A few months ago, I decided I was going to get back to using Dreamwidth again! ...And then things came up, my life became somewhat more busy on a few fronts, and I didn't. (Among other things, I started having mysterious pain issues and eased off on things like computer use in case I'd strained something. But my doctor has since informed me that my nerves don't know what they're talking about and I should actually do things
more just to spite them, so there you go.) In any case, I seem to be back now, so—hi!
So far, I've been celebrating my newfound computer freedom by playing Monster Prom, a dating sim that's actually a multiplayer party game,
or possibly just an out-of-context screenshot generator. I was sold on it with an explanation of the multiplayer mode + the fact that almost all the love interests are not just shitty teenagers but downright terrible people. (...And also not actually teenagers, it turns out? It's probably normal to be attending high school in your 20s or 400s, right?) I've only played a few runs, but it's already more than paid for itself in entertainment value. On some level, I feel like the game's brand of humor
should by all rights come off as obnoxious now and then, but it so fully
embraces it that I'm just charmed by it every time. It's like playing with a GM whose definition of "yes, and..." is
invariably "yes, AND THEN SOME", no matter how mundane (or ridiculous) a choice they're responding to.
Case in point: My first playthrough, I found a corpse for sale as an accessory in the school store and immediately wished for the option to take it to prom instead of the main romance options. (Especially once they turned out to be judgmental dicks about my decision to carry a corpse as a fashion accessory.) I ended up on one of their routes anyway, but I dumped him for being a hypocritical, body-shaming asshole and got a good ending where I had a great time at prom alone. On my next playthrough I made a beeline for the corpse, aced a series of skill checks to personally end the societal stigma against monster-corpse relationships, and got to take my very first love to prom after all! This game understands me.
(...I'm also reminded that, at some point before I got sidetracked for months, I was in the middle of playing Danganronpa V3. I should really get back to that soon, too. I left everyone in the middle of a murder investigation and everything.)
Outside of video games, I've taken advantage of Tumblr's still not-yet-total demise to post some important things. By which I mean I made an
"Umineko characters as wolf pupy tweets" post, because apparently 90% of my interaction with fandom these days is in the form of shitposts. (
Note: Full Umineko spoilers in that link.
Jesus Umineko has a lot of characters.) And also
a nice, normal astrology post about nice, normal astrology, for people who like that sort of thing. Featuring my new favorite humor website,
the TSA's "What Can I Bring?" list, because I spent an afternoon laughing way harder than is remotely justified at it and needed to share.
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