I didn't take screenshots of it but Deuce gets his mom to back up his cover story.
Bro how are you missing that this is your chance to be Epel's hero forever! You're his childhood crush, you will never get another opportunity like this!
I'm sorry to post day-of spoilers but I've been waiting for this part ever since I heard about it in the Japanese version
not proshipper not anti but a secret third thing (person who has a career in the media and, through covering legislative politics, has watched "associating with problematic fiction or entertainment is an indicator of moral degeneracy" rapidly become a mainstream GOP position that they are encoding in legislation to target the queer community under the guise of protecting children, thus coming to the conclusion that positioning the "can people enjoy things that would be immoral IRL in their fiction" debate as a proship v anti fandom debate is akin to pretending that "should we have the death penalty" is a discussion that only matters in Death Note discourse — the extent and manner to which fiction affects reality is an issue that is immediately relevant to today's US politics, and to summarize my opinions on the matter in fandom terms would be to diminish the ways this debate is affecting america Right The Fuck Now. and i have stopped taking "this person is bad for shipping the wrong anime thing and being horny about it" in any sort of good faith ever since I saw it literally used as part of a GOP smear campaign against a transgender state legislator in an attempt to defend the right from backlash after they used their supermajority in the Montana house to prevent her from speaking on the floor. Anyway I think everyone on this site, especially Americans, could benefit from ceasing to think in proship v anti vocabulary and instead developing coherent political positions on the nature of fiction that do not directly align with current fascist political tactics)
I keep seeing people saying Falin is "better at social cues" than Laios. Y'all she's just quiet. 😭 She just keeps her mouth shut. 😭😭 Girl was proposed to, said "let me think about it," and then did not even tell her own brother. She doesn't know what's going on either she's just quieter about it!!! 😭😭😭
You know what the weirdest thing about cyberpunk is for me?
Well, let’s have some background.
William Gibson (you know, the guy who wrote Neuromancer) skipped town for Canada in the late 1960s, ostensibly to avoid the Vietnam draft – though he later admitted it was mostly for easier access to weed – and spent much of the 1970s hanging around in Canadian counterculture circles. Hippies, basically; at one point he even became manager of one of Canada’s first head shops!
When he later got into writing and become one of the founding authors of cyberpunk lit – back when it was an actual literary movement and not just an aesthetic – he drew heavily on those experiences for his worldbuilding, particularly with respect to the spoken idioms of the settings he depicted. The upshot is that much of what we think of as cyberpunk lingo is really just a lightly modified version of Canadian youth counterculture slang circa 1970.
Now, my parents were also total hippies back in the day, and while they’re a few years too young to be part of Gibson’s generation, some of their older siblings are in just the right age bracket to have picked up much of the same lingo that Gibson did. Which means I have aunts in their sixties who, in their unguarded moments, sound like something out of a Shadowrun novel – or rather, from my perspective, a lot of those cool-as-fuck cyberpunk protagonists talk exactly like my elderly aunts!
I am still working on my bowuigi fic. I was hoping to get the penultimate chapter done this month but I've got personal life things happening that are sending my brain problems into overdrive and making my work schedule worse so... We'll see.