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snoopy encourages you to buy a new book!
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So I read the first 3 volumes of She Loves To Cook and She Loves To Eat (Tsukuritai Onna to Tabetai Onna) by Sakaomi Yuzaki, and um, Sublime. 11/10. Perfect. Preordered volume 4. Cannot wait.
Expect a lot of content from this one in coming weeks.
The story is about two women who live alone in small apartments.
Yuki Nomoto is an office worker in a men's world. She loves to cook but tends to cook more than she can eat because she loves the creation aspect more than the eating. Moreover, she loves cooking big portions and desperately wishes she had someone to cook for. But not a man. Nope.
Totoko Kasuga is an alcohol merchandiser who lives two doors down from her. She's a very big, tall woman who eats a lot, and fascinates Nomoto when she's seen carrying home a family-size KFC order- just for her.
Nomoto decides to invite her over for dinner, and the two women immediately hit it off, planning future dinners, making weekend trips to farmer's markets, and planning their winter holidays together.
Eventually, the apartment between theirs is rented by a younger woman who needs to get away from her overbearing family, She befriends her new neighbors and they bond over how traditional Japanese values have hurt them all in some way.
Nomoto connects via Twitter with other women who share her interests and help her discover who she is and who she wants to be.
The series makes a lot of commentary about how much of what women do is expected to be for men's consumption. Why do I have to cook for men? Why do I have to dress cute for men? Why are men prioritized in family life? Why is the love between women so stigmatized? Why is it seen as lesser? Why is there so little dating advice for sapphic women?
Things I love about this story:
- The love interest is a big girl like me!
- It explores the emotional intimacy of cooking and eating together - my primary love language
- Romance without all the shuddering, blushing, awkward hand-holding and attempts to kiss that get dragged out for 50 chapters, which can be cute but gets tiresome
- Acknowledgement of asexual, aromantic and demisexual identities
- Productive discussion of the ways "well-meaning" parents abuse their children without hitting them
Things I don't like about the series:
- No step-by-step cooking instructions!
- It leaves me with a strong desire to try cooking things I simply can't get all the ingredients for without a trip to an Asian market 30+ minutes away, which feels like such a drag because I work in a grocery store, and I hate going grocery shopping by myself.
- The longing for a girl-next-door type meetcute has intensified.
I love cooking and baking. I love food. I love wine and beer and dinner cocktails. I dislike that I don't get to share this love with others.
This is what love looks like. This series was tailor-made for me.
keep forgetting the reason i don't socialize in person or online is because i have no interests or hobbies or personality or anything and it's too fucking hard to pretend
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more rings anatomical edition
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a couple of starry sphinxes
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so many books but never enough money
some days i'm bored shitless by everything and other days i'm reading five different things at once
Where are you? he silently asks this aberration in the Force. Why are you calling me? No answer. Satisfied by the acknowledgement, it fades to a faint pulse in the back of his head, like a heartbeat. With a sigh, Cal turns to BD-1, who’s still standing on the lounge table as an overblown caricature of a starfighter pilot bellows his intention to erase every last atom of these treasonous traitors off the surface of Botajef! “I think ‘treasonous traitors’ is kinda redundant… anyway, have you seen my boots? I guess we’re going out after all.”
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My new favourite idiom is 画蛇添足 basically meaning to ruin something by overdoing it
Quite literally ‘draw snake add feet’
Pinyin: Huàshé tiānzú
Traditional: 畫蛇添足
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BD-1 Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
stop he's too cute
just a little guy
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new art!!! ive been loving doing pixel art and im really proud of this. im not too detail orientated but i feel like here every detail comes with its own design challenge and keeps me mentally engaged. did this at 240x160 (then cropped it) because thats the resolution of the gameboy advanced and I really thought mother three was beautiful in how detailed it was without moving into having too high of a resolution.
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