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[lanymme]

Our Wuling

Zhuang Fangyi/Endministrator(F)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84915696

Waking up with no sense of self to a world desperate for the return of their civilizational founding deity is a deeply wounding and isolating life experience. but perhaps falling in love with a single mother is part of the healing process.

(in other words. The Zhuang introduction hit me so hard that I had to put off the newest batch of zhuang content until I could finish writing this love letter to that subchapter and Endfield as a whole without more story influencing my feelings.)

Your palms start to sweat as you approach the jade wall before you. You think of Andre's joy at your reunion. Of the ten minutes you watched him type and retype a response on Baker when you told him the news. Of how uncomfortable you felt as you messaged and worked together on the AIC, when he acted like the two of you were still fast friends, or that your old dynamic would just… naturally return with time. Like… like the you before him was ultimately a temporary stand-in, a roadblock in the way of an inevitable reunion with an old friend. How alienated you feel from someone everyone assures you was your close friend and colleague. You think of the trouble and worry in Ardashir's body language when he asked you about your intentions, the shock and resignation when he heard your answer. Would you have had to fight, if you knew what he meant to ask you? You can't blame the old Endmin or the people that knew her. You can't deny your excitement to discover things about who you were, who you knew, what you did—your anticipation that maybe they'd help you build a foundation for your self, that perhaps one day you would feel grounded, would know who you are. That, perhaps, armed with new knowledge, your next reunion would be less painful. You reach out to the jade wall before you and hesitate, your hand closing empty in the air. You think of Laevatain taking your hand, leading you through that gate of white light. You place your hand against the array of jade stones, and they begin to fold into each other, opening the way into Zhuang Fangyi's office.

[lanymme]

Karuṇā - Ch. 13

Sessyoin Kiara, Fujimaru Ritsuka (F)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/32762746/chapters/228133146

A Servant route for Kiara continuing her arc from CCC, set during the Epic of Remnant.

-- | --

Chapter 13: An injury during the impromptu rescue mission that interrupted her first real Rayshift exercise with Kiara does nothing to assuage Ritsuka's anxiety about her chances in the next Singularity. Kiara offers to demonstrate her significant abilities as a healer: but despite the arrangement of mutual cooperation they've come to, the prospect of putting her life directly in this particular Servant's hands is very intimidating.

Kiara clarifies a very important point about her Master.

Ritsuka shifts around a bit on the muslin sheet covering the steel workbench, and hisses through her teeth when it jostles her rib, lightning spots appearing in the corner of her vision. That was dumb, she knows better. Maybe she's a little nervous. She knows this isn't really the same as having Jack surgically remove shrapnel from her back: a brave face can only take you so far. Behind her, she hears the rustle of fabric and the spinning echo of Kiara's mandalas taking shape. A moment later, an expert typist's clicking on some musically crystalline mechanical keyboard. "You're really not going to call someone to keep an eye on you? Goodness, are you... feeling bashful?" Ritsuka blinks. "What? No, that's silly. It's just my body. Practically everybody in Chaldea has seen me naked already, so this much is nothing. I contacted Da Vinci and everything, I just figured... I mean, you're already being watched. We both know that. No need to rub it in." It is a little chilly with her shirt off, though. "Oh... oh my! And you seem so modest and restrained! But you're a healthy and energetic young lady, aren't you, Ritsuka? Even I would be affected, hearing something like that. Ahh, so many people..." "Well... yeah. I produce a pretty steady supply of od, but that's not always going to be enough on its own. And on Rayshifts, I need to be observed constantly to confirm my existence, so that means going to the bathroom, bathing, or whenever I'm injured and my clothes need to be removed for medical treatment." Mash gripping her shoulders, talking to her, keeping her hazy attention, keeping her awake, while a sword cuts open her bloody uniform. "Sort of like this." She shrugs. "It was a little rough at first, but I'm pretty used to it by now." She realizes the sounds behind her have briefly gone quiet. "...I see." For some reason. All of the hairs on her body stand up.

[lanymme]

Nasti’s skill descriptions are some of the worst we have yet received in Arknights. Many of them are missing important clauses or are unclear in who they affect and how.

So allow me to explain!

S1: Enhancing artificer skill.

Devices passively give defense up to the operators they’re pointed towards. You can see the numbers in the “summon” section of her profile.

