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I think some of them get Bruce Wayne more than they get Batman, and some of them get Batman more than they get Bruce Wayne. I think Ben Affleck has probably gotten the best balance of the two. He’s a really good Bruce Wayne and a really good Batman.

Ben Affleck photographed by Kurt Iswarienko

Update: I started watching Drive to Survive, season 7, again, which means episode 3. It’s so weird. I actually forgot for a second that I am watching real life [well, it’s Netflix but still], and not a movie.

It’s late. I need to do the dishes

Confession of a rpf writer

I feel incapable of writing anything Gabico. I think the outpouring of Gabico content around Nico’s podium has rushed the narrative forward at a rhythm I wasn’t ready to engage with and unbalanced the beginning of an outline I was grasping at to follow up on what I wrote last week (I think it was last week?).

Nothing dramatic, just needing to externalize the feelings, I think, as I feel a bit overwhelmed and just need to sit with the original narrative to find again the plot points that felt so overwhelming (as in, inspiring) last week. It’s like the plot moved forward without me and I don’t recognize it anymore..

I probably just need to find a playlist that brings me back ^^;

Yoneda Kou Poll: Translated Questions

I finally got round to translating the ten winner questions of my little Yoneda Kou Poll. Sorry for the wait, I had a busy weekend. You can send Sensei these questions by answering the 10-Year Anniversary Survey until July 31st. It wasn’t specified anywhere if the number of questions per person is limited, so it should be okay to ask more than one. If you ask all the questions at once though, that might be considered spam, so choose your favorites below and then copy & paste the Japanese translation into the specified field in part 3 of the survey. Maybe there’s a word limit once you try, but I don’t know since I haven’t answered it yet.

At the end of the post I’ve also added some questions I translated for @lustfulcat as a bonus. She’s always working hard for the fandom, so I thought that’s only fair. I also included my own questions, in case someone else wants to ask them too.

On to the Questions:

(1) If Yashiro had outright confessed to Kageyama, would they have dated? How long would it have lasted for?

もし高校生の矢代が勇気を絞って景山に告白してたら、2人は付き合うことになったでしょうか。なかなか想像がつきませんが、2人の関係はどれくらい続いてたでしょうか。

(2) Why Yashiro have a change in his color hair? I see a lot of posters and in them his hair changes.

矢代の髪の毛の色は絵によって違う気がしますが、先生はなぜ時々髪の毛の色を変えたりしますか。

(3) If she could pick actors to play Saezuru characters, who would she pick?

もし「囀る～」の映画化が決まって、先生は世界のどの俳優でも選べることが出来るのなら（あり得ない前提ですみません）、誰が「囀る～」 のキャラに一番イメージが近いと思いますか？

(4) What are your top ten yaoi manga by other mangaka?

先生の一番好きなBL漫画を10作教えてください。もし答えにくいのであれば、どういうBL漫画が個人的にお好みですか？

(She might be hesitant to directly name titles as her favorites since she has many BL mangaka friends who she might be afraid to offend with her answer. So I’ve added : If it’s difficult to answer this question, what kind of yaoi manga do you like in general?)

(5) Which of her couples are reversible? If none are, would you ever draw a reversible couple?*

先生は リバーシブル についてどう思いますか？先生のカップルの中にはリバCPがいますか？小野田と出口ならリバあり得るかなと思いますが、もし違うのなら、いつかリバカプを描きたいと思いますか？

(What do you think about reversible couples? Do any of your couples like to switch? Onoda and Deguchi kind of seem like they would, but if I’m wrong, would you ever draw a reversible couple?)

(6) What’s a detail in one of your works that you think most people don’t notice?

今まで描いてきた漫画を振り返ってみると、こだわったわりにはなかなか読者に注目されていないところ、又はあまり気付かれていないところなどありますか？

(7) Do you get *feels* when you read your own work?

先生はご自分の作品に萌えられますか？

(8) Is there a Yoneda Kou “universe” in which all or many of her works take place? Now that we’ve seen Shark and Whale from “Saezuru” in “Op,” I really want to know whether Masaki from “Nights” (police, drug division) and Ryouji from “Why do you love me anyway” (police, organized crime division) know Yashiro’s sex friend … (No. 1)

ヨネダ先生の多くの作品の舞台になった「ヨネダコウの世界」みたいな設定がありますか？鮫と鯨は「囀る～」にもOpにも現れますが、NightSの真崎は「俺に恋して～」の良司や「囀る～」の矢代の（警察の）セフレとの知り合いですか？とても気になります。

(9) Does Yashiro have any particular feelings about his birthday? Did any specific event happen that might have soured the occasion for him?

