Frank Hecker
@frankhecker.com
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.
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-...
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
sunshine-moon.itch.io
January 2, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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.
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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
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 🎉 🪩
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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!
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
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!
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!
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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!
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/31/o...
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!
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/31/o...
December 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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!
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/31/o...
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!
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/31/o...
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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. ^_^
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/29/o...
These four manga have been so popular on Okazu that we decided to give them a list of their own. ^_^
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/29/o...
December 29, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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. ^_^
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/29/o...
These four manga have been so popular on Okazu that we decided to give them a list of their own. ^_^
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/29/o...
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
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
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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
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
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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...
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
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...
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...
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 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.
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
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...
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%?
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
Two of my favorite writers
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
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?
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
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/
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
Dinner tonight: “The San Francisco Treat”, stir-fried rice variant. (Not by itself, it’s part of a chicken casserole.)
Clarissa Harlowe: the OG champion of “posting through it”
November 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Clarissa Harlowe: the OG champion of “posting through it”
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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Our platform is ready.
Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4.
Rolling out to co-op members first.
Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4.
Rolling out to co-op members first.
October 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Our platform is ready.
Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4.
Rolling out to co-op members first.
Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4.
Rolling out to co-op members first.
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
My favorite character in Yuri Is My Job
This and other work out of Metalabel (especially including work relating to proposed "artist corporations") are worth reading by anyone interested in potential futures for art and (human) artists. blog.metalabel.com/whats-the-di...
What's the difference between an artist and a creator?
Parsing some crucial and nuanced distinctions
blog.metalabel.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:33 AM
This and other work out of Metalabel (especially including work relating to proposed "artist corporations") are worth reading by anyone interested in potential futures for art and (human) artists. blog.metalabel.com/whats-the-di...
I've been binge-reading Rumiko Takahashi's manga Maison Ikkoku, inspired by the headline to an article by @alltsunnodere.bsky.social. Having now read it and the review, I agree that it's something very special; thanks for the great review and recommendation! www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2025...
Why Maison Ikkoku is the Greatest Love Story of All Time
Pride and Prejudice. Romeo and Juliet. The Notebook. These are some of the stories considered the greatest romances of all time, but to me, none of them compares to Maison Ikkoku.
www.animenewsnetwork.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I've been binge-reading Rumiko Takahashi's manga Maison Ikkoku, inspired by the headline to an article by @alltsunnodere.bsky.social. Having now read it and the review, I agree that it's something very special; thanks for the great review and recommendation! www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2025...
Follow-up to last post: If you want to make a pledge for the @galetteweb.bsky.social English vol. 4 at the level that includes mangaka autographs, you should do it now. There's only 60 of those available and 17 are already spoken for, only 15 minutes after the Kickstarter went live.
October 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Follow-up to last post: If you want to make a pledge for the @galetteweb.bsky.social English vol. 4 at the level that includes mangaka autographs, you should do it now. There's only 60 of those available and 17 are already spoken for, only 15 minutes after the Kickstarter went live.
I just backed Vol.4 Yuri Comic Magazine Galette- Special English Edition on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/gal...
October 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I just backed Vol.4 Yuri Comic Magazine Galette- Special English Edition on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/gal...
I can't buy any of Megan's music (because I already bought it all), but you can. I'm particularly partial to Things from Things, 11 Grains, and Little Randoms.
My day is off to a bad start, and also it’s Bandcamp Friday! You know what that means: buy my music so I’ll be less sad and have more money for little treats
Megan Carnes
megancarnes.bandcamp.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I can't buy any of Megan's music (because I already bought it all), but you can. I'm particularly partial to Things from Things, 11 Grains, and Little Randoms.
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it is once again bandcamp friday, and though i still have many things in the works, they will take time to develop and bloom into what they are meant to be. in the meantime, your support always means so much to me and helps me invest into both time and tools. thank you for your ears 💗
for your #bandcampfriday consideration - music to mend with, music to yearn to. music to accompany you in those moments where the quiet is the canvas of your heart. experimental glitch drone emo jambient drifting pianoscapes & more within 💗
ourdearfriendthemedic.bandcamp.com/music
ourdearfriendthemedic.bandcamp.com/music
our dear friend, the medic
believing in the remedial peculiarities of music, our dear friend, the medic proffers audio anesthetics, melodic medicines, and all other manner of aural tinctures, gauzes and balms found in her kit t...
ourdearfriendthemedic.bandcamp.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
it is once again bandcamp friday, and though i still have many things in the works, they will take time to develop and bloom into what they are meant to be. in the meantime, your support always means so much to me and helps me invest into both time and tools. thank you for your ears 💗