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Zenless Zone Zero trust events are an adorable dating sim and i need more

I currently have 13 agents and got max trust with 8 of them if I'm not mistaken, since some don't have those unlocked yet (Lucy and Piper for example)

I'm deeply enjoying this side of the game and the way the agents are written.

The first I befriended was Billy because DUH and I really had fun, especially with the very few innuendo the thembot sprinkled here and there.

Ellen has a really cute side and I wonder if playing Belle of Wise change some of the line? But I would definitely want to hang out everyday with her IRL.

Zhu Yuan is soooo caring and serious, but also has that really sweet and shy side I can't get enough of.

CORIN MUST BE PROTECTED AT ALL COST.

Ben REALLY needs a vacation and New Eridu to address the ursine thiren discrimination. That softie is a big nerd and I want to buy him a new calculator.

Nicole is that girl from Dress up Darling in a good sense and damn is she cunning, Hard stanning, best gyaru, 10/10 will contract with again

Petition to give Anby all the borgorz.

Koleda is damn cute and deserve everything, especially when you do the trust events after finishing the Belobog chapter and her story quests (definitely recommend)

I'm currently working on Anton and Nekomata since neither of the other characters have their events ups yet.

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Obey Me! games: review

So I finally uninstalled both Obey Me! apps after playing both for approximately a month

The oldest one had WAY too many events happening at the same time for me. I tried to play the storyline but got lost trying to get the party cards in the events, which ended up with some spoilers and a weirded experience of affection regarding the characters. It's weird when you just met them and because of the events the intersections are almost intimate while you know shy to nothing about them.

I had more hopes for the second app (Nightbringer), since it was only released last year and the fights were based on rhythm games (which I'm decent at and really enjoy).

I tried a few times to modify the gameplay through the option but could enjoy it one bit. It may be because of my phone, or me not calibrating it correctly, but the beat seemed to never match the characters actions. I also ran into the same problems than the first app regarding the storylines. While it had a LOT of content to read and watch, cute interactions with the characters, that was also overkill to the new player that I was.

I also played with the VIP pass since I forgot to cancel the trial on time for Nightbringer and, well, I'm a bit salty about my dumb self for this.

The art is still really nice and I'll continue to enjoy content around this fandoms, but without playing.

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So I tried tears of Themis for a while and while the stories (and Luke) are nice, I was kinda bored and skipping through a lot of the reading

Then I did a quick search looking for another otome on mobile I would like better

Why did I install obey me

Is that how I become the true, honest, real ★ disappointment to my family ★?

I'm standing hard omfg

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Obey Me Birthday Analysis

As I’m sure we’ve all learned by now, Levi’s birthday event was smooshed between the Paws & Claws event and the latest lesson release, and that probably contributed to the botched roll-out. So many things going on at once!

We got a free UR out of it and a crapload of AP as compensation. Sweet. It prompted me to start looking at the OM! birthday calendar more closely to see how they may determine birthdays, and other trends.

Here it is, the fruit of my labor. I added astrological analysis for funsies: I don’t actually believe in astrology at all, but I know fictional works like to use them for character spice (including myself, sometimes).

Birthdays in order

Simeon: February 10 (Aquarius)

Beelzebub & Belphegor: March 11 (Pisces)

Levi: April 9 (Aries)

Asmodeus: May 15 (Taurus)

Lucifer: June 6 (Gemini)

Luke: July 15 (Cancer)

Barbatos: August 22 (Leo)

Mammon: September 10 (Virgo)

Satan: October 20 (Libra)

Diavolo: October 31 (Scorpio)

Solomon: December 9 (Saggitarius)

Days between birthdays

Simeon -> Beel & Belphie = 29 days

Beel & Belphie -> Levi = 29 days

Levi -> Asmodeus = 36 days

Asmodeus -> Lucifer = 22 days

Lucifer -> Luke = 39 days

Luke -> Barbatos = 38 days

Barbatos -> Mammon =  19 days

Mammon -> Satan = 40 days

Satan -> Diavolo = 11 days (!!!)

Diavolo -> Solomon = 39 days

Average = 27.45 days

With the addition of the nowdateables, we’re missing only one astrological sign: Capricorn (December 22 - January 19)

Astrological cusps: Barbatos (Leo-Virgo), Satan (Libra-Scorpio). They tend to place birthdays in the beginning or middle of months, probably to space birthday events out.

Elemental triads: Simeon/Lucifer/Satan (Air), Beel+Belphie/Luke/Diavolo (Water), Levi/Barbatos/Solomon (Fire), Asmodeus/Mammon are a duo (Earth) until they get a Capricorn homie

If they add Michael to the cast, his birthday is likely to be Michaelmas which is September 29 on the Western liturgical calendars. He’d be a Libra alongside Satan, and would form another air triad with Lucifer and Simeon – which, honestly, feels pretty fitting. It’d make September-October cramped in terms of birthdays, but the distance between his birthday and Mammon’s/Satan’s would be longer than the distance between Satan’s/Diavolo’s soooo… not impossible.

Alternatively they can just make his January 12 because he has a feast day every 12th of the month on the Coptic calendar, it’d fill the Capricorn slot, and there’d be 29 days between his and Simeon’s birthdays. You can just call the end/beginning of the year Angel Bonanza. It’d fit with the Christmas event that’d come prior to that, too.

