Wow, first time in a while that I've come across a homophobic "psycho lesbian" archetype in the wild like this. I judge the author hard for how two dimensionally awful they wrote Bko. She's a character straight (heh) out of one of those cheap paperback lesbian-sploitation erotic novels from the 1970s. A good wholesome girl gets baited and/or coerced into getting trapped by an evil psycho lesbian and it's saved by a nice wholesome Christian man who's definitely not abusive or controlling, unlike those mean lesbians! This author has of course innovated on this formula by replacing the hero with a legal loli. ...yay, I guess.

You are working really hard to twist this into something that it is not. The "psycho lesbian" is a secondary character whose main purpose is to bring into focus Big Imari's insecurities and she is given sufficient characterisation to accomplish this. She is a possessive, jealous abuser who preys upon her love interest's social anxiety, and is a fairly realistic depiction of how such people operate, by isolating and controlling their object of obsession. This is only "homophobic" if you think women are incapable of such things. The work is clearly tagged with Abuse and there is no Het tag, so it should have been obvious that the abuser would be a woman. The author could have added more characterisation to Rika, but to what end? This was not a story about her. For the role she had in this, she was sufficiently fleshed out.

The "good wholesome girl" is a bundle of social anxiety whose first instinct when things get tough is to run away in order not to cause trouble for anyone, and the "nice wholesome Christian man" (the levels of projection are off the charts here) is a messed up woman who resorts to self-harm in order to supress negative feelings. This is a story of two damaged individuals finding love and in the process helping one another with their respective issues. None of it fits into your cartoonish parody of a description. "Legal loli" is also laughable. Small Imari is short and likes cute clothes, which is not a "loli". Neither her face nor her facial expressions are in any way drawn to look more childish in comparison to other characters. Again, you are obviously having some sort of a knee-jerk reaction here and are projecting hard.

"This author has of course innovated on this formula by" not actually doing anything remotely similar to said formula. Your entire premise falls apart when one considers that all three characters here are women, but by all means, let us try to force a square peg into a round hole.

As a side note, the woman Big Imari was in love with in her old company was also somewhat similar to Small Imari, in that she was short and had light hair. Big Imari clearly has a weakness for shorter women~

Hello how can I change my account name?

There is no way for you to change it yourself, you have to get the staff to do it for you. They are accommodating regarding such issues, it will not be a problem, you just need to wait until they spot your comment.

Well this makes everything much more clear through implication. And I'm starting to get an image of why Mu Xiaoen has such unhappy feelings associated with her little brother, since it seems very likely now that he's her bio brother, grew up with their bio parents, and likely suffered in the way she would have had her real parents not adopted her away from that family. This would also explain why he's clingy and desperate for affection to both her and her parents.
Dunno yet what sort of darkness exists in Xiaoyang's parents that led to this situation. They seem to have money, so it's unlikely to be severe poverty or something individually debilitating. There's a number of very dark turns the author could take in this arc but hopefully we focus more on Xiaoyang and Xiaoen reconciling instead of detailing his suffering too much. That kid feels like he needs it.

We do not yet know enough about his family, or even whether he and Xiaoen are biologically related (as Kat pointed out, the form of address itself does not necessarily mean familial relation). However, as pure speculation, if Xiaoyang's parents were the ones to give Xiaoen up for adoption, it could be because of the one-child policy, specifically because they wanted a son (this would also raise interesting questions pertaining to previous speculation about Xiaoyang's gender). Both Xiaoen and Xiaoyang would fall under the policy's provisions, based on their age.

The policy was never as restrictive as commonly depicted in western media, in fact, only around a third of the population was actually subject to having a single child. Two thirds of the population, mostly the rural segments, had the right to have two children in case the first one was a daughter and numerous other exemptions were granted.

If Xiaoen's biological parents were urban dwellers, however, they had a fair chance of falling under that third of the populace that was restricted to only a single child.

Mentioned in an earlier chapter and again in this chapter. It's not a major moment. It's mentioned in passing and is part of Yunduo's early motivations for "protecting" Xiaoen.

Found it again, if you want it: chapter 32.

