I started watching a let's play of Clair Obscur (not me wanting to hang out with all the cool kids and experience a game I have no chance of playing, oh no), and as of the time of writing, I just got to Monoco's Station.
This game is very French, and I fucking love it. Even though the LPer is playing with the English dub, which is full of British VAs, and I also love that, the Frenchness pervades everything. And it reminds me how much I have liked French media that I've experienced in the past (and I also came to the realisation, I think, that this is a big part of why I love Pizza Tower - McPig (the main dev) is French-Canadian, but his (art)work is very European feeling*, and I really like that).
( spoilers herein )
Anyway, I think that's all I have to say for now. Maybe there will be more later, I don't know right now!
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*It's not specifically French, as such, like it doesn't give me ligne claire vibes, but it's definitely something not American feeling, anyway. IMO.
This game is very French, and I fucking love it. Even though the LPer is playing with the English dub, which is full of British VAs, and I also love that, the Frenchness pervades everything. And it reminds me how much I have liked French media that I've experienced in the past (and I also came to the realisation, I think, that this is a big part of why I love Pizza Tower - McPig (the main dev) is French-Canadian, but his (art)work is very European feeling*, and I really like that).
( spoilers herein )Anyway, I think that's all I have to say for now. Maybe there will be more later, I don't know right now!
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*It's not specifically French, as such, like it doesn't give me ligne claire vibes, but it's definitely something not American feeling, anyway. IMO.
So I watched this video last night, about lazy bullet journalling, and I thought both ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lassarina and althea_valara might be interested to watch it, since I know they both do BuJo (I don't know if any others among y'all do, but you might like it?)
I found it interesting, because Ying calls her style lazy, and yet from what I can see, it's very much like how it was intended to be when Ryder Carroll designed it. Also it makes way more sense to me. AND it made me realise that what I call my planner is essentially a BuJo, but I don't really think of it in that way.
Anyway, I thought y'all might find this interesting, so I thought I'd link to it.
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I am almost at the end of my Now... journey :(
But it's been really good, though! As I said in a comment on my previous entry, the enjoyment of the music as well as the nostalgia has been SUCH a serotonin boost!
Also it's been interesting.
Obviously, the mid-nineties, which was also my mid-teens, was the height of the whole Britpop thing. And the whole Oasis versus Blur thing.
Now. I liked both Oasis and Blur. Emphasis on the past tense because, while I still like Blur, I can't bloody stand Oasis for a variety of reasons.
I've thought recently it would be nice to get hold of their first two albums again, because I loved them as a teenager, and listened to them a lot. Except that for every single Oasis track that's come up on these compilations, I've not been able to listen to more than thirty or so seconds.
And that's because I'm more familiar with The Beatles' back catalogue and it's now SO CLEAR to me how much of a rip off of them Oasis were in the beginning. It's not like Noel Gallagher didn't state they were an influence, because he did, repeatedly. In fact, Oasis were probably my Beatles gateway* (although I came out the other side not that bothered, and I've certainly gone off them a lot more in recent years).
But, like, you can pick almost any Oasis song from their first two albums, and you can bet it will remind you of a specific Beatles song.
Anyway, that alone was enough to make me skip songs I'd once enjoyed listening to. I honestly thought I'd be like, "oh yes, here comes a massive nostalgia hit!" and while that's happened with a lot of stuff, it just didn't with Oasis. I'm not really sad about it, though. Like I said, I went off them a long time ago and literally the only enjoyment I get from them these days is that Wonderwall's become a meme (I don't know how, but it amuses the heck out of me).
(Also this is where I link you to the Mike Flowers Pops version of it because it's hilarious and amazing).
I don't have a logical conclusion to this bit, except that I found that interesting to experience.
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Meanwhile, in FFXIII, I beat the boss on the Palamecia, on my first go, without even grinding for CP, and using the default team as recommended by the strategy guide, which is arguably a kind of hard mode, since you don't have Haste.
I did it just before Doom ran out (yes, I am terrible; yes, it took me 22 minutes).
But the point is that I did it, and I don't think I ever have before! \o/
I think I must be getting better at video games? I know I've said this in the past, but I think it's true. I only looked at the strategy guide to see what it said, I wasn't intending to follow its guidance - I thought I'd try it, but I'd probably have to have another go with a different set up (i.e. using Sazh for Haste) - but I didn't because ??? somehow I managed it anyway.
And now I am on the Fifth Ark, getting my arse kicked by slugs, because it's always the smaller enemies with drain attacks that I have problems with - see also: the frogs at Sulyya Springs. I can't remember if there is a boss in this area, but I know which area is coming next, and I'm looking forward to it (mostly).
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*I mean obviously, I'd grown up hearing Beatles songs, because it could be argued that they are/were Britain's most well-known band. But there was a lot I wasn't familiar with, because neither of my parents had any of their albums, so I only heard select handfuls of stuff on the radio.
lassarina and althea_valara might be interested to watch it, since I know they both do BuJo (I don't know if any others among y'all do, but you might like it?)I found it interesting, because Ying calls her style lazy, and yet from what I can see, it's very much like how it was intended to be when Ryder Carroll designed it. Also it makes way more sense to me. AND it made me realise that what I call my planner is essentially a BuJo, but I don't really think of it in that way.
Anyway, I thought y'all might find this interesting, so I thought I'd link to it.
~
I am almost at the end of my Now... journey :(
But it's been really good, though! As I said in a comment on my previous entry, the enjoyment of the music as well as the nostalgia has been SUCH a serotonin boost!
Also it's been interesting.
Obviously, the mid-nineties, which was also my mid-teens, was the height of the whole Britpop thing. And the whole Oasis versus Blur thing.
Now. I liked both Oasis and Blur. Emphasis on the past tense because, while I still like Blur, I can't bloody stand Oasis for a variety of reasons.
I've thought recently it would be nice to get hold of their first two albums again, because I loved them as a teenager, and listened to them a lot. Except that for every single Oasis track that's come up on these compilations, I've not been able to listen to more than thirty or so seconds.
And that's because I'm more familiar with The Beatles' back catalogue and it's now SO CLEAR to me how much of a rip off of them Oasis were in the beginning. It's not like Noel Gallagher didn't state they were an influence, because he did, repeatedly. In fact, Oasis were probably my Beatles gateway* (although I came out the other side not that bothered, and I've certainly gone off them a lot more in recent years).
But, like, you can pick almost any Oasis song from their first two albums, and you can bet it will remind you of a specific Beatles song.
Anyway, that alone was enough to make me skip songs I'd once enjoyed listening to. I honestly thought I'd be like, "oh yes, here comes a massive nostalgia hit!" and while that's happened with a lot of stuff, it just didn't with Oasis. I'm not really sad about it, though. Like I said, I went off them a long time ago and literally the only enjoyment I get from them these days is that Wonderwall's become a meme (I don't know how, but it amuses the heck out of me).
(Also this is where I link you to the Mike Flowers Pops version of it because it's hilarious and amazing).
I don't have a logical conclusion to this bit, except that I found that interesting to experience.
~
Meanwhile, in FFXIII, I beat the boss on the Palamecia, on my first go, without even grinding for CP, and using the default team as recommended by the strategy guide, which is arguably a kind of hard mode, since you don't have Haste.
I did it just before Doom ran out (yes, I am terrible; yes, it took me 22 minutes).
But the point is that I did it, and I don't think I ever have before! \o/
I think I must be getting better at video games? I know I've said this in the past, but I think it's true. I only looked at the strategy guide to see what it said, I wasn't intending to follow its guidance - I thought I'd try it, but I'd probably have to have another go with a different set up (i.e. using Sazh for Haste) - but I didn't because ??? somehow I managed it anyway.
And now I am on the Fifth Ark, getting my arse kicked by slugs, because it's always the smaller enemies with drain attacks that I have problems with - see also: the frogs at Sulyya Springs. I can't remember if there is a boss in this area, but I know which area is coming next, and I'm looking forward to it (mostly).
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*I mean obviously, I'd grown up hearing Beatles songs, because it could be argued that they are/were Britain's most well-known band. But there was a lot I wasn't familiar with, because neither of my parents had any of their albums, so I only heard select handfuls of stuff on the radio.
Right now I should be out doing my food shop (my fridge is woefully empty; I probably should've done it the end of last week, but I am numptie), except that I'm having to wait in for a postal delivery. I know when it should (roughly) arrive, but I didn't trust the bus service to get me back from town in time for the start of the slot.
Anyway, it is the other book I ordered with my Xmas money, and it is all about collage! I have actually wanted it for a couple of years now, but thought it was appropriate to get now since I want to get better at collaging.
To keep me amused, besides yourself, dear internet, and my FFXIII game guide, I have a whole heap of CDs.
I got a whole bunch of the Now That's What I Call Music CDs second-hand, specifically the compilations from the early to mid nineties (I'd like from 1 to 41*, ideally, since that covers ~the first eighteen years of my life). So I'm currently listening to late 1992 (Now 23) and oh boy is this nostalgic.
I listened to the radio A LOT as a kid, because there were no other options. I only had a radio/cassette player, and very few things outside of audiobooks to listen to, so the radio it was. So a lot of this music is burnt into my braincells, even if I think I'm not going to recognise it from reading the title of the song.
And this made think about how (some) people on the internet complain that no-one listens to full albums any more because Spotify exists, and you shuffle your mp3s on your phone/music device. But like. Radios also exist? As I mentioned above, that's what I grew up with, so while I do enjoy a full album, I also really enjoy a mix of music, because that's more what I'm used to, and probably why trying to choose an entire album by someone to listen to causes me problems because I can't decide. I sort of like having that decision taken away from me, which is what radio stations/compilation albums do.
Also I have realised, over the last couple of years, that I am as far away from the nineties now as my parents were when they used to listen to Sounds of the 60s when I was a kid, and oh wow that makes me feel old. And the fact that Radio 2 now does a Sounds of the 90s does absolutely nothing to help with this.
Is this entry coherent? Probably not. All you really need to know is that I'm having good times waiting for a book to arrive. And then I will have even better times once the book is here and I am back from shopping :D
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ETA: OMG I completely forgot this (SuperMarioLand - Ambassadors of Funk) existed, and is the only reason I am familiar with Mario main theme at all! [/eta]
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*I have 42, and I know maybe a handful of the songs on it. I think I was at college when it came out? Anyway, 42 feels like a good place to stop, although 50 would take me to the year I finished college.
Anyway, it is the other book I ordered with my Xmas money, and it is all about collage! I have actually wanted it for a couple of years now, but thought it was appropriate to get now since I want to get better at collaging.
To keep me amused, besides yourself, dear internet, and my FFXIII game guide, I have a whole heap of CDs.
I got a whole bunch of the Now That's What I Call Music CDs second-hand, specifically the compilations from the early to mid nineties (I'd like from 1 to 41*, ideally, since that covers ~the first eighteen years of my life). So I'm currently listening to late 1992 (Now 23) and oh boy is this nostalgic.
I listened to the radio A LOT as a kid, because there were no other options. I only had a radio/cassette player, and very few things outside of audiobooks to listen to, so the radio it was. So a lot of this music is burnt into my braincells, even if I think I'm not going to recognise it from reading the title of the song.
And this made think about how (some) people on the internet complain that no-one listens to full albums any more because Spotify exists, and you shuffle your mp3s on your phone/music device. But like. Radios also exist? As I mentioned above, that's what I grew up with, so while I do enjoy a full album, I also really enjoy a mix of music, because that's more what I'm used to, and probably why trying to choose an entire album by someone to listen to causes me problems because I can't decide. I sort of like having that decision taken away from me, which is what radio stations/compilation albums do.
Also I have realised, over the last couple of years, that I am as far away from the nineties now as my parents were when they used to listen to Sounds of the 60s when I was a kid, and oh wow that makes me feel old. And the fact that Radio 2 now does a Sounds of the 90s does absolutely nothing to help with this.
Is this entry coherent? Probably not. All you really need to know is that I'm having good times waiting for a book to arrive. And then I will have even better times once the book is here and I am back from shopping :D
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ETA: OMG I completely forgot this (SuperMarioLand - Ambassadors of Funk) existed, and is the only reason I am familiar with Mario main theme at all! [/eta]
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*I have 42, and I know maybe a handful of the songs on it. I think I was at college when it came out? Anyway, 42 feels like a good place to stop, although 50 would take me to the year I finished college.
I got ending B of Nier this morning and OMFG I DID NOT STOP CRYING UNTIL HALFWAY THROUGH THE CREDITS.
(and even then, just hearing Ashes of Dreams sets me off. UGHHHHH).
( HONKING GREAT SPOILERS! )
TL;DR version: UGH THIS GAME HURTS SO MUCH. SO SO MUCH.
(and even then, just hearing Ashes of Dreams sets me off. UGHHHHH).
( HONKING GREAT SPOILERS! )TL;DR version: UGH THIS GAME HURTS SO MUCH. SO SO MUCH.
You might or might not want to know this, but from tonight, I'm going to start making posts as I play through FFXII for YES, THE FIFTH TIME.
I am only in Nalbina Dungeon right now, and the amount of things I have noted/want to say is incredible for me. I dare say it helped that I'm reading through Livvy's FFXII/International Zodiac Job System* posts, AND that I am reading the posts on![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
moogle_university (which is, let's be fair, what started this because I couldn't not comment, and then I was like, DANG).
So I'm mentioning this because:
~ I thought you'd like to know
~ if you're not interested, you can scroll past OR GET THIS: there is a way to block tags on here, but I don't know it. So you can effectively block all my posts (which will be tagged with jae plays ffxii. I was going to go with something more sarcastic, but what do you know I can't think of anything).
Don't expect masses of commentary or coherency or clever stuff because that's just not me. Most of it will probably be "huh, never noticed THAT before". Probably.
Right. I'm off to free mah Landisian boyfriend!
Start to Bhujerba ---->
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*I want to play this version SO BADLY. Apparently XII gets an HD release if X/X-2 HD sell well, so maybe, like those two, XII's version will be the international release.
I am only in Nalbina Dungeon right now, and the amount of things I have noted/want to say is incredible for me. I dare say it helped that I'm reading through Livvy's FFXII/International Zodiac Job System* posts, AND that I am reading the posts on
moogle_university (which is, let's be fair, what started this because I couldn't not comment, and then I was like, DANG).So I'm mentioning this because:
~ I thought you'd like to know
~ if you're not interested, you can scroll past OR GET THIS: there is a way to block tags on here, but I don't know it. So you can effectively block all my posts (which will be tagged with jae plays ffxii. I was going to go with something more sarcastic, but what do you know I can't think of anything).
Don't expect masses of commentary or coherency or clever stuff because that's just not me. Most of it will probably be "huh, never noticed THAT before". Probably.
Right. I'm off to free mah Landisian boyfriend!
Start to Bhujerba ---->
~*~
*I want to play this version SO BADLY. Apparently XII gets an HD release if X/X-2 HD sell well, so maybe, like those two, XII's version will be the international release.
OK IGNORE WHAT I SAID ABOUT BASCH IN THE LAST POST. I WAS WRONG, BECAUSE I FREQUENTLY AM.
OK.
Good.
(But you know, the more I look at him, the more the likeness between the two of them is apparent and man they really look like each other in that opening bit in Nalbina which I SUPPOSE is a REALLY GOOD THING because THAT'S THE POINT).
I am thinking all the things about FFXII, and it is ALLlassarina's fault. Also bad(ish) things are happening in my RL (which I'd rather not talk/think about), and I think, quite honestly, that FFXII is my hide-my-head-in-the-sand fandom, given that the last time I was THIS into it was in 2008. That was the year we found out my dad had cancer and he died. So. Yeah. I think I spent more time rolling around in Ivalice than I did on college work.
(I pick it up, and I put it down, but it's one of those things I definitely don't stop being into. Because IVALICE).
(Talking of which, and in case you haven't experienced my terrible sense of humour at work, here's a tweet I made earlier:
Yeah)
OH ALSO did you know Gabranth's accent is supposed to be New Zealand? He sounds like no New Zealander I've ever heard or spoken to. Also forever questioning why he sounds the way he does and Basch is American accented. If they come from the same place, surely they should sound relatively the same? (I say relatively because I'm thinking Gabranth tried to hide his accent somewhat even though I have no idea what a Landisian accent is supposed to be like (though going from Basch's, it is some variety of American, like Dalmascan. Unless he changed his accent to fit in too. Because he could have. I AM THINKING ABOUT THIS FAR TOO MUCH). (What I would like, I guess, is some consistency. Pfft).
(Talking of thinking about things too much, I vomited out a bit of meta re: FFXII, but I'll post that another time, because I think I may have other things to say later).
I did actually start playing the game last night. Vaan has just left Rabanastre for the first time. I couldn't play much more than that as I was kind of falling asleep (watching the cutscenes made my eyes hurt). I forgot how awesome Basch is on his chocobo :3 - which reminds me: I'm going to put him on bows for this playthrough, because I nearly always give him swords or hammers, and honestly like to try him on something radically different this time. I've never seen his bow animation.
I always aim to to be really snarky to the game when I play it lately (and take notes!) but the only thing I can ever manage is "So are you!" when she yells at Basch that he's supposed to be dead. And there are never any notes.
This post has not been very coherent, and I'm sorry for that. But I am not good at coherency at the best of times, less so when I am tired.
OK.
Good.
(But you know, the more I look at him, the more the likeness between the two of them is apparent and man they really look like each other in that opening bit in Nalbina which I SUPPOSE is a REALLY GOOD THING because THAT'S THE POINT).
I am thinking all the things about FFXII, and it is ALL
lassarina's fault. Also bad(ish) things are happening in my RL (which I'd rather not talk/think about), and I think, quite honestly, that FFXII is my hide-my-head-in-the-sand fandom, given that the last time I was THIS into it was in 2008. That was the year we found out my dad had cancer and he died. So. Yeah. I think I spent more time rolling around in Ivalice than I did on college work.(I pick it up, and I put it down, but it's one of those things I definitely don't stop being into. Because IVALICE).
(Talking of which, and in case you haven't experienced my terrible sense of humour at work, here's a tweet I made earlier:
"I don't want to work, I want to roll around in Ivalice forever!" > *gets reincarnated as a cockatrice*
Yeah)
OH ALSO did you know Gabranth's accent is supposed to be New Zealand? He sounds like no New Zealander I've ever heard or spoken to. Also forever questioning why he sounds the way he does and Basch is American accented. If they come from the same place, surely they should sound relatively the same? (I say relatively because I'm thinking Gabranth tried to hide his accent somewhat even though I have no idea what a Landisian accent is supposed to be like (though going from Basch's, it is some variety of American, like Dalmascan. Unless he changed his accent to fit in too. Because he could have. I AM THINKING ABOUT THIS FAR TOO MUCH). (What I would like, I guess, is some consistency. Pfft).
(Talking of thinking about things too much, I vomited out a bit of meta re: FFXII, but I'll post that another time, because I think I may have other things to say later).
I did actually start playing the game last night. Vaan has just left Rabanastre for the first time. I couldn't play much more than that as I was kind of falling asleep (watching the cutscenes made my eyes hurt). I forgot how awesome Basch is on his chocobo :3 - which reminds me: I'm going to put him on bows for this playthrough, because I nearly always give him swords or hammers, and honestly like to try him on something radically different this time. I've never seen his bow animation.
I always aim to to be really snarky to the game when I play it lately (and take notes!) but the only thing I can ever manage is "So are you!" when she yells at Basch that he's supposed to be dead. And there are never any notes.
This post has not been very coherent, and I'm sorry for that. But I am not good at coherency at the best of times, less so when I am tired.
So I mainlined Madoka in more or less two days. I had to, or I would have gone looking up spoilers, and that would have been awful because I think it really is one of those series where even if you know THE SLIGHTEST THING, it ruins it.
The only things I can say that aren't honking great spoilers is that you know that bit in the opening credits where Madoka is rolling about in her bed? That's me. That is SO TOTALLY me.
Also that I totally WAS NOT expecting to like this AT ALL. And I have the opening theme stuck in my head now.
Other than that: spoilers this way?! (p.s. this is really stream of consciousness, so it may not make much sense, but will explain why it jumps about all over the place. Please accept my apologies.
( Read more... )But I'm still glad I watched it. I am even thinking about buying the DVD when I have enough spare cash :)
If anyone wants to talk with me about it, go for it! I am all for sharing my squee :D
The only things I can say that aren't honking great spoilers is that you know that bit in the opening credits where Madoka is rolling about in her bed? That's me. That is SO TOTALLY me.
Also that I totally WAS NOT expecting to like this AT ALL. And I have the opening theme stuck in my head now.
Other than that: spoilers this way?! (p.s. this is really stream of consciousness, so it may not make much sense, but will explain why it jumps about all over the place. Please accept my apologies.
( Read more... )But I'm still glad I watched it. I am even thinking about buying the DVD when I have enough spare cash :)If anyone wants to talk with me about it, go for it! I am all for sharing my squee :D
I keep writing posts, and then not finishing them or posting them because I end up thinking, "Who the hell wants to read this??"
And then I get mad at myself because it's my damn blog and if someone doesn't want to read the post, they can scroll right past it, can't they?
It's not helped by being incredibly anxious about...certain things being nebulous right now. I know that is unhelpfully vague, but that's kind of how it feels in my head at the moment.
~*~
Meanwhile, in Kirkwall:
~ I think I've definitely messed something up with Fenris (stupid pissy elf! I wouldn't even mind, but that Gideon Emery's voice just. HNGH). I am tempted to make my next playthrough with a mage and be all "MAGES MAGES RAH RAH RAH!" just so he talks to me and because the stupidness of that whole scenario appeals to me.
~ Anders is bugnuts, right? That's not just me, is it? I like him (and, you know, he's not that bad to look at ;) ), but because he's crazy I can't...I suppose if I was playing a renegade playthrough it wouldn't be so bad but. Dude's paranoid, for a start. A lot of the time now I am wanting to reach in the TV and punch him. (Which is shame, because I'm sure really he's really nice and I want to start an Awakenings game just for comparison*. And cats).
Also I'm pretty sure he thinks I am grade A dumb. Although maybe I would be if I didn't know spoilers. I DON'T KNOW.
~ Isabela's boobs annoy me.
~ I fought a dragon and I won! I am still unsure how this happened (aside than it took FOREVER).
~ I got nothin' else for the time being.
*Anyone who's played it, is it as annoying and boring as DA:O? (Apologies to anyone who likes Origins, but christ almighty, it's like Tolkien wrote a video game. There's a lot of that that could've been chopped out and you'd still have a decent game. For the record, I like Lord of the Rings, but he does have a tendency to go on a bit).
~*~
Oh, also! I have been watching Awake. We have two more episodes to go. I decided to look it up on TV Tropes last night, and discovered it got cancelled! WHHHHHHHY???
It's a good show, and I was enjoying it, and not just because Jason Isaacs is in it (although, you know, that COULD be a reason ;) ).
On the other hand, me and mum have also been watching Once Upon A Time, which I kind of got into because I realised that "Oh, it's that thing with Raphael Sbarge in it!" and now I may have a massive crush on Josh Dallas (who is younger than me! When did that happen?!) But I can't see why you wouldn't have a crush on him (I also kind of have one on Meghan Ory, too, which may be to do with the fact that she is v. tall and has long legs. IDK).
The reason I mention this, aside from to get my crush on Josh Dallas out in the open, is that, on telling mum Awake had been cancelled, she couldn't figure out how come Once Upon A Time had been renewed.
There's nothing wrong with it. It's fluffy, and it's not as bad as I was expecting from what I'd read online. But I enjoy Awake a lot more, not least because it's a police procedural but also because yay nature of reality it's like you read my mind. And I don't even know if there was a point here any more.
~*~
I have been doodling. In pen. Without drawing pencil lines first. IT IS SCARY.
But also kind of cool. Might scan some of it tomorrow (because one of it I want to make into a bookmark, and one of it I want to make into a bigger picture, and paint and then it will be a print).
However, on the other hand, I may spend all of tomorrow staring at stuff by Arthur Rackham, Kay Nielsen, and Edmund Dulac, making weird hand gestures and going, "HOW???" Sounds like a reasonable way to spend a Sunday to me.
And then I get mad at myself because it's my damn blog and if someone doesn't want to read the post, they can scroll right past it, can't they?
It's not helped by being incredibly anxious about...certain things being nebulous right now. I know that is unhelpfully vague, but that's kind of how it feels in my head at the moment.
~*~
Meanwhile, in Kirkwall:
~ I think I've definitely messed something up with Fenris (stupid pissy elf! I wouldn't even mind, but that Gideon Emery's voice just. HNGH). I am tempted to make my next playthrough with a mage and be all "MAGES MAGES RAH RAH RAH!" just so he talks to me and because the stupidness of that whole scenario appeals to me.
~ Anders is bugnuts, right? That's not just me, is it? I like him (and, you know, he's not that bad to look at ;) ), but because he's crazy I can't...I suppose if I was playing a renegade playthrough it wouldn't be so bad but. Dude's paranoid, for a start. A lot of the time now I am wanting to reach in the TV and punch him. (Which is shame, because I'm sure really he's really nice and I want to start an Awakenings game just for comparison*. And cats).
Also I'm pretty sure he thinks I am grade A dumb. Although maybe I would be if I didn't know spoilers. I DON'T KNOW.
