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Sep. 1st, 2024 04:17 pmI need to find myself some more user icons. I love Noctis but I don't wanna use him for every single post, and the only other ones I have on here are old Captain America icons because that's what I was into when I created this account. Maybe Squall? I could go for a closeup of his accessories, hmm.
My kids currently have their friend over for a sleepover and are doing their favorite activity, Warrior Cats roleplay. My two kids tend to be kind of loud when they're playing and are excited but oh my god adding another kid in is like an exponential increase in noise level. At times I definitely wish we had an older house that didn't have the "open floor plan" that we have downstairs, because being able to shut the kids into a room to play and let the rest of the house be quieter sure would be nice sometimes... (Also, the fact that I can't consume any media that's not kid-appropriate until they're in bed, other than books, because you can hear everything from everywhere in our house.)
On that topic, I'm still working on reading Warrior Cats but after like 30-odd books I'm pretty tired of it. I thought I'd give just one more arc a try and see, but this one isn't great so far. I have a couple other books that were recommended to me and are actually aimed at adults (or at least teenagers) waiting for me to read them that I grabbed from the library. It's fascinating to me when someone recommends me a book and I pull up the library website and there are 32 people waiting for 11 copies of the ebook, but the actual physical book is just sitting there on the shelf where I can walk up and grab it.
Aside from that, I've been playing FFXV. Kid 1 has decided she wants to play it too, so she has also started it (she also has a FFVIII game going). I have given her some spoilers about the ending because my kids can handle upsetting content much better when they know it's coming, but we'll see how this goes. In my game, I just got to Lestallum and went on the "date" with Iris. Every time I play I think again how much I love Noctis, and what a great job his voice actor did. I have the "beeeeeeeeeeeeeans" quest active right now too and I love how we get so many different things from Noctis, like, the kind of cocky shit he says during battle sequences, the softness when he's helping out a cat or taking on a quest just to be a nice guy, the way he complains about beans but still takes the quest anyway. What a great character!! He's just such a good guy!!!
On that note I've been rereading my own FFXV fic, some of which I have pretty much entirely forgotten writing. Good thing I wrote so much of it, I guess? It's kind of nice to revisit enough years later that it feels like I'm reading a fic that someone custom wrote for me to be specifically relevant to my interests. I'm also noticing some grammatical patterns that I used way too much which kind of suck, but hey, can't win 'em all.
I also joined a couple of FFVIII discord servers. I'd like to write some more Seifer/Squall fic and I only need one more to fill my bingo card, but I'm having trouble with coming up with ideas. I'm thinking about doing one where Seifer maybe decides to defect from Ultimecia between the parade and D-district and become like a double agent or something, but I don't actually want to go all the way through with it and write the entire alternate universe it would require. I still wanna do the super sketchy one about Seifer and Edea too but that one won't fill my bingo card.
My fic for enemies to lovers exchange is done but I'm still a little worried that the sex isn't sexy enough. It's got a specific kink in it that I put a bunch of in, but then I didn't really like . . . go all the way with it, you know? It's like the "lite" version of the kink I suppose. I'm not really sure what to do about that though. I wanted to write some treats too for my recipient since the ship and tags we matched on are good, but again, I can't come up with any ideas. Maybe I should just open up for prompts on tumblr or something? That's been useful for me in the past.
I'm also considering doing kinktober. I had a good time the one time I did it for FFXV and wrote a shitton of fic for it, and I'm thinking I could do it again and be open to prompts for XV or VIII or something. On the other hand I don't want it to be too high-pressure? idk idk, I'm not really active enough on tumblr in either fandom to have a bunch of followers who are gonna send me prompts.
My kids currently have their friend over for a sleepover and are doing their favorite activity, Warrior Cats roleplay. My two kids tend to be kind of loud when they're playing and are excited but oh my god adding another kid in is like an exponential increase in noise level. At times I definitely wish we had an older house that didn't have the "open floor plan" that we have downstairs, because being able to shut the kids into a room to play and let the rest of the house be quieter sure would be nice sometimes... (Also, the fact that I can't consume any media that's not kid-appropriate until they're in bed, other than books, because you can hear everything from everywhere in our house.)
On that topic, I'm still working on reading Warrior Cats but after like 30-odd books I'm pretty tired of it. I thought I'd give just one more arc a try and see, but this one isn't great so far. I have a couple other books that were recommended to me and are actually aimed at adults (or at least teenagers) waiting for me to read them that I grabbed from the library. It's fascinating to me when someone recommends me a book and I pull up the library website and there are 32 people waiting for 11 copies of the ebook, but the actual physical book is just sitting there on the shelf where I can walk up and grab it.
Aside from that, I've been playing FFXV. Kid 1 has decided she wants to play it too, so she has also started it (she also has a FFVIII game going). I have given her some spoilers about the ending because my kids can handle upsetting content much better when they know it's coming, but we'll see how this goes. In my game, I just got to Lestallum and went on the "date" with Iris. Every time I play I think again how much I love Noctis, and what a great job his voice actor did. I have the "beeeeeeeeeeeeeans" quest active right now too and I love how we get so many different things from Noctis, like, the kind of cocky shit he says during battle sequences, the softness when he's helping out a cat or taking on a quest just to be a nice guy, the way he complains about beans but still takes the quest anyway. What a great character!! He's just such a good guy!!!
On that note I've been rereading my own FFXV fic, some of which I have pretty much entirely forgotten writing. Good thing I wrote so much of it, I guess? It's kind of nice to revisit enough years later that it feels like I'm reading a fic that someone custom wrote for me to be specifically relevant to my interests. I'm also noticing some grammatical patterns that I used way too much which kind of suck, but hey, can't win 'em all.
I also joined a couple of FFVIII discord servers. I'd like to write some more Seifer/Squall fic and I only need one more to fill my bingo card, but I'm having trouble with coming up with ideas. I'm thinking about doing one where Seifer maybe decides to defect from Ultimecia between the parade and D-district and become like a double agent or something, but I don't actually want to go all the way through with it and write the entire alternate universe it would require. I still wanna do the super sketchy one about Seifer and Edea too but that one won't fill my bingo card.
My fic for enemies to lovers exchange is done but I'm still a little worried that the sex isn't sexy enough. It's got a specific kink in it that I put a bunch of in, but then I didn't really like . . . go all the way with it, you know? It's like the "lite" version of the kink I suppose. I'm not really sure what to do about that though. I wanted to write some treats too for my recipient since the ship and tags we matched on are good, but again, I can't come up with any ideas. Maybe I should just open up for prompts on tumblr or something? That's been useful for me in the past.
I'm also considering doing kinktober. I had a good time the one time I did it for FFXV and wrote a shitton of fic for it, and I'm thinking I could do it again and be open to prompts for XV or VIII or something. On the other hand I don't want it to be too high-pressure? idk idk, I'm not really active enough on tumblr in either fandom to have a bunch of followers who are gonna send me prompts.
