david k. stone's wrap-around cover illustrations for the initial hardcovers of cherryh's faded sun trilogy are sooo crazy good... the second one is my favorite the watercolor and stylization give them a mythic quality that suit the books really well

happy ides of march A.K.A. xena and gabrielle dying on the cross together day to all my followers

okay i just finished my fourth CJC novel this is fucking crazy... like i know cherryh is influential and well known *within genre* but it STILL feels like she needs to be talked about way more i'm reading her morgaine books from the 70s and they're just as sophisticated and insane as her later SF 🫠

よろしくお願いします。 #シャニマス名刺 go.enza.fun/IddpjY #シャニマス #idolmaster

*reads one c. j. cherryh novel* yeah i'm a total cherryhpig

reactions to cyteen are FASCINATING like setting aside whether you like it or not, i've never seen a book where half the readers say "it took 150 pages for anything to happen" while the other half go "150 pages in and this book is so tense and claustrophobic and it just keeps getting worse" before

getting invested in lesbian sci-fi author RPF again but this time instead of killing me x10,000 it's making me believe in love i finished reading cyteen and then learned that it was during the writing of it that CJC and her (one day) wife started calling every night to discuss... and then U-HAULed 🥹

love when they have haruki dress like the prototypical teenage lesbian... these outfits are literally "babydyke couple at the mall"

as i was dutifully examining the display case of rare peko-chans a woman walked over and said to her friend "my mom used to collect this stuff!" my old lady taste... 👵 (said proudly)

my mochi nichika plush is now worth enough to cover my rent... and she wasn't even the most expensive mochi in the case! mochi meguru was going for over ¥150,000

i learned about the precious moments chapel today which is insane in itself but maybe the craziest thing was learning that they have precious moments kigurumi there... finally, american kigurumi

cracked open the joanna russ short story collection i just got and immediately had to close it again upon seeing that she used an alice sheldon quote as the epigraph... 🤒 they loved each other so much! whatever!

everyone waxing poetic about the #symbolism of what book she's reading but all i could think about was my friend reading it cuz their GF asked them to and NOT liking it and then them breaking up like two months later and telling me "what the hell was i thinking?" it really added to the whole vibe 🫢

funny as hell that carol ended up going WAAAY further than baru did re: this. 23 year old dyke vs. 53 year old dyke. truly it's been an honor to have a woman like her on my telly vision and i'm excited to continue seeing her for years to come... everyone should read baru cormorant before next season

sad to see carol sturka be so widely misunderstood because the masses don't know what a "tsundere" is

i've got a weak heart! and i don't get around how you get around (i made a pluribus AMV #pluribus)

as i was saying...

i think carol should force zosia to pick apples as a sex thing like placing her hand over zosia's hand on the apple and then plucking it and this will cause zosia and the rest of the world to develop a forced apple picking kink and start being okay with picking apples and then everyone won't starve!

cool new shirt and cool new bag

time sure flies 🥹 just did a video call with them while they opened their 1st birthday gifts

obsessed with the website for a local organization that's gonna start donating food to the building i work at... you just don't seem 'em like this much anymore love the floating unc basketball png and declaration of love to the founder's wife that's on the bottom of every page 🥹

getting really into the color yellow is awesome cuz it's everywhere like i'll be walking downtown and see a bunch of yellow barrier poles or something and be like yaaay

having a xena calendar is great cuz it'll be like IT'S DECEMBER! REMEMBER WHEN XENA THREW GABBY OFF A CLIFF!?

the new Plot Point in pluribus makes perfect sense when you remember that almost a billion(!) people died the first day personally i'm guessing that it's more about efficient/"green" disposal and clean-up than anything else... the episode is hitting you over the head with "recycling" imagery

miniatures/diorama making really is the most ideal craft hobby when you're a jack of all trades master of none... like i can sew, A Little Bit, i can paint, A Little Bit, i compulsively collect cute tiny objects/craft items that will eventually find a perfect home in a diorama, A Lot A Bit

i can't stop thinking about the fact pluribus is probably the most expensive yuri ever produced... like, thank you vince

this was a lethal fucking combo oh my god... I LOVE LESBIAN FICTION

though i'm getting sad that we're almost done watching xena i tend to underestimate how much i need xena to live because very soon after i finished watching it the first time, xena thursdays started... but now it's a year and a half later and we only have six episodes left to go 🥹

