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GOOD PEOPLE: DID SERIES 2 OF GOOD OMENS FILL YOU WITH FEELINGS OF MELANCHOLY?
Then I bring you the GOOD NEWS and a tonic to soothe your pain. ‘lo, embrace an opportunity for laughter and joy and yea queer romance as well.
Put into your ears, without cost, JOHN FINNEMORE’S SOUVENIR PROGRAMME: SERIES 9.
John Finnemore was Neil Gaiman’s co-writer on this series, as well as the writer of the Job story in the second episode, “A Companion to Owls”. If you watched the second series, you have already enjoyed the writing of John Finnemore, the rhythm of his dialogue, some of his approach to characterization and the nature of his jokes!
Yes, John Finnemore is the writer of the hit radio sitcom CABIN PRESSURE, but if you want to feel good about love and family and also queerness, what you want is JOHN FINNEMORE’S SOUVENIR PROGRAMME: SERIES 9. Yes, it is a sketch comedy show. No, it doesn’t have an overarching plot. But the sketches in each episode are events in the life of one character, told in reverse chronological order, each character the member of one family, building the shape of a family history with blocks made of jokes about the benefits of lockdown, tattoos, songs, magpies, history, Teenage Mutant Ninja (Hero) Turtles, coming out, scrabble, restaurant behaviour, ghost stories, and passport applications.
Listen to it and then listen to it again. You will laugh laughter and feel feelings.
#good omens#good omens season 2#the evolution of i'm not sure if good omens 2 is a good idea without terry pratchett to oh john finnemore is involved this will be wonderful#john finnemore#John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme#also john finnemore's souvenir programme#always john finnemore's souvenir programme#i am always here to kick in the door to promote john finnemore or kurosagi corpse delivery service#radio comedy#have you read kurosagi corpse delivery service?#you should read kurosagi corpse delivery service
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#The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service#Kurosagi Shitai Takuhaibin#Eiji Otsuka#Housui Yamazaki#2000#2000s#2010s#2020s#ongoing#young ace
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Any book/show recommends?
i dont read and watch enough 😭 i have a terrible attention span and awful awful motivation now But.
her body and other parties by carmen maria machado changed my life
roadside picnic❤️
haunting of hill house (for my psychosis sisters). i liked the tv adaptation more than others but its just totally different thematically and as an experience
its a pamphlet not a fiction book but valerie solanas' SCUM manifesto is such an enthralling read, i really loved it. make sure to look into it a bit because valerie was a very angry person plus it was the 70s so it can read as offensive esp towards trans women
CONTACT BY CARL SAGAN. lovelovelove. faith and science and ellie arroway woman of all time? the movie is also good
manga: witch hat atelier, mob psycho 100, murcielago (look it up before you try it to see if its your thing), KUROSAGI CORPSE DELIVERY SERVICE<3<3
shows....... i loved interview with the vampire ^_^ i havent watched tv in so long omg i also dont remember any of it off the top of my head. well nothing that isnt kind of shit. oo i liked garth marenghi's darkplace and if youre a fan of what we do in the shadows, the spinoff show wellington paranormal is fun if you wanna hear new zealand accents (we sound funny)
anime: mob psycho 100 greatest anime of all time its three seasons its complete its perfect. keep your hands of eizouken is a great single-season anime that is just such a love letter to animation and looks so cool with great female characters (esp compared to other anime girls). oddtaxi is another great single season of anime, dont look up spoilers.
#ask#Anonymous#sorry this is late i kept drawing a blank 💀#tv shows are an investment and theres more oppurtunities to piss me off AND many multi-season shows are dictated by#corporate interests and get cancelled or dip in quality etc#havent watched any anime in the last like year or two lmfao
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Episode 184 - Horror
This episode we’re discussing the fiction genre of Horror! We talk about fear, control, Goosebumps, bad dogs, horror-comedy, creepypasta, the apocalypse, lizard romance, and more!
You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.
In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards
Things We Read (or tried to…)
Straight by Chuck Tingle
Mister Magic by Kiersten White, narrated by Rebecca Lowman
I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea
The Wicked Unseen by Gigi Griffis
Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
Leech by Hiron Ennes
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen edited by Ellen Datlow
House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Into the Pit: Fazbear Frights #1 by Scott Cawthon and Elley Cooper
Sadako at the End of the World by Koma Natsumi
The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus, Book 3 by Eiji Otsuka and Yamazaki Housui
Things We Read (but didn’t talk about in this episode)
Be Very Afraid of Kanako Inuki! by Kanako Inuki
Résumé With Monsters by William Browning Spencer
Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
Carmilla: The First Vampire by Amy Chu and Soo Lee
Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw
A Song for the Quiet by Cassandra Khaw
The Helios Syndrome by Vivian Shaw
Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum
Other Media (& Authors) We Mentioned
Captain Britain And MI13, Volume 3: Vampire State by Paul Cornell, Leonard Kirk, and Mike Collins
Stephen King
Misery
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Cujo
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Alien: Isolation (Wikipedia)
Dead Space (2008 video game) (Wikipedia)
R.L. Stine
Goosebumps
Fear Street
Junji Ito
The Enigma of Amigara Fault - “T-this is my hole! It was made for me!”
Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu
Emily Carroll
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
Smart Podcast Trashy Books: 579. Punk Rock Writing with Chuck Tingle
Candle Cove by Kris Straub
Candle Cove (Wikipedia)
SCP Foundation
SCP-087
The SCP Foundation: Declassified (YouTube)
The Ring (2002 film) (Wikipedia)
We talked more about the novel The Ring in Episode 078 - Supernatural Thrillers
Crapshots Ep608 - The Old Ones (YouTube)
Links, Articles, Etc.
Episode 176: Fantasy
Episode 123: Psychological Horror
Does the Dog Die?
Matthew’s spooky phone case is a variant of this one
Matthew did a “31 Spooky Manga” challenge a few years ago and read a different spooky manga every day in October.
The Midnight Library: Episode 001 - Halloween Poetry
Sound Effects
Big Thunder And Distant Thunder Rain Birds by morvei01
Dramatic Organ, A by InspectorJ
bats1 by sofie
Pigeons (St Stephens Green, Dublin) by iainmccurdy
31 Recent Horror Books by BIPOC Authors
Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.
This list features horror fiction by BIPOC authors published within the last 3 years.
Jackal by Erin E. Adams
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro
The Spite House by Johnny Compton
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell
Piñata by Leopoldo Gout
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson
Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda
Lone Women by Victor LaValle
Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Morena-Garcia
This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele
Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn
Manmade Monsters by Andrea L. Rogers
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea
Chlorine by Jade Song
Midnight Storm Moonless Sky: Indigenous Horror Stories by Alex Soop
There's No Way I'd Die First by Lisa Springer
She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality: Stories by Lindsay Wong
White Horse by Erika T. Wurth
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Join us again on Tuesday, November 7th when we’ll be discussing the non-fiction genre of Crafts and Crafting!
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do you have any horror manga recommendations? I've been reading them a lot lately
ooh that is a very very good question!! and honestly if you've been following me for a while you've probably seen my catalogue of horror manga lmao. as much as manga is my preferred medium compared to anime and ykno i have a casual fondness for horror, it actually takes me a while to work through new manga DX DX i do have a couple of stuff i can probably suggest, though.
(since you're actively seeking horror, i'm gonna take a guess and assume you're not really in need of any major trigger warnings, since a lot of these recs include gore/violence/sexuality/abuse/general skeeziness, or at least can anticipate that you're gonna run into unsavory stuff, but you can follow up and let me know if there is actually something i should take note of.)
One thing I find with horror manga (and horror in general, but manga especially) is a common big genre drift with things action or comedy or adventure or something. A lot of the well-known names on rec lists have horror elements rather than being primarily horror, or the horror influence ends up downplayed as the story goes on. but still excellent. If I have recs in the realm of "horror-lite/influenced", I'd say:
Kemono Jihen by Sho Aimoto, kid joins a detective agency in Tokyo meant to resolve supernatural incidents between "kemono" and humans.
Dandadan by Yukinobu Tatsu, a girl who believes in spirits & ghosts and a boy who believes in aliens become friends! And a lot of things happen because the creator assisted for Fujimoto of Chainsaw Man fame, so it has a lot of the same off-the-wall, irreverent humour. While it's not as tight or classy as CSM, it's still a fuckin fun romp with nice horror moments.
Both of those I actually need to catch up with, haha. I'll actually recommend Can You Just Die, My Darling? as well, although I'm not sure if you're the anon who recced it to me first. Much stronger on the horror & violence elements, but it's another one I still have to catch up on.
I'm trying to avoid the obvious recommendations that you can get off any list, like Junji Ito or idk. Tokyo Ghoul, Dorohedoro or something like that. But special shout out to Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni. I'm most familiar with the 2006/07 anime series rather than the games (besides a couple of let's plays) and the manga, but I watched it with my sisters when I was young, LONG before I considered myself a horror fan, and I still consider those question arcs to have some of the best horror sequences ever experienced blind. Hugely influential.
In a similar vein to trying to avoid obvious recs, I know that Shuzo Oshime has gotten more popular as of late, but I've been working through Blood on the Tracks, which is about really insane mommy issues, so if you're cool with that!! You can also check out his other works that I haven't gotten to, but yeah I think he's
For probably my biggest recommendations though - the first one is a short-ish read, I think it was only one volume? The other two were excellent recommendations from my friends!
Helter Skelter by Kyoko Okazaki is about how fucked up the modelling & beauty industry is. There's also a movie adaptation that I haven't watched it.
Hikaru Ga Shinda Natsu (The Summer Hikaru Died) by Mokumokuren, a relatively new BL ongoing series about two friends who live in a rural village - except one of the friends had disappeared months ago in the mountains.
And my actual personal favourite recommendation, Kurosagi: Corpse Delivery Service. It's about a team of students at a Buddhist college who start a company to deliver corpses. They also solve murders along the way! This is a really great series and pretty easy to get into, I think - there's some ongoing plot, but a lot of the arcs are more episodic in nature. A lot of fun discussion on Japanese culture and views on death, it's funny, the gore and horror art are just great, it's just a cool unique series. The only thing is that while I believe it's completed, it's not fully translated in English - I think translations only go up to chapter ~89? So while there's story threads that are unanswered, the translations don't end on a cliffhanger at least.
I do have a "To Read" list compiled after going through some other rec lists / Youtube videos about horror manga. I can't speak to the quality of these yet, but they must have been intriguing enough for me to write them down. Here's a selection of them, not including general creators I wanted to check out:
Dai Dark by Q Hayashida of Dorohedoro fame
Doubt, Judge, and Secret by the guy who did the Higurashi manga.
