#maybe v12

[krys-loves-otome]

Had forgotten these lil gems when I was testing out marker and found the perfect colors for @batteryrose's Valerie (though the digitalization process makes it more bubblegum pink and cooler, which makes me sad)

Not gonna claim I know Val's height situation nor her pickle preferences, but this is the vibes I generally get from her

[trashh-chan]

last art for tonight (morning). cant afford to make another because im just getting tired and my carpal tunnels getting my ass

[janichroma]

🎉Q/A Answers!🎉🎉

There's a lot to parse here! Warning that there are some spoilers of current content in here! So please tread carefully!

Q1.) I'm very curious about Death Wings. Do all of them exist in a similar state to Robo-Ren, where their true bodies are asleep and they pilot a mechanical suit, or is there something that differentiates them?

Ren is an exception. He's the only one who pilots a separate body. The others are in their own!

Q2.) Which Rejuv characters would be most likely to start a podcast together?

Adam and Valarie probably have a lot of deep 3 am conversations so with a little help from Saki, those two would def make a podcast. Other highlights are Saki+Erick and maybe Texen by himself because he just talks about how women are objects or something i dunno.

Q3.) Are you absolutely sure this is a good idea? Are you being held hostage?

I deadass thought i was gonna get 10-20 questions at most..... So yeah its a good idea.

Q4.) So, half servants. They’ve been so confusing to me. Until 13.5 I was just under the assumption servants were just infertile lol. So, do half servants like…. Inherit any powers or anything from their servant parent? Like, the ability to teleport and things like that.

Servants cannot reproduce when they're first created/in their generic form, but when they transform into their own person they gain a soul and they are then able to reproduce because they're just like any other person. It's just that their origins are different. Servants can still use their magic, but their children cannot. Although, I bet their children -do- inherit some traits from their Servant parent. Probably like just having above average strength/speed etc. That's not universal, though.

Q5.) How come Tesla doesn't let Amber bring us to the villa after the gym battle now?

Well... When two people love each other very much...

Q6.) Do the executives of Team Xen and most importantly Ren have the green gem somewhere on their body that marks them as members of Team Xen?

I wonder...

Q7.) I know in the past, you said that you haven't seen any correct guesses as to the identity of Madame X. Has that changed since the release of 13.5?

Pretty close, but no cigar.

Q8.) would crescent like yuri/gl

I banish you to the hungry worm dimension.

Q9.) i know that some characters, namely tesla (and maybe jolene?) call themselves "honorary" members of the elite 8. is there any specific reason for that? also can roboren run doom this is important.

There's no specific reason other than it soundin' fancy. Roboren can run tetris so maybe!

Q10.) What are the perks/ benefits of joining Team Xen? ( asking for a friend )

Amazing health care, and amazing investments in your 401k.

Q11.) I wanted to ask, which character has, for you, the most chance to surprise us in future updates? Be it badly or greatly.

i can't answer this because it gives too much implicit information!!! Sorry!!

Q12.) what pokemon teams (or just ace pokemon) would characters you don’t ever battle have? for example, volta, eizen, martin, rune, eden, etc? will we ever fight any of them?

I don't want to answer this either because we will probably have an opportunity to fight -most- of these people here, but for Rune it's already established to be Rapidash (Ace), and Eden would probably have a Blissey somewhere.

Q13.) How close of friends are Amber and Crawli? I wanted to ask since they're both Gym Leaders of Terajuma and around the same age, especially when Tesla and Amber moved to Telia after the incident.

They're not too close. They know of each other, and have spoken, but it's mostly a "friendly landlord" kind of relationship. They only talk when it's necessary... Not that Crawli is a landlord, or has any bearing on Teila.

Q14.) Hihi, what are somethings that have changed from version v12 (and also v13) that you really like/are proud of? And are there things you miss from previous versions, but you had to get rid of for any reasons? (I'm personally absolutely in love with the redone Terajuma stuff and especially Crawli, and also the redone Ryland scenes but that's because I'm biased.)

Terajuma 100%. I LOVE Terajuma now. I used to really despise it, evidently. But I think it's so fun and has a lot of nice moments. Valor Mountain still sucks, though. I have a huge urge to simplify that place, but then i'd have to redo a certain scene later and i dont wanna bc it's already perfect. Suffering from success... As for things I miss from previous versions... I can't think of any right now because I love where we're at rn so I guess I don't miss anything? There are certain scenes like Melia with her long hair flowing, but outside of small instances like that, nah!

Q15.) If in the nightmare school "Jean" was able to manifest flora's explosives from the dreams of GDC's citizens... Where could he have manifested A Gun from??

Probably the police station, tbh.

Q16.) What's your personal favorite part of the game thus far?

Honestly Chapter 2 -> to the end of Terajuma is so much fun to me. Not that the other chapters aren't, but that part is comfy. I also love Renegade Route chapter 0.

Q17.) Now if I'm remembering correctly, you mentioned that Venam was supposed to be just a side character at first. What made you decide to change her role into such a major one? Also how did the Melia/Venam come about?

Yeah so, Beth was actually in Venam's spot if you can believe that. Yes, the same one that sells Moo-Moo Milk. We already had a prominent blonde character and Beth wasn't boring or anything, she just didn't add a fun dynamic with Melia. Although back then the formula was more rebornified. Meaning characters rarely traveled together and they kind of just showed up when they needed to. Now characters are constantly always traveling with you and stuff. Not that the old format is bad, it's just a different take. I brought Venam back because she's Melia's best friend and it felt real weird that she was not involved -at all- compared to her and Ren. Their relationship came about because.. Well, I kinda just knew. Venam was always a lesbian in my head, and Melia is def the character that would love anyone if they gave her the chance to love them. It just felt right?

Q18.) 1) When was Eizen conceptualized? 2) What is one funny story about developing v13.5 that you can share? 3) Were there any pieces of media you took inspiration from while writing Renegade(mainly Central Tower)? 4) Do you have any plans of making more games after Rejuv?

Yall are cheating with the multiple parts!! Anyway, Eizen was conceptualized sometime in v13's development, but he... she.. they... were just a concept at the point. (stick a pin in that) 2.) A funny story? Hm... I honestly can't remember anything rn. Probably just some bug that caused us pain and it was super simple to fix. 3.) To be honest, I didn't take any real inspiration for Renegade. I actually went into doing that route without knowing exactly what I wanted from it. But the pieces sorta fell into place and im in love with it lol. M2 was always going to be a character in the game, it's just that she was never named M2 and was more tragic than unhinged. M2's personality was altered slightly because I wanted Renegade to have SOME sort of a balance, and a partner in crime (sorta) felt appropo. 4.) Yes, I have original games in the works AND plans for at LEAST 1 more fangame after this. I'd like to start from scratch with all the knowledge I have now. Though, it wouldnt be nowhere near as long as Rejuv. I'm talking like 4-5 releases. lol.

Q19.) Wanted to ask how renegade!MC perceives Clear/Kieran, the 3 choices we have to respond to Clear asking us to go see Clear all seemed cold towards her. I guess they aren't a potential new friend group?

They are a means to an end. The MC is not close with Clear or Kieran at all. They barely even talk outside of the instances we've already seen. Maybe that'll change?

Q20.) This has been a matter of contention between some friends of mine and I. How old is Odessa? I'd assumed she was below 18 as she's not taken the throne so she might not be an adult and her dad's in charge until that happens, but they think she's an adult. For something less serious, who in Rejuv's most likely to start a ponzi scheme, and who's most likely to buy in.

Odessa is likely to be around 25-ish. She's a legal adult, and is in line to be Queen of Kristiline, but their family line already holds so little influence and power that Aquis just makes her a figurehead and manages things on his own. Kind of a Cinderella of situation? More similar but not 1:1. To be honest? I figure Aquis hopes Kailani to return one day and assume her duties because he likes her more (Even if he abused her the same way he did Odessa.) As for the ponzi scheme... I feel like Thomas Jr would make one and Texen would fall for it.

Q21.) Who is the hardest character to write consistently?

Honestly? Melia. She's given me the most trouble despite her being so prominent. Im good at it now I think, but before I never knew how to write her because anything I did came with criticism lol, and still does, but now I don't really give a shit. Amber's a close second.

Q22.) When Crescent fell down the cliff, did she get the interceptor contract then was asked to become a storm chaser? The events seemed to have happened close to each other. Curious since the hags serve Variya, so only 1 of the 2 parties could've asked her both, but that wasn't the case.

Yes it was shortly after she fell. To be clear, the sparkle the protags saw was the sparkling of water from the moonlight above. So they knew it was "safe" to push Crescent. She could have died but she had a chance to survive a situation where the alternative meant certain death.

Q23.) Will the Elite 8 even be able to be battled on Renegade? I imagine Karrina would replace Karen if Karen dies on Paragon, and Karrina doesn’t get pushed, but she eats the Deletos on Renegade if you don’t push her in Castle Zygara, and it made me wonder.

The members of the Elite 8 may be battleable, but not in an official league format. That's all I'll say on that.

Q24.) I'm still really curious about emma, things that come up in my mind a lot is the part where she looks to be used by variya to speak to melia during the part where amanda knocks her out, and during pearl route when we see the note signed by someone with the same name- emma. because of this, I've been pretty curious about this disguise thing the space hags gave melia. did they- or variya gave them orders to- pull the appearance from the deceased emma? does this mean ... they're the same person?

The name part is merely a coincidence and acts as foreshadowing. Melia reads the note and is like "Emma...?" and wonders if she would share the same fate as the ones written on the notes, and then lo and behold she has the same condition.

Q25.) This question is regarding Renegade route: Do the 6 years that M2 and our chosen host were lost in that alternate world match up with a version release that is outdated, or is an in-universe timer that we shouldn't overthink that much?

Honestly, that wasnt the reason for 6 years but now I wish it was that's rad as hell. But no the 6 years isn't even 6 years. It's an unspecified amount of time that passes that she perceives as 6. They both couldve been down there for a million years and they wouldnt know. The area they're in is similar to the chasm where it wears down your mind after long exposure. Maybe that's how Melia could take such a bad turn in life. The protags are always optimistic to escape though so they are able to hold onto their mind.

Q26.) #1 spector fan here asking questions about him since he probably won't get much spotlight outside of one quest... what was his life like before taking on the reserve leader role (other than what we already know, like where he lived,) and what are his interests outside of the paranormal, if any? thanks for the opportunity! love this game a lot :^)

Spector is a history buff and loves to do Goth Gf things like take strolls in graveyards at 3 am 🥰🥰. Probably spent most of his time in the District of Hope. He also likes exploring ruins and abandoned buildings. Not limited to Aevium tbh.

Q27.) I know Eizen seems to be a strictly side quest character, but have K/C or the hags ever tried contacting him for recruitment? His research seems too valuable to go unused for them.

Eizen has absolutely no interest in either of those groups. If they even tried to do anything he'd noclip out of the room and fall out of bounds and then die half life 1 style.

Q28.) :3c what are some characters that are trans if i may ask?

Ryland - FTM Party Girl - MTF Alain - NB Aero - NB V - Genderfluid Eden - Genderfluid

Q29.) would angie still possess alice in renegade? :0 super curious about it hihihi

Whatever happened passively in Paragon (Meaning Cera being abandoned, Alice getting possessed), STILL HAPPENS IN RENEGADE, we just don't see it because the trail of events that led to us seeing them in Paragon do not happen. So... in Renegade, that means Alice is still...

Q30.) How did the aftermath scene from defeating the hags on renegade come to be? I'm very curious

i assume you mean the Tera Raid parody? Well, it came up on my playlist on the train and I was feeling chaotic. what if in rejuv but deadly ?

Q31.) who's the shortest character (excluding the younger kids >>)

Probably either Cera, tbh. She's a short lil one. I don't have canon heights for characters outside like an estimation. But in my head Cera tiny.

Q32.) Hello! I would like to ask, Did the interceptor, before the SS Oceana be attacked, have fake memories of a life alongside Nancy? Since Crescent wanted the MC to have a normal life, I always wondered If she created new memories to make this easier And if I can ask another question. What is/was the criteria to someone see the MC appearance correctly? Huey and Lavender saw two different ones, while Aelita saw the correct one(in my case she saw Alain when asked)

Crescent did not create memories for the player. They just started acting weirdly and stopped talking to her. They then started to behave the same way you, the player, does. Believing that what is happening is real and has always been real (Because this is all the information you have right now), so Crescent takes this opportunity to try and let go by giving you a better (but fake!) life. It's why she sorta distances herself a bit (but not too much) so that you could integrate yourself into that delusion. We love being neuro <3.

The criteria is pretty ambiguous intentionally, but for me it has to do with personality and connection. Aelita always sees who you truly are because shes so close with the player + she has envoy shenanigans going on. If you would get along with Alain the most, the player would show themselves as alain etc.

Q33.) Any disclosable reasons why the rift dex now only has 2 remaining entries instead of 3 like in v13?

It's probably just a discrepancy that happened due to shifting over code bases. The number of slots left is not indicative of anything.

Q34.) hello jan!! hope you’re doing well :D is there any more information or random various facts about the androids (clear/kieran/eden) that can be said that ISN’T spoilers? it’s ok if not! i’ve just been curious about them all lately, especially in regards to how eden’s powers with emotional manipulation work.

Nothing too interesting about Clear or Kieran that isn't spoilers and isnt known already, but as for Eden... Eden was eccentric and had a personality thats real close to prince peasley from superstar saga LOL. I feel like Eden would have a catch phrase like "Mon Cherie", and flip their iridiscent hair in mockery. Eden's manipulation was very devastating. You would feel an immeasurable amount of joy when inflicted that you would give over any information because youre... happy to! But it was also very deadly. If exposed to it for too long you become way too happy to the point where you lose the ability to function normally. You'd fall into a happy-apathetic state and collapse and just lay where you fell until you starved or died in some other way. Because you're happy to! Everything in moderation, guys.

Q35.) Hi jan!!! quick question — why do you hate me why did the renegade route do that /real/ question though…. My buddy found some like… older stuff about Eizen in v13’s files. Something about a girl named Ærika?? (Idk if thats even connected but whatever) How did Eizen come to be? What was the process?

Hi remember the pin I stuck earlier? Ok we're unpinning that now. So, Eizen was originally a woman (So happy for his transition), And her name was Ærika. But we already had so many girls in the game and I wanted to create more male characters so then Eizen was born. I'm glad for it too because Eizen is way more interesting than Ærika. Eizen/Ærika came to be when [redacted]. I can't explain his origins quite yet, sorry! But one day you Will Realize.

Q36.) Hi Jan, thanks for the amazing game! In Alamissa, before we get yeeted into the past by Kieran, when Ren gives us sylveon and, um, Nancy’s remains, he mentions that he has stayed (even after breaking off with crescent) with xen for an important reason… but won’t specify. Later, he says the reason is because he wants to help nastasia. But the alamissa convo happened before ren met Anastasia (baby version). Did ren want to help nastasia before he met her past version and learned that she was…

Ren didn't know who she was at that point, but Ren has seen Nastasia in vulnerable points (that we havent seen... yet?). She has discussed with him that shes looking for someone prior to Alamissa, but she was very vague about it, and still is, but she's opened up a lot to Ren over time.

Q37.) This is probably a weirder question but will all of the main leaders, even the ones we battle outside of their gym duties have custom moves? If not, would it be safe to assume the main leaders use the moves of their reserves?

All leaders have custom moves. Reserves use the move the main leader does! They have TM's for these, but they aren't allowed to give them out to winners. At least, at the moment!

Q38.) what was your favorite part of 13.5's development?

Making Renegade Route lmfao. It was so much funnnnnnn. I cant wait for the rest.

Q39.) what’s the EoN experience like for someone going through it? If that’s too spoilery, what was the most surprising part of people’s reactions to .karma content?

You're getting scrubbed. It looks painful, but it's painless... and seamless! You literally cannot process what is going on. As for most surprising, I was surprised people loved M2 so much. I mean, I had a feeling people would like her, but she really took off and that makes me happy bc shes so fun to write.

Q40.) Hi Jan! My question is this: Will Melia and Venam get back together somewhat in the future? Or will they just stay friends? (Paragon route)

Who knows...

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An extra question im throwing in here because ive seen a lot of talk around this character.

Q1X.) What inspired M2? M2 was conceptualized to be more of a tragic character, but I felt like Renegade needed some balancing out mood wise, or else it was too much of a drag. M2 was inspired by an insecurity of mine, actually, or I guess less so an insecurity and more of a question a lot of us ask ourselves. What if? What if I did this differently? What if I was born elsewhere? How different would I be? When Covid first started running about and I thought the fate of our lives was about to be cut short potentially, I started thinking about how I lived my life and how much I missed out on certain things. M2 is that. She gets a second chance at life and decides she wants to be everything but Melia because she's already lived that life and it turned out poorly. Hence the name M2. The second version of herself.

A song that inspired me is Immaterial by Sophie (Rest in peace)

2:03 is important

Now that I have a second chance at life, "I'll be anyone, anything, any shape." I mentioned before that your archetype powers manifests as your deep inner desire, and since M2 wants to be everything she couldn't be, it turns into her creating alternative selves through clones made of light. Another point of inspiration for her forms is actually Barbie of all things. Not the movie, although the movie takes advantage of the same principle, that Barbie can be anything. A doctor, a lawyer, life guard, a government official etc. M2 is everything always and forever, and she's also nothing at all. Which one is the real M2?

[flyingcakeee]

Posted enough happiness time for angst ^^

Tw for dead and car crashes :(

Before anyone could try to console the Canadian, Lance spun away on his heel as quickly as, yet unbalanced, as he could, nearly slamming himself into the wall. The hospital was not a nice place to Lance, not anymore. Nobody could console Lance, it's impossible to console a dead man.

Lance made one mistake, an over correction too big for the car, being sent into the barriers at speeds faster than anyone could have imagined. He would forgive Checo if he didn't immediately faint after the impact, never to awake again. Checo went for the overtake, Lance defended. Maybe both of them were too aggressive, Lance decided he was the most aggressive. It didn't help that Lance and Checo were televised in their battle, the cameras showing the entire world how Lance spun and slammed into the barriers so hard spectators were injured with debris on the opposite end of the track.

Lance remembers climbing out of that car, trying to find a marshal to lean on as his leg hurt so badly, but they ignored him. He turned to see where they were running to and his helmet was still in the car. That's when Lance realized, he never got out.

Lance spent the next four weeks in the hospital, watching as his dad would come and go with the races, his sister, Esteban, and Fernando also occasionally popping in. Mick came in once but it was too much for him, he couldn't come back. George and Max visited twice before bidding Lance farewell, as if they knew his fate.

They all know his fate before Lance did.

"Sir, I'm sorry, I've already told you, there's nothing we can do. He needs to be taken off life support, you're causing him more pain now than he needs."

That's all the nurse said before Lance tried to flee. Lance didn't know where he could flee, where he could seek comfort, he wasn't him.

The sun above beamed brighter and brighter as the seconds ticked, the sound of V10's and V8's roaring above, the occasional V12 and V6 wizzing past. Lance wasn't ready to race with his hero's yet but it seemed like he had no choice, Gilles there to guide Lance to a hiding spot he'll always be safe in.

[tsukiyadori]

Reading Log 2024.04 - April

Previous: Reading (Watching) Log 2024.02-2024.03 - February-March

Reading languages: German, English, French, Japanese, not listing which was what

Titles are as I’ve read them either first or most and thus remember it for that title mostly

Not going to bother putting in the original titles of translated reads unless there is something worthy of note to it

Cursive titles have been completed

Some notes' content may be subject to repetition here and there as I also copied some older notes from casual conversations over and didn't go though any rounds of cutting things down.

