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rionaleonhart) wrote2017-03-03 01:27 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2017-03-03 01:27 pm
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What Does 'Junction Magic' Mean? I'm Sure It's Not Important.
alwaysbeenasmiler asked this question, and I thought it was interesting, so I've stolen it to ask here: who was your first favourite fictional character? Who was the first character you really loved? Is there a story behind that love?I won't go into too much detail because I've talked about this before, but Squall Leonhart of Final Fantasy VIII was the first character I really connected with. I was an insular, awkward, confused thirteen-year-old, bad at interaction, bad at reading people, and suddenly I found I wasn't alone in any of that; here was a guy who was just like me, only he had a cool gun-sword and fought dinosaurs. I was so excited.
It's a good thing I loved Squall so much, because I was terrible at playing Final Fantasy VIII, and he was the reason I happily persevered with it.
Unsurprisingly, I hate the popular theory that Squall died at the end of Disc 1 and the other three discs were ~just a dream~. It's not interesting; it just makes most of the game feel like a waste of time! Also, Squall is my favourite, so he's alive. Solid reasoning, I think you'll find.
My preferred answer to the question 'why does Squall wake up without a wound after being impaled?' is 'Seifer begs Edea to save him. NOT THAT SEIFER CARES OR ANYTHING. Obviously he just wants Squall to live so they can interrogate him. Obviously. Edea is so amused by this that she heals Squall.'
I'd forgotten how messed up the Second Hand of Time arc in DN Angel is. A young woman is reunited at last with her lost love! Her lost love is a sword that romantically impales her through the chest. DN Angel, you seemed to be a romantic comedy when you started out.
I always resented the fact that the Second Hand of Time arc went 'oh, it's a school play! Satoshi and Daisuke have been cast as the romantic leads! Oh, no, wait: we've set up this classic slashfic premise, but now Daisuke's out of action and Dark has to pretend to be him, so you don't actually get Satoshi and Daisuke acting out romantic scenes together.' But, on this reread, I will concede that Satoshi and Dark trying to get through a romantic scene when they loathe each other is pretty hilarious.
(Speaking of classic slashfic premises: the manga is better than the anime in many ways, but the anime does has an episode where Satoshi and Daisuke are locked in a freezer and have to huddle for warmth.)
It's only just occurred to me that we say dial to mean 'enter a person's number on a telephone' because of the dial on rotary phones. What an odd linguistic fossil.
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...were you the person who wrote the short bit with Utena having a conversation with some other anime character (who I can't remember because I never watched that particular anime) about pulling swords out of people's chests? Or was that Patrick?
I remember that! It was Patrick.
Hey, I managed to track it down! It took me fifteen minutes, but, frankly, it was worth it. I like that you, despite not having watched the other anime, were the one who requested it.
I'm waiting for the day when phone receivers vanish utterly, rendering the common-use symbol for phone more nonsensical than it already is.
I never really thought about it before, but in my childhood you'd mime taking a phone call by holding your hand up to your ear and sticking out your thumb and little finger, making your hand into a receiver, and nowadays I think you'd be more likely to mime it by holding an imaginary mobile phone to your ear.
All these young'uns running around clicking on save icons, having never seen a floppy disk...
A friend of mine told me recently of a teacher who brought a floppy disc into his school and got the reaction 'that's so cool, you've 3D-printed the save symbol!'
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Oh, past-me and my vaguely-trolly commenting. I need to do that more. It's like the days when I'd spend my time trawling RP sandboxes with a pteranodon no one expected.
[A friend of mine told me recently of a teacher who brought a floppy disc into his school and got the reaction 'that's so cool, you've 3D-printed the save symbol!']
Hah, I ran into a comic of that, a while ago! I wonder if the comic originated with the teacher, or got mis-remembered as a story about a teacher, or what.
[I never really thought about it before, but in my childhood you'd mime taking a phone call by holding your hand up to your ear and sticking out your thumb and little finger, making your hand into a receiver, and nowadays I think you'd be more likely to mime it by holding an imaginary mobile phone to your ear.
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I remember the first time I heard Lady Gaga's Telephone, and the lyrics came up: shoulda left my phone at home // 'cause this is a disaster, and my immediate reaction was "...it was not that long ago in my life when those lyrics would have made no sense to me at all."
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Speaking of past-you's vaguely trolly commenting: in my search for that ficbit, I came across a request from you in a different fic request entry. It read, 'Write a drabble about the tertiary economic effects of the Sorceress War and their influence on Ellone's emotional development.' (Patrick never wrote it, the coward.)
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Ahahaaaa, THAT SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING I WOULD DO.
As one would hope, given that it's something I apparently did.
...and now I have to go look up tertiary economic effects. Past Me is apparently better-educated on this score than Present Me. Dammit, Past Me.