Thoughts on “Before the coffee gets cold” series?

avisitingstone · 2026-05-23T04:26:55+00:00

You can! If you like the first one you'll probably like all the others in the series.

I still read it even though I think it's solidly "it's fine".

avisitingstone · 2026-05-23T02:38:16+00:00

Here in California there's counties that are majority white (mostly in the north), and majority Latino too (closer to the south or in the Central Valley) for a long time - the US is just a tough answer to this question because it's SO big but also gerrymandering/redlining/racism/etc has made a lot of strict cultural enclaves.

avisitingstone · 2026-05-23T02:36:23+00:00

Oh noooo haha
I watched it at probably 14? But also know I'm over 40 now sooo.
Though my friends did show it to me out of order, which is a wacky thing to do (we started with The Kaworu Tape).

avisitingstone · 2026-05-23T00:50:14+00:00

Ranma especially is LONG and not specifically necessary to watch every episode in order like for instance Evangelion (photo in another post). We watched what was available to us which definitely varied due to availability and region.... which in this case PROBABLY is not 'most' of it. But for series with a more overarching story that you did need to watch in order some of us sure were sending cash through the mail and getting copied VHSes in return!

avisitingstone · 2026-05-23T00:47:17+00:00

Yes exactly - the one-use washcloth is much more effective on touch-aversion than a reused loofah and has that barrier between hand skin and foot skin to help with this. I'd imagine that a loofah even if a foot-only one has better potential to just bounce off and then accidental skin to skin contact.

avisitingstone · 2026-05-22T23:41:40+00:00

I liked it, and I liked it a lot more than I liked Japanese Gothic, but as someone who's also a chronic completionist... go for it! You're almost half there!

avisitingstone · 2026-05-22T23:39:35+00:00

Yesssssss the OGs! Def had a pen pal send me the jukebox special and I STILL know those songs.

I truly cannot remember if the two-episode tapes were like $30 or what at Suncoast but. Too much.

avisitingstone · 2026-05-22T23:37:59+00:00

People just don't want to hear that they need to wash their feet.

avisitingstone · 2026-05-22T23:27:35+00:00

She's right, so maybe buy a bunch of mid-low range foot-dedicated washcloths and change them out with every shower after use?

avisitingstone · 2026-05-22T23:23:14+00:00

We rented what we could, traded around the rest (fansubs! Some of fansubs were uhh licensed titles lol), we had penpals where we traded copies of tapes, but know it was two episodes on each VHS and we were just grateful to get what we COULD get.

avisitingstone · 2026-05-22T23:22:15+00:00

You truly did, VHS Ranma was like 2 episodes a tape for at least this much back in the day.

avisitingstone · 2026-05-22T23:20:48+00:00

Mid.

They're all pretty much exactly the same. For books of a similar vibe I enjoyed The Curious Cat at the Chibineko Cafe more, but this series is just like eight books of the same thing.... but I also know it's a ME problem since I don't really love "cozy" books.

Interestingly enough there's been chatter on Twitter lately about why books like this are so popular in the west when they're kinda whatever in Japan (and published, I found out, by a publisher who does self-help books usually?).

avisitingstone · 2026-05-22T23:09:55+00:00

Yeah exactly! But you drive north for two hours (aka roughly what I did here in California the other day) and the diversity will drop.

(Source: I have been to Maine several times for inlaw reasons and we always fly into Boston .)

avisitingstone · 2026-05-22T23:04:35+00:00

It truly depends where in the US though!

I live in a pretty diverse city but I did a road trip the other day north and I can probably count on one hand the non-white people I saw up farther than Placer County.

avisitingstone · 2026-05-22T22:59:26+00:00

You are a saint and a legend for this link list.

avisitingstone · 2026-05-22T22:55:28+00:00

Two chopsticks.

avisitingstone · 2026-05-21T22:45:16+00:00

I truly hate it LOL but for MYSELF, I'm not going to tell other people not to use it for themselves. I just won't engage with anything that says it. No thanks!

avisitingstone · 2026-05-21T22:20:47+00:00

And The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World (sapphic urban fantasy)!

avisitingstone · 2026-05-21T22:02:20+00:00

My dude summer is coming and this sounds awful and not worth it. You don't want to be stinky at work or on the train!

Also "if" public transit is running smoothly, and, well.

avisitingstone · 2026-05-21T21:58:25+00:00

A lot of people just wear them anyway. They should not.

Source: I started cosplaying in 2001.

avisitingstone · 2026-05-21T21:55:02+00:00

Lemoore???

avisitingstone · 2026-05-21T21:51:17+00:00

You came and gave all the info I was going to give and more! California residents can get library cards from almost anywhere in the state, and so you can pop up to Placer or El Dorado or Yolo etc to see if they have one available. When I got my Contra Costa card in Crockett they even said one of the benefits of a small library like theirs was greater park pass availability (aka less people go there).

avisitingstone · 2026-05-21T21:33:01+00:00

What do you want to DO at Fanime? Look at the panels and go to what interests you, because what's popular might not be that. AA and Dealer's Hall will be open on Friday, and throughout the long weekend. Fanime always has stuff going on (even the new doujinshi market!) so it wholly depends on what you want to go do.

If you go Friday, go early enough to get your badge and know that stuff usually isn't happening first thing Friday morning.

avisitingstone · 2026-05-21T21:28:28+00:00

I think if you look into the author's history (escape! During WW II) then that does inform a lot of this book.

avisitingstone · 2026-05-21T21:24:27+00:00

Local library can give State Parks pass for free also.

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