#zeal sans

[zealfruity]

Thisbis too much power

So that uh. That poster huh…..

#as a megamind fan i am extremely horrified about the trailer’s horrors #this is a coping mechanism #silly #zeal talks #tcw fives #sans undertale #megamind

[bonegummy]

A quick au sketch, about 20 minutes.

They will never canonically interact but in my mind (and AU) they get along, LET ME HAVE THIS

#error #error sans #lust sans #undertale #undertale au #ntbd #ntbd error #ntbdirgbh #ntbd zeal

[chuluoyi]

𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒏𝒐 !

- gojo satoru x reader

valentine's is around the corner and word has it that you're going on a date with geto...? no way! gojo is going to make sure that you're saying no! ever wonder how gojo finally gets you to become his? be prepared for a confession of a lifetime!

genre/warnings. crack, semi-failed love confession (it's gojo, what do you expect?), poor geto, and of course, fluff !!

notes. i genuinely love writing this :') loser gojo has always have a soft spot in my heart *sighs* i'd recommend listening to beautiful & because of you - beast (highlight) for this !!

a part of gojo's love entries and valentine's special !

Satoru doesn't really pay attention to holidays. To him, it's all the same—he can turn everyday into a holiday if he wanted to.

However, Valentine's Day is an exception. He knows it and is somewhat excited even. Why, you ask? Because this is the moment he has chosen. He's going to make you his on that very day.

He had everything planned out to perfection: skylit rooftop, bouquet of roses, eloquent speech (at least, he thought so). He was going to charm the pants out of you and it'd be a smooth-sailing event, he was sure of it!

At least until he heard that life-shattering gossip—

"I saw Geto-san asking her out for the 14th just now!"

"What?" he snapped his head in Haibara's direction, who was eagerly sharing with him and the others what he had allegedly heard, his eyes practically sparkling with excitement.

"Ehh, not bad," Shoko mused with a hint of amusement, casting a curious look his way. It was obvious she was enjoying this.

Nanami let out a thoughtful hum. "That's quite a surprise. I didn't think they'll go that fast."

"But how?!" Satoru suddenly exploded, grabbing Haibara by the collar. "How did that slimy bangs go from saying nothing to asking her out?!"

"O-oh Gojo-san! Don't squish me, please!"

And from then onwards, his focus was set: preventing you from falling into Suguru's grimy hands. Absolutely no way! He was so close already. He was on the cusp of winning your heart, and he knew it!

Now, you laughed at his jokes, you didn't ignore him as much, and you even asked him if he was okay after his recent mission! That was huge progress, even Satoru knew as much. And no, even if it was Suguru, he refused to hand you over to him.

On the 14th, you were going to be his... even if it cost him everything!

Gojo Satoru is annoying. You supposed you knew that already, but over these past few days, his ability to get on your nerves somehow had ascended to a wholly new level.

"I'm telling you, you should go with me! I'm going to take you somewhere amazing!" he practically demanded right up in your space, prompting you to let out a long-drawn sigh.

By all means, his attempts to woo you were all lame. He didn't know the first thing about being humble, and logically, you should have been more inclined to push him away.

‘Should’ being the operative word, because, somehow, over the past few weeks, you've started to see his antics as not just bearable but even endearing in a way. No one had ever pursued you with such relentless zeal before him, and it became increasingly difficult to overlook the way your heart fluttered in response to his (occasionally dubious) attempts to win you over.

So, right now, it really wasn't because you were playing hard to get. "Gojo, I've told you already. I can't on that day, I've already got plans," you sighed, exasperated.

He shot you a glance, his expression shifting into a brazenly raised eyebrow. "With Suguru?"

"How do you—"

"Tell him no," Satoru pressed, scowling. "Tell him I asked you first."

"In fact, he asked first—"

“Just say no!”

“No!”

"You're seriously going on a date with him?" he questioned, almost in disbelief. "And what, you're going to confess to him too?"

His tone didn't sit well with you, causing your irritation to rise. You frowned and retorted boldly, "And if I do? It's not like you can do anything about it anyway."

Wait, that actually hurts. Satoru was now irked too. Hadn't he shown enough for you to understand just how much of a big deal it was for him? Didn't you know he actually likes you so much that it made him toss and turn on some nights?

(No, you didn't really know. He just made himself look stupid most of the time. You were not that impressed.)

"As a matter of fact, I can," he began, expression turning into a slight sneer. "I can and I will if you still insist on going with him."

"Wha?"

"I'm going to crash your party so hard, you'll wish you hadn't gone behind my back. The audacity he has, trying to steal my girl!"

"You sound like a creep," you couldn't help blurting out, wide-eyed. "And I'm not your girl—"

"You—are quite heartless." His gaze on you behind that glasses hardened, and you were suddenly taken aback by how upset he looked. "I'm giving you my all—I think about you all day and night I think it's actually making me crazy!"

You stared at him, genuinely dumbfounded this time, realizing that somehow or another now, he was pouring his emotions out.

"Nothing I say will make sense to you, but whatever—" he exhaled sharply in frustration. "It's always you—in my mind. Compared to anyone else now, you're the prettiest. And if you were to ask me to pull a Blue on Ichiji right now, I'd probably do it! You see now—what you have done to me?"

"Ichiji? Gojo—!"

"You might think I did all of this for your attention, and yes, you’re right! That's how much you've messed with my head!"

. . .

Oh, now he had really gone and done it, hadn't he? He had laid it all bare, every last bit of it—the chaotic heap stacking up as his botched confession. And there were no roses, no rooftop, and none of the grandeur he had envisioned. This was so not how he wanted it to go at all.

Satoru grimaced, suddenly regretting this turn of events. He had seen it coming already—you calling him a total weirdo and then leaving him in the dust. Just the thought was enough to make his heart squeeze. Wanting to escape before it became a reality, he abruptly turned on his heel and walked away from you.

He barely made it a few steps away before he felt a firm tug on his arm.

"Wait! Gojo!"

You grabbed his arm tightly, forcing him to turn towards you. Satoru stubbornly refused to meet your gaze, his lips pressed into a massive pout. Yet, beyond that display of defiance, you could discern a hint of heartbreak splashed across his face, and it made your stomach churn.

Always trying to make you look at him. Always trying to get you to smile through his lame jokes. Making himself stupid on purpose. Frustrated when his feelings went unnoticed… All Gojo Satoru did thus far finally added up.

So it's true... he likes me this much...?

In that moment, warmth flooded through you. This idiot. Everyone said he was no good, but your heart couldn't help but leap, and a flurry of butterflies seemed to dance in your stomach.

In this instant, everything seemed to fall into place. Any doubt you might have melted away, leaving only a sense of certainty about your feelings. Everything just feels absolutely right.

"I'm not going on a date with Geto, you know."

"Huh?" Upon hearing that, he swiveled to face you, his gaze intensively searching your face for further explanation.

With a huff, you elaborated, "It's for my Grade One promotion mission. Geto-san asked to join me for it."

"But why? He doesn't need to—"

"He wants to tag along to absorb more cursed spirits, you see..."

"Oh, amassing new little friends, I see," Satoru quipped, face scrunching up distastefully.

His mood seems better now, you noted. You exhaled, your heart suddenly felt like it was pounding louder. "So, you've got the wrong idea. It sucks but my Valentine's day is going to be spent on a mission."

A beat passed by before he finally spoke again, still sheepish and avoiding eye contact. "I'm coming with you too, for that... mission or whatever."

You pressed your lips together, trying to ignore the warmth spreading across your face. "And?"

"And... huh?"

"That's all? Nothing else you want to add?"

And suddenly his eyes sparkled back to life. Beyond those ridiculous round glasses, his bright, yet steadfast eyes met yours with such vibrant shine it made your chest thump so hard and face flush with matching intensity.

Silly, silly boy... liking me so much that he turns stupid.

"Actually, I've got plenty more to say!"

With an indignant snort, you released his arm. "Well, I'm waiting. Because what you just said before has to be the most underwhelming confession I've ever heard."

"Wha? Hey! That wasn't my confession! Just you wait, I'll do it over, and this time, I'll make you swoon so hard you'll forget how Suguru's face looks like!"

And on the night of February 14, he truly surpassed himself once again in making a terrible confession, and yet it still signified the day you truly became his—the beginning of your life together, which along the way, would be filled with more shenanigans, endless laughter and of course, love.

Epilogue

"Haibara, I really thought you're the most sensible here! I can't believe you!"

Suguru massaged his temples with utter grievance. So this was the cause of his headache and constant death stares Satoru gave him these past few days—the three people gathering in front of him!

"I've told you already, Nanami—Gojo is really going through with it," Shoko cackled with utter satisfaction. "Now, pay up."

"Ieiri-san... sigh— from now on, I'm not participating in your bets anymore."

Haibara, who went with Shoko's suggestion to incite this, sheepishly laughed. "Ehe, Geto-san, all that ends well is well though, no?"

"Satoru was really about to skin me alive! Ugh, and you almost ruined my date too..."

"Eh? Date?" All three sets of eyes suddenly fixed on him in utter astonishment. "Who?"

-> continue to 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 (with geto suguru—soon!)

#𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 #gojo satoru x reader #jjk drabbles #satoru gojo x reader #jjk x reader #jujutsu kaisen #jjk imagines #jjk x you #gojo x reader #jjk fanfic #jjk fluff #jujutsu kaisen imagines #jujutsu kaisen x reader #gojo satoru #jujutsu kaisen x you #jujutsu kaisen fanfic #gojo x you #gojo #gojo fluff #gojo satoru imagines #gojo satoru fluff #satoru gojo fluff #jjk gojo satoru #jujutsu kaisen fluff #jutusu kaisen x reader #satoru x reader #satoru gojo x you #satoru gojo

[dragon-ball-meta]

Akio Iyoku And The Future Of Dragon Ball

Got a huge news drop last night, courtesy of @SupaChronicles on Twitter. I've linked the full tweet if you want to read his translation of the original article sans editorializing, but I wanted to attempt to explain a few things here. This is unprecedented for the franchise, and we're in untested, but very exciting times right now. The short version is this: Akio Iyoku and Capsule Corporation Tokyo have succeeded in gaining control of the rights to the Dragon Ball Franchise, in all but the manga side of things, for the next ten years. DAIMA is actually their first project. Now, some excerpts from the translated article: "Indomitable Dragon Ball, Inheriting the Mission: A Global Strategy to Reach the Next Generation" featuring Akio Iyoku, the President of Capsule Corporation Tokyo 'Dragon Ball' will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2024. Dragon Ball is a unique and amazing work. Rather than thinking of the work in relative or uniform terms, the keynote is to think about how it should be done as a work of art. As the Executive Producer of a work with unprecedented longevity, my mission is to expand and convey what the original creator, Akira Toriyama, has created. I will continue to produce works, such as anime series, movies, and games, over the next 10 years. (...) Adopting what is popular at the moment does not increase the probability of success. I will not be swayed by the current trends, but will create works that I feel will be 'good enough'."

Iyoku is saying that, in his new capacity as the executive producer of Dragon Ball, he's doing this as a means of protecting the Dragon Ball IP as a work of art, and wants to release content that he feels upholds that integrity, rather than trying to use the IP simply to chase current trends and try to cling to relevancy. He says he also wants to keep the spirit of the series Toriyama intended. Now what's especially interesting to ME is this bit. He stops short of making any sort of direct confirmation, but this really, REALLY seems to lend credence to the reports that Shueisha was deliberately leaving Dragon Ball out to dry in favor of One Piece. "There was a time when the Dragon Ball craze, which had spread around the world over the past 40 years, had died down. When I became the head of Shueisha's Dragon Ball Room in 2016, I could not visualize what was really happening. 7-8 years ago, I went to a huge event in Brazil called "CCXP." I was told that Japanese anime were popular in South America, but there was a discrepancy from what I was told. The feedback from fans was weak. It may have been at the peak of its popularity when it was on-air in South America. (...) I also thought it was the result of relying on old-fashioned zeal. Therefore, starting with the 'Dragon Ball Super Broly' movie in 2018, we took steps such as actively participating in events. I felt concerned that Dragon Ball has not been expanded worldwide. Originally, we didn't see the strength and diffusion power of the work. We need to take a closer look at this and see if we can do more. We are not looking for a "one-size-fits-all" approach, but rather, we are looking for events such as the Dragon Ball World Championships, the expansion of games, creating facilities, and anything else that we can do. We will work on them in parallel."

And this bit: "Never before was there such a simultaneous worldwide reception of anime. (...) It can be said that we are now able to do things that we had not even considered before. From the beginning, I began to think about the overseas expansion of Dragon Ball. With 'Dragon Ball DAIMA,' which will be released in Fall 2024, we are taking on the challenge of creating an anime series with a completely original story. I am glad that all our works have been well-received overseas. 'DAIMA' was announced at New York Comic Con. The 'Dragon Ball' series is recognized around the world. It makes no sense to announce it somewhere domestic. Comic-Con is a great place to announce your work. People who understand the value of the culture are gathered there, to begin with, and we chose Comic-Con because of its ability to spread our work throughout the world. Overseas expansion is currently being considered as a necessary means of spreading the word about our work. If we compare the flow of manga titles selling in book format and then finally becoming anime to a river, the overseas developments were the ones that followed the river, meaning that in the past it was a "fan" (in the sense that the overseas expansion followed later.) I am convinced that Dragon Ball has pioneered many things as a Japanese anime. I have a sense of mission that if there is something that no one else has done, I must continue to challenge it." That sounds to me as if this was done at least in part because he felt the series was being mishandled, both on a promotional and quality control front. He also feels that there needs to be content created at least semi-regularly to keep the franchise relevant, as opposed to announcing something and then leaving long gaps of nothing, as almost happened after the Super anime went on hiatus. There's also some more implication about the series not being promoted to its fullest. "- The industry is over-competitive. It is tough to see the competition among anime (due to the emergence of streaming sites, etc.). Competition has become excessive. We must not create a situation where a manga becomes anime, and when the anime is over, the content ends as is. The ideal situation is to create a situation where the average viewer sees the content. We are in a cycle of consumption, and in some aspects, the cycle is becoming short-lived. I don't think it's good at all to have a boom that builds up and then burns down, which can be a factor in the content not lasting long. It will be tough if we do not create a place to compete differently from anime as content. It is advisable for works that are popular now to be distributed simultaneously around the world to repeat generations and reach the next stage of popularity. (...) In order to bring in overseas strength, a leading role is needed. In order for a producer to take on this role, they must transcend the boundaries of the corporate organization. There must be someone who has a "birds-eye view" of the work and is in a position to say to each company, "I think you should do this." I push myself to be a catalyst for this through various discussions. For Japanese content to continue, it is necessary to have someone who can say, "The status quo is not good enough."" So essentially, we're going to see more content. We're going to see more quality control ON said content. Both are being done to respect Toriyama's work, and to actually try to be competitive as opposed to simply relying on the legacy and the baked-in fandom to carry it in the sea of anime and manga franchises out there. He also feels that they shouldn't try to solely rely on adapting things, and create original content as well, while keeping it in line with the spirit of the series as opposed to just chasing whatever's popular. That's the intent, at least. Now we just need to wait and see how this all shakes out.

