Took me a bit to identify her without the hat, and then I saw the shirt.

r/otomegames has it so advertisements for other communities are all relegated to a Self-Promotion Sunday thread that nobody looks at.

I did reach out to the mods to ask if they'd be willing to do anything for this, they're not interested on moderating off of Reddit or putting this in the sidebar, so very slow organic growth it is...

I do exist on otome Discords and I talk there way more than I self-promote, but I have promoted this there and I don't think anyone has bitten yet. ;-;

I actually don't remember what taught me about Lemmy and Kbin's existence. I know it was over the API exodus, but not sure if it was a news article or a Reddit thread. It definitely wasn't someone DMing me to join, I would have taken that as spammy and annoyingly promotional and rejected it instantly. Bringing this up because if we want to grow the Fediverse it's probably worth thinking about what got us to move, and what let us even know it was an option.

Not sure where else to put this, but I appreciate ani.social for new anime/manga discovery. Sometimes I toggle on Local and look around, and I often find an anime or manga title that sounds interesting, I click it, I look it up online and maybe read some discussion here about it if applicable, and add it to my ever-growing list of stuff to read or watch.

It is also funny because I see people writing that they didn't like an anime or manga for X reason, and X reason is exactly what draws me to it. I find both positive and negative reviews pretty useful as long as you say why you (dis)liked it. You tell people what kind of content is there (often tells more than just the promo content for the anime/manga/book/film/game/whatever it is), and they can judge for themselves. I always toss over an upvote to these because they are useful on telling me if I'd like the content or not, even if the opinion they have on the work ends up being opposite to mine.

Pleased that !otomegames@ani.social gained what looks like another active participant :)

Lots of downvotes on a recent post on !otomegames@ani.social that regular commenters engaged with happily, so I'm wondering if it's just people seeing it on local and disliking it as typical mainstream social media fodder, or if it's subscribers who don't comment not liking it, or both. Remember all those "which pill would you take" and then there's a couple different-color pills giving you different superpowers? It was something like that, but on-topic for otome games. Kind of bewildered by that.

Have looked at other Fedi instances including Mbin for backups, didn't find one that was just centered on games. Guess it'll probably be lemmy.zip.

Just learned about this series thanks to this post. Looked it up and slapped on my to-read list, let's see if I ever get to it.

Oh wow, this was good. Glad it came across my feed. Cute illustrations too.

Hey I remember you!

Yet another reminder to me to check back up on this series. Have been looking for fresh villainess content to consume.

Short sleeves! Feels weird to see Yukari in a short sleeve variant of that dress

Good to know, thank you!

You know, now that I'm talking about this, I notice you use "Author" instead of "Artist". Do you plan on putting other stuff here too like Touhou fanfic or fangames?

Are you sure she had a hand in drawing herself? ;)

You should probably tell !touhou@lemmy.world and !touhou@ani.social.

Thank you for telling me about Artificial Dream, I'll have to check it out!

Gensokyo no Nazo was fun, forget if I finished though. Started and didn't finish Satori Komeiji's Mental Education, it was cute. Bunny Love Expert was a cute and short puzzle game. Forgot how far I got on Koumajou Densetsu II: Yougen no Chingonka but it was gorgeous. I do not know if these are still here but there were a couple bullet hells I found when searching "Touhou" on the iOS App Store and I enjoyed them, and I found one freemium idler on the iOS App Store that I had a lot of fun with cheating for the premium currency and rolling the gacha with it. Might have played Touhou Luna Nights, if so it was also fun.

Your engagement with the Touhou fandom sounds pretty similar to mine, right down to trying to learn the songs. What fan games have you tried?

Also you got me to look up Rensenware. At first I thought it was maybe a typo, but the "rensen" bit sounded familiar, once I found out what it was it made sense:

Rensenware (Korean: 련선웨어; stylized as rensenWare) is ransomware that infects Windows computers. It was created as a joke by Kangjun Heo (허강준; alias "0x00000FF") and first appeared in 2017. Rensenware is unusual as an example of ransomware in that it does not request the user pay the creator of the virus to decrypt their files, instead requiring the user to achieve a required number of points in the bullet hell game Touhou Seirensen ~ Undefined Fantastic Object before any decryption can take place.

(source: Wikipedia)

I ended up delving into yukkuri as my weird end. I'm the type who can't watch Fight Club without being told when the violence occurs so I can look away, so it's very weird that I was a-okay with yukkuri (as in consuming the content personally, it existing is fine regardless of if I can personally handle it haha).

Thanks for your elaboration! As you can probably guess I never looked at the equivalent Reddit communities, so I didn't make my assumption off that, just off what I saw when I was first exploring https://ani.social—largely posts of anime women. Although I was aware "moe" can encompass things that don't titillate as well as those that do, the presence of certain communities made me assume that the posts leaned more that way. I'm definitely not saying my assumptions are correct, as you have proven, but since you mod I thought you might want to know where my faulty assumptions came from.

I appreciate that you allow posts of other genders too! I am thinking back to when I posted a male tsundere on r/tsunderes forever ago and it died in New 😅

I am more the type to want to discuss specific anime fandoms I like than just general-purpose anime pictures, but I recognize the promotion of other communities and appreciate the work you are putting in to keep communities afloat/in the public eye :) Thank you for replying! I appreciate the effort.

Originally ignored all the Moe communities as a woman not romantically/sexually interested in my own gender. Saw this on Local, maybe I should check this community for outfit inspiration, that skirt caught my attention and I want it

I found it because another fandom I was in used its characters to do an animation of Kero ⑨ Destiny, and so of course the original Kero ⑨ Destiny animation was recommended. I found a lot of other Touhou animations through that, got curious what all these characters were from, and found it. Took me awhile to actually play the games instead of just being in the fandom and knowing the fandom personalities and the like.

This is terrible for artist exposure but great for keeping my hands free of Facebook: I usually click and enlarge the image on Lemmy without ever touching the source link. But I do appreciate you attributing the source when the picture is not something you shot, I always thought that was appropriate netiquette. I link the source myself if I'm posting something I did not make. If it's on some undesirable place like Facebook I add in a little "link goes to Facebook" warning if it isn't just a plain URL where you can literally read the link is on Facebook.

Even if you don't have an account, you may interact with or use Meta Products… We also receive information using cookies and similar technologies, like the Meta Pixel or Social Plugins, when you visit other websites and apps that use our Business Tools or other Meta Products.

—https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy?annotations[0]=1.ex.41-InformationWeCollectIf

So even though I don't have an account myself, so many non-Facebook sites use their business tools, have that tracking Meta Pixel embedded that they have my data anyways. I am aware you might say "then why worry about going to their site, they have stuff on you anyways," I don't want to give them more and it is the principle of the thing. I'm not helping them by being another of your 300 friends on Facebook so you feel a tiny bit of additional pressure to give in and get one to stay in touch with people. This is probably why people don't want to be infected with Facebook cooties.

One way I look at it, and that you might want to advise these people to look at it, is that they benefit from our data without paying us a cent. We benefit back by having you use their hosting to store the cute owl image so we can see it for free on Lemmy without having to go to their website. I remember storms being made about hotlinking awhile ago on the internet. Wikipedia says it's also sometimes known as "bandwidth theft" or "leeching". I am not an "eye for an eye" type but Facebook is a huge corporation, not a human being with feelings or human rights. Facebook leeches my data, I encourage people to leech their bandwidth :)

A lot of communities I participate in are thankfully drama-free but it is hard for me to forget there are mods because the person providing a lot of the content usually has a little M for Moderator next to their name ;-; I'm glad yours has enough participants that I assume that does not happen

I have noticed that the otome creators who are on the Fediverse are on Mastodon. I'm not going to give up on !otomegames@ani.social, I prefer threaded discussion to microblogging, especially because threaded discussion allows more characters per post. But I figure if I want to help grow otome on Fedi and show there are interested gamers here, maybe attract some otome players to post here instead of r/otomegames, maybe I should go where there are people. (And try to get them to post on !otomegames@ani.social!) I love r/otomegames, nice bunch of people, no hate, it is just… well… on Reddit. I came to Fedi to get off of Reddit. I applied on https://mstdn.games and am waiting for approval.

Still very grateful for the one person who is not me who makes posts on !otomegames@ani.social, they have their own communities that are pretty cool too! Check out theirs at !renpy@discuss.tchncs.de