Dobes Zone

 I'd reviewed this series briefly on my Letterboxd already, but I wanted to talk a little more in depth about the show.         In late 00's (or perhaps it was 2010?) a couple fansubbed episodes of Stop! Hibari-kun popped up on Youtube. I'd discovered them quite accidentally, I think via someone on twitter mentioning the show, and right then and there I was hooked. At that time, I wasn't really encountering a lot of trans media and hadn't yet started to think of myself as trans, but it definitely caught my interest. Sadly, it was only a few episodes and the updates stopped. I'd also found the manga, but it was also in a state of only partial fan translation. Flash forward to the present day, where I was happy to learn that not only was a full fansub completed, but the whole series is now available in a good crisp quality. It looks gorgeous and I'm so glad this odd little slice of queer anime history has been preserved. I'd love for there to be an offici

      Without intending to, I had a tweet about physical media collecting and file collecting go a bit viral (sigh) and I've decided to make a little introductory post on how to start collecting both physical media and digital media- including making back-ups, digitizing things in your collection, and organizing. It won't be fully comprehensive and some aspects of collecting requires spending some money and having space for things- do what's reasonable for you and your goals . I definitely don't expect everyone to be able to spend money, but if you can pay for several streaming services per month you can probably afford to cut back on those and instead invest in some real media or some digital downloads. Someone's gotta own these movies, might as well be me.      This post will be focusing mostly on movies/TV and music, since those are the things we rely on streaming the most for. I'm also working on the assumption that you have a computer- a desktop or a lapto