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hey guise this is the cutest icon ever amirite?
WOW. brutal week, but the difficult part is finished. Saturday is a ~day off and if the weather is still nice it's BIKE RIDING and DOG WALKING and TOO MUCH SODA for me! (i am lifting my soda ban temporarily because it's been that kind of week.)
ANYWAY
i am feeling like a QUESTION WAR today! i did one like a bajillion years ago and now feels like a good time to recycle it.
THE RULES:
Ask me a question in the comments
I will answer said question and reply with a question just for you!
You answer, and then we repeat steps 1 & 2 until the end of time or we get bored or whatever
Questions can be fannish or personal or weird or whatever, ANYTHING GOES
first one to stop loses
ETA: i just saw this and wanted to do it OKAY
The "What I've always wanted to tell you" Meme
aaaaaand now this shit's goin' public
ANYWAY
i am feeling like a QUESTION WAR today! i did one like a bajillion years ago and now feels like a good time to recycle it.
THE RULES:
Ask me a question in the comments
I will answer said question and reply with a question just for you!
You answer, and then we repeat steps 1 & 2 until the end of time or we get bored or whatever
Questions can be fannish or personal or weird or whatever, ANYTHING GOES
ETA: i just saw this and wanted to do it OKAY
aaaaaand now this shit's goin' public
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Question war question -
What's the best video game you've ever played?
*looks at meme's name* Hm... I've always wanted to tell you that I'm sorry that I sometimes don't answer your comments to me. I read them then get distracted a bajillion times before I can reply back. I end up forgetting until it's been long enough to seem weird to be remembering to answer them. D= Sorry! I am doing better nowadays.
P.S. - Thanks for the v-gift!
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eeeeeee, this is a hard question. hmmm....I'm going to be super-obscure and say Phantasy Star 4 for the Sega Genesis. I think it's the perfect RPG: it has a simple but engaging battle system with a lot of character-specific skills, which I like because it adds color and interest to characters; a long and meaty plot that is told without over the top angst or drama; cutscenes that to this day are impressive (they used still art panels for story-heavy bits, and they are really high-quality for a 16 bit game!); and there are still little touches that I wish current RPGs would use, like the fact that you could examine just about ANYTHING and get a little 'opinion' from your characters about it, or converse among your party at any given moment.
but it happened to be super-expensive when it was released so like, no one played it and now there's like, a 50-person fanbase because it's so old and unknown. :( OH WELL.
Don't feel bad about commenting! I'm just as bad, if not worse ^^; I think a lot of people are the same way, it just happens.
ETA: HERE IS YOUR QUESTION: How would you decorate your room if you had unlimited money/space/time/etc.?
going for the softball
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ok i know you have already seen this but i think this might be the best worst thing on the whole entire interweb: CRAZYBUS.
I am also quite
horrifiedfond of its companion vid, Crazybus.wav with a new layer every half second:j00r question: uh....favorite cuddly mascot creature! (like, Pokemon, Hello Kitty, uh...Beanie Babies?, wtf-ever. BUT IT MUST BE TEETH-ROTTINGLY CUTE.)
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omfgggggg... ok! The one thing that makes me just die every time I see it is also probably one of the more bizarre things to come out of Japan and catch on with Western chicks:
OH NYANKO WHY DO YOU TORMENT ME WITH YOUR OVERPRICED TOTALLY BIZARRE IN PREMISE CUTENESS. kittens as food, idek. It should be horrifying but I love it. A long time ago my parents were supposed to get me a bunch of this crap for Christmas but none of it ever came in the mail. :<
FOR YOU: What is something you love that you would be reluctant to discuss with people who do not live on the interweb?
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aaaaaaaagggggghhhhhhhh, it's in a sundae! too cuuuute :0
okay that's enough for now
i don't discuss fandom like ever offline. fanfic, fanart, my embarrassingly huge folder of explicit doujinshi - I REFUSE to ever mention these things in like. real life. even in 'fandom safe' spaces like
nerdanime cons and the like, i'd rather not talk about them even if everyone else is. i'm just like, NO NEVER WHAT IS THIS SLASH YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.next!: Has anyone found out something about your interwebs life that you didn't want him/her to?
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even in 'fandom safe' spaces like nerd anime cons and the like, i'd rather not talk about them even if everyone else is. i'm just like, NO NEVER WHAT IS THIS SLASH YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.
AHAHAHAHA ME TOO. that is for internet & behind closed doors, ok. NO ONE MUST OVERHEAR. this one girl used to talk about "shipping" in the car with my parents & it was horrible forever.
ok so to answer your question: YES. the worst was when i was a teenager and my family & my aunt + her 3 kids moved into the same big house with us and they all had some form of transantlantic divorce/re-emigration culture shock PTSD and were thereby TERRIBLE TO LIVE WITH. it was terrible the whole time & only got marginally better after my parents told my aunt that i "knew she hated me" and she cried and cried and came into my room crying & apologizing, because after all i am named after her so maybe she didn't want to have things be that way between us, etc. BEFORE that it got much worse because kelly, my younger cousin who was like the middle child and had serious middle child issues, apparently learned my screen name from her brother and did a search for me on the livejournal. ofc this was my first LJ and i was young and had a semi-miserable home life so the journal was full of unlocked bitching and moaning. FIRST she announced my email address at the dinner table, and i was like, how do you even know that, THEN she announced my URL and i nearly killed her. THEN she emailed me a wahhmbulance complaint about the content. these things have colored literally every interaction we have had for the past ten years, ahahaha. to the point that my mom was "proud of me" when i was "so nice" to her before we left pennsylvania (and i was like "mom i am nearly 20" but w/e). i think i kind of gave her a complex because i was bff!cousins with her brother when we were growing up and her little sister adored me but i never really liked her much, so all that just made the whole thing explode into eternal awkwardness, no matter how much i try to pretend that her current half-interest in me is not totally out of the blue and that we are cousin!friends. (she told me to come visit her and i was like LOLWAT oh right ok mb.) so yeah that was the worst and had the most far-reaching consequences!
