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here are all the recs I posted for femslash february 2024...! each individual rec post can be found in my femslash feb recs tag. I actually thought I wasn't going to be able to do this because work got super chaotic, but in the end I couldn't bear to skip out on a leap year. that's a whole extra day for yuri.
last year I focused on official releases, so this year I wanted to focus on series that aren't technically officially available (plus a french-japanese film). fan translations are always a dicey for artists/translators/publishers/etc because obviously they need to get paid... but yuri's already such an overlooked genre that—in an official capacity—we end up with a couple drops from what's already a pretty small pool. I read hana to hoshi about a decade ago, and I keep submitting it to the seven seas survey for licensure! and yet!! no dice. and even when there are official releases, sometimes they just... disappear!? wish you were gone was licensed and then taken down, so for a while the only way to read it (if you missed out on buying it) was the fan translation. I think it's important to support artists and official releases, and also, to appreciate the thankless endeavor(/crime) of scanlation.
hope yall find something you like!
#femslash february#femslash feb recs#ff recs#recs#rambled a lot for this one lol#but like. yeah. honey & honey is imo a pretty culturally significant work#but I can't see any publishers picking it up for licensure#maybe for a recent autobio manga but certainly not one from 20 years ago#and from a marketing standpoint. it's 'hard' to push yuri as a genre.#bl has an obvious and profitable demographic (women)#m/f has an obvious and profitable demographic (women)#but--if you make a distinction between yuri and H (I do)--yuri doesn't really have an obvious and profitable demographic#so it's a lot harder to pitch yuri... which means it's a lot harder to even introduce yuri to a broader audience...#and thus the cycle continues...#plus there's the whole systemic misogyny embeded into a patriarchal society which devalues stories centered around women etc#anyway the POINT is. commit to yuri duty. be a yuri warrior. write femslash. hype femslash.
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#Electropop#Vocaloid#[<- not a genre i know. but i find it a meaningful distinction nonetheless --rottel]#2010s#2020s#poll
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galaxy-brained mlc take of the day: mlc is wuxia, yes and maybeee not exactly? it very much is a wuxia aesthetically, but it's actually - conceptually - xianxia story in the core. (this is different from suggesting that it is a xianxia show.) however xianxia can (or should) be considered a subgenre of wuxia, not its own separate distinct genre despite the idea of 仙 xian being fundamentally at odds with the idea of 侠 xia, because they both stem from the same belief. (as seen in mlc, it works with the conventions of traditional wuxia aka li xiangyi the sigu sect leader, to get to the real bits of xianxia concept aka li lianhua's story.) so, mlc is wuxia through and through, inside out. send tweet 🫡👍
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ok wait I can explain
so, this must be premised on the understanding that any discussion of "仙 xian/deities" in this context is only as its abstract idea of living a life distanced, detached from worldly, human woes instead of the possibility of immortality existing in mlcverse. (if you think about the deities in xianxia stories being basically human beings who have cultivated themselves into immortality.)
this is the explanation of xianxia as a wuxia subgenre (古仙武侠) in the baidu article of wuxia genre:
武侠中的侠，是脱胎于墨家“以天下为己任”的使命感；而仙侠的侠，通常是传达着“能力越大，责任也就越大”的朴素精神。侠乃入世，仙为出世，道教阴阳的无情大道（无情指寻求自我的不断体悟，以达精神的成仙，非没有感情之意）与武侠江湖的有情众生，即是矛盾也是循环，象征着太极之道，这也就是为何古仙武侠也属于正统仙侠流派的原因。
rough tl:
the xia of wuxia is born from the mohist ideal of bearing a sense of responsibility for the world
while the xia in xianxia focuses on the idea of "with great power comes great responsibility"
the idea of 侠 xia is secular. the idea of 仙 xian is beyond the secular - it is to pursue a life of suppressing/taming your own emotions (it does not mean to be completely removed of the ability to feel. it's a pursuit of self-realisation that makes one attain the status of a "deity" spiritually.) 仙 xian is then inherently at odds with wuxia jianghu's deep empathy and connection with the secular world, but it's also connected back to it. this is why 古仙武侠 is considered to be a part of the wuxia genre.
the relationship between xian and xia is conflicting because the former is all about distancing yourself from worldly issues while the latter necessitates an active effort to do something about them.
but it also means that both wuxia and xianxia acknowledge this weight of human emotions and connection to the world. it's just their respective responses and the outcomes they want that they differ in. what is the ideal person? wuxia says it's to be someone who can propagate and execute the ideal of doing something about this weight of your connection to the world, while xianxia says it's to learn to be at peace with that connection, and it's ok to not do anything about it actually - which might even be harder than trying to do something. (and focusing on your own cultivation can be a good thing for the world, in fact.)
