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cloudy | 26 | any pronouns

[real-life-cloud]

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hello, i’m cloudy!

i’m 26 and i use any pronouns!

this is a personal blog where i also post art. you can see my art tag → here

i rly likeeeee . . .

utdr

critical role c4

ace attorney

farming sims

raggedy ann

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[minecraft-sex-mod]

just you wait, dude. just you wait

[ladyloveandjustice]

Fall 2025 Anime Overview: This Monster Wants to Eat Me

Premise: Hinako is an extremely depressed girl who’s been searching for death ever since the loss of her family. It seems like she’s going to get her wish when she runs into Shiori, a mermaid who wants to eat her…but Shiori is a gourmet who wants her meal to be as delicious as possible. So she declares she’s going to help Hinako be happy before she eats her, since happiness apparently enhances a human’s deliciousness. In the meantime, Shiori has to fight off all the other monsters who want to snack on Hinako.

Talk about a delectable story. It’s a top tier yuri horror, but it’s also so much more than that. It’s one of those reviews that’s hard to write, because I really want to convey just how good it is, but worry I’m not up to the task (especially without spoilers).

The initial hook is already great—the absolutely unhinged situation of Shiori wanting to help Hinako to come alive just so she can kill her. And there’s  also the ongoing mystery of just why monsters are so attracted to Hinako. But the story doesn’t content itself with those elements, it builds on them, introducing more mysteries and complications.

I heard some found first couple episodes a little slow, and they do stretch things out a bit in those, but trust me, you need to stick with it because the pacing improves and the anime SERIOUSLY ups its game. And don’t take my word for it, look at how it jumps up in the ANN rankings as it goes on.

I was only caught up with the English release of the manga when I watched this, and I already loved the story, but unbelievably, it became better and better with each new episode. It offers so many genuinely jaw dropping twists that turn everything on its head.

Nobody is what they seem in this story—well, Hinako is what she seems, which is extremely depressed, but even for her, there’s a lot about her circumstances and past she doesn’t know. As the backstories unfold and new elements are unveiled, the characters and their relationships deepen and become richer.

I was on board the second a monster girl covered in the blood of her enemies seductively told the protagonist she wants to tear out her intestines and devour her, that is exactly my shit. I love monster girls who are actually terrifying and dangerous. Shiori’s full monster form is truly tasty, like genuinely so unsettling and inhuman, the opposite of the cutesy designs girls are usually stuck with. There are other awesome monster girls with great designs too!

And I love a good messy sapphic monster romance where nobody is okay and danger shrouds them and the monster and human have such a hard time understanding each other because they are very different beings from different worlds. Watatabe (the Japanese nickname This Monster Wants to Eat Me is Watatabe, so I’ll just go with that for the rest of this review, easier to type) pulls it all off with aplomb.

Shiori and Hinako see things fundamentally differently, and the drama that happens as a result is delicious. But the way Shiori will still fight to understand Hinako is also genuinely moving. Shiori is an intruiguing character from the beginning, poised and polite and capable of saying the wildest and most horrible things in a calm and cheerful tone.

She always cares a hint of menace and inhuman mystery, but you get the impression her perpetually unbothered attitude might be a front. She often shows signs of genuinely starting to care for Hinako, and the more you learn about her, the more complicated and compelling she and her feelings for Hinako become.

But I can’t really get into things without talking about Miko, Hinako’s best friend and the third main character.

She is the secret sauce of the series, at first seeming like the typical cheerful best friend with a crush who's jealous of the love interest, but then we get a bait and switch and she becomes a fascinating character with a lot of layers to her. The Shiori-Hinako-Miko love triangle is one of the rare ones that is genuinely entertaining. It moves the plot along rather than making it drag, the dynamic is really fun, and Shiori and Miko have one of the most interesting relationships, having a lot in common while also being fundamentally opposed in other ways. They bicker comically over Hinako (Shiori loves trolling Miko), but they’re also united in taking care of her.

And yeah, it’s one of those where you think a polycule might be the answer, (Miko and Shiori even go on a date at one point) but there’s a lot of interesting plot reasons it can’t be that way, with one of them being that Hinako is so deeply depressed she’s not gonna be able to handle one romance, let alone two.

The exploration of Hinako’s depression is another thing that makes the series special. I’ve been suicidal and had depression, so I can be particular about it. At first, the depiction of Hinako’s depression seemed a little surface level, but not badly written by any means. But as the series goes in, it digs into it in a way that really broke my heart and reminded me of my own experiences.

Hinako is the flavor of depressed where she isn’t willing to take her own life yet because she doesn’t want to feel reponsible for hurting the people she loves (in this case, the memory of her family, who she thinks wanted her to live) but is out there really wishing someone would just kill her already. Shiori, in her eyes, is the perfect answer to that.

Depression has deeply changed Hinako, draining her of her energy and muting her personality in the way it often does. Some viewers might find that frustrating, but that’s really how it is. She feels like a hollow version of herself, a nothing. Yet we see moments of affection and enjoyment peek through sometimes, giving us hints of who she might have been without this trauma. It gets more and more emotional as the series goes on—the moment when she asks Miko if her dying would hurt her, and when Miko says yes, she breaks down sobbing saying she’s sorry but even knowing that she still wants to die, honestly broke me because that is something I’ve felt too.

