Whats your current obsession?

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I just spent six months studying in Belfast! We learned about Ulster Unionism and Nationalism in Irish Studies class. Though I had to come home in May so I missed all the parading and bands and such

When I was in fifth grade, I first heard about what happened in Europe during World War 2. I wondered why anyone would be so evil as the Nazis were, and I read into it. I parents also bought me a copy of a documentary on Helmuth Hübener, the LDS teenager who stood up to the Nazis and was executed for treason.

My most recent obsession involves furries. As in furry fandom. At the bottom of my posts is a button that has a WWW, which is a link to my furaffinity page.

Though I spent most of the time fangirling over C.S. Lewis. He was from Belfast. I got to go on a tour (a nice lady at the church I went to clued in on me being totally clueless, and took me places sometimes), and I got to see his grandfather's church, his childhood home (not the one where he was born, which no longer exists - Little Lea, where his family moved when he was very young). And the library at Queen's University has a C.S. Lewis study room, and the door is a replica of the wardrobe door from the most recent LWW movie. It's really neat.

I really wanted to go to England during break to visit their graves - Lewis's and Tolkien's. But I was too frightened to travel far on my own, the furthest I ever got was Galway, I never left the island at all

I will just have to go back. I have to make a Inkling-obsessed friend who will travel with me!

Have you read his book: Out of the Silent Planet? I read that for an English project and it was pretty cool.

Yes! I loved that one. His concept of outer "space" is so beautiful and richly descriptive, and his characters are all fun and random as usual. I like his Martians. Did you just read the first one, or the second two as well? His style is very different in the last one, it can be a little loopy at times but it's still an exciting read.

Though I don't know if you're a sci-fi/fantasy reader (outside of English class that is)? What was your project?

anime and manga
but that is pretty wide so if i had to narrow it down i will say the anime/web comic/manga Axis Powers Hetalia
i just loves the easy but genius premiss in all it's silly glory

I know, I especially liked the pfifltriggi and the description of the lake. I only read the first one because I was told the second one was confusing from my uncle (who has read A LOT of books in his life).

I used to be obsessed with alien books when I was younger (haha, I think I read all the books in sixth grade alien series when I was younger). But my reading is more varied now. My project was a standard "read the book and give a report" thing. Unfortunately we had to have a partner, but I made scripts for us to read and such.

Current obsession (other than WP): Shakespeare authorship mystery. specificely the theory that Emilia Bassano Lanier - a morano jewish woman, was (is) the true author.
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I've always had a weird obsession with nuclear accidents. Obviously, when Fukushima was a hot item, I was watching the news constantly., Yesterday and the day before, I learned all the specfics of the Three Mile Island accident, watched a documentary about it, and then watched 'The China Syndrome' - a movie about a similar, fictional event that was released mere days before three mile island. I did a similar ''interest binge'' with the Chernobyl disaster earlier this year.

As well, I have a current obsession with the sophisticated cartoon network show, "Regular Show". It makes me laugh endlessly!

I recently got back into my childhood/teenage obsession with anime and all things Japan. When I was really into Tim Burton's movies last year and part of this year, I tried to pretend like I had "outgrown" anime and that I didn't care about Japan anymore, even though that was a lie because I drew all of the characters anime-style and when the tsunami and nuclear accidents in Japan happened, I was secretly really upset by it - it felt like an old friend had been hurt.

Anyway, at the moment, I'm specifically into anime and manga that focuses on fictional representations of the Shinsengumi, which were a real-life police force made up of (mostly) samurai during the end of the Tokugawa Era (otherwise known as the bakumatsu period). My favorite Shinsengumi-themed anime are Peacemaker Kurogane and Hakuoki Shinsengumi Kitan.

I remember watching Peacemaker when I was a young teen and really enjoying it (though at the time it didn't become an obsession). I saw a couple of episodes again online and fell in love with it all over again. I even ordered a box set off of eBay. I discovered Hakuoki today and watched the first episode. I'm hooked now. I also really want to start reading the manga Kaze Hikaru.

The 18th century.

I want to re-read the first one now... unfortunately, the second and third are on my shelf and the first is nowhere to be seen

That sounds like it might be fun. I always liked doing book reports. But I never did them with other people, I know group projects are always awfully difficult (nobody ever seems to know who's doing what, or care!)

Have you tried getting it from the library?

It was fun! Well, luckily we got to choose our partners and I chose someone who didn't really care so I read the book and then made the poster and made a script and he just read his parts and we got an A. That's how I tend to deal with most partner projects: show up and do what I say and we will get an A.

Anime: Heaven's Lost Property

My health as it seems to be sketchy as of late.

And cooking the perfect stew.

An anime called Puella Magi Madoka Magica. I can't remember where I first heard about it; I think it was on TV Tropes. I was very intrigued when I had heard that it was one of the most popular anime of this year due to the fact that it is not what it initially appears to be.

At first I was worried that I would not like it, and kept putting off watching it even though I couldn't stop feeling curious about it. Finally, after having a dream about it last night, I decided to give it a shot. I'm very glad I did, because as it turns out, it is one of the best anime I have ever seen, full stop.

It is 12 episodes long, and I have watched half of them in one day, becoming very angry to the point of almost having a meltdown whenever I got interrupted by other people needing to use the computer. My only regret is that I didn't get up earlier today; otherwise I might have been able to finish the whole series in one day instead of two.