with this, I hope it sounds less absurd that I'm connecting mlc's story to the concept of xianxia. lxy's life was a traditional wuxia archetype. (I've already harped on enough about how he fits into the quintessential mohist model of a xia leader.) what happens after, aka his journey as li lianhua, is the real story of mlc. it's a breakdown of that quintessential wuxia hero. it is a story in which the main conflict faced by the protagonist is to struggle with all the worldly woes including his own past and the cases' victims, in defense of the serenity he has found in the past 9 years. it is a natural battle to fight for someone such as llh because as long as you're still human, you will face the implications of human connections and the innate feeling of compassion and urge to do something about it (part of this, I guess, manifests physically in bicha breaking him down and the resistance to cure).
and relating that to an excerpt from an article discussing xianxia in relation to wuxia:
武侠剧的精神内核也是仙侠剧的精神内核，而“仙”实际上是实现新形式的“侠”的手段，由此扩展了“侠”的深度和其实施的时空范围。武侠之中的侠义精神，可以强调其自在，更强调其是自为的，前者是需要逐渐成长和觉醒的。然而对于高于人的仙而言，作为上位者的“侠”之精神，则应该是内在自觉且自为的。
rough tl:
the spirit of wuxia dramas should also be the spirit of xianxia dramas. xian should in fact be another way to bring out and explore the idea of xia.
the spirit of xia in wuxia can be an emphasis on the spirit of freedom, and even more so, the idea of agency and autonomy. the former is gained through growth and awareness. but for xian aka people who occupy a realm above the people on the ground, the xia spirit they embody should manifest in their inner awakening and agency.
it goes without saying that nobody is a deity in this show, and never will be. only in ep 40.5 it came so close to possessing that otherworldly, surreal edge, but that's all to it. deities do not exist in the mlcverse.
but but. it's interesting to point out in the ep 3 flashback when lxy walked through town in the aftermath of the sigu sect vs jym battle, commoners were heard describing it as 神仙打架 百姓遭殃 when immortals fight, commoners suffer. of course they didn't mean it literally but figuratively, that those people of wulin jianghu are high above, detached from the people on the ground. which is. contradictory to the idea of 侠 xia to begin with. so... it could even be interpreted that li lianhua living the spiritually "immortal" life embodied the xia spirit even more deeply than he did as li xiangyi the sigu sect leader, the "immortal" in the eyes of the commoners. actual immortals do not have any real attachment to the people, but a cultivated "immortal" does and is destined to feel and learn to deal with it over and over like llh did. it all comes back in a circle indeed.
#莲花楼#mysterious lotus casebook#lhl#lhlmeta#my posts#dear diary it's (only) day 45 since completion and the symptoms are getting worse#i can imagine at this moment someone putting a hand to my forehead and ask me if i'm ok#not sure if this conversation about wuxia/xianxia genres is welcomed at all but ANYWAY. i just have a lot of feelings about cn stories#i'm discussing the genres in what i think are its barest forms rather than referencing to the ways they've manifested in popular fiction#esp since i'm not as familiar with many of the classic works on a personal level#AND there are so many other elements in play in these genres!!#personally not a fan of that definition of xianxia being 'stories about mythological figures like deities monsters demons etc'#just having deities monsters etc does NOT make it xianxia. that's just 玄幻/神话 fantasy/mythology(!!!)#an interesting distinction i learnt is that mythologies like 后羿射日 and 沉香救母 could be considered as proto-xianxia#simply based on the idea of xianxia being about deities + a sense of heroism#but they would still very much be classified as mythologies instead of xianxia. there's just a lot of overlaps i guess?#went down this rabbit hole a little and just word vomitting as I go. i may not be 100% right or accurate in my interpretations so.
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OC dialogue meme for Ali... Except there's two of them.
Even outside of Ali's nebulous mood disorder eccentricities, there's a big difference in how they carry themselves in Purrgatorio, being dragged out of their normal environment and still in a level of disbelief about it all.
They make for an interesting protagonist in Purrgatorio imo, given their status as an antagonist in Creature Feature.
#ali is mine and @samhainian's freak little shared custody baby. CF if sam's setting and Purrgatorio is set in MYMK's setting#there are like 3 other distinct Genres of Ali too when you dig into their later arcs but that'd be excessive.#but purrgatorio has the most words committed to paper and Creature Feature is their home setting so. these two matter most#These two Alis aren't that distinct in age either. this era of CF ali is maybe 16 through 18 where Purrgatorio is 18 through 19.#they just get a bit bedraggled.#anyway sadly i dont think the other two triplets are going to get memes filled out for them. sorry you two. i cannae be arsed#lucabyteart#ali alighieri#original character#oc dialogue meme#oc dialogue#demon oc#oc art#oc artist#oc artwork
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I'm seeing a theme here, Baum...
