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i think it's really fun when a rly specific trope is super popular in one particular medium but in other ones it's just totally unheard of. it's the time knife. visual novel players are suuuuper used to death games but many others encountered them for the first time in squid games. the other day my mom showed me all excited the summary of a super original novel she found and it was about a girl who got reincarnated as the main character in her favorite fantasy book

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i think it's really fun when a rly specific trope is super popular in one particular medium but in other ones it's just totally unheard of. it's the time knife. visual novel players are suuuuper used to death games but many others encountered them for the first time in squid games. the other day my mom showed me all excited the summary of a super original novel she found and it was about a girl who got reincarnated as the main character in her favorite fantasy book

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needless to say my sweetie meter has been depleted

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for a while i thought being bricked up meant being constipated

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when your friend asks if you have any plans like nope just me and the skull lol

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i love watching utena with new people because every time i have to fight for my life insisting that the nanami episodes ARE thematically relevant they're just intentionally presented as farcical

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Oh you’re sooooo much better than the jrpg villain *now* but get fucking real if you could do Merciless Cleave and level 99 Blackflame you’d just kill and kill

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toby fox is a himedanshi success story

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unhealthy codependency is really a top tier dynamic. like they need each other to survive but god. should they.

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sick of problematic old man alcoholic characters. make that alcoholic a problematic WOMAN. stat!

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What a beautiful spring day, perfect for being a butch lesbian on low dose testosterone!!!!

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dont get it twisted though twsa was filled with the author's barely disguised fetishes too. why do you think yoo joonghyuk was in full leather getting tied up all the time

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we've all got that one mutual stuck in the eternal torture labyrinth

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overhearing my partner saying "i am NOT a puppy dog" over in the next room. 🤔🤔🤔

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during the Disastor of Floods, 41st shin yoosoung spends the entire fight telling her opponents a story. she tells them the story of her own suffering, and of the suffering of their alternate universe versions who she knew and loved and watched die - from her perspective pointlessly - for yoo joonghyuk. they don't understand or care about her story, but she tells it anyway

after so long suffering with no one to see or hear her, so long writing a story no one was reading (which orv establishes as a very cruel hell) shin yoosoung is desperate to make her voice heard. yoo joonghyuk however, doesn't even wait for her to tell him what her journey was like, just immediately starts demanding information. shin yoosoung desperately wants to have her story acknowledged by him, but she knows that the man who sent her off never would, and it drives her into a rage. she will end his story. she will be the one who leaves a mark on him this time.

however, there is one person in this fight who shin yoosoung doesn't have to tell her story too. someone among this sea of strangers (or at least, who see her as a stranger) who knows her well enough to read her very thoughts. kim dokja has read her story countless times, and is the only one who sympathizes with it brazenly from the get go. it's because of him, and the way he changes yoo joonghyuk, that shin yoosoung is able to get her message heard. because he hears it first. he refuses to let her story end misunderstood, chasing her all the way to the underworld.

i was initially skeptical of how kim dokja manages to talk so many of his opponents to his side when i first read orv - its a trope i very much have a love hate relationship with. but i think part of why he is able to pull it off so often, and why so many people find themselves following him, is because of the deep love he has for stories. every story, every discarded character, every rock on the ground. everyone wants someone who will treasure their crude lump of a story

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the gooners

they’re everywhere

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me when you tell me there’s gonna be media with metatextual references to the process of making art and the entertainer-entertainment-audience relationship at the function: