/jp/ - Otaku Culture

can we talk about no longer human/dazai and otaku?

I won't flatly assert it is otaku culture since the term eludes me really, but herein is my apologetics and rough thought. i'll try to keep it cognizable. if it's irrelevant to otaku culture, I hope sagers interested will still contribute. because for me, otaku culture is media-mediated socializing, e.g, moe imagery/2hus/vns/trains/otaku theory/et al, their circulation dissemination reproduction and yes even conversation.

alienation is juxtaposed with constant social contact in no longer human (vis a vis the "together aloneness" of the internet and chans) and conveys an apathy borne from an era and caste where work seems "obsolete" and the failure in fulfilling dreams--becoming an artist, an astronaut or a category theorist or a housewife--I don't think the specific narrative is important, yet it seems so impossible to live without narrative.

relevant works
no longer human
schoolgirl (a quick read)
setting sun
otaku:database animals
evangelion
stuff like that

what pretty clothes and dresses of all kinds have you worn today /jp/

I was reading http://archive.foolz.us/jp/thread/S4622432#p4630047 and I'm finally making the plunge to get some sweet leggings and miniskirts and some tunic-length garments. I was thinking about hourou musuko, and it made a big impact on me. I feel as though this is a turning point after which things might become less obvious and of course my body might not be ready for such things then.

I'll probably get some pantsu and pantyhose sometime, but I'm mostly aiming for the "boyish" look. I was thinking that hormones might not be so bad and to stay in good shape in the meantime. I'm short, narrow shoulders (~34, nothing amazing), don't have much body hair and rather delicately-featured, and I'm growing my hair out (black).

I guess the only (if at all?) hitch for me is that I'm hitch is that I'm brown and how should little brown boys dress? I have high cheekbones and am sort of split between structured clothing like oxfords and shorts and unstructured tops like outsized sweaters and shirts and of course skirts and stuff with interesting drapes. For bottoms leggings or pantyhose seems the most "natural" or if it's good weather just shorts or skirts.

I think the miniskirt looks really neat dressed up with shirt and blazer.