CotterPin

20 | she/her | music enthusiast | INFP | Otaku

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💙 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 💙

Hi guys, CotterPin here! This is my very first (public) social media account, so I'm very new to this type of stuff. The account is just for my random thoughts to things I consume.

𝙰𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚖𝚎:

Freshman (University)

she/her

Massive weeb since the early 2010's

Muslim

Aspirations: writer

Links:

Media blogging

AOTY

Japanese Learning

𝚃𝚊𝚐𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚖:

#biscotti ideas

#liveblogging

#writing

#tv-shows

#movies

#anime bujo

#bullet journaling

#music-thoughts

#ao3

#life

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I saw a tik tok about this comic, it looked really pretty. Im not well verse in comics so this is a first. I hope I like it (the summary seemed interesting)

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Oz rant (spoilers for seasons 2 and 3)

When writing this post I just want to mentioned I'm currently on ep 4 (season 3) of oz.

Okay so I've been watching oz this past month and its looking to be one of my favorite shows. Its really hard for me to praise a show that much without mentioning flaws but that first season (man) was it peak, everything felt so tied together and what a perfect run. When watching season 2 I was off that high of what big thing was going to happen next (or how there going to make it better) and even though season 1 is still better than season 2 and I understand that each season can be different (thats fine), I sort of realized that when watching S2. But dam was that season 2 finale literally perfect literal chills.

My rant right now isn't about the show itself but with the character Augustus hills. When watching the show in the beginning, I thought as the narrator, he'd be important (those are my favorite moments in the show) to the ensembled cast. I can name 2 occurrences of him being important (his case and him being a snitch to that one inmate). I'd like to imagine his narrations as his internal monologue sometimes or journal entries he would write. I always found it odd (but unique) when he spoke to the audience differently than how he talks to inmates. When watching the show I wished he'd talk to said more. I feel like they would have really nice conversation.

Leading up to the season 2 finale he wants to escape using a coffin, at the end he does. But when watching the next season, he's still in the prison. Now I can understand if he got caught but it was like that plot point never happened last season. Don't get me wrong I love the fact he's back but it would have been cool to see like the process of what happened you know. Like what happened if his plan didn't work and he died. I'd like to imagine not a lot of inmates remembered him and the ones who did feel bad and would like to remember him. When first starting season 3 with his narration I actually thought he was dead cause he stood up and he never did that in 2 or 1.

Out of topic but I know that like he's sexually attracted to women from his past, but when he was describing sex to one of the inmates a part of me felt he was ace coded. Cause in one conversation he only did it to please his girlfriend or whatever. IDK maybe i'm projecting

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Spring Anime 2026

Haven't been posting a lot due to school and like its been hard keeping up with things. I have like 3 more weeks left until its over, so I thought maybe I start doing things I did in the past like watching seasonal anime! The only anime I've started this past year is Sound eurphorium but I haven't been keeping up with it (hope I will with this). The only reason I wanted to go back into posting more live blogging of anime was cause the witch hat atelier is coming out now. I liked the manga back in 2020 but haven't been keeping up with it so I basically forgot most of it (so I'm going into blind watching it). Other anime I'm watching this season include

Daemons of the shadow realm

I really like hiromu arakawa works, though I've only watched fma/fmab and read sliver spoon. I knew of the manga and was thinking of reading it when it came out but changed my mind and thought it would be cool to watch it

An observation log of my fiancee who calls herself a villainess

I read the manga when it came out around like 2019 or later or something. it was one of those otome iskeai where it flipped the perspective to the ML and it was different from the rest of the stuff that was coming out at the time. But not when it was a saturated field. I liked it because there was like few otome isekai that were like comedy and not serious. When it comes to otome isekai or any like villainous works (this maybe a hot take) I feel like manga its easy to find different stuff related to the genre then manhwa. There both saturated in there own ways. But when I used to read them a lot, it was much harder finding manhwa that felt different from older manhwa. There were just rehashing things. But with manga I could find like the most crazy scenarios. Don't get me wrong there are a lot of things that manhwa does better than manga (but its not really what I'm talking about). If you have qualms with my opinion plz let me know, I would totally like to hear your point of view

There were other anime I looked that peaked my interest but I'm probably either going to wait until there over this season or there on my list for manga to read:

Wistoria: Wand and sword

Botan Kamiina fully blossoms when drunk

the most heretical last boss queen

I saw a cool edt of wistoria on tik tok a couple days ago and that made me want to read the manga so I put it on the list. Blossoms when drunk I heard about it online on twitter of decent yuri to read so I'll probably read it or watch it (cause I saw that the op looked good) in the future. So for the last boss queen I didn't even know a second season was coming out, most of the things on this list I knew where coming out now or were confirmed to get an anime adaptation. So I was surprised cause I only knew the first season. But I never watched it because when I was reading the manga it got axe due to the authors health, but I find out now that there's a light novel series and they have another manga. So I'm probably going to read the manga or light novel.

