Recent content by Vaerama

I mean, if you continue the game without completing Naoto’s social link (which is statistically the least often completed due to time it arrives and relative difficulty of the social link), then there’s not a lot more relating to her gender, but around 7-8ish (of ‘ten’) there’s certainly...

Right, their function is obvious enough, and ‘simple’, but many of the settings they land in only use metal for weapons/armor and cookware. Hell, the simplest part of that is the pipe, and unless their society already knows how to make pipes (and will be thus mostly unimpressed with your water...

I was once recommended a BL anime that used this ‘trope’ of sorts, and they played the event ‘for humor’ (men can’t be raped, fam). Pastel colours, bright vivid red roses popping into the foreground, sparkly ‘fun’-spirited music, fade to pink despite constant verbal and physical protests from...

Master Of Orion (1993) already exists, though? I was so excited when I heard that someone was going to make it modern-pretty, but then I heard that it was a re-envisioning 😪 They stuck star lanes in an almost perfect game 😭 Star lanes are fine for Sins of a Solar Empire, but not *MoO*. 😭 There...

Agricultural and chemistry know-how are both great and all, but for me where they really overrepresent ‘modern’ knowledge is in engineering and the medical field. Maybe it’s fine that the reincarnated person remembers something like scurvy as it compares with ‘a disease suffered by sailors’...

The human condition is an inherently horrifying one. We're smart enough to escape that we can largely escape from the most primal concerns of other life, though we're not necessarily perfect about that (the deaths to starvation every year are indicative of a 'relative crowning success' in the...

/Vaerama looks ahead at chapters 19, 20, and 21. Yeah, no: I would never do something like that. I’d have to be sick in the mind and twisted in the head before I brought myself to empathize with such a deep despair... 😰 But I’m glad you’re well past and through such a depressive state 💜 ^__^ A...

I view them much like I do when people refer to characters by one particular trait and one alone (such as heroic, villainous... Tsundere, yandere... Machiavellian, principled): there's just so much more to people than their 'primary outlook'... and people's outlook is subject to change depending...

It's lovely to experience happiness and sweetness vicariously though my characters.... but then I also have to feel at least a part of what I'm making my characters feel... and some of that stuff is just screwed up, fam TT____TT Well, at least nobody will come to my work saying 'but the...

‘My’ writing style changes depending on what I’m writing. If I’m writing from a character’s perspective (as in Falling Petals): then I mostly emulate that character’s perspective/style in my writing. If I’m writing personal things in public: my style is as you can see it here, with the...

Feeling compelled to write tragedy is just the worst. I know in my heart that I could get so many more readers if I wasn’t inclined to pull the rug out from under the main character and them after sinking more than a hundred chapters into the MC. But there’s just something so special about...

Bisexual novels are a hard find... Like, television is easy enough that two immediately spring to mind: Gabrielle from Xenia Warrior Princess, or Willow from Buffy The Vampire Slayer (albeit, despite her regular status as a very involved character, and calling her ‘a’ MC is fine: she’s not...

I used to be affection starved, but I’m not anymore :) Affection is necessary, but I’m not always receptive to it. Today, for instance, has been a very ‘bleh’ experience despite more-than-sufficient amounts of affection shown to me. Probably because I went on a forum instead of writing (don’t...

More seriously: I started reading GL manga so much at first because it usually didn’t palatte-swap men out with women in yuri romances. And on appearance alone: I haven’t seen a lot of Japanese women in manga depicted with cropped hair... so even when ‘masculine characteristics’ are heavily...