Rabbit Roundtable: Biased Motherfuckers (Part I – Game Edition)

Gaming in hard sex mode.

prettyprophet: We figured since we've done enough of these 'reviews', 'roundtables', and whatever, it's about time for us to tell everyone our basic biases and preferred genres through lists, because, you know, lists REALLY tell you everything you need to know about a person, right? This first one only applies to GAMES though; it's the only thing all of the Thousand Rabbits are actually interested in together. Yeah, I know, movies, comics, books...but those tend to get pretty specific. Anyways, now you can pick whoever to read and ignore all those other cunts.

Something you should remember though:

Lavie Rhap usually does 'purchase guides'. Basically she's just talking about whether or not it's a good buy.

prettyprophet, aka me, usually does 'roundtables'. I either sit down with a couple of the others and we talk about whatever.....or I just get random thoughts from everyone and stitch a post together from that. Kinda like this one.

funny_bunny usually does...something. Sometimes he'll do straight-up reviews, sometimes he'll do nonsensical writings. We have no fucking clue.

...While nde, Pat, Ed and Ink don't write anything.

Anyways, here:

prettyprophet
Will play: Anything
Will enjoy: No clue
Has: Atari, NES, GB, SNES, Genesis, Game Gear, PS1, N64, SS, GBA, DC, PS2, Xbox, DS, PSP, Wii, PS3, PC
Preferred system: DC
Preferred genre: None
Hated genre: None
Platformer: Sonic series (Sonic the Hedgehog 2)
Adventure: Phoenix Wright series (Ace Attorney)
Action-Adventure: Shadow of the Colossus
Fighter: Guilty Gear series (XX: The Midnight Carnival)
Shooter: Panzer Dragoon series (Saga)
Light-gun: House of the Dead series (House of the Dead II)
FPS: Almost anything by Valve (Half-Life 2)
RTS: Starcraft series
TBS: Total War series (Medieval II)
RPG: Baldur's Gate series (Baldur's Gate II)
JRPG: Megaten - Main line (Nocturne)
SRPG: Ogre series (Let Us Cling Together)
Scary: Hellnight aka Dark Messiah
MMO: None (default Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine)
Sim: Harvest Moon series (Whatever's recent, Tree of Tranquility)
Puzzle: Bomberman series (64: The Second Attack)
Rhythm: Audiosurf
Racing: Burnout series (Whatever's recent)
Sports: Whatever new and decent soccer game comes out
Visual Novel: Crescendo
Co-op: House of the Dead II
Co-hate: Super Smash (Brawl)
Music: Shoji Meguro (Megaten)
Art: Hyung-tae Kim (War of Genesis, Magna Carta)
Story: Megaten (Nocturne)
Most beloved: Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Starcraft, Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne



prettyprophet: Sonic 2 was the first co-op game I played, Starcraft is the lifeline of any Asian who plays games, and Megaten, FUCK YES.

nde
Will play: Anything
Will enjoy: Indeterminable
Has: Anything Prophet has (owns most of them)
Preferred system: PS2
Preferred genre: None
Hated genre: None
Platformer: Sonic series (Sonic the Hedgehog 2)
Adventure: The Longest Journey
Action-Adventure: ICO
Fighter: Guilty Gear series (XX: The Midnight Carnival)
Shooter: Panzer Dragoon series (Saga)
Light-gun: House of the Dead series (House of the Dead II)
FPS: Breakdown
RTS: Starcraft series
TBS: Romance of the Three Kingdoms series (ROTK XI)
RPG: Baldur's Gate series (Baldur's Gate II)
JRPG: Megaten - Main line (Nocturne)
SRPG: Ogre series (Knights of Lodis)
Scary: Hellnight aka Dark Messiah
MMO: None
Sim: Harvest Moon series (A Wonderful Life)
Puzzle: Tetris (GB)
Rhythm: DJ Max series (DJ Max Portable 2)
Racing: Burnout series (Whatever's recent)
Sports: None
Visual Novel: None
Co-op: House of the Dead II
Co-hate: Super Smash (Brawl)
Music: Ko Otani (Shadow of the Colossus)
Art: Kazuma Kaneko (Megaten)
Story: Megaten (Nocturne)
Most beloved: Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Starcraft, Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne



nde: My interests are similar to Prophet's.

