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[ryanitenebrae]

^^ I just had hot chocolate and re-watched some Firefly, and now I am content.  Firefly is one of the shows that I like more the more recently I've watched it, weirdly enough.  I tend to have weird relationships with things.  Like Rent, which I'm not sure I agree with, and whose initial motivation-plot-set-up makes no sense, and, yet, I watch

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[ryanitenebrae]

^^ Wonderful, I have friended you as well, and yes, it is always wonderful to find such a person. You seem very interesting, and I look forward to getting to know you!

[ryanitenebrae]

Oh, I'm very glad you like it! Makoto Shinkai, in general, is an utterly amazing animator. *_* He does all the coloring by hand, his use of light is incredible, and his first animated feature, Voices of a Distant Star, was animated entirely by him, on one computer, and voiced by himself and his wife, although it got a professional voiceover later on. That one is definitely worth watching as well, as it's utterly amazing and beautiful, and only 25 minutes long.

[ethelflaed]

I keep on reading Herland as Heliand and wondering why on earth you would hate it. XD

The only work of fiction I've got an genuinely odd relationship with is Utena (though Melody of Oblivion is probably going to join that list for obvious reasons). Well, This Ugly Yet Beautiful World made me feel that maybe banging my head against a wall for six hours would have been more useful and productive than actually watching the show.

How they could take such a good idea and make it so relentlessly mediocre baffles me.

[ryanitenebrae]

Ha! Heliand sounds like an incredibly interesting work. Herland is just . . . almost propaganda. But nostalgic propaganda . . .

Ah, did you finish This Ugly Yet Beautiful World?

Yeah, I remember back when I either liked things, or I didn't. Ah, those were the days! And, well, your relationship with Utena is complicated, true. It's also bizarrely fascinating.

I'm disappointed that it managed to live up to the rumors of mediocrity, as what you told me about it sounded mostly intriguing.

[ethelflaed]

I generally either like things or I don't, and even on this post most of these fall into those two categories more or less. ^^; Liking something out of nostalgia is still liking it, after all.

Unless there's something extraordinary going on, I will probably finish everything in the backlog. ^^; This Ugly Yet Beautiful World has maybe four excellent episodes and a handful of outstanding moments and the rest is junk.

Also, contains the dialogue "people's feelings are like half-melted ice cream."

[ryanitenebrae]

^^; True. Very true.

Also, contains the dialogue "people's feelings are like half-melted ice cream."

They're both messy, but really, really tasty, and come in all sorts of flavors!

[bookelfe]

There are definitely books that I loved when I was younger that I know I will never reread, because I will notice all the things that will make me dislike them now, and I don't want to know!

[ryanitenebrae]

Hee, yes, I feel the same way. In fact, I've recently re-purchased some nostalgic books, even though I probably won't re-read them for that reason.

[kagoma_kage]

Don't feel bad, I'm fighting inner demons because I CAN'T take a craft knife to an Artemis Fowl book, I just /can't/.
That's pathetic.
Not even the old one that's seen me through 1000 projects.
[You know the one: Dog eared, underlined, highlighted, about yea tall? Instantly opens to my favorite scenes?]
Just a plain one I have on underlaying attachment to. -_-''

[ryanitenebrae]

Hee, yes. I know the one.

Why are you taking craft knives to books, again? The Secret Cabal can have your hide for that, you know.