#isekai once again

[lonicera-edulis]

#wips #I do in fact have two 'modern' aus (3rd sketch) #the second au is a more interesting though I think #technically they are not even modern aus too #isekai once again #kind of #or reverse isekai? #idk #I am not an expert #I looked into psd file and there were these fili and kili #someone who has a strong existential crisis lately is not supposed to listen to ambient music before sleep and still listens to it #hmmm huh uh? #I love dot eyes so much I don't know xD #the most enjoyable style to draw #the hobbit #bagginshield #kiliel

[trash-for-manhwa-and-manga]

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO MY BELOVED MANHWA MOMS 🫶

#CAN Y'ALL SEE HOW ADORABLE SHURI AND THE KIDS ARE!?!?! #the fantasie of a stepmother #who made me a princess #i married the male lead's dad #into the light once again #the rewards of marriage #the villainess turns the hourglass #the monstrous duke's adopted daughter #not sew wicked stepmom #the perks of being an s class heroine #lady baby #manhwa #webtoon #manhwa recommendation #isekai #rofan #a stepmother's märchen

[orangejuice707]

Fellas is it gay to bathe with ur homie in the same tub while simeoltaneously asking abt her "husband's" whereabouts ?

#isekai manhwa #manhwa recommendation #manhwa #lady devil #manta comics #the villainess is a marionette #death is the only ending for a villainess #into the light once again #who made me a princess #your throne

[understandableparadox]

Bottom of the barrel isekai review

did i say I was going to read something horrible for you? turns out it was horrible for me.

behold a fucking pre-amble. I think the idea of loving and being loved is a concept ambiguous enough for it to be idolized by almost anyone because the ways to love are so varied and different. unconditional, unrequited, toxic, wholesome, forbidden, destined, love has more modifiers then fucking charizard and oops we gotta update that sentence because someone on book tik tok has invented a new type of love known as Squimy love. what does this mean for your children? more at 11.

regardless we yearn for a type of romance or if you are aromantic a form of intimacy in the form of the platonic. in some cases we can form such ties with people we don't see, people that Do not know that you exist.

in worse cases, sometimes the people who don't know we exist want to foster that relationship further for their own benefit. Parasocial love.

im sure you heard it from whatever drama youtuber you have decided to use to funnel useless bits of rage bait into your ears but its a tale as old as creepy guys. streamer is a little to eager to play into the fantasy of the viewers, that they love them, that they thing You, that's right, You dear viewer are special...Then they use that to groom or take advantage of a kid and they don't go to jail and someone writes a long expose piece on them and you want them to get hit by a truck but god rarely allows such lovely Closure...

anyways that defeintly has nothing to do with the work we are unraveling today, right? right???

oh.

oh no....

god, just kill me... ok the premise is simple, the internet has been made by a reincarnated rando who has decided that anything in regards to adventuring and fighting is just not in the cards for him so he has decided to just be a streamer. The only streamer in the world...Well more of a podcaster, given his streams are soley voice. but lets not label spikes being driven into my head.

but hey, thats a intresting concept, the idea that someone has created the true information highway across a world that is fucking Eras to early for it, theres a lot of things that one can explo-

kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me, please, im begging, im pleading, im a fucking deer on the side on the road stareing at you with blank uncomprehending eyes, my comprehension of Big Block Of Metal screaming down the road is null, dont let up on the gas and turn me into a grease smear so I may obtain something resembling an iota of peace of mind

NOT EVERY FUCKING CHARECTER NEEDS TO BE THE STRONGEST, THEY DONT NEED TO HAVE THE MILLION MANA MULTIPLIER, ITS OK TO BE SOMEWHAT WEAK, DID LUFFY POP OUT OF THE BARREL SCREAMING GUM GUM GIGA COCK AND ONE SHOTTING EVERY POOR PRIVATEER AND BUCANNEER THAT SO DARED TO GIVE HIM ANYTHING OTHER THEM WARM PRAISE AND DELIGHTIED WELCOME?! NO, BECAUSE WE ARE ALLOWED TO ENJOY THE FACT THERE ARE STAKES, THAT NOT EVERY SITUATION IS ONE IN WHICH WE ARE IN SOLE COMMAND OF! THAT GIVES IT SPICE.

anyways they wont talk about this for ten additional chapters and then again for the arc finally so i'm going to ignore it and move on.

