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[natelawtism]

PAUSING THE NATE TALK TO APPRECIATE COVE HOLDEN. I love this scene so much. I love clingy Cove. I love Cove who wants to stay with his boyfriend the whole time and wants a kiss goodbyeee

[senselessalchemist]

hate using them but the flashing fans are highly aesthetic

[sallymew4]

woah cringe alert

i was feeling nostalgic and crazy so i doodled :) i dont know if i'll ever draw them again but it was fun figuring out some designs

close ups

[bakuhatsufallinlove]

Time for a lighthearted review!

By now a number of people have heard of ボクの神隠し(boku no kamikakushi), aka “My Spiriting Away” or “My Mysterious Disappearance,” aka the BL manga that Okamoto Nobuhito, voice actor of Bakugou Katsuki, was involved in. It is available to read for free in Japanese here with a total of three chapters. This post contains spoilers for the ending.

Here’s a Q&A peppered with my thoughts on it.

The Premise

Crybaby Uzuki idolizes his childhood friend Haruto who always protected him, but since they started high school, their relationship has soured, leaving Uzuki utterly alone. One day, the pair are kidnapped by a strange man and forced to participate in a mysterious game of life-or-death.

How is Okamoto involved?

Okamoto is credited for the 原案 (gen’an). A corollary industry term in English would be “original idea” or possibly “scenario.” In my experience with comics, this suggests he created the characters and premise, then wrote the concept out and submitted it to a second party to be fleshed out for full production.

The script is credited to Production Beijyu (プロダクションベイジュ), a company who offers a variety of production and promotion services with a focus on editing and proofreading books, magazines, manga, and anime.

The manga—so the artwork and all of its production—is credited to 戸真伊まい, a name I can only guess is read as Tomai Mai, which sure sounds like a pen name and doesn’t appear to be linked to any other published work. This could be for a lot of reasons; the artist might be totally new or they might have worked in other genres and chose a unique pen-name for BL, but the only thing I found attached to this name online was their Twitter account.

How’d it get made, anyway?

As far as I can tell, Okamoto must have personally reached out to Beijyu and applied for their services to help make his idea a real thing. Beijyu gear themselves towards small, independent artists and authors, especially those who haven’t debuted with a magazine or printed publication yet.

For those unaware, manga is a massive industry in Japan, and it can be extremely difficult to get your foot in the door. Many creators talk about having their concepts rejected repeatedly by magazine after magazine, or getting a single one-shot published and then struggling to keep the momentum. There’s a reason all of the huge Shounen Jump creators talk about the intense pressure to keep their work popular and to avoid getting dropped from publication by any means necessary.

Boku no Kamikakushi is available for free and I haven’t heard of any plans for a physical release. To be honest, this suggests to me that Okamoto genuinely wanted to get his story made regardless of profitability—he isn’t just a celebrity attaching his name to a series for attention. There wasn’t some industry demand or opportunity that he took advantage of for professional gain, he must have been the one to initiate this endeavor, and honestly, good for him.

Is it really bkdk?

Nah. I will grant you that the tropes at play certainly reveal Okamoto’s tastes, and we sure could extrapolate about his feelings on bkdk from those tastes. But beyond the similarities in backstory, base themes, and design aesthetic that people have pointed out, the couple have very little in common with bkdk, and in fact, the way they diverge is kind of hilariously shocking??

Okay, fine. What’s their deal, then?

Uzuki is a yandere rich boy who likes to get choked. Haruto is honestly a hapless, horny victim in all this.

What!?

Yeah. The “mastermind” behind the kidnapping is Uzuki himself, who staged the whole thing with his butler. Basically, their high school classmates tease Haruto for being associated with Uzuki, the son of the richest noble in town; Haruto resents it so he distances himself from Uzuki and rejects him. Uzuki ends up lonely with no friends and missing Haruto, so he stages his own kidnapping and puts them both in the “death game” as a way to force Haruto to remember his childhood promise to protect Uzuki as his hero.

That’s insane???

YES. IT IS ABSOLUTELY INSANE.

It’s especially funny because the parameters of the death game don’t technically require them to have sex or get intimate, Uzuki is just a fucking freak and Haruto is confused by his own horniness and goes along with it. The first trial involves a selection of drinks, one of which contains poison, and they have to keep choosing one to drink from until someone dies. Haruto ends up poisoned, and Uzuki uses his prize (“one wish”) as the winner to get the antidote and save him, of course passing it to Haruto via full-on mouth kiss.

Haruto has a gay crisis about it.

The second game: whoever raises the other person’s heart rate to 130 beats per minute first wins, and the person with the elevated heart rate dies. Haruto’s heart rate spikes from aftereffects of the poison, and Uzuki’s solution is… for Haruto to choke him… on the bed they woke up on… so his heart rate increases as well. And then he asks Haruto to kiss him, too, and they just start making out until Uzuki’s heart rate hits 130. Haruto gets upset because he lost his head and ended up dooming Uzuki, but then somehow they arrange for this death to also be nullified, and they end up continuing to play the game for three days.

Three whole days!?!

