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May. 25th, 2025 08:35 pm
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I'm surprisingly annoyed that Mozilla is killing Pocket, given that my personal use case for it is "that's where I throw unread links that I realistically know I'll almost certainly never actually dig up again, thus satisfying the itch of 'but I need to know where it is in case I suddenly have a desperate need to read it'". I've backed up my Pocket data and will presumably never look at it again, but what will I use as bottomless pit now?

Reading: I finished The Incandescent, which was a great read and also a wildly different book from Some Desperate Glory, so hats off to Emily Tesh's range! Now I'm a couple of chapters into Vivian Shaw's Strange Practice.

I'm also still working my way through Jennifer 8 Lee's The Fortune Cookie Chronicles.

Watching: [personal profile] scruloose and I are caught up on Murderbot and (until tonight) The Last of Us, and have finished The Pitt, which was, as advertised, fantastic. (Medical shows are so very not my genre that I don't have anything to compare it to; I think the only other one I've seen is Scrubs, manymany years ago.)

I duly read through the trivia section and whatnot on IMDb and saw when season 2 is apparently going to be set, and I think that's more months into the future that the newbie!doctors' ER rotation will last? (Have I successfully absorbed the terms for the various levels of doctors in an ER? No. >.<) That's a bit of an upsetting prospect, since Mel is my favorite (and [personal profile] scruloose's, and probably unsurprising for either of us). But I haven't read much else about the show at this point.

EXCEPT! I did remember that Sarah Kurchak [standard disclaimer: friend] wrote an article about Mel for Time last month, so I've read and can recommend that: "The Pitt’s Dr. Mel King Is a Small but Meaningful Step Forward for Neurodivergence Onscreen".

So now we have one episode left of TLoU, and odds are good we'll shift back to Kingdom for season 2, but Kingdom's seasons are very short, so we'll be back on the "what to watch now?" train relatively soon.

(Wheel of Time fans, I'm so sorry about the show's cancellation. :( On a personal level, I guess it pretty much guarantees that we're not going to go back and resume season 3 from where we drifted off after the first couple of episodes.)

10 icons for fandom10in30

May. 25th, 2025 03:36 pm
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I was feeling the cropping muse this week, so here's a side-crop set for [community profile] fandom10in30's Taking Sides round. Half Murderbot, half HPI. Enjoy!



all ten + alts )

Concrit welcome! Comments adored! Credit appreciated! Take and use as many icons as you like. If you want to know whose textures and brushes I use, take a look at my resource post.

Previous icon posts:

On Positive Change

May. 25th, 2025 01:00 am
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I think all significant positive change requires two things: imagination and practicality. A person with only the former can imagine the world they want, but lacks the ability to bring it about. A person with only the latter can make the best of their lot in life, but has mentally foreclosed the ability to change that lot in life no matter how bad things get. A person with both can imagine the world they want and work on mapping out the path to reach it.

Which is to say, I think it is critically important for us to strive to develop both of these traits in ourselves.
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For those who have go-to versions of common things like, say, meatloaf or brownies or curried chickpeas, how many recipes do you try before settling on one? Is there a point when you say "THIS. THIS is my [x]", or do you sometimes try new versions even when you have one you love? (Possibly this is a "once you've actually cooked a lot, you can look at a recipe and have a fairly good idea of what the different seasonings might add up to"?)

(I didn't help enough with any of the meals under the cuts to tag this post with YKYC, alas.)

meatloaf! (well, meatloaves) )

belated notes on a batch of black beans a month ago )

20 + 7 icons for retro_icontest

May. 23rd, 2025 08:12 pm
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Ooof, I picked the by far most time-consuming challenge from [community profile] somein30 for our current [community profile] retro_icontest round: All Things Random! I regret nothing! :D First I had to create all the randomized sets for the 13 people who signed up (7 of them entered sets, that's a great turnout!), and then I had to make my own set, and some of those prompts were *hard*!

This is the fourth time I've done this, the previous times are here and here and here.

Teasers:


Here are all 20 icons without comments )

And then here's the same thing again (in a different order!) with prompts and inspirations and my comments:

annotated table )

Comments are love - and concrit, too. <3 Take and use as many icons as you like, credit is appreciated. Texture and brush makers: here in my resource post.

