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Arg so much agony. My fingers hurt, my upper right arm is burning and my shoulder blade feels stiff. I think my lower arms are having a delayed reaction in soreness; it feels like they're going to hurt tomorrow. Never playing that much piano again.

...Except I'm probably going to have to; my exam is in one week and I am not prepared.

/brb practising until I die.


( DMW 44, 45 spoilers )

I can't get over how much people seem to like that short TWEWY/Devil Survivor crossover I wrote spontaneously.

I don't think I'm a well known writer. I don't write chaptered stories, I don't comment on other peoples' works much, I don't advertise myself much, I'm bad and often don't reply to comments, I don't write for particularly big fandoms etc. etc. There's lots of reasons. So I'm used to not getting much feedback on my writing.

But for the crossover, I've been getting an unexpected amount of feedback, some trickling in long after I've posted it up. And they're a little more detailed than the feedback I usually get and arrr it's just making me really excited about writing an expansion on that one-shot that I kind of want to start writing it now. But I want to do a good job of it, and that starts with me thoroughly reviewing Devil Survivor canon. I've talked a little bit to other people about this to bounce some ideas around TWEWY side, though nothing really solid. I'm probably going to compile a list of events that (can potentially) happen each day in Devil Survivor, and then I also need to get the world building sorted out, since my standard TWEWY headcanon isn't going to work in this setting. I'm actually still quite excited for this, even though I haven't even started working on this yet * A* aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

You know what the hardest part of it will be?

Writing Beat's speech D:


In other non spazzy news, been busy with uni and Pokémon. I meant to get back into League of Legends, but the fact the frequent, relatively large patches is really offputting, even more so now that I can't actually launch the game because of some bizarre error that involves me reinstalling it to fix it. Yeah no.

WHY ARE MY REACTION MECHANISMS SO COUNTER PRODUCTIVE.

I KNOW WHAT THE SOLUTION TO MY PROBLEM IS. BUT I HAVE TO FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL WITH MY DUMB BRAIN TO WORK TOWARDS THAT SOLUTION.

THIS ICON IS ME SLAPPING MY BRAIN IN THE FACE, REPEATEDLY.

OCTOBER 22ND IS INTERNATIONAL CAPSLOCK DAY. I FULLY EXPECT YOU PEOPLE IN A SLOW TIMEZONE TO CAPSLOCK AT ME.

Also today I saw on the side of a van:

SEME - solutions for a safer world

( Uni stuff )

Other stuff to do list (doesn't include stuff after exams are over)
- reply to L and Edgeworth
- message Sekai-mun (Jen) about potential CR
- Toto app (iron out the history, look over the personality and remove some crap that's not relevant, samples DONE \o/)
- get up to speed on plot, primarily golden fleece stuff fasdfhgjsdl;kfj
- STOP BEING STUPID

... and are within my means to do so.

F-Zero
Fire Emblem, Shadow Dragon
Ice Climbers
Ico, Shadow of the Colossus
Kid Icarus
Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2 and CoM (maybe! The annoying camera in 1 & 2 is very offputting for me)
Kirby Super Star
MGS 1 & 3
Mother 1-3
SSB, SSBB
Star Fox, Lylat Wars, Starfox Command
Super Metroid, Metroid Prime Hunters, Metroid Prime Pinball(!!)
The Legend of Zelda - A Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, Phantom Hourglass
Yoshi's Island


Somehow, this list is getting longer and longer. That's what, 28 games? And that doesn't include stuff I might've forgotten :| However, the chances of me finishing all of these, considering half of them are genres I am terrible at, are slim. You might notice a pattern with the majority of these games.

Edit: shimering2 I AM DISOWNING YOU. FOREVER.

Ugh. A few days ago I was going to say something along the lines of YAY I AM GETTING BACK INTO RPING but just as quickly, I got distracted by MOTHER things and games. I've had way too many thoughts I wanted to write down, but the effort in doing so resulted in me not doing so. I can summarize my feelings of this week in :points.

The Awesome
+ Finished Kirby: Squeak Squad.
+ Marathoned all three big MOTHER radioplays (Fobbies are Borange, Loids are not Christmas, Tree of my Youth).
+ Felt like I want to be a part of the conglomerate of MOTHER fandom known as starmen.net.
+ Have many art ideas.
+ Started Shadow of the Colossus. Found it incredibly gripping. While my heart isn't quite into it yet (I'm only like 2 hours into the game), my body definitely feels the fear when Wander's hanging off the head of a colossus that's trying to shake him off. Also, the sheer size of them is terrifying, especially once they start attacking you as well. The game really does give you a great sense of something big, even while I'm playing on my small TV.
+ Got my hands on 358/2 Days after a lot of problems. Cannot stop playing 358/2 Days.
+ Went through the entirety of the Earthbound section in the Pit. Found some interesting stories.
+ Bought Brawl for $50 instead of the $80 offered at stores near me.
+ Started going through the SSB section of the Pit. Found a few cute things that reinforces the reasons why I find SSB interesting conceptually outside the arena. Also, Master Hand is always awesome, even when the rest of the fic is rather average.

The Not-So-Awesome
- Cannot join starmen.net because home internet does not allow me so. May not actually be a bad thing.
- Could not find energy to even sketch my art ideas.
- Cannot stop playing 358/2 Days.
- None of the MOTHER fic in the Pit really made me go "YES THIS IS AMAZING AND I WILL SPEND THE NEXT HOUR OF MY LIFE RE-READING THIS FOREVER" (although I was expecting this, sigh). A few things that were interesting conceptually but exectution didn't sit well with me. Also, Ness/Jeff mpreg.
- Still do not have a Wii.
- So much of the SSB fic is not relevant to my interests. The ones that were kind of made me :| after a few chapters (or a few paragraphs, in some cases). Also, surprisingly difficult to find 'day in the life' fic for SSB that doesn't just focus on a few characters.
- Still procrastinating on RP things. Interest levels are REALLY HIGH right now, especially with the Firetruck and Way events that are very relevant to my characters' interests. But it just happens that my interest levels in vidya games are at an all time high as well. Still feel bad that RP is the thing at the bottom of my hobby barrel.
- Did not get any uni work done. Doom meter is increasing at an exponential rate, but cannot motivate myself to reduce it. Why am I so stupid.

I am unsure if I'll be going to uni tomorrow !

NEVER follow Souji's example. I spent the afternoon in mild stomach discomfort before it got worse. HNGHHH ended up throwing up multiple times. I guess there's a reason Souji goes to sleep early. I HAVE LEARNT MY LESSON.

Edit: Tired thoughts/questions on Toto in DMW 24
( Under the cut for spoilers )

MUST. SUPRESS URGE TO ESSAY FOREVER.

Current essays on hold:
- Atsuro RE: Atsuro's route
- Joshua RE: Character Development
- DEADMAN WONDERLAND Chapter 23 scanlation AHHHH AHHHHHHH
- Music and Vidya games