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I was on my profile, going through my interests section with the intent of removing a bunch of stuff and adding a few things, and in the process of ticking off the little boxes in the REMOVE half of things, it occurred to me that a lot of my interests are unique to me. So before I go through and rearrange things, why not dig out that meme, or a section of that meme, or... something meme...

Or basically if you want to know what in the world the story behind anything in my interests section is (including any of the non-unique ones), ask away and I will explain as best I am able.

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I think I'm going to have to ask about immortal blade (of grass), making faces at torn, mako candy, over-applications of logic, pyramid head's abstract cousin, take that you squid!, there were tigers, tidus-bird, the impending cactuar invasion, wait for me!!! *cliff* and the proliferation of Geezards. That's, er, quite a lot, so feel free to explain as many or as few as you'd like. (Your interests section is too interesting.)

Immortal Blade (of grass) is one of many, maaaany in-jokes that was created during lunch break in my senior year of schooling. This was before Advent Children was even announced, so the Final Fantasy VII fandom hadn't exploded back to life yet, and there were a couple million SEPHIROTH IS AWESOME fics that went alone one of two paths: Sephiroth comes back to life and is good or Sephiroth comes back to life and is bad. And so many of them had ridiculous names.

So the group of us that gathered on the bench in the hall somehow ended up musing on/complaining about this, and someone (possibly myself) was ranting about the names people came up with and tosses out "immortal blade" as a (probably) fake example. And from there, we somehow started talking about our own take, where Sephiroth comes back and manages to destroy the planet. Never mind the how, just know that EVERYTHING IS GONE. Everything.

Except.

Wait.

WHAT IS THAT.

It is a blade of grass. How is it not dead? Very strange! But no matter, it is easily resolved. (OR IS IT?) HE ATTACKS IT! But, impossibly, he misses! That is ridiculous, Sephiroth does not miss. He Supernovas it, summons meteors on it... nothing works. The damn thing has a force field or something (we were going for over-the-top ridiculous, not for something that made sense. EXPLANATIONS ARE NOT NECESSARY). So, when lunch ended, Sephiroth had been reduced to crouching down by it and poking at it uselessly. Because. It was an IMMORTAL BLAAAADE. ...of grass.

...I drew a picture of the grass-poking, and I was going to take a photo of it and post it, but I can't find it, so it must be in a box at home. I guess it will have to wait until I go out there next. Which'll probably be soon. But still.

Making faces at Torn, on the other hand, is fairly simple. Daxter doing exactly that all through the second game (and nearly getting murdered for it every single time) never failed to make me laugh. (Sure, he makes faces at everyone, but for some reason, when it is Torn, it is extra hilarious.)

Take that, you squid! is mostly I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH SQUIDS OKAY I have problems with most undersea life at this point, but squids are funny-looking, squid is fun to say, and also when you eat squid, it is kind of like getting revenge on that one from that Ecco game that made you lose a bit more of your sanity than you'd like to admit. It is what (one of the things that) I shouted the first time I finally managed to drop the thing to its death, and also something I have said a couple of times while eating squid. Squid, squid, squid. I think I am probably near, at, or past the comment length limit now.

I have problems with most undersea life at this point

Hee, I love how Ecco-traumatised you are. Which sounds quite sadistic and, to be honest, probably is.

And that Immortal Blade (of grass) story is amazing. Sephiroth is so frustrated. I just love that he notices a blade of grass is still alive and immediately focuses all his energy on destroying it. IT'S JUST A BLADE OF GRASS, SEPHIROTH.

Yes, probably, but you're certainly not alone, there, so I wouldn't worry too much about it yet. (After all, you haven't sent me a drawing of Ecco sitting down to a meal consisting of MY SOUL.) Even I have to admit that, from a distance, it's kind of funny watching me twitch.

IT COULDN'T POSSIBLY HAVE SURVIVED. It's doing it just to spite him. He'll show it who is boss around here! Someday. Eventually. He hopes.

Let's just get the other short ones out of the way, too.

