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Hello, and welcome to my first Dreamwidth entry! As you might not be able to guess from the Furret icon, I am a Pokemon fan. :D

I gave up this game aaaages ago, for RL reasons of depression and lack of energy. There was much depressing stuff, and some health things which I am still slowly working my way through (ick) and I. Well, stopped being happy. Then! I started feeling better, and getting back into things, and I saw the newest Pokemon games come out and thought, why not. I will give this a try!

I don't know why I ever gave this up. I have not been this high off of a fandom in forever, and I didn't even know how much I missed it. ♥ They have improved these games so much since the first ones, but the biggest thing that got me going is how, in HeartGold and SoulSilver, you can have any Pokemon you like following you around.

And talk to it. And watch its mood change. And see it starting to luv you! XD Really, you start off with messages like " *name* is looking down steadily" and " *name* is looking around restlessly" to " *name* is very happy!" and all the way up to " *name* is gazing at you with adoration!"

Fluff! My Furret, Fluff, totally adores me. She also occasionally gets rosy cheeks when I talk to her, and gives me messages that are supposed to belong to another Type, I've been told. I think it's just because I've maxed out her happiness. ♥

Although, it is not always sunshine and peaches. Sometimes they misbehave, and eat garbage (if it's got anything in it's mouth in a building, take it away!) and poke your Bag which has all your important stuff in. You have to decide whether or not to tell them off, and sometimes what looks like misbehaving is just being overexcited. Although it is pretty hard to mistake attempted eating of your shoes (while wearing them) for anything but badness, I Am Looking At You, Rapdiash!

I don't know what's wrong with that Rapdiash... except maybe me making it walk through puddles when it is a Fire-type. I meant well, all the other Pokemon liked the puddles! XD

And I have become completely distracted from the dental appointment I have to leave for soon, so that is good! It's just a cleaning, but any dentist visit = me feeling vaguely panicky. Stupid sensitive teeth.

Lesse, other things I like: music in general, I will listen to anything at least once. Ronin Warriors/Samurai Troopers, an old anime I will have to make a post for. Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts (I cannot even get started on that because I need to leave!)

In fact I really should stop now. ^^; But I shall return! Sometime. >>

It has been waaay too long since my last update, yes? Yes. >>

Pokemon is still eating my brain. ( Cut to spare those who perhaps do not want to read Pokemon squee )

I never did get my copy of Final Fantasy Dissidia, and had to contact Amazon about it when the seller pretty much ignored me. x.x Yesterday, though, I went to Game Stop after the zoo and got a copy, so! As soon as I get a few other things done, and I tear myself away from Pokemon (or get them to an easy leveling spot - yes, there is level grinding in Pokemon, and the Gyms are sort-of dungeons) I'll be starting that. There may be another update later on!

Oh, the zoo. The zoo was wonderful as usual. I took a few pictures, I may upload if any of them turned out alright. We have penguins now! They seemed really curious. A few of them were doing nothing but swimming near the glass staring at the people. The most interesting thing, however, was the monkey that got loose while I was on the train.

Yep. Escaped monkey. XD It looked like it was having fun! They had to shut down the apes exhibit and the train, and nobody got to see those by the time I left. They were still trying to catch it.

Wow. Three days? I knew I was not posting, but this is a bit silly.

On the other hand, vacation time is for laziness! *nodnod* And for distracting myself from worries, namely the root canal I'm going in for Tuesday. But it will make me feel better in the long run, right? Right? x.x

( Twilight Princess )

So I'm watching Beauty and the Beast right now, three guesses why, and I can't help but notice what an asshole the Beast is. Spoiled, violent, tempermental creep. 'Every inch a monster', indeed.

And yet, I cannot help but think that the sorceress's idea here maybe was that he should never break the spell. I mean. He's violently tempermental and then you put him into this huge hulking form while everyone around him is now furniture. Furniture! If anyone really tried to stand up to him before, he could now crush them like so many matchsticks.

Also, musical numbers - an excellent way to skip character development, y/n? >:P I mean. He's yelling, she finally yells back, and the next thing we see he's all googly eyed. No sign of conversations, no ...nothing!

Also it bothers me that she is essentially expected to do the job of teaching him to be a decent human being that his parents clearly failed to. *sigh* Right now, she's teaching him to read. She's teaching a prince to read.

Wow. For all I like this movie, it also annoys the hell out of me. XD

As recompense for all that griping, have this - A Belle/Gaston story! ...no, seriously. I haven't gone insane! It's long and it's kind of complicated and it treats them both like people, with faults and good points, rather than a rather sneaky little princess (nosy much about the West Wing? Manipulating Cogsworth ring a bell? ...I knew there was a reason I feel this urge to slash her with Maleficent) and a nasty cardboard villain.

Picture This

( Further spoilery thoughts about 358/2 Days )

What? What?! I have to beat Challenges to get the secret reports I'm missing? Nooooo!

...eeem. Maybe later. I need a break. >>

( Crawling towards the end? )

And on that note, I really must sleep. @.@

( Sleep? When would I have time for that? )

And now to get ready for work. Bleah.

So I just spent an hour wrestling with Norton, trying to get it to let me use KoLmafia.

Until I finally gave up and just turned off Sonar, possibly permanently. *snarl*

( Meanwhile in the land of black coats )

( Nooo, not signs of the end. )

And thank goodness lj saves your drafts, I thought I lost that when Firefox decided to crash on me. x.x


And now continuing with the cooking of delicious lunch. mmm, pizza. <3


( part the second! )

( Screw the heroes, I'm with the villains )

Gah. Too hungry for further gaming, I needs fuel. And possibly to do the laundry.