TL;DR
SEEING AS I WILL BE FOLLOWING YOU INTO 27-LAND 22 DAYS AFTER YOU ENTER: do you feel at all weird about your age ticking over from mid-twenties to late twenties? if not, has there been any specific birthday you felt weird about approaching?
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and i used to be one of those people who would print out terrible fanfiction and read it in bed and my mom found some of it and it was pretty much the most embarrassing thing ever SO i don't do it anymore (also, it's now totally unnecessary with laptops and mobile phones and me not being a super big dope)
anyway! my mind doesn't really separate decades in into early-mid-late years, so i'm not particularly concerned with turning 27. i don't put much importance on birthdays in general so i can't point to one that i was anxious about beforehand - maybe my 22nd because my college graduation was the day before, but that's entirely because of said graduation, not because i was turning 22.
i will probably freak the fuck out when 30 rolls around, though, if only because of the tendency for the women in my family to develop horrific intestinal illnesses around that age. ~FUN!~
ok, question time: Is there anything you liked as a teenager that you are ashamed of now? And there can be no ironic enjoyment/rueful fondness, you must be legitimately upset/disgusted that you once enjoyed this thing.
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Did they really have invite codes that early?? My memory is fuzzier than I thought.
Oh man my brain cannot help but separate things into distinct, almost spatial phases, even if the boundaries are in constant flux. It's probably just overcompensation for my ridiculously fluid sense of time; it's so unreal and untraceable to me that I'm always slightly terrified of it. But I was curious because for some reason everyone around me is having a belated quarter-life crisis and for once I don't feel weird at all about my birthday.
Bleah, intestinal problems are the worst. :(
Anywayyyyyy, shit, that is a difficult question. It's funny because there are some things I was ashamed of then that I'm not ashamed of now. Age has seriously diminished my capacity for shame in that regard, and everything I can think of has transformed into ironic/wistful nostalgia! There are plenty of things I did and said and thought that I'm ashamed of now,
but... ahahaha I think the sad thing is that a lot of what I liked then I still like in some form. I loved a lot of anime(s) that look a whole hell of a lot like animated versions of the dramas I watch now -- hell, I was in love with Hana Yori Dango when I was 15 and now my favorite Japanese drama is... Hana Yori Dango. :( I think part of it is that I really didn't have any interests as a little girl in the country except for playing ~make-believe~ and reading books and watching cartoons, and then I got these little buds of cultural exposure that burst open overnight and defined my interests for the next 12 years or so.
The only thing I'm borderline-ashamed of is my participation in
QUESTION FOR YOUUUUUUUUUUUU:
How well do you hold a grudge? Like, real, lasting grudges, not just temporary flare-ups where you were mad at someone for a while after a fight.
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To start with...
What's the worst food you've ever eaten?
(Also, thanks for the gift(s)!)
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BABY OCTOPUS SALAD
and i've had haggis and grilled chicken blood; i know a thing or two about awful food.
so! if you could make one mythical or extinct animal real, what animal would it be?
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For some reason I think I'd like a giant talking eagle/bird, similar to Thorondor (from the Silmarillion) or Pigeot from Pokemon. I wanna fly, but have something smart enough to understand me and never have to think about cleaning up after it. That's the best part about fantasy animals...lack of poo descriptions!
I've had the same octopus salad before actually...but in a different sauce xD
Have you ever left a bad review of a fic? I'm thinking about one of your previous entries as I'm writing this!
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I never thought of that. MIND = BLOWN
uuuugggghhh i don't think i could ever enjoy baby octopus. they're just...so soft and squishy and...sea-flavored. eeeeee
As for bad reviews...if you mean where the author can see it? no - i really don't have the heart to crush people's fic-egos, and besides, if i really dislike a fic, it's usually beyond hope and the author comes across as a total douche so i feel there's no point in leaving feedback.
that said, i have no qualms bitching about bad fic behind flocked journal entries, or posting about some of the more severe offenders in the appropriate communities. (first link is NSFW) i guess i'm a pretty huge jerk :c
soooo...have you ever had a really awkward exchange over fandom related things? Like - times where you are happily fansqueeing with someone, and then SUDDENLY, TOO MUCH INFORMATION like you find out they secretly love guro or something that just makes you go "errr....imma leave now"?
weird question is weird
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Though I've had to convince guys that yaoi isn't the same as the gay porn they know. So it was probably the reverse. They didn't stop talking to me, I got 2 topic changes and the other 3 actually wanted to know. Hmm. And yes they all straight guys.
(OMG I just read some of that bad fic stuff. Cannot unread. O__O Also you answered my questions of "why no terrible reviews on terrible fics.")
In your opinion, which fandom has the worst fics ever (or highest percent of terrible fics)?
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yes, much of that stuff is soul-crushingly horrible. public humiliation is the only recourse!
as for your question: most definitely Dead or Alive. naturally, when the source material is a series most famous for the measurements of its female cast and its cheesecake volleyball simulation game, you can't expect much from the resulting fan output. there are a few gems - there are in any fandom, i think - but for the most part it's really mediocre softcore porn.
mega-late question: do you have facebook, and would you be totally weirded out if i added you? ^___^;;;
i don't really talk fannish things on FB if you are worried about that /stalker
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I'm not too worried about what you'd post...should I be? XD
Ohh and a late one here if you feel like it:
If you making another SoulCalibur game, what would change about ONE character's appearance?