sometimes i think i want to watch serious films about ART and LIFE and PAIN and LOVE amd STUFF and then it turns out what i want to watch is an anime about a polar bear who runs a cafe
@kissane have you watched LAID BACK CAMP yet
@oddletters I have NOT chinhands
@kissane it's delightful i highly recommend, especially if you like extremely detailed animations of cooking and kind of expensive camping equipment
@oddletters In perfect truth, I can think of few things I would enjoy more
@kissane there's a whole genre of relaxing anime and i am very into it
@oddletters I tried to read some HARD FICTION about GRIEF and AWFUL THINGS
and then I was like wait I don't actually want to cry anymore
I want a sabbatical from anything heavier than a crumpet
@kissane did ever i tell you about the time during my comprehensive exams alex found me sitting on the floor having a large cry about the 1970s and they were like how about we watch some bake off huh champ and i said "serious people dont watch The Great British Bake Off. serious people read serious books and are sad!!"
anyway i strongly recommend watching the chill anime now
@kissane @oddletters okay crunchyroll appears to have more seasons than exist, popcorn can be dinner right
@meetar @kissane @oddletters so sorry to butt in but 1) YES IT IS THE BEST it made me, a terminally indoorsy person, consider maybe camping 2) everything.haopens.horse is a brilliant domain/instance
@kissane @oddletters It is literally the greatest.
@oddletters @kissane gaaaaahhhh
@oddletters We just finished season 1, it’s unexpectedly perfect, tyvm
@meetar yaaay! I'm very pleased you enjoyed it
@oddletters We learned to watch it *before* dinner :D
@oddletters extremely relatable
@oddletters I got the Criterion Channel as a gift, and browsing that for 10 minutes tends to pinball me back to the anime sections of the other platforms
@oddletters me, but with michael mann movies
@oddletters ok the polar bear cafe show is incredible
@meetar @oddletters okay what, i am clearly too far out of the loop.
@meetar @oddletters lol wat, it's literally called Polar Bear Cafe?
@oddletters This is roughly the path my reading has taken over the past few years. I *could* read a hefty tome about one of the myriad ways to be an unhappy family. But instead I just keep picking up murder mysteries in space and magical heist stories.
@oddletters This is my whole life now