thank you based yuritamashi

you were just like me, livin’ so un-healthy,/

but who’s to judge, the right from wrong/

when our guard is down, I think we’ll both agree/

that viiiiii’lence breeds viiiii’lence./

but in the end, we get pu-ssy this waaaaay!

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They both have ikemen eyes.

Incredible.

This made me bluescreen, the premise of the, "haha, oh?" feeling you get around like, friends you're lowkey attracted to when things turn a certain way, going past that point of no return has me feeling really

Normal.

Do you think rape victims would actually be casually chatting with the rapist afterwards like that or something?

In a Kodama Naoko story, can I see someone having dead-eyed pillow talk with the person they just received emotionally violent sex from? Absolutely. It's a legitimate question of tone. Non-consensual sex doesn't just look one way. And this author loves depicting complex, painful emotions or relations between people.

@Ayahime0 I don’t blame you at all. They make an incredibly good pairing.

I can't believe I'm so invested in so few pages. This is potent stuff.

Reading this story made me think of that song "What Keeps Mankind Alive" (and I guess the Threepenny Opera in general): when you're well-fed and comfortable, you can afford qualms and morals that the starving and destitute cannot.

Ayaka is defined by her hard work in her attempts to better her material position. She's applying the same effort to finding a wealthy man as she is in school and in her actual job (her self-help dating guides are right next to her pile of economics textbooks). To her, the three things are all part of her goal of leaving poverty behind. But Mitsuki sees Ayaka openly using sex appeal for material gain, a bourgeois taboo, and judges her very harshly. She never even considers that Ayaka's situation might be different than her own, and certainly never tries to put herself in Ayaka's position and see things from her point of view.

Also, I think it's interesting that Ayaka decides to cut Mitsuki out of her life after spending the night at her house. She meets Mitsuki's doting mother, eats Mitsuki's delicious food, and sees Mitsuki's spacious and comfortable home, all the while comparing Mitsuki's good fortune to her own poverty. And then at the end of the night, Mitsuki rubs it in. Mitsuki isn't interested in guys because she doesn't have to be. She says she's just going along with Ayaka for fun. For Ayaka, it's not fun, it's work. Ayaka can't afford to be uninterested in guys. Going to these parties and forcing herself to get along with assholes so that she can find a rich man to marry is like a second job for her. I think Mitsuki's response here insults her, and perhaps this is when she realizes or begins to suspect Mitsuki's contempt for her.

Thanks, this really helped me understand what was going on in much greater depth. It's really telling that Mitsuki's opinion of Ayaka doesn't seem to change once she has context for what she's been doing. The last line really stings with that in mind.

It's interesting re-reading the story with that context. Ayaka seems to see their connection as something like partners in crime or co-conspirators, and she clearly has some standards for how she governs her pursuing of men. Mitsuki, meanwhile, doesn't understand this, and sees her as a friend with an attitude towards dating that she disdains. When Mitsuki disguises her affections by acting like someone who just thinks flirting is fun, it's like you say--it hurts Ayaka, and she pulls back. It makes me wonder how things would have gone if Mitsuki was honest that she did it because she wanted to spend time with Ayaka. I feel like that would have really changed the context of Ayaka learning definitively that she isn't serious about pursuing guys--like, she knows they're not in the same situation, but maybe they can be friends in different places supporting each other. It's cool to see someone being dishonest about their feelings punished this harshly in a manga.

One part I still don't get though is what happened in that whole scene after the big reveal. What does she mean by, "so that's the kind of girl you are"? Is Ayaka blushing because Mitsuki is turning her on, or is she ashamed because she's being pushed to present information she doesn't want to in an effort to protect herself? Is this kind of a complex cute moment between them, or like hella non-con?

The art style is really unusual and charming. I like it a lot.

Sceptile posted:

Alright are y'all gonna fuck or nahh? Because this shit is so fucking boring to me. Either you fuck or you dont but this shit is not remotely interesting to anyone who isnt a virgin. Git gud or peace out imo. No one here to listen to you talk in great detail about how you're a pedophile. If you're gonna fuck someone then shut the fuck up and do it

I think you understand jack shit about what that manga is about.

It's about their relationship, not about whether they'll fuck or not.

