I remember seeing a post or article or whatever that, to sum it up, basically talked about how cat's show affection. And while yeah, some cats are super independent and you might just have to sit on the couch and pretend like they dont exist in order for them to grace you with their presence. But I need you to know that my cat Juno will SCREAM when she wants pets. If I am sitting at my desk and she wants cuddles she will waltz in and start meowing this pathetic little meow so she can get my attention.
If I'm sitting on the couch and she's able to curl up next to me, she'll simply stand up and come up to me purring. She'll headbutt my shoulder or try to climb into my lap. And I just think it's funny how all these "official posts" talk about how "Ohhh cats are super independent creatures." "They don't care about you as much as dogs do." And it's like!!!! No!!!!! They just care about you differently!!!!!! Sure they like their personal space but cats are cuddly!!! Cats are SO cuddly!!!!!
Idk what the point of this post was, just thought about it as Juno was screaming at me while I was playing a game.
Here's proof that my cat loves me, currently laying directly on me while I type this post.
figured i'd post mine and my friends wols on main for the time being while im still stockpiling stuff for when i eventually make that side blog for em
basic stuff is -
1) there's more than one wol
2) by more than one i mean there are seven of them
3) each one/two of them are designated for a specific expansion
4) i have so much stuff planned for them all and have not even finished stormblood (please help me)
also im putting them under a cut so the post isnt naturally extremely fucking long
SO WE'LL START IN ORDER!!!!
Alidae Mendica -- ARR WoL. only one without a "traditional" name convention. SMN/MCH/GNB. bloody banquet happened and she got to ishgard and went "NOPE. I'M DONE." and goes and spends most of her time at the skysteel manufactory with garlond ironworks.
i love her very much she was the first i made. i nearly played an elezen but then really wanted to be small. so after finishing the opening cutscene i restarted and well!! shes here!! shes ready to kick some ass!!!
T'lyr Kho -- 1/2 Heavensward WoLs. is half miqo half garlean, possesses the third eye as well (hence the shaggy hair+forehead coverings). PLD/DRG/DRK/SGE. is never doing well at any given moment. he is (not) coping.
he's the one who made me spiral and make 3 more characters. i love him so so dearly.
Touya Kawa (@twisted-solace's wol) -- the other Heavensward WoL. WAR/DRG/RPR. the most shy and well spoken but will not hesitate to cleave you. works himself to death (quite nearly literally!).
i wish i had more to say about him other than he is very silly. him and t'lyr picked up lancer as a bonding experience and then got roped into dragoon lore (whoopsie!!)
Koren Cadoret -- 1/2 Stormblood WoLs. has 1v1'd Zenos too many times to count. very very protective of his sister and friends. MNK/SAM (plus blue mage and soon to be viper!!).
I LOVE HIM I LOVE HIM I LOVE HIM!!!! punch first ask questions later. wants to be everyone's friend. separation anxiety got his ass in shadowbringers cause he was the last wol to be summoned to the first.
Raana Cadoret -- the other Stormblood WoL. took her brother and left her village the moment she was declared to be the next matriarch. DNC/AST/RDM. likes to give koren shit about his poor decisions.
she makes me go :) !!!!! we really cant decide if she picks up astrologian on the first or if she does it beforehand.
Sthallona Dhemskyltwyn -- 1.0 WoL and also Shadowbringers at the same time?? shes going through it. WHM/BLM. grew up the daughter of a famous pirate. Thancred's childhood best friend.
feigned death after the calamity until she gets pulled to the first and is like "AH SHIT. HERE WE GO AGAIN." she gives me perhaps the most brainworms.
AND FINALLY
Sarangerel Malqir (@trying_to_cosplay on insta's wol) -- Endwalker WoL while also being a whole can of worms by herself. was her universe's only WoL before shit collided in shadowbringers and she met everyone else
the love of my life-- ahem. currently only Warrior canonically because my friend is not even halfway through ARR. very much younger sibling energy to the rest of the scions/wols.
last notes -
1) t'lyr and touya are gay (lovingly referred to as 'the boyfs' by me and @twisted-solace) touya nearly fucking dies for t'lyr and t'lyr proceeds to go oh wait fuck i dont want to lose you. normal shit for their line of work.
2) koren canonically says "you wanna fuck me so bad it makes you look stupid" to zenos. and zenos proceeds to get very confused. zenos isnt even who he ends up with koren just likes fucking with him.
3) raana went through 4 different wol/npc ship ideas before we finally landed on hien. that was hell.
4) alidae and cid are best friends!! stamp of approval right here!!! alidae also hates nero's guts.
5) if biggs and wedge (who i lovingly refer to as the 'lab boys') are around, alidae is not far behind.
6) alidae was named before i realized there was a character named alisaie. this is canonically a struggle for everyone.
7) sthallona swam her ass to sharlayan upon realizing that thancred had been taken under louisoix's wing. insert LET ME IN. LET ME IIIIIIN gif here. she wrote a thesis on how to combine conjuring and thaumaturge magic before ever knowing what a red mage was. (she is very stupid but also unnaturally smart).
8) t'lyr can't use magic. point blank. his third eye fucks that up for him. only reason he can be a Sage is because the magitek does it for him. on the bright side he's really good at parkour!!!
anyway if you got down this far thank you for looking at my blorbos. i am working (not very) hard to get that sideblog set up for these weirdos. i appreciate them very much they consume my every waking thought.
yeah so hi i deliberately stayed up until 7am on a work night in order to watch this and do not regret a thing.