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Reading ikoku Nikki and I really like this page in ch. 17

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[Day 3 and 4]

Forgot to post yesterday but I did the same thing. Practiced some flashcards and did that game I linked on day 1. I also wanted to try the 30 day challenge that website posted it about. I didn't read all of it but I did one of the things it said which was to practice writing the letters (didn't finish cause I'm kinda tired and it was 10 pages). But hey at least I studied for an hour, thats a plus.

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This post is where I'll organize my Japanese learning posts:

Jan: 1, 2,

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

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Lolol didn't study today because I had work and didn't make the time in the morning (once uni starts you'll probably see that I won't/forget to study and I won't post it)

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[Day 1, Friday]

I never really have the habit to do things, but because of the new years I thought I might try regardless with learning Japanese again. Today I studied the 47 hiragana. My brain feels fried from learning lol. I really liked using anki and the typing game (it really helped me). I used these websites and other stuff to help below:

TheMoeWay

learn kana

anki

I printed this out in the summer and used it if i forgot what the letter was. The Mnemonics chart really helped a lot for me as a lot of the letters are very similar. If anyone has any advice for a noob like me trying to learn Japanese that would be greatly appreciated.

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One of my friends got me the complete edition cause I told them how much of a fan I was of the movies. Funny enough when they bought it (I was with them) the cashier also loved lotr and then we talked for like a good minute about the movies lol.

Started reading the first part and I thought I might share my thoughts so far (of ch1)

I found it a tad annoying in the beginning how secretive/ominous gandalf was about certain things in the movie but then turn into this goofy/fun guy (like a bait and switch in personality). But in the book I found it funny and also kinda sad at the same time. Like it was explained more in the first chapter so I kinda get it (cause I read the hobbit before this) . He knows stuff frodo/bilbo doesn't, though he's not knowledgeable in other areas of what the ring entails (I think) so he doesn't want to scare them on their special birthday about it, but he also doesn't want them to do anything rash in general when he's away to know more I guess

I like the stuff that wasn't adapted in the first movie. Like bilbo's different relatives and other hobbits gossiping about him and frodo, seeing how they view them. I liked how Sam's dad standed up for them when they were saying harsh things about how queer they were or how frodo's parents died. But I understand they had to cut a lot of that out in the movie.

I liked how one of frodo's relatives came unannounced to the shire to state how the contract doesn't entail frodo being the heir to shire and that it should be them. And frodo shows them the contract which the relatives were wrong about (obliviously so) and as frodo is kicking them out in the heat of the moment they shout that he "doesn't belong here and that he's a (insert last name I don't remember)" which was Merry last name and when those relatives are out of the door but could still hear, merry said that he would take that as a compliment (he was there the entire time helping frodo keep the fort up from relatives like them) and I thought that was the funniest thing

I thought it was neat they explained the age thing cause I was genuinely was confused about it while watching the movies

I don't think in the movie it was frodo's birthday as well (I haven't watched the movie in a year so my memories are a bit fuzzy)

It's a bit overwhelming annotating a lot of things while tabbing (when I first started with the mirror series) so I'm just highlighting first then tabbing after finishing the chapter to make things easier. And I'm trying to get over my brain problem of being okay with rereading stuff cause theirs like no way I'm going to annotate everything and in different reads I can see/notice different things (and this is my first kinda fantasy book im doing with annotating so I'm new in this genre when it comes to this) so I want to start short on my reads with annotating and if I want to annotate other things I'll probably just mention it in my next reads. In my first read with this trilogy I'm just like highlighting new words and gay or queer text (because that's what originally hooked me in to the movies/books)

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Bought baldurs gate three recently after finishing dragon age inquisition. Any advice for this noob gamer here that might help my gaming experience (mods,etc.).

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I saw lupin the third fanart by someone younger than me, I need to lock in

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I heard through the grapevine that this anime got a season 2 cause of overseas fans through Crunchyroll. This was my fave anime when it came out and I hope for a season 2 for years but never saw a community online. WHERE WERE YOU GUYS !? WHY'D IT TAKE SO LONG FOR IT TO HAPPEN???

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Watching a random movie (because of a tik tok) and seeing Noah Wylie is kinda fate.

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Guys I turned 20.....

What should I be warned about...

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What keeps me going is the thought that one day my daydreams will become a reality written. My ideas used for escapism I will remember fondly instead of terror.

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With the limited knowledge I have of stargate Atlantis (and its / fics) I think this song fits the vibe of Todd the wraith perspective with John Sheppard.