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腐男子ゲイ日系人です。 Queer fudanshi and wordy bastard || he/him || asks open || About

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Happy 2 year birthday to this fucking masterpiece, the most important video on the entire internet.

(2019/06/13)

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Tumblr or myself may be dead by 2020/06/13 but this magnum opus cannot die.

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What is Tsundere mean?

For the blissfully unaware: this ask is probably in reference to a controversy from the past few weeks surrounding the English-language version of Fata Morgana, a visual novel from 2016 (original Japanese release in 2012).

Here is a handy thread by Kastel on Twitter explaining the whole debacle. In short: nerdy fanboys weebs who don’t give two flying fucks about Fata Morgana, and who never noticed this before, blew up at the English translators because they think they incorrectly translated a line that contained the word “tsundere”. Most of these angry guys have never played the game before, aren’t fluent in Japanese, and have no translation or localization experience.

Furthermore, they think this is all part of the translator’s “foreign feminist anti-man agenda”, even though the Japanese developers themselves stand by the translation and stated that it’s closer to their original intent than the usual, literal meaning of “tsundere”.

I think it’s extremely arrogant of Western fanboys to harass the translators for doing their job, and to assume that they have more of an authority on the developers’ intentions and artistic vision than the devs themselves.

Just in case Anon isn’t being snarky and actually wants to know the literal meaning of “tsundere”, here is its Wikipedia page.

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#ReadMangaTogether for free during quarantine!

Are you looking for something to read while at home during social isolation? Do you want to read free manga but still support the authors?

The official English-language manga licensing services, Manga Planet and Futekiya, have made access to their online manga library FREE for the month of May 2020, for their #ReadMangaTogether at home campaign!

Manga Planet Library is an online subscription service for general manga. They have a modest library of 22 titles so far, including a collection of manga adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft’s stories.

I don’t use this service myself, so I can’t comment much on it, I’m afraid. But the titles do look interesting, and it’s free this month! You can also preview pages for free without needing to create an account or sign up.

Click here for more info!

Futekiya Library is an online subscription service specialized in Boys’ Love (yaoi) manga. They have over 100 BL titles of diverse genres, art styles, and ratings.

I’m a big fan of BL, and I really like Futekiya. Normally, it’s $6.99 US/month for access to their whole collection, which is a steal compared to buying physical manga (especially if you need to import it, like I do). As with Manga Planet, you can preview pages for free without creating an account or signing up, to see if it interests you.

I personally liked the reader and the site interface, and it also has some very nifty features. The level of explicit content is indicated by a “spicy” score of 1-5 little pepper icons, and you can search and filter titles by tags and content warnings, so you can find what you want and exclude what you don’t want to see!

Click here for more info!

Both Manga Planet and Futekiya have blogs where they regularly post about the manga and anime industry, and hold community surveys. They also do community activities and announcements on Twitter and Instagram.

To get access to the libraries, follow the links above for Manga Planet or Futekiya, and follow the instructions to create an account and sign up. Unfortunately, you do need to enter your credit card information to complete the sign up process.

Payment is carried out by Stripe. Access to the services is free until May 31st, 2020. After that, it will revert back to being $6.99/month for each service. Note that the subscriptions for Manga Planet and Futekiya are separate.

If you sign up for the free month but don’t wish to continue using the paid service afterwards, make sure to cancel your subscription before midnight on the 31st!

Obs: I am not affiliated with Fantasista, inc., Manga Planet, or Futekiya in any way. I just really like Futekiya and am really happy to have more accessible and affordable ways to read BL manga! And this free month is a great opportunity to read titles that you normally wouldn’t.

Currently, I’m reading Yuki to Matsu, which is very beautiful and I’m enjoying a lot. I highly recommend it, though it is NSFW.

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#ReadMangaTogether for free during quarantine!

Are you looking for something to read while at home during social isolation? Do you want to read free manga but still support the authors?