-> splat3 dlc looks cool!! will i play it? no. does it look cool as hell? yeah!!! I personally don't like splat3's actual single player campaign so unless im able to access the dlc without finishing the main campaign then... im not playing it lmao. it looks cool as fuck though!! i like whatever the hell they had going on with the glitchy taz hunger looking goop that produced skeleton fish. pearl + marina lore is also a win in my book
-> i dont actually have all that many thoughts about the smrpg showcase but MAN it looks cool as hell. at first i didnt like the revamped graphics but now theyre growing on me.... plus the trio attacks??? HELL YEA! i hope the remake will make me actually finish the game this time around instead of start it twice in the past three years and then quit within the first few areas (<- i say as if this isnt a normal problem i have regardless. thanks, its the adhd)
-> SaGa Emerald Beyond actually looks interesting?? like I know nothing about that game series but the character designs look very cool and i like the concept of a multiple outcome story based entirely on which character you play. do i think i'd actually play this game? no, probably not. looks cool tho
-> despite me being The pokemon nerd i have nothing to say about the new detective pikachu game. i dont like the voice they gave pikachu imo. i think thats just cause im spoiled on movie detective pikachu being ryan reynolds... i joke i kid. kinda. also i never like. actually played any detective pikachu games so i got nothing
-> WAS NOT EXPECTING A TROMBONE CHAMP PORT, TO BE QUITE HONEST
-> cool that were getting a new wario-ware!! not sure how i feel about like the.... forms? is that what theyre called?? w/e regardless im not sure how i feel about em. but its a wario-ware game so its bound to be weird but like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
-> FUNKY KONG DIDDY KONG PAULINE RELEASE FOR MARIO KART WAS NOT ON MY LIST. SO SO HAPPY THOUGH. peachette is whatever. no idea where she came from
-> gotta say i completely forgot among us was on switch so seeing the crewmates i was like "are they making a fucking spin-off game for switch?" no. i just forgot. the fungle is a funny name though i appreciate it
AND THEN
THE LAST THING I WAS EXPECTING
A PAPER MARIO THOUSAND YEAR DOOR REMASTER.
I was laying there in bed at 7:40am and was like. oh cool one last thing before its over. its probably gonna be just another title release of something or a sneak peek on some dlc.
and then i hear the music.
THAT NOSTALGIC MUSIC THAT MAKES ME FEEL LIKE IM SEVEN YEARS OLD AGAIN
-> yeah anyway so i screamed "WHAT!?" at the (metaphorical) top of my lungs (because it was 7:40am and people were sleeping). ttyd getting a remaster is so so cool. and now that i know its possibly getting a re translation that makes me even more happy. give us trans vivian....... i also just think its very funny that ive been playing ttyd on twitch for the past. year now? (ive taken a shit ton of breaks) and theyre making a remaster?? now? not complaining im having a blast playing it with my cohost but HHADGHGAKDFJ
-> i'm mostly just excited for the remaster cause it'll hopefully bring traction back to the paper mario series. idk about like the general consensus of the fandom but like. the paper mario series has been needing a pick me up for a HOT MINUTE.
-> no i am not going to play the remaster of ttyd for stream. maybe on my own time. we'll see. i dont see the point of finishing the og only to then, like a year later, play the remaster. especially when i have a TON of games backlogged on my list since i only stream once a week. more often than not, not even that. i am planning on doing rpg tho
My mom realized something once, she told it to me one night when we were laying in her bed, talking about whatever. And now it keeps sticking in the back of my head. Just shows up occasionally out of the blue every once in a while. I'll never dream of being in highschool.
Not because I don't dream -- No, in fact I dream some genuinely weird shit almost every night -- but because I didn't go. My last in person school experience was 8th grade. Because after that the world fell apart. But that's a different post in and of itself entirely lmao.
Point is: I will never stress dream of wandering long hallways, already late for class. I will never have weird dreams of fictional characters being my teacher. Instead, my dreams will perpetually only portray my middle school friends as they were. Stuck in time. Because after that, I moved, and I rarely talk to any of them anymore. I don't know what half of them look like now. And therefore I cannot dream of them being any older than they were.
And that's weird! That's genuinely weird!!! Like, yes, I'm glad I didn't go to highschool. I'm glad I will never have to have those batshit stress dreams people get. But the trade off is I get to be years older, attending middle school in those dreams, and having to rationalize that I'm not thirteen anymore, why am I here? All while being surrounded by essentially time capsules of people I won't talk to again.
Do you know how weird it is to only have school dreams on one small campus? My middle school was not a big school. In fact it was a small, 5 room 2 bathroom building. It had MAXIMUM 60 kids attending at any given point in time. It was connected to earlier grades to make a grand total of maybe 250 kids. That's it.
And no matter how warped my dreams can make that campus look, connecting it to streets it wasn't attached to or making the rooms look different than they were actually furnished, I will still only ever be on that campus in my school dreams. Because I don't remember enough of what my earlier school years were like to get those places.
There's not really a point to this post. But I hope that the emotions I feel when I think about this fact is conveyed correctly. It fucks me up thinking about it for too long.
I don't need to replay ARR........ I don't need to replay ARR.... I don't need to replay ARR.... I don't need to replay Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn..... bUT GOD DO THE VOICES WANT ME TO PLAY A REALM REBORN--