Another
The Serial Killer is Laughing in the Rain
As the Gods Will
Jagaaan
The Horror Mansion
Fear Infection
Mushihime
Homunculus
Ichi the Killer
Mister Arashi's Amazing Freakshow
PTSD Radio
Dementia 21
Dark Hideout
Halloween Desetsu
The Quiz
Mantis Woman
Presents
If you've read any of those, or get to them before I do, or read any of the prior recs let me know your thoughts!! Always down to chat horror.
Aside from that. Well Digimon: Ghost Game was pretty fun when I was watching it. Had some spooky ooky moments. If you like Digimon o:
actually i'm going to use this opportunity to again reiterate how validated i was when horikoshi had that comment about how he'd like to try doing horror when one of my prominent thoughts when the MVA arc was running was how much potential the guy had as a horror artist and how it could really free him. my goddamn vision.
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literally just a list of stuff from this video whose summaries interested me. posting here to have on my reading bookmarks because its easier to keep track there than in my things folders
already read/saw (if anime only):
1 junji ito - everything
1 tokyo ghoul
1 parasyte
1 death note
1 berserk
2 kazuo umezu - cat eyed boy
2 devilman
2 perfect blue
2 tenkuu shinpan (high rise invasion)
3 ringu / ju-on / one last call / dark water
3 corpse party
4 litchi hikari club
? neon genesis evangelion
5 ichi the killer
5 homunculus
already read/saw but revisiting
1 soul eater
2 d-gray man
was already on my list
2 dorohedoro / dai dark
2 mieruko chan
2 oyasumi punpun
3 shiki
4 franken fran
? serial experiments lain (wasn't on the list but something else reminded me of it)
interested:
1 chainsaw man
1 the promised neverland
1 jujutsu kaisen
1 jojo's bizarre adventure
1 mirai nikki
2 kazuo umezu - orochi blood & the drifting classroom
2 inuyashiki
2 doubt / judge / secret
2 beastar
2 elfen lied
2 dead man wonderland
2 happy sugar life
2 another
2 magical girl apocalypse
2 pet shop horror
2 zom100 bucket list of the dead
3 zashiki onna
3 portus
3 soul liquid chambers
3 gakuen densetsu hasami onna
3 erotic horror
3 the tarot cafe
3 karada sagashi
3 kudan no gotoshi
3 ibitsu
3 shikei game
3 museum: the serial killer is laughing in the rain
3 aragne: sign of vermillion
3 oyayubi sagashi
3 kuronou syndrome
3 heartless
3 final girl
3 kiriko
3 can you just die, my darling?
3 the quiz
3 signal 100
3 suicide club
3 alive!
3 octopus girl
3 nemuri no fuchi
4 as the gods will
4 hell baby / panorama of hell / hino horror
4 presents / school zone
4 kurosagi corpse delivery service
4 battle royale (manga??)
4 gift +-
4 jinrou game
4 manhole
4 dead tube
4 yajin
4 sekai oni
4 this man: sono kao wo mita mono ni wa shi wo
4 domu
4 pygmalion
4 scumbag loser
4 eko eko azarak
4 the room
4 pumpkin night
4 children
5 mr arashi's amazing freak show ✅ / ultra gash inferno / the strange tale of panorama island
5 ptsd radio
5 dementia 21
5 goth
5 notpia
5 bradherlen no basha
5 starving anonymous
5 kangoku jikken
5 kibou no shima
5 euphoria ✅ although i have no plans to actually play the game, ive read a ton of summarys and plot explanations so tbh im considering it as a ✅
5 misu misou
5 doku mushi
5 kaidan: ghost stories (if available)
not interested but i know what happens:
1 the flowers of evil
1 attack on titan
1 kimetsu no yaiba
1 highschool of the dead
2 higurashi & 3 umineko (would rather play the games)
3 bl of the dead
3 megami tensei
3 versailles of the dead
4 i am a hero
4 pupa
4 bokurano
speaking of, seeing the comments now and I'm seeing one disappointed with the no mention of pedophilia in happy sugar life, which made me go "oh so its like that huh" (the constant falls in love was suspicious enough) and like. i don't know a whole lot about horror manga and anime in particular but i know FOR A FACT that I'm gonna have to navigate so many sexual adjacent horror. from fanservice to genuine to "for horrors sake" ... I'm strong. i live 👍
5 mai-chan's daily life ✅ you cannot make me read this no matter how hard you try. baby blender was enough. fun fact i somehow managed to stomach it all in a time i was feeling more emotionally detached. yay
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What are your shojo recomendations?
You are asking the wrong person.
That's like asking me 'What's your favorite HALLMARK ROM COM movie?' I don't have one. Cause I don't like them.
The Last 'Shojo' Manga I probably read was Ouran High School Host Club and that was YEARS ago. I remember reading Peach Girl when I was younger and getting progressively more and more pissed off at the WISHY WASHY BEHAVIOR of everyone involved and that's sort of when I picked up that shojo mangas were just not my thing AT ALL.
I like Mangas were
-Fantasy and someone's op (and they choose do something dumb like farming or raising animals or stuff like that cause it's refreshing.)
-Fantasy and it's got a REALLY GOOD revenge plot (Redo of a Healer failed with this and I struggled to find any way to enjoy it.)
-Fucked up Horror
-Fucked up horror but you're REALLY rooting for that killer (Brutal is FANTASTIC for this. You feel so satisfied for this Exoricist obsessed police officer shoving a SPIKED CROSS up a sex offender's ASSHOLE 666 times.)