Lavie Rhap
Will play: Anything
Will enjoy: Indeterminable
Has: Genesis, GBA, DC, DS, Wii, PC
Preferred system: PC
Preferred genre: Anything with historical background
Hated genre: None
Platformer: Mario series (Super Mario 3)
Adventure: The past glory of Lucasarts
Action-Adventure: Zelda series (Link's Awakening)
Fighter: The Last Blade series (The Last Blade 2)
Shooter: Karous
Light-gun: Time Crisis series (Time Crisis 2)
FPS: Halo series (Halo)
RTS: C&C (Red Alert 2)
TBS: Total War series (Rome)
RPG: Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
JRPG: Shadow Hearts series (Shadow Hearts: Covenant)
SRPG: Valkyria Chronicles
Scary: Hellnight aka Dark Messiah
MMO: None
Sim: Harvest Moon series (Friends of Mineral Town)
Puzzle: Brain Age
Rhythm: Guitar Hero series (first one)
Racing: None
Sports: Wii Sports
Visual Novel: None
Co-op: Trauma Center: New Blood
Co-hate: Super Smash (Brawl)
Music: Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono Cross, Xenogears)
Art: Range Murata (Spy Fiction, Power Instinct)
Story: Grim Fandango
Most beloved: Grim Fandango, Rome: Total War, Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town



Lavie Rhap: I actually don't play games all that much; I must admit that my tastes have been somewhat shaped by Prophet, Pat, and nde.

Kawaii Pattycakes
Will play: Anything that's Asian
Will enjoy: Anything that's Asian
Has: NES, GB, SNES, GBC, Genesis, PS1, N64, SS, GBA, DC, PS2, GC, DS, PSP, Wii, PS3, PC
Preferred system: Asian ones
Preferred genre: JRPG
Hated genre: RPG
Platformer: Castlevania series (Symphony of the Night)
Adventure: Trace Memory
Action-Adventure: Ys series (Eternal)
Fighter: Super Smash (BRAWL)
Shooter: Rez
Light-gun: Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles
FPS: Dark Messiah aka Hellnight
RTS: GrimGrimoire
TBS: THAT'S THE SAME AS TACTICS...so I'll say Front Mission!
RPG: NOTHING...Sudeki!
JRPG: Megaten - Persona line (Persona 4)
SRPG: Anything from Nippon Ichi (Disgaea)
Scary: Fatal Frame series (Crimson Butterfly)
MMO: None (default Silkroad)
Sim: Harvest Moon series - Rune Factory line (Rune Factory)
Puzzle: Professor Layton (Curious Village)
Rhythm: DDR (ALL)
Racing: Initial D: Street Stage
Sports: Any Prince of Tennis
Visual Novel: ANY WITH BEAUTIFUL BOYS
Co-op: Super Smash (Brawl)
Co-hate: Super Smash (Brawl)
Music: Hitoshi Sakimoto (FFXII, Valkyria Chronicles)
Art: Shigenori Soejima (Stella Deus, Trauma Center: New Blood, Persona 4)
Story: Megaten (Persona 4)
Most beloved: Ys: I&II Eternal, Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly



Kawaii Pattycakes: I dunno what to say! Games make everything happy!

edthefucker
Will play: Anything
Will enjoy: Nothing
Has: NES, GB, N64, DC, PS2, DS, 360, PS3, PC
Preferred system: PC
Preferred genre: FPS
Hated genre: Most RPGs and JRPGs
Platformer: Contra III
Adventure: None
Action-Adventure: X-Men Legends II
Fighter: Super Smash (N64)
Shooter: Cho Aniki
Light-gun: House of the Dead III (arcade only)
FPS: Quake III
RTS: Starcraft
TBS: Advance Wars (Dual Strike)
RPG: Diablo series (newest)
JRPG: Megaten (but not really)
SRPG: None
Scary: None (they aren't scary)
MMO: Silkroad
Sim: Cooking Mama
Puzzle: Big Brain Academy
Rhythm: DDR (ALL)
Racing: Cruis'n USA
Sports: Any NBA Street
Visual Novel: Name the most fucked up one you've seen
Co-op: Silk
Co-hate: Silk
Music: Silk
Art: Silk
Story: Silk
Most beloved: Silk



edthefucker: Silk, bitches.

