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Fun fact, my real life name means love! That's why this dragon here is my self dragon.



Her name is Ai which means love in Japanese. My name means love in a different language but Ai definitely Aidentify with this name too. Besides, dragons with 2-letter names are coveted on Flight Rising as it's no longer possible to give 2-letter names to dragons (unless it's your progenitor which can't be sold) so she's pretty special.

This dragon's name also means love in Irish which is technically closer to me as I'm Irish (this is not my name either lol)



She is also a special dragon due to her ID being 7 digits long and the fact that she's an Earth element Imperial. When I noticed that we share the same birthday, I had to buy her right away, and named her similarly to my name.

As soon as the genes Love and Affection came out, I knew they had to go on the dragons that represent me so I slapped them on these guys right away. You can't see it that well on Gra since she has a full body skin but it's the symbolism that counts! (tbh you can't see it that well on Ai either but see my previous sentence lol)

Warning for small mention about mental health )
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I'm replaying the game and just got to Kai's level 6 bond event and it just ... gets me every time, man. Not that I fall for his prank again or anything but everything in there is ... oh it just hits. GoA is not lacking in feels when it comes to the storyline, like I really love Kanata's bond event with Sorano, and Murasame's with Appare feels significant as well, but, well, I guess that's the reason that I went with Kai. It's because his bond events just get to me.

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This was kind of a hard one. I don't seem to think in terms of goals even though I have things like daily to-do lists. Here are a few things I managed to think of:

Goals )

And here's a fic although ao3 is down right now, I somehow managed to post it 20 minutes before maintenance which must be really annoying for people who got it in their notifications but can't read it right now so I'll post it here too (I mean why not)

Title: Words hard to say
Fandom: Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma
Pairing: Valiant Herald of Rebellion Kai/Kaguya
Summary: For Kai, worry sets in slowly.
Notes: Contains major spoilers for the post-game
Links: On AO3 and on my journal
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This is not a real review and is full of spoilers. It's just yapping.

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Zagreus

Feb. 8th, 2024 06:17 pm
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I was in such agonies while playing this game that it might seem I really hated it, and in fact, I felt as if I didn't like it, that I just wanted to finish it so that I could see the ending, which I hoped would be a happy one. It was only when I finished and got the ending I so craved that I realised I didn't hate this game. I love this game! But playing the game was so painful for me at first because I immediately realised that Hades was so torn up, in so much pain, throughout the main story, that it was unbearable.

All game spoilers:

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I've decided to have two distinct tags for the fandoms (uh ... yeah, we'll go with fandoms) I'm writing Hades/Persephone in, but have Hades/Persephone as its own tag so that they can all be under one thing. The Hades/Persephone of the Hades video game is different enough from the classic Hades/Persephone that I feel it's really warranted.

Spoilers for the game ahead:

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Titling this blog like a bad YouTube video essay because clickbait is what gets the kids going these days ✌️

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There's a throwaway line in one of the Discworld books (yeah, shocking that I don't remember which) where Vetinari is reading a piece of sheet music and the narration notes that he finds the idea of an orchestra performing a piece of music disgusting due to all the human-ness involved in plucking strings and blowing horns and things like that. This is also the point that I realise that almost every single blog entry I've put on this journal is about classical music. It's like my only actual fandom at this point.

Anyway, the point of this character trait is that Vetinari is a highly calculating person whose intelligence surpasses the need to have any outside contribution in order to process a piece of information such as a score. Vetinari has other 'Extreme Intelligence' traits like his hatred of mimes because they don't speak, his prowess in chess and chess-like games, and the fact that he has thirteen degrees or whatever. For the most part, they're all just narrative tools that describe the nature of his character.

But there are some Vetinari scenes and Vetinari traits that I can't accept. Tell me that it's because I have an idealised version of Vetinari in my head that I would dismiss canon evidence to the contrary. Go on. @ me.

In the case of Vetinari's disdain for performed music, however, I believe that this trait is presented in a misunderstanding of classical music on the author's part. First, allow me to explain the misunderstanding that I believe has occurred.

'To play a wrong note is insignificant. To play without passion is inexcusable.' - Ludwig van Beethoven )
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The first piece of music that ever made me cry. I listen to this whenever I want to sink into another world without thinking about anything else. As of late, listening to this specific performance makes me think of Gergiev's unfair termination because of the war in Ukraine. I'm sure I would never be able to understand, to feel through my heart and soul, the terror of war and what it takes away from everyone, even those not directly involved, if I hadn't heard this performance. Now this gives me a melancholy feeling too, one deeper than that of the appreciation of music.

At this moment in time, it looks to be that this will be a feeling that lasts forever. It would be good if I ever again had the hope of seeing Gergiev perform live, but perhaps there would be a goodness in it if I didn't, too.

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Link!

I have to talk about this. I simply must, it's so. good. Everything about this is just - oh my God. *flails*

Start with the summary. Naturally, it's the first thing I see when it pops up in my inbox. And I see this line:

When he's brought to a strange country to be married to the king's uncle ...


A wealth of promise! I shouldn't have hoped, of course, but I was most ready to embrace whatever came ahead.

It was 3 in the morning. I woke up for this. )
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There are so many ways to say 'I want to fall in love' in an aquatic style, but they decided to just tack on the word 'AQUARIUM' on the end haha. I do love the song though, and the introduction captured me from the very beginning. They have beautiful costumes and the aquarium backdrop is really good.

But :( )
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