haha I feel a little bad putting specific series on blast right now. maybe when I'm in an even saltier mood!!!

yes!!! I guess it's kinda a mutually reinforcing feedback loop, where readers who are paying these prices (including for ebooks) might expect/want to stay within their comfort zone and read more of what they're used to, rather than something which might challenge or disturb them a bit more. sigh

yeah! this is why I was citing those specific publishers, because it is SO noticeable from them it really does feel like there might be in-house guidelines lmfao. but it's definitely a broader problem with the overall industry environment and what the audience wants and I don't see it improving soon

the willingness to take big bold narrative swings and commit to an actual prose style that, for better or worse, is memorable and distinctive rather than being watered-down and blended into a flavourless smoothie for mass appeal!!! also many blorbos of all time (Ianthe... Harrow... the oldies...)

it's all just so bland and the characters and dynamics have no teeth to them... and why bother including political themes if you're going to make them so simplistic... guess I have to keep coping with the Alecto wait by coming up with necro/cav AUs for my other fandoms 😔

tbh reading most of the popular queer scifi series recently published by T*r and *rbit is an exercise in disappointment. I'm glad they're getting published, I just wish they were... better. so many times I check one out and find myself thinking "god I wish I were rereading The Locked Tomb instead"

"a famous ship in BL Japanese culture" ❤️

love to see gorgeous fanart making everyone brothercestpilled without knowing it
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RIGHT... I get it, but it is very funny when people are like "teehee it's so great passing Dunk around the family like a blunt! it's so fun how you can ship him with Maekar, Baelor, Aerion, Daeron..." [hastily kicks something away under the table]

seeing a lot of discourse about AKOTSK shipping and which Dunk yaoi makes the most sense, and the thing is, everyone is talking in big circles around an elephant in the room. I understand why but it does make the arguments pretty funny to observe

ooh I hope you have fun! the girls are wonderful, the white-haired anime twink is premium, and his excellent boyfriend will be arriving a few eps in

I'm so happy the WHA anime is putting in a lot of effort to retain the charm of the original manga art, and I really hope they keep this up

Demo 3.0 is out, still 100% free! play Taisho Romance Theater, now with even prettier UI and more Hot Uncle content
store.steampowered.com/app/3444580/...

wow... Ryan Gosling is in LOVE with that married rock spider alien

doesn't have to think about the changes his body is going through if he outsources them to someone else to worry about!!

I wasn't able to muster any thoughts at the time but it's SO GOOD. the Yeerk whose host has the best singing voice wins the karaoke competition... Satomi the voluntary Controller...

movie awards don't matter, they got their canonical at last

I can't stop thinking about Mattjay yaoi

I didn't see your LRT in my feed but I KNEW what it had to be. incredible pants-on-head moment

IT CAME!!! fujohime world domination

and Matt's absolutely floored expression as he asks "did you say we're gonna have a happy life together???!!!"... Ilya moment (if Ilya tricked Shane into taking speed so he could win a videogame tournament). DON'T BOO ME I'M RIGHT

his delivery of that line is exactly like "come to my housssssssse we'll have so much fuuuuuun it's so privateee no one will knooooow" I'm actually correct

the NTBTS scene where Jay is on speed and playing Goldeneye and breathlessly telling Matt "we're gonna have a showwww... and then you and I are going to have a nice, happy life together" is a direct parallel to Shane's legendary drugged-out rant in the Heated Rivalry hospital scene. do you hear me

I've been watching a friend play KCD, and it's actually crazy knowing that Henry and Hans are a canon romance. they feel exactly like the sort of premium 2010s fujobait that would get tens of thousands of fics on AO3 but only ever stay in the realm of extremely homoerotic Just Buddies

it's extra funny considering what ship this is about

greater love hath no one than a himejoshi giving their fujoshi friend merch for one of the rare yaoi ships they share

anyway asking the important questions

logging off and probably deleting this later because [gestures]

people are disgusting, and I don't just mean the obvious, but also the many who I see currently huddled in little circles reassuring each other "everyone take a deep breath, this will be fine for us because it'll stay contained over there" as if there aren't real humans getting hurt Over There

Matt calling Jay "Bird" right before he shoves him off a building... romance