On activation, Nasti gains Atk and Def up, and attacks targets equal to block count: devices increase their def boost and give +1 block, loosing durability while skill is active.

Gain 1 device on activation.

S2: Battery artificer skill.

Devices take effect only on activation. On deploy, they start with only a few of their maximum 8 “charges,” represented as HP. Until the skill is activated, they gradually gain charges over time.

On skill activation, they gain additional charges (see summon details) and begin expending charges every .5 seconds for 4 seconds, giving SP and barrier, until they are exhausted, at which point they disappear. Meanwhile, Nasti stops attacking and gains a larger amount of barrier at the same intervals.

Gain 1 device on activation.

S3: Unique skill, brings RA mechanics to other stages.

On deploy, the first device deployed toward a valid grid square designates that square as a high ground tile build point. The device begins to passively charge the build point’s SP over time: when the bar fills the first time, it becomes a special high ground tile like the deployable ones in RA. Operators can be deployed there and receive a passive Atk and Def increase, and the tile blocks 1 and can take damage: if the tile takes damage, devices working on it will use their hp and restore its hp in parallel to their construction function. Devices will continue to contribute SP, filling the bar up to 2 more times, each increasing the magnitude of the Atk and Def buff. At maximum stacks, the tile will remain even if Nasti is retreated.

Only one special high ground tile can exist on the stage.

On skill activation, Nasti will gain a significant Atk and Def buff: devices will build and repair the tile at double speed for the duration.

Gain 1 device on activation.

[lanymme]

Because this info is evidently not easy to find, here’s some numerical info on her devices and their response to Masteries.

S1: Off-skill defense up is dependent on Nasti’s elite level (E0: 17%, E1: 20%, E3: 25%). On skill defense up is dependent on Nasti’s Skill Level (46% M0 -> 55% M3).

S2: Only barrier scales with skill level (4% M0-M2, 5% M3). Devices start with 2HP at E1, and 3HP at E2: always gains 1 HP/4 seconds and 1 HP at skill activation.

S3: persistent Atk and Def buffs from special high ground tile scale with skill level from 15% per stack (max 45%) at M0 to 20% per stack (max 60%) at M3. High ground tile HP and Def scale (with skill level?) to a maximum of 4150 HP and 385 Def.

Each stage of building/upgrading takes 50 SP, and devices contribute 1 SP/s at base. This means an upgrade level takes:

50s with one device

25s with 2 devices or one device while skill is active

12.5s with 2 devices and skill active.

Nasti’s S3 lasts 15 seconds. At higher masteries, its charge time decreases by 2 SP, and initial charge increases by 3 SP. Thus, S3 mastery has minimal impact on construction speed: at M3 versus M0 in optimal conditions, tile becomes deployable 2 seconds faster (18s vs 20s) and finishes 4 seconds faster (53s vs 57s).

[lanymme]

My mastery opinion: S3 > S1. Masteries seem quite skippable on Nasti.

S3 primarily gets a considerable but not game-changing boost to the ranged tile buff: gaining an unintended deployable ranged tile is flashy and impactful, but don’t sleep on the buff, especially on ops with “% of attack” skills: for perspective, the 60% atk buff on S3 is equivalent to having Spinach from IS unconditionally and continuously. On many strong operators this translates to a 60% or greater increase to total damage. Very strong.

S1 gains attack for Nasti while she’s AOE and potentially hitting 4 targets, and the slight increase to device DEF may help reach break points. 20% decrease in SP cost for the skill brings it to a 50% uptime and improves device production on long stages. Not a flashy mastery, but noticeable

S2 gets just over 10% (4s) CDR: not noticeable on a skill designed to be saved for the perfect moment, you will most likely not be activating this skill on cooldown. First activation time is brought down from 12s to 5s, but her devices require 16s to fully charge, so there is a value clash here too. Maximum total barrier bestowed per device goes from 32% to 40%. It’s not nothing, but it’s not a particularly significant difference. Not worth the price of admission.

[lanymme]

Nasti’s skill descriptions are some of the worst we have yet received in Arknights. Many of them are missing important clauses or are unclear in who they affect and how.

So allow me to explain!

S1: Enhancing artificer skill.

Devices passively give defense up to the operators they’re pointed towards. You can see the numbers in the “summon” section of her profile.

