dreaming on

I am vibrating with the need to play Story of Seasons. As the release date draws closer I've been filled with the need to play Harvest Moon and I keep checking Amazon to see if it's shipped yet because it said it would ship today but it also said I wouldn't get it until Thursday but it comes out tomorrow how can I wait until Thursday I will gnaw my arm off

Even though I have a midterm on Wednesday but w/e I can raise angora rabbits and camels on my farm wtf I just need this

Still having a Bleach moment, currently juggling Child of Light on Steam and Harvest Moon: A Tale of Two Towns. It's hard to get into my new job because I won't have a computer for... weeks, probably, so people just hand me huge stacks of paper to proof/label/read, so most of my work time is spent reading monotonous procedures about how procedures are decided upon until I faceplant and then stealthily reading library books on my iPhone or writing fanfic.

...Do you ever have one of those pairings that you ship so much that you can't imagine writing or roleplaying it or whatever because it's so perfect already that there's nowhere left to go, that you can't add anything to it? I think that is Renji and Rukia for me. I can't write anything except pre-canon angst for them. Once they're bffs again nothing I write feels like it could come close to expressing their perfection.

Autoplay videos and videos that take you through a playlist even though you only clicked on one video are a scourge upon our Internet.

I know that I've already recently complained about watching TV shows online, but I'm going to complain about it again. I was trying to watch The Daily Show and The Nightly Show on Comedy Central's website, but the videos kept hanging on commercial breaks and never loading. So I thought, I'll watch them on Hulu, until I remembered that Hulu is a pain in the ass, also often hanging on commercial breaks while in addition mandating that I turn off my ad-blocker, forcing ads even on paid users, and playing commercials much louder than the actual show, a gross assault of capitalism which has literally been banned on actual TV.

So I thought, I'll watch it on Xfinity TV, and then I remembered that Comcast is a disgusting monster trying to ruin the Internet that refuses to play nice with any of my electronics and is planning to take over the damn world.



The last 24 hours has been awful and stressful, except that I sat down last night to peck at my final research paper (which I hadn't touched yet, due on Sunday) and wrote 85% of it in one fevered swoop that I didn't surface from until it was 11:30PM.

"It's not my responsibility to inject my child with chemicals in order for [a child like Maggie] to be supposedly healthy," he said. "As far as I'm concerned, it's very likely that her leukemia is from vaccinations in the first place." - a fucking lunatic

Her leukemia is from vaccinations

Her leukemia is from vaccinations

*SCREAMING FOREVER*

In the article he also said that how dare your dying child expect to have any form of life involving the outside of her bedroom, including interaction with her immediate family (her infant brother got the measles) and seeking healthcare (he got it while at a clinic)? It's unfortunate but she deserves to die if she goes anywhere where a person with an easily preventable illness who may not have any symptoms has been within the past 2 hours, which is the duration of time measles can survive in the air. I need my child to remain "pure" and free of chemicals except all the chemicals in his food and his drinks and on his clothing and in his toothpaste and in his shampoo and sldkfjslkgj I can't

Her leukemia is from vaccinations

Network Executive: So how should we handle streaming content regarding our currently-airing shows?
Flunky: Why can't we just let them watch all the current episodes, sir?
Network Executive: What are you, crazy?! Then anyone would be able to watch our show, even if they hadn't been watching it for eight weeks already!
Flunky: But... isn't that what we...?
Go-Getter: Sir, how about if we allow anyone to watch the first three or so episodes... and then give them no way to watch the rest?
Network Executive: Genius!! That way the people who get interested in the show late will either be forced to resort to piracy or give up on our series for months, after which they'll have lost interest!!
Flunky: I don't understand how this is the outcome we want. Wouldn't we benefit more if our new shows were accessible to new viewers?
Network Executive: You're fired.


This skit is brought to you by the fact that I was able to watch episodes 1-4 of Jane the Virgin legally and then for some reason only episodes 8-9 were available, either via Xfinity Streaming or Hulu -- and on Hulu, bizarrely, episode 2 was for paying users only, the others were available for free. Wouldn't want it to be easy or anything!

I pirated 5-7 and then prepared to watch 8 legally... only to find that episode 10 aired last night, so of course episode 8 had been pulled from all legal sources. Of course, it's hardly just Jane the Virgin! Only the last 5 episodes of the current season of Elementary is available legally unless I pay CBS money for access to that and their other incredibly shitty programming, which is right after stab myself in the eye with a fork on my list of things to do. I was enjoying watching Forever a while back but the only episodes available legally are 4, 6-7, 12-13, which makes for a riveting evening of viewing I'm sure.

Why are you doing this. This is pointless and frustrating. As someone who has ignored all TV for the last few months -- hence why I'd like to catch up and start watching some new series -- it's making me so angry I want to go back to not watching TV. If that's your business model, consider it successful.

