I always go out of my way to invite people, whom annoy me, to hang out. Lol

The whole jealous younger sibling thing, which I've seen in manga after manga . . . I'm an only, so maybe I just don't get it . . . but does that ever really happen? It seems like one of these notions that superficially looks like it could make some sense but is pretty much nonexistent. Like, in real life does anyone ever give a damn about their older sibling dating unless they're with a total douchebag?

The younger sibling seeing their older sibling's new friends or a potential lover as a rival for the older sibling's affection, is more likely if the sibling are close knit.

I'm close with my young niece, and she gets a little possessive when I hang out with my friends when she is around.

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Wait, I don't get the joke about the human girl saying she had a third leg at one point too. Was there a chapter she magically grew a penis, or something, and I've just forgot about it?

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I think Ozzy would approve.

Is it wrong that I find Kaori's little sister's jealousy adorable?

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"I'm gonna go give birth for a bit!"
SO NONCHALANT?!!?

I don't understand. How does a woman with another woman get pregnant?
Assisted reproduction?

I think Lilli is right and the author is probably simply straight. But I just wanted to add a little tangent on this, as not many people know about it. In Japan in order to get approval for in vitro fertilisation you have to be legally married, which currently means het marriage by default. Same-sex partnerships do not count. Single women also do not have the right to undergo in vitro.

Similar regulations are in place regarding adoption, only legally married (het) couples can adopt in Japan. Adoption is prohibited for single women, single men, and same-sex partners.

Wait isn't Japan suffering a low birth rate crisis? You would think they would take anybody willing bring a child into the world. I guess it's just another case of blind adherence to conservative values biting you in the ass.

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I feel for Makino, at the beginning of the chapter. I totally remember, as a child, being called out by my parents, and panicking about which thing they caught me doing. I even remember the relief I felt when it truned out to be one of my minor offenses.

johnb posted:

I once tried sake at a high end restaurant and I hated it. The stuff tasted like whisky flitered through rotten rice. I'd take sip and cringe. I would sit there a while, then talk myself into trying it again, by thinking it couldn't really teaste that bad. Id take another sip, and realize that yes it can!

There are a lot of different sake of different quality, flavors.

Like any alcohol, it's an acquired taste.

For example, I dislike beer or red wine. I find them too bitter and my palate rejects it. But some people drink it like it's the best thing in the world.

To each their own I guess.

Well, yes it is just one humble man's opinion. I fully acknowledge people's taste experience may very. i just thought it was a mildly amusing anecdote about my experience with sake :)

Edit: Looking back over my original post. I think it's probably more funny when I tell it in person.

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I once tried sake at a high end restaurant and I hated it. The stuff tasted like whisky flitered through rotten rice. I'd take sip and cringe. I would sit there a while, then talk myself into trying it again, by thinking it couldn't really teaste that bad. Id take another sip, and realize that yes it can!

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Tonight on the evening news: Store owners are baffled as a sudden surge in Pringles sales, has them struggling to keep the product in stock.

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She blinded me with BDSM (I mean science.)

Man, you people are pretty mean. Sure, “one half of a couple thinks they’re drifting apart but the other person is really doing something nice to surprise their partner” has been seen before—in fact it’s a time-honored piece of fluff.

Just because the tune is old dooesn’t mean it’s a bad song.

Yeah but bad covers of good old songs are still bad :)

You find apartment listings in you lover's place, then you spot your lover going into the apartment building, from the listings, with a stranger, wearing a suit. That makes you come to the conclusion, that they are cheating on you? It's like that old saying about hearing hoofbeats and thinking my lover is cheating on me with a horse lol.

Seriously I think the story would make more sense, if the woman found the apartment listings, and started to worry that her girlfriend was about to move on without her, and seeing her with the real estate agent turbocharged her fears.

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Normally with a sleep over chapter, I'd be rooting for the MC's to get all snugglly, but I honestly can't even picture these two getting physically romantic. It's not like I feel, them crossing the line from friends into lovers, would spoil their innocence and purity, or anything like that. It's just that showing physical affection would feel wildly out of character, for them.

So shy = bottom? Interesting. I'll have to make note of that in my Big Book of Yuri Behavior: A Guide to Being a Lesbian Charater in a Manga.

Every time I post my doubts about how serious Kasumi is about their relationship, people tell me im nuts. That they are a solid canon yuri couple and stop letting my inner yuri sceptic out and just enjoy. But I think people ignore chapters like this that show even Sakurako shares my doubts on Kasumi's commitment.
Again I restate that I'm reasonably sure that Kasumi will one day have her all in moment, where she affirms to herself and the world, her love for Sakurako, and they will live happily ever yuri after. But until then they aren't a solid yuri couple.

Edit: Ooh, after rereading the last bit of chapter, I think maybe it's actually setting up Kasumi's all in moment.

