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No but really, hot take here

The infantilization of Ortho in the fandom, despite having said MULTIPLE times that his AI evolves and that he himself is 16 years old, must be the worst thing about the fandom for me.

Like, the lack of text interpretation sucks, but sometimes it can be genuinely funny. The sexualization of the characters doesn't affect me because I'm chronically online and of course everyone is going to be sexualized (more Leona and Jamil, but this talk is for other days). Incest exists in any fandom, it's easy to ignore. But the objectification of Ortho? The way everyone treats him like an accessory to Idia? There's no way to avoid that in a easy way.

Like, when they were updating the age of the gang in book 7, they didn't talk about Ortho at all. And I think that's so lame, I think it's so disrespectful to his entire narrative and book 6/7 and so pseudo-infantilization. He's not a 9-year-old kid, people, he has the right to fall in love, to have a social life, to be a fucking jerk and just kind of live. Am I a fan of his ships? No, but I'm not even a fan of Epel's ships and I see Epel with the soul of a 58-year-old Viking with a thirst for blood and chaos.

So this is the Panasonic PRONOTE PD CF-62, it's a Pentium 133mhz running Windows 95, released in August 1996. Panasonic did this sort of trick more than once, they did a similar thing with an under-keyboard CD-ROM drive in the PD CF-41, from 1995.

This one is so fancy because that's not just a self-loading under-keyboard laptop CD-ROM drive, it's a HYBRID PD/CD-ROM self-loading under-keyboard laptop drive! It has to be this complex because it takes PD discs (which are the size of caddies) and caddyless CD-ROMs!

So what's PD discs?

They're an optical format by Panasonic, the Phase-change Dual (or Phase-change Disc). They're from 1996, store as much as CD, but are rewritable... much like the later CD-RWs which used basically the same technology, just in a slightly different format. Unlike CD-RWs (which you had to burn (usually), they acted like a hard drive, fully rewritable at any point. That's why the disc is hard-sectored, which you can see through the shutter gap. Those vertical lines indicate where sectors start and end.

So yeah, this laptop has a complex drive that can take both types of discs, and the whole thing folds under the keyboard. Fucking wild.

But the root reason, of course, is that they did this because it's a cool design, and they wanted to do that. Why did they think this was cool, why did they want to do this?

Pervert reasons.

I'm trusting Ortho

A little bold, a little classic. 🍎

Rii Abrego’s Pomegranate design on a black background, with rich red details circling the hem.

Finished with a full silhouette, sturdy waistband, and pockets that can carry more than you’d expect.

Yuu, who cowers when Riddle starts to go red.

Yuu, who hates the feeling of sand and avoids brushing shoulders with Leona.

Yuu, who panics when they’re too deep in the water, never trusts the Leech twins at the beach, and get scared by too many limbs.

Yuu, who shrinks away when Jamil looks them in the eyes a little too long.

Yuu, who rushes to compliment Vil, lest he get upset.

Yuu, who clings to Grim a bit tighter and doesn’t like going to Ignihyde alone.

Yuu, who stays awake until they physically cannot because they’re scared they won’t wake up.

It seems that you managed to catch 6 student cards.

What was that ? 3 students are collaborating to offer you wonderful moments? How marvelous!

@dicenete

@karmicpunishment

These 3 seems to really get along.. All thanks to the headmage of course !

@kaymarie-bell

@twstmachine

ionlikeitttt msorryyy :(( i am strictly a monoshipper when it comes to silili and even then the dynamic I like is fixed... 🥲 so I can only enjoy this ship in very specific ways (FAKE SILILI FAN FAKE SILILI FAN I KNOWWW)

I like Malleus as an outsider to their relationship though, I think the dynamic would be really funny 😭 picturing him as Silver's #1 enabler sends me into hysterics

guess if he's getting complimented or scolded (with love)

Ortho needs to do something to help him pass the time while Idia is asleep. True, he might be essentially a robot, but that doesn't mean that he can't get bored! Or at least use boredom as an excuse to fuck around with Idia's unconscious body.

Touching big brother's skin first. Monitoring his heartrate, body temperature. Is he having a dream? Is Ortho in it? He better be. It would be so unfair if big brother had dreams about someone else!

Studying his expressions and vitals for future reference. This is what he looks like when he's calm. This is how he looks like when Ortho touches his nipples (cheeks gain a slight colour. heartrate sped up. breath sped up.), this is what he looks like when Ortho touches his dick (shuffling in his sleep. must proceed with caution. heartrate sped up. breath hitching.)

What's the harm, really? Besides, when Idia wakes up, Ortho can just say that he was trying to check on him, or help him maintain a healthy sleep schedule.

- ❄️

thanks! :> though I'm not sure how much more havoc the tsums could wreak that isn't already happening at Ramshackle. they'd try, bless 'em, but this would still just be a normal Tuesday for Yuu.

(inevitable fire included)

we need to talk about Ortho's headphones

his ears look surely like plugs for headphone cables

AND THEY ARE FUCKABLE

please, do join me in fingering and earfucking Ortho's ears