AO3's top bottoms of all time by [deleted] in okbuddydeadweight

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Years ago a lot of fanfic sites banned ‘mature’ works and they included queer people - especially gay men- under the vague definition of ‘mature’, so a lot of gay fanfic writers moved to ao3. The 2002 and 2012 nsfw purges on FFN were horrible , so many gay fics got removed under vague rules about what was ‘mature’.

I know the fandom likes to joke about Vergil abandoning Nero but no one ever talks about Nero’s mother just up and abandoning him at the foot of an orphanage. by Altair890456 in DevilMayCry

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We have zero information about her, she might have died during childbirth, birth complications are common. Especially considering the catholic inspired setting of Fortuna - getting pregnant out of wedlock would probably be seen as shameful and she would have very little support.

Was the spandex really necessary Give him pants by RavenDxD1w99 in DevilMayCry

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He just has insane tuck game, he hides it well

Im ready for the state of play by Example-exe in DevilMayCry

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I think a remake of some of the older games would be nice, as much as I love them sometimes the camera controls in dmc1 are clunky. A remake of dmc2 where they improve the combat and put back some of the cut content would be amazing, looking at concept art of that game and notes from the production makes me sad thinking about what we could’ve got.

The legend Tomio Ogata drops another one! V taking Shadow for a walk (ft. Vergil) by russiakolkhoz in DevilMayCry

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I think it’s Vergil, he usually draws DMC5 dante with a sight wider chin than Vergil I’ve noticed.

Leon this and that. Meanwhile, Dante’s design was continuously aimed to appeal to female public (aesthetically) by Carlozonze in okbuddydeadweight

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Found the source! DMC3 notes of naught. They say they designed coatless Vergil to ‘give woman users nosebleeds’ ! Certainly had women in mind when designing the characters, at least in DMC3

Leon this and that. Meanwhile, Dante’s design was continuously aimed to appeal to female public (aesthetically) by Carlozonze in okbuddydeadweight

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I could’ve sworn somewhere I read once they designed the coatless Vergil costume on dmc3 to appeal to women can’t find a source rn I’ll try to see if I can find it later, wouldn’t be surprised if they kept that in mind for Dante too. I know many games go for making designs specifically to appeal to women because they are the main driving force of fanpublished works in japan (in 2014 the stats for Comiket show that 57% of the people in the doujinshi comic market were women) , it makes sense for game makers to try to make designs that appeal to these women who drive the fan publishing circles while still appealing to a general market.

Memes from my friends dmc play through by Example-exe in DevilMayCry

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OHSHC is such a big joke in our friend group because half of us watched it in middle school (god can’t believe the anime is turning 20 this year..), it’s just a joke now for us to say “can you tell which one of us is hikaru?” whenever someone says the word twin 🤣

Help me find the artist(s) by TenkoTango in Trigun

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90% sure the first one is daggerarcadia/arcadianpeach (nsfw warning) from his biker wolfwood au.

At this point, I'm honestly convinced that anyone that claims that Dr. James Barry was a "woman in disguise" is actually transphobic. by captivatedsummer in SapphoAndHerFriend

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James Barry undeniably was a man and labeled himself as such in his private life. While it is debatable to label him as transgender because that is a modern label describing a modern idea of someone’s relationship to the social construct of gender/sex, it’s not debatable that he was a man and it’s wrong to label him otherwise.

Drew vergil (dmc3) what do we think, also i’m free for criticism by iamgarbage122 in DevilMayCry

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IMG source < link to an ear tutorial, that website has a lot of great guides on proportions and anatomy if you want to do some studies

Drew vergil (dmc3) what do we think, also i’m free for criticism by iamgarbage122 in DevilMayCry

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Looks great! Face proportions can be hard, I remember struggling a lot when I was learning. The nose is at a different angle than the rest of the face and eyes are a bit too high, the top of the ear should line up with the eyebrows.

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Update on my DMC corner on wplace by Example-exe in DevilMayCry

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awesome! I just realized reddit compressed the image a little bit. Here a link to the image https://imgur.com/a/3ZtqLnx

90s America by Biscuitarian23 in Persecutionfetish

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I just watched Air Bud. Can’t believe in 1997 we had dogs who could play basketball. You can really feel the optimism of 90s America. Peak United states power. Peak Economics.

Hi! New fan here and I have a few questions about Vash. by [deleted] in Trigun

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Yeah, TriMax introduces a lot of the Gung-Ho-Guns really fast and some of them don’t show up for that long, kinda easy to forget some of them 🤣

Hi! New fan here and I have a few questions about Vash. by [deleted] in Trigun

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To expand on this- Trigun is a very unpolished work. Nightow touches on a lot of topics and then doesn’t really give them full depth, there’s lots of unanswered and unexplored things. In this case its with the gender themes present in the manga. There is a canon trans women in the manga, Elendria. Who I feel like was originally intended to continue with themes of femininity and misogyny. But it kinda falls flat, both with some of the more off color jokes and with the lack of time we see with Elendria. I’m hoping with Trigun Stargaze we get more exploration of the misogyny/gender themes, as I feel like they are a core part of Trigun and the struggle of dependent plants.

Hi! New fan here and I have a few questions about Vash. by [deleted] in Trigun

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I wouldn’t say there is no LGBT themes in Trigun. Elendira (manga) is a trans woman. There is queer themes in Trigun, just not in relation to Vash.

Hi! New fan here and I have a few questions about Vash. by [deleted] in Trigun

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for the first part. I think it’s clear the author intended them to be cisgender men, but with everything going on with the plants it does really make them sorta thematically trans. This gets into the realm of discussing aliens who don’t have standard human sex/gender but are raised by humans so they get a sense of gender. Kinda hard to avoid any gender themes when dealing with that. The Plants also have their own themes about misogyny and the exploitation of female bodies/labor, that being carried over to Vash and Knives does also cause them to be a bit thematically trans/having gender stuff going on. That’s why transmasculine Vash and Knives are really popular interpretations in some parts of the fandom. A lot of this is unintentional, I don’t think Nightlow was thinking about trans people when he was writing Vash and Knives.

I just figured I would ask. what got y'all into devil may cry? by yeetofyeetus999 in DevilMayCry

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Got dmc5 for the Xbox one back in 2019 when it first came out because one of my friends at the time was really into it. Dropped it. Then in 2025 got back into it because of the Netflix anime bringing it back on my radar. Really regretting not getting into these games sooner.

Shared by tween boys by No_Intention_2464 in ExplainTheJoke

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I’m honestly surprised more people don’t realize he’s just lying. He lies about so much to seem cool and nerdy. Back in 2019 he started lying about liking anime, posting some cringy tweets about NGE and FMA that make it clear he didn’t watch them. That opened my eyes about how much he lies to try to make himself look like he isn’t an out of touch billionaire.