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Congratulations, Koguma. You've played yourself.

^ That said, this is a love square, but the same things you said about love triangles apply here, too.

Should've left the same credit page as the previous chapter.

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Would this technically be selfcest?

Dunno, haven't read/seen the series. However, this comment kinda caused me to do some low-quality philosophizing, so if you'll indulge me:
Wouldn't things like narcissism or masturbation also count as selfcest?

Geckos are famous for avoiding cold wars.

Anglo nations. Russophonic nations. Take notes from geckos.

That didn't make it funnier, so your dignity was sacrificed for nothing BVster.

This inspires sadness and remorse.

Not that anyone here has the high ground in that regard.

This inspires awe and the feeling of being impressed.

The reason for that being that this second sentence of yours is simultaneously getting everyone here r/murderedbywords and yourself doing r/suicidebywords. Doing both simultaneously is very impressive, to say the least.

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Since bullying doesn't apply here, I think teasing could be made a tag.

So you’re volunteering for the Teasing vs. Bullying Tag Wars, are you?

I’ll be applying for Conscientious Objector status, myself.

makes a half a minute long rolling r sound, reminiscent of Tasmania from an old and forgotten Polandball comic

...unless we are talking about a food orgy please do not involve popsicles in this.

Can you really call a orgy without food a real orgy?

Well, a certain K-On doujin that, among other tags, also included the tag orgy didn't feature any food.

Gah, sacrificed my dignity for the sake of making an already funny convo even funnier. I hope it'll be worth it.

Now, I'm not saying the "ex-GFs" ship has been sunk, but I am saying that it has been damaged a whole lot. That was a lot of torpedoes that hit it.

Going back to this quoted post of mine:

Chapter 3's effect on my favourite ship in this manga:
That's a lotta damage!

So, how many triangles, actual or potential, do we have in play already?

I was always terrible at geometry--I'm sticking with the lizard + anybody.

As of right now it's a square. Either way at least it's not anything as complicated as Otome no Teikoku or Ano Ko ni Kiss to Shirayuri wo.

AnoKiss had a lot of characters, but I don't recall it having all that many serious romantic triangles (there was the polyamory triad, and the girl who had a crush on Yurine, and . . . that's about it that I can think of).

But even my squares were always a little off in geometry anyway . . .

For some reason, the last sentence makes me think that, in an attempt to draw squares, you drew deltoids and right-angled trapezes, which I find hilarious for some reason.

Now, I'm not saying the "ex-GFs" ship has been sunk, but I am saying that it has been damaged a whole lot. That was a lot of torpedoes that hit it.

If you do it in text form, at least make distinctive paragraphs.

... How come I can make it work for someone else's video series that I'm turning into books, but not for something that I write in my own words? Lol

^ Fair. And it's truly no wonder why my only hope for sharing some of the many history topics with people my age would be if the class misbehaves, so the teacher punishes them by havingme hold a history lesson... Maybe people would be more interested if I used an approach similar to the YouTubers 'Oversimplified', 'Tooky History', and to a lesser extent 'Feature History' and the late 'brain4breakfast' (rest in peace, F): keeping it as short, interesting as something so complex can be, while also adding some humor?

I can't handle horror movies at all.

I know a rather quick method of learning to handle them. Just watch Wonderwaffle's Alternate Future of Canada movie. Once you're scared by it, every other horror would barely even count as being scary.

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REALLY reminds me of Shoujo Sect.

OH! So THAT's why the art style and author's name look so familiar.

To those who have read my essay-posts and found them boring: sorry for boring you.