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That, ladies and gentlemen, was my ideal yuri chapter. Forget that ambiguously close gal pal crap, where the author walks right up to the line between friends and lovers, and tantalizingly dangles a toe over, without ever officially crossing it. Give me cute, with just touch of sexy, unambiguou yuri love

That took a dark turn, didn't it. The story was going a long. "Ooh read me, I'm a cute story about a cute doll and the little girl whom she loves". Then out of nowhere, what the fuck, the doll is a monster. Still I kind of knew it would end badly when Sara told the doll, you're my best friend. I thought that doll wants what Sara couldn't give.

I don't know if any parents or grandparents are reading this, but do me a favor and please don't throw out your kid's toys just because they're "too old" to play with them. It's a very hurtful thing to do, and it absolutely will not make them grow up faster.

My mom didn't throw my toys out. She just gave them to my jackass younger brother who would always end up breaking them, and/or losing the pieces.

I had a pretty impressive collection of gen 1 Transformers, that I took fairly good care of. My jerk brother had destroyed them all, within a month of getting a hold of them.

It's a shame. I could have gotten a decent chunk of change, in the collector's market if I could have kept them together.

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The story describes itself as a romance but there's no Romancetag

Is Little Witch Academia actually yuri canon, or is it all just a little subtext and a lot of wishful thinking?

Milk enemas, poopin with an audience, that's too raunchy for my tastes.

Literally no one in at least the last four pages has said anything of the sort for either of these things. The closest we get is people arguing over the definition of cheating and whether this is cheating,...

Arguing?! Excuse me! Intellectual debate, thank you very much. :)

Damn! I wants these chapters to be longer.

I have never understood the premise that when a story enables readers to understand how a character might come to cheat, and perhaps to sympathize with that character's situation, it means that those readers must be in favor of cheating in real life--it's such a fundamental category error that I can't quite grasp how it happens.

I think one of my favorite saying, paraphased from Chris Rock sums it up quite nicely. "I don't condone that character's cheating, but I understand."

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Edit: I just reread the end of the chapter, and that was way more than just a kiss. Kashiwai definitely should have stopped after the first kiss. The rest should have waited until she sorted things out with Jun.

Yeah, but with all due respect, johnb--so what? "Should" is not really what stories are about..

Macbeth should have remained loyal to his liege lord, Duncan. Romeo and Juliet should have steered clear of one another until their families got their stupid feud sorted out. All the gritty detectives in the world should do things by the book and not follow their gut instincts and their own rough moral code.

But they didn't (don't) and finding out why they don't do what they should and what happens when they don't is what their stories are.

(I admit, it's sometimes pleasant to have fluffy stories where everyone acts with insight, maturity, and thoughtful consideration of others. But not all the time.)

No worries. Life is messy. Love is messy. Why shouldn't stories about both be messy too? I find the stories that take me to uncomfortable places are some of the ones that stick with me the most. Not that this story has gone anywhere particularly uncomfortable for me. So far. My desire to see yuri conquer all, is overriding the sympathy I should feel for poor Jun. My conversation with Nya-chan is more of an intellectual debate over what constitutes cheating than it is emotional argument about whether orr not Kashiwai should be condemned for being a cheater.

My actual reaction to Kashiwai and Tsuzuki's kiss was, Wow only chapter 5 and we've already got a scorching yuri kiss, and confession of love! Awesome! I bet the cheater haters will be hating on this one. Well I kind of see their point, but come on as cheating goes it's not that bad. Besides it's yuri cheating so WOOHOO!
Damn when I write it down like that, it sounds bad, huh.

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johnb posted:
I think your significant other cheating on you because they simply found someone they are more in love with is the hardest to take. It leaves you heartbroken, and there is nothing to do but to let them go and wish them well. All the while trying not to turn bitter about it.

There's cheating and there's finding someone you love more. Cheating, in my opinion, is when someone is keeping two (or more) romantic relationships going with some parties not aware of it. There's cheating when there's deception.

What you described is a breakup, not cheating. There can be clean breakups with mutual understanding, there can be messy breakups with people hurt, but if everyone is honest, such is life and nobody can judge anyone.

But if there's deception (on either or both sides), then you can form an opinion (sometimes, deception can be justified in case of a violent partner, for example).

I'm pretty sure if you start a new relationship before you officially end your previous one, it's still considered cheating. It might be just a matter of timing, but it's still bad form. Honestly I don't think it's that big of a deal, if the previous relationship is going badly, and the end obviously near to both lovers. However I don't think poor Jun sees this coming, and Kashiwai is just adding insult to injury, by acting on her feelings for Tsuzuki before having a heart to heart with him. She was having doubts about her feelings for Jun, before she even met Tsuzuki. If Kashiwai had been honest with him then this might not blind side him so badly.

It be fair Kashiwai's attraction to another woman has apparently taken her by surprise, and it was just a kiss in the heat of the moment. So I don't think it's a terrible act of betrayal, or anything like that. I just think she's being a bit unfair to Jun. Buy hay who said love was fair.

Edit: I just reread the end of the chapter, and that was way more than just a kiss. Kashiwai definitely should have stopped after the first kiss. The rest should have waited until she sorted things out with Jun.

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