I sort of agree? And I definitely don't vibe with the tone of the first comment but I think this part

Alright are y'all gonna fuck or nahh?

is a totally legitimate question. With that most recent chapter and the similar content, I think we've got an Author Appeal sort of situation going here. It feels like it was written primarily because this kind of thing (dominant underage girl sadist and adult woman masochist) is the author's fetish, and while there is a relationship thing going on and each chapter nudges its development a bit, there's a pretty heavy emphasis on the kinky action. I wouldn't say the plot is a throwaway to the degree of a porn plot, but it's definitely not the same kind of story as, say, "Are Your Feelings Connected by Yuri SM," which explores a relationship and the attitudes of its characters through kink--it doesn't really get into the characters' internality or present the situations with much versimilitude, with the exception of maybe the first chapter, and I would say the SM scenes are presented more as examples of a variety of different kinds of play to revel in the dynamic and show some "hot not-quite-sex" than anything else. So I can see where the, "are they gonna fuck" comes from--it feels like the story is in this weird limbo space where it doesn't allow itself to just be porn and shoot for the most satisfying scenes possible, while on the other hand the plot element of it doesn't have enough meat to hold on to for that to be satisfying in and of itself and the scenes are just not leaning into their emotions. It's sort of frustrating, actually, because a lot of the kinky stuff is pretty interesting and very detailed, and the character expressions showing sadism and masochism are pretty incredible, but the scenes themself stick to pretty much the same emotional beats and don't feel like they cross much into new territory. It's a little like music that's just mezzo-forte or forte the whole time, and has several individually good themes that don't develop or interact much.

For example, this page feels like it should be the moment where shit goes down--Kanade fully opens her heart and body to embrace Yuzuki's affection, and turns into a messy ball of subbiness and we see new heights of eroticism or a new dimension to their relationship take shape or their emotions become connected as they realize what their relationship has become... but we get this, and we get the same kind of thing pretty much every chapter. And their relationship doesn't really shift that much after this. It's just... not really all that emotionally satisfying, for such a supposedly intimate act. It seems like the story kind of wants to stay in the plausible deniability, "oh, we're just doing this (really really hot) stuff and its, haha, totally normal, noooo big deal, it doesn't mean anything... right?" kind of space, but the scenes themselves don't interact with or play with this idea emotionally except at the most nominal level. Like most of the supposedly overarching context in the story, in practice it's just something for Kanade to mention while the author shows her getting messed up by her underage dom in the same way with a new kind of play in their latest self-contained scene.

Ah, I love them. This is my favorite dynamic. I hope the not-so-scary scary lady gets some healing. The drama is nice, and that dancing scene was spectacular, but now I mostly want to see them be soft together and open up. Loving this story.

I really liked that the story had the guts to show this kind of thing. It really do be like that sometimes, as they say.

My favorite bi disaster. We love a good Musashi in this household.

SAD, y’all are truly the best, the little details of this translation add so much. It’s lovely.

Super uncomfortable vibes from Kiku. It might be too early to tell, and this could just be a setup that she's good at knowing what Sena wants/needs, and is pushing past her defenses to give her things she needs. But right now it feels a lot like she's not respecting Sena's autonomy and boundaries. It really feels like she's putting something on her, and giving her a role of some sort in her own life, which is a terrible thing to do to someone in as vulnerable a state as Sena is right now.

Again, we don't know any of that right now for sure. But it would be interesting to something that wildly unhealthy play out.

We still haven’t seen enough of Sulfur and Magenta. What’s their deal? Azul is a complete masochist, but where do they end up? I feel like Sulphur’s being set up that she’s constantly looking for a fight and needs to tire herself out—maybe she’s a brat? And Magenta I just have no idea. It seems like it’s something different with her every time. But hopefully next chapter we get to see some of it!

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^^LETS GO LESBIANS

Hinoka: I am in love with my best friend since childhood, and we are dating. Sometimes she says strange things though.

Tsukishi: fuck, how do i ask her out?? does she even like girls??

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You can do it Take!

Oh, hell yeah.

text lol
This is why I love Dynasty

Tags being used in the most absolute literal sense is one of my favorite running gags on this site.

Not Lizard vibes

MRW

This is so fucking cute, Nakatani Nio herself drew VTubers reading her yuri book???????
I feel like I'm seeing something grand and ever-distant beyond the horizon of the earth I knew.

Asumi-chan is so fucking cute I can see why she’s basically lesbian catnip. And how has her friend not just lost control and tried to seduce her?? Like, she’s made subtle passes at her a couple times, but she hasn’t turned on the charm offensive to get with her and has sort of respected her search. Talk about willpower.

“Are you two dating or friends?”

“Dating!”
“Friends.”

“…friends?”
“Dating!!”

-the vibes

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