My memory is that at least half of the Ms Scribe Story was a product of the then-dying mailing list and forum culture, not Livejournal. Many of the events centered around the HP4GU list and the Gryffindor Tower forum and not livejournal proper, even though all the main players were there as well. BNFs, shitposting,…

Yeah, one of the things people are missing here is that spice tolerance dramatically affects the experience of the dish. If you have a high tolerance, a “mild” dish that’s supposed to just have a little zing of heat to it may be completely imperceptible. Conversely, someone with a low tolerance may find the dish too…

Underage prostitutes, not geishas, and yeah, there are some you can sleep with in game. Plus a major part of the plot involves Haruka selling herself to a brothel for money, and this is still early enough in the series that she’s uncomfortably young to be doing so (because of how prostitution worked in Japan at the…

Counterpoint: it was also passed because of the tremendous propaganda value of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience, particularly in the face of overwhelming and unreasonable force. Coordinated and committed nonviolent protest is incredibly courageous and difficult and involves real risk, and if there is a…

The irony is, despite entirely writing off the female market, the series has a robust female fandom and really offers a lot to female fans as far as fanservice goes, especially with the increasing focus on Majima.

I can’t understand why they’re not translating Ishin. I’d think the market for what will basically read as a samurai game in the Weat would be obvious. So most people will miss all the Shinsengumi stuff, so what.

A major part of the movie was Wakanda confronting the damage their isolationism had done and resolving to change as a result.

It’s a Japanese otome game for people with an ojisan thing. A lot of ojisan characters are in their 30s; probably the most well known is Kotetsu from Tiger & Bunny.

Her brain is organic and human, but nothing else is, which is why she’s considered a cyborg and not an android.

Agreed, although the allusiveness was frequently clearly deliberate it was too overt and obtrusive. (I do still love, though, that Zero Two is Lum — alien oni girl who fixates on a human boy and calls him “darling” all the time. But that was a lot less one to one than many of the Evangelion allusions in particular,…

Shades of the old move in 2010 from WoWWiki to Wowpedia when then-Wikia imposed a uniform look on wikis they hosted. That shift was actually pretty successful, because it was well publicized by the major sites covering the playerbase and Blizzard continued to endorse Wowpedia.

Because it’s not a beer and burger joint. It’s the oldest beer hall in NYC and really specializes in Eastern European food. It’s the sort of place you have sausages, not burgers.

One of the regulars at the Union Square Greenmarket carries scrapple frozen in one pound blocks, and I buy it occasionally. It’s delicious. (Their usual spot is up along 16th St and they have a big chest freezer advertizing Pennsylvania Dutch mean, but I can’t remember the name of the place for more specificity.)

I’m serious. Chestbinding that well, with an open jacket and no shirt, is a skill and it’s not particularly common.

Yep. The post is wrong about her gender. She does some Next level chestbinding, so it’s not surprising.

The grin is clear in other photos of her doing Majima cosplay. Her whole instagram is full of really cool shots. She does a huge variety of characters.

“Some people” is a plural noun, so it should be “themselves.” That’s why your verbs are “use” not “uses” and “are” not “is.”

Mulder/Krycek was a substantial 90s slash fandom, to the point where I know about it despite never having seen an X-Files episode with Krycek in it. So, yes, yes other people did.

I was going to say! It’s made very clear what he’s into in the show as well.

Soft serve specifically, actually, because of concerns about improperly cleaned machines harboring lysteria. But that’s still extremely rare.