-Mangas were the MC has enough of the bullshit and says NO MORE. Don't give two fucks about you and your fucking dere shennagians, I do not have TIME for this nor the emotional capacity. No more games, no more dere bullshit.
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-MANGA WHERE THE PLOT IS UNIQUE AND INTERESTING AND ORGINAL. Dungeon Meshi is Orginal. That Manga I read where MASCOT SUITS were alive and killing people was orginal. Franken Fran was orginal. Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service WAS HELLA ORGINAL and I loved it. I should revisit that one.
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"Get To Know Me” Tag Game! Thank you to @theoceanismyinkwell for tagging me.
Fave Ships: These are just the ones I can remember, in vague order and probably forgetting a lot of them:
Shin/Sena (Eyeshield 21), Sena/Panther (Eyeshield 21), Sena/Yamato (Eyeshield 21), Hiroki/Nowaki (Junjou Romantica), Namata/Yata (Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service), Nandor/Guillermo (What We Do in the Shadows), Harrow/Gideon (The Locked Tomb), Judith/Marta (The Locked Tomb)
First Ship: I feel like it was something from Twilight, because that’s the first media I became aware of fandom for.
Actually, wait, I think it might have been Finn/Puck from Glee.
Last Song: I’m doing this based on my answers when I read these prompts this morning, so: How Deep It Goes, by Arbouretum.
Currently Reading: Swedish Cults by Anders Fager. A recently-translated collection of short stories from, you guessed it, Sweden.
Last Movie: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; I like to watch old movies with my mom, and I’d gotten this one mixed up with How to Marry a Millionaire, which I’ve also been intending to watch.
Currently Watching: I’m very bad at watching series, but last I left off on were Pushing Daisies and BBC Ghosts. I was also watching The Shock of the New while cleaning out my email inbox earlier today.
Consuming: water, from my decrepit water bottle, but I had hoppin’ john and collards today for New Year’s.
Currently Working On: at the moment, I’m working on as below, so above, trying to build up a chapter buffer before the semester starts. But, as you can tell, I’m currently distracted by tumblr.
Tagging: @uv-duv, @overnightmask, @chelsfic, @andyandnormski, @blaka-smoko, @phasmama, @jay-auris, @kyrilu
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What gothic novel(la)'s would you suggest for someone who's not keen on horror or purple prose but loves the feel of GDT's works and wants more like that, just in written form (not unlike the novelisations of Crimson Peak or Shape of Water)?
Okay well first of all you need to go get a copy of Her Body And Other Parties. A collection of short stories based around common urban legends but through a feminist lens.
The Merry Spinster, the stories herein are based on Daniel Lavery’s children’s stories made disturbing series. Some real gems here.
White Is For Witching is a story of a multi-generational family that starts to go through some strange shit when the mother dies. Family, magic, and labyrinthine houses. Very much in your wheelhouse.
The Bloody Chamber, this is my favorite book of all books. It’s a series of gothic psycho-sexual fairy tales. The most purple of prose, so you have to be okay with that.
Though The Woods, this is probably my second favorite book of all books. More gothic fairy tale type stories. Emily Carroll also has an incredible grasp of graphic and pacing. One of my favorite artists.
When I Arrived At The Castle, another Carroll book, my favorite book of 2019. This one is rather more surreal. Very much reminds me of Crimson Peak in tone but not story. Beautiful, bloody, and gay.
Pretty Deadly follows Death’s daughter through time. First story arc is in the old West (as in an Americna Western), second is in WWI. One of the most beautiful comics around.
Injection is about a created intelligence made to bring about the future. Five brilliant people came together to make this intelligence through science and magic. A beautiful combination of fantasy and sci-fi. One of my favorite comics.
The Girl From The Other Side is set in a fantasy world split between civilization and wilderness. The latter is filled with demons who spread their condition through touch. But one day a small girl is found living there under the guardianship of one of the demons.
The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service is about five recent college grads who can’t find jobs so they decide to talk to the dead instead. Frightening, funny, and always an absolute delight.
The Sandman is one I imagine you already know, but just in case here it is. While rather flawed this remains one of my favorites. The lord of Dreams is kidnapped for 70 years, when he comes out everything has changed. The Sandman follows him as he tried to regain his place in the world.
Another title of which you’re probably already aware is From Hell. This is the book that made Alan Moore a magician and is, in my opinion, his best work. The story of the Whitechapel murders
As always you don’t have to buy these from me, but for the love of any and everything you consider holy, please please please don’t buy from Amazon.
Alright if anyone wants their own recommendations just pop by my inbox and tell me a bit about what you like to read. What with the plague I’m out of practice handselling and could use the practice.
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I've been reading Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service again, so you guys get another crossover idea again.
Kurosagi and Ghost Trick.
Set during the time of Kurosagi (aka modern day (give or take a few years)). The Kurosagi group is looking for a body that Numata got a signal from.
Dead cat.
(Should mention now before i forget. Kurosagi is very graphic. The corpses look like corpses with maggots and everything. So if you're not comfortable with that, I suggest not looking into it. )
Anyways, yeah, cat's dead. Karatsu checks the cat, see if they can find anything, but there's nothing there.
But they take the cat with them. Figure they can check around, see if anyone has lost a cat, at least giving the owners peace of mind.
They get back, talk about whatever, and suddenly the cat starts meowing. And is not happy.
Because Sissel was out doing some Ghost Trick stuff and thought he left his body in some place where no one would mess with it but then these idiots came along and took it away and he had to go looking for it. And do you know how much harder it is for him to get around with cordless phones being so commonplace nowadays??
