#when i get money i'll buy the manga ^^ !! definitely..

[bernardisgross]

i watched Doukyuusei (movie) for the first time today and.. and... i'm a changed person.. i feel like a brand new person...

[cerealforkart]

Interest Check!

For anyone who doesn't know, Dungeons and Daddies the Manga is a project I've been working on for a year and a half, beginning way back in September 2022. It's been a yonkoma-style recap manga, where I chose four moments from every episode of the podcast to make into comic strips, and just an hour ago, the very last pages dropped. It's been a huge project I'm very proud of, and now I'm looking into the potential to sell physical copies.

Some of you might be thinking: "why would I want to pay money for a physical book when all the pages are available for free online?" The physical edition of Dungeons and Daddies the Manga would not only include the 212 pages of the manga and 53 "end card" illustrations, but there would also be an included merch bundle with stickers and postcards. And if I can get support for the physical edition, I will be making 24 physical edition-exclusive pages, 4 pages for each episode of Sons and Sonsability and Dadatha Christie. These pages will never be posted on Tumblr or in the DnDads Discord, they will only ever be for supporters of a physical manga, and if I don't make the physical edition, they simply won't exist at all.

Please share this around to your podcast enjoying friends! I'm not looking at percentages in this poll, I'll just be calculating the number of people voting "yes." And please only vote yes if you really mean it. I don't want to spend time and money on something and then not break even on it.

If you don't recognize this project, start at the beginning right here or navigate to your favourite episode using the masterpost

[aihoshiino]

Hi hello!! I adore your oshi no ko analyses and chapter reviews/thoughts! I always make it a point to, whenever a new manga chapter releases, always to read your reviews after reading the chapter =3=

I wanted to ask!

What are some of your Hoshino Ai headcanons?

I had a very silly one for quite a while ever since the DVDs were brought into the story and that is when Ai recorded them, there were times she had to stop what she was saying and walk out of frame after hearing baby Ruby crying or something like that. Just having the twins interrupt her and just turning into a wholesome, funny thing for Ai.

GOD I HAVE SO MANY AI HEADCANONS I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO START… I'm constantly playing Blobo TV with her in my brain both for RP/fanfic purposes and also just for when I'm bored at work lol so I have so many in my head… So I'll rapidfire a bunch off the top of my head!

Ai can't cook! Most of her meals are premade stuff or like, bentos bought from supermarkets, etc. She was never taught literally Anything about cooking when she was younger so she has zero instinct or starting knowledge or lbr even time to try and learn, but she commits to at least trying once Aqua and Ruby are born. She is absolutely not good at it even when she really gets her nose to the grindstone but eventually becomes passable. Ironically, she's actually better at baking then cooking, because baking recipes are WAY more precise and exact and she has an easier time when she has a set of Very Exact Step By Step Instructions to follow.

On a food note, she has really bad spice tolerance…!!! Anything hotter than like, the medium spicy Golden Curry range is so far out of her strike zone it isn't even funny. Ruby is the same (a hold over from eating mostly bland food as Sarina) but Aqua really likes spicy stuff and his tolerance is really good as a result. Unfortunately, he also doesn't really realize just how high his tolerance is - it was way worse as Gorou so he keeps underestimating how hot things are. So anytime Ai is like "hey Aqua how spicy is this" he's like "oh it's not too bad" and then Ai takes a bite and dies and it takes years before they manage to figure out the differences in their tolerance LOL

She's a little clumsy…! It's a side of her people rarely see because she's so graceful and careful as an idol, but the #1 way to tell she's comfortable with someone is that they're allowed to see her being a bit of a failgirl.

I mentioned this in another ask but I like to think she gets back into video games on her hiatus… not super deep, but she grabs a cheap secondhand GBA SP and one of those carts that's like 20 puzzle games in one or something and keeps playing it even after she goes off hiatus. Since she's so busy, it's easier for her to get into things like Tetris where your play sessions don't have to be that long and there's no story to follow… anything like an RPG would be no good. Eventually one year, Aqua and Ruby pool some money and get her a jailbroken DS or something for her birthday and even though she has a bajillion games on it, she mostly still just plays Tetris………..

She really wants to be a plant mom but her schedule means that she inevitably gets so busy she forgets to water them and they end up dying and she's depresso every time…

Appearance wise, between the twins, Aqua is actually the one who looks most like her - Ruby definitely does too but grows more into her own features as she grows up, whereas Aqua still really strongly resembles Ai even once he's all grown up.

She has a ton of those influencer ass hyperspecific trendy gadgets and appliances around the house, not because she buys them but because companies keep sending them to her in hopes of getting her to promote them and she never does LOL. If she actually gets a sponsorship deal through work then she'll do it, but even then it's mostly her just hyping something up and saying she uses it every single day when 90% of the time they just end up rotting at the bottom of her drawer. Pretty much the only thing she ends up regularly using is like, toiletries and hair care products and that's just because it saves her having to shop for them but she has absolutely zero brand loyalty.

As an adult, she copies a lot of her fashion sense from Miyako! Her style leans more girly and fresh than Miyako's does but Ai doesn't really care about clothes so she never developed a sense of fashion growing up. But she knows Miyako is a pretty stylish person and looks up to her as someone to emulate fashion from. Of course, when she's incognito or chilling at home, she still always prefers her comfy hoodies and sweaters and plain, loose clothes.

Ai likes Kana a lot! This was technically canonized in the Da Vinci interview and I felt so smug when I saw it lol. But I've always thought Ai would like Kana - she sort of vicariously enjoys her cheekiness and confidence and admires her drive and her passion and craft at such a young age. When Kana joins B-Komachi, Ai sort of recognises how much of her fire has gone out and its immediately like free daughter??? Free daughter for Hoshino Ai???? She and Mem also get along really well but because they're closer in age, the dynamic is more friendly coworkers whereas she and Kana have a more senpai/kouhai surrogate mom figure thing going on.

she's our strongest aqukana warrior btw

Aaaand finally… If Ai had ever found out about Aqua and Ruby's past lives, she would have loved and accepted them all the same. If anything, knowing just how terribly alone and starved of care they both were would have encouraged her to make sure they felt loved, safe and accepted as her kids. After all, Ai, too, is a "motherless child" as Tsukuyomi describes the twins - she'd absolutely understand.