Over-applications of logic is kind of complicated. On one hand, it's just one of those weird things I like to do sometimes, taking something that you absolutely cannot apply logic to and trying, anyway, because what results can be fun. On the other, sometimes, without being aware of it, I just get stuck trying to make logical sense of everything, which usually leads to headaches. I think I got into doing it for fun to help me notice when I'm doing it accidentally (because I've definitely been doing the latter for longer.)

"There were tigers." That's a quote from possibly the best Transformers fic every written. Not really, but it is a parody (thank goodness for the parody tag, or I'd have missed out on it), and I laughed far too much reading it. Sparkloves and Bondmates (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5196522/1/Sparkloves_and_Bondmates). I do not think you need to actually be in the fandom to appreciate what it is mocking.

Pyramid Head's abstract cousin is what I've named a strange statue/bell-tower-thing near where I live. It is a massive triangle (hollow, with a bell in it) on thin little legs and my flatmate asked, "What is that supposed to be" one night and that just popped out of my mouth. I think it was shortly after we'd finished playing Silent Hill 2, because she understood the reference and she wouldn't have otherwise.

Tidus-bird requires an illustration, which will have to come when I go home to find Sephiroth poking grass or something. Girl scouts, we were making little pins on ... that plastic that shrinks when you bake it. I drew a simple little bird on one, and when it baked, the plastic warped just enough to make it look... I, I don't entirely know, but when I saw it and the other girl in the troop who played video games saw it, we both immediately thought it looked like Tidus somehow.

Wait for me!!! *cliff* is from back when my brother and I played with our toys together. (Which was into our teen years, by the way, so that doesn't really limit things too much.) We were playing with our Star Wars figures and, because we had both read the expanded universe books (or some of them, anyway, in my brother's case), we used doubles of figures to stand in for some of the book-only characters. One of these figures, currently being controlled by me (for the life of me I can't remember if it was Jacen or Anakin Solo - both book-only characters - but we tended to have Jacen be a bit of an idiot, so I suspect it was him), was walking along the edge of the cliff/table, when I slipped and he went tumbled down into the river below. My brother, who'd been tagging after Jacen with C-3P0, we don't know why, but he interrupted whatever he was saying to cry out, "Master [Jacen], what are you doing? ... WAIT FOR MEEE!" and then he threw 3P0 off the table and we both kind of stood there for a minute staring at the two of them on the floor and then we laughed until we couldn't breathe.

WHOOPS TOO LONG

Geezards (how many times are they in there? It is maybe a bit excessive, isn't it...) and I have a strange relationship. I think I've talked about "geezards coming... for you!" before... yeah, here (http://twilit-wanderer.livejournal.com/43505.html#cutid1), which also explains my strange obsession with geezards, and also I used the exact same sentence, that's weird.) Geezards in general I added after I looked at my interests one day and saw it had been overrun with geezards (fitting, as the fields near Galbadia are also overrun, and seriously how did I never encounter one until so late in the game?). The Littlest Geezard was - wait, I think I've mentioned this? Maybe not. I've told someone, somewhere. Anyway, sometimes at work, when I was bored, I would let my brain wander and one of the things I would think about was THE LITTLEST GEEZARD and his grant adventures in the great, wide world. Like finding a shiny rock on the beach, how exciting! He was cute. I should dig him out of his geezard-home and play with him again. Geezard jerky and geezard leather, I don't know. I think geezard jerky came first and was just some random comment about strange things you could do with geezard, since there were ten thousand dead ones now. Turn it into jerky. I don't know. That was a late-night conversation, so it doesn't make sense when you look at in the day, but the ideas amused me.

Mako candy. IT'S BAD FOR YOU. Do not eat it. The same girl who thought the bird looked like Tidus liked to pick on me (jokingly, there was nothing cruel about it, though I was kind of messed up at that point in my life so sometimes I took it way too seriously and got really offended) about this folder I have that I used to carry around. It's where I store anything I'm writing or drawing, or notes from people, or just random information or images. She started calling it Mother (as a Jenova reference) and told me I should stop listening to it because it was only telling me lies. Somewhere along the way, one of us made a comment about Hojo and candy and her having eaten mako in the guise of candy (and slowly turning into a weird mutant as a result) sort of became another joke. Whenever I'd do anything weird or stupid, she'd tell me to stop listening to the folder, and whenever she did anything weird or stupid, I'd tell her to stop eating that, it wasn't candy, and by the way how many tentacles had she had to cut off this time around? But, seriously, if anyone ever offers you candy and it is glowy and green, do not eat it.