Killer Ink
Will play: Stuff that has a distinct visual style
Will enjoy: Things that he can interpret
Has: PS2, PC
Preferred system: None
Preferred genre: ???
Hated genre: Sports
Platformer: Odin Sphere
Adventure: ICO
Action-Adventure: Okami
Fighter: None
Shooter: Ikaruga
Light-gun: None
FPS: killer7
RTS: None
TBS: None
RPG: None
JRPG: Megaten - Main line (Nocturne)
SRPG: None
Scary: The Lost Crown
MMO: None
Sim: Spore
Puzzle: None
Rhythm: Audiosurf
Racing: None
Sports: None
Visual Novel: None
Co-op: None
Co-hate: None
Music: Masafumi Takada (killer7, No More Heroes)
Art: Kazuma Kaneko (Megaten)
Story: ICO
Most beloved: ICO, No More Heroes, Okami



Killer Ink: As long as I want to look at it.

funny_bunny
Will play: Indeterminable
Will enjoy: Indeterminable
Has: Atari, NES, GB, Game Gear, N64, DC, PS2, Xbox, DS, PSP, Wii, PS3, PC
Preferred system: ALL
Preferred genre: ALL
Hated genre: ALL...especially VISUAL NOVELS
Platformer: Metal Slug series (ALL)
Adventure: Sam & Max (Hit the Road)
Action-Adventure: Disaster Report series (first one!)
Fighter: Capcom vs. SNK 2
Shooter: The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?
Light-gun: House of the Dead series (House of the Dead II)
FPS: Oblivion
RTS: Starcraft
TBS: TOTAL WAR
RPG: Planescape: Torment
JRPG: MEGATEN
SRPG: BRING BACK THE SHINING
Scary: Rule of Rose
MMO:Granado Espada
Sim: Persona 4
Puzzle: DJ Max Portable 2
Rhythm: Saints Row 2
Racing: Ridge Racer PSP
Sports: THE IDOLM@STER: Missing Moon
Visual Novel: NEVER
Co-op: Left 4 Dead
Co-hate: BRAWL
Music: Shoji Meguro (MEGATEN)
Art: YOU ASK TOO MUCH [prophet edit: hey, fuck you. Even Pat had to choose.]
Story: Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard
Most beloved: Shin Megami Tensei, Shin Megami Tensei II, Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne



funny_bunny: BE YOUR TRUE GAME.

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prettyprophet: And that's us. Course, these lists are prone to change at any given time, so.....yeah, have fun figuring that out.



Images from Be Your True Mind, Hyung-taekim.org, and Google. Sorry about the lack of Western artists; these were just easier to find.

Rabbit Rant: Sexuality and Scanlating P-FOREST's [Valkyria "Off" the Battlefield]

Sorry kids, get the hell out. Mom is FUCKING PISSED. Featuring Valkyria Chronicles spoilers!

Prophet here. If you're Valkyria Chronicles fan (and you ALL are, right?) you may have been looking around for Valkyria doujinshi. If you're a guy Valkyria fan, you may have been looking for Valkyria hentai doujinshi. Probably featuring Ms. Selvaria Bles. Yeah, we pre-empted that shit. Valkyria "Off" the Battlefield, by P-FOREST, Selvaria x Maximilian, presented by the Randy fucking Rabbit. Ok, to be honest, I just asked Pat to find me any Valkyria doujinshi of any kind and this was the first thing she got. I wish we got it out earlier but hey, we were busy.

So we released that. Big deal, we release all sorts of shit all the time; anyone want more "fluid"? Go back a few days. We released this doujinshi. In that post, Peking Duck, who is a "normal" person compared to the rest of us, was confused by my personal stance on pornography. We argued a bit for the sake of the post. What wasn't included was our argument after.

For the record, I am totally neutral towards it. "Moral decadence", "think of the children", blah blah blah.....face it, sex is like any other aspect of life. It's pretty important but don't dwell on it, alright? Lonely college student, bored husband, experimenting couples, maybe this can assist in getting your rocks off. People who collect and catalog by actresses/actors/year/genres? That's creepy; but I can't even fucking say that because I KNOW people who do that and......ok, SOME of them are fucked up (hey Nate, what's up?)

But back to Peking Duck. She says to me (in reference to DDT's Ouverture), "Prophet, why are we bothering with porn? Let's just go downtown." I explain that it wasn't for us, at least not in the sexual gratification sense (well, I'm not going to pry to lives of our Rabbit boys). I didn't really push for Ouverture since it was already being done when I found out; I encouraged it because I wanted our own scans to be used. But we found understanding in Ouverture since it had Dark Saber dominating the hell out of Shirou. "Ah, your feminist agenda." says Duck. "Fuck you." says I. Note: do not call me a feminist because I have no fucking clue what one is. I took a Fem-Lit class once, with nde, who is my brother. He passed with an A. I, a girl, nearly failed with a D. I am still confused about it. Anyways.