The President [of France] touched a bell and gave an order to his servant. Then he turned to Rob and said, wonderingly:
"You are a boy!"
"That's true, Mr. President," was the answer; "but an American boy, you must remember. That makes a big difference, I assure you."
The Master Key, 1901
The Princess looked at her more closely.
"Tell me," she resumed, "are you of royal blood?"
"Better than that, ma'am," said Dorothy. "I came from Kansas."
Ozma of Oz, 1907
"Our father, the Revered and Resplendent Royal Ruler of the Blues, has made you our slave," asserted Indigo, with a yawn.
"But he can't," objected [Trot]. "I'm some Royal an' Rapturous an' Ridic'lous myself, an' I won't allow any cheap Boolooroo to order me 'round."
"Are you of royal birth?" asked Azure, seeming surprised.
"Royal! Why, I'm an American, Snubnoses, and if there's anything royaler than an American I'd like to know what it is."
Sky Island, 1912
#period-typical rhetoric of course#but the self-confidence and indifference to rank or title of his young protagonists is a distinctive feature of his fantasy#his stories are VERY American in a genre that was at the time dominated by European writers#which made these books pretty innovative in their day
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aespa is like the only kpop artists truly doing ‘kpop’ currently & I’m forever grateful for that
#don’t think it’s wrong to try and be more appealing to western audiences#kpop all this time has clearly taken influence from western musicians and genres#but it feels like a lot of the music now is just carbon copies of mediocre bb100 hits#whereas aespa still incorporate that kpop flair into their sound#probably why they feel like they have such a distinct identity that isn’t reliant entirely on their concept
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The LAYERS of imagery here. I don't think I've ever seen anyone talk about the yeagerist insignia before and like !!! The guns superimposed over the wings, the similarities to the scouts wings of freedom but they've lost the fluidity and overlap and are now rigid and symmetrical and conforming and have become secondary to violence instead of giving hope of freedom..... not even to mention the scaffolding and it's similarities to Erwin's almost execution as display of state violence, Historia's coronation as display of change in power and Tyber's speech as display of theatre of warmongering.... I can and WILL go on about this
#AND the architecture which is so distinctive on paradis as the imposition of aesthetics of grandeur even in populist fascist movements#am writing an essay on this#then therell be one on Gabi who is genuinely the most important character for aot's message#and one on reiner and genre subversion with heros vs villains and different forms of masculinities#and then the motif of birds#attack on titan#aot#shingeki no kyojin#snk#attack on titan spoilers#manga spoilers#rambles
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one thing about alt stuff is that the barrier to entry to being "goth" is truely so fucking low and yet people constantly limbo under the bar instead of stepping over it and wonder why they get called posers. like we're not asking you to move mountains here we're just asking you to find even one band under the umbrella that you like and to engage with the community a little bit. The fashion has truely so much overlap between goth punk and emo so very few people will care which one you call yourself based on your look and you just have to find a band you like. Dashboard Confessional screams a bit too much for your taste and Dead Kennedys is too loud? Guess what you're in luck the goths listen to something a little softer and weirder they call it dark wave or ethereal wave depending on the phases of the moon. Try out Clan of Xymox or Switchblade Symphony. Like truly the alt music scene is so fucking diverse there's gotta be something in here that you like. If not and you truly are a pop girlie then don't call yourself punk it's very easy.
#listen don't at me I do think that dark wave ethereal wave and new wave are all basically the same music genre#but I also don't think that emo isn't even a real music genre because it's all either punk pop punk or screamo#I don't like labels when they become entirely too niche to be helpful xoxo#the only music genres to me: Punk Metal Wave Industrial Electronica Pop Punk Screamo Grunge and Goth#and then the other ones which are rock hiphop folk country pop jazz soul blues R&B ska and classical but those r less relevant here#don't make it more complicated than that it doesn't need to be#this is not contradictory with the scene being diverse btw Mitski and Kesha are both considered pop yet their music is distinct#so too two punk bands are allowed to sound different and both be punk without a whole new genre getting made up
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The rise of "let people enjoy things" is single handedly the backbone of the rise of anti intellectualism
#i need to talk about this#disclaimer : im beyond terrible at putting my point across#so with that being said let me attempt at it#let's take look at the hate and misogyny women receive for liking a certain genre of books#that is so often simply countered with let people enjoy things#but we cannot let that narrative take over a whole as if critical thinking is “bad”?#booktok has made it so that disliking a popular books makes you the person with the superiority complex who should just let people enjoy-#-things#but when did criticizing actively target audiences who like that peice of literature? When did that become the narrative?#its all mindless consumption without a second thought to the actual material which can easily be credited to the tropification of books#the enemies do turn into lovers and the best friends do fall in love 10 years down the line#classifying books into tropes and then fulfilling that promise gives books an illusion of being “good” since it checks those boxes-#-that the reader picked up the book for in the first place#the act of reading has kind of been substituted by the act of being a reader and just owning stacks of books#we have turned away from any form of analysis or criticism#if it scratches the itch then its automatically the perfect book without further thought#i cant help but contribute the mere existence of that “itch” to how mordern books are classified into tropes with set plotlines#intelligenctualism is almost always looked at as elitism#reading only classics doesn't make you an intellectual individual but looking at any book with a critical lens may it be a classic or a rom#-com does#criticizing certain aspects of your absolute favorite books is intellectualism and not bullying people who like anything but classics#that distinction is so far lost in translation that talking about how a popular book is objectively bad is being a “hater”#well then im a hater#this is not a hate post for people who actively enjoy booktock or the more popular books#im just trying to introduce any amount of nuance into the conversation thats all#i can honestly go on forever but i think ill end my ranting here#literary criticism#literature#books#anti intellectualism
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Are you a Fannibal because you are a Hannibal movie fan or are you a Hannibal movie fan because you are a Fannibal?
