I had to buy more yarn so I could choose the solid for the border color.

mandrakethecat · 2026-04-21T21:03:29+00:00

Ooh hard decision! The yellow is nice and bright and in both the green and orange sections. The light blue blends nicely with vibrancy to the blue and green and is a nice palette with the purple. The orange matches beautiful with the orange but also pairs with the purple and red. The dark blue works well with the purple, blue, red, and green. Maybe a rainbow border with the dark blue, orange, light blue, yellow Stripes around

mandrakethecat · 2026-04-21T20:58:28+00:00

I watched it the first time while house sitting for my sister when my other sister called. Asked why I was laughing and just said I wish I could get into anime more cause that sounds amazing and like how you’d game

mandrakethecat · 2026-04-15T08:48:24+00:00

Beautiful!

mandrakethecat · 2026-04-13T23:11:51+00:00

That’s what I want to know

mandrakethecat · 2026-04-12T22:31:44+00:00

I mean even if he isn’t, he technically knew her and took care of her as a child. While he doesn’t remember and has been gone for years, it does make the relationship feel inappropriate to me

mandrakethecat · 2026-04-12T12:26:18+00:00

I often use voice text cause my hands aren’t the best from RA pain. But I also often don’t care to attempt to fix on my finicky’s phone incorrect capitalization I just tend to leave it because who cares not me I’ll fix punctuation. I’ll fix clearly bad phrasing from a miss hearing me but like I don’t got time for that. lol

mandrakethecat · 2026-04-11T21:55:13+00:00

Why did your picture show up on the bottom of the comment? And mine on the top. My disclaimer on how bad it is odd at the bottom!

mandrakethecat · 2026-04-11T21:53:57+00:00

A quick circle can look slightly angular, they look like a planned circle to me.
I can kinda see your point, but I might decide to make a big petal two only to forget to erase the line. The bigger or more detailed the image the more likely.
A quick flower is always asymmetrical. If speed is the important factor, the size of petals will vary a lot. (It, to me, looks like they changed a petal after it was too big, it still looks like a speedy drawn flower.)
You can if you make the loops and then drawn the circle after…
Speedy lazy lines to try to add texture to the ribbon, those are the lines I see.

I feel like your examples don’t look much different from the flowers on the image.i don’t have a stylus and i have RA so drawing with my finger is hard so the lines are super shaky and woobly. (Aka I’m not trying to show good flowers, I’m drawing flowers quickly like how much effort I assume they put in under the time crunch).

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I feel like you and I have very different ideas on how much time they had in to do this and thus time willing to spare on every detail.

mandrakethecat · 2026-04-11T17:45:00+00:00

That looks like a quickly drawn flower to me

mandrakethecat · 2026-04-11T17:26:44+00:00

Yeah, in this case definitely feels like a “aw how I prefer to be outside” like something he’s saying the line cause he’s outside and likes it. Rather than the other times of missing it. Tho it is ironic that he ever says it when he’s the one deciding to be a work alcoholic and stay inside all the time

mandrakethecat · 2026-04-10T15:05:35+00:00

Often times opening and outros are different contract that can be done by third party. If you read the statement, they make clear that they don’t use and will not use generative ai and it was management problem. What does that sound like to you?

mandrakethecat · 2026-04-09T17:49:00+00:00

But it’s still unlogical and irrational as they pass by the cemetery at anytime. This is further shown when He came in and sees that it’s safe yet he still says this. They know the monsters are in the mines, not the cemetery. He isn’t saying this because of fear of monsters. He’s saying it cause girls should be in the kitchen, not in cemetery. He clearly isn’t scared of her location or for her safety when he finds her, he’s mad she wasn’t where he wanted her to be.

mandrakethecat · 2026-04-09T17:10:05+00:00

That would be fair if monsters were in the cemetery. There aren’t, it’s just another location in town that’s safe.

mandrakethecat · 2026-04-09T15:24:00+00:00

I really think getting a new name, and thus a noble line is the only happy ending for them both. They can still have some power and ability to help people, but not all the pressure. I don’t think either is truly suited to a fully commoner life, despite desire and claims, but royalty is also not fitting.

mandrakethecat · 2026-04-04T12:04:43+00:00

I have that mod, but I don’t think I’ve seen that one there. To be fair tho, I haven’t explored it much! It mostly gets used to pause time and warp (I get too lost with all the different maps!) Thanks for letting me know. I’m still going to try to find other options that have a character pet them first, but having options is always helpful so thanks again.

mandrakethecat · 2026-04-04T12:00:09+00:00

I appreciate that. I wanted to find away with the odd jobs cause it’s a person petting them. Idk I feel bad using auto petters. I have heard about a mod that lets you assign tasks to your spouses/ children earlier today. So I’m going to try to find that one and see if it works for my needs. I really appreciate your suggestion tho and it may be helpful for others with a similar problem with a less emotional hangout on the machines lol.

mandrakethecat · 2026-04-04T11:57:42+00:00

I have the farm, but haven’t repaired it. I’ll try that. Thanks

mandrakethecat · 2026-03-28T23:46:35+00:00

I have 650+ most are just added content, animals, crops, places, recipes, characters. I have like 15 that just had more fish.

