Rachel 🩵 🍉

Guess who actually managed to read some stuff in September. INCLUDING finishing TWO series from my TBR (and dropping another.)

Honestly, that the manga is as good as it is, is really a testament to her strength as a writer. Like that she was still able to make it really enjoyable speaks to her skill more than anything.

💖 = absolutely incredible 10/10
🧡 = really good 8.5/10
💚 = good 7.5/10
🖤 = absolutely wild ride
🩵 = just okay
❌ = dropped

Okay I just finished Sakura-Hime. A really good read despite the fact that Tanemura really needed more space (and freedom) to do what she wanted with the series. If she'd been able to do what she wanted it'd be a stronger story but I still enjoyed it. Up next I'm reading Oresama Teacher

Tonight I'm going to finish Sakura-Hime. And frankly I think it's a testament to Tanemura's strength as a writer that this is as engaging as it is. There is a lot in it that could have and probably should have been developed more.

6/25 down.
💖 = absolutely incredible 10/10
🧡 = really good 8.5/10
🖤 = absolutely wild ride
🩵 = just okay
❌ = dropped

First Drop of the year. Genuinely there was just nothing I was interested in, the romance bored me, the premise bored me, the only interesting character was the psychic best friend and she was barely in it. Up next I'm reading Sakura Hime: the Legend of Princess Sakura.

When “Catch This Fascist” Doesn’t Mean What You Think, How far-right trolls use leftist symbols to hide in plain sight

Probably no one in mainstream media is going to fully investigate/explain what groypers (and their divisions) are because it’s not in their interest to. I know about it from being a target due to their intersections with historical denialists on socials. rachelandthecity.substack.com/p/when-catch...

thank god we’re all against political
violence

his father was unavailable for comment

5/25 down. What is a TBR if not aspirational?
💖 = absolutely incredible 10/10
🧡 = really good 8.5/10
🖤 = absolutely wild ride
🩵 = just okay

Finished Drowning Love. 1000/10, a masterpiece really. The art was incredible, the character's were so masterfully written, the story was so beautifully crafted. It really is as good as everyone says it is. Wish I could collect it physically. Next I'm reading ReRe: Hello

Honestly I generally prefer the show and the movie. The manga and movie are fairly close in major plot points.

I read some manga in August. Not a lot, but some.

Meredith needs to catch a break. GENUINELY upset that she finally opened herself up to a relationship post derek just to have that snatched from her.

Also I do genuinely think it's good story telling to show that love can happen more than once in Meredith's life.

Like I know Meredith doesn't leave the show when the new interns come in, but I do really think that they should have made Jo more of a deuteragonist, like she very easily could have been the "meredith" of her generation of interns, and I think the show would be stronger for it.

people on food assistance should be able to get a soda, hot food, a birthday cake from the bakery, or whatever the hell they want. other people's food choices are none of your business.

you should want your food-insecure neighbors to have the same freedom of choice that you do!

Ben really tells Bailey "what are you going to believe, what you can physically see on the camera, or what I'm telling you?" and then gets mad at her when she doesn't believe him.

Amelia should have broken up with Owen when she went over to his place and he was very drunk. Like frankly that is a wild violation of her trust, and she deserved better than that.

look. i’m not an april kepner fan. and she should have told jackson about the second pregnancy before the divorce because that’s when custody should be addressed. but also arizona shouldn’t have told jackson she was pregnant. like that is on april not her.

＼Rらびっとベーカリーへようこそ／

manga i read in the month of july

4/25 down. Up next I'm reading Drowning Love.
💖 = absolutely incredible 10/10
🧡 = really good 8.5/10
🖤 = absolutely wild ride
🩵 = just okay

well I am caught up to everything that's been translated for kashoku no shiro so far and I'd say that so far it's a pretty interesting supernatural manga. I do wish they'd develop the MLI more but tbf it's only been 25 chapters. I'd say it's worth a read if you like supernatural historical manga.

love wins 🌈

Amelia Shepherd is such a great teacher and doctor, and like the world's worst sister-in-law.

This man has selective hearing. I love it when two people will basically say they’re in love with each other and they cannot hear each other say it.

how I feel since 2016 or so