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^ OK, I did find something rather interesting. While I'm still uncertain if the (Balto-)Slavic yule pire had predeceding traditions, I found something that some Proto-Slavs and Proto-Balto-Slavs did believe that the fire burning the wood was seen as a newly born god killing the old yule, who wanted to bring chaos into the Universe, a belief that stemmed from the Proto-Indo-European myth of a great serpent trying to usher chaos each year, only to be thwarted and defeated by a great serpentkiller. This Proto-Indo-European myth may be a common ancestor of this and similar myths down the line, like the Norse myth of Ragnarok. Many other Slavs believed the yules to be the embodiment of the gods, especially those closely associated with forests, and didn't treat the yules as dead trees, but as living people, giving them wheat, wine and honey, before burning them in the pire, which these Slavs saw as the gods within the yules dying, only to be instantly resurrected by the ash fuming upwards from the fire into the air. In addition, there were similar traditions amongst other Indo-European peoples, some of which still survive into today, in places like England, France, Germany, Italy, Albania and Greece. The old Iranian religion of Zoroastrianism (the real life basis for the Faith of R'hlor in Game of Thrones) had a huge emphasis on fire. Even though it's not clear whether Proto-Indo-Europeans had yule pires, it goes without saying (and y'all will probably jokingly and insultfully call me Captain Obvious for it) that the Proto-Indo-European religion was the precursor to many religions accross the Old World. The Hittite Teshub, Greek Zeus, Roman Jupiter, Germanic Thunor, Norse Thor, Slavic Perun, Zoroastrian Ahura Mazda and Proto-Indo-Aryan Dyaus-Pitar are probably different offshoots of an original "sky-father" in the Proto-Indo-European religion.

^ Well... religions do have a tendency to assimilate aspects of other religions in order to gain converts quicker. For example, that's part of why the French had more success in converting Native Americans than the English and Dutch did. Some consequences can be seen today in, for example, how Christian Slavic people celebrate Christmas Eve: burning a yule log (most commonly oak) at a great collective fire at the nearest church, monastery, temple or basilica. This tradition is very non-Christian one, rooted in the Slavic paganism of our ancient and early medieval ancestors. Back during the 5th through 11th centuries, places like forests and marshes were revered, and often associated with the Slavic pantheon of gods. On the winter soltice, many families and clans would gather to an open area within a forest or near a forest or at the banks of a marsh. Throughout the day, they'd take whatever dry trunk or branch or piece of wood they could, preferably with some equally dry leaves still on them. Not too long before sunset, they'd set some of them into a pire, and light them up. From then on, they'd just throw all the pieces of wood they gathered over the day into the fire, and this would continue until the last of the families and clans going to that sacret open-place throw their yule logs into the embers of the fire. This was basically an offering to Perun and the other gods. Though virtually all Slavs converted to Christianity, this tradition continued, and was even made cannon by the Eastern Orthodox Church. Bosnians today are majority Muslim, tho, so I don't know if they still have a similar tradition or not. Though I am atheist, I'm still following tradition, and go every year on 6th January with my parents and younger brother to throw our yule log into the fiery embers of the yule pire. I have to wonder, before the Proto-Slavs, did the Proto-Balto-Slavs, Proto-Satem and Proto-Indo-Europeans have similar, precursor traditions to yule pires? That I have no way to know, but it may be possible.

@phemon

thinking man meme

I believe that's called roll safe meme.

Y'know what? The rate at which new posts are made here is absurdly fast. Like, the last post I read was on page 38, and I come to check the thread again: we're already at page 42. I just decided "Fuck it!", and skipped, rather than bothering to catch up.

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Guess that is why I never joined the "waifu" craze.

I always expect bronze when I go to forums. The quoted sentence isn't mere gold, it's platinum!

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Shhh, how are we supposed to amuse ourselves in Dynasty if people aren't fighting?

Well, there are other ways, but I admit, watching people fighting in the forums, or being a minor and marginal participant in it, is kinda amusing, and, just like in the case of the recent argument in the "A Room for Two" thread, it can sometimes yield comedic results in addition to the result you'd usually expect from a war of words on the internet.

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^^Again, I'm disappointed at myself for not crying.

I didn't read any of your comments but why are people having long convoluted debates about this series? It's a mindless SoL yuri series, anything that happens in this manga is not meant to have any deeper meaning other than 'cute girls doing cute gay things to eachother'

I mostly agree, except I'll add "funny" to the "cute gay" bit.
But seriously, how did this thread, of any, turn into a moshpit?

What? Based on the contents of this site, I always thought that Dynasty Reader was one of those places where it's Gay Day every day.