It’s not like Hinako doesn’t know people value her, it’s just that every second of being alive is a struggle. She tries to work it out so those who love her will be able to “move on” and “won’t be alone”, knowing they care but feeling fundamentally replaceable. To get a little personal, I got a similar way in the worst of my suicidal feelings. I kept thinking how it would hurt my Mom if I died, but isn’t it a burden to be stuck with a daughter like me who just takes and takes? But she’s too old to have a better daughter to replace me, I thought. I genuinely believed I was exchangeable good. Hinako wanting Shiori and Miko to be friends so her death isn’t too hard on Miko is the same sort of logic.

(All that is to say, if exploring suicidal feelings or seeing (non-graphic) attempts really upsets you, this series is not for you because there is a lot of that. I feel it’s handled pretty well and it’s never graphic, but it gets intense)

Hinako’s depression makes her feel monstrous, but she doesn’t think of Shiori as a monster despite everything…until a certain thing happens that seriously changes everything about the series and relationships. In that moment, the dynamics change greatly, and the story explores what it really means to be a monster.

I adore messy queer relationships involving deeply unwell women where they hurt each other and do the absolute wildest shit, but still care for each other deeply, and Watatabe is masterful at it. Unhinged sapphic romance on this level is a delicacy. The relationships are core of this series, and the juicy conflict and gay yearning is perfect.

I’ll also note that it’s nice that the show avoids the yuri anime curse of its animation falling apart. It’s not the amazing stuff the other queer monsterfucker anime this year got, but it holds together and is effective where it needs to be. The direction is well done.

I can’t wait to see where this story goes next, and I’m praying for a second season. Please give this series the support it deserves. If you’re going to watch one anime from the Fall 2025, make it this one. I wholeheartedly recommend it!

[maxknightley]

I think what really bothers me about video game difficulty discourse is the way that it equates "inaccessibility" with "artistic choices that may alienate certain disabled players."

[maxknightley]

like, okay, speaking as a musician and an autistic woman: there are certain sounds that I am simply not going to enjoy, right? I don't like music that's too heavy on the high end, because it sounds shrill. I've listened to music that had so much Stuff Going On at once that is literally made me feel sick from overstimulation. But that doesn't mean that music shouldn't exist, or that the creators should make a hypothetical pared-down remix just so I specifically can enjoy it. There's other music out there which I like! It's fine! I'll listen to that instead!!

and, idk, it bothers me because there are a lot of legitimate accessibility features that I think every game should have. there's no reason for a puzzle game to be inaccessible to colorblind people. there's no reason that an execution-heavy game shouldn't allow you to set up alternate control schemes. but the solution is not "make the puzzles easier" or "make the bosses do less damage" any more than the "solution" to a complicated piece of writing is "create a version where everything is written using simpler language." idk! it just feels like a refusal to engage with art as art and not Product.

[getvalentined]

That last bit about writing is particularly on-point right now, because this is take is going around:

So yeah there are people who genuinely believe that "accessibility" means only making things that are unchallenging. This is incorrect in any form of art, whether it's popular media or something more traditional. Accessibility in writing means printing in larger text, use of readable fonts and formatting, translation into Braille, and recording in clear audio. Accessibility in gaming should mean colorblindness filters, toggles to deactivate strobing in cutscenes and environments, scalable text, custom keymapping, and the ability to modify graphical settings including framerates, motion blur, fixed versus free camera, and so on.

To truly engage with any form of art, one must at least be willing to be challenged. To claim that challenge is by its nature inaccessibility is at best ignorance to the purpose of accessibility, and at worst a gross infantilization of people like me who actually have disability-related struggles that could be mitigated with some fairly basic control of settings.

[mens-rights-activia]

[mens-rights-activia]

I would like to note that I left flowers for her afterwards, just as a “sorry for using your grave for content”

[angel-derangement]

“we live in an uncaring universe” yeah dude and I live in an uncaring house. and I shit in an uncaring toilet. but do you touch an uncaring lover? do you comfort an uncaring child? do you guide to sleep each night a cold and uncaring self?

[angel-derangement]

please hurry up in reblogging this I wanna jorts it before someone puts it in one of those heartwarming tiktok slideshows

[ablubluh]

i was like 'what could jorts it possibly mean' but as with many things clicking the original post immediately clarified the situation

[asneakyfox]

the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

[asneakyfox]

btw this is maybe the single most key distinguishing feature of the terfy strains of radical feminism, the seed all the rest of it springs out of: they have absolutely no faith in the ability of feminism to actually destroy patriarchy. they do not think feminism can truly build a better world. they cannot really even imagine that possibility. they think patriarchy is an inevitable natural consequence of unchangeable biological facts, and therefore the goal of feminism can only be to mitigate the worst effects of patriarchy, not to get rid of it.

they can imagine a society where women get some designated safe spaces without men around. they cannot imagine a society where the presence of men is not inherently a danger to women.

[pristineandplushies]

Eevee who ate a bee

Where from?

1999 play-by-play eevee

[fairycosmos]

getting older is funny because characters you used to look up to and see as very established and grown up people are like 29

[cinturongazo]

im not using wojaks. get on my level

[quietsphere]

A group of Bolaires is called a murder 🎭⚰️

[shrimperini]

less than one minute old 🎀

[travalicious]

backrooms (2026) - kane parsons

[lobstabear]

To my 25 - 35 year olds, you've reached the age where people around you are starting to give up on themselves because they think it's too late. Don't let that energy rub off on you. It's not too late.

[knittingontheroad]

I became a tattoo artist at 49.

Married the love of my life at 50.

Got my Class A CDL at 59.

You've got time.

As long as you're breathing, you've got time.

[real-life-cloud]

😀😀😀

[agprincess]

now draw her with a vacant stare. and it/its pronouns

[dearheen]

My artwork of Candace from Harvest Moon: Animal Parade