Red Threads

\o/ Can has Tales of the Abyss! :3 Although it may have to wait a while as I haven't got to the end of Vesperia yet (I'm at that part right before the end where you run around a lot Doing Random Stuff). And once I do actually finish it I am so playing it again with a walkthrough so I can see all the bits I missed this time. Actually, just the fact that I've got this far without guidance this first time is pretty amazing; I love this game ♥ Time to start dusting off the NA PS2...

In less exciting news, someone please wish me luck; I have a very scary pre-audit meeting tomorrow at work, and we're all very :| about it. *bites nails*

Ahaha, people (which is to say, a couple of guys in my office who are smitten with it) keep asking when I am going to see Avatar, and giving me very strange looks when I tell them I am not. S keeps trying to persuade me that it is totally my cup of tea, to which I say that I hated Pocahontas the first time around. Noble savages and white saviours are decidedly not my cup of tea. I am however curious about one offhand comment that someone somewhere made about it being nothing particularly new or shiny to games fans.

So I conducted a highly scientific experiment, consisting of taking myself to youtube and watching the Avatar trailer in HD. And then the latest Final Fantasy 13 trailer, as a sort of comparison. My highly scientific findings were that the CG in Avatar is indeed highly shiny, but cannot possibly distract from the total and complete lack of anything remotely resembling plot originality. I was left with the overall impression that I had already seen this movie multiple times in various different guises and therefore had no need to actually, you know, watch it.

FFXIII, however, cannot come out soon enough. djsakflhdjsaklfhd soshiny omg. *_* lol shoddy track record with FF games, it's pretty enough that I don't care if I don't finish it.

...which is to say that after some thought I have tentatively concluded that the random commenter was somewhat right, because anyone with decent experience of modern games is going to be pretty used to shiny CG, and less likely to be distracted from cataclysmic plot fail. IDK, ymmv.

(The irony here is that I am currently playing an anime-style Tales game and loving it so much except for when flying things hit me. Flying things are my nemesis. Today's bossfight was hairy for precisely this reason. but that's mostly because the battle system suits me, I think. Abyss is next on the list. Why did no one introduce me to these games before.)

Uggggh whose idea was this work thing anyway D: ten days of sleeping in and suddenly getting up at the crack of dawn seems like the worst thing ever. Also it is freezing, which I strongly disapprove of. This morning in Devizes it was so cold that the air was glittering.

I kind of want to write but I don't have the brain cells right now, and this game is still owning me. ♥♥ Soon it will be time to see whether my obsessive levelling up is enough to conquer the next boss... >.>; also i am so totally importing abyss, and possibly going fishing for a gamecube on ebay so i can play symphonia too, because clearly my life has been incomplete without tales games uwaah

I can has new games. :3 I got Okami for xmas and was playing it up until yesterday, at which point the 360 I ordered last week arrived, so now I am getting stuck into Tales of Vesperia and having so much fun ♥♥♥ :D

Things I Did in 2009:
- got promoted
- started enjoying my job (except for when I hate it, lol)
- went on holiday all on my ownsome for the first time
- lurked a lot
- finished a long fic for the first time since... idek
- revisited some old fandoms (♥)
- found a new one :3

Fandoms I was in (for various definitions of in):
- D.Gray-man
- Various iterations of Rockman games (X, Classic, EXE, and a bit of Starforce. Don't ask me.)
- Hikaru no Go (again ♥)
- Fullmetal Alchemist (again ♥)
- Tales of Vesperia (fdjsfhldasjk omg ♥♥&hearts)

Fics I wrote:
- Resonance (EXE)
- Infinite Gravity (EXE)
- Where You Are (HnG)

...not bad, considering how fdjslhfdj long IG is. I'm already plotting to inflict Vesperia fic on the world, so hopefully there will be more to come next year.

I can has AO3 :3 Which I have christened with new fic. >.> Possibly the last new fic for a while, since I am currently totally *_* for Fullmetal Alchemist and even more than HnG it's a fandom I feel little need to write for.

fjdksalhfjdsaklfdsb god the new anime is shiny ★_★

In general updates, I am nearly done with holiday shopping and have posted all my cards that require posting, and the first batch of my Greetings Card Campaign cards. Still need to stick stamps on the rest of those, and do cards for work people. I'm hoping something I ordered arrives in time (it's been a mad saga of the seller being in hospital - funnily enough, just down the road), and I still have to get something for my brother, who is a moron who starts wishlist emails with 'OK suckers' and is now being prosecuted for running a red light. :| Oh, and I got my dad inflatable hair. You totally would have too.

This is turning into the season of Revisiting Old Fandoms. Hikaru no Go, and now Fullmetal Alchemist, which has only got more awesome since I stopped reading it. Possibly I need to stop reading it before I get completely obsessed, because I have fic to finish, lol.

They just played Bump of Chicken on Radio 2.

I am slightly concerned that I may have wandered into a parallel dimension.

Infinite Gravity
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Started: April 27th
Final chapter posted: November 21st

It feels like it's been forever. *blinks* I guess now I have no excuse not to revise and post that other fic. >.> And to get rid of all these notebooks that are cluttering up the place.

( on fanstuff and fandom (I am conflicted) )

If your car breaks down under warranty, or you have the right kind of insurance, they give you a courtesy car while it's being fixed. So if you have to send your computer away to be mended, shouldn't they give you a courtesy laptop?

In entirely unrelated news, note to self: next time, research it before you write it. Some of this stuff I can fix, but I think a couple of things are going to have to remain under the artistic licence umbrella >.>

djsak;fdjlskfhdasjlkfd dude I finished the obon fic. No doubt tomorrow I will hate it, because inevitably I try for 'subtle' and end up with 'brick to the head', and then I will look up all the things that I scribbled on a napkin to research later, and hate it some more because it's all wrong and the sea is too far away or something, but right now I have finished it and it is done. And I have writer's cramp. -.-;;

Look, the last time I finished something was like. July. These are milestones, damn it. >.>

Volume 17 arrived today~ The translation's a bit awkward in places, and they've switched the names back to Japanese order, but at this point I kind of almost know it by heart anyway. Hikaru ♥ They need to bring these out faster!

I'm using up the last of my annual leave on long weekends because there are so many deadline weeks coming up, so today is for writing fic. :3

...did I really manage not to post at all in October? o.O

....it's a very strange feeling to be sifting through ffn recs in search of decent fic you haven't already read, and find one of your own old, crappy fics that you wrote in 2003 before you'd even finished the whole series. o.o;

...no computer problems today. *crosses fingers*

Work problems are another matter. Discovered that I made two completely moronic oversights last week, and now I'm wondering what the hell I was on. And whether I had an episode I just didn't notice - my memory is hazy, which might back that up, but it's pretty borderline. I wish I could discuss this with my manager, but she's on leave. :|

...it just took me 3 tries to boot my laptop. fjlasbhdjaskl fuck. Halfway through the Windows startup screen it went bluescreen for like .25 of a second and died, the hard drive made a worrying noise, and it tried to start up again. Same thing happened, then the third time it started up as normal. This is something of a worry. Current plan: finish updating backups, do a virus scan and a hard drive scan, cross fingers and pray. On the one hand, at least I could actually afford a new computer right now. On the other hand, I refuse to get anything Vista ever - this thing was supposed to last me until they'd ironed the bugs out of Windows 7. Ironically, I spent a lot of last week trying to convince myself that I didn't actually need a netbook. I guess that's the backup plan, then...

fhdsaldjs someone get me a tissue. Titanic was just on and I am weeeeaaak to tragic romance. Sobbing like a baby for the last ten minutes, god. I haven't cried this hard in years. >.>

I feel like I should blame someone for my Hikaru no Go obsession re-appearing, but I suspect it is my own damn fault anyway. Vague fic ideas are sloshing around, but I am currently beating them back with a stick in favour of the slightly less vague Ryuusei AU which no one will read, because I appear to be shipping something both incredibly random and completely unheard of which given my previous track record with distractions can have only one result, really.

...but right now I have to go wash my face and post chapter 7 of Infinite Gravity.

fdhsalchdjas lol. I've been watching Starforce, finally - I kept seeing fics and art and videos around, and it looked kind of cool, but I swore I wasn't going to touch it until I finished Infinite Gravity because I have enough unfinished WIPs as it is. So now I've been watching it, and I was actually bizarrely disappointed because it's actually nothing like the vague impression I'd built up from the fics and art and videos. XD I was expecting awesome space cadet stuff, and it turned out to be... well, something like a less cool AU EXE-verse. Halfway through the first season I'd talked myself into starting a space cadet AU fic, and then I started on the second season and suddenly it turned into Yu-Gi-Oh. Lost civilisations, ancient weapons, sideways hair...

Bly: *shows up*
Chiya: OMG it's Yami Bakura O_O;

Three months spent writing this damn story and when I finally come to upload it, FF.net's uploader is down. *headdesk* And this is progress; it wouldn't let me log in at all yesterday.

lololol my life XD

Three months, nineteen chapters, five notebooks, and four pens later, and I finally just finished my story.

Now I get to type all 70,000-odd words of it up, but right now I am just going to enjoy this feeling. This blank, stunned 4:30am feeling.

From annkiri: the WIP meme: post a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations.

1. Just like a real heart, Riku had told her once, and now Kairi understood what he'd meant.

2. It watches the Thirteenth – its master, it thinks, with a feeling that it can almost identify as pride – as he slumps in the wake of the dissolving Shadows, hood falling back from pale hair, and it knows, again, that there is something it has lost forever.

3. Teito's mouth drops open in dismay – there are toothmarks in the cover and everything! - but the Bishop only taps Burupya once on the head before setting him back into Teito's waiting hands.

4. Shinra had a corporate horror of damaging cadets, but the moment they'd put you through training you were expected to earn the gil they paid you.

5. He'd even braved Medical once, almost hoping he was about to go unstable and take out half the HQ in the fallout, only to be told as usual that there was nothing wrong with him physically.

6. As certain as he was that he could feel X's eyes on his back, when he turned at the door X was already gone.

7. Sensor ghosts danced in his vision as he collapsed to his knees, unable to hold himself upright, and the last thing he saw as Netto forcibly logged him out was the grim set of Blues' mouth as he ripped through the rogue Navi like an avenging demon.

aaaaaaah the Dead Fantasy guy released parts III and IV and holy shit *_* Most Awesome Fanmade Thing Ever or Most Awesome Fanmade Thing Ever?

...yeah, IV is coming close but II is still my favourite :D