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Jagged Jim posted:The Marriage Partner of My Dreams just finished up. It was a bit short at six chapters but a nice read nonetheless.
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Catching up on recommendations: Strip the Flesh is one I already read about a year or two ago, and I remember that it made me have some Serious Thoughts, so I thank/curse it for that. I binged through all of Yuureitou and I'm surprised I never came across this one before, it really feels like it should have found its way into my orbit. In addition to the obvious giallo influence it gave me some serious PS1-era horror game vibes. You've got your puzzle-powered clock tower, your invincible bag-headed murder man, an underground trap dungeon, a secret medical lab hidden in an inexplicable western castle, all the good stuff. The gender stuff was messy as advertised and the author is clearly a little misinformed, but I guess it all felt appropriately messy to me given the genre, tone, time period, completely bonkers villain etc.? I might just be super desensitized to the genre but it didn't particularly offend my sensibilities and I'm not sure how much of it I would actually label as "problematic" as opposed to just "ugly." Anyway that's a lot of words. I liked it overall. Starting on Boys Run the Riot now, it was conveniently on sale at comixology. I'm still very early in, and I can't tell if this is going to be one of those coming-of-age stories that leaves me feeling optimistic or depressed. I always feel the shadow of Bad Times looming over my head when I read this kind of stuff. I guess what I'm realizing is that stories grounded in reality fill me with significantly more dread than horror stories, lol Libra fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Aug 25, 2022 |
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Aug 25, 2022 08:34
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ps1 horror game is right on, like total clock tower vibe throughout which is funny considering the actual clock tower. its been a while since i read yuureitou but the bits i were thinking as problematic was mostly the gender stuff, but i really just meant it as another way to say messy. i have a tendency to do that, i should get better at that.
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Aug 25, 2022 08:46
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Oh it definitely gets problematic in places (the cop who's into little boys getting treated as One of Us Good but Misunderstood Queers) but it's so completely all over the place that I'm not sure where I would draw the line in specific places, haha.
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Aug 25, 2022 08:50
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Libra posted:Oh it definitely gets problematic in places (the cop who's into little boys getting treated as One of Us Good but Misunderstood Queers) but it's so completely all over the place that I'm not sure where I would draw the line in places, haha. oh chirst i completely forgot about that i should do a reread
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Aug 25, 2022 08:51
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the lgbt thread problematic hall of fame: yuureitou murcielago himegoto juukyuusai no seifuku
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Libra posted:I guess what I'm realizing is that stories grounded in reality fill me with significantly more dread than horror stories, lol that completely makes sense to me tbh. reading realistic down-to-earth stories about trans people facing realistic down-to-earth problems always feels a little bit like staring directly into the sun, it's less painful if you put a filter of unreality over it
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Aug 31, 2022 07:53
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Weirdly cathartic.
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Aug 31, 2022 10:03
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Heck yeah, smash the gender barrier.
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Aug 31, 2022 11:42
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Praying for Fuji's success.
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Aug 31, 2022 12:27
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I'm going to put in a recommendation for X-Gender by Asuka Miyazaki here on account of them being exceptionally goony
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Aug 31, 2022 20:46
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what a menace i wish she was real RuBisCO fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Aug 31, 2022 |
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Aug 31, 2022 20:50
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she is the ideal, i love her and i am in love with her
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Aug 31, 2022 20:57
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Lass is a new series that just started, which sounds like my jam and also my marmalade. I Won 300 Million Yen in a Lottery so I Started Raising a Freeloader Pretty Girl is the title of a series that started out at some point and that I hadn't heard of. Also: 
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Aug 31, 2022 21:03
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Hey you know the meme from years ago. https://twitter.com/paxiti/status/999303992516624385?s=20&t=MtT0pPmaLpRUpyv-A3Lw4g https://twitter.com/paxiti/status/1002565525124206592?s=20&t=MtT0pPmaLpRUpyv-A3Lw4g Well the artist continued it this week. https://twitter.com/paxiti/status/1564624126278451206?s=20&t=MtT0pPmaLpRUpyv-A3Lw4g https://twitter.com/paxiti/status/1565051904115101696?s=20&t=MtT0pPmaLpRUpyv-A3Lw4g
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Thuryl posted:that completely makes sense to me tbh. reading realistic down-to-earth stories about trans people facing realistic down-to-earth problems always feels a little bit like staring directly into the sun, it's less painful if you put a filter of unreality over it Well, yeah. But for me, that’s what make the down-to-earth ones impactful. It’s more personal, easier to connect with. More painful, sometimes, but that’s important. Only getting fantasy and unreality is like only eating ice cream - you’ll get sick. Have some meat and potatoes. Unfortunately those are in short supply  though works like Stripping the Flesh are great, despite being tough reads 
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Nitrousoxide posted:Hey you know the meme from years ago. https://twitter.com/paxiti/status/1565349635467579393?s=20&t=AAGEkTzttp5H6o3vQBVQwg
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Pas is a good follow in general. I would recommend. https://twitter.com/paxiti/status/1385231956976148480?s=20&t=qQJDLnio6Iny3HE-95DFUg
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Sep 2, 2022 01:37
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Pas is a genius, I feel.
