#so forward Ro

[ourthurafterdark]

Oh shit.

Well, it's like a- erm (*erotic gesture*), but, not real, y'know? The harness looks sexy, I promise!

Listen, I already got surgery for the top half, and that was a nuisance. You're either gonna take the rubber or my fingers, or you won't get anything at all.

Understand, mon amour?

- Ro 🐈‍⬛️

“Wow, very forward…. Uh. I’m not opposed to this, I-i mean either the fingers or otherwise.

Fuck.

Mom amour? Jesus Christ.. “-Arthur

[enbyandyy]

o7 aimsathon you flew too close to zero seconds

being serious though I fucking love the aimsathon and all the streams so much (my watchtime agrees lol) it is so nice to just sit and chill and watch a stream that you know won't be ending for hours and hours. Long streams are the fucking best, especially with fantastic entertainment and a lovely chat

I'm not deep in the aimsey community but wow "it is going to be ok"

[redo-rewind-if]

Small report this week! The current path is shaping up to be a doozy. 😬

Next Update (Chapter 4):

Opening: 100%

Avoid August/Confront Him: 100%

A Normal Day at Work: 100%

You Can Fix This, Right? 🤡: 20%

Keep Your Friends Close...: 0%

Avoidant Route: 0%

Oh boy, things are getting intense in this section. I wish I could share more, but it's hard to without any spoilers. Just know that the plot is really starting to amp up and MC is not having the best of times lol.

Hopefully I'll be able to share a snippet next week (I tried to find a good one for this past week but everything felt too spoilery, y'know?).

[pushing500]

Toddler Ro is still very cute, and I'm glad he's getting some good use out of those toys in the school building. Andy and Henry never paid them much heed.

We've had a bout of gut worms which took out a bunch of colonists until they were treated, but we had plenty of room in the hospital and lots of fellow colonists eager to step in and lend a hand.

Henry turned 10, and now I have to remember to start drawing him looking a bit older. They grow up so fast!!

I was curious about what would happen if I gave the teetotaler trait to someone with a genetic dependency on a drug. Or, in Henry's case, to someone who will develop a genetic dependency once they're old enough. I didn't end up picking it for him because I didn't want to make him miserable if it did end up clashing with his genetics, so he got an iron stomach instead. That seemed more appropriate for a Hussar than the optimist trait, and I didn't want to give him bloodlust or abrasive because he's already genetically hyper-aggressive. Heavy sleeper was tempting, but I like not having to deal with food poisoning.

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[rofax]

SORRY I know I've posted some of these pics before but I was feeling very proud of how far I've come since chemo and how the life is finally coming back to me 🥹 glow up hours

approximately two months after chemo >>> six months after chemo >>> eight months after chemo

[cospinol]

it's seasonal isekai log time for fall 2024☆! my impression was that we had a lot more general rpg-fantasy light novel chaff than isekais proper this season so i decided they'd all get full reviews this time, and ended up reviewing way more than i wanted to, and so... finally one of these is so excessively long it gets readmored. i have many thoughts

also, the thesis of this post is 'if krai from nageki no bourei and noel from wajutsushi were in the same show, it'd be the emen of the year'. thank you for your time

descending list order means this post gets the privilege of opening with one of my now-official top 3 shows of the year, season two of kantei skill! a lot of my review of the first season was about how excited i was to see it set up a pivot to a military campaign structure, which fantasy anime love to gesture at and almost never commit to; because kantei skill is almost perfect it commits. the diligent setup-work of the first cour all comes together here as each set-piece has a place for all of ars's retainers to shine, and the grand arc of the campaign (correctly) follows the one-sided strategist-rivalry between best girl mireille and her younger brother thomas, a trajectory that builds logically on s1's setups but also contains some wonderful little surprises at the end. the tactics are satisfying, the battle pacing is smooth, there's a sappy mini-arc about the dedicated brotherly love between a fist of the north star-style mohawked bandit and his boss whose only character trait is patricide... this is just about the perfect show, essentially

my one and only real complaint is still that i don't want ars and licia to be married so early in the show; slowing the burn of their romance by drawing out their engagement would maintain more tension in the pairing, and the actual wedding is so drama-free that it accomplishes nothing that just letting them affirm their betrothal couldn't. but licia spends most of the season absent from the main plot anyways, and conceptually i do still think the two of them being so obsessed with each other is cute. more than anything i can't wait to see where s3 takes us; i want to go back to the imperial capital...

i actually don't want to talk about my score for wajutsushi lol. i hate chuuni jerks more than any other flavour of self-insert protagonist; i decided to give this one an episode or two because noel's character design and concept seemed cute despite the obvious slimy aspirations of every single aspect of this show; somewhere ensuing it became my other favourite anime of the season. it's all a haze... wajutsushi really is a mean-spirited little nightmare of a show that hits nothing but tropes i usually despise (noel is always an outrageous misanthrope and the narrative never lets him lose) but... because noel is cute... i enjoyed every minute of it. is this how actual isekai fans feel about their power fantasies? i think i'm coming down with something. i liked everything about this show; alma's the best girl of the season, koga's recruitment arc is downright insane, leon's spin on the standard 'hero counterpart who joins maou protagonist' arc might be my new favourite of all time (maou gakuin's ray notwithstanding)...

i can't actually give it an 8 because it has a couple of weak spots that even i can be rational about (the koyasu character is a massive waste of airtime; noel shouldn't have a six-pack), but to this very moment i'm still tempted to bump it up that extra point. also, it has the worst op AND ed visuals of the season by a mile (the ed is nothing but the 3d model gun spinning around for 1:30). what a world

also earning a (slightly lower) passing grade through an accumulation of miscellaneous technicalities rather than what i'd call 'being a good show is' sayonara ryuusei; this one's real low-effort, cruising on the general idea of iyashikei vibes without actually committing to them or to an actual plot in their place, but the whole package is mysteriously deeply tolerable. dolan has the requisite lack of personality traits for a protagonist in one of these things, but the one thing he does care about is endearing; i love a guy who's quietly obsessed with defending just a little patch of land... and none of the arcs he finds himself embroiled in are thrilling but all are competently constructed, with a generally pleasant cast and reasonably satisfying resolutions. most of this show's completely unremarkable fluff, but when there's something notable about it it's always something positive - the red herring villain in the first conflict is clever, celina's obliviousness about her crush generates some cute jokes, and the mini-arc centred on black rose girl diantha in the latter half of the show actually ends up being delicious in its less-is-more handling of some truly awful stuff. i love her...

also, per my only concrete scoring rule, +0.5 point for the elf dad character voiced by toshihiko seki and his approximately 2 total minutes of screentime :)

i have really almost nothing to say about seirei gensouki 2 so i'll be quick with it; the first season was unremarkable but serviceable and so is this one. the brazenness of the usual power fantasy is lost in the obtuseness of the multiple-isekais gimmick and the protagonist's multiple-identities scam, and the basic plot is very functional if never anything to write home about. it's basically the most Fine you can get for one of these even though he looks like kirito and wears the kirito coat. platonic ideal of a 5/10, also it has a hilarious incidental off-brand emen in it

anyways, the rest of the middle of the pack is filled out by our two villainess entries of the season, rekiaku and yariryuu; the former is convinced that its annoying social politics are a lot more complex than they actually are, and the latter fails the basic 'do i despise the leading man' test with flying colours, but aside from the fatal flaws that prevent them from scoring above the lowest possible pass, both of them are functional and not completely charmless. i won't hold rekiaku's carelessness about its premise against it (even though that's one of my usual major pet peeves) because it still commits quite thoroughly to its romance (on top of its dumb spin on the setting/otoge mechanics), and yariryuu commits incredibly hard to everything it can get its hands on (to the point where i frequently wanted it to calm down and take a moment to breathe. why did this particular show get a comedy op...?); in this sub-genre earnestness and enthusiasm are the highest of virtues so i'll forgive other failings

leading the sub-passing category is, really regrettably, wajutsushi's evil twin nageki no bourei. i went into this show with strong reservations based on its premise/trailer whose comedy seemed to lean hard into mean-spiritedness, and was incredibly pleasantly surprised to the first two episodes were still very funny. at its best nageki no bourei is a show where everyone loses; krai and tino are both character types i've despised in many other anime with a dynamic type i've despised even more frequently, but by sharing the role of 'butt of the joke' in all of their comedy set-pieces they've got room to both be truly pathetic and thus actually charming, and the escalating misery of that first arc is pitch-perfect and extremely funny.

