#i guess it's also not uh. the Default for people to be as verbose as me

[orcelito]

been a bit since ive really looked at vashwood fanfic for reading. since Writing fanfic largely satisfies that desire (& is generally healthier than binge reading is for me lmao)

but out of curiosity i peeked again. & id been sorting by word count bc sorting by kudos just gets pages and pages of one shot smut fics (no hate, just not what i wanna read when i want actual stories lmao)

i thought Surely since it's been a few weeks since i really looked, there would be more longfics around. and like. there Kind of are? but also not really.

top fic is 425k, 2nd is 130k, 3rd is 102k (excluding any plantcest fics, which i do by Default lmfao. even just Looking at those fics gives me brain damage)

as someone whose other main fic is 499k words & who has written 23k in less than 2 weeks. im just like. that's... All? bro im gonna be in the top word count fics for this pairing in a matter of Weeks. kinda crazy.

[dq108]

videogames (not) forever, tumblr dot com

HELLO. I am NOT Tim Rogers, but probably you already knew that. 

On Black Friday 2019, I bought a Nintendo Switch. It is the first video game console, handheld or otherwise, I have ever owned in my life (outside of a PC, if you count those as gaming consoles). Within a few hours of opening my Nintendo Switch box, I began playing the demo of Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age, Definitive Edition. 

This tumblr is going to be a chronicle of my journey through this game.

DQXI is not my first video game, although it is very close. Up until college, the only non-PC video game I had ever played was 1) Dance Dance Revolution (at other people’s houses), 2) arcade games (including a DDR knock-off) at our local laser tag place, and 3) this one time when for some reason my friend rented a Playstation for her birthday party and we played Dead or Alive 2 for a few hours in story mode. I guess I also owned a Tamagotchi and a NanoPet. Maybe those count.

In college I was once thrust the controller during a game of Halo and spent the entirety of my time being hit in the head with flying vehicles and also staring at the ground while my character stood in the water because I was not sure how to work the controls.

A year ago I bought a gaming PC for the express purpose of getting into League of Legends. Spoiler: I did not get into League of Legends. I tried Overwatch, and realized when playing the tutorial that it gave me motion sickness. Shortly thereafter my husband commandeered the thing and got so into PUBG that he was ranked for duos. I, on the other hand, have never graduated from playing against AI enemies. 

So yeah, as you can tell, the relevant facts about me are that I am old as heck and I extremely suck at video games. 

Which is not to say that I don’t like video games. To the contrary, I like them sort of too much for a person who does not actually play video games. I spent a lot of time in high school and college watching people play video games. I got into watching esports. And I am slowly making my way through cinematic cuts of the entire Metal Gear Solid franchise. 

Which brings me to Tim Rogers. 

On November 1, 2019, Tim Rogers through Kotaku released an hour long review of Death Stranding. It is, undoubtedly, one of my top ten favorite YouTube videos of this year, and quite possibly one of my favorite of all time. It was also the first Tim Rogers video I had ever watched. If you, too, really like Tim Rogers, you know what happened next. I binged his YouTube, uh, filmography(?) and ended up watching his 36 minute review of DQXI:

Tim Rogers is my ideal (fictional) (totally hypothetical) (only on the Internet and never in person) boyfriend. He is horrifically verbose and cannot stop overthinking little things in his preferred fictional genre (like me). He has bad eyesight (like me). He is from Indiana (like me). In his videos he comes off as someone who cannot physically shut up when it comes to explaining why he loves something (sadly, also like me). So when Tim Rogers said that Dragon Quest was his favorite video game series and that DQXI was one of the best video games he has ever played, I immediately did what I always do with something I love: I escalated inappropriately.

I went out and bought a Switch for the express purpose of playing DQXI.

So, here we are. These are my ground rules for the rest of this experience. You are warned:

I do not know anything about the Dragon Quest franchise outside of things that Tim Rogers has said about it. I’m indifferent to learning more. If you are going to tell me that certain things are better in other Dragon Quest games or other games in general, I might ignore you. It is not personal. I’m just, like, not asking to learn about the history of the genre right now (unless you are Tim Rogers).

