#transezual

gundham and ryoma have the same english voice actor so that joke/reference is really appropriate :V

Right, I forgot! I wonder if it was a similar joke in japanese, then, or if they changed it for the voice actor joke?

caeboa replied to your post: Ryoma Hoshi FTE - (Kaede #2)

Man I always forget how much I like Ryoma and then I go back and see this stuff.

Thanks for the ask! (From this fanfic ask meme) I’m sorry I couldn’t get an answer to you sooner, but I hope you like it now it’s here.

3. What is the last thing that a fic made you google when you were reading it?

Not quite googling, but I’ve been working my way through Operation VK and to help me keep track of the characters I’ve kept visiting the page of the profile pics for them, by @itsbenedict. It’s a great resource just for rejogging those bits of my memory I need to keep an overall view on everything going on.

4. What is the last thing that a fic made you google when you were writing it?

*Takes a deep breath*

*Takes a second - even deeper - breath*

So, The Ultimatum of Haruhi Suzumiya has been (or at least has felt like) a particularly research-heavy fic. Research for TUoHS tends to take one of the following forms:

Map-making (oh my god: map-making)

Checking up on the canon of Haruhi Suzumiya for details.

Seeing how the Danganronpa games did it when they were at the stage I’m writing.

Finding fiodder for my copyright infringement machines (You know what you did, Konosuke Kamio and Yayoi Mikawa. You know what you did.)

Since I’ve only just started writing the second arc, I’ve just come out of a sporadic but extensive series of analysing the backgrounds of Haruhi Suzumiya media. (One thing I realised recently, when my uni’s anime society started up again after the break, was that I’m now completely primed to hyperfocus on any background art of any anime school ever. :-/ )The most recent source I picked up on was The Reminiscence of Haruhi Suzumiya. It wasn’t quite the best thing for the floors I had to fill in for this arc, but it’s been extremely useful for contextualising all the other info about the school that I have,

With the new arc started, I’ll probably need to get back to researching characters for Yayoi to cosplay. Someone from Tales of Symphonia, maybe? That’ll be my next google.

9. What’s the best insult you’ve read in a fic?

I haven’t really kept track of good insults I’ve seen in fic. My first guess is from somewhere in Pedestal - it’s got some particularly sarcastic moments - and though I couldn’t find any good verbal insults from before the spoilers settle in there is the moment that the main character is kidnapped, tied up, blindfolded and deposited in front of Crasher Wake’s gym, because he’s been putting off going there with increasingly unbelievable excuses.

After all, he only needs his mouth to voice commands to his Pokemon.

(and then he loses...)

10. What’s the best insult you’ve written in a fic?

If I have one, it’s probably going to have been aimed at Dio in Empty Virtue.

*Ten minutes of ctrl+f later*

I checked out a bunch of places where I thought Dio had been insulted. But it looks like his downfall and embarrassment are always the consequence of his own actions.

how about YOU pay for it, you filthy pirate???????

lol. my first was back when ff.net allowed nc-17 stuff too. at around the same age. and it had the popup that asked you if you were old enough and i was like wow…………… i can lie, on the internet.

by that point i’d been lying about my age on neopets for YEARS

i was a HARDENED CRIMINAL

theyre being very critical. you should ground them until their attitudes improve. also theres me!!!

i can understand being fooled the first time cause theres so much to process but i feel like anyone still taking her at face value really overlooked this. she genuinely just says she wants to use this "fiction" to make "real people" in the audience despair. like perhaps... the people playing it? could it be that shes just saying anything and everything she feels would make you feel bad, instead of 100% facts? (yes)

Pretty much. It’s a difficult thing to parse down when you’re being bombarded in that sense, and being railroaded to the end, but when I think of it, that was... precisely the point of it. Especially when you get under just how insidiously Kiibo was trapped into the game’s ‘correct’ answer (that was the worst...).

This trial is essentially gaslighting you, the player, as well as the characters on the first go. But once you know the truth or get closer to it, that’s when you’re really in despair, because there’s nothing that can be done. Which is when you find yourself in a certain checkered boy’s shoes- you have to go outside the narrative, or you’re doomed to the lies.

i wish. that was one scene i was hoping for specifically, but it didnt happen. which is unfortunate because a lot of kokichis scenes are him cruising around trying to create fun nemeses/rivals/alliances) and byakuya would have been such a good target. whats more evil than a corporation???