I like how in euro dance tracks the MC rapping in English is like, from the Low Countries or something where the language is close enough he can get the right phonemes so it’s not like it’s unclear
As I continue to lose weight my belly now doesn’t feel at all like a bowl full of jelly, it feels like a pod full of peas: discrete, somewhat firm masses under the surface
In most isekai, or at least the more modern ones, the existence of multiple worlds and of our world specifically isn’t mandatory to the story.
What I mean is that you can have Overlord without Momonga being a former Salaryman. Just have him be a lich from an epic ancient history who came back with his servants, and the story would go mostly in the same direction, the main lose would be the internal monologue jokes. Same with Re:Zero. As long as Subaru has depression, suicidal tendencies, self esteem issues and a unfounded belief that life will get better if he leave his home behind, he can come from a neighboring kingdom and still act mostly the same way. And I could go on with this.
This isn’t a problem, at all, I like many of those stories. Hell, from a sheer writting perspective I consider Re:Zero to have Log:Horizon beat. I just consider Log:Horizon to be better at the Isekai stuff.
L:H is different from the others because you can’t really remove the existence of other worlds and the fact the characters come from our world. The world slowly changing to become less of a VG and more of a real fantasy world require it to be a game or simulation from the start. The character motivations are specifically about how they feel about THIS game, and what it mean to them (from “I’m a game addict and I thought I was getting out of it but I got stuck in the one thing I saw as a prison so I want out” to “This game was how I escaped my self loathing so I thrive here but not really”). There’s also the AI gaining sapience in a way that HAS to come from game NPC, the use of the players’ unused characters as body by mysterious non corporeal entities, and so on…
Log:Horizon is the truest Isekai, because it’s the only one I can think of that need to be DIEGETICALLY about two worlds. The real world in L:H, even if not physically present, has a weight on the narrative that you cannot remove, unless you rebuild it from the ground up, but then you’d just have made “earth 2″ and it’s a waste of time to just get the same result.
The human penis is an organ of tremendous importance, yet so often is it misused, either as the subject of erotic fantasy, or as the symbol of a woman’s genitalia. So often has it been used as the symbol of a woman’s desire, or as the target of women’s lust, that some men, particularly those with a perverted idea of their own virility, have felt they could not achieve sexual fulfilment unless they, too, became phallic symbols!
Getting to the point I now have 4 differently-colored 6-inch vases to hold incense sticks in by the burners, they are
Black – Frankincense
White – Myrrh
Tan – Sandalwood
Pink – Rose
Have been appreciating the Aroma Depot incense sticks on Amazon – they dip charcoal sticks into scents themselves, and their sticks have more than three times the scent and burning time of others.
Lot of mixes pair frankincense with myrrh because that’s what people remember from the Bible, but I think myrrh and sandalwood compliment each other better
Getting to the point I now have 4 differently-colored 6-inch vases to hold incense sticks in by the burners, they are
Black – Frankincense
White – Myrrh
Tan – Sandalwood
Pink – Rose
Have been appreciating the Aroma Depot incense sticks on Amazon – they dip charcoal sticks into scents themselves, and their sticks have more than three times the scent and burning time of others.
Have a glass on my mantelpiece half-full of the kinda interesting-looking rocks you see bins of in the gift shops of science museums but I have no clue where you’d order exactly half a glass more from
I’d expect hippie crystal shops to sell this sort of thing. Should be no shortage of those in your neck of the woods.
Just like the Heritage Which Ultimately Resolves To White store (Irish, Scottish, Scandinavian, English…) the development of the Portland economy to the point retail locations are actually competed for has not been kind to those places.
Have a glass on my mantelpiece half-full of the kinda interesting-looking rocks you see bins of in the gift shops of science museums but I have no clue where you’d order exactly half a glass more from
Getting a better sense of how long I can spend smashing up Blueberry Hill and only be a little wiped after, think there’s 2 sessions left before I just pile on the last of the leaves and leave it to rot til summer at least
