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So, Konya Sukiyaki Dayo, yes?

After having watched Koisenu Futari, I heard about this series also having an aroace character in it, and I thought that damn, I have to watch that.

Once I finished battling demons and finally got the help of an angel to find it, I binge-watched the series in two days, since there's only twelve episodes. And boy, is it different than Koisenu Futari.

Unfortunately, I went into the series due to the previous jdrama about an aroace character, and as such I didn't enjoy it as much as I could've.

SO, did I like Konya Sukiyaki Dayo? I will have to say yes, despite the previous statement.

One main thing was that the hype around this series was the aroace character, so I was expecting the series to focus much more on that aspect that it turned out to be. The mention of aromanticism was done once in the first episode, and only mentioned aromanticism without asexualism.
There was, however hints about it when Tomoko mentioned that she'll never be a mother, but this might also just be derived from the fact that if she didn't love romantically then she wouldn't marry and therefore there was no children in perspective.

Putting all of that aside, it is, in itself, a very good series.

We not only have two women lead, but they also try to understand each others and how to go around their lives in order to get the best of it. The beautiful aspect of helping each others, especially through food, is a huge part in what drives those twelve episodes. While one of them is given better tools to be able to have fun, the other is given solace from the fact that she still gets to eat properly without ruining herself.

Another aspect, which I really like as a queer person is how both of them ends up developing a strong platonic relationship, strong enough to resemble a Queer Platonic Relationship in some aspects, even if there is no clear words put on it.

Furthermore, the show also gives us respectful relationships between the characters, albeit not without a few hiccups here and there.

First and foremost, we have Ota and Tomoko, who live together, but none of them pushes the other out of her comfort zone. Ota doesn't bother Tomoko with how she should date, and Tomoko doesn't stop Ota from venting and sharing her love. They don't fully understand each others on that specific point, but they respect each other about it.
There is also Ota and her boyfriend/husband, the latter, while not really understanding what this is all about, still listens and tries to do his best for both of them. The question of the last name have them talk in earnest about it, but what was really important to their relationship is the meeting they have with each others family. Facing the usual societal demands of heterosexual marriage was hard, but when he noticed that she wasn't comfortable, he not only gave her an outlet so she could express what she wanted, while also giving her control of the situation and putting an end to the parental mess.
Finally, we have Tomoko and her friend who are just that, showing once more than a man and a woman can be just friend and like each other as such without anything else.

All in all, while being vastly different from Koisenu Futari on many points, it is still very similar when talking about different kinds of love, how to be a family and more importantly, how to be kind with yourself.

I would recommend this series, not for the similarities with Koisenu Futari, but because it is once again showing respect towards queer people and those who do not want to fit in the mold.
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Sooo, fun thing with Windows, and more broadly Microsoft, is that they decided that everyone should move to their new Outlook system, which (unfortunately like many other Calendars nowadays) serves as a Contact + Calendar + Mail viewer. Since I don't use this kind of thing, and just want a plain Calendar to see my events, I just nuked it really quickly with OutlookRemover.
HOWEVER, since it wasn't funny enough for Microsoft, they forced everyone to move to their new thingy tech choke-full of AI by just... nuking the Calendar.
And I frankly don't want to use it, even if I do have a very old Microsoft account I only use for the to-do list. This thing is not only full of AI (which Microsoft is proudly shoving down everyone's throat) but also it's only accessible through internet. No internet? Guess you can say bye bye to your events...

In my search to have a workable Calendar once again, I found Thunderbird, which stores your data locally (it's made by firefox btw), but it also requires to have an email attached to it.
Another one I've found are two Flyout Calendar apps on the Microsoft store, but they both start the week with Sunday and don't have a French version.

Anywho, the solution for now seems to downgrade the Calendar app, which unfortunately will automatically upgrade itself each time you turn your computer back on.

Frankly, if I didn't need windows to do stuff, I would go away from it completely bc oooh boy is it BAD.

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I watched Lisa Frankenstein yesterday and boy, was it nice to watch.
I do have to say that I didn't really paid attention to the synopsis before watching it so I wholefully believed that Lisa would be reviving a guy, and to my surprise she didn't!

Despite that, this movie was... something, I do have to say. I was expecting a nerd, not being understood by anyone and thus creating her perfect boyfriend, but at the end I was faced with a traumatised girl, stuck in a shit family situation with an awful step-mother and everyone thinking she's weird because she doesn't look like popular girls and because she doesn't talk much.

One of the main thing that made me go bonkers is the fact that Lisa's life has been shattered by some guy getting in her house and killing her mother with an axe. The catalyst to her misery was a guy entering her house by the living-room's window, but then, the catalyst to her freedom is ALSO a guy entering her house by the living-room's window. The axe also makes a come back each time someone is killed in her vicinity (except for her step-mother).
I think it's avery nice touch to show that the same things that started the movie are the same things that helped finish it.

