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False, though I'm young enough to be deemed a child when it suits people Next person is procrastinating.

Confession: I just had a moment of sheer 'oh fuck' when I accidentally copy/pasted/sent something to someone on FB about the merits of shipping. This was followed by beautiful relief, as she was revealed to be an ardent shipper herself. My thin façade of public decency is retained for another day.

True. Well, not exactly hate, but it's far and away the shittest colour, and we live in a world where coral is a thing. Next person is currently reading an OELVN.

YOU MEAN THERE'S MORE? 1 minute later: Was not disappointed. Top effort guys [2].

I'm pretty early in (I think), but I'm enjoying things so far. Main reason for posting is this: I haven't creased so much laughing since the 'hooded meeting' scene in Grisaia. Top effort guys.

I guess I'd have to say false, as I'm a massive fan of string quartets. It's close though. Next person runs regularly.

Eh. They tend to be cute as shit, but what remains of my moral compass has one or two issues with the practicalities... if you get my gist Next person sits next to any heat source like their life depends on it.

False. Really, really false. Next person has never seen Love Live.

False. I do own a raincoat though Next person appreciates my dank puns. EDIT: Zidan jumped in at the last moment And false, I slept waaay too long last night.

Thanks I figure that if I can learn this, then I've got a pretty good head start on Hungarian and Estonian too. But it's the declensions that get me. The suffixes are a pain in the arse but I can learn them.

Eh, sounds like something worth ranting about. If they're screwing you over academically because they can't organise their shit together, that'd annoy me too. Confession: Trying to get my head around the agglutinative case system in Finnish is doing my noodle in

Oh good, I downloaded it earlier today so I look forward to having a good cry. Played Accidental Demon Slayers today. It's a Ren'Py one, and a bit rough around the edges in the presentational/spelling department for it, but it was alright. Good bit of fun, and some quite amusing parodying of typical horror tropes made it a laugh in parts. Definitely gonna get around to Tokyo Babel in the next few days. Definitely. If I remember.

I kinda liked the plain/ugly textbox. If it was all fancied up I think it would have detracted from the austere feel of things. Most of the time I agree, though

Sup Caio fella Welcome to Fuwanovel, hope to see you about on the occasions you do post! To be fair, if I was watching someone else play a visual novel and reach a h-scene, I'd probably leave the room too

I know how much you guys wanna see me without my dank corpse paint on. Not much.

We can only hope that forums.fuwanovel.net is open when fuwanovel.rip is down, otherwise I don't want to know what people will do

This was genuinely excellent. The concept is interesting, the writing is pretty fantastic and the protagonist isn't a complete and utter numbnuts - if/when you get the Kickstarter up and running for this, I'm gonna have no issues throwing some money your way, as I really wanna see this come to fruition.

Looks beautiful! Needs more bish sparkles, mind

It had Adam Sandler in, it didn't have the best chance to start off with

Confession: I just noticed that 500 pages on this topic have been reached. Bloody hell, you could learn a lot about a lot of people in these pages

Is the gnaborretni different to the interrobang? I mean, I could just Google this, but it's more fun to ask.

