Waiver Wire Watch Week 2

Waiver Wire Watch - Week 2

So you've gotten a glimpse at what your draft efforts have brought you and are already looking to shake things up. After all, every season, a handful of undrafted stars emerge in just the first few weeks of the season. Don't miss out on your chance to bolster that squad in the early going. Here are our top waiver picks for the week:

Alex Galchenyuk (MON)

He went undrafted in the vast majority of leagues. Just not in any of mine, as I drafted this guy every chance I got. It's already shaping up to be the dynamic breakout campaign for the Habs forward. Through six games, he's tallied 6 points, and he's still only averaging 16 minutes of ice time. Montreal will continue to give the dynamic 20-year old more looks as the season progresses. He's been connecting well with the resurging Tomas Plekanec on the 2nd line.

Damon Severson (D-NJ)

Severson was drafted in the 2nd round by the Devils in 2012, in large part due to his canon from the point. Through his first 4 NHL contests, that shot has resulted in 3 red lights and an assist. He's already logging 20 minutes of ice time per game, at the tender age of 20. He won't be on your wire for long, so act now.

Darcy Kuemper (G-MIN)

He's probably already gone, if anyone was paying attention when he opened the season with 2 straight shutouts. The Wild will challenge as one of the best teams in the NHL this season. As long as Kuemper continues to get the starts, he will be a top end option. Must own.

Tanner Pearson (LA)

With so many options in SoCal, it's easy to overlook the 2nd year winger. He continues to click with fellow youngster Toffoli and veteran Carter, in what has quietly become the top line for the defending champs. Pearson has a noble 5 goals and 2 assists through 6 games, effectively doubling his career totals in just one week. If you followed the playoffs last year, you have to believe this business will continue.

Jiri Tlusty (CAR)

Tlusty may be the lone glimmer of hope on a team destined for the McDavid sweeps. This natural goal scorer has been limited by injuries over the past few seasons in Carolina, but is plenty healthy at the moment. This has resulted in 3 goals on just 8 shots thus far.

Я разлюбила тебя в апреле с первым же пением диких птиц поводов много на самом деле частые слезы среди ресниц ссоры с утра и до поздней ночи сотни рифмованных мыслей – бред как же из тысячи

я разлюбила тебя в апреле, с первым же пением диких птиц. поводов много, на самом деле: частые слезы среди ресниц, ссоры с утра и до поздней ночи, сотни рифмованных мыслей – бред. как же из тысячи.

Пирс ага, который в одноклассника нож всадил как это милооооо <3 я знаю из приёмов ток те, если у тебя растяжка хорошая это подпрыгнуть, раскинув руки в виде звезды и получится что ты двоим.

Пирс ага, который в одноклассника нож всадил как это милооооо <3 я знаю из приёмов ток те, если у тебя растяжка хорошая это подпрыгнуть, раскинув руки в виде звезды и получится что ты двоим.

Хай, кто-нибудь ходил на концерт SOAD?

И очередная "радость". В первый же рабочий свой день заболела. Вот они условия для работников: ни батареи не предусмотрено в помещении, ни согласия выделить нам ветродуй. "Вам ещё.

Жизнь - бинарная: нули или единицы. И только две вещи могут объединить такую команду: страх или преданность, и я не вижу в вас ни капли страха

I believe Yaoi is more mainstream than Yuri

I believe Yaoi is more mainstream than Yuri.

As girl okatu are mostly Fujoshi and Male otaku are mostly into lolis.

Thats how I view things anyways. (And basing it on magazines. there are more Yaoi manga serializations than Yuri ones.)

This is coming from someone when bored goes into #lilicious and download yuri manga there LOL. I think I've read at least 80% of the manga they scanlate lol.

I've only watched 3 shounen-ai/Yaoi series. Saiyuki, Yami No Matsue, Loveless. (If you consider xxxholic and Tsubasa as shounen-ai, then add that too.)

Now for your questions:

Just wondering which you guys prefer and why?

Yuri I suppose. I actually prefer yuri than most romance themed manga/anime as Yuri has more of an "equal" relationship between couples. I don't know if shounen-ai romance manga are like this(pure romance with no action) though.

Well I think Ultenth summarized it nicely on the Girl Friends (http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=70992) thread.

I agree, as discussed in another thread, I prefer them because generally speaking most (but not all) of the relationships seem to be more equal, and less possessive. There also usually isn't all the shallow oogling like in shonen romances, nor the near-rape scenes by the studley slutty male lead like in most shoujo stuff. Overall it seems to be more romantic and I guess "pure" in my eyes because they usually fall in love for personalities and not looks as well, and tend to just take better care of each other. Sometimes I wish I was a hot lesbian chick too, LOL!

Is it true that guys like yuri and girls like yaoi more?

