/ot/ - Off-Topic

>sharkweek causes blogposting followed immediately by disappearing because reading hard
You would think one month of my life I recognise it happening and stop myself. Time to find out what kind of essay I wrote today…

>>2422
Gonna be real with you, I probably got actual autism since I'm an awkward fuck, my relatives got it, and two old best friends of mine got diagnosed later. Unfortunately immediate family is anti-vax and think I'm "safe" because they didn't protect me from measles so I don't think I can get that checked out til I leave their house. I don't think I'm capable of playing things up, I have enough trouble communicating the existing problems.
>aimlessly walking around
Pokemon Go. Shows footpath routes and landmarks. I've exhausted most of my town and the next though, but now it's a daily routine I get restless on days when I can't be out walking. I have some other F2P games on my phone, but mostly it's just pirating shit as usual. If you want to read more without a phone/computer screen buy an ereader, b&w eink job, load downloaded content on that. The initial cost is worth it for the hours of use you get without having to buy/store physical books.

>>2423
That sounds like a dream. I wish I had someone chasing me about kicking my ass into gear so I can't just disconnect and vanish. I'm europoor though, so we don't have resources for persistent care, and if you're not being seen by anyone you don't count on the unemployment statistics. Pretty sure I just don't exist far as any authorities care and they prefer it that way.

>>2431
Thank you! I remember years back ranting at someone how there was this shift occurring and no matter what you said someone would be trying to revise shit against you. I know I was a kid when I started browsing so I didn't understand how heavy some references were, but you knew people meant things in jest and when they didn't. There was pride in having "fujoshi" instead of "rabid yaoi fangirls", image boards assumed they were more sophisticated internet users who knew their specialist subjects, instead of witch hunting themselves to death. The people now who insist on being offensive seemingly for the sake of it feel to me like children with a case of "you're not my mom, you can't tell me what to do!"

I open an anime board to discuss anime, not imaginary bogeymen on some other site or whatever the hell they've decided woman psychology demands this week. I used to be part of various raid boards back on 420chan and the old 8chan, and even those had more humour and sense than the vitriol people spend so much energy on today. I get plenty of kicks out of watching people seriously try to sus out how women think, but it hurts knowing 10 years ago they'd have rightfully been a laughing stock, instead of commended and "based" for spouting contradictory conspiracy theories. But no, do tell me how this week women are base animals who can't grasp emotional bonds like men, when last week women could only touch themselves to emotional drama for pansies. It really complements my manga about office workers. :^)
>>2439
/an/ and /ck/ used to be the boards I'd open on school computers to while away time, knowing there'd be cute animals, some funny cooking mistakes, a bit of wholesome "it's my gf's birthday can I get advice", etc. ;__;
>>2448
Hey same hat almost. I was 14, 32 now.

>>2449
Ah. That must be why the drama isn't any fun even on a gossip level. There's no "did you see her self insert fucking Snape" saga to uncover.

This message crashed my PC three times, probably an omen but I'll ignore it.

I guess the other thread where I posted this is on auto-sage but whatever: now that Japan will open its borders soon I will plan a trip to Japan for like three weeks to a month next summer. I planned on doing a bunch of shit in Japan in 2020 but covid ruined everything, but now I know what I want to visit outside of Tokyo and I know where to buy what I want. I'll redo my wardrobe and buy a shit ton of manga and merchs. If possible I'll buy some BL doujinshi too. I'm fucking ready, I'm not poor anymore so I will treat myself this time. Who else will go on a trip to Japan once the borders will open?

I wasn't of that time but a while back I looked at /y/ archives, tried to go as far back as possible and get a feel for things in text since few images were archived. Came across a poll thread from 2007 or so, are you male/female and straight/gay/bi. A lot of posters were women and there were no strong reactions. Seemed like a decently welcoming environment.

