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So despite holding out for a long time I may have maybe started reading Hanna is Not a Boy's Name. Because, clearly, yet another form of archive binging is exactly what I need after fucking up in school again. (I probably won't bore you with details; suffice that I'm generally fucking useless and hate myself for being so and want to start over and it's just generally a bad scene, man.)

Anyway, thus far I rather like HiNaBN, even if I've only read the first chapter; the characters are entertaining, the art is fun and vivid and there's a lot of interesting typographical tricks with the narration. And it's so colorful! I don't know why the vivid colors charm me so but they do. But I'm going to try not to read too much until I've finished with the various projects I have to do - not even as a "reward", because when I reward myself for finishing things with webcomics or Wiki crawls those rewards tend to last for hours and that's not good. But! Good so far, can see why so many people like it.

In fact I've been trying to sort of cut myself off from the internet entirely except as necessary for class, and the fact that it's been so difficult to do so and that I've still been fucking over my schoolwork worries me. I joke about my raging internet addiction but suddenly those jokes are a bit less funny. So, um. That's why I haven't really been checking my flist or commenting or doing anything much here.

Anyway! That's enough unfunnyness for now. In fandomish news, I have still not acquired "The Eleventh Hour" for viewing because I only got back from Easter Break yesterday and I spent most of the intervening day freaking out and/or sleeping. I am setting aside an hour or two this weekend for Whoish purposes, though, so, soon!

What I have seen (and I find it funny how little overlap there is between the two audiences I'm addressing) is the Japanese opening theme for the TFA dub, and...gosh. There are some things Japan is really good at, and one of those things is recording songs that make you want to run circles around campus and punch things. Heroically.

And as uncertain I am about the dubbing itself (it's supposedly trying to connect Animated to the Bayverse, which...just doesn't work in about five different ways, and I'm told this is from the same director that made the awful Beast Wars gag dub; conversely, there is much I am willing to forgive for Wakamototron), if the rest of the series was being straight-up remade in this style rather than dubbed I have to admit I'd probably watch it. Aside from the generally shiny art and the lack of weird voice-synching that comes with dubbing, Arcee actually does things in the opening. And there's a fight between her and Blackarachnia! I would pay actual money for onscreen canon swordfighting Arcee taking on onscreen canon doesn't-need-to-be-rescued-this-time Blackarachnia, who cares if their storylines have nothing to do with one another. Especially if they made out afterwards.

Also, opening!Ultra Magnus is kind of badass. It'd be great if he could do things too.

The lack of Sari concerns me, though. Please don't cut her scenes down to nothing, Japan, she's too awesome for that. :(


Is it really two in the morning, omg. I must get to bed.