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Purple Library Guy
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What's their age gap again?

Do they have one? Experientially they have their whole past life before this one. How many years the current biological vessel has on it seems kind of irrelevant to me.

IMO in this latest chapter, Riri's being a cute tantalizing brat rather than raising a serious objection.

last edited at Oct 21, 2026 7:42PM

Purple Library Guy
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Perverted girl with reserved girl is always a fun dynamic.

I'm happy to note that it's usually "openly perverted girl with reserved but perverted girl".

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Realizing some people need a glossary for the fandom words just made me realize how deep in I am because I look at those words and just assume that everyone should know them. Especially words like self shipper, canon, and og.

Certainly not. For instance, surely EVERYBODY knows that "og" is a reference to "The Secret World of Og" by Pierre Berton.

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"look who knows so much. It just so happens that our friend here is only MOSTLY dead."

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wakana best girl again

Technically if she's going to be a dog, that would be "goodest girl".

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This might just be me saying this, but lately, some one-shots don’t really feel like one-shots anymore. They feel more like the first chapter of a longer story, like there’s still so much more that could be explored.

It is my personal belief that most one-shots are actually serialization pitches that never go anywhere. I imagine most mangaka would greatly prefer to be serialized, but the magazines pick and choose, leaving a lot of series-worthy ideas behind as one-shots...

That sounds pretty plausible to me.

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Simple fun story and all, but what adds to it is I really feel like the girls have personality.

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Good lord, when did this get so adorable?!

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It's nice to see a series that understands the darkness is there, but also understands the sunshine is there and it is also real.

Purple Library Guy
Sugar Home discussion 28 Sep 21:21
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Pancake mix can be fine, but actual pancakes are pretty easy to make and still, I think, a little better.

My ancestral recipe for Pancakes:

1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 tblsp. Sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tblsp baking powder
Sift dry ingreds together (although really these days that's not a huge deal--flour doesn't really have lumps like in the old days)

Combine:
2 beaten eggs
1 cup milk
2 tblsp oil (anything neutral is fine--peanut, canola, sunflower, like that)

Stir in wet ingred with dry until dampened only; ignore lumps.
Cook on hot griddle.

Purple Library Guy
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Though given the manga's unwillingness to give us the faintest detail thus far save for name-dropping The Facility (TM), I doubt it'll ever elaborate.

Yeah, I feel like the backstory of this is just one huge Noodle Incident.

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Whaaaat?

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My aunt gave me a present which I forget what it was--but the reusable bag it came in is one of my treasures. Tough white fabric with an Edward Gorey "Gashlycrumb Tinies" illustration on it.

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Yazawa Yay!!!

Yazawa Yay!!!

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I'm a long way from those dark youthful feelings now, been happy and pretty comfortable with myself for a long time. This managed to bring me back to a visceral memory of those times, without pissing me off. Impressive stuff.

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My wife got a tattoo for her 60th birthday. It says "Vive la Resistance".

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Sakura the teacher.

As to age gap, the weird thing now is that Saaya's mother looks exactly the same age as Saaya.
There is some indication that there are things about Sakura's past that make at least some of it make sense, but we're only getting that backstory in rather tiny dribs and drabs. I don't really care, though, because she's adorable.

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Her mom is weird, yes, but also very very HOT.

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Now I'm left with the burning question: What DOES outer space taste like?
Edit: Never mind, I see that was answered in fine style.

last edited at Sep 4, 2026 5:57PM

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I used to sleep excessively as well, though not the same way as Yuna. When you've got a sleep disorder you can go through life so quickly that when you stop to look back at the past days or weeks you realize you've done nothing worth remembering.

. . . That can happen even if you don't have a sleep disorder.

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Wicked Spot discussion 02 Sep 18:40
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Well, at least that last big smile from Sadako spoke a volume or two.

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Very weak and cliché opening chapter. It could turn out to be cute, but so far it doesn't seem to have much going for it.

Actually not very cliche. One could certainly argue "weak" because really, nothing happens. But it's unconventional in the sense that almost every opening chapter, not just in yuri but in pretty much all genres, sets up some kind of conflict and/or some direction that the action will go. This just goes "Hi! So, we're having a pretty good life here." Even the initial hint of "Maybe I won't feel good enough for the girl I'm with because I'm ordinary and she's exceptional" gets instantly turned away. There's a certain amount of guts to coming in with completely unmixed fluff and zero implication of anything happening.

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Hang on, what was that last panel?

Purple Library Guy
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This was adorable, pity about the author's health. Heh, this kind of spoke to me because my wife makes traditional Mennonite buns with lots of butter in them, and I knead the dough because I'm the one with the arm strength.

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I really don't see the problem here, we turned the whole school yuri , this is manifest destiny

Yeah, I'm sitting there thinking "You're saying all this stuff like it's a bad thing. What do you mean, what should we DO about it? You could start by saying 'thank you'!"