Why am I tearing up? This intimacy, willingness to explore each other's sexual boundaries, an d just plain sweetness got to me. It's perfectly fine and healthy to explore the sexual side of your relationship with your partner.

Find out what get's them going, and LET THEM KNOW WHAT YOU LIKE!
And freakin' assassinate the Mother-in-Law.

Right? Who doesn't love exploring the sexual side of assassinating the mother-in-law.

Yea! Can't kill the evil mother without cutting the sexual tension anyhow!

The general is smooth...

Also careless whispers intensifies.

Forks were indeed late. Spoons, not so much. I've never heard of the Church having an opinion on how you eat, unless maybe they had an anti-knife thing for "please stop killing each other at dinner".

Semi related but the Royal Navy forbade forks and knives for a long time (until 1897!) as it was considered unmanly and "prejudiced to discipline".
Urban filthiness might be more of an Modern period thing, like the 17-1800s, when population grew quickly and faster than the big cities could cope.

Yep! Medieval cities were cleaner than people usually think of. Though I should also point out it's also because the lively hood of people differed. Most people are farming peasants and tied to the land they work.

It also depends what city your living in and where your loving in that city. For example if you're living in London it's likely much more filthy than something like Constantinople or any of the cities of places that actually matter.

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Speaking of germ theory, I was surprised to see the reference to hand washing in the chapter, since as far as I'm aware that's also centuries into the future. They might rinse their hands to remove obvious dirt but using soap is far off as far as I know. Typically proper handwashing is credited as a 19th century invention, and looking it up just now I learned that at least in America it wasn't until the 1980s that it started to get promoted to the general public as important, rather than primarily being for doctors and such. Which is rather dismaying lol. I guess this helps explain why as recently as the 2000s I've heard American men insist they don't need to use soap after peeing.

Pulling this out of my ass rn (though I'm also curious bout the authors sources and might invest age more in my own time whenever this current rut of waste is over) but I'm pretty sure miasma theory doesn't exclude handwashing. It's not too much of a jump to go from bad air to the bad air sticks to your hands, so in order to keep them clean wash with water and soap ash or washing thing of choice.

You know, if the plague hits the village, Ema's sister could probably get them some medical supplies. Apparently there isn't a vaccine for it, but the plague does occasionally show up (Google suggests that there's ~7 cases in a year within the US), and Antibiotics should be pretty effective against it. (A strain from before widespread use of antiobiotics should be even easier to treat that way)

If the Plague does hit the village, that probably means things have gotten bad elsewhere, but they're probably fine (as long as they take normal precautions. Don't go near sick people, make sure to stay clean) Cities were hard hit during the plague because they were cramped and the various vectors which plague spreads are more pronounced. In rural villages? Not so much.

I genuinely hate authors that think "you did these deeds, so there for you being a slave / sexually abused is justified".

While I am guessing this story is primarily an expression of the authors' fetishes, from the world-building perspective, I find it strange that a soldier would keep such petty grudges against another soldier, especially if they are both generals. Also, why memory-wipe a commanding general for losing a war? If they committed war crimes, sure, arrange a tribunal or hand her over to the winners directly; otherwise, just demote them. Surely, the state has more profitable jobs for a highly-educated, star-ranked veteran than prostitution?

It's like someone wanted to slap some military uniforms onto their BDSM-themed catgirl porn without knowing the first thing about warfare.

Well if "s-rank officer" wasn't the first thing to tip you off that this isn't the most knowledgeable about warfare...

Anyways, generals can be extremely petty assholes. Patton and Montgomery are famous, but there's also the two Russian generals who fought the battle of tanneburg who refused to cooperate with one another, plus the well known IJN V IJA rivalry.

Also wow this thing really just starts going at it with the speciesism and the extremely uncomfortable vibes. I think I'll pass.

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Girls, find yourself a girl who'll make you like this.

Man I love historical clothing so much, it's nice seeing it portrayed well. The door thing is funny though I wonder if wifi can also go past c.

I am so incredibly bothered by her taking scones out of the oven stacked on top of each other like that, instead of them lined up on a baking sheet. if you actually tried baking them like that they'd fuse together and probably cook weird

She could have been just keepin em warm in the oven, not actually bakin em.

Though still that would be questionable

Okay so they got the baths thing right in the afterword but not in the main story.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Flan I think the word your looking for it not masturbation but uh, rape.

"I programmed you as best I could."

"But not to last..."