This is my first JRPG game. I will be playing stupidly. I do not make any guarantees as to the quality of my play or my decision-making. I also have a tendency of playing overly conservative (in life and in games). I don’t expect this to change in DQXI.

I will be playing most of the fights with the autobattle system on. Spoiler: I have already discovered that setting my characters to “fight wisely” with “use Pep Powers automatically” still means that most times I don’t end up using my Pep Powers. I will probably be figuring out the solution to this through trial and error. As a result, I’m probably going to die a lot. You are free to offer advice! If you make fun of me, I will cry.

I fully intend to use walkthroughs and guides as guidance. No, this is not cheating. Also, I do not care about spoilers. 

I am playing with the English dub turned on, so all characters, names, and settings with be the English language version.

I’m already in love with Erik and want to marry my hero to him. 

My hero is named Haruhi, because that is my default automatic main character name every time a game asks me to input a name. It turns out that the commonly accepted naming convention in Dragon Quest VIII through XI is to call your hero by the Dragon Quest franchise number, but no one told me this. Also, Stranger Things’ Eleven already exists. 

[im-reed-ing]

tagged by: @heroiiic u are a cool person and I am a chicken nugget thats too scared of bothering u on discord, but if my phone wasn't physically broken id share u a screenshot every time soren came to say hi to me in FEH

rules: answer 30 questions and tag 10 blogs you would like to get to know better.

((alright but when have I ever followed the rules...... just sayin))

1. nicknames: reed... uh..... sometimes ppl call me weed to mock me but then i just punch them and its good (just kdding im weak as shit)

2. gender: hey so i find that if you don't identify yourself, people you talk to online are less likely to preemptively subconsciously stereotype you and therefore judge you before really getting to know you. So let's keep it that way. Unlock lvl 3 friendship before I reveal who I truly am to you LMFAO

3. Star sign: aries grr!

4. Height: 5'5", maybe 5'6" ??? idk man all i know is my little sister is taller than me and it makes me mad bc I personally am not that short!!!!

5. time: 2:16 am

6. bday: March 22

7. favorite bands: well shit uh, Sakanaction, Bump of Chicken, Dogcatcher, The Oh Hellos, FOB, Unison Square Garden.... im sure im missing something but... o well.

8. Favorite Solo Artist: I can't choose so u get all of em. Hachi (Yonezu Kenshi), Aimer, Sasakure.UK, Harito, Keichi Okabe, EMI EVANS god ,,, As well as a collection of, indie people,... and anyone that did the drakengard/nier osts / gravity rush 1 & 2 Osts, wow. seriuosly. Amazing.

9. Song stuck in my head right now: Douse shinundakara, (its a lie that its not stuck right now but its been for the past few days!) because I found the jp translation and made english lyrics and have been practicing hittin those high notes in the car on the way to school LMFAO.... same with hoshii no kieta by Aimer.;..... its like car karaoke hawhaw

10. Last movie I saw was. Uh. UHHH. In theaters, it was Hitmans Bodyguard, which by the way was campy and ridiculous and pretty funny if seen with the right people.

11. Last show I watched: was Rick and Morty, earlier today, in my school lounge on my computer. s3 ep 7 is really, really good. Like really good. It's also pretty fucked up.

12. when I created this blog: its been. A very. long time. this blog has only really ever been for reblogs... if u wanna chat w me find a discord server im part of and bother me there... or pm me, because i prefer one on one conversations even if im shit at keeping them going.

13. what I post: oh shit i answered this one already by accident OOPS UHHHH i reblog good art, shitty memes, and PSA's that I think are important. Im here to haev a good time. I have a seperate art blog that's in my about tab so there's that.

14. last thing I googled: the definition of the word galvanized. I am now slightly more verbose.