The official English-language manga licensing services, Manga Planet and Futekiya, have made access to their online manga library FREE for the month of May 2020, for their #ReadMangaTogether at home campaign!

Manga Planet Library is an online subscription service for general manga. They have a modest library of 22 titles so far, including a collection of manga adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft’s stories.

I don’t use this service myself, so I can’t comment much on it, I’m afraid. But the titles do look interesting, and it’s free this month! You can also preview pages for free without needing to create an account or sign up.

Click here for more info!

Futekiya Library is an online subscription service specialized in Boys’ Love (yaoi) manga. They have over 100 BL titles of diverse genres, art styles, and ratings.

I’m a big fan of BL, and I really like Futekiya. Normally, it’s $6.99 US/month for access to their whole collection, which is a steal compared to buying physical manga (especially if you need to import it, like I do). As with Manga Planet, you can preview pages for free without creating an account or signing up, to see if it interests you.

I personally liked the reader and the site interface, and it also has some very nifty features. The level of explicit content is indicated by a “spicy” score of 1-5 little pepper icons, and you can search and filter titles by tags and content warnings, so you can find what you want and exclude what you don’t want to see!

Click here for more info!

Both Manga Planet and Futekiya have blogs where they regularly post about the manga and anime industry, and hold community surveys. They also do community activities and announcements on Twitter and Instagram.

To get access to the libraries, follow the links above for Manga Planet or Futekiya, and follow the instructions to create an account and sign up. Unfortunately, you do need to enter your credit card information to complete the sign up process.

Payment is carried out by Stripe. Access to the services is free until May 31st, 2020. After that, it will revert back to being $6.99/month for each service. Note that the subscriptions for Manga Planet and Futekiya are separate.

If you sign up for the free month but don’t wish to continue using the paid service afterwards, make sure to cancel your subscription before midnight on the 31st!

Obs: I am not affiliated with Fantasista, inc., Manga Planet, or Futekiya in any way. I just really like Futekiya and am really happy to have more accessible and affordable ways to read BL manga! And this free month is a great opportunity to read titles that you normally wouldn’t.

Currently, I’m reading Yuki to Matsu, which is very beautiful and I’m enjoying a lot. I highly recommend it, though it is NSFW.

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Loving all these recs! It’s giving me good reading material for quarantine lol. I’m curious what are some of your favorite manga of all time?

That’s so awesome! By the way, if you’re looking for more manga to read during this time, the subscription sites Manga Planet (general manga) and Futekiya (BL) are making their service available for free this month (May 2020)! I’ll make a separate post about it soon.

It’s very hard to choose favourite manga, especially since I read most of them a long time ago, and I don’t know if they would still hold up. But some of my faves are:

Devilman by Nagai Go 💖

Akira by Otomo Katsuhiro

Sailor Moon by Takeuchi Naoko 💖

Meitantei Conan by Aoyama Gosho 💖

Monster by Urasawa Naoki

Inuyasha by Takahashi Rumiko

Hunter X Hunter by Togashi Yoshihiro 💖

Fullmetal Alchemist by Arakawa Hiromu 💖

Ouran High School Host Club by Hatori Bisuko

Bakuman by Ohba Tsugumi and Obata Takeshi

Mob Psycho 100 by One 💖

I’m very much a normie when it comes to non-BL manga and anime, as you can probably tell. I also feel the need to point out that Devilman is trashy as hell, and especially the first chapters are of questionable quality, but it’s so important to me and to the history of manga that I would be remiss not to recommend it.

I hope you have a good time reading, anon! Have fun, and stay safe.

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I took one look at the art style of MADK and your comments of the bois in it, and new I HAD to read it. Any other manga recs of this type of hell yeah? Or with similar themes?

I’m so glad! It’s an amazing manga, but it’s hard to recommend it unless I know the person really well and know that they can handle it.

Here are some of my personal recs, but if anyone reading this post has recommendations for similar manga (psychological horror, monsters, demons, artsy guro, etc.), please share them!

