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ratbones1. If it looks from my journal like I haven't been coping super well with the loss of my cat...yes. I'm not in some kind of deep well of sadness most of the time, I'm just functioning at like 60% power. Which is an improvement from November and December, certainly. Also, my pre-existing enthusiasms all got sucked right out of me and I've had to build new ones:
2. It seems like I'm not abandoning my WIP but I had a long long think about it. I reasoned out that if I've written a beginning and I have an ending in my head, I'd better write the damn ending. It's a good ending, too, I hope. I also reasoned out that there wasn't some other story concept sitting around that I was so pressingly excited about that it merited leaving off this one. If I left off this one, I probably wouldn't be working on anything. It's not about picking the right concept, it's about picking any concept and following through with it. Felt smart when I figured that out so I'd better not forget it. (I do have a cool idea on the backburner but it's staying back there until I've thought of its ending.)
3. I played The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (which is two games, TGAA1 and TGAA2, stuck together, being essentially the first and second parts of one visual novel) and wowie. Whoo boy. I have to say I wasn't that taken with TGAA1; the pacing ranged from "slow" to "painfully slow" and the handholding was severe enough that I didn't have an opportunity to make a mistake until the final case. I did get pretty attached to some of the characters, though, and then TGAA2 knocked my socks right off. Every note of that game is pitch-perfect. The plot is huge and twisty and VERY painful, the characters are complex and unique and intelligent (well some of them) and ridiculous (all of them, it's Ace Attorney), and the humor is well-timed, silly when it should be silly, wry when it should be wry. Every AA game has a dumb case but this game's dumb case is fun rather than annoying (ymmv). And once the plot dominoes start falling, it's a thing of beauty. I'm pretty sure it's handily the best game in the Ace Attorney franchise, much as it pains me to admit the original trilogy has been surpassed. You gotta slog through the sludgy parts of the first game to get there but it's SO worth it.
Also I ship everyone with everyone. Seriously,cyberbrain and I have such a complex matrix of ships that we worked up a Venn diagram for the guys. (I just have 2 f/f ships, but still, two whole f/f ships???? Noice.) Weirdly, fan fave Kazuma Asogi kind of left me cold, and I primarily want protagonist Ryunosuke to smooch the human embodiment of "looks like he could kill you but is actually a cinnamon roll" Barok van Zieks instead.
4. Still replaying the other Ace Attorney games as well. Currently I'm on AAI2 which...is not a replay at all, being the only game that was never released in English and therefore the only one I never played. I'm incredibly impressed with the quality of the English fan patch and so far I think the game is a big jump in quality from AAI1, but I'm not far enough in to give an informed opinion on the story. Look, I'm playing as Edgeworth so I'm happy.
5. Oh yeah and I'm rewatching Granada Holmes. I first watched it around the time I started to get an inkling that BBC Sherlock might be shaping up to be a trainwreck of disappointment, and it was a revelation back then. And, well. It holds up. I think it exceeds my memory of it, honestly. It's immaculate. Okay, I haven't forced myself to sit through The Last Vampyre yet, but most of it is immaculate. Anyway, I'm rewatching now because of cyberbrain and, indirectly, because of TGAA's Herlock Sholmes. Is he faithful to canon? lol no (he's not meant to be). Is he absolutely perfect? OH YES. At some point I told cyberbrain I wanted to eat his hair. Out of cute aggression, I guess? I still want to eat his hair, and stick him in my pocket, and pour him into a jello mold, and tie him to some railroad tracks. He's in my top 3 Holmeses.
2. It seems like I'm not abandoning my WIP but I had a long long think about it. I reasoned out that if I've written a beginning and I have an ending in my head, I'd better write the damn ending. It's a good ending, too, I hope. I also reasoned out that there wasn't some other story concept sitting around that I was so pressingly excited about that it merited leaving off this one. If I left off this one, I probably wouldn't be working on anything. It's not about picking the right concept, it's about picking any concept and following through with it. Felt smart when I figured that out so I'd better not forget it. (I do have a cool idea on the backburner but it's staying back there until I've thought of its ending.)
3. I played The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (which is two games, TGAA1 and TGAA2, stuck together, being essentially the first and second parts of one visual novel) and wowie. Whoo boy. I have to say I wasn't that taken with TGAA1; the pacing ranged from "slow" to "painfully slow" and the handholding was severe enough that I didn't have an opportunity to make a mistake until the final case. I did get pretty attached to some of the characters, though, and then TGAA2 knocked my socks right off. Every note of that game is pitch-perfect. The plot is huge and twisty and VERY painful, the characters are complex and unique and intelligent (well some of them) and ridiculous (all of them, it's Ace Attorney), and the humor is well-timed, silly when it should be silly, wry when it should be wry. Every AA game has a dumb case but this game's dumb case is fun rather than annoying (ymmv). And once the plot dominoes start falling, it's a thing of beauty. I'm pretty sure it's handily the best game in the Ace Attorney franchise, much as it pains me to admit the original trilogy has been surpassed. You gotta slog through the sludgy parts of the first game to get there but it's SO worth it.
Also I ship everyone with everyone. Seriously,
cyberbrain and I have such a complex matrix of ships that we worked up a Venn diagram for the guys. (I just have 2 f/f ships, but still, two whole f/f ships???? Noice.) Weirdly, fan fave Kazuma Asogi kind of left me cold, and I primarily want protagonist Ryunosuke to smooch the human embodiment of "looks like he could kill you but is actually a cinnamon roll" Barok van Zieks instead.4. Still replaying the other Ace Attorney games as well. Currently I'm on AAI2 which...is not a replay at all, being the only game that was never released in English and therefore the only one I never played. I'm incredibly impressed with the quality of the English fan patch and so far I think the game is a big jump in quality from AAI1, but I'm not far enough in to give an informed opinion on the story. Look, I'm playing as Edgeworth so I'm happy.
5. Oh yeah and I'm rewatching Granada Holmes. I first watched it around the time I started to get an inkling that BBC Sherlock might be shaping up to be a trainwreck of disappointment, and it was a revelation back then. And, well. It holds up. I think it exceeds my memory of it, honestly. It's immaculate. Okay, I haven't forced myself to sit through The Last Vampyre yet, but most of it is immaculate. Anyway, I'm rewatching now because of cyberbrain and, indirectly, because of TGAA's Herlock Sholmes. Is he faithful to canon? lol no (he's not meant to be). Is he absolutely perfect? OH YES. At some point I told cyberbrain I wanted to eat his hair. Out of cute aggression, I guess? I still want to eat his hair, and stick him in my pocket, and pour him into a jello mold, and tie him to some railroad tracks. He's in my top 3 Holmeses.
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Date: 2022-02-17 09:22 pm (UTC)Ah yes, 2-2 and all the,,, *that* 🤭 I know what you mean, I feel you.
crackfic of Moe and Shamspeare meetingYour evil plan is working very well and it's making me quite happy 🥺❤️
Ahh, John Spoilerman! 😂 You're right, he's always there when he's most needed 🥺
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Date: 2022-02-17 09:50 pm (UTC)CURSED WITNESS STAND. CURSED. Too many neck ruffs, CB, not enough testimony.
moe/shamspeare clownfucker worsties
Suddenly my plan doesn't sound that evil at all 🥺
Except when he's NOT. I can think of a COUPLE TIMES. Okay, you did pretty well there at the end though, Mr Spoilerman. I'll give you that.