Bento 2017-01-10
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Bento 2017-01-10
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Re: Bento 2017-01-17
Oh dear.
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Re: Bento 2017-01-10
Explosion coming in three, two...
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Re: Bento 2017-01-17
Open mouth, insert foot.
. . .
Does Timothy really know what he's doing, or is he really taking Pickle at her word?
"I will delve a yard beneath them, and blow them at the moon" -King John . . . Pickle is well and truly hoist with her own petard.
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Does Timothy really know what he's doing, or is he really taking Pickle at her word?
"I will delve a yard beneath them, and blow them at the moon" -King John . . . Pickle is well and truly hoist with her own petard.
--FreeFlier
Re: Bento 2017-01-17
Hoisted by her own petard, for sure! (You beat me to it, FreeFlier - shame on me for stopping to expound )
Is there a canonical list of ways in which a tsundere teen can be expected to react, when s/he paints himself/herself into a corner like this?
Is there a canonical list of ways in which a tsundere teen can be expected to react, when s/he paints himself/herself into a corner like this?
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Re: Bento 2017-01-17
Yeah, petard. Too slow.
Somebody tell me there is a non-H series about the fleet girls that these kids could have watched/read.
Somebody tell me there is a non-H series about the fleet girls that these kids could have watched/read.
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Re: Bento 2017-01-17
OK, good time or place to ask this. What's the deal with the "Battleship girls" thing?
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Well, you know how some people are prone to personify their cars, or their firearms? (Yes, some of them even hang out around here).jeffepp wrote:OK, good time or place to ask this. What's the deal with the "Battleship girls" thing?
Well, it's apparently also possible to personify warships... as cute girls. Do not ask me Why One Would Want To Do This.
Re: Bento 2017-01-17
Ships are always female.
Beyond that, if you have to ask you wouldn't understand.
However, consider nose are on combat aircraft.
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Beyond that, if you have to ask you wouldn't understand.
However, consider nose are on combat aircraft.
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Re: Bento 2017-01-17
Its gonna be mighty interesting to see how she reacts to this.
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Re: Bento 2017-01-17
Hey, AnotherFairportFan, I didn't know you were a time traveller...
Either that, or you might want to revise the date on this thread...
Either that, or you might want to revise the date on this thread...
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Arghlake_wrangler wrote:Hey, AnotherFairportFan, I didn't know you were a time traveller...
Either that, or you might want to revise the date on this thread...
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Re: Bento 2017-01-17
There's another anime that has cute girls who are also various rifles, i think.Dave wrote:Well, you know how some people are prone to personify their cars, or their firearms? (Yes, some of them even hang out around here).jeffepp wrote:OK, good time or place to ask this. What's the deal with the "Battleship girls" thing?
Well, it's apparently also possible to personify warships... as cute girls. Do not ask me Why One Would Want To Do This.
And another in which the characters are Scandinavian countries.
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Re: Bento 2017-01-10
Scarlett might want to carefully consider just how much she wants to portray herself as "fast".
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Re: Bento 2017-01-10
Looking at that first frame again, I think maybe Castela is beginning to realize how she's been treating Timothy . . .
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Re: Bento 2017-01-17
Dave wrote: Well, you know how some people are prone to personify their cars, or their firearms? (Yes, some of them even hang out around here).
I saw that......
More the point, anthromorphism of weapons is as old as Man itself. Not seeing the battleships thing personally (though gotta say I consider much anime a bit creepy) but it's entirely understandable.
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Re: Bento 2017-01-10
As for Atsali.... looks like it will be Bento again....
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I expected you would.Just Old Al wrote:I saw that......Dave wrote: Well, you know how some people are prone to personify their cars, or their firearms? (Yes, some of them even hang out around here).
Oh, definitely. The human race has a long-standing tradition of personifying all sorts of inanimate objects (living and unliving), and ascribing thoughts, personalities, and motivations to them. Weapons, specifically, often were ascribed such characters (often martial, sometimes evil or chaotic) - not surprising considering how important a role they played in survival, and how strongly they'd often be "tied" to their owner or creator.More the point, anthromorphism of weapons is as old as Man itself. Not seeing the battleships thing personally (though gotta say I consider much anime a bit creepy) but it's entirely understandable.
Apparently, the whole idea of personification-of-the-nonhuman was rather getting out of hand in 18th-century poetry, which was full of such imagery as part of the poets' way of tugging on the heart-strings of the reader. Flowers and trees were common subjects for this sort of treatment; leaves whispered, trees wept... that sort of thing. They were being used in a style of persuasion known classically as "pathos" (eliciting emotions from within the readers' experience).
In later years, excessive use of this was criticized as the "pathetic fallacy". I suppose it's like a lot of spices and flavorings - appealing in small doses, but it becomes unpleasant when you ladle it on in huge quantities.
And, in the modern era, there's the tendency of some women to personify their sex toys. I'm sure you can figure out the technical term for that.
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Re: Bento 2017-01-17
Alex Trebek: "As Kryptonite is to Superman, (blank) are to the plans of Castela Gilchrist."
Contestant: "That would be, 'What are big boobs?', Alex."
So far every largely endowed female they've come across has cut in on Pickle's time with Timothy. And now Scarlet's doing it best of all. She's figured out you don't get cats with affection; rather, you offer them food...
(Imagines Evangelion with the WS crew. Decides the Angels don't know how good they had it.)
Contestant: "That would be, 'What are big boobs?', Alex."
So far every largely endowed female they've come across has cut in on Pickle's time with Timothy. And now Scarlet's doing it best of all. She's figured out you don't get cats with affection; rather, you offer them food...
Well, Asuka Langley Soryu, Princess of tsundere, would call Shinji a baka and either storm off or insist it doesn't matter to her in the slightest. I'm not sure either tactic would work in this case.Dave wrote:Hoisted by her own petard, for sure! (You beat me to it, FreeFlier - shame on me for stopping to expound )
Is there a canonical list of ways in which a tsundere teen can be expected to react, when s/he paints himself/herself into a corner like this?
(Imagines Evangelion with the WS crew. Decides the Angels don't know how good they had it.)
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Re: Bento 2017-01-17
I call it Vera.Just Old Al wrote:Dave wrote: Well, you know how some people are prone to personify their cars, or their firearms? (Yes, some of them even hang out around here).
I saw that......
More the point, anthromorphism of weapons is as old as Man itself. Not seeing the battleships thing personally (though gotta say I consider much anime a bit creepy) but it's entirely understandable.
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