Lovecraft was a product of the times. Nobody expects authors from back then to be very liberal on their worldviews in many regards. The good thing about his horror works is that they focus on things very unrelated to such topics most of the time.

Actually, Lovecraft rejected his times and was repelled by modernity, instead affecting writing styles and attitudes from a century before. His contemporaries, friends, and even his wife called him out on his racism and antisemitism (she was Jewish and really didn't care for that last point). So if by "product of the times" you mean the 18th century, rather than the early 20th century that he actually lived in, then I'll give you that point.

At most you could attribute that to the 19th century, but Lovecraft's rejection of modernity does not pertain to liberal views on racism or anti-semitism as far as I am aware. He hated technological advancement, because it scared him (well what didn't scare this guy?).
And while I do agree that he was an extreme case even among his contemporaries, his racist views were not uncommon in the early 20th century and anti-semitism is one of the most consistent elements of European and American society from the middle ages to the late 20th century.

Though one point that really shows his aggressively xenophobic views is his hatred of the Welsh and the fact that his Welsh blood made him disgusted of himself.

PS: I ask you kindly to take me out of that post Nezchan. I was not part of the argument and if you just shove me in there while ignoring the cause of it all, you are doing nobody favors.

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Interesting, they did not go for the psychological route. I do think that makes a lot more sense. It can also still be recent enough to explain how awkward she is about dealing with it.
Tsundere-chan really didn't think that pen plan through. Good thing that mute girl is good at coming up with her own explanations. I suppose that's normal actually, nobody would jump to telepathy as the most likely explanation. She can probably afford to be less careful in fact hahaha

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Now they’re forging a new, more direct connection with each other, and the memory of the brother both enables that new connection (they wouldn’t be together now if it were not for him) and also hinders its development (their bonding without him is a constant reminder of their mutual loss).

Quite beautifully put. I think you nailed the essence of this story here.

I'm looking for some one-shots or doujins about two friends/childhood friends becoming lovers.

https://dynasty-scans.com/series/i_suspect_my_childhood_friend_to_be_a_lesbian
The conclusion is perhaps not exactly what you are looking for, but I think this one is very good nontheless.

People keep saying 2019 was really bad, but I don't really see how. People keep saying that every year though, so I'm not too surprised.

Negative events often leave a bigger lasting impression than positive ones. Simultaneously our faulty memory becomes nostalgic of anything going more than 10 years back or specifically to our childhood, so we tend to fall into the "Everything was better in the past" pit.

Personally, my 2019 was just fine. I hope 2020 will be better than what these first few days indicate haha...

This is the way.
Also those new years pics are hilarious. Hime-cut is a mastermind.

Sudden thunderstorm is always the best kind of wingman.
The teacher definitely has an agenda... and a penchant for tactical espionage action.
Just embracing someone to fall asleep, such a simple but deeply comforting thing. Honda continues to make requests that I expect and that reflect the title.

Ayaka's mom and dad are, well, just as irresponsible as she said haha

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/5_seconds_before_a_witch_falls_in_love

Well I'll be... someone actually suggested it already. This one gets my vote as well (not that anyone is voting).

Of course I still need to suggest something myself, so I guess I will go with https://dynasty-scans.com/series/the_demon_girl_next_door
No matter the amount of chapters on this site, this one could always use more attention. If even one new reader notices it due to this featured corner that would be more than enough for me. Ganbare Shamiko! Become a demon that gets featured on yuri sites.

Lovecraft was a product of the times. Nobody expects authors from back then to be very liberal on their worldviews in many regards. The good thing about his horror works is that they focus on things very unrelated to such topics most of the time.
Ultimately his protagonists - and thus the ones being assailed by cosmic horrors or corrupted - are always caucasian. And the monsters tend to be so inhuman that race allegories are hard to justify even for those who look for them (believe me I have seen people try that with the fish people of Innsmouth).

I think it is best to view Lovecraftian horror as humanity vs. the supernatural. Blissful ignorance vs. true and mindbreaking knowledge. The fear of the unknown (or indeed unknowable). Those themes will never stop being relevant and that is why these stories are timeless despite taking place in a very specific era.

