One fun thing about the book series that Heated Rivalry is a part of, is that the overarching villain of the series is the hockey league commissioner. I'm so excited for Gary Bettman to realize this in 3-ish years, after the NHL has pretended they never sucked up to Russia about pride nights.

I can't tell if manga and anime artists are bad at drawing handshakes, or if people in Japan shake with their left hands, but it feels like missing a stair every time I see it.

Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/

There are more shoujo/josei/joseimuke anime coming out last season and this than we've probably gotten in the last five years total, but some people don't pay attention so I decided to write up a guide for all the upcoming series!

Ranking shows kinda stresses me out, but I think this is how I'd order the top 25 anime series of the 100 or so that I watched from this year.

2026 is almost here, which means it's time to "look ahead" at all the amazing shoujosei releases that are going to be coming our way at the start of the new year! I hope you see plenty you're excited for! 🥳 🧵 (1/9)

Happy new year to us!

Merry Yaoimas and a happy new Yuri

tfw you have to sit and watch a character make a profoundly stupid decision that's obviously going to blow up in their face, and you can't even fault the writer, because the blessed dumbass 100% would do it.

"I've reached the part of Christmas where I'm both completely stuffed and want another sandwich."

I propose that, when the urbanists win and we rip out Storrow Drive to make more parkland on the banks of the Charles, we have a festival every Labor Day where we gather to ritually sacrifice a box truck on what was once Storrow.

I'm definitely not the only person who visits Twitter just for Japanese creator accounts. If they finally move here, I can safely never look at that site again.

I hear there is a wave of people coming from twitter? I have a starter pack of non-AI cat accounts that post their own images and use alt text. go.bsky.app/J8yqxnN

Every post about fujoshis being self-hating and male-centered is time better spent posting about yuri you like.

As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year: A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.

At the risk of sounding like a hipster crank, if you're most excited for a lukewarm My Hero Academia spinoff in a season with a josei adaptation featuring Miyuki Sawashiro in a lead role, we're not the same.

So, the discourse on Twitter is joyless and omnipresent. Seek alternate routes and avoid the area.

I feel like this could be a broadly useful reaction to so many things lately.

It wasn't going to be number one in a season with One Punch Man S3, but shout out to Dusk Beyond the End of the World for putting incest between biological siblings on the same level as polyamory and same-sex relationships. What a mess of a show.

500 volumes of manga this year! That's a lot!

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Toshiro Mifune in his Christmas sweater photographed for Eiga Star magazine, c. 1950

Since I've been reposting darkness for a while now, here's a bit of light to balance:

NEW POST- Recommending manga suitable for teens for those of you looking for last minute manga gifts! Age ratings and a short blurb about each series is included in the post. lauraneuzeth.substack.com/p/gifting-ma...

"Bury your gays" doesn't apply to every death of a gay character, come on now. Some of you need to read something other than TV Tropes.

This is going to make the worst people on anime/manga Twitter absolutely furious, and I think that's beautiful.

Our good friend Joy Harris still needs our support in dealing with her cancer costs. She's been such a light to Romancelandia. Can you help bring her some light? Thanks. 💜 gofund.me/0c8d4cee0

Sanda is a one of the best anime of the year. I really hope we get another season someday.

“I have been told that iced coffee year around is both queer culture and Massachusetts culture so I have brought this as a sign of allyship” 😂

These are all really good, you guys. Go get them.

Eh, this list is not my list this season. It needs Yano-kun's Ordinary Days in the top three, it would lose Spy x Family and Uma Musume, and it would add Kingdom S6, The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess, and With You, Our Love Will Make It Through.

Having seen the terrible output of MTL localization for manga, which has a lot less text, and the absolute fit readers had when Kodansha tried it, I almost have to laugh that publishing execs think they can use it for novels and make money. Executive brain is something else.

Look at this baby. She is so good.

I just saw a post here with tons of reposts, comments, and likes that said, "We may want to have a conversation about the fact that the majority of popular gay male romance is written by and for women" and, respectfully, when have we ever stopped having that conversation?

Alt text is incredibly useful for sighted folks too. * It helps me understand the reference if I don't recognize the image you're posting * It makes the image searchable * It gives you many more characters in which to express your rapier wit Use alt text!

found it www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTum...

Tumblr went on a whole odyssey a few years ago about how “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” sounds like Tony the Tiger’s bitter post-break-up song there was fan art

When it comes down to it, I'm a NIMBY when it's about building on undeveloped open land or farmland, but a YIMBY when it's tearing down houses to build apartments.

I'm watching 10 Dance, and it's good, but I think I just need to admit to myself that I don't enjoy watching actors kiss. I love romance so very much, but I want to die of second hand embarrassment when I see these stage kisses between coworkers.

Scan readers are so feral these days that Kusanagi herself had to tweet to ask overseas readers not to post manga panels from the Yona finale. That's devastating. Like your favorite teacher saying she's disappointed in you.

I said “it sounds like you’re just feeding municipal vehicles to the hill” and the mayor of Montreal started crying

It is with deep embarrassment and whiteness that I must admit that Crate & Barrel totally has my number, as I spent $100 on five Christmas ornaments.

I don't know who told retailers to send shipping emails with subjects like, "Knock, Knock: Your Order Is Here!" but it's not cute.

I love when a story captures the magical relationship between a woman and her younger brother.

Hmm. Do I push off my seasonal anime episodes and watch the 10 Dance movie today, or do I get caught up on everything and watch it tomorrow night?

This is such a nice surprise! I love how they've been feeding shoujosei fans lately.

Never kill yourself. Sometimes your favorite anime will get a sequel announcement 11 years after the first season aired.

It's so rude to read a BL with one of the guys having crow's feet and graying hair, calling himself an old man, then you get to the end and find out he's only 34. Get out of here. You don't even remember rotary phones.

None of these laws passed a single state legislature until five years ago, and now: