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Finally made it into a print, you can get it here

#queue #obey me leviathan

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old Asmo i nvr finished u-u was originally gonna draw one of each of the characters based off a song i think fits them!

#he's so cute ahhhhh #obey me asmodeus #queue

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im sorry but some obey me discourse is funny to me bc i feel like some people forget the bible part of this bible fanfic game

#queue #me when

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The best quality a fictional man can have is being deeply, pathetically, wretchedly in love with someone, I think

#yeah #queue

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the way people treat fanfiction these days is genuinely awful. i've been writing and reading fanfics for about ten years now (with some breaks in between) and i can confidently say that the way fandoms currently behave genuinely sucks for authors.

people rarely comment on fics anymore and it's more often than not something negative or demanding. instead of scrolling when someone doesn't like a trope, they let the author know that they hate it. instead of thanking the author when they write a request, they just demand more without even as much as a thank you. you can't even post a fanfic without someone immediately demanding more to read, without even saying what they liked about the fic in the first place.

i think a lot of people forget that fanfics are free. this isn't something you pay for, this isn't something you're fed by by companies. fanfics are passion projects written by people who like a thing just as much as you do. they're publishing this for free and even though it's not as professional as published books by any means (even though ;; this is debatable), authors still put so much work into everything they put out.

and it's frustrating ! don't ask yourself why authors delete their accounts, why they delete their fics, and start thinking about how you treat them. start commenting on fics you like. talk about it to the authors! don't only like, talk. tell them what you loved, what you think they did well. i promise a little goes a long way.

#queue

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@lexsssu GURL

Since Simeon looks a lot like Arjuna off of Fate G/O, I redid his sprite to look like Simeon :>

Link to Original Sprite

✨ PLEASE DON’T USE OR REPOST! ✨

#obey me

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Spoilers for Apothecary Diaries episode 24:

Been thinking about this all day after watching the final episode of Apothecary Diaries S1 but...isn't the reason why Maomao asked Lakan to play Go with her, because she wanted to do something nice for him?

She already mentioned this in the anime where she says she "doesn't hate" Lakan, but on the contrary, she "hated" that he knew about Jinshi's life being in danger due to the tampering in the ritual. (It's heavily hinted that the kind Uncle in Lakan's flashback is actually Luomen so it would be easy for someone as intelligent as Lakan to piece two and two together on Jinshi's true identity if he finds it of interest to find out more about what happened to Luomen. That was why Maomao said what she said when Jinshi told her that he couldn't have had known.)

His actions in the temple/palace and his attempts to help her is a clear sign that he does care. Unfortunately, Maomao also might have come to the conclusion that Lakan only cared about going there in the first place because she was there, hence her saying:

"He's frustratingly lazy and doesn't act on his own. If that man acted openly on his suspicions..."

She's contradicting herself by saying this because Lakan DID GO, but not because of Jinshi, but because Lakan was worried ABOUT HER.

But of course, with how roundabout they both are and how irreparable their relationship is, giving him a "mystery" to solve with the withered Blue rose, and helping him find a way to buy out her mother out of Verdigris in a way that Verdigris couldn't refute is her best way of saying she was grateful to him. The Blue Rose episode is a parallel to the final episode but with Lakan's and Maomao's roles being reversed.

#blurbs #the apothecary diaries #spoilers #it's been in my head rent free i cried akkdkkfkf her parents' story is so sad 😭

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Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives

#obey me solomon

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#no need to call me out like that #blurbs

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don’t give up mushroom man keep pestering takeuchi to grant us summer lip

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#secret third option: paperback supremacy #also i always cover my books with plastic cover or an adhesive book cover before reading so technically with dust jacket but not really #i don't buy much hardcovers though cause it's a pain to read in them #but i do like i can bend the spine with not much worries coz the jacket covers it

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Part 2: PART 5 changed everything.

So, why is Part 5 important to the discussion? Simple.

I’ve read enough Isekai stories, and Saintess stories to realize the parallels. I’m not saying it was conscious, since Kazuki-sensei has said that it was not her explicit intend to reference Isekai, but rather to create a realistic story with the basis of Isekai around it. But, to me, it is actually one that I’ve seen before.

It’s actually quite common for the “adopted princess” narratives to flood Isekai and reincarnation stories:

The Saintess, adopted by a nobleman after finding out about her powers, slowly rising through the ranks to save the world.

