Football / Gaming = OTP
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seventheWell, I pulled through in my first week of fantasy football - got a win (Head-to-Head league), although my points were atrocious.
(1) So the first mistake I made this week was, apparently, playing Jake Plummer. Now look, if you had Daunte Culpepper vs the Steelers or Plummer (SHUT UP, OK, THE AUTODRAFT GAVE ME SHITE FOR QBs), the safe bet in my mind was on Plummer. But, no. Three interceptions, you motherfucker. Not that Culpepper had a great game, mind you, but at least he didn't get NEGATIVE POINTS. And it's the same thing next week: Culpepper vs Buffalo (more on that later), or Plummer the Fuck again?
(2) JOEY GALLOWAY? WAY TO FUCK ME, MAN, WAY TO FUCK ME. Bitch didn't even get 1 yard. Zero points. Nothing. That's a big fat 0 where there should have been at least an 8.
(3) Rudi Johnson? Love you. Willie Parker? Love you too.
(4) Defenses! What is up with our scoring! When Buffalo's defense racks in more points than Pittsburgh's, there's something going on. AND I FOUND IT. Apparently there are some huge bonus points to be found in good returns - which Buffalo is excellent at, according to their 2005 stats. Little known fact. Soooo... Here's the conundrum:
(4a) Buffalo vs Miami. Miami is probably going to take it - they've got Culpepper, whereas Buffalo's got Fuckhead Losman. And possibly, if I played Culpepper, I could also play RB Ronnie Brown, which might be a good combo. (It's a gamble, too.)
But playing Culpepper conceptually means I shouldn't play Buffalo's defense -- every point Culpepper gets loses me points for them, and every interception the DEF gets loses me points for QB. Which leaves me with Washington's DEF, which isn't bad, but also isn't quite the point-racker that Buffalo appears to be.
And if I play Buffalo's defense, and decide not to play Culpepper, I'm gambling on Plummer again. Who knows?!
THE DRAMA!
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And, today I think I will be bored. So amuse me, fandom!
I was reading![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fanficrants and got to the "Which pairings do you hate?" portion. And I started thinking, and listing by game anything that might totally turn me off. There wasn't much.
I did discover that I'm actually slightly against most FFVII pairing-fic. It's usually done so poorly and there's so much fucked-up-ness in each individual character that gets ignored so often. Gen fic is FTW. Unless it wants to be any sort of post-game Turk/AVALANCHE combination pairing, because I like those dynamics. But even then, I like the gen-dynamics better!
But then I got to FF8, and that's where all my whores live, apparently.
Canon pairings? Squall/Rinoa, Cid/Edea, even Zell/That Library Girl? OK! Semi-implied pairings like Selphie/Irvine, Quistis/Squall, Seifer/Edea? Tasty. Fanon-favourite pairings like Quistis/Seifer? Also tasty.
Slash? Pretty much anyone, if you make it plausible. Squall/Seifer = delicious. Irvine/Anyone = totally awesome because I love Irvine's character. Seifer/Zell? Great dynamic. Squall/Laguna? Cracky, but if you deal with the issues, definitely interesting. Aaaaand the always great combo of Laguna/Kiros/Ward. Mmm!
Girlslash? Um, YES. Rinoa/Quistis is a personal favourite, but really, you can match up any of those ladies and I'm all for it.
OT4: Squall/Rinoa/Seifer/Quistis. Gods, that's amazingly hot.
Even the crackpairings are fantastic. Selphie/Squall or Selphie/Seifer? Imagine working the kinks in that out - it'd be hilarious. Quistis/Irvine? Or Rinoa/Irvine? Both would be amazing to see working properly. Quistis/Laguna? I read one once and it killed me with joy. Zell/Selphie and Zell/Rinoa - both totally ded from cute. And there are lots of minor characters to be fleshed out as well, if people got bored with the main cast.
The only one I honestly can't see working, I think, is Zell/Quistis. And that might just be due to lack of imagination.
(Although this will probably launch my FF8-romance rant again, so I should stop here.)
So - any pairing comments? Plz to be amusing Sev today.
(1) So the first mistake I made this week was, apparently, playing Jake Plummer. Now look, if you had Daunte Culpepper vs the Steelers or Plummer (SHUT UP, OK, THE AUTODRAFT GAVE ME SHITE FOR QBs), the safe bet in my mind was on Plummer. But, no. Three interceptions, you motherfucker. Not that Culpepper had a great game, mind you, but at least he didn't get NEGATIVE POINTS. And it's the same thing next week: Culpepper vs Buffalo (more on that later), or Plummer the Fuck again?
