#the sheer amount of catgirls

[atlasllm]

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[water-pokemon-appreciator]

lesbians. pspspsps

seeing this site get called the yaoi website shows how different my dash is to other people because mine is mostly yuri all the time.

[growling]

Soooo while I was gone and practicing self care with cheating in minceraft, attempting to domesticate my 7 evil alterhuman awakenings and watching my little medias (and failing miserably by occasionally checking some tumble blogs from my burner and getting exposed to the most radioactive levels of transandrophobia ive ever seen but whatever), one of which included Nimona (twas good), I also happened to get into something I was curious (also the thing gorge the monkey was) about from a little while............. none other than the internet infamous Hazbin Hotel *creepy lightning accentuates my words and horror music starts playing, the audience gasps and shits themselves in shock*

Initially I wasn't interested at like, at all in whatever the series was, same with helluva boss or something something vivziepop brand youtube sparkledog show. Not for any particular reason I just don't tend to watch pilots of series that may not even start you know. I don't know when the actual first season got picked up by a studio and finished precisely but somewhere recently I think? Anyway, everybody and their mom absolutely hated it from the start. You cannot escape the sheer amount of negative attention wasbeen motel gathered, it became the net's biggest punching bag like, right after steven universe whatever you do you can never top the steven universe hate i dare you to find a campaign more unhinged that whatever went on in the 2018s-or-so. And something always seemed..... Off?? About the criticisms I've been seeing on this series. Like it's just "it's BADDDD *spooky music starts playing* Vivziepop draaaamaaaaa.... *jumpscare*" or complaints about Poison being insensitive towards sa victims or whatever. I'll be clear I do NOT trust extreme HH haters for the most part, they give off huge anti-su folk vibes. But after seeing like, a multitude of hazbin/vivziepop related posts on mutual catgirl-catboy's (hey :7) blog, mainly about the Poison part? Well let's jus say I got intrigued said "fuck that, I'm already a warrior cat fan what's more bad media gonna harm me anymore", pirated it because I wanna continue my epic grind of never paying for anything in my life still, and....

(Now I do not know who this Vivienne Medrano entity is nor do I care to know. Everything I have heard about her was fucking unhinged for a vast spectrum of reasons and completely against my will. I will not be getting into the Vivziepop discourse iceberg I do not know this woman do not drag me into this I'm BEGGING you)

.... It's. It's literally just a show. Sgsgjjesxhadj??? Like it's not a masterpiece, it's rushed as hell (heh) but that's just what happens when you get entire 8 episodes to work with for the whole first season, but it's not like... Bad? It didn't kill my grandma or anything. It's just a show guys.... It's just some silly series........ It was honestly pretty enjoyable, I thought It was good, like, I think it's gonna rotate in my mind like a rotisserie chicken for a WHILE. Really scratched The Itch it's been lodged in my brain like a parasite lately please help me. Mainly because of the fucking songs even if the plot is a bit ueh hih uuh, soundtrack delivered. Hazbin soundtrack save me. Save me Hazbin soundtrack. Cannot go a second in my day while some song aint always playing in the back of my mind. Yeah I'm a hasbeen fan now this is my hell show enthusiast coming out post..... Anybody here want to talk about it any followers/mutuals up to sophiscated discussions about hazbin. Anybody want to ask me about how why transmasc Alastor would actually make sense AND slay I've thought about this very thoughtfully actually in my thoughts

[gainprincess]

Of the xenoblade catgirl lineage...

Nia is the largest in terms of overall weight. At 2400 pounds, she's double the weight of her daughter, and triple the weight of her great-great granddaughter. Her weight, her surface of mass, it's nearly ALL in her assfat. Sure, she's got quite the soft, gropeable tummy as her husband and wives will attest to, and she's got some lovely chubby cheeks...but no chest to speak of. No titty at all. It's all hanging off her sagging, wobbling hips, and added to her sweaty, clapping ass no matter how much milk or supplement drink she chugs. Ass-only.

Mio is the most balanced of the trio, though the 1200-pound kitty still trends towards bottom-heaviness, as one could expect. Her gut hangs halfway to her knees, with a split right near her navel to separate it into the wobbling, jiggling belly that her Noah so adores. Her chest heaves and bounces with every step, though she's looking into borrowing her other mums' bras so she can have some proper support. Her ass, though, hangs low, claps wildly, and like every one of the girls...won't stay in her skirt for shit. She practically has to walk at the front of a group whenever she's in one just to have some protection against gawkers at her bootymeat.

Lastly, Na'el is all curvature, and proud of it. Her gut pooches out to her knees when sitting, and she lets her friends/loved ones play with it whenever they need, but...it pales in comparison to her wobbling assfat, crushing and erasing any sign of precious materials and artisan creations it comes into contact with. Dotted with cellulite, it refuses to sag despite the sheer amount of weight the 800-pound cat had packed onto it, and firmly, eagerly stays perky and fat all at once, making it a nightmare to wear underwear most days. (Especially if she's blessed with a package.) Her chest has made covering her fat gut entirely impossible, because it's so massive that her fat titties have to use the entire shirt as a makeshift bra, and the lardy kitty's gut rolls out for all to see and watch. Also...there MIGHT be some sloshing? Someone should investigate.

