I love FFVIII because I played it at the right time in my life. I was dealing with a lot of teenage pain, self-hatred, family trauma. Note: I don't use "teenage" to trivialize these experiences, as people often do. Teenage pain is real pain and ought not to be approached dismissively.
FFVIII didn't treat my issues as melodramatic. FFVIII took my struggle seriously and didn't look down on me, tell me my pain wasn't real or dismiss my experiences as just more whining.
Also, it was a good game.
Gun violence, politics, San Bernardino today, my heart is breaking in sadness and rage
First thing I see looking into the news of another school shooting is some Trumpist complaining about how the problem would have been solved if only there were more guns in schools and no gun-free zones and I can't see through the tears and the boiling blood because people lay dead on the ground and it's just another dogmatic talking point and I can't do this anymore I can't do it anymore I just can't
Ahhhhhh, look at all the lonely bepis
Ahhhhhh, look at all the lonely bepis
Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits by the window
wearing the butt that she keeps in a jar by the door.
Who is it for?
All the lonely bepis
Where do they all cum from?
All the lonely bepis
Where do they all belong?
Okay, I can break for lunch. No news-searching on hellbird or booksite for me, not allowed today for sake of brain. Will only be reading Numenera / Apocalypse World and doing Numenera / Apocalypse World prep for my games in 2 weeks.
Or writing up today's weird short prose.
Or writing more about my four Fursonas to post.
No internet. No news. No sitting at my desk to eat lunch. Get away from desk.
I will not ideate or disparage myself for having a chronic mental illness outside my control.
Blaseball OC accidentally became my entire personality & then Blaseball died. Oops.
Genderfluid, so technically your new favorite MILF. My pronouns are whatever make you feel gayest.