October Manga TBR 3

Oct. 25th, 2025 03:49 pm
bluapapilio: Abe and Mihashi from Ookiku Furikabutte (Oofuri AbeMiha)
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Used my manga TBR boardgame.

I finished 6/6 on my last board, It was kinda meh because there was only one manga that I really liked. I've been reading a lot more manga than usual because I feel too shitty for other things like watching things. 😩

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Tanjirou
Skill: Move 2 extra tiles once (trap tile one if Even roll)


Roll #1:

A 10. Prompt: Favorite genre. Fantasy, so...let's go with more Are You Alice? though I wasn't too thrilled where it was when I stopped.

Roll #2:

A 4, prompt: color in the title. Alright, I've put the Ao no Exorcist anime on hold so it's finally time to go back and continue the manga.

Roll #3:

A 3 and the trap tile. I rolled Even so I get to move 2 extra tiles. Prompt: cover features mostly blue. Let's do Ookiku Furikabutte, it's been aaages.

Roll #4:

An 11, prompt: mystery element. More D.Gray-Man.

Roll #5:

A 7, which is the 'randomize from CR' tile. A 25... Well. that's D.Gray-Man again. I guess I retry? 202, which is Yuu Yuu Hakusho! I have no idea what happened last but I'm sure it'll be fiiine. šŸ˜…

Roll #6:

An 8 and the end. This time I'll be rereading the BL Constellations In My Palm. It's a chunky one but I rated it 10, hope it holds up!

Most looking forward to: YYH or maybe DGM
Least looking forward to: Are You Alice?

~Manga TBR List~


[Mystery/Adventure] Are You Alice?
[Action/SPN] Ao no Exorcist
[Sports] Ookiku Furikabutte
[Action/SPN] D.Gray-Man
[Action/SPN] Yuu Yuu Hakusho
[BL/Romance] Constellations in My Palm

x1 josei, x3 shounen, 1 seinen, x1 BL

October Manga Wrap-Up 2

Oct. 25th, 2025 02:57 pm
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Read ch. 6-7 of Shugo Chara!. I wanted to read more but it's denser, maybe because of all the characters??

Reread the BL Happy Yarou Wedding ā™”, 6->6.5 stars

Finished the BL Renai Renrei and rated it 9/10!

Read the geikomi oneshot Akuma no Kare, rated it 2/5. There was no emotional component, just porn.

Read the oneshot A Story About a Boy Scouted to Be a Model. Too short to feel satisfied. Good art though. 1.5/5

I reread the BL Alcohol, Shirt & Kiss and rated it 6/10.

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Oct. 25th, 2025 11:16 am
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@ Spotify

Lovely to be sitting here with you
You're kinda cute but it's raining harder
My shoes are now full of water
Lovely to be rained on with you
It's kinda cute but it's so short
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Lizzy McAlpine - ceilings

Database maintenance

Oct. 25th, 2025 08:42 am
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Weekly Chat

Oct. 25th, 2025 01:54 pm
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The weekly chat posts are intended for just that, chatting among each other. What are you currently watching? Reading? What actor/idol are you currently following? What are you looking forward to? Are you busy writing, creating art? Or did you have no time at all for anything, and are bemoaning that fact?

Whatever it is, talk to us about it here. Tell us what you liked or didn't like, and if you want to talk about spoilery things, please hide them under either of these codes:
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It is once again time for a dream roundup!


Dreams from August to October. )


It didn't occur to me until I looked at all of these together that I've had multiple dreams about bears lately. Perplexing! Bears aren't really something I often have on the mind.
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Mission 1 - The Dog and the Beast:

So the line about 'cutting his arm off before he could shoot' from the opening was a throwback to their first meeting...

The sister's name is Alana.

Ahh the LP player made a mistake again whyyy. 😭

Lmao Luke cuffed him and Beast together to stop Beast from running off rashly. šŸ˜‚

If Beast hadn't been convinced after Luke's speech about saving Alana and not losing family no one could've been.