[dorotama]

The Dororo thing is so real, I think its so interesting how Kururu and Dororo both have odd ones out loners spying on their friends vibes but Kururu actually hangs out with them very often and Dororo is an actual loner. I cant remember if this gag was present in the early seasons now that I think about it but he literally starts leaving a cardboard cutout of himself instead of going to the meetings. Which like can you even blame him. I think one more little part of it is like, do you want to invite the guy who doesnt want to invade to the invasion meeting just for him to get upset? Dororo might even be aware considering the cutout but then he can still come across a bit like why didnt you invite me to the cause distress to the planet party :( Kind of a silly situation. Theres a stupid manga panel where he has a goddamn wooden computer. There was a relatively recent chapter where Keroro got a goddamn catgirl vtuber avatar made by Kururu so he could stream and all the others were blushing watching him and Dororo pulled out a phone?! Its the exact same as Kururus but with his symbol put on it instead of Kururus so I imagined Kururu might have gotten him that. I cant imagine he knows anything but taking pictures. Actually it might be a bad idea to accept a phone from Kururu but that might depend on the day. It seems I would gullibly accept anything he gives me

Not inviting Dororo places might be more egregious in the manga because I think Koyuki lives like in the next house over but I dont think it gets mentioned a lot? But I also dont remember if the universe is quite as cartoonishly mean to him in the manga. Early seasons vs later seasons vs manga is real hard to keep track of when you start thinking about it. Another autistic thing they added to Kururu later is that he starts making nyo noises almost as much as ku noises, he can say nyo? when surprised, he snores nyoooonyooo when he sleeps, he can sing nyoonyonyonyooo when pressing buttons, hell say nyo! anytime just because, even makes a nyaa once, and generally makes progressively crazier sillier sounds because the voice actor started adlibbing like crazy. It kind of ends up reading like him relaxing and opening up compared to him getting called gloomy before. Oh my God I get so carried away so quickly talking about those frogs

THIS IS ALL SO CRAZY. when you've had a series thats been going for so long its bound to get pretty inconsistent and pretty crazy after a while LOL... the sheer amount of episodes and the extreme variation in quality is partially why i stick to the funimation dub (and a handful of the comics). im the type of autistic who watches and rewatches over and over and likes to be able to memorize the episodes - enough to have at least a vague idea of the scenes in sequence in every episode.... when you have like 300+ episodes and 5 movies combined with spinoffs and an ungodly amount of manga that's just not feasible. there are a handful of other reasons why i consider myself "funimation dub exclusive" (mostly due to the fact that i just prefer the voice acting, characterization and sense of humor)

OF COURSE KERORO WOULD BE A VTUBER. and kululu would be able to make him an avatar in like 45 minutes flat. i kind of subconciously bring them into the modern era in a lot of ways - mostly just because i think its funny to imagine keroro forcing tamama to venmo him 10 yen for taking a sip from his latte or something. there's always so much comedic plot potential with these guys its like they can squeeze an episode out of anything

ive seen bits and pieces of the cardboard cutout thing... i think its very sweet and kind of sad. like most things to do with dororo. hes like obsessed with them while also wanting nothing to do with them. he wants to be part of their group but he cant bring himself to do anything but watch from afar...like..... maybe.... from a window. hypothetically maybe even from a window in a mansion. everything always goes back to his childhood somehow

the wooden computer bit is seriously sending me into hysterics. do you think he carved it himself. does it have windows 98 on it. do you think it's powered by a squirrel running on a wheel

I THINK IVE ALSO SEEN BITS AND PIECES OF THE NYO THING. thats adorable. they keep giving him vocal stims. i love it when he says "clicky" or "clicky-poo" in the dub when he presses a button its so funny and cute

[changeling-droneco]

I should make a list of "absolutely unhinged dives into the ethics and implications of a fictional society or place" video essays because I love them like yes please tell me more about the fucked up visual novel catgirl society, why I would like to hear more talks about the sheer amount of osha violations that happen in fnaf, i love this kind of stuff so much, like I love most video essays but I love taking a fictional setting to a logical extreme it's so good

[cerastes]

I think at least for me Schwarz is in the same boat as Tomimi: I recognize the horny design, but she's too funny for me to be horny about. She's not nearly as funny as Tomimi, don't get me wrong, but I just love this like, born and raised assassin who met this upper-middle-class bookworm with a parasol and because the bookworm didn't know any better to be scared of her Schwarz decided she had no choice but to simp.

No no you're right, Schwarz IS funny.

Schwarz was a normal kid that HAHA THAT'S A LIE She is originally from Rim Billiton and her parents were ore traders, but then one day they got scammed into buying not Whatever Ore They Wanted but Originium Ore instead, which 1) they didn't deal with and 2) got Schwarz infected. So they went to complain like "hey you scammed us" and the scammers were like "the customer is always WRONG" and killed them, then grabbed Babby Schwarz and sold her to slavery, where she was purchased by a mercenary group that trained her to be the Ultimate Child Assassin later Ultimate Assassin in general, and they were like "Ok, we finally can take on this big job! We're going to kill the Mayor of Siesta! And for that, we need our BIGGEST GUN" and who else would be the gun of sizeable heft if not Schwarz?

So Unfailing Super Assassin Schwarz confronts the Mayor, and the Mayor says "hey, you are pretty good at this, you should be my daughter's bodyguard" and Schwarz was like "literally why" and Majorman was like "better pay, better life, I have a cute daughter your age" and Schwarz was like "bet" and well, she did just that, but they don't tell Ceylon ANY of this, so as far as Ceylon knows, Schwarz is just her weird stoic lovable bodyguard friend gal pal who makes really good tea and also for some reason can destroy entire armored platoons with just a crossbow but otherwise totally normal.

