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Frank Hecker
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Resident of Howard County, Maryland, USA. Occasional blogger. Staff writer for the Okazu yuri news and review site. Author of the book That Type of Girl: Notes on Takako Shimura's Sweet Blue Flowers.
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Subvert is now expanding its active / live Artists selection. After testing with some of our earliest and vocal Artist-Members, we’re now rolling out access to 50 more Artists - with more to come soon as we test, iterate, and prepare for full platform launch.

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February 4, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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Search and Discover are now live on Subvert.

After testing with our earliest Artist-Members, we’re opening up discovery across the platform - making it easier to explore Artists, releases, collections and activity as we scale toward launch.

Not a member? Join the co-op at subvert.fm
February 4, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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My newest article is now online. I'm really happy that I had a chance to talk about several great manga series that resonated with me, and my experiences of feeling pressured to socially mask as an autistic person. #MyWriting #Neurodivergence
Hi everyone, it's new article day. 🥰

This week, we have a new piece by Patricia C. Baxter that explores three titles, including Spacewalking With You, and how they highlight the evolving portrayals of neurodivergence in manga. It's a great read, and we hope you enjoy it.

#manga
Unmasking Neurodivergence in the Manga World
Witnessing the gradually changing media landscape to include neurodivergent stories has been a real joy to witness in these past few years, especially stories that encourage the characters to live as their authentic selves.
hera.fyi
January 25, 2026 at 4:51 PM
20001: A Math Odyssey
January 21, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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If you're an undergraduate or recent graduate, this is a great opportunity to promote and help influence the future of physics education. open.substack.com/pub/chrissut...
Physics needs you
I need you...
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January 15, 2026 at 2:05 AM
If you're an undergraduate or recent graduate, this is a great opportunity to promote and help influence the future of physics education. open.substack.com/pub/chrissut...
Physics needs you
I need you...
open.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:05 AM
A great finish to a great story. If you haven’t checked it out yet, put the Gordian Cycle on your to-read list for 2026.
Heya! I got you your gift early this year.

That's right, you can now read the finale of the Gordian cycle: THE VIOLENT DEATH OF MORGAN RED-MAW

I'm very happy with it.

sunshine-moon.itch.io/the-gordian-...
The Gordian Cycle by Catia RX
Henshin hero wasteland sci-fi in the style of a medieval Irish saga
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January 2, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Happy New Year to everyone! Hope you all have an amazing 2026 and a big big thank you to all the amazing support throughout 2025, couldn’t do it without you all! 👏 👏 🥹 thank you for all your incredible support for Fantasy, 🥳 all the best from DJ Sabrina & Salem Thee Cat 🎉 🪩
December 31, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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A quick round-up and look forward open-access post on Patreon: 2025 was a Year of Yuri! www.patreon.com/posts/147163...

I hope that, if you are a free patron, or not a patron yet, you'll consider supporting Okazu Yuricon and all the work we to do keep you up to date on Yuri!
2025 Was a Year of Yuri! | Erica Friedman
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January 1, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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Okazu Staff Presents The Top Yuri of 2025!

Earlier this week the Okazu staff gave a few Special Awards to series that so many of us love. Today we look at the series, people, publications that we think were the Top Yuri of 2025!

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December 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Today on Okazu - Okazu’s Top Yuri of 2025 Special Awards Winners!

These four manga have been so popular on Okazu that we decided to give them a list of their own. ^_^

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December 29, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Too few people are posting here in English about #ClaireBell, so here's my contribution to promoting what I consider one of the best, if not the best, Thai #yuri / #GL series yet: my review of the series for Okazu: okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/22/c... #yurisky
December 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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We did it. It took perseverance, courage and public humiliation tactics but we did it. Fantasy, on streaming, a little worse for wear bearing a DJ Mix and “mixed” labelling that it wears like a shameful walk home from an awful night out, but we did it
December 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Today on Okazu – Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – November 22, 2025

Yuri and Baihe licenses & exciting anniversary events: Comic Yuri Hime 20th, Kase-san 15th & Rica ‘tte Kanji, the !st Yuri manga in English turns 30, in news from the global Yuri network!

okazu.yuricon.com/2025/11/22/y...
November 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I was up at 2 am checking out @subvert.fm. (I'm member #1,000.) The site was amazingly glitch free for an alpha version. I bought 2 albums and downloaded a free track. Artists get 100% of the release purchase price (sometimes discounted for members), but I added a little extra to support the site.
November 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I reviewed the Chinese #yuri / #GL / #baihe drama "The Secret of Girls". Not an easy watch (beware a major spoiler in the GagaOoLala synopsis) but an excellent one, with He Lei in particular once again turning in a solid performance. #yurisky okazu.yuricon.com/2025/11/19/t...
November 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Two of my favorite writers
Writing was invented over 5000 years ago.

Genuine question: how much of that corpus was written by women?

I mean state decrees, law codes, record-keeping, religious texts, literature, contracts, letters..

My guess?

Before 20th Century?

Less than 1%?
November 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
To @galetteweb.bsky.social and people who pledged for the Kickstarter: I got the PledgeBox email, but when I click on the link it brings me to an empty web page. I've tried multiple browsers: Safari on macOS & iOS, Chrome on macOS, Firefox on macOS, & Edge on Windows. Has anyone else seen this?
November 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If you'd like some X schadenfreude: In trying to retire the old Twitter domain(s) they first forced everyone with a Yubikey two-factor device to re-enroll them, and now they've screwed up login for everyone with a Yubikey, even people who previously re-enrolled their keys as directed. 1/
November 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Dinner tonight: “The San Francisco Treat”, stir-fried rice variant. (Not by itself, it’s part of a chicken casserole.)
November 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Clarissa Harlowe: the OG champion of “posting through it”
November 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Episode 1 of the Thai #GL in prison show #Clairebell is up on YouTube. Classic setup (imprisoned innocent + ostracized "dangerous" inmate), high production values, excellent leads. You should watch it. Bonus trivia: someone's cell (Claire's?) is numbered "AO3". You know what to do. #yuri #yurisky
November 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Me, booting up Myst (2021) for the first time: I'm excited, I could never figure anything out in middle school when I played the original on 3DO. This'll be so cool

Me, closing Myst (2021) two hours later: if I wanted to feel like a kid again, there's nothing like failing to solve a single puzzle
November 2, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Our platform is ready.

Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4.

Rolling out to co-op members first.
October 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
My favorite character in Yuri Is My Job
Via Miman-sensei's twitter (@ n28Miman): God LOOK at fuckin' Wolf Sumika tho.
October 31, 2025 at 12:42 AM