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Hello!
NAME: Brian.
AGE: Thirty-six.
INTERESTS & HOBBIES: Video games, Japanese language & literature, kagura, tea, reading, coding (sporadically trying to get better), fashion (mostly monochrome, minimalist, or what gets called "goth ninja"), tabletop RPGs (especially Exalted, Shadowrun, and Call of Cthulhu), cooking and food in general, and occasionally anime (especially iyashikei slice-of-life stuff), work, Judaism, or my hopes, dreams, and fears.
FANDOMS: The Legend of Zelda is really the only fandom I actually post anything about--I'm playing through all the games in Japanese in release order for practice, and I'm currently finishing up Breath of the Wild and eagerly awaiting the Link's Awakening remake (and also started working on a Zelda fanfic, the first fanfic I have written since I was 8
). Otherwise, I sometimes post about: Warcraft, Exalted, Tolkien, Kirby (the pink puff, not the comics artist), or H.P. Lovecraft.
LOOKING FOR: The kind of long-form, daily-life-interested community I remember from LJ a decade ago. Twitter is all hot takes, Tumblr is all memes, and Facebook is mostly articles. I like hearing about people's lives--if you only post about your fandoms, I'll be happy to read, but I probably won't have much to say. Unless it's about the Legend of Zelda, Tolkien, or Kirby--I have plenty of opinions on that.
WHAT DO I POST ABOUT: Mostly about my daily life, Japanese and coding (I'm studying both), anime (I'm in an anime meetup), theatre performances I go to, and video games (I write a long post every time I beat a game). Sometimes about religion.
SOME EXAMPLE RECENT POSTS:
ANYTHING ELSE: My journal is mostly public. I lived in Japan for three years, in a mountain town north of Hiroshima City. The personal feature I'm most proud of changes between my hair (long and red) and my voice (I've been told I should do radio or read audiobooks).
AGE: Thirty-six.
INTERESTS & HOBBIES: Video games, Japanese language & literature, kagura, tea, reading, coding (sporadically trying to get better), fashion (mostly monochrome, minimalist, or what gets called "goth ninja"), tabletop RPGs (especially Exalted, Shadowrun, and Call of Cthulhu), cooking and food in general, and occasionally anime (especially iyashikei slice-of-life stuff), work, Judaism, or my hopes, dreams, and fears.
FANDOMS: The Legend of Zelda is really the only fandom I actually post anything about--I'm playing through all the games in Japanese in release order for practice, and I'm currently finishing up Breath of the Wild and eagerly awaiting the Link's Awakening remake (and also started working on a Zelda fanfic, the first fanfic I have written since I was 8
). Otherwise, I sometimes post about: Warcraft, Exalted, Tolkien, Kirby (the pink puff, not the comics artist), or H.P. Lovecraft.LOOKING FOR: The kind of long-form, daily-life-interested community I remember from LJ a decade ago. Twitter is all hot takes, Tumblr is all memes, and Facebook is mostly articles. I like hearing about people's lives--if you only post about your fandoms, I'll be happy to read, but I probably won't have much to say. Unless it's about the Legend of Zelda, Tolkien, or Kirby--I have plenty of opinions on that.
WHAT DO I POST ABOUT: Mostly about my daily life, Japanese and coding (I'm studying both), anime (I'm in an anime meetup), theatre performances I go to, and video games (I write a long post every time I beat a game). Sometimes about religion.
SOME EXAMPLE RECENT POSTS:
- A comparison of the dialogue in the Final Fantasy VII Remake English vs. Japanese trailers.
- Going to a tea tasting and dinner with friends.
- An Exalted Modern Chronicle I want to run.
- My opinions about a bunch of spring anime I saw at an Anime Chicago meetup recently.
- My review of Dragon Age: Origins.
ANYTHING ELSE: My journal is mostly public. I lived in Japan for three years, in a mountain town north of Hiroshima City. The personal feature I'm most proud of changes between my hair (long and red) and my voice (I've been told I should do radio or read audiobooks).
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I also hopped some links to your page about favorite anime and it's nice to see some Aria appreciation! I pretty much agree with your capsule analysis of the show, but that's really why I like it.
(My own top ten would have the Haibane Renmei / Kino’s Journey / Mushishi trilogy of weird-things-in-weird-places in it too)
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Would you like to add each other here?
Thanks and best wishes. : )
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I don't know that much about Pokemon--the only game I played is Fire Red back in 2016, and Pokemon Go--but I'm having enough fun with it that I'm probably going to get the Pokemon Switch game when it comes out. Watching the original Pokemon anime has been on my list for a while...I'm sure I'll get to it one of these days.
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Also I edit a 'zine, RPG Review, with a very unexicting name. Might be interested in re-publishing some of your reviews etc?
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At the moment I'm in kind of a tabletop gaming lull, but a friend's game should be starting up in not too long and I just ran into a old friend who specifically asked me when I'm running again, so the amount of TTRPG content on my blog will probably be increasing in the near future.
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