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These posts are so useful when I feel like being productive but am too sleepy to do anything thinky...and wow I haven't done one in AGES.

A mix of recent obsessions and some meme stuff/prompts.


Myself as the Maid of Mind on deviantART Myself as the Maid of Mind at tumblr

(this is a Homestuck thing, but I also thought it was a nice picture of me in general)

( Original art, Pokemon, Babylon 5, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Portal 2, Dragon Age, Fringe, The Royal Trap, Dangan Ronpa, Chihayafuru )

Holy crap that is a lot of art! Ok I am having a nap, and then I am posting the fic (of which there is much less THANK GOD)

I realise I never squeed about this game!

Dangan Ronpa is a Japanese murder mystery game set in a school, the vibe is generally described as Phoenix Wright meets Battle Royale. It's dark and funny and clever and weird and I love it.

Of course I don't speak Japanese, and it's not translated into English, so like most English language fans I've been following along the Let's Play on the Something Awful forums, which has all the dialogue and lots of screenshots as well as links to background music and youtube clips of the animations. The combination of images, dialogue, and animation is not unlike reading Homestuck (the "Oh god you poor adorable terrible teenagers" feeling is not dissimilar either...)

While the player character is a guy there is the most adorable f/f couple, they're not explicitly together in canon but are SO femslashy. In general the game is sympathetic to all the characters, even the more villainous ones, and there are some clever subversions of typical anime/manga tropes.

Except the talking bear, he's just horrible. I watched the first episode of Polar Bear Cafe just after reading some of the LP and spent the whole time wanting to punch the talking panda in the face just for having some very superficial similarities.

The game isn't without some issues, and if you want to minimise your contact with fat hatred and heteronormativity etc I'd recommend skipping the forum discussions surrounding the updates (otherwise it can be fun to see other people's speculation) But overall I think it's pretty good and worth checking out if it sounds like your thing.