nem • 30+ • she/they
mostly mxtx/capri/aa/hades | beware spoilers!
I pretty much only queue stuff but I swear the reblog is coming eventually!
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you can find my fics on AO3 or my neocities page. the #nem's fic tag has all my fic/writing related posts.
Other tags I use in case you want to mute for spoilers or any other reason:
#nem's fic - my fic and fandom writing
#aa - Ace Attorney: anything from AA1-6 and both Investigations games, though I won't post anything that is a spoiler for my friends' current playthrough (as of July 13, 2025 we're halfway through 6-5, so it's really only 6-5, 6-6, and the Layton crossover that are still spoilers)
#dgs - Dai Gyakuten Saiban/The Great Ace Attorney
#mdzs - Mo Dao Zu Shi/Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation
#untamed - I will also tag mdzs on these posts but live-action specific stuff will have this tag
#svsss - Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
#tgcf - Tian Guan Ci Fu/Heaven Official's Blessing
#hades game - Hades (Supergiant Games)
#star trek - Only will have spoilers from the older shows (mainly TOS, TNG, and Voyager)
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??
I think if you are going to have fulfilling and safe feeling sexual experiences, you really do have to be willing to turn someone down if they reveal themselves to be a bad fit in any stage of the sexual negotiation process, and be able to bring the sex to a halt the moment that you're not enjoying it and don't want to be doing it anymore. This really is a vital skill to develop in order to ensure that you are actually enforcing your own boundaries, and it will lead to you having sex that is more in line with your actual desires too.
The first time that I stood up in the middle of riding a guy and went "nah this sucks I'm going home," and left right then and there was the day that i unlocked unlimited power. we tell people a lot that a sexual partner can say no to them at any time but we don't teach people how to actually honor their own no and bring things to a stop for any reason and that leads to a lot of people feeling like they have no choice but to be dishonest, and having begrudging unfun sex.
Natural Black Hair Tutorial!
Usually Black hair is excluded in the hair tutorials which I have seen so I have gone through it in depth because it’s really not enough to tell someone simply, “Black hair is really curly, draw it really curly.”
The next part of Black Hair In Depth will feature styles and ideas for designing characters and I will release it around February. If you would like to see certain styles, please shoot me a message!
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