[yumeka-sxf]

Got a little more exhibition merch~ The Twiyor acrylic figures (specifically their date outfits!)

The figure set is based off of these illustrations from the manga volumes.

The reason I didn't get these when I did my first order of exhibition merch was because they were so hard to find! At first I was on the fence about whether to buy the whole set of fourteen or just a few. On the first day exhibition merch went on sale, I saw someone selling all fourteen for about $114 on Mercari (they're sold either as complete sets or individual blind bags).

I really should have grabbed that full set, but I was hesitant about spending that much right away and thought I could find a better deal, or that I might just want a few of them. I eventually decided to just get my favorites of the set, which are the day 7 date outfits since those are the most "twiyor-ish" ones ❤ But...no one was selling them! I checked Mercari several times a day for a couple weeks but could not find those particular ones. All the acrylics in this set were hard to find compared to other exhibition merch, but the day 7 ones were especially rare. I finally got lucky and found someone selling just day 7 Yor and bought her immediately. But not a single person was selling just day 7 Loid, not even in a set with 2-3 others. After I bought the Yor figure, I had 30 days to keep it in Buyee's storage before they'd start charging me a daily fee. I thought for sure I'd find someone selling Loid within that time and would then ship them together...but the days went by and still no day 7 Loid! But eventually I found someone selling the full set of Loid figures for about $50 and decided to get it so I would have enough time to pack it with the Yor figure and save an extra shipping cost. So yeah, in addition to day 7 Loid and Yor, I also have all of Loid's other outfits!

In the end, I didn't really save money because if I had continued to wait for someone to sell day 7 Loid by himself, it would have been cheaper than buying the $50 full set, but then I would have had to pay two shipping costs since I likely wouldn't have gotten it within the 30 day holding period. So what I should have done was spend the $114 for all of them on the first day, then I would have had the complete Yor set too for about the same amount of money I just spent 😂 Oh well! I might give a few of the Loid figures away to friends, but I definitely want to keep the day 1 Loid since that's my second favorite of his outfits. Maybe I'll get day 1 Yor to go with him at some point.

But in the meantime, their day 7 date figures have found a nice spot on my (already crowded) work desk!

[piracytheorist]

So with that out of the way, I'll share some screenshots and my experience from the little I played from the Spy x Family game.

Note/reminder that I openly don't recommend buying the game for a computer, as the controls are clunky, and since that version is half-baked it's not worth your money, even if you plan on using a controller. Different case if you buy it for a console, though.

So the graphics are actually pretty cute, and I think they translate the feeling of the 2D characters into a 3D game environment pretty well! The music stands between an inspiration from the original anime soundtrack and typical day-in-the-life simulation game soundtrack, though mostly the latter. I wasn't impressed that much but it wasn't something that annoyed me. It's just a bit of a pity because they could definitely get some inspiration from the original soundtrack, but oh well.

Playing the game, Anya starts at Eden College, and you get a tutorial showing you how to move and interact with other characters and objects. First it instructs you to talk to Becky, then to Damian.

And as I saw that I was like "... Do I have to?" XD Luckily, he wasn't annoying that time, just distant.

Then Anya comes back home to tell her parents about her Diary project, and I had her explore the house a bit.

In the manga and anime there's this small separate space on the hall right by the entrance, and I actually just realized that, but in the game's version of the house that area doesn't exist.

From what I remember, in the game there is just a wall where the opening to this space is. Since this space is rarely used in the manga/anime and it would have taken memory space, I understand why they didn't add it. From the little I played Anya could only move around the main spaces, kitchen, dining/living area and hall, but those parts were pretty accurate.

And according to my post about the Forgers' kitchen, here it looks accurate to the anime, though with a two-door fridge instead.

I mostly took this because I found it funny how atrocious his posture was XD he's probably tired, the poor man.

One of the few minigames I tried was bowling. I like how each characters game traits actually fit their characters XD

Like, Yor is Strong™ but with the least dexterity, Anya is the luckiest but also the weakest, Loid is the most dexterous... and also the unluckiest. I'm telling you, I can find opportunities for angst like it's my job.

Anyway, that minigame was actually nice, it took me a bit to get the hang of the curveballs but I'm sure I could get better at it if I trained more. I played as Loid, too XD

I liked the characters' responses to their throws, either going like "This is hard" or "This is harder than it looks" (even Loid, lmao, with me controlling him he actually became bad at something) if they threw only a few pins. Funny thing is, when Loid was first about to throw his ball, he said something like "Child's play" but then because it was me controlling him he only threw a couple pins and was like "This is hard" 😂 Poor Yor said "Was this good?" a few times right after throwing her ball, then Anya did a strike, and Yor and I as Loid did a spare (when you throw the remaining pins on your second go). For each of those, the other characters cheered for the one doing the strike or spare, and that was cute. Funniest responses was when a throw wouldn't get a single pin, Anya did her "Shock" face, Yor looked embarrassed, and Loid cringed back with a drop of cold sweat on his face (I was the reason for that, sorry man XD) Loid ended up winning and even though he had missed a couple of throws, at the end he was once again like "Child's play" like, my MAN, stop embarrassing yourself and me.

Anyway. Back to the story. There were some cute moments of banter, I feel they captured the characters pretty accurately!

Then I could go into character customization and. Some interesting choices there.

"Just going to work". Yes. That work XD

And then this... item.

MAXIMUM CHARISMA

I'm still laughing about it XD

Then it was ooting time, and I actually really loved the loading screens!

They have a cute feel to them :)

One of the few pictures I took for Anya's album. Whatever is happening on that Spy Wars issue Anya was reading, it must be interesting!

