diff --git a/Penumbra/Import/Models/HavokConverter.cs b/Penumbra/Import/Models/HavokConverter.cs
index 89f9ac4f..38c8749a 100644
--- a/Penumbra/Import/Models/HavokConverter.cs
+++ b/Penumbra/Import/Models/HavokConverter.cs
@@ -71,8 +71,7 @@ public static unsafe class HavokConverter
     /// <param name="filePath"> Path to a file on the filesystem. </param>
     private static hkResource* Read(string filePath)
     {
-        var path = Marshal.StringToHGlobalAnsi(filePath);
-
+        var path = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(filePath);
         var builtinTypeRegistry = hkBuiltinTypeRegistry.Instance();
 
         var loadOptions = stackalloc hkSerializeUtil.LoadOptions[1];
@@ -81,8 +80,7 @@ public static unsafe class HavokConverter
         loadOptions->TypeInfoRegistry = builtinTypeRegistry->GetTypeInfoRegistry();
 
         // TODO: probably can use LoadFromBuffer for this.
-        var resource = hkSerializeUtil.LoadFromFile((byte*)path, null, loadOptions);
-        return resource;
+        return hkSerializeUtil.LoadFromFile(path, null, loadOptions);
     }
 
     /// <summary> Serializes an hkResource* to a temporary file. </summary>
@@ -94,9 +92,9 @@ public static unsafe class HavokConverter
     )
     {
         var tempFile = CreateTempFile();
-        var path     = Marshal.StringToHGlobalAnsi(tempFile);
+        var path     = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(tempFile);
         var oStream  = new hkOstream();
-        oStream.Ctor((byte*)path);
+        oStream.Ctor(path);
 
         var result = stackalloc hkResult[1];
 
diff --git a/Penumbra/Import/Models/SkeletonConverter.cs b/Penumbra/Import/Models/SkeletonConverter.cs
index 7058a159..25e74332 100644
--- a/Penumbra/Import/Models/SkeletonConverter.cs
+++ b/Penumbra/Import/Models/SkeletonConverter.cs
@@ -84,9 +84,8 @@ public static class SkeletonConverter
             .Where(n => n.NodeType != XmlNodeType.Comment)
             .Select(n =>
             {
-                var text = n.InnerText.Trim()[1..];
-                // TODO: surely there's a less shit way to do this I mean seriously
-                return BitConverter.ToSingle(BitConverter.GetBytes(int.Parse(text, NumberStyles.HexNumber)));
+                var text = n.InnerText.AsSpan().Trim()[1..];
+                return BitConverter.Int32BitsToSingle(int.Parse(text, NumberStyles.HexNumber));
             })
             .ToArray();