#personal ramblies

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Writing fanfic on my phone during a class reunion dinner because I am a well-adjusted individual

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Ok. So. Not only did I miss an aurora borealis and not notice a meteor, but I also apparently managed to sleep through an entire goddamn earthquake?????

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THERE WAS AN AURORA BOREALIS VISIBLE FROM NORTHERN PORTUGAL AND I DIDN'T SEE IT BECAUSE IT WAS CLOUDY AND I WAS ASLEEP NOOOOOO!!!

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It's not even Halloween anymore but I wanted to tell you guys that I am very much still alive and that I was planning on posting a spooky/autumnal drawing of one of my WIPs - unfortunately, college is a realm of neverending nightmares and I didn't even have time to BEGIN said drawing

I also won't be doing any NaNoWriMo-ish challenge this year on account of the aforementioned realm of neverending nightmares

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This is gonna be a rant!

I don't usually make this kind of post but whatever. When I was like 13/14 I used to be really into this visual novel/dating sim called The Arcana. I remember being very invested in the story and the art was really pretty and inspired me a lot at the time. I ended up never finishing the game for reasons I don't remember but the other day I was feeling nostalgic and wanted closure for the central mystery bc I never actually got that far.

Except when I started playing it yesterday, I noticed that the 5 prologue chapters were different from what I remembered. Namely, they had been shortened by A LOT. And I'm sure this isn't a case of my memory being warped by 6 years of not touching the game.

Yesterday, I finished the entire prologue in an hour, but I remember it taking me much, much longer in the past. It took me days to get to the reveal that Portia and Julian are siblings and even more days to get to the meeting with thosr counselors with similar-looking names (I have a bad memory for names, sorry). And I did all of that in 45 minutes. I also remember there being scenes in the prologue that are simply not there or were rushed through. I remember spending much more time in the palace library, or hanging out with Nadia in the gardens or the balcony, or there being a whole scene where the mc stumbled into Lucio's wing a second time, followed by a choice of possibly sneaking out of the palace and having a much longer conversation with Julian at the tavern where I think you actually got a point towards his route?

And the thing I noticed is that the game now seems much more interested in pushing "premium choices" that require coins to unlock (which you can earn as you progress but you mostly buy with real money through in-game purchases). The prologue used to have two or three when I played it for the first time?? And now, in those 5 (now short) chapters, there's around 10. And coupled with the rushed-through prologue, it feels like the game is purposefully putting its plot behind a paywall. And idk how it is with the routes, but when I was 14 I got halfway through Asra and Julian's routes and there were only 2 or so premium choices in what I played.

I just got to the part where you can choose the routes and I honestly don't know if I wanna keep playing. Like, I still want to solve the mystery and see at least one ending but with all this, idk if I have it in me. I just feel so disappointed by how this game has changed over the years.

Sorry for this long rant, I'm just kinda sad.

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Answering a survey for my friend's master's degree thing and constantly humbling myself by repeatedly having to manually type "tumblr" every time I'm asked about my most used social media site

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Shoutout to my Architecture & Cinema professor who showed us a video recreation of a dance performance from the 1867 Paris world fair and then, when it ended, proceeded to stand in complete silence for a few seconds before saying "... could have been Chappell Roan"