Anya later mentioned she'd sleep with Agent Penguinman that night, and Bond did not like that XD

When I FINALLY managed to hit the required score for Yor's fruit chopping minigame, Anya looked very smug about it 😁

As I mentioned, it took me a lot of times to get the gist of when exactly to swing to cut the vegetables, and every time Yor missed a vegetable she would say something... but there were no subtitles for those lines XD judging by a few lines I've picked up from the anime, I think she was just saying things like "I missed" or an exclamation of disappointment, and one single "I'm sorry, Anya-san". I wanted to hug her!

Then it was back to school the next day.

I'm right there with ya, girl XD

Then Anya asked Yor to train her, and Yor started giving her some advice on how to throw punches... and then Loid slipped in and was like uhm wut O_o

This next part was a little weird, because Anya was supposed to be drawing (like she did in Episode 3 in the museum kids room) and Loid was going like "Oh this is Bondman and a princess, right? That part is a little graphic, though" but... she wasn't drawing? Loid was just standing in the kitchen and I approached him to talk to him and they just said lines similar to the scene I mentioned above from episode 3. It didn't seem like it fit, and only added it so they could have Anya do that expression, which, okay, fair enough XD

This was Anya's expression when she realized Loid had completely misjudged what she was drawing and her powers weren't at risk of being exposed XD

A quick Handler cameo!

That was the intro for a minigame of Twilight sneaking into an art gallery and having to swap paintings for forgeries. I just found her appearance quite cool!

... This, however, was the minigame that proved this game doesn't work well with a keyboard. Controlling the character AND the camera with keyboard buttons is very tricky, and while I could manage moving Anya around, I had a lot of trouble moving Twilight around while I was on a timer and I had to avoid the guards seeing him.

So yeah. It could have been fun but for a computer user it can be frustrating. I tried twice and failed to complete the minigame, and at that point I was tired; it was more stressful than satisfying that way, so I just quit the game, uninstalled it and had it refunded.

Anyway, as I said, it looks like a fun game, but one that can only be appreciated through a console that already includes controllers with joysticks. Computer users shouldn't have to need external controllers to enjoy a game for the computer, so I definitely don't recommend buying it for the PC, if nothing else, for the moral of it. They could have optimized it to move the camera with the mouse, which is how the grand majority of such games work, but they half-assed it and as such I don't think they deserve anyone's money, especially at the price it's at (50 euros for us to need an external controller? no thanks).

[sweetvixen1996]

ok, i never read manga or watched anime, but i see arlong park being mentioned in context of nami, so i wanted to know what was it about? do you mind spoiling me? 😂

as a new live action zinami shipper i just hope for any possible zonami crumbs in the future 😂😂

Oh boy, that is a BIG QUESTION. But I'll do my best to answer

Arlong Park is both an arc, a place, and an important moment in the sorta Meta of One Piece.

As an arc, is serves as very much the climax of the East Blue Saga. It has the biggest fights, the most elaborate backstory (so far), and is an event that leads to Luffy getting his first bounty.

For Nami, in particular, it is Her Arc. It is the one where her backstory, motivations, dreams, fears, and psyche are most explored. The long and sort is that the villain, Arlong, killed Nami's mother and enslaved Nami to make him maps. With the promise that if she gathered enough money, Nami could buy her and her village's freedom. For course, he's a filthy liar, and Luffy and the others need to help step to unleash some well-deserved beatdowns.

As a location, Arlong Park is where Arlong and his crew of fishmen (and Nami) live. It is a repurposed marine base and, as we learn much later, redesigned and renamed to look like the theme park that Arlong and his friends were unable to go to as children due to prejudice against fishmen. This all factors into the much large story about cycles of hatred that exist within the large story of OP that I don't have time to get into here.

But the important thing is that it serves as a great location for the final fights of the arc, giving three different environments to use and different ways to play to the different fighters' strengths. And, considering it served as Nami's prison for so many years, seeing it get destroyed is immensely cathartic.

Now, for the meta angle... When fans of OP are trying to get others into the series, we often say, "If you get to the end of Arlong Park and still don't like it, One Piece is probably not the series for you."

This is because Arlong Park is when the series really BECOMES One Piece. It's where all the elements of the story that make it great -the characters, the fights, the backstories, the worldbuilding- really come together in full force. That's not to say the previous arcs are bad, but rather that each did a few things very well while Arlong Park did EVERYTHING well.

Specifically, the famous 'Luffy... Help me' scene has become an iconic moment in anime in general. Many OP fans (myself included) cite it as the scene that made them fall in love with the series. When watching reaction videos and people reach that moment, I can sometimes even see some 'click' in their eyes. It's the moment they GET IT!

All these years later, and this moment still makes me tear up.

As for Nami & Zoro... This is definitely an important arc to their relationship.

Zoro has spent the previous arc being rather wary of Nami (and not without cause) but when Luffy orders Zoro to bring her back, he is determined to do it -even if it gets him captured. A fan-favorite moment occurs when a captive Zoro is brought before Arlong and Nami. Despite Nami herself and Arlong swearing that this cold-hearted person is Nami's True Self, Zoro decides to go with his gut and test her.

He throws himself into the water, still tied up, and banks on Nami to save him. And she does, even though it makes Arlong suspicious. Especially after Nami frees Zoro and gives him his swords back so he can escape.

(I'm really sad we don't get this moment in the live-action series)

This has Zoro convinced she's a good person in a bad situation, yet later, when it appears Nami has killed Usopp, Zoro is once again confused about her character. It's only when Usopp turns back up and explains what happens that Zoro fully throws his swords in Nami's corner. He even sleeps through her backstory because, by this point, he knows she is good.

Hope this all helps but honestly you should just go experience it yourself because I can't do the arc justice.

[all-hallows-street]

Guess whose financial mistake arrived early...

I will give more in depth looks later (I have to work to afford such questionable purchases), but a quick individual review of what I got:

Neil Demon Plushy

Not a plush toys collector at all; my closest reference is the IKEA shark. He is heavier than he looks, very sturdy (?) if that makes sense. Doesn't seem like he will deform any time soon. The details are adorable and I don't see any glaring defects.