What you have to remember is that Ceylon is a scholar, an academic, a researcher, she's high int, but definitely low wis, because you know she has witnessed Schwarz go full John Wick With A Pen on at least six different people and all Ceylon could think was "Wau! I can't wait to go home so we can continue watching Utena :D" like, this was NORMAL for Ceylon, this was normality, no wonder she sees every freak at Rhodes Island and is like "this is a peaceful place with kind inhabitants, a true and tried pharmaceuticals company cut from the finest of cloths!", when your frame of reference for normality is SCHWARZ, of course you'll witness Specter chewing on reinforced metal, Ifrit burning entire hallways in a bout of rage, Shamare playing medium to the forces of the abyss, and Lappland eating a Kitkat wrong and be like "this is literally just Tuesday". Ceylon probably believes Shalem is a normal guy.

It gets even worse/better when you realize that Schwarz was getting MK Ultra Superassassin training when she was like 8.

Schwarz has 20 years of combat experience. That's an insane amount!

But she got infected when she was 6! Which means she was sold to slavery and subsequently trained to be Solid Snake Catgirl around the time when she was maybe 8 or so! NO WONDER Schwarz looks at all the freaks at Rhodes Island and is like "haha oh wow you are all freaks I respect literally every single one of you" LIKE YEAH OK SCHWARZ, THEY ARE FREAKS, but not you, oh, no, not you, you are only accomplishing what all these people manage with extreme dimensional-reality warping powers and super unholy magic, by simply being that good with your crossbow. Schwarz' superpower is literally "is REALLY good with a crossbow" and it matches and surpasses people with fucking reality altering powers or control over gravity or what the hell ever, Schwarz is a fucking riot, she really said "Wow! I never thought I'd see anyone like you people!" well yeah no one would expect a single catgirl with a crossbow to fucking blow up the Pentagon singlehandedly if she could, Schwarz definitely has the sheer firepower and skill for it, just because she's THAT good at Crossbow.

[cas-sims]

WTF is with the illness fakers on TikTok?

So I wanted to start using TikTok and I was pretty shocked by the sheer amount of people who are obviously pretending mental/chronic illnesses. I mean, they even get the symptoms wrong. Is this some trend, or what? 

Geezus kids, no, you don’t have DID and a half-werewolf half-vampire or catgirl alter personality, you just need someone’s attention and it is a perfectly good reason for going to therapy as well. No, you don’t “turn” into a thirteen year old girl, you just want an excuse to talk to minors.

And no, remembering song lyrics does not mean you’re autistic, or being clumsy does not necessarily mean you have ADHD or a neurological illness.

Such people are the reason why genuinely ill people are not treated seriously. It irritates me so much. I spend half of my monthly pay every month on medicines and treatments and some random weeaboo on TikTok earns money from people because they do cute and quirky things on videos saying it’s an illness symptom? Nah girl, my hands and voice are shaky 24/7, essential tremor is not something that conveniently appears when you start recording a live.

And no, I do not feel like such “illness influencers” bring awareness to the health problems, I think they are indeed ill, but their illness 

Yeah I just had to complain because I’m angry now

[herssian]

hey would you recommend World of Warcraft or FFXIV for a newcomer? I know you play both but I've barely ever touched online games and I'm conflicted

i love WoW and have upwards of a million characters in the world, i’ve actively roleplayed and gotten fully immersed in the universe... but FFXIV is fifty times friendlier to newcomers and you actually get to enjoy a linear story with properly introduced lore etc. i had to do my own research to understand warcraft's lore when i very first started playing the expansions. you don't get to enjoy the story fully unless you either a) have been playing for years or b) go out of your way to learn the overarching story. that’s not to say it’s TOO HARD to do that or even all that importany but it’s still an extra step outside playing the game

if you don’t have as much time or patience to be fully emerged into a universe, WoW allows you to pick up a class and play without having you go through quests giving a reason behind literally everything. it’s a double-edged sword and depends on what you like. it's my first mmorpg love, it just lacks in the rpg aspect as much as it pains me

if, however, you want to focus on the story, i highly suggest you go for ffxiv first. it plays like a high quality offline game except the portions that require dungeons/raids etc, and even then people are super accommodating and helpful to new players. not everyone is like that but compared to the warcraft playerbase, it’s NOTICEABLY less present. you also get a sprout icon by your name when you’re new until you’ve played sufficiently enough so people know to give you more leeway when you want to watch a thirty-hour cutscene before a dungeon so they have to camp it out in front of the boss (and it’ll happen. multiple times)

WoW:

friendlier if you want to smash and dash without much thought

faster leveling (since 2020)

a lot more races, ability to choose faction sides if you want to have a mortal enemy

so many elf variations. big elves, small elves, purple elves. pick an elf to annoy your local elf hater today

tanks and healers aren’t locked in their roles, they can change between three specs to allow them to dps in any grouped content which doesn’t happen in ffxiv. damage classes can tank if they forego god

the content is overarchingly easier to do. both games are easy but WoW forgives mistakes readily and has become a lot less death prone

the transmogrification system (to make your armor look like you want despite what you actually have equipped) is in my opinion better implemented here and a lot easier. might not be notable to you but if i don’t look like the hottest bitch in a game then it’s simply not worth it !