"My agenda," I say to Duck, "is to have stronger women." Now that's a very general statement; how are we going to make them stronger? I don't know, it depends on the situation. Duck asks, "How the hell have you been doing that?" The example I chose was Valkyria "Off" the Battlefield.

To begin with, I pushed for Valkyria because I wanted to be the first group to get a translated Valkyria doujinshi out. That was it. Everything else just happened to work in my favor. It was translated by ak (see his blog that has actual intellectual discussion). Script primarily edited by me, with minor changes here and there by nde. Oh, I should mention that this weirds Duck out so much. I guess that makes sense but it's not like we care, so whatever.

Now, let's compare what changed from ak's script and the final product:



The title is wordplay off the Japanese name for Valkyria: Valkyria of the Battlefield: Gallian Chronicles. Add a 'f' to 'of' and there you go. I'm not sure if this was thanks to ak or actual English know-how on part of circle P-FOREST. Here, Selvaria's subtlety (relatively) sexualized. She's got that sassy back-turn, her breasts have emphasis, hair and clothes caught in the wind, bit of revealed arms, and there's a sheen to her stockings. But the expression on her face, what is that? That's disdain. I know that face, I use it all the time. Course, this is a cover and usually doesn't mean jack.



In the game, Maximilian is a pansy-ass piece of bishie shit. Selvaria is a ruthless and obsessed with our good Prince. Note: the story and characters in Valkyria Chronicles are fun and serviceable. Best game of last year? To me it was. Best script of last year? Fuck no. That goes to Persona 4. Anyways, it really doesn't matter if Selvaria's a bitch to Maximilian because she's obviously the most devastating tool of war in the entire game. Why did the Imps lose the war? Because Maximilian had no idea how to use his people and could not discipline his men into not running away when a single scout captures their base. P-FOREST here presents Max as some sort of cocky motherfucker, who knows exactly what Selvaria wants. Selvaria, being a Japanese "creation", makes one assume, "Oh, it's going to take a while before she finally admits she wants his cock." Look at THIS face, compared to the cover. Is this a confident warrior maiden of the battlefield? No. The sfx next to her is "flinch". Great, another shame-filled sexfest. Nothing in the script was really changed for this page. Let's see the next.



Selvaria locks the fucking door and just says, "No one's around." Max knows what's going to go down; he's just sitting there, chillaxing, so I can only assume this is not the first time something like this happened. He's all being coy but Selvaria, she's already taking off her clothes. Her next lines, from "I beg you" to "I ask for your penis" are unchanged from ak's script. I didn't even have to change anything; she knew what SHE wanted too.



If you haven't figured out by now, the "sex sfx" doesn't actually matter to us; it could all be "ah" but whoever's typesetting just reaches into our sex sfx vault (yeah, it's real...seriously) and paces the sfx out. Here, Selvaria's just moaning and shit.......but look at her face. She is fucking happy. Hence the "happy sex" tag we used. I know, it's a stereotype that all hentai is endless loli rape, but I've seen ones that are technically happy sex yet the girl's either crying or has a face of over-the-top pleasure. Selvaria just looks like she's enjoying yourself. Good show, P-FOREST.



Ah crap, looks like I have to take some of that back. Max just did the whole "oh, you should be ashamed of yourself" thing. Will this be the end of my pro-sexual-Selvaria? No script changes either.



And the shame continues. "Sorry", "Not right", "etc" with Max still talking. Although Max had the dominant position from the beginning, he's clearly in control by this point since he's smiling and Selvaria's got that face of instant shock and pleasure. From what I've learned after working on all that porn, that can be the first penetration or the second phase where the fucking gets intensified. There was one change I want to point out here: ak has "Your Highness' hot thing is inside me"...I have "Your Grace's hot dick is inside me". Again, this goes with the shame deal. Fuck that, Selvaria's plenty capable of saying "dick". She already said "penis", she's not changing it to "thing" now.



Ok, rubbing against the desk, that's usual. Nothing was changed here. That's right, NOTHING WAS CHANGED......and Selvaria still cries out, "Do it inside." But does Max do it? Doesn't look like it. Do it inside? What the fuck? Does she WANT a bun in the oven?