Oftentimes these narratives either make the parents abusive, or dead, to justify why the Saintess would be so willing to leave. But on not-so-rare occasions, the parents are written as simply, being okay with it. Or in particularly bad stories, it never gets addressed.

While the commoner origins of said Saintess is mentioned, that “commoner’s logic” that is so relevant to Myne’s characters, get completely brushed off in these stories. It’s either torture porn meant to highlight how tortured the poor Saintess was before this, or cheap tactic to make her appear more good hearted because she cares for the “commoners”. Some newer Villainess novels have even poked fun at this, calling out the seemingly self serving attitude these plot-point have.

In truth, these stories start, either in Part 3, Part 4 or Part 5. We skip over most of their commoner days, jumping straight into either the “Adopted Child” narrative, the “Royal Academy” or “Saintess” narratives.

However, by starting in Part 1, Ascendance of a Bookworm confronts these unpleasant and hard questions with the ruthlessness they deserve. For one, the extreme poverty she was raised in caused he money and profit driven self to be created.

The adoption wasn’t something she would have chosen. Given the option of death or being adopted, Myne would have chosen death. But since it involved her family’s lives, she had no other choice than to give up her freedom in exchange for their safety.

In her case, it wasn’t something she willingly jumped into, or something magical to be adopted by the “Duke of North” but it was a tragic affair. She was ripped from her family, she was forced to act and learn things she didn’t want to. Simply put, this was far from the magic outcome other Isekai stories form.

By the time we jump into Part 3, while the sense of wonder is still there, it’s painted with these undertones of sadness. It also doesn’t help that most of the fairy-tale like “Adopted Child” narrative that often forms in these stories, is more than absent in here.

The whole “I’m a Saintess so I was adopted by the Duke” would be tooth rotting fluff in other isekai novels, where the protagonist has to gain the affection of her adoptive father by being the cutest little thing ever.

…In her case, is one traumatic even after the other.

Rozemyne keeps getting swarmed with work and lessons, having to fight for her life to get ingredients for her medicine, having a half-brother who’s little more than useless, and the entire thing with Hasse…It again reiterates: The adoption, emotionally speaking, was never an upgrade.

While Sylvester considers her valuable and cares for her to some degree - there’s a clear divide between them. Sylvester puts this divide simply because he’s an archduke, and Rozemyne, well, for being Rozemyne. Sylvester never sees Rozemyne as her child, or treats her with doting kindness. To him, she’s a powerful ally, nothing more.

(Despite what people may think, Rozemyne’s closeness to someone is determined by an entirely different system, and Sylvester is counted as more of an ally than family. She put Charlotte on a higher scale than him. She very much does not see him as a Father and would sooner call Kardestadt that)

And even then, Part 3 is not really the focus of the story. The actual story begins to kick in during Part 4, when they go to the Royal Academy and Rozemyne starts to interact with the other Duchies. Again, it’s very common to have Royal Academies in isekai novels. And it’s also very common to jump to them, out of the nowhere. I appreciate how Ascendance of a Bookworm planted the seeds of Royal Academy since as early as Part 2, because I sweAR TO GOD, the NEXT isekai that drops the stupid “magic school” out of the NOWHERE in the middle of my childcare novel is getting PUNTED.

The Royal Academy actually starts to introduce us to the story setting we’ll spend the most time with. Part 1, 2 & 3 form about just half of the entire story. The other half is spent on the Royal Academy and dealing with, well, Royalty and other duchies. And it’s when we first get introduced to how absurdly powerful and abnormal Rozemyne truly is. Because back home she got constantly compared to Ferdinand, very rarely could we see just how different she was to her peers. We sorta could peer at it with Wilfred, but because he was such a bad example of what a Noble should be in Part 3 - it couldn’t even be called a comparison.

And while I was pleasantly surprised to see a subversion of my expectations on all these volumes, I was so focused on these things that I failed to notice what this all meant, until I had the full picture in Part 5.

Part 5 is, well, it’s interesting. It’s interesting because it’s the first time Rozemyne has to walk on her own two feet without Ferdinand there to hold her hand. Yeah, sure, Sylvester is there, Bonifatus is too and Kardestadt, but it quickly becomes apparent that they’re not nearly equipped enough to properly guide Rozemyne. Not only because at that point in time they’re too busy to give her an education, but because she has a better control in many of these issues than they do.