All Saints Street Hoodie

Surprisingly large for me. I was worried they only had one size made for the Chinese market. I'm 1.7m (5 foot 7) tall for reference and this is still a bit too big for me. Will likely get too small for anyone over 6 feet tall. The quality is good! Very soft. Velvet interior. I don't know much about shirt stamping, but since it's not in the fabric I'm guessing the stamp might start to crack after multiple washes.

All Saints Street Vol. 1-3 Collection

Now this is something I can talk about more. The sleeve was unfortunately damaged in shipping and the books have very minor damage in the spine and vol 2 has a minor case of dog ears. The quality of the paper is great! It is color paper, not glossy one you see in comic book issues, but it's thicker than the black and white you see in manga. Would still make sure to have a dehumidifier if your storing place is not dry. I've already experienced book wrapping and it's painful.

Each volume contains around 80 chapters with one extra chapter not on bilibili. They also contain a message from Lingzi and WSJ's editor, plus all character bios even for ones we never got one (Enrique, Eduardo ans Anthony). And if a Weibo post is correct some might have been updated from the ones online (Axel grew 1 cm in the book bio).

Of course later I'll look over everything to see if there are any significan changes to make a note of. Also it came with this lol.

I have the Alice in Wonderland art somewhere, I'll post it later as well.

All Saints Street Anniversary Playing Cards

The playing card decks from the 6th and the 7th anniversary. As you can see I haven't opened the 7th, but I got the 6th a while ago on AliExpress so I expect them to be similar.

This is something else I can review more in depth, coming from a family that loves playing poker. The quality of the prints is beautiful, however I keep them in the box all the time because the quality of the cards itself is not good!

The cards feel like store bought cardboard; good playing cards are made out of cardboard, but this deck doesn't have the same treatment. They are so fragile, even by just handling them to get the face cards I've already made slight damage to the edges. I wouldn't play any game with them, much less shuffle them. I don't even want to imagine how much they will bend. Also the Crystal card came with damage (the small white spot on the edge) from the store. Pain.

Anyways. I'll frame the face cards because they are so pretty and I want to keep them in the best condition... I don't know what I will do with the rest of the 36 cards. Maybe practice magic tricks? Lol. Before all this I've been working on how to scan all the face cards and post them, but it's been more difficult than expected. If you have ever tried to digitize prints you will know. Once I have them, I'll post them alongside high quality scans.

When it comes to my review of PandaBuy... On one hand it was an excellent service and experience. On the other... I don't even want to reveal how much the shipping was. I wouldn't recommend anyone else do it unless you are stupid with your money (like me), even then

I would advice to do your own research. PandaBuy and all agents to buy from China are definitely better when you buy in bulk. My package was 'only' 2kg. Many people buy over 10kg to make it worth it. I'm already committed so if new volumes come out I will buy them, and maybe also get counterfeit Gucci shoes or something since that's what most people use this agents for...

That's all for now. Feel free to reply or send any questions you have.

[simpforchuchu]

Hey again! What if fujio, tsukasa, shoji, and sachio decide to take reader on her dream date for her birthday or something like that so they saved up and bought tickets to readers favorite kpop group or got tickets to a huge anime convention. Those are both my dream dates and I’ve been to both recently and it got me wondering like who would go all and learn the fan chants and the dances and who would wanna do cosplay or blow all their money on the artworks. and who would be the whole “here babe I’ll hold your bag you go have fun,” type. I’m sorry, this is like my third request I’m just on such an energy high today 😅😅😅

High & Low Boys x Reader’s dream date

a/n: Hi! It’s been a while, sorry 🙏🏻It was really a cute one and thank you for your request 😘 I hope you like it 🌸💕

Sorry for the grammer or spelling mistakes.English is not my main language so...

Thank you and love you 🥰

Warnings: none

Fujio

* I don't think there is anything Fujio wouldn't do to make his girlfriend happy.

* This includes learning kpop songs and dances he never knew.

* He probably wants to buy his girlfriend a special gift for her birthday, and he probably even found a part-time job to do it all summer.

* He knows that your favorite band will have a concert in a few months and he wants you to be happy.

* When your birthday comes, he will wave the 2 tickets in his hand with excitement and take you to the concert.

* He even got light sticks so you can wave them along

* And you might not expect him to sing along to every song… Just wait to see him dance.

Sachio

* He is that cool bitch

* So I don't know how far he can go

* But I'm sure he’ll buy those tickets when he see the excitement and happiness in your eyes when you hear the news about the concert.

* He won't hesitate to come to the concert with you

* At first he’s like "Here babe I'll hold your bag you go have fun" but then you can see him waving the light stick with you

* The smile on your face is more important to him than anything else

Tsukasa

* I don't think he's a like anime/manga fan

* Of course, he has been familiar with them all since his childhood, but not a big fan

* Dude literally lives an anime…

* He realizes how much his girlfriend loves animes and wants to make her happy

* When he heard that there was going to be an anime show at a night cinema in your city, he bought the tickets for you without even thinking.

* Definitely will be a surprise

* He is very happy to see the sparkle in your eyes when you get there and see your favorite anime on the big screen.

Shoji

* Totally gives me the anime fan vibe

* Especially shounen anime…

* Watching anime with you is not enough, he wants to make you happier

* So you definitely didn't expect to see him dressed as your favorite character in front of your house one day

* He will tell you to get ready with a small smile and he is excited for you to see the surprise he has made for you.

* He bought tickets to a cosplay event for you and he loves it when you look at the people around with excitement.

* But he must be your favorite, he definitely does not accept anyone else in this regard...

HnL taglist : @straysugzhpe @tiddly-winx @ninamarie1994 @thatpoindexterpixy @koala-yuna @star2fishmeg

[starr-finn]

S/O that quotes Russian badger

Authors note: some quotes and characters are not right, this is done with the main 4 + Houston, Sokol, and Bain btw! Some may be shorter than others, it's not because I don't like said character it's cuz I have no clue what to do

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Dallas!

♡ Dallas is so confused by your quotes

♡ what do you mean 'allergic to that fuckshit?’

♡ he's to old for this, he's 44 after all, he doesn't get the jokes and quotes

♡ He'll research the quotes later

♡ he still won't get it though

writing time!

