Did You Try Looking Inside The Sofa In Hell?

[rionaleonhart]

Congratulations to the Netherlands on their Eurovision win! It was a good song, although I'll admit my favourite was Norway's entry, with the couple and the incredible bald third wheel, which I keep dancing along to when there's no one else around.


'Doppelgangland' is a fun Buffy episode. I love Giles, Buffy and Xander grieving over Willow being turned, and then their reaction when they realise she's okay. I went 'aww' aloud when Giles hugged her.

I want to know which of the gang changed Vampire Willow's clothes.


On a whim, I've started rewatching Scrubs, which I haven't seen in at least a decade.

It's always weird to experience a canon when you're younger than the characters and then go back to it when you're older. I'm still not over going from 'Squall Leonhart is cool and grown-up and four years older than me' to 'Squall Leonhart is ONLY SEVENTEEN.' That's been on my mind with Life Is Strange 2, actually; it probably feels very different to people who are younger than Sean and not necessarily going 'oh, my God, this kid is sixteen and trying to raise his nine-year-old brother in the wilderness.'

So now I can look at JD and go 'no wonder this kid's so overwhelmed' rather than 'okay, JD's sort of a mess, but most people in their mid-twenties are adults who have their lives together, right? right???' (Spoiler: nobody's got their lives together.)

I'd completely forgotten that Carla and Elliot didn't get along at first!

JD and Turk's behaviour around women bothers me more nowadays, but I do like that JD, after concluding he's in the friendzone with Elliot, goes 'well, I guess I could do with more friends.'

One of the Ghostfacers from Supernatural is a patient in an early episode! (He does not survive it. Now he's a ghost, and he can face himself.)

Jordan responding to JD's attempt to assert himself with 'okay, well, now we're going to bang' and then turning out to be Cox's ex-wife is considerably more up my street now than it was when I first watched Scrubs.

Jordan: Even though you're terrified the good Dr Cox'll find out, if I wanted you to go to his apartment right now and have sex with me in front of him, you would.
JD: Please don't do that.

Look at this perfect fic concept that completely escaped my notice when I was seventeen!

I haven't reached 'My Screw Up' yet (I'm still early in the first season), but that episode was very formative for me. I played Silent Hill 2 when I was sixteen, I watched 'My Screw Up' when I was seventeen, and that was it; I'd been defined as a person. I've been writing about characters being guilt-ridden and delusional ever since.


While I'm talking about assorted television: I've now actually watched the final episode of Community at last! I watched up to the penultimate episode a few years ago and then just... never watched the finale, perhaps because then there would be no more Community, which is clearly an unacceptable state of affairs.

I wasn't that into seasons five or six, so I wasn't sure whether I'd actually enjoy the finale, but I liked it a lot! I think it was a good way to close out the show (and it had a nice scene for my inappropriate OTP, which I wasn't expecting!). Jeff and his fear of abandonment absolutely broke my heart.

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[ghosthack]

Squall Leonhart was the first fictional character that 12/13yo me ever really related to on a personal level, and that really went a long way to cementing my obsession with the game. FFVIII wasn't just my first FF, it was also my first RPG of any kind, and the first game I ever played that really went all in with the FMV cut scenes, so I was pretty enthralled with it for a number of years.

Took me a long time to wrap my head around the junction system tho. I was flying blind for the entirety of my first playthrough, and I got through most boss battles by the skin of my teeth. (still my fav ff where's my remake!?!)

[rionaleonhart]

Oh, wow, I could have written this (apart from 'first RPG' - mine was Pokémon Red!). I was basically incapable of talking to people when I was thirteen; there seemed to be all these rules of conversation I didn't understand, and I had no idea how to read people's reactions. And then I met Squall Leonhart, and my world was shaken. I understood this guy! I could hear his thoughts, and his thoughts were my thoughts! Maybe that meant I was capable of understanding other people as well? Maybe they didn't have to be an impenetrable mystery?

It sounds ridiculous, but I can honestly say that FFVIII taught me empathy.