#i think bc yesterday i played bg3 with my friend and it was so so fun

[astrxealis]

merry christmas btw i kinda forgot to say it ere at all oopsies >_< i hope you all had/have a wonderful holiday season or week or day or month regardless of your religion and if you celebrate christmas !!!!!

i got 'the end of everything' by katie mack for xmas (i begged my parents lol) bcs i finally saw it in a bookstore after months of looking for it that i just Fell to the ground ..... i love astrophysics i love space i love science. i also love u all

[baddmintonsart]

Thinking about kyr and his shitty little journal he keeps with him at all times

It probably looks so, so unimportant. It's old and worn out. It honestly looks like trash. The pages are frayed and bent and curled and torn but it's been loved and hated and used and has been through just as much as he has

Kyr can't read or write very well but he *can* draw. Not well from memory but he can copy something from vision very well. Like still life drawings, except he's not doing it for the sake of art. Its filled with charcoal drawings of street corners he's found himself at, safe spots he knows he can go back to. There's drawing of trees and hills and crawl spaces. Places and things that are important to him that he can remember and go back to

And then somewhere hidden in the middle there's messy scribbles that vaguely look like faces. A fellow tiefling, with longer hair and curled horns. A few pages of the same face blocked out and redrawn over and over

He's trying his best to remember Vezra before everything went down in the cult. He can't quite get it right, though. And he doesn't think he can even if she was right there in front of him

[riggedbones]

friend came over with their gaming laptop yesterday and had me play a lil bit of bg3 and we were both laughing so hard at my player character showing up in cutscenes n shit bc they are the worlds most brightly colored cartoony dragonborn in existence with their silly little wizards robe and the name lemon. this is just what happens when you ask me to make a character i like i think

[transmasc-wizard]

I saw your tags on the "most played video game hours" post about just starting to be a Gamer this year, and now I'm curious. What are your favorite games? I know you mentioned Hollow Knight, but what else? Are you a platformer person, or is Hollow Knight an exception to a pattern?

I'm just curious bc most of my friends or acquaintances are very big RPG people, like Dragon Age or BG3 (which tracks since most of my friends are also dnd/ttrpg people), and/or life sim (stardew valley, the sims, fields of mistria, etc.) people. There are a couple outliers though, like the DM of my Curse of Strahd game who's really into Hollow Knight, and two of the players in our Sat/Sun group who are huge horror game fans (Dead By Daylight, the new Silent Hill 2 remake, Resident Evil, that sort of thing).

And since I know your tastes kinda span all three of those things (you mentioned Hollow Knight, you play dnd, and you're a horror fan), where your gaming niche is. If it's one of the things I've brought up or if it's something totally different. (Mine is super specifically turn-based combat RPGs, either story-based, or roguelikes/lites. BG3, P:WotR, Slay the Spire, Wildermyth, etc.) It's okay if you don't think you have a niche yet, or even you never think you'll develop one, I'm just curious. I don't know that many writeblr people who do much gaming.

OH, and I wanted to mention the game I just bought on Wednesday, because it seems like something that might interest you/just has a cool concept in general. It's called Elsinore, and it's sort of like a mix of a visual novel and also a Sims game, but it's based on Hamlet, and you play as Ophelia, and it's a timeloop that you slowly learn more about after dying over and over (you are doomed by the narrative after all) until you eventually reach an "ending". I have yet to play it, but I've heard very good things, and I'm super excited to get into it when I'm in the mood for a game that requires a little more thinking than my combat-heavy RPGs. The art style is gorgeous, and Ophelia's design is a Black woman, and she looks stunning.

Okay, that's enough of a mega-ramble from me, hahaha. It's after midnight and I'm just getting over being sick, so I'm making even less sense than usual. I'm just nosy.

As per usual, ignore the main url, this is Morri @six-improbable-things / @memento-morri-writes (oh how I regret making these two sideblogs, since I really like keeping my blogs and social circles separate, but alas, it's been years, and I'm too entrenched and stubborn to make a new account and move over all my stuff.)

(this might take the cake for the longest, most rambling ask I've ever sent in my life, which is saying something. I'm so very sorry.)

hello I spent all day watching vox machina for the first time with my girlfriend so i am only now getting to this

so Hollow Knight is currently my favourite game, as my hours indicate, and i do like the platform elements. currently the only other platformer I've played is celeste, which I'm like... 4 levels into out of 9? and I like it. and then not a platformer but one of my favourite games is Omori as well, which... probably tracks with who I am as a person.

but primarily I actually like playing survival horror co-ops with my friends :) we play lethal company a TON together, modded and unmodded, and we just yesterday spent almost 5 hours playing Nuclear Nightmare. I'd say that's the gaming experience I look forward to most. I like the combination of horror built worlds and incredibly silly times with friends. (I also play, like, roblox. with them. but that's not for the *game* it's just for the *friends* while survival horror games are For The Game.)

that visual novel sounds rlly interesting !! the only visual novels I've played are doki doki literature club, good lord everyone at my high school reunion is a trans man and they're all hot, and life after magic (wildly different vibes lol). so I don't have much of a VN like niche or anything yet, but elsinore sounds interesting and I am adding it to my video game wishlist :)

[vole-mon-amour]

Tagged by @samblerambles. Thank you! I love to talk and can't answer with short answers, so there you go under the cut.

