He Totally Does. That Eyeliner Be On Fleek.

I can see the direction of this turning the mage into a very creative, intelligent, and/or whimsical person----or it makes them dumb as a rock, lol

"Well, it seems our mage now has uh...quite the mindframe now since the incident."

*pans over to the mage who's now attempting to eat a fluffy dandelion and choking on the fluttering seeds*

When a mage is badly injured, magic sometimes "fills in the gaps"—growing an arcane hand or leg. You suffered brain damage that would have killed most. Magic filled in your mind.

You perfectly explained why the models look so off---thank you so much. I hope both sides of your pillow are cold when you sleep.

I have thoughts.

I'm sending this anonymously for privacy, but I agree on the Sesshomaru being... well... not good. I remember I got spoiled so many times regarding InuYasha and upon seeing Rin's first appearance, I felt REALLY uncomfy cause I was like "please tell me that's not the same Rin that gets shipped with him and canonically has his children in the spinoff" and sure enough... it is... and I wanted to just stop watching the show... but like... geugh... I'm just watching it for InuYasha and Kagome at this point... Sesshomaru is a good villain... can't say the same for him as a person though... but hey, I guess you have to have some bad character traits to be a good villain... otherwise you're not much of a villain...

Fair point 🤷‍♀️

Forget "Would you love me if I was a worm?"

Hananene already answered the question of, "Would you love me if I was a fish?"

I find it so funny how Japanese manga will have either the most mysterious titles or the most specific crazy ones. There's like no in between.

Example:

Manga 1: The Red River

Manga 2: The time I accidentally killed my boss and got reborn in my sister's body

I only heard of these two since basically yesterday and I'm already obsessed with them. I'll take a comic, a TV series, a movie, a book---something---anything but I need more of them PLEASE.

We need more couples with their dynamic, I am BEGGING like Måneskin!

The 'frog' incident is still VERY up in arms for me here, but this does provide some explanation that I think people don't generally look into. I do feel very bad for him, but that's what I think it should just be---explanation and not justification.

I am glad he's a bit less of a weirdo than his manga counterpart (if you know, you know), but it's still Jinshi and he still has quite a LOT to learn about relationships (at least from what I know).

Honestly i feel like Jinshi's behavior and him being pushy when it comes to Maomao suddenly makes sense when you realize he's been basically a victim of multiple sexual assaults/attempts at such throughout his life (can't find the exact part in the books rn but it's mentioned that people have been regularly trying to sneak into his chambers due to his nymph-like beauty, and then there's the fact that people have been straight up sending him underwear made from their HAIR??? Like the amount of people we'd consider stalkers that Jinshi attracts is insane) + then there's the fact that his entire life anything that belonged to him was immediately taken away from him. Like. This man needs therapy, i genuinely don't think he knows how romancing someone works and how to deal with wanting to "have" someone for himself, like obviously he probably knows the basics of it but the way he's trying to flirt with her was probably unfortunately influenced by how people always acted around him

And then he's also trying to rush the romance because he fears he'll lose Maomao or she will be taken away from him

And then the fact that she's basically making all these grossed out faces around him and is treating him like a normal person - he probably feels safe around her

He's such a poor lil meow meow

Sounds amazing, I hope you two stay together ^^

Y'all can keep your emotionally constipated morally gray non-committal yet jealous shadow men. I want a dude to give me cuddles and help me build Lego sets.

I'm legit starting to think I ship Amanene more than Hananene. I know that's gonna ruffle some feathers but here's why.

And just for clarification purposes, I'm talking about Amanene from a very general standpoint in terms of dynamic. As much as I'd like to include the picture perfect Amane, it was still Hanako putting on a manipulative front in order to keep Yashiro imprisoned in a state of immortality against her will. And yes, I know it's because he 'cares so much' but kidnapping is still kidnapping bro.

For me, I think the reason why Amanene has more appeal to me is because they offer a glimpse into what Yashiro and Amane would have been like if they were both alive in the same timeline. It's Amane just being himself---no mask, no duties, nothing that forces him to be someone or something else---it's just HIM. And while I very well could be making a stretch of things, I believe it's why I like the concept of Amanene so much. It's kind of a better "What if?" situation whereas the picture perfect arc was plain WandaVision (which I also made a post regarding that point).

And sure, one could argue that Hanako was relaying true parts of himself during the picture perfect when he was posing as Amane (seeing as he legit asked her out to a movie and confirmed it was a date). But if we're talking Amane completely unmasked, the true version of him---I think the dynamic between him and Yashiro would've been really cute. If there was a spinoff or AU where it was Yashiro and Amane interacting regularly, I would eat it up because I am a SUCKER for the shy guy x tough girl trope.

I truly think that if such a thing were to be made, it'd make complete sense for Amane to be the shy and reserved kid (no durr, look at the poor guy's backstory) and that Yashiro becomes one of the few---if not only---people to defend and accept him for who he is. And since it's canon that Amane has always had a thing for um...thick legs, I don't think it'd be off par for that to also be a reason he'd fall for her.

There's so much cute material that could come out of Amanene and as much as I enjoy Hananene, Amanene (to me) feels like an objectively more adorable and less morally gray dynamic that I (personally) have not seen experimented with often.

But I dunno, I guess it's just me---

Cringe at myself as a person, tolerate myself as a writer :)

Love myself as a person, hate myself as a writer.