So when Beast refuses to tell Luke his name, Luke can pick from these as nicknames:

-Luke No. 2

-Kitty

-Partner




It would've been hilarious to see his reactions to the first two. The LP player chose 'aibou/partner' but apparently that was the wrong answer, maybe you were supposed to tease him with 'Kitty' since he calls Luke 'Doggy'.

In any case, he did reveal his name as 'Aaron', though that's still apparently not his real name.



This happened after Aaron was chosen to deal with a situation, too funny. šŸ˜‚

The bar scene where Luke acts out being a big fan of Kaitou Beast!!! And Aaron's reaction! Waait does Luke not know Aaron is Beast??

If picking the wrong answer lead to this I'm okay with it: Aaron punching the detectives is all of us, the players, sick of their bullshit. I've only seen two detectives worth anything and that's Luke and his father. Oh, and the guy who was with Luke at the funeral.

Luke picked their infiltration clothes but did he mean for Aaraon to wear the collar so open like that? šŸ‘€šŸ˜†

...So the boss' actual name is AZIN and he made it sound Japanese with Eijin.. Am I right in thinking it's supposed to make you think of 'Asian', and his rapping and style in general, maybe he's doubly appropriating??

The way Aaron talks really is amusing. It's worse than Bakugou.

A third party sent that email that got Luke to help, Aaron was really going to go in all alone. Luke really helped with all the planning, Aaron was mainly good for the blunt force stuff;;

Seems like Aaron has decided to trust Luke, he's telling him about DISCARD wanting the 'chip'. He and his sister are from ćƒć‚¹ćƒžćƒŖćƒ¼ (I have no idea how this is written in English), a country in the Southern continent that's had ongoing conflict since ancient times. Years ago a research facility blew up there, but recently it came to light that there was a chip containing the previously thought lost research data - inside of the famous gemstone currently in the news. DISCARD found out Kaitou Beast was sending money and supplies to Ajito, the hideout that Alana is the 'surrogate mother for the kids' at. They kidnapped her to use her as bait.

Luke trying so hard to convince himself that Aaron isn't Kaitou Beast. šŸ˜…

Luke got Aaron to laugh his head off, cute! (Even if it was at Luke's expense hahah.)

I bet Luke got that bracelet Aaron stole from his dad? I'm glad he gave it back, though he did lecture him;; I think Luke is growing on him.

Uh-oh, the two are the suspects now?



Holy shit this scene was insane. The message over the radio about the suspects started off with some really eerie music and then Alana went crazy attacking them with crazy strength! She was clearly being controlled but WTF, how?!

...The punches keep coming. The same mark that was on Alana's neck was on his father's, meaning DISCORD got a hold of him somehow. T_T And it seems the guy at the funeral knew? I wonder if Luke can contact him?

Well, Luke's in custody, Aaron escaped with Alana... Aaron used 恂恰悈, what a classic farewell...for now.

I'm worried if the LPer I'm watching will do the side-content, there's buddy episodes and side-stories plus a drama cd...

šŸ’”

Oct. 24th, 2025 03:36 pm
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You know the kind of mood where you definitely have things to do (all carefully written on my hand šŸ˜‚) but you’re getting the itch to create a new account somewhere or make some kind of website thing or something?

Oh well, once I’m home and have gotten a meal together I’ll be too tired to get up to shenanigans…

(Watching the Thai drama The Cursed Love right now and I’ve only watched episode 1 but so far it feels like a cross between Indiana Jones and Percy Jackson plus, according to the comments, Hindu mythology? Anyway, I’m having a good time.)
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Episode 10:
Atsushi feeding En. xD Yumoto complimenting En's eyelashes?? Was Ryuu blushing at Megawa's cuteness???

I thought the whole fever thing was a plot by the enemy lol

What's with the doors?! They brushed them off so easily!

Everyone falling for Yumoto's cuteness. šŸ˜‚ He is cuter than Megawa.

