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I Haven't Given Up on Mediocrity
Jan. 26th, 2024 12:10 amClose to beating Octopath Traveler and have a lot of thoughts about it, mechanically. I think it's really well designed. Might post about it a bit later when I clear the final boss etc.
Cyrus remains my favorite by an extremely wide margin (my friend jokingly called him a "natural 20 character" for me lol) and my first shipping instinct (Cyrus/Therion) seems to be reasonably popular on AO3 but I feel like the handful of fics I've skimmed have Therion being too nice at the start. The dynamic I'm envisioning here is more like Unstoppable Force (guy afraid of having a positive relationship with anybody so he lashes out to make people hate him) meets Immovable Object (guy who is so eccentric his emotions might as well inhabit a different plane of existence). Hard-hearted and emotionally damaged criminal runs up against ivory tower academic unshakably convinced that everybody's worth teaching. IDK I just love characters who try to be awful and fail at it.
Also very funny to me that there's some business with a magic evil book but the actual point of conflict in Cyrus's storyline between him and the bad guys seems to be roughly equivalent to refusing to paywall his research. Gotta respect a real one.
Fell back into a Twitter hole, but so goes the cycle. Also been having assorted work drama -- a client seems to be having financial issues and is having trouble making payroll for their freelancers. I don't do a huge amount of work for them anymore (the editorial step was cut from a lot of projects in order to facilitate the move to simulpub, a decision I could complain about all day) so it's not CATASTROPHIC that my paycheck is late, but it is annoying, and makes me worry about the future of some of the projects I'm emotionally invested in.
Went out into the Freezing Cold (seriously so cold) with my friend the other day to take a few zillion cosplay pics...it was so cold I didn't have the presence of mind to do stuff like check if my wig was properly styled or if my natural ears were visible from certain angles, so got fewer usable shots than I'd like, but...did get several. Now, I just need to get over hating my appearance, especially my face, enough to edit and post them. Didn't realize how much work that mask was doing in all my con photos as far as making me feel comfortable goes, lol.
I don't know about new year's resolutions...I didn't make any, except to finish one particular small-ish project I have sitting around (an unedited short story draft of around 25k) and work on my dolls and sewing more regularly.
Cyrus remains my favorite by an extremely wide margin (my friend jokingly called him a "natural 20 character" for me lol) and my first shipping instinct (Cyrus/Therion) seems to be reasonably popular on AO3 but I feel like the handful of fics I've skimmed have Therion being too nice at the start. The dynamic I'm envisioning here is more like Unstoppable Force (guy afraid of having a positive relationship with anybody so he lashes out to make people hate him) meets Immovable Object (guy who is so eccentric his emotions might as well inhabit a different plane of existence). Hard-hearted and emotionally damaged criminal runs up against ivory tower academic unshakably convinced that everybody's worth teaching. IDK I just love characters who try to be awful and fail at it.
Also very funny to me that there's some business with a magic evil book but the actual point of conflict in Cyrus's storyline between him and the bad guys seems to be roughly equivalent to refusing to paywall his research. Gotta respect a real one.
Fell back into a Twitter hole, but so goes the cycle. Also been having assorted work drama -- a client seems to be having financial issues and is having trouble making payroll for their freelancers. I don't do a huge amount of work for them anymore (the editorial step was cut from a lot of projects in order to facilitate the move to simulpub, a decision I could complain about all day) so it's not CATASTROPHIC that my paycheck is late, but it is annoying, and makes me worry about the future of some of the projects I'm emotionally invested in.
Went out into the Freezing Cold (seriously so cold) with my friend the other day to take a few zillion cosplay pics...it was so cold I didn't have the presence of mind to do stuff like check if my wig was properly styled or if my natural ears were visible from certain angles, so got fewer usable shots than I'd like, but...did get several. Now, I just need to get over hating my appearance, especially my face, enough to edit and post them. Didn't realize how much work that mask was doing in all my con photos as far as making me feel comfortable goes, lol.
I don't know about new year's resolutions...I didn't make any, except to finish one particular small-ish project I have sitting around (an unedited short story draft of around 25k) and work on my dolls and sewing more regularly.
