Two Fluffy Recs
May. 10th, 2020 09:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrMonthly Girl's Nozaki-kun: A very entertaining comedy anime about a group of highschool friends making shoujo romance manga. It has a lot of fun with romance tropes, and there's cute shippy moments between lots of characters, but there's no canon ships and the ultimate focus is on friendship. It's moderately heteronormative but doesn't aggressively avoid or no-homo the moments of same sex shippiness. It's on Netflix with subtitles and an English dub.
Guide on How to Fail at Online Dating: This very cute and funny Chinese m/m romantic comedy novel is now fully translated. It's about a male university student who decides to take revenge on the man who broke his cousin's heart by catfishing him in an online game as a Sexy Girl. Identity porn, misunderstandings, and a very cute romance ensue. Flamebyrd wrote a longer description with content notes. I'll add that the sex, while very vague, is enthusiastically consensual (not a given in the genre!) Also, while the story doesn't engage with trans identities, and involves "men pretending to be women", it didn't feel super transphobic, since the narrative treats all catfishers pretending to be hot girls similarly, regardless of the catfisher's actual gender (though that treatment isn't always great)
Guide on How to Fail at Online Dating: This very cute and funny Chinese m/m romantic comedy novel is now fully translated. It's about a male university student who decides to take revenge on the man who broke his cousin's heart by catfishing him in an online game as a Sexy Girl. Identity porn, misunderstandings, and a very cute romance ensue. Flamebyrd wrote a longer description with content notes. I'll add that the sex, while very vague, is enthusiastically consensual (not a given in the genre!) Also, while the story doesn't engage with trans identities, and involves "men pretending to be women", it didn't feel super transphobic, since the narrative treats all catfishers pretending to be hot girls similarly, regardless of the catfisher's actual gender (though that treatment isn't always great)