She has more mana, she interacts better with other duchy’s nobles, she gives insight and solutions on many of their issues, is able to directly face the consequences of her actions, and controls their duchy’s main exports and trends. This is not to say that Sylvester isn’t doing a great job as an archduke, since he’s been shielding her all this time and trying his best to contain her - it’s just that without Ferdinand there, Rozemyne simply grew too big for the duchy. Ferdinand was the only one capable of keeping up with her, her ideas, and her projects. Without him, Rozemyne became too much of a central piece in Ehrenfest.

And that’s when it hit me.

Up until now, we weren’t watching the story of Rozemyne. I couldn’t describe it as anything more than the prologue, or setting the stage for the actual real conflict that is about to unfold in Part 5. And each and every part beforehand was a way to properly give the tools to Rozemyne to become this. The Avatar of Mestionora.

Part 1 develops her merchant and commoner’ side. Her ruthlessness when it comes to profits, her single minded obsessions, and developing the empathy and love above books that comes to define her.

Part 2 develops her as Saint. Her temple work, her learning about gods and goddesses, her prayers, and work in the orphanage. Since this is the narrative that helps her with magic it’s imperative she learns it.

Part 3 develops her as an Ehrenfest Noble. Her position on the social hierarchy, the expectations of her in regards to supporting Wilfred, and the duchy.

Part 4 develops her as a Yugerschmidt Noble. One with a schtappe, one who can wield mana, that of a prodigy.

And all these identities, all these values and lessons, culminate in Part 5. Where, with no one left who can properly prop her up, she has to start standing for herself. She can no longer rely on Ferdinand to tell her what’s right and what’s wrong, she has to make those decisions herself.

And this is why I say Part 5 is amazing. When I was talking about being unable to accurately interpret the politics of Ascendance of a Bookworm, this was the issue. I wasn’t reading the story of politics, but rather - I was reading the setting of the stage for the story about politics.

Before Part 5, it was all about laying the groundwork. How the temple works, how the nobles work, Myne’s logic, etc.

Part 1 Myne couldn’t form her own identity, or properly have an opinion on things, because she didn’t understand how the world works. Likewise, us the audience, couldn’t fully understand the message or the politics being pushed forwards because we lacked the context. We were relegated to, much like Myne, listening to what Ferdinand said was right or wrong.

Now, however, with Rozemyne having her own identity, she no longer has this issue. She has learned, she’s watched. She has formed her three core values that rule her world.

These are:

Family

Meritocracy

Capitalism

These are things she’ll rarely budge in. You cannot threaten her family. He who does not work, shall not eat. And when the opportunity arises, take it and profit as much as you can.

I actually had not realized this for a while. I kept having this nagging feeling that I was missing something, but it finally clicked in Volume 4 Part 5, with.

PREV << MASTERLIST >> NEXT

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I forgot to post this one.

P5V9 spoilers btw.

#omg this is so pretty #ascendance of a bookworm

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✅ "The Apothecary Diaries" (Kusuriya no Hitorigoto) TV Anime SEASON 2 CONFIRMED for 2025.

#letsgooooooo #the apothecary diaries

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look me in the eyes. edmond dantes was summoned by goetia for the purpose of cursing guda. he was bound to their soul and meant to destroy them like a poison, but what he chose to do was sacrifice parts of himself in order to sustain and protect them. he chose love over hate every single time. he chose to love. do you understand me. he was a series of pages ripped from a book, encompassing only his tragedy and none of his redemption, he was handpicked to be at the lowest years of his life where he hated the world and craved destruction and blood, the promise of his redemption ever in his periphery yet never attainable, and still he chose love without ever expecting it, without allowing himself to want it. all he asks for is for his disappearance to mean something - to be granted rest. my god!!!!!!!!

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it's the "my trauma has become me, it is a cancerous tumor that cannot be excised without facing what caused it, but if i face it, the walls i've built to protect myself will fall apart. it is better to enshroud myself in the fiction i've created and to break myself in fulfilling it because facing my trauma will destroy me in a way i cannot accept" of dantes + guda's relationship that gets to me pal

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A pure maiden in love [with getting stronger] <3

#she truly is a shounen protagonist #honzuki no gekokujou

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