Jacques Must Really Like Dir En Grey (純粋; derogatory)

From what I can tell, it stems from the desire to make BL “queer media” rather than “women’s media” and like. I get why people want that but it’s a pretty flawed way to look at Japanese media generally and usually just gets back to misogyny.

And uh. Oh. Oh my. Wild if true.

I wonder if the folks running the panel are like that?

No idea about the age gap thing though cause you’re right, they’re all vaguely young teens from what I remember.

There’s a line of thought in anglophone shoujo and BL discourse that really wants to separate the two or act like BL is all just smut/self-indulgence with no impact on the development of shoujo historically. Often you see it in stuff like “Banana Fish isn’t BL cause BL is a romance genre”…

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im obsessed

That’s so wild to me. It’s one of the most important works in shoujo manga, not just BL.

シャアム

Yikes.

Is this at Ota?

Is it weird this makes me more okay with it. Like I’d trust something that has an existential freak out periodically more.

I left kinda because 2009 and the tuition was hard to afford. Kinda because I got a job in New York on my AAS. Kinda because it was weird for me, pasty Wasian that I am, to be the “ethnic” representation in any given room.

Maybe it’s improved in 16 years but also. The vibes were rancid.

One year UMN drop out here—

Good for them.

Godspeed.

I’ve been re listening to Pierrot’s discography and I (as in me, the person who lacks any chill) did think Kirito was going too hard back when I was 13-16. And now I’m like no this is the correct level of fucking tired and done one should be in their mid-30s.

I really need to catch a Pierrot live.

But where might I acquire. I had a birthday recently. I keep telling people I am planning a party I was just too busy.

Some gold detailing above the Oval Office entrance.

Some gold detailing at the Hôtel de la Marine

Some gold detailing at the Hôtel de la Marine

Some gold detailing at the Hôtel de la Marine

the lack of crispness in the detailing of this is so funny to me. truly Temu level shit

Pic 1: Oval Office
Pics 2, 3, and 4: Hôtel de la Marine

LRS— If you’ve ever enjoyed a wacky aesthetic of mine, there’s a 65% chance I am riffing on one X’s guitarists in some way or another. I can’t play guitar for shit. But fortunately hide was as much of a visual artist and fashion icon as he was a musician.

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If you thought the song in today's episode of Dan Da Dan was killer, you owe it to yourself to listen to the band and song they were very clearly inspired by. The wildly popular Visual Kei rock band X Japan, and their certified gold song Kurenai.

So I've been writing adn drawing these four page kids stories for close to four years now, and I can tell you what I've learned and enjoyed about this process

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Oof.

"It isn't just porn, it's LGBT+ media, too!"

yeah but also the porn. from the freak shit to the vanilla. the first porn I beat my freshly pubescent meat to was tentacle porn. i was born in these trenches.

it's porn, it's sex workers, it's LGBT+ media, it's anything they don't like. Stand together

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Alex Degrasse is Elise Stefanik’s main mouthpiece and is pretty hated by journalists in upstate NY.

Do I find it annoying when it’s on a platform that doesn’t need it? A bit. I mainly assume the person using it is young and try to get their point without yelling at clouds.

Not surprising really! But a white creator might be able to talk about politics without seeing a dip in views whereas a creator of color might actually get shadow banned or otherwise algorithmically demoted. So yes, some people might have to use coded language to get their message out.

LRS— I’m also going to note for the casual user of more algorithmic platforms, especially if you look like me, you can get away with more ~charged~ speech and not mincing words. But before TOCCA fizzled we did get some pretty good evidence that minority groups are far more policed.

i agree but i think referring to this as the "tiktokification" of words is unfair. this happened on tumblr, pretty quickly after yahoo bought it out. people online have been trying to evade censorship in creative, and frankly obnoxious, ways for some time. (1/3)

Reminder that some of the JJK Zero cast made less than I did as a teenager doing additional voices.

Incidentally, my rate as a teenager was also better than this.