/ot/ - Off-Topic

>>3096
genshit impact is very popular atm and has gud ships but too much drama

>>3119
>And what was Chinatsu accused of drawing, by the way?
I'm talking about the in-game art used in FE3H. She designed almost all the main characters but she didn't do the bland as fuck portraits or the cutscenes like pic related, yet she's blamed for them being bland or ugly. But suddenly when she did the cover art for the game's OST people were in awe that she could draw well and said "wow she improved so much since the game uwu good for her" as if she didn't start her career before these brats were even conceived. Anyway, I think people don't realize how half-assed FE3H in terms of devs and how resources were allocated, maybe because Yusuke Kozaki drew the portraits in the actual games for Awakening and Fates for the characters so they assumed it'd be the same here. I think that was also the case for Echoes with Hidari but there are less characters in that game so that was way more doable.

>The most recent ad showing the MC's hair turning full red based on morality choices had my sides in orbit
Please tell me you're joking kek, that can't be real. My god this is ridiculous.

What I've been doing for the past year or so is getting into newer shonnen jump series in case they catch on eventually, which is something I never did before. It's kinda like investing in stocks or something like that.
Not that I'm forcing myself to read them, I actually enjoy what I got into. What I'm currently following are Sakamoto Days and Akane Banashi.

Sakamoto is pretty fun and it seems that an anime adaptation is in the works. There is already a lot fanart and some fanfic, so the future is looking bright, tough I'm not really into any of the ships right now. I'm currently hoping hammer dude and the ojisan develop into something, since I like where the dynamic is heading.
The other characters definetly had their moments, and I get why people are shipping them, it's just not for me.

Akane on the other hand, has some great boys personality wise, third pic is one of my favourites, though due to how the plot has gone so far, there's been no shipping at all. The manga is focused on the mc, Akane, so the boys have barely interacted with eachother. So there is not much to go off.

Anyways, is really cool getting into something fresh again. Forgive me for rambling about this stuff, I just wanted to talk about this somewhere.
To make this on topic again, are there any new franchises you're investing your fujobux into?

>>3095
I feel like these are less tips and more general statements about making money with art. I hope more anons weigh in because I like discussing the comm meta.

Staying knowledgeable about FOTM media and the characters/ships therein is free eyes/traffic. Don't give a shit about Genshin? Suck it up! Invest in Kaeyacoin.

It might surprise you that m/m comms are also bought by cis men and are often more pornographic than what a fujo artist might expect (Tom of Finland versus two naked anime twinks kissing). Because fujos often eat "for free" or make their own food, it's actually kind of rare to get paid to draw something close to what I'd draw for fun. I guess what I'm trying to say here is show you can draw muscles at your own peril.

Upcycle warm-up sketches into cheap YCH ("your character here") comms.

Set your expectations low. Objective quality doesn't directly translate into living wages off of comms. It's all luck and how much of your soul you want to sell to cumbrains. Speaking of:

Consider learning anthro style on the side because furries are way more generous with their money than weebs, especially the gay ones. Animal dicks (knotting specifically) are also popular in "normal" (lmao) porn.

Combine FOTM knowledge with anime girl body types for even more free traffic.

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>>3086
>I mostly just lurk now on my lunch break at work
I don't do that on fujochan, but on lc. I'm too worried someone will see weird shit on my phone here and one of my coworkers is a fujo or at the very least know some BL manga and anime by name, I don't want to get in trouble or whatever.

>Hope you're recovering well from your surgery nonnie, get well soon!
Thanks a lot, I'm doing better everyday so I'd say I'm doing good so far.

>>3088
I love Megaten as a whole, I'd say you can play SMT5 as your first game without any issue. The only thing you'd miss out are the very vague hints that it's a sequel of SMT3, which is not necessary at all to enjoy it. You can also start with SMT4 on the 3DS which was my first mainline game, or SMT3 if you don't mind random encounters. As for SMT4 Apocalypse, it's one of the best game in the series if not the best gameplay wise, but it's a direct sequel to SMT4 in terms of story so I absolutely recommend it but not for now. Then there are a bunch of spinoffs like Persona, Digital Devil Saga, Devil Survivor, etc.

