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[ikemenomegas]

If Nanami had ever worked in the west there's no question he would have quietly picked Gege's original plot option

[ikemenomegas]

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This writer is XXV+ and mostly (usually) knows how to read

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Ikemen is a modern Japanese portmanteau that translates well enough to “handsome men” because at this blog we put handsome anime men into the omegaverse (and other verses too). If you’ve found my blog then welcome! Please read the rules, temper your expectations, and have fun!

My screen-name is Io (she/her), like the woman Zeus got turned into a cow, because it’s the blog initials. Apologies to mobile users. This site looks so much better on desktop…

Ask box: Open. Questions and requests are welcome <3

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To-do List:

Ranpo pregnancy headcanons

Gojo falling in love

Curse part 4

xShoko outline

Dazai and partner

Sasuke pre-departure romance

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#from the notebook (headcanons, usually ask replies)

#from the margins (world building/character thoughts, usually no one asked for these)

#io.pa (announcement tag)

#io.sp (silly and saucy)

General warnings: this blog frequently discusses topics related to omegaverse tropes, may include nsfw and dark content, and therefore encourages liberal use of the block button according to tags below if you still choose to interact with this blog

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#io.rb (reblog tag, blacklist if I'm clogging your dash) (there is now a sideblog for aesthetic/nonthematic/potentially excessive rb's)

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#moon journal (person updates tag)

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<new tag system> : fandom tags (for my writing only) will have personal blog addendum so you can filter/block by fandom without losing the tag on the whole site ie #io.hsr, #io.nrt, #io.jjk. Adjusting/adding tags may take some time

[ikemenomegas]

In the gloom of the underground, someone's stomach growled

Up above, the sun came up and - pouff! - out of a bedroll popped the fluffy head of a very hungry (and tired) young adventurer.

And all adventurers know good food is the most important part of long adventures.

On Monday he ate through an apple (and hit a walking mushroom). But he was still hungry.

On Tuesday he had two handfuls of nuts (and dispatched a giant scorpion), but he was still hungry.

On Wednesday he ate three pieces of waybread (and battled maneating plants), but he was still hungry.

On Thursday, he ate four dried apricots (and fought a basilisk), and now he was very hungry.

On Friday he ate through five pieces of dried meat (and found some living armour mollusks), but he was still very hungry.

On Saturday, he looked at all these things he was carrying with him (and conquered a flight of shiny bugs) and fixed on an idea he'd had for a while. (Senshi? Can we...)

That night he ate through one big bowl of lobster hot pot, one slice of fruit tart, one omelet, one plate of fried chicken, one platter of grilled shellfish, one bowl of clam soup, one fresh bread roll, one stick of glazed broiled meat, one handful of fried coinbugs, and one bowl of gemstone sorbet. (Laios! This isn't chicken or clam, what kind of meat is this???)

That night he and all his friends had a stomachache! (But were full for the first time since they had started coming underground.)

The next day was Sunday and the young adventurer and his companions ate through one plate filled with delicious leftovers, and after that were very satisfied.

Now he wasn't hungry any more - and he wasn't a tired young adventurer. He was a prepared, well fed adventurer.

He made some notes in his cookbook, and determined to keep an eye all around himself for good things to eat. He tried everything he reasonably could come across, to mixed success, all the way through his underground journeys.

And found that he was a very successful and curious epicure as well as an adventurer! (Some people around him don't agree, this is okay.)

[ikemenomegas]

also the tags about consumerism and overprinting... feels like a straw manning bc apart from the heavily marketed book of the season from larger prints, a good portion of "fast fashion books" are... get this... ebooks

i love a good shitty ebook. bad prose bad grammar utterly insane plot. it's the book version of a bad movie. it makes me laugh, it makes scream, it makes me go "wtf" but like in a fun way. it's fun to pick out the good bits, it's super fun to have a friend who's also read the bad book and poke fun at the bad parts. it's fun to speedread it in about an hour or two and just know that this book did not "elevate" you intellectually but you had a good time nonetheless.

asking people to always confront what they're reading in a serious/"i have to learn something from this" method is ridiculous. part of critical thinking is just simply knowing that some things don't have to be taken seriously and people tend to be remarkably good at not taking things too seriously actually.

can I be so real with you. can I be honest. totally aside from the moral panic about women on booktok being """porn addicts""" because they're reading erotica, I think it's so fucking goofy when people act as if there needs to be some kind of societal reckoning with how tiktok books "aren't very good." like, okay? they're commercial products mass produced for entertainment. tiktok didn't invent that; you're going to have to take it up with pulp magazines and dime novels and comic books. you guys would throw up if you found out about Fanny Hill.

