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... )

I have read all of the small trove from my Saskatoon trip now and didn't dislike any of it! A brief write-up of them:

---How Do We Relationship: this was the other one on my wish list and it was a lot of fun. One reviewer said the two college women would really be far better as friends than lovers and I think that's probably true, but since this is ( Read more... )

I read the second volume of Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon last night and I loved it just as much as the first one. It's just. so. good.

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This has all been such an unexpected experience for me: finding and getting into yuri media. I have quite literally never in my life had such strong emotional reactions to any media I've ever read or watched ( Read more... )

I started reading Sweet Blue Flowers last night and was struck again (I felt the same way watching the anime) by how strongly I identify with Fumi. I compared that to how strongly I identify with a character who's sort of her polar opposite in some respects, Sayaka from Bloom Into You. It only took me a moment to make sense of that: Sayaka is who I ( Read more... )

I watched an episode of Kashimashi today and was struck again by how much it meant to me. Not just because of the focus on the transgender main character (who is not explicitly called transgender, but absolutely is). I was in this messed up situation with my ex and her boyfriend, and I wanted *so* badly for the love triangle in the show to work out ( Read more... )

Rambles about the book I'm reading ("Regarding Saeki Sayaka: volume 1") and love:

At the start of the book I'm reading, the main character, Sayaka, is in (the Japanese equivalent of) elementary school. A girl she takes swimming lessons with keeps wanting to talk to her, and swim together with her, and make changes to the way she behaves so that ( Read more... )

The last week has been pretty rough for me, mental health-wise. It's a significant contrast to the few weeks before that. Yesterday, I decided that a significant portion of it is due to Miriam's upcoming doctor's appointment on Tuesday. That test isn't done yet, and even if it was, it's taken so long to get anywhere. I've had really high hopes that ( Read more... )

I bought a network media player at the thrift store and it does exactly what I wanted: I can play music and videos from my computer on the TV and/or receiver. Great!

So I tested it out by watching the beginning (which turned into the first half or so) of Project A-ko, which I haven't seen any of since before transitioning, and I had Thoughts about ( Read more... )

I've watched a few episodes of Sweet Blue Flowers and I have Feelings about Fumi. She is essentially me in high school, and I empathize with her so deeply. And she is just as completely confused and scared about someone asking her out as I would have been.

I think it would be easy for her to be pushed into doing something she didn't want to by ( 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... )