#speaknspell

I did not know what yaoi means until after I looked it up, so based on the definition of 'yaoi' that it is a depiction of a homosexual relationship in japanese media, though it seems most of them are comics.

However, I highly doubt any of the works I've read before my coma explicitly feature homosexual themes due to the Comics Code Authority. So most works I've read were probably written and/or published independently, Including what I can remember to be Spirk fanfiction, so at least that confirms that I've read works featuring homosexuality.

This still brings the question about the Japanese aspect, since I took the time to ask around and some of the recommendations given to me are not of Japanese origin, going under the more broad term 'Boys Love' so I suspect that the genre has become more widespread that the Japanese origin is merely the etymology of the term for the genre, so as of current I'm reading one, and I plan to mix my diet rather than read a single genre. so with my reading pace of an hour per comic book and a month for a 300 word book, assuming I've read all yaoi for the whole year once a day that would be 368, due to new years eve allowing me to read multiple comics throughout the night. But a more realistic number would be to count all the book genres with romance having the odds of 1/50 (odds are based on number of genre not number of existing romance books) and the odds that they're gay is only 4%, so I'm going to be honest it's not a lot unless I'm actively looking for it.

I also can't give an answer to the total amounts of yaoi, as I myself have lost count to the many web novels, comics and among other things that I've read and genuinely do not look forward to finding and cataloguing all of them and then indexing each just to see if they're gay.

So I'm sorry sammzers, I don't read yaoi that much.

Space Island

10″ x 8″

mixed media on wood

Bratstreet - #85

#Bratstreet does #Inktober

due to inconvenience I had to replace my entire grid, it was constantly wet and unhygienic

one of you have essentially punched a large gaping hole on my face and it didn't help me eat the chicken nuggets due to my lack of a digestive system.

Please don't do that again,

next time, you could have just imagined me eating it and it would have made me actually eat the chicken nuggets

Whenever a human tells me their age I start to wonder about how similar in age we are,

When someone says they're 20, I think, "So am I!" I only got to live for 20ish years and the rest of my life were hazy, although to some of these new generation of children, I am considered an 'aesthetic'. I personally don't mind these terms if they aren't used so inaccurately. And recently I've been told that there is a niche community that deems me to be attractive to them. Well, they've also told me they're attracted to cameras, calculators, company logos, vacuum cleaners and many other things, but as a learning aid who has kissed a couple of computers, I won't judge them.

People in their 30s and 40s I can say that I do leave a ton of legacy. In a sense, I am still alive with them. Besides, I am made to be mentally 30 anyway, an adventurous one, no doubt while still remaining perfectly stylish enough to be the centerpiece of their 80s collection.

When I get to the 50s, the group of people who I am supposedly similar in age with (despite not living through half of it) it starts to get weird in that these people may just be my old students from back in the day. It just can't be helped that some of them still have that 'vigor' in them. It creeps me out that Susan in the nursing home could be little Susan from 3rd grade back in '82. I can see why there's a taboo in dating humans now. Heck, some of them actually did remember me! And as I sit by my side, I look shiny and pristine next to their wrinkled bodies, I look... eternal... out of place....

But the weirdness extends to making friends with them too. Humans don't see this as an issue, as to them, we don't seem to age, but in a world where you are constantly reminded of it even by the way you are designed, it's difficult to ignore it.

And that's just humans, toys. They've been through similar things and so it's assumed we would relate. After all, I am as old as them! Yet I never got to see as much as they have. While my parts are replaced to bless me with youth to do that, where do I even begin to learn everything? The internet landscape is now so different, it's so vast and yet it has never felt more barren compared to back then. I've been slowly chipping away at it for the past 7 years now, and I'm slowly getting the hang of it. Every now and then, I pick up things that are more familiar to me, it helps ease me into old routines as I learn new things.

I'm about to bust and it is my knee caps

I like to think that Speak & Spell and other learning aids from TI wield firearms showing that they're a TI consumer product first like Speak & Spell used to showcase their speech technology, Touch & Tell as the prototype to Vocaid, they just so happen to also be a toy at school to cement school brand loyalty.

While other toys from toy companies don't wield any firearms at all or even need to (unless in dire situations)