This could be the reason why Xiaoen's parents are not glad to have Xiaoyang coming over and why Yunduo thinks he is making life difficult for them. Mrs Tao wanted her daughter to not be aware she was adopted. "She was more than eager for Xiaoen to be unable to remember that she was adopted..."

Of course, this is just pure speculation. Xiaoen and Xiaoyang might turn out to not even be related at all. That said, I personally lean towards them being related; otherwise it makes little narrative sense to include the flashback of Xiaoen discovering that letter right now, in the middle of the "Xiaoyang Arc". Plus, she explicitly confirms she was adopted, something that was only ever mentioned once before. I doubt it is just a coincidence it is being brought up now.

It could even potentially explain her animosity towards Xiaoyang. She knows that her adoptive family did not want her to know about her origins, which could lead to her perceiving Xiaoyang's visits as something that is hurting her adoptive parents (Yunduo's conversation with Xiaoyang implies that this is indeed the case).

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Xiaoyang would probably feel guilty for his self advocacy even with 100% positive reception in Peach Town, so his feelings of guilt aren't actually useful for assessing him accurately without knowing more.

That is a fair point.

"She includes the parents on the list of people he is making life difficult for". The parents could also suck. Sometimes anything a child is or does that's different from the societal "norms" is considered making life difficult for the parents by some folks.

Also, just to clarify, because I realised now that my wording was somewhat vague - I was talking about Xiaoen's parents. They are the ones that Yunduo brought up.

That is the thing, she is not taking her cue solely from Xiaoen. When she confronts Xiaoyang, she includes the parents on the list of people he is making life difficult for. As someone who is obviously familiar with the situation, I doubt she would take it upon herself to speak on their behalf if they were really fine with Xiaoyang being there and were exclusively blaming his parents for the situation.

"She includes the parents on the list of people he is making life difficult for". The parents could also suck. Sometimes anything a child is or does that's different from the societal "norms" is considered making life difficult for the parents by some folks.

I need more information about the whole situation. All we really have so far is everyone dogpiling Xiaoyang.

True. Depending on future revelations, Xiaoyang's actions could be viewed sympathetically, especially if this turns out to be linked to some form of societal rejection. My main reason for bringing any of this up was the fact the thread completely glossed over pretty much all of this. The discussion before the latest chapter revolved either around Xiaoyang's gender or his amusing gremlin antics, and when chapter 57 dropped people were harsh on Yunduo, and more importantly, presented her actions as unwarranted and random - which is simply not the case. Whether it was her place to say anything is another matter, but her criticism of Xiaoyang was not coming out of nowhere.

I don't disagree with your assessment of the situation, just in your attribution of the problem. Xiaoyang's behavior looks to me like a child coping the only way he knows how to, in a way that presses upon the goodwill of others. He feels guilty about this. But I don't have the impression that Xiaoen's parents blame him for this, rather they blame Xiaoyang's parents for the situation Xiaoyang is trying to cope with. Like "because they don't take proper care of their child we have to make up for them to ensure the welfare of this kid". The ones they talk about being too cowardly to confront are the parents, not Xiaoyang.

It is possible, but that was not the impression I personally got. I would have expected more sympathy expressed towards Xiaoyang in that case. Also note that Yunduo and Xiaoyang's brief discussion only references his actions.

"Xiaoyang, you don't make life easy for Xiaoen, Mrs. Tao, and Mr. Mu either by coming here every summer."

The main point is that he agrees, and specifically addresses the issue by saying "I know they must hate it," 'it' being his coming over.

This is why Yundao confronting him feels surprisingly unsympathetic, because he's not really acting selfishly, just taking care of himself. I'd expect Yundao as a parent to have more sympathy for this unaccompanied child, but she instead seems to be taking her cue from Xiaoen, whose negative feelings are still a strange mystery, as is why people recognize Xiaoyang as specifically her little brother despite her parents not being his. I can't even guess at how that works yet lol

That is the thing, she is not taking her cue solely from Xiaoen. When she confronts Xiaoyang, she includes the parents on the list of people he is making life difficult for. As someone who is obviously familiar with the situation, I doubt she would take it upon herself to speak on their behalf if they were really fine with Xiaoyang being there and were exclusively blaming his parents for the situation.

Xiaoen's negative feelings only really look special because of their intensity and her refusal to hide them, but Radios is right, nobody looks particularly happy to see Xiaoyang.