~ Isabela's boobs annoy me.
~ I fought a dragon and I won! I am still unsure how this happened (aside than it took FOREVER).
~ I got nothin' else for the time being.
*Anyone who's played it, is it as annoying and boring as DA:O? (Apologies to anyone who likes Origins, but christ almighty, it's like Tolkien wrote a video game. There's a lot of that that could've been chopped out and you'd still have a decent game. For the record, I like Lord of the Rings, but he does have a tendency to go on a bit).
~*~
Oh, also! I have been watching Awake. We have two more episodes to go. I decided to look it up on TV Tropes last night, and discovered it got cancelled! WHHHHHHHY???
It's a good show, and I was enjoying it, and not just because Jason Isaacs is in it (although, you know, that COULD be a reason ;) ).
On the other hand, me and mum have also been watching Once Upon A Time, which I kind of got into because I realised that "Oh, it's that thing with Raphael Sbarge in it!" and now I may have a massive crush on Josh Dallas (who is younger than me! When did that happen?!) But I can't see why you wouldn't have a crush on him (I also kind of have one on Meghan Ory, too, which may be to do with the fact that she is v. tall and has long legs. IDK).
The reason I mention this, aside from to get my crush on Josh Dallas out in the open, is that, on telling mum Awake had been cancelled, she couldn't figure out how come Once Upon A Time had been renewed.
There's nothing wrong with it. It's fluffy, and it's not as bad as I was expecting from what I'd read online. But I enjoy Awake a lot more, not least because it's a police procedural but also because yay nature of reality it's like you read my mind. And I don't even know if there was a point here any more.
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I have been doodling. In pen. Without drawing pencil lines first. IT IS SCARY.
But also kind of cool. Might scan some of it tomorrow (because one of it I want to make into a bookmark, and one of it I want to make into a bigger picture, and paint and then it will be a print).
However, on the other hand, I may spend all of tomorrow staring at stuff by Arthur Rackham, Kay Nielsen, and Edmund Dulac, making weird hand gestures and going, "HOW???" Sounds like a reasonable way to spend a Sunday to me.
My phone is...not quite dead. It is, the internet leads me to believe, stuck in a booting loop. I've tried hard resetting, and that doesn't work. I tried leaving the battery, memory card, and SIM card out for an extended period of time - that didn't work either. The only option for fixing it looks scary and waaaaaaaaaay beyond me, so I guess it's a trip to the T-Mobile shop in Burnley to plead with them to help me.
Trust this to happen when I've sent the N96 away to generate extra cash.
I bought a Samsung because I remembered my last one being stable and reliable (and the N96 drove me bugnuts with its constant crashing. My bro told me about six months after getting the Samsung that I could've fixed the Nokia by flashing it. THANKS BRO). What I didn't remember until today is that I had some problem with that, and had to get it sent away to be fixed.
ARGLE BLARGLE.
I can't go on Monday, since I'm expecting a delivery then, so it will have to be Tuesday. So until then, I will not have a phone. So no texts, no constant twittering, no alerts when I get an email (the most frustrating, as I rely on that for a lot of things).
I half want them to say "Here is a bright and shiny new phone for you to use for the next six months of your contract!"
But they won't.
(I don't have a replacement at home *whines*)
I ended up being so angry (because ARGH NO PHONE) I couldn't even make myself play FFXIII (I KNOW!) so I downloaded the Bejewled 2 demo (going to spring for the full game. Eventually. I've got enough points) and played that for a while. The music is calming and terribly eighties, and I loved it (I love Match 3 games as a rule anyway. You don't know how happy I was that my Xbox came with Hexic HD preloaded. And the music is always vaguely eighties. LOVE IT. The Bejewled music is really Vangelis-esque).
(I did eventually play some FFXIII, and am currently using Vanille in my active team, and every time she's a medic, and she heals someone and says, "It's going to be OK!", I audibly squee. Goddamnit, I love Vanille. Hell, I love everybody in this game).
It's funny. All this time I've said there's no point in me having a mobile phone because I hardly use it. This one goes tits up, and I am bereft. I do not understand.
~*~
I want to spend forever reading RPG books. Partly because I've got two VtM sourcebooks I said I'd read so I can flail withdingsi about stuff (and it's totally unfair because he's looked at Innocents, so he knows some of what I'm flailing about at the moment). And partly because lassarina's posts about RPing have been pinging my brain a lot (uh, I went trawling through her tags after that meta the other day. Heh).
And I want to do something Changeling related. SOMEthing. I don't know what.
So many ideas, so little time. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH.
~*~
Something on tumblr just reminded me of this, and that's that: I love it when people draw fanart of characters in their own style, rather than trying to mimic the style of the original work.
I wish I could do that (I try too hard to mimic, believe it or not, because I'm afraid if I draw it in my style, it won't look like the character that it's meant to. Ridiculous, I know).
~*~
Time to go and plan more ridiculous fanart ideas that I will never ever do. \o/
Trust this to happen when I've sent the N96 away to generate extra cash.
I bought a Samsung because I remembered my last one being stable and reliable (and the N96 drove me bugnuts with its constant crashing. My bro told me about six months after getting the Samsung that I could've fixed the Nokia by flashing it. THANKS BRO). What I didn't remember until today is that I had some problem with that, and had to get it sent away to be fixed.