>>1365
I have sometimes managed to spark some activity on this site by creating new threads or asking questions and such. It's such a good feeling when that happens!
Some days this site is just slower than others I guess that is just the nature of fujochan. Though I do have a bad habit of frequently checking in here and always get disappointed when I see that no one has posted

>>2658
I FEEL YOU!! and same! when I posted new threads i notice it gets a spark of activity. I don't want to overflood the site with threads only I have created. (I do think we should encourage bumping older threads). I am sure once more people learn about this place it'll get better <3

>>2658
Me too nona!! I wish this site was more active T_T though, maybe I should be posting more… I just don't have much to say lel.
I spent a lot of time browsing fujochan when I first found it, because I was so excited to find a dedicated fujoshi community. Even if it's slow I'm glad it exists at all <3 I spend a lot of time in very anti-fujo internet circles so it's nice to know there's somewhere I can be unapologetically fujoshi

anyways, are y'all playing/watching/reading anything interesting lately? BL or otherwise!
I started playing DMMD a couple weeks ago, but didn't get too far before and I keep forgetting to continue. What ending should I go for first? Aoba's really cute!

>>2660
I forgot that DMMD got an official release. Learning that the company that release all the Nitro+Chiral VNs refused to release Lamento because it's expensive and time consuming pissed me off so much I forgot about DMMD. How's the official translation? Maybe I should try it out.

>>2660
hi nona you should start off with koujakus route or noiz cause those made me ugly cry especially koujakus…. when playing a vn i tend to play whichever character who i like the most’s route first (who i think is the most hot basically kekk) ive also played clears route and its very sweet. still need to finish others routes tho. after playing dmmd you should check out other nitro+chiral vns theyre really great ^_^ mabye i should make a thread for them!

>>2662
I know Koujaku is the childhood friend route so if I play DMMD he'll be my priority.

>>2661
>How's the official translation?
No idea because I got it off an ancient tumblr page. I'd like to buy it officially if there's somewhere I can get it besides steam. Steam's got a nasty habit of removing all the r18 content and then you've got to buy an unlock offsite and I hate it

>>2662
Clear is cute! I was thinking of playing his route. I'm sad they don't have any sort of filters or something on his voice, considering gas mask and all, it's jarring to hear him speak so clearly.
Is Togainu no Chi any good? I really like Kau >w>

>>2662
Mink's route gets isn't the best, especially if you're using the old translation but there's some pretty great moments that almost make up for it like the last sex scene in his route and and his so stupid it wraps back around in to being awesome method of getting into his tower.

>>2436
>but as it progressed it was a real eye-opener to how every man has a sleeping beast that should never be awakened
oh my god

So has everybody been busy this holiday season? Just noticed a slow few days and am wondering what everybody's up to.

>>3082
>So has everybody been busy this holiday season?
For me yes, especially with work and studying. Even if the holiday break is approaching it's going to be only 5 days long and I have tasks to manage at home. I haven't been able to visit Fujochan as often as I used to because of some stuff in life, and I don't have time for my hobbies (I miss reading BL/manga before going to sleep, now I don't have the energy.) and my activity in the fandoms I'm in has got to be as low as zero. (Wow, I didn't notice this turned into a rant, sorry haha.)
>Just noticed a slow few days and am wondering what everybody's up to.
I'm up to make a doujin when these hard days pass, and do more of what I like if I get the freedom to.

What are up to too, nonna?

>>3082
I'm in pretty much the same boat as >>3083 , busy with work, studying, and other super awesome and fun adult stuff. Doing my best to squeeze in room for my hobbies but it is difficult. Things will definitely cool down once the new year comes around, though.

I miss talking to all of you so much ;__;

In my case I was busy with work and always tired and seeing my friends irl so that left me no time to come here. Now I'm on sick leave for one more week after getting surgery in Wednesday (which went well) so I'm using that free time to get some rest at home, be online a bit more until I can go outside again soon, and play vidya. But there's barely anyone here, I just posted about SMT5 a few days ago and that's it, nobody replied yet but I'm patient. I'm looking for more fujo art of the characters too, I'm that bored, so I'll post more if I save more pics.

>>3085
Thats the case for me too, I mostly just lurk now on my lunch break at work then get back home for the never ending mountain of house chores, friends always leave my house without cleaning too so I'm not inviting them over as much. I'm waiting for the weekends mostly to start posting again but I was forced to work the last weekend so I've been away for a while. Hope you're recovering well from your surgery nonnie, get well soon!

>>3085
Happy to hear your surgery went well, feel better soon! I've actually been meaning to get into SMT as one of my friends is fucking obsessed with it and the smt5 protag is a cutie, but I don't have much free time nowadays… it will happen sometime though.

