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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • I read Captain Momo’s Secret Base yesterday, a manga by Kenji Tsuruta about a woman who lives on a spaceship with her cat, Grandpa John. Momo is on a three-year space flight to deliver cargo on behalf of the company she works for, but she’s basically unnecessary, she’s only there because someone wrote on the form for her ship that it would be crewed. Its a very cute story about a woman who doesn’t give a shit about her job at all and spends all her time reading on company time.

    But the thing I want to talk about is the nudity. Momo is nude for nearly the entire manga, except for one chapter where she puts on a top for what is basically a zoom call, and is still bottomless. I think its nice to see actual good nudist representation, there’s nothing sexualised about her nudity, she is just a character who is naked all the time, and it makes sense for her to be naked all the time. She lives alone on a spaceship and is lazy and presumably doesn’t like wearing clothes. She is basically me during lockdown. The nudity is never even mentioned, its just a part of her character in a way that isn’t at all exploitative or weird. I’m glad it exists and normalises nudity a bit, and shows nudism as a comfortable lifestyle.

    Its very rare to find nudist characters in stories that aren’t either sexualising nudity or about nudism. Stories about nudism are basically all the same - its about how nudity is good and comfortable and body positive, etc etc, but there’s not much there to actually make a story out of. And stories that sexualise nudism just annoy me.

    Good nudist representation. Funny story. Cute cat. Vaguely anti-capitalist. It gets the Moss seal of approval stalin-approval