#Akio Iyoku #Capsule Corporation Tokyo #Dragon Ball #Akira Toriyama #Dragon Ball Daima #DBS #Dragon Ball Super #DBZ #Dragonball #Dragonball Z #Dragon Ball Z

[lokamon]

Wrath

Pairing: Ondolemar (TES:V) x Dragonborn Breton Reader.

A/n: This is a sequel of sorts to this fic that I posted years ago but it can be read alone. I make no excuses, I'm a very slow writer. Also posted on my Ao3 here.

Warnings for: smut(ofc), oral sex (male receiving), Light slapping, religious fetishization, degradation.

"-and of course, Elenwen has no intentions of honoring her word, Ancano could rot in that backwater excuse for a college and she'd be all the happier for it."

You smiled to yourself as you listened to Ondolemar's grumbling from Vlindrell hall’s dining room. He could gossip like an old milkmaid when the mood struck, and only recently had the gossip turned to matters of his own comrades. In ever-growing doses, you were getting deep insights into the very bones of the dominion’s arm in Skyrim. All because your undercover lover liked to bellyache.

"So Ancano is doomed to rot at Winterhold for one slight fifty years ago?" You twirled and inspected yourself in the mirror before pushing your hair aside to fasten the chain around your neck. "I noticed he wasn't at the embassy, I wonder if he even got an invite."

A faint, mirthless chuckle slid into your room from the other side of the doorless archway. "Yes, the Lady Emissary can hold a steel grudge... I wouldn't be surprised if she pretends the poor sod is already dead."

"Wow." You muttered to yourself, only partly at the conversation that you were barely listening to by this point. The mirror was the object of the brunt of your focus, or rather, yourself in it. Gods, this was going to be good if only he reacted as you hoped. Really, you felt sort of kinky as you looked yourself over, not necessarily because you were in a particularly racy outfit, but simply by virtue of the nature of your attire - the meaning. Especially with regard to who was currently in your dining room…

Ondolemar's voice broke you out of your thoughts as he called your name, clearly questioning as to if you were still listening. A giddy feeling bubbled at the eaves of your chest and you bit your lip as you turned from the mirror and stepped into your bedroom doorway.

When Ondolemar looked up from the book he'd nicked off your shelf, he froze.

"What-" he gave a jolty pause, uncharacteristic and cast in hues of similarly foreign confusion, "-are you doing?"

The smile that broke your face was mischievous, a playful wickedness shining in the curve of your lips and spark in your eyes. In the presence of a member of the Thalmor, and one of their most zealous at that, the amulet of Talos hanging around your neck felt nothing less than sinful. From the moment you lifted it off of Ogmund, you knew exactly how you would present it to your pious Altmer lover, potential consequences be damned (though you doubted their integrity where you were concerned, anyway). It was a risk, but one you felt would be well worth it, should the right plays be made and the right pieces be knocked from the board.

Play one had been privacy. The risk of any audience, any witness at all to what was to transpire being blown from the equation, which led the two of you, as always, to your home far away from the keep. An empty house, sans housecarl, where the song of your repercussions could pound carelessly against the stone walls, echoing so deep within the mountain that nosy ears couldn't hear enough for substance.

Ondolemar's scowl from your dining room chair was burning. Almost toeing the line of bona fide anger, but not quite to-temperature. His eyes roved you with a glint of open suspicion, and no attempts were made to hide their stall along the curve of your hips or the low wrap of the fabric of your silk robe. The amulet itself garnered little more than a glance and that was the moment you knew your suspicions about what may lay beneath the veneer of his zeal were almost certainly correct.

"It would be wise of you to remove that at once." He drawled, "need I remind you of the company you keep?"

Twelve paces from your bedroom door, down the couple of steps into your dining room, and you were rounding the table under the heavy pressure of his stare. Slowly, carefully, you drew near, hovering just outside of arm's reach, more to tease than to protect.

"I'm well aware of my company." You felt electric, acting like this, like some tavern girl playing a part for the reward of coin. Every part of your proper Breton upbringing was anathema to it, screaming in your bones to sit down, cross your legs, and let him work for your attentions. But the little wanton within you, the one born and grown in the shadow of your grandmother’s lectures, a legacy to the over-restraint, begged otherwise. It took no effort for it to win out.

"So you're going to have to be more specific..." your fingers traced along the contours of the amulet, down to the collar of your robe where it lay loosely closed along your chest. His eyes followed the trail. "Is it the Talos amulet you want off....or the robe?"

He ignored the question pointedly, but one hand settled on his thigh in a gesture half defiant, half betraying.

"That's the amulet I asked you to retrieve from Ogmund, I hope?" His eyes lingered on it for a beat longer, then fixed onto your face again. He was tense, visibly white-knuckling his resolve, torn at a crossroads where his duty and his passion met, stuck between piety and the sweet sin laid bare before him.

Well, almost bare.

Play two, sweeten the deal.

"Perhaps it is." You toyed with the pendant, "or maybe I'm a dirty heretic, myself."

Ondolemar gave a half-scoff, meant to sound more aloof than it did, but it clipped off abruptly, betraying his non-committance. You hazarded a step closer, watchful of his movements like a hunter approaching a sleeping bear, praying to make the right moves before the beast can have time to react. Then, with a slight of your hand, you let the robe pool by your feet, baring your body to the glow of the flames in the hearth. Ondolemar struggled to keep a measured countenance and prevent his starving eyes from chewing on the divots and peaks of your form.

"A shame, then.” He tried desperately to keep up his defiance. “Heresy is a punishable offense..."

It was a wonderful thing, watching such a superior mer struggle so plainly with his convictions in the face of a naked Breton. Really, he should be loathe to any situation rendering either of you clothless. He was a Thalmor agent, brainwashed his entire life to be repulsed by your woefully unyellow skin and full legs.... he should not find such pleasure in the sight of your bare body. Your shorter frame and wide hips should not have such an affect, but oh how they do.... if the rising peak in his lap was anything to go by, at least.

"Then punish me, commander."

Play three. Indulge the usual script, but turn the context on its head.

Very seldom had you seen your Altmer fumble, unable to get a grip on his wits that were usually so quick and ready, especially in the face of teasing, but he was at a clear loss now. Slowly, you took a seat at the edge of the table behind you, parting your legs and resting one foot on Ondolemar’s chair, squarely between his thighs.

Heavy eyes took your bait and fell enraptured upon your naked cunt.

Tentatively, a hand slid up your calf, in more of a suggestion of touch rather than a bonafide connection, so light against your skin that it seemed to speak to a deeply held fear on his part. Whether for his own actions, yours, or both and what meaning lay beneath, you would likely never truly know. His motivations, inspirations, and secrets were his own but the naked want on his face was all yours. With no small bit of hesitancy, the hand made a blazing path along your skin, but escalated in pressure until he gripped the meat of your inner thigh just so and a heat spilled immediately into your gut. Slowly, Ondolemar stood and loomed above you, pushing aside your leg and pinning you between his broad frame and the edge of the table. He slid the same hand into a loose loop over your collar bone, thumb teasing the face of the amulet between your breasts.

Then, you watched as he chose his path and barreled through the trees, leaving duty behind him.

“I’m sure we can find some way to absolve you of your transgressions,” he told you, pressed so close that you could feel his anticipation, hard beneath his robes. “But what to do with you, hm?

“Punish me, Ondolemar.” You couldn’t stifle the begging whisper. “I came to you wearing an amulet of Talos and I think that deserves something…”

“Oh it does.” He nodded. “Indeed, given the circumstance, being that you so filthily presented yourself as such to a commanding officer of the Aldmeri dominion, I think a whore shall get what a whore deserves.”

You gasped as a rough grip suddenly pinched your jaw, his face coming within inches of yours.

“Shall I fuck the heresy out of you, whore?” He gritted.

“You can certainly try.”

A shadow of something wild flashed in the lineaments of his face before he jostled you roughly.

“I’m going to. Thoroughly.” His promise was cut with a softer look, “But should you want to stop, you are to tell me so. Simply say the word and it will be over. Am I clear?”

“Yes, sir.” You grinned, both appreciative of his consideration, even in this predicament you’d sprung on him, and anticipating the best bedding you’d had in ages.

“Good girl.” He revitalized his grip on your jaw, the strength of it just on the right side of bearable as he plucked you off the table and then let go.

“On your knees, filth.”

Immediately, you sank down, your face coming level with the tent in his clothes. Obediently, you sat and waited with your palms on your thighs.

“Take my cock out.”

Nimble fingers pulled up the fine tunic he wore beneath his robes and tucked the hem behind his belt then made quick work of his trousers. His length sprang free, bobbing in front of your face, already weeping at the tip.

You dare not voice the thought that his arousal brought forth, that he was certainly enjoying this much more than a thalmor official strictly should.

“Come now, girl, don’t play coy. A heretical whore certainly knows how to work a cock.” His biting voice cut through the silence, over the crackle of the hearth. Hazarding a grin, you took him into your hand and gave him a few languid strokes.

He grunted, closing his eyes against the sensation, spreading his stance wider over the stone pressing hard against your knees. “Yes, that’s right. Spit on your hand for me, girl, make it slick.”

You obeyed and it earned you a deep groan. He gripped the back of your head with one hand and looked down at you, his eyes momentarily flitting to your neck.

“I can think of a much better use for your mouth than praising a false god, can’t you, girl?”

You gave him a biddable look, nodding quietly, knowing better than to speak unless told to. He smiled gently, but you had no way of telling if it was a piece of him showing through or a warning for what was to come.

“Open.” He commanded and as soon as your lips parted, his tip slipped between them.

Slowly, his entire length invaded your mouth until you gagged around him and he pulled away.

He held you back by your hair in his fist, the tension making you wince. Derision burned in his tone as hotly as it had the first time he ever spoke to you. “None of that now, whore, we both know you’re not that useless. You can take a cock down your throat.”

He sneered when you didn’t react.

“Say ‘yes, sir’ when I’m right.”

“Yes, sir.”

“Good girl.”

Immediately, he pulled you onto his cock again, shoving himself down your throat, ignoring the small gag you couldn’t stifle at the sudden intrusion. He fucked your face ruthlessly, slamming his hips against you until tears pricked at your eyes and you tapped his arm for air. He gave you a chance to breathe, gasping himself in the wake of his exertion.

When you opened your mouth in offering again, he plunged back in.

“Oh, gods.” He rasped as he thrusted into your face, “yes, you fil- filthy bitch. Suck harder.”

You hollowed out your cheeks more and did as he bid, ripping a deep groan from his throat. He pumped your head onto his length a few more times, groaning and pulling at your hair so hard it stung but you couldn't be bothered to care, the pain of it and the physical discomfort of being used in such a lewd way stirred your appetitive hindbrain into a frenzy, watering the buds of your nascent pleasure, preparing for the bloom of it you knew lay between you and whenever he considered you well and thoroughly fucked.

His breath caught, mid-stroke and you could tell by the way he ripped you off of him that he was reigning himself in, denying himself an early end down your throat. When his head rolled to look down at you, he looked wrought with pleasure. Eyes lidded, brow puckered, lips parted around the ghost of his groaning.

“You’re a heretical little whore, aren’t you.” He gritted his teeth and growled down at your tear-smeared face, your head yanked back to look directly up at him. His free hand slapped against your cheek, not enough to hurt but plenty to arouse. In the months of your entanglement, slapping had been a topic you broached for your own pleasure, something he only took to with some encouragement. You were pleased he pulled that ace from his sleeve now. “Speak, whore.”

“Yes, sir.”

“You think you can put that amulet on and get off easy? No, I think not.” He’s practically spitting at you now, years and years of some untapped religious hang-up bursting forth as if it lay there beneath his skin all along and your actions tonight had been the one thing to tap the well.

“I’ll show you exactly what happens to heretical whores like yourself. Get up.”

You stood and he pulled you into a kiss, licking into your mouth with his tongue. You met him head on as he backed you against the table again, his hands squeezing at your curves as you struggled to keep up with his relentless advances on your mouth and body.

"The Thalmor know how to deal with Talos worshippers." He broke the kiss to hiss against your lips, his greedy hands staking claims on your ass.

"You will not," his teeth nipped the flesh of your earlobe, gusting humid breaths down your neck, "find my reproach..." lips bumped the ridge of your clavicle as he gathered you up against the table, slotting himself between the spread of your soft thighs as he sat you on its edge.

"Lacking." He finished as he bent into your chest and licked a thick stripe over one nipple before pulling it between his lips.

"You will not persuade me to blaspheme my god, Justic-oh-" your train of thought broke around the teeth that bit into your nipple.

"Own it." He raised his head to growl against your cheek, "hail your god aloud if you're so proud to worship his falsehood."

"Hail Tal-" you attempted to whisper, but a broad hand clamped onto your jaw, wiring it shut.

"Say it like you mean it." Ondolemar gritted, and released you with a rough jostle. You felt him push against your cunt, his cock sliding over your folds, the tip pressing into your clit with every stroke.

You took a stabling breath.

"Hail-" the catch of him at your entrance caught you off guard as he lined himself up for the plunge.

"Talos." You breathed, lashes fluttering against your cheeks. He sank in steadily on the last syllable, inch by inch stealing your breath with wild eyes and hands gripping down on your pelvic bone at either hip.

He set a brutal pace. His hips slammed against you, cock deep in your heat with every connection, driving any thought but the sensation of how he filled you out of your head. Your spine tingled, low between your hips where he ended and you began, as he punched into something wonderful, something other lovers had rarely succeeded in finding.

"Say it again." Ondolemar panted, fully given to the unexpected pleasure. You gave a gasp, unable to fill your lungs adequately under the driving force of such vigorous pounding.

Summoning what effort you could, the words come out weak but they come all the same. "Hail Talos."

"Again." It sounded suspiciously close to a plea.

"Hail Talos."

He gave a near feral grunt, "again. Louder," he ordered, a slender thumb venturing down to stroke at your clit as he thrusted.

"Hail Talos." You managed to whine, so loud it filled the air in Vlindrell hall, almost sounding like an honest prayer

"You filthy fucking heretic!" He hissed.

Ondolemar’s free hand slid up your front, hooking into the chain of the Talos amulet for leverage. You fully expected the links to give beneath the force of his grip but the necklace was sturdy and withstood every thrust he pulled against it.