Previous icon posts:

because I'm at it again ...

May. 23rd, 2025 07:38 pm
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After finishing my 520 Day fic, I'm not exactly writing a lot, though I am trying to get into the flow again, but I've been thinking about it, because this sort of thing happens to me so often after I finish something, or even while I'm in the middle of it. So, poll!

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 36


When I write or finish a fic, I think about (or actually start) a sequel ...

View Answers

never
4 (11.1%)

rarely
10 (27.8%)

sometimes
14 (38.9%)

often
6 (16.7%)

ALL THE TIME
2 (5.6%)

These sequels are actually finished and posted ...

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never
7 (20.6%)

rarely
16 (47.1%)

sometimes
10 (29.4%)

often
1 (2.9%)

ALL THE TIME
0 (0.0%)

Ticky boxes?

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ticky boxes!
17 (50.0%)

more tickyboxes
9 (26.5%)

tickyboxes propagating further tickyboxes
27 (79.4%)

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I’ve been meaning to post a reminder that our Storygraph challenge is ongoing, and a specific update on my personal progress, for a while, and a week before Pride Month starts strikes me as as good a time as any to go HEY, WE’VE GOT A CHALLENGE TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO READ QUEER BOOKS!

So, hey! We’ve got a challenge to encourage people to read queer books! It’s the Duck Prints Press 2025 Queer Book Challenge on Storygraph, and it’s open for everyone to participate! It’s composed of 40 challenges – one required (it’s “read a queer book”) and all the rest bonus for the fun of it. If you haven’t joined us already, I hope you’ll consider doing so. The challenge runs from Jan 1 to Dec 31, so everything you’ve read this year – even before you joined! – can count for filling the prompts.

For fun, I decided to make a bingo card, with the 40 prompts + 2 free spaces to get it square.
A simple black and white grid graphic bingo card entitled 2025 Storygraph Challenge. The bingo squares are: read a queer book you borrowed from the library; read a queer book that has fewer than 50 reviews on Storygraph; read a queer book; read a non-fiction book about a queer topic (such as history or science); read a queer book by a transgender and/or nonbinary author; read a queer book that includes the "portal fantasy" trope; read a queer book from your tbr; read a biography or autobiography or memoir about or by a queer person; read a queer book that has won a literary award; read a queer graphic novel; read a queer book by a Black author; queer rep bingo! queer autistic character; read a queer book that includes the "the grumpy one is soft for the sunshine one" trope; queer rep bingo! nonbinary character; queer reb bingo! lesbian character; read a queer book released in 2025; read a queer book that includes the "found family" trope; read a queer book recommended to you by someone else; read a queer book that includes the "fake dating" trope; free space!; read a queer book that has more than 5000 reviews on Storygraph; read a queer book that includes the "omg they were roommates" trope; queer rep bingo! polyamorous character; read a queer book by an Indigenous author (of any nationality); read a book published by Duck Prints Press (they're all queer!); read a queer book by a Latinx author (of any nationality); read a queer book that includes the "be gay do crimes" trope; queer rep bingo! queer bipoc character; read a queer book released before 1990; read a queer book that includes the "anti-hero" trope; queer rep bingo! aromantic character; read a queer book in translation; free space!; queer rep bingo! transgneder character; queer rep bingo! asexual character; read a queer book by an author you share an identity with; queer rep bingo! gay character; queer rep bingo! queer disabled character; read a queer book that includes the "there was only one bed" trope; read a queer book by an Asian author (of any nationality); read a queer book by an Arabic author (of any nationality); queer reb bingo! bisexual or pansexual character.

…and then I filled it in with my own prompt fills for the year! I might actually get a black-out this year; I’ve already got a higher percentage than I did all last year.
The same bingo card as the previous image, now with a mosaic of book covers. The books and their placement are listed below.

Card list below the read more!

Read more... )

Ostrich

May. 23rd, 2025 05:39 am
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It'a tough to engage with the world and its events when the media largely pursues a bread-and-circuses approach in order to catch attention. I realize that that attitude doesn't come out of nowhere, that human beings do turn to look and linger at a crash site.

