Currents of Time

TODAY I WENT TO NY AND BOUGHT A NEW DISH RACK. Because it was there and ours is gross. And then I watched Supernatural's "Fan Fiction" episode again because I got earwormed pretty bad yesterday (it was still glorious), and THEN I posted yesterday's entry because whoops, it was still sitting there in an open tab. The perils of napping too close to bedtime, guys.

But now I am here to answer squeemu's burning question: What are my favorite types of character interactions?

AND THIS WAS SURPRISINGLY HARDER THAN I'D THOUGHT IT WOULD BE (aaand now it's after midnight when I'm finally getting post hit OH WELL hello backdate button. ... what? I almost finished in time!) because I know what I like when I see/read it, but articulation is not my forte. Y-you know. In case you'd not picked up on that?

I really like, and I was sort of surprised to think of this but, I actually really like family interaction. So long as it's not, you know, sitcom-type perfect family bullshit and the like. (Pretty sure part of this is related to my frustration with my father's seeming obsession with us being/acting like a perfect sitcom family.) Maybe more like inter-family drama? Only without it being **DRAMA** if you know what I mean? The bad, stereotype high school-esque stuff. For example! Supernatual has a lot of crap, but the dynamics between Sam and Dead, and John and the boys, I love them. Do they always get along? Not freaking hardly. And it leads to some pretty epic badtimes (nothing too major, I mean. Only a few, um, almost-apocalypses). And a lot of times you kinda want to slap them and force them to sit down and actually talk about shit instead of the usual NOT, which leads to the above.

Also I'll always be a little annoyed at Square for never actually coming out and doing anything with the Squall and Laguna PROBABLY RELATED thing. I have no idea how that'd play out, but I'd want to see it. (Laguna is one of those characters who does a lot of things that make me really want to not like him, but at the same time I kind of can't dislike him? We have a complicated relationship.)


Another thing I like: BICKERING. oh god yes bickering. Not straight out fighting, although that's allowed. Things where main characters, or maybe even the whole cast, just cannot get along but they all totally love each other, anyway, are so, so wonderful. ;_; so wonderful I'd maybe put FFXIII in for this, because they sure spend a lot of time not getting along, and I LOVE THEM ALL AAAAAAA.


Also, socially incapable people trying to interact with anyone, basically. Though only sometimes, because when it's done wrong it just makes me want to hide because Secondhand Awkward squick. (Confession: I cannot watch The Big Bang Theory, even though I know it's super popular, because IT'S NOT FUNNY, GUYS. It's uncomfortable and icky.) Like I have a completely irrational sort spot for IDW Prowl. He's hopeless, and he's only gotten moreso, AND YET I basically clap my hands with delight every time he shows up. Or... or possibly that's just because MTMTE is fucking perfect? I don't read much of the other ongoing (I think they changed its title, since RID is going to be the next cartoon series?) because a lot of what goes on in there annoys me, I just check in occasionally. So I guess I can't totally say that about IDW Prowl, since I don't really follow the story he mainly appears in. His Constructicon groupies will forever make me laugh, though, even if the situation itself doesn't.

MTMTE WHIRL, THOUGH, HOW 'BOUT HIM? He hates everyone and yet he keeps doing things that make you think he's just lonely and wants to be friiieeeends. But he is so hilariously bad at it.

... hm.You could probably put Avatar's Zuko in here, too, actually. lolzuko.


Finally, I'm a total sap for relationships of any sort where the characters don't need to communicate vocally/verbally/with words (however they are capable of using words, writing/signing/whatever) to understand each other.


(sunday morning edit: after posting, I totally forgot to go back and uncheck the box that hides this entry from reading lists / allowed me to date it for last night instead of like 1 am this morning. Sorry! It should be showing up now!)

What am I going to do with myself when I run out of meme? I will keep coming here to post and not have anything at all to say.

30 Days of Video Games

( Day 26 - Best voice acting )

Gotta get up early and run a bunch of errands before work tomorrow. aaaaa stress.

You know it's going to be one of those days when your alarm clock goes off and you respond by trying to answer the phone.

Actually, aside from wandering about in a daze, today wasn't so bad!

