imagery of heroism and kindness but she truthfully mostly just likes feeling like she’s in the right #which isn’t to say she’s like super mean or that she doesn’t care abt those around her #she cares a Lot about her friends and does genuinely like helping people #but she also grew up in a very religious family and in yknow. the city that the goddess most of the continent worships lives.#so she generally values herself by how well she follows the gods ideals of heroism opposed to any personal morals #and she values other people by the same metric #and since she’s quite a bit more religious than average even within the area she’s developed a bit of a superiority complex around it #anyways fun fact her shoulderpiece is basically a soulder flask #it’s specifically for storing liquids for her token magical trinket which is a sponge #well it’s the head of one of those pill animal sponges #the body of it was grinded up and melded into her sword #so the size density and some additional bonus properties are all based around the state of the head of the sponge #the head is also attached to a little stick so it can be easily put in and taken out of the shoulder piece when needed #she usually keeps her shoulderpiece filled with warm fluids (usually broths)#this is mostly because the most common type of monsters around are slimes that the warmth and bits of grease help cut through #in theory you could do some much cooler stuff with it but the sponge itself is just yknow. a sponge. so there are some pretty hard limits #like hypothetically you could have a cool acid sword that can melt things but you’d have it for approximately 20 seconds #historically the sponge pieces were mostly used as tools in the kitchen before the relic collection program went into full swing #they Were going to be sent to be used in the palace kitchen but a wesponsmith involved with the project saw potential in them #so the sword bound to a sponge concept was born and made and left to sit around in the armory for a century or two #there’s a lot of various relics that mostly just sit around in the royal armory but over the past 50 years or so letting adventuring #academy students and graduates borrow them has become pretty standard practice

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dazzle02 · 3 months ago

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Done with 911 for now. (Really depends what happens whether I'll go back to it, I think...)

For now, I'm going back to the show This Is Us. Where everything is well written, the characters make sense and sure I cry a lot, but I don't feel like I'm being used.

There's a few queer characters in the show, not like this, but still good.

Best written show I've ever actually watched.

Anyone else here watch This Is Us and wanna talk about it with me? And if you haven't watched it, I'll recommend it. Like I said, not loads of queer rep, but it's there and actually really well done. Just not really the main focus.

#bucktommy #this doesn't actually have anything to do with them #just me wanting to find people who are also suffering from all this #and see if anyone else has this show in common with me #it's what i've actually been hyperfixated on for a while now #with this being kinda there more in the background the past couple weeks #going back to it full time now.#This Is Us #Come watch this show i love and heal from this #it's a heartbreaking show #like #it causes tears almost every episode #but somehow it's not as painful as this

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juhotonin · 1 year ago

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Zey's Top 10 Songs of 2023 ✨ (JULY-DECEMBER)

I was tagged by my sweetheart @hwichanis Thank you love for tagging me and I had fun doing this <3

In no particular order:

Special & Honorable Mentions:

Hear me Out by EXO (which came out on June the 30th that’s why it couldn’t make the list

Drive by Hwiyoung (SF9)

In Bloom by Zerobaseone

Chill Kill by Red Velvet

Love me a little by Shownu x Hyungwon (Monsta X)

Bona Bona by Treasure

Since I’m probably late to the party I don’t know who’s already done it or not and even if you don’t wanna do it, also fine but tagging a few in case IF you wanna do it @insoeng @okaysign @nfly5 @dengswei

#it was hell to gif the crush and chasing that feeling one :/#the fact that I cheated by using a Spotify template but the minute count is actually from the MV’s #i couldn’t bother myself with this anymore since I’m working on this for two days now #it’s something new what I’ve done with this and yeah had a lot of fun #Chrissy see we have something in common with the boyz one but it’s funny that you chose melting point while I chose crush #I probably have more but these are the ones I’ve listened the most the past few months #I didn’t know if I should’ve include kingdom but their cb was not it for me this time *sigh* even tho I like them a lot #tuserchrissy #melontrack #*gifs #anyway talked a lot #tag game #I’ll just leave this here

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ceramicbird · 3 months ago

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fun fact! your singing will improve if you stay in your natural range

#this is absolutely common knowledge. unfortunately i am an idiot #anyway i've stopped trying to be a soprano and i sound somewhat decent now!#i used to actually sing alto but i also had no idea how to hit notes properly back then #i'm still not like good by any means but i can stay pretty in tune now #honestly just playing instruments has helped with that for sure even though i can't play by ear in the slightest #anyone can sing you just have to try. much like art or writing or anything else it's just practice and being terrible at it for a while #one day when i get past a bit more of my fear i really want lessons...#i've always wanted to be a good singer more than anything but unfortunately i am very very mediocre

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perilegs · 4 months ago

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i love playing older vns 👍 it doesn't bother me to set my pc's locale to japan 👍 i'm fine with having to switch the aspect ratio on one monitor to 4:3 so i can take screenshots bc steam overlay doesnt work with all games outside of steam so i have to use windows game bar and it cuts off the bottom of all screenshots and displays the top of the window with the game name and everything if the game is not fullscreen 👍 i love looking at resolutions of 800x600 scaled up to 1024x768 👍 i am capable of playing a game that is fullscreen even when thay full screen isnt borderless meaning i have to minimize the game window every time i want to say, click on a guide i need to play the game 👍

#i could just do my regular resolution and suffer with the teeny tiny window but i need to be able to #take a screenshot with a button combination that saves to my pc #i dont want to copy my screen and paste it to paint and save the image #i dont want to use snipping tool and manually name and save an image #i just want to take a screenshot of a single WINDOW and have it automatically SAVE itself to my computer #i am helpless without steams screenshot key #i haye windows game bar more than i thought i could hate anything #also this game doesnt have many quality of life features and the english patch is a bit buggy #but its fine bc there are catboys and apparently its possible to play the game without seeing noncon <3 #which is unfortunately not common for a yaoi game #i dont think im asking for too much when i say i want a fucked up yaoi game with consensual sex #anyways #the things i do to play some games #leevi liveblogs

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