alwaysbeenasmiler: <user name=hiraethe> (Ultros/Relm♣We so fresh)
First of all-- open for the entire month of MAY is the FRIENDS ICON REQUEST POST. You want an icon made by me, drop in your request and I'll see what I can do! I love giving presents and hurrah for 50 extra icon slots, amirite?

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Been stuck under a rock evidentally-- First it was in FFXIV, being stuck at the GOLDEN SAUCER, trying to get myself the Regalia Mount. GUESS WHAT I MANAGED TO DO? Yaaas, get the Regalia Mount-- guess what I don't want to hear again? If you guessed "GOLDEN SAUCER MUSIC", you would be 100% correct, that was from hours upon hours of punching Gilgamesh over and over while I waited for dungeons to load, and having randoms Gates come up where I was forced to do Leap of Faith with what seemed like 100s of people trying to compete for the same jumping spot. (Yeah, no manner of camera angle adjustment will ever make that ok)

Trying to get other characters ready for ShadowBringers tho.

Also I've been watching Fruits Basket and OH MY FEELS! I remember this all-- like the onslaught of feels and I wonder, am I going to cry when we get to the "Snow" episode, I just know it. There will be icons from that as well-- when I get a chance, so much on my plate (and I have to fit work, husband and sleep into the equation as well, though luckily he is watching Furuba with me)

Other items of note.

1.) plugging away through Princess, which is slightly more violent to my feels then Furuba is. And it didn't help that after the GoT episode on Sunday, I had a crossover of Game of Thrones and Princess. SUPER STUPID BRAIN, WHY YOU DO THIS TO ME?
2.) Been hitting the random button on Crunchyroll-- watched Ramen Fighter Miki. BRAIN! STAHP~!
3.) Also, RECOMMENDATION! STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND READ THE COMIC LORE OLYMPUS-- SERIOUSLY SO MUCH LOVE!

Alrighty, that is it in a nutshell-- that was my fandom vomit! *gets out the mop* Srry, everybody-- I get enthusiastic.
alwaysbeenasmiler: <user name=hiraethe> (Setzer☆Down where the walls come)
There was once upon a time where I was just a book nerd-- I think I was 14 or 15 and it was in the 90s, and I WAS a geek, I was a very big geek-- I didn't watch a whole lot of TV though, and while I wrote stories-- it was my own made up world-- and oh yes, the occasional anime on SCI-FI's JAPANIMATION WEEK (yes, that made me wince a bit just typing it out). I did play video games, but they were the standard platformers-- Sonic, Mario, Zelda and all that-- I wasn't really personally invested in it.

Until one summer day, in fact the very first day that I ever babysat these kids-- Their mom was a nurse and I had a full 10 hour day, five days a week with them-- or was starting it. They were playing this game called FF3 (or really it was FFVI but hey, silly americans), it was a NEW game, just came out and they had powered through it. They liked to pretend they were these characters, dress up like them-- and they conned me into being this escaped general with augmented magic (can you see where I'm going with this). And I played along with it because.. hahahaha hijinks!

Then they played this game in front of me-- more specifically, it was this scene where they are at this opera house and there is some impersonation going on; one of the members of your party looks exactly like a famous opera singer, and there's this note left by this mysterious person saying he was coming for her. Then come to find out there are 3 different groups coming for this singer.. including a quirky purple opera house.

It was love (not about the purple octopus, though I am an Ultros fangirl)

It was Setzer Gabbiani, gambler and airship engineer-- this guy had swag, oh god. with his long white wavy hair and his bomb ass gambler jacket-- he was a regular OG. To 14 year old me, that was the epitome of class and adventure-- to an ENFP like me, I could relate to him, wanted to have adventures, my own airship.. and yes, perhaps the love was in the fact that inherently I could relate to him-- I mean I wasn't a guy and I didn't look at him, but I think in my own personal soul, I was just as free spirited at him, or at least I wanted to be. I inserted him into all my stories (it wasn't a Mary Sue though because the heroine was a created character that was NOT like me-- I will argue this to my dying day). No matter what though, he went down as being my first favorite fictional character in a video game setting. (and he wouldn't be the last)

Setzer Gabbiani is like the pioneer, he paved the way for other video game, and yes even animated characters (following after him was Malachite from Sailor Moon-- in which I realize that I have a TYPE, i.e long white hair)

So question, everyone!

Who was your first favorite fictional character?
alwaysbeenasmiler: <user name=hiraethe> (Tonberry☆I will kill you in your sleep)
Well, there's nothing much to post because everything was calm for the most part.

I got my emergency room bill and surprisingly it wasn't as much as I thought it was going to be, so hurrah for that. I just have to go to Financial Services and set up a payment plan, but hey-- I guess that's one less thing to worry about.

Also a note about any icons I post-- if anyone is interested in using any of them-- feel free to! The ones that have no credit keywords are ones that I've made and really, credit is not required in the slightest! I used to be like "CREDIT ME OR ELSE" but hey, I'm just chill and I really just icon for fun here and there-- (and to see if I still have a knack for it). (But please don't take the Alaiyna one-- as she's a character that I used to play on FFXIV, there'd be no real point for anyone to use it except for me)

Hope y'all are doing great! I am about ready to play a little bit of Tales of Beseria and make some fries!

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