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Tuesday, July 16th, 2019
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9:46 am - bweeeeeee
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The Fujoshi are still rolling along at the convention. Things have gotten a little fucked up.
In honor of this strip, I'd like to present another Fangirl Quote of the Week from the yaoi doujinshi comment section:
"OMG (character name) what is WRONG with you?! He's TWELVE! YOU fucking SLEPT with a TWELVE Y/O OMG! Still ship it tho"
Classic.
Lately my life has been about burning through craft kits. I've finished a diamond painting and am almost done with another, which I'm hoping to finish soon so I can make a new Paper Nano papercraft diorama before trying out my new artificial flowers kit.
I haven't been drawing much. Oddly, there are just as many comic ideas as ever, and even some light scripting and a storyboard or two floating around but nothing is actually happening in terms of production.
I don't know how I feel.
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| Monday, July 8th, 2019
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11:07 pm - Well, new week, new Fujoshi up
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The convention fun continues!
Not much else is new. I still haven't fixed Sauce, I'll have the next one up Friday. Not doing much else other than little craft projects and dropping emotional cinder blocks on my stabler friends via text. Hey, at least they know I'm thinkin' about 'em!
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| Thursday, July 4th, 2019
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9:17 pm - Some news!
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Happy Fourth of July! It's still the Fourth over here for three more hours, so I can still say it! Yay!
The Sauce upload fucked up! I will try to fix that and should have something for you tomorrow!
Also, on a personal note, I'm kind of annoyed by something that probably shouldn't make a difference, but it still bugs me. At the hospital, we have a front desk where the assistance staff decorate it for all the major national/cultural holidays - hearts for Valentine's Day, eggs and stuffed bunnies for Easter, that kind of thing. Anyway, for Pride Month they had everything all done up for two weeks with rainbow and trans flags and banners and posters and stuff. That's fine, it's Pride Month, that makes sense. But yesterday was the day before the Fourth of July, and there was nothing. It's not that I don't think the gay, trans, etc. people shouldn't have their representation, they totally should. But it's kind of shitty to then ignore Independence Day. Not everyone at the hospital is gay or trans, but literally every one of both our clients and our employees is American. I get that this is San Francisco (we hate America even worse than ISIS, all soldiers eat babies for fun, blah blah blah) but c'mon, guys . . . . would a token effort of a couple of miniature American flags or a few red-and-blue glitter stars hurt that much?
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| Monday, June 24th, 2019
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9:55 am - Good times
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In honor of today's Fujoshi Life, I give you the Fangirl Quote of the Day, culled specially from the comments section of my local doujinshi upload repository:
"MY KOKORO IS BROKERO!"
In unrelated news, my GOD do I love evening shifts that start in the late afternoon. Cue Audrey nursing a cup of coffee in pajamas with some lo-fi chillhop for like two hours <3
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| Friday, June 21st, 2019
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1:05 pm - Just checkin' in.
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Most recent update was over at Sauce. It's an oldie, but a goodie.
So what's new over here? Not much. Work is still work. I have a weekend coming up, so that'll be nice. I've been trying to make stuff but still fighting unmotivation. I've been doodling out a couple of cutesy, pathos-riddled minicomics just as an exercise. Might post those. We'll see when they're done. I'm also working on a short story - really just exploring a theme - inspired by a friend of mine who's working on some kind of epic vampire-themed action-mystery comic. I'll link to her project when it comes online, but it's got a long way to go!
Life isn't much of anything right now, but at least it is life, at least for the moment.
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| Monday, June 10th, 2019
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11:40 pm - Got the new one up
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This week's Fujoshi kind of gets into some weird territory. And it ain't gonna stop next week. I completely understand anyone who doesn't completely understand this.
And with a new 2200+ acre fire up north only 20% under containment and our first air quality warning of the summer, we here in California have officially opened for Fire Season! WOO!
Also our new air conditioning worked for about a week and now it's broken again and also the entire hospital's AC is also broken, which makes me think it actually might have something to do with the power grid instead of the machinery, but all I know is that it is getting really hot in there.
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| Sunday, June 2nd, 2019
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11:40 pm - Still alive
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Fujoshi Life is still going with new comics
Sauce is chugging along, too.
Audrey . . . . is kind of missing part of her brain and her soul at the moment, but she's working on that. She's not being very communicative, alas, but please rest assured she is trying her best to recoup functionality. Her best is pretty mediocre at the moment, but hey, points for effort, right?
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| Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019
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6:02 pm - OFC
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And, on Audrey's very last day of a seven-week stint of nothing but shifts in the hottest part of the pharmacy . . . .
. . . . THEY HAVE FIXED THE AC.