Also, being selfish and taking care of oneself are not mutually exclusive. In fact, if one's way of taking care of themselves involves actions that represent an active imposition upon other people, that pretty much is selfishness, especially if one is aware how others feel about it (which Xiaoyang is).

I’ve lurking on here for many years but I’ve recently just started suggesting uploading images, but i noticed that out of the multiple suggestions of different images only one gets chosen, can someone explain to me the thought process of what gets uploaded or not ?

Every three to four days a batch of 36 images gets uploaded. A single batch will have a variety of fandoms and a variety of pairings, generally. More popular fandoms (vtubers, Touhou and such) will get more slots (4, 5, or 6, but rarely more than that), and even then the accent will usually be on variety (meaning: different pairings). Smaller fandoms might only get a single slot amongst the 36 images.

If you request, for example, 20 vtuber images, most of them will not be included. If all 20 depict the same pairing, only a single one will realistically get uploaded, because of the aforementioned accent on variety. My advice is to send a small number of images, only a few, every three or so days, and make sure they are all different pairings, and potentially different fandoms. I sometimes saw 4 or even 5 of my requests uploaded in a single batch, you just need to know how to game the system (the system in this case being dpf).

Ultimately, this is left to dpf's discretion, he is the sole decider when it comes to image uploads, and he puts a premium on quality, so you will have higher chances to see your requests chosen if you opt for better looking ones (or alternatively, those that have a really funny or good joke, reference, or a short story contained within).

In general, Dynasty is not really the best place to actually search for images. Because of the very limited nature of image uploads here, you will never get the variety and the sheer volume of content as you will on, say, Danbooru. My advice is to not try and request every single image from every single artist you like, Dynasty is simply not about that when it comes to images. Instead, think of it like a heavily curated selection that gives you a taste, and then you go to other places (such as Danbooru or Pixiv) to fill your belly by looking up the artists that caught your eye here.

Also, Gabinomicon, I think you are focusing too much on how the parents behave in front of Xiaoyang. It is obvious they do care for him, even if they are not happy with him coming over (the two are not mutually exclusive). Of course they will not be cruel towards him. It is what they say when he is not present that matters. Overall, this leaves the impression of that all-too-familiar situation that I think most people can relate to: when everyone in the family knows the real state of affairs, but because of avoidance of confrontation, embarrassment, and awkwardness nobody wants to bring it up in front of other people, especially in front of the person in question themselves. Note that Xiaoen's parents even wait until she is out of the room before complaining about Xiaoyang coming over, despite the fact she herself was clearly just as annoyed with his presence.

The irony, of course, is that everyone involved in these situations almost always knows what the deal is, up to and including the offending party, and they know that everybody else knows - and Xiaoyang explicitly confirms he is aware how everyone really feels.

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Xiaoyang isn't a college student, he's one year younger than Xingyuan, and he mentions this chapter just passing the tests to get into fine art school.

I was just referencing the "college break" that was put forth by Noodle.

And I don't think he's remotely as toxic or unpleasant as you're saying, he's just clearly got some complicated history we have yet to learn.

I never said he was either toxic or unpleasant. I said that he abuses other people's hospitality, and it is clearly calculated (such as not taking enough money in order to force others to take care of him). I personally do not like this type of person, but I never went beyond what was presented on the actual panels regarding his behaviour.

Also the part in chapter 55 with Mu Xiaoen's parents, they seem annoyed at Xiaoyang's parents, not at Xiaoyang himself. They seem pretty much okay with the kid, which makes sense given they raised someone like Mu Xiaoen lol.

Your reasoning makes no sense. The reason they are annoyed with Xiaoyang's parents is because the kid crashes with them every summer. If they were completely fine with him coming over, they would not have that much issue with his parents over it either.

"We end up looking after their kid every summer. I think you should've given them an earful over the phone. Why hold back?"

They pretty much spelled out what the problem is. This is not even all that uncommon, many people have family "friends", relatives, even close family members that they put up with, that they do not want to necessarily host under their roof, but end up doing it because they feel bad confronting them (as Xiaoen's parents say, they are cowards when it comes to this topic). The person does not even necessarily need to be bad themselves.

