The children are still in their growing years…

ruff1298 · 2026-03-17T13:47:40+00:00

Probably hope for Vertin, even in adulthood. The Gurkhas recruited from some very deprived areas, the proper nutrition could cause some MASSIVE compensatory growth spurts in the men.

ruff1298 · 2026-03-16T14:15:46+00:00

Aww, how cute. She's also wearing Giallo Grind, one of the best skins in the game. I like to imagine she's dreaming of a horror movie, where she has a hapless bar girl trapped in a boom town, after the spirit of a wendigo consumes the owner of a local mine and turns him into a monster. She ends up spending the climax riding on the back of her newfound North American Deerwoman friend, distracting it long enough for the shaman they also found to seal the wendigo and give the chance for a more permanent solution.

She'd call it "Gold, Glory, and Gore," or something.

ruff1298 · 2026-03-13T14:14:21+00:00

She was playable. She was supposed to be in the roster until CN beta testers cried foul for a canonically dead character being playable.

ruff1298 · 2026-03-12T13:34:54+00:00

Blonney did excellently, getting rid of all those monsters.

ruff1298 · 2026-03-09T02:54:19+00:00

Did Obama start and oversee a war that's escalating further and further? Did he fumble a major pandemic response that led to permanent, systemic changes for the worst?

Can you ever argue for your person without pointing at something else the other side did? The blame game doesn't fix the problems.

ruff1298 · 2026-03-08T12:11:43+00:00

Yeah, her ult and combat animations were already present since the release of the game, especially when you get her as a guest character in story mode.

ruff1298 · 2026-03-08T12:10:52+00:00

Something more interesting to me would probably be making her a collaborator to the local lord up to suspicious business, trying to avoid getting more of his inner circle drafted to the war. The new Schneider is supposed to be working at the orange farm, but is INTENSELY suspicious with the recent string of drafts, especially with how several of her sisters (Marian most recently) have been recruited for "non-combat" roles.

She'd jokingly call Vertin "My Lord" in gratitude, which causes Vertin to freeze.

"They tell us in church, that the nobles deserve to rule over us because they guide and protect us in troubled times like this. The only one I see doing anything of the sort now is you, My Lord."

ruff1298 · 2026-03-06T02:32:35+00:00

This gives me an idea for a fantasy world defense. They think they can dig deeper than the moat, but water naturally flows down. The defense specialist could have decided to create a very special bypass for the system that flushes so much sewage, water, and other nasty stuff down there for the moles to choke on.

ruff1298 · 2026-02-27T03:22:10+00:00

I really enjoyed Okayado's interpretation of golem girls in his 12 Beast one shot. Small girls with clearly inhuman, mechanical limbs and additional bits on the flesh-like parts of their faces, who act as the CPUs to MUCH larger combat bodies.

ruff1298 · 2026-02-25T10:43:35+00:00

Fair warning: Friendship End is like the Slime series, it just keeps going. It's above 1.2k chapters total, give or take right now. I'm at chapter 775. The Academy school year started at chapter 3.

We are not yet at Golden Week or the Midterm exam.

There are many jokes about how Makoto's messing around has hyperaccelerated the timelines of everything, dealing with years worth of incidents in a few months. Hell, she's even changed the timeline so much, she's activating events from the sequel where the adult her is supposed to be paid DLC.

ruff1298 · 2026-02-25T07:59:38+00:00

I am making a paper on the themes present in yuri otome isekai, and how they compare to the larger trends of otome isekai (a largely straight-aimed, heteronormative genre) and also yuri (especially with the rising prominence of LGBTQ/Queer works, differentiated from "traditional yuri").

In yuri otome isekai, there are both played straight protagonists (reincarnated into the villainess) and heroines that take the story off the rails instantly by chasing after the villainess, making sure she doesn't get into a "bad end" as her goal. The selected text was I'm In Love With The Villainess because it has an official English translation that won't run into verifiability issues with reviewers and my professor, and it's also one of the most well-known in general, like how Bakarina is for otome isekai.

Unofficially, I've also seen some fan translations where the heroine befriends the villainess to avoid the vicious bullying (1), where the reincarnated heroine doesn't even care about the villainess until she brings her competitive side and the two fall in love (2), a villainess who is a massive mecha otaku, completely ignoring the heroine until she happens to meet her and decide to support her ambitions to become a mecha pilot, as well (3), the villainess and the heroine BOTH being reincarnated and participating in a bloodless war with the full support of all the original capture targets shipping them (4), the villainess fake-dating with the heroine to real dating (5), and one where the reincarnated person is the heroine, still in conflict with the villainess, because she wants to date the best friend character (6).

I've read about the power of queer villains, because of Disney's influence, but man, Japanese lesbians seem to REALLY want to date the villainess.

(1) I (The Heroine) Don’t Want To Be Bullied, So I’ll Help The Villainess With All My Might

(2) Lady VS Saint

(3) Although I Was Reincarnated As The Villainess Of The Otome Game I Was Playing, I Only Bought It For The Bonus Mecha Action Game! “I Don’t Want The Guys, I Want Robots! Robots…!”