Jimba (Horse-person) by Sumiyoshi Ryo (not BL)

Covers of Jimba vol. 1 and 2, showing Matsukaze and Kohibari.

Another of Suzuri-sensei’s series, under a slightly different name. It takes place in an alternate-universe Sengoku period Japan, in which centaurs (called “jimba” in this world) are captured and enslaved by humans. A centaur named Matsukaze is captured by humans with the help of Kohibari, a centaur servant who had his arms amputated to make him more docile. Secretly, Kohibari plans to use Matsukaze’s help to escape their human captors.

It’s not BL, but it has Suzuri-sensei’s signature beautiful creature design and vibrant art. The first two chapters are available for free here (in Japanese)! I’ve only read those so far, but I’m already in love with this series. Sadly, it looks like it’s only been published in Japanese and French (under the title “Centaures”) so far, and it hasn’t been scanlated.

TW: violence, coercive body modification (may have other things in further chapters).

Mokuren (Magnolia) by Sumiyoshi Ryo (not BL)

One-shot in the Ishu Renai Monogatarishuu (different-species love story collection) anthology. It’s a short and bittersweet tale about a magnolia tree and a boy who love each other, but can’t be together. It’s a lot less gruesome than MADK, but many of the same themes are present here, and the art is gorgeous as usual. The anthology hasn’t been officially published in English, but this chapter has been scanlated.

TW: none that I can remember.

Karyuudo to Mamono (The Hunter and the Monster) by Suzuri Ryo (BL)

One-shot in the R-40 BL anthology, a BL anthology dedicated to おっさん (middle aged men)! In this story, a hunter named Alvin makes a living hunting beast-men called “lupin”. One day, he finds the child of a lupin he killed, and decides to name him “Reuben”, raise him, and protect him from other hunters. When Reuben grows up, their relationship becomes more intimate.

Even for a monster-fucking story, this one is a lot more messed up than usual, seeing as Reuben is basically Alvin’s adopted son/hunting dog...? He understands human language and is a half-human, but aside from speaking, he mostly behaves like an animal. Alvin is very conflicted about the nature of his relationship with Reuben. I think the acknowledgement that it is a messed up situation is what makes this story compelling.

The anthology hasn’t been officially published in English, but this chapter has been scanlated.

TW: pseudo-bestiality (human/half-human monster), adoptive parent-child incest, animal death.

Color Recipe by Harada (BL)

Cover of CIEL magazine illustrated by Harada, showing Shoukichi and Fukusuke.

Shoukichi works as a stylist at a hair salon, but he struggles with customers due to his unfriendly personality. One day, the charming Fukusuke starts working at the same salon, and immediately starts provoking Shou. Fukusuke keeps pushing his boundaries, but he always manages to find an excuse for it. As the two grow closer, he begins to control more and more of Shou’s life, until his grip on it appears inextricable.

I haven’t read a lot of psychological horror BL (I’m not even sure if there are many to begin with), but when you asked for manga with similar themes to MADK, I immediately thought of Harada. Almost all of their works have dark themes to some degree, but Color Recipe has a story filled with mind games, manipulation, and twisted affection that I feel is the closest to that.

It escalates in a masterful way, and Harada-sensei’s art is a feast for the eyes. As far as I can tell, it hasn’t been officially licensed in English yet (though it appears to have been in French and Polish), but it has been scanlated.

TW: abuse, manipulation, stalking, kidnapping, sexual harassment, rape.

Gesshoku Kitan (Mysterious Tale of the Eclipse) by Syundei (BL)

Cover and colour page of Gesshoku Kitan.

I have only just begun reading this one, but it was recommended to me by Pachi from Blyme-yaoi. It’s by the author of Ganbare! Nakamura-kun!!, and has her signature, charming art style.