Mom did not get home from California today, because I guess there's Weather in the midwest. Or there was. Or... something. Basically, the flight she'd be leaving on was delayed in New York, so it would arrive and thus depart late from CA, and while that in itself wasn't a problem, she would miss her connecting flight and there wasn't another flight with open seats until sometime tomorrow, so... she's staying over there a bit longer. Because at least this way she has a bed! Yaaay!

Also, a little earlier this week, my Classics Universe 2.0 Generations, dang it, why do they have to keep changing the naaaame Red Alert arrived! HE IS SO PRETTY. He is currently watching over my room from the bookshelf, with his WST counterpart. (They think it would be more effective if I moved one of them over to the other side of the room, but the top of my wardrobe is currently rather messy, so, no.)


Anyway, this weekend is the annual ... uh. Giant flea market called Harvest Market that one of the local churches puts on but which everyone in a couple miles' radius participates in. PUMPKIN EVERYTHING it is so exciting. I am going to attack the book barn, because, come on, a bag full of used books for maybe a dollar? I AM SO THERE. (Anyone have any book recommendations? I am always up for those. ...Anyone looking for a particular book, on that note? No promises, but I can at least check.) And I made sure to get the weekend off from work, so, whoo. Uninterrupted eating of delicious soup and pumpkin muffins and fresh cider and cider doughnuts and... lots of other tasty things! Too many to list.


Beyond that, NOTHING IS INTERESTING. Whee!

But it's midnight, I'm rather tired, and I have - I'm not exaggerating - 600 pictures and videos to sort out before I can make a proper post.

BUT I WILL TELL YOU THIS: Dinobot made it into the Hall of Fame (and Scott McNeil apparently cried a little)! BOOYAH! (They made little videos for each character inducted, and each nominee, and the induction ones were nice but the nominee ones were hilarious. I was nearly in tears at some of them, especially Soundwave's.

Also apparently in Bob Budianski's original character bio, Ratchet was female. Which is actually kind of awesome. Hasbro said he had to change it. Also who's going next year, since we have almost a full year in advance to plan (how nice). (I already have a room, haha.)

I WILL CATCH UP ON THINGS TOMORROW.

Well, Fairy, Kujata, Remora, Midgardsormr, Hades, Seraph, Garuda, and Pandemonium, looks like tomorrow's the big day. (Suppose we could say the same for Sylph, Valefore, Leviathan, Quetzalcoatl, Cerberus, Bismark, Lakshmi, and Asura, too, though more for the population boom.) Hope nothing goes weird in the merge. (The merge is occurring during an update and Square always always always manages to make some fantastic error or another during updates. It's always kind of fun to see what they broke this time, but now it has the potential to ... really do some damage.)


Can't say I envy any of 'em, but the whole thing has me oddly sentimental.


(THEY ARE GAME SERVERS. THEY ARE NOT EVEN YOUR SERVER.)



Perhaps is the the fatigue.


I was up waaaaay too late this morning talking to people online, since, hey, I didn't have work today! So it'll be fiiiine!

9:30 or so (that's not quite 5 hours of sleep), work calls in a panic and I find myself marching in - IN THE SNOW, hahaaargh, I knew that was going to happen... - and working all day. At least I didn't have to close. (And, really, I can't complain about an extra five and a half hours on the paycheck. 'Specially not when I can't even remember most of it. I AM SO OUT OF IT. And going to bed in like three minutes, I hope, hooooly cow.)


Edit:
Down at 11 am (Eastern), March 22. Already dropped from the status list.


Edit II:
Maintenance has been extended to at least fourteen 15(!) hours. The "joke" is that they accidentally deleted everyone. (Whether that means everyone-everyone, everyone being transferred, or everyone but the folks intended to be transferred depends on who you ask.)

Edit III:
Total time was about 15 1/2 hours. Woo, that's a while. Apparently the towns on the merged servers are all broken. TIME FOR EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE! YAAAY!

...and a refresher for anyone else, I guess?

( Oh, right, let's cut this... )

Feel free to ask any questions about me or my life!

H -- For some reason, that lone letter was saved as a draft. No wonder I had no idea what would be restored when I clicked 'okay'...

I hope everyone had a nice day, regardless of whether you celebrate Christmas or not!

