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vivdunstan ([personal profile] vivdunstan) wrote2024-07-18 09:45 pm

Looking ahead to Oxonmoot 2024

Working through the schedule for Oxonmoot 2024 in August/September - which I will be watching online on catchup for months after. And there are some marvellously titled talks. I particularly like "In a Hole in the Ground There Lived a Cassette", and "From Mushrooms to Man-flesh via Maggots: Food and Consumption in Middle-Earth".
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[personal profile] a_cubed 2024-07-22 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
The anime has been quite a hit outside Japan, I believe. My nephew and his friends were watching it in the English dub when we visited for his wedding in March/April. It starts out as a really fun story about cooking dungeon critters, but actually takes a bit of a dark set of turns later on, from what I have seen of the anime ($DAUGHTER and $WIFE watch the Japanese language version).