alyssa @alyssa@cat.family

in yuri manga reading news:
i read superwomen in love! honey trap and rapid rabbit. my favorite part was when she said “It’s Yuri Time” and they yuried all over the place. (joke. that was not actually the best part, but it genuinely did happen)
more seriously it was fun. nice light break between some of the heavier dramas i was reading. it did also have a satisfying if a bit simplistic overarching plot.

lesbian bear storm watch with my wife complete

i finally actually opened an rpi i was given like years ago. the little bag the computer itself comes in is cute.

cuts on fingers are peak annoying injuries. completely trivial but it makes so many things slightly less convenient or more unpleasant.

i barely even remember the BFR fic but it does cause me to be amused everytime i think about my raichu in sleep with BFS (Berry Finding S subskill, finds more berries to feed to snorlax)

me when my wife gets off work

it is fully complete at 20 chapters, telling the story of two women coworkers who get to know each other, fall for each other, come to terms with their disinterest in romance and sex, and realize and act upon their love for each other

it's very good. go read it imo. also they're adorable and the supporting characters are v fun.

okay honestly this is amazing. this is my favorite GL manga. very very good. give shio usui an anime.

i am loving doughnuts under a crescent moon. these women are adorable

https://xfs-n05.xfsbb.com/comic/7006/3c3/61231bb35acc6713a4a023c3/9092385_1056_1482_186910.webp (uploads aren't working so just look at the bottom of this page)

— girl who went grocery shopping even though it is nearly a whole kelvin colder outside (we haven't started using heating)

humans should have invented buildings with very different temperature retention characteristics than the outside sooner so our bodies could be more prepared for sudden changes in temperature imo

kumaria-sama don’t do this to ginko

gao gao

the subs my wife and i have for lesbian bear storm translate つみぐま as “crimibear”. which i love

ultimately i think that this series is far too subtle from a like, pedagogical perspective about the importance of open communication and letting the people you care about make their own decisions, but it's quite fun

you get Nene and Sumika talking through their history and how their past conflict was due to Nene's ideas about how Sumika felt and doing ill-advised things to try to get a reaction from her and bring those feelings to the surface, without ever actually telling her about her own feelings.

and then after all that, Nene says (for the second time in the conservation) that she needs to think about other people's feelings.

girl, your problem back then was not not considering her feelings. your problem was focusing more on her feelings than on communicating your own so she could decide how she wanted to react to that. this is not as bad as some of the other examples (since Nene's approach to Sumika's feelings her was indeed was at least more directly selfish), but it was the most recent time and also the repeating of the "i need to consider other people's feelings" after the convo was especially ridiculous lol

it's like. such a recurring pattern that it's hard to believe it's unintentional, but... like, the text never actually alludes directly to the fact that most of the problems are rooted in the characters' attempts to act based on what they think others are feeling or would feel. and often the characters seem to take away explicit realizations that are the opposite of accurate on this point... so like, also weirdly subtle about it if it is intentional

despite being a manga in which so many characters so frequently are telling people that they've gotta take other people's feelings into consideration, i'm not sure i've ever seen characters that needed to stop thinking so much about other people's feelings as in yuri is my job