Besides, I'm not going either.

RIP all of Narita's effort as the absolute BEST wingman. This is like jumping off of Yoshi and letting him fall into a death pit.

Perfect metaphor.

Rather than being a disaster lesbian, Tantai Lan is a lesbian force of nature.

Best Persona ship.

Narita has been almost single-handedly keeping this story on track from the moment he was introduced. Clearly the MVP without contest.

Frankly, I'd drop the "almost." At this point, I feel comfortable saying Narita is the sole reason I may see the lovebirds make their relationship official before I die.

RIP to those two Paranormal YouTubers at the start, they made the ultimate sacrifice to bring us Witch Yuri

Probably the greatest accomplishment of their lives.

Idiot couples sharing a single brain cell, eh?

Lilies visible from space.

Tomboys in cute dresses are great.

Chapter 5: Class rep is also a master of stoic flirting. And already introducing roleplaying to their relationship, how bold~

I love the irony of the "Yeah, I'm an evil monster!" doppelganger still being an improvement over the (at least attempted) rapist teacher as a person. Really reinforcing that theme of questioning the "normal / weird" arbitrary social dichotomy.

Also I like the shark teeth. Good ol' manic gremlin energy. Feeling envy.

As for food chat: Pineapple on pizza can be good if properly prepared. (As already mentioned, big soggy chunks are the opposite of properly prepared.) But I draw the line at people that replace tomato sauce with ranch dressing. That ceases to be pizza and becomes something else. (Though I admit bias because ranch dressing tastes gross to me. Didn't always, but I can't remember the last time it tasted good. Has to be decades ago at the earliest.)

...Polycule? Could be polycule.

Ngl, the title scared me for a moment. Then I realised it was about top surgery, and not someone doing something graphic with a kitchen knife.

This is interesting. I'm not nonbinary, but I like learning about other people's experiences.

Had the same first thought. Well, mine was "Please be about top surgery, not self-harm", but basically the same thought. I mean it definitely got my attention, so as a title it works. It's just a moment of wincing first...

And more enby representation, always glad to see it.

I hope that more young kids in the future don't have to deal with so much binary gender nonsense. The thing they said about the announcement from the National Diet really made me think about how important representation and education are for young queer people. Sometimes literally the difference between life and death.

Seconding this.

It's been my experience that humans are, in general, way too invested in dividing everything into either A or B, ignoring any possibility of alternates or gradients. Yeah, some binaries exist, but people are way too quick to demand easy "this box or that box" classifications on everything... Nature is full of gradients. Arbitrary dichotomies are stupid and harmful.

Zatanna is a stage magician, so she knows that you don't interrupt a show. :|

I want this all to be a long con on the part of class rep to get closer to the prince.

"And that's how I met your mother."

Kinda disappointed that she gave that cd to that jerk. Aya should get first dibs on her songs. Koga, you dumdum.

Nah, Aya gets a live performance. VIP access, even.

Mitsuki, what are you thinking just casually dropping nuclear weapon levels of rizz in class like that??

Nuclear nothing. Judging by page 2 hallway girl doubling back and everyone in the room turning her way, that was more like the K-Pg impact on the entire school's sexualities. Out of nowhere, BOOM! No survivors, y'all gay for Mitsuki.

Slenderman? Not a shock. Shark tooth gyaru? Surprising. This series sure keeps me on my toes...

Nagisa may be unused to drama of any kind. These are teenagers. Could have been going "??? DOES NOT COMPUTE, OUT OF CHEESE ERROR" at what Glasses was doing.

I appreciate the Discworld reference. Hex is great.

Mashiro being anxious and Nagisa being upset over dishonesty are in character, but... This whole bout of drama is still an idiot plot.

Having glasses girl give Mashiro shit right in front of Nagisa is a huge writing fumble, because it's forcing Nagisa to act like an oblivious moron. If the confrontation happened somewhere else, then there could've been a more plausible miscommunication between the two. But this?

Nagisa has all of the information - irrefutable, because it happened right in front of her eyes - that Mashiro has every right to ask her to stop hanging out with glasses. The girl that just tore into her over a load of bullshit.

Combine that with this chapter having a whopping three new pages of new-ish material and the rest being rehashed and, well, this is very frustrating...

Shot in the dark: Teach is a hive mind sort of monster, sending out a new drone to replace the missing one.

This prediction is pretty much purely because I'm watching a Rimworld video about self-cloning bug people, so... Don't take it too seriously. (I do think he's some type of monster, though.)

I get the impression the last page isn't literally happening, but is instead how she feels.

...If that is indeed literally happening, then those kids need a practical lesson on the definition of defenestration.

Does this actually count as aro? Seems like there's at least some flavor of ro in there lol

Aro/Ace tag description reads "For stories in which at least one primary character identifies along the asexual or aromantic spectrums." It's an 'aro and/or ace' tag, not an 'aro and ace' tag, basically.

Social anxiety is worst random encounter result.

I like the 'alone in my shell' bit that gets a callback with two yolks in an egg at the end.

Page 17 stings. I've had relationships end because my partner wanted sex and I didn't. Not even that I told them no; even after considering doing it to make them happy, just my lack of interest was enough for them to break up with me.

Awe~ love this as someone on the aro/ace spectrum, It sucks, but just about every time we get representation in the media it's the "completely uninterested in any relationship" type which isn't always true so this is a nice change

Agreed. I'm ace, but not aro. (The concept of me having sex with someone else is like watching paint dry. And while I've read porn - or at least, works with explicit sex scenes; I don't like anything that's nothing but sex - I invariably rush through or skip the sex scenes. First four pages and last four pages are usually "the interesting parts" to me.)

I've been in a committed (though frustratingly long distance, considering how often we could both use a hug) relationship for over a decade. We talk nearly every day. We confide in each other and share our dreams with each other, support each other, love each other. Nothing pisses me off faster than someone implying our relationship somehow doesn't count just because we aren't having sex.

Some assholes even went so far as calling me mentally ill simply for being uninterested in intercourse. I have dealt with that crap entirely too much. (Also had a roommate once that scoffed and insisted "You'd like it if you tried it"... when she frequently said how much she disliked sex. So apparently her not liking sex is normal, but my disinterest isn't? What a jackass.)

...Didn't mean for this to turn into a blog post, but I'm feeling emotional and my fingers just wouldn't stop typing.

God this character is annoying, “why couldn’t she stay lonely and friendless like me” girl piss off

Yeah, she's such a kill joy. And not even in a particularly love-to-hate way, just a wish-she'd-go-away way.

Though kind of a corner case, if I'm being honest. Part of me wants Mashiro and Nagisa to make out while glasses runs away crying.

"She's not my perfect senpai waifu now that she's found happiness without me, noooo!" May her glasses be as fogged as her butt is hurt.