Wash Away The Worst Of Me.

[rionaleonhart]

The dialogue of Life Is Strange comes in for a fair bit of mockery for being unnatural, and, to be honest, it's not undeserved ('Oh, man, are you cereal?' is one of the worst offenders). But it portrays young female friendship in a way that rings very true to me: perhaps truer than any other work of fiction I've consumed. During Farewell, the bonus episode about Max and Chloe when they were kids, I found myself quietly reminiscing about my friends from primary school. (It's harder to reflect nostalgically on my friends from secondary school because they're still my friends!) And I loved the original Life Is Strange showing the familiarity between Max and Joyce; you do often form a sort of relationship with the parents of your childhood friends, but for some reason that's not something I often see portrayed in fiction.

I cried a lot at the end of Farewell. Life Is Strange can be a bit emotionally manipulative sometimes, but I have to admit that it's very successful at manipulating my emotions.


The DN Angel manga is starting up again in May, apparently! Here come all my very intense feelings about Satoshi from when I was fifteen. For anyone who has not experienced DN Angel, it is a series about a boy who transforms into a legendary art thief as a metaphor for getting a boner and it is incredible.

I also picked up my long-neglected replay of Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance today. I didn't get very far (I love the game as a whole, but I'm currently at the Tron: Legacy world, which is a bit of a visual headache), but it was enough to remind me of my very intense feelings about Riku as well. It's a day for being emotional about self-loathing fictional boys I've loved for half my life!

They also, of course, have 'painfully in love with a spiky-haired optimist' in common. And 'having their bodies taken over by malevolent entities', come to think of it. Maybe I should write something in which Riku and Satoshi interact; they'd have so much to talk about!

Not that they'd actually talk about it, because they're both very private. Why must you make this so difficult for me to write, boys?

R and S are right next to each other, come to think of it! I missed a trick when I was writing ficsnippets pairing characters up in alphabetical order.

I recently found myself thinking 'maybe I should do alphabet ficsnippets where I combine canons in alphabetical order,' but my last set of alphabet ficsnippets took me four and a half years, and I have consumed a very limited number of canons beginning with the letter Q. I don't want to corner myself into writing a Pokémon/QWOP crossover.

Comments

[wolfy_writing]

I want a Pokemon/QWOP crossover now!

[rionaleonhart]

I feel it's not really QWOP fanfiction unless it makes itself as frustrating to read as the original is to play, but it's hard to envision how that might be achieved.

[wolfy_writing]

Place each word on a separate page, gray-on-gray background, with really tiny difficult-to-click-on links?

[rionaleonhart]

Ah, yes! And each page links to at least two words; you don't know which is the actual next word in the story, and it's possible neither is and the next word was linked to three pages ago.

[wolfy_writing]

This sounds hilariously nightmarish!

[thenicochan]

I’ve really been wanting to pick up the Before the Storm. Overall, what did you think of it? Did Chloe and Rachel’s relationship feel ~right~ to you?

I also love the familiarity between Max and Joyce! I think this series does a good job of capturing relationships that media often just… forgets.

[rionaleonhart]

The third episode felt a bit rushed to me, and they didn't explore some things I was hoping they would, alas. But I really liked the relationship between Chloe and Rachel, and Chloe was fun as the protagonist. It was worthwhile, I thought!

I watched a playthrough rather than playing it myself, so I don't know how actually playing it would have changed the experience. My housemate loved Life Is Strange but didn't feel able to play Before the Storm on the grounds that it went behind the union's back during the voice actors' strike, and it seemed a little unkind to buy it and go 'lol I can play this and you can't.'