ALSO STARING THE GIRL FROM ABOVE (man, we had so many in-jokes. Something like half of my interests can tie back to her), CACTUARS. They are evil, do not trust them, they are coming. This starte--- this is going to be too long for this comment. OKAY. Please have closed all the tags properly this time, self.

OKAY CACTUARS WHERE WAS I oh yes.

SO. Remember in Final Fantasy X there's that whole side quest where you have to find the Cactuars who have gone missing, and most of it's just running Bikanel, but there's that one on the deck of the airship? Well, I was at said friend's house and it was late at night and we were feeling kind of goofy (as you do when you are several hours past your usual bedtime), and she was watching me play around on my FFX file. I think I'd finished the story (aside from the final battles) at that point. Anyway, I ended up doing the cactuar search, and we were doing surprisingly well at locating the cactuars, except we were getting kind of twitchy from it, too. I think they gave kind of vague hints (or they felt vague at OH GOD o'clock, anyway), but we kept going straight to them? So... many... augh. But then, one we just could not figure out, so we'd given up and were going to run away in frustration (joking along the way about the thing waiting for us on the airship or something equally ridiculous) and come back later, and then, as we approached the save point, we saw it warp away and were just horrified. CACTUAR ON THE LOOSE IN THE WORLD AND WE'D JUST BEEN TALKING ABOUT - ! ADSYGFRJK but whatever we were done with this NO MORE and so we went to the deck to run around and there it was.

WAITING.

It would have made less of an impact if we hadn't just said something about I BET THE DAMN THING IS ON OUR AIRSHIP WAITING FOR US and then it was.

So that, combined with their evil little chitter, had us convinced they were watching us. It built up a bit from there, but probably wouldn't have gone anywhere except then Volt (from The Bouncer wears a jacket with an anti-Cactuar picture on the back, and of course this is Square trying to warn us. So then it spiraled out into this huge conspiracy thing and we waged war with the cactuar in what ways we could. (One time, I wrote her a note that, since she didn't really write notes or letters back to me, explained this as her having been kidnapped by cactuars, so I had to invade their base to rescue her. Also possibly something I have mentioned? I can't keep track.) But, really, cactuars are evil. All those needles. Lots of damage. Ow.

AND I ACTUALLY HAVE ONE OF THE IMAGES THAT RESULTED FROM THIS though I didn't draw this one, it was a note she handed to me. Haha! (http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn172/Hisi_MT/Photos/Scan/Cactuar.png)

CACTUARS ARE COMING. SPREAD THE WORD. JOIN THE RESISTANCE. BE PREPARED.

These explanations are all amazing. I am having difficulty imagining how a bird could have turned into Tidus! And the Littlest Geezard: so cute. And, yes, the fact that a Cactuar is able to get onto the airship is a bit terrifying.

(Oh, that Cactuar sidequest. I couldn't bring myself to kill the little Cactuars. I just kept getting the YOU'RE A LOSER sphere or whatever it was called.)

I am sorry for taking so long to respond! I just didn't want to give too rubbish and short a response to all these comments of amazing. APPARENTLY I SORT OF FAILED AT THAT ANYWAY.

There is just something in its expression somehow... I don't know. I really need to get home while I have a car. TOMORROW WHEN I AM NOT WORKING PERHAPS.

(Yeah, I got those, too. I tried a couple times but I never actually succeeded, which I think only fueled the CACTUARS ARE EVIL and WATCHING and MOCKING US commentary, really.)

I am just glad they are amusing to other people and not just myself!

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Some of these are going to be looooong

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Hopefully with less errors this time.

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