Katawa Shoujo was a first for me in a few fields, which I might have discussed briefly in an earlier post. It was my first visual novel, and while I'm not exactly a font of knowledge of experience in the medium, it opened me up to a wonderful (if expensive and sometimes questionable) form of storytelling. It was the first exposure I had to a Japanese-style thing, and while not being actually Japanese itself, got me on that road too. It was also the first internet forum I got properly involved with, back in February 2014. I managed to rack up over 1,000 posts of mostly (if I'm honest) trying to figure out whether Emi or Rin is bestgirl, mooning over artwork, and just general mindless shitposting. Really, I look back on the time and it's a strange mixture of trying to figure out why I spent so much time there, and being sincerely glad I did. Just distracting myself on there and discussing essentially irrelevant bumph helped me out vastly during a crappy stage of my life, and for that I'm forever grateful towards it. However, being a forum based around a singular VN there's only so much somebody can contribute (at least, without being excellent at art or a damn good creative writer). The amount of times a lemon joke can be made, or a Rinfidel can be declared eventually dries up, and so after spending roughly a year on it, I basically stopped going on there. Every now and then I would pop my head back in to see if I was missing anything interesting, but then even those occasions started to disappear, and about 9-10 months went by. I figured that, today, I might just see how this little community was doing. I was never what I would call a major part of the community, but as I've already alluded to I was fond of it - I just had nothing left to offer. Yet, I opened it up and what greeted me was a sad state of inactivity. It was, I admit, never the fastest moving forum in the world, but typically things would move at a fair-t'-middling pace most of the time - a good 10 or so topics a day with at least one comment, perhaps one or two with a decent conversation on. But this time, there were 8 topics explored in the 'Public Discussion' field since the start of April. I found one or two conversations - short, but conversations nevertheless - that had taken place, largely among people who were regulars when I used to frequent, but very few new faces. To be fair, for what it is it's had a bloody good run (the forums themselves opened in 2007 in their current guise) and to call it dead would be unfair - it's not like nothing's happening - but it seems to be approaching a moribund, final state. Whether it happens next year, or the year after, who knows, but for myself it brings a very real feeling of sadness. I understand this is how forums work. People come and go, some stay for longer than others; this is just a fact of life in these places, and for more 'limited' forums one only expects a natural lifespan, obviously culminating in death. But to see a community start to fade, particularly one I held dear during my time there... Yeah, it does bring me down a little. And that got me thinking. I regularly partake in two internet communities, and it made me appreciate how much I actually feel towards these people; people who I've never met and am never likely to meet. Most will likely phase out as time goes by - be it days, months, years - and I fully expect it will be the same for me. I'll likely only think about them once in a while, a thought like "Oh, I wonder how such-and-such is getting on nowadays". The two I am part of are both far more expansive in their scope than the KS forums - Fuwanovel for... well, obviously visual novels, and the other for music - and I suppose that they will probably last longer than I give them my attention as a consequence. But the fact that these communities leave such an indelible mark on my being, however small I may think they are, means that one day I am likely to feel this feeling of sadness once again, whether I come back to find it nearly gone, or whether I stick around long enough to see it fall. Sorry for being a bit of a bummer, but this hit me a little harder than I suppose it might/should and wished to vent a little. Here's Renge singing

The only way to assuage the burning of an anti-otome sentiment is with more otome. Tay knows what's up.

So I just spent most of the evening reading this, and I figured I'd give you my thoughts! The first thing I'll say is probably the most obvious thing: the growing relationship between Kitsune and Sakura is pretty damn adorable. Some of the descriptions of Sakura's interactions with her make me feel really fuzzy, so that's a big +1 The pacing was, surprisingly, rather good. I say surprisingly as in a lot of 'amateur' stories (for lack of better wording) things move forward at a breakneck speed in some parts, and the gravity of a situation can be lost. Yours is largely good though! I think a little more 'padding' (not the right word, but you know) might not be a bad thing towards the end as the bulk of the action happens, but aside from that good stuff. My biggest complaint is probably why Kitsune is called Kitsune. It's okay for most of it, but in the scenes where she is among her own people, having 'kitsune' (as in the species) and Kitsune (as in the adorable foxgirl character) in the same sentence can get somewhat confusing. It's not a dealbreaker, but it does throw me off a bit sometimes. I know you said it hasn't been edited yet so I won't make too big a deal out of it, but it does need cleaning up. I volunteer my services if you so wish? I don't have too much going on now for the next 5 months or so, so I could do with something to do Overall rating is about 7/10 I'd say. Would read and begrudge my lack of fan art ability again. Nice one

Happy birthday @SpiduhBMX, haven't seen you about in ages Hope you're well! And happy birthday to @arakura too, wouldn't wanna leave you out!