style has come to a new high
Benny in the 2.3 Dragonspine quest? I’m so excited !!
I really missed these kids
Get it get it
'Bloom Into You' Overtaken as Japans Most Popular Yuri Series According to New Reader Polls
On November 1, popular Japanese Yuri news website Yuri Navi released the results from its 5th Yuri Manga Sousenkyo. The annual poll is held among Japanese residents, where readers vote for their favorite Yuri manga series.
Voting took place from October 1 through 7. Respondents were able to choose up to four titles, as well as assign them categories based on their content. The winners from each category and the general election were announced simultaneously. Works were sorted based on the category voting, but all votes for each series counted towards its placing (for example, if 50 people voted a series as a comedy and 60 declared it romance, the series would be placed in the romance category with 110 votes).
Notably, for the first time since the Yuri Manga Sousenkyo began in 2017, Yuri manga Bloom Into You did not win the general election, instead coming in second place. Eku Takashima’s Whisper Me a Love Song overcame the popular series by over 100 votes. Notably, unlike Bloom Into You, Whisper Me a Love Song does not have an anime adaptation.
The winners for each category and the top twenty results from the fifth Yuri Manga Sousenkyo are below. Titles that have been published in English or that are set to be adapted into English are noted with the Publisher. Click on licensed titles to be navigated to an English storefront. Legally buying manga helps support publishers and creators.
Romance:
Slice of Life:
Comedy:
Futari Escape - Shouichi Taguchi - 205 Votes
Story:
Kimi ga Shinu made Koi wo shitai - Nachi Aono - 283 Votes
General Election:
why must reductress hurt me in this way
ok a) lmao me too girl, and
b) once burnout hits you CANNOT work that hard, by your standards, so odds are it actually hit a while ago and you just “powered through” because that’s what you’re used to doing. So now, every day, you’re hitting your limit and thinking “wtf man i used to be able to do this, i used to be competent, clever, diligent” and like yeah. you were. and that burns glucose. welcome to the dumb bitch zone.
and c), lmao, me too girl
fuck b) came for me harder than the first post did god damn
A ballerina and a witch
fuck that baby shoes story. this is the shortest saddest story ever told.
*reads an online take about queer people*
Ah, so this person has never hung out with adult gay men irl. I see.
Idk who needs to hear this but queer men and bi women call themselves butch and femme all the time and most of the arguing about who “gets to use” these terms is conducted by terminally online white cisgender teenagers.
Also because I saw someone on tiktok claiming that she/her gay men don’t exist, let me tell you right now that yes they do. In abundance. Now go outside and find one and thank her for her service.
Plus, butch and femme are just as deep and nuanced gender performances when they’re done by mlm as they are when they’re done by wlw. Men do, in fact, get to have complicated relationships with gender!
Fun fact! Water actually turns “blood red” when it is contaminated by sulfur creating sulfuric acid. And scientists have discovered that around the time of the plagues a volcano went off that disturbed Egypt’s environment. So the plagues are scientifically proven. The other parts of the plagues are explained by the sulfuric acid river making the animals leave the river and escaping into the human population.
WHY DIDNT ANYONE TELL ME THE PLAGUES WERE PROVEN
if anyone wants a full list heres how they happened:
basically they all stem from a massive eruption of a volcano on the island of santorini off the coast of greece. the ash then floated over to egypt which kickstarted the plagues
1) blood: the ash carried the mineral cinnabar, which has the capability of turning water red
2) frogs: the ash also had many toxic and acidic substances so naturally, all the frogs are gonna flee the river
3) lice: given what was going on insects would have burrowed into dead animals/peoples skin and laid eggs, which then hatched
4) beasts: everything is getting poisoned from the ash and toxins, causing animals to freak the fuck out/die
5) pestilence: toxins again
6) boils: the ash would have caused storms that carried acid rain which when it fell, would irritate peoples skin causing boils
7) hail: the storm again
8) locusts: again with the insects and the amount of dead bodies and such which attract more insects. a lotta insects basically.
9) darkness: the ash covered the sky, blocking out the sun
10) slaying of the first born: given that children’s bodies were found in higher numbers than others, some archeologists think they may have been sacrificed to stop all the destruction, but they aren’t 100% sure about that. this is just me but I would say another possibility is that babies/kids are a lot more susceptible to toxins and shit, so while an adult may have been fine or gotten a bit sick, it might have been very dangerous/deadly for kids or babies
the volcano would also attest for the parting of the sea weirdly enough. the red sea was in fact the ‘reed’ sea, and was very shallow, probably waist deep or so. given the amount of shit dumped into the ocean from the volcano, this wouldve caused a tsunami to head towards egypt. the water would get sucked out from the reed sea right before the tsunami hit, letting people pass it easily, then the actual tsunami would hit, fuckin up anyone who tried to follow.
another theory is that the red water was caused by algae, which would cause the frogs and stuff to jump out as well. the algae also carried substances toxic to animals so if they ingested any they’d get sick and die, so more insects. in this theory there was a sand storm coincidentally that caused the rest
The volcano wasn’t ON Santorini - it WAS Santorini, then called Thera. It completely blew away the Minoan settlements on the island and was one of the largest eruptions in human history.
- The tsunamis from the Theran eruption devastated Crete, weakening the then-powerful Minoan civilization, leaving them open to being invaded by the Mycenaeans.
- The volcanic winter it created devastated crops in China leading to the fall of the Xia Dynasty.
- The abrupt and catastrophic loss of the people of Thera may have also inspired the myths about Atlantis.
this is blowing my fucking mind
I love that if you really boil all this information down, what you get is something approximating “the sinking of Atlantis caused the 10 Biblical plagues of Egypt” which is, like, one of the greatest mythological mash-ups I have ever heard of.
Listen man I can't plan ahead any further than a week, two weeks tops, and you're telling me I need to know where my life is gonna be in six months just so I can make a dentist appointment what if I'm in nebraska jerry what if im burying myself in a sand dune in nebraska in six months how am i supposed to see a dentist if i'm in nebraska buried in a sand dune
Me in six months double booking myself like a whore