Umineko
An attempt to explore a certain sprawling series of dojin soft visual novels, starting with a murder mystery and elaborating over and over into metafiction, occultism, family trauma and epistemology. Expect tangents.
A collection of moment-by-moment impressions of the most strange and fascinating internet media, as it appeared to a troubled, rigidly-thinking trans girl in 2016-2018.
Subcategories
Adventure Time
Adventure Time: nine seasons of semi-post-apocalyptic candy sword and sorcery, proving incredibly influential in American animation. Was it as fun as we remember? Let's watch every episode and find out.
Unicorn Jelly
Jennifer Diane Reitz's flawed but intensely fascinating universe-spanning transhuman epic, with one of the most inventive settings I've ever encountered. Despite my criticisms, I came to love it unabashedly, as much for its quirks as despite them.
El Goonish Shive
The classic TF comic, rocky start or no. El Goonish Shive slowly became an intensely personal exploration of gender through indulgently complex magic systems. In Summer 2016, I read it for the first time - and had a lot of feelings.
Computer Love
A short liveread of a sadly unfinished comic. A melancholy, gentle and sweet story about trans girls in future Antarctica.
O Human Star
Blue Deliquanti's 'actually went to art school' story about a gay guy resurrected twice by his AI technology - but only one of the instances transitioned.
Animorphs
A group chat-liveread of KA Applegate's series of YA novels about war, PTSD and furries.
Kingdom Hearts
It's 2002. Final Fantasy is at the height of its popularity. What's the next step? Unquestionably, a crossover with every Disney movie. Thus, Square commissioned Kingdom Hearts, and Tetsuya Nomura started penning one of the most impenetatrably complex game narratives out there. In mid-2017 I tried diving in.
The Flower That Bloomed Nowhere
A fascinatingly baroque yuri web novel inspired by Umineko, in which far-future wizards working to overcome death instead find themselves being murdered.