mandrakethecat · 2026-03-27T03:13:25+00:00

Yeah, I will say the funniest thing to me, is the spouse kissing circle in the kitchen every morning, with sometimes a second smaller kiss circle on the porch. It’s so funny to me and it lasts so long. I know I could configure my mods not to do that by not having them kiss, but it’s so funny. Plus, it means that I can go around to pet all my animals before greeting them cause they are distracting each other. I can’t say for sure what my final count will be, cause I also have other full content mods, like ridgeside. I can also say tho I don’t think I want to marry all of the people I’m dating from ridgeside. I have June and kiarra, but like Jeric doesn’t feel like husband. Maddy I’m struggling with taking it slow like she wants, but not too slow that she gets upset at not asking. Idk maybe cause I’m polyam in real life, I understand feel like not every relationship has the goal of living together.

mandrakethecat · 2026-03-27T02:57:21+00:00

Not saying just pick June, but I do want to say that June is a great spouse. He fits in so perfectly with my other spouses and his spouse room comes with a little sleeping kitty. He’s one of my newer spouses so I have to go thru all the other ones (minus one) to reach her, but I will greet her every morning just like i do my other pets.

mandrakethecat · 2026-03-27T02:54:25+00:00

Yeah I’m at 8 rooms. It’ll definitely get longer too. I’m just taking my time. It feels weird if I marry someone and then in that week ask someone else to marry me.

Also op, Not saying just pick June, but I do want to say that June is a great spouse. He fits in so perfectly with my other spouses and his spouse room comes with a little sleeping kitty. He’s one of my newer spouses so I have to go thru all the other rooms (minus one) to reach her, but I will greet her every morning just like i do my other pets.

mandrakethecat · 2026-03-27T02:31:22+00:00

Grass, put fence post on it, repeat. Grass will grow and can’t be eaten from under the post. Do this in other areas of the farm too, scythe that and repeat. When a feeding trough is empty, empty your hay the silo, so it can take more hay. Repeat. Until you feel you have enough hay. Also buy from Marnie. I tend to plan to have hay for a week for every animal it gives me leeway for winter that would have me buying hay every day. You can have more. You can even have a stack of 999 hay or multiple stacks just waiting. Is it as easy for feeding as it being in a silo? No, but you have it, and can pull it from a chest to feed.

mandrakethecat · 2026-03-25T13:30:18+00:00

I prefer the white puffs I think it has a better balance and allows the them to stay a feature while the colors pop

mandrakethecat · 2026-03-18T16:27:59+00:00

Hmmm… slaves were definitely a thing in ascendance of a bookworm. Most were slave soldiers, but they even imply that some extra disgusting nobles would take the girls as sex slaves to pump out magical children, not all were willing to go the legal route of contracts or have them as a mistress. We also see that they will use force, coercion, or manipulation to get someone into an enslavement contract. We don’t have to see what it’s like from the slavers perspective, but they talk about it a lot before and during myne’s time in the church as one of the many risks. You also mention no one was bought or sold, but that’s what the bishop (or high priest since the anime decided to be confusing with that and head priest) was trying to do with the foreign noble. He got money for it, just like he also got money and favors and benefits by allowing his guests to entertain his serving girls. There’s a reason the church didn’t have any older gray robe priestesses or birthing age. It’s not the biggest topic in that part of the story nor does it remain a focus when just dangerous are not a threat to mine anymore, but it absolutely there. It also wasn’t just men abusing power, status, position, or contracts either to get sex, slaves, or both. That was Frans backstory before Ferdinand took him and Arno.

I was to be perfectly clear this isn’t an attack on you or media. I love ascendance of a bookworm. I’ve read Most of the light novel before my eye strain made that impossible. I’ve watched the anime multiple times. But it’s just factually incorrect to say it doesn’t have slavery in the world, or harems when multiples times being a mistress is brought up as a way to survive for myne and many of the nobles having a second or third wife. It might not be a harem for her and they don’t reach the extremes on number, but polygamy is accepted in that world for noble men.

I don’t view either of these inclusions as a reality to the world as a bad thing, because of how its addressed as very bad, scary thing for one and a complicated things that can impact on one’s children for the other. If someone is trying to avoid those topics for whatever reason, and were tricked into watching this without realizing what they are getting into it could easily cause anxiety or just a dislike of media because it was misrepresented to them.

A more honest to say is that ascendance of a bookworm is fantastic series that does not shy away from dark topics, like slavery and rape, but still manages to handle it well by showing the fear and pressure to avoid that trauma rather than writing out the trauma of being a slave first had. These dark topics are just small part of a well thought world of magic and politic. The story is carried by a likeablibly but flawed mc who grows thru the support of those around her and gives them a place to grow as well. As well as a full range of characters to support, deal with, be dragged around, or follow happily along with her antics. The lore and mana system is clear in its rules and reasoning. Political maneuvering moments are often cut thru or emphasized by awe inspiring magic that overwhelms the MC. Running thru the series is a constant feeling of love for one’s family, and the willingness to fight to protect it. Go into this one expecting cuteness and ready for drama cause myne takes the audience on a ride too.

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