:--)
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| Monday, May 20th, 2019
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12:08 am - Not dead yet
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Looks like we got a new Fujoshi Life! We had one last week, too. Also a Sauce. Sorry I fell behind on the journal.
We've been having horrific heat problems at work for about six weeks now. I have been stuck in the compounding area in the very back where the heat is the highest. It is never, and I mean NEVER, lower than 80 degrees back there and can get very close to 90 in certain areas under certain conditions. I sweat through my outfit almost every day. One of the pharmacists turns into Timmy Tourettes when he has to work back there. The manager once had to cover for a pharmacist back there who went home sick, got cranky in the heat and tried to take it out on me.
I've been stuck on that same fucking shift for nearly all six weeks of the broken HVAC with no end in sight. When they scheduled me for the intensive training schedule, they didn't figure on the air conditioner fritzing out, but it hasn't changed anything. I get home from my shift, chug a giant glass of water, die, revive after dark and start foraging like a rat. Usually go to bed less than four hours before I have to get up at 5:45 to start the coffee. I'm not completely sure if I'm awake or asleep most of the time.
. . . . I did actually write this and it's not just in my head, right? ;-)
Happy Monday, everybody!
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| Sunday, May 5th, 2019
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11:58 pm - Well, shiz, I guess it's a two-parter!
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Emi brings WWE-style street justice over at Fujoshi Life!
Be as holier-than-thou as you want, but if you're preaching at me during porn time, I gotta warn you of diminishing returns!
Also Translator-Chan's note there is 100% accurate. That happened. I was surprised. I mean, I wasn't, but I was.
Not much else in life going on. Pretty okay day, in spite of the HVAC being out at work and the 90-degree heat melting everyone's brain.
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| Thursday, May 2nd, 2019
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11:51 am - Comic update!
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| Sunday, April 28th, 2019
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11:48 pm - New comic, old comic, thinkin' out loud
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New Fujoshi Life up today! Also a new Sauce went up last Friday, I forgot to post about it, but it's still there!
While everyone else is all caught up in the excitement over Endgame, the latest movie I saw kind of slipped under the radar. Hell, I only found out about it before it was almost too late to see it in theaters, but I managed to grab ahold of that last scale on the end of the dragon's tail, and I'm glad I caught the ride.
The movie is Terry Gilliam's "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote."
This is an incredibly complex movie that I am in no shape to review impartially because, well, I'm a Gilliam fan. But whether you loved it, hated it or didn't care much either way, you have to acknowledge the sheer miracle that it even got made in the first place. This was a movie that spent a record 29 YEARS in Development Hell. His credits could have had a list of production babies born FROM production babies! I'm sure better movies were born and died in a third of that time, but it's a testament to the sheer persistance of Gilliam against the dark forces of Hollywood, fate and even himself at times.
The movie he ended up making is a very different animal from the original film he set out to make, and the movie itself very much reflects that. It's not just a movie about Don Quixote, it's a movie about the pursuit to make a movie about Don Quixote. It jumps around between realities and is pretty meta, which I think is why it didn't resonate with critics very well, and only slightly better with audiences. Anyway, if you see this movie, I think the best way to enjoy it is to think of it as less of a linear movie, and more of a metaphysical autobiography, or even just an allegory on the nature of art and creation. And I do urge you to see it if you can.
So why do I care so much about this one particular movie, that isn't even Gilliam's best? It's because of what it means. The man was lost at sea for 29 years, and his vessel basically ended up as Theseus' Ship, but he completed the voyage home. What he made was not what he set out to make, but he still made something of value. This is something that resonated with me, because of, well, pretty much the last 3-4 years. I accept now that I am not what I was before, maybe as a consequence of my experiences, maybe as a consequence of getting older, maybe due to other factors, maybe all of the above. I do not see art or storytelling or comics, or my world, or myself the same way. But if Gilliam showed me nothing else, it's that even if the deal gets yanked out from under you, irretrievably, REPEATEDLY, it is not impossible to forge a new deal. And that is the first piece of positive motivation that I have really gotten to stick in my mind, no matter how dark it gets in here.
I've been drawing now for three days in a row. Nothing special, notebook work. But it's the first time I've done that in a very, very long time. Not going to be like "I'm all better!" and shit. But it ain't a bad sign.
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| Monday, April 22nd, 2019
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10:02 pm - Oh yeah, I knew I was forgetting something . . .
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| Thursday, April 18th, 2019
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8:29 pm - Sawwwwwwwce
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Back again for the very first time!
Sorry I have less to say about this one, I won't really have much until the new ones start coming up.
This has been what I would consider a crucible of a week. Passed the test, but feeling slightly singed. Hopefully next week runs slightly more smoothly - and for everyone else, too!
