Stitch Reads Smolder (Anita Blake #29) – Chapters 22-24

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I think my biggest question as I started this segment of Smolder is “are Graham and Anita gonna smash?”.

As we covered last time, the Anitaverse is not kind to characters of color and their characters get assassinated in a way that white male characters usually don’t… unless they (allegedly) represent one of Hamilton’s former loves. Graham is one of those characters that has never felt like he was respected in the narrative. He was a character who was mildly annoying and almost instantly removed from the running for a shot at being one of Anita’s sweeties… and it was frustrating because Graham is not good enough to be a boo but serial rapist and murderer Olaf might be? It’s infuriating.

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Happy Sad Birthday To Me

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Barely Edited Transcript:

0:00:00.6: There’s this kind of sick one-two punch where I get to go, “Today is my birthday, and tomorrow is the one year anniversary of my dad dying,” and it doesn’t feel great being a part of the Dead Parents Club… Which has incredible members, many of my friends, both online and offline, have lost a parent. And aside from all of the repression I’ve been doing, another reason I haven’t completely lost my goddamn shit in the year since, despite everything, is because I had those friends to look at and model my behavior and my reaction over this. But it is difficult. My dad died the day after my birthday. Like, I’m pretty sure it was midnight or after midnight. And there was this just deep sense of bitterness in me over all of this, that it’s only now after he’s gone that I’ve been able to move out of my mom’s apartment, that I’ve been able to move to kind of a new region, that I’ve been able to travel by myself to places, other places.

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[Fic Friday] Once Upon A Time in Busan

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“I love you, Jungkook. Let’s get old together and get a cat and some fish and live happily ever after.”

Title: Once Upon a Time in Busan

Rating: Explicit

Pairing: Jeon Jungkook/Park Jimin

Fandom: BTS RPS

Author: 0nlyamemory, greyeyesandprettylies

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Summary:

Park Jimin and Jeon Jungkook have never quite fit in. Not into their roles or the expectations that their families have for them. But maybe, with a little work, they can be the right fit for each other.

Transcript:

{Will come eventually!)

Some off the cuff musings on horror

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0:00:00.5: “History of Horror”, and “Horror Noire” are two of my favorite things to consume during October. Both are documentaries. In the case of “History of horror”, it’s a docuseries branching across three seasons. But “History of Horror” is like… we’re frenemies, “Horror Noire” is really where it’s at. For me, I love Robin Means Coleman’s book. And when I heard that it was getting the documentary film, I was like, oh, well, yes. And I watch both things every year on Twitter. I used to live tweet and I will port those threads over to my website whenever I remember that’s a thing I wanna do because I actually really loved the experience of tweeting through my experiences with media. And I can write an essay sure. But the rapid fire pace of here’s a thought, here’s a thought, here’s a thought were like really fun.

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Ladies, Is It Feminist To Mostly Write/Read About Men?

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As always, I’m working on A Longer/More In-Depth Piece About This, but I am, to quote Jungkook in the bridge for Dis-ease, “sick and tired” – I’m awake for 18/24 hours at least for today. So you’ll have to vacuum up the crumbs in the interim, my bad. 

Late last month, the poet Richard Siken posted a tweet asking “So are there any women out there that ever read a Siken poem and imagined that the characters were a girl and a boy?” It is such a comical question because if you’ve read his work, you know that it’s really difficult to do anything other than a specific gay reading of them because of who he is and what his works about. but what I find fascinating is this one response that has gotten a bunch of likes and repost that  somehow makes this about male/male fiction?

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Birthmonth Giveaway 2023

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It’s time for my regularly scheduled birthmonth giveaway because I’m trying to get everyone on the same brainrot wavelengths as me!

This month, one lucky person can win the first volume of MADK, Tokyo Ghoul, and either The Husky & His White Cat Shizun or The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System (depending on the winner’s wants)…. Or the cost of the print copies of those books so you can go and get them yourself if you don’t use Amazon/aren’t in the US.

(And if you’re surprised that Jujutsu Kaisen isn’t one of the giveaway offerings, it’s solely because the characters I’m most obsessed with don’t show up until volume 3!)

To enter, comment with the best thing you’ve read all year! It can be anything from fic to webtoons to poetry!

The gveaway will close October 30th and I’ll get in touch with the winner between October 31st and November 3rd.

[Album Review] D-Day

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BTS SUGA’s D-Day is the conclusion to a trilogy that opened with his 2016 mixtape Agust D, but truly started back in Daegu when the rapper was struggling to survive and was just getting into the music scene.

