Between Two Fires by Chris Buelhman

I had heard good things about the book, and while it is fantastic, its very dense and plodding and very depressing. There are chapters that leave me in awe but then there are 4 chapters of slow depression that bring the story to a grinding halt.

I only have a third of the book left so I might finish it later but man it’s rough to read sometimes

Good shit bro, KK are all time favorites for me, some of the wildest pits I’ve been in for sure.

Got nothing this month but in October in seeing Enterprise Earth with Paleface and The Devil Wears Prada with Fit for a King later that week, super hyped for it

E: also let me know how Chelsea Grin is. Huge Tom Barber Stan but haven’t been able to check them live, curious how they sound lol

The first manga I bought was volume 31 of Berserk, the scanlations I was using had a huge gap that started at that chapter so I said wtf why not.

My first full series purchase was the full box set of A Silent Voice, top 10 all time for me so I had to have it, sadly got ruined when my old home flooded but hey what can you do lol

E: Actually if you count issues of Shonen Jump as physicals then I’d been sporadically reading chapters off those when I was younger, they used to sell them in the local blockbuster I believe, though it was never consecutive so I couldn’t actually follow any stories lmao. I vividly remember reading chapter #504 of Naruto and being very, VERY confused lmao

Oh hell yeah, just checked them out and I really fuck with it. Love the screams, very raw sounding, hopefully they do get bigger because I’d love to hear them live myself

Cowboy Bebop

Samurai Champloo

Terror in Resonance

Beastars

Land of the Lusterous

Ghost in the Shell

Gundam

Big O

Berserk

Monster

Psycho Pass

Akira

Gunslinger Girls

Serial Experiments Lain

Haibane Renmei

Parasyte

Evangelion

Escaflowne

And many, many, MANY more. These are all things off the top of my head, and most of them are fairly different in genre. It’s kind of a broad request, super deformed art styles are common in assorted anime but it’s not like it’s a defining feature of all anime, so most recommendations you’ll get are gonna be pretty varied.

One thing in common is typically more mature anime are less likely to use it, so that might be the only common denominator between all the stuff I recommended

Would you say men not feeling comfortable with women in the workplace or a bar is an argument not based in sexism?

Wayyyy too rushed, I’m very surprised to see this didn’t get the standard 50 ep run that most AU gundam series get. Especially since it seemed to be doing quite well as far as I understood, anyone have any insight?

I’m not saying other people shouldn’t have a voice on this topic, but that discussion is a topic that is based in transphobia. If a woman feels uncomfortable sharing the bathroom with a trans woman, it’s because she has a predisposition to fear and feel unsafe around trans women.

Contrast it with the past, where men used to feel uncomfortable with women in typically male dominated spaces. I remember seeing an old news video where a female reporter was sitting in a bar typically frequented by men. She asked them how that made them feel and all the men she asked made a point to mention they felt uncomfortable with her in the bar with them and they would rather her leave than share the bar with her.

This is the same argument you’re presenting. It would seem ludicrous now as we’ve moved past that point (for the most part, it’s not a 100% solved issue sadly), but at the time it was seen as a legitimate argument, as sexism was still rampant at the time and it was the norm for women to be excluded from male spaces.

There is nuance to your presented argument in that the space that’s in question is a restroom, which is a more private and intimate space, but the nature of the argument is still based in transphobia and I think should be presented as such. It’s the root of the issue and the aspect that needs to be addressed before any headway can be made on the topic

I mean they’re still fantasy books, just with a heavy lean towards romance. If your search criteria is just fantasy there’s no way to know whether you want romance included or not. I get it, I’m tired of YA romance but once you know the authors to look for you can get related books that generally skew towards your preferred type of fantasy

From what I understand, this specific instance is hosted in Ireland, which is why it’s attempting to appeal to Irish law and covering it’s ass by defederating from a community.

It has no further influence on instances based in other countries, so any Irish law that would abolish free speech wouldn’t apply to the fediverse at large, just any instances based out of Ireland.