… Because I’m busy reading webtoons in a nice patch of sun.
I’m in an action fantasy mood right now so current reads are the returner dungeon fantasy My S-Class Hunters and… whatever is going on in Eleceed.
Happy reading!
Late August Updates
I was one of the guests on Fansplaining’s 8th Anniversary Podcast Episode!
Here’s a quote from my segment:
One of the things that I’ve noticed that has both affected me as an individual and fandom at large is that fans are actively entering the fight against racism in fandom on the side of racism. They’re actively choosing to defend racists, defend racist tropes, to support people who are doing racist behaviors, and it is out of this sense that they need to protect their space and their energy.
You can listen to the full thing HERE
I’m running a GoFundMe to try and help my sister and the niecelings get a little more financial stability as the apartment they’re in now is tiny and rundown. I just updated the GFM to let people know that while we’re off to a great start, we’re on a tighter deadline because the apartment complex’s new leasing company is raising the rent to almost $2000 a month so we don’t even have the cushion of the rent amount they were used to.
If you can share, donate, cajole any random celebs you know to donate… please do so?
Because I’d do it in a heartbeat, but my own apartment is currently trying to kill me so like… I’m not able to help my family the way I wish I could.
You can find the GFM HERE.
I’ve got a monthly newsletter that’s pay-to-read! It’s for NSFW/R18 content I’m reading, writing, or watching and while I will be posting the wildly out of pocket content I’ve been reading – I’m serious about how important FAKKU has become to me – there will always be clear warnings!
I’m working on the second installment to go live on the first of September but you can read the first one here!
And I’m actively looking for a career change! If you know anyone hiring for something I can do but that’s not pop culture or fandom journalism, please hit me up. I really want a career change and to not be beholden to the internet’s trends. If I’m gonna get shouted at all the time, I want it to be for stuff that people agree matters and for an actual living wage.
Thanks!
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[Manga Monday] My Girlfriend Gives Me Goosebumps!
Title: My Girlfriend Gives Me Goosebumps!
Creator: Shunsuke Iino
Demographic: Shonen
Themes: Psychological, Thriller, Drama, Romance, Slice of Life, Stalking, Yandere
Status: Ongoing (with English Simulpub)
Published By: MangaPlus/Shueisha
Official Summary:
Meet Haruka Kawatsuji, a young boy who miraculously survived a fall from his apartment’s balcony as a child. Unfortunately, despite his best efforts to find that same thrill in sports and horror movies, he’s never quite managed to feel as alive since. However, that may all be about to change in a fateful encounter with one very eccentric girl!
Thinky Thoughts
I don’t have a ton to say about this as I’m reading it right now. Like as I write this, I have my phone on my bed and I’m powering through the chapters. Normally, I try to recommend things I’m thinking about for a a while or in some serious depth but… with this? I had to recommend it because this series is fully a freak for freak relationship of a kind I rarely see outside of R18 media or seinen series.
Read More »Remember You
Right around the time that my dad got sick (like when he moved in with us and we realized how sick he was), I’d restarted one of my regular rewatches of Adventure Time.
One of the things that will never leave me is the way that the episode with the song “remember you” (I think it’s also called that) captured what it felt like to lose your dad when he’s right in front of you.
As I watched this episode, even playing the song for him at one point, I realized that my dad was Simon and I was Marceline. He lost himself despite his best efforts and there was nothing I could do to help him remember himself. All I could do was remember him.
I really love this song and I always will, but I ugly cry every time at Marceline’s helplessness and the realization that Ice King will never be the Simon she loved again and that there’s nothing she can do to change it because the thing that has changed him so very terribly… Is the only thing keeping him in her life even in this diminished state.
I probably shouldn’t be re-watching the songs when I’m in an emotionally fragile state (aka always), but watching some of Adventure Time with my dad is some of the last memories I have of him before he ended up in the hospital and then in the care facility he was at before he died. Remembering him is all I can do.
And it’s really weird to miss someone who was a little bit distant from me because of how he was raised, but so much is happening and I keep thinking about how he’s the parent I could have told us all too he would have listened, and he would have supported me.
And I don’t have that anymore and I never will again.
[Webtoon Wednesday] Lies Become You
Title: Lies Become You
Author/Story: Seoru (original novel) and Winter (the adapted story)
Artist: C.MU, Danbi, and Soo
Rating: Slightly Mature (some steamy moments, but this is R15)
Genre: romantic fantasy, magic, elementals, betrayal, Egyptian-inspired setting, romance, marriage of convenience, contract relationship, politics, historical
Hosted On: Manta Comics
Official Link(s): English
Official Summary:
Once an enemy, now a husband?
Femme fatale Veronica is sentenced to death for obsessing over the prince. With her life now in danger, she boards a ship to escape, unaware that it belongs to her archnemesis, the alluring Prince Halid. He agrees to help her, but only on the condition that she pretends to be his wife!
My Thoughts:
In the introduction to Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism, he notes that he “looked especially at cultural forms like the novel, which I believe were immensely important in the formation of imperial attitudes, references, and experiences”. He goes on to say that:
“I do not mean that only the novel was important, but that I consider it the aesthetic object whose connection to the expanding societies of Britain and France is particularly interesting to study. The prototypical modern realistic novel is Robinson Crusoe, and certainly not accidentally it is about a European who creates a fiefdom for himself on a distant non European Island.”
I have wanted to cite Edward Said in an analysis of Lies Become You from the second that I saw the first chapter of this Korean webtoon and noped out of it last year.
Read More »Unasked For Fast and the Furious Omegaverse Thoughts
There’s not a lot of omegaverse content for the Fast and Furious franchise.
