the big stickied thread is getting cluttered with lots of new people and the “how was your week” thread isn’t a great fit for introductions, so it seems about time to make this a dedicated thread of its own so peoples’ posts aren’t getting lost.
tell us a little bit about yourself, folks. don’t gotta be too specific or revealing, just whatever you want to put out there. this’ll be a good way of getting to know all the people you’re now on here with
Howdies!!
I’m xorels, a queer (she/her) Irish woman studying cybersecurity. I also game, crochet, and am learning Japanese.
I’ve lately been trying to degoogle and move away from large corporations and towards FOSS software, so joining Beehaw was partly inspired by that and partly by… Reddit. Both the API change and the toxicity on that site. I got sick of reporting harassment and [minority]-phobia and getting ignored, or harassed myself for speaking up. I can’t leave it entirely for a few reasons but at least I can cut down my usage.
I generally don’t post online, I prefer to lurk or comment, but I’ll try and change that if I can. I’m a big fan of the positivity and friendly, nice attitude on here.
Curious, why are you learning Japanese?
I watch a lot of anime and other Japanese media and I got sick of reading poorly-translated subtitles or missing things because of the language barrier/cultural differences. Plus, subtitles means I can’t glance down at my phone or I’ll miss things. (And dubs are the work of Satan). It made sense to me to just… learn Japanese.
It’s slow going, it’s more of a hobby than a serious thing, but I can understand basic sentences in anime, and I recently bought my first Japanese-language manga to try and read through (very slowly, with a dictionary close at hand)
Haha! I knew it, I thought it was a bit odd you didn’t mention anime but wanting to learn Japanese. That’s cool.
What are your favourite animes?
Ooh I’ve an awful memory for remembering what I’ve watched but I’ll have to say my top 3 are The Disastrous Life of Saiki K, Spy X Family, and Monster
Naoki Urusawa’s Monster is great! I wish it had a release on bluray as it is unfortunately stuck with no streaming and only dvd. Have you read of Naoki Urusawa’s other works?
I haven’t, is there anything else of his you’d recommend?
I’d recommend Pluto and 20th century boys.
Pluto is more on the short side and is based on the Astro Boy story with an interesting spin on things.
20th century boys is a mystery story in a dystopian future with a focus on friendships and the past? Not really sure how best to describe it
Ooh, thank you! I’ll check those out!