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[valeriehalla]

I am so utterly fascinated by “Saki”, the 18-year-running mahjong manga in which you, the reader, become gradually, frog-boilingly aware (over the course of nearly two decades’ worth of mahjong tournaments) that none of these girls are wearing underwear and most of their boobs are slowly expanding.

I need you to understand that I have, like, an anthropological level fascination with this comic. From the perspective of someone who is also a comic artist and writer, two things delight me about it:

the fact that I understand completely how an artist gets from “the fans can have a little hint of skirted asscheek” to “the pussy is completely out on center page” over the course of 18 years; and

the way in which the pussy being out is treated by the characters and diegesis as being utterly unremarkable.

Okay. Point 1. The frog-boiling.

Let me put this in perspective for you. There was already a meme about how the characters in “Saki” don’t wear underwear when I was in middle school. I am thirty now. Okay? And it’s still going.

In the time since, this has stopped being a joke. It is now indisputable canon. This is not because anyone outright says it at any point. It’s because the underwear ran out of places to hide. I’m obsessed with this thought: somewhere in the over 20 volumes of “Saki”, there is a panel in which underwear was objectively deconfirmed. And it would be so hard to figure out where that panel actually is. Maybe the artist didn’t even realize it when she drew it! The frog? Boiling!!

And of course there is also the breast expansion. I don’t know how to put a spin on this. They are just expanding. Like, this happens a lot with artists: you define a character as being, in your mind, “the one with the big boobs”, and over the years you emphasize that trait further and further so that the signal doesn’t get lost in the noise. It’s just that normally—in like a wildly popular manga series about mahjong published by literally Square Enix, for example—normally there would be a point at which the boobs stopped getting bigger. Like, an editor would step in or something. Or you would get to the point where you cannot draw the character in the same panel as her mahjong tiles without her breasts spilling over the tiles, and you’d go, “Well, this is now untenable.”

That did not happen. There is no ceiling. The frog is soup.

Point 2. The complete and utter mundanity of all of this.

It’s like this, okay: there’s no shortage of trashy ecchi manga out there. There’s a million other comics doing wildly bawdier things with wildly more improbable bishoujos.

The vibe with “Saki” is different.

It’s hard to explain this, but it feels like the world of the comic is fundamentally uninterested in the fanservice happening on the page. I cannot describe it as “leering”, because I cannot conceive of a person in the story from whose point of view one would leer. I think the artist is probably into it—I can’t imagine anyone is making her do this—but “Saki” the comic has no opinion on the matter.

There are essentially no male characters in “Saki”. Like, there was one guy? Kind of? At the very beginning? But he is gone now. They put him back in the toybox. He does not exist. It appears to be some level of canonical that in the world of “Saki”, almost all humans are women. Those women are sometimes romantically into each other. According to comments the artist has made on Twitter (which I cannot source), they have lesbian baby technology, so it’s no problem. It’s so much not a problem that the story is about mahjong, instead of any of that.

So, like, the fiction here appears to be this: this is the, like, meta-narrative of the fanservice of “Saki”, right: it’s just normal that they don’t wear underwear and their boobs are arbitrarily big. It’s been normal. It was normal before the story of the manga began. It’s just how things are. Nobody bats an eye about it, and if they do, it’s in sort of a lesbian kind of way so like what’s the problem, we love lesbians here. This is literally normal for girls.

The fanservice simply diffuses into this all-encompassing aura of disembodied, ambient sluttiness. The framing of the panels demands you acknowledge it, and the story demands you already be over it, because it’s mahjong time now, and we’re playing mahjong.

Do you get??? why I’m so fascinated??? Are you not a little enraptured???

Anyway, I have no idea how to end this weird post. I guess the conclusion is that women stay winning????

[copepods]

god i love toby concept art

[paper-mario-wiki]

idk why but i absolutely hate AI generated images of wizards more than any other AI pictures.

i think it's because the sparse pickings of beautifully rendered oil painting tableaus of wizards from the late 20th century (for things like game manuals and fantasy novels) feel like they actually are made of magic to me.

to see those familiar shapes choked and twisted out of the chaotic mess of predicative digital brush strokes is like watching a dying pig's face transform into the face of my weeping mother before it stops moving forever.

[twistcmyk]

HEY

i heard my latest post (a long comic) isn't showing up on people's feeds so this is a post letting you know that it exists! yay

[deloveusion]

making someone smile and moan at the same time during sex should be a life goal for everyone

[chipsy]

[bat-colony]

things i wish i’d known before my freshman year of college - june 2024

[bruciemilf]

Fucked up, doomed by the narrative, pathetic meow meow white man who has an incorrigible proficiency for violence, self-loathing, self-esteem issues, trauma arcs focused on the loss of a loved one, cringe fail vengeance era, believes he’s not made for love, warmth, or redemption, ends up being adopted by a bunch of extroverts whom he’d die for, has an incredibly terrifying daughter who could end him in a blink, and a super powerful god-like sunshine spouse who adores him:

[aridante]

this is the house that yaoi built. never forget that

[aropride]

hey man. someone shooting at and missing trump again reminded me how i missed my shot with you. was wondering if you'd like to hit me in the face sometime. lmk

[al-islam]

اللَّهُمَّ جَدِّدِ الإِيمَانَ فِي قَلْبِي

Ya Allah, renew faith"Al-Iman" in my heart .

[paper-mario-wiki]

im going through all of my audio posts from my blog and from my computer and organzing them all into one big folder, and there are like a LOT of thing ive just never published before.

i think i might put together a compilation of Tumblr Stuff and put it on bandcamp.

will keep u updated if i do

[twistcmyk]

is the jack box freaky pack any good

no LOL

there's only 3 games

2 are Adult Themed versions of old games (fakin' it and drawful), they can be fine if the prompts aren't too fucking weird or even sad but at that point just play the original ones

the 1 new game is boring and hard to work with

it has prompts like "How Would You Fuck This" each set to a picture of an object like a trumpet, a dresser, etc. and you take turns explaining your answer and then everyone votes on their favorite answer and after 4 rounds of this it ends unceremoniously, just play talking points

[deloveusion]

nothing beats the intimacy of being silly together

[chipsy]

[s0ft-karina]

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cum in me

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