I’m replaying Monark

There are stories that can pull off the Seven Deadly Sins as ironic virtues. This is not one of them. All the characters mourn the Greed boss after he dies trying to kill them and wipe out a good chunk of humanity, and I’m just sitting here like “Why do you even care about this prick?”

In response to a dumb ChatGPT post

I hereby authorize anyone to “disrespect” any fanfic I ever write. Use ChatGPT on it, write spitefic of it, spork it, I don’t care.

Found on TV Tropes

“The first [commercial] has a woman throwing her pencil-necked white partner into the washing machine after he fails to seduce her, and he emerges as a sexy, muscled black man. The second has her partner throw her in after comparing her to models in a gentleman's magazine — and she emerges as a sexy, muscled black man.”

I’m rereading I Want to be Normal by Canaria

I love how well this portrays what it’s like to not know shit about social norms. Like when the FMC admits she has no idea how to buy a bra, and the MMC offers to go with her, and he has to have it explained to him that it’s even more embarrassing to have a guy with you when you buy a bra. That’s exactly the kind of thing a socially awkward guy could stumble into.

(This is the same author as Love Me For Who I Am, if that’s a selling point.)

I’m pretty sure I know where Monark is going from here

No matter which whackjob I side with, I’ll get a bad ending. After seeing all the bad endings, I’ll finally unlock the option to tell the biggest whackjob to sod off, beat her up, and unlock an ending that doesn’t suck. So why can’t I tell her to sod off now, without having to get railroaded through all the bad endings first? None of the smaller whackjobs are people I would voluntarily side with anyway.