Dallas looks over at you, he hears you yell "fuck you looking at bitch?!" before you stabbed the cloaker like 5 times, killing him instantly. Dallas stares at you, confused from where that came from, but decided to ask about the quote after the heist, he knew the answer he would get though "I'm just quoting someone!" He sighs and shakes his head before smiling while watching you stab a dozer.

Chains

♤ he just stares at you in confusion

♤ confusion is his main emotions when he hears you shout your quotes

♤ He'll let you explain though

♤ he still doesn't get it

♤ but he'll watch the videos with you

Writing

He was staring at you while you walked into the bank before you quietly say "United Bank of money" before you start laughing at your own joke. He stares at you before shaking your head chuckling, he'd have to find that quote later

Hoxton

♢ Hoxton finds it funny asf

♢ like damn the shit you say is hilarious asf

♢ he'll watch the videos with you

♢ He'll even quote somethings with you

♢ it's oddly cute

Writing

You were cuddled up with Hoxton on the couch, watching a video with him, being totally quiet, before you suddenly yelled out "We attacked three boats, they dropped the sun on us twice!" and he just chuckles softly, smiling at you and he just kisses your forehead rubbing your shoulder

Wolf

♧ He doesn't get it, but he'll humor you

♧ he laughs everytime you say something

♧ his favorite is "flamethrowmer" because of his love for flamethrowers

♧ he never makes fun of the dumb ones, and he never asks you to stop

♧ he loves you too much

Writing

Wolf sat there watching you bully a cloaker that was backed against the wall, just shouting "yeah! difficulty tweak!" in a stupid voice before shooting him in the face. He starts laughing, smiling to himself. He thought it was cute when you'd use your quotes to bully cloakers

Bain

☆ he's so confused

☆ he'll watch the videos on his own time

☆ but being old he doesn't get it

☆ he'll let you yell out quotes though

☆ he finds some funny, others, not so much

Writing

Bain is listening to you shout out your quotes he smiles softly

"Love, quiet down a bit, your hurting my ears" he says laughing softly

You nod softly and chuckle to yourself before shooting a dozer in the face, killing him instantly, you smile softly, saying out loud ".9 mm kills the body but .45 ACP kills the soul, it's how you prevent them from coming back as a Lich"

He chuckled and shakes his head, smiling "I don't get you sometimes"

Houston

♛ I personally headcanon that he watches Badger too

♛ he quotes this shit with you

♛ he finds it funny when you quote Badger

♛ he'll quote his buddies for you

♛ he loves you : )

Writing

Houston was under the van in a black shirt and his sweatpants, you too are both just talking until you smile down at him

"The Bible is just Christian manga"

He starts laughing and slides out from under the van smiling "you really like quoting badger huh?" you just smile and nod

Sokol

♕ being younger he definitely understands the quotes

♕ he doesn't quote with you, but he'll let you have your fun

♕ he thinks it's cute

♕ he'll laugh if their funny

♕ he doesn't totally get the context tho

Writing

Sokol watches as you take a cop hostage, smiling at your strangeness, he'd normally just kill them after all. He's shooting at a few cops until here hears you mumble to a cop "I'll buy you 2 bean burritos if you kill them" the cop went quiet, and then stood up and shot at the cops that got close to you. Sokol just starts laughing at you somehow managing to make it work

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I love these bois! Hope y'all like this one too! I appreciate that y'all read this, uhh thanks for getting me to over 200 something likes, forgot to post about it! But hey thanks a lot, also thanks for 66-67 followers! Love you all!

[sfsolace]

Makinata Mondays: A Hakumei & Mikochi read-along

This is a weekly series where i read through my favorite manga and share my thoughts along with some screenshots.

Chapter 8: Warm Hearth and Gambling

Plot Summary: Hakumei and Mikochi are far from home, with the weather getting more snowy and colder by the minute. As a last resort, they decide to try their luck at a nearby inn that Hakumei frequents. The situation gets slightly tense, as Hakumei still has to pay off her gambling debts from her last visit.

I was honestly surprised that this chapter is in volume 1 of the manga! From my memory of reading Hakumei & Mikochi a while ago, i thought it would be way deeper into the series, like chapter 30 or so.

Maybe the anime confused me a little bit, since they reorder the chapters and a bunch of volume 2 stories come ahead of this one.

The snow is a really nice change of pace from the usual weather and i love how it's drawn. So much of the page/frame is almost blindingly white now, while the nighttime sky still gives that strong contrast. One of my favorite things in this manga is the strong sense of contrast that makes every image pop.

We also meet the Dondoya sisters! Together they run the inn "Dondoya - Dengaku & Robatayaki".

Mimari is definitely the friendlier one, with a calm, cheerful personality.

Shinato, on the other hand, has a few rough edges. She drinks a lot, holds grudges and in this chapter, has it out for Hakumei for allegedly still owing her money from their last game.

Most of this chapter is dedicated to the high stakes game Hakumei sets up to erase her debts from the previous game and secure lodging for the night; with Mikochi and Mimari just along for the ride.

To be completely honest, i kind of lose the plot as soon as someone explains rules or plans, so i never really got into gambling manga/anime. (sorry Kakeguri fans, sorry D'Arby)

I'm mainly here for the character interactions and the art.

But even if I'm a bit loopy when it comes to the rules, the way it's rendered and paced still makes me excited for the twists and turns to come.

This concludes volume 1 of the manga! Thank you for following me along so far; i hope i could motivate you to read the manga or even buy a copy somewhere (much appreciated).

Next week I'll tackle volume 2. I recently purchased an actual physical copy of the manga (bc i adore it so much) and I'm looking forward to sharing my thoughts on the next volume.

I'm also going to post a compilation of the chapter art from volume 1 soon, so keep your eyes peeled for that. I didn't want to include the chapter art in my read-along bc it felt lazy to me, since all of these should be appreciated on their own. Let me know if the compilation post is fun, otherwise i can also post them one by one. I've seen both methods used for dungeon meshi chapter art (shoutout to dungeonmeshititlepages ) and both have their pros and cons.

Love y'all!

[mcalhenwrites]

So today, I did get quite a bit of writing done at work! I finished one of the ask prompts, so I'll be editing that when I'm awake later this week and posting that! If I can finish the other two I started - that includes the Ferdinand/"Please" smut one I started at work lmao - then those will also go up! I swear I haven't forgotten any of them. I think three of them might not be short... I'll see. One of them is definitely going to be lengthy, so please be paitient with me. :') I probably won't get another chapter of Seasons up tonight either. (I know I made a comment on AO3 that I'd try, but... not likely happening.) I'm extremely sleep-deprived from my night owl self resisting sleeping at night when I have to be at work during the day. So I'll probably edit and post that later. I made so many changes and want to make sure I get everything correct. It's gonna be a bit of an exciting week, but I'm hoping I get back into reading. It has been hard to read since spring started, and I was kind of slow through winter. I'm going to the library this week too, bc I wanna see what manga they have available. I'm mostly reading books rather than any fics lately, I just don't have fandoms and I'm being picky anyway. I also wish I had money to buy some manga and books, I really hate how easily manga and such can go out of print and fear it'll happen with some of the ones I badly want to finish collecting or start collecting... Plus I really want to get back to supporting a lot of the indie authors I enjoy.

[amaiguri]

Wanna see the business side of story-based games?

Me! I want to! 👋 Hi, I'm Amaiguri. I'm a full time gamedev and I've released two games before and correctly predicted how much money I would make each time! Wow!

I've been considering converting the webfic I write into a story game of some kind -- a visual novel or a RPGmaker game or maybe even a walking sim? But I didn't know what I wanted to make!

This story has been THE STORY of my early adult life here -- it is SO important to me. So, while I'm a huge advocate of making whatever you want, I wanted to ensure whatever I put my effort into would be VAGUELY marketable. (Because, lemme tell you, webnovels are not marketable XD)

Before I dive in too deeply, **BIG DISCLAIMER**:

I am not a business person. I am using big, wide guestimates to make non-essential business decisions with myself. BUT I want to share my learnings with you. So, take everything I say with a grain of salt and JOIN ME on this journey:

Earlier this month, I made a post about wanting to make a visual novel. Specifically, a kinetic visual novel where you don't make choices and you just read basically. SO I've now done research into how well they sold. I used THIS website to determine how much money each of these games made (VERY loosely):

Juniper's Knot: ~$4k USD

Higurashi (The Whole Series): ~$300k USD (Averaging like 400 reviews per game and $50 for the whole bundle)

House in Fata Morgana: ~$1 million USD

I picked these out mostly because these are the small handful of kinetic novels I have actually heard about. I'm not saying there aren't other, more successful ones I haven't heard about but I figure, if I'm supposed to be representative of my target audience, I'm as good of a sample as any for this wild estimation.

Besides, Higurashi has a whole anime -- it is definitely fair to use that as an upper end -- and Juniper's Knot -- a tiny game no one has heard of -- as the lower end. (I mean, $0 is the lower end, but... you know...)

This paints a pretty stark picture, honestly. Like, this is looking at 6 to 8 years of work for... maybe a couple thousand for me? Realistically? Maybe up to $300k if I'm super lucky and go viral? And I'm not saying that isn't LIFE CHANGING money but like in the MOST MIRACULOUS scenario here, I am compensated less than my current salary for my current magnum opus. But realistically, I'm looking at maybe $1-4k if I get lucky. I'm not a horror-writer and I'm not a romance writer -- I will not have THAT feral of a fanbase XD And on top of all of that, I don't even play that many kinetic visual novels. I'm barely in my own target demo here!

Now, compare that to the numbers I ran on RPGmaker games where you just do narrative and there is very minimal gameplay:

Rakuen: 4000+ Reviews, over $100k in profits estimated

To the Moon: $8 Million in profit

A Bird Story: Definitely sold worse than To the Moon, was cheaper to make and cheaper to buy -- estimated at $397k

Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea: Dunno cuz it's free BUT its manga adaptation has 267 reviews on Amazon -- so the creator COULD have made bank on the actual game

See how much higher those are? Even when they're not as well known? And sure, the bottom is still $0 ultimately but the upper limit, with the most successful of these titles (and incidentally, the video game that convinced me to get into Game Design) is much much higher.

"BUT BELLE! Laura Shigihara did the music on a lot of those! You don't have Laura Shigihara!"

Ok BET! I'll hire her! The base industry rate for music per minute is $100/min. Let's suppose now she charge 10x that, cuz she's famous -- $1k/minute of music. I get her to compose a 3 minute song for $3k BUT she also brings over... say... 5% of her audience to check out my game.

That's admittedly, a high conversion rate so we'll just take 5% of Rakuen. Now, I'm imagining I'd charge like $25/copy of my game because it's gonna be like 300k words -- people pay $25 for a book of that length, so if I have art and programming also, I can do that. With just her 5% of Rakuen reviewers (21 reviewers of her 4.3k), that's like $7k USD. So, she'd probably just pay for herself and then some.

And to top all this off: I'm back in the target demo. I am ABSOLUTELY the kind of person who will play a solodev's RPGmaker game and forgive all jank and flaws and lack of gameplay if the story, art, and music are good.

That is, of course, making the assumption that I'll make good music and art 🥺🥺🥺

Now obviously, all this is WILD guestimates so like. You shouldn't make business decisions off this. I'm barely making "business" decisions -- I'm making hobby decisions. I have a full time job and I intend to keep it. BUT I think it's pretty clear where the potential money might be for me -- RPGmaker games.

Eris (Blinking): Thank you for reading!

[ninalove616]

Starting a Pokespe challenge (May 1st 2024)

•So, basically, I started reading the Pokespe manga last month and last week I decided to give it a shot and attempt to challenge myself to something. As you might know (if you've read the manga yourself, course) they usually give us the natures and characteristics of the protagonists' Pokémon and, well, let's just say that I'll be searching for them as faithfully as possible to their manga canon! My target will be Ruby (mostly because Sapphire's torchic is a female and I don't like to suffer that much) on Pokémon Alpha Sapphire cuz I felt like playing it again after reading ORAS arc. I'm a shiny hunter so I kinda have the experience with trial and error when it comes to Pokémon RNG so it's not that new to me. So, let's begin with today's updates.

