JulieK
Unintentionally funny
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- Israel
Tipserators.
Several instances where a character dwells at length on how overwhelmingly attractive a female character is.
Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
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- naruto rationalist romance armageddon is looking better and better damn you kishimoto explosions everywhere explosives solve everyone if in doubt surrender to the mercy of zabuza it seemed like a good idea at the time looks like a really bad case of being a jōnin my god. where does the lore end? precommitting is the winning plan screaming in kagome screw the rules i have explosives something bad might still happen sometimes you gotta sociopath stabby zabby subsection c of paragraph 9 should include we can weaponize this so hard
Tipserators.
Several instances where a character dwells at length on how overwhelmingly attractive a female character is.
Noumero
Omit Needless Words
[x] Plan PARTY HARD
I don't think Mist would look fondly upon one of their jounin exchanging encrypted messages with a foreign prince; similar is true for Hazou/Leaf. I think we should use plaintext with a verification scheme for most letters, and only resort to encryption if we absolutely must.
Nope, 204. Use Google Docs or this service to check wordcount; don't trust SV's counter.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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- United States
I have to say I've been mildly uncomfortable with this too. Not sure it's for the same reasons, but I do agree.
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- UK
- Pronouns
- He/Him
May be worth noting that the viewpoint character is a 14-year-old boy. If anything, I feel like we underplay those aspects of his psyche.
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- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
To be fair, a vast majority of teenage boys actually do that. Not necessarily out loud, but neither did the viewpoint character. We are just reading his thoughts.
Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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- She/They
I think its at a pretty reasonable level personally, but any more than that and I'd consider jumping on the @Cariyaga train.
(This is not a comment on the general romance aspects in the story though, I should say. Just the typical teenage hormonal aspects that sometimes intertwine themselves therein.)
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- Why would this be required?
I haven't really noticed it but that's probably mostly because it's been in the viewpoint of a teenage boy, and Mari who
A) seems pretty comfortable with her sexual thoughts being trained in seduction
B) was checking people out, one of which was a guy (Mr. Yummy and Tsunade)
A) seems pretty comfortable with her sexual thoughts being trained in seduction
B) was checking people out, one of which was a guy (Mr. Yummy and Tsunade)
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- Yes.
Should point out that the Tsunade situation was partially influenced by Tsunade mindfucking Mari:
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- NY
Any discomfort I've felt about the more sexual aspects has been about exactly that - teenagers who are what we would generally consider underage. That isn't to say I don't think that should be an aspect of settings, only to say that it's an aspect that should be handled tastefully, which I think our QMs have certainly done.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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- United States
Oh, I know. As a 14-year-old boy I was wholly uninterested in either sex. I realize I'm an outlier in this regard, but that's my lived-experiences.
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- Why would this be required?
Yes thank you Faflec, I forgot just how direct Tsunade's technique was.
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- Somewhere over the rainbow
See, I see the logic behind it, but if we're assuming that there are Mist censors somehow picking up every single piece of correspondence to their high-ranking people, it's a gigantic red flag if every letter beforehand has had no encryption and then suddenly after just one encrypted letter one of their jonin begins acting in a way out of baseline.
(admittedly it's Ami we're dealing with here, so...)
Better to be thought to be paranoid and encrypt every letter than to send such an obvious signal, IMO.
TaliesinSkye
Occasional Editor
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- Northeast Ohio, United States
If people are upset by the treatment of women recently I think the strongest candidates are the chapters where Ami did her best to short-circuit Hazou's brain with sexuality to keep him off balance.
Can a woman choosing to use their sexuality as a weapon when they don't have to be objectionable, though? It doesn't seem like objectification, which generally consists of treating women as sex objects without their own agency. Someone might object because it's sexuality in a story when they don't want to read sexuality in a story, but that's a matter of personal taste rather than something inherently objectionable.
Can a woman choosing to use their sexuality as a weapon when they don't have to be objectionable, though? It doesn't seem like objectification, which generally consists of treating women as sex objects without their own agency. Someone might object because it's sexuality in a story when they don't want to read sexuality in a story, but that's a matter of personal taste rather than something inherently objectionable.
Raxner
The most dangerous man in an empty room
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- Israel
Explosives. Lots of explosives.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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- United States
Any ideas that both Mari and Keiko would approve of?
TaliesinSkye
Occasional Editor
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- Northeast Ohio, United States
"Now that everyone's seated, note the explosive tag under your chairs. I trust everyone will get along well tonight."
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- The Void
- Pronouns
- She/Her
since we are talking about things that bother us this line still really upsets me.
Also I'm not a fan of the homo erotic Rock Lee humor.
Also I'm not a fan of the homo erotic Rock Lee humor.
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Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
- Pronouns
- She/They
Keiko probably wouldn't mind the simplicity inherent in this solution.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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- United States
Yes, that's why I included Mari in this. Their preferences in this situation balance each other out to approximate my own.
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- Somewhere over the rainbow
Right now all we have in the plan is social specs de-escalate; since I have the words (and went over 200), I'm adding a section dealing with host behavior that might help with that.
Current plan:
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- Yes.
@huhYeahGoodPoint Any chance we could send the Oyabun a gift? Like a bottle of wine, some of those spiced chocolates he likes...
Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
- Pronouns
- She/They
IMPORTANT POWERFUL NINJA: You dare ask me to leave my status at the door?!?
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- Somewhere over the rainbow
See, thing is, I don't know if we've gotten a gift I'd be willing to give; if there's anything more crass than regifting, it's regifting someone the gift they gave to you.