>>3082
I'm dealing with an overload of end of term assignments and procrastinating like a motherfucker on typesetting the SFX in a (non-BL) manga. I keep zoning out for hours as a shitty coping mechanism fml.

>>3082
Just too stressed and depressed, real life eats up all my drive and motivation, everything feels pointless.

>>3086
>I mostly just lurk now on my lunch break at work
I don't do that on fujochan, but on lc. I'm too worried someone will see weird shit on my phone here and one of my coworkers is a fujo or at the very least know some BL manga and anime by name, I don't want to get in trouble or whatever.

>Hope you're recovering well from your surgery nonnie, get well soon!
Thanks a lot, I'm doing better everyday so I'd say I'm doing good so far.

>>3088
I love Megaten as a whole, I'd say you can play SMT5 as your first game without any issue. The only thing you'd miss out are the very vague hints that it's a sequel of SMT3, which is not necessary at all to enjoy it. You can also start with SMT4 on the 3DS which was my first mainline game, or SMT3 if you don't mind random encounters. As for SMT4 Apocalypse, it's one of the best game in the series if not the best gameplay wise, but it's a direct sequel to SMT4 in terms of story so I absolutely recommend it but not for now. Then there are a bunch of spinoffs like Persona, Digital Devil Saga, Devil Survivor, etc.

>>3093
>I don't do that on fujochan, but on lc.
honestly i'm too scared to lurk on lc in public as i think other people will recognize the site and start thinking of me badly

>>3105
I assume it's not likely to be the case for me because it's all in English and I'm not in an English speaking country. I'm careful around my coworkers though. I even check cwc on my phone when commuting if I'm bored.

Image boards are really a dying breed… I think new generations of fans just don't care for anonymity as much.

>>14281
I considered leaving fujochan recently because at the time it felt like this place was more negativity than fan discussion but in the end I stayed because this site gives me something that I can't get anywhere else.

>>14281
It doesn't help that they get the reputation of being cesspools of hatred when a lot of people just shitpost. Which is sad because then a lot of people's problem with their mutual/followers having different interests wouldn't be such an issue.

>>14283
I just avoid threads that are full of negativity.

>>14284
>cesspools
>plural
Do people even know of any IB besides 4chan?

>>14286
Besides The Sharty (because they brought down 4chan) and lolcow (in certain wokey/ cow-orbiting circles)? Nah and even then people would have to be really online because of how ibs and even a lot of forums have fallen out of use. It's so funny I saw a YouTuber who got most of her info about a cow from LC and she still thought people had "anonymous accounts" on there, like fundamentally the average person does not understand anything about ibs.

>>14286
>Do people even know of any IB besides 4chan?
Nein, which makes the popularization of IB lingo and onslaught of zoomies "larping" as 4chan users even more strange. The userbases of imageboards never seem to grow but the aesthetics of them are more widespread than ever.

>>14287
>she still thought people had "anonymous accounts" on there
Oh wow. This is embarrassing.

The Internet is dead nad botted. Ó╭╮Ò　　At least this space is still organic. ¯\(◉‿◉)/¯

>>14934
…Or is it?

>>14935
NTA but I like to think fujochan is organic when it comes to conversation and threads. I really like this place and wish it was a little more faster, but I'm still grateful for what we have. One thing I can say with full confidence is that despite there being arguments, it never goes into nuclear vitriol like it would in LC and people move on, and that the general mood of this place is positive rather than rabid.

>>14937
I don't think AI will ever be able to nail how oddly specific fandom talk can get. Like yeah it can slop out Ao3 house style omegaverse I think the matryoshka of fandom talk would be hard for it to penetrate.

>>14939
That's something I've noticed on social media like twitter. Way more generic topics like the news, politics, reality tv, racist or sexist ragebait or celebrity gossip almost always get crazy AI generated replies on twitter by bot accoutns with a blue checkmark, but with fandom related tweets it's usually a lot more organic, or at least you can very easily guess which reply is fake and which reply is genuine and posted by a real human. At least for now. This could be true for other hobbies as well but twitter might not be convenient enough to post about practicing certain sports or things like knitting or gardening in the first place.