[ikemenomegas]

I'll get assassinated if the wrong people see this lol, but it's also why a ship between a bi man and a woman or a bi woman and a man or a femme presenting and masc presenting regardless of their pronouns/gender preferences cannot actually be a straight relationship if it's going to be comfortable and healthy

there's no such thing as a gay ship that 'feels like a straight ship' btw you guys just have really specific ideas about how queer people should look and act in order to be valid and i hate to say it but it's giving 'we can always tell'

[ikemenomegas]

All 👆 excellent 👆 points 👆

I'm not a big platform but I would ask anyone reading this not to engage with this new app. The desire for realism is real, the love for character is real, many people might want to hear their favorite character say the kind words they're reading, but I am not and never will be okay with someone else profiting off of something that 1. I created 2. I created for free 3. I created for free directly playing off of very much copyrighted material

And especially I am not okay with something that risks giving others more fodder to threaten fandom spaces, queer spaces, or creative spaces.

As this reddit thread brings up it is very likely "They're making money on it somehow, running that kind of thing isn't cheap. Which means they're making money off of our creative work." This puts us ALL at risk. Once again, a big reason Ao3 has been able to maintain itself is because it does not allow any profit to come from fanworks, we post and read for free on that Ao3.

The team for this app does not care about fandom spaces - or if they do, they're delusional and shortsighted about what this app could possibly accomplish, but given that, I'm comfortable saying this app is not a friend of fandom. It's a friend of profit and profiting off the labor of fanwriters, and it's a friend of wasting fan's valuable time with something that will continue to profit off of you. Accessibility tools already exist, this is not one of them - remember the best tool of marketing is to say something true that does not require any extra work put into the product. Sure it can be used for an accessibility reader, but that's not what they built it for.

Warning for criticism and what I’d consider some harsh to outright mean words:

So I’ve just been made aware of the project known of as ‘lore.fm’ and I’m not a fan for multiple reasons. For one this ‘accessibility’ tool complicates the process of essentially just using a screen reader (something native to all I phones specifically because this is a proposed IOS app) in utterly needless and inaccessible ways. From what I have been seeing on Reddit they have been shielding themselves (or fans of the project have been defending them) with this claim of being an accessibility tool as well to which is infuriating for so many reasons.

I plan to make a longer post explaining why this is a terrible idea later but I’ll keep it short for tonight with my main three criticisms and a few extras:

1. Your service requires people to copy a url for a fic then open your app then paste it into your app and click a button then wait for your audio to be prepared to use. This is needlessly complicating a process that exists on IOS already and can be done IN BROWSER using an overlay that you can fully control the placement of.

2. This is potentially killing your own fandom if it catches on with the proposed target market of xreader smut enjoyers because of only needing the link as mentioned above. You don’t have to open a fic to get a link this the author may potentially not even get any hits much less any other feedback. At least when you download a pdf you leave a hit: the download button is on the page with the fic for a reason. Fandom is a self sustaining eco system and many authors get discouraged and post less/even stop writing all together if they get low interaction.

3. Maybe we shouldn’t put something marketed as turning smut fanfic into audio books on the IOS App Store right now. Maybe with KOSA that’s a bad idea? Just maybe? Sarcasm aside we could see fan fiction be under even more legal threat if minors use this to listen to the content we know they all consume via sites like ao3 (even if we ask them not to) and are caught with it. Auditory content has historically been considered much more obscene/inappropriate than written content: this is a recipe for a disaster and more internet regulations we are trying to avoid.

I also have many issues with the fact that this is obviously redistributing fanfiction (thus violating the copyright we hold over our words and our plots) and removing control the author should have over their content and digital footprint. Then there is the fact that even though the creator on TikTok SAYS you can email to have your fic ‘excluded’ based on the way the demo works (pasting a link) I’m gonna assume that’s just to cover her ass/is utter bullshit. I know that’s harsh but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s probably a duck.

I am all for women in stem- I’ve BEEN a woman in Stem- but this is not a cool girl boss moment. This is someone naive enough to think this will go over well at best or many other things (security risks especially) at worst.

In conclusion for tonight: I hope this person is a troll but there is enough hype and enough paid for web domains that I don’t think that’s the case. There are a litany of reasons every fanfic reader and writer should be against something like this existing and I’ll outline them all in several other posts later.

Do not email their opt out email address there is no saying what is actually happening with that data and it is simply not worth the risks it could bring up. I hate treating seemingly well meaning people like potential cyber criminals but I’ve seen enough shit by now that it’s better to be safe than sorry. You’re much safer just locking all your fics to account only. I haven’t yet but I may in the future if that is the only option.

