i'm giving you permission to be in my head
# Just so everyone's aware, I'm going to start tagging posts with things in that you might like to avoid with "content warning". I will always warn for whatever it is, though, and I won't ever post it without a cut.
I say this because I seem to be bringing up a lot of behaviours related to depression recently, and so I think it's only fair in case you find that sort of thing triggering (I know when I've been at my worst, the merest mention of certain things is enough to set me off).
# I've stopped playing DA:I for a while. I think I'm FINALLY burnt out on it. Although, I do have some spoilers to write about!
So I did Here Lies the Abyss for the third time. I already knew that, since I'd left Loghain alive, he was going to be the one to leave behind in the Fade. I mean, it's a no-brainer, innit? It kind of stuck in my throat when people were banging on about how he was such a good man and blah blah blah. I'm like, YOU SURE BECAUSE I REMEMBER OSTAGAR. HALF OF YOU WEREN'T EVEN THERE.
I got to see Anora and Alistair as king and queen, I forgot to mention, when I did the mages. I like Alistair better as a Warden. I feel like it suits him, you know? I nearly said like he's found his calling (ho ho ho ho). Also more character development.
I took Bull and Sera with me into the Fade, because I knew it'd freak the both of them out (I took Cole with Nikolai, so I didn't need a repeat run of that). It is hilarious, at first (it gets worse). And it kind of amuses me that Bull is this big mountain of muscle, and he's afraid of demons (that's good in a way, it's an interesting character quirk).
And then I came out of the Fade, and banished the Wardens. Blackwall, who hadn't even been there, objected vocally, so I told him to stick it, and he had to go with them. I got massive disapproval off EVERYONE (which is Llew's entire point). Then when I got back to Skyhold, and went round talking to everyone, Sera started yelling at me for banishing the Wardens, so I essentially told her, "You know where the door is, eff off." So she did.
And that's pretty much where I left it. I know how the romance with Dorian's going to pan out, so I don't need to worry about that and yeah. It's kind of. Third time through I pretty much know what will happen now. I need to put it down, and back away from it for a bit.
# Which is why I put ME2 in for a bit. I've been thinking about my one man Shep (who's an arse, let's be fair). So I thought, why the hell not play? Turns out the last time I was playing ME2 was on my birthday LAST YEAR.
So I played today, picked up Kasumi and Jack, and now am on my way to get Tali. Lucas' face is lit up like an Xmas tree, and he already has red irises (he was genned in-game without Genesis, so he starts off with a bunch of Renegade points anyway, as I understand it). I'm also not going to be healing those scars, because I want them present when he gets imported to ME3.
(I don't think I've ever healed anyone's scarring. Though Nev was super Paragon, and Zoe was sort of Paragade so she didn't scar too badly? *shrugs* I'd have to go back and look).
(He's going to romance Steve, eventually. But talking to Jack, I could actually see the pair of them together? Which is weird, because usually I feel super skeevy about Jack and her being romanced, because I feel like it's taking advantage of her. But I sort of didn't get that this time, so I guess it just depends on how you play your Shep?)
# This is my picture of Friday's solar eclipse:

I am SO DISAPPOINT, Y'ALL.
(I saw the one in 1999, so it's not like I've never seen one. But that was SIXTEEN YEARS AGO).
I say this because I seem to be bringing up a lot of behaviours related to depression recently, and so I think it's only fair in case you find that sort of thing triggering (I know when I've been at my worst, the merest mention of certain things is enough to set me off).
# I've stopped playing DA:I for a while. I think I'm FINALLY burnt out on it. Although, I do have some spoilers to write about!
So I did Here Lies the Abyss for the third time. I already knew that, since I'd left Loghain alive, he was going to be the one to leave behind in the Fade. I mean, it's a no-brainer, innit? It kind of stuck in my throat when people were banging on about how he was such a good man and blah blah blah. I'm like, YOU SURE BECAUSE I REMEMBER OSTAGAR. HALF OF YOU WEREN'T EVEN THERE.
I got to see Anora and Alistair as king and queen, I forgot to mention, when I did the mages. I like Alistair better as a Warden. I feel like it suits him, you know? I nearly said like he's found his calling (ho ho ho ho). Also more character development.
I took Bull and Sera with me into the Fade, because I knew it'd freak the both of them out (I took Cole with Nikolai, so I didn't need a repeat run of that). It is hilarious, at first (it gets worse). And it kind of amuses me that Bull is this big mountain of muscle, and he's afraid of demons (that's good in a way, it's an interesting character quirk).
And then I came out of the Fade, and banished the Wardens. Blackwall, who hadn't even been there, objected vocally, so I told him to stick it, and he had to go with them. I got massive disapproval off EVERYONE (which is Llew's entire point). Then when I got back to Skyhold, and went round talking to everyone, Sera started yelling at me for banishing the Wardens, so I essentially told her, "You know where the door is, eff off." So she did.
And that's pretty much where I left it. I know how the romance with Dorian's going to pan out, so I don't need to worry about that and yeah. It's kind of. Third time through I pretty much know what will happen now. I need to put it down, and back away from it for a bit.
# Which is why I put ME2 in for a bit. I've been thinking about my one man Shep (who's an arse, let's be fair). So I thought, why the hell not play? Turns out the last time I was playing ME2 was on my birthday LAST YEAR.
So I played today, picked up Kasumi and Jack, and now am on my way to get Tali. Lucas' face is lit up like an Xmas tree, and he already has red irises (he was genned in-game without Genesis, so he starts off with a bunch of Renegade points anyway, as I understand it). I'm also not going to be healing those scars, because I want them present when he gets imported to ME3.
(I don't think I've ever healed anyone's scarring. Though Nev was super Paragon, and Zoe was sort of Paragade so she didn't scar too badly? *shrugs* I'd have to go back and look).
(He's going to romance Steve, eventually. But talking to Jack, I could actually see the pair of them together? Which is weird, because usually I feel super skeevy about Jack and her being romanced, because I feel like it's taking advantage of her. But I sort of didn't get that this time, so I guess it just depends on how you play your Shep?)
# This is my picture of Friday's solar eclipse:

I am SO DISAPPOINT, Y'ALL.
(I saw the one in 1999, so it's not like I've never seen one. But that was SIXTEEN YEARS AGO).
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Man, I guess that means the last time I played any of the Mass Effect games was a year or so ago too. I'd love to replay the trilogy but a) the above mmo timesink and b) ME1's wonky combat isn't something I want to deal with.
Yeah the eclipse was kind of...eh for me too. Just grey skies for me too, dunno if that's because I'm not north enough or if the clouds were getting in the way.
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Same here. I love them, but I can't play them a lot and 3 is still vaguely traumatic for me.
I think it was just very cloudy for the eclipse - a physics guy I follow on twitter said he didn't get to see it, and he's in London. So I think it was more weather and less latitude.
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I still need to post my pics!
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Ooooh, I would like to see your pics when you get to putting them up (and hey, 50% is better than 0%!)
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The eclipse in '99 was magical for me. That year I spent the summer break in Hungary, and my hometown was in the path of totality. We were blessed with a perfect weather, not a single cloud in the sky. It was...incredible. I really hope I'll get to see another one in my lifetime, but the odds are so low, it likely won't happen. SAD!
I didn't get around to posting them in my journal yet, but you can see them here and here.
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OH MAN SO JEALOUS. That sounds awesome!
Aw, those pics are cool! :) thanks for linking me to 'em.