Hm, on the topic of safe sex between girls, this is something I've been thinking about for a while. In real life, the only time any girl has ever brought up safety has been regarding condoms on toys being used by multiple people without washing inbetween. I've genuinely neither met nor slept with a single girl that's ever used (or asked to use) dental dams, gloves, or cots.

And yet, it seems every other girl I speak to online is insistent that these should be used like all the time.

Which leads me to consider a couple different conclusions. Either online lesbian/bi/etc forums just have a large oversampling of girls that are very very pro-safe sex, or I've just so happened to never meet one IRL despite there being so many around, or people like to pretend to be super safe and responsible online but actually don't care when it comes down to it IRL.

It's another case of "do as I say, not as I do".

BTW. I don't get lesbians' urge to wanting children, so I'm also baffled how often they want to have children in either fiction or real life ;x (yes I don't actually want to have kids)

Desire to have children is pretty present in a lot of women and I'm sure not all of it is cultural and/or environmental.

One would assume it would be a pretty vital thing evolution wise.

It was in fact the very same morning. Which means, of course, that she let me know in a timely manner, she just didn't want me involved in any way. But there were other people that she was letting in (metaphorically), so to me at that time, it felt like it was just me being shut out.

That sounds pretty bad. My friend felt the same once upon a time, felt upset that I didn't want to talk about it with him initially. It sorted itself though.

But that's all actually beside the point. I just wanted to point out how much it hurts to be shut out by someone you thought you were close to, and the fact that it makes you believe that you weren't so close after all. And I'm sure No-Rae had thought she was very close to Sung Pyo.

I freely admit that I've really only been thinking about No-Rae in this situation and not Sung Pyo (who, after all, is also hurting a lot). Does that make me heartless?

Empathize with her for being in a situation you were once in? Plus we've had no time for to be involved emotionally with Sung Pyo, he's pretty recent. It's kind of "who dis guy is?"

Some time back, a friend of mine was close friends with a married couple; she was actually living with them at that time. (I'm absolutely sure she wasn't involved with either.) Then tragedy struck and the wife died in her sleep. I went to see my friend to offer her my condolences and any support I could and... She completely shut me out. She wouldn't tell me anything of what she was feeling or let me offer any kind of support. She all but chased me out.

Let me tell you vexed is not the word. THAT HURT! I had thought I was close to her and it hurt like hell. Had we been lovers it would have been a huge step toward breaking my trust in her and definitely driven us toward breakup. (Not that the damage couldn't be repaired if it's addressed quickly, but was it?)

I can sympathize. How close was this to the death?

I always deal with grief the same way, I will ignore everyone for 1-2 weeks and then I emerge from my shell and feel good enough to deal with people. I've hurt a person in the past as well and so from that point on I've been pretty good about telling people that they should try not to be hurt if I do this and I ask them to respect my grieving process. I hadn't had a problem ever since.

In last episode their uniforms seemed to have magical power to shrink breasts a little, since once girls opened their shirts, their breasts got bigger, but they try to go for realism with Akira and that bra and then throw it out the window x3"

It's pretty much a trope that all cross dressing girls must have giant breasts. I think it's a way to say "but look she has HUGE breasts, see how she is actually very feminine ( because the size of a woman's breasts is a gauge of how feminine she is >_>).

Sort of a "It was me all along, Diana!"

Somebody did that to me.

An absolute monster.

Besides the reason why they broke up, another fact in this chapter struck me too. In the end she says "A crack in his feelings and mine"
So I guess this is the story of how she fell out of love with him in the end? I guess Ssamba is trying to say how even if some people can start off great, something might happen and drift them apart. At least this is how I see it.
Also the fact that Seol-A and No-Rae have already gone through a crisis in their friendship and didn't drift apart. Of course it's different because it's a friendship, but they still got to see the ugly side of each other anyway

She was a bit vexed that he did not wish to share with her his feelings. Once you start putting barriers between your partner on what you can or can't share is where the danger happens, the falling off.

Defense mechanisms are tricky, they can turn against you if you abuse them. If you always close yourself in periods of stress you risk alienating those who desperately want and like to help support and they might turn bitter over the fact you do not "trust" them enough.

But considering how she says in the beginning how she felt "betrayed" in the end strongly suggests this is just the beginning of him avoiding her in some ways.

Might as well remove it then. From every story

There's another reason why I think it should not be tagged. Clearly here we were led to believe the bathroom scene did happen. It's a oneshot with a "twist". I think spoiling that twist is going against what the authour intended. It's a very important piece of the oneshot that would be lost if spoiled.

A few days ago I read a "horror" oneshot story where a boy goes to a house where there's this white lady that no one goes tomher house because haunted. In the end The boy did not die

Another example is like spoiling the sixth sense to someone who's about to watch it, you just don't do that.

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I don't think the tag is that important to warrant spoiling the story.

I don't think you really "decide" to enlist in South Korea? I think young men have to.

I think he meant that he picked a particular time for it. I don't know how it works in SK but I know countries where militiary service is obligatory you have some wiggle room like 19-22.

You can pick which year to start your service.

That cover page!

Im disappointed in this new winter season of anime. All the shows that have come up are either Harem, ecchi or shounen.

So like every other season?

I just want a deep and dark anime and that has interesting story and characters. Is that too much to ask?

Yes.

Donut for everyone!

Now there's an idea I can get behind!

I've yet to see a true 3P that isn't some ecchi/hentai thing.
At least, nothing comes to mind.

