I have a hard time picturing Hanamura saying "customer facing position".

Crossing the streams!

Mercy's lit up.

Surprised Silver got Red away from her PS2 long enough to fool around.

The part that makes you a pedantic moron is where you're arguing over the title and acting like you know everything when you're proving you don't. The difference between shoujo ai and yuri is that yuri exists while shoujo ai actually doesn't. What you refer to as shoujo ai falls under the actual term for yuri. The actual term "shoujo ai" is actually used in Japan to refer to something like yuri involving lolis or something along those lines. Whereas yuri is used the same exact way I explained it. Yuri is romance between two girls. Sex or a lack thereof is 100% irrelevant to the term.

Needs more "actual"/"actually".

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While your at it I keep hearing about this outside thing what's the deal with that.

It's the great big room with the bright light and the RILLY hi-rez graphics.

Okay, for you kids on the site:

A "phone booth" was a big, glass booth that used to be found on street corners in cities across the globe. Inside, there was an old-fashioned phone that was connected to the telephone network by a series of wires and cables. The handset was separate from the bit with the buttons. Most places in the U.S., they cost a quarter to use. But only for a local call. If you wanted to make a long-distance call, you might have to put in as much as two dollars worth of change.

This prehistoric history lesson has been brought to you by Dynasty's Resident Old Fart.

I am shocked and amazed that we have not yet mined out this rich vein of comedy. Truly, the gift that keeps on giving.

I have every confidence that it will be resolved to a happy ending for Mel and Lynn. After reading Lily Love and all of Pulse up to now, I can say that Ms. Satis is very good at crafting "soap opera melodrama". And that's meant as a compliment!

She needs to look into getting her stuff translated into Spanish, because Mexicans would absolutely love them. As director Guillermo del Toro said "I'm Mexican, so of course I love melodrama." The biggest soap opera viewing nation in the world, right there.

Soooo, is this a gay website?

I've been on gayer.

Ballroom Dancing on the TRON Lightcycle Game Grid...

I am commenting only to make the amount an even number because my OCD compels me to do so.

Why only THIS thread, though? Why not ALL the threads.

Can we just delete this trolling thread?

Your current Avatar goes so well with your post!

Somewhere out there, Ootomo Megane is all a-squee.

And before anyone gets angry at me. Calm down, I was making a joke.

We haven't gotten angry at the other half-a-dozen people who made the same joke. Why would we treat you any differently?

I don't know if it's still considered yuri if one of 'em's dead

This may answer that question for you. It has the Yuri tag.

To be honest, for me the "mental effort" is half the fun of shipping. I love figuring out how a couple actually gets together and coming up with plausible situations. That's why the off-fanon pairings are so interesting to me, I guess, since the fanon ones are such well-travelled ground. There are hundreds of NicoMaki fanfics, and easily as many NozoEli. But what about EliMaki? How would they get together and how would they relate to each other once they did? Is a shared love of idols sufficient for NicoPana, or do they need something more?

And, of course, there's the matter of NicoTori. Which is portrayed in lovely fashion here.

To me, putting in the mental effort pays off big time. We're at opposite ends of the scale, I suppose.

I didn't say that I don't enjoy putting in the mental effort, though. I simply pointed out that some ships require that effort and some ships don't, and I tend to prefer ships that flow more naturally according to what I see in the source material.

But "preferring one ship over another" isn't the same as "not liking any other ship but my OTP". I do like this NicoTori doujin, as stated earlier in the thread. There's also a very lovely MakiPana doujin on Dynasty which is among my favorites on the site. And like I say, I could (do pardon the implied pun here) whip up a Tsubasa x Umi story pretty easily.

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Oh shit, here I was about to say "Hey, why doesn't this have the yuri tag?" and then THAT happens. Whew! I don't know if it's still considered yuri if one of 'em's dead but, well, it's close enough for me.

Death is no longer the handicap it used to be.

Paging Reg Shoe to the white courtesy phone...