But it does no good whatsoever for anyone to feel my heart tearing in pieces over any news coming out of Washington DC, either engendered by the assclowns currently infesting governmental centers, or in the environs (the recent shooting) so my intention to ostrich becomes more vigorous. What's more, the spouse, who usually watches the news every waking moment, even turned off the yatter yesterday.

I try to fill my time with purpose and pleasure that harms no one. Plan things I hope will bring pleasure to others, like: my sister's seventieth is coming up. I took a slew of our old super eight films to a place to get them converted and color corrected, to surprise her with--I hope. One of those super-eights is from 1948, when the parents' generation were all young, all those voices gone now. Most of the films are from the sixties and early seventies, before my parents split; then they start up again in the eighties with my spouse having bought us a camera.

It's going to take time to convert that stuff--the small box I chose will be just under a grand. Phew. But I've been waiting years for the price to come down, and I figure I daren't wait any longer.

In just for me, I'm busy reworking some very early stories. And realizing that ostriching was a defense mechanism that started in when I was very young, coming out in my passion for escape-reading and for storytelling.

The storytelling urge was very nearly a physical reaction,a kind of invisible claw right behind my ribs, partly that urge, and partly a shiver of anticipation. I can remember it very clearly when I was six years old, in first grade. I already knew how to read, but that was the grade in which public schools in LA taught reading, so I got to sit by myself and draw while the others were taught the alphabet and phonics. Writing stories was laborious, and I got frustrated easily if I didn't know how to spell a word, but I learned fast that adults only had about three words' of patience in them before they chased me off with a "Go play!" or, if I was especially mosquito-ish, "Go clean your room!" or "Wash the dishes!" (That started when I turned 7)

But drawing was easy, and I could narrate to myself as I illustrated the main events. So I did that over and over as the other kids struggled thru Dick and Jane. This became habit, and gave me a focus away from the social evolution of cliques--I do recall trying to make myself follow the alpha girl of that year (also teacher's pet, especially the following year) but I found her interests so boring I went back to my own pursuits.

I do remember not liking the times between stories; I was happiest when the images began flowing, but I never really pondered what that urge was. It was just there. I knew that most didn't have it, and for the most part I was content to entertain myself, except when we had to read our efforts aloud in class, there was an intense gratification if, IF, one could truly catch the attention of the others and please them as well as self. I remember fourth grade, the two class storytellers were self and a boy named Craig. His were much funnier than any of my efforts. Mine got wild with fantasy, which teachers frowned on. I tried to write funny and discovered that it was HARD. It seemed to come without effort to Craig.

In junior high, I finally found a tiny coterie of fellow nerds who like writing, and we shared stories back and forth. Waiting for a friend to come back after reading one and give her reactions made the perils of junior high worth enduring. One of those friends died a couple summers ago, and left her notebooks to me. In eighth/ninth grade, she wrote a Mary Sue self-insert about the Beatles. I have it now--it breathes innocence, and the air of the mid sixties. Maybe I ought to type it up and put it up at A03. I think she'd like it to find an audience, even if it's as small an audience as our tiny group back then.

Anyway, a day is a great day if I have a satisfying project to work on...and I don't have to hear a certain name, which is ALWAYS reprehensible. Always. And yet has a following. But...humans do linger to look at the tcrash site.

The Politics of Entertainment

May. 22nd, 2025 04:16 pm
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A lot of mainstream TV and movies specifically promote "Western" values and especially the values of the United States government as inherently superior to all others. Specifically, this media promotes capitalism, imperialism, and colonialism regardless of whether it's geared towards liberal or conservative consumption. In short, a lot of media is simply sugarcoated propaganda. This is especially true of children's media, and why "it's just a children's cartoon" is not a valid argument for a piece of media not containing embedded political values. Quite the opposite, actually. The whole point of children's media containing such values is to help ensure the absorbsion and adoption of those values by the future generation. The point is to get to them early, so these values become their default.