Yeah, she fucking does. Max realizes this too. And since he is SO bent on this war of his, he's willing to give her his royal bloodline. Here's Max's lines from ak's original script:

"What’s this, Selvaria? You, a Valkyrian. You, my child, what you desire… If that’s the case then win me this war. For the Empire…for my sake! I’ll give it up to you, Selvaria. Ten times, a hundred times, my semen will be yours."

Here's mine:

"Selvaria, what's this? So that is what you desire? My Valkyrur... If that's the case...win me this war! For the Empire...for my sake! ...and I'll give it up to you, Selvaria...ten times, a thousand times...my seed will be yours!"

And Sevlaria's response: "Then please leave it to me...Prince Maximilian, Your Grace." The 'then' was added by me. And there, the end.

This last page pretty much shows my entire agenda. I didn't have to change much; P-FOREST already took care of a lot of it for me by using just the right images. Is Selvaria a shame-filled cunt in the last frame? Hell no, she's got a motherfucking devious look. Her expression is clear, she's smiling, AND there's that shady tone people often use to signify some sort of sneakiness. What the fuck does Max have? Just his dick and Selvaria's ideal image of him. He can't brush her off now. Think about it: Selvaria was born some sort of lowly experiment, saved by a Prince. She becomes a badass beauty on the battlefield, capable of leveling armies on her own. And now, she's going to be at future Emperor Maximilian's side and be the mother to the Imperial heir. That's my prediction on Valkyria Chronicles alternate history.

"Prophet," Peking Duck says, "Do you REALLY think that people are going to get that?" Sadly no. Most people aren't going to get it unless it's totally blatant like in Ouverture. And even then, all this is just used for masturbation material. Now, I will say that P-FOREST probably was aiming for that assertive Selvaria, so with their images and my adjustments to the script, I'm HOPING that more people got that impression of Selvaria than what we give them credit for. Speaking of credits, I may as well include it.



This is how I ended up vetoing for the "Selvaria x Maximilian" concept, not the other way around. Does this go against my own personal hatred against non-canon fan-fantasy pairings? Pat thinks it does, but I disagree. Selvaria and Max's relationship was always simple to me. The ONLY power Max has over her is love. And that's a fucking damning power. Whoever loves least, right? That's it. However, that takes only "love" into consideration. Love isn't just "love"; that's bullshit. There's always more "wants". Max probably doesn't "love" Selvaria; but he wants and needs her to do ANYTHING. Selvaria just needs "love"...but there is so much more she can take from him. Naturally, we'll never know what she can take. So this works as canon fan-fantasy. If it was something like "Selvaria orders her shocktroopers to gangrape Faldio until she finally gores his ass with her charged up lance" then I have no argument on that. But this is Selvaria and Maximilian, at the beginning of the Gallian campaign, subtlety playing with the idea of control.

At first I was also going to use this rant to get into faithfulness to scripts......but fuck that, I wrote way too much already. I'll save it for another time.

Author:
prettyprophet is a hot-tempered hellion who scans, proofreads, edits, and does public relations for the Rabbits but won't fund it at all out of stubborn principle. When not being harried by the scanlation scene, she gets involved with other scenes, harrying herself even further.

Enter the Thousand Rabbits

Yeah, thousand of us. All of us girls and oh-so-horny. Love you long time.

Ha! Fuck off. It's prettyprophet, your unfriendly neighborhood PR Rabbit and I'm here to give you all the business on the Villa. Villa Leporidae. "Hey bitch, isn't this funny's shot of semen? What's filthy wymmin doing up in this piece?" Well, cuntlips, I'm up in this piece because funny_bunny is a flighty lunatic who really isn't the preferred person to talk shop. We all go on tangents but funny? funny's different.

Alright, so I'm supposed to outline who the Thousand Rabbits are and what they do. I know, we briefly went over it at the Reich but that was random bits of dialog everywhere and that one relationship map we came up with for no particular reason. Probably to lessen confusion amongst ourselves. Whatever. There's no big secret behind the Thousand Rabbits. It's the name we use for any team/project/report/doujin circle/counterfeiter ring. "Then what the hell's the Reich? The Republic? The Villa? The Club?" Yeah...those are all funbuns' creations. Thousand Rabbits? Funny story.

