joysweeper:

roguehearted:

Which I am overly defensive about. /);^;(\ This has been in my drafts for MONTHS and I’m really nervous about posting it.

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Huh! I see Yuuya as more borderline between Griffindor and Slytherin, because he has a lot of willingness to lie and be underhanded and questionable in pursuit of a goal. And I’ve heard Slytherins have a tendency to want to take care of their own. I also feel like his self-sacrificial side is somewhat newer, that maybe at the Sorting-age he’d have had less of it.

But idk!

Yabbut, the house of Le Bel seems likely to have a multigenerational link to Slytherin that would’ve had sorting-age Yuuya fiercely muttering, “Anything but Slytherin, anything but Slytherin…” OTOH, based on some of Sakuya’s comments in HoliStar, Mme. Shirogane seems to have a very strong Slyther-y streak herself, but this could’ve been overlaid from the outside as a result of being surrounded by Le Bels (including the stabbity co-wives).

…though now I’m suddenly side-eyeing a cracktastic crossover in which Sakuya is a transfer student from Beauxbatons but never mind because nursing twins is turning my brain into milk.

明日の関西コミティアに関するお知らせです。 【関西コミティア42】 5月19日(日) 配置：E-16 サークル&

New convention swag from Moa; posting as a self-reminder to add the new CCG cards (and the fantail solo cards) to a central reference link next to the original set plus first two add-ons.

There are two different bonus scenes with Anghel that can happen on Sept 13th, where he interacts with either Yuuya or Nageki (but afaik not both). To get either one of those scenes, try to court whichever birdie as much as you can before Tanabata— pick the appropriate after-school and festival activities— and then pick Anghel’s Tanabata wish. I think that might do it, though it’s been a whlie since I played the original game— it’ll also help to try scoring extra “affection points” with either Yuuya or Nageki whenever there isn’t a direct conflict w/ Anghel.

There’s a general post about the game timeline and extra bonus scenes here if that helps?

Hatched out twin baby girls late last week; will be mostly AFK for some time. Also, shirasato is awesome for sending me the Kazuaki doujin, though again there may be some considerable delay before I actually have time to open it up and take a look >_<;;

coorelightgrey:

lexlee20:

…actually, I do think there’s a possibility that within backstory vagueness parameters, Hitori could’ve had some briefly mutual happiness with Kaz if their relationship began in early 2183, when Nageki seemed to comfortably establishing a normal school life at St. Pigeonation’s. Of course, that makes the subsequent trainwreck even more heartbreakingly trainwrecky.

Which is why I’d really like to see a solid reference link with context for Moa’s apparent info that Kazuaki and Hitori only knew each other for eight days— I’m assuming that it was somewhere in her Twitter feed?— because that would be really useful information, but it’s rather less useful when it’s only sourced at the level of “I think I saw someone say this on Tumblr”.

Sorry for jumping in on this, but I have your answer for the eight days thing.

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Doh! Okay, now I’ll have to dig up the 1st ed guidebook to check the original Japanese verb for that passage— it’s 出会った, which does not mean “met for the first time” but rather “happened to encounter”, without excluding the possibility of previous acquaintance. One of these days I’ll really have to scour through the 2nd ed fanbook to see if there’s new Hitori/Kaz info buried in there.

Again, cf. the Kazuaki doujin’s backstory that they first met duiring cram school, although it does end up diverging from the HoliStar continuity toward the shrine/trip AUs.

negdantalion:

estellecampanella:

I’ve noticed a bit of an unsettling trend within the Hato fandom recently, and it looks like I’m not the only person who’s found it kind of alarming, so because of that I thought I would try to write an analysis of why people might be seeing an issue. Unfortunately, it has to do with the way a large chunk of the quail boyfriends fandom portray their ship (read: NOT everyone, maybe not even the majority, but it’s definitely a prominent amount of people).

I think a lot of quail boyfriends fans could benefit from taking a step back and looking a little more closely at their own interpretations so let’s try and break this down in its most basic form: a lot of quail boyfriends fans have wildly misconstructed the relationship between Hitori and Kazuaki (referred to as Ousama in this post for clarification’s sake) to the point of being harmful and kind of offensive.

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Okay I’ve been meaning to reply to this analysis for like…. ever but wow it took me a long time to get coherent (also it’s 5 am).

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…actually, I do think there’s a possibility that within backstory vagueness parameters, Hitori could’ve had some briefly mutual happiness with Kaz if their relationship began in early 2183, when Nageki seemed to comfortably establishing a normal school life at St. Pigeonation’s. Of course, that makes the subsequent trainwreck even more heartbreakingly trainwrecky.

Which is why I’d really like to see a solid reference link with context for Moa’s apparent info that Kazuaki and Hitori only knew each other for eight days— I’m assuming that it was somewhere in her Twitter feed?— because that would be really useful information, but it’s rather less useful when it’s only sourced at the level of “I think I saw someone say this on Tumblr”.

raggle-taggle-gypsy:

So it looks to me as though this page of the chapter 10 manga shows us how large the birds are in comparison to human forms? Where Anghel and Okosan are jumping through the window together. Looks like about the size of a wild turkey… Definitely bigger than a normal pigeon!

Moa’s been semi-consistent at showing Oko San as being about waist-height to everybirdie else’s gijinka forms— this pic of him with Ryouta dates back to June 2012 (or possibly earlier; I have a very vague memoy that she’d originally posted it sometime before then, but that the original post went offline and this was a much later respost).

So yeah, that is approximately wild turkey size, with all of the mass/momentum factors which that implies. Gack.

estellecampanella:

lexlee20:

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i’m not sure you’re actually understanding my point at all

like, it’s interesting what you’re saying here but none of it has any relevance to what i was even saying? and i feel as though you’re just sort of catapulting off of my original concern into a completely different direction at this point

i’m not… sure what you’re trying to tell me here is what i mean. comparing their relationship to a cherry blossom season seems a little bit nonsensical unless you’re talking strictly from ousama’s perspective and not hitori’s, which doesn’t once come across as positive in either holistar or the mirror au. so yeah i’m just not sure if you’re arguing anything, and if you are i’m a bit confused

I was mainly thinking of the cherry-blossom comparison from Ou-sama’s perspective, but I am also loopy from flu season and it is entirely possible that we are approaching this whole discussion from weird noncompatible directions regardless. Alas.

estellecampanella:

lexlee20:

(argh only back for a moment so keeping this brief)

estellecampanella:

The things I argued as factual are, well, facts. Insisting that their relationship is not based on emotional manipulation, bitterness, betrayal and severe overdependence would be a blatant contradiction of the source material.

I think this is the key statement that I have to disagree with wrt factuality… because the “based on” phrase implies that there was never anything else to their relationship except those elements.

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I am going off the assumption they did not know each other until after

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(argh only back for a moment so keeping this brief)

estellecampanella:

The things I argued as factual are, well, facts. Insisting that their relationship is not based on emotional manipulation, bitterness, betrayal and severe overdependence would be a blatant contradiction of the source material.

I think this is the key statement that I have to disagree with wrt factuality… because the “based on” phrase implies that there was never anything else to their relationship except those elements.

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