unfortunately in episode three we meet our first additional party member and the entire thing immediately goes to hell. this show's charm and comedy depends on a more or less even distribution of misunderstandings and misfortune, so liz showing up with nothing but jokes about how she always gets exactly what she wants (plus the occasional interstitial temper tantrum) completely steamrolls the balance. if she were just intolerable on her own it'd be one thing, but the problem is really that she's a harbinger for the entire rest of the party - we only meet three of the six other grieving souls this season, but all of them share the same joke of 'being an op asshole who gets whatever they want'. it's never funny and it obliterates all potential for other characters to be funny; i spent most of this show just sincerely feeling bad for tino and various arc-villains to the point where i don't even really intend to watch the sequel. get my girl to a different series, stat

it also pains my heart to score this one so low because it really shines when it comes to one of my niche favourite things in the world, in-character episode previews. most of this show's comedy may be a flop, but having different characters rap about the events of the next episode over the final 1/3 of the outro song is so charming and pitch-perfect almost every time. just thinking about the one that's styled as a live performance from the dungeon of the week makes me smile; on that front this show's an all-timer

also scoring much lower than i wanted it to be is maou 2099 which loses most of its points for making me look at vtubers. i keep having to ask myself if i'm just acting on an inherent anti-cyberpunk bias, but this show just couldn't stop getting on my nerves: i don't like that the ancient demon king immediately adjusts to the modern setting and becomes a Gamer Who Makes Gamer jokes, i don't like that the first episode is the last time the characters experience any real hardship as a consequence of the basic premise and hook of the show, i don't like that they go to high school! i've forgiven all of these self-indulgences in all kinds of other shows, and i understand their conceptual appeal in this one, but things just kept being deployed in ways that irritated me. the basic competence of this show's writing in most respects actually aggravates its issues -- there are lots of individual moments and ideas that work in self-contained scenes, but it all comes together to fall completely flat.

also, it's fundamentally it's embarrassing to find yourself in a position where wajutsushi is smoking you completely on the maousama-hero dynamic that's actually built into your premise; gram is at least cute but he immediately gets saddled with the secretary with the most irritating speech gimmick on god's green earth, and then just disappears from the show altogether. for every sincere charm point in this show it immediately shoots itself in the foot, apparently intentionally; this one is just not for me

back on the theme of evil twins, sono chiyushi is definitely sayonara ryuusei's: an extremely basic Just One Of These that almost never comes up with anything of its own, but whose details are always extremely, deeply, irritating. laust is a basic One Of Those Guys protagonist but when he does occasionally take any kind of initiative it's to be passive-aggressive or deeply patronizing to his poor little love interest; the only side character work is a half-assed speed-run of multiple equally flavourless romances; the main villain is unnamed and completely off-screen even though multiple characters appear to know him personally and describe his motivations to each other in detail. the episode where the main character and a supporting villain discover that they were childhood friends who Just Forgot might be the single most irritating moment in any show this season just because of how carelessly it's deployed...

also, it's so incidental that i almost forgot about it, but making a 'kicked out of the hero's party' show where the hero isn't even cute should be illegal. truly a thoughtless, wretched work

and finally we're at rock bottom :D and who could've guessed, the maousama retry sequel that's jettisoned the first season's singular, solitary charm point (its off-brand(?) shinichiro ootsuka character designs) blows? all i really remembered about the original maousama retry is how much its premise irritated me with its having-your-cake-and-eating-it-too; if your protagonist is a regular gamer who's been reincarnated as his mmo avatar in an unrelated isekai, then the other characters from his mmo should also be players from the real world, and if they have to just be game characters with no self-awareness then so should goddam hakuto kunai. i'd prefer the former, but the latter would at least spare us the intolerable comedy-voice antics of his stupid gamer self. was he that insufferable last season? it's possible i just blocked the whole thing out.