So they're trying to figure out what's going on. Did Karatsu do this on accident? Meanwhile, Sasaki has managed to track down an owner. A woman named Lynne who passed away about 5 years ago (I can't remember if Ghost Trick has an actual time period but for the sake of this crossover it's a few decades ago)
Of course, Sissel gets depressed at the reminder, Numata gets sad seeing the cat sad and now the Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service has a cat. I mean, why not? They kept Yata and Kereellis. (Sorry Yata)
Sissel becomes part of the group, though 99.9% of the bodies have been dead too long for him to help directly, he usually guides them places.
Also:
"Um, guys? The cat's dead again."
"God damnit! Where'd he run off to this time!?"
I have gone back and forth about idea of any of the Kurosagi group having death cores (forgot the actual name) but the only one i think would realistically have one is Karatsu. Which means no one can actually understand Sissel so he leads them by either walking or making them follow by manipulating objects (mostly depends on if they're in a situation where he can leave his body and not have to worry about it getting picked up by the garbage men. Again.)
"Hey, if he's dead, does that mean we don't have to feed him?"
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Numbered List of Manga
I don't really understand what's meant by the X to know me by thing going around, because I thought it was generally agreed that media consumption is not a substitute for personality, but here are 10 (licensed) manga series that stick with me.
Hikaru no Go (Yumi Hotta and Takeshi Obata)
Tokyo Babylon (CLAMP)
KUROSAGI CORPSE DELIVERY SERVICE (Eiji Otsuka and Housui Yamazaki)
From Eroica With Love (Yasuko Aoike)
X-Day (Setona Mizushiro)
Pluto (Naoki Urasawa)
Goodnight Punpun (Inio Asano)
Otherworld Barbara (Moto Hagio)
Banana Fish (Akimi Yoshida)
Berserk (Kentaro Miura)
Hikaru no Go
The first sports manga I read and the gold standard for Shounen Jump sports manga. The slow maturation of Obata's art with Hikaru's character arc compliment each other so perfectly (when he does his own writing I don't have time for Obata), the triangle of skill/interest/desire in Hikaru's relationship with the game, JUST PUTTING A GHOST IN YOUR SPORT SERIES AS A MENTOR TO THE PROTAGONIST -- the natural end of the series is perfect (and not undone by continuing for several more volumes) and I still think about it twenty years later and get teary. Any subject can be engaging in the right hands.
Tokyo Babylon
My age and gender mean not including a CLAMP title would be a lie. It would be like a dude my age denying having seen any Dragon Ball. Tokyo Babylon is my go-to, with the heavy contrast of the art, chunkier and less streamlined than CLAMP's later titles, and the themes of death, environmentalism, and the disconnect between people and the world around them in post-Bubble Tokyo, are things I keep coming back to in contemporary series, and looking back is both nostalgic while showing me how things have improved in terms of what's accessible and considered marketable in North America. There was a time when the idea of Tokyo Babylon being licensed was laughable! And now it's been licensed, published, and had the license lapse MULTIPLE TIMES.
Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service
You should read Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. Ask me about Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. It's a kind, primarily episodic horror manga with strong anthropological roots. It's supernatural and incredibly real, with stories dealing with xenophobia, the criminal justice system, homelessness, environmental destruction, war crimes, aging populations and the lack of support, isolation, idol culture, otaku culture, employability after receiving a liberal arts education, urban legends, aliens, the dangers of technological innovation, parental loss, revenge, abortion, infanticide, juvenile offenders, cloning, blackmarket animal imports, the continued military presence in Japan, cryonics, the postal service, immigration, what if Jack the Ripper was a ghost and he possessed a cool thing you had imported and continued his serial killings as a ghost. You should read Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. Ask me about Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service.
From Eroica With Love
This series started with superpowered teens, including one named LEOPARD SOLID, and Aoike decided that was boring and she made it a series about a British aristocrat with a secret identity as a flamboyant gentleman thief with amazing hair and a sexually charged rivalry with a German intelligence agent who hates him. It's amazing. It needs to be rescued. There's something like 40 volumes. The pope gets stolen. There's a car chase with a tank and a bazooka on the autobahn. It's perfect and outrageous and over-the-top.
X-Day
I love Mizushiro and she's been tragically unrepresented in English licenses (X-Day is an ex-Tokyopop license, for a one-two punch of tragedy). X-Day is about lonely young people connecting on the internet and planning to blow up their school. There was a panel that felt like my depression had been put perfectly, beautifully, heartbreakingly onto the page.
Pluto
Urasawa's one of the greats and Pluto sees him adapting another of the greats into a smart, often sad, science fiction mystery thriller, and I still haven't been able to bring myself to read it a second time, despite it being Urasawa's shortest series.
Goodnight Punpun
Have you ever read something so profoundly raw and honest and recognizable that you had to quit reading it cold turkey? I think about Goodnight Punpun a lot and I stare at it on my shelf and I know I'm still not ready to read the rest of it.
Otherworld Barbara
No one draws the way Hagio does, with lines that look like they will dissolve if you touch them, and she understands that soft, dreamy beauty should be able to encompass things that are hard and violent and bloody because girls love romance and dream realms and clones and question of identity and beautifully androgynous characters with dark starry eyes and cannibalism.