Looks like jigglypuff strikes again at the end of that last one

Huh. I'm not confident what's going on in this one. I like it but it has this really weird vibe. Huh. that last line is pretty menacing too.

"I invited them to my home so they'd never leave."... who did she just invite in?

I got that part. the text really seems to be implying something awful is gonna happen but Alice isn't acting particularly out of character? Is the story implying Marisa is actually gonna get eaten??

Oh she's gonna get eaten alright ^^

Oh hey extenuating circumstances. Nice short little tragedy. Reminds me a bit of lady vengeance

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Do not think of this as a psychological story. Do not ask what personal motivations drive these characters. This is a sociological story, just one anecdote in a country full of ruthless and vengeful selfishness.

What you're seeing in this story is the consequence of the Cultural Revolution (1965 to 1976)...

SNIP

That's just how China is now. And it could take a century or more for the country to return to its traditions and to regain it's moral grounding.

Hi uh

Sorry what?

Cause this happened to both the US (Red Scares 1&2) and the Soviets (Stalin's Great Purges), along with the DDR/GDR (basically all of it). And before you say "no it didn't", yeah sure, not exactly as how it happened in China, but it rhymes along the same lines. Patriotic fervour worked up to dispose of the ruling party's political opponents, which extended beyond and spilled over into the wider society due to said fervour.

In those periods and in the immediate aftermath sure there was a weakening of trust, but putting faith, goodwill, and trusting your fellow human is what constructs a society and maintains it. There is still a baseline level of trust present. Some folks may be more paranoid than others in the wake of it, but in what appears to be the setting of the 2010-2020s, if it's due to mao's purges it's going to be in the people who actually lived during those times, not some kids. Human memory is surprisingly short. The cultural revolution to my knowledge is not fondly remembered, and iirc sometimes evoked to accuse someone of political foolishness or wrong doing.

Besides Radical Idealism (aka Neo-Confucianism. I am assuming this is what you mean by tradition) is still alive and present in wider Chinese society, it's the whole reason it's official party line is Socialism with Chinese characterises, and it's currently evolution of Xi Jinping Thought.

I'm not going to touch on the famine stuff because there's a legitimate historical debate to be had if it was considered a acceptable consequence of rapid re-industrialization or if it was a series of misfortune and errors, or if it was planned as you said.

Also what the fuck do you mean by moral grounding?

Nice, a mystery!

I'm guessing there's some extenuating circumstances around the theft.

You're so right, the shorts that barely reach below their asses just scream "masc"

Men can wear booty shorts too /shrugs.

Besides, the thing that caught my eye onto that is their hair and general body type. Idk, I just read them as masc, but unless it becomes a critical plot point it doesn't really matter beyond "this is a prison with female sex (and so far just sex) robots being tested on the prisoners"

YES THE OLD LADY YURI IS BACK :P

I don't know about the sexual minority part, as there is straight men it seems (or I think is implied?)

What is it that implied to you the existence of male prisoners?

Page 1 chap. 2. First panel has what looks to be masc prisoners.

So... nobody's going to mention how testing experimental tech on prisoners, who have no chance at parole and will be arbitrarily executed, makes this not a prison, but a concentration camp? Especially since the inamtes here are all from a sexual minority?

I don't know about the sexual minority part, as there is straight men it seems (or I think is implied?). It might be a parallel to the Uyghurs (I think that's likely), it might just be also be death row with a government that has privatised its prisons, and doesn't really care much about ethics.

Experimentation on unwilling inmates with unproven tech has happened before, famously in those camps you mentioned, but also in things like Unit 731 (CW:Not Safe For Life stuff and also it will make you mad with how it ended), and in older prison systems (Victorian Britain was uh something, though it was more focused on psychology.)

And if you're wondering, did the us do this?

Yes, yes we did.

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SHE NEEDS A HERO

SHE NEEDS A HERO BY THE MORNING LIGHT

AND SHES GOTTA BE STRONG

AND SHES GOTTA BE FAST

AND SHES GOTTA BE A GAY ROBOT TONIGHT!

KILL THAT FUCKING SHIT OF A FATHER! YOU CAN DO IT CROW!

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THE YURI IS DOOMED :( :( :( :(

Okay I really can't get over Yukari's hair vents. What is this, 2002?

someone leans over and whispers into her ear

"Ma'm it's set in 2002"

Well that explains it.

"I don't know if I'd be feeling this way if I was with other women"

Girl congrats on figuring out your pan. May you and your lesbian girlfriend live happily ever after.