Oh hai. Ranting.

[railenthe]

*huffs and sits down*  First off, Happy Zombie Jesus Day!

 

You know, I’m wondering what’ll happen before my therapy appointment.  It’s gotten to the point that the medications don’t entirely stop the nightmares anymore.  But at least the nightmares are suitably varied enough that I don’t fly straight into a panic attack when they happen now.  Like last night’s: I dreamt I went skydiving, and this person whose face I could not see cut my parachute on the way down.  I landed with a bouncing crunch.  Here’s where it gets surreal—after it happened I got to watch this little old lady take repeated skydives.  She seemed to be having a ball, if the whooping was any indication

 

The name “EX Revenge” was never more appropriate than yesterday, when I saw at the top of my news feed that my ex had decided to flaunt his new girlfriend on Facebook.

 

He never flaunted ME on Facebook—not unless I said for him to feel free to.  Why is it that he’d need INCENTIVE to flaunt me but not this new, apparently more docile and “sweet” girl?

 

I decided to take out my inchoate rage on his ghost.  Firion, Kuja, Yuna (ESPECIALLY Yuna, who even in person he is utterly unable to read) and Mateus all got a go at his ghost, and by the time it was all over, I felt quite a bit better.  I even got an extra Noah’s Lute to replace the one I used to make the Ultima Weapon, so at least he was good for something.  I only lost once in that sequence, and that was because I forgot to re-equip moves after a previous Labyrinth run.

 

I then spent, oh, the remainder of the day in the Labyrinth, going from the beginning to the end of the Cloister of Inquiry.  I’m running the course that has my cottage in it as many times as needed to build a trove of gear so that I can take out Feral Chaos.  The only reason I landed in that Cloister, though, was because I totally took a wrong turn somewhere.   But at least I grabbed almost every summon on the way.

 

Today, I must write.  I did none of that yesterday and very little the day before.  I should have twenty-four pages of script by now and I do not have twenty-four pages of script.  I must write until I have caught up to the average quota of twenty-four pages of script.  …repetition intentional.

 

Comments

[toffeethesnob.livejournal.com]

It's a shame you can't properly get back at him for all the crap he's subjected you to. I suppose the only thing you can truly do that would be a kick in the nuts to him is to become successful and leave him in the dust where he belongs. (That's what I do everytime I feel particularly miserable over two sour friendships and a secondary school that essentially declared me to be mentally inferior. Nothing fuels my work ethic quite like spite...)

I need to get back to playing Dissidia. It sucks that the only ghosts I can fight on the JP version are my own. :( Oh well at least I have saltedpin and laifan's on the EU version for whenever I feel like being horribly bitchslapped by WoL, Prishe, Kain, Tifa, Cecil or Yuna. (My EU genomes are still such n00bs. Still not on special equipment, using only basic accessories and having no summonstones whatsoever. No wonder they get beated up so often...)

That reminds me: I should've been drawing or working on my OC stuff today. Instead I got sidetracked looking for spoilerific KH3Ds videos. (Damn you, Ishida! Why did you have to make Ienzo sound so freakin' moe!? Gah, he's pulling the same trick he did with Kuja! The villainous side is deeper and harsher whilst the other side is lighter, softer and notably younger. Though at least with Ienzo/Zexion it's not quite so blatant since Zexion isn't a large ham like Kujie-coo. Eh? My own series...? Oh yeah! I forgot about that! Curse you, inner fangirl!)

[railenthe.livejournal.com]

My vengeance would be a thing of beauty: pair of trophy significant others (I figure one of each, because love is love and hot is hot) on each arm, each holding a copy of either the press release for my novel/screenplay (whichever comes first) and the other one simply whispering my praises in my ear. Behind me would be the people in charge of my money and behind THEM would be my adoring fans, wondering why Sel only got nekkid once. He’d have his lousy management position at the store and I’d have a fucking legion of adoring fans. Who’s lacking confidence now, bitchy-boy? /spite

THE ANSWER TO THAT IS BECAUSE IT WAS DISTRACTING ENOUGH TO WRITE HIM GETTING NEKKID ONCE. I bet that scene will prompt people to slash him even more than the totally-intentional ho yay—and I wouldn’t mind it because I’ve slashed him myself once or twice

I grabbed DDFF again because it was the only way I could think of to blow off steam. So I sic’d Yuna on him. The man is incapable of reading her attacks—and so’s his ghost. He’s also bad at reading Kuja and Gabranth once I get on a roll. (I can have that man’s EX mode last a full minute when I’m on a roll.) The fact that I got an extra Noah’s Lute out of it was a bonus.

I’m incredibly tempted to find a copy of the US region for you and foist off a fairly extensively inventoried save file along with it on you. Except that right now I’m totally not working and won’t know when I will be so that’s going to have to wait. Also I don’t know how you feel about ghosts that can be cheap bastards. (I REFUSE to fight my own Lightning build. She’s mean.)

I’m going to be getting to work on my stuff shortly. I played so much Dissidia yesterday that I appear to have strained my thumb. (It’s impressively swollen right now. I haven’t played a video game of ANY sort in over a month, so the exercise was unaccustomed, to say the least.)

…I try to avoid spoilers for things I plan on getting but I kinda want to hear Ienzo/Zexion after hearing that.

[toffeethesnob.livejournal.com]

That's the spirit! And for an extra twist of the knife, if he comes up to you you can coldly ask "Do I know you?" just to really let it sink in how much of a nobody he is.

I keep removing the fanservicey scenes where my characters are nekkid or at least doing something suggestive. Not because I'm a prude but because those scenes have no reason to be in there at the moment. There are still a few scenes where my characters are nekkid but it's a deliberate fan disservice. (What can I say? I'm a troll.)

To be honest I just don't think I could handle A THIRD VERSION of the game. I can barely keep sane with two at the moment. There are so many bloody characters to maintain and then of course there are the accomplishments and the cutscenes and the glaaaaaaaaarggh.... *flail*

I keep opening up the new word document and deconstructing the series so that I can build it back up again but currently I seem to be having a bit of a problem in that my main character disappears towards the ending. Not disappears in terms of a plot point, I mean just disappears because I haven't done anything with them yet. Oh boy... This is going to take some thinking.

The video I linked above only shows what we already knew about of the revived Org XIII guys (Lea, Ienzo and Aeleus) after 4.29 and all they do is chat if that makes things any better. (I don't know if there are any more Ienzo clips but I found that and went into Ishida fangirl overdrive. Doesn't help though that the last I heard Lea and Aeleus's seiyuus was in Gintama so I kept expecting Aeleus to sing about cardboard and for Lea to bitch about his haemorrhoids.)

But since this isn't anything new, here's what Japanese Zexion sounds like:



Now imagine that but stripped of evil and high enough to sound so cute that they might be jailbait. You've basically got Ienzo.