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APRIL

I now have a new phone lockscreen wallpaper. (It's from How to Survive as a Villain's webtoon a.k.a. To Be or Not to Be chapter 71). The moon being pretty, and a thing for me is kinda self-explanatory given my alias names, but usually you find images with moons to have them being all on the upper part of the image, because obviously moons are up there in the sky. However, for phone lock screens this is incredibly unpractical, because on the upper part is the time display and that one's white... So this one is perfect with the moon not being on the upper part but the lower part of the image. I wonder what blossoms there are supposed to be. I'd guess peach blossoms (with the village being called literally Peach Blossom Village, but wasn't it supposed to be summer in that timeline? And peach blossoms bloom in March to April.)

I found out that you can add any number of tags, but tumblr kicks everything bar the first 30 somethings upon saving and among those displayed only the first 20 actually will count for showups if you want to filter posts with that hashtag. Or like search on the phone app. What the heck. What do you mean I need to actually choose the most important ones now each time. D:

Maybe I should try do monthlies after all, so there won't be as many tags to begin with.

I feel like this is gonna just be a rambling about one particular series this month anyway...

I have learned something new this month. The Chinese have a slang word called 'dog blood'. It's apparantely coming from theater where death scenes were enacted with dog blood and first was about extended nonsensical farewell speeches of death scenes but eventually expanded to describe all sorts of cheap cheesy lines in general. Or in other words, this is basically synonymous to what I call bad, rotten or trash cheese.

Light Novels:

7th Time Loop v2

Brunhild v1-2

By the Grace of Gods V12

Dragon Live Online p8-11.5

Hell Mode v3p1-3

How to Survive As a Villain Novel ch46-57, ch181-183, Ch58-75, ch209-210, ch206, ch196, ch76-136 (and some other random scene cheery picks completely out of order)

Is it wrong to pick up Girls in a Dungeon v9

Mushoku Tensei v1p1-6

The Case Files of Jeweler Richard v13p15-56

The Eminence in Shadow v2p6-8

The Executioner and Her Way of Life v1

The Faraway Paladin v1-2

The Saint's Magic Power is Omipotent LN v2p1-v3p6

Unnamed Memory After the End v1p16-22

Unnamed Memory LN v1p1-2

Wolf and Parchment v4-5

Your Forma v4

Manga:

Aiko und die Wölfe des Zwielichts v1-3

Ano Natsu ga Houwa suru. ch17

Are You Okay with a Slightly Older Girlfriend? Ch2.4-16.1

August 15th

Buta no Liver wa Kanetsushiro ch35.1-2

Dance in the Vampire Bund The Memories of Sledgehammer v2ch5-8

Delinquent Daddy & Tender Teacher v3

Domestic na Kanojo v5-8

Don't Call Me Daddy

Ein schicksalhafter Bund mit dem Fuchs v1-v2ch11

Fake it to Break it Ch1-8.3

Feng Yu Jiu Tian ch1-4

Flying Witch v11-12ch73

Get the Moon

Goblin Slayer The Singing Death v4ch16-19

Goblin Slayer Year One v8

Goblin Slayer v12

Hallo, ich bin eine Hexe und mein Schwarm wünscht sich einen Liebestrank von mir v3ch15

Hiso Hiso v4-6

How I Attended an All-Guy's Mixer Ch1-4

In Sachen… Geheimnisse (v3)

In Sachen… Vertrauen (v2)

Intoxicated East Wind Skimthrough

Iron Cock Skimthrough

Isekai Transporter ch1-4

Isekai de Ane ni Namae wo Ubawaremashita ch18.1

Kakan no Oukoku no Hanagirai Hime ch12.3-13.1

Kakko Warukute Kakkoii Kimi v1

Ki ga Au to Iu Koto wa v1

Kijima-san & Yamada-san Ch17.3-24.2

Knitter's High ch27.1-2

Koisuru (Otome) no Tsukurikata ch82-83

Kono Koi wo Hoshi ni wa Negawanai ch12.3-13.1

Korsar der Liebe v1-3

Like Milk & Honey v1-2

Living With My Brother's Wife Ch12-15-48

Lonely Castle in the Mirror v1-3

Loop 7-kaime no Akuyaku Reijou wa, Moto Tekikoku de Jiyuu Kimama na Hanayome Seikatsu wo Mankitsusuru ch31

Maid-san wa Taberu dake ch48

Mein Isekai-Leben v1-v4ch12

Mir dir im Wunderland v2 (ou of order read)

Miryou no Otome to Katabutsu Hittou Majutsushi no Hatsukoi Kiroku bangaihen3-4

My Awkward Senpai Ch71-75

My Elder Sister v5-6ch44

My Not-So-Fair Lady is Doomed! (But Not If I Can Help It) Ch1.1-4.1

My Roommate is a Cat v6-8ch24

My Unexpected Marriage Ch1-10.2

Okazari Ouhi ni Nattanode, Kossori Hataraki ni deru koto ni Shimashita ~Usagi ga Iru no de Hitorine mo Sabishiku Arimasen!~ ch25.2-26.4

On or Off v1-4

Rebirth Two Lives I Still Love You ch0-2

Ryuko v2

Sasaki & Peeps v1

Shuumatsu Touring ch37.1-2

Soko ni Suwaruna

Suicide Notes Laid on the Table Ch20-35.1

The 6th Loop: I'm Finally Free of Auto Mode in this Otome Game Ch1.1-3.2

Tokyo Aliens v7ch29-33

Unamed Memory ch36.1-2

Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi ch38.1-3

Yomei Ichinen to Senkokusareta Boku ga, Yomei Hantoshi no Kimi to Deatta Hanashi ch11.1-2

Webtoons:

Breed my Dear Enemy Ch182-194

Fall in the Night with You Ch72-73

Flowers in the Secret Place Ch89-155

Her Atypical Story Ch0-5

Ice Lamp: The Chronicles of Kira Ch45-48

Taberare Usa ch99-101

The Blind & The Homeless Ch8-42

The Goddess of Healing Ch67-79

To be or not be Ch24-95

Notes:

To Be or Not to Be (reread on Comikey in progress): So well, the first time was a bit not as attentive and then too quick on binge last month so I simply started from the beginning again. And it's so funny in hindsight that it took me until starting the novel to realized this fellow is just about as aroace as you can be (who slowly drops into a demi-romance). Like, I should have had caught the hint latest with this:

(Difference between a brotherly love or one between lovers)

This is, if you think about it, not the sort of question you'd normally ask, especially not when somebody just confessed to you and there is no homophobia theme nor desperate denial at play, and you don't even doubt that it's meant seriously and can even see that the feelings are genuine. It's.... totally a question I'd also ask, tho. No wonder, this entire progression of that romance and him taking so long to catch on just felt so plausible to me.

Other than that, I still think the first season (up to their first separation) is a pretty great adaption, it takes shortcuts and adds some more flourish at places. The second and third seasons however, after reading the novels now feel excruciatingly chopped, although it still manages to do the most important scenes right. But much of its worldbuilding and side characters is just gone, and some things are still there but don't exactly make any sense - like that hairband from eunuch Zhao that snapped, it ever was only shown intact in the webtoon, but when Xiao YuAn goes to bury his box of mementos there is Hong Xiu's hairpin this broken hairband. Or the list of names of fallen soldiers. Other little changes make sense, and some just seem clunky. (Like this whole "I want to bed him" in the last arc has an entirely different vibe considering they had been at it before already unlike in the novel.) And my complaint after the first read that the last third just seems way too focused on the two MCs with zero inclusion of the side characters or expanding the world, the novel in fact is like that still in that arc, but it already has done all that in the second season, which was nearly entirely cut in the webtoon (or if you look really closely there are some one-liners or random panels showing it) and does some more in the extras, which the webtoon doesn't adapt. Still it does get many of the most important scenes right and the art remains pretty. (Except the last third still has me had this eyelashes issue. Whyyyy.)

How to Survive As a Villain Novel ch46-57, ch181-183, Ch58-75, ch209-210, ch206, ch196, ch76-136 (and some other random scene cheery picks completely out of order): When you go like, let's read it slowly so it lasts longer!! and that even works, but then you just start reading backwards and then all across all over the place out of order anyway. Oh, well....

I already got some clear aroace moods with Xiao YuAn in the beginning that I read last month but upon reading on.... this fellow's really about as aroace as you can be without naming it. It even goes all the length of establishing him as somebody who doesn't understand it at all, has to ask about it, and questions the veracity of the answer at places. (And I still think the "sexual orientation" bits on the official character bios on both him and Yan HeQing are a complete riot. 😂) They both look very demi to me; if that original novel is to still apply Yan HeQing falls for somebody who extends their hand when he's in anguish and suffering and over that emotional attachment he develops feelings (and then it's a dam breaking). For Xiao YuAn it's obviously very slow burn and building one little pebble atop another until a wall that makes him feel safe has been built.

What I thought was incredibly interesting tho, Xiao YuAn still comes off as pretty ace even after all is said and done. And he doesn't exactly know it - he continues to live with a misconception that's just incredibly widespread and not known. In that same scene from the above webtoon snippet he asks Yan HeQing what sort of like/love is he even refererring to. Does he know the difference, is it a brotherly/comradery feeling or one between lovers. That's also what is in the webtoon in Chinese (I actually went to check that one out), but the novel (which scene I also went to check out, at least what web version I could find in Chinese) has him be much more crude and to the point to put that question between that brotherly like/love or if it was one where Yan HeQing would want to have sex with him. (Which he answers rather clearly as having very much some voracious appetite for him in that respect, the answer is still there in the webtoon.) Now put this next to each other. That's his idea: The love of lovers is something that includes sexual desire. Sound familiar? Uhu. He even suggests in lieu of answering him that they simply do the deed. In order to learn and find out. The man's got some very wrong ideas right there. A few of them seem way too dumbly familliar.