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A second thing I just LOVE is how each body parts that is taken from people who just got killed are used for The Creature. Not just that, but those are used the exact opposite they were used towards her.
The first is her step-mother's ear. This woman NEVER listened to her and didn't care for her. But once this ear is on The Creature, it is used to listen to her and thus care for her.
The second is Doug's hand. He used this hand to try taking advantage of her when she was high, but once it gets on ther The Creature's hand, it is used to protect her.
The third is Michael's dick. Lisa has a crush on the guy, and her one desire is to have sex at least once before she dies, wanting to do it with him. However, he is already boning her step-sister, which means she will be denied this one wish. After The Creature cut it off (and ran away with it) it used to give her this one thing.

I think that's a fantastic move and is a proof of The Creature's love for her. And I do have to say that it would've been nice to know where The Creature got his tongue from.

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A third amazing thing, which brings so much to the movie, is the constant presence of electricity. Electricity is the first bad thing happening to Lisa, electricity is what brings The Creature back to life, electricity is what makes The Creature whole again, electricity is what kills Lisa.
Electricity is what starts the movie, but also what ends it. It is the tool through which Lisa lives again, but also with which she dies in order to finally live a better life (or death, considering).

And, little fun fact, The Creature fell in love with Lisa right away. In French, to say that you loved someone at first sight, you say that you had a "coup de foudre", which is a thunderbolt.

Electricity is EVERYWHERE.

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This is overall an amazing movie, which brings out a traumatised girl, getting better not thanks to therapy, but by getting worse. She heals by destroying the people around her and she takes back her life by leaving it.
She has a special connection with death, between her mother, the murders, The Creature, but also her trauma/depression.

It might not be THE movie of all time, but it sure is a movie worth watching and that I would recommend.
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After a week at my internship... I can say that having this job is GREAT.
I just take pictures and then go on my laptop until the automation is over, or stare at a screen while everything is being processed.

Yeah there's the annoying part where I keep forgetting steps or when the pictures don't come out like I want, but other than those? It's been a smooth and calm ride.

It will be really harsh when I'll move to my second internship...

INTERNSHIP

May. 13th, 2024 01:51 pm
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Internships are A GO.

After three months of struggle, the appropriate papers have finally been signed and I've started my short internship.
One sad part is that they're under the max time allowed for enterprises to not pay me, so I won't be making any money.

It's also quite interesting to see that of the 7 people in my promotion, only 1 is having their best life. All the rest has had at least a bit of struggle whether it was for the process of getting an internship or having a problem during said internship.

Things this year are going wild, and it's for everyone around me.
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Yayo!!

J'ai traduit ce post expliquant comment faire des raccourcis CIA de jeux NDS pour la 3DS et la DSi.

Vous pouvez avoir accès à la traduction ici.

Je vais aussi essayer de faire un site en français pour lister/traduire d'autres trucs du genre.

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Due to the original reason for my listing every single Sherlock Holmes derivated work, I do have to take an interest in the details of those. I also am a Sherlock Holmes enthusiaste, so I also do read, watch and listen to those derivates.

And this includes some of the ones I haven't many great things about.

The better way to know how to feel about a media and criticise it, is to dive into it and make your own thoughts about it. Which is why I watched The Irregulars.

The Irregulars is a 2021 Netflix show, and as such, it falls under the system of 8 episodes for 1 seasons (before, obviously, being cancelled after this sole season).

A first misconception I had was that it was solely a crime drama and mystery show (due to the Netflix and Wikipedia listing) and it is a certain shock when you notice that actually, it is also a fantasy show. But well, I have watched The Empire of Corpses and read Les Étranges Sœurs Wilcox so once the first shock of being corrected within five minutes of my research, I wasn't distraught by the supernatural and paranormal being associated to the Holmes universe.

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On the wikipedia page, we can learn that not only the creator of this series (and writer of the episodes) is Tom Bidwell, who, during an interview, said:

Sherlock Holmes [in Conan Doyle's books] had a group of street kids he’d use to help him gather clues, so our series is what if Sherlock was a drug addict and a delinquent and the kids solve the whole case whilst he takes credit

This, in my opinion, is a very interesting idea.

While it does suggest that Watson is basically also taking advantages of children to write and publish those stories, it does open the door for many questions, but also many opportunities to talk about drug addictions. (I am thinking about Elementary, among other things)

Bidwell had been pitching it for ten years at the moment of the interview (in 2018), and such a long time of polish can only mean that he has worked on it and it will hold together nicely.

But que nenni.