Banana Fish
I have often gone on, at length, about one of the core components of shoujo, especially classic shoujo, being BIG FEELINGS, and the hugeness of the feelings make the events correspondingly BIG AND POWERFUL AND IMPORTANT but Banana Fish ties that with extreme violence and a plot that becomes increasingly Metal Gear Solid, with impossible drugs and mind control and knife fights and snipers and torture hospitals and the American military industrial complex. And then it comes back to feelings. It's another title where you really see the art evolve, which I love, and it's one of those perfect tragedies, where you can feel bad things coming, sometimes see them coming, but there's a rightness in the tragic ending. It hits the catharsis necessary in real, proper tragedies.
Berserk
I resent how superficial readings of Berserk kept me from reading it for so long. Do I love the hyper-violence and the gore and Miura's obsessive attention to the tiniest details in his shitty, blood-soaked world? Yes, of course, it's powerful and visceral and shocking and wild, which makes the hope and the realness of the trauma and how difficult everything is and how exhausting just living is and the cycles the characters are trying to escape from more engaging. Despite everything it isn't constant, grinding misery. It's a series full of sparks of optimism and so much more than BIG MAN BIG SWORD, with hurts more complex than demonic abominations. But the demonic abominations DO look rad as hell.
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A Few of My Favorite Things
It’s been a while since I’ve had to take inventory of, like, WHO I am, and introduce myself. Feels weird AF.
But the best way to give folks who don’t know me a clue about what the flavor of this tumblr experience will be is to list out some of my hobby-related fav’s, yeah? I mean, if this space is gonna be for my hobbies, then that seems like a reasonable starting point.
Okay, lets do it. FAVS:
Anime:
Fairy Tail, Space Dandy, Re:ZERO, The Promised Neverland, Tower of God, Katekyo: Hitman Reborn!, Kaguya-sama: Love is War, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid, Zombieland Saga
I’ll watch pretty much any anime these days, and except for extreme cases I’ll usually finish at least one arc before passing judgement :)
Manga:
One Piece, Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service
I’m currently working through way more than just these, but these are the 2 I’ve consistently enjoyed the most.
Fiction Authors:
Raymond Chandler, Ross MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury
Once upon a time when I was a fancy-ass Art Guy, I would try to namedrop as many highbrow names as possible onto a list like this.
Now, I don’t give a fuck. I read crime novels. When I want to mix it up, I read novels about time travel and lasers and shit. Who cares. Read what you love.
Films:
RoboCop, Repo Man, Tokyo Drifter, Frankenweenie, The Life Aquatic, The Seventh Seal. Enthusiast of the Zatoichi and Bond film franchises, warts and all.
I dig anything from Seijun Suzuki, Paul Verhoeven, Wes Anderson, Tim Burton, Ingmar Bergman.
Again, fancy-ass Art Guy would have stretched the truth to namedrop a bunch of SERIOUS CINEMA up here. But now I watch like, one new movie a month (on a good month). I like what I like. Which is apparently campy sci-fi, indie movies I saw in college, and foreign arthouse shit from the 60s.
Television:
I don’t track with current film or television trends, so it’s pretty rare for me to catch any New Media. If I’m watching non-anime tv, it’s almost always The Simpsons or Star Trek, or watching a ballgame. Don’t even try to talk to me about New Media, it’s a lost cause. Even before the pandemic hit, it had been possibly years since I’d been to a theater or started a premier television show.
Now’s as good a time as any to say-
IDGAF about Star Wars, Marvel, DC, etc.
Which is wild, ‘cuz I know A LOT about them- I grew up reading golden/silver age Marvel religiously and kept up with current arcs while in college, and I’ve seen the first six Star Wars films like, a billion times, and know the EU in and out. I own so many Batman legos (for some reason Batman has some of the best intermediate level sets).
The fandoms just moved on without me, and that’s totally fine. No judgement if you’re into that, just know I don’t have much to add to that discourse.
Vidya Games:
I don’t have a rolling list of favs, so here’s what I’ve been playing lately-
Civilization 6, Call of Duty: Warzone, Overwatch, Minecraft, Tokyo Mirage, MLB The Show 20, Tomodachi Life, Golf With Your Friends
If you backed me into a corner at a bar and demanded my all-time favs, I’d probably rattle off a list including Persona 5, Fallout: New Vegas, Stronghold: Crusader, Tyrian, Donkey Kong Country, Mortal Kombat and others. Honestly, there’s too many games so I don’t bother trying to keep an organized list. They’re all great.
Music:
Again, I don’t bother with keeping an all-time favorites list. I listen to what fits my mood, and my mood shifts CONSTANTLY. So here’s what I’ve been into lately-
Aries
Guardin
Convolk
Fat’se
Whxami
Shinigami
9Tails
93FEETOFSMOKE
Stray Kids
Set To Stun
And pretty much any anime OST that strikes my interest. Lately, I’ve been listening to the Re:ZERO OST and the Fairy Tail 2019 season soundtrack. The OP from God of High School has also got a lot of play from me.
Alcohol:
Disclosure: I like to drink. I’m trying to be more mindful of it. Quarantine has been a tale of extremes- I’m either not drinking at all, or drinking way too much, so I’m trying to find a happy medium that is both enjoyable but kind to my body. I feel good about where I’m at right now- as I told a friend earlier this week, I think pizza might actually be a more pressing health risk to me, at this point. Heh.
Before I cut back on beer, I was a big Double IPA guy. Love Steel Toe Brewery, Summit Brewing, Fulton- mostly local companies. When I was on my light beer kick I got in deep with Michelob Ultra. Then I woke up, realized that wasn’t the kind of life I wanted for myself, and dropped that hard and fast.
