a more reasonable update

[seventhe]

• Today is the first day I've worked in 2012 and not had a single meeting. The next after this? 05 March. What the hell.


• At 620 comments - and growing - I'm pretty sure this is the greatest FF Kissing Battle we've had yet. Even if you're not on a team, come on in and play!
  • I'm writing tons of Final Fantasy / Gundam Wing crossovers. SHOOT ME.


• So I've been diagnosed with arthritis in my big toe. The injury's a long story; the tl;dr version is that I'm off any kind of high-impact stress on it for 2-3 weeks and I maybe shouldn't run very much in my future also (depends on how it "heals" (since arthritis doesn't exactly, you know, fix itself: HEY CARTILAGE. GROW BACK ALREADY)). On one hand: OH DARN I DON'T LIKE RUNNING ANYWAY. On the other hand: I am a stubborn Taurus fuck and I don't like the idea of my body winning the war against me when I'm only 30 years old. CUE ANGST AND SPACEHEARTING.


• Oh, and I'm on goddamned prescription drugs again. AGAIN. (No drinking for 2-3 weeks? LIKE FUCK YOU SAY.)


• It's 20 February and I have yet to do a single goddamn thing for my graduate thesis. I hate school so much.


• Speaking of not working on grad school: !! My schedule for the next few weekends is like being PUNCHED IN THE FACE WITH AWESOME. It goes like this: DISTANT WORLDS --> BJORK (!!!!!!!!!!) --> possible trip to the plant which is shitty --> PITTSBURGHCON --> LESBIAN GARAGE SALE SHIT SHOW --> Acen --> MY GODDAMNED 30th BIRTHDAY --> Katy's graduation --> CABINCON PART I ("A HOT TUB IS NOT CAMPING"). I am really not leaving my 20s quietly.


• I cleaned up my tags on DW this afternoon. I'm finally back under 1000. I really need to do the same on LJ, but LJ lacks the AMAZEBALLS "tag merge" tool that Dreamwidth has, for when you type a tag in just a little bit wrong and end up with 3 variants on the tag, "I am a vain fuck." (This is a true story!).


• The word "amazeballs" was actually in TIME magazine BTW.


• Zero ships 3x4 is one of the most hilarious things I've read all day. I would easily say "the most hilarious" on any other day but as the other things going on in my email right now are (1) a serious discussion on which crossover troll fic idea is the lube for the other and (2) the creation of an Opera in at least 14 movements about The Shit Show Of Our Lives, there's some stiff competition in my Inbox today. Nevertheless, read that shit.


• I have not played more than a couple hours of FFXIII. Don't judge me. So far the PS3 has basically been a very expensive way to steam music and Netflix. Winning.


• Going to rewatch some Sherlock this week. Might have intelligent thoughts about it. Might just reblog more shite on Tumblr.

And that's the news.

Comments

[novel_machinist]

<3!

OUR THIRTIES WILL START WITH A GODDAMN BANG


OH GODDAMN DO NOT WANT THE NEXT TEN YEARS TO BE ANY LESS AMAZEBALLS

[seventhe]

NOPE

30S MUST >>>>> 20S

THAT'S A FUCKING CHALLENGER

[novel_machinist]

WE GOT THIS BITCH

[seventhe]

TURKS ARE ALL OVER THIS SHIT

I'M SORRY I BARFED WORDS ALL OVER THIS COMMENT

[lindorie]

I haven't played more than a couple hours of FFXIII either. I do appreciate the abundance of save points; it's like the game knows I have super ADHD and/or require frequents bouts of napping/distracting activities. There's that and that fact that I just haven't been sucked in by the plot yet. Sure, I adore a few characters here and there, like Sazh (omg Sazh), but... yeah. Not very many feelings about this game. It very easily gets stuck on the back burner XD

I have been using my PS3 an awful lot for Netflix and, well, Netflix.

Reading about your running injury really makes me want to lend you my Kindle copy of Born to Run. It starts out with McDougall talking about his injuries and the cortisone shots he keeps having to put in his foot and his doctors being all like "dude, you are not built for this. My prescription is for you to STOP RUNNING." There's a faction of people who've taken the word of barefoot running completely out of this book, but honestly, that's only a very small part of it. It's more like how the heck do these people run these ridiculous mileages without hurting themselves? and little bits here and there about how we evolved to be endurance runners. But then, uh, modern technology happened and if the brain/body can be lazy, then goddamnit it will be lazy. (Word.)