You had read stories, filthy candlelight novellas written by faceless pen names, with motifs homogeneous to tales like the Lusty Argonian Maid, in which people fucked with “wild abandon”. And you were no prude yourself, despite your grandmother's best efforts. You’d sat upon a cock or two in your time, had been fucked with what you would previously have called “wild abandon”, but that was nothing compared to the way Ondolemar wrecked you upon your dining room table. He truly was wild and he truly did abandon anything tethering him to any kind of compunction. Gone were any scruples of the noises being made or whether anyone could hear them. Similarly gone was his usual hesitation to mark you, if his bruising grip on your hip was any tell. And completely gone was his pious dedication to repulsion at anything dealing in the ninth God of the Nords, as he fucked the fabricated heresy out of you, leaving you screaming to the nine and to Talos himself beneath him.

His fingers on your clit rubbed violently, the pleasure peaking and scrubbing your mind clean of any thought but that of your burgeoning release. You tensed and your body fluttered around him, ripping a breathy growl from his mouth and only serving to heighten his urgency.

Ondolemar announced his orgasm in barely enough time to pull out of you and release in sticky ropes across your stomach. He panted and gasped as his hips still thrust into the open hair, the shaft of his cock grazing lightly against your pubic bone as it throbbed.

“Auri-el’s mercy, what have you done?”

It wasn’t a question, not really, but a statement of disbelief as he panted and regarded you with wide, conflicted eyes. He leaned on the table to regain himself, pining you where you lay, covered in the evidence of his base indulgence. His sin.

“Commander, I think you may have a kink.” You accused slyly, fingers reaching up to toy with the straps across his mantle. He didn’t react at first but just as a hesitancy was beginning to take hold (had you overstepped?), his mouth pulled into a soft, conceding smile.

“Not another word.” He groused playfully.

Mood light, body already feeling the first signs of soreness, you pulled the amulet chain around so that you could take it off and set the thing aside, ready to be collected as evidence and taken back to the keep. As your fingers found the clasp though, Ondolemar’s hand took your wrist, and when your eyes met his, the look there gave you immediate pause.

“Leave it,” he ordered, tone tipping back towards that of the wrathful commander once again. “I’m not even close to finished with you yet.”

A fresh bolt of arousal poured down your spine and he followed it with his trailing lips as he set to work pulling as much blasphemy from you as he could with your knees thrown over his shoulders.

#ondolemar skyrim #ondolemar x reader #skyrim smut

[mysteryshoptls]

SR Sebek Zigvolt Lab Coat Personal Story: Part 2

"I will most definitely remove that for you!"

(Part 1) Part 2

[Laboratory]

Sebek: Why did you make me change into a lab coat…!? I thought you would simply be showing me the detergent…

Azul: Yes, indeed. However, the detergent in this little glass vial has been specially concocted to be extra strong.

Azul: If, by any chance, you were to spill some on your uniform, it will turn white in less than 5 minutes.

Azul: In addition, it would be dangerous to not protect your eyes, either. This is fairly serious business.

Sebek: Are you sure it will be safe to use such a dangerous detergent!? If something happens to my lord's lab coat…

Azul: It has a strong bleaching capability that is only harmful to skin, but I assure you it will not damage the fabric.

Azul: Jade, Floyd.

Jade: Right. I've prepared here some cloth that has a ketchup stain similar to that lab coat.

Floyd: Wooah～ It's red allll over～

Sebek: Since when were you―!? Or rather, where were you two hiding!?

Azul: Don't fret over trivial details. Now, if we were to put regular detergent on the soiled portion of this fabric… What do you see?

Sebek: Nothing's changed at all… I did not expect ketchup to be this resilient of a stain.

Azul: However, if we were to pour this Octavinelle Deluxe Detergent directly on the stain…

Floyd: Like this～

Sebek: Wh-What!? That horribly stubborn stain is just coming off before my eyes!?

Azul: All that is left to do is rinse it in cold water, and it has returned to its original state.

Azul: It may be somewhat pricy, but this vial holds 20 uses.

Sebek: With just this small amount!?

Sebek: B-But you said it's expensive...?

Azul: Indeed, it will cost roughly 3,000 Madol. [30 Thaumarks]

Sebek: What… That's too much! Even normal detergent is only 500 Madol!! [5 Thaumarks]

Azul: Well, I have good news for you, Sebek-san! In fact, this detergent is currently on sale.

Azul: Right now, we are offering it for only 1,500 Madol! [15 Thaumarks]

Sebek: Half price!? Yes, I shall buy it!

Azul: Thank you for your patronage. That will be 1,500 Madol… And, received.

Sebek: Now, I can immediately pour it onto my liege's lab coat...

Sebek: Woah, it turned white in an instant! Thank goodness… With this, I shall not be a disappointment!

Sebek: I must go and show it to him at once!

Azul: Make sure you read all the instructions before using it! …Well, he sure dashed off with some zeal.

Azul: I had called out to him, hoping to be able to use him as an in to gain some of the noble clientele that reside in Diasomnia, but…

Jade: I wonder how that would fare. Sebek-kun himself seemed to be rather naïve and easy to handle, yes.

Azul: Only, I know there are many others in Diasomnia that can be quite fearsome when angered.

Azul: In the end, I do not believe this simple encounter will be enough.

[Diasomnia Dorm – Lounge]

Sebek: My liege! I have returned!

Malleus: Ah, welcome back.

Silver: Have you really been trying to clean off the stain from Malleus-sama's lab coat this whole time…?

Lilia: I don't know if I should say you were faster than I expected, or slower than I expected. So, what were your results?

Sebek: Yes, sir! As you can see, the obstinate stain is no more!

Malleus: Oh, well now… This is astounding. It is much whiter than it was before it was stained.

Sebek: M-My lord…! I thank you for your kind words…!

Sebek: Ah, right, my liege! Please take a look at this detergent. I purchased it from the Octavinelle Dorm Leader, and…

Sebek: Apparently it will turn white any kind of possible stain. If there are any other stains you wish to be free from, please leave it to me!

Silver: You got this from Azul…? Sebek, are you sure you were not taken advantage of?

Lilia: I don't think there's anything to worry about. He may be someone who constantly has ulterior motives…

Lilia: But he wouldn't do anything as reckless as make enemies of us here in Diasomnia.

Silver: That's true…

Sebek: Fufu. My liege, please, try it on!

Malleus: Alright, alright. Now then…

Silver: Malleus-sama, please don't humor him so. You spoil him.

Silver: And, Sebek. You only did what you had to do to rectify your own mistake, it is not anything praiseworthy.

Sebek: Wha…!! Y-You may be right, but…

Malleus: At any rate, the lab coat has been returned to normal. That is enough.

Sebek: M-My liege…!

Sebek: Thank you very much! If there ever comes a time that your clothes are soiled with stains, please call upon me at any time!

Silver: Even though I think Malleus-sama's magic would be able to instantly remove it…

(Part 1) Part 2

#twisted wonderland #twst #sebek zigvolt #azul ashengrotto #jade leech #floyd leech #malleus draconia #silver #lilia vanrouge #twst sebek #twst azul #twst jade #twst floyd #twst malleus #twst silver #twst lilia #twst translation

[microcosme11]

Augereau takes umbrage, 1797

Bonaparte had sent out an order organizing the armies, assigning generals to different sections. Some of the generals were kind of pissed off at his audacity.

Voir la lettre d'Augereau au Directoire, 44 frimaire 4 décembre): « J'ai recu votre lettre du 9 frimaire, relative à la prise dé possession des villes el territoires stipulés par les articles secrets du traité de paix conclu à Campo-Formio, ainsi que l'ampliation de votre arrété du même jour, adressé au général en chef de l'armée d'Italie, Bonaparte, et qui me met sous ses ordres avec tous les généraux et les troupes de la République française. A part tout sentiment d'amour propre personnel, mais pénétré de la dignité du grade éminent que vous avez bien voulu me confier, j'aurais imaginé qu'un ministre plénipotentiaire avait assez du droit de inviter à suivre ses instructions pour l'exécution de vos ordres, ét je ne pensais plus qu'élévé au pouvoir nouveau de généralissime et de négociateur, il aurait celui de m'en adresser d'immédiats ; quelque chose me disait même, Citoyens Directeurs, que lé zèle ardent que j'ai toujours mis à remplie vos intentions aurait dû vous engager à m'épargner cette humiliation : je me ainsi trompé. Que le général Bonaparte préside à la légation du congrès de Rastadt, qu'il commande à la fois l'armée d'Italie, celles d'Angleterre et d'Allemagne, j'y consens; mais qu'Augereau, rendu par vous à l'obscurité et aux droits de simple citoyen, n'obéisse plus qu'aux lois. — Augereau. »

Voir une seconde lettre de la même date, dans laquelle Augereau se plaint que Bonaparte soit parti de Rastadt sans lui donner avis de la convention du 1° décembre, Le 6 décembre [16 frimaire], n'ayant encore rien reçu, il réitère au Directoire ses plaintes au sujet de celle omission.

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See Augereau's letter to the Directory, 44 Frimaire [December 4]: "I received your letter of 9 Frimaire, relating to taking possession of the towns and territories stipulated by the secret articles of the peace treaty concluded at Campo-Formio, as well as the amplification of your decree of the same day, addressed to the general-in-chief of the army of Italy, Bonaparte, and which places me under his orders with all the generals and the troops of the French Republic. Apart from all sentiment of personal self-esteem, but imbued with the dignity of the eminent rank that you were kind enough to entrust to me, I would have imagined that a plenipotentiary minister had enough right to invite people to follow his instructions for the execution of your orders, and I didn't think that, newly raised up to the power of generalissimo and negotiator, he would have the power to address me directly; something even told me, Citizen Directors, that the ardent zeal that I have always put to fulfill your intentions should have encouraged you to spare me this humiliation: I was thus mistaken. That General Bonaparte presides over the legation of the Congress of Rastadt, that he commands the army of Italy, those of England and Germany, I agree; but let Augereau, restored by you to obscurity and the rights of a simple citizen, only obey the laws. — Augereau. »

See a second letter of the same date, in which Augereau complains that Bonaparte left Rastadt without giving him notice of the convention of December 1. On December 6 [16 Frimaire], having not yet received anything, he reiterated to the Directory his complaints about this omission.

L'expedition d'Egypte, 1798-1801 v 1 by Clément de La Jonquière, 1899.

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#Egyptian campaign #I don't always read these entire books #this book is very dense and I'm kind of lazy

[orthodoxydaily]

Saints&Reading: Saturday, April 13, 2024

march 31_april 13

SAINT INNOCENT OF MOSCOW, ENLIGHTNER OF ALASKA ANS SIBERIA (1879)

Icon written by hieroscemamonk Ephrem.

Our father among the saints Innocent of Alaska, Equal-to-the-Apostles and Enlightener of North America (1797-1879), was a Russian Orthodox priest, bishop, archbishop, and Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia. He is known for his missionary work, scholarship, and leadership in Alaska and the Russian Far East during the 1800s. He is known for his great zeal for his work as well as his great abilities as a scholar, linguist, and administrator. He was a missionary, later a bishop and archbishop in Alaska and the Russian Far East. He learned several native languages and was the author of many of the earliest scholarly works about the natives and their languages, as well as dictionaries and religious works in these languages. He also translated parts of the Bible into several native languages.

St. Innocent, né Ivan (John) Evseyevich Popov-Veniaminov, was born on August 26, 1797, into the family of a church server in the village of Anginskoye, Verkholensk District, Irkutsk province, in Russia. His father died when John was six.

In 1807, John entered the Irkutsk Theological Seminary. In 1817 he married, and on May 18, 1817 he was ordained deacon of the Church of the Annunciation in Irkutsk. He completed his studies in 1818. He was appointed a teacher in a parish school, and on May 18, 1821 he was ordained priest to serve in the Church of the Annunciation.

At the beginning of 1823, Bishop Michael of Irkutsk received instructions to send a priest to the island of Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Father John Veniaminov volunteered to go, and on May 7, 1823, he departed from Irkutsk, accompanied by his aging mother, his wife, his infant son Innocent, and his brother Stefan. After a difficult one-year journey, they arrived at Unalaska on July 29, 1824.

After John and his family built and moved into an earthen hut, he undertook the construction of a church on the island and set about studying the local languages and dialects. He trained some of his parishioners in construction techniques and with them undertook the construction of a church, which was finished the following July.

Father John's parish included the island of Unalaska and the neighboring Fox Islands and Pribilof Islands, whose inhabitants had been converted to Christianity before his arrival, but retained many of their pagan ways and customs. Father John often traveled between the islands in a canoe, battling the stormy Gulf of Alaska.

His travels over the islands greatly enhanced Father John Veniaminov's familiarity with the local dialects. In a short time he mastered six of the dialects. He devised an alphabet of Cyrillic letters for the most widespread dialect, the Unagan dialect of Aleut and, in 1828, translated the Holy Gospel of St. Matthew and other church materials into that dialect, which were eventually published in 1840 with the blessing of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1829, he journeyed to the Bering Sea coast of the Alaskan mainland and preached to the people there. In 1836, his travels even extended to the south, to the Ross Colony north of San Francisco and to the Spanish missions of northern California. At Ross Colony he conducted services at its small, wooden chapel.

In 1834, Father John was transferred to Sitka Island, to the town of Novoarkhangelsk, later called Sitka. He devoted himself the Tlingit people and studied their language and customs. His studies there produced the scholarly works Notes on the Kolushchan and Kodiak Tongues and Other Dialects of the Russo-American Territories, with a Russian-Kolushchan Glossary.

In 1838, Father John journeyed to St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia, and Kiev, Ukraine, to report on his activities and request an expansion of the Church's activities in Russian America. While he was there, he received notice that his wife had died. He requested permission to return to Sitka. Instead, it was suggested that he take vows as a monk. Father John at first ignored these suggestions, but, on November 29, 1840, made his vows. He chose the name Innocent in honor of Bishop Innocent of Irkutsk.

On December 15, 1840, Archimandrite Innocent Veniaminov was consecrated Bishop of Kamchatka and Kuril Islands in Russia and the Aleutian Islands in Russian America. His see was located in Novoarkhangelsk, which he returned to in September 1841. He spent the next nine years in the administration of his see as well as on several long missionary journeys to its remote areas. On April 21, 1850, Bishop lnnocent was elevated to Archbishop. In 1852, the Yakut area was admitted to the Kamchatka Diocese, and in September 1853, Archbishop Innocent took up permanent residence in the town of Yakutsk. Innocent took frequent trips throughout his enlarged diocese. He devoted much energy to the translation of the scriptures and service books into the Yakut (Sakha) language.

In April 1865, Archbishop Innocent was appointed a member of the Holy Governing Synod of the Church.

On November 19, 1867, he was appointed the Metropolitan of Moscow, replacing his friend and mentor, Filaret, who had died. While there, he undertook revisions of many Church texts that contained errors, raised funds to improve the living conditions of priests and established a retirement home for priests.

Innocent died on March 31, 1879. He was buried on April 5, 1879, at Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra.

Source: St Innocent Church

VENERABLE HYPATIUS, MONK HEALER OF THE KIEV CAVE (14th.c.)

