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I have no intention of doing so, not least of all bc I’d have to track down references, but damn if I’m not sitting here going “I’d be so much better at it now”
Accidental side effect of this morning’s jaunt through the library catalog: a sudden foolish desire to pick my abandoned PhD work back up
I think this scholar is the one that pissed me off by erasing a bi character’s sexuality in his book about this playwright’s work, which was certainly a choice for a book using queer theory to discuss queerness in the plays
It wouldn’t’ve been strictly relevant to what I was working on and I was absolutely not ready to be like, hey let’s talk about the homosexuality in this otherwise not-gay play! in my academic work, but for my personal nerdery it would’ve been very relevant
Today I’m reading an article about a play I worked on for my MA dissertation and trying to remember if I came across this at the time or not
Love to call my friend and be like, hey, remembered I have a dick! So I decided to give it a go for the first time in ages!
This whole exchange is why Juno is the best
Apparently the English scans used “thought” instead of “remembered” there. Dunno which translation is more accurate and it doesn’t matter anyway, I’m just glad I didn’t forget a character that everyone else found so memorable
There’s a panel where Juno’s talking to Makio about standing to pee for the first time in ages. The French translation has Juno saying they suddenly remembered they have a penis
I finally figured out why I was seeing people talk here and there about Ikoku Nikki manga having a transmasc character bc I was like ??? Who else is trans besides Juno? Did I forget someone?
A few weeks ago I was sitting there going "okay, I'm no animation expert but surely Seiichirou shouldn't change sizes this noticeably in one scene", fun times
Oh, my beloved bl accountant isekai, your anime adaptation on its best day looks only kinda okay and yet I am drawn in every week by Seiichirou and his ever growing harem
It's kinda funny how much the innate charm of a deeply mediocre bl anime's source material can make me like a show that looks wonky as hell
This month I'm looking at some the different ways manga plays with gender. Since it's also the time of year when the new school year start in Japan, I thought I'd start with Thigh High: Reiwa Hanamaru Academy. It takes your standard fluffy girls' school premise and changes only the sexes involved.
Thank god for the ability to add tags to what I’ve saved bc this list is a giant sea of whatever happens to have caught my fancy at the time, but at least this way I can kinda filter at some point in the distant future when I actually crack a book or article open
I remembered once again that I have access to an academic library when it’s slow at work and thus have added even more books to look at later to my list
To fully understand "Sinners" and the world of the Smokestack twins, we need to explore the Rust Belt Gothik, the tradition of Black speculative survival strategies forged in response to the pressures of the Great Migration
I feel like a bl spinoff with him would either be the tamest thing on the planet or his secret yakuza member boyfriend backstory that is secret solely bc nobody who hears about it actually thinks it's real
I just now considered the idea of Mr Lawyer Guy meeting Hiyakawa through some convoluted set of circumstances and that would be amazing, I want that now. It would be like those zoo videos from during lockdown where they took animals to meet other wildly different animals, just confusion all around
Mikado voluntarily chose to stay with the guy whose idea of an appropriate first meeting involves nonconsensual soul sex, so anything Makio could throw at him even on her most frazzled day would be a walk in the park by comparison
I made a post on tumblr a few weeks ago trying to sell Ikoku Nikki fans on Tomoko Yamashita's bl work, and every time I get a notification about it, I contemplate Makio doing a book signing at Mikado's bookstore bc the heart longs to write a crossover with Tricornered Window
Me, slowly but surely learning that every single old Nintendo game in this collection without English on its graphic is untranslated: but maybe THIS game won't be entirely in Japanese!
I'm so mad about how tired I am right now, all bc I couldn't get to sleep at the usual time last night
It really sucks to feel like you have to stifle part of yourself to keep a longstanding friendship, and it would be even worse if you felt like that friendship was vital to keeping the other person (who you love dearly) whole and healthy
I don't think Emiri wants to stop being friends with Asa, but I think she's dealing with a lot on her own that has, for better or worse, affected their relationship. And she has understandable anxieties around that that she hasn't been able to express
Emiri's been tasked with a lot of emotional support, and even though she took it on bc Asa is her best friend, that doesn't mean she won't ever find it heavy, won't ever worry that it means their relationship isn't allowed to change even when she might need it to. They're 16! Things change!
Feeling a smidge disappointed in the number of people ragging on a teenager for not being perfectly understanding of her friend's trauma while going through her own stuff that, while less immediately world-shattering, is a lot to deal with in a homophobic world
Amazin Ikoku Nikki again!
But more importantly, I can't understate how this is exactly the show many have lamented for ages doesn't exist. All about the human condition, explored not just through the youth but also diverse, highly specific adults. It's quite literally on you if you're not watching