Same. Very impressive progress.

Someone vandalized a whole wall in one of my schools' bathrooms, wrote a ginormous long-winded BernieBear-esque mess on that thing with a marker just to bitch about one gay dude who was popular with girls.

I wasn't an LGBT ally yet at that age (I never made trouble for them, but I never stood up for them either. Not even a little bit) but all I knew about that student was he was in charge of a fashion show I went to earlier that year where the girls (and guys, but idc about that) were wearing outfits made of electrical tape. Black shiny electrical tape. That shit is paper thin.

I understood homophobia perfectly well, it's got nothing to do with anything except people cringing when they think about the sex (That's ALL it has ever been about. Never been morality on the table.) but that gay guy didn't bang other gay guys in front of me. He showed me hot girls wearing nothing but tape. Why would I dislike him?

Omfg, thank you!!

That's been confusing the shiitake mushroom shit outta me for abouty ninety million hundred fifty thousand hundred years 😤 I've been scratching my head so much over that that I've got like an inverse Mohawk going on. Just one long strip of bare scalp exposed with the rest of the hair normal.

I knew by context it had something to do with new people liking him, but I thought it was only romantic liking. For example IIRC Ayano's ping didn't happen until the chapter she caught feels and had that internal struggle about feeling like she was betraying Kamogawa.

I knew Ayano respected Saotome long before that, because she was already throwing in assist moves for Koharu before she joined the cheerleaders and bonded with Kamogawa, so why no ping until then?

The specific numbers have always been way too big for it to only be referring to the harem, and I didn't have any idea why there would be a colon involved.

Since it never happened this many times in one chapter, I never noticed the number added the left side was always the same as the number subtracted from the right side.

I'm still not sure of its consistency though 🤔

A guy dancing around in a dress and wig is pretty ballsy for obvious reasons. That's one of those things where the bigots kinda shoot themselves in the foot, because the respect of the act is proportional to the stigma.

If there was no adversity to worry about, it wouldn't take any courage to do it. It would be nothing. It'd be like wearing anything else. But for people seeing him for the first time and only having that to go by, reaching the same level Ayano took time to reach seems pretty generous.

As far as progressive/conservative matters go, I've been given very mixed impressions of Japan. With respect in proportion to stigma, I'm thinking this points to a lot of extremists on both sides of the spectrum and not many people on the fence.

I'm not antagonizing you. I'm pretty sure you're joking, but this is related.

Toxic masculinity really needs to pick a lane sometimes. It goes like "Be an alpha male and take charge." but then turns around and says something like "It's not a real nickname if you give it to yourself. You need permission from other men, and they choose your nickname."

Like WHAT??? How the fresh-squeezed fuck is THAT manly??? I'm over here counting the number of players on a sports team and looking at the Greek alphabet on my phone like "Wait, I thought alpha was the FIRST letter. Do I read Greek from right to left like manga?"

If I wanna call myself the undying god-emperor Jellybean Poggers, Breaker of Worlds, I can. And if I needed validation then I would not be very poggers, yeah? They can bite my shiny metal ass 🤙

Yeah, she was a bombshell 🥵

I'm surprised I still haven't stumbled onto any rule34 art of her.

Ooo, neato 🙂

Thanks for the fun fact!

Oof. I'm never gonna get over how that situation has the same proper term whether the partner is laying in a hammock sipping a glass of wine or crying with a gun in their face.

Don't get me wrong, I ain't yucking anyone's yum. No victim no crime. It's just those things just seem different enough that we could maybe come up with a second tag.

I bet a lot of the fetishists like it one way but not the other, and inefficient porn searches are annoying. Hard not to sympathize especially since I started using Pixiv and they only let me blacklist two tags. That ain't enough 😅

Omg, you've got a gif for a pfp!
https://i.postimg.cc/8zsLFgLY/i.jpg
Can just anyone do that? Or did you buy something?

I'm like eternally salty that almost nowhere online allows people to have gifs as pfps even though there ain't a goddamn thing holding them back 😤

Myspace had gif pfps and that was like ninety-hundred twelvity-five eleventeen infinity years ago 😡

It's only bothering me because he looks uncomfortable. If he owned it it'd be fine.

No matter what's going on idc how weird it is, but the people who are doing it gotta be into it.

That's just me though. Mama say "Don't yuck someone else's yum."

Yup. I don't make the rules. I just decide what they should be and assert that they apply.

https://i.postimg.cc/wxk4bJ5W/i.gif

If I ain't gonna see it or touch it, it's effectively not even there. So why should I care?

