Thank you everyone for the suggestions! I’ll be checking these all out

Ooh, thank you! I’ll check those out!

I haven’t, is there anything else of his you’d recommend?

Ooh I’ve an awful memory for remembering what I’ve watched but I’ll have to say my top 3 are The Disastrous Life of Saiki K, Spy X Family, and Monster

I can’t even stand wearing my glasses all day, and those are a thousand times lighter and more useful than this.

I watch a lot of anime and other Japanese media and I got sick of reading poorly-translated subtitles or missing things because of the language barrier/cultural differences. Plus, subtitles means I can’t glance down at my phone or I’ll miss things. (And dubs are the work of Satan). It made sense to me to just… learn Japanese.

It’s slow going, it’s more of a hobby than a serious thing, but I can understand basic sentences in anime, and I recently bought my first Japanese-language manga to try and read through (very slowly, with a dictionary close at hand)

Howdies!!

I’m xorels, a queer (she/her) Irish woman studying cybersecurity. I also game, crochet, and am learning Japanese.

I’ve lately been trying to degoogle and move away from large corporations and towards FOSS software, so joining Beehaw was partly inspired by that and partly by… Reddit. Both the API change and the toxicity on that site. I got sick of reporting harassment and [minority]-phobia and getting ignored, or harassed myself for speaking up. I can’t leave it entirely for a few reasons but at least I can cut down my usage.

I generally don’t post online, I prefer to lurk or comment, but I’ll try and change that if I can. I’m a big fan of the positivity and friendly, nice attitude on here.