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forestofgloryChildren of the Sea by Daisuke Igarashi, Vol 1 I don’t remember how I found out about this manga. It's about a girl who gets kicked off her handball team and ends up spending the summer hanging out at an aquarium with two strange and mysterious children. Featuring lots of pretty pictures of underwater life.
The Breakaways by Cathy G. Johnson comic about a middle school girls soccer team. It was cute and touched on some queer themes.
Mushi-Shi eps 1, 8-13 -- this was rec’ed to me as manga but the anime was easier for me to get a hold off so I have been watching that. The library is missing the 1st disk in the series. I tried watching an episode on Funimation but the ads are very annoying. So I am just skipping them since it is a very episodic show. So far it is a little slow and a little creepy and very pretty. There’s lots about what people owe the land. I like it quite a bit.
Hugo Shorts I’ve haven’t been reading a lot for the Hugo Awards this year but I decided to buckle down and read all the work in the short fiction categories at least. I had read several of these before finalist where announced so it wasn’t too big a project. I ended up deciding to skip “STET” because of the child death content note, and “The Only Harmless Great Thing” because it just sounded too dark and depressing. None of the new to me works where standout for me unfortunately -- and a couple have themes that I disagree with.
Nirvana in Fire eps 1-5 I have been hearing about this Chinese historical drama and how good it is for a long time so I convinced R to watch it with me. No one told me it featured a badass warrior princess! She’s far and away my favorite character so far. And she has an interesting complex friendship with another woman (who got sent off to investigate a problem at the beginning of the second episode but I’m told she’ll be back). There are also some scheming moms. They aren’t that interesting as characters so far, but hey I’m happy to have some moms is my media. So far we’ve watched five episodes and they all pass the bechdel test. The costumes are also gorgeous. I’m not sure that I’m following all of the plot as its very complex but I’m really enjoying the show so far.
My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder by Nie Jun This translated Chinese comic about a disabled girl called Yu’er and her grandpa who live a Hutong -- an older style neighborhood in Beijing. Its reminiscent of magical realism with magical things happening without any rules. I thought it was really sweet, and I loved the artwork!
I haven't really had a chance to get into all the recs for fanfic with moms people left on my post about reading fanfic but I'm so very excited to have giant pile to dive into! Thanks so much everyone who left recs!
The Breakaways by Cathy G. Johnson comic about a middle school girls soccer team. It was cute and touched on some queer themes.
Mushi-Shi eps 1, 8-13 -- this was rec’ed to me as manga but the anime was easier for me to get a hold off so I have been watching that. The library is missing the 1st disk in the series. I tried watching an episode on Funimation but the ads are very annoying. So I am just skipping them since it is a very episodic show. So far it is a little slow and a little creepy and very pretty. There’s lots about what people owe the land. I like it quite a bit.
Hugo Shorts I’ve haven’t been reading a lot for the Hugo Awards this year but I decided to buckle down and read all the work in the short fiction categories at least. I had read several of these before finalist where announced so it wasn’t too big a project. I ended up deciding to skip “STET” because of the child death content note, and “The Only Harmless Great Thing” because it just sounded too dark and depressing. None of the new to me works where standout for me unfortunately -- and a couple have themes that I disagree with.
Nirvana in Fire eps 1-5 I have been hearing about this Chinese historical drama and how good it is for a long time so I convinced R to watch it with me. No one told me it featured a badass warrior princess! She’s far and away my favorite character so far. And she has an interesting complex friendship with another woman (who got sent off to investigate a problem at the beginning of the second episode but I’m told she’ll be back). There are also some scheming moms. They aren’t that interesting as characters so far, but hey I’m happy to have some moms is my media. So far we’ve watched five episodes and they all pass the bechdel test. The costumes are also gorgeous. I’m not sure that I’m following all of the plot as its very complex but I’m really enjoying the show so far.
My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder by Nie Jun This translated Chinese comic about a disabled girl called Yu’er and her grandpa who live a Hutong -- an older style neighborhood in Beijing. Its reminiscent of magical realism with magical things happening without any rules. I thought it was really sweet, and I loved the artwork!
I haven't really had a chance to get into all the recs for fanfic with moms people left on my post about reading fanfic but I'm so very excited to have giant pile to dive into! Thanks so much everyone who left recs!
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Date: 2019-06-16 06:32 pm (UTC)I was irritated by the way the story world was set up so that they only need to incapacitate one dude before everything can go back to normal. That felt really unrealistic to me.
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Date: 2019-06-17 12:30 am (UTC)I do completely agree with your second point, though. The Evil king's Evil regime crumbling as soon as he personally was not around to reinforce it did not eem realistic to me at all, and that only worked for me as an ending if I took it as a sort of fairy tale resolution rather than a realistic one.
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Date: 2019-06-17 01:42 am (UTC)