they also go to a school that accommodates commoners and nobals, but its also the first school that actully does this, which is really intresting as its a mixing of classes and allowing "commoner" students acess to higher education and training for magic for a war with the demon king, meaning is this truly for public betterment or is this a method of ensureing nobel students arent drafted into war due to magic potential by haveing a healthy supply of seemingly more expenda- oh? your bored? you want me to jinkle something in your face? oh i messed up that sentance? You Meant to say jiggle? ok cool

reaching the end of the comic we come to its inevitable Gimmick because one cannot be Fucked to try to make just one gimmick work. thats right, the streamer has developed a collection of accidental parasocial relationships with various well endowed women across the nation, each in astoundingly have posistions of power or in some way highly skilled.

Each woman dispite not knowing who the streamer is, never seeing his face are thusly so infatuated by the mere sound of his voice and the kind words he mutters that they have their brain matter utterly rewired, becomeing true devouts for their favorite streamer...

Rinse and repeat for 20 plus chapters and you get Shitty Ecchi Slop delivered out to be consumed en masse because men cannot hope to penetrate the core of male lonliness without true introspection which in turn is stymied by a hunered or so other dude bros who loathe the word and offer a far easier view in which to dye the world. thus they seak idea of being coveted by someone in mangas in increaseingly more convluted power fantasies...

IS WHAT I WANT TO END THIS ON BUT IT GETS WERIDER, DISPITE BEING SLOB THE AUTHOR IS BASED ON TWO AREAS IN PARTICULER,

HOLY SHITBALLS BATMAN, IS THAT AN ISEKAI CHARECTER THAT ISNT IMMEDITLY BUM RUSHING THE FUCKING SLAVE MAKRKET OR GIVING IT A TUT TUT?! IS THAT A HUMAN BEING WITH ACTUAL FUCKING EMPATHY?!

OH MY FUCKING GOD IN HEAVEN I DIDNT KNOW THOSE EXISTED, NOW AINT THAT THE SHINIEST FUCKING PENNY IN THE BUNCH, BUT OH PLEASE DO SAVE ROOM FOR DESERT BECAUSE IN THE SAME FUCKING CHAPTER

THEY BRING THE ABOLTION OF SLAVERY, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN PARASOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS WORK FASTER THEN ABRAHAM LINCON AND HIS INDESCIVE BEARED ASS.

IMAGINE MY FUCKING SHOCK AND AWE, HEARING THE TERM SLAVE AND BEING AWASHED WITH THE TRUAMA OF WATCHING SO MANY BLACK HAIRED SAD EYED ANIME PRETTY BOYS EITHER DECIDEING TO BUY A SLAVE WHO ALSO JUST HAPPENS TO BE THE FUCKING POSTER CHILD FOR STOCKHOLM SYNDROM OR JUST SAYING "THAT SUCKS" AND LEAVEING IT BE, READY FOR THE INEVITABLE KNIFE IN THE HEART AND THEN BOOM, STREAMER SAYS SLAVERY IS BAD AND THEY GET RID OF IT, MAYBE I DO BELIVE IN THE POWER OF THE STREAMER.

DID YOU FILL UP ON SWEET SWEET ANTI FANTASY SLAVERY COOKIES?1 YOU GOD DAMN IDIOT, YOU SHOULD HAVE SAVED ROOM FOR "GUY WITH NORMAL OPINIONS ABOUT SEX WORK"

I AM A CONVERT, I AM A DEVOUT, HAND TO THE HEAVENS I SHALL ESPOUSE THE VIRTUES AND DIVINITY OF THE STREAMER, WITH A WAVE OF THEIR VIRTUAL HAND SOCIETAL PROPLEM LOSE FLIGHT AND FALL TO THE EMBRACE OF THE COLD GRAVE, I JUST NEED A CHAPTER WHERE STREAMER SAYS TRANS RIGHTS AND I PROMISE I WILL NEVER EVER TALK SHIT ABOUT THIS SERIES AGAIN, PLEASE MR. STREAMER, JUST SAY TRANS RIGHTS ONE TIME, JUST ONE SINGULER TIME AND I CAN ASCEND THE RUNGS OF PEACE AND JOY.

turning down the notches this manga is funny in the fact that it pulls me back and fourth with wild abandon between utter and complete slop and genuinly funny bits and abnormally normal opinions for the genra.

