#welp. fantastic

[frozenhi-chews]

Failed my freaking psychology final-

Gosh I knew that this was a difficult class for me but gosh dang-

[luminous-orb]

happy ttyd remake announcement soon we will be free

[organised-disaster]

I was listening to one of my calm play lists and I must've accidentally put Sugar by System of a Down in it and I was about to go to sleep and then BAM "THE KOMBUCHA MUSHROOM PEOPLE-"

[banqanas]

Kimura Keito when he’s drunk from Fanta member’s point of view 🐸🍺 x

[theviolenttomboy]

Viz Media: (releases a new app that lets you read a buttload of their archive for a super cheap price, and will also simulpub several select series for free)

(US and Canada only sorry folks)

Me: (immediately checks to see that PokeSpe is not part of either service, only full volume digital downloads for regular purchase)

Dang it, whyyyy. PokeSpe is a Shogakukan title, it can absolutely go on it. Hopefully they can expand later...?

Also, I would happily sacrifice several goats if it meant that they could ever simulpub from Ichiban, but that might be wishing for too much, especially since it looks like the mini-volumes aren't even up for download.

[illegiblehandwriting1]

HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT WAIT WAIT WAIT OH GOD THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS ARE SO FUCKING MUCH EBGRIHFOWSJAWHDEOISPIOHWDIJ

[mendely]

[caramel-mousse]

This is completely brought on by the last post but it really bugs me when people are so insistent that a story needs Monsters or Extra Terrestrial Beings to be scary.

The two examples used were Infinite Ikea and the Backrooms but like. At very least to me the addition of monsters just makes the story go from really good to fucking boring so quickly.

The horror is being stuck in an overly familiar place that you would expect to have an exit and being unable to find one. It's being seemingly infinitely lost in a place you would normally be able to traverse with no issues. It's like... weaponizing the familiarity of places you know and making what was once thought to be safe, possibly dangerous.

You put a monster in it and you just turn that whole idea into just "What if you were in the Minotaurs labyrinth would that be fucked up or what"

[thedelusionreaderbitch]

Hey, welcome back! 💕

thank you! Glad to be back!

[anghraine]

I have no idea whether the assorted GW2 retcons ever gave Gwen Thackeray a maiden name, but I hope not.

(No idea because my mix of completionism and altitis has me perpetually in catch-up mode for the story.)

Anyway, I always assumed Gwen took her husband's surname solely because she didn't have one of her own, and since most of the people she worked with did have surnames and were used to them because of class issues, she found it useful to also have one.

Given how much of Gwen's story is caught up in facing her personal history, to the point of tracking down her mother's ghost, it would feel pretty weird (for me, blahblah) for her to discard her family name if she had one.

But even more than that, one of the things I really like about Gwen's arc is that she's this random village kid with zero ties to aristocracy or royalty or celebrity of really any kind until adulthood. Her father seems to have been an equally random soldier, iirc, and her mother was the Ashford village healer.

Then all this absolutely horrific, traumatic shit happens to Gwen's people and to Gwen specifically, and the barely adult Gwen embarks upon a lifelong path of vengeance and heroism, is instrumental in the foundation of the last stronghold of human Ascalon that is still standing 250 years later, she ends up as an icon of the Ascalonian people, and her descendants are a big deal even in Kryta. Her grave is intrinsically a place of immense magical power.

<333

[raksh-writes]

Well damn, the ending of this episode actually got me teary eyed, wth??

[mx-nii]

I need a closeted queer person to come out to their parents (or anyone) with the song “I’m coming out” by Diana Ross.

Like just sit em down, start playing the song and at the end, if they still haven’t gotten the memo, say: “Ma, dad, spawn-points, creators, (just: whatever the fuck you call your parents) I’m coming out. I’m *insert what you’re coming out as*.

Not only would a masterpiece by Diana Ross help break the ice a bit and calm everyone down, it’s fucking HILARIOUS.

Worst case, your parents (or whoever you’re coming out to) don’t accept you [fuck them then, they’re morons]. If that happens, you can just have a dance party to Diana Ross to shake the homophobia away.

Best case: they accept you and y’all have a dance party to Diana Ross TOGETHER.

[yandere-monoma]

man. losing drafts is so fucking traumatic i need to lie down HJSKDFG

[fable-x4]

Doing this because it makes me happy •Ꮂ•. Im making it difficult on all of you though.

1 note- I'll go drink water

10 notes - I'll set alarms to actually care for myself

50 notes - set up a daily productivity system so I stop wasting my time doing nothing.

100 notes - ask my friends to help me buy a skirt

500 notes - get a bra & a whole bunch of other affirming clothing !!!

1k - tell my dad that my gf is also trans

2.5k - ask my dad to address me by my prefferred name & pronouns 1k went pretty poorly, so I dont feel super comfortable making an attempt on this.

5k - try to get therapy/psychologist

10k - girl mode at all times (start actively wearing makeup/clothing/doing voice training around people at all times)

50k - try for HRT (0% chance) (also no guarantee on this one)

Asfgg. It feels surprisingly good to have a bunch of strangers who want me to be happy

I have now set up alarms for eating, waking up, and hygene related stuff. I seriously doubt we get to 500, but this has made me significantly happier •Ꮂ•

Doing some math... 25 notes in 4 hours. 6.25 notes per hour. 8000 hours or 333 days until this hits 50k. Hrt in a year ig.

