Behind the cut is a response to the very interesting reviews and discussion thread on the new Banana Fish anime at Anime Feminist ( Read more... )

At my request, our tenant checked on our old tree, Senex. This photo is a little hard to interpret, even if you know the tree, but the trunk, which was largely old and rotten burned out completely.


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I am officially in love with Kyugo’s BL manga series, Acid Town, and want to spread the love to others. Many thanks to imperfekti for putting me onto this wonderful series. She likened it to Mirage of Blaze (novels) in having an intricate, interesting plot with a great ensemble of characters, and that’s all quite correct.

General Review and Rec ( Read more... )

I was just reading
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My thinky thoughts inspired by the first two Mirage of Blaze stage plays continue, and in this post I want to talk principally about the construction of Kagetora's emotional-sexual needs as informed by the context of the plays. More general thoughts/review are here.

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"Platonic Bonding" as "Relationship Orientation"

I told skinintheway that I would write a post about how I bond with people, which-for want of a word-I've been calling "platonic bonding." For clarity, the kind of bonding I'm talking about here is serious interpersonal love (or in love) bonding of the kind we'd generally associate with wanting someone for a ( Read more... )

Logan does what big, established franchise films should: it uses its built-in budget and audience to do high quality, authentic storytelling rather than safe-bet replication of the usual action-hero(es) formula. Imagine: the entire movie-employing 15,000 people, the end credits tell us-has not one youthful action hero-protagonist at the height of ( ( Read more... )

Crappy day. In addition to the Trump Administration's daily attempts to end the world as human civilization has known it, my best friend's brother-in-law unexpectedly died. I'm going to respond to all this by taking a leaf out of
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It's interesting to read different responses to The Force Awaken's discourse on the Light and Dark Sides of the Force.* Many voice sympathy for the Dark Side, sometimes critiquing the Jedi for being too rigid and dogmatic. But while the Jedi are not perfect, I agree with them that the Dark Side as a bad option. Being Force sensitive is dangerous ( Read more... )