The only one I can think of on the top of my head : https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=2659

check this picture :P

Fuuuuuuu-

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All I can say to this person is that I do not feel this strongly as to exert the time to answer his arguments I hope he does not judge me too strongly for this.
As for that T matter, unfortunately I am not a staff member and cannot be part of any meaningful decision.

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No, it was never funny. Well, I guess in a sad kind of way.

No it wasn't. Autism in it's many forms is never funny.

http://bato.to/comic/_/comics/paradise-residence-r583

Not really yuri, but the ship between the two MCs is obvious.

Considering the author good luck on any type of relationship... Maybe after 20 years, there's a chance... Oh wait- nevermind false alarm.

Japanese have a thing for bathrooms and what happens in them.

I think it's more that bathrooms are just outside the train station. They could go somewhere else but that would be time consuming.

I'm not buying it, from the reviews and the stream leaks I saw what I feared when this was first announced.

It's FO3 with none of it's problem fixed with an additional 8 years of development.
I'm sure it will sell well

yesnal namjachinguya (old male friend)

really no-rae, reaaaalllyyy?

It's always the default to not talk about previous relationships to a new partner. Only talk about them if they ask you. Safer this way folks!

Every single time folks, like clockwork.

R.I.P.

Just one thing though...

Matsuki had announced in July that she would be taking a break from her work to focus on treating her pneumonia. She said at the time that she had a fever since the start of the year that wouldn't recede, and then found out she had acute pneumonia after repeatedly going to the hospital for check-ups.

I don't even... How was this allowed to go this far? I guess she died of The fabled Japanese overwork syndrome. While the cause of death was ultimately caused by worsening of her pneumonia, the real killer is the fact she continued working with continuous high fever ( for months! ) and also doctors took multiple time to get a diagnostic on a pneumonia.

All around this was an easily avoidable death and that makes it doubly painful.
Just this summer I caught a cold which evolved into a lung infection, when the fever didn't go down after a bit more than a week it was straight to the clinic and antibiotic galore. It took a bit more than 2 weeks for symptoms to be completly cleared out. I can't imagine just trucking along with an ilness of this nature.

Please when you're sick... Don't just ignore it, health should ALWAYS be your top priority.

Dear Diary, today was a good day : http://www.gamespot.com/articles/pillars-of-eternity-publisher-acquires-vampire-the/1100-6431821

Finally CCP has let go. Saw this on /v/, I was so sure it was a fake link ar first.

BASED Paradox

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All right, all right. We've already had a pointless scuffle over clichés over in the Fluttering Feelings discussion, we don't need it here as well. Go read TV Tropes instead, lots of them over there.

Darn it!

See the difference?

I do, believe me. That doesn't change the fact that the man has a bad habit. Which was, what I was talking about in the first place.

I don't think you're using trivial in its correct context...it means "something of so little importance that it's deemed as unremarkable or commonplace". Not just "something that is common".

I think I'm using correctly? The reason why car accidents are considered cliché is because they happen so often as a plot device, by appearing often they become unremarkable. They become trivial. The reader(s) no longer feel anything after so many. But I think nitpicking over a word this long might be a bit too tryhard me, this isn't important.

No. History time? The term cliché was coined when there was an influx of cheap/barely different from one another stories because pressing paper with "new" revolutionary machines happened.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cliche
Cliches referred to commonly used phrases/words that printers used, not stories.

Yes, but the term evolved over time to include what we call "cliché situations". Which included certain cliché scenarios in romance stories, but romance itself is not. This is what I was getting at.

Following your logic from the car example, everything and anything is cliche. Any object can be rendered obsolete in the future. You might as well be saying clothes, traffic lights, roads, paintings, etc. are cliche because there's a possibility that we won't use them in the future.

I realize this wasn't clear because it was in a sentence on it's own but that was what I meant.

This wasn't my logic at all. A car isn't a cliché, the cliché is a car getting in an accident to cause some sort of reaction to the readers and/or to a character in order to advance the plot. Clothes, or a shirt aren't cliché, but using them a certain way for plot purposes could be. A streetlight or a bunch of them going off in the dead of the night in a deserted part of town while a character happens to be walking. Again, the objects themselves are not clichés but using them in the plot a certain way is.

Explain? How so???? So if a story doesn't contain cliches, and it's super original, it must be good? Uh...okay......sounds fake...but...okay........

This is my mistake entirely, I must admit I saw red ( heheheh I used a cliché ) at the end of the post and read something entirely.

I agree with what you've said previously, but that's not related with how clichés are bad. Bad stories can be bad for different reasons, one doesn't stop another.

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I feel like we're sort of talking over eachother at this point. A lot of our discussion is based on us being on differing sides when it comes to clichés being bad themselves.

Since it looks like neither of us will convince the other, we can agree to disagree?

I still hope you can understand why comments like these set me off :

Especially after another comment telling me I should ask Nya-chan for help. Saying someone should ask for help in a debate is not very kind

Holy crap the length some ppl will go to claim that some event is "cliche" lmao

Tryharding IS how far a person is willing to go achieve something. I realize now this wasn't what you meant.

That's the beauty of language I guess, one person writes something and people find it means multiple things.

P.S. I want to apologize, even if I felt like some of the your comments not appropriate I should not lashed like I did. Just like the man and the toilet I have my own faults, I should've controlled my anger.

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Feel it, guys

I feel it =P

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