ranking yuri and yuri-bait shows based on how much of the series you could fix by just telling the main character that being a lesbian is cool and normal at some point
utena - utena doesn't need to be told liking girls is normal she needs like 2 weeks of heteronormativity deprogramming. that being said this WOULD fix her
witch from mercury: this is literally the plot of the show. this happens and it fixes her
bocchi: this would not fix any of the cast but it would make their dynamics way, way more funny
demon girl next door: i agree with my gf she would find a way to not understand
symphogear: i've only seen season 1 but they don't need that they need guns
there is literally no other CCG that has the same energy of "at any moment, you could lose. do you take that chance? do you guard against it? at any goddamn second it could all be fucking over"
Netrunner is one of the least solvable and most complex to solve CCGs i've ever played and it will never leave my brain because of this. if you play it you probably won't care. but if you're luck, you also will be thinking about it for the rest of your life
it is fascinating to me that the most Culturally Iconic Characters and Moments from Arabian Nights that people know of weren't actually in the original text the guy was translating from
after he sent the first few off his publisher was like THE READERS LOVE THIS SHIT WE NEED MORE and he was running out of translatable book, and then some syrian guy he met was like "Don't worry, I gotchu. Here's a story bout this guy named Aladdin I heard once" and the translator just threw it in
imagine getting to do that. your friend is like SHIT I'M TRANSLATING THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH BUT I'VE RUN OUT OF EPIC and you're like dude. lemme tell you bout the time gilgamesh ran into, my good buddy, tim
the guy literally just made them up! there is literally no source for aladdin or ali baba that dates to before him! he showed up, told a french dude some stories, got kicked out of the french dude's social circles for fear he'd expose him, and went home and became a cloth salesman!
we only know he did it cause he wrote an autobiography! king shit. absolute king shit