The mom says "this year must have been hard for you," so clearly there's some drama they know about that we don't that's yet to be revealed. My gut says Xiaoyang's queer and his parents don't approve.

Could be, or she could be referring to the school exams that were mentioned (exams were literally his response to her when she said the year was hard for him). From chapter 55 it is obvious that his crashing in is a yearly occurrence, and his own words confirm he is doing this because his life sucks in some way - in other words, there is no reason (yet) to believe this year was especially bad when compared to others or that the mom is referencing something more complicated than an exam/enrolment year.

Edit: Yundao putting Xiaoyang to work tutoring her kids for their art homework also implies he's not remotely that bad, because otherwise she wouldn't want him influencing them.

Again, I never said he was bad all around.

Edit: You also glossed over him agreeing with Yunduo and actually being harsher on himself than she was.

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Another reason why the position of some of the readers here perplexes me is that their own presentation (a quirky kid on a college break being rudely lectured for no reason by Yunduo) is far less interesting than what was actually shown in the story itself.

Behind the quirky and seemingly carefree facade Xiaoyang is actually a person filled with self-loathing, deliberately doing what he knows makes people unhappy, but he is doing it anyway because it alleviates his own self-hatred.

"I know they must hate it. I hate doing this too. But the only time I hate myself less is when I come here and see jiejie."

This could even support the idea of him being trans, potentially. And even if that turns out to not be the case, it still points to some pretty severe personal issues. In other words, it is a compelling and layered presentation and I am greatly interested in discovering what hides behind it.

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It's clear he's not biologically related but Mu Xiaoen's parents seem to accept him just fine as a guest at least, including snuggling on her mom, so he's obviously not just a stranger who's inserting himself into this family based on nothing. Yundao kinda comes across as being mean for no reason, claiming he's unwelcome here when at least for the parents he clearly seems to be accepted. She says "you don't make life easy for them" but since when is it the job of a needy child to make the lives of adults easier? Fuck off Yundao lol.

Basically, even with the knowledge they’re not related (really this whole character is just confusing I thought he was Xiaoxen’s little sister but he’s neither a girl or even related to her apparently despite looking exactly like her) it’s still just randomly out of pocket to drop on someone on college break and spending time with people that enjoy their company. But Yundao has always been extremely curt so he guess it’s not surprising

Except the "college break" is actually Xiaoyang running away from home and "people that enjoy their company" are annoyed with it. Xiaoen's immediate reaction to getting the message that Xiaoyang is over at Wang's pastry shop is annoyance, which she does not drop even when coming face-to-face with Xiaoyang. Her parents do not approve of Xiaoyang coming over either. Once Xiaoen was out of the room, their facial expressions and their words left absolutely no doubt that this is not something they enjoy, they are just putting up with it because they are too nice to tell the kid to piss off.

Xiaoyang's "college break" also included him deliberately coming over penniless, in order to force Xiaoen to take care of him, and has no qualms accepting food on the house at Wang's pastry shop (after, again, deliberately not taking any money with him).

Overall impression leaves very little to interpretation, this is a person who is abusing other people's hospitality and is definitely inserting themselves where they are not wanted. I did not find him quirky nor enjoyable, likely because I get irked by people who do not respect others' privacy, and Xiaoyang's behaviour sits pretty squarely in the disrespectful territory. I am 100% with Yunduo on this, it seems she is simply saying what everyone is thinking. Notably, Xiaoyang agrees with her, so I am kind of perplexed why some readers here are glossing over pretty much all of this and are essentially rewriting what was presented in the actual story (so we get a "college break" with "people that enjoy their company" instead of a freeloader who ran away from home with no money in order to force people who are not even his family to take care of him, despite literally none of them, including the freeloader himself, being happy with it).

I am honestly surprised how most of this seems to have flown completely under the radar here (I did not check the Forum in general in nearly a year, until today). It seems the issue of Xiaoyang's gender completely overtook the discussion when he was introduced.

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Long-time lurker that only recently decided to make an account here. I have a large number of images for a relatively underposted fandom and I'm wanting to know whether I should request them all at once or limit it to so many a day.

