Hey I'm Mage, a digital freelance artist who likes Yakuza, Hypmic, Legend of Zelda, Ultrakill and all sorts of other things. I'm a big fan of Takaya Kuroda too.
Edit: As of February 28th I will not be posting any more art to Tumblr after its decision to partner with AI companies like Midjourney. To see my art, please either go to my Instagram or Bluesky accounts. Bluesky from this point forward will be primarily focused on my art.
not to be crude but the people who think Laios is one of those fandom characters that doesnt know what sex is are completely missing like. his whole deal. you think the dude who obsessively studies monster anatomy and behaviors doesn't know what sex is? you think he hasn't memorized the mating rituals of every single goddamn beast under the sun? you think he doesn't have an encyclopedic knowledge on how to fuck? thats his goddamn special interest brother. he knows sex better than anyone on the goddamn planet.
sorry if i am piggybacking on your post punkitt and making it too serious but i keep finding this to crop up as a trend where people in a fandom take a character and go "this character is so naive (and neurodivergent) that they can't know what sex is!" and like. does this feel really infantalizing to anyone else? especially when the character is just an adult man. he's 26 in a race that has an average lifespan of 60. he was almost married. he knows how living armor fucks. I don't want to name examples or put anyone's headcanons down but this has been weighing on me how fandom spaces treat autistic characters as sexless. it also plays into a lot of the harmful ideas that causes autistic people not having all the reproductive rights and access they should to act like they are unaware of the world. I don't want to say this in a way that people can't have ace headcanons but I want people to think what they are saying when they add these ideas onto characters with mental or physical disabilities and check they aren't saying anything that comes off as insensitive (even if they don't mean to do so).
no actually go off yeah. its weird as hell when people act like adult characters with neurodivergent tendencies are babies that need to be coddled for some reason. its like a complete misread of a character and a bizarre way of looking at other people.
Hi Slug! If possible could you please translate the new updated timeline from the second guidebook? Thank you so much 🙏
I typically don't want to translate any sort of paid content, but I'll make an exception just this once so we can publicly shame Hypmic for its ludicrous timeline have this as a resource.
The guidebook's timeline is split into two halves corresponding to Chuuouku and the six Divisions featured in the storyline. For ease of reading, I've combined them into one and placed them in order (as much as possible).
The translation is as direct as possible. I do not translate word by word by the dictionary when there are more straightforward or natural-sounding equivalents available, and I do not incorporate features of the source grammar and punctuation that are nonsensical in English. Apart from that, this is super cut-and-dry. It's a timeline lol.
Finally, a note about the "H Age" (H歴) year system: While treated as its own calendar system similar to BCE and CE (or BC/AD), the H Age notation is otherwise similar to Japanese "eras." In real life, a new era corresponds to a new emperor taking the throne, so Otome's rise to power and the subsequent beginning of the H Age marks a paradigm shift. Eras can start in the middle of a calendar year, so Year 1 of the H Age isn't necessarily from January to December (in so much as Hypmic has months anyway). Let's arbitrarily say it started in June 2024. (Did it? No idea. I made this up for argument's sake.) That means Year 1 is June - December of 2024 while "one year prior" is January - May also of 2024. Therefore, "two years prior" is January - December of 2023. And so on and so forth.
one frustrating element of the new content bans on gumroad and patreon is that they're doing it to stay in line with their payment processors' policies, which themselves are in place to stay in line with FOSTA-SESTA.
which is a law passed in the united states, a country of which i am not a citizen and in which i do not live. i was legally prohibited from voting for or against FOSTA-SESTA, but because the platforms and payment providers i use are based there, i am expected to comply with it anyway.
and the tiktok situation shows us that any platform based outside the US can and will be either blocked from operating within it or forcibly divested from its foreign owners.
this is just another facet of american empire, by the way. it's more than bombs and guns and client states: it's that the US leverages its dominance over technology and finance to set policy for, effectively, the entire world.
as well as having lots of pretty faces, i think the expressions in the series are fantastic too. kiryu's lil smirks are always a joy and majima's face journey in y0 when running into makoto the first time is a thing of legend
big agree on this. i actually spent a long time compiling some of my fave expressions to respond to this, but my computer shut off without warning so i lost all that effort :/ would love it if people would reblog this and add some of their favorite yakuza expressions
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