If anyone wants a screen reader tutorial and a walk through of my free favorites as well as the native IOS screen reader I can post that later as well. Sorry for the heavy content I know it’s not my normal fare.

[ikemenomegas]

I mean 😆 wouldn't you be pretty shocked if you saw an everyday man just flashing his chest while out about town?

If you want some behind-the-scenes gender politics, which omegaverse is a ripe and delicious playground for, we have four genders biologically different from a binary to begin with, not to mention those who feel fluidly either primary or secondarily, those who might choose to present secondary over their primary gender, those who are trans for either or both presentations, or those who (like in our world) choose their dress to send visible signals about how they perceive themselves/may wish to be perceived.

Jokes aside, you're right, people would have Feelings about an omega showing his chest in public. Sasuke presents fairly masculine, he's [in]famous in some circles and known as a man, so I love to think of there being this added layer to how he's perceived. To some his attire appears daring or freeing. But they see a man first and once they scent he's also omega, that attention changes and people are a lot more judgy. Knowing Sasuke, that's half of another reason to ramp it up.

Wait now that @/ikemenomegas points it out i have never thought about it but can you imagine how scandalous it must be for not only the heir of the Uchiha clan but also an omega showing his bare chest just like that on and about, like what would sasuke's parents or the clan olders or the people of konoha say?? 🫢

Right? Like, it would be super shocking!

Sasuke's clan would not approve lol. There would be much clutching of pearls and outraged sputtering.

I don't think it's uncommon for some shinobi, even omega shinobi, to wear scandalous things, but very, very rarely are those omegas affiliated with clans. And they are certainly never clan heirs!!

[ikemenomegas]

thank you @spacealligator

last song: Super Tuna! (danana). It's a song that fills you with energy and makes you smile!

last book: I'm in the middle of The Prisoner's Throne. No one else is able to write a fae world like Holly Black (<- me holding back from accusing other popular authors by saying something true and positive)

last movie: The Menu (extremely unsettling and very pretty. I don't have time to watch a lot of movies these days sadly, but this was a meeting point between cooking show and clue haha)

last tv show: Drink Masters? i think that's what it's called. the cocktail competition that had only one season...

last thing i googled: paella recipe without seafood... sometimes the fishy taste is just...

favourite colour: I don't have one T.T If the color is nice to look at or is part of a good combination... maybe emerald green is easiest to look at. it's a color that makes one's stress melt away

sweet/savoury/spicy: spicy!! the only problem is too much spicy is bad for your skin and can throw your body system out of whack...

relationship status: ...bored

looking forward to: I have a test this week and then I can catch up T.T on everything (hsr rip) and also calling a friend soon! also i feel like everyone changed their minds about love&deepspace cgi being too creepy, or recently decided to play so I'm seeing a lot of people talking about it and reminds me I want to try it. so maybe I'll figure out how to fix the emulator on my computer soon

current obsession: honkai... the characters seem fun to write although nothing is finished yet. Itachi. Always obsessed with Itachi

tagging: @omeganronpa @animeomegas @soapshusband @dommyqueenwrites @uhzuku @papernstory, @sashimiyas open tag to anyone else.

I'm not really good with these kinds of things and don't have lots of mutuals so i hope the people who get tagged don't think it's too much...

10 people i’d like to get to know better

thanks for the tag @acian0 🌻🤗

last song: Starvation by Aurora

last book: i've become a fanfiction addict, so i hardly ever read anything that doesn't give me instant joy. But I'm currently trying to read Murder in the Crooked House by Soji Shimada

last movie: Arrietty by studio Ghibli

last tv show: Shrinking Season 2

last thing i googled: Sōji Shimada's name for this post xD but before that it was just the address of a new bakery in town 😋

favourite colour: yellow 💛💛💛

sweet/savoury/spicy: today was my "sweets are allowed" day, so, SWEET!

relationship status: single

looking forward to: obito-week, kakaobivalentine, and kkobweek 2025 🥳💛 + springtime, planned and improvised trips 😊

current obsession: Obito and Kakashi ❤️‍🔥

tagging 💌 @back-to-rose @ichaichahatake @hairybeardtongue @waruemi @kawkawsrii @spacealligator @protectbatson

[ikemenomegas]

(it's extra funny bc 200£ is significantly more than 200$ he can keep the change because that's what good sl--- /gets tackled by the mature filter)

You're welcome y'all 😌 He's also screaming at you to breed him and he promises he'll give you lots of bunny-pups who look just like you🫶-🌘

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Straight to horny jail, moon anon!! Do not pass go, do not collect £200!!

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