On activation, Nasti gains Atk and Def up, and attacks targets equal to block count: devices increase their def boost and give +1 block, loosing durability while skill is active.

Gain 1 device on activation.

S2: Battery artificer skill.

Devices take effect only on activation. On deploy, they start with only a few of their maximum 8 “charges,” represented as HP. Until the skill is activated, they gradually gain charges over time.

On skill activation, they gain additional charges (see summon details) and begin expending charges every .5 seconds for 4 seconds, giving SP and barrier, until they are exhausted, at which point they disappear. Meanwhile, Nasti stops attacking and gains a larger amount of barrier at the same intervals.

Gain 1 device on activation.

S3: Unique skill, brings RA mechanics to other stages.

On deploy, the first device deployed toward a valid grid square designates that square as a high ground tile build point. The device begins to passively charge the build point’s SP over time: when the bar fills the first time, it becomes a special high ground tile like the deployable ones in RA. Operators can be deployed there and receive a passive Atk and Def increase, and the tile blocks 1 and can take damage: if the tile takes damage, devices working on it will use their hp and restore its hp in parallel to their construction function. Devices will continue to contribute SP, filling the bar up to 2 more times, each increasing the magnitude of the Atk and Def buff. At maximum stacks, the tile will remain even if Nasti is retreated.

Only one special high ground tile can exist on the stage.

On skill activation, Nasti will gain a significant Atk and Def buff: devices will build and repair the tile at double speed for the duration.

Gain 1 device on activation.

[lanymme]

Because this info is evidently not easy to find, here’s some numerical info on her devices and their response to Masteries.

S1: Off-skill defense up is dependent on Nasti’s elite level (E0: 17%, E1: 20%, E3: 25%). On skill defense up is dependent on Nasti’s Skill Level (46% M0 -> 55% M3).

S2: Only barrier scales with skill level (4% M0-M2, 5% M3). Devices start with 2HP at E1, and 3HP at E2: always gains 1 HP/4 seconds and 1 HP at skill activation.

S3: persistent Atk and Def buffs from special high ground tile scale with skill level from 15% per stack (max 45%) at M0 to 20% per stack (max 60%) at M3. High ground tile HP and Def scale (with skill level?) to a maximum of 4150 HP and 385 Def.

Each stage of building/upgrading takes 50 SP, and devices contribute 1 SP/s at base. This means an upgrade level takes:

50s with one device

25s with 2 devices or one device while skill is active

12.5s with 2 devices and skill active.

Nasti’s S3 lasts 15 seconds. At higher masteries, its charge time decreases by 2 SP, and initial charge increases by 3 SP. Thus, S3 mastery has minimal impact on construction speed: at M3 versus M0 in optimal conditions, tile becomes deployable 2 seconds faster (18s vs 20s) and finishes 4 seconds faster (53s vs 57s).

[maxidango]

this is something of an epilogue to slaughterhouse, but you don't really need any context. also added this to the kofi post and globalcomix. thanks for reading👻

[bgm05]

casual pokemon player meme: I would like to have sex with this animal

competitive pokemon player meme: Bro thought he could switch his 252 Spe Borgulon into 252 SpAtk Choice Codpiece 2x Funny Dance STAB Mega Booboobus Peerless Tsunami 💀

[motherfucker-unlimited]

[minttttttttttttttttttttttttttt]

[uwuppa]

[nyawave]

[m0nteverdi]

Pokemon is the only community where the competitive crowd is funnier than the casual one

[nightingem]

this is the top post of all time on r/stunfisk (the competitive pokemon subreddit) and is has been a running joke for so long. sometimes i reference it and forget and have to explain it.

oh and one of the absolute ogs.

gonna put a few of my fav stinkposts on here too also.

[cant-reed]

& my personal favorite for just sending to people

[lordelmelloi2]

It’s Intersex Awareness Day (10/26) so I want to talk about an idea that I had that I think a lot of people would think is interesting. I am an intersex man and part of what I do is intersex education and helping others identify possible intersex variations and know when it’s coded/a possibility in media, and I believe that this helps intersex visibility. So, without further ado:

I have a headcanon/belief that Waver Velvet is intersex based on the development of his body and how I perceive his experiences with gender.