Goro recognized Yumoto in costume?! And that was way too dangerous, the student council were watching and could put together that Goro would only be so concerned like that about his own brother... They don't know who he is yet but it shouldn't be difficult.

The fish is called Hireashi and it has it's own little phone...

And the glasses thing was never explained but that's Binan Koukou for ya.

Episode 11: Ack, Zundar and Kureashi know each other?! But he clearly hasn't told him the guys' identity... Zundar's so different when he's with him. I feel bad for the other planets they've already conquered...

Lmao Yumoto misunderstanding Goro talking about 'hentai'.

Of course the doors lead to each others' 'hideouts'. And Kinshirou was so mad about the curry he transformed in front of Atsushi!

Lol we get the first transformation scene for the bad guys.

OMG THAT'S WHY Kinshirou hates Atsushi?! Because instead of going to his house, Atsushi went to eat curry with En?! THIS IS SO GAY

Episode 12: How did Goro know about Hireashi??

The whole 'nan datte?' gag reminds me of Osomatsu-san.

The reporter getting punched was A++.

So much blushing from Kinshirou!!!

Of course it ends with both sides taking a bath together.

Ya know what, I enjoyed the heck out of this anime, it was fun, it made me laugh and it was so gay. 7/10! I'm not sure what season 2 will be about since everything was revealed but I will be watching!

Nogami Yaeko (1885-1985)

Oct. 24th, 2025 08:48 pm
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Nogami Yaeko was born in 1885 in Usuki, Oita, way down south in Kyushu, to a merchant family handling sake, soy sauce, and miso (their soy sauce company is still in business today). Her maiden name was Kotegawa. After studying literature and poetry with private tutors, at fifteen she went to live with an uncle in Tokyo and attend the Meiji Girls’ School. Shortly after graduation, aged twenty-one, she married Nogami Toyoichiro, then a student of English literature and a landsman from Usuki; they had met when she engaged him as an English tutor. The following year, Toyoichiro introduced her to the author Natsume Soseki, who looked over her short stories and gave her her first publication credit in the magazine Hototogisu. Although—as a young married woman from the provinces with only a high school education—she was not permitted to take part in the ā€œThursday Meetingā€ literary gatherings held at Soseki’s home, her husband passed on to her the content of the discussions there in detail. (Among the participants there was the novelist Naka Kansuke, with whom Yaeko fell briefly and turbulently in love, although he does not seem to have reciprocated; they were to meet again as friends many years later.)

More inclined to male than female friends, in early marriage Yaeko did enjoy the company of Ito Noe, when they were both writing and raising young children. Later on she was to become close to Chujo (Miyamoto) Yuriko, as a mentor and also an admirer of Yuriko’s intellectual brilliance. Yaeko disapproved strongly, however, of Noe’s disruptive relationship with Osugi Sakae, and envied Yuriko’s domestically free and easy life with Yuasa Yoshiko, although it was she who was instrumental in introducing the two).

Her writing in her twenties was largely poems and short stories, sometimes left-leaning, which she published in mainstream literary journals as well as Hiratsuka Raicho’s Seito (although she was never closely affiliated with Raicho’s Bluestockings; it was Raicho’s one-time lover Morita Sohei whose professional clash with Toyoichiro set Hosei University on end for almost ten years in the 1930s). In the 1920s she began to write historical novels as well; she also cooperated with her husband on a Japanese translation of Pride and Prejudice, which inspired her to write the contemporary novel Machiko (also said to have been influenced by Yuriko’s novel Nobuko. She also translated Heidi, Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare, and books by Selma Lagerlƶf and Sonya Kovalevskaya. A trip through Europe with her husband just as World War II was beginning produced a travelogue considered a valuable record of the time.