Um. Wow. Its been a day, and we're almost at 300. Everything 500 & below was supposed to be things I'd do with minimal intervention. But now, we're getting to the scarier stuff. I am very intimidated, but also excited

My gf really badly wanted to be here when I buy some of the clothing, so the skirt will be this week, the rest of the clothing will be when she comes back from vacation

Saying that you're force femming me is so not allowed. This is unfair. You have no right to make me feel the ways Im feelingggg. Stop making me happy.

Welp. I told him about my girlfriend. And things went about as poorly as expected. He said that Im parroting what other people think. Slowly taking little parts of them, and applying them to myself. Specifically, being trans. He didnt even leave it to maybes. He said with certainty that I was copying everyone else. I know 9 trans people total. Only 2 of them are my close friends. Everyone else, Im barely aquaintences with. I should have told him that regardless of whatever theories he has, this has boosted my confidence massively. Slightly less excited for 2.5k notes. At least everything after that is very positive. And at least this lets me talk about my girlfriend for ages. I dont have to say her deadname through gritted teeth. Oh context. He already knows Im trans but was ignoring it.

I GOT A SKIRT!!!!!

Thank all of you so much. At first when I got the skirt, I was pretty intimidated by the idea of showing my legs. I thought everyone will just see me as a man. But there's a degree of confidence you all have given me. Yeah. Im pretty. Yeah, Im beautiful even. Yeah. Its a friggin fantastic skirt. And anyone who thinks otherwise is dumb. Im happy, and thats what matters.

[iamthescalesofjustice]

newest guy made: guy who ended up in another dimension on one of those dangerous fantasy world youthful adventure things, came back and never opened up to anyone about it, has lived long enough for first contact to happen and now finally has a way to contact the family of his friend who died in the fantasy world bc aliens are not immune to getting taken for dangerous portal fantasy bildungsromans either. 

[lurkingshan]

Japanese QL Corner

Another show just wrapped up, but a new one takes its place next week. Takara and Mitsuya have really become the bright spots for me in this current run of shows; they make excellent bookends for the week in jql. Of the five shows airing now, four are streaming weekly on Gaga and the other is available via fansub.

Takara's Treasure

What a fantastic episode of a show that continues to get better and better. The way this story has slowly built our understanding of these characters, and their understanding of each other, is masterful and so rewarding. I really loved the direct conversation they had about Takara's post-graduation plans and what it means for them, as well as Taishin getting to the heart of things and reassuring Takara that his desire is welcome. I'm excited to get a peek at Taishin's family next week and see how they navigate whatever challenges they bring.

Cosmetic Playlover

Farewell to this very pretty show whose story did not make much of an impression on me in the end. It never found a coherent relationship arc or gave us any foundation for this romance to hang onto, and it didn't live up to the dark and sexy tone of its original promotion. But it gave us a lot of beautiful visuals!

I Hear the Sunspot

We've now spent an entire month on repetitive side plots designed to separate and cause insecurity for Kohei and Taichi, and I am over it. I understand that the show is faithfully adapting the manga, but this is the thing about adaptations: when you switch to a new medium you have to adapt the work to fit the new format. When you read a manga you can speed through side plots designed to stretch out the story, but you can't do that in a weekly airing drama. And yes, I have seen the arguments that this is primarily a coming of age story about finding yourself, but it's not doing that well, either. This job falling out of the sky for Taichi and his boss—who we are meant to read as someone with good intentions—encouraging him to drop out of school immediately to work full-time is a strange development. That it once again set off a spiral of Kohei and Taichi feeling insecure about their friendship and misunderstanding each other only makes it worse. I understand the intention: we are supposed to be getting that Taichi is embarrassed about this job because it's tied to his still ill-defined feelings for Kohei. But they haven’t unpacked his hang ups with admitting (or understanding?) that he likes Kohei back enough for that to land. We've spent so much time sitting with Taichi's broody confusion without gaining any deeper insight into its source or seeing him grow, which makes all of this just feel like stalling instead of important character work.

Mr. Mitsuya's Planned Feeding

gif by @my-rose-tinted-glasses

*sobs* Welp, the penultimate angst has definitely arrived. They distracted me with the possibility of dog death (Frito lives! THANK GOD) before sucker punching me with Mitsuya pre-emptively rejecting Ishida before their relationship could go further. And while I often roll my eyes at this kind of noble idiocy in the penultimate chapter of a romance, I think it's well-grounded in this story. Mitsuya has been worried about whether a relationship between them is right since he learned about Ishida's feelings, and on the heels of this blow about Frito's health and his sense that he burdened Ishida with this problem, he is feeling his age and his melancholy more than ever. He sees Ishida as a bright and beautiful young person that he would only drag down, and he does not yet understand that it was meeting him that brought this out in Ishida in the first place. The way he apologized and berated himself for asking Ishida to stay then hugged himself for that whole horrible conversation said it all. This also sets us up nicely for Ishida to finally make himself clear and do a classic jbl run next week (this show is ending too soon, I'm going to miss it so much). Thanks as always to @isaksbestpillow for providing her wonderful subs so we can all enjoy this beautiful drama. You can find the ep here.

Tagging @bengiyo to add this week's anime update.