I really hope Marisa can get back in the air. Have a feeling it's not going to though sadly enough with this recent chapter. Surprised Alice isn't in this one with her dolls acting as a way for Marisa to get ingredients considering her limited mobility and need for stuff in the forest

m_nguyen_chau posted:

Zero interest in sexual acts. We can still have sex, we just don’t have desire for it.

I try hard to dig deep into how you can enjoys someting yet not have any desire for it, without being on the puritans side.

They said "have" not "enjoy". Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you enjoy it. Imagine eating a food that you are neutral for. You don't particularity love or even like it, but it's not like you hate or dislike it either. You're fully capable of eating it and filling your stomach with it, but you don't necessary enjoy eating it.

And that wouldn't feel empty/lonely for a non-ace partner?

Why would it? If the non ace person was indeed supportive, then not having sex wouldn't matter to them, unless they view the relationship as something that will eventually lead to sex. I know I'm not qualified to talk about the ace side of the equation, so this is just purely from an outsiders perspective as someone who has a hard time figuring out what's romantic and platonic.

Great series, I hope the author writes some more adult life stuff. These two are such a mood in their interactions and just overall vibes.

Anyways hot take I think this is better than bloom into you, partly because it actually stuck the landing that was set up earlier on. It's also great to see representation of romantic relationships that explicitly do not equate to it being a thing that only exists as a thing that must involve sex. I don't think there's many pieces of fiction out there that even consider that a possibility or give it light, which is the other reason why I find it better than bloom into you and it's cheap ass ending.

Love, love never changes
Ahem, SuwaKana spoiling each other is always cute to see

“Love. Love never changes.
The shipping wars occurred pretty much as we had predicted. Too many love interests, not enough characters or polycules to go around. The details are trivial and pointless, the reasons, as always, purely human ones.”

I really wish Okuu was able to raise the child. She’s such a sweet mom in this. Does make me also want to see a comedy where Okuu and Orin raise a child

This is such a cute story. Ending scene really reminds me of the Tears in Rain sequence from Bladerunner…

Marisa can also be read to be a trans fem. She actively avoids her family and refuses to even entertain the idea of doing anything with them again. As a result I choose to believe it’s because she came out and was rejected, so she leaves. This is for no reason other than she’s a gay witch living in the woods which is the dream of any trans fem.

Okay. Here we go.
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Wow, that was a lot. Hopefully it makes sense. I really only understood it because I already heard another explanation on a different forum. Thanks, Shadowjack, wherever you are.

This is actually a really clever way to keep causality.

Don’t mess with time people! The universe will always fix your mistakes but not in the ways you want it to!