Saint Hypatius the Healer of the Caves, attained glory through his severe fasting and prayerful vigilance. By night he stood at prayer, slept very little, and ate only bread and water.

Saint Hypatius devoted himself entirely to the service of the sick, and received from God the gift of healing. Those sick with various illnesses often hastened to his prayerful intercession.

The memory of Saint Hypatius is celebrated also on August 28, on the Synaxis of the Saints of the Far Caves.

1 CORINTHIANS 15:47-57

47 The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven. 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man. 50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed- 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."55 O Death, where is your sting? O Hell, where is your victory? 56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

MARK 7:31-37

31 Again, departing from the region of Tyre and Sidon, He came through the midst of the region of Decapolis to the Sea of Galilee. 32 Then they brought to Him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech, and they begged Him to put His hand on him. 33 And He took him aside from the multitude, and put His fingers in his ears, and He spat and touched his tongue. 34 Then, looking up to heaven, He sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened." 35 Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plainly. 36 Then He commanded them that they should tell no one; but the more He commanded them, the more widely they proclaimed it. 37 And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all things well. He makes both the deaf to hear and the mute to speak."

#orthodoxy #orthodoxchristianity #easternorthodoxchurch #originofchristianity #spirituality #holyscriptures #gospel #wisdom #saints

[ivyprism]

The Vampire Skeleton Boys (Info Dump)

Warnings: Vampires, blood, for halloween!

Selenite - Vampire Swapfell Amethyst Papyrus

Personality: He's a quiet and secretive character in general. He is a vampire, yet he obtains the energy/blood he consumes in an ethical manner. He is both charming and tough, but he can also be sweet and caring for others. He finds people fascinating and is very shy. He is wary of anyone he perceives to be a threat. His bite is more painful than his bark. He has the aptitude and willingness to be disagreeable and harsh when someone makes fun of him. When presented with dangers, he can be harsh and cruel, but once they demonstrate that they are not a threat, he will soften dramatically.

Appearance: He is a tall skeleton. He has dark purple eyelights and three scars on his left eye. He has sharper canines than others.

Blackwin - Vampire Swapfell Amethyst Sans

Personality: He is a calm and cool individual. He comes out as aloof, stern, and aggressive. He's a savage, violent cat who also happens to be exceedingly kind. He enjoys assisting people and is deeply concerned about his loved ones. He may be rude and obnoxious, but he is sincere. He is highly protective of his friends and will snarl at anyone who comes too close to them if he believes they constitute a threat. He's always throwing hands and picking fights, but he's also severe and serious about following the rules and laws. He gets his blood/energy ethically.

Appearance: He has purple eyes and three scars on his left eye. He has sharper canines. He has a golden tooth.

Saffron - Vampire Underswap Papyrus

Personality: He's a charming and amusing skeleton. He is cold and distant from others. He combines a soft disposition with a flirtatious demeanor. He is really enthusiastic and is not afraid to express it. He obtains his blood/energy in an ethical manner. He is a big fan of practical jokes, poor puns, and puzzles. He occasionally smokes and eats lollipops, but he avoids causing difficulties for his friends. He assists others whenever possible. He has a protective attitude and is frequently tense. He is usually lethargic since he balances off his younger brother's zeal, but he does things when prompted. He likes to tease his friends and is a bit of a flirt.

Appearance: He is a skeleton monster. He has a scar on his right eye and a scar on his nose. He has large canines.

Steel - Vampire Underswap Sans

Personality: He's a serious and tough guy. He is extremely passionate about helping others. He is really nice and enjoys puzzles. He does his best and assists when he can. He enjoys assisting others and isn't hesitant to express it. He is bold and strong, yet he is not without stressors in his life. He obtains his blood/energy in an ethical manner. He does his best and is frequently concerned about others. He has a soft spot for youngsters and animals. He is exceedingly nice, and his sweetness continuously surrounds others with his energy, which people adore.

Appearance: He is a skeleton monster. He has bright blue eyes. He has very large fangs.

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@kioko-noodles / @kiokodoodles @miscneilleaneous @und3rwat3r-a5tr0naut @hearty-dose-of-ranch @didderd @caycanteven @underfell-crystal @und3rwat3r-a5tr0naut

#they have no gasters #vampire swapfell amethyst sans #vampire swapfell amethyst papyrus #vampire underswap sans #vampire underswap papyrus #info dump #info #lots of info #ut au imagines #ut au #ut au headcanon #ut au headcanons #undertale imagines #undertale headcanons #undertale au headcanons

[tsukiyadori]

Reading (Watching) Log 2024.02-2024.03 - February-March

Previous: Reading Log 2023.12-2024.01 - December-January

Finding the good things be just like chasing after elusive bubbles and wondering how long they'll last

Reading languages: German, English, French, Japanese, not listing which was what

Titles are as I’ve read them either first or most and thus remember it for that title mostly

Not going to bother putting in the original titles of translated reads unless there is something worthy of note to it

Cursive titles have been completed

Tumblr's four thousand so and so max characters per block is annoying as hell

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FEBRUARY

JNC Nina licenses Unnamed Memory both in French in February and German in March. And so now I am reading it for a second and third time simultaneously and also got a subscription for it and then you gotta not waste the buffet, do you?

The reason I never subbed to the JNC English site was because I feared I'd never read my other backlog if I'd get roped into chasing expiry deadlines over all the time, so there was extra zeal on that too avoid the nightmare scenario.

And soooo the LN pile read off has had an increase not seen in years.

Light Novels:

Anime Supremacy

Bottom Tier Character Tomozaki LN 8.5-9

Hell Mode v1-2.7

I Met You After the End of the World v1-2

See You When the Snow Falls

Spice & Wolf v21

The Apothecary Diaries v1-2

The Eminence in Shadow v1

Unnamed Memory LN v1.p1

Manga:

100-nengo ni Tenseishita Watashi, Zense no Juukishi ni Kyuukonsaremashita: Heika wa Watashi ga Moto Oujo da to Okizukidenai you desu ch15.1-3

A Certain Scientific Accelerator v10-v12

A Certain Scientific Railgun v17-18

A Kingdom of Quartz ch1

A Side Character's Love Story ch35.2-50.1

After God ch53-54

Alabaster ch5.3-10.2

Ano Natsu ga Houwa suru. ch15-16.1

Beauty as the Beast ch36-49

Black Butler v31

Bloody Bites at Boarding School v1

Boku no Diamond Star final chapter

Bottom Tier Character Tomozaki Manga ch8-24.2

Buta no Liver wa Kanetsushiro ch33-34.4

Captain Ken ch1-7

Close to your Skin

Daijuukou to Unicornis no Otome ch14.1

Dance Dance Danseur v1-3 (JP v1-6)

Dekiru Neko wa Kyou mo Yuuutsu ch104

Der Geschmack nach Melone v1

Diamond in the Rough v1

Die Braut des Wasserdrachen v8-9 (out of order read)

Gebt mir mehr, bitte sehr v2

Geliebter Wetterfrosch v2ch6-11

Girl Crush ch62-63, ch81-82

Give Her Back to Me

Gleipnir v2-9, ch59-88

Haikyu v34-39

Harebare Biyori ch23.1

Hari to Hitsuji no Fune ch9.1-2

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Meguri ch19.1-2

I have a Crush at Work ch1

I'm cute enough to get away with it ch20

Iki Dekinai no wa Kimi no Sei: Super Pink

In the Sunset ch0-12

Isekai de Ane ni Namae wo Ubawaremashita ch17.2-4

Kakan no Oukoku no Hanagirai Hime ch10-11.2

Kijima-san & Yamada-san ch1-6

Knitter's High ch25-26.2

Koisuru (Otome) no Tsukurikata ch79

Kono Koi wo Hoshi ni wa Negawanai ch11.1-2

Lust auf ein Date? v9-10

Miryou no Otome to Katabutsu Hittou Majutsushi no Hatsukoi Kiroku ch18.2-4

Mr. Villain's Day Off ch54-64

My Awkward Senpai ch1-37

Okaeri Aureole

Okazari Ouhi ni Nattanode, Kossori Hataraki ni deru koto ni Shimashita ~Usagi ga Iru node Hitorine mo Sabishiku Arimasen!~ ch23.2-3

Oshi no Ko ch139

Our Dedication

Porno Superstar

Porträt eines Vampirs v2

Ran the Peerless Beauty v4

Reincarnated as the Daughter of the Legendary Hero and the Queen of Spirits ch19.4-58

Rental Girlfriend v19

Requiem Of The Rose King v9-10

Resist Destiny v3ch10-15

Ride-On King v3

Sakura, Saku v3ch11

Sasaki and Miyano v7

She is also cute today ch52-75

Shinde Miro to Iwareta no de Shinimashita. ch9-10

Shuumatsu Touring ch35

Sky Link v1

Snow Fairy v1

Snowball Earth v2-5

Solange wir zusammen sind v1

Sonna Kazoku nara Sutechaeba? ch64-66

Sooper Spooky ch1-4

Spice & Wolf - Die Abenteuer von Col und Miyuri v1-2

Suicide Notes Laid on the Table ch1-9

Sweet & Tart Boyfriend Ch39-53

Take Over Zone v1ch5

The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten ch13.3-14.1

The Diamond of Heart v3ch11-15

The Heroic Legend of Arslan v12ch71-76

The Ice Guy and the Cool Girl ch16-38

The Killer Inside v1-6, ch53-97

The Villainess's Guide to (Not) Falling in Love ch12.2-15.1

To be Winner ch76-114

Together Forever ch36.2-42.2

Tomorrow, make me yours

Unnamed Memory Manga ch34.1

Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi ch35.1-36.1

Zombie 100 v10ch38

Webtoons:

Breed my Dear Enemy ch92-110

Can the Grand Duke and the Marquis be Friends? ch13-32

Flowers in the Secret Place ch1-52

Ice Lamp: The Chronicles of Kira ch8-41

Marry my Enemy ch8-60.5

SOS My Love has a Bug ch0-3

Spirit of Peach Blossom ch49-80

Taberare Usa ch88-92

The Giantess wants Love ch96-170

The Mermaid Wears a Dress ch38-60

The Villainess Behind the Mask ch1-53

To be or not to be ch12-36

Non-Fiction:

Some Greek mythology book (ISBN 9789463598965)

Notes:

Bottom Tier Character Tomozaki LN 8.5-9 Wow. Wow. So I thought volume 8 was kinda really not too great for me, but ultimately that (and v8.5) are built up to volume 9, and ho boy was this a surprise. It even starts right off with doing the right thing about dating - talking it out - then root issues and problems are being pointed out and then there is also still the Popol and the Fireling analogy going on. And Kikuchi's then even in world essentially totally realizing that she is effectively up against narrative fate. And then there is Hinami. And it's not like Tomozaki has a crush on her, like he does with Kikuchi. While he can perfectly be attracted to her, it's not like he has all the crushy feels he has for Kikuchi. But that bond is there. And it's so paramount, most important he's ready to let go from Kikuchi, when it looks like he can't have both without some sort of suffering happening somewhere. At this point I steadfastly declare this series as being pretty much queer. I thought this before already, that Tomozaki isn't really all that straight, like he is easily attracted to a lot of the girls, but also he's got the heart flutter moment with Misuzawa already and just generally looks up at him copying it. If this had wanted to take a BL turn, this wouldn't really have come out of nowhere either. While this potential route probably is not ever going to be explored, what he has there with Hinami just screams queerplatonic to me. They have all the issues of naming and describing it, the next best thing they can tangibly go for is, she is his mentor in the game of life. But there is definitely more going on from both sides, and at least for Tomozaki it's overly clear how huge her existence is in his life. And he longs to keep it. But it's not the same thing he has with Kikuchi and what's more Kikuchi just.... gets it. And yes, it's a queasy and axiety inducing, but ultimately that ending being like all in the break up mood and she being like she's gotta make a decision herself, so asks him to let her make the request - how often do we get a girl finally stands up to make a decision for herself to end things? Not Kikuchi, she does the entire opposite. Rather than ending it, she reinforces that ending of v7, that this is a selfish wish, but she desires him. And it's not just her crush, it's because he also is her ideal Popol. Which he wouldn't be without Hinami being there as such a paramount existence. And it's just this whole great thing about that ultimately decisions and what one makes out of it is the most supreme thing of all. And what Kikuchi did is, she gave narrative fate a middle finger.

The thing with the badges is kinda a bit of sappy cheese, but it definitely feels well earned. And next to that, there is also this whole setting of boundaries with Hinami, too. When Tomozaki just goes and requests Hinami to shut up, when she is saying her logical, but not empathetic reasoning and he makes it clear, that this is not rejection, not rejecting her, not rejecting her values, but self-preservation, that he needs that distance to protect his emotions and to prevent himself for developing bad ones towards her. It's just so really beautifully respectful while drawing that important boundary. And he also follows up with that game meeting, just to prove, it wasn't just empty talk. He still fully intends to have her in his life. That makes it just buyable. And that also makes the ending clear, that he is upset with her for using him like that, but he does not even contradict her on her methods of working. He just doesn't agree with her attitude and motivation in this. And it's a clear telling off, but it also doesn't feel salty, because clearly after all this, he's not just going to let her walk out of his life AND IT'S NOT BECAUSE OF ANYTHING ROMANCE. (In a RomCom(Drama), set up a bit harem-like no less.)

You have all that talking with Mizuzawa about you can't have it all, things are spilling, you gotta at least be aware and deliberately toss something and usually this is where people go and pick Za most important loved one to become the OTP and what does this guy do? Starts ditching everything that by all means logic is transient and "replaceable" - until Mimimi makes it clear to any reader she is way too good to let go - is all ready to ditch his new self he has come to like himself, is ready to ultimately ditch the notorious supreme SO. breathes in ISN'T THIS OUTRAGEOUS??

Like completely outrageously rare. I did not expect this. I was all whining that I didn't want to see it end on Tomozaki and Hinami winding up the OTP simply by virtue of the narrative fate of first girl to show up, and the Kikuchi just comes and trashes it down. This is great stuff. And then it is even more, it's talking about compatibility, it's talking unbalance, it's talking about how the solution ultimately was Kikuchi sucked it up, but it's not entirely one sided, either, as it also was her deliberate intentional steadfast choice to put an ideal over her anxious feelings. And it's just so neatly full circle to v7. And it also manages to level up Rena who really was slap worthy in v8. She really is in it to push the limits, but once Tomozaki clearly tells her off, she backs away. So all you have to be steadfast, for everything else, you only deserve to be her prey. That's an interesting one, too, especially considering, who she really comes off as somebody who doesn't respect any boundaries, but all it needed was steadfastness? And then her and Mr. Professional Player talk about relationships from an adult perspective, it being about setting boundaries for the partner meaning relationships and it's all really interesting and convincing for a healthy relationship and Tomozaki is pondering about it and it all looking like it completely falls apart, but then Kikuchi finds a different way that does away with the conflict. .... Isn't that kinda quintessentially queer(platonic)? To not be all following whichever norm was out there set by your predecessors. But not necessarily denying all and everything of it either. And then it ALSO brings in the subject of what loser or winner means in life and that line about how Tomozaki actually is a winner type - because he can recognize status and value, but it entirely not attached it so has no second qualms to just let go it, because he doesn't see it as something that propels himself forward - was really a thing to think about, while it finally tied the gamer aspect into it the rest. Tomozaki never had a need to validate himself, and it was actually something he's had from the beginning. But since he had such a self-sabotaging resigned attitude and approach it perverted it into merely being an arrogant loser. But turns out it actually was just lacking the toolset and guidance to make use of what he's always had. And really just the sheer miracle of meeting somebody, who is equipped with an eye to see that value and then confront and nourish it, even if it may be out of questionable motivations (but it's not like they are exactly harmful to him), it's just so so grand, and.... I think I'm rather jealous of it. Does this even happen in reality? This series makes it buyable that it may actually be possible.

