Monthly Update: July 2023 (Patreon)

In case anyone missed my meme...

Original: https://twitter.com/ladylovejustice/status/1678570386621956096

Tumblr post with too detailed explanation:  https://ladyloveandjustice.tumblr.com/post/722507883570397184/the-truth-original 

The new anime season has started! So far I'm watching Ooku: The Inner Chambers (alternate history where most cis men died of a genetic disease in Japan and women secretly took over the shogunate) though I'll finish it soon since it was a Netflix release and they dumped the whole thing on there. It's really interesting so far! I'm also planning on keeping up with Undead Murder Farce, about how a part demon man and a immortal woman who lost most of her body and is a head in a cage team up to solve mysteries, and track down the rest of her body. It's really stylish and fun so far! I might check out Zom100 and some other stuff later on. 

Since it's a thin season, I'm going to start on some backlog titles like Summertime Rendering (interesting mystery so far...but...the fanservice...) and Maria the Virgin Witch.

I've started gaming again, playing the Stanley Parable (indie game about your choices and being stuck in an office) and replaying Ghost Trick. It's been nice!

I recently read Qualia the Purple, which starts out as a quirky yuri light novel about a schoolgirl and her crush who sees everyone as robots, but becomes a psychological horror steeped in quantum mechanics (still gay). I enjoyed it, though some of the quantum mechanics exposition dumps were a bit much sometimes. I'm reading the manga now, because I'm REALLY curious how it will even visually portray some the of the events of the novel.

I picked up some stuff from the library and I've been starting and getting tired of a bunch of books and graphic novels- one I didn't finish was Magical Boy. It's a story about a trans boy who's expected to become a magical girl. I'm really glad it exists, but it was too middle grade for me, and the subplot with the conservative Christian bully who's-secretly-gay wasn't for me-- especially with how there was a "ooh they fell on top of each other how fliiiirty" moment while she was yelling slurs at the lesbian best friend character. It also didn't have many Easter eggs to offer for fans of the genre while I was reading it--just a lot of very expected "this is so frilly, this is so impractical" bits. I think a middle schooler would really enjoy it though, and I hope it opens the door for more trans magical girl/boy/people stories.

Catch These Hands!, Run Away With Me, Girl and Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon are all great yuri titles for adults that finished recently on very nice notes! DCM is also pretty explicitly an ace romance, with the two involved explicitly stating they don't like kissing or having sex with anyone but still want romance. 

My personal life has been pretty rough lately. I dealt with a suicide attempt from a loved one. I was hired suspiciously fast for a job then had to waste a lot of time talking with my point of contact to confirm the job was shit and probably a scam.  I don't know where things will go from here, but I'm trying to stay bust and focused. I'm making progress proofreading my novel before I send it to beta readers, and I should be starting on that at the end of the month. I'm also still working on my sequel.

I'll be gone at the end of my month for my Grandma's very delayed memorial service, but I'm going to finish everything up before then, hopefully.