大丈夫 = "doing alright"大 = big丈 = length夫 = husband

I've moved over to wanwolfgirl.bar; if you weren't already changed over automatically, that's where you'll find me.

I'm the guy you'll have to ask just one thing if you want me to teach you, woo yeah, the way I sing 'cause, Mister Bass Man, you want to be a bass man too ba ba ba, ba ba ba (try this: ba BA ba ba, ba ba ba ba ba ba). Keep that in mind.

The moobment's been stuck for a long while in the bargaining stage of grief over this stuff; many who clog it up will never be able to move on because somewhere in the back of their minds they're still holding on to the very common delusion that this art and creative stuff is actually easy – the kind of thing they could _totally_ do if they wanted but only LOSERS WHO SPEND ALL THEIR LOSER TIME ON USELESS LOSER SHIT make or consume culture. It is, frankly, pathetic.

[x] Genuflect

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Everything I've looked at is both complete overkill and not specific enough for the kind of things I want to put into it (though the latter might just be that I haven't read enough documentation). I'm torn between "fuck it, just use a spreadsheet" and "you're already going to be trying to future-proof against the possibility of moving to something better later, may as well just use a system from the start".

Mistake IMO – I don't even know Arknights but I know the squizzul.

Now _that's_ the stuff of which one can drink. EDIT: Forgot to include an animal-eared anime woman; oversight corrected.

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Please DO NOT announce to the instance when you are going to go spank your wife. This has been a recurring issue, and I'm not sure why some people have such underdeveloped social skills that they think an instance full of mostly single male strangers would need to know that. No-one is going to be impressed and give you a high five (though you should be suspicious if they do, considering where that hand will shortly be). I don't want to add this to the rules, since it would be embarrassing for new users to see that we have a problem with this, but it is going to be enforced as a rule from now on.

Wan.

I've heard this, and I believe it, but I've never seen more than Internet scuttlebutt about it. Are there any closer sources that go into it?

The animation director's(?) notes on the cel version have a certain straightforward panache: >For the cheek, no need to do more. That will be enough... she didn't swallow a hamster. >IMPORTANT CENSORSHIP: Please raise the glass in her hand to make sure that the drink's level will cover the nipple. >Here, the glass no longer hides anything, so it is IMPERATIVE to respect the framing in order to hide what is necessary. >It is imperative that the water level hides the lower abdomen and that the window hides the chest (seen with Olivier (decor)). Thank you. >IMPORTANT. THE FRAMING MUST TOTALLY HIDE THE NIPPLES. >IMPORTANT: For censorship, it's imperative that the hands be well-placed. >IMPORTANT: FRAME so that the nipples are COMPLETELY hidden. It's plain ol' standard practice for illustrators and animators to draw beyond the frame as well as to include what will be hidden by closer layers, after all.

To produce an animation from scratch, you must first bring forth a culture.

Plenty in Japan do it for the money as well, by one route or the other. A doujinshi circle turning to porn because they're sick of eating the losses on their offset book runs is a cliché in certain self-referential works. What's different is that this all happens within a larger half-century-long vibe that itself comes from a different cultural base.

America also has no doujinshi scene (the sad, warped imitation that's had the term slapped over it as marketing doesn't count) in all its messy, porny, self-indulgent, IP-holders-looking-the-other-way glory. The guideposts that temper and blood a prospective mangaka who's publishing doujinshi (and almost all of them did, right back into the '80s, and still do) are the exact same things that would've/still do get an American doing the same thing turned into a smoking legal crater.

Wan.

I thought this video did a pretty good job of touching on some of the issues that plague "American comic books" (meaning capeslop) and what alternatives look like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSBUX6GPsA

American conservatism lacks the vital spark – and I mean that literally, as in it lacks any spark that affirms flourishing life – that would nourish art. It only knows how to smother and extract. Art's messy. It's unpredictable. It doesn't show up for work on time and faithfully enrich its boss before going home to watch paint dry or despawning in the corner of a gas station parking lot, so the zombie cuckold ideology of conservatism shies away from it hissing like a vampire in sight of a cross.