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rionaleonhart) wrote2018-10-22 10:14 am
rionaleonhart) wrote2018-10-22 10:14 am
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I'm Going To Choke This Kid.
A couple of games I missed out of my 'every game I've ever played' entry, because apparently I've got an odd blind spot for games with 'devil' in the name:
Devil May Cry: I still remember very nervously queueing up to buy this 15-rated game when I was only thirteen, but I got away with it! This game was trying so hard to be cool and it was hilarious. (Battle rankings included 'cool' and 'stylish'.) I also remember the cutscene where you obtain your sword, and by 'you obtain it' I mean 'it impales you through the chest'.
We Know the Devil: (LP) A short, strange and interesting visual novel about three teenagers staying overnight in an isolated shack at summer camp, waiting for the devil to make an appearance. My favourite of the trio is Jupiter, incredibly repressed and desperately trying to be a good person.
And now some more of The 100! I've now finished the first season and by this point I've entirely lost track of how many characters have died, but the number of survivors from the original 100, not counting Bellamy and Raven, must be somewhere between 76 and 53. Probably a lot closer to the latter.
Octavia: We should make peace with the grounders.
Riona: You know, Octavia's absolutely right. You should all listen to her.
Finn: We should make peace with the grounders.
Riona: Shut up, Finn; nobody likes you.
I think the problem with Finn is that he comes across as very sanctimonious and judgemental, but also he tried to keep things going with Clarke after Raven came to Earth. If he just committed to being a scumbag, I'd probably like him!
(I wrote the above before watching episode 2.03, in which Finn punches an unarmed, bound person in the face and then shoots him while everyone else is arguing over ethics, and, predictably, I now have slightly warmer feelings towards him. See, Finn, I'm not asking a lot of you. All you have to do is be interesting on occasion.)
I wasn't expecting the first time I got tearful at The 100 to be over the pain of Councillor Dickface, but life is full of surprises. (Kane has become considerably less of a dickface by the point I've now watched to, and I suppose he's no longer a councillor, but I still struggle not to think of him as Councillor Dickface.)
Something about the framing of the first episode made me assume that Kane was the one who told Bellamy to shoot Chancellor Jaha, and I was confused to watch further and go 'but... but Kane is clearly in love with Chancellor Jaha; why would he want to kill him?' It explained a lot when I learnt Kane wasn't the person who'd given the instruction.
I'm not sure the writers have realised that Kane is in love with Jaha, but he definitely, definitely is. Similarly, Monty and Jasper are clearly boyfriends, but nobody involved in this show has a clue that they're being presented as boyfriends, which makes for some odd scenes. I keep forgetting Monty/Jasper isn't technically canon and then going '????' when Jasper goes chasing after other people.
I might be up for some Kane/Abby. I was hoping, when Kane reluctantly sentenced Abby to a series of painful electric shocks, that he'd be administering them himself, but Abby furiously maintaining eye contact with Kane for as long as she's capable during her punishment was also pretty good.
(I checked the The World Ends With You tag on Tumblr after the Switch release and stumbled across someone saying it was wrong to 'ship two of the characters because it was an abusive dynamic. Yes, I know that one of them emotionally manipulated and murdered the other, but that's what makes it great. Healthy relationships are for real life!
At a pub, two days ago, one of my friends asked whether there was any fandom in which I'd written fanfiction but hadn't written anything horrible. I started looking through the fandoms I'd recently written for. I ended up having to go back seven years and twenty-five fandoms before concluding I'd never written anything troubling for Phineas and Ferb.)
Devil May Cry: I still remember very nervously queueing up to buy this 15-rated game when I was only thirteen, but I got away with it! This game was trying so hard to be cool and it was hilarious. (Battle rankings included 'cool' and 'stylish'.) I also remember the cutscene where you obtain your sword, and by 'you obtain it' I mean 'it impales you through the chest'.
We Know the Devil: (LP) A short, strange and interesting visual novel about three teenagers staying overnight in an isolated shack at summer camp, waiting for the devil to make an appearance. My favourite of the trio is Jupiter, incredibly repressed and desperately trying to be a good person.
And now some more of The 100! I've now finished the first season and by this point I've entirely lost track of how many characters have died, but the number of survivors from the original 100, not counting Bellamy and Raven, must be somewhere between 76 and 53. Probably a lot closer to the latter.
Octavia: We should make peace with the grounders.
Riona: You know, Octavia's absolutely right. You should all listen to her.
Finn: We should make peace with the grounders.
Riona: Shut up, Finn; nobody likes you.
I think the problem with Finn is that he comes across as very sanctimonious and judgemental, but also he tried to keep things going with Clarke after Raven came to Earth. If he just committed to being a scumbag, I'd probably like him!
(I wrote the above before watching episode 2.03, in which Finn punches an unarmed, bound person in the face and then shoots him while everyone else is arguing over ethics, and, predictably, I now have slightly warmer feelings towards him. See, Finn, I'm not asking a lot of you. All you have to do is be interesting on occasion.)
I wasn't expecting the first time I got tearful at The 100 to be over the pain of Councillor Dickface, but life is full of surprises. (Kane has become considerably less of a dickface by the point I've now watched to, and I suppose he's no longer a councillor, but I still struggle not to think of him as Councillor Dickface.)
Something about the framing of the first episode made me assume that Kane was the one who told Bellamy to shoot Chancellor Jaha, and I was confused to watch further and go 'but... but Kane is clearly in love with Chancellor Jaha; why would he want to kill him?' It explained a lot when I learnt Kane wasn't the person who'd given the instruction.
I'm not sure the writers have realised that Kane is in love with Jaha, but he definitely, definitely is. Similarly, Monty and Jasper are clearly boyfriends, but nobody involved in this show has a clue that they're being presented as boyfriends, which makes for some odd scenes. I keep forgetting Monty/Jasper isn't technically canon and then going '????' when Jasper goes chasing after other people.
I might be up for some Kane/Abby. I was hoping, when Kane reluctantly sentenced Abby to a series of painful electric shocks, that he'd be administering them himself, but Abby furiously maintaining eye contact with Kane for as long as she's capable during her punishment was also pretty good.
(I checked the The World Ends With You tag on Tumblr after the Switch release and stumbled across someone saying it was wrong to 'ship two of the characters because it was an abusive dynamic. Yes, I know that one of them emotionally manipulated and murdered the other, but that's what makes it great. Healthy relationships are for real life!
At a pub, two days ago, one of my friends asked whether there was any fandom in which I'd written fanfiction but hadn't written anything horrible. I started looking through the fandoms I'd recently written for. I ended up having to go back seven years and twenty-five fandoms before concluding I'd never written anything troubling for Phineas and Ferb.)