Limit it even more, I would say. If it is just one single fandom, I would advise sending only one, maybe two images every three or four days. That is how long it takes on average between two batches of uploads when it comes to images. A single batch of 36 images at a time is uploaded, and the rule of thumb is that it will have a variety of fandoms and pairings. More popular fandoms, like vtubers, might get 4, 5, even 6 slots in a single batch (but even then the accent will usually be on variety, so these will mostly be different pairings, for example), while a more obscure fandom will usually only get a single slot.

Variety of fandoms, and for each fandom a variety of pairings, only one or two images per fandom/pairing for each batch (every two to four days) would be my advice. Anything more than that and the vast majority of your requests will never make it onto here.

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History and traditions aren't justification for bad tagging.

And you have no authority to make tag changes based on your own opinions, unless it is for your own scanlations, which this is not, or if the scanlator in question asked you to do it for them, which I highly doubt is the case here. You do realise you are just a regular user, right?

Edit: In any case, I notified an Admin, because this is getting ridiculous. By which I mean you specifically, other tag-related discussion was fine.

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Personally, I never quite understood the purpose of this tag. It is also exceedingly rarely used, if you take a look at the list of one-shots that have it, it is a very short list. But what I can tell you for certain is that the tag was never meant as a stand-in for one-sided feelings, that much was clearly established.

If the definition is so flawed that one cannot actually explain a scenario in which the tag is to be used, then yes, the tag itself is redundant. So instead of making it a useless non-tag, it would be far more useful to give it a purpose. A purpose that the term "yuri crush" itself implies, but somehow is denied by its nonsensical definition.
One-sided feelings (whether they be one-sided due to a lack of acknowledgement by the love interest or due to rejection) would easily fall within what almost anyone would understand by the term yuri crush.

I would actually be against repurposing the tag. Yuri crush also seems to convey less serious emotional investment, which looks out of place and low-key demeaning if the story depicts deep romantic feelings. Looking at the full tag description, I am left thinking the whole thing was first introduced as a joke (and we do have a number of genuine joke tags on this site).

I think a better solution is a new dedicated tag (as I outlined in the edit to my previous post).

The yuri tag has historically been used on this site to encompass one-sided feelings and was stated multiple times whenever these discussions erupted that if a woman has romantic feelings for another woman, it is all that matters when it comes to tagging. Whether the feelings are returned or not, whether the love interest even knows of these feelings or not has never been deemed relevant. I honestly do not see it as being complicated.

It is not complicated if you establish such a rule within the definition of the tag. Alas, the Yuri tag does not have that kind of loose definition, so the matter is bound to get messy. The yuri tag merely claims that the tag is for relationships between two women. Not one-sided feelings in non-relationships.

I agree, which is why I put emphasis on the historical usage in my reply. The definition of the Yuri tag does indeed emphasise relationships, and it is also something that should be addressed and aligned with the actual usage (bonus points for none of these issues being new, complaints about unrequited feelings being tagged as yuri are one of those old eternal points of contention).

Ema is in love with Ayame, that much is conveyed pretty clearly, and that is all that matters when it comes to whether it should be tagged as yuri or not.

You see, if you wish to go this far, then you have to acknowledge too that the story does not directly tell you that Ema has a crush on Ayame, factually. It is to be infered and perhaps the most logical conclusion, but even then it is not explicit. I am aware that this is splitting hairs, but the idea that we decide definitions based on what we feel like causes the issues that we are facing right now.

I disagree, because if an explicit, verbal confirmation is needed then we can safely remove the yuri tag from thousands of works on this site. There are some genuine borderline cases where the implication is so subtle as to genuinely be a point of contention, but most of the time the messaging is pretty clear and it is so in this case as well. I do not think it is an issue for this story.

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From the description of the Yuri crush tag: "This tag is meant particularly for non-yuri series, and should not be used in any story with a yuri tag, nor as another name for one-sided love."

It has been stated multiple times that one-sided yuri is still yuri and should be tagged as such.

The description by itself is contradictory. What application does it have in your mind? Is it a character having a crush on another girl in a het series? Then is that only applicable when the crush is... requited eventually? Or is it, by chance, for unrequited crushes too? If you claim that every and all crushes in stories without lesbian romance automatically turn the work into a yuri work, then there is literally no place to actually use the Yuri Crush tag.