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| Monday, April 15th, 2019
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12:48 am - A little background on today's comic
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So, I thought today's Fujoshi Life might benefit from some extra explanation.
Now, if you don't recognize those pairings, they're from the fandom of the now-ended "new" Voltron cartoon, considered to be one of the most polarized, acrimonious and straight-up RABID fandoms since, say, Steven Universe.
Back in the day, one of my favorite things to say about female fandom was that, while it was indeed passionate, it did not have the weird personal pride investment that male fandom did, such as in situations like the Xbox versus Playstation war. I could say that, at the end of the day, even if fangirls didn't have the same favorite fandoms / ships / perspectives, they could at least agree to coexist in peace. Even when people DID get shitty in their fandoms, I was more than content with the "vocal minority" or "few bad apples" explanations.
Then the predominantly-female Voltron fandom rolled through, and I didn't know WHAT to think.
I'm not even going to talk about the weird raging accusations of pedophilia (often directed from 20 year olds to 21 year olds, just for added insanity) OR the doxxing OR the contacting the workplaces of people who liked certain ships and trying to get them fired or even the relentless hounding of the show's creators over theoretically "problematic" elements.
I would like to talk to you about Karen Lance.
Karen Lance is a middle-aged realtor from Canton, Ohio. Her major use of the internet seems to be her Twitter, which she uses to update the Canton community about her business and local events. To my knowledge, she is not, nor has she ever been, an active member of Voltron fandom. It's entirely possible that she's never even seen the show. Before all hell broke loose, she probably didn't even know there WAS a new Voltron show.
So, what the hell happened?
Karen Lance had the unmitigated GALL, years before the show launched, to make her Twitter handle "klance." When the show's fandom picked up speed, the "smushname" of one of the most popular pairings, two guys named Keith and Lance, became "klance." My readers are a sharp bunch; I have no doubt that you already all know where this is going.
Once Klance fangirls found out that the handle was taken, Karen Lance suddenly found herself deluged with DMs that ranged from frantic to angry to actively threatening. Some of the fans called her an "old fat white bitch" who didn't deserve the handle and insisted that she give it to them, or else. More conciliatory, if delusional, fans promised her that "gay space babies will buy your most expensive house" if she would just give up the Twitter handle. Which, I may remind you, can really only go to one of the dozens of people who were actively clamoring for it. At one point, baffled by what was causing all this, Karen got the police involved. I imagine that even when they finally got down to the root of this entire mess, it was no less baffling for everyone involved.
You don't believe me, do you? That's okay, I wouldn't believe me. The original thread I followed has been swallowed by the abyss, but this post on Quora (scroll down to J Solomon) mentions it and gives a pretty good synopsis.
Anyway, the Voltron show ended after a downward spiral at the end of seven seasons, the psychos have moved on to fresh hunting grounds, and my perception of fangirls as the more level-headed half of fandom is a pleasant but now shattered illusion.
At least Karen got to keep her Twitter handle. No need to trouble her with any of this, but feel free to hit her up if you're looking for a house in the northeastern Ohio area!
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| Thursday, April 11th, 2019
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9:39 pm - "New" Sauce.
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| Monday, April 8th, 2019
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12:37 am - Good to see the auto-uploader working properly at last.
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Want proof? New Fujoshi Life!
I'm pretty sure that even without an explanation, you can get a rough handle on what "a/b/o" is about from the context. Let's just say, the lengths to which some of us go to explain/rationalize a fetish exceeds a NASA checklist.
What else is new? Not much. Art show is over, thank God, it was horrible.
What am I working on now? I got a teeny-tiny counted cross stitch kit. It's going to end up as a little keychain with daffodils in it. It's so tiny and cute. I pick at it while during workday breaks, and it makes me so happy to think about that it makes actual work time go a little faster. It's so small and simple, so personal and private. It's exactly what I want right now.
I imagine I'll come out of this state, in a bit. But right now, this is where I'm glad to be.
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| Thursday, April 4th, 2019
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12:02 am - This should take you back . . .
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| Monday, April 1st, 2019
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9:37 am - If I could go back in time, I probably would slap myself on the back of the head at LEAST once.
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Past Audrey screwed up the auto-updater and Present Audrey has had to clean up the mess as soon as she realized it. Here you go, new Fujoshi, just a little later than usual!
Am now going through all the other updates to make sure that this shit doesn't happen again. Also enjoying homemade whole-wheat pancakes with apple butter. Mmm, I love Saturdays. Especially when they're on Mondays! Working in medical with highly variable scheduling kind of messes with your sense of time. Hopefully I'll get more used to that as time goes on.
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| Thursday, March 28th, 2019
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5:45 am - I remembered this time!
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