Another story that unexpectedly blew me away:

Breakable (117,629 words) by MissDavis (missdaviswrites on tumblr ( Read more... )

OH MY GOD AN MPREG MOVIE, I HAVE TO SEE THIS MOVIE, GO CHINA!!!

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And it's breaking all sorts of records. Fascinating.

Anime Rec: One Outs

Since I'm apparently on an anime kick recently and finishing up a few, let me present one of the most underrated anime I’ve found: One OutsIt’s almost a sin to call this a baseball anime, though I suppose that is technically true. But it’s really a battle of psychological warfare with one ultra-cool antihero. The Lycaons are a ( Read more... )

Anime rec: Haikyuu!!Volleyball anime! In junior high, prodigy volleyball spiker Hinata and “king of the court” master setter Kageyama are rivals on the court, only to find that in high school, they’re on the same team (Karasuno) and have to work together now ( Read more... )

Anime Rec: Love Stage!!In this hysterical boys’ love anime, college student Izumi is the youngest member of the Sena show-biz family-the only member who is not interested in being in entertainment: awkward, with paralyzing stage fright. As a child, due to a casting emergency, Izumi ended up in a wedding commercial with his family and a little boy ( Read more... )

Anime Rec: Steins;GateCollege student Okabe Rintaru (alias Hououin Kyouma and voiced by my favorite seiyuu Mamoru Miyano, whose brilliant performance carries the show) is a self-styled mad scientist running a lab out of his apartment. One day, he and his friends realize that they have accidentally created a time machine out of their microwave by ( Read more... )

Anime Rec: Hunter x Hunter (2011)

In a world with magic, steampunk, and select modern technology, twelve-year-old Gon and his friends are determined to achieve various goals by becoming Hunters, for which they need to pass the fiendishly difficult and incredibly dangerous Hunter Exam ( Read more... )

Anime Review: DRAMAtical MurderIn a dystopian cyberpunk society, the streets are controlled by gangs with special tattoos who play Rhyme, a street cyber game. Aoba is not a member of any team, but instead has amnesia and intermittent migraines after a mysterious accident ( Read more... )

So I picked up this wartime memoir The Taliban Shuffle by Kim Barker after hearing rumors that it will soon be made into a movie starring Tina Fey with Martin Freeman as her love interest (!!)-two of my favourite comedy actors working together! And of course I’m greatly interested in anything that draws Martin Freeman’s attention in particular ( Read more... )

Skylar Dorset’s young adult novel The Boy with the Hidden Name is the sequel to last year’s The Girl Who Never Was, which I reviewed here. It was an entertaining story in which a Bostonian girl named Selkie discovers she is a half-faerie, half-ogre princess. Along the way, she falls in love with Ben, her former protector, whom she has to rescue ( Read more... )