Now I’m trying to do sake. I have a new order coming in from Tippsy, so I’ll let y’all know how that goes. My electric sake warmer arrived today :)
What else?
Um...
I’m a Capricorn Sun AND Moon. Rising in Cancer.
I’m Bipolar 1 with panic disorder, unmedicated, getting more comfortable with being open about that.
Not willing to state a religion here, but I do get down with meditation and divination on a regular basis.
I’m on a fitness journey. Some days it goes well, other days it goes to hell. I’m proud of my progress, regardless.
Definitely a dog person. Mine will make appearances in this space.
I’m working on a feature script. No, you probably can’t read it yet. Someday, though, I’d like for it to be in a place where I could hold a streamed reading of it.
I will watch just about any West Coast baseball/basketball you put in front of me. My fam’ hails from California, raised me in Iowa ‘cuz, economics and shit, so my sports loyalties have always been displaced..
I watch A LOT of 90s era wrestling. I apologize in advance for how much you’re going to hear about it.
I own a Fatal Fury hat, and I regularly wear it.
And...that covers most of the basics.
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I got tagged by @howdydowdy in a “dangerously sexy hybrid the likes of which the world has never seen” of a tag game. She’s amazing and hilarious and I’m very excited!
Top 3 ships: It should surprise no one that I still have to say PremWad as number 1 even though sotus is irrelevant (it is and i know that but their dynamic guys come on). I just rewatched Trapped and Tang Yi/Shao Fei is definitely in the top three as well. If I could pull a wild card here and not name a drama ship, I just binge-listened to The Magnus Archives podcast at work and I would die for Jon/Martin.
Last song: I listen to a lot of music y’all so:
-Korean: Answer by Ateez
-Japanese: Stand Out Fit In by One Ok Rock
-English: Halsey’s entire Manic album
Last movie: okay so... I have a lot of trouble watching movies. It’s like a running joke with my friends that I haven’t seen movies but it’s true. The last time I went to the movie theater was to see Avengers Endgame (I literally just had to scroll through movies released in 2019 to see if I saw any of them). For not recently released, I just watched Spiderman Into the Spiderverse for the first time and I watched Pacific Rim for the seventieth time.
Reading: It’s terrible but I haven’t been reading any actual literature books recently but I have been working my way through The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service manga series.
Watching: fffffffffff too much. I’m currently watching Until We Meet Again, Why R U?, The Good Place, and Schitt’s Creek. I just finished He’s Coming to Me. And I am planning on watching The Untamed, Crash Landing on You, A Gift for Whom You Hate, and about a thousand other things.
What food are you craving right now?: I need to eat lunch, I could smash a salad right now.
Lipstick or chapstick: I, and i am not exaggerating, would literally die without chapstick or another form of lip balm. They also make tinted lip balms so don’t be a clown you can have BOTH
Totally Spies or the Powerpuff Girls: I grew up watching both and this is honestly the most thought provoking question so far. I think Powerpuff Girls because I watched it first and I was pretty emotionally invested in it as a child.
Tagging: i’m gonna tag @m34ns (my bb peanut), @kxrn7knxck (my bb bunny), and @muffin-me (my bb bean), as well as some other faves @piningbisexuals @andwebegin, @0ffgun and @weilongfu. Of course, no pressure to participate, only if you want to!
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IM SO GLAD YOU ENJOYED IT<3 also my bad i think i gave the wrong order for them in my original post 😭 aikon is the sequel tbc. and absolutely i have recs some are yaoi some are regular🫶 edit lost this in my drafts for a month. i hope you are still here anon IM SORRY 😭
itoshi no anneli by ishiko, would probs be classed as BL as opposed to yaoi, its very incidentally homosexual. mostly just a sweet little short story about the creative process and connecting with people.
while being seen off by campanella by atsuki kyouyama. really great slice of life character study. warning for suicidal ideation, never featured but the main character discusses it quite frankly. it has an official english translation :)
kurosagi corpse delivery service by eiji otsuka. not yaoi but if you liked the supernatural procedural stuff and especially if you liked the gorier parts, KCDS is AMAZING!!! possibly favourite manga of all time<3 its a dark comedy about death and life and connection and also gore. warning for gore and nudity. its about five buddhist uni students starting a business (that makes no fucking money ever) where they complete the last wishes of the dead. there's karatsu who's a spiritual medium and can communicate with the deceased, sasaki who i kin and am in love with (woman of all time), numata who has divination powers and uses a dowsing rod, yata who can channel an alien through a hand puppet (named kereellis, he's a silly bastard :3) and makino the gyaru embalmer. LOVE this series so much, the dark horse translations are great especially if you love nerdy footnotes by translators. not yaoi but i guess you can yaoify it. sorry i use every oppurtunity to recc this damn manga PLEASE READ
#ask#anonymous#look if there's 2 things to take away from my blog its listen to bjork and read kurosagi corpse delivery service#yinnie
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Episode 187 - Favourite Reads of 2023
This episode we’re discussing our Favourite Reads of 2023! We talk about our favourite fiction and non-fiction books we read this year! Plus: Our favourite comics, video games, documentaries, podcasts, and more!
You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.
