/jp/ - Otaku Culture

My room is plastered with posters, a few daki covers and I have few lewd figures on display too so I'm not exactly hiding it.

My mother *says* she accepts my hobbies but whenever angered, she ends up blurting out "why don't you stop wasting your time on your computer and grow up already?" and such. Always asks if I'm going to get a girlfriend already or that she can't understand why I don't go to parties, get wasted and such like her colleaques' children do. I think she is disappointed deep down (my brother tells whenever she talks shit about me when I'm not there; stuff like "don't listen to Anon's advice" and "I don't want you to end up like Anon did"), even though my actual studies are going well and I'm able to take care of myself. Only one more year and I'm finally able to move out..

My little brother on the other hand watches anime once in a while (f.ex. Samurai Champloo, Welcome to NHK, Lain) but hates anything moe to death and has no interest in "Otaku Culture" whatsoever and jokingly calls me a "fucking weaboo". He spends a shitload of time on PC playing with his friends or browsing the internet so he's more understanding of my hobbies. We actually share taste in games on many occasions.

I haven't been in contact with my alcoholic father for years so he doesn't know about my hobbies. I think his reaction would be quite similar to my mother's as he was rather cool with anything when not drunk.

This picture always makes me sad for some reason. The way he's talking about his greatest hope and dream in past tense, combined with that weak smile of someone who has resigned to an inevitable fate, it's kinda depressing. I imagine it's ZUN's afterlife, or something.