/ot/ - Off-Topic

There was a time I felt angry I'd never have my ideal body as a woman and deeply envied men. I was born more curvy and tall, and got bullied for dressing less femininely as I grew up.

It wasn't until I was an adult that I finally came to terms with the fact that I was just a clueless bisexual who needed to hit the gym and wear whatever I liked. I think too many people who hyperfixate on transitioning believe that you have to be a 'man' or 'enby' to enjoy traditionally masculine styles, which is really annoying. I never felt like anything other than a woman, and I'm glad I was born before the gendie stuff really took off because the rhetoric is overwhelming in many spaces, and even now I have to fight with people who try to tell me I'm an 'egg'.

I hit puberty pretty early and I hated having boobs so much I would wear multiple bras to restrict them. I was also one of the weird kids, tomboyish, chronically online etc. If I was American I'm pretty sure I would have trooned out, but in my country trans stuff is pretty uncommon irl so there wasn't much I could do even if I wanted to. At that time the whole 'truscum vs tucute' debate was a big thing online, but all the spaces i was in were luckily on the 'truscum' side who believed that you couldn't be trans unless you have actual severe dysphoria. I did some research thinking I might be trans but I didnt hate my vag and had no interest in having a dick so I gave it up and accepted I was cis woman after all. If I grew up in the current environment I definitely would have been a they/them for a while.

Wasn't a tif but almost became a gendie before logic took over and I snapped out of it.

>>10664
Can someone belonging to an agency be called indie?

>>10666
Yeah, I wonder. If 'the agency' is just a one-person business?

Karino Shou is the sexiest currently under 40 seiyuu.

>>10956
Late reply, but a part of me thinks this is them thinking it's canon or trying to make it canon.

>>11092
It must have been a new development for that author because they were writing normal m/m fics for them until that new one with untagged vagina. It’s one of the reasons I initially clicked on them without worry (other than the fact that I have 1001 exclusion tags) is that I recognized them as someone who’s made a few fics that I’ve gone back to. But I do know the ship’s tumblr tag is filled with trans headcanons so maybe they got the troon bug from there.

>>11095
The most common justifications I've seen for leaving it untagged are "well people don't tag for cis" combined with the "I'm normalizing it" jerkoff. I'd leave an anon comment asking them to tag it so people who want it can find it, rather than "tag it so I can filter it".

>>11004
The size difference of them has me in a chokehold. Plus I love the smaller partner being the dominant and assertive one. Evileye was so cute getting frustrated and having to agree to Okarun's terms. He's whipped already~

I've been watching the new Kinnikuman anime since they announced a 3rd season and therefore it's likely that they will actually adapt the whole thing, and I've been enjoying it a lot.

I don't think I'll ever get used to how ugly Suguru looks enough for me to ship him with anyone, but I like how homoerotic the whole thing is - it's managed to be even gayer than the original run and Nisei. We literally have dudes going "I can't put this feeling into words" at each other lol.

>>4513
Ep 1 seemed kind of plain to me. Ep 2 was far better and this guy grew on me. Excited to see where it goes
>>10992
Shiny is cute

>>3760
What anime cards are you using? I'm struggling with kanji so ridiculously hard that it's sabotaging my studying completely, I just can't seem to memorize them.

>>3766
I'm using jpdb with its mpv mining plug in instead of anki out of convenience. Have you learnt radicals yet? Making a mnemonic out of a kanjis radicals + immediately learning a word that uses a kanji is typically how I go about it.

necroing this thread with a hilarious bit from an untranslated dj lmao

How the fuck is this only the second or third zombie fic I’ve read I am so fucking turned on right now kill me
https://archiveofourown.org/works/69499501

A beer, music and translated foreign slashfic. Why do people even bother dating when shit can get this good alone?

>>10854
I've been thinking about this post but couldn't remember which thread it was in. I wanted to ask
>that worldbuilding autismo factor
What is this to you, nona, and can you think of a reason why Tourabu doesn't fit? Honestly I think I know what you mean and mostly agree, but that's why it's bothered me that I can't explain it. Is it that the historical events/characters are too rigid? But the franchise does bizarre shit like turning one into a possessed zombie puppet and making Okita momentarily a demon catboy.

I've made my own stories set in the universe, with saniwa OCs to ship about and my own elaborate takes on how Time Gov operate and its bureaucracy, but I've never felt that I could invent a swordboy OC. That part feels beyond me. Which is really markedly different from stuff like KemoFure and MLP where it was very easy to throw whatever the fuck fun colors you wanted together and not worry, those were incredibly freeing and inspired many people to participate.

Ignoring that element, I think Tourabu was never facilitated to take off in the west, so the types of people who'd make endless fanworks and prompt others to want in on things didn't appear. Once people learned of it, the character roster was already big enough to put off newcomers who already don't know Japanese history. Japan-side you have huge numbers of doujinshi and elaborate world building guides for people's individual honmaru, as well as multibook AUs and all sorts. But if you never got into swordboys you'd have no idea these existed.

>>10823
Everyone looks so edgy and cool and then Clear’s just being so cute and cutting his apples

>>10849
Erika's real, she's just a girl who got into a plane crash and probably drowned near rokkenjima.

>>10850
My bad it was actually her falling overboard on a boat, more or less the same thing though.

>>10850
Sorry, I meant Erika as she appears in the story. As in, the Erika whose personality is depicted within the text. The character herself, like you said, died before the plot, so the Erika we see within the story isn't "real." I don't know how else I can explain it, but hopefully you understand what I mean.

Honorable mentions to Afterschool Charisma, Mushishi, Bokurano: Ours, and Dragon Head.
>>10303
Total Exlipse of the Heart looks cool I'll need to check it out.

>>10303
I've only read two of these but I think we have similar tastes, I'm gonna check out the rest

Not really fujo related, but I thought it'd be cute to make a chart of some manga I found when I was a little kid in public libraries, some of the first weeb steps.