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Okay, yeah, I think that I may no longer be watching Critical Role.

The first hour or so of tonight's episode made it very clear early on that there's no point in watching if you actually care about getting to know the characters, so fuck this. This isn't D&D. This is intentional cruelty, and I have no intention of watching something that punishes the viewers for watching.

If it turns out to be something that's intentionally planned, I'll considering trying to watch later in the week, but yeah. For now? I'm done. This isn't something that I have any interest in right now, not without knowing that what's happening was planned and not simply Brennan going with the dice and saying "fuck you" to anyone watching.

Current Mood: sad

settiai

In tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Current Mood: accomplished

settiai

I swear that it feels like time's speeding by the last few days, to the point where I haven't been able to get anything done. It's because I've been having to nap in the afternoons to make up for my lack of sleep at night, so it's not like I don't know why I feel like I have no spare time, but still.

D&D starts in about ten minutes, so that's going to take up the right of my night. Tomorrow, I have to finish up my Yuletide letter and sign-up whether my brain likes it or not. It's taking forever because I'm requesting multiple new fandoms this year, so I'm having to write those sections of the letter from scratch, but I'm running out of time so I've gotta get it finished.

Then I desperately need to finish my fic for the Dragon Age Reverse Bang by Saturday at the latest. It's due on Sunday, and both my artist and I are scrambling to finish up. The fic's one of those ones that decided to keep growing and growing on me, as isn't uncommon with that fandom, which hasn't exactly helped.

Come on, brain. Cooperate for just a few days. Please?

Current Mood: sleepy

settiai

A Point of No Return (1600 words) by Settiai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Half-Elf Character(s) (Dungeons & Dragons)
Additional Tags: Blood, Dungeons & Dragons Character Backstory, Eye Trauma, Magic, One Shot, Serious Injuries
Series: Part 2 of Aurendor
Summary: It was the last thing she ever saw out of her left eye.

Current Mood: creative

alierak posting in

dw_maintenance

DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.

settiai

In tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Current Mood: accomplished

rogueslayer452

The latest installment of the V/H/S horror anthology franchise was released this month. I really enjoyed the previous movie, V/H/S/Beyond, which was more or less scifi based, and I was pleasantly surprised that they had another one coming out soon after that one had been released, this time appropriately themed around Halloween. After having finally watched it, here are my thoughts.

( V/H/S/Halloween )

I wonder if the franchise can turn this into a trend of doing holiday themed installments. Obviously Halloween was very appropriate, but I would love for V/H/S to do something similar with other holidays, like Thanksgiving or Christmas, or even Hallmark holidays like Valentine's Day, Mother's/Father's Day, etc. There are so great opportunities for horror stories with those.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Creature Feature - A Gorey Demise

settiai

First of all, relax! I'm far from being picky, and I can pretty much guarantee that I'll love whatever you decide to create for me. These are nothing but guidelines, for you to take to heart or ignore to your heart's content. Also, hey! You're writing me fic or drawing me art! That's automatically a good reason for me to love you, no matter what. So, please, keep that in mind. Trust me, you can pretty much do no wrong. ♥

( More details under the cut. )

Current Mood: thoughtful

settiai

Those of you who've been around for ages probably remember when I worked at what I not-so-lovingly called the Restaurant of FAIL when I first moved to Maryland. There was a beer & wine store nearby that doubled as a small bar that I spent a lot of time at back then, and even once I moved further north I still tried to go there from time-to-time until I, you know, stopped having a car. Even now, whenever I happened to be down in the area for a doctor's appointment or whatever, I'd try to stop by since it's within walking distance of the metro.

Anyway, I just saw that they made a post on Facebook on Thursday saying that they're permanently closing tomorrow. Three days' notice. That's it. Considering that very much is not something the Gilly's that I knew would do, I quickly did some googling to figure out what on earth was going on. And, well, I found this Reddit post from back in February. Which explains a lot.

From what I can tell, without any warning they fired the entire management team (some of whom had been there for 10-15 years) for nepotism purposes, which pissed off a lot of the staff and caused many of them to quit. Then a big chunk of the long-time customers stopped visiting after that as well, because the staff is what kept people coming more than anything. And, uh, it doesn't seem to have ended well for them.

Current Mood: surprised

settiai

The brain weasels have been out in force this week, so I've fallen behind on some fandom things. Because of that, I really want to try to play catch-up this weekend, and I thought it might help to type up a quick to-do list.

D&D

Finish story #1 from the POV of Siân from Aurendor D&D game
Finish story #2 from the POV of Siân from Aurendor D&D game
Finish story #3 from the POV of Siân from Aurendor D&D game
~~Play Titansfall D&D on 10/19~~
Record/upload summary video for 10/10 Pyra Cantha D&D game
Record/upload summary video for 10/15 Aurendor D&D game
~~Write summary video script for 10/10 Pyra Cantha D&D game~~
~~Write summary video script for 10/15 Aurendor D&D game~~

Fandom

Finish fic for the Dragon Age Reverse Bang
~~Post letter for The Joining Exchange~~
Post letter for Yuletide
Rewatch this past Thursday's episode of Critical Role
~~Sign up for The Joining Exchange~~
Sign up for Yuletide
Work on assignment(s) for the Dragon Age Poly Exchange

Let's see if I can manage to get it all done?

Current Mood: hopeful

rogueslayer452

( An Alpha and an Omega pretending to be a Beta..... )

My Comments: Oh, these idiots. And I say that with utter affection. When I got into A/B/O Desire I knew I was in for quite a ride, this being an Omegaverse drama and all, but I didn't expect to get so attached to the most tragic pairing of the series. Both Gao Tu and Shen Wenlang are stubborn in their own ways, not properly communicating with one another, denial of feelings or possible reciprocation of, misunderstandings abound, and yet they're by far the most compelling pairing in my eyes because of it. These two fanvids I chose today mostly focusing on the tragic element of them not talking to one another, but also the yearning between both of them. It just makes you want to shake them both and yell, "just talk to each other!"

