Media in my face, the run-on sentence edition

I never expected that breaking myself of the habit of using "guys" as a group noun would lead to me trying to start every post with a term of endearment. Things I have nearly followed up my hellos with most recently: sweetpeas, lovelies, esteemed beings, "my babies, my honeys, my ragtime gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaals."

ANYWAY, the difficulties of tuning greetings to the correct degree of intimacy to one side: HELLO FRIEND HUMANS. Turns out that watching media and not talking about it in public feels weird. Downside of not being on twitter, I guess? Downside of whatever burnout I was having that meant my semi-regular posting schedule didn't survive lockdown? Idk, it's fine, I need to practice this stuff anyway.

• New laptop means that I can play Sims 4 again, which I am celebrating by uhhhhhhhhhhh trying to do a 100 babies challenge in a micro home. ... Honestly I kinda recommend it, just because you get SUCH a boost to relationships if the house is smaller than 32 squares that you can basically befriend anyone immediately. No I'm not doing the cheat-y thing with fake rooms, yes I am making all the children sleep in tents, yes I have a table in my diary tracking parentage, yes all of the children are named after Pokémon.


• So Juni Taisen is a series where twelve chinese zodiac themed fighters are dropped into a city to fight each other to the death for one wish/global politics reasons, and it's such bollocks. I enjoy it, but it's ridiculous. Why is the ox a matador? How is this a secret war when one of the previous fights apparently involved blowing up a space station? How many different uses can you get out of one (1) reanimated corpse? Is the man wearing a fetish bunny outfit there to complement the women in battle bikinis? Why can the hosts of this battle royale grant wishes but only if enough people die first?
  
  Like, I know battle royale/survival horror is my comfort genre, but genuinely I'm considering reading the novel to see if that makes any more sense. The manga is good for all the present day stuff, but covers everyone's backstories in maybe two pages. The anime goes into more people's backstory (except, unsurprisingly, the guy whose backstory is trafficking children), but kinda skimps on the present day stuff. ... Plus they're just cut differently. The manga goes character by character – start with one person, go through their arc until their death, switch to the next person. The anime puts it all back into chronological order, which simultaneously makes the timeline easier to follow while weakening the shorter arcs. ... Is Juni Taisen good enough to justify consuming three different versions of it in a week though?


• Seven Princes of the Thousand Year Labyrinth is still queer-baiting high drama nonsense, but I unironically love it. And want the 100k fic of world building and young politically people holding their elders accountable for not making the world better, but it's not on AO3. *shakes internet*


• Still being completely normal about nu:carnival! The christmas outfits involve cable-knit jumpers that are cropped to nipple length and I can't take them seriously, but once again the smutty BL gacha game has incredibly wholesome events where people make friends and support each other. ... Also I ran out of items for getting story with the event relevant characters so I doubled back to finish off some of the other ones and I am being super normal about it.
  
  • Me: I am a grown adult with a job and a mortgage, I do not go feral over things.
    Me: *unlocks more of Kuya's storyline from that visual kei looking event back in September*
    Me: I am going to EAT MY PHONE.


• Abzû on a tv screen looks SO GOOD. It's pretty! Sitting and watching the fish is really soothing! The sea mines are the opposite of soothing and I wish to unsubscribe!