Blues Drive Monster

Trying to get into the habit of checking my DW list instead of my LJ one. It helps that I deleted LJ from my bookmarks toolbar!!

Cleaned the last of the old house today. I spent... most of my time trying to get all the FUCKING BLUTACK off my walls. I had a lot of posters and years of not cleaning those walls finally came back to kick my ass. The main offender is that one wall in my room which has bumpy paint. This is hard to explain, but the house is a sixties beast and apparently that meant they thought it was cool to have three smooth walls and then one with this bizarre bumpy, spatter ridged effect. Which, okay, power to you, Guy Who Designed That House. But it is annoying as SHIT to clean, and collected spiderwebs like you wouldn't believe. I will not miss that wall.

And ultimately, though I didn't particularly want to leave that house, I am not really sad about it. I feel perfectly okay in this new place, rental though it is. It's more my stuff that's important to me than the room it comes in. Also, I have a floor to ceiling window in this new room. I can actually see the yard! It's awesome.

I also seriously need to strip my icons here and do new ones.

Title: Drawing the Line
Fandom: X-Men: First Class (Sabra La Tau 'verse)
Characters: Charles, Erik, Raven
Rating: PG

( Eventually, the question of What To Do With the Helmet arose. )

( Snip )

Amazing.

Because Windcheater told me to.

( Avatar: the Ride )

I've been thinking about video games lately. For me, I tend to attribute video games IN GENERAL to a certain part of my life, when I was 10-14 years old. This was around the period when Nintendo 64 was out, and I can tell you, I tried out probably 70% of the games released on that silly console. I would go to the video rental store once a week and rent games, depending on what I'd read was a good one in my latest N64 Gamer magazine. I loved my N64 and the games on it. Hell, I asked for an N64 for my birthday last year so I could play Banjo-Kazooie again. Now I've never been great at finishing games. It took until my second copies of B-K and Ocarina of Time to actually finish them. I played games a lot, but I sure as heck didn't finish most of them.

These days, I'm not really inclined to gaming the way I was back then. I enjoy games still; I especially like playing my DS, and I super enjoy Metal Gear Solid when I remember to actually play it (ie. I started 3 about three months ago and forgot to keep going, derp). But I don't really tend to play the games I buy much. My attention span for video games is totally shot; if I don't play them consistently every night, I will forget to keep going and then ultimately have to start over. And really, I can't be buggered doing that. And yet, I still would like to trawl eBay and buy old N64 games to replay. Damn I would love me some Goldeneye 64, Jet Force Gemini and F-Zero X.

...though I do have F-Zero X on the Wii, along with Lylat Wars (which is actually Star Fox 64, they just. changed the name here. for some reason). If Rare didn't belong to goddamned Microsoft now and let their games be put on Virtual Console, I wouldn't have needed another N64.

VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION!

Am I the only person who, when referring to their DS, still calls it a Gameboy?

LJ rearranged things in the task bar and it confused me for a good five minutes. :(

I feel like stockpiling a bunch of books about turn of the century* Hollywood and all its dirty scandals. I think I'll start with something on The Black Dahlia, since I read an article in a magazine about that last night and feel like knowing more. Which, okay, isn't turn of the century... maybe I should just say old Hollywood.

* The previous century. I don't need a book to hear about THIS century's scandals.

Title: 12:40am
Fandom: Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
Characters: Klavier, Apollo
Rating: G

I feel like I could continue this one sometime, since I do love dialogue fics.

( Calls at 12:40am. )

Title: Misinterpretation
Fandom: Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
Total word count: 23,681 (part 3 of 4)
Pairing/s: eventual Klavier/Apollo
Rating: PG
Original Prompt/Posting

( Part 3. )