#hannibal#manhunter 1986#silence of the lambs#hannibal 2013#hannibal tv show#hannibal tv series#hannibal fandom#Horror movies#Horror genre#80s horror#90s horror#starting the show after watching the movies#And then going onto tumblr gives me a VERY clear distinction in fans#and the aesthetics in general#The movies (sotl and Manhunter) are more psychological#While the tv show is more drama focused
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hm.
#just saw a Post.#like okay bestie perhaps we can get across our point about fanfic not being praxis without the sentence ‘we’re not creating art’-#-said in a rude and patronizing way.#there has Got to be a middle ground between ‘fanfic is leftist masterpiece direct action’ & ‘the work I DO is garbage nothing slop for pigs’#fanart is art. it’s not High Art Belongs In A Museum but if you looked me in the eye and told me it wasn’t art i would be justified in-#-calling you a tool. what about fic is different from that? where’s the distinction?#there’s no point saying all this i blocked op after seeing Another bad take when i clicked to see their blog but.#ugh.#(also it’s worth saying that if you do actually care about the history of literature calling all derivative work inherently lesser is a#Fucking Buckwild Take#but of course it’s more fun to dunk on people for writing their yaois than it is to think about romance as a genre or the entire history of-#-archetypical storytelling)#whatever. whatever!!!!!!!!!
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idk anything about Dungeon Meshi except that the yaoi/bara of it on twitter makes me really horny keep up the good work guys
#I say yaoi/bara because its really two distinct genres I've been seeing.#'what about the yuri' idk... blond/blond couples creep me out. maybe if one of them dyes their hair.#<- idk their names. the blond elfs (?)
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I choose to believe that Miyazaki killed the director of the new Snow White dead and now he's on the run from the FBI.
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actually. bear ghost 🤝 fake type -> it's impossible to feel sad while listening to their music
#it's the fun vibes. story driven or criticism of society lyrics. interesting take on their genre. distinct sound etc#why don't you listen to jiminy or fake book and then maybe you'll feel better. (<- me to myself)
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Hi, can you rec any hardcore bands?
sure! that's a whole genre though so im just gonna throw out some of my favs, which range between place n style (and fair warning im not a purist so there's gonna be some subgenre mixing):
you have the 70s-80s classics like bad brains* (all black), minor threat, + teen idles from D.C., black flag*, dead kennedys*, MDC, + adolescents from CA, poison idea from portland, youth of today from NYC, and negative approach from the midwest
earth crisis was an iconic vegan straightedge advocate in the 90s, cro-mags brought in thrash metal influences (which i love), there's tons of melodic hardcore but lifetime in NJ is probably one of the most well-known. also refused* from sweden is one of my top hc bands personally <3
there's been a resurge of hardcore these past few years which is dope: zulu*, an all black group from CA (considered powerviolence, really), turnstile + MSPAINT* which are more melodic n use synths, backtrack from NYC, death tour* mixes in hip hop, GEL, and then a ton of great female-fronted groups like scowl, G.L.O.S.S.* (ie. girls living outside society's shit, transfem), and gouge away*
bonus i'll throw in united nations (supergroup led by geoff ricky of thursday) and having finally listening to racetraitor i can give it a good sign off
#starred my top favs#this is not comprehensive in the slightest LMAO but its the stuff i listen to the most often#kept wanting to add some post-hardcore bands that are soooo good but that is a distinct different genre. so#hope this helps!#asks#anonymous
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books in 2022
↳ the twisted ones by t. kingfisher
“Books on World War II appear spontaneously in any house that contains a man over a certain age. I believe that's science.”
#the twisted ones#t. kingfisher#ursula vernon#litedit#bookedit#*2022#*mine#*edits#genre: horror#i have such conflicted feelings bc i really liked the two distinct parts of this i just. didn't. love them. together???
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