From her late thirties on, as her three sons (all of whom survived the war and, like her husband, became eminent professors) grew older, Yaeko spent part of her time at a villa in the Karuizawa resort area, choosing to live apart from her husband (who died in 1950) and write in peace. After the war, she and Yuriko rekindled their friendship to help organize the New Japanese Literary Association (after Yuriko’s death in 1951, Yaeko sent her widower, Miyamoto Kenji, flowers on the yearly death anniversary; in return he sent flowers to her on the anniversaries of Toyoichiro’s death or rather his second wife did, typical of Miyamoto Kenji, a world-class shit). In 1953 she interviewed Eleanor Roosevelt upon the latter’s visit to Tokyo. She continued to produce poetry and fiction of all kinds throughout her life; in addition, her many years of diaries are full of sharp-eyed and opinionated observations on the people she knew, including most of the famous literary figures of the day, as well as major historical events from the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake to the accession of Chairman Gorbachev. At sixty-eight, she had a love affair with the philosopher Tanabe Hajime, also resident in Karuizawa; they exchanged some three hundred letters. Serving as the honorary principal of the Hosei University Girls’ High School, she instructed the students ā€œBe a person first, then a woman.ā€ She died in 1985 at the age of ninety-nine.

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Here are a few more questions and answers about writing from my Tumblr!

Are you only working on one project right now, or multiple?

I’ve got twenty-nine files in my WIP folder, and I’ll occasionally pop into one and write a few lines, but there’s no project that’s really grabbing me right now. Or there’s no fanfiction project, at least, because I’ve been busy building a Danganronpa website. I promised myself I wouldn’t make any more websites! They’re so much work! I don’t know why I keep doing this!

(To be honest, I know why I did this: it's because I got COVID and spent a week in quarantine. There are a lot of issues associated with COVID, but no one ever talks about the risk that, while you’re isolating in your bedroom, you will end up making a fourth goddamn website.)

What’s the best thing to get you in the mood for writing?

There’s nothing I can reliably do to get myself into writing mode, unfortunately! The only thing that will make me write is having an idea. Once I’m inspired, I’ll write at every chance I get, but I don’t know how to trigger that inspiration; I just have to wait until it hits me.

What plot points and themes do you find yourself falling back on again and again in your work?

There are a lot of themes I find myself revisiting constantly! The main ones coming to mind are:

- Being unable to trust your own memories. Memories being erased, memories being rewritten, memories of things that never happened filtering through from another timeline; I do a lot of writing about weird memory stuff in general!
- Feeling responsible for someone’s death.
- Seeing/speaking to somebody no one else can see. This often combines with the above one: a character hallucinates someone whose death they feel responsible for.
- Bad coping mechanisms.
- Isolation.
- Falling in love with and/or banging everyone you know. I write this so often that I made an entire AO3 collection just to house my fics on this theme.

How often do you write?

It varies a lot, but my general pattern is to go a few weeks writing almost nothing, then get a fic idea and write feverishly for several days, then go back into a lull once I’ve finished the fic. The exception is November, in which I try to write a little bit every day. We’re almost there; I’ll need to think of some ideas!

What books have inspired your writing the most?

Animorphs, no question. I was absolutely passionate about KA Applegate’s Animorphs series when I first started writing fanfiction as a twelve-year-old, and, looking back at my early efforts, I can see that the style was heavily influenced by Animorphs. I wasn’t writing Animorphs fanfiction; I was writing for PokĆ©mon! But there’s no question of where my style came from.

Over the years, as I’ve grown up and become a more experienced writer, my style has developed. But you could probably trace a direct line back from my current fics to my childhood efforts to reproduce the style of Animorphs. If you dig up my writing style to see what’s underneath, you’ll find that the foundations are pure Animorphs: very straightforward, very unornamented, short sentences and short paragraphs, focused on emotion and dialogue above all else.

šŸ”Š Daily music

Oct. 23rd, 2025 08:38 pm
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I don't need no prince to save me
I'm a goddamn CEO
Don't call me "Baby", equal pay me
Snow White said you tried to kiss her
So I'll just buy a new glass slipper
And burn your castle down
And kids, that's how Cinderella snapped šŸŽ¤

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