I appear to have survived the day without any horrible or violent incidents. Largely because my brother and mother have been running interference, but also apparently because the man has finally begun to understand that, yes, actually, some of this (possibly even most of) situation is his fault. Sure, I have to make it to almost 10 tomorrow morning, but most of the following hours will see one or both of us asleep, anyway. So I'm counting it as a success. (Five minutes into the future, the house explodes and takes half the planet with it.)

I'm pretending my mother was amused when I gave her Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. I don't think she'll play it (they haven't had the Wii on it, um. Months, anyway.) She did seem to actually like the rest of the stuff my brother and I came up with. (We didn't really get my father anything. He didn't want anything, in our defense. My brother's situation was fairly similar, so I think mom and dad are planning on just giving him some money to help pay for his new computer. Which is amazing, by the way. Everything looks incredible.)

I finally have my own Sega Dreamcast! ...sooo, now I can play the original Ecco: Defender of the Future again (YOU KNOW WHAT when they ported it, they changed basically nothing except the location of ONE vitalit and I drowned like a million times trying to find the stupid thing before giving up and progressing wit the level AND THEN THERE IT WAS NEAR THE END and I threw Ecco into the wall a few times because there's sometimes something cathartic about the sound of his nose colliding with the stone walls? Sometimes the noise just makes it worse, though. It depends on why you are hearing it...)? And Sonic Adventure, whoo! And... something called Illbleed, because my brother thought since I play Silent Hill that I might like it, or something.

Mom also bought both of us (er, my brother and I) phones. Still not proper phones, really - his actually does have a contract, and mine is another "pay as you go" because I never use mine... but apparently now I can call internationally for pretty much no extra charge, which is pretty cool, I guess. Because... I call international numbers... ever. But now we have to figure out how to transfer my number to the new phone (because I like my number. It's easy to remember).

... and wool socks. Lovely, lovely, warm wool socks. AND A SPIFFING HAT. And an Optimus Prime ornament with candy inside it, which amuses me, and I'm not entirely sure why.


I love that the hotel block sold out by almost 200% in under 24 hours. (My mother making a reservation is probably the best present I got, haha. Hopefully it holds...)

Aniko beat Silent Hill last night! ... Well. Sort of. Technically I beat the final boss. Harder than it should have been. Think I mentioned before that she kept getting trounced by the monsters and so was healing a lot (when she wasn't dying. Haha, oh, Harry). If not, now you know. I forbid her from healing once we entered the last "area" of the game and told her to kill herself when she accidentally used the ampoule at one point. And she had to switch to a melee weapon again for a while when she ran out of handgun bullets again. Haha, it was kind of a mess, in a hilarious sort of way. HARRY HAS AN EMERGENCY HAMMER AND HE IS COMING FOR YOU. HAVE YOU SEEN A LITTLE GIRL AROUND HERE? It is in your better interest to answer.

Anyway, forcing a cessation of item usage didn't do much good because I started too late. Our state, going into the battle: one health drink, one first aid kit, one ampoule, and 50% health.

And the thing can practically kill you in one hit. It went awesomely. As I am sure you can imagine. She died a bunch of times before I offered to take a shot (...har har, pun not intended) at it. I got kind of lucky and took it out on my first attempt, and then, yay! No more Silent Hill! We got the Good+ ending because I made her do the Kaufmann sidequest and gave her the means with which to save Cybil (though was called a bitch for not telling her how to save Cybil, and actually that was how the ampoule got used the time I told her to die for it).


Next game will be Final Fantasy VIII, since she's only played VII. I have already assured her I will not make her play the scary RPG. My plan of attack is to go through the game until the end of the third disc and then swap to a file where I have all the extra GF, lots of nice spells, and am higher level than, what, 43 or something. Fun to play and all, but I can't imagine she'd greatly enjoy watching me grind everyone up and up and up and get all the weapon upgrades and die to Ultima half a million times (never even mind the task of getting down there in the first place) and fight a tonberry or twenty, et cetera. No idea when we'll be starting that, and then not sure what we'll do. I do have to replay Final Fantasy IX at some point, but who knows when we'll beat VIII. Silent Hill's a fairly short game, and that still took something like a month.