you can name your companion pets whatever you want

FFXIV:

amazing story

let me repeat that

the story WILL kick your ass. it’s personal to your character and has stakes. incredibly well thought-out, ever developing npcs

the music slaps so hard they should be charging you more for the subscription

one character can level any and all classes

housing! you, too, can now put a giant ass flying rat with a glowing tail in your garden and scare the shit out of everyone ❤

catgirls. catboys. cåtte

ACHIEVING FLYING WITH YOUR MOUNTS IS A LOT EASIER AND DOESN’T REQUIRE YOU TO SPEND ALL YOUR YOUTH ON UNLOCKING IT, BLIZZARD

soft spoilers but at some point your mortal enemy becomes a calvin klein model who’s horny for fighting and thinks you’re best friends? try to surpass that

if you play a lalafell you get a direct connection to satan that allows you to freely kill other players, devour their essence and ascend into godhood

notable con: the base game and starting portion can be very tiring to some people due to the sheer amount of quests. i personally enjoyed it but it might not be your thing

you can give warcraft a try until lvl 20 for free, and ffxiv now lets you try out the entirety of A Realm Reborn (base game) PLUS the first entire expansion all for free (insane amount of content to do without paying anything). give both a try and make up your mind, just make sure you allow some time to get used to the world/controls/classes :-)

[time-to-write-and-suffer]

I wouldn't mind that post on VNs!

So I was gonna write three different lists, but then after writing the first part I realized this is very long and takes a while to write and nobody cares anyway so I’ll just post my recommended list only. Well, I mean, you asked, but I doubt you wanted all this lol. Thank you for giving me an excuse to talk about this stuff, though. Hope you enjoy my ramblings!

An explanation for what this list is: Sometimes I know a game isn't perfect in many aspects but I still had a genuinely good time playing it, hence why I'm recommending it. Also I should mention that I could talk for hours about some of these games so if anyone’s curious about more of my thoughts, let me know.

Alright, now that that's out of the way ...