Way back at the beginning of college, when the clubs were recruiting people, we were chillaxing with some friends from the anime club. For some reason or another, a bunch of us decided to get a table, prop it right beside the anime club, and steal potential recruits for our super awesome fake club. ed, being the wonderful asshole showman he is, was especially useful for this, convincing people to join through bribery and also convincing them to join no one else. Course, it didn't take long for other clubs to start wondering, "Who the fuck are these jackasses?" So someone from admin gets sent and starts talking to us. Who comes at that exact moment? funny_fucking_bunny. ed just grabs funny and he's like, "Tell 'em who we are. These guys? They don't know who we are." "Oh, you mean the crew here?" "Yeah, they don't know us." "It's a pretty long story." "It's alright, just talk."

funny then spends 15 minutes detailing all of our relationships with one another and EXACTLY what we did. To paraphrase:

"I'm funny_bunny and, with my friend nde, we write scripts. prettyprophet, who is nde's sister, she's also getting into it. Do you know that they're twins? Yeah, they don't look alike but the resemblance is there! edthefucker and Kawaii Pattycakes are consultants...mainly because ed doesn't work well in a structured environment and Pat is very hyperactive. Lavie Rhap is the editor and moral support...but I don't see her around right now."

"...and this little outfit of yours--"

"Oh, we're...nde, what did we call ourselves?"

"Had to do with rabbits. Thousand Rabbits, I think."

"Yes! Thousand Rabbits! Was it 'A' or 'The'? A Thousand Rabbits. The Thousand. I'm going with the Thousand. The Thousand Rabbits."

"Look, if you want this to be a club, you have to fill out--"

"Club? We're not a club."



And that's the end of that story. Needless to say, it set off the spark in funny's head to turn whatever the fuck the Thousand Rabbits originally were into something more...grandiose. He named practically everyone up there, with the exception of one member who started a year after we did. Here, have the roster:


Lavie Rhap: She's the stable, older sister-type that keeps everyone from killing each other. Very normal, very boring. If conflict is the essence of drama, Lavie brings on the Zs. Because of her good-nature, she gets the task of editing whatever. Probably one of the few people I know that I don't regularly get pissed off at...though I get pissed off anyways because she's so damn understanding. STOP BEING AN ADULT AND SINK TO OUR LEVEL.


Killer Ink: Ah, our youngest member...who's the most mature following Lavie. Maybe more, because this guy, this guy's dedicated. He's an artist hardcore and after selling his soul for like, a year or so, he inherited cash and refuses to commission anymore, even for friends. And THAT's why our doujinshi look like shit; Ink is not the artist, funny is. Still, Ink spends so much time with us that he may as well draw it...he just doesn't. Plus funny is totally incapable of following his advice so...too bad!

edthefucker: All groups of friends have assholes. Ours? We've got a lot. Narrowing ourselves down to the Thousand Rabbits leaves us with ed. I guess I can be bitchy too, but I'm going to arrogantly declare that I'm not. So ed the fucker. He's an elitist cunt and gets off on fucking people around and he knows it, loves it. That's just who he is. He used to be one of the most dangerous to be around for a multitude of reasons...then people like holstein and 7672359440 came. Those two ain't part of the Thousand, but ed? Yeah, still fucking crazy. What does he contribute? Antagonism. There's your drama.

Kawaii Pattycakes: You know how you have friends from the old days and you think about them and you question yourself, "How the fuck am I still friends with this person?" Well, that's my situation with Pat. Pat is a fucking Japanophile. I don't mean like myself, nde, funny, Bug Prince, Kibbles&Mint, HERZOG, Trojan...a lot of other people...who have tastes that INCLUDE Asian junk. Hey, half of us ARE Asian, so that kinda makes sense with us dealing with Asian culture, right? Pat's white and her interests are EXCLUSIVELY focused on all Asian material. And I seriously emphasize ALL. You got gwai los who tattoo shit like 'rising sun' on arms and they're like, "Yeah, I'm badass" but they don't have a clue about Imperial Japan's rampaging massacres through the 40s. People will say, "Boy, I'm glad Vietcong killed those Yanks" and not give a thought towards the Commies that were sure as shit more corrupt than any puppet-state. Pat here...if there's one thing I'll admire her for...is the fact that she goes beyond all these fake-Japanophiles and REALLY sink her teeth into Asia. I don't think it's love; I think it's insane fascination. Naturally, her LOVE for Asian pop culture overwhelms anything of worth, so we're stuck with listening to some crap tunes from some throwaway anime OP. If you haven't guessed, Pat is our liaison for the otaku geekdom. Pat, fuck you for making me explain your position.

