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rionaleonhart) wrote2022-06-04 07:43 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2022-06-04 07:43 pm
Coming Home To Balamb Again.
I'm watching Tem play The Great Ace Attorney! We're very early in it - we're at the start of the second case and have just hit the first deduction sequence - but I'm enjoying it a lot.
I'm absolutely outraged that this game killed DrWatson Wilson in the first case and Kazuma in the second. You can't kill the boyfriends of both Ryunosuke and Sholmes immediately! Unless you want them to seek comfort in each other's arms, I suppose.
Both Tem and I shipped Ryunosuke and Kazuma very hard and were extremely unhappy when Kazuma was killed in the second case. Sholmes is not a satisfactory replacement boyfriend, although he is definitely hitting on us.
Also unhappy about Kazuma's fate: Zuko, our cat, who had a great time attacking Kazuma's bandana whenever he was on the screen. I've never been able to pinpoint a cat's favourite character with such certainty before.
I'm really puzzled by the question of what language the characters are speaking. It's canonically established that Ryunosuke can't speak English and Sholmes can't speak Japanese; how are they communicating? How does Ryunosuke converse with the Russian sailors? Is there an interpreter just offscreen? Did the interpreter commit this murder?
Wait, now that I double-check, Ryunosuke actually can understand the English spoken in the first case! It was a confusing decision to put it in an unreadable font; I suppose it was just to make it clear that Brett was speaking a different language from everyone else? I wonder if it was in plain English in the original Japanese version.
Frankly, making Ryunosuke sleep in the wardrobe on the ship is a tragic waste of an 'only one bed' scenario. Come on, let me believe he and Kazuma shared the bed at least sometimes. Maybe they tried sharing the bed for a few nights and then Ryunosuke insisted on sleeping in the wardrobe because he was having too many feelings.
On an unrelated note, I've been trying to write Squall/Zell, the first pairing I ever really shipped, and it's just impossible. Who's going to make the first move? Obviously not Squall. I can't picture Zell doing it either. It's hard to picture either of them even recognising any feelings they might have for each other, so I can't even write pining.
I used to be confused that Squall/Zell wasn't a bigger pairing, but it turns out it's physically impossible to write. I suppose that explains it.
Strictly speaking, I have written Squall/Zell once before - it was my first ever attempt at writing romance - but I was thirteen and it was dire. (It's only seven hundred words, but maybe I could do a miniature Old Fanfiction Book Club at some point.) Perhaps one day I'll manage to write something less terrible for these two; they deserve it!
I've been thinking a lot about Final Fantasy VIII lately. I've gone through so many fandoms over the years, but every so often my heart will fly back to this game; it's the single work of fiction that's most important to me and the one I'll always, always, always come back to. I've loved it for twenty years, and I'll love it for the rest of my life. These messed-up teenage mercenaries are a permanent part of me.
If you have something similar, I'd be interested to hear about it! What's the story your soul is anchored to?
I'm absolutely outraged that this game killed Dr
Both Tem and I shipped Ryunosuke and Kazuma very hard and were extremely unhappy when Kazuma was killed in the second case. Sholmes is not a satisfactory replacement boyfriend, although he is definitely hitting on us.
Also unhappy about Kazuma's fate: Zuko, our cat, who had a great time attacking Kazuma's bandana whenever he was on the screen. I've never been able to pinpoint a cat's favourite character with such certainty before.
I'm really puzzled by the question of what language the characters are speaking. It's canonically established that Ryunosuke can't speak English and Sholmes can't speak Japanese; how are they communicating? How does Ryunosuke converse with the Russian sailors? Is there an interpreter just offscreen? Did the interpreter commit this murder?
Wait, now that I double-check, Ryunosuke actually can understand the English spoken in the first case! It was a confusing decision to put it in an unreadable font; I suppose it was just to make it clear that Brett was speaking a different language from everyone else? I wonder if it was in plain English in the original Japanese version.
Frankly, making Ryunosuke sleep in the wardrobe on the ship is a tragic waste of an 'only one bed' scenario. Come on, let me believe he and Kazuma shared the bed at least sometimes. Maybe they tried sharing the bed for a few nights and then Ryunosuke insisted on sleeping in the wardrobe because he was having too many feelings.
On an unrelated note, I've been trying to write Squall/Zell, the first pairing I ever really shipped, and it's just impossible. Who's going to make the first move? Obviously not Squall. I can't picture Zell doing it either. It's hard to picture either of them even recognising any feelings they might have for each other, so I can't even write pining.
I used to be confused that Squall/Zell wasn't a bigger pairing, but it turns out it's physically impossible to write. I suppose that explains it.
Strictly speaking, I have written Squall/Zell once before - it was my first ever attempt at writing romance - but I was thirteen and it was dire. (It's only seven hundred words, but maybe I could do a miniature Old Fanfiction Book Club at some point.) Perhaps one day I'll manage to write something less terrible for these two; they deserve it!
I've been thinking a lot about Final Fantasy VIII lately. I've gone through so many fandoms over the years, but every so often my heart will fly back to this game; it's the single work of fiction that's most important to me and the one I'll always, always, always come back to. I've loved it for twenty years, and I'll love it for the rest of my life. These messed-up teenage mercenaries are a permanent part of me.
If you have something similar, I'd be interested to hear about it! What's the story your soul is anchored to?
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Honestly, a number of things. Growing up as a shy, isolated, bookish child who had a tendency to read books and comics over and over and over, and also use them as springboards for blatantly derivative original fiction, there are a number of canons that were heavily formative for me as a juvenile creator that still hold up well enough that I revisit them every 5-10 years or so, often dipping back into fandom creativity when I do - Elfquest, Amber, X-Men.
But possibly the thing I've been doing that with the longest is the original Star Trek. It's one of the earliest things I remember watching on TV, in afternoon reruns when I was probably four or five, and the wild thing is that I still remember specific episodes even though I only ever saw a few of them at that age. It was probably the thing that first introduced me to hurt/comfort. I watched it off and on throughout my childhood whenever I could catch a rerun, back in the days when shows airing on TV was the only way to watch them, and I'd say every few years I go through a renewed surge of interest that involves watching some episodes, reading some fic, and picking up some tie-in books. I think there's a distinct chance I've never actually seen every episode, since I've never just sat down and watched it in order.
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is one reason why I enjoy both reading and writing a variety of intense hurt/comforty tropes, ranging from characters going through some kind of hell together (torture, survival in the wilderness) to things like sex/cuddle pollen, involuntary soulbonding, and sudden onset telepathy. Some people just need to be jammed into each other's proximity and then forcibly held there.
All excellent stuff! I've actually attempted this in my fic - they're trapped and isolated in an inescapable wasteland together, unsure of how or if they're going to survive - but, inconsiderately, they still won't make out.
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There is just no helping some people! XD