Am ridiculously tired. Blaming it on the fact that there's been snow, even though that's, you know, unrelated. Augh, not even halfway through October. We barely had summer! I'm not ready for it to be winter again.

Blood-taking-class talk again.

( So, again, don't look if you don't like it. )

There, that was short.

Remember there was a spider? Well, I put it outside, and a massive centipede of death moved in. I actually didn't know it was a centipede at first because I've never seen one that huge. Really, at first I thought it was another spider, because I could only see a little bit of it. No, though. It went outside, too.

And then there was a spider in the garbage this morning and it tried to kill me when I went to pull out some plastic to put it into the (reclaimed! HAHA) recycling bin. I was going to put that one outside, but it insisted on escaping my attempts to can it, so I had to flatten it, lest it escape into the kitchen, which would not be okay. Except now there's a-freaking-nother one up on the wall, near the ceiling where I can't reach it. WHY WON'T YOU LEAVE ME ALONE.

I made noodles with vegetables, chicken, and peanut butter tonight. It is a bit dry, so tomorrow I will make a sauce for it. (I have a recipe for the sauce, at least.) I did this while keeping an eye on the spider. I will blame the spider for the food being dry. Clearly this is the only sane and rational explanation.


Five days left to write a paper and absolutely no motivation. Come oooon, self. That's only half a page a day. You can do this.

...oh god apathy. I love learning, but I'm tired of schoolwork. I am unbelievably tired of schoolwork.


I keep trying to work on a story, but my brain has suddenly flipped into Bad Fic mode. Which basically means I've seen too much badfic and now my brain is plotting how, if at all, some of those ideas could be well-written. Please give up, Brain. You cannot win this battle. What's more, I don't want you to try. At least I know I won't try to write any of it. It's mostly just idle speculation. "Well, maybe it could almost work if.... No, that won't cut it, either...." Face it, Jecca. You hate that plot and will never be able to deal with it. It will never make sense to you. Please stop.


(I HAVE BEEN TALKING OUT LOUD TO MYSELF ALL DAY. The spider on the wall probably thinks I'm completely mad.)

I've been to Borders twice in the past week, even aside from the entire manga section being pulled (I'm placing money on it being because of the people who sit and read entire series and/or then steal the entire series. Thanks a lot, guys) and so leaving several vacant walls, the store is still half empty. And the Star Wars section looks like it hasn't been stocked in a few years, and while there's something vaguely flattering about the thought that they were keeping the books in just for me, it's also a bit annoying because they don't have anything. I suppose this is what the internet is for, though. Hello, Amazon. Let's be friends.

When you're standing in one spot doing the same tedious task over and over again for literally hours at a time (assuming you can last that long), you get to talking about strange things. Aniko and I have discovered the secret behind the apparently endless supply of moat carp in Knightswell and the reason Prince Trion's hair is so appalling... among other things. It's like posting IM conversations, only in screenshots.

( A MILLION IMAGES )

I have a phlebotomy test tomorrow which I need to go review my notes for, but apparently Top Gear is on BBC America at midnight. Though I could watch pretty much any episode I want uncut and ads-free at any time, which is a nice, convincing argument for turning it off. I can't stand ads as it is, when shows are designed to have them taking up part of their time.

Though it looks much nicer on that screen than it does on this one. As soon as I finish this entry, I'm leaving.

I've got a friend coming to visit for the weekend. She gets to sleep on the couch. HOORAY FOR COUCHES TO SLEEP ON. I will make her observe our feeble town that badly wants to be a city. It calls itself a city, but only because it's never seen a proper city. How exciting!

And, I wish my body would work with me. I'm trying to adjust to Daylight Saving and it just refuses to cooperate.


Edit:
F-Locked because blacking out portions of text is too much work when I no longer have the original files and PhotoBucket isn't working for me at the moment. (Are they undergoing maintenance? Beats me. Page won't load fully, regardless. OF COURSE IT IS ONE OF THE IMAGES I NEED TO SEE THAT WON'T LOAD AT ALL. Christ.)

I'll lift it once the damn site is working for me again, if anyone actually cares~ (And, you know, assuming I remember.) NEVER MIND I JUST DELETED A FEW LINKS. *lazylazylazy*