矢代は自分の誕生日について何か特別な気持ちを抱いていますか？昔、その日には何か嫌なこととかありましたか？

(10) Who is Yoneda-sensei type of man among all the characters she has created, and why?

ヨネダ先生が考えたキャラクターの中から、個人的に誰が一番タイプですか？こういう人がいれば気になるというキャラはいますか？ 理由も教えてください。

Bonus Questions:

1. How does Yoneda Kou feel about the love she gets from foreign fanbases? (@lustfulcat​ )

先生は海外のファンもたくさんいるかと思いますが、そのことについてどう思いますか？もし何か伝えたいことがあれば教えてください。

2. Would she consider a Saezuru OVA / is that something she eventually wants? (@lustfulcat​ )

もしそういう機会があれば、先生はご自分の作品のアニメ化を望ましいと思いますか？どの作品が一番アニメに向いていると思いますか？

(Worded more generally: Do you like the idea of one of your works to be made into an anime? Which one of them do you think would be suited best?)

3. We know why Kageyama fell in love with Kuga, but what is it that attracts Kuga to Kageyama? What are their dates like?

景山は久我のことをギラギラやイケイケと言いますが、久我は景山のどういうところに惹かれてますか？2人のデートはどんな感じでしょうか？

4. Will there ever be a continuation of Yorube Naki Mono?

「寄る辺無き者」の続きがとても気になります。いつか続編が読めるでしょうか。

Notes:

*@wouldnt-touch-you-anyway kindly reminded me that Sensei had once said in an interview that she liked gentle semes like Doumeki and Onoda who ultimately wouldn’t mind being uke if their partner asked them to. She also said that Togawa probably wouldn’t switch.

Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai: Don’t Stay Gold (OVA)

Title: Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai: Don’t Stay Gold

Plot: The anime is based on a short story Yoneda wrote about Kageyama and Kuga’s first meeting. The OVA is included in the special edition of the seventh volume of the manga. ​In collaboration with aarinfantasy^^ Note: This was released via DVD and because of that, it is only available in 480p. We will definitely re-release our subtitles once a better raw is available.  Additionally, we have decided to release the softsubbed version (MKV) for this for those who would like to tweak the subs’ styling to their own liking. Thank you to those who brought up this concern to me!

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Stream links:

480p: aarinfantasy || Dailymotion || Vimeo || OK.RU

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Download links:

MKV: Mediafire || MEGA

MP4:  Mediafire || Google Drive || MEGA

[Part 1][Heroin/Addicted]New BTS footage pics/videos

! The uploader is 砍姐儿, not really sure how she got these footage stuff but she's been a fan of YZ since 2016 (or maybe she was a staff of Addicted film crew??) !

• Vid 1: Interview for Men's Uno magazine - March 2016

(You guys can search for the official video with Engsub on YouTube. Tumblr only allows 1 video per post so I will upload the 2nd video on another post)

• Trans: "Nowadays the way films with double male leads choose actors are suitable for the sentence 'Those who have dreams/desires are remarkable'.

So in the future may I see Addicted 2 with the original cast before my children get married..."

• New pics again:

• Trans :"Yinzi's handmade (scarf). There are really many holes ~

Dahai's bicycle... Still fine after being thrown many times, but got lost right after 1 day being left outside."

If anything is true, it’s that Charles will always care for Carlos (and vice versa)

“I feel sorry for Carlos... I’m sorry for him… I feel sorry that for Carlos that means he dropped out of the points.”

The sun is shining for the first time in forever. It not raining, it’s not cloudy. I am photosynthesizing

reblog to send your mutuals a hug. maybe just the thought is enough to cheer them up 🥺

This is giving mood icons theme drop

via

(ty @rb19, @reigningm4x, + @blamemma for the source work 🤍)

This

I believe in the separation of church & state (rpf and the real people involved) 🫡

@evilpixiea

No, no, no! Don’t stop now! This was going so well! See, I completely see the “relationship” the same way as you do. I ship the mental assault, the sexually one-sided relationship. The way, yes, the culmination of Joker’s erotic obsession would definitely be to be killed by Batman. And while Batman wouldn’t have a sexual drive toward Joker, yes I believe the equivalent of it is how Joker gets under his skin in a way no other villain does. And so it creates a sort of unhealthy relationship.