Personally, I never quite understood the purpose of this tag. It is also exceedingly rarely used, if you take a look at the list of one-shots that have it, it is a very short list. But what I can tell you for certain is that the tag was never meant as a stand-in for one-sided feelings, that much was clearly established.

This story has no yuri romance in it and if that does not matter to tagging something yuri then the tag may be used far too loosely.

The yuri tag has historically been used on this site to encompass one-sided feelings and was stated multiple times whenever these discussions erupted that if a woman has romantic feelings for another woman, it is all that matters when it comes to tagging. Whether the feelings are returned or not, whether the love interest even knows of these feelings or not has never been deemed relevant. I honestly do not see it as being complicated.

Ema is in love with Ayame, that much is conveyed pretty clearly, and that is all that matters when it comes to whether it should be tagged as yuri or not.

Edit: Maybe having an actual One-sided feelings tag would be a good idea (which could then be used alongside the yuri tag, not instead; because I actually agree with the position that unrequited yuri feelings should still be tagged as yuri). So far the best way to filter such works is to look for stories that have both the Yuri tag and the Aaaaaangst one, but it is obviously far from a perfect solution. A dedicated tag would be a good idea, I am just pointing out that Yuri crush was never meant as such.

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I went and fixed the tags. I removed "yuri", "bisexual" and "crossdressing" and put "Yuri crush".

I removed crossdressing because while it's in the English title, in the Japanese title it's just " a girl dressed as a man". She doesn't try to pass as a man, she just tries to fit the tastes of the girl.

There's no Yuri, the blond looks very heterosexual and wants to make kids to fit in society and there's no bisexuals either.

Doesn't mean it couldn't turn yuri in the future, but such is the nature of oneshots that we have to look at what we have and leave the rest as headcanon.

It was my understanding that only staff members, and designated Uploaders that are also staff members (only such ones being Norainhere and Gendolkari), can fiddle with tags in this manner, and that your Uploader sticker is primarily meant for you to manage your own scanlations (which this is not, as I fail to see you anywhere on the credit page). You also got at least one tag completely wrong.

From the description of the Yuri crush tag: "This tag is meant particularly for non-yuri series, and should not be used in any story with a yuri tag, nor as another name for one-sided love."

It has been stated multiple times that one-sided yuri is still yuri and should be tagged as such.

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Sayu formerly Zaion finally responded

Hm, this is definitely a biased take. I doubt there's much in the way of outright lies, but the fact that it never addresses the biggest issue I saw people have with her (the rape jokes) makes me think that she's spinning this pretty hard

She addressed it, though. Did you read the statement in full? She took responsibility and apologised, I do not know what more do you expect. Plus she clearly stated that the joke in question and the stream in which it happened were not amongst Niji's reasons for termination, making it decidedly not the "biggest issue", at least from the corporate side of things (the fact the joke was in poor taste notwithstanding).

Edit: Also, there not being "much in the way of outright lies" is an understatement, since I am pretty confident there are no lies there at all. If there were, Niji could and would sue her for defamation. We are talking about a company that heavily abused YouTube's copyright system to silence any negative news coverage of their agency (not coincidentally they started all of this after going public and releasing their stocks onto the market, first vtuber agency to do that), public image is something they are very aggressive about.

If Zaion made them look bad by outright lying in her account, they would sue her and they would have an easy time winning. However, if she is not lying they will leave her alone since you can not claim legal defamation if the other party is telling the truth.

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^ the name is necessary for story-type works (series, oneshot), so it's obligatory field. For images you can just put in whatever, it's not shown once the image is approved anyway, but try being a bit descriptive to invite the reviewer.

As for author/artist name, it's best to put in romaji for Japanese names, GTrans can help with that most of the times, Chinese names are more tricky so I usually copy it wholesale and leave it the reviewer's discretion. Pixiv usually contains links to the artist's other social network pages, you can also garner more info there (like how the artist transliterates their name, or what is their preferred penname). Sometimes it's also useful to directly google the name, even in kanji, to search such info. Alternatively, use their username on twitter, if that applies. Including the links to the artist's social network pages in the Artist field really helps. Kind of the same for Scanlator field.

