Formerly @Elevator7009@kbin.run, kbin.run died, moved here.

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Joined 1 month ago
Cake day: August 14th, 2024
  • Elevator7009@ani.socialtoFedigrow@lemm.ee•[Weekly thread] How are you doing with your communities?English
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    21 days ago

    It does not help that there were other women when I was initially on otomegames@kbin.social but they dropped off eventually and kbin.social is dead. Not sure where they went or if they’ll find this place.

    A silver lining to the otome community being small on the Fediverse is that it is okay to make duplicate communities. I specifically created this community instead of trying to reactivate the inactive !otome_games@lemmy.world because frankly the English errors in the sidebar were not a good look, and I wanted a community that could not fall prey to one of my greatest annoyances in online anime-adjacent fandom: the community being all fanart reposts, with little to no discussion or original fanart. !otome_games@lemmy.world allowed non-original fanart, !otomegames@ani.social does not. r/otomegames was more discussion and original fanart than just Pixiv reposts and I really liked that. I liked that a lot and wanted to bring some of that here. (And I also get to be less harsh on self-promoters. I understand not wanting the sub spammed with Discords or daily dev updates but I certainly do not want to chuck new communities in a weekly self-promo post nobody reads, or restrict new devs quite as heavily as r/otomegames does.)

  • Elevator7009@ani.socialtoFedigrow@lemm.ee•[Weekly thread] How are you doing with your communities?English
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    21 days ago

    Very glad !otomegames@ani.social has interaction from people that are not me. Hoping to possibly poach some r/otomegames users, though it’s not likely thanks to r/otomegames shoving all promotion of other communities into the Self-Promotion Sunday posts nobody looks at. And I still participate on r/otomegames in fear that one day they’ll say “too much self-promo of another community, not enough normal community engagement, you are just trying to advertise, off you go!” I did actually use that sub normally before I left Reddit for the Fediverse. Also advertised it in otome Discords I am in.

    I think I’m also getting more upvotes, if not engagement, thanks to the home instance being ani.social and otome games being a primarily Japanese genre with even the Western-released games usually following an anime artstyle.

    talks about real life gender dynamics, nothing accusatory or All GENDER Does BAD ACTION, but if you are absolutely sick of seeing stuff talking about real life demographic stuff online, you might not want to open it

    Frankly, the lack of engagement is… predictable. I’m pretty sure the instance is not all dudes who are interested in women, but judging by the Moe communities posting anime women being the most popular Local communities, and many of the anime-specific communities mainly posting pictures of female characters with comparatively little discussion, ani.social likely has a large male-interested-in-women population (yes, I acknowledge there could be other genders posting that, or people of any demographic who like the art but are not attracted to women). So I’m grateful for their non-destructive engagement with a community aimed at women interested in men.

    I’m glad such people exist, as a woman interested in men—I’d be very SOL if there were no men interested in women. No bad behavior has occurred so far on the community, and I doubt it will. But unlike real-life male-dominated environments where I feel normal (yes, I’m aware my privileged existence as what, at least online, seems to be one of the few women alive without a harassment or men-being-shitty-in-a-gendered-way story, is the reason I can have this perspective), it actually feels a little weird having one femgaze community on ani.social, where male-gazey communities (and communities that are ostensibly general purpose—for the anime they are named after—but in practice they’re often male-gazey too) dominate. I have no issue with male-gazey anime content existing, men deserve a place to release their sexuality in a healthy manner, same as everyone else. (I am also very much taking advantage of the Subscribed-only view so I can avoid the tons of Local content I am uninterested in, which goes a long way towards my tolerant attitude :P I might not be so friendly if I had to see it to use ani.social, the same way people are irritated with otherwise-harmless Linux fans because they want to use Local/All and it’s full of Linux posts that they personally are uninterested in.) It just feels weird to be on an instance full of it as a woman disinterested in male-gazey content who is also trying to start a femgazey community on the exact same instance.

  • Elevator7009@ani.socialtoTouhou Project@lemmy.world•[OC] GS127: ApologyEnglish
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    22 days ago

    For anyone confused like me, looking at this on the artist’s Pixiv shows that the Star Sapphire-looking character is Kaguya’s VTuber rig thingy. Kaguya’s the one who said insulting things on stream, it is not her being angry at people forgiving Star Sapphire for that.

    EDIT: Failed to realize this was posted 16 days ago, leaving this here for anyone coming across it browsing.

  • Elevator7009@ani.socialtoTouhou Project@lemmy.world•Super Aki Sis 2
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    27 days ago

    Source posted August 20, 2024.

    There is just something very heartening to me about people still drawing characters who are stage 1 bosses who do not recur in big plotlines and, as far as I know (I have not touched much of the Touhou fandom in years, I’ll be honest, I did play LoLK but most of my knowledge is UFO and prior), do not have big fandom personalities or memes. Side character lovers unite.

  • Elevator7009@ani.socialtoManga@ani.social•Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [Week 34]English
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    29 days ago

    I just checked the community a little more and that was kind of a dumb question of me because you have posted there before 😅 thanks for the answer, it is on my MyAnimeList now as Plan to Read! Curious if it is more a comedy or if it turns out dark as the summary suggests.

    Wondering if I should make a new otome isekai community here, it might get more engagement as they are indeed anime and manga. Although some are manwha which might not be allowed as that is Korean and not Japanese and this instance’s sidebar says

    For all things anime and other related Japanese media such as manga, games, vtubers, and light novels.

    However, given some of them are manga and anime, it should be okay to let manwha in as it follows the genre. I’d feel really bad and frankly annoyed excluding manwha that fits the genre.

  • Elevator7009@ani.socialtoNew Communities@lemmy.world•Weekly active communities promotion threadEnglish
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    29 days ago

    Thanks for the “mostly fanart posts” disclaimer. Back on Reddit and now on Lemmy, a big issue I have with anime communities is it is often just Pixiv/Twitter/Danbooru art reposts. It is kind of annoying because I want to talk about the anime, not see art reposts. Yes, I understand Lemmy is a link aggregator and so that is a valid use of Lemmy, and my frustration is likely an uncommon opinion given this is how most anime communities are and there seems to be lots of upvoting and little pushback. Guess that’s what !episode_discussion@ani.social is for, but you would still think you would find more discussion about AnimeName on the community named AnimeName. All goes to say, thank you for that disclaimer!