#mlewl

[derpinette]

any Beautiful Women roaming this earth right now feel like buying me any of these books to support homosexual women living in the third world's rights. please. Please

[mariautistic]

I want to make kabi nagata a warm meal

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

Top 5 comics that aren't bat related?

GOD okay I'm admittedly so so behind on my non-Bat comic reading because trying to read Everything Published In A 15 Year Period is fucking TIME CONSUMING, but! but but but!!! I have some fun ones!! also as always these are not in ANY particular order!

Thirsty Mermaids (Kat Leyh, 2021)

first off: yes we are including graphic novels! that's just a honkin big comic! nobody @ me! anyway, I read Thirsty Mermaids in one sitting on an airplane earlier this year and it was delightful. it follows three mermaid besties who turn themselves into humans and go ashore in search of booze, only to get stuck when the party mage can't remember how to turn them back. what follows is a mix of shenanigans and genuinely heartwarming character development as the trio cope with being landlocked and try to survive capitalism. there's a high potential for a story like this to get cloyingly oversentimental, but Thirsty Mermaids struck the right balance for me the whole way through and never went overboard.

also, the character designs are soooooo fun. look at them!

2. My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness (Nagata Kabi, trans. Jocelyne Allen 2016)

MLEWL is one of those books that actually completely lives up to the hype and then some, and it totally knocked me on my ass the first time I read it. I didn't really know what to expect going in, but I was totally blown away by how boldly Nagata's willing to share the ugliest parts of her life through this reflection. it's so much more than romance and yearning (and that isn't even really resolved by the book's end! Nagata continues to struggle with interpersonal relationships in later books, which you should also read!), and it felt really refreshing to see such an honest depiction of how much being depressed and anxious and insecure can just fucking suck. but at the same time, Nagata's ability to turn all of that into art and process what she's experienced in a really levelheaded way as she finds the will to grow and change is really affirming.

I have to give a special note of appreciation to the actual sex scene and how intimacy is negotiated between Nagata and the sex worker she hires, especially the ultimate realization that sex is just an act and losing her virginity didn't really change anything about why she was unhappy in her life. as a sex educator, I really appreciated the honesty and sheer practicality of how it was all framed.

3. Nimona (ND Stevenson, 2015)

hi okay yes basic bitch alert I'M AWARE, but I reread Nimona last year to remind myself of why I didn't want to watch the Netflix adaptation and I was so right for that, because OG Nimona fucks so much harder. it's heartfelt but also chaotic and violent and funny and deeply jaded; I think when I mentioned it in my monthly reading synopsis here I described it as weird art for pissed off queer people by a weird pissed off queer person. and I stand by that! if you haven't read it already or if you haven't in a while, it's right there waiting for you with an open invitation to burn the entire corrupt government to the ground.

I know the word feral is overused and therefore cringe but christ, comic Nimona is feral. come on, man. just let her kill your ex. he's a cop.

4. Superman Smashes the Klan (Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru, 2020)

I had to get one DC comic in here, sue me! it's not Batman-related at all! it's a really rad Superman story that takes place in the 1940s and loosely reimagines an old radio serial, "Clan of the Fiery Cross," the was pretty much a 16-part hit piece on the KKK that was hugely successful in tarnishing their reputation and getting membership to drop. how cool is that? in this version we follow Lee family, Chinese-Americans who have just moved to Metropolis and are met with harassment from the local Klansmen, contrasted with Clark, early in his hero career, still figuring out the full extent of his alien abilities. you get some really nice parallel storytelling between the Lee kids, Tommy and Roberta, exploring what it means to be part of two different cultures at the same time Clark is going through something similar figuring out how to be a representative of two totally different planets, and it all works out in a way that's really sweet. now that I have a friend who's a baby I can't wait until he's old enough to get a copy.

it's an extremely comic book-y comic but in, like, the best way possible.

5. Hawkeye (Matt Fraction and David Aja, 2012-2015)

I can't believe I almost forgot to list tumblr darling Matt Fraction's Hawkeye! what do I even say about this series that hasn't been said already? I love the way Clint Barton is a sadsack piece of shit who's repeatedly ruined his own life, and I love rooting for him anyway because he's just trying so goddamn hard. and also because there's a teenage girl who stole his name and gimmick bullying him the whole time. (Kate Bishop you are everything to me and you will always be famous.) there are costumes and crime fighting but it's first and foremost a slice of life about a life that fucking sucks but keeps on trucking anyway, and that's so up my alley it's not even funny. a lot of the humor probably feels dated now but fuck it, the series is iconic for a reason.