Hell Mode v1-2.7 Here we go with a case of you just read it, because it was there. One of the few current titles on JNC Nina and it just felt like a waste to not make use of it. Turned out, it's not so bad, although it's nothing I'd ever actually pick up on my own. The steady leveling up and checking out stats and experimenting with it is quite like By the Grace of Gods, just without any of it's healing compf properties. The protagonist kinda reminds of the one from Gamers!, just in less of a pathetic loose-type. Maybe that makes him more like the protagonist of Shangri-La Frontier, but in terms of personality he's a bit off. But it takes its very decent solid time to establish actual stakes, the one major thing that made Shangri-La entirely not work for me. The MC even mentions it himself, it's a whole pain to have been reborn and spending all these years, but though it he has a bond with them (which kinda is like Ascendance of a Bookworm, now that I think about it), and these are his stakes. He doesn't just do things because of his gaming obsession, but also because he wants/needs his family to get into better conditions. Not a bad read, it solidly does what it sets out to do so far.

See You When the Snow Falls Uh, hmmmmm. This tried to jug multiple genres and then none of them were exactly terrible, but somehow though the split none of them managed to shine. The split was actually fairly even, too. The mystery bit turns out to be an actual murder mystery, and it was even guessable to the reader, but because it's always background focus it ends kinda anticlimatic, despite being fairly round. And to begin with, nothing about the premise (and the compf cover) looks like a murder mystery.

Cheese wise it was, err, uncommon, I guess? Meets the ghost, looks like a the fated person, meets another girl, also has an air of a fated person, actually starts dating somebody entirely else, and after some detour winds up with his future wife. Some lines really weren't bad, and there is some of the ugly side of relationships depicted quite down to earthly, but maybe it was just way too matter of factually reported, this hardly qualifies as romance as in the genre either. And as a coming of age drama of something who lacks any direction and purpose in life it's too entangled to those two subplots than to shine, he kinda gets dragged around by them and big dramatic moment happens and then just happens to do his thing, because why not.

It has a nice realistic sense to it at places, but somehow it's completely not what you'd think it'd be from the cover and blurb.

(Also has nothing to do with that other 2 volume series, which I only found out after finishing this one.)

As an oel otherwise it was a bit weird at places. Aside from "a kuro tech company" it uses words like chikan, keiko just like that in Japanese with italics and those are words that really need not have to be Japanese, next to some Nee sentence starts (why not simply "groping", "honorifics", "hey"?). Not too many lines, but they have a strange weeb show off effect. At some point it also has a bit of an air about flaunting knowledge of that culture, like how it comes around with explaining how onsen were used for talks because nude means you can't hide weapons. I'd guess this is an obvious snippet of knowledge to any native writer as I've never seen it show up explained anyway beyond No Game, No Life where it was just in a tirade to distract from the main topic and Zombie 100 where the weeb foreigner comes to flaunt her knowledge. 🤔

I Met You After the End of the World v1-2 And there I thought these were all the volumes of this series, but apparently there's gonna be a v3… I was surprised by this series. It was present already in See You When the Snow Falls, but it's clearer here. This writer's style has a distinctive male gaze, and it doesn't shy away from sexuality and being just a bit philosophical contemplating. This kinda reminds me a lot of Asano Inio or Haruki Murakami or Oshimi, but it's not like…. as wrecked. Not that it is to say that there isn’t lots and lots of doom material by premise and setting, as well as plenty of assholes, but the few that are there are kinda all side characters (who get their just desserts by plot). The MC is quite upstanding instead and treats the female MC very respectfully. And it starts off with a mood that comes to a close around a third to half line in the first volume. They are alone in a Tokyo, where everyone died of a virus. It takes months until the stink of the corpses emerges and then it needs the electricity network breaking down for them to properly have it sink in, that they were spending their whole time next to corpses en masse and now need to leave the place. I was thinking the reason why there was no stink was kinda hard to buy at first, but then it's maybe not entirely impossible either. And you'd think, why are they such idiots and didn't prepare stocking up on fuel before gas station electric pumps would fail, why not stock up on battery charge, but not look for this and that. Didn't they know this was gonna break down sooner or later? They even mentioned having feared it before. But it all seems so plausible with the mood. You have this guy, who just is totally burned out from life and was all ready to simply wait for his death by the virus and the girl has her own share of issues and they just are there enjoying the luxury of modern life without its responsibilities and artificial social pressures and they just spend their time to… heal. Did they know to be more clever in preparing more? Probably. Somewhere in the back of their heads. But they also looked to me entirely not being in the mental state of actually following up on it. And this is just the worst thing about extended periods of exhaust. You lose that onlook or care about even a mildly midterm future. Just floating in and out of the days. I didn't even know I'd find that mood interesting, but here were are.

After this it turns into a road trip and the obligatory romance was gonna progress, too. Heads up for a perspective of, the female character can get horny as well and that being solidified as something perfectly not shameful. (Even if the phrasing of “people have their needs” used to cement it is a clunky one that can go to hell.) And some meetings are almost always mystery cases, in between. (I find it rather funny that she'd carry that book about cults of all things all the way from Tokyo to the south, just to have it ready at the right time, lol.)  All the hints of more survivors being there is a nice set up for potentially something grander and will be interesting how this is going to weave together with the romance between the two. It gives me slight Eden It's an Endless World vibes there. The end of the world, humanity and everything…. but look there, after a while you'll see humans still survive after all and you gotta see how to live in this world where some things just never change. Could imagine that coming in as a theme, too, but we're not there yet. The MC is already contemplating personal true value vs. artificial social value and the whole thing about it already was dead, but the tsunami comes and and sinks everything down and even the hubris is gone. There was just such a solemn mood about it, like all the things you hated, but you also realize you were attached to it nonetheless. And just how that hits down as a very lonely thing. Kinda reminded me when I heard that my old school was torn down and I looked up some pictures taken from the teardown side filled of rubble. AND THEN volume 2 comes in with…. a ghost and a deity. Huh???? Suddenly it's also Fantasy???? I have no idea where it is wanting to go. But not even a date for v3 yet…

The Apothecary Diaries v1-2 I have to say the beginning was a bit dry and if there was anything at all it was just the narrator’s cheeky tone going for me. It was like the narrator has a personality entirely of their own, while omnipotently knowing about everything past and future and present and sometimes doing a little commentary. (Unfortunately that one vanished quite soon enough.) It requires its time to set up all the characters and especially Maomao. I was expecting that it would just utilize the fact that she is just too into her special interest and doesn’t see anything else of the world trope to justify it until said interest would shift, but surprisingly she is not wholly obsessed about it for larger parts of the first volume at all. And her being so entirely in the know about the Red District certainly doesn’t make her the too innocent-trope. So when the narration goes to state she expressly has no interest, despite the ability to see the attraction by common standards my eartips perked up. This increased with all the weary moods over watching other people’s marriage going right or going wrong and there is just this whole mood of like Ah-Dou and the emperor not really being lovers but bosom friends and confidantes and her just being a strong support to him rather ever really be his concubine. Or Maomao and her adoptive father and just how remote romance and sexual indulgence can be from a home to get back to. At that point I thought that would have been interesting with Jinshi being an Eunuch and that being mentioned as 'losing sometime vital', something that isn’t at all so vital to Maomao herself. If Maomao was pretty much as good as ace, that could have made an interesting match, of one who is dumbly in love and the other entirely not, but slowly finding some intellectual and emotional ways to connect. Like she did with her entire found family. But duh, of course that couldn’t stay that way. 

I raged at that v1 epilogue. WTH do you mean she got pink cheeks, blushing from a darn cheese move? At the end? This last minute?? It felt so entirely like, that v1 was set up to work standalone and then it’s just bait, like, imagine the rest of that ship on your own. Which felt entirely like betrayal to the set up of Maomao herself and also if that was where it was gonna go, then it was just half-baked. My best guess was that it was just being bait, and look there volume 2 just goes and essentially retconned it. And then adds a comment in that volume to have Maomao say it was she left everything love in the womb of her mother. Now that’s a really cool phrasing that I’m inclined to use for myself if a need may pop out. In any case, Maomao is such a mood (just replace poison with rabbits for me), her facial descriptions about Jinshin’s cheese advances or the deadpan expressions of exhaust, resignation to annoyance when others have gossips are so quintessentially me as a teenager and her aloofness about just really knowing a whole lot about worldly flesh matters (but all theoretical) and then being stared at is similar to my adult self now. I was surprised how quickly that escalated with everyone getting headaches and Jinshi even resorting to wall punching. What I found too bad about v2 is that ultimate her poison hobby obsession got played as the expected trope after all and then Jinshi just has to be the Ugly Duck (or more like the swan among ducks?) that he is and I was kinda disappointed that Maomao wound up being blood related to her adoptive father after all. Like it was really interesting how things interconnected with the mystery cases, but then it says that coincidences piling up like this suggest something intentional and things in her surroundings and family are also all too coincidentally also very connected and who’s the mastermind there? (It looks a bit like the former empress?) Anyhow. Volume 1 and 2’s mood and tone does feel considerably different at places, I’m not sure which one I actually like better. (What I think is also kind of funny is how it’s like a sort of reverse Jeweler Richard? Both guys are described has heavenly beautiful defying gender and having everyone turn their heads and the narrator and even Maomao can’t stop making mention of this, but Maomao and Seigi are at complete opposite extremes of reacting to it, and yet Jinshi is already like a v6 Richard and Maomao is like a mix of dofus Seigi and early volumes Richard?)

Later I found out that the shousetsu ni narou version was still up and it looks like v1's content is largely the same to the WN. So looking up the phrasing of that v1 epilogue it says utsuru for her thought esclamation that it's catching on to her and then she gets those pink cheeks. Now utsuru is a word descibing catching diseases other things contagious. Which is to say, this is reminicent of that explanation Oda does in One Piece about Ruffy having a reaction at nude Nami, simply because he is in a group and the group mentality caught on. I still entirely don't like that bit of the epilogue, but I suppose this makes it look a bit less disappointingly baity.

That and that the author writes in a postscript to WN v1 that from then on it'd be all about raising flags and then destroying them. So maybe that was intentional. But then it was also one comment I'd have wanted to read right after the epilogue, because darn, was I annoyed/disappointed by that last minute titbit. ._.

The Eminence in Shadow v1 - Another one, read because not reading would be a waste of the subscription, but helluva what even is this. I don't know. 

Unnamed Memory LN v1.p1 I said I was gonna be quick to sub if for example UN showed up and then it actually did show up on JNC Nina. Okay, so sub done and started reading it. And I have ??? about the translations. Like I'd say my French sucks, so at some places I had the English version next to it as a crutch for double checking. Which inevitably makes me notice that it differs at some places from the English one and it's not just the name romanizations. And when I compared some of them with the JP preview and looks like the French one.... actually looks more accurate by those samples? That was interesting, but now I am in doubt about the English translation, which on its own actually had read itself just fine.

Black Butler v31 After Zombies, Titanic, Harry Potter Houses, Cricket, and Idol Group (WTH?) Now we have HAZARD SUITS. I don't even with this series.... It’s boldly thick skinned in doing whatever it wants, that much is for sure. Also, I somehow managed to buy volume 23 again instead of buying 32. How the hell did that happen...

Dance Dance Danseur v1-3 (JP v1-6) It’s a very good sports series. It’s been utterly exhausting however. If one had to sum up the first 4-5 volumes it’s like TEENAGERS. All the stupidity, all the worries, body changes, nervousness, and attraction and horniness and lots, lots, lots of it. That’s just everything I do not resonate with because I never really had that phase. In between it shows some really assy prejudices, but also goes to kick them in the ass. While the latter is rewarding the former still happens and just makes me go yuck right of the first pages. But it does a fair job of not just demonizing that side and even the characters with that assy attitude turn out to be really just human in their own way.

German ramblings from right after reading v3: Wandert auf die wird weitergelesen (wenn auch nicht mit Prio) Liste. Ist zwar immer noch so voll mit Elementen zum Weglaufen für mich, aber es ist mittlerweile nicht mehr ganz so übel TEENAGER und wie das alles zusammenkommt mit den Nebenfigurenelemente ist echt schickt zusammengefädelt.

Die Doppelbände bleiben aber ein Krampf zum in der Hand Halten q_q"

Es hat leider sind es immer noch weitgehend Zutaten, die bevorzuge ich eher in kleiner Dosis, selbst wenn es gut verpackt ist…. Beim Pantyshot und dem "mach doch was männliches" oder den Mobbinszenen hatte ich schon paar 🤢 Momente. Das ganze Pubertäts-Hormonmoster-blabla, ist teilweise auch sehr OTL, vermute mal einigermaßen realistisch getroffen? Hatte das halt nie und dann das ganze hin und her mit Miyako oder er ist nur bei der Schule gelandet, weil der Pantyshot im den Kopf verdreht hat. ufffffz. (Bei Bakemonogatari fängt effektiv auch alles mit einen Pantyshot an, aber da ist es durch die Eskalation der Ereignisskette so extra absurd, dass es was passend sureales hat.) Und das Thema um Passion/Talent wiederfinden/verfolgen/fördern ist halt auch bisschen weiter weg als jemand der gar weder das eine noch das andere hat. Und mit Tanzen kann man mich IRL eigentlich jagen gehen. 🩸

Aber ist schon gut eingebaut mit Nuancen und aufeinander abgestimmt, sieht man selten so, aber auch, Band 2 war echt bisschen zu viel TEENAGER HORMOOOONNEEEEEE. Die Richtung seit Band 3 war mir da echt willkommen. Grad auch dass das mit dem Mobbing wieder kommt. Das hatte sich zwischenzeitlich recht verwässert und unter den Tisch gekehrt angefühlt, aber dann war es doch nur die Ruhe vor dem Sturm.. Also erzählerisch macht es eine sehr gute Figur und bei so vielen Bänden sieht es nach Mehrgängemenü aus~

Diamond in the Rough - Finished It is a pretty solid Shonen read, with an interesting setting, but hell, what is this ending? Did it get axed? It totally just feels like an arc ending shortly before a post time skip part 2 and then it’s suddenly simply just the end.

