...just did a re-read am curious to know if it's still ongoing(I saw the last credit page so maybe has been delayed, I hope) just wanna make sure it hasn't been dropped :)

Ditto do really hope that it isn’t dropped.

RT that.

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gwennie-chan posted:

cameron posted:

I've heard that supposedly in Japan, sicknesses are more severe, for whatever reason. Even just a basic cold can be hard on the body. Maybe it's the climate or the self isolation for thousands of years.

Perhaps also that in the West, normal human body temperature is believed to be 37C, but in Japan it's 36C. Thus, Japanese people are more likely to have a "fever" they recognize.

I'm from "the West" and here we were always told that normal temperature is actually 36,6C, but it can differ slightly depending on person. For some 36,7 might be norm, for other 36,5 etc. I always thought it was like that for the rest of the world.

Can confirm. 36,5ºC is more or less the average skin temperature as far as I know. (Although inside your body this will vary a lot. For instance, your throat is slightly cooler than your bloodstream, which actually explains some really cool stuff about the influenza viruses).

Never heard about diseases being more severe in Japan, but maybe you're talking about how different populations of viruses and bacteria affect different parts of the world. For instance, in Brazil we get milder colds because HRSV and Rhinoviruses are more common than the more dangerous Influenza A viruses. All of these cause common cold or similar diseases.

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Not bad, but I could do without that racist line near the end (where the afro-guy was called a "gorilla").

https://image.ibb.co/nEfFu7/smile.jpg

This made my day brighter.

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Honestly, though, the appendix is nowhere near the stomach.

Is there an actual extra and they just made a joke translation or is the whole thing made up?

I **** you = Tsundere

I vote for this to become a permanent change.

Well that was certainly... something.

That about sums it up.

What is this a sequel to?

I believe it's sequel to this:
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/mix
(names are the same)

Domo arigatou, senpai.

The title's "always in profile", implying that when Saki looks at Minori, Minori's always looking at someone else. Bittersweet, but as noted here, Saki doesn't look the least bit sad about it. She thinks Minori's cute when she's all hyped up about something.

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She knows the flapjack octopus exists. I think that's a big hint already.

Not only that, she was shocked that Touko didn't. She's an aficionado of this stuff, clearly.

How do you people NOT know the flapjack octopus? Is that even possible? It's too cute not to be known by the whole of humanity. It was even gonna get officially named "adorabilis" :D (I'm not an aficionado or anything just a fan of cute things)

@gudetamago I came back here just to read your insight on this chapter. <3

Everyone's having discussions about a lot of parts of the story but i cant stop thinking about...Miu...Shes a top lmaoooo.

Dear derpalot I love your avatar image ("well, well, well, I bet Lenny didn't see this coming").

is there going to be chapter 3?

No. The second chapter came out in the very last issue of Hirari magazine.

Edit: Also, this was re-released in a collection by this author, called 妹ができました (Imouto ga dekimashita/I got myself a little sister), and there are only these two chapters there. It's completed.

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I've known this for a while but this is a masterpiece.

you beat me to it ^-^

And whoa, what a wonderful chapter <3
I love this story so much.

I'm on a loop of "refreshing 4s folder, finding there's no new releases, frowning", rinse and repeat

The tag suggestion icon is right next to the chapter discussion icon.

I just thought it might help to explain why this is important. Sorry if I bothered anyone.

Rape is kinda hot

No, it's not. It's scary and traumatizing. It breaks you in a way that's impossible to put in words, and leaves behind everlasting scars. It's being robbed of the most intimate and sacred part of yourself, leaving behind nothing but a cracked hollow place. Forget fiction, real life rape is horrifying.

On that note, could I ask moderation to add a rape tag to this story? Rape stories like these are sometimes triggering enough to draw me back into that dark place where the past repeats itself over and over and I'm shut in room believing that violence is going to happen again any minute. I'd really like to avoid stories like these.

Please please add a "rape" tag to this. That thing about the girl in the story being raped several times by the shadow is seriously triggering.

That sort of confronting generally seems to work quite well. A trans* friend of mine uses a similar approach when guys start to ask her rather rude questions about having "stuff cut off": she simply describes the process in quite a bit of detail - queue some rather pale faces hugging their beer tightly and apologising for asking.

I am so going to start doing this now <3

Quite disingenuous. Your impression of the debate as a med student doesn't cancel out what is currently on paper. Nevri is referring to how GID/GD is currently described and handled pretty much exactly. The DSM isn't "just your opinion".

Homosexuality used to be in the DSM, dear.

It's the difference between saying that to have a female body you have to have a vagina, and saying that I already have a female body cuz I'm a female and this is my body, but that I want to have surgery so that I can feel more comfortable in that body.

I agree with Vivian's comment entirely. If I might add something, it would be that the importance of these surgeries is often also tied to the need we have, as transgender people, to recognize ourselves and be recognized as a specific gender. This is partially why breast removal and facial feminization are so important to trans men and trans women respectively: because they influence how we perceive ourselves and how society will perceive us. One thing is recognizing that your body doesn't dictate your gender (society does that), another thing is day-to-day life, when these sex-related characteristics will affect your self perception and your psychological well being.

So even if we're not necessarily "in the wrong bodies", it turns out that HRT, SRS, FFS and other surgeries are still a necessity because we're all people inserted into a cissexist society filled with masculinity/femininity standards and that will judge us based on our bodies, and even push us to hate these bodies.

So, it's not always the case that being transgender is a medical problem. It may just be a societal problem because other people deny them their happiness.

This <3

I'm not imposing my opinion, I'm stating the medical fact.

Well, I'm a medicine student and also member of the psychiatry league in my college, and as far as "medical facts" go, the issue of transgender people would be much better categorized as a "medical debate". I have met several psychiatrists who also support depathologization of transgender identities, and I have met my fair share of people who oppose this idea. There is no medical consensus about who are or what characterizes transgender people, the debate is quite heated and it's hard to point out anything as an uncontroversial fact.

So, yeah, it's your opinion.

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Oh, and also...

psychological gender

I take the feminist approach to gender systems, that is: All gender is a social construct and an imposition. Gender systems vary between different societies (some have up to 5 different genders) and so do gender roles. From this approach, there is no such thing as a "biological gender", only reproductive systems and sex characteristics which are later used to justify the existence of a hierarchical gender system in our society. Transgender people, under this viewpoint, are people who transgress the imposed gender, simply. The reasons that push them to transgress might include feeling in the wrong body, but that's one possibility.

But you obviously don't see things this way. And I respect that.
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@Nezchan

At the time Mermaid Line was written, those were still pretty common terminology, even in the west. I can't really judge it too harshly because they didn't know which direction the culture (in another country no less) was going to move. When I started to transition, there was considerable resistance to the word "transgender", but within a few years it was the default. Life comes at you fast.

I see, I agree with you there <3

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