Firstly, being intersex is about the body. Waver had a *very* late finish of puberty, with his development being stalled up until he was about 19-20. There could be multiple reasons for this.

Malnutrition is one of them, and we know Waver definitely struggled with finances prior to this due to his parents’ passing and lack of generational wealth setting him apart from other mages. However, I would believe that he did start eating well with the McKenzies, so after a while it becomes kind of a stretch to say he was suffering from outright malnutrition given he doesn’t really show many of the physical signs of it.

The other reasons for delayed puberty is chronic disease, and while we know Waver is chronically ill with stomach issues, it doesn’t seem to present as severe enough to cause unfinished puberty up till age 19. Other chronic disease issues might be pituitary tumors or other pituitary problems but those come with such a slew of other issues that it’s not likely Waver has them given the information we have i.e. we know Waver is chronically ill, but not in a way that can reasonably be tied to why he isn’t developing.

So that leaves congenital/genetic reasons, mostly things relating to… gonadal failure. I want to here take in the point that Waver is canonically androgynous as well, so while I’m not going to make any specific judgments on what his like, nads may or may not look like (IN GENERAL: it’s not good practice to speculate on an intersex person’s specific genital makeup, dyadic ppl I need you to really understand this) I believe that he has mixed gonadal dysgenesis.

Mixed Gonadal Dysgenesis (MGD) or (45,X/46,XY mosaicism) is a variation in which the sexual development of a person may be widely varied. A person with MGD may even appear as phenotypically normal for their determined sex. Mixed Gonadal Dysgenesis is one of the reasons why people may have delayed puberties and also lack of height growth, as well as physically androgynous bodies. The most common presentation of MGD are people who are phenotypically male, with the next most-common one being those with genital ambiguity (but again we won’t go into speculating on this for him). Diagnosis of MGD usually depends on the manifestation of the variation, but it’s not uncommon for patients to be diagnosed later in life due to short stature, delayed puberty, or a combination of both.

I think this is the best fit because it would explain why he has an androgynous (and also short) body but later grows up to be more masculine, including a growth spurt and deeper voice.

Personally, in my headcanon, I believe that after living with the McKenzies that Glen realized that Waver was 19 years old and still not fully developed & they sent him to go see a doctor, and the doctor did some testing and then prescribed him testosterone. Testosterone replacement therapy to jumpstart puberty development is a common treatment for intersex people.

Waver being on T shots to treat his intersex variation would explain also why he had a growth spurt and grew another foot, as testosterone alone doesn’t increase your height or the size of your hands/feet. I do believe that it is an issue with his pubertal development due to being intersex.

The other thing about Waver being intersex that I have a personal interpretation with is his gender experience. Waver isn’t very happy being treated like a girl and seems to be agonized whenever he is mistaken as one, frequently trying to convince others that he’s not and reinforce the idea that he couldn’t possibly be mistaken as a girl. Being constantly misgendered is a common intersex experience, as well as struggling with others’ perceptions of your gender. Waver seems to be pushed away/rejected from the concept of manhood and forced into this box of ‘girl’ by his peers. I think this causes him a lot of pain, especially before his growth started again.

Despite that, he still retains some feminine aspects as he gets older, seemingly having made peace with it or chosing to consider them personal aspects of himself rather as things that signify that he’s “actually a girl” or anything like that. It seems like he has a nice balance of both masculine and feminine traits into one whole. Asides from that being sometimes related to an intersex gender experience in which someone feels like they also have a balance of male/female traits, I think that his gender expression is also tied in with certain aspects that also go back to the experience of being intersex.

So also in Fate/Zero Waver denotes himself as an alchemist (with confidence I should add). In alchemy, there is a concept known as the Rebis, the end result of the process of Magnum Opus (“Great Work”) to create the philosopher’s stone. It is the goal that all alchemists strive towards (possibly the pathway that alchemists seek the Root). The Rebis is the divine hermaphrodite. It is the perfect balance of male/female, dark/light, venus/mercury, sun/moon, etc. It is the unification of this duality. There is no possible way that Waver isn’t knowledgable about this given that he has to use these concepts to understand the formula that is used to create the Princesses of Silver & Gold in Case Files volume 3. This is a fundamental of alchemy.