The hilariously funny part is, Xiao YuAn proceeds to be incredibly unhinged about this spice stuff afterward. He is going for it, he does the most outrageous things, but he does them in a way that just feels entirely clueless or he realizes just how extreme they are after it's already done or shortly about to be done and he reflects on it and feels incredibly stupid. And most of all, if he causes a dam break in Yan HeQing who, all seduced and riled up, can't help but eat him up rather ravenously he always winds up wailing for him to please stop, because kinda, he didn't have that in mind at all so much. It's like he never really is aware of what he's gonna get himself into and doesn't really learn his lessons either. But also, once he gets touched, he is plenty able to feel sexual pleasure, he doesn't exactly hate it. It's just... it seems more like a passive body reaction, a sort of being okay with it, rather than an innate desire out of attraction? He never seems actually thirsty for it (unlike Yan HeQing who is incredibly straving for it, but knows it and restrains himself constantly.)

He's the first to initiate and propose them doing it and is notoriously stubborn about getting Yan HeQing to do it, but also says it's not like he is in a hurry (or like coming off as badly wanting it because of an actual proper desire like Yan HeQing always has), but it's just he feels like they'd never get the right timing to do it at all otherwise. It makes him sound desperate, like he feels a duty to actually do it and guilty for not doing it, almost as if he has to prove something. And whenever Yan HeQing kinda distances himself from him for whatever reason his go to is to try seduce him and break his self-control for forced up intimacy. (And then just winds up regretting it, because it's too much.) And it seems to entirely not align with what he actually wants and needs most fo have exactly that connection he seeks. After that last dramatic reunion in the third part where Yan HeQing is so out of himself and selfcontrol he wants him so badly tied to bed and everything like those innermost desires he once told him (but never actually executed like that, because he doesn't want to hurt him), Xiao YuAn instead just wants to hug him. He's wanting physical intimicy, but it's more about lying in one another's arms for a peaceful sleep. Every single time when he's still oblivious to it all, but clearly already attached, he just has Yan HeQing accompany him to spend some quality time together. He's the one who wants to have dates even as they weren't named such and even has to explain that thing about it's simply to just spend some good time together to him. (All the while Yan HeQing is so thirsty wanting to steal kisses from him.) And whenever he fawns over the man, it's kinda suspiciously in just aesthethic ways...? (well for what I've read anyway.)

30% of it feels more like a sort of playfulness, a sort of stubborn competition, fueled by those "tyrannical president" antics, which trope he entirely is not, but spent his entirely past life being forced into being and still very much influences his thought process. Almost as if if he doesn't get Yan HeQing to jump at him, it's like he is lacking in attractiveness, something that chips away at his self value. Another 30% is him appearing like he considers it the thing to be done, almost as if he owes it to him, especially as he knows that Yan HeQing's wants in that regard run much deeper and notorious. Yet another 30% is him kinda just enjoy everything before the actual act. Like as if getting him to do it is the goal rather than actually doing it. He clearly enjoys the teases to break Yan HeQing's defenses, his self-control, his stoism. And even as he knows some of his things are kinda outrageous, he, to some extend, still enjoys them. It's kinda the same thing with his fixation on terrible tropes and cheesy lines and everything 'dog blood', it's excruciatingly terrible, all trashy, but he can't help but also kinda look forward to it. The last 10% are... really just him having no darn clue. Like however did he think that red silk bondage was a good idea??? 😂 Maybe I should not laugh as me, surely I'd be just as dumb myself if it ever came to be...

Other than that I quite like how the isekai/transmigration thing plays out.

Xiao YuAn doesn't really get to be all OP or a sort of cheater because of being from a modern world - that is not as a plot device. There are some indications and little details that he does bring in some modernization, like proposing that meritocratic exams system the actual historical China also has had, but it's never really played as a plot point that flaunts his superior knowledge or anything. What he ultimately winds up tackling - corruption, decandency - are things entirely the same still in the modern word and he's also struggling with it all the same as he would in any modern world as well. He knows the future by the plotline, but beyond having a better grasp at insight to their character and be nice to them Hamefura-style, it's at the same time also kinda the obvious thing to do as a decent person. And he's having plenty ability to have an insight on human nature and getting other people liking him even without the cheat skills from the novel plot as his time in the TaoYuan village proves.

I still absolutely do not like that bit about Xiao YuAn's brother, he just remains a complete plot device, but that the doppelgänger from Wester Shu gets to wake up in the modern world as him to improve on his own depression and helplessness was a nice touch. (One the webtoon should have rather have, when it had them actually have a conversation with each other, rather than how in the novel Xiao YuAn only every saw him from a distrance and asked about him. He remained a completely stranger there, so him kinda not having as much compassion to upkeep his past identity's honor seems more plausible. Especially as he's introduced as a good guy, unlike that Nothern emperor who is a scummy villain (and then even he got to have a little bit pity left for him by the original book's ending for him with is love affair.))

That and how it's part of how Xiao YuAn has a few deep seated traumata and in that way that they don't seem obvious at all, because he drowns it all in his smiles, his goofy riduculousness, his apparant ability to just let grudges go when all he does is just to bury them and run away. All that load, it didn't just magically disappear in his new life, no, they come to wreck him even in this new world. He has baggage and a new life doesn't magically fix it nor is this fantasy escapism world it the solution to it in the end. How many isekai tales actually make use of this oppotunity to add some more emotional development? We never really learn much about how he lived his life in the modern world, but little insight is there only describes titbits to establish the origins. But it was never really addressed in his childhood and it wasn't cured at all either, nor is it likely that it's curable at all. Those scars are there and with his futile struggles they only got worse culmating in his rash and terrible decisions. What ultimately keeps it in check and just puts a lid on it without erasing it, is being showered with that love he was missing his entire life by Yan HeQing and his found family in the village and also realizing how the easy way out of it has devastating consequences.

Speaking of that found family, it's really too bad, that got cut so much in the webtoon. While there is still a tinge of it with Lin Shengling getting all touched that Xiao YuAn's place is kinda his maiden home of sorts and Xiao YuAn and all accepted in that village with really close bonds with especially the Zhan family, which family to begin with is a patchwork family. Yang LiuAn and Xiao FengYue kinda become brothers of sorts to him, and old lady cohabitating with them is a sort of motherly aunt there. There's just no ill will in that village (which is its whole point with being kinda called a little paradise on earth.) And also it's just got these beautifully blossoming trees. (Now are those peach blossoms or not??)

Oh and speaking of found family and all closeness and intimicy that there is and which is being perfectly aknowledged as something Xiao YuAn holds dear and misses and seems just so attractive, even as he is perfectly fine with living in the capital with Yan HeQing, which the latter also perfectly respects and encourages. There is also this bit in the extras about Hong Xiu, how it was Xiao YuAn, who tended to her worst fears she never expected anyone to expect and treated her with gentleness, a sort of she hadn't phantomed to ever get. And as the man speaks fondly and caring about her and Yan HeQing get jealously concerned over "do you like her", Xiao YuAn is all he's probably jealous about the girl again, but also that Hong Xiu never was part of of his harem. And then he has this to say to him:

Way to just get things right. (And she definitely ripped a hole into his heart, once she was gone and even keeps visiting her grave years later. Also really too bad that the afterwards about how curruption cut short his support for her family forcing her sister to become a maidservant, too.)

Other than that I just want to scream: Why could I not discover this a mere two darn month earlier?! That the pre-orders for that Singapore Rosmei edition is already closed and me not having entirely any idea at all how to get it anymore sours me, doesn't help at all, that apparantely that edition is gonna get some new unrelease extra chapter (although that is to be in v3, so technically I won't be missing that one............ whenever the other two volumes are going to be released anyway.) Apparantely there's even another chapter exclusive to some Chinese Edition from a publisher called Via Lactea and I have absolutely no idea how that one's supposed to look and how to get it. And to learn this right when I pondering about looking for some Chinese proxy for getting the books in Chinese, too, now obviously I want that edition to learn what that extra chapter is about. Hhhhnnnng. (Apparantely there's also a Spanish edition licensed with the art of the Rosmei edition, but I know no Spanish...)

Other than that, I still riducilously miss out on those footnotes the aggregator sites have just went and killed. Also, I just found out that the one single site that had the extras beyond chapter 210 kinda did some move and the entire title has vanished from that one's new site. With that there's porbably no place to read the fantraslation of it anymore. (At least for that one I had the epiphany of going though all the chapter sites to make a safecopy last week, I don't really want to know how dkfhkdjfhkjdfh I would have been, if I missed out on reading them just like that from one day to the other.)

In any case, this one as rekindled my interest in the Chinese language, too. Linguistically/writing style speaking this novel is also highly up my alleways. It's chock full with idioms (I image them to be complete utter pain to translate), historical references in those idioms, but also it has all that meta stuff about tropes and everything along with modern slang usage. And it's just having the right amount of twinkling parody of tropes, indulging just enough in it for some guilty pleasure but still managing to have an well build up emotional rollercoaster plot of its own that dances with Xiao YuAn's goofy ludicrousness at times in one hand and heavy hitters in the other. And considering, that it has not newly invented any wheel whatsoever - about every single element in there is something that on its own you can find elsewhere as well - but still manages to get me this invested into it is kinda rather impressive.

Speaking of impressive---

Mein Isekai-Leben a.k.a. My Isekai Life v1-v4ch12: Now that on the other hand is an entirely different sort impressive, or more like, I am astounded by it. Which is to say if I had to use one word to descibribe it it's 'listless'. This is an incredibly listless OP MC cheat skills power-fantasy. It's also... incredibly boring. Brainless. Everything you get to see here is something that has been done elsewhere in way, way better already. I only read all those vols because I just happened to have them there and then I just kept going after the first volume because I wanted to know how in the world is this managing to survive at all. It's a manga adaption of a light novel, both are sitll ongoing and runnning. How does this manage to be this reasonably popular to warrant this??? (After v4 I still didn't really know, so I gave up.)