(I will come to that)

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We therefore start the series knowing that our dear Watson and Holmes will be most likely morally grey, but also that we will see a lot of the Irregulars, which are, as stated, an important part of the investigations when it's about finding a person in London.

And as we debute with the presentation of the characters, we are hit in the face with this important fact: This show is so aimed at teenagers.

So, I will not judge the acting, as everyone need to start somewhere and we all know about Netflix and its choices in budgets. I will, however, judge the music choices.

Because the electronic music? It breaks everything.

Throughout the show, we have bits of electro popping out, breaking entirely with the rest of the music style and making it stand out so much that every time it came up, it was the only thing I could focus on.

Some bits seemed to try to show the youthfulness of the characters, while others seemed... unnecessary.

Another thing that makes you notice it's for teenagers is the mild swearing and sexual allusions.

Fine. I'm aroace. This sets me off every single time, whether it's for teenagers of for adults. But the first episodes are the ones with the most swearings and allusions, as if it was trying to fit with the current wave of "let's add swearing everywhere". It calms down later on, using swears and swearing more normally.

The rest of the series is intersting in itself, but not a hit. And it would be difficult for it to be, since between the strange choice of music and the trying of including the paranormal the way it is (one person being misteriously gifted while the others are not) and the overall vibe just... brings me flashback of Stranger Things.

We therefore follow the Netflix "diversed teen groups with the GIRL being special and they try to fix the paranormal shits happening".

But I digress.

Of the teenagers, they all fit nicely in their group and their relations are real, despite the weird obligation to have a romance thing in every show where a man and a woman of the same age are interacting.

The prince thing was also a really hilarious trope to slap in this series with the whole "weak and broken prince falls for poor girl".

And the different paranormal cases? They are good in themselves. We see the lowest of the low face the harshness of London and its class system.

The perpetrators are not treated as purely evil. They might not be treated with full compassion either, but we do have the chance to see their point of view and their reasons for doing such deeds. All that while continuing the overall plot.

It's not really something that I was expecting, but I guess I've seen too many USAmerican shows.

But this is a nice thing to have, especially considering the novels, which also had a parts where we learn the history and reasons behind the actions of the perpetrators.

This is, however, the closest we get from the original works.

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"But Hershel, Bidwell said that the series would follow the idea of Holmes being a drug addict and the Irregulars being the actual detectives. You haven't talked about Holmes yet."

Well.

The reason is because Holmes doesn't fully show up until episode 4 (or something).

The only person we see at first is a very twisted Watson, stalking the kids, before being asking (forcing) them to work for him.

As it turns out, Watson and Holmes used to work together, but again, the drug problem. Watson is therefore left to fend for himself AND for Holmes and is struggling to investigate on his own.

Which is extremely weird, since a very easily noticeable thing with the first case (the one with the babies) is that all the babies were born on the same day. How did Watson manage not to notice such easy information? Not just that but it is said that Holmes has been in the pit for 15 years. How did Watson managed to keep up with things and to survive that long if he can't notice something that obvious?

This was a huge part of my thinking "what the heck did they do with Watson?"

This is also where I noticed that Bidwell followed his idea... in a peculiar manner.

One would think that it was like that since the beginning. Or that the irregulars would be doing that willingly like they do in the books. Or maybe that they would report bit by bit and properly. BUT...

Watson is really strange.

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Of the characters, I feel like they really wanted to present us is clear morally grey characters, to the point where they kept the essential of the characters but changed them almost to the core.

We have Lestrade who is extremely against the paranormal, to the point of treating Jesse like an object and a tool to reach his goals.

We have Mrs Hudson who's a sort evil landlady. She doesn't live at 221B and instead own many houses in London. I do not know how much landlords from the victorian era were similar to the ones nowadays, but she feels like a parallel to it.

We have Mycroft, which I actually like, compared to the others. Even Holmes and Watson. I like the overhanging PTSD/anxiety and the resulting very slight speech impediment. I also liked how he talked about Sherlock, the way you see the big brother coming out, especially with his hate towards Watson.

Which brings Sherlock and Watson.

Sherlock is... something. To say the least.

Bidwell is unfortunately following in the understanding of many writers of Sherlock Holmes, or he might've been cut short by the Doyle Estate.

He depicts Sherlock as someone arrogant, sure of himself but bordeline on the "absolutely sure", he also seem to like having a public.

While I do understand the thought of having people like Holmes instead of what he says in the books (something about people finding it annoying after a while for him to present his deductions), it makes him out of character.

We also have the extremelly annoying straight take of him getting enamoured with a woman and having Watson mention how Holmes used to say that emotions were something trivial and not useless/hindering to him.

And the point that annoyed me above all: how they constantly repeat to Holmes how brilliant he is.

Holmes is already doing that, and they continue to enable him, making him more annoying.