Because of this, I believe that Waver’s continued androgyny is intentional, and linked to his practice of magecraft, but also is a part of his gender expression. While I’m sure being called a ‘girl’ may still feel insulting due to the pain of his past, it’s possible he doesn’t hate being referred to with feminine terms, as it reinforces his Hermetic androgyny.

If we go even further, Waver does have a running narrative motif of “balancing”. He balances being a mage and a human, even if it causes him pain of not being able to be fully either. The idea of “not being able to be fully either” is a common experience amongst intersex people who find that they can not be fully men or fully women, and I believe that here it extends into Waver’s gender experiences. I believe that Waver has a complex relationship with gender, complex feelings about manhood and womanhood as ideas, and where he stands is between them, living within the grey area and vagueness of it, balancing it as he balances everything else. I believe he has an intergender intersex experience, but chooses mainly to identify himself as a man in everyday life.  

There are quite a few other characters that I believe have intersex narratives hinted at, but to me, Waver is a very obviously intersex character. I hope this writeup was able to help educate and illuminate the things that make him stand out to me in this way, and how certain aspects of his narrative can hint to an intersex variation. 

And most importantly, many characters could possibly be intersex. It’s important to remember there is no one intersex experience, only common threads of experiences.

In conclusion: 

(version without my insane text): 

[lordelmelloi2]

Happy pride… Here’s my magnum opus aka Thing I was going to die if I didn’t write up

[pyrobchilling]

Oh shit I just realized I can post the "Gaussian Blur Wizard That Gaussian Blurs You" here

[transgendercyborg-deactivated20]

[zzoupz]

his friend "Motion Blur Mage That Motion Blurs You"

[blastovkatamarinecromancy]

Their long suffering associate, the "Sharpen Cleric that Sharpens you (badly)"

[artastic-foe]

Nooo!!! What have you all unleashed upon us!?!

[l4byr1nthz1]

dont forget the chromatic abberation warlock that chromatically abberates you

[vinnybox]

may I add Mystic Mosiac who turns your quality waaaaaaay down

[theo-window]

What did he do to deserve this

[rain-droplet]

punished by the council

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

FOOLS!!!! YOU ARE ALL NOTHING BENEATH THE MIGHTY POWER OF MY JPEG ARTIFACT

[giltori]

Wish they'd let Ushi to be more masc/androgynous. But alas! Male playerbase would get scared.

[giltori]

All TM stuff is in a constant state of "god, I wish Nasu knew that lesbians exist".

[lanymme]

The nasuverse is a perfected chinese room of a dog playing computer-optimal chess without knowing what chess is.

It’s only natural to lose. And, having lost so decisively, to give praise to the victor. Yet, at the end of the day, your opponent is still a dog. He cannot hear your praise. He is already setting up the next chess game.

[yukisetsura]

Temptation under the Moon

[lanymme]

Nasti’s skill descriptions are some of the worst we have yet received in Arknights. Many of them are missing important clauses or are unclear in who they affect and how.

So allow me to explain!

S1: Enhancing artificer skill.

Devices passively give defense up to the operators they’re pointed towards. You can see the numbers in the “summon” section of her profile.

On activation, Nasti gains Atk and Def up, and attacks targets equal to block count: devices increase their def boost and give +1 block, loosing durability while skill is active.

Gain 1 device on activation.

S2: Battery artificer skill.

Devices take effect only on activation. On deploy, they start with only a few of their maximum 8 “charges,” represented as HP. Until the skill is activated, they gradually gain charges over time.

On skill activation, they gain additional charges (see summon details) and begin expending charges every .5 seconds for 4 seconds, giving SP and barrier, until they are exhausted, at which point they disappear. Meanwhile, Nasti stops attacking and gains a larger amount of barrier at the same intervals.

Gain 1 device on activation.

S3: Unique skill, brings RA mechanics to other stages.

On deploy, the first device deployed toward a valid grid square designates that square as a high ground tile build point. The device begins to passively charge the build point’s SP over time: when the bar fills the first time, it becomes a special high ground tile like the deployable ones in RA. Operators can be deployed there and receive a passive Atk and Def increase, and the tile blocks 1 and can take damage: if the tile takes damage, devices working on it will use their hp and restore its hp in parallel to their construction function. Devices will continue to contribute SP, filling the bar up to 2 more times, each increasing the magnitude of the Atk and Def buff. At maximum stacks, the tile will remain even if Nasti is retreated.

