omg they tweeted the announcement in like ten different languages (english, chinese, french, german, hindi, spanish, portuguese, russian, italian, korean, czech, arabic).
The Yuri on Ice official Twitter account just tweeted out TWO messages, one of them IN ENGLISH.
In case the English is unclear, they’re saying that if you follow yurionice_PR and retweet this tweet, you will get a notification about the MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT that will take place during Yuri on Concert in Osaka on July 1st – THIS SUNDAY.
But wait, there’s more!
If you go to yurionice.com right now you will see a countdown to the announcement, like this:
SHIT IS ABSOLUTELY GOING DOWN so be sure to stay alert on Sunday because something is going to be announced and with all this hype, oh boy, it will surely be something.
Full offense but y’all need to stop fetishizing lgbt ppl. Lesbians arent straight men’s entertainment and sexual fantasies. Gay men aren’t your “YAOI GAYBIES xD” and you aren’t “SINNING SO MUCH RIGHT NOW” Bi people aren’t here so you can have a threesome. Trans men aren’t “uwu soft boys so pure” and trans women aren’t “big muscle wife could kill me”.
You aren’t less homophobic for fetishizing gay ships. You aren’t less transphobic for fetishizing trans people.
Stop.
Ok but yaoi was a big thing before lgbt people started coming into the spotlight. (I’m just trying to defend yaoi. Don’t mind me)
…. did you just say that “yaoi” has been around longer than gay people
lately for several varied reasons I’ve been doing some reading on the rules of the Publishing World, and two things have one to my attention.
thing #1: in YA publishing, 17 seems to be the rough cutoff age for protagonists; anything older is considered too old for YA.
thing #2: thing #1 is bullshit.
why’s it bullshit? glad you asked.
first off, the logic seems to be that young readers aren’t interested in people too much older than them, which is fair in some cases. 11 year olds don’t care about 20 year old problems, probably. but high school YA readers? extrapolating from my own experience, most hardcore readers in high school are anxiety-riddled nerds who would kill for some kind of clue about how college was supposed to work. I didnt know shit, because as far as the YA section at my library was concerned, the young adult experience was complete by the time I graduated high school and afterward I’d just plummet off a cliff or something
also, like, I understand that it’s not every individual writer’s job to account for every individual experience. I get that. if someone wants to write about the teenage experience, by all means go for it. I also write about teenagers. there’s a lot of appeal.
but. it also kind of hecks you up if you’re a quiet book loving nerdchild who hasn’t done anything in her life and it seems like all the fictional teens have sorted out their life and found their purpose and true love before they even leave high school. I’m not blaming YA for the generation of depressed 20 something’s feeling like failures, not at all, but it contributes to the culture.
and it’s such a baffling omission? I think a lot of people like to write about the teens™ because that’s a huge period of self discovery and growth and learning shit and new experiences but do you know??? what happens immediately after high school ends? EVEN MORE OF THAT, except probably with less parental supervision and cooler opportunities and a greater opportunity to get into trouble and make choices with consequences. that’s Interesting.
God, I would have loved to read about people starting college when I graduated high school. Still would, really
college is such a good setting, regardless of what genre you’re after! want to write some contemporary self discovery? college is where it’s at, dude. supernatural stuff? students with no parents to answer to and a looser class schedule are MUCH better investigators than high schoolers. fantasy? GIMME WIZARD COLLEGE.
hey not to creep in the tags but YES, this is the weirdest part
as popular fiction* marketing demographics currently stand, aging seems to work like this:
teens: revolutions, adventures, prodigies, the Chosen One, self-discovery, true love, finding the meaning of life and death, unlocking the secrets of the universe
20-somethings: sex??? probably???
post-college: melancholy reflections on relationships with lovers/parents/friends, family secrets, often murder, frequently an affair.
like what. what’s going on here. how are publishers overlooking the fact that the time between being a teenager and feeling like a real adult is also full of heart-breaking eye-opening thrilling terrifying self discovery?
* because, yes, I’m sure there are some great lesser known titles bucking these norms. I’d love to hear about them, I really would. but I’ve also been on tumblr long enough to know that Some People love to read a point about a troubling norm and then offer up a single example of a thing that does not fit that norm and act like that is proof that the entire observation is invalid.
This is a big reason why I still read so much YA even though I kinda get tired of reading such young characters (I mean, they’re great, but I want more). I’d love more YA-esque plots in “regular fiction” so much.
sweet god, this point right here. I’m not reading YA because I’m desperately trying to cling to my teenage years. I’m reading YA because it’s where the most fun, inventive, sometimes downright joyfully weird stories are happening.
Taxonomy is tricky. Moths and butterflies make up the insect order Lepidoptera. But… just like technically wolves and coyotes are already dogs (canids = dogs-ish I guess?), butterflies are just a type of moth. A very, very small group of insects in a gigantic, humungous, incomprehensibly more diverse order of insects. Allow me to demonstrate.
POP QUIZ! QUICK! FIND THE MOTH!
Got it? Good. Here’s the answer key (NO PEEKING BEFORE SPOTTING IT YOURSELF!).
From Left to right: TOP: Painted Lichen Moth, Moonseed Moth, Beautiful Tiger (moth), Grote’s Buckmoth (endangered) BOTTOM: Eubaphe unicolor (moth), Eight-spotted Forester (moth), Ailanthus Webworm Moth, Chickweed Geometer Moth
Wait… ALL OF THEM ARE MOTHS? Of course they are. There are so few butterflies in the giant sea of moths, it’s amazing you even notice them!
Okay, okay fine. That one was tricky (or was it?). Here’s another.
AGAIN! QUICK! FIND THE MOTH!
Easier this time, right? Let’s see how you did! (NO CHEATING)
From Left to Right: TOP: Checkered Skipper, Soldier Pansy, Funereal Duskywing, Dotted Checkerspot (endangered) BOTTOM: Texas Powdered Skipper, Tawny Emperor, Reakirt’s Blue, Fatal Metalmark
Wait… so which one is the moth? NONE OF THEM THESE ARE BUTTERFLIES. “What do you mean these are butterflies, they are boring?!” Shut up I love them. “But moths are supposed to be the boring ones!” Shut up moths are cooler than a T-rex with a mohawk riding a skateboard.
Left: Eggplant Leafroller Moth, caterpillars live on plants; Right: Jalisco Petrophila Moth, caterpillars are aquatic and grow up in freshwater and the adult female moths will swim into the water to lay her eggs GUYS SHE IS A MOTH!!!!!! Also: they are jumping spider mimics! Look!
Plume de Lynx 