"Is the underlying story, barring any other concept, good?" 

there really isnt a story, its just streamer talking and women going batshit insane.

"on a sliding scale of min to max, how much is the author using this to explore fetish" 

medium. the story has an obsession with the idea of yandere but it rarely goes into the idea of a stalker. the women are respectfull of his boundries barring one but that one is called the odd one out. aside from that, alot of scenes are just an ecuse to draw anime tits.

"How many story crutches does the author use to explore the story" 

it dosent need crutches because it has little to no intrest in telling a coherent story, it talks about what it wants and drops the rest.

 "Is the author attempting to use the story as a way to explain why he is not weird."

streamers can solve all of socitial ills as long as the women who they create parasocial relationships in are in posistions of high political power. .

#bottom of the barral #isekai #shitty isekai #manga review #i dont actully recommend this title #its better if a friend just explains it to you #once again im always open to suggestions #just dm them to me.

[conspirartist]

Revisiting the character designs I did for my barchelor thesis (part 1/3). The older version is bellow the cut. I tried to stay as close as possible to the original designs, as I still think they work very well...

Anyway, meet Peter, a silver-tongued ghost punished to work as a bartender in his after-life.

#my art #digital art #illustration #original character #original art #character design #after the midnight club #that was the tittle of my thesis #I developed three characters for an animated series pilot #peter here would be our very relutant protagonist #in a kind of slice of life/fantasy #that parodies the isekai genre #bc the idea of regular joe dies goes to magical world just to end up stuck on costumer service once again is very hysterical #even more so when this fricking guy procedes to stay completely unbothered not interested in adventure whatsoever #he only wants to find a way to get out of work and maybe get ghost-unionized

[bravevolunteer]

instead of being productive i have collected some highlights of recent-ish ic michael messages because he's ridiculous (LONG post under the cut)

^ about rawdogging the eclipse

(the slur in question was "lizard")

"i'm probably nonbinary but i have a job so idc about all that" ass messages

this. was about pegging.

#i have barely done anything tonight once again !!!!!! have screenshots- #HE'S SO STUPID. especially when you isekai him into the modern day- #⁂ ･ﾟ: i was looking for a job‚ and then i found a job‚ and heaven knows i’m miserable now ➛ ooc

[jeweled-blue-eyes]

#into the light once again #once again into the light #covers #manhwa #isekai

[slightly-gay-pogohammer]

unpopular opinion: male characters are more prone to be mary sues than female ones. there's less pressure on creators to "not make a mary sue" if they're male. of course, there is some nuance here. for example: male characters of color are more likely to be called mary sues than white male characters. what i'm trying to say is most isekai is garbage-

YOUR unpopular opinions

strongly agree | agree | neutral | disagree | strongly disagree

i personally never saw a male character being called like that?actually. when it comes to male characters of colors i mostly see racist slurs which is actually 200 times worse bc mary sue is a stupid concept but racism is real :^)

this said i strongly agree with most isekai being garbage

#once again this isnt an invitation to suggest me isekais. i wont read it #gio replies

[inkstaindusk]

Will shoujo isekai ever be allowed to create "i love my wife" guys who are also "i love my child(ren)" guys? In a way that is not emotionally repressed, incredibly awkward, and/or borderline/straight up neglectful? Especially with their sons?

#let boys and fathers have good relationships with each other goddammit!!! #once again hades is setting the standard #and again i am NOT talking about the greek god #dusk liveblogs #v lb #this tag is starting to feel more like unleashing all of my shoujo isekai grievances than actual lbing

[trash-for-manhwa-and-manga]

VISUAL SIBLINGS 💗

#your ultimate love rival #please marry me again husband #roxana #your throne #the villainess is a marionette #lady baby #into the light once again #a transmigrator’s privilege #manhwa #webtoon #manhwa recommendation #i have become the heroes' rival #isekai #manhwa siblings #rofan #webtoon recommendation

[orangejuice707]

<3 😭💓

#isekai manhwa #manhwa #manhwa recommendation #into the light once again #death is the only ending for a villainess #the villainess is a marionette #who made me a princess

[always-a-joyful-note]

Thinking some fandom thoughts and then about ORV's portrayal of an author-character-reader relationship with the story and realising how....lacking at times the whole death of the author perspective on media can be.

