I remember always hearing about Evangelion, especially back in the day, on imageboards. I also remember finally watching a full length movie and thinking something like "they made everyone fall in love with this character who hardly says a word in the whole movie". I vaguely remember the plot. It was a long long time ago. I never watched the tv series. Now I want to reconcile that. I have started with the original 1995 episodes, and, can I just say, the way people used to animate is ... I don't know if it's just me, maybe somewhere deep inside I associate that look of old anime with my early childhood where I saw Sailor Moon, and Spirited Away, the happy carefree time, because after that I didn't really watch anime pretty much at all. Or maybe it is the pieces of art themselves and the genius people behind them. Or both. I don't know, but compared to stuff like zootopia/steven universe/star/teen titans/{almost_anything_past_1999_here}, the latter is so much more removed from the world, than the obviously fictional series from the 80s-early 90s. Something happened in the 90s. We got all those crazy wacky cartoons (no shade, they were also cool, just in a different way), and it feels like the more removed from the world they were, the better. And now everything is just sugarcoated and polished, and empty. Although, I shouldn't say everything, but the culture goes in that direction. Partly, I think, it has led to the retro-revival, 'cos like, yeah, it was cooler back then. Now people are dressing up like it's the 90s, the indie web gravitates towards retro, hopefully we get old-school-style series as well. But then again, we have all seen the new HP series trailers, which are as far into wokeness as they could get. Anyway, long post TL;DR - I'm old, it was better back in my days, go watch old stuff P.S. Also, let me know if you have watched the 1995 Eva and whether you liked it or not P.P.S. I'm mainly writing this to be able to remember when I first watched it

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I have always loved fantasy maps. I have redrawn the maps from the lord of the rings and the Silmarillion many times. I love it when authors include a cool map into their book. It makes it feel like the place is real and you can gather knowledge about it and the knowledge is useful. And maps just look cool. I used to also watch JP Coovert on youtube and he inspired me to draw my own map. Now, I should say that at that point I was deep into conlanging, working on Àrnûneþe for some months. I felt like I needed a longer piece of text to make sure all linguistic bases are covered. Usually the earliest texts that we have are heroic myths. Think Beowulf, Gilgamesh, Igor etc. So my heroic myth was hena Nûnþæðkira Soon I realized that a map would be nice to be able to better visualize the adventures of the main character, so I made this map

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