Wolf and Parchment v4-5 (5 sitll in progress): Ok, so volume 4 was kinda okay in the end, not so much a slog anymore, although the the conversation between Even and Col about how Col would definitely go and prioritize Myuri was pretty interesting, putting into question how long he's gonna last to stick to his he's gonna be a priest and not just take Myuri's handand he's still all that's never gonna happen. (Like hell it won't?!) Then volume 5 started and I was kinda blown by surprise over that bit about them being in this weird space of having a bond, about how she keeps calling him brother despite also saying she is romantically in love with him, because there is no other way to qualify this at all and him also realizing the weird place he is with his attachement to her, too and then the whole crest thing is there, and how every single one involved with it immediately understands it's significance. Something for them, only the two of them, something special, but it's not lovers or marriage. Something else. And it's also hard to get, because how in the world are you gonna explain two people with no tangible relation neither blood nor marriage, wanting to share a crest together? are you just gonna pretend something that pleases general plausibility, while it kinda contradicts its actual purpose? Owoooh, how cool is that. I suppose I really had no trust in this series (or media in general) that this wasn't going down your bog standard romance route.

The Case Files of Jeweler Richard v13p15-56 (that's somewhere into chapter 2): I am making some progress in reading that one off, but admittedly even I am surprised how slow going it is sonsidering how hyped I was about it before its release and then put it off for health reasons because I totally expected I'd just binge with in a marathon with no regard to sleep and food. If I had to put a finger onto it, it's kinda, the first chapter wasn't exactly uninteresting, but also really not very getting be invested either. The second chapter just entirely starts of with discomfort with having this Chinese classmate sobbing about how he is terrible in school and his father is livid about it and just the general vibes of Chinese mentality. Like. Ouch. And it also immediately stiffled my interest in Chinese again that How to Survive as a Villain has sparked up again. Distancing from that language is kinda like distancing from that general mentality for me and looks like I still can't really separate them enough to just enjoy the language without having the culture behind it poison me.

Unnamed Memory After the End: Still very much at the start, but it docks onto where the first series stops before the grand time skip. It also just picks up on a few things that were left unaddressed in its second half. And here is me wondering, if Myralis and Valt will show up again or not. How it ended for them - which by world mechanics has to be a bad end and then they don't even get mentioned - still feels narratively very unfair to me, with all the effort spent on describing their motives and backstory.

Flowers in the Secret Place - finished: This is another series I just read though chapters over chapters wondering why even, until it kinda went decent enough somethiing around chapter 70? from 155 chapters. The only reason I looked into it was because the art is kinda decently pretty. The reason I made it across the first chapter was that.... the MC wears bunny hair ties. Yes, stupid reason, but here we go. The male MC is possitively annoying, the second male lead is much more interesting but takes a whole while to pick himself up. The backstory and its resulting triangle constellation actually winds up being decently interesting.

Rebirth Two Lives I Still Love You ch0-2: Same author as How to Survive as a Vilain, different artist, which... doesn't look exactly bad, but not even half as appealing. This one's also not Isekai, but Regression. Also it looks incredibly cheese. Motivations for reading on were a bit low, but maybe it just takes a bit? Knowing me I will check it out anyway...

My Unexpected Marriage Ch1-10.2: This isn't even an Isekai, but it uses the Isekai cheat skill trick of using some pretty modern contemporary things and common sense, put them into an Ancient-y setting to make everything run overly smoothly for the MC. In terms of plot and characters I cannot say I am wowed. Nevertheless, it is set in Ancient China-ish of a setting and even if the female MC's big eyes innocent gentle shoujo face kinda clashes with the rest, there is definitely some effort spend on all the wardrobe and ornaments. It's pretty enough to keep going. The mystery plot that points to court intrigue is okayish enough, too.

Mushoku Tensei v1p1-6: The way the horny is put in really is a bit "...", there it really just goes, does an overly genuinely touchy feely monologue about how someone is great and how the guy is emotionally touched and everything, only to destroy it with the twist that he stole her unwashed panties. It was a whole block of text about how in his previous life he was a shut in a loser, somebody with serious problems, social anxiety and getting out of the house issues included and the girl took him out for a magic exam, insisted it had the out there and he really is unconfortable with it, you can get really into how this little bit is just a major milestone for him, something nobody in his old life has managed or even tried. But then it just had to goe like and then he remembered that he still had those unwashed panties in his room that he had stolen some month ago. Argh.

At least that horny father seems to have at least some punches to get, and the setup of this guy being a completely loser, but actually it's not like he always was, he was even better but never learned modesty and that being his entire downfall out which he has now learned. This character is a pretty well set up antihero, he is all sorts of terrible, but in that one moment where Truck-kun came he pushed that whoever away with no regards to himself. (and it doesn't get flaunted as that one big good deed.) He also helped Sylphie, and that started without any horny ulterior motives either. (I was half wondering there actually if, with all that attraction to her, when he still thought she was a he was opening up some queer route, but looks like not.) He, at the bottom of his heart, does not seem to be a bad guy, and he has some serious baggage, that he is trying to treat himself with this new life and gets the occasional unintentional help. Will be interesting how his own inhibitions and knowledge about all the bad things of himself bring him on the road to serious betterment. But then also. He is already entirely, totally hopelessly horny cringe.

Loop 7-kaime no Akuyaku Reijou wa, Moto Tekikoku de Jiyuu Kimama na Hanayome Seikatsu wo Mankitsusuru a.k.a. 7th Time Loop ch31: (That's the chapter about Arnold and Rishe talking about the ring, once it was delivered). I wanted to scream at Arnold and Rishe rocks with giving him a piece of her mind like that and also totally underestimates the amount of heart flutter she gets into when she goes and gives the man such a free pass to court her. A very wide load of good faces.

Intoxicated East Wind, Iron Cock, August 15h, Feng Yu Jiu Tian: Stuff from the artist of How to Survive as a Villain's webtoon from some 10 years prior. You know when you like one thing of somebody and then go check out the rest? And then you find out it's dubCon, nonCon, rapey, horny porny whatevers and melp. And by the translator's note from August 15th, apparantely that title is some slang euphemism for buttocks. Because the moon is the roundest on that date, so it's the perfect moon so it's buttocks. I'm like what? The art also look nowhere nearly as good as the artist is able to be pull off in How to Survive as a Villain. I wonder if they are going to have some new work. Couldn't find anything from after its end in 2022.

Don't Call Me Daddy: Nice to have some adult characters there. Like adult and then elderly. And how homophobia has wrecked their life, but it's not even the main theme. Again some discussion about different sorts of wants, but uh, the one that solves that one was that guy getting... a boner from a kiss? Huh. What would ye have done, if he didn't? (Well probably that would have been an entirely different story I guess...)

Domestic na Kanojo v5-8: Collection of notes made upon/right after reading the vols:

v5: Let's continue the exhibition of the worst of cheese afflictions. But I did not see that escalation downwards coming... okay, cheese affliction puts other people into danger, both intentionally and unintentionally... Actually the latter case is even worse as it is a danger of livelihood one... ....... ok, wait, isn't this already sexual harrassment now???

v6: Just go for them both already, those sisters don't even look like they'd mind it that much.

v7: Your cheese affliction is gonna ruin your life.

v8: So, now we have blackmail, coercion, extortion and a kidnapping as well as faking somebody's identity without their knowledge nor permission. Alright….

….. this however

(Title: How to recover, panel 1: My humble self has a bun, panel 4: RESSURECTED, the bun: HAND OVER THE SNACKS)

.............. is just some supreme truth out of complete nowhere.

Are You Okay with a Slightly Older Girlfriend? Ch2.4-16.1: I thought this was called into quesitonability because of the age gap and at the beginning I had some qualms, because she is outright deceiving him, but that gets wrapped up quickly enough and then I thought it was just gonna be cheese with age unsecurities, but I suppose if those massive boobs didnt alrealy make an indication, this thing's just way to much flaunting them and playing the horniness bits in way too much of an extremely.... kinda dumb way. With a tint of seriously thinking about these issues. (Also mentions of kink and no shaming allowed there, that sister knows how to enforce authority.) And that makes it both hard to outright drop, but also a pain to suffer though...

Brundhild v1-2: Volume 1, 'Dragon Slayer" is a revenge story out of titular Brunhild's love for the gentle and wise dragon, who is killed, gone haywire. She does all her misdeeds wholly aware for what they are and how innocents are getting in the crossfires and how it'll land her in hell - where she can never be together with the dragon again who went to paradise and had very much warned her to not go for revenge when he fully knew he was gonna get slain. She… is kinda, well, yandere isn't the right word, but she definitely is very much badly obsessed by things and worst she knows it herself, that the one she loves doesn't want it and still doesn't stop. I can't say I was wowed, but maybe that's partly because I read it in French and for the second half I was in deadline before expiry pressure and forced it though without looking up a bunch of words I wasn't too sure of. It feels pretty conclusive, so volume 2 'Dragon Princess' at first was incredibly confusing, with it having a Brunhild as a MC again and also some other guy having the same name as v1 Brunhild's brother. And suddenly the dragon is an evil one. Was wondering, if it was some sort of reincarnation next life plot, but then the personality of the characters are very different. Eventually it turns out to be a prequel. V1's Brunhild and her brother were names after the characters of v2 who lived centuries before them and in her family those famous names were often bestowed to children again. V2 I think is pretty good, interesting characters, has some more side characters, very good world building, again a love story but it's entirely different, also very much different ending and lore and it twists your expectations for the world coming from v1 and then actually winds up explaining v1's worldbuilding, which in v1 I thought that outside of the dragon island on its own was, uh, kinda, yeah, it's sorts of just there?

