I'm tired. It's my own fault for deliberately working late; I was enjoying working on the thing I was working on, so I was enthusiastic about getting it done. (Also I'd set myself a deadline of getting it finished by the end of the day tomorrow, and I figured I might as well get it done this evening.)
Sadly it's not a thing I can share with you right now, because it's not something for any of the websites or YouTube channels I work on. It is, instead, something that will likely be announced… within the next month or two, I think? It's cool though. I'm looking forward to sharing it with people. The astute will possibly know at least vaguely what I'm alluding to, but I really can't say any more than that for the moment, other than the fact that working on it has kept me up late and now I'm tired!
It's been a bit of a weird day, all told. Atari and MicroProse announced that they're bringing back a random handful of classic flight sims, Twitter announced that by signing up to their pointless Twitter Blue bullshit you can have an NFT profile pic and immediately make yourself a target for completely justified cyberbullying, and my copy of "The History of Hentai Manga" finally arrived after literally about six months of being continually delayed by Amazon.
Excited to finally delve into the book; it looks super-interesting and it's possibly the only book I'll ever read with a full history of how breasts have been depicted over the years, with a particular specific section on the history of how nipples are blurred to indicate movement. There is also a chapter primarily themed around the history of the onomatopoeia used to indicate the opening of a vagina, so that should make for some intriguing reading.
Those are actual chapters and sections in the book, by the way; I'm not making things up. The guy behind the book takes the subject enjoyably seriously, on the grounds that no-one has ever really done a vaguely academic study on erotic manga — regular old manga yes, eromanga, no.
His justification for his in-depth exploration of some very specific topics is that many of the trends in eromanga end up getting filtered down into non-explicit manga in various ways — and thus any analysis of manga in general as a medium is worth taking the erotic side of things into account. But no-one does, because oooh, porn scary.
Anyway, I've only read a bit of the first chapter so far but it's definitely intriguing. I will likely write more about the book as a whole over on Rice when I've read the whole thing.
For now, though, I feel the need for some retro games I can tune out and chill out to, so that's what I'm off to go and do. Have a pleasant evening!
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