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« on: July 13, 2025, 02:45:30 AM »
Too hot.
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« on: July 09, 2025, 03:28:47 AM »
Butterflies! It's been a couple of years since we last had our buddleia covered in butterflies, the flowering has just not timed well and there's been a lot of building, which has affected the population. But yesterday and today we have lots of Peacock, Red Admiral and White butterflies all over the buddleia flowers  My buddleia is old and has been through it this year with a blackfly infestation, but, thanks to the ladybird army, it's doing better and is flowering beautifully. It's so lovely having butterflies back in the garden. Especially the peacocks, because those have become a lot less common around here 
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« on: July 06, 2025, 07:59:48 AM »
It's still cheaper than the IT Synergy, who started at that price and has just gone up since. I'll stick to my 1980s ones @Ponyfan, I think you're right, chronologically, but the Misfits never do get the same 'attention' as Jem, and I guess it would depend on whether Ellen Bernfeld was up for recording them. I think they're making a Pizzazz doll at some point though? I don't really see why they need to re-record the songs, honestly. The originals all survive. True, there are a few with lyric variations between versions but in general they are all out there, and enthusiasts have been cleaning them up for years *lol*.
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« on: July 06, 2025, 07:54:40 AM »
Yeah, the term 'manga' is actually blocked on our staff PCs, so you can imagine how hard it was to put together the manga list for my stock colleague. I would understand some manga being blocked, but just the word in general is a bit much. That stereotype that it's all erotic/pornographic, when the vast majority of it isn't. I think there's probably a bigger problem with either graphic violence or implied/sexist comments/actions (like the tropes around peeking on girls bathing and such) than what people think it's about. But that's another topic. I need to get back to reading SpyxFamily, before the next season is animated in October. Although I think I've probably read anything that will be animated then, and there's a whole chunk of vol 14 (?) that's basically about Spoiler the past of school teacher Henderson, and Martha, Becky's bodyguard and I feel like I need to be in the mood to read it/might just prefer to watch it. At the same time, I don't know that the next anime season will actually get that far. So...maybe I'll just suck it up and do it. It's been a mad week end because I swapped days on my schedule and we're training two new staff, so I haven't felt much like reading in Japanese when I've got home.
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« on: July 06, 2025, 07:49:07 AM »
None, deliberately - but accidentally I have five or six Tropical Breezes. One is from childhood, then there's a MIB one, one I got with her box, wings and accessories. One I rescued from a lot because she looked sad (lol). I'm sure there's another one somewhere but I can't think of it right now. If we are counting different versions of ponies, I have a few CJs and Medleys. I have both UK releases of CJ mint on card, and loose, then the european one loose, then a loose SS, Italian, Spanish/NC. Plus an upgrade of the 1985 one because my childhood one has hair like a toilet brush xD. With Medley I know I have an Italian, possibly a Mexican?, a Greek and Peruvian (I think I have baby Peruvian Medley as well). Plus the 1984 and 1985 versions and the 1984 one mint on card. So not hundreds but a few  OH YES. And then there's the Starlight Babies. At present I have six Baby Mischiefs (all different) four Baby Explorers (all different), two Baby Stellas (orange) and one Baby Nightsong (white) - this is how I identify those two I'm anticipating there are at least 2 more Stellas and three more Night Songs out there but I haven't tracked them down yet.
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« on: July 05, 2025, 02:59:27 PM »
Over here July 4th has been a post-mortem of Starmer's first year in government as we had our election on 4th July last year. Let's just say we hoped for better, though this is still better than what's lurking in the shadows if we're not careful :/
My complaint for the day.
I was at work (not my complaint, LOL), we had some bratty teens in being silly. One tried to follow me into the staff room and was being just generally obnoxious. I'm pretty good about most things and people I encounter at work, but he was RIGHT behind me and it just creeped me out.
Security sorted the problem out and my manager was 100% on my side, but I was in the middle of trying to help train a new staff member and it threw my thought processes completely.
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« on: July 05, 2025, 02:56:24 PM »
Yeah, I know we had to move some teen books to adult fantasy because someone complained about sexual content. The manga...I don't think the parents are paying a lot of attention (though I am, when I passed over the list of manga, I put age recs on them LOL). But the person responsible for stock said she doesn't mind having some that are filed in adult as well, if there's a call for them (if that happens, I will be pushing for Saiyuuki, hehe). The missing Haikyuu volumes came back today. Or at least, they all came back according to the computer but one of them I still can't find. STILL. A job for Monday. The manga section is so pitiful and yet the kids are still reading them and taking them out. I really hope we can do better for them going forward <3. I'm not familiar with Unico at all But you're right, Ponyfan - there's quite a lot of stuff in manga that's, well, graphic. I don't think there's anything in most manga that isn't also in current teen or YA fiction, but because it's a PICTURE people get more upset about it. I'm trying to avoid recommending anything that I know is visually sexualised (but then we have god knows how many volumes of Bleach and I know in one of the earlier volumes Yoruichi is basically naked in the lake with Ichigo. If that volume is still on our catalogue, it's been there ten years with no complaints, so...?) That's another reason I didn't recommend getting any of the final bleach arc, even though it's been animated recently (  ) Aside the fact it's complete nonsense, there's a lot of fan-service and it's just a bit ick in places. (One scene in particular, again involving Yoruichi, springs to mind). Meanwhile our one tatty volume of One Piece came back today and immediately went out on loan again. We have literally one volume from 111. And it's a complete mess. But, apparently, loved :/ I don't like OP at all, but I really think some of that ought to be a priority purchase going forward. ...Speaking of Yona, I need to get the latest Japanese volume. It came out on the 20th but then I forgot about it. Whoops.