Last song I listened to: M83 - Holes In The Sky (Phantom Liberty LITERALLY has a mission called Hole in The Sky at the beginning of the DLC. I'm surprised they wasted such a perfect opportunity to use this song 'cause I saw the scenery and heard the ambient music in the game and was already anticipating it because it kinda sounded like this song to me.) Listening to it on repeat since yesterday tbh.

Favourite content to watch: I'm not really sure what to answer cause I watch content on occasion and in waves. Basically, I binge watch it mindlessly and then I stop for a while. Most of my subscriptions on YT stay unwatched these days, which sucks.

On YT I'm subscribed to: a couple of cooking channels (one local one is currently my fav, his videos are very cosy); a dude with a farm; some YTbers that play video games (haven't watched any playthroughs in such a long time, now that I have my own PC and the ability to play); some true crime channels; a woman that lives near the North Pole; two different channels that help homeless people; a couple of tech channels (smartphones, PCs, new hardware like that); a pet groomer; a drawing channel or two; cross stitch/embroidery/sewing; a couple of aviation channels; a couple of renovation/DYI channels.

If I had to pick, then right now it's the woman that lives close to North Pole and a pet groomer. A dude with the farm is kind of my fav, but sometimes I'm not in the mood to watch it and miss a couple of videos. Same with aviation: I love love LOVE airplanes, but sometimes I'm not in the mood.

Despite it looking like a lot, I really don't watch that much. Out of maybe 30 videos visible on the page it would be good if I watch one or two videos without scrolling down or going to my To Watch playlist and searching for something to watch there.

Favourite games:

Of all times fav: Uncharted 4 & Dishonored/Dishonored 2. Cyberpunk 2077 (probably; bc I currently have 322.7 hours on Steam there & I'm planning on continue playing. A particular brain worm from there and his best friends from the past are everything.) Deus Ex. I keep forgetting that one but Y E S. It was there before Cyberpunk happened.

As in *right now*: Baldur's Gate 3. RDR2 (maybe? I haven't played that one since the moment I finished the main game, but the story deeply shook me and I called it a masterpiece in my review on Steam.)

To me a FAVOURITE is something you commit to, so it's hard to choose something that I'd actually *actively* stick with. But if we talk less serious, I love video games in general. So many of my fav characters are from video games.

Favourite colours: Most shades of blue (the ones that have blue in them too). Deep rich green <3. Gold.

Favourite animals: All of them. Yes. (I love cats, whales, horses, cows, wolves. I'm an animal person.)

Favourite food: Pickled cucumbers is my all time fav. Pasta (mac and cheese). Sushi (basically sea weed + cream cheese + red fish/lox + maybe a cucumber or bell pepper = heaven). Cucumber + tomatoes + bell paper + sour cream salad is my base that I can't function without. I'm a foodie (which is my big problem since ever but oh well.)

Sweet, spicy, or savoury: I'll keep your answer in a way: 'NOT spicy, my acid reflux does not enjoy that.' Yeah, mine too. Can't eat spicy at ALL, it hurts my guts for real. I like a mix of sweet + salty + savoury. I wouldn't want to eat just one thing out of these. Sweet and sour sauce is <3

Current obsession: Cyberpunk 2077. Couldn't watch anything today, couldn't think of anything else, couldn't focus. But then BG3 adds to the mix because I'm still hoping to finish editing that Halstarion fic. It refuses to work with me & I dislike a lot about it. And, of course, Drakecest is my all time fav obsession, it's always at the back of my mind, chilling on the couch, waiting for me to come back to them and start playing with them.

Last book I read:

The one I finished: The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James. It was a reread.

The one that I didn't finish: The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James. I listened to an audio version that I found, but I only found 2 parts & it's definitely longer. I'd like to finish it, but I haven't seen more parts so far (and to download the actual book and sit down and focus on the the text is a god damn TASK for me.)

Last thing I googled: Probably "hands to the sky, i am a dreamer m83" because I started singing it, but for some reason thought it was 'I need you' by them and started listening to it. Turned out, my brain mixed the songs.

Fun facts:

I was a very active and a very popular kid in kindergarten (first french kiss there during the nap hour while everybody else watched and cheered? yeeeah. very silly, very fun. lol.)

I went to see one of Saw movies to cinema when I was around 10-12. Because I was so young, my dad had to go with me. He loved to tell his friends after how grown people couldn't handle the look of autopsy and guts while I didn't even blink. It always made me smile when he did. I loved the look of blood and horror (which stayed with me to this day, though I get anxious sometimes about blood in some situations.)

The money I bought my cat with partly came from Depeche Mode ticket that I bought, changed my mind, and sold (and, obviously, gave those to the breeder as a guarantee that I'm getting the kitten. I was around 16.) The rest of the price my dad paid for me.

I used to be a huge concert freak. All the travelling I did (13 countries) happened because of concerts. As soon as I turned 18, I started travelling. I slept outside a stadium of my fav band. I met musicians at airports and their hotels (mostly locally though, before I could start travelling). My time as a teen and up until 20 years old was very fun.