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And this is where Watson come in. (I will not talk about Alice. She's the straight plot tool in this series. (in my opinion))

Maybe you've heard about it, but people were saying that in this show, Watson was in love with Holmes. Unrequired, yes, but in love.

Gay Watson? Heck yeah!

Well, it turns out that no. Here's why.

In most of the flashbacks we see with him and Holmes, Watson is manipulative.

He canalises Holmes, but he also refuses thing in his stead and somewhat controls his schedule. For the case with Edith Dubois, he pushes her aside and tell her to come back at a later time because he doesn't want Holmes to get in another case.

Watson says himself that he is the one who brought Holmes' brilliancy out to the world. He says that he saw how brilliant and great Holmes was and that thanks to him canalising him and writing about him, he managed to make him famous and greater, but also himself in the same process.

And that's the core of their relationship.

Through what Watson tells, it sounds like Holmes is incapable of taking care of himself and that in order for him to thrive he needs Watson. All the while, Holmes doesn't seem to notice Watson.

And this is what bring Watson to do dumb shit such as opening the rip the first time around (while, again, manipulating people to get to his goals).

After the closing of the rip and the start of Holmes falling into a pit of despair and grief and depression, Watson continues to take care of him, seemingly continuing to investigate and write about him as if he still was able to function.

We also have the moment when he tells Beatrice (or was it Jesse) that the reason why he did all that was because he loved Sherlock.

And you might tell me "here you have it! black on white! Watson is gay for Holmes!" but I don't see it like that.

Up to that point, I never once thought that Watson was doing that because he truly loved Sherlock.

What I see Watson ass is someone who stumbled upon a man in which he saw potential and then tapped into it. Then the potential, as he rightfully saw, was great and it brough both of them fame and money. And Watson was glad about it, but he already was a bit annoyed at Sherlock's impulses (and most likely always has been).

What I see is a manipulative man who reached greatness and became obsessed with his tool to fame and riches. He is dependent of Holmes. If Holmes doesn't do cases, or is great at those cases, then he can't write about it and he doesn't get recognition or money. So he manipulates everything around them in order to reach success. But the entirety of his plan can be easily thwarted if Holmes loses interest in him, and he feels like it was the case when Holmes met Alice and then when she decided to leave London; which is why he finally lead him to the "possible" location of the rip (which, again, he had opened himself and therefore knew very well where it was since the beginning).

So, the way I see it, Watson is not in love with Holmes. He's in a fucked up dependency and is trying really hard to show to Holmes that he too is dependent on him and not just himself on Holmes.

And in the case where the writers had in reality decided that Watson was deeply in love with Holmes? Well it's a really fucked up writing.

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So, overall (even though I'm sure I've missed points), this series was okay.

The teens (and protagonists) are well written, and we see proper growth throughout the show, which is better than what a lot of shows try to do.

The story itself is nice, showing us morally grey characters but also to feel for the perpretators even if at time they seem to be holding us by the hand to show us what critical thinking is (but this is a teen show so...).

I am a bit annoyed at the main villain being black and be against the white girl, only for his end to be... yeah.

I'm also annoyed at the depictions of the canon characters, even if I do have to say that the drug addiction part was well done (or at least properly, I would need the point of view of someone who had faced that in order to properly know).

But I'm mostly annoyed at what they did with the relationship between Holmes and Watson.

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ALSO

Leo is based on the actual fucking prince Leopold, which was 30 in 1884.

The earliest story of Watson if from 1881.

Which means that Leopold should not fucking be 17 in the series since it's been established that Watson has been writing before the first rip incident, which was 15 years prior. Which means that the story takes place in AT LEAST 1896.

But well... they apparently really badly wanted to use a prince and not just another posh guy.

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I have been trying to make a huge Sherlock Holmes spreadsheet for easy search of any an all Sherlock Holmes derivated medias, as obviously, a wiki would take much more time and energy.
However, I am also faced with the fact that the informations need to be sorted and only a short handful can appear in the spreadsheet.

While I do not want to drop my spreadsheet project (for obvious reasons) I also kinda want to start a wiki (the only Sherlock Holmes wiki available being hosted on Fandom, and we all know how trash it is).

This means, however, that I'll need to spend a lot of time on it, but also need to update it regularly since Miraheze shuts down old wikis (again, for obvious reasons).

So, I'm here, pondering on if I'll go for it or not. (I have sooo many projects already)
If anyone wanna help me with this task, don't hesitate to give me a shout.

Welcome!

Jan. 18th, 2024 06:49 pm
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Yo!
Because I wanted to find out how dreamwidth works (and also because I thought it could help me a bit at getting organised with my longer posts etc) so I made an account!
I hope I'll have interesting stuff to post on there that isn't just me screaming in the void like I do on tumblr.

On that, godspeed!

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