Now, the people involved in creating this propaganda are not necessarily aware that that is what they are doing. Indeed, many of these people may consider themselves apolitical or even countercultural. But their awareness of their place in the machine is unnecessary for the machine's usage of them. The machine functions in a way such as to elevate those most useful to it while suppressing the rest.

Some examples:

Star Wars - The depiction of the Ewoks employs a number of incredibly racist tropes, including depicting them as cannibals and them accepting C3P0 as a god. The colonialist aspect of the core worlds in the prequels like Coruscant is purposely obscured by making the Separatist government headed by Sith puppets and relegating things like the genocide of the Geonosians to a relative footnote outside the movies.

Star Trek, especially modern Star Trek - While Star Trek has always had implicit militaristic undertones (considering their supposedly peaceful mission of exploration they sure are involved in a lot of wars and their ships are sure decked out to the teeth in weapons), the last seasons of Picard and Discovery especially doubled down on this. Also Picard has a white saviorism arc involving the romulans that it never even bothers to resolve.

Avatar: The Last Airbender - contrast the narrative choice to depict the oppressed Jet and Hama as incredibly evil and, in Hama's case, irreedeemable, to the narrative's treatment of Zuko and Iroh. The narrative never treats Iroh as an actual villain, and Zuko is not only given a redemption arc, but becomes ruler of the Fire Nation at the end of the story.

Avatar - the white savior fantasy in space. The white savior fantasy is inherently colonialist.

Legend of Korra - basically doubles down on the colonialist and imperialist apologism of its predecessor. Also adds a copaganda angle.

520 Day things, part one!

May. 22nd, 2025 11:13 pm
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Second day of not-a-zombie-ness! And I do wonder if it's connected to the fact that I finally managedd to write (and finish!) a fic again ...

For this year's Guardian 520 Day exchange, I wrote for [archiveofourown.org profile] AVAAntares. Protective and possessive Shen Wei, yes! And not in the way you'd maybe expect. *g* This story owes a lot to my beta [personal profile] china_shop, who made me make it immeasurably better:
The Consultant (3,830 words)
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationship: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Characters: Zhao Yunlan, Shen Wei, Gao Jingfeng
Content Tags: Episode Related, Episode 13, Canon Divergence, Protective Shěn Wēi, Possessive Shen Wei, Shen Wei's secrets, Dancing Around an Envoy Reveal, Zhao Yunlan's Self-Worth Issues, Pre-Relationship

Summary:

Never mind the chaos of the ruined wedding all around them: this was a different trainwreck altogether. Shen Wei - Dixingren Shen Wei, Black-Cloaked Envoy Shen Wei who must have used his powers to break Zheng Yi's spell - had drawn Minister Gao's attention.

And I received fantastic artwork for another of my stories, A Thread as Red as Blood, which is a post-YOHE first time at the SID. Just look at what [personal profile] facethestrange made - it's so good, and captures both the scene in my fic and the canon aesthetic so well!
Attuned by facethestrange
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationship/Characters: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Content Tags: Implied Sexual Content, Post-Coital Cuddling, Tenderness, Forehead Touching, Inspired by Fanfiction, Fanart, Drawing

Summary:
They leaned against each other, Shen Wei still straddling him, their foreheads touching, both breathing hard. Zhao Yunlan felt sweat cooling on his skin as his heart came down from its race.

"Shen Wei," he murmured, just for the pleasure of saying his name.

"I'm sorry," Shen Wei said, sounding not at all sorry. "I suddenly found I couldn't wait a moment longer."
Illustration for A Thread as Red as Blood by Trobadora.

(This post is part one because once I've made my way through the collection I hope to post recs. Such a bounty in there!)
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning was a lot of fun! But a bit long, they could have cut a few scenes at the beginning of the movie.

I loved the butch in the submarine. Now that I'm back home, I've looked her up. She's called Kodiak and she's played by Katy O'Brian, who is a lesbian. <3
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Graphic 1 of 3. Text and a silhouette of a detective with a magnifying glass and a pipe over a background of stained paper in colors of the rainbow pride flag. The text reads: Queer, Detective Reads for Sherlock Holmes Day.
Graphic 2 of 3. Ten book covers over a background of stained paper in colors of the rainbow pride flag. The books are: What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher; Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk; The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older; Silent Reading by priest; The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison; In the Dark by Jin Shisi Chai; A Study in Honor by Claire O'Dell; Breaking Through the Clouds Po Yun by Huai Shang; The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett; The Fourteenth Year of Chenghua by Meng Xi Shi.