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« on: July 05, 2025, 02:48:06 PM »
I agree with LM both on the timeline and the rarity, although I'm only basing this on what I've seen over the years online. The SS is on the earliest insert, the lavender regular one seems to be the most recent version and the most common. NSS is still an ugly term even when applied to American ponies btw
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« on: June 30, 2025, 01:50:31 AM »
I must have completely fallen in to Daiya when I can hear one line from a different anime in Japanese and think that voice sounds familiar only to find out that the same va voiced a character in Daiya.
Ponyfan
That moment when you can't focus on the plot of a series because you're trying to identify the speaker from his/her previous roles...
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« on: June 24, 2025, 10:24:17 AM »
Is the fact our Prime Minister is incapable of listening to anyone a trivial complaint? Probably not but there it is.
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« on: June 24, 2025, 10:22:01 AM »
I just checked my city's library system and it's very much the same as Taffeta describes. It looks like the only series that is complete is Spy Family. Apothecary Diaries is next in line only missing the latest volume. It's hard to tell because the volumes aren't listed chronologically, so they might have all of Sailor Moon.
Everything else is just random volumes or stops abruptly. They only have volumes 1-12 of Yona.
We have four city libraries and only one stocks manga.
Ponyfan
Believe me, your catalogue is amazing compared to what we have We have 3 volumes of Yona but that's all. There are some Haikyuu volumes but they're on loan and overdue so goodness knows if they're coming back. Otherwise we've random odd volumes of Death Note, Vampire Knight, Rurouni Kenshin (at least that one is having a renaissance), Bleach, Naruto, a handful of Dragonball and then a bunch of random volumes of series even I've never heard of. The content thing is a consideration, LBS, which is why I think it hasn't been tackled before. Knowing what is and isn't ok for the teen section or what would have to be classified with adult aimed graphic novels is an issue we'd have to look at. But this is a public, not a school library, so it will depend a lot on what the stock people decide. The budget for this is very limited which is also an issue and why it would be nice if people realised donating manga was no different from donating other books. It's just been depressing going through all the series and seeing how many are missing - or still out on overdue loan as per 2021 or before. But I'm driving this off topic, sorry (Edit to add, I sent my manga stock report to the colleague involved in stock management and she agrees we need to look at this because it hasn't been replenished in so long, so hopefully our teens will soon get some good stuff to read instead of dogeared copies of ancient stuff)
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« on: June 24, 2025, 02:14:34 AM »
Some of our manga was last seen in 2013, according to the catalogue, so that tells you how long it's been since anyone looked at this. My manager said that they bought a whole chunk before the library relocated to its current site, but I don't think anything has happened with it since then. There's all the usual suspects - Bleach, Naruto, etc - but only odd volumes. We've one surviving volume of One Piece which goes out on loan a lot, surprisingly. It's really very depressing.
I'm making a list to take to my manager (who thinks we should do something about it) and the person who is in charge of stock decisions (who I haven't approached with this yet). I'm trying to identify manga that the kids here will like, even though I know there's a risk that copies will be stolen.
Who knows if it will work but at least I'm going to try. There are series I would also love to put on the list but am not sure they could be safely housed in teen because of their graphic (violent, not sexual) content, so for now I'm leaving them off.
In other manga news, I've been reading SpyxFamily and Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri on and off among other things. I didn't realise SpyXFamily was only up to 13 in English, I only noticed when making my above library recommend list.
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« on: June 23, 2025, 12:31:04 PM »
I wish I had a store like that nearby, LBS I've been working through our manga stock at work (library) and it's awful and out of date and mostly missing. But new manga is expensive. People donate books to us all the time but don't seem to realise that they can donate manga as well. Unfortunately all mine is in Japanese, so I can't even do much myself here
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« on: June 19, 2025, 02:00:33 AM »
So my pigeon nest neighbours have not gone well. One egg hatched but last night the squab disappeared from the nest. We found it on the patio this morning, still alive but very weak. We moved it into the sun for a bit, gave it some water (carefully) and put it back in the nest but it seems like the parents have gone. The second egg didn't hatch. I'm really sad Editing to add an update on baby pigeon, which is a lot better than we expected Baby pigeon perked up when back in the nest. Unfortunately, the parents did not come back, and baby pigeon managed to jump out of the nest a second time. He was not only very lively but catching his own bugs to support himself! We had a very warm overnight Thursday to Friday which I think helped keep him going. Because the nest was damaged from his falling and the parents were not coming to feed him, we ended up taking him to a local wildlife rescue. He was trying to jump out of the box and wanted to know everything that was going on, so when we left him, he was in great shape. The last update we had from the rescue centre was that he was doing well (And they confirmed he was a boy). So hopefully there is a happy ending for baby pigeon after all, even if he ends up released in a completely different area to the one he was born.
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« on: June 13, 2025, 10:36:18 AM »
Taffeta, I’m a bird watcher! I also just found the nest and babies of a bird species I don’t see often. Here in the States, we have the Indigo Bunting, a brilliantly blue coloured bird! But I don’t see it often, just every few years, and I’ve never found a nest before!
So that’s my good news!
I have a pigeon nest in the vine underneath my bedroom window. I opened my window the other day and scared the bird off the nest, so I was a bit panicked, but she came back thankfully. They have two eggs, hopefully they will hatch. We've already seen a different brood of baby wood pigeons grow up and harass their poor parents xD. Baby birds are all so cute and silly. The baby blue tits were jumping all over each other.
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