"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit
I want to share some wisdom from my high school art teacher.
In my AP Art class, there was a girl who was just starting to experiment with mixed media. At this point she was still playing around, trying to decide what direction she wanted to go with her portfolio. So one critique day, she brought in an abstract canvas with some rhinestone highlights and painted and real peacock feathers. She loved sparkles and peacock feathers so she thought sheâd try introducing them a *little*. And after everyone had given some input, the teacher gave her his advice, VERY roughly paraphrased here:
âSo hereâs the thing⌠I do not like this style. These are just elements that do not speak to me personally, but I see that you like them, and youâre doing interesting things with them.
âMy biggest critique is, I only merely *dislike* this piece. I want you to make me HATE it. Go crazy with the things that you like. Donât hold back trying to make it palatable to people like me. Because I am NEVER going to like it. And if the audience does not like it, it should drive them crazy seeing how much YOU love it.â
Her portfolio was chock full of neon colors and glitter and rhinestones and splashes of peacock feathers and it was a delight. Our teacher despised every piece lol, but she got great marks and I think even won some awards. And more importantly, she was happy and proud of the results. Because she didnât limit herself by trying to appeal to people who were never going to enjoy what she enjoyed.
Takeaway here: be as cringe as you want. Donât limit yourself based on other pplâs tastes. Theyâre not you, and you are incredible đ
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The serious reason I have reservations about referring to someone doing art or writing in response to a shitpost as "fanfic" of that post is it feels like it's contributing to the erosion of the term "fanfic" to mean "any media that's in conversation with any other media", which is functionally meaningless because all media is in conversation with other media. At best it's a prompt fill.
The unserious reason is that if doing some writing in response to a Tumblr shitpost counts as as fanfic of that post, the list of people who've written fanfic based on my work includes Eliezer Yudkowski, and I'm not 100% sure how I feel about that.
Honestly, as contemptible legacies of my online presence go, "had a prompt filled by the Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality guy" probably ranks somewhere below "coined the phrase 'humans are space orcs'" and "convinced people to start shipping Tony the Tiger with the Grinch".
I am so utterly fascinated by âSakiâ, the 18-year-running mahjong manga in which you, the reader, become gradually, frog-boilingly aware (over the course of nearly two decadesâ worth of mahjong tournaments) that none of these girls are wearing underwear and most of their boobs are slowly expanding.
I need you to understand that I have, like, an anthropological level fascination with this comic. From the perspective of someone who is also a comic artist and writer, two things delight me about it:
the fact that I understand completely how an artist gets from âthe fans can have a little hint of skirted asscheekâ to âthe pussy is completely out on center pageâ over the course of 18 years; and
the way in which the pussy being out is treated by the characters and diegesis as being utterly unremarkable.
Okay. Point 1. The frog-boiling.
Let me put this in perspective for you. There was already a meme about how the characters in âSakiâ donât wear underwear when I was in middle school. I am thirty now. Okay? And itâs still going.
In the time since, this has stopped being a joke. It is now indisputable canon. This is not because anyone outright says it at any point. Itâs because the underwear ran out of places to hide. Iâm obsessed with this thought: somewhere in the over 20 volumes of âSakiâ, there is a panel in which underwear was objectively deconfirmed. And it would be so hard to figure out where that panel actually is. Maybe the artist didnât even realize it when she drew it! The frog? Boiling!!
And of course there is also the breast expansion. I donât know how to put a spin on this. They are just expanding. Like, this happens a lot with artists: you define a character as being, in your mind, âthe one with the big boobsâ, and over the years you emphasize that trait further and further so that the signal doesnât get lost in the noise. Itâs just that normallyâin like a wildly popular manga series about mahjong published by literally Square Enix, for exampleânormally there would be a point at which the boobs stopped getting bigger. Like, an editor would step in or something. Or you would get to the point where you cannot draw the character in the same panel as her mahjong tiles without her breasts spilling over the tiles, and youâd go, âWell, this is now untenable.â
That did not happen. There is no ceiling. The frog is soup.
Point 2. The complete and utter mundanity of all of this.
Itâs like this, okay: thereâs no shortage of trashy ecchi manga out there. Thereâs a million other comics doing wildly bawdier things with wildly more improbable bishoujos.
The vibe with âSakiâ is different.
Itâs hard to explain this, but it feels like the world of the comic is fundamentally uninterested in the fanservice happening on the page. I cannot describe it as âleeringâ, because I cannot conceive of a person in the story from whose point of view one would leer. I think the artist is probably into itâI canât imagine anyone is making her do thisâbut âSakiâ the comic has no opinion on the matter.
There are essentially no male characters in âSakiâ. Like, there was one guy? Kind of? At the very beginning? But he is gone now. They put him back in the toybox. He does not exist. It appears to be some level of canonical that in the world of âSakiâ, almost all humans are women. Those women are sometimes romantically into each other. According to comments the artist has made on Twitter (which I cannot source), they have lesbian baby technology, so itâs no problem. Itâs so much not a problem that the story is about mahjong, instead of any of that.
So, like, the fiction here appears to be this: this is the, like, meta-narrative of the fanservice of âSakiâ, right: itâs just normal that they donât wear underwear and their boobs are arbitrarily big. Itâs been normal. It was normal before the story of the manga began. Itâs just how things are. Nobody bats an eye about it, and if they do, itâs in sort of a lesbian kind of way so like whatâs the problem, we love lesbians here. This is literally normal for girls.
The fanservice simply diffuses into this all-encompassing aura of disembodied, ambient sluttiness. The framing of the panels demands you acknowledge it, and the story demands you already be over it, because itâs mahjong time now, and weâre playing mahjong.
Do you get??? why Iâm so fascinated??? Are you not a little enraptured???
Anyway, I have no idea how to end this weird post. I guess the conclusion is that women stay winning????
I have so many questions... How does one SUSPECT a manga character isn't wearing underwear? Like, sure, boobs are front and center amd you can see them get bigger panel by panel but how does this work for panties? Are there just that many upskirt shots?
Also how do you keep a manga about Mahjong going for 18 years, what??
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Some quick research suggests that only Scots English still uses "gat" as the simple past tense of "to get", with the form surviving in other English dialects only in the archaic "begat" (i.e., the simple past tense of the likewise archaic "to beget"), and I feel like we need to fix that.
Local Man after opening Pandora's Box of Non-Standard English Verb Forms:
"He choosed his path, clomb this hill to die on, torned off the chains of prescriptive grammar and drunked from this newfound power; but later he had understanden that he had letten himself grow mad with power, he had shutten the voice of reason advising him against this foolery, he had putten himself on this path of chaos and destruction, setten himself on this one way street, standen on top of a mountain of hubris, forgetten wisdom, and for his trouble had getten only the means of his own downfall"
[all of those are attested by the way, this isn't just me making stuff up at random]
my favorite reddit post ever written is still this one that's iconic opening line was a huge in-joke on r/bestoflegaladvice for a long time before it was deleted and largely forgotten. I remember though
I am not knowledgeable in the noble art of pope fighting and the only game I've played featuring it wasn't a metroidvania, but given the post's phrasing I take it this is a common thing?
Blasphemous (2019) is almost certainly responsible for popularising the trope via its final (non-DLC) boss fight (spoilers for the bad ending, if you care), though it's been imitated here and there since. The forthcoming Silent Planet - Elegy of a Dying World showcases a very promising Pope fight in its latest teaser trailer (skip to 0:38 if you're impatient), and the current demo for Being and Becoming features an excellent fight with an evil nun (gameplay footage â nun at 1:33), so I'm hopeful for a proper Pope fight in the full game.
Also what are some fps games where you fight angels? The only one that comes to mind is ultrakill. Most other popular entries like the New Blood fps catalogue and classic FPS games like Blood and Doom have you fighting demons pretty exclusively.
Just generally games in the FPS genre are far more often aligned with demon killing as opposed to angels.
Doom Eternal (2020), most obviously. Yes, the "angels" are technically alien cyborgs, but the demons in the Doom franchise are technically aliens too, so it counts.
(That one goes the extra mile blasphemy-wise by pulling a sort of reverse Gnostic thing and revealing that its Satan analogue is the true author of Creation, while the usurping demiurge who imprisoned him is theoretically the good guy!)
honestly it's weird that you DON'T fight the pope in silksong
I agree that Silksong is a remarkably Catholic game for presently lacking a Pope fight, but I wouldn't rule it out just yet â Team Cherry have added major boss fights in DLC in the past, and we already have at least one DLC confirmed.
(Granted, Sea of Sorrow doesn't seem like a terribly likely venue for a Pope fight, unless it's... like, a pirate Pope, or something.)
I expected the folks in the notes arguing that Assassin's Creed II is a metroidvania, but "Diablo III is a first-person shooter" is admittedly a new one.
I enjoy when video game mechanics fuck up in ways that provide insight into the particulars of their implementation. Like, my aerial controls just went screwy because somewhere below me there was a section of icy floor? Fascinating â let's see what other deranged implementation details I can puzzle out.
I wanna say it's Hisako in Killer Instinct 2013 that has an evil setup guaranteeing a hard knockdown, that relies on a glitch that sweeps don't cause hard knockdowns when they hit, it just checks that something hits while the sweep is active. like say, a fireball hits while hisako's leg is sticking out in that case.
Situations where the conditions a game is checking aren't what you'd intuitively expect them to be are always fun, yeah. It's a classic, but my personal favourite is probably stomping on enemies in the original NES Super Mario Bros. The game engine doesn't have any ability to evaluate the relative positions of objects involved in a collision â it's just "do these hitboxes overlap? yes or no" â so all it's actually checking is whether Mario's velocity on the vertical axis is negative on the frame that the collision occurs: if the thing is stompable and Mario was moving downward when the hitboxes touched, it shall be stomped. The potential for Shenanignans is, I trust, obvious.
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My sister-in-law (husbandâs sister) was supposed to get married this fall but due to some immature/concerning behavior by her fiancĂŠ, the wedding and engagement were called off. (I donât want to be too specific, but there were sudden red flags, followed by his sudden decision that he wanted to postpone the wedding months or years despite the fact that most of it was paid for already).
I explained the delicate situation to my mom, as my sister-in-law is letting the news get out by word-of-mouth from the immediate family rather than an awkward âunsave-the-dateâ. My mom obviously told my own family.
Apparently my dad was so angry by the behavior of this guy that in the lunchroom at work he made everybody listen to the whole story (censoring names and identifying details) and said âIâm not crazy, right? This guy sucks!â And then reported back to me all his different coworkers that agreed this guy sucks, as well as their variety of ages/genders to indicate widespread consensus.