THREE DAYS! This kid traps Haruto in a dungeon so he can make him participate in weird, sadistic, horny shenanigans for three days!

And then when they finally escape and everything is revealed, Haruto is just blankly confused and has this absent look on his face, repeating that he’ll protect Uzuki. The butler says that Uzuki performed excellent mind control, but then Uzuki imprisons the butler so it can be “just the two of them.”

What the fuck, Okamoto???

Right? And you know what, it isn’t my jam at all, but can we just take a moment to recognize that a professional voice actor who is popular and prominent in the public eye wanted his weird horny BL idea to come to fruition, so he went forth into the world and made it so? And he didn’t even hide behind a pen name or anything, he wants people to associate him with it, he’s promoting it! He loves the hell out of it!

Like, I’m pretty astounded by that, and honestly I respect it. More people should just make things that cater to their own tastes without any self-consciousness about it. Wave your freak flag high, Okamoto.

[frodo-with-glasses]

MY CABBAGES

[1overboybutch]

I came out to my parents tonight and it went really poorly :(

[arsillanola]

Never in 6000 years would I have thought my drawings would get hundreds of notes. And now every time I see the little notification I can’t help but smile.

So thank you ineffable fandom, you really are gorgeous <3

[dewitty1]

Saturday Six (Stuff)

but on Sunday

Funny things from yesterday's market - baby goats for sale and even one little girl carrying her little goat like an actual baby. I got told a lady was praying for my business, and all about the apostle Paul being a sail maker and Canvas worker. We talked about how he probably worked with hemp at that time. Cotton candy (candy floss) puffs bigger than people's heads. A little dude having a tantrum on the grass (like same dude, if I could I would) because he didn't get the right 3d printed dragon toy. A little girl dragging a unicorn on a leash, running from her mom (definitely one way to walk your unicorn lol) At least the music was fairly decent, even if overall it was fairly slow. (。-ω-)ﾉ

Work has been nonexistent. That is not good. I can't really advertise. I'm doing Fb/Instagram posts but idk how much good it's doing.(⑅ ‘﹃’ )

Parents went away for a few days, and basically (the first time) told me I was taking care of watering the plants in their yard, but didn't leave me any gas money. Gee thanks. It's only a 30+ mile round trip.（’-’*)

I'm really not digging the hot temps. Or the wind. Both are bad for fire season.(๑•́ ω •̀๑)

I'm finding it hard to find positivity right now. Le sigh...(ᴗ˳ᴗ)

My veggie (technically fruit) plants are looking great. Hopefully they fruit up nicely!!! ʚ♡⃛ɞ(ू•ᴗ•ू❁)

[pictures-of-yxl]

[secondhandmckie]

// rather than have a poll (however much fun that would be), here are how my muses land on the spicy spectrum:

Molly: brat bottom/switch (she likes to be annoying ig) Jack: service top (just a dude that likes to take care of you) Ellie: service bottom (she just wants to be good, uwu) Javi: switch (just happy to be here tbh) Danny: service bottom Alan: who cares he's awful

[loopy777]

Apparently, I need to clarify something:

E.T. is a Halloween movie.

Gremlins is a Christmas movie.

See? Easy.

[lelianasbong]

Promise I haven't forgotten anyone's asks (or my fic, for that matter!). I decided to gut and rewrite my resume and I've spent the last several days applying for a better-paying job, so. Fingers crossed.

[uglygreenjacket]

Y’all. Brittney Griner is free and same-sex marriage will be (mostly) protected. It’s a fairly good day in the USA.

Fuck, I know we have a LONG way to go on so many things, but I’m actually not ashamed of my country today. Dare I say I’m even a little bit hopeful. ❤️

[badly-drawn-doflamingo]

love this blog because you'll reblog a cart of puppies, and then reblog the uncle cora taxidermy immediately afterwards

RIP.arooni lmao

[strawberryblondebutch]

maybe in your hockey au Sam should beat the shit out if someone for transphobia. just saying.

Honestly, I think I need to live in a fantasy world where there isn't any queerphobia in professional sports. That seems like the only way to keep my sanity intact.

I hate watching this play out. The NHL isn't doing pride warmup jerseys anymore because a handful of people said it was against their religion (what's against your religion? acknowledging that queer people exist?) and now, after I've spent my whole adult life advocating to take women's sports seriously, there's a vocal minority rolling over and saying "nooo we can't have trans people on our team! They used to be MEN and that means they're STRONG and BETTER than me, a tiny fragile woman!"

It's also like... I'm five foot ten, kinda butch, and my shoulders are wider than my hips. What happens if the transvestigators decide I'm a threat to my local beer league? What happens when they realize that the most famous women's hockey player is 5'11" and built like a tank?

It's such a fucking non-issue. No bad men's hockey player is going to put on a wig and say they're a woman to become a star. Especially not in fucking ICE HOCKEY, where someone like Sarah Nurse makes $24k a year as a top-3 player in the sport and Nicolas Aube-Kubel makes $1 million to run around taking stupid penalties.

I'm tired of the bullshit.

[mxlabradorite]

Well hello.

You may remember me from such Tumblr accounts as dontbearuiner.

I am also now MxLabradorite on Hive.