Only one special high ground tile can exist on the stage.

On skill activation, Nasti will gain a significant Atk and Def buff: devices will build and repair the tile at double speed for the duration.

Gain 1 device on activation.

[serrrrraphim]

hi fluorite

[lanymme]

Our Wuling

Zhuang Fangyi/Endministrator(F)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84915696

Waking up with no sense of self to a world desperate for the return of their civilizational founding deity is a deeply wounding and isolating life experience. but perhaps falling in love with a single mother is part of the healing process.

(in other words. The Zhuang introduction hit me so hard that I had to put off the newest batch of zhuang content until I could finish writing this love letter to that subchapter and Endfield as a whole without more story influencing my feelings.)

Your palms start to sweat as you approach the jade wall before you. You think of Andre's joy at your reunion. Of the ten minutes you watched him type and retype a response on Baker when you told him the news. Of how uncomfortable you felt as you messaged and worked together on the AIC, when he acted like the two of you were still fast friends, or that your old dynamic would just… naturally return with time. Like… like the you before him was ultimately a temporary stand-in, a roadblock in the way of an inevitable reunion with an old friend. How alienated you feel from someone everyone assures you was your close friend and colleague. You think of the trouble and worry in Ardashir's body language when he asked you about your intentions, the shock and resignation when he heard your answer. Would you have had to fight, if you knew what he meant to ask you? You can't blame the old Endmin or the people that knew her. You can't deny your excitement to discover things about who you were, who you knew, what you did—your anticipation that maybe they'd help you build a foundation for your self, that perhaps one day you would feel grounded, would know who you are. That, perhaps, armed with new knowledge, your next reunion would be less painful. You reach out to the jade wall before you and hesitate, your hand closing empty in the air. You think of Laevatain taking your hand, leading you through that gate of white light. You place your hand against the array of jade stones, and they begin to fold into each other, opening the way into Zhuang Fangyi's office.

[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????

[purseownervolatile]

I have so many questions... How does one SUSPECT a manga character isn't wearing underwear? Like, sure, boobs are front and center amd you can see them get bigger panel by panel but how does this work for panties? Are there just that many upskirt shots?

Also how do you keep a manga about Mahjong going for 18 years, what??

[lexiiii-vt]

Like this, mostly.

[tonights-episode]

[doubleca5t]

The boobs thing is arguably even funnier

[lexiiii-vt]

I have an important update to this saga:

In chapter 299, the main character unleashes a special attack (???), and immediately after, her boobs DEFLATE BACK DOWN TO A REASONABLE SIZE

And then later in the match, she has to use another special move

And now she's completely flat-chested

In Saki, magical mahjongg power is literally stored in the boobs, which in my opinion is the best possible explanation for all this.

[certified-linguistics-moment]

[lanymme]

[lanymme]

I love this idle animation so much lol. Even in the middle of a field assignment, you’re still going to monitor the status of Wuling?? I promise it will still be there.

[zhuang voice] Endmin, I’m going to check the baby camera now. Would you like to see?

[almondmilkhunnis]

VETTED CAMPAIGN DELETED BY GFM AND NEEDING TO RAISE FUNDS FROM SCRATCH

GFM unjustly terminated Fidaa's @fidaa-family2 campaign and she lost all of the funds she'd raised so far to help evacuate her family. She has to start all over with a new campaign.

Fidaa's campaign has been vetted here and here. Please consider donating to her if you have anything at all to give. Small dollar amounts can add up so never think you won't make a difference! If you have enough to buy a cup of coffee, consider skipping it to give to Fidaa instead. Imagine how frustrating it would be after months of fundraising to lose what you've worked hard for. We need to show Fidaa our support now more than ever!

Help My Children Sila and Hamoud

Fidaa and her beautiful kids Sila and Hamoud are raising money to survive the genocide in Gaza. Whether these funds go to food (prices are s

You can also donate through Paypal directly.

Please reblog & share this post even if you aren't able to donate. Let's help this fundraiser reach as many people as possible. <3

[almondmilkhunnis]

Fidaa has established a new campaign after scammers hacked into her old campaign, and she was forced to close it. She has to start from scratch once again with a new campaign and needs our help more than ever. Please consider donating to Fidaa and her beautiful children Sila and Hamoud.