Graphic 3 of 3. Ten book covers over a background of stained paper in colors of the rainbow pride flag. The books are: Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey; The Verifiers by Jane Pek; Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis; The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei; Wild and Wicked Things by Francesca May; The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal; Death by Silver by Amy Griswold & Melissa Scott; This Gilded Abyss by Rebecca Thorne; Sushi Scandal by T. Thorn Coyle; Liar City by Allie Therin.

Today marks the birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, one of the most influential authors of modern detective stories. To honor his legacy, May 22 has been dubbed the Sherlock Holmes Day. Last year, we celebrated with a roundtable chat about the beloved sleuth. This year, we’re shifting our focus to his spiritual successors, wrapped in the rainbow flag. Enjoy the list of 21 Queer Detective Reads, compiled thanks to: Nina Waters, Shadaras, Owl Outerbridge, theirprofoundbond, hullosweetpea, Mikki Madison, Shea Sullivan, Dei Walker, Shannon, Rhosyn Goodfellow and an anonymous contributor.

What queer detective stories do YOU love?

Find these books on our Goodreads book shelf or buy them through the Duck Prints Press Bookshop.org affiliate page. Need a place to chat about these books? Join our Book Lover’s Discord server!



wait, what?

May. 21st, 2025 08:52 pm
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It's been almost two months since I've posted here?!
  1. That can't be right. But it is??

  2. I mean, I have been in a complete slump for nearly three months now, and today is the first day in ages that I don't feel like a zombie, but still. How did that happen?!

  3. It didn't and doesn't feel like I was away from here for that long at all!

  4. But I guess that's because I've actually been commenting a lot - I've been on DW! I've been reading my flist, and replying to posts and comments! And I've been part of the 60-billion-comment club over at [community profile] sid_guardian, aka the excellent Guardian discussions happening in the comments of the novel readalong posts, and [personal profile] china_shop's delightful drama polls, where we can't shut up about our fandom. *g*

  5. What I haven't done in all that time is any real writing, other than the one exchange fic that went live last night. Just a bunch of alibi sentences and false starts. Pretty sure that made the zombie issue worse; I always feel worse when I'm not writing. But in addition to the slump, time and energy have both been at a low ebb.

  6. So, uh, yeah. Two months! For reasons, but I'm glad to finally be breaking that streak.

In conclusion, hi, everyone! I hope to actually post more again now, and not fall into a slump again right away. (Fingers crossed!)

Coming soon (I HOPE): Guardian 520 Day Reverse Exchange reveals (preview: I wrote a fic! I got fantastic artwork for one of my fics! There's a delightful bounty of stuff in the collection that I need to sit down to properly enjoy and comment on!) and also other updates.
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A graphic on a pale blue background. Text reads: Relationships Beyond Romance a Duck Prints Press Panel. Saturday May 24 6 p.m. ET. join patreon.com/duckprintspress for exclusive access. In the middle is artwork of two hands locked in a pinky pledge; one has peach-tan skin, the other dark brown. The hands make an almost-heart.

We’re only a few days from our May Patreon panel. Relationships Beyond Romance will be at 6 p.m. Eastern time (converter) on May 24th – a 1-hour, convention-style panel held via zoom for backers who support our Patreon at the $7/month, $10/month, and $25/month levels.

Description: Romance is fun to watch and read, but while it’s far from the only relationship dynamic possible between people, all too often, romance is emphasized and placed on a pedestal compared to relationships with friends, family, peers, colleagues, and others. This panel, we take time out to place the emphasis squarely on the platonic, to examine why we value relationships that aren’t romantic and why we think they’re important to feature in books, TV, movies, and other media. Topics include: what do we mean by romance, and what do we mean by non-romantic relationships; what dynamics attract us and why; what are some of our favorite stories that focus on platonic relationships; how can we diversify our media consumption and creation; and a discussion of why we think all this matters.

