#its nauseating like

[no1cutiepatootie]

i didn't know 'normal' women edited so much of their pics just to make one post

[recklessmoss]

They need to invent a "I have to voice my needs & wants otherwise people won't know them." that doesn't put me through the same emotions as the first caveman being hunted by a sabertooth tiger.

[mark-the-snark]

The reward for the quickest a media made me do fanart goes to these guys ☝️☝️☝️

Also if it's hard to tell what's happening, the kitty made him a new tail. U may not believe it, but I almost cried drawing this 😔

[secretarysong]

i Feel a great deal of cuteness aggression towards mayday. What the hell. I dont knowwwwwww What a wonderful and odd-looking specimen

[undercoverangell]

“your godlike wife” they even have matching EPITHETS are you KIDDING ME

[icewindandboringhorror]

At what temperature INDOORS (not outdoor weather) do you start to become noticeably uncomfortable (sweaty, heavy, don't feel like doing anything, etc.) and begin trying to cool off yourself or your environment?

(Like, at what point do you start putting out fans, turning on the AC, getting ice water, etc. because the indoor room temperature has gotten too high for you?)

It's starting to get warmer weather where I live, so I was thinking about it/curious how this might vary :0

(sorry if the celsius conversions aren't entirely accurate, I just used a website to look them up/am not familiar with measuring things that way myself lol)

[karda]

not gonna play the game bc id get bored too fast but daemon from date everything is so cute im so predictable.

[thatneoncrisis]

really i think relying on a multibillion dollar gaming company and streaming platform to be able to effectively produce anti-establishment art with any sort of internal consistency or resolve is one of those "losing to a dog in poker" situations. you walked into that one. it just so happens that i also think everything in the show unrelated to that was mid as hell too

[skunkes]

who's your type you think..? what kinda person would you see urself wifh

ummmm so i really dont know considering i keep thinking my standards are just super high but they're actually so incredibly non-existent that I cried seeing somebody's partner remember the name of one of their many many ocs the other day.

like ohhh someone you're with would care to remember such a thing...? I quite literally couldn't imagine... my realistic daydreams barely go beyond "you will end up with somebody that hates you 🫶" much less "a partner is a person you share interests with and cares about the little things and um...is nice." A guy like al (personality wise) has always just been the vision of unrealistic idealized romanticized relationship for me. I never thought it could be real. (And then apparently it can be but it's incredibly rare.)

Its less "i havent found someone that looks EXACTLY like xyz" and more I just havent rarely find people I click with enough to be friends, much less anything More. And THEN I'd have to consider oh, would they even make a good partner? But we haven't even made it through that first step lmao (my closest friends are not guys) so all i have is "uhh someone who is nice and i can actually have daily conversations with I guess" (<- literally just a friend)

[moonshynecybin]

For the ask game: your top 3 underrated motogp pairings/ dynamics (doesn’t have to be shippy!)

@tartquez 💞

OOHHH... okay so first off im always like pushing the enea and marc agenda i think thats SUCH a funny dynamic were marc seems down to genuinely queen out w him in group settings which makes a negative amount of sense to me except for enea also seems to like marc and uh. maybe lacks that specific sort of dog in him for marc to see him as much of an overall threat... BUT he was also marc's most direct competitor last season and they where queening out semiregularly and a leedle sexily

TWO ! i also think its worth examining alex's specific relationships w everybody but its hard bc its SO informed by marc which tbh makes it interesting... like the ambiguity of it... i want to see what he does independently of marc very badly, but honestly he doesnt seem that interested or at least. hes very embedded in his marc-centric circumstances and shows little sign of budging. which is fair like a lot of these guys have aligned themselves w Guy Who Was Very Mean To His Brother/Best Friend. but literally i think alex is more of an isolationist than marc on the grid in some ways

thirddddd franky and vale. one of the craziest dynamics on the grid and almost entirely ignored for his relationship to pecco which is. well its interesting. like okay guys. sure.

[jariten]

Roundup-catch up: October 2024!!

Sooooo close to catching up now. October I was just trying to get through it but as always gotta make the time to read.

Z-chan by Shingo Iguchi I first learned about in the book Dream Land Japan by Frederick L Schodt. A lot of the works he highlighted in that book actually remain untranslated or only got one recently (I had actually forgotten he did a spotlight on Murasaki Yamada!) Z-Chan was one of the works that got a spotlight, having initially run in Garo as part of a larger multimedia arts project by Iguchi. The surreal story of Z-Chan and the mouse Richard Sex operates on multiple levels and parallel worlds with with a serialized novella about the little gnome people with colored hats who live in parallel to Z-Chan inserted between or on top of the manga itself. A really beautiful and innovative use of the comic form, with an ending that will stick with me for a long time going forward. The Lotus edition which I read is to my knowledge the "complete" version including the appearance of the bear named Baron.