Is that a blessing or a curse?
Read More »[Manga Monday] Godchild
Title: Godchild
Creator: Kaori Yuki
Demographic: Shojo
Themes: historical fiction, European setting, crime and punishment, murder mysteries, supernatural, incest, romance, horror, fairytales, mad science, and tragedy
Status: Complete and fully translated
Published By: VIZ (North America), Hakusensha (Japan)
Official Summary:
Deep in the heart of 19th Century London, a young nobleman named Cain walks the shadowy cobblestone streets of the aristocratic society in which he was born. Forced to become an Earl upon the untimely death of his father, Cain assumes the role of head of the Hargreaves, a noble family with a dark past. With Riff, his faithful manservant, and Mary Weather, his 10-year-old adopted sister, Cain investigates the mysterious crimes that seem to follow him wherever he goes.
Thinky Thoughts
The sequel to the original Earl Cain series (first published in 1991), Kaori Yuki’s Godchild is one of the single most formative pieces of media in my life. Honestly, between this and Angel Sanctuary, Kaori Yuki’s body of work has actually shaped a huge portion of my interests and personality. Even my early writing as a tadpole owes to her brilliant worldbuilding, capable writing, and gorgeous art.
Read More »[Untitled Scott Blogging]
Fandom really is a place where media literacy, critical thinking. and empathy go to die… especially when characters or people of color that fandom doesn’t like are concerned
Because tell me why this moomoo (the OP of the post) is calling Scott McCall “an antagonist (who’s actually a protagonist bc of the unreliable narrator and the moral greyness of the plot)”.
Read More »[Fic Friday] (and your love is) standing next to me
“You can see the kid’s cursed energy, but you can’t see the worm.”
Title: (and your love is) standing next to me
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Fushiguro Toji/Reader
Fandom: Jujutsu Kaisen
Author: shidouryusei
Summary:
“I wanna meet your son.”
You regret what you’ve said the second the words leave your lips.
“Why the hell do you wanna meet my kid?”
Transcript:
(Literally in progress… but I don’t feel like editing it right now. Whoops!)
Stitch on Stats
Centrumlumina dropped her 2023 AO3 stats post and I of course have thoughts.
Read More »[Webtoon Wednesday] Monochrome Rumor
Title: Monochrome Rumor
Author/Story: Chiyul (original novel) and NORANG
Artist: Momoko
Rating: Slightly Mature (for themes of exploitation and abuse, side stories on Ridibooks for the novel are R19)
Genre: contemporary romance, thriller/mystery, BL, second chance at life, celebrities, found family, crime/criminals
Hosted On: Tappytoon
Official Link(s): English
Official Summary:
After being involved in a car accident together, Hajin is asked by Sihyeon to take care of Sihyeon’s younger sister after his death. Hajin never expected that to mean he would wake up in the hospital in Sihyeon’s body instead of his own. Even worse, Sihyeon was an infamous idol who would do anything for money, had multiple sponsors, and was apparently about to abandon the boy band he was a part of to sign a new contract with a larger agency. At first, Hajin believes the public’s negative opinion about Sihyeon, but the more he learns about Sihyeon’s miserable circumstances, the more enraged he becomes. Determined to get revenge in Sihyeon’s stead, Hajin decides to reach out to an old acquaintance for help. However, the deeper he goes into his revenge plot, the more people he becomes entangled with…
Read More »Of all the Lovecraft reply guys on social media…
I have to say that the most annoying one I’ve dealt with is the dude who is still at it inserting himself in every single conversation about Lovecraft that speaks on his period atypical racism (as a person and in his work) and getting increasingly rude and angry about it.
(Last year, I think, he insulted my intelligence over a sentence about Lovecraft’s impact… A single sentence in an article about JK Rowling. And this was while he was following me. He didn’t term search, he wasn’t a new follower. He’s just an ass.)
And he’s still at it, I believe? Still rushing to defend Lovecraft from being called a racist – which includes making excuses for his cat’s name, racism in correspondence, racism in his work, and anecdotes told about him.
I still wonder if he thinks like… If he defends Lovecraft hard enough, that he’ll get something out of it? Because I can’t imagine riding that hard for such a mediocre dead writer?
No Manga Monday today…
Because Tapas dropped 45 chapters of My Dear Friend and 60 chapters of A Villainess for the Tyrant and I don’t have good time management skills!
[Webtoon Wednesday] Not-Sew-Wicked Stepmom
Title: Not-Sew-Wicked Stepmom
Author/Story: Yir (who wrote the original novel)
Artist: Gu-Raeng Mo
Rating: All-Ages (but with some jokes/plot points about sex and references to CSA in Sabrian’s backstory)
Genre: Transmigration, Shoujo, Romance, Childcare novel, fairytale retelling, fantasy
Hosted On: Tapas
Official Link(s): English
Official Summary:
Fairytale stepmothers are notoriously wicked. But after a children’s clothing designer is reborn as young Princess Blanche’s stepmom, she’s determined to break the mold and shower her daughter with love. Now she just has to convince the girl’s cold-hearted father to do the same. In her quest to make a happier home for Blanche, Abigail begins to uncover secrets and schemes within the palace. Will devious forces tear the Freidkins apart, or can Abigail stitch them back into a family?
My Thoughts:
Here’s some unexpected Stitch Lore ™ for you: I actually ranked Snow White at the bottom of my favorite fairytales… up until I read the first volume of this series’ novelization a couple years ago. I read the first volume and went “wait… maybe Snow White deserves rights”.
I love this webtoon. Deeply.
Read More »[Stitch After Dark] Round One
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