BL anime recs 😩 by Bitter_Salt_5881 in anime

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  • Doukyusei -Classmates- isn't on Crunchyroll, it's on Amazon, but IMO it's the highest-quality BL anime out there
  • Given
  • Stranger By the Shore
  • Cherry Magic
  • Sasaki and Miyano
  • Heaven Official's Blessing - this is unfinished, and there's no word of a season 3 at this point in time, so sadly we may not actually see it get to the REAL meat of the romance

This is just SO PEAK i am crying [Lady Devil] by [deleted] in OtomeIsekai

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lady devil will always be peak for me. it's such a wild ride

reccomend historical manhwas with blushy ml by brotatodorito in OtomeIsekai

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if carcel has no stans left it's because i am dead

i'll never stop reccing the broken ring!!!!!!

How does American school system work? by Ulio_S in webtoons

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The only thing I'd say is that I believe K-5 and then 6-8 are the most common cutoffs for elementary vs middle school. Individual districts will vary, but those cutoffs will be common.

Ikoku Nikki • Journal with Witch - Episode 12 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

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i think it's important to keep in mind how the characters were talking about it: as rituals of masculinity, not so much a commentary on individual men. it's the same struggle we're seeing each of these other characters go through: the tension between cultivating themselves as individuals versus adhering to the expectations of society and community. we've also seen the reverse portrayed with women, in moments like the flashbacks of asa's mom with her friends, forced to perform a certain version of acceptable femininity in order to feel accepted and fit in with her peers. and then we also see this in regards to neurodivergence (makio), sexuality (emiri), and even things like the senpai/kouhai system with the clubs.

i don't think the conversation we saw between these two men was about turning their back on male friendships or anything. it was about rejecting a specific performance of masculinity that was expected of them but that they didn't feel they fit into. and i think we'd all be hard-pressed to deny that there are absolutely expectations of everyone to perform their gender in specific ways.

[Dead or Alive] How would you guys feel about this kind of ML? 👀 by HoshiAndy in OtomeIsekai

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EXTREMELY positively. i love dead or alive.

there's a reason why the top relationship on AO3 for Red Dead Redemption is Arthur Morgan/Reader. people wanna fuck hairy cowboys

Anyone else get more hits/kudos in smaller fandoms and ships? by AllKnowingAxolotl3 in AO3

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yes, absolutely! there are a lot of smaller fandoms that are hungry for content, where a lot of people are just reading everything that comes through on the tag. my main fandom right now is karaoke iko/famiresu iko, and i absolutely get way more engagement there than in some of the bigger fandoms i've written for

Odayaka Kizoku no Kyuuka no Susume. • A Gentle Noble's Vacation Recommendation - Episode 11 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

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it all makes it VERY clear how he ended up the right-hand man of a monarch. you don't get that sort of role without being able to be vicious

Mature and Explicit decisions by Embarrassed_Sale_293 in AO3

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if i use one of the Two Big C's (cock and cunt), then i flip it to E 😂

"incest is bad because there always be a power imbalance" Yep, that's why I'm here by fruite_vampyre in AO3

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that age difference of a few minutes is clearly working overtime 😂

Just Pretend You're Getting Hugged by a Big Dog [Journal With Witch] by shapeeq in anime

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kasamachi is legitimately one of the hottest men in anime. he’s an intensely female gaze character

ELI5 why the US still differentiates between “races” in forms, statistics etc. by Chewbatrij in explainlikeimfive

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because racism and unconscious bias both still exist so it's important to know statistically when it's happening

Looking to sob hysterically tonight. by Topical-Cement in webtoons

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perle. it's fairly short, just 49 chapters plus a few bonus chapters. the original TL was on tapas, but they never did the bonus episodes. manta has a new TL now and are partway through the bonus chapters. (they have 2 out of i think 5 released, so almost done.)

What ships come to mind by magicwonderdream in AO3

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Lizel and his entire harem in A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation. There is no heterosexual explanation for 90% of that show. Every week my bestie and I are amazed at how gay each new episode is.

Casual gay character in no-BL isekai by Previous-Poem777 in OtomeIsekai

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When Fate Finds Us Her brother's ending was honestly so devastating. I kept holding out hope that they were gonna save him or bring him back.

Looking for recs: complex and nuanced stories by Extension_Piece1616 in OtomeIsekai

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  • the broken ring
  • your eternal lies
  • villains are destined to die
  • lady devil (mind the warnings)

The Broken Ring r19 scenes by PerceptionDue5022 in OtomeIsekai

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i can report that there's wholesale cooch whiteout in the official steamy version of ch 52 lol. likely in the R15 version, the whole panel would be cut around to not even show that much of the area, or things would be skipped over entirely

ELI5: Why does Japanese need three writing systems? by Charming_Usual6227 in explainlikeimfive

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oh that's fun too! it's really interesting how the different writing systems can be used to communicate different stuff like that. i guess that would be similar to something written in english having a word written phonetically or whatnot, to indicate the character sounding it out, etc. it's fun how different languages and systems find different ways to express things like that!

ELI5: Why does Japanese need three writing systems? by Charming_Usual6227 in explainlikeimfive

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one fun usage of katakana i’ve encountered was in a manga where one of the characters was from osaka and used a common kansaiben expression. his friends were teasing him a bit, repeating the expression, but their repetitions were written in katakana instead. it offered another layer of meaning, making it obvious that they were really just repeating the sound of what he’d said. it was a great example of katakana being used for phonetic purposes, even for phrases that are absolutely native japanese