ARGLE BLARGLE.
I can't go on Monday, since I'm expecting a delivery then, so it will have to be Tuesday. So until then, I will not have a phone. So no texts, no constant twittering, no alerts when I get an email (the most frustrating, as I rely on that for a lot of things).
I half want them to say "Here is a bright and shiny new phone for you to use for the next six months of your contract!"
But they won't.
(I don't have a replacement at home *whines*)
I ended up being so angry (because ARGH NO PHONE) I couldn't even make myself play FFXIII (I KNOW!) so I downloaded the Bejewled 2 demo (going to spring for the full game. Eventually. I've got enough points) and played that for a while. The music is calming and terribly eighties, and I loved it (I love Match 3 games as a rule anyway. You don't know how happy I was that my Xbox came with Hexic HD preloaded. And the music is always vaguely eighties. LOVE IT. The Bejewled music is really Vangelis-esque).
(I did eventually play some FFXIII, and am currently using Vanille in my active team, and every time she's a medic, and she heals someone and says, "It's going to be OK!", I audibly squee. Goddamnit, I love Vanille. Hell, I love everybody in this game).
It's funny. All this time I've said there's no point in me having a mobile phone because I hardly use it. This one goes tits up, and I am bereft. I do not understand.
~*~
I want to spend forever reading RPG books. Partly because I've got two VtM sourcebooks I said I'd read so I can flail with
dingsi about stuff (and it's totally unfair because he's looked at Innocents, so he knows some of what I'm flailing about at the moment). And partly because lassarina's posts about RPing have been pinging my brain a lot (uh, I went trawling through her tags after that meta the other day. Heh).And I want to do something Changeling related. SOMEthing. I don't know what.
So many ideas, so little time. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH.
~*~
Something on tumblr just reminded me of this, and that's that: I love it when people draw fanart of characters in their own style, rather than trying to mimic the style of the original work.
I wish I could do that (I try too hard to mimic, believe it or not, because I'm afraid if I draw it in my style, it won't look like the character that it's meant to. Ridiculous, I know).
~*~
Time to go and plan more ridiculous fanart ideas that I will never ever do. \o/
(I need an ME icon...Hrm).
Actual comments on Mass Effect; I'm really sorry, but all I'm doing is reposting my tweets on the subject. But as you probably know, and the tag points out, coherency is not my strong point. And ME is certainly robbing me of any remaining coherency I had.
Apologies to anyone who's read all this before, although there are some extra thoughts that there isn't space for or that I didn't think of at the time.
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( rambling and spoilers )
But I was right, I did miss it and, although sometimes the fights make me headdesk a bit (I'm just not used to shooters at all, and the concept of taking cover is beyond me), I am really REALLY enjoying it. Best buy this year (and best fandom this year? Possibly, but it's only March, so we'll wait and see, eh?)
Actual comments on Mass Effect; I'm really sorry, but all I'm doing is reposting my tweets on the subject. But as you probably know, and the tag points out, coherency is not my strong point. And ME is certainly robbing me of any remaining coherency I had.
Apologies to anyone who's read all this before, although there are some extra thoughts that there isn't space for or that I didn't think of at the time.
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tlc010( rambling and spoilers )But I was right, I did miss it and, although sometimes the fights make me headdesk a bit (I'm just not used to shooters at all, and the concept of taking cover is beyond me), I am really REALLY enjoying it. Best buy this year (and best fandom this year? Possibly, but it's only March, so we'll wait and see, eh?)
I was awake at half nine this morning. This is clearly unfair.
~*~
Today I stuck black paper to a large ass canvas (whose tear, it turns out, was not as massive as I thought - it's actually pretty piddling, but still making the whole thing unusable for painting on). After the paper comes spray paint, and then...not entirely sure.
Also there might be a lionturtle, if I can convince myself that I'm not going to mess it up. Because lionturtles are awesome.
(I may be a little obsessed with them, but I don't care. Lionturtle!)
Still have no idea what I'm doing, but I don't care. At least I didn't swallow any glue this weekend, which is a bonus I guess.
~*~
Where does the weekend go? Honestly?
~*~
I'm having one of those dos where I wish I had significant or interesting things to say, other than "I watched some TV and stuck some stuff". But I don't, because so little happens in my life (although to be honest, it feels like too much is going on already, even though it's little else than going to work, coming home again, and sleeping).
~*~
Today I stuck black paper to a large ass canvas (whose tear, it turns out, was not as massive as I thought - it's actually pretty piddling, but still making the whole thing unusable for painting on). After the paper comes spray paint, and then...not entirely sure.
Also there might be a lionturtle, if I can convince myself that I'm not going to mess it up. Because lionturtles are awesome.
(I may be a little obsessed with them, but I don't care. Lionturtle!)
Still have no idea what I'm doing, but I don't care. At least I didn't swallow any glue this weekend, which is a bonus I guess.
~*~
Where does the weekend go? Honestly?
~*~
I'm having one of those dos where I wish I had significant or interesting things to say, other than "I watched some TV and stuck some stuff". But I don't, because so little happens in my life (although to be honest, it feels like too much is going on already, even though it's little else than going to work, coming home again, and sleeping).