The distance between Satan’s and Diavolo’s birthdays is clearly the shortest, and there’s likely to be some tomfoolery around that time in the calendar. They have plenty of time to prepare for it, though, so an easy fix would be to hold off on having an event between those two dates and possibly make the one before Satan’s shorter in length. Otherwise, there may be some grousing if either of them get their birthday events cut short.

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Aiko Koyama’s Maikosanchi no Makanaisan (Kiyo in Kyoto) is a cute and gentle shonen cooking manga about a 16yo girl who becomes a kitchen manager at a boarding house for apprentice geisha. Most of the characters speak in traditional Kyoto dialect, so the furigana are quite interesting and useful.

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Meshinuma

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I'm starting to realize a pattern with all the manga I've been reading:

Drifting Dragons- Cooking

Delicious in Dungeon/Dungeon Meshi- Cooking

Sweetness and Lightning-Cooking

Our Dining Table- Cooking

Newly bought One Piece Shokugeki no Sanji- Cooking

....Apparently I'm more drawn to cooking manga, I guess.

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So I read the first 3 volumes of She Loves To Cook and She Loves To Eat (Tsukuritai Onna to Tabetai Onna) by Sakaomi Yuzaki, and um, Sublime. 11/10. Perfect. Preordered volume 4. Cannot wait.

VOLUME 1 VOLUME 2 VOLUME 3 VOLUME 4

Expect a lot of content from this one in coming weeks.

The story is about two women who live alone in small apartments.

Yuki Nomoto is an office worker in a men's world. She loves to cook but tends to cook more than she can eat because she loves the creation aspect more than the eating. Moreover, she loves cooking big portions and desperately wishes she had someone to cook for. But not a man. Nope.

Totoko Kasuga is an alcohol merchandiser who lives two doors down from her. She's a very big, tall woman who eats a lot, and fascinates Nomoto when she's seen carrying home a family-size KFC order- just for her.

Nomoto decides to invite her over for dinner, and the two women immediately hit it off, planning future dinners, making weekend trips to farmer's markets, and planning their winter holidays together.

Eventually, the apartment between theirs is rented by a younger woman who needs to get away from her overbearing family, She befriends her new neighbors and they bond over how traditional Japanese values have hurt them all in some way.

Nomoto connects via Twitter with other women who share her interests and help her discover who she is and who she wants to be.

The series makes a lot of commentary about how much of what women do is expected to be for men's consumption. Why do I have to cook for men? Why do I have to dress cute for men? Why are men prioritized in family life? Why is the love between women so stigmatized? Why is it seen as lesser? Why is there so little dating advice for sapphic women?

Things I love about this story:

The love interest is a big girl like me!

It explores the emotional intimacy of cooking and eating together - my primary love language

Romance without all the shuddering, blushing, awkward hand-holding and attempts to kiss that get dragged out for 50 chapters, which can be cute but gets tiresome

Acknowledgement of asexual, aromantic and demisexual identities

Productive discussion of the ways "well-meaning" parents abuse their children without hitting them

Things I don't like about the series:

No step-by-step cooking instructions!

It leaves me with a strong desire to try cooking things I simply can't get all the ingredients for without a trip to an Asian market 30+ minutes away, which feels like such a drag because I work in a grocery store, and I hate going grocery shopping by myself.

The longing for a girl-next-door type meetcute has intensified.

I love cooking and baking. I love food. I love wine and beer and dinner cocktails. I dislike that I don't get to share this love with others.

This is what love looks like. This series was tailor-made for me.

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Lady K & The Sick Man

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Coffee aesthetic

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By the way

The Belobog faction should accept Billy as an honorary member and Anton would totally have been best buds with Onizuka from GTO.

BRO

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Those two madwomen

I swear

If the Belobog tag wasn't enough

This one

And this danger to humanity here

They're estranged cousins or something

I don't care

Hook is a Koleda whose father you helped

Koleda is a Hook timeline where you didn't

I mean

The voice

The tsundere trope

(can we also talk about Ben being like the actual best teddy bear I can't even)

Sampo is laughing at us on the sidelines

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I lost access to my main account and I'm SO MAD

But I still have headcannons about the hoyoverse to share so hydrate lubricate and hear me out

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when she says she doesn’t send nudes

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Just a friendly reminder to drink some water, stretch and unclenched your jaw. Love y'all.

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the signs as x-men

Aries: Wolverine / James Howlett

Taurus: Magneto / Max Eisenhardt

Gemini: Deadpool / Wade Wilson

Cancer: Phoenix / Jean Grey

Leo: Professor X / Charles Xavier

Virgo: Gambit / Remy LeBeau

Libra: Beast / Hank McCoy

Scorpio: Mystique / Raven Darkhölme

Sagittarius: Nightcrawler / Kurt Wagner

Capricorn: Cyclops / Scott Summers

Aquarius: Storm / Ororo Munroe

Pisces: Scarlet Witch / Wanda Maximoff

special thanks to tyler for doing this for me. i'm not comic-savvy. check his blog out! grimeszine.tumblr.com

requested by anon