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I could maybe have liked it, I just couldn't play it Idk. Loved Transistor and bounced off Pyre...
Well yeah of course, and that's cool as well, I do that one a lil. Ironman tactics game runs are cool... I guess this kind of goes into why I seem to relate weirdly to media, I guess? I have never filled in the blanks, or rarely. If something has too many stupid blanks I consider it utterly inadequate, which is the loser critic thing to do but wow, I really lost the creative flame altogether. This kinda sucks. That's why it stuck out to me I guess, as early as your AC1 posting.
It's okay, thanks and sorry for dumping that, just a thing I guess, finna go find wifey.
Don't worry about it, I hope you feel better soon 💜
And I don't think that sucks or is weird, it's just a different way of engaging with stuff. It's really cool how thoroughly into the reeds you often get with your interests, like the big Tactics Ogre post you had made. I can do a bit of that but to nowhere near the same extent and depth and so it's cool to know someone who can sometimes. We're just valuing different things in different ways in our art.
Thank you ✨
Uh I guess, my brain doesn't feel like it wants to actively do creating with any media though. Despite being a fiction simp I have basically never thought to write fanfic, because Idk the urge just isn't there. My brain does not fill in gaps. It feels clinical I guess. I also like that I have so much autism that I just let a game eat me for two months or whatever, but considering that my favourite mode of feeling from stories is "wistful and gay" I wish I was a little more elastic on the fronts you are, y'know? It's one of those things Idk.
Wistful and gay is a good emotion though, very nice and fun. If it makes you feel better, I used to not really feel like this at all with art. I literally never "related" to a character until I was 16 or so. And it took me a long time to shift from the nerdy encyclopedic way of engaging with media to this very emotional one. So it can shift a lot. I am also just a very emotional person in general, I cry with my irl friends like once every month just because I feel so emotional from being with them sometimes. And I mean you do obviously feel other things from stories, like when you read something you hate and feel angry about it, or the discomfort you had with a lot of Paul. These are both emotions which I count when considering art that impacts me. A lot of my shift in engagement came from simply recontextualising and redefining vague things into feelings. I'm probably making this worse though, sorry. Gonna head to sleep now, I do hope you feel better soon, being drunky like that must suck rn.
I fuckin exist to be gay and wistful, it is my life's goal. Me staring at my fictional gays and saying "MAN", you know?
That shift you describe is fascinating though. Same same, Orange Book shattered the analytical cold removed approach for me. I realised I was only relating to media and stories from a remove, and so a large part of why I search out emotionally powerful gay shit is because I really relish FEELING BIG THINGS from stuff!! Two of the books in my top 5 are ones that made me cry a lil!!
Wow... she has friends irl, so cool... having friends you can do that with...
Yeah I do relish that feeling stuff, I wouldn't read Paul again but it was uh stimulating emotionally, intellectually-feely. Good stuff I think. If I'm autopilot no-feelings-mode through something, it has failed.
Okay stop being me please! This is a She Jus Like Me Fr Fr!!! You haven't made it worse, I really appreciate the chatter, thank you and get some good sleep ✨
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Yeah I can see why, Nevada is a very intense little thing. For me it was Fata Morgana, it genuinely fucked me up and transed my gender. But I already mentioned that to you so I won't go into more detail with it.
:aubrey-cry-2: I would totally bawl my eyes out if I met you irl ngl.
Okay good to know my weirdo brain is like your weirdo brain a bit then lmao. Tbh I'm still figuring some of these out, feeling scared is something that I'm only just now starting to get a sense for, or at least I'm starting to notice more places I feel that way. Particularly in regards to relationships. I guess it could be described as anxiety too but I feel like these cases are a step removed from that, idk.
And I'm glad you appreciated it and yes it was a good sleep!
Yeah Ikr, I thank orange book for setting me on the path of queers in fiction, truly critical work
Okay fuck, now I have to ask you about this, uh when does Fata Morgana get good, pls. I have been dorking around with this Mell guy for like two hours and all I can think is " 
Holy fuck when does the vampire lady EAT THIS FUCKIN GUY?!?" Ugh I lost the will, my save and the game are still on my Vita but I was like, blegh...
