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Is the girl on the left on some meme format? I swear I've seen her before, but I haven't been reading manga recently and the name of it doesn't seem familiar to me at all. So that leaves the possibility of having seen memes of her or she just looks like some other character that I can't pinpoint right now.

I think there's a time and a place. If you make an anime where the point is horniness, then yeah, sure, go nuts. I'm probably less likely to watch it in that case, unless I hear praise for other aspects of it. Since it makes itself clear as ecchi from the get-go, I don't mind. A lot of the times, however, it's just a regular random show with random fanservice that serves no purpose. Looking at you, Fire Force! Specifically that one character.

(They might've toned it down in future seasons, but I wouldn't know cause I didn't keep up with it past the middle of Season 2 for other reasons, but yeah)

And they are indeed peak!

Both for this reason and others.

It is.

Lately Mienfoo and Mienshao really grew on me. And for no reason whatsoever, I didn't even use one recently, that's the weird part.

Going further back, in one of my first few nuzlockes I used a Slowbro, and he's been a favorite of mine ever since.

But probably the most drastic change has been with starters. As a kid, for the first 5 generations I always picked the fire starter. They were my favorites. Now, however? Typhlosion is the only one from the first 5 that is still my favorite from their respective regions. Kanto I like Venusaur more now, Hoenn it's Swampert, Sinnoh it's Torterra and Unova it's Serperior. I still like the fire ones (Infernape and Blaziken in particular are really close to Swampert and Torterra for me), but I like others more now.

I came here since Reddit killed third party apps, so I don't even remember how I chose my instance anymore. I guess someone recommended sh.itjust.works somewhere? Tbh I don't know a lot of the differences between instances (except some well known ones like tankie .ml), but I have no complaints about this instance I'm on. Although I'm not really super active, in all fairness.

I know. I've seen the context. I was just saying that I was hoping it was AI just because the alternative is so messed up.

I'm not American, so I'm just now catching up with what happened over there yesterday. The first time I saw this image (elsewhere), I was praying that this was AI-generated. And I hate seeing AI-generated stuff and I'm not religious either. I still wish it was AI but now I know it's not and... jesus christ.

The Nazis are associated with the Holocaust rightfully so, but it ends up with people thinking that all it entails is anti-semitism. Trump and Elon Musk can back Israel and be Nazis.

No Ave Mujica T_T

I remember playing an anime game on my phone in high school, and this one classmate made fun of me for it. Not because of anime, he already knew I watch them and didn't (seemingly, at least), care one way or the other. But because the game has a hub-like area where the characters are shown in a chibi design. He kept pestering me after that to try out Barbie games.

The "best" part? Dude literally said the game looked fun when he saw me playing the actual gameplay, and even asked me to let him play a round. Then the round ended, saw the hub, and he did a 180 on me and on the game.

To this day I don't feel comfortable watching certain anime in public. I'm not even talking about ecchi here. Just basically any stuff that is "girly".

Another is just ask for recommendations, I bet we can find you a couple of good ones if you are interested :-)

You mean asking here? Sure, I'd be down if that's the case.

I'm not gonna talk about what books I enjoyed as a kid, cause I don't remember all of them, nor why I enjoyed them. It's been years. Besides, my tastes have changed, I'm sure. So I'll only mention what I've read since late 2023, when I started to get back into it.

The ones I've completed are:

• "This Is How You Lose the Time War" by Max Gladstone andAmal El-Mohtar. Was good, maybe a bit confusing at times. I tend to like time travel stories in anime or TV shows, which is why I started this one. I gave it a 3 star rating, although I'm not sure how people interpret each star since I'm new, so it's entirely possible that a 3 star for me is better or worse than something you'd also give 3 stars.

• "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour. It's currently sitting at a 4 star for me, but it's more like a 3.75, but the site I'm using only has full and half stars, so I can't go in between 3.5 and 4.

• "The Cat Who Saved Books" by Sosuke Natsukawa. This had a bit more on an anime-vibe to it, which is a good thing as far as I'm concerned, as a big anime fan. Or maybe it just felt like it did because the characters' names were in Japanese and the story took place in Japan, since Sosuke Natsukawa is Japanese himself. 3.5 from me.

• "Warm Up" by V.E. Schwab. This is part of a series, it's a short prologue of sorts (less than 20 pages, from what I recall) and I'm theoretically reading the first book of the main series, but I haven't read that in a while. I'll probably get back to it some time soon, but it didn't grab me as well as the three books above did. As for Warm Up specifically, I haven't rated it, what with it being so short. I didn't know how to accurately judge something with so few pages.

• "The Last Murder at the End of the World" by Stuart Turton. My absolute favorite so far (although there's not that many in total to begin with). I loved it so much! 5 stars. Ironically took me the longest to read out of these, but it was because I wasn't always in a reading mood, not for any other reason. I already intend on reading "The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" sometime soon, cause it's by the same author.

The one I dropped is:

• "Hurricane Heels" by Isabel Yap. There were some magical girl anime that I really liked, which is how I ended up picking this book, as I searched for magical-girl-like books. I didn't end up liking it too much tbh, so I never finished it. Only read 12%, to be fair.

Currently reading:

I think I may have made a mistake by starting too many books, haha. I have these as "reading":

• "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman. Gaiman has written some stories in Doctor Who, which is how I came to know about him. 24% so far, but haven't read it in a while.

• "Vicious" by V.E Schwab. The first real book in the series I mentioned above when talking about "Warm Up".

• "Fangirl" by Rainbow Rowell. This I've read more of recently. Yesterday, actually. 21%.

• "Pew" by Catherine Lacey. Also read more recently, as opposed to Coraline and Vicious. Two days ago was when I last read from this. 31%.

Anime, Cartoons and TV Shows:

As for my tastes in non-book fiction, I'll mention some of my favorites here, in case you (or someone else finding this) knows about them. There's not a lot of books I've read all the way through yet, so some non-book favorites could be helpful in recommending me books, I feel.

Some of my favorite anime in no particular order: Non Non Biyori, Steins;Gate, Vinland Saga, Bocchi the Rock.

Some of my favorite TV shows in no particular order: Doctor Who, 12 Monkeys (for the latter, I'm specifically referring to the TV show. I haven't seen the movie that its premise is loosely based off of, because they're not really related beside a common base concept). Just these 2 really, I mainly watch anime.

Some of my favorite cartoons: Gravity Falls, Avatar: The Last Airbender.