Hyping my own Otakon coverage
Mothman cosplay I saw at Otakon 2025. I don’t write very much in summer anymore. Each June, I realize that the only way I was ever able to be productive…
My 10 Best and Worst of the Spring Manga Guide
Beginning with the COVID-19 pandemic, I began recording a list of books I read each year to mark the passage of time and remind myself that I was still making…
Otaku Journalist in 2025
Just a recent photo from my camera roll. Over the past week or so, I’ve been quietly restoring Otaku Journalist. Sometime in the past five years of security updates and…
No Villains
Sunrise in Potrero H, February 2015. When the Uber driver arrived at the worst Airbnb I’ve ever stayed in, he told me to double-check that I had the right address.…
Motherhood changed how I write about anime
This will be my third Mother’s Day as a mom. This time last year, I was still recovering in the hospital after giving birth. (It had been an easy birth,…