2025 was the year, the first in my life, I learned how to "work out" thanks to a queer lifting club organized by mostly women and trans people who wanted to create a space for people uncomfortable going to a gym (like me!) I love them and this class. And now I have biceps!

"We need answers!" No we don't. We know what happened and that any "answers" would be lies. We need guillotines.

I wrote a review of @jameswelker.bsky.social's book on manga and feminist history! As a queer artist myself, this is something I’ve wanted for years – a reading of classic shōjo manga that takes the lives and politics of the creators into account. 🌟 studiesonasia.scholasticahq.com/article/1548...

Fukushima Mizuho of Japan’s Social Democratic Party opposes govt plans to create an anti-spy law & external spy agency. She says: “This would create a surveillance society; it’s preparation for war”. She claims even oshikatsu (fan behaviour) wouldn’t be allowed. www.sankei.com/article/2026...

You and me both Charli

This is my blood

🌟 3.5/5 ✍️ Another Assassins book, and just as enjoy as the last. My favorites from this one is Soda and the Blanket & Pillow duo. They're so fun.

Just Read 💙📚 🎧 📕 Hotel Lucky Seven, Kōtarō Isaka 🎙️ Read by Pun Bandhu ✍️ Translated by Brian Bergstrom 🔖 Fiction, Crime, Thriller #️⃣ #kesayanganreads #mysterysky

朝の猫

A rare look back #humpday #nsfw

Post-shower Tuesday #tummytuesday

Really nice review of Dilemmas in World Literature Today! "...these stories subtly portray complex ways that women exist together through tenuous, sometimes painful intimacies... women are alternately disappointed, betrayed, loved, and rescued by women and girls around them."

Catsitting in the new year

I think it would be nice today if #fcf arrived early #nsfw #新年歡迎

Submissions are open for the WLT Student Translation Prize. If you’re a student enrolled in a translation studies program, send your prose and poems in by 1/10/26. We want to read your translations! All the details are here in the link: worldliteraturetoday.org/translation-...

There should be a way to have a "close friends" circle for sexy pics and a separate one for industry friends you want to gossip with

I mean, there's nothing to add to this

This Tokyo subway poster warning passengers not to rush onto trains gets updated every year to match the Chinese zodiac. (This year it’s the year of the horse.)

Five stars for Hotel Lucky Seven! 🥰

あけましておめでとうございます✨

Oh no I'm back in Canada and watched Heated Rivalry and now have A Take on it (the François Arnaud part is the only good part) (he's also by far the sexiest guy) (I'm sorry)

Decided to translate the name of a character's rabbit, うさ吉, as "Bunjamin", possibly for the amusement of solely myself #amtranslating #translation

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Soon it will be the Year of the Horse

I love Montréal English. I love when my friends say "in all cases" instead of "in any case" because they're thinking "en tout cas". I love "listening" to a tv show, "shutting" the lights. I just have to make sure it doesn't infiltrate my English when I translate 😅

The Year in Reviews: ARB Highlights from 2025 asianreviewofbooks.com/the-year-in-...

This is terrible -- one of my favorite manga artists, and so young

Great list (and not just because I have some translations on it)! Wildcat Dome is an especially good choice (that I fear is being overlooked a bit), I'm in awe of both the book and the translation.

Unwrapping #boxingday #fcf #nsfw

"Jupiter" is the second story in the same collection "Pink" appears in, 焔 (The Flame), which won the Tanizaki Prize in its year. I'm still looking for a publisher for the whole mind-blowing thing!

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メリクリ、みんなさん😘

Christmas package #fcxmas #nsfw #peace

Princeton University Press, among others, should be ashamed

The ruthlessness that comes from having no imagination whatever. —Agatha Christie, Crooked House

Ahh, what a nice review to encounter this close to Christmas. Dilemmas of Working Women is still finding readers!

Tuesday on the farm #nsfw #parentbathroom #tummytuesday

Ooh let's revive the gay foam party rumor just for fun

"I bring you lo-ove"

Getting really into genealogy has always struck me as a form of astrology, just replacing stars with whiteness

A little compendium of a few things I've translated. A varied group, but worth your attention, I think!

This book I put a lot of effort into is currently heavily discounted by some retailers and will still arrive in time for Christmas eikeexner.com/books/manga-...

The ‘deck’ in “Deck the Halls” means “to decorate.” But, it is not related or a shortening of ‘decorate.’ It comes from the Dutch word meaning “to cover.” You also use it when you’re all “decked out.”

I can't believe I have the opportunity to use this old meme I made for reasons I no longer remember

Bonus post-horseback view #nsfw #fcf

Made it back in the saddle today

Reclining #fcf #nsfw