In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards
Favourite Fiction
For the podcast
Anna
The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao (Episode 172 - Domestic Thrillers)
Jam
Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones (Episode 184 - Horror)
Matthew
Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus, vol. 3 by Eiji Otsuka and by Housui Yamazaki (Episode 184 - Horror)
The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 edited by Lisa Unger and Steph Cha (Episode 186 - Suspense Fiction)
Meghan
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw (Episode 176 - Fantasy)
Not for the podcast
Jam
Heaven’s Design Team by Hebi-Zou, Tsuta Suzuki, & Tarako
Naked mole rats do not die of old age
Owls’ ears are at asymmetrical heights
Tarsiers have two tongues
Accidental Elephant (YouTube)
Matthew
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
Lambda Literary Award for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror (Wikipedia)
Meghan
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
Anna
Daisy and the Duke by Elizabeth Cole (The Wallflowers of Wildwood)
Favourite Non-Fiction
For the podcast
Matthew
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara (Episode 174 - Economics)
Meghan
Goldenrod: Poems by Maggie Smith (Episode 182 - Lyric Poetry)
Anna
They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers by Sarah Scoles (Episode 178 - Aliens, Extraterrestrials, and UFOs)
Jam
Histories of the Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson (Episode 170 - Gender Theory & Gender Studies)
Not for the podcast
Meghan
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
Anna
Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic – and what we can do about it by Jennifer Breheny Wallace
Jam
The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption by Shannon Gibney (also discussed in Episode 181)
Matthew
Thirty-One Nil: On the Road With Football's Outsiders: A World Cup Odyssey by James Montague
Other Favourite Things of 2023
Anna
If Books Could Kill
The Meme Stock Cult (patron episode) & two parter on Nudge
Folding Ideas - This is Financial Advice (YouTube)
Two Point Hospital / Campus
Oxygen Not Included
Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art
Jam
Nimona (film)
Shuna’s Journey by Hayao Miyazaki
Matthew
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Nier: Automata (Wikipedia)
Meghan
Ten Candles
Le Plonguer - Stéphane Larue
Runner-Ups
Jam
Games
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Wikipedia)
Baldur’s Gate 3 (Wikipedia)
Redactle
Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore (Episode 176 - Fantasy)
Boy Island by Leo Fox (comic released via 133 installments on Instagram; link is installment #1)
Changing my name (legal procedure)
Best Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe (cookies)
Moon (celestial body)
Matthew
Comics
Box of Light, vol. 1 by Seiko Erisawa
Cryptid Club by Sarah Andersen
The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún Deluxe Edition, vol. 1 by Nagabe
Incredible Doom, vol. 1 by Matthew Bogart and Jesse Holden
Mimosa by Archie Bongiovanni
Steeple, vols. 1-3 by John Allison, Sarah Stern, and Jim Campbell
Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru
Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? by Matt Fraction and Steve Leiber
Books
Boss Fight: Jagged Alliance 2 by Darius Kazemi
Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams by Alfred Lubrano
Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada's Chinese Restaurants by Ann Hui
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Dr. Kit Heyam
The Caped Crusader: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
Games
Hitman: World of Assassination Trilogy
Yakuza 0 (Wikipedia)
Tetris Effect
Bayonetta (Wikipedia)
Video Essays
The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse - Folding Ideas
Panzer Dragoon Series Retrospective - A Complete History and Review - I Finished A Video Game
Meghan
Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol by Holly Whitaker
Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
Onley's Arctic: Diaries and Paintings of the High Arctic by Toni Onley
Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst: The Creation of a Garden by VitaSackville-West and Sarah Raven
Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga by Benjamin Lorr
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold and Charles W. Schwartz
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism by Daphné B.
Witch King by Martha Wells
Bad Fruit by Ella King
Other Media We Mentioned
Thirsty Mermaids by Kat Leyh
Theme Hospital (Wikipedia)
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4. Movie of the year?
Well I gotta say JOKER was really fucking awesome. I knew going into it that I wouldn’t be seeing something in the comic book ‘verse per say, so I went into it not really knowing what to except. The fact that Todd Phillips and Scott Silver wrote a script that slowly slid you into his mind and made you feel his feelings was...incredible. We saw reflections of our current problems in the defunding of the mental health program and millions of people being affected by the fact that they have no help when it comes to mental illness. We journeyed into his decline in a world where you’re supposed to act “normal” in a world where no one wants to know about your mental illness.
11. Something you want to do again next year?
I’d love to hang out with @bulletproofbirdy. That was one of the highlights of my year.
14. Favorite book you read this year?
Unfortunately, this year I didn’t read any new books. I kind of re-read some, of which I recommend A Darker Shade of Magic. I did start some mangas i’m really enjoying. Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Tokyo Ghoul, Spy x Family, and Chainsaw Man among them.
20. What’s something you learned this year?
That I can do what I want at any age. I’m ready to make this next decade the best ten years of my life. I got TEFL certified, renewed my passport, and am working towards getting a teaching job in Korea. At first they seem like dreams, but it’s so fun to see it come together in the end.
23. If you could send a message to yourself back on the first day of the year, what would it be?
It gets better. Every year you know this. Sometimes you think you’re going into the year strong and it ends up being shit. Sometimes you go in weak and then look back and see your growth. The job you’re at is temporary, as such so is everything else. That feeling you have right now? Temporary. The misery you feel from work? Temporary. You aren’t necessarily tied to moments or points in time, you can cut them, and move on. You’ll want to keep some moments close so look hard, remember details, and take a picture; you’ll want to look back on those. That little seed that was planted that day in Barnes and Noble when Thanh looked at you across the table and said, “Why don’t you go teach in Korea?”...it grew. You pass that certification with flying colors and all that’s left is for you to take that step. Don’t give up.
Ask me something for the end of the year.
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