(Turned out to be long and rambly so I put it under a cut. If you like death of the author, probably not for your worldview? Also, beware major ORV spoilers if you care about that)

Like, perhaps I'm misinterpreting something here, but in ORV, we had these three characters plus an entire system that gave us a look into the relationship between author/reader/character. And focusing on the Han Sooyoung, Kim Dokja, and Yoo Joonghyuk dynamic, I realise that none of them really died. Pushing asides Joonghyuk and Dokja for the moment (as I am talking about death of the author), we have Han Sooyoung whose consciousness faded after finishing Ways of Survival.

However, I don't know if we can really call that death of the author, really. Because Sooyoung's whole purpose in writing ORV, her authorial intention, was to save Kim Dokja's life...which she DID. And even after the story left her hands, her intentions were imprinted into the story itself. Yes, Dokja realised that the system was lenient to him because of (spoiler alert) his status as the OD. But at the same time, I think that Han Sooyoung's authorial intent to keep Dokja alive with WoS can also be taken as a factor in the system's leniency towards our reader.

And just jumping from that back to my original point, while death of the author IS fun and can be awesome for reinterpreting stories that the author may have intended as problematic (to our modern standards, at least), to separate the actual story itself from its creator seems just....a tad disrespectful to the author.

Or maybe disrespectful isn't the right word. Like, say, even if said author is objectively the worst of humans, there remains the fact that the story in essence has part of them embedded into it. It doesn't make sense, at least to me, to only give "morally okay" writers the allowance of people who put a part of themselves in their works. Any writer, even those who are writing for money imo, can't help but put part of their own selves into their story...and to separate the story from the author just because we hate the author or hate their beliefs seems a bit counter-productive. You can't just say, after all, that this author's vulnerability in their writing is okay because it's Correct but this other guy's vulnerability should be ignored because it's chalk full of Problematic Content.

But again, that's not to justify authors you dislike or the deeply wrong messages implied in their works. Especially those that could easily be shooed away by employing death of the author. But I think I'd consider fanfic or analyses that ignore authorial intent and their message to be something...new entirely? (Best way I can say it is something something death of an author employed to help the reader create their own narrative inspired by someone else's story rather than it being used to ignore author intent and claim our interpretation is what canon actually meant).

I think there's a saying in music as well as writing that you could play the same exact score or write the same story, it's just that things will come out different depending on the player or writer. (That's not a perfect comparison because the player/musician who WROTE the score could be considered a reader/author relationship...the point is more that the same thing will look different in the hands of different people. And that just as the reader will interpret something in their own way when reading/re-reading (another ORV reference), the author also has placed in their own interpretation and intent in that own work...which should at worst be respected because they DID make that content (and then we proceed to brutally revise it to make something we like better xD) or at best be taken as "word of god" for lack of a better term)

Not sure if any of this makes sense, and I definitely don't have any factual evidence to back up this opinion, but it was just something I was thinking of.

TL:dR? Death of the author is FUN and actually pretty cool but I think the things coming out of it are new(ish) things/works entirely, and og author's beliefs/intentions are important to consider for that text they wrote in of itself.

#honestly this thought came from scrolling through the narnia tag and feeling slight despair over movies vs book #and also a bit of a surprise at how MANY people still believe in the problem of susan....like i thought we were past that? #and how many people dont seem to get or like that cs lewis' christianity deeply inspired it #or how much historical and cultural context we might need to understand some of the choices #like the pevensies whole isekai regressions #another example i can think of is lotr....and another is funny enough the bible #but those arent things i know well enough #but yeah....orv and narnia conspiring together for this nonsense of mine #again disclaimer this really isnt meant to attack anyone or say im right...its just another opinion to be lost in the sea of internet #but yeah....i did kinda get carried away xD...my poor rambles never get any good transitions #fandom spamdom #note's nonsense #things about writing #orv spoilers #another disclaimer i wrote this after having been awake for like....almost 19 hours coherence be gone #but yeeting it into the void nevertheless #i also think there was a post circulating once that talked about death of the author not being actually used in academic circles #excuse me rambling in the tags

[squidbulborb]

Currently on Vacation~ ⛱🌴

If you're reading this than chances are I'm currently traveling on vacation to a nice summer place, so sorry fellas but I might not draw as much on this next week or so. I'll still be around though, so don't worry I can still post some cringe in the meantime ;P

