Claire Ellis

Posted by: @movingcastleofyaoi It makes sense looking at it. It's too bad the scanlator is spreading misinformation? It makes me wonder what they were expecting honestly since they were the ones scan...

Posted by: @mrbatbird Oh! That one has my favorite jacket design! It’s a little, hefty thing, about the size of a manga volume, and hardcover too! It’s really worth getting it in print, I think. Goo...

Posted by: @movingcastleofyaoi It was brave of them to take it, even more because Sublime said they wouldn’t touch it. Futekiya is in a better position to do it than Sublime, really, because of the ...

@jessinbooks As someone who much prefers print, I hope that futekiya (and similar digital-only publishers) will one day start doing print on demand or something else that's more low-risk like that. Bu...

Posted by: @mrbatbird Have you looked to see if Mandarake has it? A dangerous, dangerous place, but they tend to have decent prices. I must admit, I am sore afraid for my wallet if I start looking a...

re: the USA BL scene being decentralized It's hard to say what in USA/Canadian comics is "BL" and what's not. Some creators do explicitly advertise their comics as BL (for example, Avialae by Lucid us...

Posted by: @blue Generally being on Twitter lately, there really appears to be a lot of disccusion? tweets? trying to define what is to be LGBTQ+, good rep, and other things. The most recent one I sa...

Posted by: @mrbatbird Often with stories where the characters were previously "straight", I sometimes wonder if they'll later look back at that relationship as an odd phase, especially if it's one wi...

Posted by: @mrbatbird I've also seen a few lesbian friends, but those are a lot rarer. I think I just notice and remember those a bit more, because I like it when the characters have other queer frie...

@mrbatbird Thanks for catching this! I just fixed it.