tonight my weekly xena group watch is on an all timer extremely yurifull episode (when fates collide) and then right after that finishes it's PLURSDAY baby... #LoveWins 🙂🙂🙂

it's so messed up that my weird character-driven sci-fi loving, moe middle aged woman loving, lesbian widow loving, genius yuripig best friend has been ON VACATION, HAVING FUN FOR TWO WEEKS while pluribus is airing... as soon as they step foot back in their country i'm putting them in the pluribizer

you know, given carol sturka's age and the flavor of romance she writes it's extremely fucking likely that she was writing xena warrior princess fanfic in the 90s... what a wonderful world

waiting with bated breath for the pluribus equivalent of the scene with baru and iscend where iscend is like "baru, fuck me? please? btw my residual mkultra conditioning means i'll cum extra hard since you embody The Empire" and baru is like (fingers halfway in her pussy) "um, this isn't ethical..."

i don't have any wrestling shirts so callisto is filling in

job has been so bad. a new manager started yesterday so i'd finally have someone else at the building to help and she quit after 3 hours. at that point all you can do is laugh. but anywayyy tomorrow i'm driving an hour after work to see women stab each other with thumbtacks and stuff. should be fun.

it's funny that the end result of my months-long attempt at fujoism via the work of anne rice was me reading her hetero magnum opus (the witching hour) and loving it waaay more than any of the vampire yaoi cuz at da end of the day... i just like women the most. even when they're tragically straight.

i'm so ridiculously excited for the new spartacus show coming out next month... crazy feeling to fall in love show 12 years after it ended and then learn they're making a new AU spin-off and against all odds it looks incredibly good and seems to have all the stuff that made me love the original 🥹

pluribus REALLY reminds me of the work of my favorite contemporary speculative author, seth dickinson... it has a similar fixation with taking thought experiment concepts to their logical extremes everyone check out baru cormorant (excellent, the best ever) or exordia (more flawed but still good) 🫵😎

i'm reading the anne rice book about castrati as part of my Armand Studies and the two central characters being introduced with following lines respectively cracked me up... chucking them right into the 70s BL character torment nexus

my dad kind of hilariously watches the wednesday show since he likes the original addams family and even more hilariously in describing the plot to me he goes "so basically they're at alice academy"... his anime knowledge is so random (stuff that was on demand or aired on IFC in the late 2000s)

HAPPY AGE GAP AUTUMN!!! ♨️🎑👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩🍁🍂

was a huge honor to witness THE PRETTIEST APPLE biting people right in front of me last night... her match was crazyyy also felt so surreal to be able to just go up to her merch table during the intermission and chat, i was like oh this must be how underground idol fans feel... oshibudo-ing it

going to see wrestling in person for da first time tonight cuz i found out that the hottest indie promption right now does events in my city all the time and ALSO books tons of tjpw/adjacent joshi talent... my favorite wrestler (shoko nakajima) was in my city a bunch last year AND I HAD NO IDEA 🥲

i gotta say as someone who is more of a sci-fi person and never really had a vampire phase growing up anne rice was really cooking with how her vampires work... i wasn't expecting how much aspects would constantly remind me of GFL and like, clone/android/other human simulcra stuff (which i love)

guy selling me this fishing vest going "it's just in time for the season!" no idea i'm getting it to wear with nothing underneath next time i'm at the dyke bar...

xena turned 30 years old yesterday... thinking about the planned sappho musical episode that died in music rights hell where sappho and her GF were going to be gabby and xena lookalikes in a bdsm relationship sappho keeps her GF on a leash and of course gabby and xena then have to pretend to be them

these plans have gone so awry i wanted to rewatch hannibal after finishing damages to compare the dynamics, then i wanted to read the vampire chronicles since i heard they were an influence on (NBC) hannibal but i've encountered a problem there's this character in the vampire chronicles named armand

look at this tracksuit usually i'd be like should i get ittt but i already did 😌

learning about these troll dolls that were designed with clear pouches in their stomachs so you could fill them up with candy or other gift items quite horrifying... and so reminiscent of a cannulated cow

LRT 🤤 so funny that DYJ posts those right as i've been thinking constantly about a vampires AK-12 and RPK-16 x human ange AU...