stuff
I wish I had posted something here in the meantime since my last post. Coming here and facing a barrage of Pippin pictures is rough. Everyone still misses him, obviously. Darwin seems to be stepping up into his barky shoes because he barks at almost EVERYTHING now. He was never much of a barker before, unless he had been following Pippin's lead. He's been acting out, but from what I've read that's normal. He freaks out if we put Daisy in her crate without letting him see her first. I think this is because the last time he saw Pippin was at bedtime the night before he died. Everything I read said that we should've let them see his body after he died but honestly I couldn't do it, I wasn't going to take them to him. So I've been sure to give them extra attention and play with him more. I've never lost a pet like this before. My grandparents had a habit of getting rid of dogs (giving them to family members) and the only one we kept his entire life during my lifetime was Gizmo, a Pekingese we had for about 10 years who ended up having to get euthanized because he fell down the stairs to our basement and broke his back (he was old and had no business being on those damn stairs). But this is the first time I've ever had to deal with something like this. It just makes me scared about losing Darwin. I loved Pippin, but he was never really my dog. Darwin is mine. He turned six this year.
Anyway, in other news, I've fallen in love with the manga/anime Gravitation again. I hadn't read it or watched it in YEARS. So glad I kept the manga. One thing that may or may not be known about me because most people who read this thing didn't really know me back when I FIRST got LG back in '01... I was big into anime and manga. And I am a fan of BL manga and it's older cousin yaoi. Yeah, guy guy stuff, folks. And Gravitation is definitely that. But it's also hilarious and just completely insane. The anime is kinda "eh" and doesn't have a very satisfying ending, even with the OAV. The manga doesn't really either, but it has some closure for some characters. And then there's the Remixes and the Megamixes both of which are doujinshi done by the actual mangaka of the original series that are, shall we say, just porn without plot. At least the Remixes are. I've read a few of the Megamixes (if one truly reads a Megamix DJ... There's not a lot of conversation) and, yeah, not much plot. Anyway, the anime has my favorite Japanese voice actor (Inoue Kazuhiko) in it, which is entirely the reason I watched the series in the first place and pretty much fell in love with it. Also the cast in the anime is very good. Seki Tomokazu, Orikasa Ai, dude who did Shigure's voice in Furuba, Yamaguchi Kappei. But, yeah, Gravitation. Not for the faint of heart. The manga series goes from a two-man band with the lead singer falling for a broody writer (not very original) to tons of drama about their relationship to just batshit crazy stuff like a manager who literally shoots everyone (with "safe" bullets) to a teenage label executive who flies around in a mech panda. I've noticed some people complaining about how crazy the plot gets and that Murakami completely lost any semblance of plot in the later volumes, but she definitely didn't. And it's funny. Stupid? Yes. But funny.
Anyway, enough of that. Maybe I'll post on here more. More interesting things since I've actually been trying to watch more anime lately (I had Crunchyroll for, like, a week and watched Yuri on Ice which was okay and some other BL stuff which just bored me to death with it's tropes). Anyway, I'm not going to promise more posts because that never works. We'll see what happens!
Anyway, in other news, I've fallen in love with the manga/anime Gravitation again. I hadn't read it or watched it in YEARS. So glad I kept the manga. One thing that may or may not be known about me because most people who read this thing didn't really know me back when I FIRST got LG back in '01... I was big into anime and manga. And I am a fan of BL manga and it's older cousin yaoi. Yeah, guy guy stuff, folks. And Gravitation is definitely that. But it's also hilarious and just completely insane. The anime is kinda "eh" and doesn't have a very satisfying ending, even with the OAV. The manga doesn't really either, but it has some closure for some characters. And then there's the Remixes and the Megamixes both of which are doujinshi done by the actual mangaka of the original series that are, shall we say, just porn without plot. At least the Remixes are. I've read a few of the Megamixes (if one truly reads a Megamix DJ... There's not a lot of conversation) and, yeah, not much plot. Anyway, the anime has my favorite Japanese voice actor (Inoue Kazuhiko) in it, which is entirely the reason I watched the series in the first place and pretty much fell in love with it. Also the cast in the anime is very good. Seki Tomokazu, Orikasa Ai, dude who did Shigure's voice in Furuba, Yamaguchi Kappei. But, yeah, Gravitation. Not for the faint of heart. The manga series goes from a two-man band with the lead singer falling for a broody writer (not very original) to tons of drama about their relationship to just batshit crazy stuff like a manager who literally shoots everyone (with "safe" bullets) to a teenage label executive who flies around in a mech panda. I've noticed some people complaining about how crazy the plot gets and that Murakami completely lost any semblance of plot in the later volumes, but she definitely didn't. And it's funny. Stupid? Yes. But funny.
Anyway, enough of that. Maybe I'll post on here more. More interesting things since I've actually been trying to watch more anime lately (I had Crunchyroll for, like, a week and watched Yuri on Ice which was okay and some other BL stuff which just bored me to death with it's tropes). Anyway, I'm not going to promise more posts because that never works. We'll see what happens!