It Will Destroy You, Child.

[rionaleonhart]

I bought my copy of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood second-hand from GAME. It has a barcode sticker on the manual labelling it 'ASS CREED BROTHERHOOD'.

I really enjoyed the sequence with Desmond and Lucy trying to find a way into the villa at the beginning. Their dynamic is pretty cute. Although I'm predisposed to look favourably upon it, given that Desmond has Nathan Drake's voice actor and Lucy looks a bit like Elena Fisher.

(Their dynamic is not as great as the Nate/Elena dynamic, but what is?)

I mainly enjoyed that sequence, of course, because of this:

Desmond: You know, when I last came here...
Lucy: When Ezio came here.
Desmond: Yeah, I meant Ezio.

MORE OF THIS, PLEASE.

According to the e-mails between Rebecca and Lucy, Desmond has been screaming in his sleep. More of that as well.

(I kept thinking I was hearing whispering during the first few missions, and at one point, when I was in Eagle Vision, I could almost swear I heard a muffled sinister laugh. But I can't say with certainty that I didn't imagine those things. I'm all for Desmond slowly losing his mind, game, but you're starting to make me feel like I'm losing mine.)


If you, like me, have some level of affection for Homestuck but have been largely ignoring the officially endorsed series of fancomics Paradox Space, I want to let you know that 'Summerteen Romance' is well worth checking out! It is a comic about Karkat Vantas's 'coming-of-age romantic dramedy screenplay', as read by Dave Strider, and it is exactly as terrible-stroke-priceless as that description implies.

The dynamic between Dave and Karkat is a lot of fun; they're both such little shits, but in completely different ways. Dave has a carefully constructed 'arsehole' persona; Karkat has a short temper and an incredibly fragile ego, so it's very easy to make him explode with rage, and (of course) Dave delights in doing so. But there's still a fondness between them, deep down. You don't show your screenplay to someone whose opinion you don't care about, after all.

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[wolfy_writing]

MORE OF THIS, PLEASE.

OH YES SO VERY MUCH!

According to the e-mails between Rebecca and Lucy, Desmond has been screaming in his sleep. More of that as well.

YOU AND I HAVE INCREDIBLY SIMILAR TASTES HERE!

(Seriously, so cheap for this kind of stuff.)

[pete_thomas]

:) I'm screaming at my monitor every time I get bits and pieces from you when you play. I didn't say this before, but I think you're getting the vibe enough now that it's safe to say: the bleeding effect is legit, and affects Desmond in ways that you're going to end up enjoying far more than small mixups like that. I wish I could say for sure, but I don't want to speak on this more than that, just in case it is too much for you.

Ironically, ASSCREED is the terminology that people started using for the series when they grew tired of the game and thought they were getting more redundant with each game. While I'm in agreement that the games DO get repetitive (all the way out to Unity and the like), they're never BAD, so I never approved of the name. :(

[magistrate]

This has nothing to do with Ass Creed or Homestuck, but I keep seeing sholio post things on this ridiculous TV show she's watching, and I keep thinking of you for some reason. Here is a list of the things she's tagged.

I can't really in good conscience recommend this to anybody unless you have an extremely high tolerance for violent, depressing subtitled television in which the characters have literally no life coping skills and also there is wall-to-wall police violence, a whole lot of various *isms, and authority figures generally acting badly in ways that are frequently condoned by the narrative. This show is pretty much the Hawaii 5-0 of Reasons Not To Get Arrested In France. (ALL THE PEOPLE ON THIS SHOW ARE TERRIBLE. EVEN THE NICE ONES.) Also, there are at least two fake-rape-accusation storylines, and the one in season four is part of the season arc and started annoying me so badly that I got the point where I was just skipping those scenes to get back to the storyline(s) I was actually interested in.

AND YET. I am wallowing around in OT3-ish feelings (Laure-Gilou-Tintin 4EVAH) and keep getting my h/c and friendshippy buttons pushed hard every few episodes. I am so easy for that kind of thing. I feel like I shouldn't love this show as much as I do, but then it'll veer out of the doldrums of utter miseryville to dump a truckload of feelings on me, and I'm pretty much there for it.

[rionaleonhart]

I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'RE TRYING TO TEMPT ME INTO ANOTHER SHOW WHERE I'LL HAVE TO PUT A MILLION DISCLAIMERS ABOUT HOW TERRIBLE IT IS OVER EVERY ENTRY

IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO ESCAPE WATERLOO ROAD

I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS

[magistrate]

MUAHAHAHAHAAAA

Really, if you thought our friendship wasn't based on casually messing with each other via fictional media, er, end of sentence goes here or something.

(Really, though, I can't actually claim to be trying to tempt you, given that I have never seen the show in question and cannot either recommend or recommend against it. But the tone of those posts seemed intensely you-ish.)