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29/9/23 10:49![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlectomyIn an effort to sharpen up my Japanese reading skills (I should actually be sharpening up my Japanese listening skills, but whatever) I am reading a book of essays by Miura Shion. I wasn't terribly familiar with Miura except that I really liked her 2006 novel (also a movie which I haven't seen) "Tada's Do-It-All House."
Not only is Miura a BL fan, but a bunch of her essays in this particular book ("Happiness Like a Dream") are from the early 2000s, right around the time when I was reading a lot of BL, and, indeed, the time when I was living in Japan. Which makes those particular essays feel hideously nostalgic - especially the one where she talks about going to see Fellowship of the Ring (which I saw in 2001 in a theater in Nagasaki!) and falling in love with Aragorn and going on English-language slash fanfic web sites and struggling through her own poor English skills to read the fanfic.
I mean, isn't it charming to think that I was struggling through a Fujimi Orchestra novel in Japanese right at the same time that Miura Shion was struggling through an Aragorn/Boromir fic in English?
(She also has an essay where she talks about getting mad at the teenage girls in the bookstore making fun of the BL section and saying "People who read this stuff won't ever get boyfriends," which makes her think, she almost wants a boyfriend just to prove them wrong... but ehhhh. I remember relating to that sentiment of ehhhh quite deeply.)
Not only is Miura a BL fan, but a bunch of her essays in this particular book ("Happiness Like a Dream") are from the early 2000s, right around the time when I was reading a lot of BL, and, indeed, the time when I was living in Japan. Which makes those particular essays feel hideously nostalgic - especially the one where she talks about going to see Fellowship of the Ring (which I saw in 2001 in a theater in Nagasaki!) and falling in love with Aragorn and going on English-language slash fanfic web sites and struggling through her own poor English skills to read the fanfic.
I mean, isn't it charming to think that I was struggling through a Fujimi Orchestra novel in Japanese right at the same time that Miura Shion was struggling through an Aragorn/Boromir fic in English?
(She also has an essay where she talks about getting mad at the teenage girls in the bookstore making fun of the BL section and saying "People who read this stuff won't ever get boyfriends," which makes her think, she almost wants a boyfriend just to prove them wrong... but ehhhh. I remember relating to that sentiment of ehhhh quite deeply.)
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29/9/23 23:59 (UTC)Ahhh, mirror fans!