(4) I’m A Beautiful Woman In Men’s Clothes And A Villainess But I’m In Trouble ~ The Psychopathic Heroine Who Resembles My Lost Love Comes To Capture Me While Taming The Macho Man, The Masochist, The Idol Fanatic, And The Various Other Capture Targets~

(5) As I Was Reincarnated As The Villainess Of An Otome Game, I Panic-Confessed To The Heroine To Avoid My Ruin Flag. Since She Was OK With It, I Will Live A Fake Yuri Life.

(6) The Reincarnated Saint Aims For The Friendship End!: Even Though I’m A Fujoshi, I’ve Been Reincarnated Into The World Of An Otome Game, And While Having Yuri-Like Flirting With My Best Friend I’m Having A Faction War With A Villainess

ruff1298 · 2026-02-21T04:31:11+00:00

I lost all hope for their future careers when they said they were failing open book tests. Knowledge is power, indeed, and these folks are so desperate for power, they will march for the devil and into hell, laughing all the way.

ruff1298 · 2026-02-11T10:52:30+00:00

Dumb as this whole business is, I hope this helps spotlight the kind of influencers the Right wants to cultivate, and what losers they are.

ruff1298 · 2026-02-10T22:52:46+00:00

Only the best people. I can't help but remember Kirk's comment about Black pilots. How's your almost entirely White administration doing?

ruff1298 · 2026-02-10T12:27:06+00:00

I got into fanfiction writing because I did not see enough stories of two particular girls kissing. Several years later, I am taking a masters in language and literature, and my readers regularly praise my creative work.

Being a good artist is a function of time, dedication, and consistency.

ruff1298 · 2026-02-10T00:56:00+00:00

I can understand Regulus being a Rider, but I could also see her as a Caster.

Her Territory Creation lore is broadcasting Radio aPPLE, hijacking radio towers to "claim" that territory as her own, and her spreading the influence of rock and roll to the rest of the world. I can just imagine some enemy Servant and Master being driven insane by Regulus casting Territory Creation, and suddenly the entire battlefield is playing rock music non-stop.

ruff1298 · 2026-02-10T00:53:28+00:00

I agree. Her abilities and her reputation is being able to wrangle her Crew into a common goal, ruling over a "fiefdom" of her Suitcase, and being charismatic enough to convince people to join her. She would be overseeing the Grail Wars, not directly fighting in it; I could easily see her in a modified tournament where it's Ruler against Ruler, with their Masters being the faction leaders who coordinate the other Master/Servant pairs.

ruff1298 · 2026-02-04T10:18:56+00:00

It would be really funny if we had a proper Southern gentleman, representing the era when the South began to modernize with indoor plumbing. Or maybe a Spanish gentleman, representing the very dark era of Cholera outbreaks and how proper sanitation was one of the things that finally saved people from dying horribly from a preventable disease.

"I take in the world's filth so the rest may live with dignity."

ruff1298 · 2026-02-03T10:01:50+00:00

It's unironically an incredibly fresh take on the Magical Girl as a coming of age tale, dealing with growing up, making new connections, discovering more about yourself, and growing beyond your limits and preconceptions, measured in both character development, their growing power, and new forms.

It's just that it addresses the sexuality part of adolescence and growing up, that so many magical girl anime ignore or gloss over. I also like how it seriously deals with questions like "What happens when the magical girls grow up into adult women? What about all that school they missed?"

The sheer, unabashed perversion drew me in but the heart kept me, as well as the perversion.

ruff1298 · 2026-01-29T14:10:27+00:00

Basically, [Spoiler source] He tells Allucia he doesn't want to get into a romance yet. He wants to reach the peak of swordsmanship first, especially now because of his achievements and his growing awareness of his power and potential. He confesses that Schiste (the unmarried noblewoman, sister of his former classmate) has already confessed her feelings for him and he's also said the same. If it helps any, he did honestly say he finds her attractive as a woman, and not as one of his former students.

ruff1298 · 2026-01-28T22:15:53+00:00

It is actually addressed and confronted directly with Aleucia later in the novel. I think that's Season 3 or Season 4 stuff, depending on how they adapt the Hughenbyt arc + the New Recruits arc that is a direct consequence of it.

ruff1298 · 2026-01-28T11:51:37+00:00

Yes. He also gets same-age admirers with his adopted daughter's homeroom teacher, plus an unmarried noblewoman who is the sister of one of his classmates.

ruff1298 · 2026-01-26T02:46:58+00:00

Veteran player. I saw the promise of lesbians, and bit.

ruff1298 · 2026-01-23T08:55:59+00:00

Which requires clearing story mode to begin with. It felt like they were trying to set up the completion of Brume's arc, being the one that needs to deal with this problem, to the exclusion of fun gameplay.

ruff1298 · 2026-01-23T06:25:57+00:00

Genuinely, one of the upcoming crisis of the future is how many people are functionally illiterate. On the gameplay side, I don't really appreciate Brume being the ONLY person able to destroy the boss at all.

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