#or play shogi

[frog-thief]

[chococustard]

the kamisato estate is peaceful again today

[misfitmiska]

I feel like newlywed Akashi would be insufferable about it. x)

[cobaltfluff]

baby's first chess game

[childrenofthesun77]

I know mahiru is often seen as not smart (his official stats from the guidebook give him a 2 out of 10 for tactics and I think the mental stat is more about mental stability?) and sure he's not a tactical genius like mikuni or touma (both have 10/10 in tactics) but mahiru is extremely socially/emotionally intelligent, which is an intelligence often overlooked in favour of "classic" intelligence (like being good at math or things like chess).

But unlike other characters mahiru knows when to stand his ground and when to lay low and change a person's view slowly over time.

Misono wasn't on his side in the beginning, even saying mahiru could be his servant when mahiru agreed to work with him, but mahiru quickly picked up on the fact that misono was lonely and offered to be his friend. Now misono trusts him completely and recognizes that mahiru's strength lies in gaining allies.

Shuhei openly hated vampires and treated them as things and mahiru responded by humanizing them, listing examples of vampires acting just like normal people, laying the first stone for shuhei to stop wanting to kill all vampires.

He was the one who proposed the idea that tsubaki would come to rescue lilac because tsubaki sees his subclass as family and he was right.

Neither lawless nor licht were overly impressed by him when they first met him, but by the time he asks them to rescue tsurugi especially lawless is one of his biggest supporters.

In C3 he understood that he wasn't going to be able to move if he opposed them and joined them instead, allowing him and the other eves to meet. He also correctly concluded that getting tsurugi on their side was key because he was central to C3's/touma's plans and in the end it saved his life and allowed him to stop touma.

Mahiru consistently trying to protect tsubaki's subclass might also come in handy soon. They might not like C3, but both lilac and sakuya can vouch for mahiru as a person they can trust not to kill them and to aid them in stopping tsubaki from destroying himself.

And stopping tsubaki by convincing him to stop is perfectly logical. A servamp can't be killed as far as we know. Combat only gets you so far. If C3 want to create a lasting co-existence between vampires and humans getting both sides to stop killing each other and to learn to forgive is the only way.

Trying to solve this conflict through conversation and not violence is neither shortsighted nor childish, it's the only reasonable solution.

[nvathuw]

this website ???

[ace-and-ranty]

But reading all the chapters all at once really shows Rei's progression from

"Oh no, now that I am happy, using shogi as a coping mechanism actually really sucks and it's making it hard to play. What if being happy makes me a crappy shogi player?"

to

"Actually, now that I feel emotionally secure I don't need to hyperfixate on shogi to the detriment of everything else, so how about I... try not doing that?"

to

"Holy crap, it is actually much easier to concentrate on shogi when I'm not doing it to avoid my feelings of isolation"

to

"This is actually fun?? I'm having a lot of fun playing crazy shogi with my best friend Nikaidou :)"

[active-mind-15]

Was re-listening to the KNB audio drama CD of the Teiko school festival and I think we as a society moved on far too quickly from it being canon that Akashi is a literal tabletop game nerd? He literally knows how to play every tabletop game from shogi to chess to Othello to whatever tf Happy Life Game is. And he's also good at card games like Poker, as shown in the Replace Plus chapters. I need to see more of Akashi playing tabletop games. Imagine the chaos that would ensue if the GoM ever played Monopoly. The audience would like to see it.

[mo-ok]

when your favourite ninjas have a couple hyper specific things in common

[86future]

Playing yakuza is like woah yakuza is the best game ever! And then they force you to play a golf minigame w terrible controls for like a half hr and it’s like I hope Sega burns to the ground.

[designernishiki]

this is a fucking status symbol. I deserve more respect than the US marines for achieving this

[auphelia]

Writing 'Nothing will be spared' is hard as fuck because neither of them know the truth about anything and at any point in time at least one of them is 100% certain they hold all the answers 💀

[phlebaswrites]

Playing Politics

Summary:

Hikaku is the most unassuming shinobi in the clan.

Which doesn't make him any less a shinobi.

Rating: Teen And Up Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Uchiha Hikaku/Uchiha Madara Word Count: 542 (Complete)

Entry for @asian-drama-tropes

February Go/Shogi/Xiangqi (politics optional) | Flirting through poetry/literature/music | Secret text training upgrade | Drinking under a full moon | "Heaven's Net is wide, and none can escape its mesh."

Hikaku pours sake into the dish at Madara-sama's elbow and patiently waits for his clan head to make the next move. The situation certainly looks dire, with white surrounding black on all sides, but Madara-sama doesn't seem interested in retrieving himself from the trouble he's in.

Or, at least, not this trouble.

Read the rest on AO3.

[pokemonxhyperfixation]

More Miji x Nitori art from the same guy (frogsnake on Twitter and pixiv) (careful of that second one, homie has a lot of nfsw art on the pixiv, there is much girl cock)

They’re girlfriends your honor

[denouemente]

sorry still shikamaru brained rn. there's something to me about being one of the most brilliant minds from the leaf village if not the most brilliant and all the man wants to do is find someone who can rival him at shogi

[tribow]

Momiji has dirt on every single touhou character thanks to her incredible clairvoyance, but refuses to tell Aya. Other crow tengu have a chance of getting information out of her, but you have to beat her in a duel or at shogi.