^^is she? I always felt she was pretty powerful. She's got a lot of utility with her beast taming thing. I think who's the worst to have on your team generally depends on who the other characters you're using are.

All of this was great, but the first couple was definitely my favorite. Especially this part.

@20Judgement Yeah, it's too big to be an iPod Nana.

Oh, I didn't mean for that to sound like I was calling someone out or anything like that. I really did mean it as a sort of PSA because not everyone knows about it. I apologize for being unclear.

edit: also I just noticed the fuzzy handcuffs. I feel like that was probably Aki's idea. She just strikes me as the open-minded sort.

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Friendly reminder: "Visual novel" is not synonymous with "choose your own adventure". There are as many of them with choices as there are without. Visual novels without choices are sometimes referred to as "kinetic novels".

Many of my favorite visual novels are actually kinetic. Kindred Spirits is, for the most part, a kinetic novel. It has a handful of dialogue choices scattered throughout, but the story will be the same regardless of how you answer them.

last edited at Jun 29, 2019 12:37AM

Dia x Spaghetti

DreamSyndd has a speedpaint video of this on youtube, for anyone interested
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y54-el423JA

Happiness is remembering how many breads you have eaten in your life.
-Honoka, probably.

edit: https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/the_bell_of_happiness_is_tolling#20

I see Rin, Hanayo and Nico here for sure. Eli and Nozomi might be behind them, judging by their hairstyles. They could also be the two standing next to each other in the foreground, just judging by the colors used for their hair. I'm not so sure about Maki, there's nobody there who has anything particularly Maki-like, so my guess is either the one in the back with their hand in the air or the third person in the foreground, on the left side of the panel. The members of the Arise could be there too, there's enough people in the frame, but I'm not gonna bother with them.

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I think this might actually be satire, or perhaps I'm just hoping it is. Either way, the author is shining a light on a very real problem. There's real people who do the exact things that were done to the the members of Muse in this. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if something like this raffle ended up happening some day. The idol industry exploits young girls on a mass scale. And that thing about Eli being dragged through the mud for swearing? That's real, very real. It happens for all kinds of actions that idol otaku deem improper.

The idol industry is a toxic wasteland of exploitation. They're child stars like Justin Bieber, and everyone knows that never ends well. There's a difference though, idols are actively marketed to adults, not just children. And it's done with a warped, fetishistic sex appeal of their "purity".

There are so-called "fans" that come together on imageboards like 2chan to monitor idols on christmas, to make sure they don't go anywhere with a man. Idols belong to everyone but the idol themselves. They aren't allowed to have their own lives because it might just shut the otaku out of it. They have to deal with TMZ-like problems even from the people who claim to support them. Everyone is the paparazzi, and all it takes to ruin someone's life is an outrageous lie.

I want to make clear that I don't think any of you are like this. Not at all. This rant is about otaku in places like 2chan. Even among them I'm sure there are normal folks. But this is a real problem that needs to be made seen and heard and known about, and I think this author may have been doing just that.

Sorry for the long rant.

it still wasnt funny

satire doesn't have to make you laugh.

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B)

Well she was a bitch

Wow, that was uncalled for.

Looks like Junko's about to be...

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Pure Furious.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!

Frankly it's kind of amazing how little Rabi-Ribi stuff is out there. I'd certainly be glad if people caught on to it.

Of course Kirby is there. Kirby is always there.

I don't know exactly why this is, but it's true.

The notion that dark Pit is just Pit's emo brother is hilarious.
Also I guess this explains why Joker wears glasses, poor eyesight runs in the family. Either that or looking good in glasses does.
(Also I finally finished Persona 5 yesterday! What a great game.)

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A very smol Rin sitting in someone's lap like a cat is very good.
Alternate post: A cat is fine too.

I can feel it in my bones, this is gonna be good. Thanks Stan.

^^So you're saying that a switch having been flipped has made her realize that she enjoys being flipped because she's a switch?

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Your avatar matches this post perfectly and I love it.

In my head Tadakoro's mom has a really spooky voice when her hair is down and a really pretty voice when she ties it back.
edit: Bonus idea: When her hair is down she's good at everything. When her hair is up she's completely incompetent (which is why her cooking was inedible here).

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That's a whole lot of yaoi shipping for some boys that only appeared on two pages... in a yuri manga.
Let Mio-kun grow up to make up his own mind about what he likes.

Everyone must be shipped. It's the law.

I had no idea we had a thread about fanfcition. I've got plenty of recommendations though, ranging from "kinda trashy but still fun" to "better than the source material".

