Lore :) Chronicling my adventures in life they/them pronouns or just Lore. Queer and that's all I really got. 28yrs of life so far :P some NSFW but it's usually tagged unless I forget cause I live that ADHD life :) I know too much about a lot of stuff. Ask me things if you want :) or freak out about fandom nonsense and science with me
if i were Will Smith i would post a story on ig on june 13 with the location Vancouver canada and “birthday sex” playing in the background and then turn my phone off
A terrible fact of fandom is that sometimes people who absolutely suck and have stupid takes are going to enjoy the exact same things you do and the only thing you can do about it is sit there with your mutuals who don’t suck like:
"If you died," he said, "a part of me would die too. So remember, Magnus. It's not just your life. It's my life too." -Alec Lightwood, The Lost Book of The White.
I just think its funny how they went years being "enemies" and "hating" each other, they spend the entirety of their rookie year starting from training camp attached at the hip, spend one (1) summer apart before returning to camp and doing the same thing again, Mack beats a dude up for him and Will is on injury, they spend the Olympics on FaceTime, and finish out a record breaking season with plans to hangout immediately before another international competition with more plans clearly on the books because they spent one singular summer apart after knowing each other that well and decided *never again*. I feel like neither of them need to clarify that they're definitely hanging out this summer because at this point it's a given
They move in together full time and Ilya notices that Anya acts differently with Shane than she does with him, more quiet and less playful, and he worries that means she doesn’t like Shane or is jealous, so he hires a dog trainer to come over and see if there’s anything they need to do to help
After a while of talking about how Anya acts the trainer says there’s nothing to worry about, Anya likes Shane just fine, it’s just that she sees him as the boss and is acting accordingly
And Ilya is like. But. I’m the one who adopted her? And raised her before Shane got here?? And the trainer is just like yeah well she sees you more like an equal. And Ilya is like WAIT she thinks Shane is in charge of both of us?? And the trainer is just like well do you interact in a way that would make her think that?
Ilya’s life flashes before his eyes as he thinks of all the times Shane has come over with a snack for Ilya and a treat for Anya, or all the times Shane has announced they’re all going for an after dinner walk, or pets Ilya’s hair and tells him he did a good job at practice, or the fact that he uses the same warning tone with Anya when she misbehaves as he does with Ilya when he’s causing problems on purpose
Shane comes home to Ilya with his face in his hands going oh god I’m not Anya’s dad I’m her brother and she thinks we’re both your pets. And Shane just goes. What.
“No not really no” - Mack when asked by the media if he did anything to celebrate wills birthday. As if. They’re just secretive people, will might be in Vancouver for all we know LOL yall are funny
Had the first part of my exams today (I think it went ok?) and got a new WM idea because of two girls in the hallway.
It was an oral expression exam, so we were all waiting for our turn and this girl was having a bad panic attack, so I go to her and her friend because I have a panic disorder so I know what could help her and I wanted to help.
Her friend turns to me, smiles and goes "oh thanks, but I have my own way to calm her down" and then she kisses her????
After the longest 20 seconds of my life, the other girl was practically calm, and I tell them that they're a cute couple. They look at me kinda weird (not mean, just confused) and tell me that they're just friends...
After that I talked to another girl who explained that they've just been making out everytime the anxious one has a panic attack
I can 100% see willmack doing this and going "no toff we're not GAY, Mack is just ANXIOUS OK? He's stressed and I'm HELPING him, like the great best FRIEND I am."
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"Its not gay for me to put my tongue in Mack's mouth, he has ANXIETY TOFF"
Will's fully offended (don't blow his fucking cover tyler)
mack spending the whole of his north van training camp telling misa1, misa2, dickie and "lardis" that they need to watch will, be more like will, will's edges are looking so sick rn, wow could you guys go a little faster and try to keep up with will? good job will :]
if the caps can get on all four and bark for each other in front of god and their locker room on the daily then what’s will and mack being the same room with macklin celewienie while will repeatedly say “good girl mackie” and “who’s my good girl”
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????
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??
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