#vacation time #vacation travel #once I'm back I'm planning on starting a BIG drawing project again but we'll see how things turn out #I'll give you a hint: it involves an old isekai au lol

[stellamancer]

i need to write a isekai where reader gives gojo the third degree for false advertising

#nikuniku spam #i've been wanting to write an isekai for so long #but you know what even a reverse isekai would be very fun #bUT THIS MAN IS TOUTED AS THE STRONGEST #AND MAYBE THIS IS A BIT CONTROVERSAL TO SAY #but has he even REALLY won a single fight??? #i wouldn't call when he killed toji a win #bECAUSE HE LOST FIRST ANYWAY #fake strongest man i'll knock your face in #oh okay once in jjk0 and once again jogo initially #sure he's proven his strength off screen of whatevs #BUT PICS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN BITCH #someone is going to come into my inbox wanting to fight me i know #just keep out #also i think it would be fun to have an isekai-esque reader with this mentality about him

[autumnfuzz]

Spring once again/ Spring returned again

It's comedy/slice of life with a bit of freaky Friday. Bom and Grandma San are the MC's.

One day San wakes up in her granddaughter Bom's body who is opposite of her character. San has a firm but kind character but Bom has social anxiety and a pushover.

Bom: Is the granddaughter and the biggest pushover you'll ever see. She's a people pleaser and can't say no to people even when the other party is wrong. Her doormat behaviour gets annoying sometimes.

I feel for her friend. Standing up for someone continuously who won't even do anything to help themselves is pretty tiring.

San: The grandma who's a lady with boundary. She's kind and lovely but won't let anyone step on her. I like her.

This is so true and love grandma's energy already.

Potential love interest:

This kid raised himself. Dad is useless, so his older brother. He basically takes care of the other two and naturally became more mature than his pears and often acts like an adult person. His family is trash. I kinda feel bad for him.

Anyway, he didn't like Bom cause she lacked courage to stand up for herself. But started to admire her when she finally stood up for herself.

But the problem is, it's not Bom, it's San her grandmother.

This kid has thing for older women

Look at him , blushing over Bom's mom. (I won't be surprised if he marries a older woman when he grows up.)

I think it's due to him never having the chance to have a normal childhood. He finds kids around his age annoying.

But I don't want to see a romantic arc between him and Bom cause that's basically the grandma who's way older and more mature and it'd be creepy. Bom is totally opposite. It's fine if they end up being friends.

Over all this whole thing is fun cause Grandma San is here to rescue Bom. She's tackling her bullies.

So far I'm enjoying this.

#spring once again #spring returned again #webtoon #webtoon comics #webtoon recommendation #otome isekai #webtoon comic #beware of the villainesses! #the remarried empress #beware of the villainess #tepas webnovels #beware of the villainess! #death is the only ending for a villainess #kill the villainess #your throne

[ultramarine-spirit]

tbh you're the only reason I'm still on Tumblr because you're the only one who posts interesting and well done (not fanaticized) reviews of wmmap. Is there any social network you are active on, besides Twitter? idk tiktok, discord, instagram, reddit...

Thank you anon! Your words mean a lot (though I wouldn't say I'm the only one, but thank you nonetheless). I always try to keep my reading of any piece of media objective. Of course, fan interpretations and transformative works are great, but (to quote a post I read some days ago) the ability to deconstruct and reconstruct canon requires an understanding of its component parts. I find that most extreme OOC/fanon/flanderization (or just plain character bashing) comes from people who have little to no love or respect for the original work. And if that's the case, you can't claim any ability to make the original work better.

I think it comes back to a lack of media literacy, but that's another long conversation.

As for your question, nop, sorry! I can only manage Twitter and Tumblr with how busy my life can get. I do have an Ao3 account, but that's not really social media. As for Discord, I have an account as well, but I honestly never use it. If you still want it, send me a DM (so I know which request to accept)!

#i dont really like instagram or tiktok... as for reddit it depends on the sub #but i have read some wmmap 'hot takes' there that were so... huh 'creative' that it turned me off from the otome isekai subreddit lmao #thank you for the compliment once again! im really happy that there're people who enjoy my silly little blog #similarly im only on tumblr for my friends haha