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^While I don't see how those two things are connected in the first place.... This artist does draw futa and the designs are pretty close, so it's not surprising people mix them up.

Both sides here are ideologically fueled. One is an anarchist, the other is a right wing conservative. If neither cared about politics that much this wouldn't matter, but clearly that's not the case. Ultimately if political activity is a defining trait of the partners, political alignment can be a good reason to end a relationship.

Of course, the way she acted according to BV's words is inexcusable. And if it took 4 years to come to this conclusion it sounds far more like she was talked into it recently. I'll withhold any uninformed theories though.

Either way, my condolences. Only the future knows how this will work out BV.

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However, in Yuri series it's really hard to tell if the girls are lovers or just being really close friends, even for gay people. Take for an example Manaria Friends, as a yuri fan myself, I really knew there was more than friendship to their relationship, but even with that, I couldn't say it's an outright sexual love and they would get married in the future, so I couldn't prove that they love each other to my heteronormative friend(even with the love potion scene). I honestly don't blame her. I really believe a confession or a kiss was left out intentionally by the anime makers or author. I mostly blame the creators for causing this confusion, I mean, why can't you just decide? is it really gonna affect the sales or story that much if you include a canon lesbian couple in a non-yuri work?

Manaria Friends is somewhat of a special case though. It's a spin-off to a larger franchise that is mostly based on gacha bullshit. Gacha games are designed as waifu generators. What may seem like an obvious decision to us is a legitimately dangerous gamble to the people at Cygames. Making ANY pairings canon (gay, lesbian, straight) is extremely detrimental to keeping up interest for a large portion of pathetic waifu and husbando collectors.

Japan is just especially creepy about this. Their culture also enables "super friendships" and "playing lovers" between girls. These things are slowly shifting, but that's at a snail's pace. They know that the Japanese fans will be satisfied with implications and subtext as they always are.

I'm rather conflicted on Manaria Friends in particular, because you could tell the director/writer was only doing this freaking anime to endorse the ship and have fun with it. They gain almost nothing from making that anime and their decision to only focus on these two and not even go for the actual Rage of Bahamut Mysteria Academy event tells volumes of the purpose of this show. The way they got people to buy it was to bait players with special tickets in the BD release btw.
So overall Cygames has the longest lever here. The fans are gonna buy it either way for the rewards, the continuity is not connected to any of their franchises and the entire purpose of this anime was to ship AnneGrea. Then why did they still not have the guts to cross the line? I think... Cygames just doesn't want to set a precedent. They don't want to be the first ones to make a commitment like that. Because the second they do, all the shippers in the world will point at Manaria Friends and say "You did it for these two, why the hell can't you do it for my ship too??"

For all their money, influence and exploitative tactics, Cygames is still the most afraid of taking risks.

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Finally people start to appreciate Cthulu-chan. It took some strange aeons, but death did not die yet.

God you're creepy. In the best way.

All of this does not really explain what the point is though. Why write ko on her face in the first place? I dont see the connection to either hanetsuki or the year of the rat.

^No, actually. It's Ni-Ju-San. Unless you treat 2 and 3 as seperate numbers instead of 23.

^Actually I mixed them up, it looks a lot more like る(ru). That's the English to .

Worst case scenario, all the Isekais and Korean comics with overpowered reincarnated characters will come to dynasty .... HmmmmmmmmmmMMMmMmMm~

A fate worse than death. By all that's good in this world... please come back Mangadex.

Somehow this is the healthier ship.

Face ink again... maybe it's a Japanese trend I missed.
These two always look good in yukatas tho.

If I'm seeing this right Shamiko's cheek is the character "to"(meaning: with). Momo's cheek is a rat, because it's the year of the rat. I have no idea why they inked each other's faces, but this is superbly cute.
Also handholding on the first day of the year?! I always knew Shamiko was a lewd demon.

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She is raising her legs to be even taller lmao

Now this is a Pink Panther I can get behind~

This doesn't really work for me. Looks too unnatural.
And her poor back must be hurting like a bitch...

Lesbians are always 3 times more thirsty than the boys... according to yuri manga anyway.
Nobody can go to the pool without ulterior motives anymore. Except Maki. Poor Maki.