Otaku Vampire's Love Bite by Julietta Suzuki just strted its english language run. And while it isn't a high school romance but made me remember how I don't really have any fantasy romcoms in my life right now so its a beyond welcome presence. I feel like I'm in good hands with Julietta Suzuki, Kamisama Kiss was very formative for me but I didn't keep up with any of her follow up work. I really like the art style she's adopted now and the humor and clashing personalities is just what I'm hoping for. Cynically though this opening volume is a rather interesting illustration on how participation in otaku culture is increasingly consumer oriented. So in volume 1 I'm like mister male lead not very taken by the titular otaku vampire's fannish behavior as must confide in all honesty, find it to be kinda sucker behavior to do what she does which is filling her home with the low effort plastic merch the animanga industry is pumping out in dizzying amounts but I'm hoping the later volumes will get more into the creative, social, or community building aspect of being a fan that I do find to be a more interesting angle to the culture. But its funny and I'm interested in seeing how her world of vampires will intersect with our world in the upcoming volumes.

Natsuko Taniguchi has been extremely productive these past few years and there's even more stuff from her back catalogue waiting for me. And she got 2 ongoing serials! The one I want to highlight (as I havent read the second yet lol) is Jaa Anta ga Tsukutte Miro yo (Well, Why Don't You Try Making It) is one young man with an outdated chauvinistic mindset getting knocked to the present day when his cute, diligent, master of his beloved high effort japanese style dishes, girlfriend of many years suddenly dumps him. Autopsying the corpse of his shattered relationship quickly reveals that he's nitpicky and thankless behavior did him no favors. Forced with the reality of the situation he realized he must change, bc no Reiwa era woman wants a man stuck in the chauvinist Shouwa era.

What I like is how its not just His story, but Hers as well. His ex girlfriend is herself unpacking the culture of the good and perfect woman that she had completely immersed herself in. Her hair and clothes never strayed off trend, she strictly monitored how she behaved in front of men so they wouldn't be put off by her, never got along with other women especially ones who were bad at performing like she did. But it all changes once a young woman with a flashy style and "alien" like hair color crashes into her world and makes it just a bit bigger. I didn't stress it in the last roundup but social commentary is on the trend alert for manga in the 2020s and I'm really looking forward to see where it will go.

Like I've talked about before about veterans who just really know what they're doing... Tennen Kokekko by Fusako Kuramochi was made when she was 20 years in the industry. By this point she's a very early adopter of digital tools for art and the way she draws is near unrecognizable from her work in the 70's-80's. I wish the bunko covers were less plain because ohhh my god. To see someone play with layouts, techniques, and form while telling a beautiful but complicated coming of age story that isn't just the young protagonists' story but the adults' as well. My mistake is not talking about this series as I was reading it bc now I'm just way too overwhelmed about what I want to say that I can't get anything out aside from gushing but this work truly is by someone who really polished their storytelling abilities and never stopped challenging themselves artistically. Might make a spotlight post because the live action movie being the only thing that made it over to the english language truly does make me feel like we've deprived of something. Ooooooor it will appear in the queue 🙂‍↕️

[dirtytransmasc]

saw someone say they're we're happy Alicent's and Otto's deaths forced them "realize what they had done" and like...

Otto's one thing, I get the animosity. but Alicent? your getting hot and bothered over her realizing she failed, she failed to save her children, she failed to protect them, to them alive? that she tried so hard, so fucking hard, making every hard decision, trying to get between her children and the fate they were damned to by Viserys and Rhaenyra? that she damned her kids, who were already damned to die to begin with, and had to suffer the guilt of them dying to her own hand? that she's going to drive herself mad with grief over her children, her grandchildren?

like... it's not satisfying (especially for show Alicent) watching a woman go so mad with grief it literally kills her because she fought with everything she had to save her children only for them to die anyway. ever since her father's exile, when Rhaenyra's lies took Viserys's favor, when Viserys ignored the Rhaenyra's sons bastardhood at the risk of the whole house, or when Luke took Aemond's eye and Viserys demanded good will; she knew her children's lives were forfeit. then Daemon killed Vaemond and her children's coffins were built, catching cobweb's all the while. she knew and she fought it desperately, taking risk after risk, living in fear until her moment came, she could out Aegon on the thrown, she could protect her kids, maybe, just fucking maybe they'd be safe... only for it to lead to a war that would kill her entire family.

her death, slow and tragic as it was, is heartbreaking. she didn't deserve it, she deserved to feel safe, to feel as though she could allow her past friend take the thrown without her children being at risk to feel as though she and her children weren't being circled by wolves and picked at by vulture's. she didn't deserve to live alone and die alone. she didn't deserve to have her hands coated in her children's blood.

[faglaios]

stop woobifying simon we have to lust over prismo like real men

[radiopng]

im not gonna sit here and criticise the way other people play the sims because thats ultimately a stupid endeavor bc the sims at its core is a game about doing whatever you want. that being said i hate when i look at a person posting their sims families and its a huge family of all blonde white people

[rubenesque-as-fuck]

Ughhhhh just found an apartment inspection notice on the door 😫 my weekend plans of rest are now dead because I'm gonna have to spend it cleaning the place instead

[symbieote]

Have you ever been so immediately taken back and baffled by a turn in a narrative that you just sit there laughing at the absurdity.