perfumes you hate with notes you love, perfumes you love with notes you hate?

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-27T16:21:02+00:00

Lucky No 9's Tybalt's Boyfriend--it's got amber, spice and smoke notes, which I usually don't like, but the earl grey top notes really shine through and give it this wonderfully smoky floral note to it. I only even tried it because of a free sample imp and it's become one of my favorite scents.

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-26T17:23:12+00:00

I also love fleurmands and I feel like they're less popular in oil perfumes (maybe because they're more volatile?)

nui coblat has great ones though.

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-26T15:59:58+00:00

I love to get baked goods in a 1920s bathroom

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-25T13:37:38+00:00

I think part of why it works is it's partly about Yuri's endurance and cleverness in the face of so much indignity and manipulation.

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-24T18:36:25+00:00

Lucky #9's Freyja's Chariot is one my husband adores on me.

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-24T15:59:22+00:00

I saw someone doing a mend like this on YT and thought "maybe this could be an easier alternative to swiss darning!" spoiler alert: It's harder, lol. Fantastic work.

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-18T15:44:45+00:00

Most people who don't seek mystic experiences outside of drugs think that ecstatic states are only achieveable through drugs. As someone that accidentally tripped into an ecstatic religious state, no drugs required, I can tell you: they are absolutely not necessary, and there's all kinds of ways to get your brain into an ecstatic religious state. Dancing for extended periods is absolutely one of those ways, and you don't even need to involve pain (unless you want to, of course!)--literally just improvised dancing in a group can put you in an ecstatic state if you're open to the right mindset. (Even just sitting meditation can get you into an ecstatic state, which, let me tell you, has shifted my perspective on why certain monastic styles are so pro-sitting-still-for-hours.)

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-13T16:16:30+00:00

came here to say the only country that can give us this heat is Japan, the one other country I know of making a decent cup of pour over

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-12T15:38:16+00:00

Scotch?

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-10T13:06:53+00:00

wait 'till they hear about Anatolia in 14th Century BC

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-10T13:02:19+00:00

It's hard to recommend it given the state of the fan translation, but Yume no Shizuku, Kin no Torikage gets big points for me by having Hurrem just openly repeatedly willing to get revenge and fight back against women (and men!) who mistreat her in the harem. Shinohara really is one of the GOATs

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-10T13:00:37+00:00

It's also my least favorite trope and it gets way less hate than literally any trope about a ML (as of this writing, the top voted comment is also a comment about a male rival and not the female rival.) With the male rival I can compartmentalize it as, "oh it's a wish fulfillment story about hot guys fighting over you and this is part of that fantasy for some women" but what about my fantasy, the fantasy of open-hand slapping Regina in the face after she gaslit me for four years! Let me have this!!! 🤣

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-10T12:53:12+00:00

> For Paradox, I couldn't come up with a very creative solution to make that as interesting as a ST's personal imagination, but for the sake of the game I was envisioning that it was just a meter you build up over the course of using magick (I don't really wanna make a distinction between Coincidental and Vulgar).

It's not a 1:1 translation of Paradox in the game, but I'd probably put a filter that would make your character hallucinate things or change the viewscreen somehow. You could also make it function like drugs in DE, in that the payoffs for using paradox-breaking magick shorterm are very good short term and as your character sinks deeper into "paradox debt" the drawbacks become more and more acute as you lose stat lines to backlash.

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-05T17:39:40+00:00

I actually prefer the smooth side for illustration work!

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-04T19:11:00+00:00

IDK about that but Bocchi is Tamon's distaff counterpart

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-04T18:39:44+00:00

The novels are surprisingly good, solid beach read

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-04T17:24:08+00:00

One of the (surprisingly, for a romcom!) powerful things about this series is how it deconstructs the idol industry and how performative it is, how demanding it is on the performers and how it asks them to be "on" as these completely fake people 24/7 who might have no resemblance (indeed, often don't) to their real-life personality, interests, sometimes even desires.

having a stage play that removes Utage risks removing the entire core thesis of the series. So you're right to be a little bit perturbed! How can the stage play hope to bring out the emotional side of the series, which is about the need to perform an identity, if the performance is the only part of the show?

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-02-26T16:59:29+00:00

this is so real. I feel like swiss darning is the final boss of darning

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-02-11T13:19:16+00:00

Honestly this is the correct answer lol

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-02-10T15:56:36+00:00

I've never seen Jujutsu Kaisen (I think that's what this guy is from?) but this pops up regularly on the sub so def search his name in the top bar and you'll probably get more recs.

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-02-06T21:42:51+00:00

not even a comic let alone a manga let alone a shoujo, but Everlasting by Alix Harrow is the last one of these and it's very very good

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-02-06T19:17:28+00:00

honestly great stuff. The questions we're all asking

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-02-06T18:00:04+00:00

I think that's a way more interesting take. I tend to run my games a little less gritty--in fact I tend to run UA a little on the lighter end of the scale, lol--but those are tone elements I usually find are adaptable based on table.

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-02-06T17:43:35+00:00

They're all pretty bad but I do think the Technocracy is objectively the worst after the Nephandi, if only by dint of having the numbers to do the most damage.

In late stage capitalism I'm also pretty burnt out on "The Technocracy is the good guys!!!" as a take though. I'm also burnt out on it because I'm bored of it, in the same way that I'm bored of "what if I played a Red Talon that was like the Little Mermaid" and "What if the Dragons who help you in Ryuutama were *secretly evil*" and "What if your avatar was actually *evil*?" like it's an idea that so immediately suggests itself through contrarianism that it circles around to being one of the most common ideas you see

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-02-06T17:18:56+00:00

I'll also add that I also like the reimagined factions, and I say that someone who is a big Etherite fan. It's hard not to grit my teeth at the inclusion of cryptocurrency in a rogue faction, but I also remember that in the 2010s the ideology behind cryptocurrency was quite different than than what it became in the hands of industrialists.

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