love, thine is the future!

favorite thing about abe takaya is the feedback loop between his compulsion to control everything and his desperate need to be trusted and worthy of trust. second favorite thing is how hard he is trying to communicate with and understand and support his sports partner who happens to be his opposite personality-wise in basically every way. third favorite thing is how bad he is at communicating with and understanding and supporting mihashi despite how hard he's trying. fourth favorite thing is the contrast between how bad he is at that despite trying very hard vs. how good he is at playing diabolical mind games with his opponents without any effort. fifth favorite thing is that he thinks he's normal.

I like when people tag witch hat atelier stuff with "#wha" because it looks like they're just gently befuddled by fanart or whatever

when (some orb-weaver?) spiders are hungrier they build/adjust their webs so the strands are more taut, meaning the web is more sensitive, and smaller prey than normal will make it vibrate (every bite counts when you're starving!). but ALSO: if you station a well-fed spider on a web that was built by an extremely hungry spider, that spider will go capture the kinds of tiny bugs that the looser web it would have built itself wouldn't have alerted it to. they outsource the decision-making for which prey to go after to their web! they just adjust the settings til they seem about right for the moment and then go along with whatever the web picks up. "the spider will eat whatever it's aware of, and it sets the bounds of its awareness by spinning different kinds of webs." that's so cool....