#fukaboku

[leewithsprinkles]

I finally got Fukaboku on physical manga, I just stopped ugly crying.

Go read Fukaboku, please.

[suisaber25]

ah yes my favorite sandwich the LGBT

[pochqmqri]

Kotone and Mei should have ended up together. Like it bothers me that Kotone had this whole character arc where she had to unlearn her internalized homophobia and unhealthy obsession with Mogumo, only to end up with no real romantic conclusion. Mei should have had an arc where she grew more comfortable in identifying as a woman. And i find it peculiar that of the two girls in the main cast, neither of them end up with partner but most of the boys and enby do. Unfair.

[pochqmqri]

Pikachu

[pochqmqri]

SQUID GAMES ‼️

[phe-purple-parade]

Compared to a series like FukaBoku, How I Attended an All-Guy's Mixer is definitely on the more cishet end of the crossdressing workplace premise

FukaBoku has Question!, a maid café owned by a trans woman where high-school-age staff of various identities dress femininely. Bar Rose in Mixer employs university-age women, assumedly all cishet, dressing masculinely & acting out designated roles.

The stories have different aims & tones, and I think there's room for both, but interestingly they are both romances with casts of crossdressing hospitality workers & discussions of gender, attraction, and identity.

Mixer still operates within a fairly heteronormative framework, even down to the type of crossdressing – afab people dressing masculinely is generally more accepted than amab people dressing femininely. The bar exists as a place for (primarily) women to safely interact with attractive men (who are also actually women), while the cafe is a trans-owned safe space for feminine gender-nonconformity.

(Yes we don't yet know who owns the bar or their exact motivations but, functionally, its purpose is presented as cishet women acting as men for other cishet women. Yes the café is a maid café staffed almost entirely by high-schoolers & usually serving adult men, but it does ultimately serve as a safe space for its employees)

Both series technically have a guy question his sexuality before concluding that he's attracted to the person in question regardless of their gender... except in Fukaboku he acknowledges that he's not straight because he's attracted to a nonbinary person, while in Mixer it's more that the guy was overthinking his attraction to a masc-presenting woman & accidentally unlocked het+. Both are good! Both have elements that queer people can relate to! But only one of these is explicitly canon queer representation.

I think it's important that cishet characters also benefit from queering & deconstructing heteronormativity. We just can't let that be the end of it – we need the more "hardcore" queer representation too

[lady-lilly-gray]

Google docs v Non-binary characters:

4 of my one-shots are completed!!!! At this rate I might actually have them nearly all done by the end of my trip!

[lady-lilly-gray]

I will single-handedly carry the FukaBoku fandom if it kills me