15. do I have any other blogs: like, two. artblog, old blog where I uploaded covers when I was in middle school, and a personal vent blog.... i accidently reblogged something to there though so I deleted it oops lmfao. But its ok, it was meant to be ephemeral and writing my thoughts down is therapeutic so I'll make another one once again.

16. do I get asks: literally never. Not even bots, LMFAO.

17. why did i choose my url: I've stuck with the name Reed for a really long time now but its also a pretty generic name, so i came up with this shitty pun and it stuck. it's probably my steam username too but like shifted around a little. any time i can't get 'reed' as a username i default to im.reed.ing or something like that.

18. followers: whoa, 175, really???? I get the impression that quite a few of them are inactive though, or i post so irregularly and infrequently that no one ever sees my posts LOL.

19. following: 380 and still counting. I turn on notifs for artblogs I really like!!! >;3

20. favorite snack for movie/tv: Honestly I used to not chow much while watching or itd be something generic like chips, but recently I started marathoning naruto of all things w a friend and we go to the asian supermarket beforehand and we get like a bunch of popped rice chips or sweets and various foods and some iteration of hi-chews and THAT is my favorite marathon snack tbh.

21. average hours of sleep: NEVER ENOUGH. It goes from like 2-3 hours on days when i have no self ocntrol... to like 12-16 on days when i... have no... self control.... lays down slowlyl.....

22. wHAT THE HECK THERES NO NUMVER 22 TRIKEY skdjhfksu cMON MANG

23. lucky number: my rng is shit but my favorite number is 4 because someone dear to me likes that number... but also because 4 is unlucky in some places, which I identify with.... but also bc 4 is the # of sides in a square/diamond, and squares are perfect and good shit and  aesthetic. My boyfriend is a squa-- //kicked jk jk  ramiel is a octohedron, i take it bac k ....

24. instrument: i can play the piano (barely) but I used to also do violin trumpet and a teeny bit of flute.... learned the ocarina too bc im a zelda nerd, and I dont mean that silly little 4-hole one. But I also sing and stuff and have been actively practicing, one day ill make a decent cover and learn to mix and be one of dem cool youtaites..... lays down slowly. this is fine.

25. what I am wearing right now: a lot of things,,, a watch, a hyper light drifter sweater. headphones, underwear, pants, a tshirt, socks, existential dread... u name it lol.

26. first celeb crush: since i honestly never cared much for real life celebrities, i'll just give you my anime/video game crushes instead and like...... wow i can't honestly remember my first ones???? oh shit wait OK it was probably both ashitaka and san, my first ghibli movie was mononokehime...  they are just so freaking coo l... ok thtas a lie i lowkey wanted to BE them. Both of them.

.... idk man u cant ask an aroace person what their crushes were bc idk what those are!!! I assume u just really really really like something/someone and thats that, I GUESS??? I wanted to be link too once upon a time. And nausicaa. and a good chunk of the soul calibur 2 cast, and starfire from oldtimey teen titans. i was a simple child ok???

27. dream job: listen thats complicated idk about what my dreams are for a job, but I do want to be an animator and a storyboarder and a game developer and a game tester and a movie critic and a cinematographer and a director and a story lead and an illustrator at some point, and gotta try it before I can knock it ya know?

28. Dream trip: anywhere, so long as its with the people I really love. One day, I'll pack a few things into my car and run away for a little while. I'll come back some day! But for those long hours on the road with another person or two, marvelling quietly at the world around them as it passes and listening to music in the car... that sounds like a nice temporary reprieve.

29. favorite food: i fucken love poki bowl. SPICY SEAFOOD + RICE YAAAaaas

30. nationality: was born in murica, but both my parents are immigrants from now-ukraine. So we all speak russian at home lul.

tagging people: ha, tags are for nerds. @one-becomes-two @trash-knights @nhiners @awishwee @deerwood @montejeska @queenchro @chicken-mcnobody DONT HAVE ANY MORE BLOGS I CAN REMEMBER this will have to do.