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I am absolutely here for this Flash Gordon thing. If it'd started with shenanigans like this I'd've been worried, but with a solid month of very good comic under its belt, it's earned some trust. We Are Reproducing is an award-winning series by author and essayist Uchida Shungicu. Starting in 1993 (and in some ways very much a product of its time) this is a frank, sex-positive, feminist look at pregnancy, childbirth, child rearing, and single motherhood. 
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We Are Reproducing  “Milk” here is “milk from a cow” as opposed to “breast milk” – the distinction is a lot less clumsy to talk about in Japanese, where the former is called “cow milk” as a matter of course.
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We Are Reproducing: timg'd for bathing nudity She talks about it a bit more later in the context of bumping into things, but Uchida is showing a (IME) pretty standard Japanese child-rearing view here of “if I stop the cat from biting him he’ll never learn that cats can bite”. The fleas I have no excuse for. Giant Ethicist fucked around with this message at 12:13 on Jan 6, 2024 |
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Samovar posted:Erm, shouldn't this be spoiler'd re. nudity?
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Flash Gordon is so drat good. We Are Reproducing  Once again, a reminder that flip-up sunglasses were very briefly kind of cool roundabout 1990. Also, a linguistic note: Japanese is one of those languages where calling someone who isn’t in your family by their “family role” is pretty common, especially with things like auntie or uncle or grannie or gramps (or, almost only ever if you’re trying to pick someone up, elder brother or elder sister), but also (as here) mom or dad. Also also, getting mad at a guy for trying to pick her up using her baby is a bit rich from someone who has drawn comics about using her baby to pick up guys.
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Some Guy TT posted:The Demons of Baseball I'm just glad the comic ended with Copper Ma being permanently and unequivocally owned while still being completely Copper Ma about it. I remember you said when the comic started that a lot could be said about Demons of Baseball as a lens into Korean society and geopolitics and so on of the era - I'd definitely be interested in hearing a bit about that now that the comic is done!
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Some Guy TT posted:Demons of Baseball!
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We Are Reproducing  Memories of my youth when many of our family drinking glasses were the little glass jars Hormel dried beef came in.
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”cliffhanger!” posted: The tenth and final chapter of Bardiche Hotel dropped today. Chapter 10: Shooting Star  
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We Are Reproducing moves into the Epilogue at the end of the first volume, and because the relative text-lightness allowed me to burn through translating it I’ll switch back to a couple pages a day to get through it.  Bardiche Hotel  
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Mokotow posted:Probably different in every country, but when we had our kid here in Poland six months ago, they wouldn’t let anyone one with a newborn not in a toddler car seat. You couldn’t just walk out carrying the baby. On the other hand I just learned there’s a legal exemption for taxis here, so that you can travel with a toddler on your lap without a car seat.
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We Are Reproducing   Not that we have seen Uchida showing a great track record on the “listening to doctors” front, but I am unsure to what, if any, degree, moderate drinking while pregnant was seen as OK in Japan in 1990. Bardiche Hotel  
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We Are Reproducing   Bardiche Hotel   “Sweet room” is more naturally a pun in Japanese, where it’s called a “suite room” instead of just a “suite”. I probably could have thought of a more elegant way to get the pun across given time.
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We Are Reproducing   Bardiche Hotel quote:  And that’s the end of Bardiche Hotel! As I think I’ve said, this has turned into one of my top two or three Q-Rais joints, it just maintains a really particular kind of storybook mood very well throughout, while letting Q-Rais exercise some of the weird surrealism muscles from Chako. As usual, if you want to reread or share it around I’ve got the whole thing up on MangaDex: https://mangadex.org/title/b5d63cfa-ea1d-4082-9537-7392a45daa4f/bardiche-hotel
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We Are Reproducing   Getting into a bit more detail with the thread-triggering formula incident here.
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I'm absolutely loving Mexikids. We Are Reproducing  
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CzarChasm posted:So babies are born with existential dread? They ponder if the next time they slip into gentle unconsciousness it may be the last? And if so, they want their last vision to be of something exciting, and not the mundane sights of their parents or four bare walls? That seems to be her thesis, yes. Kennel posted:They're just like me! 
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We Are Reproducing  End of the epilogue of book 1! I’ll start book 2 tomorrow, and go back to a page a day since we’re back to text-dense 4-panel strips which take longer to translate (for the first half of the book anyway – later she has some more of the chapter-length “narrative” stories).
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We Are Reproducing She says it’s fiction, but I think it must be “informed by reality” fiction – a good friend who helps me with translations sometimes (a single mother who, when her kid was small, was living at her family home) looked at this one and said basically “yep, it’s like that sometimes”.
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We Are Reproducing Is “you lose your appetite in summer” just a Japan thing? I can’t remember hearing it before I came here, but it’s just a completely accepted bit of conventional wisdom here so I have no idea how accurate or widespread the idea is.
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