Rachel 🩵 🍉
@shoujoscholar.bsky.social
Rachel. Palestinian-American. She/Her. Feminist. 2nd Year PhD student in Media Studies. Shoujo fan. Teacher. CR: Nodame Cantabile https://anilist.co/user/shoujoscholar/
the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.
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coming back to blue sky to announce i just presented on shoujo fans, manga piracy and misogyny at the society for cinema and media studies conference last weekend.
since it's new year's eve here were my favorite series I read in 2025.
So because Luciole has a Dream doesn't (currently) have a release date for volume 2, I'm marking it off of my 2026 TBR. From my giant TBR stack I just finished the Heart of Thomas which was incredible, if you haven't read it, you should read it.
2026 TBR. (Though mermaid prince might still get read this year from my 2025 TBR, and that's because it's in my big reading stack.)
etting caught up on Tonar wa Futsuu no Nijika (-chan) was really easy, there aren't too many chapters scanned yet. It is really cute though. With the few chapters I've read I'd say I'm currently at like a 9/10 for the series.
I would say smaller reading month for november EXCEPT I did finish oresama teacher which is a thousand volumes long.
I finally, finally FINALLY finished oresama teacher. This series was so long and for no reason, if I'm going to be entirely honest. I would have dropped it except there was just enough of an interesting plot to keep curious to the end. I'm glad it's done.
Guess who actually managed to read some stuff in September. INCLUDING finishing TWO series from my TBR (and dropping another.)
Okay I just finished Sakura-Hime. A really good read despite the fact that Tanemura really needed more space (and freedom) to do what she wanted with the series. If she'd been able to do what she wanted it'd be a stronger story but I still enjoyed it. Up next I'm reading Oresama Teacher
Tonight I'm going to finish Sakura-Hime. And frankly I think it's a testament to Tanemura's strength as a writer that this is as engaging as it is. There is a lot in it that could have and probably should have been developed more.
First Drop of the year. Genuinely there was just nothing I was interested in, the romance bored me, the premise bored me, the only interesting character was the psychic best friend and she was barely in it. Up next I'm reading Sakura Hime: the Legend of Princess Sakura.
Probably no one in mainstream media is going to fully investigate/explain what groypers (and their divisions) are because it’s not in their interest to. I know about it from being a target due to their intersections with historical denialists on socials. rachelandthecity.substack.com/p/when-catch...
When “Catch This Fascist” Doesn’t Mean What You Think,
How far-right trolls use leftist symbols to hide in plain sight
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FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · last yr.RFK Jr: We had lots of guns when we were kids. Kids brought guns to school and were encouraged to do so. And nobody was walking into schools and shooting people. There are many things that could explain this. One is the dependence on psychiatric drugs.
Finished Drowning Love. 1000/10, a masterpiece really. The art was incredible, the character's were so masterfully written, the story was so beautifully crafted. It really is as good as everyone says it is. Wish I could collect it physically. Next I'm reading ReRe: Hello
Meredith needs to catch a break. GENUINELY upset that she finally opened herself up to a relationship post derek just to have that snatched from her.
Like I know Meredith doesn't leave the show when the new interns come in, but I do really think that they should have made Jo more of a deuteragonist, like she very easily could have been the "meredith" of her generation of interns, and I think the show would be stronger for it.
people on food assistance should be able to get a soda, hot food, a birthday cake from the bakery, or whatever the hell they want. other people's food choices are none of your business. you should want your food-insecure neighbors to have the same freedom of choice that you do!
look. i’m not an april kepner fan. and she should have told jackson about the second pregnancy before the divorce because that’s when custody should be addressed. but also arizona shouldn’t have told jackson she was pregnant. like that is on april not her.
4/25 down. Up next I'm reading Drowning Love. 💖 = absolutely incredible 10/10 🧡 = really good 8.5/10 🖤 = absolutely wild ride 🩵 = just okay
well I am caught up to everything that's been translated for kashoku no shiro so far and I'd say that so far it's a pretty interesting supernatural manga. I do wish they'd develop the MLI more but tbf it's only been 25 chapters. I'd say it's worth a read if you like supernatural historical manga.
Amelia Shepherd is such a great teacher and doctor, and like the world's worst sister-in-law.