I like rereading it whenever I'm feeling particularly hateful towards running (because of my stupid aksdjf;akdjf;akdj knee).

♥ TIMES A FUCKING MILLION

Re: I'M SORRY I BARFED WORDS ALL OVER THIS COMMENT

[seventhe]

I'll take the Kindle copy of that book whenever I get my sorry arse around to giving you Dresden Files ~!!

I have the same exact feelings about FFXIII (CAN WE TALK ABOUT SAZH... OMFG) with the added bonus of not being able to play the game because it's too goddamn shiny for my tv. I am a fucking winner.

Re: I'M SORRY I BARFED WORDS ALL OVER THIS COMMENT

[lindorie]

The game is definitely too shiny for words! It took me a bit to adjust and stop dying because OMFG, THE SHINY, WHY SO SHINY and then SUDDENLY DEAD. Was it just me or did the whole Paradigm Shift thing sound incredibly silly and feel silly until you got used to it?

BUT SAZH, OMG SAZH. Y'know, I think he's the only character in the game I actually give a shit about. I don't know how to put words to it, aksdjfa;lkdjf;akd he's just awesome, okay? IT MUST BE THE HAIR. I love him not only because he's hilarious, or because he has an effin' chocobo in his HAIR, but because of his maturity, his interactions with the cast, and his own sad backstory. he was the first character I did not want to immediately punch upon his introduction. (I'M LOOKING AT YOU, SNOW.)

I'm really liking the game mechanics, and the frequent save points. What I think is killing this game for me is its story: there's no single unifying thing about it that compels me to give a fuck. To me, there's this distinct lack of a rich, vibrant world I can attach myself to (and never let go and write ALL THE BAD FIC, BAHAHAHA). It's shiny, but without all the substance I've come to love from the previous Final Fantasy games. I want to keep playing it and try to prove myself wrong, but hahahahaha who am I kidding

MORE WORDS COME IN FROM AFAR

[seventhe]

SUDDENLY DEAD: UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM OKAY I did this like four times in a row. There's some big battle right after the part where you find Serah's crystal (after all the shit crashes) (yeah I am really not very far in the game at all) (shut up world) where you fight some giant .. worm .. thing? And I was like, SHINY SHINY SHINY FUCK WHY AM I DEAD, literally four times in a row. I thought Becky was going to die for laughing at me (so I put her in charge of watching my HP). I JUST SERIOUSLY COULD NOT SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON. SUDDENLY: HAVE DIED.

WHAT THE FUCK GAME

Paradigm Shifts: seemed and felt like it was just MORE SHINY at first: OH HEY LOOK YOU CAN DO THIS THING. I felt like it needed to have costume changes like FFX-2 or something because, again: too shiny for my old stupid eyes to track. I'm much more getting the hang of it now but at first it was definitely BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWW WHAT ARE YOU

Anyway, Sazh. He really is literally the only character I have any fucks for. I like Lightning, but it's in a vague hey cool badass lady sword fighter character way: I don't care about her yet. She has given me absolutely nothing, absolutely no reason to engage with her or invest in her. (Yet; I hear she gets better.) Snow and Hope both can fall off a cliff (OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH DID YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE? TOO SOON???) and Vanille I think I would like better if her voice acting wasn't full of sex noises.

BUT SAZH OMGGGGGGGGGGGG. He's the most human, and the nicest, and the funniest, and the most straightforward and there is a chocobo living in his hair. He is my favorite forever.

And yeah: I am finding the game too confusing to like right now. And this is from someone who loves Final Fantasy VIII. The gameplay is too confusing to get into; the characters are weak; and the storyline is too confusing for me to give a single goddamn fuck about. Like: I am ALL FOR stories that don't give it all away right at the beginning. THAT'S GREAT. But you have to start somewhere the player can start fucking CARING about this.

FFXIII feels like it threw me into the middle of a bunch of assholes, and I'm like "...so why do I keep playing you."