Note: Turn on closed captioning for the dialogue used in the fanvids.

Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Angela Zhang - Yu Yan

rogueslayer452

Taken from

thefridayfive:

01. How long ago did you join LJ (or DW)?
I joined LiveJournal in 2003, back when they had invite codes. I joined DW in 2012 when many LJ users were starting to migrate, or at least backup their journals, due to a lot of issues concerning the LJ ownership and handling of things, and I wanted to keep in touch with those on my LJ flist. I didn't do anything with my DW account until 2022 when I finally transferred my journal entries to DW and deleted my old LJ account.

02. How did you find out about LJ (or DW)?
I can't really remember with LJ, my sister had an account before I did (she helped get the invite code for me to join back then) and I would search randomly and read random journal entries and things, so I'm sure it was from word-of-mouth that way. With DW it was through LJ, since it was created as an alternative solution in case LJ went down.

03. If someone introduced you to LJ (or DW), is s/he still on your friends list?
Yes.

04. Have you introduced anyone to LJ (or DW)?
Only people online that I know from other platforms, not in real life.

05. Is your LJ (or DW) public or friends only, and why?
Mostly public, I keep things regarding my personal life and some other things that discuss serious things behind locked entries, but otherwise it's relatively public. Although I have been reconsidering this due to the invasive rise of AI scrapping.

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: Namie Amuro - The Speed Star

settiai

My financial situation is even more precarious than usual thanks to some news I got this week, so I'm desperately trying to raise money yet again. I'm going to try to make it to my storage unit this weekend, so I might have several virtual garage sale posts going up, but for the time being this is the only one as I'm running out of things that I have in the hotel with me to try to sell.

Would anyone be interested in any of the following Nintendo Switch games?

Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! (example on Amazon)
Spyro Reignited Trilogy (example on Amazon)
TemTem (example on Amazon)

For payment, I have CashApp ($Settiai), PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle (nancy.lynn.foster@gmail.com).

If you're interested but know someone who might be, please point them my way.

Current Mood: hopeful

settiai

I'm trying to type up posts each week as I watch the new episode of Critical Role. It's a combination of quotes, random thoughts, and some speculation, and it's full of spoilers (albeit vague ones in places).

( Spoilers under the cut. )

Current Mood: thoughtful

settiai

Daughter of Luck (2467 words) by Settiai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Original Half-Elf Character(s) (Dungeons & Dragons), Original Human Character(s) (Dungeons & Dragons)
Additional Tags: Background Poly, Dungeons & Dragons Character Backstory, Family, Illegitimacy, Loss, Mother-Daughter Relationship, One Shot
Series: Part 1 of Aurendor
Summary: Siân Valinta might be what half the city called her, a good half of them mockingly, but Siân Breyer was who she was and who she always would be.

Current Mood: accomplished

settiai

To add to a previous post, my cleric, Siân, has had a really bad couple of weeks in-game. Over the course of the last two-and-a-half weeks or so, she has:

( A list of bad things under the cut. )

Poor Siân is well on her way towards a complete and total mental breakdown at the rate she's going.

Current Mood: amused

settiai

In tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Current Mood: surprised

settiai

Well, we're definitely moving into exchange season.

The Dragon Age Poly Exchange already has assignments out, the Joining Exchange (a Dragon Age exchange focusing on Wardens) just opened sign-ups, Yuletide sign-ups are almost upon us, and Holly Poly has made a few posts implying it's coming up soon. Plus it's not really an exchange, but the Dragon Age Reverse Bang's deadline is at the end of the month as well.

And those are just the ones I'm probably participating in. I'm sure there are plenty of others, including some that might catch my attention.

Let's see if at least a few of them will properly kick my muse into gear... 🤞🏻

Current Mood: thoughtful

rogueslayer452

++ Yellowjackets to end after its fourth season. Honestly, I expected as much considering that it seems like the story is near towards the end anyway, so this news isn't surprising.

( Some spoilers for the end of the third season )

++ A/B/O Desire just concluded and I just have one thing to say: ( Spoilers, obviously. ) With that being said, this drama was absolutely unhinged in the best possible way. Having an actual canonically explicit Omegaverse story on my screen is just so surreal and I'm happy that it happened. Pit Babe was the start, but Desire really took it there and I'm forever grateful that they did that.

Current Mood: good
Current Music: Nada - Bulletproof

settiai

Ever since I moved into the hotel, I've felt about watching television too late at night because I know from personal experience that sound carries. When I watch something after 10pm or so, I've turned it down low, which means I miss things. And that's been a big pain especially when it comes to Critical Role since it doesn't even start airing until 10pm, so if I want to watch live then I end up missing things because I have to keep it quiet unless I want to be an asshole.

As I mentioned in my most recent Critical Role post, though, I finally figured out an alternative that seems to be working well. It doesn't work for anything that I'm watching on the hotel's cable, but since most of what I'm watching in the evening/night is streaming, that means I use my Fire Stick. And my Fire Stick has the ability to connect to Bluetooth devices. Such as the ear buds that I usually keep in my purse for when I'm out and about, which I realized earlier in the week.

And, well, it's working great. The last few nights I've been able to watch movies late at night without accidentally disturbing anyone in the rooms next to me or above me. The video is playing on the shiny new TV that the hotel gave me, but the audio is entirely in my ears and not bothering anyone else nearby. For example, right now I'm finishing up watching The Martian, but it's essentially silent in my room because the sound's playing on my ear buds.

Now if only I had thought to do something like this ages ago...

Current Mood: amused

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