He-e-ey...

It looks like "Useless Princesses" has started a fad.

I totally approve. b( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡ -)d

Useless Princesses and Futari Monologue wink wonk ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡-)

AWE. SOME.

could use more of that vibe, omg yes

tucking it away in the read-when-stable pile so I don't depress myself, along with a mental note to avoid the comments b/c of course they're gonna be the usual salt about a tragic story. sigh.

DUN DUN DA DUN! again

but I wouldn't have it any other way ^_^

I'm a self-published author and for the most part I've only had two major dry spells writing privately -- one after a massive breakup and another really bad major life event happened nearly simultaneously, and another after the 2016 trainwreck (because I'm queer and run in queer circles), which happened about the time a loved one and a friend both died. (I'm still trying to recover from that one now.) :(

Sometimes "just do it" helps, or at least starts to prime the pump a bit. Sometimes it's just a waiting game and getting words while waiting can help.

Sometimes you can kind of sidestep it by writing about your own pain in fiction, and about characters who find their way through similar things. At least, it's kinda how it worked for me last time. (And reading more has helped for big and small dry spells, always, at least a little bit.)

I hope you find what you need. I don't know if I'm going to, but I'm trying, and I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!

somehow Mikage has no end to her weirdness

I can relate to this and wholeheartedly approve

this is adorable and I hope there's a bunch of it

pee is stored in the balls

I'm sorry, this is a gross misrepresentation

pee is balled in the stores

wh,

I think I've come to an idea which could work with this start, although I don't know if the mangaka is planning that (or even any other continuation)...

...but let's say for a moment that the opening lines aren't figurative at all.

The 'sister' is a literal supernatural creature, and the opening line is a massive mislead. Maybe she/they never call themselves a demon, maybe they do, but as the story goes on, it's made increasingly clear that they have powers -- including the ability to cause sexual attraction in humans.

That's the only continuation I could imagine -- and nearly literal demons torturing a mother and daughter would probably allow the needed escalation from the starting point.

I think it's highly informative that

A: I firmly agree this should have a rape tag

and

B: I subscribed immediately

this pushes awful buttons some of us do need pushed, but, um, yeah. someone saying no, with no sign of actual consent (which would make it role playing but still warrant the tag for the subject), that's called rape

even the idea that Thea tacitly consented to abuse while conscious doesn't negate sexual acts done to her body in her SLEEP

but sleep molestation for years from a fictional perspective, totally not for most people but why yes I'm in for more please

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psychologically this might almost warrant a "what the fuck am I reading" tag, first it's one evil sister then it's two, then it's sisters exposing her to mom, and then it's sisters instructed by mom to sabotage her sex life

and I'm not gonna lie, I'd read a continuation just to see if the author can keep pulling off this high wire act of an ever increasingly fucked up plot

but it wasn't good feels porn O_o

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I could imagine a whole retrospective series leading up to this point in the relationship interleaved with present moment developments in them trying to get a firmer explicit footing

maybe I just wanna read tons of screwed up stuff but unf

MOCHIIIIIIIIII

I TRUSTED YOUUUUUU

THAT CLIFFHANGERRRRRRRRR

this officially keeps pushing past my boundary of how weird I think it's going to get

and it's still working

I am impressed, I have to admit

it's been discontinued ;-;

crying forever

So perfectly set! The execution of this is exquisite, and the way it plays with the concept of age --

even the curse gets a happy ending

this is beautiful

I'm crying a little, this speaks to my sense of worthlessness I guess?

anyway

I really like it ^_^

why is everyone trying to find some deeper meaning in this?

Why not?

Nothing's ever actually simple in real life, why would people deprive themselves of the analysis of a story when they're in an area specifically for discussing that story?

Honestly, I'm not sure why people seem to be put off by the analysis. Perspective is interpretation in part, and if someone thinks it's simple, it seems like they wouldn't care if others didn't.

But I'm prone to analysis, and people are always upset that I never have simple answers for them, so maybe it's just one of those things I don't understand? :/

it's a Gödelian trick, and quite impressive IMO

their name is their lack of name

It very much seems as though Ms Gunj is dissociative

This. I agree, especially in the way Gunj's side of the narrative tends to be fractured and internalized.

I love that I provoked some thoughts on this, even if I'm kind of flailing a bit (and missing important details like the ring!)

heck, at this rate I might end up writing a version of this mental patient story someday :) sounds like the stuff I usually write

I completely missed the ring and that interpretation fits better

but

also makes me wonder if the "filled belly" isn't just metaphorically the roommate eating her feelings

but also she's pregnant with the fiancée's baby

so she dreams, some nights, of a love she's suppressing

and the MC is stoically watching it happen but accepting that she and the MC will never be -_-

I think this hangs it all together as a one shot

but if it is part of a larger story, if it DID go the psychiatric patient angle, then this would have to be something the MC figures out over time, maybe (tragedy seems to be on the menu here) after the roommate died in childbirth

which could STILL leave open the option of her current actual roommate in the mental hospital being a potential heart-mender

would be nice to see something good happen for a woman with such a wrecked mental state :(

Well isn't that interesting. I need a sequel

same here

this could go a lot of strange ways and a lot of them are dirty AF, and a bunch of the others are surreal AF

more pls

I'd love to see this as a complete hallucinatory breakdown fantasy she's trapped in, maybe from a wrecked upbringing and trying to have sex with another girl sent her totally mental and now the girl in the room with her is another patient

and the other patient is trying to draw her out despite her shitty family, help her come back to reality

(no this isn't about my home life why do you ask lol no but seriously it wasn't that horrible)

holy shit

okay, I have a take on this

her roomie is this sweet girl and the world tells us that sex is dirty

so when her roomie is moaning in the night, the POV character's psychological reconciliation is that there's "two" of them

the good one, the bad one

and in the morning there's just one

but she learns and grows up and tries "eating" one night

but fails at it (experience is key, it's easy to get discouraged, I did at first)

so it becomes a thing where she lets herself comfort the girl post orgasm, even if it's just in somewhat more innocent touching

like this COULD mean so much, it's really Lynch territory here

I'm finding the omission of the event personally relevant, as I've had sex while dissociative and it's a surprisingly accurate rendition of finding out what you did when you weren't, um, "in the room". At least, if I extrapolate to violent urges being acted out. (My issues skew differently.) Gunj has been resonating with me the whole time, and I think this sheds some light on why.

It took 22 fucking chapters to get to square 1.

Didn't skimp on the foreplay at all, nope. ;)

holy shit that escalated quickly O_o

molester gets arrested and slapped, sister gets kneed in the gut? is Mochi going violent?

...

fingers crossed ;) XD

kidding about that, but seriously that did escalate unexpectedly for me