How to Take Off Your Mask / How to Fool a Liar King / How to Sing to Open Your Heart (f/m): This is a trilogy of smaller, single-RO games where you can take one of two routes depending on how you act, and they’re all interconnected where you get to meet and interact with the previous games’ characters in the sequel games. I went into this expecting very little but what I got blew me away with how funny, charming and cute the games were. They don’t take themselves too seriously, at one point an angsty male character monologues deeply about some shit, and another one just slides into frame and starts mocking him. It was so fucking funny, holy shit. Also, a central theme is literally racism against catgirls? Which is monumentally stupid, and probably the games’ main flaw, especially in the final game where it pairs up a catgirl with a catgirl racist, but that one still ends with a literal bisexual queen literally making a man her malewife because she fell in love with his cooking, so like ... It speaks for itself. My favorite game of the three is the second one, where you get to play a punchy fake catgirl and romance a pink-haired prince. And honestly, all the female protags in these games are lovely and a breath of fresh air, and the male characters are fun and not abusive assholes either. There’s full Japanese voice acting, and two out of three female protags are literal catgirls who pepper in “nya” and “mya” into their dialogue, and it’s just treated as a quirk of their catgirl race. I AM NOT KIDDING. Yet somehow it never comes off as cringe, because it doesn’t take it self too seriously. These games are just cozy. That’s the only way I can describe them. Cozy and hilarious. Play them yesterday. Dream Daddy (m/m): Man tumblr did this game dirty. This is just a cute, wholesome daddy dating simulator with gorgeous art. Coming out on Top (m/m): So you know Dream Daddy? What if it was EXTREMELY, MAJORLY NSFW? Though I realize how bad the comparison really is, the only thing these games have in common is that they’re gay dating sims and don’t have an anime art style and oh, yeah, they’re both really well-written. Or at least, extremely funny. COOT (heh) is DDADDS’ horny older cousin, and I first encountered the game on a lesbian letsplayer’s YouTube channel. Yes I watched a lesbian play a gay porn game and it was GOOD. I was there for the cringe and fun and got surprised by how genuinely funny and sometimes actually touching the game was. I can’t give it my universal endorsement because it’s not a game for everyone, as I said, it’s extremely NSFW and the menu theme literally includes the singers screaming “SEX SEX” at the top of their lungs. There’s more to this game than the porn, but there’s just so much porn. It can be censored in the settings but it’s unavoidable. However, I still think it’s worth a look just because of how funny it is and how charming the characters are. If you don’t want to play it yourself, at least watch Anima’s playthrough of it. It hasn’t aged super well in some spots but I still go back to it every now and then. Akash: Path of the Five (f/m): This game markets itself as a more “professionally produced” western dating sim, and that’s accurate in some superficial aspects. The game is pretty poorly written, but it’s absolutely gorgeous and has really good English voice acting by actual professional voice actors. The premise is quite self-indulgent, but I genuinely respect that about it. You play as the only female elemental in a village with only men, and all five of your classmates want a piece of you. It’s clear the writers have put some thought into the lore and worldbuilding of this world, but barely any of it comes through in the actual writing and plot, which is basically just a vehicle for you to get together with your boy of choice. The ROs aren’t very well-developed either, and the plot is the same in every route with only minor variations depending on which guy you pick, up to the point where the protag has the same voice lines in some parts regardless of which guy she’s talking about. It also has one extra half-route that’s so bad and pointless I genuinely wonder why they wasted resources on making it instead of spending a bit more on the writing/adding some variations to the main plot. So why am I recommending this game? Well, it’s pretty, and it sounds nice. This game is a himbo, gorgeous but dumb as rocks. Enjoy it for what it is. I know I did. Get it when it’s on sale, I think if I hadn’t gotten it at half-price I would’ve felt a bit more cranky about it. Also Rocco is bae. Mystic Destinies: Serendipity of Aeons (f/m): Yes that’s the full title, no I don’t know what it means either. You may have noticed how most of the games so far I’ve enjoyed because they don’t take themselves too seriously? Well, this one does. It takes itself SO FUCKING SERIOUSLY. Like, way too seriously. It’s a little embarrassing at points because baby, you’re an urban fantasy dating sim. Calm down. But the game has gorgeous art and 3 out of 5 routes are very good. The last route, the one with your teacher, is both the most problematic yet somehow the one that breaks down the very concept of a dating sim within its own narrative (yes, this shit gets fucking META) and it got so wild at the end that 1) I still listen to the soundtrack for that route and 2) I still remember it to this day despite finishing it ages ago. My favorite route is Shou, he’s a sweetheart, but the mindfuck route is so buckwild that I think the game is worth playing just for that. There’s also a route that’s like a neo-noir mystery? I Do Not Know. This game is many, many things and it does them so sincerely and tries so hard, you can’t help but respect it. It doesn’t always stick the landing but man, just let this thing take your hand and wax poetic at you for a bit. Also get this one at a sale because it’s very expensive to get the full version. I got it for 9 bucks on itch.io and I felt that was a fair enough price, I’d say I wouldn’t have minded paying more for it because there’s a lot of content to enjoy and/or be baffled by. Arcade Spirits: This one’s a bit more weird from what I recall, and I honestly couldn’t tell you much about it, but I remember having a very good time with it and recommending it to a friend when she was going through some tough times and she said it made her feel better. I remember it making me feel better, as well. This is a VN about an arcade and the ROs are wonderfully diverse, with very real human conflicts that get explored in each of their routes. It can get quite existential and heavy at times, but in the end it’s a kindhearted game that I think everyone can enjoy. The main character was also, how you say, mood. It’s a game about getting possessed by a video game and then learning self-love. Ebon Light (f/m): This one’s free/name your own price on itch.io so go play it. It’s a weird plot where you play as a girl who ate an elven relic? And then the elves kidnap you because you’re the relic now. All the ROs are extremely pasty (like, literally white, as in literally the color white) dark-haired elves, except for one, who’s an extremely pasty blond elf, so ... diversity? I honestly don’t know what this game is aside from unique. I used to be a bit put off by the art style but now I think it contributes to the general atmosphere. It’s a weird game that technically doesn’t do anything groundbreaking but still left an impression of “huh. weird” in my mind and I think more people should play it. The ROs are all pretty generic dating sim archetypes but done well, with bonus points to Duliae who’s just a massive creep and I love him, and also Vadeyn who’s the only bitch in this house I respect. The worldbuilding is honestly a bit buckwild and I can’t give enough credit for how unique the elves’ culture is in this game. Definitely give it a go. Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds / Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms (f/m): These two are newer releases of an older Japanese visual novel. I wouldn’t call it a dating sim, it’s ... it’s more of a super depressing historical fantasy epic with some minor romance aspects awkwardly wedged in. It’s seriously some of the heaviest and most grimdark shit I’ve ever played in a VN/otome. I don’t understand why it’s a dating sim, it doesn’t read like one, it’s just historical fantasy based on real world events with characters based on real people, and they kill and they die and they grieve and they suffer. The games are literally about the downfall of the Shinsengumi, there’s no way of avoiding everything going to shit and you get to watch and be in the middle of it all as they struggle to stay alive and relevant in a world that doesn’t need them anymore. And there’s the protag in the middle of it all, being useless and submissive and bland just the way the usual otome protag is. I don’t think these games are necessarily fun, and the romance is certainly a lot more downplayed and deeply problematic just based on the age differences alone with some of the men, but the sheer amount of horror and sadness in these games make them stand out above its peers. It’s like watching a war movie. Since most of the characters are based on real people, they feel like real people instead of the usual otome archetypes, and they are so, SO flawed, it’s interesting to just watch them deal with the shit the world throws at them. It’s an Experience, and if you’re up for it, I think it’s worth the time. Cinderella Phenomenon (f/m): This game is free on Steam so go get it. You play as a really, genuinely shitty princess who gets cursed to be poor and forgotten and she has to help one of the ROs break his fairy tale curse so that she can learn about being a good person herself and return to her normal life. This game doesn’t look like much, but it has a genuinely well-written main character who’s actually at the center of each of the stories and in the overarching plot instead of just being around to make eyes at the real protagonists, aka the love interests. Aside from the main character, my favorite part of this game’s writing is how each route slowly but very smoothly expands upon the overarching intrigue. If you play them in a certain order, you get more and more info revealed to you that you didn’t see in other routes, gaps are filled in as you find out more about what actually happened and why, but every route also stands on its own as a full experience and none is more canon than the rest. There’s also some really heavy emotional parental abuse explored, which I found quite potent at times. The romances themselves were alright, I think Karma and Waltz were my faves.

