>>21999
I've had good experiences with UPS, not so much with FedEx.

Prime shipping is super fast.

Generally speaking, I like shipping-friendly stories, because they imply that multiple outcomes are possible and that characters aren't necessarily walking in a straight line with all plot elements bound to unravel in one way and one way only.

I have heard before that shipping is about imagining the character you self-insert as dating the character you have a crush on, and I guess this could be true, but I don't see it as disqualifying the whole idea

>>22075
i dont like people who ship my waifu
i think shipping some character who have fun dymanics between them is fine thought

Katawa Shoujo: Lilly
Oreimo VN: Ayase
Oregairu VN: Shizuka


Do VNs with strong but not overarching romantic aspects like Fate Stay/Night count as dating sims? Probably not, but I felt like asking

>>22069
>cheap VNs made to advertise LNs
Can you enlighten me on literally why?

>>22070
Why not? Cheap isn't always bad

>>22070
The VNs are meant to develop mutually exclusive plot lines that are either ignored or explicitly denied in the base material

>>21795
rei

>>21795
Marisa is a damned drunk!
She stole this whole can of Asahi from our fridge and she plans on drinking it all?!

>>21820
Yare yare Marisa-chan...
It can't be helped
(－‸ლ)

like i remember going to pixiv and just browsing it for like an hour and came a across a picture of her with 18 plus no it was not porn most of it was just fan art of the manga where she is from however there was porn most of it was in gay it was basically a album with some NSFW sprinkled i actually thought it was going and my heart got heavy or well skipped a beat i was having an internal debate with myself if i should check the album because i was having big intrusive thoughts that it going tons of rape porn of her i am glad i was wrong i am not sure why i even checked it was because i was imagitive far worse thing in that album that was actually in so i need to reasure myself no matter what thankufful there was no porn image of her but yeah if this ever happens again i do hope it repeat but there is chance that it wont and that make scared i really dont like how pixiv NSFW censor remove all the gorey images and tags as NSFW 

Even after deleting my entire folder of her with the obscure images I found from various Japanese sites that contained fan art of her as well as pixiv and obscure sides of Twitter, I still feel somehow attached to her even after all this.

The other thing is, does anyone feel depressed after one of the fanarts of your waifu gets deleted forever and you didn't save the image? Despite being in a mixed place between me and her, it makes me sad. I'm sure people will always make fan art, but it still hurts. It may be just fan art, but it means a lot to me.

What >>22047 said.
Outside of that all I can say is you sound kinda depressed if even just getting out of bed is exhausting, or maybe you are simply lacking some exercise and/or a good diet, regardless if I was you I wouldn't force myself, at most try to commit at least 20 mins per day to playing the VN, other reason why playing the VN might feel exhausting would be due to your love for her, emotions can exhaust us and since you seem to be still in the honeymoon period then the emotions can be quite strong while playing.

In the end remember to reach your own conclusion, I'm just throwing potential answers or things to ponder about.

This seems more like a /so/ issue than a strictly waifu related one. Some part of this resonates with me
> because I want it to be joyful every time I see her. I'm convinced that my love is genuine and I'm happy to see her every time, yet whenever I see my earliest save, it saddens me to see it's already half a year and that I've not managed to finally finish it
That you want the moments you spend with your favorite character to be joyful ones and so you only try to engage in the content when you think you're in the right mood to appreciate it. Which ends up meaning you never quite finish it, as given that we are on TC such joyful moments probably are not found in abundance.

As others mentioned that root feeling of "why don't I feel in the right mood" is really difficult to answer, some would say it's the core issue of the human condition itself. Definitely do not force it, you might feel even worse and start overthinking "am I supposed to be enjoying this" or even questioning your prior love. The VN and her character are not going anywhere, they will be patiently waiting for you until you feel ready to engage it. So the question becomes what steps are you taking to try to make such opportunities more available. It might be as simple as getting more sleep, taking walks, and eating healthier. It might be as complex as needing to gain emotional awareness of yourself and "sort out your internal issues". If you get to a point where you're comfortable engaging in other content but still hesitate to re-engage with the VN, then it might be a simple one of expectations and mindset; you've been away from the content so long that you worry the rest of it might not live up to your expectations.

Hopefully something helps, I guess the important part would be to make some change, since if it hasn't gotten better in a year then I don't think being stuck in the same cycle would help. Even doing nothing (in the sense of just sitting there until you get comfortable with idleness) is probably better than being stuck in the same cycle.

>>22052
this is the best answer
>>22046
I am not sure, but maybe you are deeply afraid of seeing something terrible in the VN happening to her and ruining it for you.After all, you didn't finish it, and you don't know how it ends.

Also, what kind of VN is it? You don't need to mention her name or VN itself, but what genre is VN? urban fantasy/sci-fi/fantasy

>>22052
>you've been away from the content so long that you worry the rest of it might not live up to your expectations.
While first reading this (I read the thread over and over again, but didn't bother replying yet), I completely overread this sentence, but it might be true and the more I think about it the truer it seems. I have spoiled the endings for me already, so I know roughly what happens, but just as it were the little things that made me like her, it might be the little things, that could cause me to dislike her. I think you might have a point there. Of course this is not the entire problem, only part of it, as I have difficulties with other media too, however it's still different with those.

>>22058
She is from an urban fantasy VN.

