Writer's Block: Going Boldly

[vethica]

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Kirk. Get all the babes. And the Spocks.

So, what I was saying last time about the pictures. Y'all know how I've often despaired about Danbooru's almost exclusively catering towards the male gaze? Friends, meet Bishibooru! You will never go hungry (for pictures of hot guys or hot guys making out with other hot guys) again. :B That's where I got some of the Taito pictures from last post, and also a good chunk of the stuff in my Ladd/Claire folder (which I've updated since then, so theditz even if you checked it out last time you should check it out again. :B). I believe that said folder now contains the majority of Ladd/Claire art available on the internet, but if anyone knows of any I've missed, send them my way~!

(I love Ladd/Claire so much btw. whoops I guess somehow I acquired a new OTP)

Day 09: Favourite friendship.

I guess now's my chance to break out those Daiken pictures. :B

I'll be honest with y'all, I'm in serious need of a rewatch, especially where 02 is concerned. So I'm not going to have very good recollection for a lot of the details on these questions. But I remember really being a fan of their friendship. Of course, they start out being enemies and all, and also they have that whole soccer rivalry thing going on, but eventually they bond and Daisuke helps Ken get over some of his issues and Ken becomes comfortable enough around him to rib him a bit, and after that they're pretty much inseparable, right down to the whole jogress thing which makes them literally inseparable, or at least their Digimon. At least, that's how I remember it. I'm probably wrong. ._.;;

I think this picture pretty much sums it up:



but let's have a picspam anyway.













Aww. ♥

And, uh, something less good. I was checking up on Hourou Musuko/Wandering Son on Amazon (volume 1 comes out next month, hopefully!) and noticed this charming sentence in the description of volume 2:

The “woman” who showed so much interest in Yoshino (when she was wearing a boy’s school uniform) in volume one reappears with “her” boyfriend, and becomes a mentor and friend to the two children.

...Um. I know people can get kind of fluid with the pronouns for the kids, so I'll let the "she" for Takatsuki go, but... I'm pretty sure the series has very clearly established Yuki-san's gender identity. There is absolutely no need for the scare quotes around "woman" and "her". That's kind of disgusting. Does anyone know who one would complain to about something like this? Should I just post in the product discussion forum? D:<

Comments

[hoyvinglavin64.livejournal.com]

Email the publisher. They wrote the description, not Amazon (I can't find that description on their site, but the descriptions for the first volume on both pages are identical, so I'd assume the same for volume 2).

[vethica.livejournal.com]

Oh, awesome, thank you. I shall dispatch an angry letter to them forthwith.

Er, do you have any tips for writing angry letters to publishers?

[hoyvinglavin64.livejournal.com]

I sent a letter where I basically thanked them for licensing the manga but complained about that part of the description. I referenced GLAAD's media resources as a reason why what they did was offensive and wrong and asked them to change the description.

[vethica.livejournal.com]

Good idea. I'll try that, thank you.

[fujicori.livejournal.com]

Uuuuugh. I was just checking release dates for vol 1 yesterday... I was worried they'd do something stupid like this. Just hoping it doesn't get shifted forward again at this point.

:|

[vethica.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know, man. I hope writing them an angry letter will help. :( And I should hope nothing happens to the release date, since it's to close to publication. But I will be side-eyeing them so hard if it does. :|

[kyoto-idol.livejournal.com]

oh hai bishibooru, we're going to be great friends

I hope my family doesn't start going through my iPad for kicks because I found this site first on there and had to save some FINE ART MASTERPIECES on it. hnnnnnnng

[vethica.livejournal.com]

Best image site ever tbh. :B And I know how you feel. I save all kinds of arts on my iPod, myself. music what is that