V2 also has a side character who suffers from not feeling love of any kind and having little empathy. Yet he is not entirely unfeeling either and he can be very much devoted looking much the part almost as if there was love. It looks a lot like it's the usual story about yeah and then this magnificent awe inspiring good natured lady is gonna make him find those traits again. It ultimately does not play out this trope the way you'd expect and I thought that it had the galls to do that was downright courageous.

[felikatze]

wait why did the confessions get removed? what happened <-im out of the loop (heh) about pokemon rejuvenation

I LITERALLY JUST FOUND THIS OUT. but.

the gist is in v12 chapter 12 of rejuv, which is, you know, titled "Remember, I love you", throughout the early chunk of the chapter it was a running gag that melia tried to tell venam something but got interrupted every single time. and this something was obviously a love confession.

so in the bad future arc, when melia is at her lowest point yet finds new faith and unlocks her divine power-- in v13.5, she's transported to this mindscape and meets Emma, who takes her on a tour of every first meeting with the og gearan crew (venam, ren, protag), which leads her to realize her friends are what she truly fights for.

in v12, she instead sees a vision of venam. i gushed about this SO MUCH back when i played v12 ... four years ago now, damn. it's was a complete whammy that venam confessed first after melia was setup for it, and it was venam somehow, someway, appearing at melia's side across dimensions that let melia keep going. and like. i was so moved by that! i didn't care that it doesn't make sense for venam to appear here! like, hell, maybe it was even not venam at all, but melia's subconcious, who cares.

Point is, venam's appearance at melia's lowest point was THE fucking rejuv moment of all time for me, i adored the focus of the melia/venam relationship that permeated all of chapter 12, so much so it was NAMED after it. That venam said in her last moments before being turned to stone, "Remember, I love you," and that reached Melia across space and time.

The Emma sequence probably ties in better with the 13.5 exclusive content i haven't seen, and makes more sense lore wise, i'm just... disappointed. that it got toned down so much. none of melia's aborted confessions. none of venam lifting her up across time. it got generalized to all of melia's dearest friends instead of singling out venam.

i dunno, man! it's a bummer! especially when that was a scene i hyped up to my friends who got into rejuv, and then it just... didn't happen.

i miss the interdimensional lesbianism. give it back. please.

[etincelleart]

So when exsacly do you think penny will come back?

So I had two main ideas and moments for her to come back, but I still need to think more about it cause those are just first ideas :

Considering the fact that it was a long time between Volume 4 and Volume 7, Pietro had time to recover her core and rebuild her. So it took most likely 1 or 2 years to make her again. At the end of Volume 9, we see this shot of Vacuo with Amity Collosseum and a lot of ships from every kingdom in Remnant, implying a time skip, but we don't know how many months or even year have passed on Remnant. It surely must need time to take Amity, bring it to Vacuo and repair it, as well for the other Kingdoms to probably go to Atlas, see what happened and go to Vacuo with everyone else (unless somehow they learned about everyone being saved in Vacuo so they went there directly, idk).

I imagine this time skip would be of a few months, I'd say between 6 months and 1 year. Time is different in the Ever After and for the reunion for everyone to be emotional, I guess time must have passed for a bit so it's also impactful for Ren and Nora to reunite with Jaune, for Qrow to reunite with team RWBY, for Winter and the Schnee family to reunite with Weiss, etc. It's also probably be impactful for Ruby to see Winter with the Winter Maiden, and I imagine she won't be able to think about Penny if she sees her using her powers, anyway I digress-

Pietro is probably grieving and mourning Penny since the last time we saw him in Volume 8, and once settled in Vacuo he most likely at least tried to remake Penny. Considering that he needed 1 or 2 years for him to rebuild her, and with the time skip of let's say 1 year, he would be in the middle of the process if he's still trying to create another robot body. Sooo with all of that said, she could definitely come back during the Vacuo arc, I don't know if that would be in V10 cause narratively this would be a big deal, a big climax, and I don't know if that's too soon or too big for the first volume of the Vacuo arc (I mean, if we follow the rules established so far for each arc : 3 volumes per kingdom). Penny could then maybe come back at the end of Volume 12, to parallel the finale of V8, and also it's the same amont of time between V8 finale and V12 than the end of V3 and V7, 4 entiere volumes. I mean I just thought of it when writing it but it would make sense to me. I'm trying to keep a writer state of mind to be logical so my arguments seem valid aha (even if I'm not a pro writer krkr).

My second idea is that she would come back at the end of the RWBY story, at the end of the series. Not necessarily at THE END end, but during the final arc or the final moments of the story. Why that, because I believe V9 plot wasn't just to explain cute little origins for the two Brothers and for Ruby's development, but of course to set up things for later and probably the big finale. Everything's still up in the air and the two Brothers will definitely be involved, as well as maybe the Blacksmith and the Ever After. I don't know how or when because this is big deal and obviously I'm not in the writers mind and I imagine they have ideas for this big end for a long time now, even if this is not precise of course. The most important thing is that the Blacksmith had Penny's sword (yeah I know that some say that it was just an illusion, but I still think it's odd, and again this weird "nothing, no one is ever truly lost" and then poof Penny appears on the sword, idk it just makes me feel like the Blacksmith knows something and might be involved later. The spirits from the Relic could also be involved too as they were created by the the two Brothers. Ambrosius could even meet Pietro at some point too :]

Anyway those are my main ideas, but I would be curious if anyone had other ideas !

(I love the Blacksmith)

[overland-defender]

06/06/2022 - Day 3

78 years ago today marks one of the most important campaigns of WW2 and it won’t involve too much driving today either. We were in for another potential treat providing Carl Liversage can sort something out apparently.. what that is we don’t exactly know but sounds exciting.

Todays agenda

Museum of the Battle of Normandy

Surprise

Jerusalem War Cemetery

Ver-sur-Mer (British Normandy Memorial)

Museum of the Battle of Normandy

Literally a stones throw from the Château is the Musee Memorial de la Bataille de Normandie (Museum of the battle of Normandy) and this will be the first stop of the day. Upon arrival we notice a cemetery on right (Bayeux War Cemetery) which appeared to have some big event going on with diplomat plated Mercedes parked up at the entrance and Royal British Legion tents etc… maybe this is the ‘surprise’?

We regroup and walk past a few WW2 tanks M4A1(75) Sherman tank & a Churchill Mk VII Crocodile Flamethrower Tank towards the entrance of the museum. There are others tanks but these in particular were what I consider more interesting.

The museum it without doubt is one of my favourite museums that I’ve been to, having a vast amount of exhibits with detailed descriptions of how what and why etc. I would highly recommend a visit when in Bayeux.

Bayeux War Cemetery Ceremony

I’d previously mentioned we had noticed that there was a ceremony going on in the Bayeux cemetery… well we were informed after the museum visit we’d be attending. This was honestly an honour as we were will be allowed to sit behind veterans whom served on the D-Day landings and listen to them recite poems and stories of fighting alongside their friends and servicemen, prior to this we were even fortunate enough to witness a fly over by a spitfire and hear the bellowing 1700hp V12 Merlin engine. I mean this is pretty awesome given the context of the event.

Jerusalem War Cemetery

Our last bit of green lanes of rural France leads us to the Jerusalem War Cemetery. Just another cemetery you are probably thinking reading this. But this cemetery does have some significance in fact all do but this one in particular has the youngest allied fall soldier Private Jack Banks of the Durham Light Infantry who fell on the 21st July 1944.

His regiment, the Durham Light Infantry, had advanced around 20 miles into France. After six weeks had surpassed the battalion commander required three volunteers to take out an enemy machine gun post which was situated inside a farmhouse near Caen.

One of those volunteers was Jack and of course two servicemen, sadly these men were tragically struck and killed by enemy mortar fire when attempting their objectives and are buried together.

Ver-sur-Mer (British Normandy Memorial)

Being honoured to attend the ceremony earlier there another at The British Normandy Memorial that were also attending. It stands just outside the village of Ver-sur-Mer overlooking Gold Beach, one of the two beaches where British forces landed on D-Day. The memorial which was opened in 2021 records the (22,442) names of all those under British command who lost their lives in Normandy between 6 June and 31 August 1944.

The Memorial was for the first time the focal point of the commemorations in Normandy, as a place where people could come together to remember and reflect. This was televised around the world, again there were more veterans some from earlier and a couple others who had landed on gold beach 78 years ago today. There was a military band playing Elgar - Nimrod and The Last Post among others I’m not so familiar with but build such an atmosphere.

As dark clouds close in on what has been a fantastic day, the trip was topped off with a flyover by a Douglas C-47 Skytrain (Dakota) and again to reiterate it’s a surreal experience to hear those WW2 warbirds. Now we say our goodbyes and head back to good old Blighty which is around a 9 hour journey (including ferry) to go back to normality.

The trip has been incredible, the agenda was spot on as well as the stories curated by Kieth Bowen as well as the rest of the team (Carl Liversage & Nick Gage).

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[maboroshi-no]

Hello! I was just wandering on what you think is gonna occur in LN13 of hamefura. like do you think kat is gonna start gaining feelings for someone or like her secret is gonna be discovered

Hello anon,

I had already replied in a previous ask what I thought would happen in the next volume. You can find the post below.

Hmm... I don't think Katarina will start falling for someone. I think it will be more focused on her past life. It will also probably be too soon for her secret to be discovered, though maybe Keith will get ahead and find out about it.

[photog-crafty]

A Mark V with T-bird and Cougar blood? You had better believe I was first in line for the Virgo Classic Custom. I tried to give it an understated mother-of-pearl design rather than going totally loud with it. Shame that turning it into a lowrider gave it tiny wheels.

My original 2015 lowrider. Love those boxy '90s Caddies, and in the Primo Custom there was no Northstar to worry about. My Primo and Virgo always felt like siblings, with contrasting black & white paint jobs and matching Biggie homage license plates.

