rid-ley.bsky.social
Hockey fan, romance reader, middle-aged nerd. Currently obsessed with anime and manga.
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I mean, if you can't swallow safely, you can't swallow safely. It's not a moral failing, and there are lots of workarounds for people with dysphagia you can try.
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Yeah, it doesn't work for anything coated or meant to be slow-release. You can ask the pharmacist. You sometimes can get liquid forms too.
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I crush all mine and take them with applesauce. Usually works great, but antibiotics taste fucking atrocious broken up.
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I wish they could be a reversible couple, but that seems to not be a thing in Korean BL.
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241. To Strip the Flesh - licensed - The main entry in this short story collection follows a trans man in his 20s torn between living the life his parents wanted for him and living his truth, centered around hunting and butchering animals. Easily the strongest story, with Hot Watermelon second.
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No creature sulks like an old hound dog.
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She's just staring resentfully at my husband like he's denying her a walk just to spite her and not because she has a heart condition and has passed out in the heat before.
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They want someone to say "your anger is justified, it's fucked up to reduce people to their:
- expendability (Hunger Games)
- attractiveness (Uglies)
- main personality trait (Divergent)
- etc"
Whereas adults have been either angry or in denial about these for a WHILE, and want a break.
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I see some folks in OP's thread saying people don't want dystopia because we're sliding into one, and I was *just* discussing this sentiment with another author. Imho *adults* want to escape dystopia. Teens, freshly aware of social inequality, want their resulting distress affirmed.
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I'm not immune to FOMO, despite my big age, lol. Seriously though, I saw several people who had the same problems I did with S1 say they had a great time with S2, and I got curious. I had the the time, so why not, y'know?
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I am kind of amused by the way this show's popularity with casual fans confounds the anime convention sort of fan. It's been interesting to see it talked about on r/anime as well.
Personally, I thought S1 was eye rollingly teenage boy edgy, but I got talked into watching S2, and it was really fun.
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240. How Do We Relationship?, Vol. 12 - licensed - Summer is over, and fall brings the school festival, preparations for next year's job hunt, and big changes for everyone in the music club. The relationships that needed to end have broken up, and lessons have been learned. It's a new beginning.
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239. After School Etude, Vol. 3 - licensed - After video of their pas de deux goes viral, Shun and Chihiro get invited to attend an intensive program at a school associated with a prestigious ballet company in America. The art really brings the dancing alive, and I love this couple's chemistry.
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The bottom line is that no tourist is half as much trouble as someone from the suburbs who doesn't live here, but thinks the city exists to serve them.
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I routinely wanted to throttle tourists in Boston waiting for the signal to cross the street while I was trying to get to work. I lived.
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I live near a minor tourist attraction, and occasionally get to watch a day drunk, middle-aged goth barf into a trash can while her friend holds her witch hat as I head to a doctor appointment, and it's weird, but it's really not that big a deal.
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He's pickled in hate and McDonald's.
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238. Aria of the Beech Forest, Vol. 3 - licensed - In this final volume, Gwyn runs away for a bit when he's not sure how to tell Aria his secret, everyone gets together for a Halloween party, and Aria decides to go to school in London. A short, cute fantasy series about a girl meeting new friends.
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Please may this man quietly pass away of natural causes like men of his age often do.
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237. Shout Loud, My Heart - licensed - A guitarist is generally too focused on music, college, and work to pay much attention to other people, but when he catches the eye of another band's singer at a show one night, he finds himself captivated. A nice, low-conflict romance about a pair of opposites
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I know I'm not a rereader, so I don't sweat it, but I don't blame anyone who doesn't want to buy tokens and/or content locked to a web platform. Those shut down all the time.
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I'm doing what I can to read and promote official releases of manga and manhwa.
I'd really like the industry to try something other than lecturing me about stealing and claiming readers don't want to support creators.
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If the resistance to downloadable content is "but piracy", I'd like to point out the thriving network of aggregator sites posting all that content anyway right now, when you can't easily download your purchases.
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There seems to be an aversion to buying tokens to purchase chapters that live on a publisher site that can disappear at any time.
Have platforms tried offering a way to download purchased chapters?
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A shame the anime couldn't adapt the whole manga, but it was a good read too. The girls had great chemistry.
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236. At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender - licensed - After discovering he's intersex at 30, a manga artist gets top surgery and switches pronouns. Now nearing 50, he's compiled 20 years of musing on aging, gender, and romance into a series of 4-koma comic strips. Neat look at queerness in Japan.
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You didn't like Kageki Shoujo? I thought that was a fantastic anime.
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And yet I'm several volumes behind, lol. I need to catch back up.
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Their original list with their category labels is here: t.co/AX2WlhwEV5
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Strongly recommend Shonen Note by the mangaka as well. It's less overtly queer, but it's still a beautiful story of growing up, dealing with unwanted change, and finding your people.
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It's a pretty cute series.
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235. Ohana Holoholo, Vol. 3 - unlicensed - Michiru struggles with her new supervisor position, Yuuta struggles with a mean girl at daycare, Nico keeps plugging away at his acting career, and Maya makes what looks to be a terrible decision that's going to hurt everyone. It's a beautiful disaster.