I need to do my nails again so I stop biting them. Although they are ridiculously long at the moment. It's weird. They've not been this long for a long time.
~*~
So I meant to say earlier when I was rambling about that picture about how samurai hit my warrior kink right on the nail. Because they do. I couldn't really tell you why, but they do. I was going to say some clever shit about it, but I think we all know that I'm not good at that stuff.
~*~
We're watching Excalibur. It is some weird shit, I can tell you that. Also Arthur with a West Country accent is not really doing it for me (probably because of years and years of pretty much no-one giving him one, even though it's likely - if he existed - that he might have had one, what with Received Pronunciation* not being around in the Dark Ages).
*That's "British" accent to you Yanks.
~*~
So I meant to say earlier when I was rambling about that picture about how samurai hit my warrior kink right on the nail. Because they do. I couldn't really tell you why, but they do. I was going to say some clever shit about it, but I think we all know that I'm not good at that stuff.
~*~
We're watching Excalibur. It is some weird shit, I can tell you that. Also Arthur with a West Country accent is not really doing it for me (probably because of years and years of pretty much no-one giving him one, even though it's likely - if he existed - that he might have had one, what with Received Pronunciation* not being around in the Dark Ages).
*That's "British" accent to you Yanks.
I had a whole thing about my id, but it didn't come to a logical conclusion, so I'm not posting it. (Also who really wants to see the inside of my brain? I mean, it's pretty tame in there, but even so? Yeah, I didn't think so).
~*~
Stupid Dragon Quest advert making me look every time it's on TV.
~*~
OH MAN SO TEMPTED. X-Men original cartoon series. There are boxsets on DVD. Amazon has them. SO TEMPTED.
I should be saving up for London Collectormania* (although it totally makes what I said to Chelle true. I try to save for stuff, and then I get distracted by the shiny). But I want the DVDs.
UGH. I wish I could be decisive, or that I had more restraint (I almost do when I have no money, but when I have? No chance. Hell will freeze over first).
Also I found myself going back to look at my Firefly/X-Men crossover o' doom (which, I ought to call it that since I've been working on it for four and a half years now, and it's been going nowhere for that long). I wasn't going to add to it, and then found myself doing exactly that (I was originally looking because there are some nice bits in it, and I was going to post them and say "Look, Imma never finish this, so here's the best bits"). So now there's a bit lopped off the beginning, and a bit more added to what's there.
I mean, it would be all right if it had any semblance of a plot but, according to my notes at the end, I started writing it because I realised that River and Wolverine are very similar (they are, and I know Joss is an X-Men fanboy. A huge one. Go look up Reavers on a Marvel/X-Men wiki. You'll find them, trust me). So I didn't start with a plot in mind, and I've yet to find one (even talking toyenrug, while it did help at the time, it was so long ago (and over the phone) that I have forgotten what we really talked about. Even the notes I made at the time don't really help. I don't know where I'm going with this at all. so I'm just going to shut up about it).
~*~
FOUR DAY WEEKEND NEXT WEEKEND!
Also off to see the nurse a week on Monday and hopefully she can cure me of my emo urges.
~*~
*I know it's a while away yet (end of November), but no harm in starting now. I don't know what ridiculous things I might feel like buying while I'm there. Also I will need to pay for a hotel room. God knows how much that will cost.
~*~
Stupid Dragon Quest advert making me look every time it's on TV.
~*~
OH MAN SO TEMPTED. X-Men original cartoon series. There are boxsets on DVD. Amazon has them. SO TEMPTED.
I should be saving up for London Collectormania* (although it totally makes what I said to Chelle true. I try to save for stuff, and then I get distracted by the shiny). But I want the DVDs.
UGH. I wish I could be decisive, or that I had more restraint (I almost do when I have no money, but when I have? No chance. Hell will freeze over first).
Also I found myself going back to look at my Firefly/X-Men crossover o' doom (which, I ought to call it that since I've been working on it for four and a half years now, and it's been going nowhere for that long). I wasn't going to add to it, and then found myself doing exactly that (I was originally looking because there are some nice bits in it, and I was going to post them and say "Look, Imma never finish this, so here's the best bits"). So now there's a bit lopped off the beginning, and a bit more added to what's there.
I mean, it would be all right if it had any semblance of a plot but, according to my notes at the end, I started writing it because I realised that River and Wolverine are very similar (they are, and I know Joss is an X-Men fanboy. A huge one. Go look up Reavers on a Marvel/X-Men wiki. You'll find them, trust me). So I didn't start with a plot in mind, and I've yet to find one (even talking to
yenrug, while it did help at the time, it was so long ago (and over the phone) that I have forgotten what we really talked about. Even the notes I made at the time don't really help. I don't know where I'm going with this at all. so I'm just going to shut up about it).~*~
FOUR DAY WEEKEND NEXT WEEKEND!
Also off to see the nurse a week on Monday and hopefully she can cure me of my emo urges.
~*~
*I know it's a while away yet (end of November), but no harm in starting now. I don't know what ridiculous things I might feel like buying while I'm there. Also I will need to pay for a hotel room. God knows how much that will cost.
