all made up with nowhere to go

In the spirit of buying games I already own, I bought Bejeweled 2 from Steam, so that I could finally add some ding dang friends on there. I also bought Bejeweled 3, and the most cursed game of all: Among Us. I will likely never play it, but since it was there for the buying, I thought I might as well support the devs, given how obsessed I've been with it for the last eighteen months.

Anyway, both Bejeweleds were dirt cheap because there is currently a sale on some, but not all, EA games, so I got both for £1.06 each. Which is WAY less than B2 cost me in Microsoft Points on my Xbox back in the day.

I was also tempted to buy a game called Stacklands, which is a deck building game, and the art looks cute, but I wasn't sure my processor was fast enough for it (booooo). So I got the Munguses instead.

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I keep forgetting to link to this!

This is Billy the cat, and he hopes you're all enjoying the spring sunshine as much as he is. (link goes to casual UK on reddit).

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In other news, I have discovered that the notebook I am using as a sketchbook does not work well as a sketchbook, which shouldn't be a surprise, but is. So I am attempting to get through it as quickly as possible by using it as a lettering practice book. Which makes me feel uncomfortable, as I have some weird hang-up about using too many pages in a sketchbook in one day*. But I'm going to do it anyway. Maybe it will help get rid of that weird hang-up.

Anyway, the next sketchbook I have in mind to use is an actual sketchbook, so hopefully we shouldn't have this problem next time!

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*I don't know why, and I have no idea where it came from.

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.

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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.

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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).

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Time to go and plan more ridiculous fanart ideas that I will never ever do. \o/