The Neon was for when I wanted hilariously quick acceleration and wanted to bring three other people along to watch. Ultimately, I could never really stick with any of the electric cars in GTA because their artificially limited top speeds always left me wanting more.

The answer to those desires had been at my side all along, in the form of the Schafter V12. To the bitter end, I would staunchly defend this car and constantly recommend it to newbies for being a four-door with supercar-tier speed at an absurdly low price. Not to mention it sounded absolutely badass.

The Previon had me waiting with bated breath on release. I tried to keep it as close as I could to a classic Lexus SC, down to that '90s sea green color.

I'm not sure why the Ardent never really caught on with me, considering I love the Esprit. Maybe because I was shook from it not looking like the one James Bond drove, or maybe it was because it didn't feel like a V8. Perhaps I was too hard on it. It really wasn’t a bad car.

Never put missiles on your Deluxo. It was a wonderful car that got an undeserved reputation from the worst part of the GTA playerbase who used it solely to lazily cause chaos. The one good thing the memebike did was take the Deluxo's place so it could go back to being a comfy flying car. I painted mine up in colors reminiscent of Xevious after seeing how much fun it was to toss grenades out of the window from sixty feet up.

This Champion was a product of pure circumstance. After seeing reports of a texturing error on its armor panels, I bought my own to investigate and try to find a way to mitigate the damage. The best way to do so was with pure black crew paint, which resulted in this Batman-esque look.

For a free car, the armored Paragon R was pretty damn nice. It had a good road feel, sounded great, and the CEO-style armor still baffled bad players. It almost took the pain of slogging through that rooftop casino mission away.

The Deity was the Paragon R's huskier brother. It was slower, yes, but the added armor and missile jammer made it an absolute hoot to drive into battle when The Contract dropped. You could hear the dial tones from the memebikes when their one-button crutch was rendered totally powerless, and it never, ever got old.

[simpletoymaker]

Wondertainment is odd, they need an odd car! maybe a 1990 toyota sera in BRIGHT purple. either that or a Lamborghini LM002 with a custom rainbow or shifting crome wrap. (the engine is BADASS, a v12 iirc)

     Also forgot to answer this at the time like a clown but grabby hands at the lamborghini.... And the rainbow/crome? chef kiss, absolutely shaped car for a shaped creecher :]

[livinglifeonpause]

BUILD UP EP 1 - who are they even?

V1: Seunghun (24) (CIX) (All-Round) teaser - 4/10 votes - 7 **ohhhh, he is MUCH better than this teaser. It's too low. - ep1: brown jacket, white pants - I'm crying I love him so GD muchhhhh! - NO. you give this boy ALL the good things and only the good things. V2: Jay Chang (22) (ONEPACT) (Soul) teaser - 8.5/10 votes - 23/40 **he's got a Crush vibe with how he gets kinda whiny. here for it. -he goofy looking, but seems soft-spoken and I dig that -ep1: white shirt, tan pants

V3: Bain (22) (JUST B) (Soul) teaser - 9/10 vote: 9 **I NEED MORE OF THIS.

V4: Sunyoul (27) (UPT10TION) (Unique) teaser - 2/10 votes: 24 **this does nothing for me -

V5: Lim Junhyeok (30) (Ex-Day6) (Power) July 17, 1993 teaser - 1/10 vote: 7 **never have liked this kids voice. isn't it for me V6: Jeong Inseong (29) (KNK) (All-Round) teaser - 5/10 vote: 22 **biiiiitch for singing Day6, wonder if it was before or after that other kid, it's fine V7: Kang Hayoon (20) (Loud) (Unique) teaser - 7/10 votes - 27 **not here for the tone, but I 100% want to hear more! - look at Seunghun straight staring at this baby - ep1: blue shirt, pink vest, black pants V8: Choi Haram (22) (Musicals) (Power) teaser - 2/10 votes: 14 **meh V9: Lee Minwook (23) (NewKidd) (Soul) teaser - 4/10 votes: 11 **like fine, I dont really care V10: Lee Geonwoo (22) (JustB) (All Round) teaser - 2/10 votes - 11 **what a fucking weird ass song to do for a vocal show?? - ep1: orange hair, blue sweater V11: Jeon Woong (26) (AB6IX) (Unique) teaser - 3/10 votes - 14 **also a weird ass song for a vocal show - ep1: denim shirt - V12: Wumuti (24) (Solo?) (Unique) teaser - 8/10 ***6 once he started rapping, ??? votes: 13 ***okayyyyyy, here for this I think? oh wait, whys he rapping? V13: Taehwan (30) (Vanner) (all round) teaser - 9/10 votes: 12 ***i like his pic, i like his voice, im down V14: Lim Sanghyun (26) (solo?) (soul) teaser - 5/10 votes: 25 **ooh, okay deep ass voice. Tooooo low for me to enjoy, but I want to hear more, cause i like the tone V15: Park Juhee (17) (trainee) (soul) teaser - 1/10 votes: 13 ***look at this cute ass angel baby. Hard pass though love. V16: Kim Seong jeong (24) (nothing) (soul) teaser - 1/10 votes - 25 **WHAT? no. get that deep voice away. dislike - tan jacket, tie, leather pants (what??) V17: Choi Suhwan (22) (X101) (all round) teaser - 3/10 votes: 11 **too nasally i think. squeaky. like not here. V18: Kim Seohyung (22) (musicals) (unique) teaser - 2/10 votes: 18 **cool. stick with musicals. PASS. V19: Lee Gwangseok (25) (solo) (unique) teaser - 1/10 votes: 32 **wtf, why this sound muffled. He eating the mic? - leather jacket - omg the english kid that goes "whaaat" after homie said he works as a model V20: Lee Donghun (30) (A.C.E.) (soul) teaser - 6/10 votes - 18 (oh fuck them all) ***oh, we 100% here for him cause A.C.E, but objectively I think he did well. and YAS that power note! - ep1: khaki jacket, tie

V21: Hong Sungwon (25) (solo?) (unique) teaser - 7/10 votes: 21 **weird song to do bro. but I 100 get why you did! I WANT MORE. I need to know more about homie here. Is he a musical actor? Because he 100000% needs to be V22: Hyukjin (30) (100%) (Power) teaser - 7/10 votes: 10 **he screamed, I was out. He sang I was back in. V23: Yun Inhwan (32) (solo - ENAN) (Power Voice) teaser - 4/10 votes: 13 **mehhhhhhhhhhhhh, whiney V24: Ji Yeonwoo (??) (nothing) (All Round) teaser - 7.5/10 votes: 17 **not 100 sold, but I do want to hear more. V25: Ma Jaekyung (27) (Romeo) (Soul) teaser - 3/10 votes: 12 **not here for it. regretfully pass. V26: Jo Hwanji (28) (Musicals) (Power) teaser - 3/10 votes: 18 **okay, but he look dumb af at the beginning bopping around like a dick. Maybe with a different song choice, but not here V27: Hong Seongjun (24) (BDC) (All Round) teaser - 5/10 votes: 13 **like its not a BAD voice.... butttttt "All Rounder"?? No. V28: Taewoo (26) (solo) (Unique) teaser - 5/10 votes: 25 **Im not real sold. but not 100 turned off. the tone & rasp are kinda cool. V29: Hwang Inhyeock (25) (Nada) (All Round) teaser - 3/10 votes: 22 **meh. oh, he started singing and no. pass. WHINE central. V30: Jung Soomin (19) (Solo) (Soul) teaser - 4/10 votes: 25 **feels kinda average. I do like the tone, but I need a little more? V31: Jang Intae (26) (nothing) (AllRound) teaser 1/10 votes: 5 **i hate everything about this. I hate the generic back-track, I hate his whiney ass voice, I hate the lack of passion, I hate the odd gasping. dislike dislike. V32: Jeong Yunseo (??) (nothing) (all round) teaser - 2/10 votes: 13 **what? why? this is just boring V33: Neon (23) (nothing) (unique) teaser - 1/10 votes: 13 ** why is he like rapping? i hate that. fucking stupid. I feel like I love his voice, but this is bullshit. - ep1: green sweater, looks old af.

V34: Park Jeup (30) (Imfact) (Power) teaser - 8/10 votes: 28 **DADDY! If he isn't in the final, I'm fucking mad. - I'm glad they all recognize talent - HAHAHA, the kid in the beanie's Faaaaace! V35: Kwon Euibin (24) (Idol Band) (Unique) teaser - 4/10 votes: 24 **its pretty, but I am so fucking bored V36: Bitsaeon (28) (M.O.N.T) (All Rounder) teaser - 5.5/10 vote - 21 **okayyyy, okayyyy. Dumb ass song. - ep1: looks like Code Kunst, white fuzzy sweater V37: Kang Seokhwa (23) (Wei) (Soul Voice) teaser - 7/10 votes - 15 **he has a real pretty voice - ep1: blonde, pink sweater V38: Lee Hwanhee (25) (UP10TION) (Unique) teaser - 3/10 votes - 15 **WTF is this song? just sing bro. I cant hear your gd voice at all. - ep 1: denim shirt V39: Kim Minseo (21) (nothing) (Power) teaser - 4/10 votes: 13 **I hate when ppl cover this song, especially non-english speakers. It sounds awful. That said, his voice is okay. better than this song. V40: Yeo One (27) (Pentagon) (All Round) teaser - 2/10 votes - 22 (WHAT?) **hey, I know that kid. why is it so lowwwww. - blue shirt, black blazer So is the premise we're picking one from each?? Ep 1. - fuck yes Seunghun is too famous for this show! I was surprised! - Who said "I'm a small time player?" cause he is effing adorable! Jung Soomin) - *crying* how is Jeup so cute with his little bow?? - (((why did they drop subs while this beezy was explaining the ruleeees!))) - PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give me Jeup + Seunghun interactions. I am literally begging!

[the-firebird69]

John Frankenheimer's 1965 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III - Jay Leno's Garage

So the ornaments are silver and this one is solid silver you say it's not cuz he's clever doesn't want it ripped off and this one is a special okay this is probably for someone of the rank of Todd langel with his people it's a region and it is an extremely valuable car and Jay Leno has it and he is that range a little bit above it and he does have the right car and he knows which one he knows who the lady is said these races begin and your elegant and beautiful and I want you in the race and Hera challenges you okay I might be saying that and she got on the line and said I'm in there and I'm going to race after a while so they said no way and it's going on already but it's not started 100%. He wants to bring these cars back and it kind of a clever way he wants to go to Mexico and they don't do it here and revive them and bring them across the border into the West Coast and some he wants to get over here to a certain people this is the right level for the people he's talking about at this time and they'll know what he's saying but it's still a very powerful status symbol to get a renovated one and we are getting requests and it will cost money and we're in business now. And we can find some probably maybe a few thousand and it says he had someone to look at that and they have a bunch and they want to make it cars really replicas at a metal and really he said we you can't make the panel at a metal on my hand but you said we can cast the panels I don't know if you can stamp that kind of metal and we have metal that you can stamp and it's fairly decent and they said we can make replicas and some of the seats are better everything else looks perfect it's up to be upgraded and up to date and he wants to be v12 in it and they said we're going to go ahead and do this. But that's the process for him to do for a few reasons and I like it and we can gather up others and they got me involved and I know which one and it's the ghost and it's called that and you guys are gathering The phantom and we're going to actually sell them and not drive them around but we know what we're doing we can't drive all of them we're just going to drive a few and it is a status symbol and we have to be lowered down so he says I'm going to have a new newer one and yeah that's stupid but okay the newer ones are a status symbol but these are massive sassables to have an old one they're with millions and millions if not more that's all I go for 80 million dollars and I thought it was nuts it'll secretly but it went for two billion. Now that's a lot of money okay nobody spends that in the weekend and here we go people want these and they want the replicas and he said to make the old ones just like they are and I know why it's a good idea now the chassis will be a little different not a ton the body will be pretty much the same the engine is completely different and it will be trimmed down and with a DOT package and the suspension and the tires and rims will look old but their performance and this car is going to move I mean three 400 miles an hour and it's more it's going to be intrinsically armored what you can put armor on it and people do it they put it inside and they do spend the time and it's going to be worth it we'll solve the remodeled ones and those are worth a lot of money for millions and millions of dollars okay up to billions the replicas will be probably 20 million to start and we're going to do this model for the most part to start and we have a lot of them and we're going to put it out there and we want to meet with Mike too and he's the guy to talk to it's a business and he's not in business because BJ closed it off and it's not going just to them and a sunset that we can't take the empire on directly and a bunch of people are like that and mac daddy and Ben don't want the empire to win but they don't think that you taking them on is that great it's not a good stasis but now you're getting rid of each other and they don't want that so you've got kind of the idea

Thor Freya

So you guys are trying not to do anything and he's using us as some sort of intermediary and kind of getting rid of ourselves

Trump

These are expensive things to talk about but I want those cars and I'm going to try and find them on my own and we hear they've been disappearing a lot of them probably 75% to 90%, so we know where they are and he's just going to sell them so we'll probably just buy them and it's going to be a lot of these guys different ones and the old ones it's going to be a good time I look forward to this and the replicas too we're not really building them either Michael too says and Bentley has an interest too and she was called and said what's the idea and he said oh that's great and she said that too and it's going on really soon and that was Duke nukem Blockbuster and they they commented this is a great idea it's one of his best and it's going to happen and it will get the automobile industry going

Thor Freya

Wow this is getting some notice there's a lot of people who don't want it but a ton who do and there's a whole bunch of people who want to buy them and say that they're higher ups we know the process so we're going to go ahead and watch

Trump

I want to be involved so I'm going to have a meeting we're in meetings about some of these companies so I hope they expect to have that happen

Mike tew

We're going to bring a package and talk to you about it it's for the good of a lot of people we have other products too and we have stores that you guys have we have them in mind and it's perfect

Thor Freya

There are cars now that are selling and they make them by scratch no but they're aftermarket types cars and we do know which ones they're not really normal but they're not that abnormal they're smaller and they usually are convertibles or have an open top and they're selling a lot of them it's only several trillion in the area but we are going to point out what they are

Olympus

[dower]

Do you really want bespoke?

Say you want a new car: You choose it based on how it fits your need and wants. For needs, it might need 5 seats (kids/dogs), hatchback (weekly shopping), safety, low running cost (no one chooses high running cost, do they), cheap insurance, easy to fix, how green etc. At the “needs” level a basic Ford/Vauxhall/Nissan will probably do.

The £30k Ford will give you a choice of colour, a trim level, maybe a wheel option and Apple Carplay. Brill, simple and all that most folks would ever need in a car. But folks have wants as well and often as not a Ford is not on that “wants” list, they want the (perception of German) build quality, a premium interior, a lovely badge on the drive at home etc. So they pay 50% more to get a £50k BMW or Audi that is functionally very similar but meets some (probably not all) of the wants. With “wants” you’re often happy to compromise more on practicality or cost or usability - it’s easy to get carried away when it becomes a vanity purchase.

And, Bimmers and Audis are common as muck so maybe they’re not premium enough. They also look a bit staid and dull so let’s look at an Aston Martin or Porsche. Now we’re in the big leagues, it’s certainly rare (Porsche maybe not), available in dozens of colours, trims, wheel sizes, stereo outputs and has ridiculous performance you’ll never need, is far less practical than a £30k Ford but, well, it’s an Aston and makes you feel special and very different to all those German 3-box drivers. You still order the £150k Aston in black over black but who cares, there are only 1,000 the same as yours in the UK.

Except, being like 999 others maybe isn’t your ballgame, you’re special and different. So instead you go to Aston Works and bespoke trim your Aston with orange leather, carbon-fibre everywhere and a few other choice upgrades. It’s still an Aston Martin Vantage, but it’s now a one-off and costs £250k. It is still not bespoke though, 90% of it based on a standard production car, albeit a pricey one. But after a few years it just looks like a regular Aston, special but not special enough. The “shine” has gone, so has the value as it’s now non-standard no one really wants those. Some of the maintenance is also a bit pricey, did you really need that racing clutch, or that £6k carbon fibre front bumper that keeps getting scraped.

A truly bespoke car would require a visit to Pininfarina, Bertone, or more likely Zagato to get them to craft a body shape and interior to your exacting spec. You still need the underpinnings, the engine/gearbox etc so you could cut corners and use a cheaper base, maybe a Aston V12. You’d be mad to commission the one-off production of an engine, gearbox and running gear - that won’t be reliable and will cost an absolute mint as all the scales of production used for the last 100 years is thrown away to create your artisan car.

The end result is a bespoke £2m supercar that you can take to shops and carry the dogs in the back. It is unique. It also costs 20 times as much to service than the Ford and tens of thousands of pounds more to keep on the road every year. And it’s not allowed in London due to ULEZ. It’s probably not that reliable and not many garages will entertain looking after it. It’s become specialised to the point of being worth less.

People do buy exotic cars, but very few have them as their only car - they use something far more practical (and better) for everyday use, maybe even a Ford. Go back a hundred years and most high-end cars were bespoke, but standardisation, reliability, resale, maintenance, and usability has made these cars functionally extinct.

Are you sure you want bespoke? Ok … then don’t buy the design of a bloke in a shed in Lancashire. Do it properly and accept you’ll be burning money on a vanity project. But mostly, just buy something nice off the shelf - I hear the new Lotus is a bit special!

[tsukiyadori]

There is a new side story out for The Case Files of Jeweler Richard called 真砂なす. (Part 1 came today, the next one is scheduled for September 1st.)

The title had me entirely just ?? and still has somewhat after reading this part 1. 真砂 means fine sand, but is also a name. なす could maybe be a name again, or a verb and then have a plethora of possibilities which one. Or there's also aubergine, but 'Sand Aubergine'? I think it's a safe guess 真砂 is about sand tho with all the Arabian Nights mentions. And "to birth" for なす might be the most poetic sounding pick...?

Other than that, it definitely takes place after v10's epilogue. The location setting is a mineral show in Munich. Seigi's mentions it's his third time there, while 5 years ago he was there first with Richard, 3 years ago the second time alone, and now he's there with Richard again. Seigi also mentions his "singing and dancing strategy" which makes it take place fairly closely prior to volume 12.

Which makes me think this might just be the mineral show they visited the week before Henry's impressionist new home in Clair de Lune. Seigi does indicate there that he's gone older than the first half of his twenties, and he's 27 something in v12.

(There is so much extra material already, doesn't this warrant another compilation book??)

Also, it made me gulp and choke twice.

「インテリアとして飾っても、大変趣おもむきがありそうですね」 「飾る場所を選ばないと、大きいから部屋のが難しそうだけどな 「掃除のことを考えるのが、いかにもあなたらしい」

"It would seem like a very graceful interior decoration." "However, if you don't choose its placement location, it would seem to be hard to clean the room, since it's so big." "It's truly very like you to think about cleaning aspects."

I had that same brain cell as Seigi's. (They are talking about a chess boardgame made of marble.)

「師匠、傲ごう岸がん不ふ遜そんも度を超えると無む知ち蒙もう昧まいの親戚になり得ます」 「四字熟語を使えば日本語堪たん能のうに思われると思っているなら、それこそ大きな勘違いでしょう、わが弟子」

"Saul, overstepping arrogance will render it the kin of unenlightened ignorance." "If you think using fancy words will show off your Japanese skills, you are under a very wrong impression, ye pupil of mine."

Specifically, the fancy words are about idiomatic 4 compound words. And knowing a lot of them and knowing when to drop them is kinda really a prevalent idea of showing language proficiency in both Chinese and Japanese to my knowledge. But ahaaa ahem, fancy words show-offs. Hum.

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