The BumbleRabbit Archives

Good morning, Erin.  I’m supposed to be reading anime books, right now. Well, I say “anime books,” but I mean light novels , which are essentially the not-especially-literary novels/novellas that are written often exclusively in the hope that they will be turned into an anime series. And then a manga spinoff. And then a series of erotic statuettes priced at hundreds of dollars.  Point is: every summer, I set about a task of…well, for the sake of brevity, “doing anime things,” and I decided that this year’s thing was putting some kind of dent in my 200-book backlog of light novels. I even picked out a handful I thought I’d most likely want to dig into.  …so obviously I picked up an unrelated literary-type novel and started reading that. Because the most important thing about plans is not giving yourself a chance to follow through on them.  Sigh .  It’s really good, though, so I’m not as annoyed at myself as I should be. It’s Book of Extraordinary Tragedies by Jo...

Good morning, Erin. When Netflix once again decided it didn’t want to let me watch anything because my sister and I—who went in on this account together—don’t live in the same house anymore, my plans to spend my Friday off jumping into The Good Bad Mother were somewhat curtailed. Which meant I had time to kill until my alternate viewing methods became available.  Did I start my You’re the Best! letter? Did I iron my work shirts for the week? Did I clean the pans in my sink? Of course not. I’m not one to waste my time like that. No, I decided to watch a handful of short Korean lesbian romance series on YouTube. Obviously.  That’s right, I did some absentminded clicking around on MDL and saw a show poster that set my yuri fanboy senses a-tinglin’—so what other choice did I have but to see for myself?  And I did. And it was. And so were the three other things I clicked on. And now you get to hear all about it. So, we’re all winners!  Now, when it comes to yuri , I’m ...

Good morning, Erin.  On today’s nightly walk, I accidentally started up my K-drama playlists instead of one of the more energetic ones I typically listen to. And, about halfway through my walk, the main theme to My Mister popped on, and suddenly I was thrown back to a couple of days before Christmas in 2021, when I went on my “music to mope to” walk because I was in such low spirits—where the music I moped to was, of course, the K-drama proto-playlist I’d put together after watching the first couple of Erin-went-home list suggestions. (I want to say I mentioned that walk in my Goblin letter, but I’m too lazy to check.) I call it a proto -playlist because I think it had maybe five tracks on it, and I think I looped through the whole thing at least three times over the course of the hour(-ish) I was out there.  Flash forward to my walk earlier tonight, my K-drama playlist has 50 songs and is nearly three hours long. Oh, how far we’ve come, you and I.  I mention this becau...