I tell ya, you know who would totally work for me as a crack ship? Tsubasa x Umi Because I'm pretty sure Tsubasa does roll Domme (and I woulda thought that even in the absence of Yamori Misaki's stuff). Put the two of them near the punchbowl at the Christmas party and I'd bet a fiver that Tsubasa's sonar would start pinging like a church bell.

While i do like nicomaki i think i'm the only one that prefers nicotori, kotonico...?, I still don't really understand why people (especially in LL) are fixed in just one ship, RARE ! give me more rare ships !

Speaking only for myself, it all depends on how much mental effort it takes for me to make sense of the pairing.

For me, the only ship from the anime that requires no mental effort on my part is Eli x Nozomi. I think there's a lot of stuff in the anime that easily lends itself to a romantic interpretation between the two of them.

You can't see HonoMaki, KotoUmi or NozoNico from the anime? Or for that matter, RinPana in all media?

I honestly can't see Maki being attracted to anybody. Even Nico. And I ship the fuck out of NicoMaki. But I got into NicoMaki long before I actually watched the anime, based on Honeymoon Baby and Pink Romance, both of which I adore. So that particular ship had well and truly sailed by the time I got around to watching the anime, and it ain't coming back.

I can see KotoUmi if I squint. Takes a little mental effort. Not a lot, but not zero. Umi just has "submissive" stamped all over her, and I don't think Kotori rolls Domme.

NozoNico works for me on a purely physical level, i.e. Nozo gropes the fuck out of Nico, Nico secretly enjoys it, goes back for more when nobody's looking, etc.

RinPana is pretty easy, I'll grant you. But they're like Katakami and Ooi in KanColle. I can easily see Hanayo having the hots for Rin, but Rin being just oblivious to it.

Honks and Tsubasa also fairly easy to ship, but again I have to supply some of the mental effort. Not a lot, but not zero.

The manga is pretty much in the tank for NicoMaki too, although the anime backs way off by comparison.

Yeah, that's what I'd heard. My only exposure to LL so far is the anime (and, of course, yuri doujjins and fan art).

But when it comes to finding common ground, interest, and opportunity, NicoTori actually isn't that hard with them working on costumes together and Nico's interest in Minalinsky that predates the series.

Yeah, but for me, "common ground" isn't enough to make the ship effortless. Hell, I've been shot down by lots of women with whom I had a lot in common.

That's not to say I can't or won't ship them.. But I do have to expend some mental energy to make them work, vs. other pairings (Eli x Nozomi, Saki x Nodoka, Beaver-dono x Prairie-chan) which don't require that.

But again, this is just me. Not trying to lay down some manifesto here. Just talking about how my particular brain works.

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Ah! Shoulda guessed. Standard KanColle "Ship girls reliving the WW2 experiences of their namesakes" drama.

Poor Hibiki.

I haven't even looked at the comic yet, but the tags are already killing me. Like, I'm trying to even imagine what kind of drama you could generate with wee lil' Hibiki and Inazuma.

Guess I'll find out in a sec. Here I go!

While i do like nicomaki i think i'm the only one that prefers nicotori, kotonico...?, I still don't really understand why people (especially in LL) are fixed in just one ship, RARE ! give me more rare ships !

Speaking only for myself, it all depends on how much mental effort it takes for me to make sense of the pairing.

For me, the only ship from the anime that requires no mental effort on my part is Eli x Nozomi. I think there's a lot of stuff in the anime that easily lends itself to a romantic interpretation between the two of them.

Kotori x Nico, on the other hand? Nothing in the anime suggests (to me, at least) that there's any attraction whatsoever between them. So that means that if I see them together, either I have to figure out why, or the author/artist has to explain it. That's why I like this doujin; the mangaka does all the heavy lifting for me.

Do the words "Johnny Come Lately" mean anything to you?

I enjoyed this to a worrying degree.

Mezashi has that effect. It's really alarming sometimes.