anyways, i call these things bottom-of-the barrel all the time but this one really might be the worst of them all. no themes, no character arcs that last longer than two episodes, no attention span, somehow not even a lick of coherent lore. aku's essentially not even in this season because this show doesn't care about any of its characters at all, it just jumps randomly between whatever miscellaneous stuff happened to catch the author's eye at the moment. there are about two dozen new girls this season with about two character traits between them; in one episode, one of them details her tragic backstory about being extensively tortured as a child, and then we move immediately into a comedy scene about the protagonist comedically torturing some stupid comedy monkeys. yuu doesn't even have her horny gimmick any more. zero gets less than half an episode of screentime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! isekai anime is the enemy. never forget this

[gorillaxyz]

im an obsessive weirdo rocks back and forth Did i make her smile Did i make her smile Did i make her smile

[amerasdreams]

I am very sorry.

I kind of go crazy whenever

I'm tired

It's night

I'm on tumblr

I can control 1 of those things. So maybe it is best I not be on here. I keep thinking it'll be ok and then.... well it's not pleasant for me or for you. My feelings explode. Bad. Bad.

Turns into too much of an outlet. :( this is me but no only me so I hope you don't think I'm too bad of a person.

If I splinter my personality and have no outlet, or only on a side blog, could work perhaps.Hopefully.

Maybe come back in like a year... will i be better.... will anyone want me

I will miss you mutuals. You're amazing, you've stuck with me all this time. I'm sorry. ❤

[homewrecking-lore]

The treatment of female characters and their writing in Picard's season 3 has already been discussed a lot and much better than I ever could tbh, but I think the way Matalas built up how Tasha would be acknowledged in season 3 just to do what they is a good example of the problem.

The acknowledgement isn't even of her character or her legacy - it's just of Data's memory of her. As it's always been on TNG. That's it. It's like she stopped existing outside of that. So many of her character and relationship beats weren't even with Data. They were with Worf, Troi, Picard, even Geordi! And not once have any of them ever mentioned Tasha. The amount of time wasted on pointless Easter eggs and nostalgia bait and they couldn't bother to have a couple of lines between the other characters remembering their friend? It's so frustrating that Tasha has been consistently reduced to one of Data's trinkets across TWO shows - I'm slapping that goddamn holo statue out of his hands and into the void. We know Data recognized and mourned her loss, we've seen it time and time again, but that's all about Data's character and growth - not Tasha! Do something about HER!

[justanamesstuff]

I need one fucking nice thing to happen soon or ill lose it

[forgaeven]

another stray headcanon about rheowyck. by the way, i do believe that daemon did have the intention of properly introducing rheowyck to new clutches and/or any existing dragons that he could bond with, but as per canon, the war of the stepstones happened, and everybody — i kid you not — forgot.

[scootarooni]

Taking a break from posting art for a bit

This time of the year is not a great time for me. My motivation and depression are kicking my butt 🫠

Cya hopefully soon!

[givemetherapyimawritingtravesty]

4 hours of sleep? It'll be fiiiiiine...

But in my defense I did finish TWO books.

Well, a novella and a graphic novel, but still. I have pounded through my January reading list like a mad man. But the next book I'd 637 pages so...

[cosmic-latt3]

probably going back to E///D inpatient, potentially as early as before Xmas. So that's fucking fun. Last time I was there they wouldn't let me outside for over a month because of my ""noncompliance"". I might be in SEED protocol this time (even though I don't meet the definition? I'm almost 30 but I've only had it 4 yrs. IDK why they said that so 🤞) so hopefully they'll be willing to give the barest accommodations to my other disabilities. Last time I had to advocate for myself to be able to... cross my legs at meals. Don't get me wrong I'm grateful I have access to one of the less bad programs in the country and probably the only one with mandatory masks 🎉 and hope to use this time to work on certain projects with fewer electronic distractions, and but... yea

[ilovechainmail]

btw if any of my mutuals (or literally Anyone Ever) wants a sort of detailed guide for watching certain sunshipduo lore or anything like that Pleasee send me a dm or an ask, i might honestly just make like a carrd site or something for it but if anyone is interested and getting into any of it but doesn’t know where to start let me know :3

[heatsu]

cw vent art????

with sh scars

this one wasn't supposed to go here but I like how it looks and I don't have my irls here so enjoy wee