Okay.. hier passiert auch wieder ziemlich viel. Sehr ernste Themen werden angesprochen und es klären sich einige Dinge, die vorher noch offen waren. Es wird von Kapitel zu Kapitel spannender! 😱
Jeu du 1er mai : postez 4 affiches qui ont égayé les murs de votre chambre d'adolescent.e
L'affiche collector (et approuvée par la fondation Moulinsart) au format paysage de "Tintin - The Black Island". L'image introuvable sur le net donc je vous mets un équivalent en français avec une autre illustration.
Le poster "Spirou et la vallée des Bannis" dans un numéro de Spirou Magaziiiiiine
Poster Mononoke Hime achetée chez Junku en 1999
L'affiche de l'OAV Gunnm sorti chez Manga Mania Vidéo (1993)
Since I have lots of new followers today, I think it's time to finally update my #introduction post!
My name is Borealis, but most online know me as the LiteralGrill! You can call me Allie or Grill for short. I'm trans and an Ursa, think of a gay bear but in a femme form. She/Her pronouns please!
I actively fight for disability justice and will discuss that here as much as I'll share my love for anime and manga (maybe a little more tbh). I often write essays analyzing media or discussing anime history and you'll find a surprising number of times that those two topics intertwine in my works.
I tend to dig old media formats in general and love weird retro tech! I still avidly enjoy my growing VHS and LaserDisc collections. I have quite the board game collection too with some real oddities in there.
While I am a big supporter of content warnings and you'll see me use them often, you won't find them on educational posts or on anything discussing the realities of my life as a disabled trans person. I will however, always make sure these posts have appropriate hashtags so you can filter them out of your feed. If you need to protect your peace by not following or blocking me, I take no offense and completely understand. I hope you'll understand that not censoring the realities of my life from the world is part of how I protect mine.
I'm often stuck inside as an immunocompromised person in an ongoing pandemic (COVID isn't over and I take it seriously) so I'll rarely turn down a good conversation! Or if you just want to hear me info dump on obscure trivia of some kind that I'm researching for my next big article.
Before I forget... Yes, I'm that bonkers grill that watched Groundhog Day 365 days in a row! So expect my knowledge of time loops to be oddly all encompassing.
Welcome to my little corner of the Fediverse, I hope you'll like it here!
Okay, so another set of stats now that April is over.
As I've said before, I am posting concurrently to Pixefed and Instagram to see what the differences are.
Let's break it down by month first. Here are average likes by month for the year to date:
January - Insta 20 / Pixelfed 8
February - Insta 21 / Pixelfed 8
March - Insta 27 / Pixelfed 11
April - Insta 26 / Pixelfed 9
Year to date, we're averaging 23.7 likes per post on Insta and 9.1 likes per post on Pixelfed.
First, let's look at most likes of the month. For April, my most liked post on Instagram was my post for Wotakoi, Volume 4 with 43 likes. For comparison, the same post on Pixelfed got 9 likes. https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/680406871658815035
Es wird immer ernster & melodramatischer - das war zu Beginn der Reihe nicht vorhersehbar 😶
Mir sind die Charaktere derweil sehr ans Herz gewachsen & leide mit ihnen mit.
Ein Geheimnis und deren Enthüllung jagt das nächste.
So, I was tagged on Intagram by facetious_manga to talk about my "Bookstagram Backstory." I don't know if a Pixelfed equivalent exists. Bookselfed? Pixelbook? I don't know, I'll use both hashtags and share.
Regardless. Let's go, I guess.
When did I start on Bookstagram?
This account is and remains a personal account. While I post (often), about manga, this isn't exclusively about books or manga. My first post was in April 2016. Wow...that's a long time ago. I started getting more active in posting about books / manga, participating in things like "25 Days of Manga" in 2020. But it was early 2023 when I started posting a lot more manga pics / reviews.
What inspired your username?
I started on Twitter and needed a small handle. MD - I'm from Maryland, MRN - My initials. 83 - I'm old.
What was your 1st review?
The first "review" I posted was saying that the Free Comic Book Day 2016 Firefly comic was good. It got more detailed in my reviews after that.
Favorite part of Bookstagram?
The community. So may good folks to talk, discuss, and share.
Booksta made me buy?
My Lovesick Life as a 90s Otaku. I couldn't NOT get it, the reviews were just too much and I was not disappointed.
Aesthetic?
Middle aged nerdy, bearded Dad-core? I really have no idea.
Recent reads?
A Silent Voice by Yoshitoki Ōima
Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku by Fujita
Re-Reading Your Lie in April by Naoshi Arakawa
Describe your aesthetic using emojis
🤷♂️🎵🤡🤭🐱👨🦲🧔
Tagging no one. Feel free to participate if you like!
Wieder gibt es viele Einblicke in die Vergangenheit von verschiedenen Charakteren. Man erfährt auch etwas von Torus Eltern. Wie sie sich kennenlernten und was vorgefallen ist. Das Theaterstück war etwas seltsam.. 😂
Book order time, so time to figure out what series I have been waiting for the next installment.
27 (You have to be kidding)
2 on hiatus and may resume
2 dropping.
5 adding
Monthly in my Garden with my Landlady
Yuri Espoir
Ascendance of a Bookworm
Management of a Novice Alchemist
I married my female Friend
Es gab viele Infos zu verschiedenen Charakteren. Sprang auch etwas viel hin und her. Langsam zeigt sich aber immer mehr, dass die Story einen recht ernstes Unterton hat.
Hier passiert ja wieder ziemlich viel. Endlich werden ein paar Fragen gelüftet, aber dafür kommen auch neue auf. Die Beziehung zwischen den Etos & Akito wird auch klarer, bleibt aber auch noch rätselhaft.
Es wird richtig düster & ernst! Man erfährt, was die einzelnen Charaktere umgibt & wie sie zueinander gefunden haben. Dachte, dass das Cap jemand anderem gehört. Aber so macht's Sinn. Wird immer spannender!
If I had read "Magus of the Library" when I was younger, I would have become a librarian, guaranteed. The art, the characters, the plot, the worldbuilding, the passion for books and libraries! #manga#MagusOfTheLibrary
Immer mehr Etos tauchen auf - und man rätselt, welches Tier sie wohl sind. Gibt auch weitere Einblicke in Torus Vergangenheit bzw die Zeit mit ihrer Mutter. Aber es werden auch ernstere Töne angeschlagen.
Oh, endlich wird's noch spannender! Ein großes Geheimnis wird gelüftet und man bekommt mehr Einblicke in die Gemüter und Gefühle der Charaktere. Da wachsen sie einem immer mehr ans Herz 💖
So langsam nimmt die Geschichte mehr Fahrt auf. Man bekommt mehr Hintergrundinfos und lernt alle besser kennen. Auch macht man sich so eine Gedanken zu allen.