(2) JOEY GALLOWAY? WAY TO FUCK ME, MAN, WAY TO FUCK ME. Bitch didn't even get 1 yard. Zero points. Nothing. That's a big fat 0 where there should have been at least an 8.
(3) Rudi Johnson? Love you. Willie Parker? Love you too.
(4) Defenses! What is up with our scoring! When Buffalo's defense racks in more points than Pittsburgh's, there's something going on. AND I FOUND IT. Apparently there are some huge bonus points to be found in good returns - which Buffalo is excellent at, according to their 2005 stats. Little known fact. Soooo... Here's the conundrum:
(4a) Buffalo vs Miami. Miami is probably going to take it - they've got Culpepper, whereas Buffalo's got Fuckhead Losman. And possibly, if I played Culpepper, I could also play RB Ronnie Brown, which might be a good combo. (It's a gamble, too.)
But playing Culpepper conceptually means I shouldn't play Buffalo's defense -- every point Culpepper gets loses me points for them, and every interception the DEF gets loses me points for QB. Which leaves me with Washington's DEF, which isn't bad, but also isn't quite the point-racker that Buffalo appears to be.
And if I play Buffalo's defense, and decide not to play Culpepper, I'm gambling on Plummer again. Who knows?!
THE DRAMA!
---
And, today I think I will be bored. So amuse me, fandom!
I was reading
fanficrants and got to the "Which pairings do you hate?" portion. And I started thinking, and listing by game anything that might totally turn me off. There wasn't much. I did discover that I'm actually slightly against most FFVII pairing-fic. It's usually done so poorly and there's so much fucked-up-ness in each individual character that gets ignored so often. Gen fic is FTW. Unless it wants to be any sort of post-game Turk/AVALANCHE combination pairing, because I like those dynamics. But even then, I like the gen-dynamics better!
But then I got to FF8, and that's where all my whores live, apparently.
Canon pairings? Squall/Rinoa, Cid/Edea, even Zell/That Library Girl? OK! Semi-implied pairings like Selphie/Irvine, Quistis/Squall, Seifer/Edea? Tasty. Fanon-favourite pairings like Quistis/Seifer? Also tasty.
Slash? Pretty much anyone, if you make it plausible. Squall/Seifer = delicious. Irvine/Anyone = totally awesome because I love Irvine's character. Seifer/Zell? Great dynamic. Squall/Laguna? Cracky, but if you deal with the issues, definitely interesting. Aaaaand the always great combo of Laguna/Kiros/Ward. Mmm!
Girlslash? Um, YES. Rinoa/Quistis is a personal favourite, but really, you can match up any of those ladies and I'm all for it.
OT4: Squall/Rinoa/Seifer/Quistis. Gods, that's amazingly hot.
Even the crackpairings are fantastic. Selphie/Squall or Selphie/Seifer? Imagine working the kinks in that out - it'd be hilarious. Quistis/Irvine? Or Rinoa/Irvine? Both would be amazing to see working properly. Quistis/Laguna? I read one once and it killed me with joy. Zell/Selphie and Zell/Rinoa - both totally ded from cute. And there are lots of minor characters to be fleshed out as well, if people got bored with the main cast.
The only one I honestly can't see working, I think, is Zell/Quistis. And that might just be due to lack of imagination.
(Although this will probably launch my FF8-romance rant again, so I should stop here.)
So - any pairing comments? Plz to be amusing Sev today.
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Date: 2006-09-12 07:46 pm (UTC)The woes of work. :(
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Date: 2006-09-12 07:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-12 07:57 pm (UTC)I think for me it's the fact that I rely on dialogue a lot and AURON DOESN'T TALK. Damn him for being close-mouthed!
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Date: 2006-09-12 08:20 pm (UTC)Is it a Jecht and Braska and Auron - era fic?
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Date: 2006-09-12 08:24 pm (UTC)If Auron was snarky ALL the time, I would be in heaven, writing him constantly. I uh, like snark.
It's kind of like I want to find the people who write Auron well and steal their brainz.
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Date: 2006-09-12 08:58 pm (UTC)And, yeah, uh, I find that I tend to write EVERYONE snarky eventually if I'm not super careful about it. EVERYONE. It is totally my weakness. I have to babysit myself!
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Date: 2006-09-12 09:02 pm (UTC)...I still hide it, though. >.>
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Date: 2006-09-12 09:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-12 09:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-12 09:15 pm (UTC)Although I figure if I managed Gippal, Baralai, and Nooj (who I know next to nothing about!), perhaps I can manage the other.
Although I mostly managed the first by making Gippal take his pants off.