Warning: this chapter has been ready for a bit, but the commissioner has been too busy to check it, so it's possible that I'll have to edit some stuff after he has the time to go over it with m...
2024-03-11 02:05:09 +0000 UTC View PostWords are inadequate.
I can’t count how many times I’ve thought this line since I confronted Yui and Yukino in the room that I will always think of as ours. The many occasions in which it...
2024-03-11 02:04:59 +0000 UTC View PostConvenient breaks from reality.
No matter what story it is that you’re engaged in, no matter the medium of choice, the tone, the genre, or the tropes… willing suspension of disbelief is n...
2024-03-06 05:57:05 +0000 UTC View PostI have mentioned already (maybe at length) the party system, the party management system, the companion side quests, and a lot of things that game developers use to trick the player into caring for...
2024-03-03 09:07:56 +0000 UTC View PostThere are a lot of things that we love to see in fiction because we’re deprived of them in reality.
That’s what some of the most popular genres are predicated upon, after all: fulfilling ...
2024-02-26 02:41:18 +0000 UTC View PostThere’s a joke about lesbians that some of my friends have often laughed at: What does a lesbian bring to a second date?
A moving van.
Which, yeah, it gets the point across. I’ve se...
2024-02-22 03:13:48 +0000 UTC View Post"She’s still a villain,” I tell Amy as we look at the girl sitting under the night sky at the top of Captain’s Hill, surrounded by three dogs frantically lapping at her face in a messy order ...
2024-02-19 23:41:48 +0000 UTC View PostLacmere University – A Tale of Chivalry, Monstergirls, and Tuition
Chapter 1: Sabers at Dawn (or Afternoon, if That’s Too Inconvenient)
There’s a...
2024-02-15 21:29:55 +0000 UTC View PostSayaka – What Goes Around Comes Around
Waters rush. Waters roar.
And, through all the exhaustion, through all the bone-deep need to close my eyes an...
2024-02-13 02:50:19 +0000 UTC View PostSo, once again, and I can’t thank you enough, you managed to vote for me to get an actual break at some point—which is kind of bewildering, given my poor output since I started freaking out abo...
2024-02-13 02:43:27 +0000 UTC View PostIroha
“I—he’s never—” Mister Hikigaya says, still looking over the sofa toward the bathroom that his son just stormed into.
He looks back at his wife...
2024-02-10 21:16:53 +0000 UTC View PostI started Wake-up Call on September 2020.
That’s also when I finished it.
No, this isn’t a metaphorical thing. No pseudo-Zen, mind-bending statement about the end containing the beg...
2024-02-07 10:06:55 +0000 UTC View PostIf anybody ever asked you what the most iconic part of the cooking manga genre is, what would you answer? Would it be the creative twists on otherwise commonplace recipes? The struggle to keep a pl...
2024-02-05 06:12:06 +0000 UTC View PostSo… let’s start the month with a bang, shall we?
(As opposed to the kinda whimper the past few months have been.)
I think I’m finally recovering from the aftermath of wri...
2024-02-02 22:23:01 +0000 UTC View PostSo…
Uh…
I mean…
Cutscenes!
Yes, cutscenes! In JRPGs, where narrativity can often take priority over immersion, there’s… the… the cutscene.
You know, that t...
2024-02-02 05:47:44 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor
In some
2024-01-28 12:47:15 +0000 UTC View PostShizuka Hiratsuka Tries Not to Panic
“You were supposed to take care of him when I—you were supposed to take care of him,” Yumiko Hikigaya states after my late...
2024-01-20 20:21:41 +0000 UTC View PostDo you know what’s the main difference between a hangover and being sleep-deprived?
The hangover goes away.
Lisa Wilbourn’s experience with lack of proper sleep—
I ...
2024-01-19 00:58:48 +0000 UTC View PostThere are, at times, joyful occasions that need to be properly celebrated. Once-in-a-century star-alignments the likes of which can stand shoulder to shoulder with a gacha game’s summertime speci...
2024-01-15 13:40:17 +0000 UTC View PostHannah
What I’m about to say should be no surprise at all, given that I’m the lone sane member of a quartet consistent of overpowered Tinkers and a too-often fra...
2024-01-12 01:54:23 +0000 UTC View PostIn this, our magnificent series on the ins and outs of the anime industry in specific and otakudom in general, we’ve already talked about anime parents. It’s not surprising at all, given both t...
2024-01-08 04:58:26 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time we’re having breakfast on our kitchen counter, the lingering traces of burning cotton have already been taken care of by a range hood that was about ten times more expensive than what...
2024-01-05 05:49:00 +0000 UTC View PostFirst of all, I wish you all the best in the year to come. May it bring good fortune in each and every single one of your endeavors and relief in every struggle that you face. I hope you’ll becom...
2024-01-02 02:21:38 +0000 UTC View PostA stage surrounded by cameras and festooned wit
2023-12-29 00:26:36 +0000 UTC View PostWine and whisky.
We’ve spent many nights drinking our respective preferred spirits, and some good-natured teasing has come from it. I’ll sometimes point out that California reds have won ...
2023-12-24 04:09:52 +0000 UTC View Post“It was just a prank, bro,” I state with not even an ounce of irony.
Lisa Wilbourn’s adherence to the metric system and subsequent lack of available ounces—
Hush. Don...
2023-12-21 03:20:35 +0000 UTC View Post“So. Alone at last,” I say with overdramatic levity, my left wrist bent and the tips of my fingers demurely brushing over the top of my chest, adopting the pose as soon as the door closes behin...
2023-12-18 04:49:45 +0000 UTC View PostAll right, cheekiness aside, seeing as this is a poll, the thing is that I’ve got a couple of things I want to accomplish before the year’s over. One of them is the Christmas Special (...
2023-12-16 19:02:50 +0000 UTC View PostDragon
“I don’t understand the issue?” the clueless man says as I glare at him sitting down on a wheeled stool by the side of the holographic prototyping table...
2023-12-15 05:55:14 +0000 UTC View PostHitomi’s Big (and Very Long) Day
My head is swimming.
Which, given that I have, throughout this day, gotten mindfucked, thoroughly fucked, lost my v...
2023-12-13 03:19:19 +0000 UTC View Post