The first fic I'll start with is a little bit of both. Monster Yurisume is an M rated yuri story leaning more towards the ecchi side of things than the smutty side.

In case you're not familiar with the source material, Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou, it takes place in a world that recently discovered the presence of monster-people (harpies, lamia, gargoyles, kobolds, etc.) and there's an on-going effort to help the monster-people integrate into human society, including a home-stay program. Of course that's just the premise to set up why there's a bunch of hot monster girls living in one person's house... but you probably already figured that out. Mind you, this fanfiction might be moderately more enjoyable if you've read some of the source material, as there's some references to it, but you'd be able to read this as a stand-alone story if you like.

Now, as for the fic itself, It's honestly much better than the source material, and I actually enjoy Monster Musume a lot (because I'm a garbage-person and it's the only harem manga I've read that manages to actually be fun trash instead of just cringey trash.)

The author makes occasional use of images and characters from the now-defunct browser game, as well as some images they commissioned to use in the story.

It starts out a bit rough but if you don't go into it expecting too much, which I didn't considering it's a fanfic for a harem manga, it might very well surprise you. It's complete at 156 chapters, and they're not little chapters. There is quite a lot to read here. Unlike its source material it isn't a harem story. There's lots of characters but they get together with different people.

It's mostly yuri, as all the main characters' relationships are with another girl. There's a lot of characters outside of the main cast though, and they have various kinds of relationships, including but not limited to het. If you're not cool with that then you'll have to either deal with it coming up sometimes or give this fic a pass.

Surprisingly, characters go through actual, meaningful growth as time goes on, and I found myself becoming quite fond of them all. It's organized in arcs like you'd find in a manga or anime, and at its core it's a rom-com with a pinch of drama on the side.

All-in-all I highly recommend it if you're in the mood for some light-hearted fun.

... Now then, if you're in the mood for something a lot less light-hearted and a lot more dramatic, I'd point you in the direction of Deluge, a fanfiction of Castelvania: Order of Ecclesia. I'm going to give this fanfic a trigger warning, because there's a lot of violence, including abuse. I mean it when I say this is a lot less light-hearted.

For this one you're almost certainly going to want to know the source, as it takes place immediately after the game's story ends and references characters and events from the game that would mean very little to someone unfamiliar with the Castlevania series, and especially Order of Ecclesia. For what it's worth, I would recommend playing the game regardless of whether you want to read this story or not as it's my second favorite Castlevania after Symphony of the Night. It's a DS title, and I'm sure you'd probably be able to find a copy somewhere online. There's probably a zillion of them between amazon and ebay.

Mind you, this story is incomplete, and has been for.... many years. It's still being worked on, the author wants to re-write some of it, but it's not gonna be done for a while. Real life stuff has a way of making that sort of thing difficult, I suppose. I don't expect this one to finish any time soon. Still, I loved it back when I first read it like... 10 years ago or something, and was pleasantly surprised to see it again when I started browsing AO3 instead of FF.net.

For our next story, I've got something I learned about here on dynasty and has probably already been mentioned in this thread. breathe it in and we can fly is a Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight fanfic. It's a one-shot coffee shop AU, and there's a short comic about it made by Ticcy. There's not much more to say about it.

And now for our final fanfic (for now)... Fairysitting is a Touhou one-shot. TL;DR Junko takes care of Clownpiece for a day. It's not particularly fluffy.

There isn't enough HecaJun in this world. There needs to be more. Lots and lots more.

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^^It'd happen even if we only saw her face in a still image. People don't need much to get... "inspired."

Isn't Emoji-chan usually the one saying "gross"? I don't read the mango so I'm not terribly familiar with all of that.
edit: is the "weren't you also calling her gross" referring to Emoji-chan calling Kuroki gross? I guess that would make more sense. I originally read it as "weren't you also calling her gross" (as in, you weren't just calling her drawing gross, you were also calling kuroki gross).

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^^Raiko is the extra stage boss from the 14th Touhou game, Double Dealing Character. She was a taiko drum who was empowered by the Miracle Mallet to become a tsukomogami (as were various other objects). Before losing the power of the Miracle Mallet she bound her soul to a drum kit from the outside world to keep her free will... somehow.

I guess wanting a "brutish girl" might be because as a drum she enjoyed being... um... hit.

edit: I believe the other two here are Tojiko, from Ten Desires, and... I'm not sure about the other one.
edit2: the other one is Iku Nagae who I'm not very familiar with. Apparently she's from Scarlet Weather Rhapsody.

last edited at Jun 11, 2019 4:53PM

Hazuki x Sapphire? More like Hazuki x Sappho.