Panelists: Rhosyn Goodfellow, Vee Sloane, May Barros, and E. Conway

Nina Waters will serve as moderator.

Already a Patreon backer? I hope you’ll join us! Not a backer yet? There’s no time like the present to become one!



Quick rec

May. 21st, 2025 08:40 am
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I've been snowed by various loads of stuff, including reading subs for Viable Paradise's workshop in October. My reading has been sporadic, and usually language-related. Like, I'm making my glacial way through a really good biography of Liselotte von her Pfalz, which is in German. I'm reading French comics, and so on and so on.

But! When I lumber this old bod out for daily steps, I listen to audiobooks. I've been making my way through T. Kingfisher's stories, and enjoyed them, but took a break for a real delight called RAVENMASTER, by Christopher Skaife. He wrote about his job as Ravenmaster at the Tower of London.

I'm sure the printed book is just fine--it's vigorously written, full of all kinds of facts as well as legends, etc, and sprinkled with humor. But I highly recommend the audio book, which he narrated. He has a great voice, which adds to the sheer delight. I wish it was longer.

OK, back to work trying to crawl back into my twelve-year-old headspace so I can finish a project that has been hanging fire for too many years.

WWW Wednesday

May. 21st, 2025 09:21 am
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1. What are you currently reading?

I've got about 100 pages of The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fishvol. 4 (and final vol.) left. It hasn't been as painful as expected lol (I was dreading it being as kid-focused as vol 3, but so far mostly the kids have been pushed to the side and the focus has been on more political stuff). 

2. What have you recently finished?

  • Hitorijime My Hero vol. 14 by Memeco Arii: now that I've fully got a grasp on who all these characters are, I can say I've basically enjoyed this series. I kinda want to reread the beginning cause I can't really remember it anymore. Vol. 15 is out but not on any of my Libby libraries so dunno when I'll be able to read more.,
  • Fire Force vol. 1 by Atsushi Ohkubo: saw the anime being advertised on Crunchyroll and got curious. It's fine I guess. Pretty standard. I'm gonna read another couple volumes and see how I feel. I tried ep 1 after I read it but I bounced off the English dub voice actor for the mc, oh well.,
  • Mobsters in Love vol. 1 by Chiyoko Origami: surprisingly funny mob BL. Basically The Way of the Househusband if they were both men and both still gangsters (and, well, less stand-alone shorts, more of a continuing plot. but the vibes are very similar).,
  • Kirby's Lessons for Falling (in Love) by Laura Gao: surprisingly unmemorable modern wlw. The mc and ml's reasons for caring for each other never really clicked for me, and the emphasis on Christianity made sense in context but didn't really work for me personally.,
  • Haikyu!! vol. 26 by Haruichi Furudate: the last few volumes kinda dragged for me but we're getting back into competition stuff and I suspect it'll be more engaging going forward.,
  • The Way of the Househusband vol. 5 by Kousuke Oono,
  • Acid Town vol. 3 by Kyuugou: god someone needs to give Yukio a hug, like, a fully consensual hug he actually wants,
  • Leap by Simina Popescu: contrasting with Kirby's Lessons, this was a surprisingly memorable modern wlw. I really really appreciated that (SPOILERS) the characters being in relationships wasn't the end game. The lesbian rep in a book focused on romantic relationships gone wrong and platonic friendship gone right was wonderfully refreshing.,
  • A Lovestruck Cat Wants to Be Petted by Nira Kaneyuki: modern with a splash of magic yaoi. Cute, but the transitions from cuteness to explicit stuff were extremely abrupt and jarring.,
  • I Ship My Rival x Me vol. 3 by PEPA: modern BL. a reread for me now that the print official English version came out. Reading vol. 3 made me want to go back and reread vol. 1 and 2 (again), lol. Wei Yanzi is such a fuckin' clown.

3. What will you read next?

Next novel is still A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine - now that I'm not sick anymore I feel mentally up for something new. :D My next Libby read is My Beautiful Man vol. 3 by Yuu Nagira, and my next physical library read are like 5 volumes of Moriarty the Patriot by Ryosuke Takeuchi.


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