[matrixdragon]

While not a hard core death battles fan, this ep makes me smile. The way Mikasa manages to match Blake for as long as she does, adapting to the ninja catgirls skills and powers surprisingly quickly, the way the fight starts when she destroys the ninjas of love book... But especially for the sheer amount of hate and contempt the hosts have for Adam and Eren.

[loveamongthesailors]

yesterday someone was requesting books on how to draw furries and hentai and guessss what we fucking had on hand to send out! book on drawing furries with a bunch ov stupid sexy catgirls. ace in the hole.

(obviously not a super high quality furry drawing tome but i remember it fondly from my childhood and our art instruction book selection is pretty slim so having this even was impressive)

also sent them some ranma fr boobs and gender bending fun points. hope they have a good time doing art! i feel like given the sheer amount ov requests that i get for that sort ov thing you could do pretty well fr yrself as a talented furry artist in prison.

[ostensiblyarticulate]

I wrote (and am writing) things

I’ve been meaning to do this for literally weeks. SO, this one goes out to all like 10 people who follow this tumblr for my writing. I appreciate you and am sure it’s a terribly tedious experience, and have promised myself I will AT LEAST post the stuff I’ve written here. Especially as my ao3 catalog gets, while objectively not that long, far longer than I ever expected. 

I did a couple halloween exchanges; here’s what’s new: 

Mirabelle, a brief original fairy taleish piece I affectionately refer to as “Faeries!!!” and which is, more or less, about faeries. Also tfw you’re a changeling and you’re kind of hot for the human you got switched with at birth.

Oh well, what's life (without a few dragons?), a brief crossover I affectionately refer to as “Dragons!!!” and which is, more or less, about dragons. Charlie Weasley & Daenerys Targaryen.

The company of witches, a Squire’s Tales fanfic I affectionately refer to as “Witches!!!” and which is, more or less, about the way women pass down magic and wisdom through generations (not the first time I’ve hit that topic, either...almost like I have feelings about it). I understand from friends that it’s still a fun read out of context, but it’s mostly a love letter to a deeply obscure children’s arthurian retelling series that was really fucking formative for me growing up. I am proud (tho sad) to say that it is currently the one and only fic in its pairing tag. 

If you ARE one of the ten people following me for writing, you’re probably like “these are not the catgirl and jock I signed up for, wtf,” so I will note that I am very much still writing catradora. Actually, the sheer amount of drafts I have in progress rn is likely why none of them are done - I’m spreading my energy a bit (also, things are just busy, happy November). I can’t promise all these will go all the way, but in my drafts rn you’d find...

...two Squad Goes Intergalactic oneshots, one of which is an outsider pov and the other of which is a Catra character study ft. musings on her canonical string of shitty bosses. 

...a collab project I’m still hype as fuck about. I fucking love weddings. 

...the single most self-indulgent thing I’ve ever written in my entire life. And I wrote poetry as a teenager. 

...an arranged marriage AU that’s 13 chapters long and off-and-on taking over my life. 

...an actual Star Trek AU.

...another??? Collab??? Jury’s very out. 

So: stay tuned. 

Also personal housekeeping that I’m writing here so I can pin it and won’t forget - am actually making a writing tag. Just using my ao3 username because there are no variations I can get wrong on that. Hopefully this means I’ll scream into this void a bit more about my writing, which may let me spare my good good wonderful friends a little of the endless liveblog. 

[bee-is-away]

BNHA 1-A headcannons

By my demand

1. Yuga Aoyama

Either Pansexual or Bisexual, but no one can tell because he just blatantly flirts with everyone but also the people he sees look either male or female presenting (Also worth noting that he may just not know anything about gender because he's dumb but no one wants to tell him)

2. Mina Ashido

Flaming Pansexual™

Definitely intersex, no way she do not got a MASSIVE pp

3. Tsuyu Asui

A lesbian.

4. Tenya Iida

guess we gotta give the cishets their representation.. (Dramaic sigh like im throwing meat to starving wolves but the wolves are full)

5. Ochaco Uraraka

Says she's bisexual (suspicious)

6. Mashiraio Ojiro

Bisexual

7. Denki Kaminari

A pan idiot™

8. Eijiro Kirishima

He's gay. Thats like twice the man dude why wouldn't he be

9. Koji Koda

ASEXUAL by DEFAULT because they are INNOCENT and PURE. Fuck you, nb koda

10. Rikido Sato

The only cishet male I can respect tbh (but if you are one hmu because I still think ur pretty!! Everyones pretty!!!!)

11. Mezo Shoji

The REAL reason he wears that neck thing is to hide his hatsune miku binder

12. Kyoka Jiro

Listen she has weird ears thats basically like a catgirl so she can't be cis. Also she is a flaming homosexual ©

13. Hanta Sero

pansexual but quiet about it so everyone thinks he's straight

14. Fumikage Tokoyami

Ace/Aro. Prince of darkness has no time for romance

15. Shoto Todoroki

homodsexualt with a d for daddy issues and a t for top

16. Toru Hagakure

Listen she's invisible,,, she could be hiding anything. She could be a catgirl. You don't know. Also no one knows her sexuality because they're too afraid to ask but they assume she's gay because of the sheer amount of PUSSY she gets

17. Katsuki Bakugo

Hobmosexual

18. Izuku Midoriya

Pan because he'd explode if he hurt someone's feelings

19. Minoru M*neta

EWWWW NASTY BOOOOOOOOOO NO RIGHTS FOR YOU 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

20. Momo Yayorozu

A. l e s b i a n.

If this gets like 5 notes I'll do another one either with 1-B or some heroes

P.S. If you don't agree I'm very sorry for your blindness and I hope you get a nice seeing dog

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Random She-Ra Season 4 Thoughts:

After much thinking and suffering, here are some random thoughts I had about season 4 inbetween feel episodes.

