Dump a Week, 22/4 – 28/4

Intro paragraph after midnight? Psh.

Dump a Week, 15/4 – 21/4

I watched some less anime this week. This is an intro blurb. Is this an intro blurb? This is an intro blurb. Is it though?  This is an intro blurb. It probably is, if you say so. This is an intro blurb. No need to repeat yourself that much. This is an intro blurb. Yes, we’ve heared that already. This is an overextended gag. Yes, that it is, it certainly is, sir. This is an intro blurb. Aaand back to that. This is an intro blurb. Do you have something else to say? This is an intro blurb. Seems like you don’t. This is an intro blurb. Yeah, we know that alread, you’ve said it like a million times already, jeez. This is an intro blurb. So it seems. This is an intro blurb. Yes, it still is one. This is an intro blurb. Yeah yeah, lah de lah, blah de blah. This is not an intro blurb. And agai- wait, what did you just say? This is an intro blurb. Oh, I thought I misheard you, that can happen when you repeat yourself. This is an intro blurb. Okay, once more, or you’ll have to put a tenner into the repetition treasury. This is an intro blurb. I wrote about the anime I watched this week, even if it’s less. The first drop of the season is among them. 

Dump a Week, 8/4 – 14/4

I don’t know if me watching less anime this week is because I started blogging again, because the holidays stop or because the blurbs this week are a bit longer, but whatever it is, it seems to be working.

Dump a Week, 1/4 – 7/4

I watch too much anime. If you find a better cure for that than writing about it, give me a note.

Urobuchi’s Perfect People

„[...] In order to write a perfect ending for a story you have to twist the laws of cause and effect, reverse black and white, and even possess a power to move in the opposite direction from the rule of the universe. Only a heavenly and chaste soul that can sing carols of praise towards humanity can save the story. To write a story with a perfect ending is a double challenge to the author’s body and soul.“ – Urobuchi Gen, Fate/Zero afterword

(spoilers for the Madoka TV series and Psycho Pass up to episode 11 may be closer than the moon)

Paprika, or how regression to a childlike state trumps rational thought (Secret Santa post)

Ever since I heard that Satoshi Kon was a bit of an auteur I’ve been meaning to watch some of his movies. As luck would have it my secret santa recommended Paprika. On my first watch I was not disappointed: a kind of story that doesn’t occur too often told through loads of possibly metaphorical imagery, accompanied by fantastic music. However, I couldn’t really wrap my mind around what the story wants to tell me, so I watched it a second time. Now I have some kind of idea, and I’m not really sure I like what I see in it. [Beware ye life, here be spoilers!]

My Biggest Chuunibyou

A little while ago Altair & Vega asked for our own chuunibyou experiences, and I shared a small anecdote. I didn’t remember back then how small an anecdote it was. Far bigger than that were the things I wrote in the back of my day planner. One of the tamer pages of it looked like this:

But before I show you my biggest blunder I would like to provide some context. Back then Pastafarianism was kind of the thing, and all over the news, and I liked it. Through Wikipedia I discovered other gag religions. One that I particularly liked was Discordianism. The other thing is that I was also kind of obsessed with myths. I had read the Enûma Eliš, a few parts of the Bible, about a third of the I Ching, the Silmarillion (before Lord of the Rings), some books on germanic and norse mythology, countless Wikipedia pages on different myths and religions, and somewhere in my room there is still a Quran I bought with the best intentions to read it. When we had to choose a subject for a few extra lessons in the last year of high school I chose religious studies, partially out of interest, partially because of the coolest of all teachers. With these two things in mind, here is an attempt at writing a religious book: