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Watching Free! Eternal Summer is very weird after vast amounts of Supernatural. Supernatural is a deeply depressing show about two brothers desperately trying to hold onto each other as everything falls apart around them. Free!, meanwhile, doesn't get much more emotionally devastating than 'OH NO, RIN AND NITORI AREN'T LIVING IN THE SAME DORM ROOM ( Read more... )

I doubt anyone remembers this, but I am working my way through a self-imposed challenge ('write a ficlet for each letter of the alphabet, each concerning two characters whose names begin with that letter') at a hilariously glacial pace. Previous instalments are here and here. I was joking when I said I'd have these finished in 2015; now I'm ( Read more... )

WHO WANTS MAN-SPIDER COMICS ( Read more... )

I spent today with reipan and Yuffie, two of my closest friends. We rewatched the first and third High School Musical films.

Oh, a making-fun-of-ridiculous-films session! I thought, when the idea of a High School Musical rewatch was proposed. This should be fun!

I had evidently forgotten that there is not a shred of irony in my love of High School ( Read more... )

Haru is probably my favourite character in Free!. At first glance he appears to be the typical serious, emotionless protagonist, but a viewer will quickly come to realise that in fact he is driven by a powerful emotion ( Read more... )

Everything about Free! is so, so incredibly stupid.

I sort of love it.

Oh, dear.

Free!, or 'the swimming anime', as it's often called, is - you'll never guess - an anime about swimming! Although saying it's 'about swimming' is slightly misleading, because it's really about swimming as a vehicle for enormous amounts of male shirtlessness. Free! ( Read more... )