nde: I hate this kid more than Pat! Heh, I remember when I started calling nde 'kid', mom would get pissed. "He's older than you!" "Uh, only by a few minutes." Anyways, nde, my brother. Love him lots. The only person I can stand to be around for more than a day. Yeah, I can't even take Lavie for longer than that. All that courtesy and responsibility? Yuck. This kid, despite being the most quiet and shy little thing, somehow became acquainted with the likes of ed, Ink, and funbuns. Hilariously, he's still quiet and shy. But he's a wonderful smith of words and, surprisingly, can match funny on terms of bizarre ideas. That's why whenever those two collaborate on something, know that it'll be FUCKED up.

funny_bunny: I'd like to say that there's no person more infuriating and entertaining than funbuns. You might not believe this, but no one here can ever truly figure out what he's thinking. That drives me crazy because for all of funny's talk of rules, law, and love...there's no application to his own life. His own life is a fucking whirlwind of anything that crosses his mind. How can I tell? In the space of one year, he's embarked on more pet projects than Pat has yaoi doujinshi. Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but let's see...funny was a columnist, photographer, an children's book writer, journalist, lyricist, DJ Maxer, tutor, pianist, scanlator, videographer, playwright, doujinshi artist, and one-time videogame music remixer. And those are the only ones I know of. Half of those ended abruptly because that's how funny is. He just goes forth and does whatever until he burns out on it. As of this date, he's mainly been pigeonholed into the scan scene because we're forcing him to be focused. But you don't "force" funny into anything. He either does it because he wants to or he doesn't do it at all. So this is why funny hasn't done anything for the SBSB2D doujinshi yet. Blame his lazy ass. Anyways, funny_bunny: scatterbrained leader of the Rabbits.

prettyprophet: Now how can I describe that prophet...she's astonishingly beautiful for one. And her wit? Look out, Oscar Wilde! Why, I'd say prophet is PERFECT. Right, so I'm prettyprophet, the most...active member of the Rabbits. If nde and Lavie are the base, funny the meat, Ink the vegetables, and Pat and ed the spices...I would be the cook. I make us do stuff. Now it's not like I'm a god, unfortunately. Pat, funny, ed, and Ink? Those idiots will do their own thing and completely disregard anything I have to say. Again, SBSB2D doujinshi. Still, someone has to be the spokesperson and that's where I fit in. In fact, I crowbarred my way in. "Hey nde, who's this goof?" "I'm funny_bunny, pleased to make your acquaintance. We're making a short film about cake." "Cool. Peace out." Next thing you know, I'm more involved with the Rabbit projects than the people who started them. Why else am I the one writing all this?



And that's who we are. There's a lot of shit I left out, like ed having a band, me being in a band, Pat drawing yaoi that could be mistaken for abstract art, Ink's shady business deals, Lavie doing nothing important, funny going recluse for weeks, and nde's fucking weird relationships with girls. But I'll never get into any of that unless it's directly linked to the Rabbits. Why? One day I might tell the story of why everyone more or less insists on anonymity...or maybe I won't.

Whatever. The Villa isn't a place for all that personal blogger bullshit. You want some stupid yarn about the political sphere? Fakeass, hit-grabbing post about how my house burned down, now I need money? Fuck that. The Villa is a totally non-serious, non-important blog that has no reason to exist. Why? Because funny's just using it to talk about his figure love. We'll probably go geek on other things like games and movies. Make no mistake; even though I'm writing a fuckload here, this blog is funny's and not in the "the Reich is funny's" way. The Reich is Rabbit property, including Rabbits who aren't in the Thousand. The Villa's funny with free reign, so he could talk about dogdicking cannibalism for all I care. Also, we're not furries, we just use "Rabbit" to designate between "crew involved" and "crew not involved". Shame, ain't it? We would have looked absolutely stunning in our anthropomorphic forms, fucking each other and so forth.

There you have it! This fucking long diatribe that I hope explains ourselves. And if it doesn't, boo-fucking-hoo. Deal with it.


Yeah, I shoved Okama scans throughout to make this more interesting. OKAMA, OKAMARBLE! burnt-fish, yo, check it.