>>3093
>I don't do that on fujochan, but on lc.
honestly i'm too scared to lurk on lc in public as i think other people will recognize the site and start thinking of me badly

>>3105
I assume it's not likely to be the case for me because it's all in English and I'm not in an English speaking country. I'm careful around my coworkers though. I even check cwc on my phone when commuting if I'm bored.

>>3056
>Ikemen also is very same-faced
This is why I like when most characters in a series are average, ugly or unique looking, because it makes an ikemen who would be standard in a generic cast of hot stand out. Dragon Goes Househunting is a good example of that. It's also why I like ikemen/bara, ikemen/oyaji, ikemen/shota, or just ikemen/average. The hot character is upgraded by the contrast.

>>3051
Including me
I'm glad I'm not alone

Redundant thread.

>>3002
it's a fake email

>>3013
lmao that is kinda cute

>>3008
Oh god I'm MOONing

>>2814
I'm a zoomer myself and I'm just amazed. Do Tiktokers not know what gatekeeping is??

>>2815
They know what it is and they think it's bad.

>>2815
what are you talking about, zlib was pretty popular

>>2789
OMG i remember shimejis too! i loved them so much!

>>2789
Never heard of either but I used to download a ton of desktop buddies at some point

>>2789
Holy fuck I also bricked my family's desktop with shimejis lmfao

I've read some western m/m and you have to dig to find quality non-YA content on kindle, plus the usual "you can't be a woman and ONLY read m/m" discourse exists on western booktok and goodreads.

I like Hailey Turner's Soulbound series (pic related) and Jon's Mysteries by AJ Sherwood.

>>2746
It just isn't fair. Why can't us women enjoy m/m content? How am I hurting ANYONE through shipping fictional male characters together? Or by watching gay porn?

>>2752
one unironic argument and sob story I've seen was essentially that inexperienced men are too retarded to tell fiction from reality and copy what they read in yaoi leading to uwu so twaumatic experiences when they finally date. can't believe people use this argument in earnest but yeah, it's a thing. and even if it were true, it'd be entirely on the gay man for being a fucking retard who needs a wrangler.

If you feel romance or arousal for the person doing the RP with you then you're gay, definitely. If you only feel that for the RP charcters and can't imagine yourself with that person you're RPing with then you're good.

>>1582
No.

Women who RP gay males do it for story, and because they care about their characters.

I have never met a man who was capable of separating fiction from reality though, and I would not be surprised if a 100% of them jerk off to lesbo or het rp they do.

>>2726
>Women who RP gay males do it for story, and because they care about their characters.
Not always, nonna. Sometimes people just want their OTP to fuck. Unlike moids with their shit, though, most women don't jerk off to their yaoi roleplays. For a lot of fujos it's just for fun.
Never roleplayed BL myself, but I did have friends who would do it fairly often.

>>2720
Based Kumiko Suekane and Shu Takumi for giving us what we want.

>>2717
I think some authors do it for the money. They notice how many fujo fans they have and want to cash in on it but don't want to lose their straight male audience either so they don't want to make any pairing canon.
I also think that some authors find their fujo fans amusing because of some form of homophobia. They don't think a relationship between two men can be as serious or deep as a het relationship so they make jokes like "oh yeah they are fucking but jk they actually are not".
There are some authors where I suspect/tinfoil that they are in the closet. Example Himaruya Hidekazu. He prefer drawing men over women, the way he draw men is more similar to the way gay men draw than the way straight men draw. I think he is aware that his audience is 99.9% fujos but he doesn't seem to mind and hasn't really attempted to appeal to men later in his career. Which is ironic bc the early webcomics where meant to appeal to a 4chanish crowd Hima is also known for being extremely private and we know nothing about his personal life so him being gay isn't unlikely. Anyway I'm getting off track, what I mean is that I think that some male authors are either gay or bi but don't feel like being public about it which may reflect in their work

>>2072
One of the GuzmaxNanu posters here, the best one was when people shared vocaroos in a thread and the angry shotafags who'd been trying to oust all adult male characters during SwSh suddenly started asking if people were single because WOWOWOW WOMAN VOICE???!?!? One of those guys later made a discord server and started advertising for women to join it so he could ask for feet pics which we found out cuz an unhinged yumejo with rape fantasies actually went in there and flirted with him to make blackmail material. Fat lot of good her "trolling" did as we lost both the /cm/ and /vp/ threads to shota and furry spam for months.