+ Don't start playing Xenogears again for no reason
Don't start playing Xenogears again for no reason
Don't start playing Xenogears again for no reason
Finish a damn video game! and not Xenogears

+ Watched the first two episodes of Galavant. It's available online. Everyone who enjoys Robin Hood: Men In Tights, saucy musicals, and/or funny things should watch it immediately.

+ Started re-outlining The Last Dreamer for scripting. A friend and I have agreed to have writing meetups IRL in the hopes that it will get us writing more. I need to have something to share!

+ Spending all my evenings organizing my stuff and it feels good. Thank you, Pinterest!

+ Having second thoughts about apping at Cerealia, and after my horrible weekend I need to give my brain time to recover anyway. Starting next week my MBA class makes Wednesdays into horrible 16-hour day ordeals, so maybe it's not good timing anyway.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Kickin' Kwanzaa, etc! As part of my family tradition, we went to see a movie for Christmas, and I don't care what anybody fucking says: the Hobbit was awesome. Battle of the Five Armies was everything I wanted.

...Basically what I wanted was just to see the rest of Thorin's story play out, so I wasn't really asking for much except that Jackson not fuck it up.

( Thar be spoilers, just in case anyone hasn't read the book but wants to see the movies, I guess. )

I don't feel like writing, playing games, or even really roleplaying. What I feel like doing is making a thousand icons. I must have 5000 textures by now and I want to play with them. I've spent the last few nights making Garnet and Fran icons because why not.

I went around looking for icon challenges/prompts/claims communities that were active and I didn't see any on DW. I contemplated doing some general prompts or bingo cards that don't have a fic-only restriction, but I'm not sure I can visually express more complex prompts: something like "melancholy" is fine (per my genprompt_bingo card) but something like "black is the new black" (per dailyprompt) I have trouble imagining how to express.

A lot of people on my flist are icon-savvy so you might not need icon-making, but I'm still eager to try new things, and choosing which image to icon next is almost the hardest part. So I will make you an icon if you provide me with an image. It'll be a holiday gift to both of us!

1. Up to 3 images to start with, and I will almost certainly provide you with several variations for any given image.


2. Images can be anything, photos, fanart, screencaps, whatever. If it's from a fandom source I don't need to know the fandom, but please tell me what it is / who the character is for my reference!


3. Since the point is playing around I don't need to know the requester either, so stalkers and friends of friends are fine.


4. Images that require coloring (black and white, lineart, manga) are okay, but I don't guarantee awesome.


5. Additional information about what you want from the icon is okay. Icons with text and animated icons I don't promise quality results for.


6. Bonus points if one of your images is for a Tales of, Kingdom Hearts, or Code Geass character, since I want to try those in particular.

Here are some examples!

I'm at the part of the game where I have to pick between mages or templars with zero middle ground, and so I want to vent some frustration with the infamous Dragon Age mage-templar conflict.

I'm mostly going to be talking about the previous two games and I'll avoid talking about the specifics of the IC situation so it's spoiler-free under here. (This is only, like, the third plot quest anyway, I'm still super early in the game.)

( Ranting under here. )

Oh god buying a car is the worst I have to ask people for monetary discounts and even though it's 100% expected and infamous for it I feel the walls closing in on me arghhh

In other news, Kingdom Hearts. Why isn't more Kingdom Hearts out yet? Someone should do something about that. There's still 9 whole days before this beautiful thing comes out and I drop everything in my life in order to re-experience six games I have already finished before. Shut up. I do what I want.

I redesigned my muselist, since everyone else was doing it. You should all admire it. Everyone should also admire the fact that because of it I made icons for Zero and Wrecka -- I actually ended up making three icons for Zero and I'm proud of them all. Oh, and why isn't more Megami Kouhosei out yet?

...And D. Gray-Man?

Basically, why isn't there more of the things I like and less car dealerships arghhhh

Got up early so that I could vote on my way to work and now I'm a zombie. Democracy is so hard. Seriously though it took 10 minutes out of my day, do it.

Remember the good old days when I would do little drabbles for voters? That was cute. I'll do that again if anyone is interested for some reason! It's a midterm election so no one cares but just because no presidents are involved doesn't mean it's not important.

If you voted, you can comment with 3 pairings and I will write you a small shippy fic. Your pairings can be from the following fandoms:

Bleach, Code Geass, D. Gray-Man, Final Fantasy VI-VII-IX-X-XII, Fire Emblem: Awakening, Kingdom Hearts, Marvel Cinematic Universe (not up to date on Agents of SHIELD FYI), Mass Effect, Megami Kouhosei, Suikoden, Tales of the Abyss, Tales of Vesperia, The World Ends With You

And probably some more I've forgotten, so if you're curious about my fandoms, ask me. Happy voting!