The Link field is for the link to image that you want to request upload, like the link to twitter thread/tumblr post/pixiv post/etc that contains the image, though in the case of pixiv albums, it's better to put the link to album plus an indication to which picture you want instead of direct link to that image, since I find that link doesn't always work when I copy it into a new tab. Check the link in a new tab before submitting.

You can simplify this. For example, I only fill out the Name and Link sections. Link is self-explanatory, while under Name I put the franchise and the pairing (or just write "original" if it is the artist's original characters). I never bother with other sections. I know that dpf prefers to have the franchise + pairing clearly stated in the Name section, it allows him to go through the submitted images faster.

SIKE! sorry but you won't get of me !

Jesus Christ, I was genuinely shocked when I saw the thread bumped and the name... well played, well played.

Porrima and Doctor _Hoot's suggestion of het in source

+1

Personally I'd rather be able to blacklist or identify the tag so I wouldn't see the work and accidentally check out the source. Or worst yet, not see the source link because it was removed (for reasons unaware) and look it up for myself.

So wait, you want the tag in order to blacklist it? Like, so that you do not see normal yuri images on Dynasty because that same author might have het works on another website?? You will be missing on a lot of images then, plenty of artists here are not doing yuri exclusively, but you do you, I guess.

The rationale is that because the position of power in a monarchy is heredity, to ensure the end of it, the immediate inheritors must be eliminated.

It doesn't fucking work though.

Pretty much, yeah. It is because that rationale is not much of a rationale to begin with, it is instead basically a thin excuse applied retroactively to events which were fuelled by anger, bloodlust, and a thirst for vengeance and violence, in an effort to make those events appear more palatable. You know, "we did not commit horrible deeds because we are horrible people, no, we actually had a rational reason guiding us", that kind of nonsense. Even though most people who actually partook in such atrocities only started seeking these "rational" reasons after the fact.

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when we all could live that well if they did not exist.

Most of the world got rid of monarchs and hereditary classes, yet I can not think of one single solitary example where that led to the commoners living in royal luxury. What always happens is that either new elites replace the old elites (essentially changing nothing), or communists take over and make everyone equally miserable while hoarding power and privileges for the higher-ups within the Party.

The rationale is that because the position of power in a monarchy is heredity, to ensure the end of it, the immediate inheritors must be eliminated. Any surviving possible successor could be made into the standard around which the revolution's enemies will gather. Even harmless dumb kid princes or duchesses, as long as they could be propped on a horse by some manipulators, they are dangerous to the revolution, since the enemies may claim some sort of legitimacy and complicate a lot of things on top of the challenges of managing the country the revolution just grabbed.

That is the rationale, yeah, but at the same time most of the violence that happened in the real world that is closely paralleled by this doujin (the most obvious inspiration being the French Revolution) was only partially orchestrated and was just as often, if not even more often, simply the result of pent-up anger and mob mentality, with the masses taking out their frustrations on anyone they could get their hands on, guilty or innocent. I liked the quote from HBO's Rome, though.

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You know just because you make fun of the exposition, that doesn't make it good.

Speak for yourself, I liked that part, it actually made me laugh out loud. "I will answer your question" ---> "I wasn't really gonna.." ---> proceeds to talk over her regardless, boring her into falling asleep. It is in line with both the tone of this manga as a whole, and with Ichika's character.

...oh well abolish the monarchy
I don't get common people's fascination with royalty and creating stuff like this that sanitizes the ruling class while demonizing the peasant/worker class.

You must have missed the part where the princess acknowledges that her father was a tyrant who made things unbearable for the common people. You also must have missed the part where the princess talks about being depressed and shunned, as many royals who were born with disabilities often were, usually treated pretty horrendously by their own family, because they could not maintain the proper image that was expected of them. Nothing was sanitised here.

You also seem to have missed a lot of real world history, you should read up on that. From the Great Peasants' War, to the Jacobins, to the Bolsheviks, revolting masses sure carried out a lot of atrocities that just as often fell on people who personally did them no harm, including upper class children. It is almost like both sides can be horrendous, I know, shocking. Imagine that, nuance.

Like was I supposed to feel bad or something?

If you are a sociopath that evaluates people solely and exclusively based on which class they belong to, then no, I suppose not.