•I started this challenge on Friday (April 26th), and since then, I've been resetting for a Male Relaxed Mudkip that likes to relax. Let's just say that it was a damn pain, the resets took a while given that I had to skip all the dialogues from the professor every single time, yesterday I had the brilliant idea to change my 2DS' date to match that of Ruby's birthday because that's when he got Mumu and, today, I open my 2DS, do one reset and low and behold:

Mumu acquired!

This was definitely a moment to commemorate ngl. Anyways, I used a small strategy, I'm not sure if it helped or not but basically I instantly soft reseted any Mudkip that had 20Hp given that, from what I understood from Bulbapedia, the characteristic "likes to relax" derivatives from a Pokémon's highest IV being Hp and having a specific number. So yeah, Mumu's home!

•Next step was going Ralts hunting thanks to its ability Synchronize, which will help me a tons given that it makes finding a certain ability much easier. I'm still missing a Naive one for Kiki but the others are home.

•Next step was getting Rara which, honestly, could've taking a lot longer than what it did

Rara acquired!

(and I'm out of pokeballs and money)

Anyways, now the only thing left to do is to progress the game because I have no money left yay. Time to go visit my dad that doesn't care about his family I guess :D

And he immediately puts me on babysitting (jk) duty just to not connect with his son

Wally's music is kind of a banger ngl. I honestly dunno why they would put the catching tutorial here cuz there was plenty of time for you to decipher it by yourself.

Ur kinda late to the party, friend. Online service is no more!

After beating random children I finally got enough money to buy some pokeballs I decided to search for the last Ralts I needed, took me a while but finally he decided to pop up!

I still had a few pokeballs left and I was on the right route to find Nana, which I did quite easily, literally the first one I found after the previous mentioned Ralts

Nana acquired!

(and my wallet is still in a critical condition)

Only Feefee, Kiki and Fofo left!

Well, Tumblr doesn't allow me to post more pics so I guess I'll leave the rest for part two! I guess I'll call this "Ruby team challenge" kind of a self explanatory name.

[diah-the-demon]

yeah the vibe is different </3 it now feels less like a personal chat and more like a personal chat in a public space but what else can we do when tumblr keeps being homophobic TT-TT

yeah I hope so too!! I'll bring it up to her soon as we still have Sci-fi cons which we regularly attend bcs I think that'd be cool!

and aaaw that sounds adorable!! The Sci-Fi cons that I visit always have lots of kids that age running around with their plastik lightsabers and usually clone wars masks of Anakin and Obi Wan and it's the cutest thing to watch them run around and play out their ideas

yeah she probably won't ksjdlsk it's just that we're both so used of someone bitching at us for buying even the most necessary shit so we gotta get used to that no longer happening slkjdlsk I'll probably bring it up to her soon, maybe tomorrow after uni! Hell I can even pay for it myself, I still have a lot of unused money from the past few cons since I barely bought smth aside from postcards / small prints

ksjdslk you're going to have the sickest bookshelf if that works out! and I hope it does skdjsl But yeah that sounds like a solid idea as to where to put them!!

ooh I think with the shows coming out there should definitely be a spike on tutorials for them!! Though I highly doubt there weren't some to begin with with Star Wars being such a huge franchise!! (and yeah I think that could probably be a solid start!!)

Yeah that's also always what I have noticed (it's probably also one of the most comfortable options ngl skldjsk) I think attaching them is going to be the most tricky part but I bet there are tricks to do so very easily!

yeah it feels way more out in the open, like speaking into a microphone instead of like just a casual conversation sat at a table in the corner of the room.. we could switch to discord or insta dms if we want it less open but idk, feels weird when its not on tumblr

ooo that sounds like fun! i need to try going to a sci-fi con, i know they have some in edinburgh occasionally throughout the year so il see if i can maybe go there eventually

it was!! it was so fucking fun, i remember around that age me and my sister would have lightsaber duels occasionally, too bad the sabers were bad quality so i accidently broke mine when i hit it too hard </3 thankfully it was after halloween so i still had the saber for halloween, just imagine like an 8 or 9 year old with a darth vader mask and red lightsaber walking down a dimly lit street dsjdsslkdj

i remember when i went trick or treating later that day i used my vader helmet (well its more like a mask tbh, its only the front half of vaders helmet lol) as a bucket to keep my sweets and candy in dlskjdslkjds

thats fair i cant rlly blame you or her, it will probably take a long time to get over that (i know the feeling cause my mother is like that sometimes, its so fucking annoying. she does it less to me now cause i have my own money but still)

i hope it goes well when you talk to her about it!! i doubt she wont let you buy it but wishing it goes well anyways!! if you dont do it tomorrow tho do keep in mind the sale is i think only lasting 1 more week? (or until everything sells out) so dont leave it too long slksjdlskd

IK ITS GONNA BE SO COOL, id say my bookshelf is already pretty cool because ive got 2 shelfs of books (one is mostly manga and star wars books, other is recipe books and other misc books) i could put them in 1 shelf but ive done it that way so theres space on the shelf next to the books, so i can put the helmets next to the books!! thinking about it now i can prob get 2 on the bookshelf and then the other 2 could go ontop of it maybe, idk il figure that out when i get them dsjlkds

Edit: heres a pic of said book shelf, forgot to mention the (fake) plant that hangs infront of my manga!!! skdjd Ignore the basket on the second shelf of books btw thats just where i keep my socks rn lmao (and random clothes in the shelf below too sldjslskssjk, im working on it so ignore that)

Anyways i could totally fit a helmet or 2 in here, one where the origami book is and one where the basket is, then the rest can go ontop of the bookcase idk lol

oh yeah its def gonna be trending, i saw one for storm trooper armour a few months ago, not mandalorian but tbh they are close (i mean storm trooper armour was based on the clones armour which was based on mandalorian so it is connected lmao) even if there isnt im pretty sure i could probably figure it out on my own if i had to

i think the way il have to attach it is maybe velcro? cause pins could fall out and if i try to put it back on it will be in a slightly different area probably, so what im thinking is having small velcro patches put onto the body suit and some on the armour pieces!! probably wont work out how it is in my head when i finally do it but i can atleast have ideas until then lol

[twatkcox]

[The Keihancarl Diaries: October 21, 2023]

Hi everyone, Keihancarl here once again. And I bet this weekend’s gonna be awesome.

