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• 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.

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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."