wednesday_10_00 | State of the Mess: day 7

I managed to get the living room straightened up last night, so today I'll take a break and then get to work on the mess in my bedroom tomorrow. This week has been really long and tiring, ugh. (OK, the living room still has a pile of boxes--because I'll need some of them for packing up books--and my sorted VHS tapes, but it's all out of the way and organized, and it's not like I burned a hole in the carpet or something, so I'm sure my parents won't mind.)

I brought some (shounen and shoujo) manga to work to put on the "free books" shelf that we have out in the hall. When I was sorting through my (BL) magazines, I found two duplicates (why??), so I brought those into work to throw into the recycling with a bunch of other papers. Some really thoughtful recycling worker pulled them out and put them on the free shelf yesterday, so this morning I noticed and threw them back in the recycling. Jeez, everybody I work with knows those books are mine, let's not mix the porn in, OK?

Now at least I know it's NOT safe to bring to work the BL manga I'm planning on getting rid of. I wish our recycling center in town would take paper, but they only accept newspaper and phone books, so I have to find someplace else to dump my books. Recycling porn is complicated.

A few years ago, I wrote this post about cats that reminded me of an old Bronze poster. I found that poster last night:

sorry for interrupting, I'll see myself out...

...and now that I've preserved that for posterity, I've thrown out the poster. Because I really, really do not like that series. I wish I could go back in time and tell my 20-year-old self to not bother with it, because those characters will NEVER be happy; in fact they'll just get more depressing and angsty as time goes on.

Speaking of stuff I read when I was 20, I found my original editions of Fake in a box, so they're now sitting on my floor while I decide whether to keep them or not. I'm getting rid of other duplicate manga editions, but with these I feel a special sort of nostalgia, like with my Fushigi Yuugi fansubs. It took me a whole summer to find these books, how can I throw them in the trash??

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There's an embarrassment hierarchy going on there, 'cause I can only assume that if I didn't read own BL, I would have found the romance too embarrassing to recycle in bulk.

This is funny because it's true. I no longer find romance novels embarrassing (OK, unless they have really bodice-rippery covers) because of BL.

Did Libre re-release Fake?

It wasn't Libre, it was someone else...*checks* "Mediation"? (I don't understand katakana...) Under the "hug bunko" imprint. This (http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4870317796) is the first volume, but they all appear to be out of print. I don't know if it's "better," but it does have a new story (which the publisher cleverly spread out between volumes so fans would have to buy all of them). I'm sure you could find it used if you feel like you need to own it.

Hurray for your almost-empty shelf! I'm jealous, especially since I haven't done any converting this week.

On the other hand, I think I'm going to end up getting rid of a lot of my fansubs without converting them. I guess I hung on to a lot of stuff I don't care about that much (or if I did care, I got on DVD already). My one problem is my old dubbed Sailor Moon tapes recorded from TV. These are in EP, so if I rip the whole thing into one file, it will be massive, but I don't know if I care enough to rip each episode into its own file. But I don't want to get rid of the tapes without ripping them, because I'm certainly never going to buy the Sailor Moon dub on DVD, but I want to keep it in case I want to watch it again someday in 20 years or so out of some random nostalgic urge.

ETA: forgot to say, please do post your video conversion nostalgia thoughts. (Amusingly, one of the tapes I set in the "to think about" pile was Cathexis. [I didn't find Zetsuai, strangely. Or maybe it's on the same tape and just not labeled?]

I don't own Fake on DVD.

I think I have the same problem, though I did find it on VHS. Like, the commercial version, not the fansub. (I think I grabbed it when the anime shop in East Lansing was going out of business and selling off their old rental tapes, because I hardly bought any anime on VHS.) And now that I've realized this, of course, I want it, even though I haven't thought about the OAV in forever. Oh look, it's still available! (http://www.rightstuf.com/1-800-338-6827/catalogmgr/-=5zuEBZqtiQXScmpQ/browse/item/42106/4/0/0)

Edited 2013-10-11 14:24 (UTC)

Yeah, I've had Fake in my shopping cart ever since I made this discovery, but I don't want to pay $18 for it. I feel like I should be able to get it for $10. At the very least, I will try to hold out for a Media Blasters sale, since I need both Fake and the FY DVDs (which I could have sworn were $29.99 the last time I looked, and now they're $37.49).

I think I'm going to end up getting rid of a lot of my fansubs without converting them.

Lucky! About the only thing I have deemed not worthy of converting are my old Lois and Clark tapes and incomplete fansub series. Right now I'm looking at a stack of 8-9 tapes that are duplicates of the BL stuff I've already converted, and I'm afraid I'm going to have to convert those as well, to compare quality. Anyway, as soon as I finish HanaDan, I am moving on to the various Japanese drama series I taped off of...whatever that public broadcasting station that used to run them on Sunday nights was. I miss it. Even though Korean drama is the new Japanese drama. And Hulu is the new TV.

I am moving on to the various Japanese drama series I taped off of...whatever that public broadcasting station that used to run them on Sunday nights was.

Oh, man, that makes me jealous. None of the public tv stations around here are that cool. I bet that's the same public tv station out of San Jose that used to air eps of Robotech late at night when I was in grad school. Memories!

Actually, when I saw the cover of the Fake DVD, it made me think I have it after all. I need to check when I get home. (Also, I need invest in DVDpedia so I can keep track of my DVDs like I do my manga, but that's another issue.)

Lois and Clark tapes

Awww. *checks Amazon* Is it worth $100 for me to own this series? Probably not.

Have you tried watching any dramas on Crunchyroll? Or do they not have anything good? My membership covers dramas, but I can't even keep up with anime, so obviously I don't ever watch them.

I have that same feeling when I look at the cover, but I think it must just be that I've looked at the cover a lot. At least, neither Amazon nor TRSI are telling me I ordered it through them, and it's hard for me to believe I would have picked it up anywhere else.

Is it worth $100 for me to own this series? Probably not.

I had the same conversation with myself a week ago, when Amazon was offering a bundle of all 9 seasons of The X-Files for $90.

Have you tried watching any dramas on Crunchyroll? Or do they not have anything good?

A while back, I looked to see if Crunchyroll streamed anything from the golden olden days of Japanese drama (ca. 1997), but they don't. Hulu already offers the Korean dramas I'm interested in...except I have a hard time watching the Korean romantic comedies/soaps/whatever straight through. I get impatient about 5 episodes in.

(edited 100 years later to correct spelling and caps)

Edited 2013-10-12 05:23 (UTC)

I have that same feeling when I look at the cover, but I think it must just be that I've looked at the cover a lot.

Might be true for you, but I do actually own it. Phew, $18 saved. (OK, I probably paid more than $18 when I got it, but I prefer not to think about that.)

Is it worth $100 for me to own this series?

Wow, it costs that much now? I bought it on sale a couple years ago for something obscenely cheap. $5-$10 per season I think (I bought a bunch of other stuff at the same time, so I'm not sure which price went with which series).

You may want to keep an eye on it around the holidays, if you're still interested.

Thanks for the tip, I may do that! Season 1 is only $10 right now, but the others are around $30ish. Which is really pretty cheap, honestly...I just don't know how much I would ever watch that show.

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