Thought I made it clear now--

For the most part, I was pretty fking pleased with Detective Pikachu, and Pikachu was just so adorable-- like oh my gosh, how is such cuteness even possible? (yes, I will have an icon of pikachu, I promise)-- and now the next movie to see is Aladdin. Like, I have really mixed feelings about the reboot, I mean I loved the original but when it comes down to it, I'm way more looking forward to Lion King coming out soon-- I will go to Aladdin on principle (it's disney, how can I not?) BUT I guess I will see when I see, I just think it is important to keep a potentially open mind, I may after all enjoy it, just the trailer left me kinda 'meh'-- I didn't say "I AM TOTALLY GOING TO SEE THAT", more like "well I guess I will go see it because it's Disney"

I certainly didn't tear up like I did when I saw the preview for the Lion King.

Can we talk about the "What is Snow"? episode from the new Fruits Baskets episode? Like, I warned my husband that I would cry-- but I didn't quite know how much until yesterday when the water works just started to flow, gosh darn it-- I love Hatori, can't wait to see his story get closure in this new Fruits Basket retelling.

Occasionally my brain will attach to my Chrono Trigger retelling-- the premise is of course Queen Zeal fucking with time, and there are characters that naturally occur-- like Queen Zeal doing everything to make things difficult for her children. It's a cross over in a way as it involves characters from other series that I've managed to intertwine-- but it also involves original characters-- and it involves a highly involved, not very close to reality Magus Zeal (understand this, and quite honestly don't care)-- well okay, well I still consider him in character still as long as he maintains certain key elements like his standoffishness-- but he does have a few close friends that get sucked in to the same temporal vortex as him, because I like to add an aspect of humanity to him). A character that pops up is Cid from FFXIV, because I've taken to pairing him with Schala Zeal-- like, I know that it's totally random BUT IN MY HEAD IT MAKES TOTAL SENSE and that's all that matters right? (besides visually, Cid and Schala would make a very visually stunning couple-- and I'm all about those aesthetics)

And in the past month, two more characters entered the vortex and made it convincing me how they fit into the entire spanning storyline-- like, I guess I used to have a muse town with another person, but I suppose in the interim, this is my way of making my own muse town, of relying on myself.

Alright time to do some grinding in FFXIV now! <3 Hope y'all have a lovely weekend!

I have so many icons that it is sometimes hard for me to be able to figure out exactly which one I will use for any entry-- today, it will be Utena I suppose. It was a good day, and I definitely feel like I've revolutionized the world-- or at the very least, my life.

Work was awesome and it continues to be awesome. It is nice to go to a workplace where people ask you 'how' you are doing. Like my lead looked over at me in between calls and was like, "Hey Nia-- how you doing today?" and it just made me feel good, because I felt valued as a person-- and I continually feel valued as a teammate. I even had a call that was pretty awesome. It was involving some man's server, and when I caught the call-- he was pretty upset, however not only did I manage to DE-ESCALATE him (he was at a 10, and I got him to about a 3), but he found out that the problem was on his end and he was super OKAY with that.

So at the end he was like "Nia, I'm gonna miss you!", and my response was "Gee Xen, I'm gonna miss you too!". And my lead heard it and was like "Nia, I've taken over 400k calls and never once have I ever heard someone say that they would miss me" and then Chase proceeded to tell my supervisor about what he heard. It was definitely interesting, but it made me feel awesome!

So now, on to the fannish stuff-- compartmentalized because I can do that in a way that I am unable to do that with real life.

+ICONS (have my paintshop up, and a set of icons that I need to do to personally challenge myself)
+TEXTURES (based on opal, from a few opal stock photos)
+Episode 19 of The Ancient Magus Bride-- Elias is so fricking adorable, in fact that entire anime *keyboard smash*
+Finish Ephraim's side of the Let's Place for Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones -- shhh don't judge, too much media-- too little time
+Tales of Vesperia-- have I mentioned I love Raven? Seriously, I love him-- but OH MY GAWD, PATTY TOO ADORABLE JUST UGH!

And just throwing it out there-- for y'all who are new to DW and want some icons, I am currently taking commissions over at hiraethe-- so if you like my style, hit me up! I love making icons for friends!

Last night I was pretty much glued to my VITA, playing FFIV complete collection. Cecil becomes a Paladin! Check! He gains mass ammounts of levels before heading to Baron! OKAY~! He kicks the ass of Baignan and Cagnazzo! HURRAH!

NOW WE HAVE AN AIRSHIP.

Sure we're supposed to go to Troia but~

ALL THE THINGS, ALL OF THEM.

We visit shiny Agart full of promise, we spend ass amounts of time gaining levels so that we can afford all the nifty new gear that Mythril offers. And then we go into Eblan to poke around, because look EDGE'S MYSTERIOUS DESERTED CASTLE. We don't know the guy yet so why don't we loot it.

Loot loot loot!

Let's open this box!

MONSTER!

MONSTER. KICKS. MY. ASS

Rocks fall; everybody dies.

RESTART. Aw damn, I hadn't saved until just before Baignan.

And then I realized that this happened MY VERY FIRST PLAYTHROUGH way back when I was a teenager and didn't know any better.

Obviously I STILL DON'T! It was lowering to think that TWENTY YEARS-- and STILL COMMITTED THE SAME EPIC FAIL.

Now I have something new to add to my list of things to go back and tell my younger self if ever I'm given a time machine...

DO NOT OPEN THAT. DAMN. BOX