Vrai Kaiser 🧛♂️
@writervrai
Trans, autistic, nervous wreck. ✒️ Daily Operations Manager @animefeminist.com Professionally sad about vampires 📨 Vrai@vraikaiser.com
Now that Crunchyroll has shit the bed with both birds raised, we're probably not gonna see deep discounts on blurays like we used to--small publishers are having to pick up the slack. So I wanna flag big sales even more when they do pop up, so us broke folks can support mediaocd.com/product/look...
There is only one vampire rock star I give a shit about this summer
If you ever find the last person alive claiming THE LOST BOYS isn't an extremely gay movie, it's so important that you laugh at him. Like a lot.
If you've enjoyed JOURNAL WOTH WITCH, I highly rec reading the creator's other series, THE NIGHT BEYOND THE TRICORNERED WINDOW. It has the same amazing character writing + the digital is DRM-free (Avoid the anime tho. It's an active disservice to the material) www.sublimemanga.com/the-night-be...
"Defining" is an interesting venn diagram but not complete overlap with "overall favorite" tlpt-telepath.github.io/9-animes/
The video platforms are using "🌽" to censor "porn"? Everything old is new
My taste in games is pretty polarized into "weird jank" and "thing everyone agreed was good duh" (my9games.com)
I think about this Baldwin quote so often (the larger point is lovely, but this lil bit sticks). Feels like my 30s has been a repeated thwacking with the knowledge I can be a dipshit and a fuckup, but I needn't stay that way. Then again, I felt the same leaving home. Maybe this is just life?
SHIBOYUGI death mansion officially more ethical than the Beast Games
Lot of online 💿🐴 about A Gentle Noble's Vacation Recommendation NOT Being a Romance Actually, and I think someone needs to tell the mangaka.
What I'm learning is that Tokyopop's translator for Petshop of Horrors was Leon/D truther and I need to put more respect on their name. (No shade on the new version; it's poetic and elegant in its own right. But I actually think the TP version has its own charm that holds up. Think YYH dub.)
23. Cute Bite (2021) Your vampire mistress was cursed; now she must regain her power over a year or you'll be in danger as her familar. Really engaging stat-raiser game (also gay), i've loved Hanako Games for ages, and this is another great entry in their library hanakogames.itch.io/cute-bite
22. DRCL midnight children (2021-) An adaptation of Dracula where Lucy is transfemme, Mina is an angry Anne Shirley, and Dracula is both a spreading biomass and also a catboy. The highest tier of art is what i'm saying (and also THE ART) www.viz.com/drcl-midnigh...
20. Interview with the Vampire (1976) Redefined vampire fiction & rewired my brain at an early age. A gutting story about cycles of abuse, invents the child vampire. Anne was the queen of critiquing but then perpetuating fraught subjects by turns. Stop after book 3 www.everand.com/book/7692543...
16. Red Embrace Hollywood (2019) VTM with the numbers filed off (done v well), v about the devs' frustrations with making romance games. Gets lost up its butt at times, but I can appreciate makin a game where the decision to romance these dudes makes them worse argent-games.itch.io/red-embrace-...
15. Red Embrace (2015) A romance VN (with pronoun/sprite choice) very clearly in homage to Vampire the Masquerade. Short but sweet, and makes very good use of its runtime to create a fun set of characters argent-games.itch.io/red-embrace
12. Cirque du Freak (2000-2004) Darren becomes a vampire's assistant and winds up in a war over destiny itself. A very shonen take on vampires (has a manga! okay but loses a bit) that deserves to be spotlighted as anti-war kidlit alongside Animorphs and Hunger Games www.everand.com/book/2348126...
11. Vampire Princess Miyu (1988) A spiritualist tracks Miyu across Japan, driven by obsession and her past One of the best horror anime and one of the best OVAs of the 80s. Eerie and melancholy, good balance between episodic and serial narrative in just 4 episodes www.peacocktv.com/watch-online...
9. Bit (2019) A trans girl falls in with a gang of vampires on her first night in LA. Struggles under the weight of being The Trans Vampire Movie TM (written by an ally) but the best parts shine. I wrote a whole academic article on it tubitv.com/movies/54707... link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
8. Bloody Mary (2013-2017) A vampire seeks out an exorcist who might be able to finally kill him. It does not go as planned. Supremely underrated, 10 volumes, gay in a "not kissing on page but they're eternal soulmates" way, and just the right amount of silly anime bullshit www.viz.com/bloody-mary
7. "Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time" (2017) A really solid short story about a trans guy trying to figure out how to keep taking HRT now that he's a vampire www.uncannymagazine.com/article/smal...