>>14937
Why'd I read orgasmic….

>>14953
You might need to rub one out, nonitz.

>>14937
Smaller communities are always better, once a community hits a certain number of users it tends to get taken over by some of the most toxic kinds of people. I'm glad fujochan is pretty chill.

>>14940
How can such AI spam even be countered? Other than having ridiculous captchas for each post, which will get added to some auto-solver sooner or later anyway?

>>14960
>once a community hits a certain number of users it tends to get taken over by some of the most toxic kinds of people
This is why it is imperative that we gatekeep and scold/report any retards that start shit. Yes I want more activity because reading/participating in the conversation is very fun and the people here are generally lovely, but I refuse to let the wrong crowd think they are ever welcomed here. And unfortunately, the fujo life has been infiltrated by all sorts of crazies who think they can bulldoze fujos because it's the norm anywhere else. Outside of a private discord, FC is one of the few places you can be unabashedly fujo and talk about your disdain for the gendie shit and general ostracization from other communities.

>>14974
Which is why I like it & it's funny the last time I searched up "fujochan" on twitter I saw this one seething TIF who admitted to lurking here and called the users here "fat, ugly, & miserable". First of all, why even lurk here when you have the rest of the internet to serve as your echo chamber. They genuinely cannot keep to themselves in any way, shape, or form, they need everyone to be in complete agreement to them and it's funny how a relatively inactive ib of anonymous users pissed her off so much. Secondly, like really? You're going to play the mental stability & conventional attractiveness card considering the stereotypes of your demographic? That's rich kek.

>>14975
Do you have a screenshot? That seems pretty funny, she must have been projecting when she said were were fat and ugly.

>>14975
For all their bravado of "I DON'T NEED YOUR VALIDATION BECAUSE I'M REAL" or whatever, they certain crave and seethe whenever someone doesn't cater to their delusion. Wouldn't be surprised if our animosity for CB and trannyshit in AO3 or how it's all just elaborate self-inserting is what triggered her sperg-out.

>>14977
Trannies love playing the victim, when they aren't looking to be validated 24/7 they love looking for things that make them feel like a victim so they can get asspats and even more validation. If trannyism didn't come with victimhood they wouldn't bother identifying as trans, but being the victim makes them feel important.
BTW if that TIF is lurking here right now, YWNBAM. Work on your issues instead of self-harming through drugs and seeking out gender validating love-bombing as a substitute for genuine human connection ♥

>>14978
>If trannyism didn't come with victimhood they wouldn't bother identifying as trans

This is something I agree with and also part of a larger cultural shift that really baffles me. I'm the nonna from the vent thread who remembers the Trannies of Yore in fandom from 20+ years ago and they either didn't mention gender and assimilated with the women or came across convincingly as a rare man in fandom (if this seems unbelievable, you have to remember that this was a long time ago when gendie shit wasn't everywhere, doubting them wasn't at the forefront of my mind).

It really was, at that time, easy to believe the fact that being trans was just a medical condition you quietly treated like anything else, not a performative identity that constantly has to be validated by everyone around you and infiltrates every facet of your life (e.g. cuntboy shit). I don't get it, what the fuck happened?

>>14979
The thing is, being trans back then WAS considered a medical condition. If someone transitioned they didn't bring attention to it because they were scared of being threatened or harassed or harmed. They only did it if they felt it was absolutely necessary. I remember looking through the "MTF" and "FTM" tags on tumblr in the very early 2010s when I first discovered what being trans was and the vibe was very different than it is now. Barely any fandom posts, a lot of hatred for their bodies, talking about buying clothes, etc. One in particular was a post from a TIM complaining about an intense amount of gatekeeping in the community for the identity of being trans, which is extremely ironic considering there is zero gatekeeping in the present day. Wonder what he's doing now.

>>14979
The medical mafia decided that the easiest way to make money is via psyops.

>>14980
I've read about transmed/truscum discourse and I think trannies could stand to gatekeep their community a little harder.

>>14981
Which is funny, because a lot of them don't want surgery or take to take testosterone, it's just something to put in a Twitter bio.

>>14975
>and called the users here "fat, ugly, & miserable"
I like these mask off moments where body positivity and being against fatphobia only matters when it's someone you like.