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► Today, while I was visiting, my brother showed me parts of the Shadow portions of Sonic X Shadow Generations, and it was the most amazing time, oh my god. I was already inclined to get this game (high praise, since I can’t remember the last time I was interested in getting a new Sonic game!), but now I’m really excited to get my hands on it. (Though I am going to wait for a sale, because 50€ is oof.)

Mostly, I was shown the hub world, some of the stages, and a couple of the bosses—I’m mostly unspoiled when it comes to the actual cut scenes, and prefer to keep it that way. A few things I wanted to comment on: ( spoilers beneath the cut )

► In a complete shift of topic… I saw shadaras and eglantiere do a Yuletide meme that looked pretty fun, so I decided to do it too! I’ve “only” written 14 works for Yuletide on this account, so there’s a little less variety than with someone more proliferant than I am, but I feel like it’s still enough works to make this meme be worth it <3

Five Most Popular Yuletide Fics (by kudos)
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This isn’t a part of the meme, but out of personal curiosity, I looked at the years posted as well. The earliest fic on the above list was posted in 2013, while the latest was posted in 2016. (The last time I posted a work to the Yuletide collection in general was 2018, which, oof, that’s longer ago in the past than I realized.)

Five Personal Favorite Yuletide Fics

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► Trying something new...

Reading: Ostensibly the Paper Magician books and a nonfiction book about the colonization of the state I grew up in. And I still have quite a few Chocolate Box fics I want to read/comment on, including the entire original works section.
Listening: Catching up on the third season of Buffering the Vampire Slayer.
Playing: Stardew Valley, because I'm going through one of my “I want to live in this game” moods. Phone-wise, I've recently downloaded and been charmed by Love Nikki.
Watching: Nothing actively. Though a few intriguing (and relatively short) k-and-jdramas have recently come to my attention...
Writing: ??? (Mostly I’ve been torn between wanting to work on my Naruto WIPs, my Stardew Valley WIPs, or my original writing, and so have been getting work done on approximately none of them. I really need to focus.)

► ...I was going to pair the above with a longer talk about something, but looking at my list, it’s mostly various little things that I wanted to touch on. So bullet-points it is.

• My brother linked me to this joke game trailer and now I genuinely want this game to exist. I just really like Shadow the Hedgehog, okay?


• From anonimanga, I was introduced to this set of fanart of the Disney Princesses dressed in kimono. I’m a little bit in love; Elsa’s, Snow White’s, Tinkerbell’s, and Alice’s are particularly good.


• The person in question never found this fic, but it sounds like it has what is my ideal Grantaire/Enjolras dynamic. (They never specified if it was a canon-era or modern AU fic; I know the the odds are heavily weighted towards modern AU, but I’m still crossing my fingers that one, the fic exists and two, that it’s canon era.)


• While playing Stardew Valley yesterday, I came across this help request from Haley. I...usually don’t think too much about the weird requests (arcane properties of a potato, Wizard? really), but this one really caught my attention. I’d write fic, but I don’t even know where to start. It’s just so odd. I’ll have to think on it.


• Still struggling with fishing on Stardew Valley, despite reaching level five on it via crab pots and (briefly) trying out the fishing mod in a fit of desperation. Fish are the last thing I have to do for the community center on this first playthrough of mine, and at this point, I think I might just buy them all off of the Traveling Cart instead.