Miscellaneous things make a post

[oyceter]

1. I am lazy and do not feel like writing things up, even though I am super behind on sequential art posts. On the plus side, Bride of the Water God is out to volume 5 here, which really beats waiting another EIGHT MONTHS for Dark Horse to release v. 3 in the US. Also, I have copies of Umino Chica's new manga, Yoshinaga Fumi's new food manga, a Mizushiro Setona series I have never read, and more Nan Kongyuu books! Also also, I have found another manhua I like! This one is called Fried Chicken Princess (Ji Pai Gong Chu) and is all about a girl who starts a club to appreciate fried chicken (the Taiwan kind, like fried chicken steaks, heavily seasoned)! What other unlicensed stuff should I be keeping an eye out for here?


2. Who is going to Wiscon? Does anyone have panel ideas? I want to suggest another one on shoujo manga but I cannot think of one outside of something like "Shounen Bodies: Women's and girls' bodies in shounen manga" which is clearly not on shoujo. Also, I probably have not read enough shounen to be a good contributor.


3. Dunkin' Donuts is now in Taiwan, and they are copying Mister Donuts' round mochi-esque donuts! I would be annoyed, except this means I can get my tasty round mochi-esque donuts at more places now.


4. I cannot find the old place that sold egg cakes, but the new one nearby is just as good. Yay!

Comments

[yeloson.livejournal.com]

I'm not flying out to WisCon, but I have read a lot of shonen. We should talk sometime about it. More irritating to me (and, maybe as a male, I've normalized the problematic images) is the lack of agency, even in supposed heroines in some of these stories.

I've gotten way tired of the female character who exists to ask dumb questions and have the hero rant and rave to her about his AWESOMEFREEDOMPHILOSOPHY while rescuing her from doing something stupid, again. Not only from a fictional standpoint is it GARGH, but also it feeds into the myths of "women are incompetent", "women need to be saved", "women could be free if they just -tried harder" etc.

Also- KueiCon is Feb 14-16th, if you'd like to swing down and game a bit.

[oyceter]

Ah hahahaha, yes. Oh shounen. Sometimes you are completely made of win (Claymore!) and have awesome kickass female characters, and sometimes you are just made of fail.

Oh, I saw the KCon announcement! I may skip out, just because the gaming thing may not quite be my thing =(.

[yeloson.livejournal.com]

It's specifically gamers of color, and I'd be glad if you just stopped by, even if you don't get into the gaming.