Found this random light novel inspired magical novel at the bookshop. Has illustrations and everything.
Think it's originally Korean? It has a translator listed too
How "women never want the awkward, nerdy, unattractive men" males look at you when you ask them if they've ever paid any attention to the awkward, nerdy, unattractive women:
This is the same impossible beauty standard women deal with in real life. Wear makeup and people say you’re fake, must be ugly without it, or “you look better natural.” Show natural features and suddenly you’re “masculine,” “ugly” or “designed badly.”
When people say they want “naturally beautiful” female characters, they usually still mean designed, symmetrical, flattering, youthful and camera-ready. That is not “natural.” That is idealized beauty with the labor made invisible.
After I read that it's an independent production I RAN to grab my card.
An independent production means that the majority of this money will go DIRECTLY to Shirahama sensei.
Did you know that mangaka only get 10% on domestic sales & 3% on international sales? #WitchHatAtelier
This crash video from richie_engineer on Instagram shows why e-vehicles + two-way bike lanes are such a menace. Richie ended up with a cracked clavicle, the unidentified e-biker sped off telling him to "go cry about it" and he had to hire PI to track him down to sue him.
Whenever women talk about men harming women, men swarm to lecture us that men are overwhelmingly noble, Protectors & only a few outliers harm women. When women give specific examples, we watch men line up, usually the same Not All Men guys, to identify with & protect bad men.
This is so fascinating bc she did nothing to get any reaction from them but her very EXISTENCE is a provocation because women are expected to be objects for the viewing pleasure of men above all else. If you fail at that, you have failed at womanhood so hard it becomes COMICAL