Going into S4 be like.

Coming out of S4 be like.

Grief and failure to communicate. This season is off to a great start!

You know, I still like Swift Wind but I’m starting to see why most people, uh… don’t.

If you told me before I started the show that I would hate a sexy catgirl and feel sorry for a creepy-looking cyborg conqueror, I would have called you a liar, paused, then said, “No, wait. Yeah, that sounds like me.”

Queen Glimmer looks nice, but I’m definitely going miss her old Cutie Honey-esque hairstyle.

Shame that Huntara didn’t join the Rebellion full-time but it’s for the best. Not just so she can liberate the Crimson Wastes, but let’s face it, nobody in the Rebellion would be able to think straight with a butch Amazonian warrior goddess hanging around.

I really can’t give Double Trouble enough praise: they have so much personality, a fantastic design combining reptilian and theatre-kid traits (two of my favourite kind of characters!), are morally ambiguous but likeable, and help alleviate all the dramatic stress that this season is packed with.

Flutterina and her village has thoroughly convinced me we need more moth people in fantasy.

Why? Simple. THEY’RE SO FLUFFY

I have some minor issues with the Flutterina controversy: yes, Adora and the Rebellion recruited a young girl to fight in a war and took her from her home and all that, which is a valid concern to have and indeed just a little hypocritical given that was how she was forced to grow up, but I feel like the fact that Flutterina is actually Double Trouble, a young adult spy with what I assume is a fair amount of combat and espionage training, makes it ring hollow for me.

Also, do we know if there’s a real Flutterine that Double Trouble impersonated or is she just a persona they made up?

Either way, it’s funny to imagine the Elberon locals trying to make sense of this little girl that just showed up out of nowhere, went off to war, and then the real one shows up right after and everyone just has to go along with it otherwise people will think they can’t keep track of their own kids.

Okay, so I’m not happy about Shadow Weaver slowly being treated as just another member of the cast, but I’m also sort of glad that it’s being implied that we’re still not supposed to trust her either.

That said, leave it to Shadow Weaver to go and potentially destroy Glimmadora on us.

Rogelio confirmed for best boyfriend.

Watching Kyle’s near sacrifice gave me some Chaos Vortex PTSD. (Pit-Truama Stress Disorder)

(If you understood that reference, you have earned my respect for life.)

Light Hope, you’re scaring the adults now, too.

Emily has a holographic projector and was at one point wanted by a ruthless conqueror of worlds. So I guess she qualifies as an astromech droid now?

Speaking of holograms, seeing Catra, Scorpia, and Entrapta when they were all friends was the worst kind of bittersweet.

(After watching Scorpia leave her toxic friendship to embark with Emily on an adventure to save Entrapta) *on the verse of tears* Fricking superb you funky little lesbian! *sniff* Fricking superb…

That’s right, Catra. You reflect on the consequences of your actions like a good kitty-cat.

Sea Hawk surprisingly looks the part for a good noir protagonist.

In his own head, of course.

Is it just me, or is Frosta acting mature again? Hyperactive Little Sister Frosta is fun, but The Only Sane Person in the Room is a Literal Child Frosta would be a missed opportunity.

Oh no, Adora and Glimmer are fighting!

Yay, they were just pretending to catch Double Trouble!

Oh no…

“Boy’s Night Out” or, “How to Delight and Emotionally Destroy Your Audience At The Same Time”

Believe it or not, Sea Hawk possesses special abilities like the Princesses. Those being:

Great singing

Superhuman positivity

Nigh-invulnerability

I’m not sure if Madame Razz is a time-traveller, a Doctor, or just has some sort of Alzheimer’s, but regardless, I’m proud of how the crew handled it.

Swift Wind might be annoying at times but if showing concern for the elderly doesn’t make him a likeable character, I don’t what does.

Looks like I can add “Hero” to the list of She-Ra episodes that deserve an Emmy or Annie.

Words cannot describe how happy I was to see Scorpia pop-up in Bright Moon amid all the drama.

Glimmer is tip-toing the line between “pure-hearted character forced into morally grey responsibilities” and “grey-area wet wipe” and I am not loving it.

So between She-Ra, Huntara, and Scorpia, we all agree Perfuma has a type now, right?

I know it’s just Double Trouble making fun of her (and my love of Elvis Presley, Johnny Bravo, and Kishidan showing) but I think Adora looks pretty dang cool with a pompadour.

Beast Island: It’s Annihilation for Kids!

Yay, King Micha really is alive!

However, he still doesn’t have a wife to come back to and his daughter is making some poor life choices. Bummer.

Nice to see Bow’s still on the Hates Shadow Weaver bandwagon.

Entrapta’s got a Kamen Rider mask now and no one call me otherwise.

And she’s got a mecha that used Godzilla’s roar.

