As the title says, I shalt read a critical text a week, a random GL (girls love) a week. At least one, more if I want. Alternating by week. Teehee >:3
Week of 7/10/23: Yuri Wall (8-chapt webcomic) (fin)
Recommend: Sure.
Emotions: minor lol. actually creeped out by the wall tho. (disclaimer: I have an overactive imagination but damn that wall is kinda freaky)
*spoiling kinda?
Lmao. As you can see from the cover art which I will include, this is mostly a crack read. It’s not that funny though and honestly the art of the wall actually creeps me out.
Basically, yuri obsessed girl is reincarnated into an apartment wall and the residents are always lesbians. Good thing it turned out to be a lesbian, I was worried the wall was a freaky reincarnated lesbian-fetishizing man).
It gets kinda deep at the end LMAO and the wall has a tragic backstory & ending apparently. Goofy
Week of 7/10/23: Lala (26-chapt webcomic) (red till ch. 18)
Recommend: No
Emotions after reading this: I’m bored and this girl is kinda too cringe
*spoiling
I only read to Ch. 18 cuz this was so boring and the MC is just kinda too cringe. Basically I think MC is supposed to come off as like “hard exterior, soft interior and really loves cute stuff and then meets cute girl who she is obsessed with” trope but she’s actually just really cringe. The love interest ends up thinking she’s a pervert bc of how weird she acts (and not in a cute romance way). Like LI accuses MC of being a pervert male cross-dresser and to prove she isn’t, MC publicly flashes LI her undies???????? And also like literally nothing happens between them through Ch. 18
Week of 7/10/23: Before the Spilled Milk Dries (4-chapt one-shot that is actually x2 2-chapt series) (fin)
Recommend: No.
Emotions after reading this: Confused, aghast, shocked, concerned
What the fuck did I just read…
Edit: Ok I conferred with the council and we deduced that this is actually 2 separate “one-shots.” I thought they were all together. But Ch. 1 and Ch. 2 seem to be together and then 3 and 4. Idek guys. This was very confusing. Ch. 1/2 good and wholesome. Ch . 3/4 weirdly dark and I don’t like that stuff.
*I’m gonna spoil.
Basically, starts out super cute and wholesome.
Ch. 1 no dialogue so thought it was just gonna be a slice of life school GL romance situation between MC and Girl #1.
Ch. 2, MC confesses to Girl #1 who asks MC to wait for her reply.
Ch. 3, time skip and it seems like MC and Girl #1 are together now. Out of nowhere we find out MC actually murdered Girl #1 that the story started out with and is now with Girl #2. MC apparently found out about Girl #2 through Girl #1 and then murdered Girl #1 to get her out of the picture I guess?
And then Ch. 4 is also very ambiguous but someone has been murdered, MC and Girl #2 are cleaning up the mess, and Girl #2 is covered in bruises and bandages. My interpretation is MC is abusive towards Girl #2 maybe? Or MC killed someone that was abusive towards Girl #2? Either way, this was a roller coaster and I would not recommend bc why did it go insane like that.
Also, pretty hard to follow because there’s def same face syndrome going on. The art style is pretty though.
Week of 7/10/23: Are Prisons Obsolete?
I finally finished this after having it for a few months. It was a hard read for me only because the subject matter makes me really sad. It’s objectively a pretty short, easy read with little jargon.
I totally recommend reading it. It’s been several years since this was written but the carceral system in the USA hasn’t really changed so it’s still extremely relevant. The author goes into all the horrible aspects of the carceral system that I’d only had a surface-level understanding of before & some that I hadn’t thought about at all. A book you have to read at least once imo. This hit especially hard with everything going on in Atlanta with Cop City & the horrible conditions at Fulton County Jail.
Fuck prisons & our whole “justice” system.
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