There's nothing to a drawing except for what it looks like.

If you draw what looks like a pizza I'ma think about eating it.

If your lore says it's a racoon that got run over by a steamroller idc.

Pavlovian response. Eyes see pizza, toofs go NOM!

https://i.postimg.cc/25qgs6j1/i.jpg

God, these fictional moments where the MC meets someone who was their lover or best friend or something before, but now they're in a set of circumstances where that's all been undone but they remember it... I wonder if there's a proper trope term for it

Well whatever tf it is, if I can just get through life without that happening to me, I win. That would be devastating.

Oh snap, are you a DM?

Thank you for your service 🤝

👆 That's a tradional respectful thing to do in my country if you see a military veteran in public, and I always do it unless I'm in a rush.

There are other groups of people I wish I could do the same thing with without then thinking I'm mocking them. Like DMs, scanlators, teachers, any parent of a small kid, etc.

Basically anyone who does extremely important stuff that would never get done if the responsibility fell on me.

Like if suddenly nobody else was able to read written language again, like everyone else could only use their memory and I was the only person who could still read.

I could be the most successful school teacher in the world, but I'd be like "Ehh... Let's just go back to the God thing."

Translation - Your kids would end up upside-down in trash cans within two weeks, and I'd rather you just think I'm lazy.

(First five things are sarcasm)

That's xenophobic! 😡

Also I'm mad at you for not knowing my language even though I'm visiting your country! 😡

Btw even if you're British I still call it my language 🤣

And I don't have an American accent, you have a British accent 😆

Damn ignorant foreigners 😡
🤣🤣🤣

Jk. I actually really am American, and the bigotry I see here is disgusting, (I would leave if the circumstances were right) but when it comes to xenophobia against us, I kinda get it.

This is assuming the stories I've heard about us acting up when we're abroad are true. They probably are. I think it'd be a silly thing to lie about. Wouldn't help anyone.

Believing someone's gonna be bad because of who they wanna have sex with or what the circumstances of their birth were is not fair.

But believing someone's gonna be bad because every one of them you've met has been a total dick is kinda reasonable.

Oh please, yes. And there can be parts where he can only bring 8 people including himself even though there's nothing in the plot that says why he can't bring the others. And he can't exclude himself from any mission.

Like Martial King battle setup screen or whatever it's called, and we get the only 4th wall breaking of the entire manga. The MC is the only one who understands what's happening because he's the only one who's lead an army before.

"Rifen, why did only 8 of us come?"

"What do you mean?"

"There's 12 in our group, so wouldn't it make more sense-"

"We're strong. We'll be fine."

"....... Is this, like, a close-quarters stealth mission? Would a bigger group attract too much attention?"

"No, we're fighting 4 giant falcon-lions and 2 demon-Godzillas in a canyon."

"...... That sounds... Is everyone else busy? Defending our base? Or on another mission?"

"That has never been explained. It would be a lot of extra writing for not much... Look, plausibility is not as important as gameplay."

"What's never been explained? Game-what?"

Then Rifen gets impatient and just charges into the battle so people will stop grilling him.

Fuck beans, I've already read all the translated chapters 🤦

How fast have they been coming? Scanlators do God's work, so I feel bad even asking, but yeah 😅

Hehe, thank you 😊

Nah, that's a highly appropriate level of cute ❤

Well, I mean... Winning best waifu when you got dick is more impressive than winning it with a pussy, no? 🤔

That's like being best mage when you got a derpy gymrat brain instead of a scrawny nerd brain.

Rifenhardt and Sillan are out here playin' with handicaps and still bein' pogchamps 🏆🏆🤙

Yeah, that moved me when Saotome did it, but when Kuzuhana did it, that pissed me off. I love me my wholesome stories, and to be cringe is to be free, but there's a limit.

Very young people are reading these stories, and making them think they're living in candyland ain't gonna do them any good in the long run.

That would never work in a million goddamn years. No way in fucking h*ck. There had to be SOME fighting. And that was realistic too. The psychological aspect was, I mean.

My dad explained this to me at a young age, maybe a little too young. There's usually not as many opponents as you see. Whoever's standing at the front of the group and doing all the talking may effectively be the only one who's even there.

Sometimes if you cut off the head, the body dies. If it doesn't work and they're all the real deal, you never had a chance to begin with. No shame in losing when outnumbered, and the record will show you didn't back down.

*Pawnch 💥🦅🔥🤛

FTFY 🙂

Show me ya moves!