20-something BL lover living in the Big Mikan. Editor by day, fangirl by night. All-around thing-doer for September Scanlations.
I don't tolerate rape apologia, sexism, racism, or homophobia of any flavor, so step off if you're coming to spread that in my neck of the woods.
The littlest things we know to be small = debut literary fiction
The dark wife: thriller, adapted into a Hulu original
The mailman’s niece = historical fiction
The mailman of Warsaw = also historical fiction but about war
The gate of wind = fantasy
The gate of wind and bones = young adult fantasy
A gathering of pelicans = mystery, part of a long running series that takes up a whole shelf at the library
The Group Project Partner Gambit = romance with a cartoon cover
Wendy Jenkins is Scared of Commitment = romance with a cartoon cover of gay people
The little wedding cupcake shop of hopes and dreams - chick lit with a picture of a cute house or shop on the front, differentiated from romances because the heroine buys a small business first.
The Murder Killing - dark cover with all caps white writing book, sold to absolutely millions of middle-aged men who don’t read much, nobody you know will ever buy this book, but it has sold more copies than there are people in Europe. Life is rich, and full of many minds unlike yours, that you will never really know.
Twigged: the secret life of leaves and twigs - book with a linocut cover about natural history, containing three teaspoons of research, and a lot of the author sadly staring at a wet twig and thinking artistically about climate change. A scene where they watch someone drop a toothpaste cap in a forest and write six pages about how they felt while witnessing it (unclear whether the author picks up the toothpaste cap). The teaspoons of research are perfectly good, but are unmistakably the same exact spoonfuls as the ones in scat: the secret life of badger droppings and forage: the secret life of hidden snacks and landmarks: the secret life of things you see and bees: the secret bees of lifey bees. You don’t learn anything new about any of it, but you do feel like you reading the book was providing therapy for the author, in addition to paying their mortgage for them, which was awfully nice and charitable of you and gives a warm glow.
Scrambly Jones and the Rainbow Ring of Detective Witches - earnest early-reader book with thirteen charming, diverse, superpowered children and their quirky animal companions crammed in various poses onto the silver and black cover, with the paper edges in bright colors. They are all having a great time. Tumblr is too old to notice these, and they evaporate from public consciousness in about ten minutes - they seem to be generated constantly, appearing and disappearing in favor of The Twiddly Twins and the Bark of Whimsigoth Wangles or CalamityClouds and the Vex Hex Codex- and from here, they seem to be what happens when you tell ChatGPT to change the names of the last one that was on the table five minutes ago, and feed the results to Midjourney for the cover. But there are ten-year-old kids out there, growing up now, for whom each one is the seed of some powerful childhood resonance, which will shape their destiny for years to come. We are not the audience: pass kindly by. Life is rich.
Hangalor: Darkness Begins - fifth in a series of five hundred licensed novels for a sci fi or fantasy property. There’s a white man in some kind of armor on the front, possibly several. You can buy a tabletop miniature of him, possibly several.
Doctor Gander’s School for Protagonists - A book about a magical school with very lax views on child endangerment once shaped a generation and made a stupid amount of money before the author turned out to be terrible, and we would like some of that money too, please.
Pounded in the Butt by a Running Joke - This one probably actually exists. God bless you, Mr. Tingle.
Nice Twice: a Jill Jane novel - a caper mystery with a random object on the cover, like a feather or a revolver or a piece of jewelry, or else just the title in big letters. There are some murders, several hot guys compete for a sassy woman’s attention, and everyone’s mother has read 9000 of these on Kindle.
apps that use pop-ups to try to trick you into turning on certain settings by quickly clicking yes literally never work on me. a pop up stops me dead in my shit and confuses the hell outta me, now i’m mad and there is no way i’m turning that stupid setting back on
So, recently, it came out that the Mappa CEO, Ohtsuka, said that YOI wasn’t a moneymaker for them–that while it was a hit fame-wise, it didn’t bring them much money, downplaying the absolute cultural phenomenon it became during its run just because they were at the end of the line for receiving profits from it (it made a lot of money, just Mappa was at the bottom of the production committee and thus was the last to get handouts).
If they don’t see YOI as something that’s going to make them money, they aren’t likely to invest in it (e.g. no movie)–but in reality it’s their fault for not negotiating a bigger piece of the pie (and why they HAVE done so in their major productions since then, like Chainsaw Man).
SPOILERY REPORT FOR THE FIRST THREE EPISODES OF YURI!!! ON ICE
HERE THERE BE SPOILERS! TURN BACK NOW IF YOU VALUE YOUR UNSULLIED BRAIN! This report will thoroughly spoil the first THREE episodes of the series, so you’ll not see any new content until November if you read this! You have been waaaaaarned…
YOI is back in my orbit as people (rightfully) rail against Mappa and their shitty comments on this amazing series, so I’m bringing back my report on the first three episodes, as I was one of the very first people in the world to get to see this show when I got tickets to a special three-episode preview of the series a month before it actually aired.
I went into it thinking it would be a cute probably slashy sports anime (I was wholly expecting to ship the two Yu(u)ris, since the trailer seemed to be focused on them), and what I got absolutely blew me away. I was trembling with shock and joy, so you should go reread my first thoughts, not yet realizing what it would turn into…!
A: well, a celebration of how strangely cursed our little corner of the internet can be. It’s also a community lead funding. Push. Tumblr costs money to run, if we want to keep our little corner of the internet it’s weird unique self, we’re going to have to foot part of the bill.
Q: when is crab day?
A: July 29th. I would have preferred a slightly longer lead time to get the word out better, But we work with what we can get and July 29th has already gotten some traction in other groups.
Q: how do I participate?
A: buy a mutual crabs, or if you’re broke, crab post crab memes.
Q: why crabs?
A: because admit it. most of us would love to get or give crabs to a mutual.
As we now know, Tumblr is $30 million dollars in debt. Oops. Tumblr has announced some major (and unpopular) changes to the site in their attempt to get back above water. The alternative is that Tumblr ceases to exist. But maybe we can change that…
How:
There are 327 million unique tumblr visits per month, and almost 500 million active accounts. If 10 million unique users (or less, if we bought more than one) bought or gifted Crabs from the Tumblr store, we could knock out Tumblr’s debt easily. Buy crabs!
When:
July 29, 2023 is Crab Day, running through August 5 (for anyone who can’t log on that day) as Crab Week!
Who:
Everyone!! If you truly can’t afford to participate with a $3 crab, (or other item from the shop) post crab memes!
Time for Tumblr users to rise again and surprise everyone…