Girl Crush ch62-63, ch81-82 I found out that it actually has a web serialization elsewhere than just Line Manga (which is geoblocked), so straight shoot at it even if it meant gap jumping. It's still rock solid and great, also it's clearly in the build up stages for the next fireworks. Tenka is just so gorgeous. 

Give Her Back to Me That was... creepy, in an intended way. It was interesting, but also just slightly brain frying. I suppose that was also intended.

Iki Dekinai no wa Kimi no Sei: Super Pink I also call this 'the horny porny that shouldn't exist'. It's a spin off doujin by the author from Iki Dekinai no wa Kimi no Sei/Breathless Momentum and it's, well, been quite honest about what its content was going to be about from the preview of the thing. Which is to say it has no plot only plot. All I had when I learned of this release was a jerk reaction of WHY. Didn't the author tweet before there were never gonna be ero scenes in her work? And isn't Breathless Momentum really great, because it's just so utterly unabashed horny, but manages to be that while also never being porny or smutty? (You don't usually get this.) Why now this. I'm all whiny. That being said, as for PLOT it was still one of the better ones I guess. You don't just get horny, it's not just about shanking another up till insanity, but it's also about foreplay and really just enjoying the whole thing with their minds still all sound (you also rarely get something like that) and it's just two who are really hot and horny about another, it's far from their first time, and there is just this sort of self-evident natural playfulness to it. And there's even funny little panels and humor in between. And visual cuteness (they get all hearts in their eyes as pupils over their delectable snacks.) So now, please can I have all the elements like these without the need of beams and holes and overly explicitness and also have it actually be integrated into a main plot please? At least it established the horniness in the main series already, unlike say What did you eat yesterday? - which is also to say, unlike some doujins there, where I wanna scream why it wasn't part of the main plot, because of very important emotional characterization, Super Pink is entirely neglectable to the main plot. But some of its seasonings would have peppered the main series nicely, too, if they were spread out more and not going deep into the horny pot like that....

Isekai de Ane ni Namae wo Ubawaremashita ch17.2-4 This series got licensed by Yen Press. Everyone go read it. It's good~

Lust auf ein Date? (How do we Relationship?) v9-10 Finally the How to we NOT relationship manual turns into a How DO we relationship advice box. But ho girl was the path to it exhausting. A very good series that does lots of things right and well written, but that are things I just don't manage to really like. But how the two mains are going for and knowing how people are gonna likely misunderstand it and one of their girlfriends being all like “you can’t have enough harbors outside of just your lover” just really really makes it looks like it’s going for some queerplatonic angle and I think I’m gonna whine a whole lot if those two wind up being a couple after all in the end.

Okaeri Aureole This is 50% cute-wholesome and 50% the guy deserves a bloody punch. Like how can you have things like this:

And then also have one go and assault the other one in some run in the mill-bad nonCon trope? 

Reincarnated as the Daughter of the Legendary Hero and the Queen of Spirits ch19.4-58 This was a surprise and probably not one I would have touched if I couldn’t have tried checking it out on Manga Up. the title is kinda really unfortunate as is its isekai reincarnation premise. It’s kind of pretty irrelevant to the plot and MC literally goes like “but that’s not relevant so story for another time” (which probably will never really happen?) Well, anyway. It has a nice mix of badass girls and mums, intrigues and politics, an interesting fantasy world with some lore, two parents who are just dumbly in love with each other (they remind me of Spice and Wolf, but just more stupid-funny-cute), who can be funny, idiots, dorks and then entirely mature and serious at the switch of a button. The art is cute, too and in general it just has this playful air about it, being very compf, while it’s still interspersed with darker bits of the world and it’s a really nice balance of savory and compf-cute-sweet.

Ride-On King v3 I am not sure what I read there. Probaby same stuff as v1-2, but it has been a while.

Sasaki and Miyano v7 I closed the gap from print and web-reading. Good heavens I’ve read this as it was chapter-serialized in JP, so I already knew what was coming, but darn it is this cheese death worthy collected in a book like this. How to despair as you gotta rereaed the last few pages every 5 pages because your brain just chimed out. 

Sonna Kazoku nara Sutechaeba? ch64-66 I’m entirely not sure where this is going to go. The premise conflicts are more resolved than not, so a new character comes in to retrace some of it and then it opens up new themes. Which is like…. gender/trans/nonbinary themes? One scheming girl who’s not below selling her own body?? I’m not entirely sure, as I dumbly missed out on reading some chapters in time before their free reading expired. The kuudere MC teenager's starting to go cheese, while her mother is finding all her sappyness back? Ok.. But it’s kind of interesting how Ichika went from “I’m just on their way, they can spend more cheese twosome time with each other” to But if she went back, she’d not have as much time to spend time with her cheese-subject. 

This was still cute tho and absolute nothing I'd ever have expected from this series:

The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten ch13.3-14.1 TINY BITS OF FLUFF FODDERRRRRR, where is the next chapterrrrrr q_q But anyhow! The release date of v1 in German is out and there’s a limited edition with extras and a variant cover, everyone go buy the fluff perfection (for as long as it lasts to be that)~

Ice Lamp: The Chronicles of Kira ch8-41 This has turned into a slight surprise hit so far. The art is solid and knows to be pretty when it needs to. The premise is very fantasy and gender bender driven, but frankly, if this wasn’t fantasy and Kira simply was a boy, it still would have a lot going for it simply by virtue of the art, character interactions and the politics and norms of the world spinning around. Unfortunately I'm now caught up on comikey and have no idea when there’s gonna be more chapters… (until finding out the month after they seem to come regularly now.)

The Villainess Behind the Mask - Finished This seemed like it started with Shinde Mirou to Iwareta Shinimashite x 7th Time Loop at first, it’s like the former in the MC having all that special magic, it is the later in terms of the MC’s character and personality, just not as rich and optimistic and more vengeful. It’s decent enough, but the ending was just a tat anticlimactic and in terms of romance it has a few moments, but they never really got enough room to build up enough chemistry and there’s a whole “buts…!” raised up only to be smashed down at an ending that does feel a little bit too much like axed. Too bad. 

To be Winner - Finished. From beginning to end this has positively cute to gorgeous art. The later has been fairly abundantly with the fantasy game settings, but ultimately, it’s just characters on a screen in the world of this story that is just like everyday contemporary RL life so it just felt a bit dissonant. In terms of its actual plot it’s a sports-plot with a romance side-plot with solid execution. E-Sports really is anything but my field of interest, but the rest kept it going regardless. The ending feels round enough, but also a bit like being on the fence about between stretching it on or just finishing on a side plot in the last arc and by the time it decided to be the last chapter it didn’t feel like one whatsoever…

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MARCH

It is a whole scrumble to keep up with expiry dates on JNC Nina already.

Reading in French is slow business, as is Japanese compared to Englisch and German, and darn it. q_q

One little accidential anime slipped in. Actually I did feel like watching Apothecaries and maybe something else, too, but somehow in the end I just wound up putting all their soundtracks into the playlist to listen to instead...

Anime:

Winter Memories Honkai Impact 3rd Concept Animation

Light Novels:

7th Time Loop V1

Fushi no Kami V1

Hell Mode v2

How to Survive As a Villain Novel ch1-41

Spice & Wolf V21-22

The Case Files of Jeweler Richard v13p10-14

The Eminence in Shadow v2p1-6

The Executioner and Her Way of Life v1

Wolf and Parchment v4

Your Forma v4

Manga:

100-nengo ni Tenseishita Watashi, Zense no Juukishi ni Kyuukonsaremashita: Heika wa Watashi ga Moto Oujo da to Okizukidenai you desu final chapter.1

A Side Character's Love Story Ch49-50.1

Akuma to Keiyaku v1

Ano Natsu ga Houwa suru. ch16.2

Are You Okay with a Slightly Older Girlfriend? Ch1-2.3

Arte Ch84-85

At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender

Black Butler v32

Captain Ken Ch1-16

Cherish v1

Daijuukou to Unicornis no Otome ch14.2-15.1

Domestic na Kanojo v4

Frieren - Nach dem Ende der Reise v4

Girl Crush ch82

Goblin Slayer Year One v9ch61-70

Haikyu v40ch357

Harebare Biyori ch23.2

Hari to Hitsuji no Fune ch10.1

Hiso Hiso v2-3

Horimiya v14-16

I Cannot Reach You v6

I Got Reincarnated in a (BL) World of Big (Man) Boobs ch1

I'm cute enough to get away with it Ch20-23

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Familia Chronicle Episode Freya Manga v1ch4

Josou Joushi no Nakasekata v1

Kakan no Oukoku no Hanagirai Hime ch11.3-12.2

Keine Cheats für die Liebe v9-11

Kemutai Hanashi ch13-16

Kijima-san & Yamada-san Ch4-17.2

Knitter's High ch26.3

Koisuru (Otome) no Tsukurikata ch80-81

Kono Koi wo Hoshi ni wa Negawanai ch12.1-2

Koroshi Ai After File prologue, ch1

Küss den Kater v5ch20

Living With My Brother's Wife Ch1-11

Loop 7-kaime no Akuyaku Reijou wa, Moto Tekikoku de Jiyuu Kimama na Hanayome Seikatsu wo Mankitsusuru ch30

Love and Fortune v6ch31

Lovers High - Meine beste Freundin, ihr Freund und ich v1-2

Marry my Enemy Ch59-60.5

Miryou no Otome to Katabutsu Hittou Majutsushi no Hatsukoi Kiroku bangaihen1-2

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid Elma's Office Lady Diary v4ch36

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid Kanna's Daily Life v8

Mr. Mallow Blue ch29

My Awkward Senpai Ch28-54

Okazari Ouhi ni Nattanode, Kossori Hataraki ni deru koto ni Shimashita ~Usagi ga Iru no de Hitorine mo Sabishiku Arimasen!~ ch23.4-25.2

Oshi no Ko ch140-144

Repeating Your End Together ch5

Sasaki and Miyano v7-9ch46

She is also cute today Ch60-125

Shin Henkei Shoujo Ch1-2

Shuumatsu Touring ch36.1-4

Sick v1

Solange wir zusammen sind v2-v7ch28

Sonna Kazoku nara Sutechaeba? ch67

Sooper Spooky Ch1-17

Spring, Love and You v3-5

Suicide Notes Laid on the Table Ch8-19

The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses Ch71-80

The Heroic Legend of Arslan v13-v15ch94

The Ice Guy and the Cool Girl Ch39-56

The Strongest Tank's Labyrinth Raids Ch1-2

Unnamed Memory ch34.2-35.2

Urban Prince and the Amazon Girl Ch1-4

Victoria's Electric Coffin v1ch4

Virgin Road v2ch13

Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi ch36.2-37.2

Wind Breaker v1ch5

Webtoons:

Breed my Dear Enemy Ch99-181

Flowers in the Secret Place Ch45-87

Ice Lamp: The Chronicles of Kira Ch42-44

Taberare Usa ch93-96

The Blind & The Homeless Ch1-7

The Giantess wants Love Ch164-218

The Goddess of Healing Ch54-66

The Mermaid Wears a Dress ch50-60

To be or not be Ch24-122, 1-23

You Are My Lovely Dragon King Ch1-16

Non-Fiction:

Some Greek mythology book (ISBN 9789463598965)

Notes:

How to Survive as a Villain AKA This Villain Emperor's Gotta Charm the Male Lead to Survive! AKA To Be or Not to Be AKA Please Decide on a Title Already The former is the closest translation to the Chinese title, while the second's length and summary-in-title does all the justice to it being an isekai and the last is a bit ??? in hindsight after reading it, but then it's apparantely the official English subtitle and also what made me pick it up on Comikey in the first place, so I should not complain. This is also a series I can dub as 'how to get interested only really at chapter 41 of 122 and then get hooked at chapter 88ish after having everything before read with pretty much just half attention' and it's another specimen to prove that me getting hooked tends always to happen rather late, which makes finding the next great thing really complicated beyond grinding though as much of everything as possible by sheer brute force and patience. (What do I envy people who can judge that right from the beginning.) Well, I'm gonna have some fun rereading it.

Anyway, this series by premise is a bit like My Next Life as a Villainess, but the isekai'd main doesn't have baka trait of Bakarina, then the world being reincarnated to isn't a tropey heavy otome-game thing, but a novel set in Ancient China (no cultivation and other fantasy elements there as a bonus) and the whole thing is also a BL and the narrative has slices of Romeo & Julia, but without that one's teen pathos (stupidity). The isekai'd main Xiao YuAn is a bit ridiculous and funnily goofy at times, but not dumb and stupid either. It's also been strangely weird, but convincing to me how it takes like 60ish chapters for him to notice he's fallen in love with his favorite novel male lead-turned real, and that it doesn't even occur to him until it's being spelled out in clear words and to boot, he is being transmigrated into the body of an emperor known to be gay and everyone's being thinking the thing for far longer and even his beloved male lead Yang HeQing caught onto his own feelings by what, chapter 12? And yet it felt strangely buyable to me at the same time. Very slow burn and organic progression. In the middle there is even a dish of melancholic facing your impossibilities in the world. (Maybe that’s some Weltschmerz and what the Hamlet quote title tries to reference? The vengeance part probably is less so.)

It sets up a lot and then develops it until it reaps its payoff. Which is to say, the series has 3 parts/seasons and the first two and beginning of the third are really rock solid, but the third is there to reap off all the payoffs from before and does it well, but in comparison feels weak because unlike the prior two parts it doesn't set up anyone or anything for itself much beyond the minimum and just reaps previous buildups. There's no new side character beyond the sister of a side character (Hong Xiu kicked ass really) that got killed off and really she is just a paler, meeker Hong Xiu 2.0, which is really too bad, because it could have integrated another new Kingdom into the spotlight, have some mentioned original novel side character show up or have some more side characters come back like they did from part one to two. The overarching plot is also not has interweaved with all the side tales going on and as a result it feels--- a bit simple I guess. That also makes the focus on the pair's lovey dovey shenanigans more heavy and Xiao YuAn is actually just about as silly and goofy as ever, just now knowing what he wants and entirely unhinged about it, and otherwise it's not so very different to the beginning, but due to the extra spotlight it has with not much more else going on it looks more lower dimensional than it needs to be.

