Was this chapter praise kink? I think this one was praise kink. Hoo boy, that’s some powerful sauce.

It’s so awesome to see a yuri manga with a complex relationship between realistic, human adults. Don’t get me wrong, the cutesy stuff is really nice, but I feel that one of the big challenges for lesbians (and queer people in general), especially in places like Japan where being open is neither accepted nor common, is the lack of realistic representation of what one’s experiences might be like. I remember reading an article a while back proposing that one of the great burdens homophobia and heteronormative society places on queer people is preventing us from openly exploring romance and our sexualities the way straight people are encouraged to, thereby denying us an important chance to learn how to establish and maintain healthy relationships, and I believe the lack of accessible, realistic queer media compounds that problem. One of the valuable things about media of all types is that it allows us to learn from others’ experience or provides a scaffolding for counterfactual thinking, giving us the opportunity to have low-risk, low-cost experiences for ourselves that help prepare us for the future, or ready us for nuances of life that are difficult to pick up on one’s own; with that in mind, the ability to read about or see romantic relationships between people like you is crucial to help the romantic and sexual development of queer people at any age, even more so when we don’t have ready opportunity to experience things for ourselves or talk to others like us. Thus, I think this work is not only excellent and interesting on the level of an artistic pursuit (which of course has its own value, but there’s been lots of discussion about that), I also think it has a real value in terms of human well-being, too; this kind of work, which explores the positives and negatives of a specific lesbian relationship in a concrete way (that is, the scenario isn’t abstract “anime bullshit” that represents a cool idea, but is rather a depiction of the human condition), meets an important and rarely-fulfilled need for realistic representation, and seeing that kind of thing really gives me hope. I’m really grateful for what tmfly is doing here, and I can’t wait to see where the story leads!

I can’t help but read the narration in the Jojo narrator voice

Wait, this manga is basically gay komi-san. I'm hype.

I could hear the jotaro theme in my head during this whole thing.

Nikaidou: [crosses the entire school and appears around the corner behind them in like 3 seconds] "Nikaidou-san... doesn't lie for her own sake"

[In the background: A-YA-YA-YA-YYYYY! Bass drops]

Bully: "Nikaidou-san! M-Masaka?!"

Nikaidou: [poses menacingly]

"Kirigaya-san. I see that you made Tadokoro-san tell a lie."

I really like this, it simultaneously explores the pain and tension of being a lesbian in an environment of female friends, but also has the cute fluff at the end to unknot that tension.

Small brain: use your fingers to fuck her, so cut your nails

Big brain: use your mouth exclusively, and rake those fingernails down her back

This is definitely not part of God’s plan

Yeah, this definitely wasn't okay. I mean yeah, call out the girls' school trope, but the whole middle thing can't really be interpreted any other way than attempted rape, and it's way out of left field in an interest-breaking way.

Profoundly bad.

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I think the author’s note at the end was actually cuter than the rest of the book (tho it was good).

Her lance is really fucking short and it is distracting me from the gay. I say unclean.

Wow, so Riko felt so guilty about not telling Yoshiko her secret that she made a fantasy scenario about telling her and being accepted despite it to let out the repressed emotional pressure. This was definitely really cute and hot as fuck, but that's really sad.

Tid.

Can I just say that this chapter (9) really elevated this manga in my eyes? Not only did the author dodge the possible "multiple chapters of them not having a heart-to-heart about what happened" trope and instead allowed the characters to explain their emotions (as well as they understand them--the poor baby gays) to each other, they also took a critical step of spelling out that the connection characters' motivations really extend beyond trying to look cute. To this point, the manga has seemed to put a lot of emphasis on the importance of what a person looks like, which might seem shallow and unworthy of writing about (to say nothing of the potential harm such a piece could cause given all the fucked up social standards we have around beauty); however, what Kurokawa says in her little outburst made it clear to me that the author knows better, that the characters' preoccupation with beauty belonged to them and was not the author's position on the issue, and that the real point of their efforts to improve their appearance was to become stronger, more confident, and closer to each other--and in those things lies the value of the search for beauty.

I'm really looking forward to where this manga goes from here: I no longer have a firm sense of what quality level of authorship we're looking at here, and I hope I'll continue to be happily surprised as it progresses.

MONEEEEYYY, HERE COMES THE MONEY!

Wow this is unbelievably good,

Flowchart Mochi

The story is unbelievably mediocre, the eight characters’ stories happen completely independent of each other with zero interaction despite them traveling together, and the four per structure of each character’s story just means the momentum is killed every time by having to spend 10 hours doing other stories. The dialogue rarely ascends above trite, and gets very, very bad at times.

The gameplay mechanics are innovative, intricate, and amazingly well-designed, the graphics are interesting, and the music is really good. Not a game to play for plot, but solid everywhere else.

I love how I could tell this was mochi just by the name of the story.

@PureShipper I mean that’s kind of the goal when you’re going down on a woman, so sounds to me like the analogy still works.

Delet this nephew

@Throbelisk she’s talking about eating pussy for 20 minutes straight without stopping to breathe.

cries in trans

The classmate is like 10000% an egg too.

I’m really just here for Effie’s sculpted back & arms.