I was a mess yesterday, for some reason. In FB I wrote:

"Anxiety is worse today and tonight than it's been for quite a while. I felt anxious and almost panicky driving around for errands this morning.I have my first appointment regarding voice therapy tomorrow morning at 9:15 and am anxious about everything and am having trouble relaxing enough to ( Read more... )

On a lighter note, have some gushing about yuri!

This scene at the end of the first volume of Our Teachers are Dating! Terano is wearing a sexy bra because she hopes that Hayama is going to see it. And once they have reached that state of undress, Hayama does see it and asks "Were you...hoping for this?"

Terano: "W- well, um... yeah..."

Hayama: " ( Read more... )

Some fluff:

I recently finished reading The Sheep Princess in Wolf's Clothing. The plot is ridiculous fluff and the world-building is thin (the castle in is Sheep Town in Sheep Country? Wolves come from Wolf Country? How do a sheep and a reindeer - from Reindeer Country of course - produce offspring who are regular sheep?). But I don't care. The ( Read more... )

I just read the first volume of Bloom Into You and I love it so much! *bounces* It feels a bit like a demisexual love story ( Read more... )

A few days ago, I bought the first volume of a manga series at the used book store near me. The synopsis described a cute teenage romance between a typical high school couple, with female lead's role as weapon of war in her spare time making things amusingly awkward at times.

That is not what this story is.

Rather than something resembling Ah! ( Read more... )

I enjoy spending my commutes reading through those 30-plus volumes of manga I picked up a while ago. I haven't read much yaoi before and learning the situations and themes that the stories repeatedly feature is interesting. There have been a few I really liked, and a few on the other end of the spectrum. A story about two high school boys realizing ( Read more... )

So...the Evanston Goodwill may now have a lot less yaoi manga. (And they're down one Sony 100 disc CD-changer too...)

I bought basically all of them that weren't part of a series (and a few that were). 27 (more) volumes for what I'd pay for two new at a store; I can live with that.

Now I need to figure out where to put my new audio toy.