Goyavoyage's den
At the end of June 2024, I started learning Japanese. Before that, I had spent years thinking that I would probably get to it someday due to my constant exposure to manga and anime and my interest in translation choices; but I was unsure whether it would actually come to fruition at any point. It was a vague, passive desire, some "yeah, it'd be nice if I could" for the longest time - but the idea…
I thought I'd post more in May, but the month was harder on me than I expected. Still, I feel like I need to write a little bit on my reread of a yuri that brought me unparalleled amounts of gentle, soft joy in the past few weeks: The Blue Star on that Day , also known under its Japanese name Ano Koro no Aoi Hoshi , by Aoikani. I actually already posted about that same yuri back during my…
I've learned this yesterday and I have yet to recover. I mean, don't get me wrong, part of this makes sense. Despite having spent a sizeable amount of my childhood knowing her program as Dora l'exploratrice , an educational series decidedly meant to teach English words, it's still been a long time since I've at least vaguely realized that of course, she probably wouldn't teach English in the…
Some time soon, I'd like to post a bigger thing that would serve as an introduction to Vocaloid and vocal synth culture, and showcase a bunch of the fandom's most iconic songs I've obsessed over throughout my history with it. But while that bigger post idea is taking its time coming together, I feel like I need to just write a one-off recommendation post on some English vocal synth songs that were…
Well, I didn't think I'd report back this soon, but god has the Spring 2026 anime Agents of the Four Seasons , which I was very enthusiastic about when its episode 1 aired, been a prime example of queerbait and ugly problems. I kind of set myself up for such a situation with my initial post, of course; but I still didn't expect to be backstabbed THIS hard with the release of just two additional…
I've been meaning to post this silly thing for ages, and a rewatch of Princess Mononoke I did last weekend seems as good a spark as any to finally do it. Click to read the original in French We made this bingo for the Miyazaki movies three years ago with my lover in the middle of a retrospective of his works, and it was extremely fun to then have bingo elements to check throughout the entire…
( Preliminary note written two weeks later: Well, do I have bad news. I ended up watching the first three episodes of the series I mention here, and reading bits of the original light novel, and it's been full of a properly revolting amount of queerbaiting, along with a lot of other issues. I think it is essential for you not to get fooled by its first episode the way I did, nor to take the…
April 2nd is Autistic Acceptance Day, and April at large is Autistic Acceptance Month! Support autistic people around you, and educate yourself directly from them instead of often hurtful organizations that pretend to speak in our name. (In French, but sometimes with English subtitles available, I would gladly recommend Alistair Houdayer's YouTube channel , whose work notably on autism and on…
(I wrote the following around a year ago during a writing workshop focused on our reasons for writing, originally in French. It felt fitting, one way or another, to post it here for Trans Day of Visibility.) I write because no one will ever write for me. I write to crystallize what I feel, what I live through, with the immense sliver of hope that one day some will cling to my words the way I clung…
Februaryuri 2026 is now over; thank you for tagging along during my past week and a half of posting! (or for reading this from the future, for that matter) I've always wanted to debrief and write afterwords for the previous two Februaryuri sessions but ended up each absolutely drained; but it's less the case this year (yay!), so here I go! First: I love doing these. I want to say this again and…