Most of these things are not related
I haven't made any sort of general post for ages! I am generally behind in such things, for which I will blame FFXIII - which continues to be amazing, by the way - and move on.
Okay, first things first - EVERYBODY NEEDS TO GO SEE 'HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON'.
No, seriously. I am one of those animation snobs who generally looks down on Dreamworks animated films (mostly because of this, which I think sums it up pretty nicely). But How to Train Your Dragon was just amazing. It was thoroughly entertaining, and though the story was in many ways cliche, it was the good kind of cliche, the kind that makes you remember why it became cliche in the first place. I've already flailed about it to a few people in chat but I need to rec this to the wider audience. And yeah, the adults have scottish accents and the kids have american but most importantly THE DRAGON IS JUST SO CUTE OMG LOOK AT HIM. Here, take these screenshots!
Andandand
(He's just so happy and excited by that fish asdflkjaslfkj)
THESE ARE NOT EVEN CLOSE TO BEING THE CUTEST MOMENTS. THE INTERNET DOES NOT YET HAVE ENOUGH SCREENSHOTS TO FULLY CAPTURE HOW ADORABLE THIS MOVIE IS. I swear, Dreamworks, you're marketing this all wrong. This is not about Vikings and a struggle to be accepted and cool action scenes involving explosions and fire. This is about a boy and his ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE dragon.
In other exciting news, the new season of Oofuri has started airing! How cool is that? I like it when these things pop up and surprise you. Perhaps it will make the weekly journey to the next episode of Durarara a little more bearable.
On a completely unrelated note, Tokyo Times put up this picture recently, and I immediately thought of Bokurano:
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Viz has started releasing that! I have faithfully preordered every volume available for pre-order. Hopefully they don't pull a thing like they did with the Tenipuri and Hikago animes and just randomly stop releasing new volumes halfway through. Seriously, Viz, what gives?
Anyhow, as you might guess, a good portion of my Easter weekend was spent either on the internet, playing Final Fantasy, or at the movies. But I also went to the museum! There was a butterfly exhibit on, but it was actually rather disappointing, in the respect that it was quite small and there was a significant lack of scientific information about the displayed butterflies - such elementary things as where they might be found and which varieties are male and female. But then they mention in an aside 'the six butterflies down the bottom of this arrangement are poisonous, but the four identical butterflies at the top are actually a non-poisonous variety that evolved to mimic their pattern as protection from birds.' SCROLL BACK, QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. This evolutionary mimicry business is fascinating in its own right, but I want to hear more about poisonous butterflies. I did not know such a thing existed until this moment! :O MY WORLD IS CHANGED FOREVER.
I searched out the giftshop for books that might contain more information, but my quest was tragically unfruitful, and I was sad until I remembered that the internet probably has twenty books worth of information on the topic lying around for free. The time in the shop was, however, well spent as I found my now second favourite shirt ever (The first, of course, being the one featured here):
And yes, that is the number itself printed in the shape of Pi.
This is, of course, best worn while listening to this song and sipping weird and exotic beverages.
Okay, first things first - EVERYBODY NEEDS TO GO SEE 'HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON'.
No, seriously. I am one of those animation snobs who generally looks down on Dreamworks animated films (mostly because of this, which I think sums it up pretty nicely). But How to Train Your Dragon was just amazing. It was thoroughly entertaining, and though the story was in many ways cliche, it was the good kind of cliche, the kind that makes you remember why it became cliche in the first place. I've already flailed about it to a few people in chat but I need to rec this to the wider audience. And yeah, the adults have scottish accents and the kids have american but most importantly THE DRAGON IS JUST SO CUTE OMG LOOK AT HIM. Here, take these screenshots!
Andandand
(He's just so happy and excited by that fish asdflkjaslfkj)
THESE ARE NOT EVEN CLOSE TO BEING THE CUTEST MOMENTS. THE INTERNET DOES NOT YET HAVE ENOUGH SCREENSHOTS TO FULLY CAPTURE HOW ADORABLE THIS MOVIE IS. I swear, Dreamworks, you're marketing this all wrong. This is not about Vikings and a struggle to be accepted and cool action scenes involving explosions and fire. This is about a boy and his ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE dragon.
In other exciting news, the new season of Oofuri has started airing! How cool is that? I like it when these things pop up and surprise you. Perhaps it will make the weekly journey to the next episode of Durarara a little more bearable.
On a completely unrelated note, Tokyo Times put up this picture recently, and I immediately thought of Bokurano:
;__________________;
Viz has started releasing that! I have faithfully preordered every volume available for pre-order. Hopefully they don't pull a thing like they did with the Tenipuri and Hikago animes and just randomly stop releasing new volumes halfway through. Seriously, Viz, what gives?
Anyhow, as you might guess, a good portion of my Easter weekend was spent either on the internet, playing Final Fantasy, or at the movies. But I also went to the museum! There was a butterfly exhibit on, but it was actually rather disappointing, in the respect that it was quite small and there was a significant lack of scientific information about the displayed butterflies - such elementary things as where they might be found and which varieties are male and female. But then they mention in an aside 'the six butterflies down the bottom of this arrangement are poisonous, but the four identical butterflies at the top are actually a non-poisonous variety that evolved to mimic their pattern as protection from birds.' SCROLL BACK, QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. This evolutionary mimicry business is fascinating in its own right, but I want to hear more about poisonous butterflies. I did not know such a thing existed until this moment! :O MY WORLD IS CHANGED FOREVER.
I searched out the giftshop for books that might contain more information, but my quest was tragically unfruitful, and I was sad until I remembered that the internet probably has twenty books worth of information on the topic lying around for free. The time in the shop was, however, well spent as I found my now second favourite shirt ever (The first, of course, being the one featured here):
And yes, that is the number itself printed in the shape of Pi.
This is, of course, best worn while listening to this song and sipping weird and exotic beverages.