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>>22043
>It's the whole reason why people who think "nofap" will cure their mind just end up spinning in circles (relapsing). They don't actually address the root cause. If you feel shame, guilt, and regret after an action, you have to properly dwell on that and "feel it out." Reflect and really internalize what drives you to do the action, understand why it's incompatible with the values you want to uphold on an emotional level.
Seems like someone really gets it, I had to do this for all pornography in general, thankfully it's been around 2 years since then and I've stayed celibate for my wife easily (I'll do so for my whole life, it's only fair), as you said one can (and should) reach a point where even just thinking about it for a second makes you feel utter disgust, once you reach that the rest of the road is easy.
>[And of course if it wasn't clear, above is in fact my personal experience trying to get away from ryona content, and I don't really know if I can emerge out the other end.]
Oh, kek, this explains why you get it so much, this is the kind of thing you have to experience personally to really understand, no amount of hearing about it or being told will make up for the experience.

>>22050
>this is the kind of thing you have to experience personally to really understand
There is a trope in many "enlightenment" stories that ego-death happens automatically once there is some cataclysmic event that shatters the internal narrative of identity and thought (some sort of "dark night of the soul").

While this is obviously not really the same thing, I think this is similar in that only once you gain the awareness of how deep you've fallen does one properly take the time to reflect and reshape that world view. It's why most people laugh at the concept of nofap: (Although it certainly doesn't help that advocates conflate the concept of porn, masturbation, and semen retention) it either takes great self-awareness to realize what state of mind you have when you engage in content (e.g. when you masturbate to porn, is it with a lustful gaze or with a loving one? Are you perversely sexualizing that which you should cherish?), or the awareness will hit you like a brick wall when you reach a point at which the disparity between your ideals and actions is undeniable.

>>22051
The awareness really hits many like a brick, sadly the nofap community is deeply flawed (as you seem to understand, due to the combining of ideas and even pseudo-science) so the idea of nofap itself gets sullied by their behavior, while this might not be all that proper in the thread I hope more people eventually look inward when it comes to porn, how they engage it, what they consume etc, maybe its just personal experience but I’ve seen enough people quietly struggling with it both in and out of waifuism, its quite the conundrum.

>will want to see me live to experience more of me everyday and fill my heart with incomparable joy so I never go away.
Isn't that part of the appeal of the yandere archetype? Someone who's so faithful to you that you can physically feel without a shadow of a doubt they'd never leave you. I suppose as you mentioned someone who is "rescued" would fit a similar niche, that they're so thankful and clingy for validation that they wouldn't even imagine being with anyone else.

I can definitely see the appeal if you yourself have something akin to abandonment anxiety. While they might be a character you can empathize with though, I don't think a character would these issues would make a good partner for someone who also has similar issues. I'm finding it hard to articulate precisely why, but I suppose the emotional dynamics wouldn't work: a person with such anxiety wouldn't be able to properly provide rich affection, but they require plenty of it.

Striking up a conversation would probably be pretty awkward, I'd find something to break the ice and keep things going. I'd probably have to carry most of the conversation myself. Far as I know she might actually find it interesting to talk to a foreigner, so I might be able to use that to help things along until hopefully the ball gets rolling and things go more smoothly.

Ideally, I think I'd be very forward about it. I could probably talk about gathering faith. It's something I can relate to in some way.
Realistically I wouldn't be able to muster words. No comprehensible ones anyhow.

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Try to talk about our mutual interests. Music and bands I guess. Not spilling spaghetti would be hard.

Perhaps, what I would do, would be something along the lines of saying "Hey, I've been really enjoying being around you lately. Would you like to come to my place and hang out with me, maybe?" I think it also depends whether we were to meet each other in this world or in her world, but it would be probably a similar procedure. I think being as straight up as possible, is something she would appreciate and probably something that works better in the long run.

I had this rather funny thought, that if we were to meet in this world and she would come around to visit me, she would see a room full of figs, pillows and other items with her on it.

is she a slut for headpats?

It was literally in the middle of me browsing a random 4chan board. It just hurts. I just feel like it was my fault. I just hope that image gets wiped from the archives, and I am happy no one found it and uploaded it to Rule 34. It just hurts knowing I made that image because of my stupidity.Knowing there is an image of her being raped makes me mad and makes it hard to look at her because it reminds me of that mistake.

I think it helps to remind yourself it's just doodles, fan art, scribbles made by random people. It's not Canon, it's not really her or something she did. Even with well done art it wouldn't be any different than a good photoshop. I know it's easy to say that and hard to get that mental image out, but I think it can help.

>>21914
She indeed is anon, I'm happy for both of you, how are you both doing ?

>>21915
it's not her costume' it's her real self. her costume is what she wears every other day
>>21917
things have been better. we are currently engaged in psychic battle with entities. but they made the mistake of under-estimating our power level which gave us a considerable advantage up until now

>>21915
>>21918
Ridiculous!

>>21967
Baka

"As Good as it Gets" was OK. Just OK. What makes the movie recommendable is the protagonist; he's a really hateful, blunt, socially retarded man with very severe OCD who never leaves his house except to eat. He meets a succubus who helps him overcome some of his OCD related challenges.
Should be pretty relatable to any wizard.

Not a movie, but "Rose of Versailles" is flawless and deals with some really tear-jerking romance in the third part. I take every opportunity I can to recommend it.

Edit: Just remembered there are several live-action movie adaptations of "Rose of Versailles". Avoid those, I had the original anime series in mind: http://myanimelist.net/anime/338/Rose_of_Versailles

Post edited on 25th Jul 2016, 2:11pm