And in shipping them, I like seeing how deep and dangerous that relationship (because it’s more than simple interactions) can go.

So my ask was really: in a world where maybe the Joker, just like in maybe Snyder’s Death of the Family, takes things dangerously far, and Batman is dangerously strained by it yet will let himself be affected by the dynamics, how would Superman react, in a world where there is a Superbat relationship. How would he react seeing how consumed Batman is by the very destructive dynamics, yet does not pull himself away from it.

I may be rambling and incoherently incapable of putting coherent words to my thoughts, I admit...

(Side note, I’m actually a fan of Troy Baker’s Joker in Origins.. I thought he did a perfect rendition of a younger Joker. Perfectly in tune with Mark’s)

(Can I also add how much I dig Supes’ face when he’s under the Joker’s toxin’s effect in Endgame??)

I don’t think I’ve ever seen much of BatJokes in your work, but I’m going to bring this up.. hope it’s alright.. I consider the relationship between The Joker and The Batman to be heavily sexually charged. There may not be anything physical, but there is sexual tension that creeps on the “mentally sexually charged”... If this would be the case in your worlds, what would Superman’s reaction, and to it via-a-vis Bruce? Extra points for angst..?

Personally, the BatJokes ship has never been one that gels very well with me. That’s not because I don’t think there is sexual energy between them (I very much do) but because I think that energy is very one sided. From my readings of the comics and other media Joker has for a long time has had a very explicit and obvious sexual interest in Batman. Not Bruce. Batman. However, instead of trying to have sex with him he tries to hurt him. For the Joker, intimacy is achieved when he successfully gets under Batman’s skin or (better yet) makes him lose control.

A part of the Joker wants Batman to kill him. That I think would be the climax of his erotic obsession with Batman. He wants to be that person that breaks Batman and unleashes the beast.

Bruce, for his part, I think really truly does hate the Joker. There is no softness, no caveats, or round edges in that feeling. He hates him as much as a person can hate another.

He wishes Joker was dead… which is what makes the dynamic interesting from a hero/villain point of view. Bruce, to uphold his code, needs to not kill. Joker wants Batman to kill him and will continue trying to hurt him until he does.

That is the dramatic tension. That is the push pull. That is what makes the pair so interesting.

However, personally, that also means I don’t really enjoy shipping them. I can’t see Joker ever giving a shit about the parts of Bruce which aren’t Batman and I can’t see Bruce ever not hating Joker with every single fibre of his being.

However, as anyone who has spoken to me on this subject knows, I am fine with people interpreting and building on canon however they see fit. This is what fandom is all about and fandom is a beautiful thing. So, if people see their relationship differently than I do and like to imagine them together or, at the very least, a two way erotic energy, then that’s cool. I am fine with people shipping whatever they want. That’s what makes fandom interesting.

And even if I don’t ship them I still think they have a really interesting hero/villain relationship. One of the best in comics, if not the best.

Some of my favourite Batman vs Joker moments which really (I think) highlight Joker’s fetishisation of the Batman persona and Bruce’s utter hatred mixed with his constant near loss of control are…

The Joker’s POV scenes in Arkham Origins. God, if only they had Mark Hammil it would have been perfect.

The Joker in Scot Snyder’s Death Of The Family.

The Joker in The Dark Knight Returns.

Side note. It’s really interesting that the queer coding of Joker hasn’t gone away yet, don’t you think? Traditionally comic book villains (like Disney villains) were given gender non conformist traits to emphasis how evil and different they were… we’re a little more enlightened in regard to queer folk now and tend not to do that with our villains anymore. Joker’s the exception. He is still very queer in his coding. Everything from the way he moves, the way he puts on his makeup, the way he often wears women’s clothing like high heels, and the language he uses.

I think Joker gets a pass on the whole ‘evil character being queer coded’ because DC has decided to play into the idea of Joker’s fetishisation of Batman. It’s interesting, no?

Anyway, I’m rambling. Sorry. I’ll back out of this post now.