Fuck yeah weirdo brains!!!
Yea and I relish this too, figuring out your feelings and stuff is pretty cool ngl. Maybe less so in relationship terms? But it feels like understanding yourself.... feeling scared in the context of relationships though
is that some bad stuff? Dare I ask?
Fuck yeah, good sleep
For me I was honestly already invested by that point in Fata Morgana tbh. I would say it really gets good at Door 3 though, Door 1 is cute but noticeably poorer written since it was a demo released years before the rest of the VN and wasn't changed much for the full release. And Door 2 is... Kinda shit ngl, almost skippable but there's one or two important bits in it. Door 3 is where the best characters start being introduced though, and then Door 4 introduces the best best character and then Door 5 onwards is full steam ahead peak visual novels. At 2 hours you were nearing the end of Door 1 iirc, but I wouldn't push through it if you weren't enjoying it. It's fine if you think my favourite thing is boring, and honestly I can get why since they're all kinda typical het relationships, what matters to me is I like it though. Also lmao you think she's a vampire.
Mmm nope~ it would be very worth it because you are a smallish nerd with bad social skills who I care for and like and would be happy to see.
(CW Trauma discussion, Sex discussion)
It's basically just, I moved around a lot in my life (military family stuff, I have on average moved every 2 years of my life, less if you count the 4 moves this year from being kicked out but I don't) and I'm starting to recognise how that actually traumatised me and how I have a fear of leaving the people I care for because of it. And I'm slowly exploring that and trying to figure it out and how its been impacting me this whole time now that I can recognise it for what it is.
The other side of that fear exploration is that I'm scared of getting into romantic relationships for a few reasons rn. The big one I've talked about before is how I'm scared of sex with my dysphoria, and I worry about whether the hypothetical partner would be put off by it or unable to go at my pace for some reason. My ex kinda wasn't, but she also went very quick when I let her talk about it a bit, and while I enjoyed it in the moment I also would often say things that in retrospect I wasn't as comfortable with as I thought because I wanted to please her, and I'm also scared about me doing that in a more serious situation that would fuck me up.
And I'm scared of getting in another relationship right now, at least a little bit. Because if my relationship with my ex felt as right as it did but then ended anyways, what'll happen if I don't luck out with another relationship like it? Or what if someone breaks up with me for the same reason in the same way leaving me to worry if there's actually something wrong with me instead of it supposedly not being anything I did or said. What if I'm just too intense and emotional for everyone I meet and that was the problem?
I'm just... Scared of being hurt in the ways I've already been hurt before. And it took me a long time to recognise this as being scared instead of not noticing the feeling, not being able to express it.
Okay, I'm like, I can give a shit if anything matters but bro is so booooring
Okay well I guess I'm fallin for the meme again, I'll at least try to make it through Door 2 probably. I got more Fallow to enjoy and blub over first but I'll get back to it. I wanna give it a little more of chance I suppose, some things I would have dropped forever already but the initial rec was good so I'm like, okay a little more, fine. I have a low tolerance for hets but Idk who knows.
Awesome lesgo!!
Ohhhhhhhh, I see, I see. Makes me wonder if I have introspection to do, regarding getting kicked out and moved around, huh. The realtionship stuff though, woah:
Anyone who is or can't is a bastard imo. I only t4t obviously but aside my one stupid shitty ex, I've never had problems with anyone being good about my dysphoria, my wife has been very good with me but generally while I get this fear I think it's unfounded, and anyone who is not willing to move at your speed and work with you on dysphoria is not someone you should be dating, imo. We should kill those people will hammers instead, probably.
Generally though
yea, I understand completely why you feel that way and it's good progress to understand it fully. This is the less fun working-out-your-feelings but it's obviously important as fuck, and it usually makes future connections a lot better, has done for me. Ty for sharing all of that, I really felt a lot of it ngl.