Rather than a light-hearted fluffy story, this one is a BL supernatural murder mystery. It focuses on Terumichi, a high school student who has dreams/visions of murders that happened in the Taisho period, almost a century ago. He and his classmates get caught up in a mystery involving a serial killer and a long-dead novelist.

It’s one volume long, and is officially licensed in English by Seven Seas Entertainment under the title “Total Eclipse of the Eternal Heart”.

TW: violence, blood, death, sexual abuse of a minor (may have other things in further chapters).

I hope you like them! If anyone reading this wants to see my brief review/recommendation of MADK, click here. And let me know if you have recs of and anime in this genre!

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I can't help my love toe beans. It matters not who has them. I'm such an unrepentant sucker for head pats and a good massage that I might be willing to risk it all! 😤👌

— Makoto’s last words before he was destroyed by a fuzzy demon lord.

I admire your courage in the mighty quest for the beans. Bards shall sing of your bravery for centuries to come!

Although I’ve read a lot of furry and furry-adjacent BL and gay manga, they don’t have cute toe beans that often! A tragedy, if you ask me.

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Some staff of a local pub comp. who publishes BL had a live discussion on fb about the genre and many of their knowledge and thoughts of it are kind of on the outdated side and I was so pissed I didn't make it to when the discussion was still on cause I'd have loved to link your and rbc's blogs to them. For once they still think shounen-ai and bara are still in use and they don't know how the term fujoshi was coined. It sucks cause many fans from here who don't know those watched it, too.

That’s a real shame. Fortunately, I know that some publishers in English-speaking countries and in Brazil are making an effort to know more about the culture surrounding the manga and anime they localize and distribute, but it’s still largely an uphill battle.

I hope that, if an event like this happens again, you manage to catch it!

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You: *offers a manga with a toe bean-having demon* Me: *sigh* This is gonna awaken some shit in me, isn't it? *looks at the toe beans again* Not my proudest "gotta pet 'em all" moment. I am sold. Urge to head-pat has intensified. I feel exposed. 🤣🤣🤣

This nasty man deserves none of your head-pats... but you feel compelled to give him some anyway.

In this tweet, Suzuri-sensei highlights the importance of using references in art: J’s toe-beans are so good because they’re based on the wonderful beans of their cat!

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Thoughts on how problematic super lovers is ?

Looks very problematic.

I’ll be honest, I haven’t read or watched it. My friends (some of whom liked it) have explained at length exactly how problematic it is, but I can’t remember the details. Incest age-gap aside, it sounded like a relatively uneventful slice-of-life BL, and that didn’t catch my interest at the time.

I’m not surprised it got so popular. Adoptive-family-to-lovers is a prevalent trope not only in BL, but romance stories in general—look at the sheer number of step-sibling and adoptive sibling erotica and porn out there. Nevertheless, I imagine that Super Lovers probably sparked a lot of controversy in the English side of fandom while I wasn’t looking, due to those themes. It came at a time of relative peace for Latin BL fandoms, and caused at least a few of them to explode with discourse.

I don’t have any thoughts on it beyond that, to be honest!

If you want my personal recommendation for a very problematic BL series, I’ll put it under the readmore. Edit: Tumblr is completely fucking up this post’s formatting. I’m sorry, everyone. You’re going to get MADK on your dashboards, whether I like it or not.

Yes, I know that incest is already way problematic by most people’s standards, but when I’m longing for something truly harrowing, I read MADK by Suzuri Ryo.

TW: from the very first chapter, it features extremely intense and graphic gore, blood, torture, animal death, and disturbing sexual imagery. Later chapters also include abuse and sexual violence. AFAIK, the main character’s age is left ambiguous, but he is a high school student at the start.

It’s the story of Makoto, a boy who summons a demon, J, and exchanges his life for the opportunity to eat J alive. J takes a liking to Makoto, and after their deal is completed, decides to take Makoto under his wing and make him into a demon.

