I just finished reading this beautiful BL manga, and I’m honestly still sitting with the feeling it left behind. The art is absolutely stunning, every panel feels soft and intentional, and the characters feel so alive. It’s one of those stories that pulls you in quietly and doesn’t let go.
The romance is written so delicately and with so much care. Even without anything explicit, the tension, the longing, and the quiet moments of closeness say everything that needs to be said. You can feel how much they mean to each other in every interaction, and it makes it even more special.
I’m so happy the bride finally found his safe place, and the dragon found his human. They fit together in such a gentle, beautiful way. They’re truly precious, and I already miss them. I can’t wait for the next volume. 😩😩😩💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
> be Alexandra Elbakyan
> be born in Kazakhstan in 1988
> start coding at 12
> hack your internet provider at 14
> hack MIT Press at 16 to download neuroscience books you can't afford
> get a CS degree from Satbayev University
> intern in neuroscience at Georgia Tech
> speak at Harvard on brain-computer interfaces
> notice researchers can't read the papers they need
> notice academic publishers charging $30 a paper
> notice peer reviewers worked for free
> notice editors worked for free
> notice universities funded the research with billions of dollars of public money
> build Sci-Hub in 2011
> upload nearly every paywalled research paper ever published
> give it away for free
> get sued by Elsevier
> get hit with a $15 million judgment
> don't give a flying f*ck
> keep Sci-Hub up
> get domain after domain seized
> register a new one
> keep Sci-Hub up
> get investigated by the US Department of Justice
> don't give a flying f*ck
> get accused of working for Russian intelligence
> don't give a flying f*ck
> have the FBI subpoena your iCloud
> get named one of Nature's ten people who mattered in science
> get a parasitoid wasp named after you
> get a deep-sea snail named after you
> get the Electronic Frontier Foundation Award for Access to Scientific Knowledge
> become a legend