Yes. I know a lot of yaoi fangirls and they are scary.

edit:

Yes this should be transfered to the General Anime section @__@

Other Events This Weekend

Other Events This Weekend

Central Coast Comic Con 2014 (C4) Ventura, CA

September 12th-14th, 2014 Connichi 2014 Kassel, Germany

September 12th-14th, 2014 Fanboy Expo Tampa 2014 Tampa, FL

September 12th-14th, 2014 Heart O Texas Comic Con 2014 Waco, TX

September 12th-14th, 2014 Monsterpalooza 2014 Burbank, CA

September 12th-14th, 2014 Montreal Comiccon 2014 Montreal, QC, Canada

September 12th-14th, 2014 Nan Desu Kan 2014 Denver, CO

September 12th-14th, 2014 The Vampire Diaries Official Convention - Las Vegas 2014 Las Vegas, NV

September 12th-14th, 2014 Wizard World Richmond Comic Con 2014 Richmond, VA

September 12th-14th, 2014 Granite State ComiCon 2014 Manchester, NH

September 13th-14th, 2014 Oz Comic-Con Sydney 2014 Darling Harbour, NSW, Australia

September 13th-14th, 2014

Too hot for Kindle? Amazon pulls yaoi from Kindle store

Too hot for Kindle? Amazon pulls yaoi from Kindle store

Yaoi manga is a niche genre, but like all niche genres, it has a devoted following. Yaoi readers gobble up the books like romance fans read Harlequin novels, which is not surprising as they are basically the same thing, except that yaoi 1) is manga, 2) is a love story between two men, and 3) often includes lots of sex.

It&#8217;s hard to know whether number 2 or 3 above is responsible, but Amazon has instructed at least one publisher to remove its yaoi books from the Kindle store, while allowing considerably more explicit male-female titles to remain. Digital Manga Publishing, which puts out several lines of yaoi, ranging from the fairly tame June imprint to the pretty steamy 801, posted this notice on its blog yesterday:

Recently Amazon has become more strict in enforcing their content requirements for ebooks. Several DMP books that have been available online since 2009 are getting the axe, beginning with our 801 Media titles like Weekend Lovers and King of Debt. However, in the last few days the issue has spread to the June imprint by Amazon’s refusal of The Selfish Demon King, and the removal of The Color of Love from the Kindle store. We fear that Amazon may target more of our books for removal so we’re warning all Amazon Kindle store users that providing you with our content may become more difficult in the future. However, if you purchase our ebooks before Amazon decides to remove it from their store you will still be able to access the book from your account.

All the books mentioned are already gone from the Kindle store, and several are missing from Amazon&#8217;s print book selection as well.

(Warning: NSFW image below.)

I looked at the linked content requirements and didn&#8217;t see anything addressing explicit sex, but someone at Amazon&#8217;s yaoi forum pulled this out of their guidelines:

&#8220;Pornography

Pornography and hard-core material that depicts graphic sexual acts.

Offensive Material

What we deem offensive is probably about what you would expect. Amazon Digital Services, Inc. reserves the right to determine the appropriateness of Titles sold on our site.&#8221;

I&#8217;m going to confess right here that I haven&#8217;t read any of the manga we are discussing. It&#8217;s just not my thing. But fortunately, lots of other people do read them. Here&#8217;s Julie Opipari. a longtime manga reader, writing about one of the pulled manga, The Color of Love:

The sex, like the rest of The Color of Love, was understated and almost gentle as the couples expressed their deep affections for each other. While there are panels of entwined couples, there’s hardly even a fleeting glimpse of muscled buttocks here. Drats.

In fact, all the reviews I checked described the book as more sweet than sexy, which raises the question: If this story had been about a man and a woman, would it have been removed from the store?

A quick search suggests that the answer is &#8220;no.&#8221; Titles currently available on Kindle include Christmas Creampie . a graphic novel in which &#8220;horny Whoreville hussies show a frustrated dildo shop owner the true meaning of Christmas,&#8221; and Little Lorna in Resort Sports (I&#8217;m not even going to link to this one), in which Little Lorna, who is spunky, sexy, but &#8220;not too bright,&#8221; goes on vacation to Mexico with her Uncle Bob; &#8220;nudity, spanking, and sexy humor&#8221; result.

So apparently a sweet love story between two men is unacceptable, but an orgy in a dildo shop is OK.

At least one other publisher is affected: Some Yaoi Press titles were removed, and publisher Yamila Abraham was told to tone down the images accompanying their prose titles.

Digital is probably the biggest publisher of BL (boys love) manga on the Kindle, but there is another: Animate U.S.A. a Japanese company that publishes yaoi exclusively on the Kindle — there are no print editions. The publisher sends me regular press releases, and all the titles I checked are still available, although I believe Animate&#8217;s books are pretty explicit.

So what&#8217;s going on? If previous experience is any guide, the Internet will be rising up today, and it should be an interesting show. Hopefully at the end of it, Amazon will restore the deleted titles, but this episode points up once again the problems with centralized distribution, as well as raising another troubling question: Why does this only seem to happen with gay material?