Like with Agust D and 2020’s D-2, D-Day is another musical journey through SUGA’s thoughts and his state of mind. So far, all of the solo material that BTS has released has been incredibly personal and deeply relatable and with SUGA, you kind of get that taken to the next level with this incredibly passionate and powerful mixtape.

Honestly, he has a kind of knack for tearing his own heart out and rapping while (metaphorically) bleeding all over the place.

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[Let’s Talk Tropes] Breaking The Genre Rules in BL

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Trope: Breaking BL Series

Trope Symptoms: bisexuals don’t exist, binaries abound, gay dudes in canon are now heterosexual in the transmigrator’s real life, tragic backstory as a reason for being gay, female transmigrator, stolen capture targets, a series so homophobic and gay at the same time,

Genre/Sub-genre: Boys Love (sort of), romantic fantasy

As Seen In: I Ran Away From the Hunter, I’m Engaged to an Obsessive Male Lead, Taming My Villainous Brother, Surviving As A Maid, Touch My Brother and You Die, The Princess of Convenient Plot Devices, Let’s Hide My Little Brother, I Became the Younger Sister of the Regretful Obsessive Male Lead, I Became The Servant Who Received The Crown Prince’s Obsession, This BL Novel Is Ruined Now

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We Need To Talk About Get Schooled

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#greenscreen i am so disapointed in this manhwa i really wouldnt have thought THIS one would go THAT far 🧍🏽‍♀️ #fypシ #manhwa #getschooled #webtoon #getschooledwebtoon #hwajinna #viral #webtoonrecommendation

♬ original sound – rin☆

If you’re an avid webtoon reader, you may have caught the images from and responses to Get Schooled chapter 125.

The chapter utilizes racial slurs, a Black character being racist against Koreans, drawn along the lines of racist caricature, and subject to antiblack racism.

The chapter started going viral on TikTok and Tumblr and, about 24 hours ago, was pulled from the English version of Webtoon. (It is of course still up on the Korean version and there’s next to no chance that it will be pulled there.)

Here’s the thing about Get Schooled: if you know anything about modern South Korean conservatism, this won’t be a surprise to you. If you’ve actually been paying attention to this webtoon – which has used a radfem (but not… technically in the way online leftist US-ians use it to stand in for “terf”) elementary school teacher as a creepy bad guy in one arc – Get Schooled kind of… highlights a lot of concerns of the modern day conservative (male) youth especially in Korea.

Obviously.

It is a Korean webtoon.

I stopped reading the series during the arc with the “radfem” teacher because, as someone who’s friends with several Korean feminists and who keeps an eye on the news/feminist thought, theory, and practice there… I was able to recognize the absolutely unsubtle dogwhistles and bullhorns at play in that arc.

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Once Again No Webtoon Wednesday…

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I know everyone mourns when I don’t provide them with new webtoons to be irresponsibly invested in (like Lout of Count’s Family now on Tapas as well) but uh…

This time it’s because I am undergoing immense financial stress and I’m trying to speed run through hustle culture, figure out if floribamageorgia has loan sharks I can link up with, and eat/drink my feelings. 

If you’re on Patreon, you may have seen where I finally had an update about my current housing situation. I mentioned it in the GFM I’m doing for my sister and the niecelings, that my apartment was giving me trouble. The trouble is… mold everywhere in my apartment at super high levels that have been impacting my health and quality of life beyond that. 

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Manga Monday: The Foxy Mouse’s Romance

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Creator: Hanasawa Namio

Demographic: BL/Boys Love

Themes: Omegaverse, Romantic Comedy, Workplace Romance, Editor/Author, Predator/Play, Fear Play , Hybrids/Beastmen

Status: Ongoing (with English Simulpub) 

Published By: Brite Publishing via Renta

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Official Summary:

Sachio Kurumizawa is an omega mouse manga artist, and Ukano, the alpha fox, is his editor… but Sachio can’t help but feel uncomfortable around Ukano.

He always seems to look at Sachio with predatory eyes.

One night, Sachio goes into heat at an omega-only bar, and Ukano saves him.

Unfortunately, Sachio has no idea how long he’ll stay in heat… and then, Ukano offers to help him stop it.

Will Sachio say yes to getting between the sheets with Ukano despite his terror of being devoured…!?

Thinky Thoughts

Omegaverse is obviously a majorly important thing in my life. I am always reading it, thinking about it, and writing it. I only haven’t put out some horrifying Mahito/Junpei omegaverse yet because there are so many other, worse AUs that I’ve been busy with.

Anyway, I got into The Foxy Mouse’s Romance because… I saw a TikTok about it. For a site that punishes you for basically wiggling a toe out of step, the social media platform sure has become the main first site/sight for me when it comes to spicy webtoons and manga.

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