Wanderer's Rest

All that work and nonsense and installing two extra apps on my phone just to get to play an older indie game for Android, and I still can't play it because for no good reason it won't save my progress. I dip my toe into indie games and get it bit off by a snapping turtle.

game is Eternal Lux fwiw, though i'm sure i'd be having this problem with any similar app

Wraith vs. the Rhombus of Shadow, chapter 3: in which Wraith finds out some stuff and gives a Decepticon a headache.

this is a document to prove that i was here: yes i wrote a 'in memory of Peter Cullen' fic, I am exactly that kind of nerd

this summer has been a relentless march of heatwaves, everything is brown and dry and dead and just itching for an excuse to be on fire, we all just got our phones buzzed telling us to cool it with the barbecues...

so WHAT FUCKING IDIOT

is OUT THERE

SETTING OFF FIREWORKS

I WOULD LIKE TO NOT DIE IN A FIRE PLEASE

bit late tooting my own horn about it, as usual

Team Wraith vs. the Rhombus of Shadow! (on AO3, acct needed)

this one's actually part of Repaired Timeline, albeit as a spinoff/prequel.

Look I get why people object to celebrating the deaths of hated public figures. The guy who makes a big production of dancing on the grave of your Uncle Walter because Uncle Walter slept with the guy's wife is The Asshole even if he does have a legitimate grievance that never satisfactorily got addressed when Uncle Walter was still alive. And you know when Biden shuffles off this mortal coil shit's gonna get extremely ugly over in Conservapedia World. To say nothing of Obama.

But like, we're in a place now where a bunch of extremely powerful people are out here murdering millions with the flick of a chainsaw pen and I know, I know there's things ordinary people can do and are doing to stop them or at least mitigate the damage but those things are hard and slow and incomplete and it can feel like you're insects trying to defy a steamroller. There are just no consequences to these people anymore.

Well, here's a fucking consequence. Be a fascist? Here's how you'll be remembered. And you can't pay your way out of it and you can't stochastic terrorism your way out of it. Your grave is destined to be a public toilet, your name is destined to be a curse and the only way out of it is to Change Your Ways and we all know you'd sooner flay yourself alive than stop being cruel to people you'll never meet and can never hold you to account in life.

Tbh I think this is what shook the right the most about Charlie Kirk's death. They may (or may not) have been legitimately sad and upset about his death, but they also couldn't wait to make him a martyr they could shake in our faces and make us shut up, because aren't we supposed to be the nice sweet tolerant ones who think every human life has value? Well, that didn't work so well, did it?

So yeah. Rest in piss, Lindsey. Here's hoping McConnell and Trump follow you soon.

New fic begins today! Based on this 3SF fill that's been taking over my brain ever since. We'll see how this goes.

Lost Sparks of Darkmount (on AO3, account needed)

i wonder how long it'd take to quit my job, fling myself into game dev, and make the serial-numbers-filed-off next-gen open-world Zelda-alike I wish they'd make >_>

(context: i was diagnosed with diabetes a couple months ago and the new diet suuuuuuuuuuucks and i kind of want to walk into the sea with rocks in my pockets and a stomach full of cheesecake)

1) I have to outlive That Fucking Guy. I cannot walk into the sea without having done something incredibly tasteless to mark the occasion.

2) Haunted Chocolatier isn't out yet. I need to persist for a couple of years so I can play it.

3) I want to see what they do with the next mainline Zelda game. I hope they keep the open-world format; I'm terrified that the fandom have been such whiny babies about it that they'll backtrack into the dungeons-and-items comfort zone and open world Zelda will just be the Switch era's gimmick. So I guess that's a "to be determined" on the reasons to live front.

4) I got fic to write.

......so i guess i will keep eating like this but i will absolutely not have a ~*~*~Positive Attitude~*~*~ about it

...couldn't stay away for long. (blocked on my longfic projects.)

FF7, Barret, Cloud(/Tifa/Aerith) - having two girlfriends is easy - you just let them tie you up and do whatever they want to you

Transformers G1, Hot Rod, Optimus, implied Op/Megatron - did you love him?

Transformers G1, Optimus/Jazz - if you were a king, I'd be your ___

Slice & Dice, Acolyte - your tiny fandom that i've probably never heard of, any, this is your excuse to write more fics for it

Am watching Miniminuteman's Ancient Aliens Origins response/drinking game and I just realized that in Transformers!verse, all the Ancient Aliens guys would immediately pivot to "And those aliens were Autobots! :DDDD"

because anything relating to Autobots instantly gets attention and attention = money, like all conspiracy theories.

eventually Optimus Prime learns to tune that shit out 'cause they treat every denial like a confession, but every once in a while a TikTokker gets an angry quote from one of the younger/less even-keeled Autobots that they can turn into Content.

.........oh my god but the Decepticons though. Maybe a few of them start going "oh yeah, we built your pyramids" because they think it's funny, but at one point Megatron starts incorporating it into his propaganda because, hey, flesh creatures, we built all of your civilizations, obviously this means you can't do anything on your own and you should hand over your planet to us!!!! :DDDD (what do you mean you only believe that about the natives of Africa and the Americas, no you're all insignificant insects trust me)