Well, even if my She-Ra-fan-heart is dying, my tokusatsu-geek-brain is happy.

How Entrapta adjusted to life on Beast Island is both nothing and everything I expected from her at the same time.

Well what do you know, Glimmadora saves lives!

BREAKING NEWS: Non-binary reptilian theatre-kid makes breakthrough with angry lesbian cat!

Light Hope, you’re breaking our hearts…

I’m glad that the show is hopping on the anti-power-up bandwagon as well. As someone who grew up with shows like Power Rangers where everything was immediately solved by new merchandise or powers, I get a sort of twisted satisfaction seeing that the shiny merchandisable new toy is more trouble than its worth.

Oh, and of course, it makes a for a good lesson on the danger of absolute power.

Before I started S4, I hated Horde Prime because he wasn’t a giant eldritch cyborg monster anymore, but I’ve actually gotten quite accustomed to his new design. Now I hate him for being a callous perfectionist world conqueror with no sense of personal space that may or may not be into selfcest.

(*praying intensely*) Please let Adora turn into She-ra through sheer-will power next season, please let Adora turn into She-ra through sheer-will power next season, please let

Yup, I was right! This season didn’t fix damn thing the last one broke!

[self-loving-vampire]

By the way, here are some (non-MMO) RPGs that have good character creation and/or customization. These are just the ones I remember off the top of my head while sleep deprived so I might add more later. I’m also adding only games I have played personally.

Note that your role in the story may be set in some of these examples, but you still get at least visual and mechanical customization in those cases.

1- The Fallout series.

All games in the main series allow you to pick your stats. Most also allow you to select character traits and specialty skills and then further develop your character through perks gained as you level.

2- Code Vein.

There is such an extreme number of options for visually defining your character in this game that you could even treat it as just a way to create your OCs or something. 

In terms of gameplay you also have a lot of gameplay options due to the variety of weapons, clothing, blood codes, and gifts you get to mix and match.

3- The Elder Scrolls series.

You get to select basics like your appearance, race, gender, birth sign, and favored skills in most of the games. In a few of the games you can also develop some more dramatic changes such as vampirism (which gets a whole other skill tree in Skyrim). Skill progression is also tied to unlocking relevant perks.

4- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.

You don’t get to chance your appearance much (but you do get to at least select your gender) but you have the option between many different vampire clans and then further specialize through allocation points on your skills and disciplines. Some of the clans completely change the game and most of its dialogue. A fan patch also enables you to select a background for your character.

5- Temple of Elemental Evil.

One of the most faithful Dungeons and Dragons 3.5E games there is. You get to roll or assign ability scores and then select race, alignment, class, gender, appearance, skills, feats, voice, portrait, class features, and etc.

It really does come close to being like actual D&D character creation (although simplified), and you get to create not just one character but your entire party like this.

6- Pathfinder: Kingmaker.

Much like ToEE above, Kingmaker uses a simplified version of Pathfinder (pretty much a D&D 3.5 mod). Besides your appearance, voice, portrait, alignment, and etc. you also get an extreme amount of choice with regards to your race, class, skills, and other abilities. Eventually you also get your own kingdom and can customize that a little too.

7- The Dark Souls series.

While originally only get to select your appearance, class, and a starting bonus item the game still has a good amount of variety in how to build from there thanks to its variety of weapons and freedom to raise your attributes as you wish.

8- UnReal World.

A free and independent survival roguelike that allows you to select your attributes, tribe, skills, starting location, and (notably) even the starting “scenario” of the game.

Do you want to start comfortably living in a village? As a slave on the run? At an abandoned camp? Wounded and left for dead in the wild? You can pick whatever you want to help craft your story.

9- The Wasteland series.

Most of my experience here comes from playing Wasteland 2, which had several different attributes, skills, feats, and traits to choose from on top of some level of control over your appearance. You get to write a small biography for your character too.

10- Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.

A free zombie survival roguelike that seriously has it all in terms of character creation (well, for a game with its graphical quality). You can select not only attributes and skills but also:

You get to pick from a very extensive list “professions” of character traits both positive and negative.

Do you want to be a cannibalistic albino catgirl cosplayer? You can.

What if you want to be an illiterate punk rock fan? A masochistic priest who is good at lying? A dungeon master with a lactose intolerance and narcolepsy? A lost BDSM submissive? An actual cyborg? You get all of those options and more.

And on top of that it also has even more starting scenarios than UnReal World. From the basic “emerge from a government shelter” scenario to various challenges such as being an ill and abandoned patient at an infested hospital or a convict escaping from prison during the cataclysm.

11- Elona (and Elona+).

A free and relatively forgiving open world roguelike that allows you to select between a good variety of races, classes, and feats. From here you can develop many skills (including many unrelated to combat, such as cooking, gardening, and playing music). You can also gain further abilities by gaining the favor of a deity of your choice or mutating your body, among other things.

12- Tales of Maj’Eyal.

A free combat-focused dungeon-delving roguelike that starts out with a relatively limited amount of races and classes to choose from, but your decisions and achievements in the game gradually unlock more and more options (there is also paid DLC that adds some more). 

The sheer number of races and classes you gradually gain access to is staggering considering this is another free indie game and that each class has multiple ways to build it. Many of the classes are also pretty unique.

You don’t get to select much more than your appearance, race, class, and starting talents at first but you can build a wide variety of characters gradually as you level up.