It's AKB essay time again, and I'm sorry this happens like once a month, but I've been thinking for a while now that Baby! Baby! Baby! might be one of the best ever AKB48 videos, and I know *exactly* why it's not up on the official channel but I think the discomfort it inspires, the way it frames the meaning of the song really hits home.

This passage from Tsushima Yuko’s Territory of Light is very much where I am at this morning.

Acknowledging that I only really love two things, I have decided to begin using the descriptors of extreme metal genres to explain the flavours of girls love fiction I write, resulting in such new sub-genres as post-yuri, technical yuri, slamming brutal yuri, and my personal favourite, depressive suicidal yuri.

NO WAY MAN is just another way of saying LESBIANS.

It's research, I tell you as I attempt to watch as many versions of Murder on the Orient Express as I can whilst avoiding reading the book. Anyhow, this 2015 two part TV special is already my favourite several minutes in because it features the wonderful Matsushima Nanako who I love.

Unwelcome realisation whilst staring into space that AKB48 actually changed my life.

Me trying to offer music recommendations to people.

“If you're so clever Then why are you on your own tonight?”

Everyone else is having fun posting cool stories reacting to things in the moment, but I hate myself and have committed to only writing novellas about characters no one else cares about and I am beginning to feel like the “they don’t know” guy.

I support women’s wrongs.