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The Ozine Fest Halloween Special, held at the Fairview Terraces, will be the third anime/cosplay event I attended for this year, after the Pinoy Otaku Festival 2023: Shizen (Robinsons Novaliches) last May and the Best Of Anime 2023: The Reunion (SMX Convention Center Manila) last September. I never got to visit Coshabatsu, which was also held at the Fairview Terraces a few months ago.

Anyway, my awesome weekend should begin with a post-birthday celebration, with a cup of caramel macchiato iced coffee, cinnamon roll, and bloody velvet cupcake from Cafe Luca. I was initially planning to have a slice of Basque burnt cheesecake, but I changed my mind at the last minute.

I managed to take a lot of selfies, as well as food photos. I even took a couple of videos of the fork cutting a piece of the bloody velvet cupcake (one of the Halloween items).

I then uploaded the first batch of photos to my Instagram accounts. At that point, I was probably enjoying myself too much, knowing that I’d be attending the Halloween-themed anime/cosplay event later.

I only stay for about an hour since I need to get to the Ozine Fest. It was already 4:00 PM when I left the cafe.

Next stop, Fairview Terraces. I immediately headed to the event center to check some of the booths and bought a few souvenirs, including a couple of anime pins, a small Pochita plushie, and a book by Sskait (yup, he had a booth at the event).

As it is a Halloween-themed anime/cosplay event, the cosplay competitions are, of course, Halloween-related. There are also some mini-games as well. And there’s the trick or treat.

By the time I got there, the Worst Nightmare Cosplay Competition was about to begin. Seeing that most of the booths took up the event center, there’s very little space left in front of the stage. Not only that but some of the booths are located in the eastern hallway near Owndays.

From the second floor of the mall, the event center looked incredibly crowded.

Back at the event area, I had a few selfies with some of the cosplayers.

At the fountain area, I took some more selfies. The wacky ones.

The first day of the event ended as soon as the winners were announced. It was almost 7:00 PM, but the stage was empty. But the booths remained open until about closing time, I assume.

I then head to SM Fairview and visit a couple of bookshops. I managed to buy a second-hand manga at Booksale (Bodacious Space Pirates) that was on the shelf for almost four years. I remember seeing that book a lot of times whenever I passed by that branch, but it seems like no one bought it nor it was pulled out. But on that day, I finally decided to pick it up, and that was that.

I only checked the lower and upper ground levels and had dinner at Bonchon Chicken at the mall’s second level. I checked the department store after that (there’s a Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf branch inside the department store aside from the one at the Parkway) and bought a couple of items at the supermarket before going home.

I must have spent a lot of money on these items, but they all serve as awesome souvenirs from the event. The manga, however, was bought outside the venue and may not be considered one of the souvenirs from the event, but I decided to include it anyway.

I'll definitely read the comic book very soon. Wish I also bought the eggplant plushie as well.

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That day was really special to me since that was the first time I celebrated my birthday at my favorite hangout place post-pandemic. I bought some awesome souvenirs from the Ozine event too. I never got to eat out at a Japanese restaurant (which I did a week later) or shop for some clothes to replace the ones in my wardrobe (I only bought a Shoyo Hinata shirt at the department store a week later as well). The small Pochita plushie and the recent book from Sskait serve as my birthday presents to myself. Too bad I never got to visit the second day of the event, but I somehow managed to squeeze almost everything in one day.

And that’s how my post-birthday celebration/first time at an Ozine event went. Hopefully, I can plan my next mall-hopping trip by November, as soon as I can procure some potential additions to my wardrobe.

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Most of the pics are from my Instagram account, @kcox_105. The Ozine Fest haul and the pages from the Sskait comic were exclusively uploaded to my Threads account of the same name.

[violetarks]

i think i'm no good | i'll stay out here

chapter two | contents page | chapter four

anime: haikyuu!!

character: iwaizumi hajime x reader, miya atsumu x reader

summary: y/n is a manga artist and writer that seems to project her emotions onto the work called “officially gone”. when she has to find new inspiration for her next arc, her marketing manager gives her a number of a friend he knows will help. but can y/n keep her personal life separate from her professional? will it help her feel better about herself, or even worse?

taglist: @ysatrap

▹ tooru used to go on 8 AM runs by himself, but he once got jumped by some crazy fans. he was fine with it at first but then they were still following him and he had to sprint for 20 minutes straight just to lose them. now, he wants go have a jogging partner so he won't look like a lunatic running by himself.

▹ atsumu usually wakes up at 10:30, which is a habit he hasn't been able to shake off since he finished high school. because of this, kiyoomi has had to push all of his shoots and public events further than he'd really like. if it can't be fixed, then iwaizumi will have to go and wake him up himself.

▹ atsumu most definitely forced tooru to take that photo for him and told him to post it and tag him. tooru refused at first but then iwaizumi told him to since he made atsumu miss breakfast.

▹ the manga at the cafe wasn't actually meant to be bought but atsumu had put down double the amount of money that the owner had paid for the manga. iwaizumi had to apologise since it was his first that atsumu wanted to buy the manga.

▹ hajime started reading in the car so he didn't have to focus on atsumu and tooru talking in the car. even kiyoomi's personal driver was getting irritated, clicking his tongue every time one of them rose their voices. iwaizumi pinched them and told them to speak in a lower tone.

▹ kei arrived at y/n's house at 11 o'clock and saw her in the middle of putting on her shoes, hair not done either. they left at 11:15 because kei was doing her hair and y/n wanted to change her shoes like three times.

▹ tetsu and kou live together so they drove together to the shoot. kou couldn't stop smiling because he was so excited and was texting y/n on the way there. she was telling him that kei was putting her hair too harshly.