It's not Rocket Science!

Since there’s a nice little community for it, I’ll be posting Twelve Kingdoms Doujinshi reviews and shares over on the 12kingdoms comm as exclusives over there, so they’ll be locked to members and any adult content filters depending on the content of any given book I post on! 

I’m still waffling on the idea of supplying scans of full books, even if they’re small and generally not like, the most Quality of images, I’m limited by a heavy old scanner bed that doesn’t play nice with books and look, my priority is preserving the quality of my books!

Secondly, there’s the ethical concerns. A part of me says information wants to be free and valuable niche fandom history like this should be preserved, but as we’ve seen time and time again, scans are a big problem for doujinka and fan artists over seas, I’d hate to contribute to something that takes control the distribution of someone’s work from them… but on the other hand… most of the books I’d be most keen on backing up in this manner are almost a good 20 years old by now. What could it hurt? 

Maybe it’s best to leave it at photographs for review purposes or limited scans at least for higher image quality for review purposes… additionally perhaps I could add a generic watermark to dissuade the use of even my couple pages of scans for spreading works around too much? One of the bigger losses in my mind after having left Twitter is losing convenient access to several active doijinka whose work I still follow and support which made it easy to reach out and strike up small conversations, ask for assistance with understanding a story through the language barrier (many djka have been kind enough to write story summaries for me after I expressed interest in their fanworks!)

When it doubt it certainly wouldn’t hurt to ask! But again, in the cases of ,any of these older (10, 15 and 20+ years since publication) works being as old as they are, sometimes pen or circle names changed, sites and emai addresses have gone lapsed and abandoned and the original artists can be all but impossible to find, especially on the western side of the web! 

Maybe I’ll cave and make an account on the blasted bird site again for the strictest purposes of communicating with doujinka whose only known contact is twitter but honestly I’d probably be better off following up on email addresses or instead investing in a pixiv account… we’ll see!

At any rate! More doujinshi sharing will definitely be in the future! For those interested, I do have a small subsite dedicated to cataloging my doujinshi collection and offering small comments and such! I do not host scans or images of the interiors currently, it’s really more of an at a glance catalog along the lines of the Doujinshi Lexicon, but be aware a fair amount of my books are R18 and my ships are nasty~! <3 

Man, May is almost over, can y’all believe that? My domain’s birthday is coming up, I’ll have had Satsnet online for three years now! And after that of course is the Glorious 25th! I’ll have to do something special, maybe a little doodle?

Oh my god what is this two updates to the doujinshare in a row?! Just a small one this time: I had a little time after work today to finish reformatting the BB section of the site and rescan the backs of several of the books which I'd not done for frankly a lot of my books since in the last version I'd not considered adding back covers to the catalog!

This is one of the few sections where I've actually got several reviews written for the books! Most of these can be found readily available and scanlated online in all the usual places, and for those looking to actually own and collect these books, they can be found often in resale shops as well! For those looking for PWP, I rec the bathing themed books by Naokichi (Circle Pink Kitten), for those looking for something with a little more meat to hold between their teeth with lots of gristly headfuck, power dynamics and something closer to "original flavor" of the manga, I recommend Under the Roses and Cage also by Naokichi or Nemophila by Eldest Daughter (Circle 佐川EX)!