Also somehow the last part seemed a bit visually weaker. And I've been really wondering why. Because it wasn't the art's lines or coloring itself. Was that because his second transmigration has made him get a more manly body than that slender, sickly more androgynous body and I maybe liked that style better? But then this never came across as one of those BLs that just shoves a female strereotype on one of the guys as often the case and if it did I'd likely hate it. Or was it the completely unhinged air? Or that he has a more sturdy body that far better can fend itself, but gets all those princess carries and doesn't even complain about them? Was it the thicker eyebrows? Eventually it turned out to be.... Eyelashes!!! The two mains of them, they both have fairly long eyelashes. And supposedly his second transmigration's body is pretty much like his original body, same face and everything, but!!! Every show up of that one at the beginning totally also has him have those longer eyelashes!! And yet in the third part the only times he mostly gets to have longer eyelashes is when he makes pretty eyes for his guy and it's... it's strangely weirdly irritating. Where is the consistency!!! Or well, I didn't know I found longer eyelashes aesthetically pleasing. What do I do with that titbit of knowledge now... Anyway, to my chagrin I had to find out that there was a Japanese print release for this series, but weirdly enough they only released one volume which has firm 1 cipher plastered on its cover and then no further volume afterwards. It's also licensed in English, but by Monogatari Novels who apparently still haven't released any of their releases in English and keep pushing the dates. :/

The art is also really nice, tho I have to moan about its key illustrations that really really look a bit misleading in terms of vibes and the third main key illustration is basically either misleading or a big fat spoiler. (And the fourth that also is being used on Anilist apparently is mostly used as a merch illustration?) Artwise it's really nice to look at, a really nice color palette that freely uses vibrant to darker parts of the spectrum, lots of wardrobes and because guys in Ancient China also all had long hair, lots of wavy fluttering bangs and ponytails in the wind or hairdos or decorations. And long sleeves and robes, too. It looks good (and just made the special chapters in contemporary times look immensely boring in comparison. Where's the wavy hair!! (and the eyelashes!!). (.... I'm getting ridiculous about this.)

That bit in the middle about the conflict of being yourself but also being that new entirely different identity after being isekai'd and the limited amount of people knowing that is also a quite nice mood I feel like that has gone lost from many of the genre from the modern wave. There's also a nice conversation about how the man's caught up in choices and how he's all doubting to being guilty about the choice being made and how ultimately it was never about doing the right thing, but making a choice and feeling bad, because all choices were important, but he had to pick. Also choices are the thing that defy fate literally. There is something soothingly comfy about it there.

How to Survive as a Villain Novel As it goes, the webtoon on Comikey has.............. parts of overtly dubios translation and editing quality and then also other parts with fairly interesting side notes (clearly these parts have to be from diffrent staff working on it??) and while the translation overall feels more clunky than not, it definitely made hints of making a fair number of literary or cultural references that all got lost in translation. And then I found out there's a novel and also there is a fantranslation and that it was taken down because an English release was licensed in Singapour by a somewhat new publisher and pre-orders closed on that on in January, like 2 darn month before I discovered this series. How cursed. Well, not like that the fantransation isn't to be found elsewhere, and it's worth already just for the footnotes on all the literary references and idioms and occasional contemporary slang. Really interesting. But aggregator rip off sites are still all cursed, because there's a good bunch of chapters that have annotation number markings but they haven't copied the footnotes over. Dang it, I'm interested in those!!!

Anyway. The webtoon definitely cut and changed a good few of things, which makes for a more smooth read and at places with additional flourish. Especially the beginning of the novel is equal parts of wtfh and lmao. And it then it dawned on me why it seemed strangely convincing to me that the main Xiao YuAn gets transmigrated into the body of that gay emperor and while he perfectly knows that fact, he doesn't even ever really think much about his attraction to his favorite male lead (that he has been fawning in a few ways over from the beginning). The way he is introduced in those beginning chapters of the novel pretty much introduces him as never having fallen for any woman, his family goes nuts, tries to ship him with some women, but then he's like bolting and running and family goes like wait, no, is he gay then?? and try to ship him into dubious BL ships and he is running and beating them up and like just. Nope. There's nobody. Probably. Anway, onto more important things!!! How about just focus on work and be a useful person to society. Which is such a mood. And add how it takes him a while to accept that Ancient-China-from-the-novel world as properly a real thing of its/his own now and his not even considering the idea despite being perfectly acquainted with the flags kinda feels like more than just the usual amount of density. Besides he really isn't dumb about it, he quickly gets it once it's been clearly spelled out and he gives it its due thinking over, so like just the whole air of him having all the pieces before his eyes all along but not even considering it at all in that way that's not even exactly dense or phobic of some sort is kind of really interesting.

The other part is how he had already killed himself in his original life to begin with. More or less because he was terminally ill and doomed anyway, but also because some brother asked him to. Which is a bit ??? It checks with how the big turning point in the third part plays out and the man may be whiny and a scaredy cat and all silly with his fear of death but actually doesn't even think twice about facing death in all the serious moments that count (which thinking about it is very reminicent of Haku from Utawarerumono Maskt of Deception/Truth), but him just jumping off the fifth floor in those beginning chapters also feels just random. The webtoon definitely did a good job kicking that brother character out of the plot. Apparently the sheer ludicrousness of attempted shipping offs by his family still made it to the webtoon in post-chapter extra scenes; at least I saw some on chinese raws, but the comikey version has them all cut. (And he's got long eyelashes in his original body there!!) Anyway, less than 1/4 read so far and I'll probably space it out for it to last longer. Also, darn it, somebody license the book already. With lots of translation notes and everything please!

Breed my Dear Enemy Ch99-181 So, apparently that’s actually two completely separate series under the same title belt and the first one finishes here. (with a completely nuts numbering order at the end of it on Comikey.) Isekai-transmigration into the body of a child, spanning over a decade, that has a short reverse-isekai adventure, court intrigues, knowing the novel contents already-cheats and there is a deal of courting and romance and a slice of cultivation and some really pretty art at places (especiallyfemale MC Ye Mu’s wardrobe). Ye Mu is also pretty cool in being just absolutely badass in wits and kicking ass herself. The isekai cheat is a bit excessively convenient though - She hasn't even read the book on her own accord, but while she accidentially trips into the book Fushigi Yuugi-style while doing a military raid and gets sucked into that world she literally gets the book contents downloaded into her brain. It does more with the isekai that you'd expect at the end, but somehow that plot device for plotline cheat skills was still extremely deus ex machina. What I also thought was a bit surprising between this and To be and Not to Be both having it was how their last thirds are both quite so very unhinged at being horny and explicitly things happening but without them being graphically explicit. Also both are from China. I did not expect this level of unhinged horniness from that country at all. What happened.

This panel background otherwise was almost phone wallpaper worthy:

It also had some nice ones ones with bamboo trees.

Domestic na Kanojo v4 I am not sure I know what I am even reading.

Frieren - Nach dem Ende der Reise v4 Fern deserves some sla… stern talking tos about her treatment to Stark and no Sein, I very much disagree, they should totally not be together already like that at all. 

Fushi no Kami V1 The isekai premise is so old now it is annoying the MC himself already and lots of cheats, but the world’s cultural mystery hook is not too uninteresting, but everything Maika side it a whole slog and I feel like wanting to drop it out of the window every time a PoV change comes to this cheese stricken girl.

Girl Crush ch82 It’s good, it’s still good!

Hell Mode v2 This is strangely keeping me interested enough to stick to it despite it not really having anything outstanding. My best guess is really just that it’s my surrogate to By the Grace of Gods after all. 

Horimiya v14-16 - Finished That took some years to get to these last few vols. But I was taken off guard. First I don’t remember any of the side characters anymore. Second. Was Hori always this bad of an obnoxious violent tsundere despite the guy clearly suffering from it? And you can’t even slap her for it, because she’d enjoy it!!

I Got Reincarnated in a (BL) World of Big (Man) Boobs ch1 I’m crying. In “What a whole darn waste!!” So I am still following Adekan. And when it’s good it’s gorgeous in its art and just all that morbid twistedness of human nature and desires so when it’s good it’s usually really good and when it’s bad it's also atrociously bad to my tastes. This one from the same author ditches any chance of a setting to flaunt or otherwise exhibit her talent for all that gorgeous dreamlike, fantastical artwork. And it’s so dumb and it’s kinda bad and it knows it, which I suppose makes it more bearable than the worst parts of Adekan due to the self-aware 4th wall element. But also it’s just such a waste!!! and yet you can clearly feel, this is what the author has fun with and plenty of fun Nao Tsukiji has with this particularness and who am I to criticize a person doing what they like, but still. I cannot help but cry out: What a waste!!!!

Kemutai Hanashi ch13-16 It's been a great series already and now it addresses yet another thing that is hard to put in words, but was captured brilliantly in its mood design by sheer power of character expressiveness. It will be very interesting if it does go on to capture it in words, too, like that brilliant conversation I raved about last time.

Koisuru (Otome) no Tsukurikata ch80-81 Wow. So we had this Aishiteru Game-ish arc, but it quickly moved on to the theatre play arc and frankly that was sweet and solid, but lacked any sense of a wow effect and probably that was the whole point, because wow did that twist (caused through one of the most old trodden tropes boring tropes at that!) hit at the end. It’s like… of course that was always in the cards. But somehow it managed to catch a surprise anyway and wow does it well circling back to one of its main messages it had been delivering so very well across all the series before.

Sasaki and Miyano v7-9ch46 I died a few cheese deaths and I had even read the web version before. I am regressing in my cheese resistance. Help!

Spice & Wolf V21-22 It was easy enough to get back into that after all those years it took me to pick it up again and the Holo-Lawrence bantering just really doesn’t get old. And everytime at the end of the books, where there are stories about Myuri and Col it just strikes how much less engaging that duo is as main characters. Also, seriously, at the end of all the church reforms it’s just gonna be like marriage is allowed for priests and those get together, is it? Hurry up and please get it over already. sigh.

Wolf and Parchment v4 Actually in their own series, it’s less of a slog to read, as there is still a mystery plot to be had around politics and the setting and everything. But I retain, those two are a bit exhausting…

Spring, Love and You v3-5 I had read v1 and actually thought it was surprisingly pretty aroace and also describing how the friction of being that way and the world not being that way can be hurtful and then I read v2 and OF COURSE this was a shoujo and she was gonna fall in love and then I dropped it for years. But now with having read the rest of it… Not like it ever addressed it as such, but the two mains impress a bit as demi or otherwise still a good deal as still on the aroace spectrum and cluenessness about ok, so they are dating and now? and then there is a side character who really looks like very aroace to the end and there is this girl having a crush at him and confessing in a really respectful way of not making him feel guilty or indebted and there’s a really wholesome part to her being kinda in pain, but also just placing good wishes and hopes for him to have somebody special to him, if it comes to that. And the guy goes like instead of feeling happy about any such a confession he feels like he lost something important and ultimately it ends on him hurrying after her, because he doesn’t want to lose her, a really close, trusted friend so far. And then they are dating and the series ends and the girl is happily blushing in the midst of her crush and he is entertaining her crush with a romantically coded gesture (that he does with a completely straight face), but if you ask me, this looks so much like an act of despair of not wanting to lose something precious and not because it winds up he fell for her like that. It would have been really interesting if that could have been explored, because this setup is bound to have all sorts of challenges, but then this series never was gonna be about something like this, was it? Which is a bit sad, because to me it unfortunately will be the only thing I will actually remember about this series. The characters aren’t exactly bad, they are buyably realistically portrayed, but they are also a bit (very) unmemorable and there isn’t much of an actual plot in this school setting to hook you in either. 

She is also Cute Today - Finished (??) This was supposed to be some GL, but then it was more like deep friendship and finding your crowd, with a bunch of opposites attract comedy but after some dozens of chapters it's having more clear hints about being more romantic than not, but before it really ever went to get into that more deeply it says end of part 1 and somehow no more other chapters. (According to Anime Planet it's finished??) Well, in terms im GL that's now kinda like what you get from most GL. Something that just barely has a little bit more than a regular deep intimate friendship. But it does introduce a gender NC theme across the series that has a clear queer message said out loud, so just when I starting to think it could go beyond the usual fare but.... Where is Part 2? :<

Taberare Usa ch93-96 Just what the hell am I even reading there now…

The Case Files of Jeweler Richard v13p10-14 I ACTUALLY STARTED. Meanwhile even v7 in English has arrived and I haven’t even touched v6 after that disappointing peek into it. 

The Giantess wants Love - Finished It turned out to be a nicely decent read. There’s some solid art throughout and once the romance is official it actually is mature and makes no big deal out of it. The fashion industry setting is nicely used for a number of pretty outfits. One of the last chapters also just barely turned the scales around over at humanizing a gay side character who went to be all like this predatory asshole criminal. There’s quite a gap between the villains and the good guys, with a few having feets on both sides, but like some of these villains just are a bit taxing on patience to sit though. 

The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses Ch71-80 Seriously, this series and all its cheese is above my wits.

The Goddess of Healing Ch54-66 picked it up where I originally went on a binging frenzy to the end. It’s still good and the MCs bantering is cute, dorky, wholesome and fun, but the villains are getting a whole deal more annoying now. There is also less ambivalence in character being virtuous or not. While motivations are being shown how the villains became that way, there is still a clear divide between the good guys and the bad ones. Looks like I like the ambivalence more that How to Survive as a Villain offers in that same Ancient Chinese setting.

Your Forma v4 Solid. But one plotline was unfortunately super obvious already right at the beginning of the book. It still managed to play with it and put another twist over it, but the first one was unfortunately a bit too obvious to not guess. But then, actually that was already the case in the previous volume, so maybe it’s a bit of a pattern?

#rambling #reading log #watching log #light novel #manga #webtoon #statistics #anime #buttom tier character tomozaki #The Eminence in Shadow #unnamed memory #black butler #dance dance danseur #the apothecary diaries #kusuriya no hitorigoto #i met you at the end of the world #see you when the snow falls #girl crush #iki dekinai no wa kimi no sei #iki dekinai no wa kimi no sei super pink #breathless momentum #okeari aureole #reincarnated as the daughter of the legendary hero and the queen of spirits #chichi wa eiyuu #ride on king #sasaki to miyano #sonna kazoku nara sutechaeba #the angel next door spoils me rotten #how to survive as a villain #to be or not to be

[soulpunchftw]

I would love to have been a fly on the wall in the Final Fantasy XIV writers room during Endwalker

Yoshi-P: ‘Okay, gang. I think it would be fun to re-use Anima from Final Fantasy X. But obviously we’ll need a new backstory for it, to fit the setting of our game’s world. Any ideas?’

*Ishikawa raises her hand*

Yoshi-P: ‘What’ve you got for me, Ishikawa-San? You’re always filled with bright ideas.’

Ishikawa: ‘What if Anima is the late Emperor Varis?’

Yoshi-P: ‘Interesting. I think that might-’

Ishikawa: ‘It’s his mutilated corpse, kept in a state of painful undeath by the focused patriotic zeal of his countrymen. For after all, what is nationalism if not a crude parody of religion, with all of its darkest attributes and none of its positive aspects.’

Yoshi-P: ‘That’s... a little dark. There isn’t a gas leak in this office right now, right? The last time that happened, we ended up with Final Fantasy VIII’s Junction system.’