This manga doesn’t pull its punches. It’s shamelessly twisted and brutal, and the humour is thoroughly macabre, but that’s what makes it so great, in my opinion.

I love pretty much everything that Suzuri-sensei makes. Their style is elegant, expressive, and gorgeously detailed, and they draw inspiration from so many eclectic sources (including old Japanese homoerotic art and photography).

Plus, they draw the absolute best demon toe beans.

Edit: here is a short list of my personal recommendations for those who liked MADK!

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Well, Tumblr fucking broke that post real good. I’m going to try to re-make it.

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On that note, I’m probably not going to answer more questions or comments about nikkei/Asian-diaspora politics for now. Feel free to keep sending them if you wish, just don’t expect my input at this moment!

It’s not my area of expertise or research, and there are other people much more equipped to inform you on it. Plus, with a bit of Googling, you can probably find texts people have already written on the subject.

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Toss a Coin to Your Archive!

the Organization for Transformative Works is an incredibly groundbreaking repository for creators, and the constant scrutiny it undergoes because ignorant children don’t understand that things cost money to maintain, and that their opinions do not represent everyone’s, is infuriating.  so infuriating, in fact, that i decided to rage-create. so there.

this was fun as shit to sing, ngl.

special thanks to Green Noize for providing the excellent instrumental track, and the only one i found that was actually fully faithful to Jaskier’s original. also thanks to alias for the inspiration to write these lyrics, and to my dear friend FilkAeris for instilling in me a fierce appreciation for filks in the first place.

parody lyrics by me.  “Toss a Coin to Your Witcher”  composed by Sonya Belousova and Giona Ostinelli, and sung by Joey Batey for the Netflix series The Witcher. which is awesome and you should definitely watch it if you like gritty medieval fantasy.  and boobs. and swearing. and hot guys wearing leather. and bards. definitely bards. 

and since we know bard is a combat class, this is my stand, and the hill i am prepared to die on.

👊 LONG LIVE THE ARCHIVE 👊  NO CENSORSHIP 👊

SUPPORT THE ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN!  MAKING PRISSY IDIOTS ANGRY IS JUST A HAPPY BYPRODUCT! 

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OH MY GOD

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Hey Tumblr, I’m gonna spill a little knowledge on triggers and blacklists. TW: Many of my examples mention actual triggers, like sexual assault, self-injury, intimate partner violence, gore, common animal phobias, and a few fandoms.

A “trigger” is a stimulus that involuntarily causes you to have an unpleasant and aversive psychological reaction. In plain English: When you see/hear/smell/touch/read it, your brain makes you feel NOT GOOD. The specifics can be really diverse and complicated! I know people keep trying to say “well MY kind of trigger is the only REAL kind of trigger” but I’ll pull out my Master’s degree in psychology if I have to on this one: there is no one true form of trigger or trigger reaction. Our brains like to freak out over all KINDS of shit, and they do it in all KINDS of ways. 

Trigger warnings are how we talk about difficult things. The first place I ever saw them used was the Bodies Under Siege mailing list, which started in 1997 as a forum for people who self-injured; because they found that talking about their self-injury could cause other vulnerable members of their community to self-injure, they began warning each other of the content of their posts, so each member could decide to read a certain post, or avoid it for their own mental health. The practice soon spread to feminist blogs that discussed sexual assault, then elsewhere.

Some triggers are rather predictable because most human brains come pre-equipped with a set of hardwired triggers for disgust or distress, like corpses, blood, other humans being in pain, and the taste and smell of rotting food. Others are often highly unpredictable and random, because literally anything can become associated with trauma.

A trigger is not a moral judgment. Just because something causes you distress, it isn’t necessarily bad, and won’t necessarily harm anyone else. That’s a separate conversation. So whether something is a trigger for you is 100% about how it makes you feel, not about whether anyone else should have anything to do with it.