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Sep 2, 2022 01:42
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I didn't know this was the same artist who did that egg thinking emoji comic. Good artist https://twitter.com/paxiti/status/1018872960751415296/photo/1
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Looking at that artist and they retweeted this one shot which is very gender: https://mobile.twitter.com/squipkechi/status/1531283951423471616
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pas is like the artist who does like the more "meme-y" style of lgbt stuff i like in other news new Brides of Iberis she is sorta bad at this whole keeping things separated thing
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Snooze Cruise posted:pas is like the artist who does like the more "meme-y" style of lgbt stuff i like this chapter did the crab scissors meme to me
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Shiroc posted:I'm going to put in a recommendation for X-Gender by Asuka Miyazaki here on account of them being exceptionally goony they're great, it's like if the author of My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness were 50% less depressed and anxious but also 50% more of a weirdo to make up for it
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Cephas posted:I didn't know this was the same artist who did that egg thinking emoji comic. Good artist https://twitter.com/paxiti/status/1288474386995933185
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Sep 2, 2022 13:50
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Cute trans comics are the only thing blessed and pure in this corrupt, fallen world. I read Double House. Why is it so good?? Why is it so short?????
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i honestly think double house gets a lot out of being so short. its just an extremely short, extremely casual blip into a handful of people's lives. of course id have loved 500 chapters of it, but iunno, i think its neat.
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i started reading aoi hana. this was the first manga i ever read. i think i somehow missed the last volume. there's an author's note in like volume 3 that she felt uncomfortable early on, which i think kinda shows in Fumi/Sugi's relationship. aaaaaaaaaaaaaand i just saw this is the same author that did Wandering Son holy poo poo.
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Sep 3, 2022 23:01
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Shimura Takako manga is definitely A Thing. Often messy but extremely formative.
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I personally feel her stuff rarely holds together. Her casts feel disjointed and the focus is meandering. The stories often feel like they're not delivering on their promises as they wander here and there. Which I have seen readers invested in the lgbt elements express frustration in when the stories are there— instead of here. And often things just end up ringing hollow. Her works often feel like they want to occupy the space outside of genre fiction, but feel like they have little to say compared to an Ikoku Nikki for example.
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Sep 4, 2022 05:01
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Her manga aren't perfect, but I also feel like, she treats her characters gently and with dignity while the themes are about socially difficult topics, so I can't say anything too bad about her. Just that there are high school yuri manga and coming of age trans stories that I find more compelling by comparison. But I still thought Aoi Hana was very pretty and Hourou Musuko was an eye-opening manga in terms of seeing a realistic trans story being depicted with sensitivity. Her watercolors make me really happy whenever I see them
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Well I liked it but Pon-chan disappearing because there’s suddenly six new side characters was sad. Her brief plot moment at the end was absolutely heartwarming though and definitely a highlight of the later chapters. It definitely felt… restrained. I’d almost describe as like the internal dialogue was written in third person but like… I guess the characters not having the words for what is happening is rather the point of the story. I unno. No foul in the attempt, was nice throughout.
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wandering son is so lifeless, dull, and terminally uninterested in its own trans characters that i kind of hate it
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Mage & Demon Queen just keeps getting better. Val literally killed Malori during a night of rough sex. Malori was revived in the church completely naked.
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I honestly thought that was going to be some kind of fake out until last chapter.
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Sep 16, 2022 02:37
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DEATH BY SNU SNU.
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CAME AND WENT
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Libra posted:Oh it definitely gets problematic in places (the cop who's into little boys getting treated as One of Us Good but Misunderstood Queers) but it's so completely all over the place that I'm not sure where I would draw the line in specific places, haha. The communist segment was absolutely insane
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