*Ishikawa puts her feet up on the table*

Ishikawa: ‘Also, I’ve been thinking about the final boss. Let’s make it the literal personification of suicidal depression. Really fuckin twist the knife in.’

Yoshi-P: ‘...’

*Ishikawa is now smoking five cigarettes at the same time*

Ishikawa: ‘Fuck it, let’s also make the endgame a massive, pointed, and ANGRY criticism of Buddhism. Western games criticize their own majority religions all the time, and I have some FUCKING THOUGHTS about our own cultural and religious expectations.’

Yoshi-P: ‘Do you... do you need a hug?’

Ishikawa: ‘I am so far beyond hugs right now. Only cocaine can sustain me.’

#final fantasy xiv #final fantasy #ffxiv #natsuko ishikawa #yoshi-p #naoki yoshida #endwalker #anima #varis zos galvus #meteion #endsinger #tw: drugs #tw: depression #tw: sui mention #buddhism #tw: junction system mention #endwalker spoilers #ffxiv spoilers

[lorddrunkmaru]

Sanses AUs (Names/Nicknames)

This is my list of (Names/Nicknames) for the Sanses. I particularly don't care if a (name/nickname) is feminine. I'll try to give my reasons for every decision of (names/nicknames).

PS: I plan to write a Romantic Reader Story with these Sanses & including the Papyruses. I'll add a link once the story is up. Also, credit me for the more unique (names/nicknames) of the Sanses.

SANSES AUs:

OG Sans: Vanilla (Nilla) - Vanilla, basic & plain ice cream flavor. Nilla, a shortened version of Vanilla. Nilla can mean Moon & Glorious. So, you can make a connection with those meanings.

UNDERFELL Sans: Red/Reid - A simple name for Fell Sans. I even thought about a respelling of Red, so Reid.

UNDERSWAP Sans: Blueberry (Bly) - Blueberry is a simple and common name for Swap Sans. Bly is a nickname, in case Blueberry is a weird name. Bly means 'Friendly'.

OUTERTALE Sans: Sirius (Siri) - Sirius means 'glowing' & is the brightest star "Dog Star". Siri is only a joking nickname, you don't have to necessarily use it.

REAPERTALE Sans: Grimm - The "Grim" Reaper and has the meaning of 'bad fate'. (Name Idea - balladeer on Quotev)

ERRORTALE Sans: Ruru - A random name from kingmasn22 (DeviantArt). It's different enough for me. It doesn't have a meaning.

INKTALE Sans: Dalí (Dolly) - Dalí is the surname of a Spanish surrealist artist, Salvador Dalí. Dolly sounds similar to Dalí, and Dolls are emotionless.

AFTERTALE Sans: Geno - A common name for Aftertale Sans.

DUSTTALE Sans: Fai - Fai means 'Fault' in Welsh. In Chinese Origin, Fai means 'growth' or 'beginning. (Name Idea - balladeer on Quotev/ Chinese Name Origin Meaning - Me, lol)

DREAMTALE Sans: Dream - A common name for Dream Sans. Dream is actually a name, so Sans can continue with this name.

UNDERLUST Sans: Zeal - Zeal has the definition of 'great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective', so it's passion. Passion is also a name used for Lust Sans. But I favor Zeal more.

HORRORTALE Sans: Saint - Saint means 'Holy'. (Name Idea - balladeer on Quotev)

FELLSWAP Sans: Malina - Malina is a name for raspberries, however, Malina is considered a feminine name (Though I don't care). I could change the name to Malino but personally doesn't hold the same chime.

KILLERTALE Sans: Enzo - Enzo is a name for "Winner", “king,” “owner,” or “rich ruler". Originally I would have chosen Enso as a name, but it doesn't have a meaning. Enso Knives is a company that makes Cutlery and More. This would have been the perfect name since KillerSans uses knives, but the lack of meaning of Enso doesn't sit right with me.

BIRDTALE Sans: Corvus (Raven) - Corvus means 'Raven'. There is no need to explain why this fits BirdSans.

CANDYTALE Sans: Kandy - Kandy means "clarity, whiteness; sweet". This fits well with CandySans, and I changed the C to a K just to slightly switch the name up.

(MAY ADD MORE SANSES (NAMES/NICKNAMES)

#sans aus #undertale sans #underfell sans #horror sans #dust sans #swap sans #fellswap sans #underlust sans #dream sans #geno sans #ink sans #error sans #reaper sans #outer sans #first post #killer sans #candytale sans

[dont-touch-the-flower-child]

You say Sans wouldn't bully Flowey just because he's a child, but Sans literally send death threats to Frisk in the game, even if we didn't make them didn't do anything wrong, I'm pretty sure there's no way for Sans and Flowey to get along as Flowey would just make fun of Sans's issues, Sans is the monster Flowey hates the most he didn't even mention him in the end scene when he begs you to not reset

He doesn't mention Sans when he begs you not to reset?

Hello what's this

Also, regarding Sans' "dead where you stand" statement as him sending Frisk death threats, or implying that he would've killed Frisk on sight if not for Toriel, is frankly kinda ridiculous. Because the reality is that pretty much the entire underground wanted Frisk dead, and ironically Sans is among the few monsters who didn't want/care to kill them.

Sans is a sentry whose literal job is to watch out for passing humans and capture them. Yet if he seriously has the bloodlust like you interpreted you'd think he'd be a lot more vigilant on the job, not slacking off to exchange puns with some old lady behind a locked door. Sans' disinterest in capturing humans is literally the reason he met Toriel.

Toriel most likely knows this. Everyone knows the king already has six souls and needs just one more to complete their ticket to freedom, so the enthusiasm to capture and kill humans must be at all time high. And yet here comes this man, who shows hardly any zeal in the objective despite his job description and would rather spend his day telling her daft jokes. Maybe she can trust him to keep her kid safe.

Sans wouldn't have killed you if he hadn't promised Toriel, but do you know who would? Undyne. Undyne who is Sans' boss, who fiercely wants freedom for monsterkind, who wouldn't give up on killing you even if you kill her. Sans knew that. He moved his sentry station onto your escape route to distract her, to buy you time to run away.

Granted, Sans is not an exceptionally noble dude. Generally speaking, he doesn't actively want you dead, but he wouldn't exactly fight to keep you alive either. But saying that he would gladly kill a human kid only to shelf that aspect of himself completely for a promise is pretty far off. Not to mention VERY HYPOCRITICAL considering he's the judge telling you to not kill anyone.

Back on topic. If Sans has any reason to kill Frisk, it would be because they are human and their soul is necessary for breaking the barrier (No Mercy's another situation). That reason has never prompted Sans to kill Frisk. He has even less reason to kill Frisk for being a child.

And none of these reasons remotely apply to Sans meeting Flowey post-pacifist. Why the fuck would Sans antagonize a traumatized child who lost a sibling and is actively trying to be a better person. Especially in floweypot aus where Sans knows Flowey to be Asriel. Do you seriously think he would bully his best friend's child behind her back?

I've seen works where Sans and Flowey eventually get along. It can be reliably done, so it's certainly not as impossible as you say.

#asks #sans #flowey

[vacantgodling]

❄, 🔥, 🌈, and ☀️ for the ask game !!!

thank you henrike i hope ur doing well 💛

☀️ Sun - What's your favorite part of your WIP?

ough since i’m writing paramour ig i’ll answer for that wip and it’s basically just the actual lengthy overly flowery and descriptive prose has actually been so much fun for me. i should write all my wips like this (i can’t bc it doesn’t fit the vibe of every story so i won’t but ough i love it)

❄️ Snow - Who is your coldest / most stoic character and how do they express themselves (if at all)?

i very much enjoy making stoic characters so i do have several of different varieties. the MOST stoic characters would probably be

jenna magboo (jenna the reaper): because she has flat affect and she has no intonation in her voice whatsoever (until yehna partially possesses her). she usually expresses herself through her actions and she’s very physically affectionate with people she likes. her and carlos hold hands and cuddle quite often and she tends to cling onto people’s clothing as a means of showing care.

rosmarin “red” (red death & the oracle’s favor): our lovely mc who has severe trauma and thus has an extremely difficult time expressing her emotions. she doesn’t tend to show her feelings because showing emotions makes her have physical panic attacks. she does grow a bit better at expressing them through getting closer to hel but she’ll always probably be awkward.

kalifia fandel (tcol): she doesn’t express emotions mostly because being [redacted] she is not familiar with the range of emotions that terraneans feel or can express. she comes across as cold and heartless but she’s honestly very, very neutral about most things. the only thing she expresses any emotion towards for a long time is flowers. she likes them and presses them in notebooks. but other than that she has no interest in being palatable to others because that would impede her mission regardless.

tomb (the graves we dug): similarly to kalifia, tomb is a man bound by duty. being a bounty hunter, attachments get you killed or the other party killed and it’s better to simply detach yourself from all things. he thinks graves and dove are in their predicament because they both care too much. this being said, he isn’t completely cut off from his emotions. he’s just very good at repression and restraint. in another life (his youth) he used to be very expressive and still could be if he chose to. so it’s less that he can’t express care or himself, he just doesn’t.

🔥 Wildfire - Who is your most emotional character and why?

oh god i have a Lot of emotional characters but let’s see if i can narrow it down to my beacons of emotional range:

marco azarola etxebarria (vdtrt): he just has a zest and zeal and love of life, literal ray of sunshine who can draw virtually anyone into his orbit. probably the biggest extrovert of all the vlad protection squad (runner ups being awilda and darren respectively). he’s one of those who doesn’t let his circumstances damper his vibe. +weed helps LMAO.

piper fairwind & san dearborn (tcol): yeah these two but in opposite directions. piper is similar to marco except it’s somewhat more internal. she feels everything intensely as she’s only had herself to rely on for much of her life and in turn she had to become her own advocate, her own cheerleader, her own parent etc. it’s an attitude born out of necessity perhaps. for san it’s the opposite because she was constantly spurned and pushed to the side so she had to fight for what little respect she could get. because of that they tend to run hot tempered and take things that may just be jokes too seriously;;; especially when either of them are with each other emotions are WILD and all over. i just know someone out there is going to ship them and lemme just say, i understand.

thei (god eater): it’s a bit of a cheat to put him here but it’s true. being the last god eater, thei has access to the entire combined consciousness of the singularity within him; so thats hundreds of thousands of emotional ranges potentially at any given moment. he’s kind of like an extreme empath LMAO. he actually tends to be more stoic to try and regulate these intense emotions, however when they get the better of him and he cries, his emotions literally can destroy the entire world basically. it’s why it’s a good thing he has taj to help him bc tbh he was barely holding on before taj came into his life.

🌈 Rainbow - What do you think makes your story unique / stand out?

round this out with paramour again but tbh i feel like the entire premise and the style i’m going for is sort of a slight modernization of types of gothic adjacent stories we haven’t really seen in books the past some odd years. also the fact that it’s got an all black cast for the subject matter and themes is definitely different!

#about renjamin #cuz i don’t feel like tagging every wip!

[youre-ackermine]

if you get this answer with your top 5 music artists and send it to the last 7 people in your notifications, anonymously or not <3

Hey San 💕

How are you? I hope everything's fine for you!

This has been in my ask box for ages, I'm a bit ashamed to reply only now but...

I used to be loyal to my faves for years but as I grow older my tastes are more variable, depending on the mood tbh!

So, these are my 5 top artists at the moment (this is all Black Metal music, you've been warned lmao): Harakiri for the Sky, Borgne, Gaahls Wyrd, Red Harvest, Zeal& Ardor. I also want to add artists I'm listening to regularly but with a different style: BMTH (Bring Me The Horizon), Cigarettes After Sex & Arctic Monkeys.

[Big shout out to @stellar-smth for suggesting me 3 of the Black Metal bands tysm bb 💕]

What are your faves, San?

Lots of love 💕

#val has mail 💌 #musical tastes #lovely moots 💕 #san ✨ #notgoodforlife ✨

[bitmeddler]

Pacific Rim / Marvel Cinematic Universe Avengers AU!

“A team of heroes backed by the Pan Pacific Shield Corps (PPSC) must defend earth when an alien kaiju army attacks San Francisco…”

Stacker Pentecost as Nick Fury: The steadfast, principled, no-nonsense leader who has been with the PPSC since the beginning, the Marshal not only actively seeks new heroes to bring into the fold, but also has the onerous task of dealing with the PPSC top brass and external organizations.

Raleigh Becket as Captain America: A first generation Avenger, Raleigh returns to the battlefield as a member of the PPSC after a long hiatus. Becket never imagined he’d grow up to be a hero, but his strong moral compass and compassion for those around him put him on the path. His brother Yancy, who he thought was dead, is later revealed to be the Winter Soldier.

Chuck Hansen as Thor: A confident heavy-hitter, Chuck is stripped of his power and banished by his father Hercules after a display of selfish arrogance. Hansen eventually learns to put his ego aside for the greater good and redeems himself in his father's eyes.

Mako Mori as Black Widow:  An orphan who grew up to become a powerful warrior and martial arts master. Smart, strong and capable but with a past that haunts her, Mori draws on her found family as a source of strength.

Tendo Choi as Hawkeye:  The wise-cracking utility guy with a specialized skill set and resourcefulness that puts him on the level of the other powered-up heroes, Choi is calm in a crisis with a strong ability to take tactical decisions with assertiveness and accuracy.

Dr. Hermann Gottlieb as Iron Man: A brilliant engineer who uses his exceptional intellect and technical knowledge to code the revolutionary ‘Jaeger Armor’ enabling him to fight on a superhuman level. His desire to stop the kaiju invasion drives him to succeed, but he grapples with a strained interpersonal relationship with his emotionally distant father, a scientist involved in the early days of the PPSC. Dr. Gottlieb works in close collaboration with Dr. Newton Geiszler in their shared lab.

Dr. Newton Geiszler as the Hulk: A genius scientist with far too many PhDs, Dr. Geiszler is at the forefront of his emerging field. His zeal and dedication to learning more about the kaiju paired with a disregard for his own personal safety result in a lab accident infecting Newt with Blue Gamma, altering his DNA and giving him the ability to change into a powerful kaiju/human hybrid when under threat.

“Rangers assemble!”

#can’t stop thinking about this #science boyfriends: still valid #tbh Tendo works better as Coulson but I needed a Hawkeye #this is more based on position or circumstantial parallels than personality #because obviously Hermann is nothing like Tony personality-wise #but Lars Gottlieb is 100% Howard Stark #also I hope kaiju!hulk!newt doesn’t awaken anything in me #well damn that was pretty much immediate #pacific rim #newmann #newt geiszler #newton geiszler #hermann gottlieb #mako mori #raleigh becket #yancy becket #chuck hansen #herc hansen #tendo choi #stacker pentecost #marvel mcu au #marvel au #marvel mcu alternate universe #marvel alternate universe #avengers au #mcu avengers au #a Bit of writing #bitposting