Belated February/March 2023 Update (Patreon)

I should probably move these to beginning of the month, since the end tends to be busy. February was a short month, which meant less time to schedule liveblogs, but I managed. I'm keeping up my workout, trying to get on a better sleep schedule, and trying to move forward in general. I ended my relationship with my girlfriend, but we're going to remain good friends. In fact, we just got back from seeing the Beetlejuice musical together! It was a lot of fun.

I also finally joined LetterBox and sometimes log movies when I'm bored at work. But I've mostly been working a whole lot, because I'm teaching my boring intro class. I'm also trying to make headway on my third draft, slowly but surely.

TV wise, I'm watching and enjoying The Last of Us. I never played the game, and there's a bit of that 'don't expect anyone to stick around' predictability, but it's been good! Also occasionally watching Wednesday, which is a lot less good. In anime news, I'm firmly back in my Precure era, keeping up with Hirogare Sky Precure which is shaking up the formula in a lot of exciting ways! I'm also finally watching more of Tropical Rouge Precure, which is just fun and silly and has a sassy mermaid. For seasonal anime, I picked up Ippon Again, a sports anime about girls doing judo, and am enjoying it.  I finally finished Pokemon Scarlet, am deeply mad Hot Professor wasn't in it more, but playing the post game anyway.

Recent manga I've read;

The Girl Who Can't Get a Girlfriend- a fun autobiographical comic about a butch lesbian looking for a butch partner, she's a HaruMichi stan and Haruka was the beginning of her lesbian awakening, so you know she has taste!

The Single Life- Akiko Morishima's latest, being released in short chapters, it focuses on a 60-year-old single lesbian. Very grouded, and she's content with singlehood while being proudly gay, it's a sweet read.

Is Love the Answer?- A young asexual teenager discovers herself after entering college. It really delves into intersecting identities and the spectrum of asexuality more than anything I've read, even Loveless didn't get quite as in-depth. There's also a lot of nonbinary (X-gender) characters, and the mc stans a magical girl series and the designs of it are great. I really loved it.

My Cute Little Kitten- two working women turn from roommates to lovers after adopting a cat. Not anything spectacular, but cute.

I also realized I'd sold my Blue Beetle trades for some reason and didn't have the patience to dig through floppies, so I got the new graphic novel rerelease of the series. There's some jokes that aged weirdly, but it's still a solid, fun series and I adore Jaime and Brenda.

For novels, I read Ace of Spades, a thriller about two black students in an all-white school who have to figure out the identity of a mysterious anonymous harrasser. It was a good page-turner, though I felt the ending was very rushed. I finally attended a queer book club where I got to actually talk about the book in a meeting! For it, we read When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo, a folktale like novella about lesbian tigers. It was a nice read, and the club turned out to be mostly women in their 60s- one was my downstairs neighbor! So we have something in common! They were baffled about the non binary protagonist (not in an aggressive way, just in a lot of questions way) but otherwise it was fine.

Right now I've started The Measure, which is an interesting thought experiment of a book. And into March we go! Like a lion! That's all for now, but I'll check in next time!