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here is my advice: stop whatever you're doing and go watch "non non biyori". unless you've already seen it, in which case, uh. disregard what i'm about to say, but also go watch it again anyway, because it is good. it's not like dragon maid in terms of plot or whatever, it's grounded in reality, no fantasy or nothing, but i think it does the good things about dragon maid even better, plus of course other good stuff that's unique to it. also, the sexualization is almost non-existent. i say almost because, there is the dreaded beach episode, but. it doesn't stay for long, and the episode is actually funny after that point. but yeah, it's a really cute show with a bunch of goofy, silly moments and a lot of bittersweet emotions. definitely go watch it right now, for real.

Thanks, will do! This is ironic since I was trying to brainstorm a good cute girl anime to watch as I work on my classes, since dragon maid left such a hole in my heart lol

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cool, glad you're enjoying it! some episodes i like a lot are coming up, at least a couple featuring kaede more prominently, who's my favourite character personally. i'm a sucker for that character archetype.

Oooh I'm excited for that then!

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on the note of same anons - same anon who recommended an anime to you the other week, and i demand (politely request) to know if you 1; got round to watching any of it, and if so, 2; what you thought of it.

Lol - SO I watched 4 or 5? eps of it and was surprised I liked it! I initially was unimpressed with the animation style, but the mellow conversations, absence of anime tropes that are oversexualized for my tastes (thus far), gay undertones, general cuteness, and plot are keeping me eager to continue it.

I really like the premise of slice of life of a group of girls in a small farmtown like it showed. The fact that said group of girls are chronically (imo) ~anime~ looking and doing grounded things as kids-in-a-small-town would do added to that. I know that isn't super rare to find, but the writing is cuter and more peaceful than other slice of life's I dipped my toes into (which isn't a lot tbh).

In a weird way, if kind of reminded me of Toad & Frog but with a bunch of anime girls in a generic idyllic anime farm town.

My favorite episode I think is the most recent one I saw, where the young girls pal for the summer came and left. Very sentimental and cute, it made me think of how that felt like as a kid.

I want to continue it when I have a day off to just vibe and be a couch potato, it's so calming :)

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i thought it was cute also, but the fact that it just exists to be sexualized was too big a hurdle for me personally. this is of course worst with the loli/shota stuff as you say. as for the stuff between kobayashi and tohru, for me it was kinda too surface level for most of the show. it gets better toward the end of course, but tohru insisting she fully romantically loves kobayashi from the beginning kinda sucks the wind out of the sails of the finale where their bond is actually solidified. might've been better if it started out as more just, a playful fascination considering how different kobayashi is to her. or something, i dunno.

I agree! Existing to be sexualized is an issue I put my blinders on for a lot anime. The creator of the show also is a man who is really into shota and large chested women, so that makes if even worse, somehow (I found this out when I was seeing if the manga endgamed the two as a couple or was at the very least written by a woman.)

Part of me actually liked that tohru was so invested in Kobayashi, ESPECIALLY after the drunken night of their fist meeting be elaborated upon.

The thought of the start of a romance being a gay, overworked, woman drunkenly saving another gay, outcasted, monstrous woman appealed to me. Kobayashi is so stoic, but tohru's first interaction with Kobayashi is when she's inebriated, and arguably more authentic and spontaneous than she allows herself to be as a reserved woman (or rather, a reserved, possibly repressed, and private lesbian.) Tohru, as a result, falling deeply for this human is really endearing as a she is enamoured by such a raw and fun side of Kobayashi.

I agree that tohru insisting that she Fully loves Kobayashi from the beginning of the show being a flaw. When watching orginally, I thought it would be like SU's Rose/Greg dynamic where Tohru realizes humans are 'deep' lol and that to achieve a relationship with Kobayashi she needs to learn about Kobayashi to really be in love. But they didn't :'(

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Basically Jensen announced a new SPN prequel called “The Winchesters” with his wife, only it doesn’t involve Sam whatsoever and the tweet was how Jared found out about it

Djdjdjiwdjsjsb oh my gosh that's hilarious

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The post canon content is so bad I can't even describe it. I really wouldn't recommend 😔

honestly I completely believe you. I won't listen to you and will definitely probably waste years of my life being a Homestuck otaku in the future when I do catch up again, but I completely believe that it is a garbage pile

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hiveswap and friendsim are pretty good as far as post canon goes. the epilogues and whatever's currently happening is where most of the terrible stuff is. it alienated a lot of the fans and was generally just really miserable to read, its basically a big "fuck you for caring about these characters lol!"

I mean. I'm not gonna lie that I felt that way over OG Homestuck in general, if you care about any characters other than the original 4 kids and like, karkat and vriska and MAYBBEE Kanaya and Terezi I feel like the story actively went "fuck you for caring about these characters lol". I feel like they (I say they bc at this point we have to accept that homestuck is incredibly collaborative, right?) kind of lost focus when Homestuck fandom just got So Big and the second set of trolls came out. (Not to say characters like Aradia or Meenah weren't HUGE AND IMPORTANT characters but I feel like they just got lost or meme'd on too hard considering what vital parts of certain sections of the story were. Also I'm fuzzy on a lot of things since I haven't read it or looked at canon content in like, half a decade tbh)

Thank you for lmk btw that gives me hope that I will really enjoy hiveswap. I was one of the foos who paid for the kickstarter, omg. Im still a huge Homestuck nerd and am so intrigued seeing the groups of people who moved on and found new favorites of w the new characters and people who moved on and don't really talk like it exists and that it was an obsession for a lot of Weird Nerds for almost a decade lol (rightfully so 😂)

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I just saw your tag list on that backpack tiktok and tbh its a great list of things that I want in my bag so now I'm using that as inspiration for what to put in my bag

Nothing is more deeply comforting than knowing I have everything I could need. Inside my obnoxious high schooler sized backpack