MCU, eat your heart out.

bonus because I wrote out the whole thing and then decided I wanted to include a different one: Paper Girls (Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang, 2015-2019)

I'd be lying if I said that the thing about this series that I love first and foremost wasn't the art, because Chiang's art is breathtaking and I'll read anything ever if he does the art on it. but it's also just a super cool twisty, time-bending story about four girls getting roped into some high sci-fi bullshit when they're just trying to finish up their paper routes the morning after Halloween and having everything go to hell around them. I really respect a series that is committed to being weird and doesn't really care if you don't understand what's going on for a decent chunk of the plot, especially because it all comes together in a way that's pretty satisfying. waiting to read the whole series in one big run once it was all published so that I could track all the little hints and clues and things coming together across time travel bullshit was mwah, delicious.

also more than anything it's a story about how you Do Not fuck with 12 year old girls, especially in packs, because they're metal as hell, and I'm really about that.

[dykeseesgod]

op turned off reblogs but this is SO fucking funny yeah killing stalking is right next to go or it nakamura but also MY LESBIAN EXPERIENCE WITH LONELINESS???? fucking insane. the venn diagram of the audience for killing stalking and the audience for mlewl is two circles on completely different fucking planets

[floramaniia]

i always meant to read mlewl but i lost the pdf... genuinely dont know why i stopped reading i probably just forgot about it one day

[punmonster]

mlewl is so fucking candid. i wish i picked it up in barnes and noble with i saw it like 7 years ago.

[oars]

sorry to liz but im ace and mlewl was a very relatable read for me and even if it wasnt its still a very good one

[sevenseasentertainment]

We're excited to announce that MY SOLO EXCHANGE DIARY Vols 1-2, Nagata Kabi's sequels to the critical and commercial hit MY LESBIAN EXPERIENCE WITH LONELINESS, are now available as ebooks!

Amazon Kindle: https://tinyurl.com/y3ec22hn

BookWalker Global: https://tinyurl.com/y226p8q4

ComiXology: https://tinyurl.com/y52jzvq4

NOOK: https://tinyurl.com/y69z6ldw

iBooks (through app)

Kobo: https://tinyurl.com/y5ep9t5z

Google Play: https://tinyurl.com/y2r4ns2j

[kero-reviews]

Book Highlight: Pride Month Edition

My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness by Nagata Kabi

What it’s about:

Nagata Kabi wrote this autobiography to talk about mental health, the perils of becoming an adult, sexuality, and the pursuit towards human relationships. This very informative book hits home very often and is extremely accessible. Follow Kabi as she works towards better mental health and hires a female escort as a way of finding herself and learning what it is she wants in life vs. what others want.

Why it’s worth highlighting:

Kabi is very raw throughout this whole book, and doesn’t shy away from the personal or possibly embarrassing details. In fact she has two more books out in this same vein. She keeps everything honest in this book to further help herself and her readers and she explores herself and sexuality.

[bisexualize]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

AAAAAH THANKS !!!!!!

[zorasdomain]

ZIZI so i started reading purple haze feedback and i wanted to ask why does cannolo murolo look like the dude from a clockwork orange

i REALLY dont know why murolo looks the way he does. i dont know why murolo ACTS the way he does either. that man is a god damn enigma but i love him all the same

[violetdetector]

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new zealand giant penguin from kemono friends

[melowtune]

[officervermilion]

📺

A mirror! It’s very shiny, and is slightly tinted dark red. Sometimes it won’t show any kind of reflection for a bit when you’re upset

[staxel]

IM GOING TO THE BEACH SO I'M GOOD!

OOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! :0000 HOPE ITS FUN IM SO GLAD YOUR GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sevenseasentertainment]

Get the newest, emotional installment of the evergreen masterpiece on February 12th. (CW for photo of pages: self-harm)

MY SOLO EXCHANGE DIARY Vol. 2 by Nagata Kabi, follow-up to MY LESBIAN EXPERIENCE WITH LONELINESS.

Pre-order it in the RETAILERS section here.