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Like people make fun of middle aged women for not getting married or being divorced or "always the bridesmaid never the bride" and all like "oh she's desperate! No one wants her! Old maid!' but they become straight up hostile and upset when you tell them you never want to date.

The core wound of this demographic is being rejected and being relentlessly asked to stop your bullshit relative to romance and sex, and to get back in the ranks. The aroace definitely qualify.

And since being rejected is obviously a veeeeery common trauma in the queer community, and people tend to reenact unhealed patterns, it's not rare to see queer people rejecting other queer people with shit like biphobia, being picky with who "qualify" as trans, dismissing aroaces etc...

Happy Birthday Kawase <3  My bitrthday present for you is the translation of the weirdest short story Kurosawa ever wrote. Dont be deceived by the title it has nothing to do with the content of this ss. I’m not sure what the point of this story was but enjoy I guess? 

The second part 

It’s late and I’m supposed to write short stories instead of a long rant about a game that’s not even out. But after watching the Slow Damage PV another hundred times and seeing that the N+C fandom is kinda dead. I decided to add my little, possibly going to remain unseen theories/headcanons/speculations/guesses etc. for the fans waiting for something new.

Note that nothing of what I’ve written is to be taken at face-value, it’s just my speculation and feel free to correct me on anything or share your theories with me. Anything to make this agonizing period of waiting a bit less agonizing!

First, these guesses wouldn’t be as strong without @shinocchidesu’s text decode on the PV and the inverted sketches @bara-mink (sorry, for some reason i couldn’t tag you :C) made to get a new perspective on the images, and they look clearer!. Kudos to them!

To start this trip, I may warn you this is gonna be long as heck. Be prepared.

It’s late and I’m supposed to write short stories instead of a long rant about a game that’s not even out. But after watching the Slow Damage PV another hundred times and seeing that the N+C fandom is kinda dead. I decided to add my little, possibly going to remain unseen theories/headcanons/speculations/guesses etc. for the fans waiting for something new.

Note that nothing of what I’ve written is to be taken at face-value, it’s just my speculation and feel free to correct me on anything or share your theories with me. Anything to make this agonizing period of waiting a bit less agonizing!

First, these guesses wouldn’t be as strong without @shinocchidesu’s text decode on the PV and the inverted sketches @bara-mink (sorry, for some reason i couldn’t tag you :C) made to get a new perspective on the images, and they look clearer!. Kudos to them!

To start this trip, I may warn you this is gonna be long as heck. Be prepared.

so I have played DMMd re:code mizuki route

YES IT’S GOOD

Disclaimer: This walkthrough does not include Ren’s route nor the extra choices that appear once Ren’s route becomes available.

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1. How the routes are calculated

First of all, how does the game calculate which route you are given? Well, the routes work on a kind of point system. The game starts on the common route, during which you are given thirteen different choices. Each choice has two possible answers, and each answer can earn you a point towards which character’s route you will end up on (once the common route is finished).

At the end of the common route, the character with the most ‘points’ is the one whose route you’ll continue onto. If two or more characters have the same amount of points, then you are given the choice of which route to take by ‘thinking of [character name here]’.

The number of points you have for each character can be found by opening up the menu. They appear as coloured dots, next to the brain. Red is Koujaku’s, green is Noiz’s, pink is Mink’s and yellow is Clear’s. As you can see, in the picture below, I currently have three points for Clear. At this rate, I am going to be automatically put on Clear’s route.

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2. Where to earn the points

Here is every choice in the game, along with how the two different answers affect which route you are given.

Choice 1: Shake her off (Nothing) / Hesitate (+1 for Koujaku)

Choice 2: Why the umbrella? (+1 for Clear) / Are you a magician? (Nothing)

Choice 3: Fight back (Nothing) / You brat! (+1 for Noiz)

Choice 4: I hear someone on the stairs (+1 for Koujaku) / I hear someone on the roof (+1 for Clear)

Choice 5: Talk it out (+1 for Noiz) / No way (Nothing)

Choice 6: Call out to Koujaku (+1 for Koujaku) / Call out to Noiz (+1 for Noiz)

Choice 7: Don’t listen to him (Nothing) / I have to bear with this (+1 for Mink)

Choice 8: Call out to him (Nothing) / Be patient (+1 for Mink)

Choice 9: Hurry inside (+1 for Mink) / Did you really hear me? (+1 for Clear)

Choice 10: Go up to Noiz (+1 for Noiz) / Peek at what Noiz is doing (Nothing)

Choice 11: Search for Clear (Nothing) / Call Clear’s name (+1 for Clear)

Choice 12: Fight Koujaku’s enemies (+1 for Koujaku) / Approach Koujaku (Nothing)

Choice 13: Hesitate to listen (Nothing) / Listen to Mink (+1 for Mink)

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3. How to make all four routes available at the same time

So, in order to have all four route options appear, you need all of the characters to have the same amount of points. There are likely multiple methods of doing this, but mine was the following:

Choice 1: Hesitate (+1 for Koujaku)

Choice 2: Why the umbrella? (+1 for Clear)

Choice 3: You brat! (+1 for Noiz)

Choice 4: I hear someone on the roof (+1 for Clear)

Choice 5: Talk it out (+1 for Noiz) 

Choice 6: Call out to Koujaku (+1 for Koujaku)

Choice 7: I have to bear with this (+1 for Mink)

Choice 8: Be patient (+1 for Mink)

Choice 9: Did you really hear me? (+1 for Clear)

Choice 10: Go up to Noiz (+1 for Noiz)

Choice 11: Search for Clear (Nothing)

Choice 12: Fight Koujaku’s enemies (+1 for Koujaku) 

Choice 13: Listen to Mink (+1 for Mink)

This method gives every character three points, and causes all of their routes to become available in the ‘thinking’ scene. 

CeCe Rogers on Facebook writes: "Two Black Tennessee lawmakers were physically escorted out of chambers this week while Republicans quietly held a hearing to approve gerrymandered maps that would eliminate the state's only majority-Black congressional district.

No referendum. No special election. No public vote.

Because they know what happens when voters actually get a say — just look at Virginia, where the people spoke so loudly that Republicans had to drag the courts in to override them.

This isn't new. During Reconstruction, Black Americans held more congressional seats than at any point in the prior 90 years of American history. And white supremacists spent the next several decades tearing that down, through gerrymandering, poll taxes, and voter intimidation.

150 years later, the same tools. Different suits.

The audacity of escorting Black lawmakers out of their own chambers while dismantling Black political representation, and then telling us the courts aren't political, is breathtaking. These are the same courts they're counting on to make it stick.

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