It is entirely reasonable to ask other people to let you know if something meets the description of one of your triggers. “Hey, could you tag everything with spiders in it please?” “Hi, does your story have any gore onscreen?” “Hello, which of these books has sexual assault in it?” Not everyone is able to fulfill this request, the same way not everyone can promise their kitchen is gluten-free or that their sweater has never made contact with a cat, but it’s reasonable for you to ask.

It is not reasonable for you to ask that other people have nothing to do with your triggers because they trigger you. Whether something is fundamentally evil is a separate conversation. If they routinely make you deal with stuff that triggers you, yeah sure, you’re totally entitled to conclude they’re treating you badly and cut contact with them. But on the other hand, when you’re not there, it’s their right to eat a food that triggers you/watch horror movies you can’t deal with/date a guy who bears a physical resemblance to your abuser/reblog pictures of the animal you’re phobic about/whatever else that triggers you but that they’re into.

If you’ve been asked to help warn people about what will trigger them–say, for example, that you’ve been asked to tag all your Tumblr posts about politics–then you can answer one of two ways pretty fairly. One way is to agree, and find ways of tagging that work for you and them and anyone else involved–maybe tagging “New York tw” or “Sherlock mention” so they don’t show up in the main #New York or #Sherlock tags, or finding a reasonable compromise for things you don’t know how to properly nail down, like tagging “creepy crawlies” for things that aren’t necessarily insects or spiders, but are… some form of creepy crawly? And trigger them? (What even ARE lobsters anyway? Wait, don’t tell me, they still freak me out.)

The other way is to say, “I’m sorry, I don’t think I can accommodate you.” Maybe you aren’t good enough at telling when something meets their criteria; maybe it’s too hard for you to remember all the things you need to tag; maybe your own anxiety or scrupulosity are triggered by the expectation that you remember to keep someone else safe. People might get upset at you, but I’ll defend the right of individual people living their own lives to do this. The bigger, richer, and better-staffed someone or something gets, the more I expect out of them, the same way I expect more of other disability accommodations like captioned videos or image descriptions; but small blogs, like individual homes, are often only as accessible as limited means and human resources make them.

The advantage to posting your list of triggers publicly is that if someone wants to make their blog accessible to you, it’s easy for them to know how; the disadvantage is that it hands someone who wants to ruin your day a Top 10 list of how. It’s up to you to weigh the risks and benefits. Maybe your trigger list is an “ask to know” thing, instead of something preserved on Internet archives for all eternity.

There. Now you know how triggers work. Go forth, curate your blocklists, ask people to tag, and have much better Internet experiences accordingly.

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Have your vote on What should I write about next? Don't worry, I will eventually cover all these topics.

It’s my first time using this poll website, so apologies if there are any complications ^^;

Which of the following topics should I write about next?

More top/bottom discourse.

BL terminology (BL vs. yaoi vs. shounen-ai).

Japanese furry (kemono) glossary—with pics and examples.

Don’t worry, I will eventually cover all these topics! This poll is just to figure out in what order.

You can also vote on my Twitter, if you prefer.

Edit 2020/04/22: 

Looks like kemono glossary won by a very narrow margin (only 2 votes)!

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Writing a long Tumblr post may be tiresome, but there’s next to nothing as exhausting as trying to type a carefully formulated Twitter thread.

Especially if your thread is an attempt at responding to the thread someone else dished out in 10 seconds, trying to keep up with their arguments as they add even more half-formed tweets at breakneck speed.

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Have your vote on What should I write about next? Don't worry, I will eventually cover all these topics.

It’s my first time using this poll website, so apologies if there are any complications ^^;

Which of the following topics should I write about next?

More top/bottom discourse.

BL terminology (BL vs. yaoi vs. shounen-ai).

Japanese furry (kemono) glossary—with pics and examples.

Don't worry, I will eventually cover all these topics! This poll is just to figure out in what order.

You can also vote on my Twitter, if you prefer.

Edit 2020/04/22: 

Looks like kemono glossary won by a very narrow margin (only 2 votes)!