Soreth @Soreth@awoo.space

So rolling things around in my head after finishing the Balance arc of The Adventure Zone... Griffin very definitely had a good recovery from a rocky start.

There were things that weren't great and there are things that he didn't handle well at all, but by the time we hit the last 10 or so episodes I was solidly emotionally invested enough for things to start hitting hard.

And I cried my eyes out at the ending too.

It's inspirational in a way. As much as I might criticize some of the presentation, the emotional impact is something that I want to be able to bring out in my games. Even before the endings, I want to tell stories with my players that make us all _feel_ things.

It's why I game - for story and for emotion. You could say for story and song.

Guess who just finished the Balance Arc of the Adventure Zone, and couldn't stop crying for the last 20 minutes?

Is the titular character from Baba Is You another manifestation of The Cornersheep?

Anyway, that's why I can't fall back asleep this morning.

So I faced him down in the middle of this square full of elevators. Managed, somehow, to get him to miss me. Told him he was using the wrong bullets and his gun was going to explode, and he switched to just punching people instead. Somebody with an Australian accent told me it was all fine now, and I should go meet them "at Lake Union" in an hour and a half to get sent back to my world. And then I was all alone and still couldn't find any of my friends.

I dreamed there was a guy with a minigun hunting down my friends (and probably me too) and just slaughtering anybody who got in the way. I was human and I think pre transition, and everybody trans I knew had never transitioned, they seemed unaware that it was even something they had wanted, or could do. Horrifying.

I knew it was just a matter of time before he got me, and it'd probably happen with me jumping in front of someone...

Well, that was a productive day of looking at houses to rent.

In other news, I ordered a pair of women's cargo pants that I like very much except

except

except the pockets are tiny.

TINY POCKETS IN CARGO PANTS WHOSE POINT IS LITERALLY TO HAVE LOTS OF POCKETS.

What the fuck.

"But you have so much damn fun in your dreams, and of course everybody knows fun roles...."

Originally from https://twitter.com/Hideki_Naganuma/status/880078232560611328/photo/1 as far as I am aware.

ON THIS BRANCH
ON THIS BRANCH

ON THIS BRANCH
ON THIS BRANCH

ON THIS BRANCH
ON THIS BRANCH

THE CONCEPT OF BIRD!

Oh right, March is the month where every day expends more energy to get through it than I get allocated for that day. Fourteen spoons a day, thirteen spoons available.

It's better than February moodwise, but it's so exhausting. Luckily I know the secrets - keep moving and don't stop doing things or you can't start again. That, and the other secret, the capacity that lies past exhaustion, past willpower, past determination, and just waits there for you to need it.

I haven't had to tap into that this year, which is good. I remember digging deep into that once to move...

I just had an amazing fish dinner and now I really fucking want some expensive chocolate or at least some ice cream, but no, I'm being good. @..@;