Otonari no Tenshi-sama ni Itsunomanika Dame Ningen ni Sareteita Ken
It all started when I was shown a post on Tumblr about some Minecraft mod called Minestuck, a mod about a fictional game called Sburb from a webcomic called Homestuck. Since my exposure, I fell into this weird once-in-a-lifetime rabbit hole and I'm as confused about it now as when I first started googling it, just WHAT IS IT!?
You could jump into it with no explanations here, if you don't care enough then you could read about it more in-depth on these pages:
From what I could gather, it's a webcomic, where a boy in 2009 is playing a fictional game (that determines the fate of Earth) with his friends and aliens called Trolls. While I know I got details in the previous sentence wrong, it's not really what fascinated me.
I'm more fascinated about how I didn't read or hear about it in the first place! I'm more interested in finding out about deferent cultures and fandoms on the internet as a whole but, this particular one is interesting in a sense that I still don't really know what is it about, I've read the first couple panels but since I'm lazy and pretty much lost interest quickly I skipped ahead. Good lord there are more than 8000 panels in this thing! from pictures to gifs and full blown animations and music! When I say music I mean something like.. a lot of music.
They did get a videogame from a Kickstarter a while back dubbed Hiveswap and it is on Steam.
Personally the whole thing is not for me but, I wanted to document it for my sake, just to remember that something as huge as this can be simply obscured and hidden from everyone else who wasn't there to bear witness to it's inception and followed it's fandom while it was ongoing.
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On the old YouTube and got this cute animation in my recommended feed:
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| Florence Cathedral |
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| St Mark's Basilica and its bell tower. |
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| Angelo's sisters are too CUTE! |
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Ending the season on a high note.
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My recent cool find is this song from a 2001 Visual Novel titled Flutter of Birds: Toritachi no Habataki. I liked the song and the game cover, they're both beautiful and give me a weird sense of melancholy, while remaining cute.
The Battle of the River Plate or The Pursuit of the Graf Spee, is a film about the first naval battle of WW2. I found this British war film to be surprisingly very respectful of both sides in the battle and didn't go the usual route of dehumanizing the enemy. Also has a melancholic ending, helped by my ignorance of the fate of the Graf Spee. If you don't know the fate of the Pocket-battleship the Graf Spee, I urge you to go and watch this film without clicking any of the links or looking her up. Don't worry about the screenshots, I purposefully didn't upload what became of her.
I only wish that this film could be remade with authentic CG ship models.
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| Heavy cruiser USS Salem, playing the rule of Graf Spee. |
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| Foreshadowing... |
Further topics of interest and the links I used in this post:
