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Sunday, 1:15 pm in Life

Things come and go in cycles.

So after seriously and quite actively not liking anime/manga for, oh, about the last three years I’ve once again started popping down to the comic shop with the intention of buying manga, downloading fansubbed torrents and browsing Tamarket. I suspect that it has something to do with finally having money again. Back in the day – pre uni days, when anime and manga were hard to get – being an otaku was a social event. It was social to go out on Saturday mornings (was it? I forget…) to the ANU Anime Society’s screenings, it was social to go play DDR and BeatmaniaX afterwards, it was social to eat Pocky and dai fuku and go to the one sushi place we knew of. It was social to take day trips to Chinatown and the Japan Book Plaza in Sydney and buy Japanese-language (or sometimes Chinese) manga or Hong Kong anime DVDs with dubious subtitles. I guess int he same way some peopl get into cars or makeup or The OC or smoking pot or whatever in high school, we got into being otaku. It was just our ‘thing’.

And then, at university, it suddenly wasn’t any more.

The last anime I really watched was Hellsing. I think at the time it was because I enjoyed it so much I didn’t want to ‘spoil’ the experience by watching anything else. That was the theory, anyway. And then – all of a sudden, it seemed – manga started getting translated by the crapload. And not in the way they used to be, either, but small-format and ‘backwards’. They suddenly looked like manga, and used Japanese names and cultural references. It all got a bit too easy, and a bit too expensive. And that just wasn’t fun any more.

There were probably some interpersonal relationships going on in here too, but I’m not going to talk about those.

But I have money now, and a sudden urge to outfit my new cubicle with clearfiles and mugs of a decidedly otaku bent. What can you do, eh?

The other thing I have a sudden and pointless urge to get back to is Furcadia. Since my local webserver is currently unplugged and I can’t work on the new Elavion website as a consequence, I was looking for something to do the other day and I happened to peek into the Nortcha Drif (my unfinished dream) and got a sudden urge to work on the widgets again. This morning I picked up the old setting document I had lying about on my computer and began picking at that a little bit; currently it’s working on translating furc species into their Otz’Chim equivalents. I blame ~starfyre [h] and her links to furc portrait artists, since that’s made me want to start doing paletted drawings again. I quite like doing furc-art; much more so than ‘regular’ airbrushed digital art, anyway.

Guess one of these days I will have to boot up furc again…

WoW is being it’s usual wonderful weekend self. I’m very proud of the Sephria, though, despite my waning interest in the game (and yesterday’s drama notwithstanding); we’ve managed to get the first four bosses in ZG on farm and took down the fifth on the second try yesterday. Go us.

… now if only the loot was actually decent. Oh well, can’t have everything.

And now, for fun, I dare everyone to pick six positive and/or six negative words about me. Good luck…

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