In which I mourn many things, including my weekend

[taotrooper]

1) RIP Diana Wynne Jones ;_; Thank you for filling my bookshelf with fantasy, fairytale deconstructions, and metrosexual wizards. I will miss you, magnificent lady. I should read more of her books, um.

2) I feel kind of bad because there are a lot of dragons in this gen, but I just fished a level 53 Dragonair and it's my favorite dragon and I want to try him out :| I wanted to use only Unova kids and I was doing so well... I don't know what to do. I still had to catch a Deino to try them out, actually.

3) Hey, guys?

REC ME THINGS YOU THINK WOULD MAKE ME HAPPY!

I realized that lately all the games I've played recently have always some dark element that leaves angst and tragedy lingering, and my mind (and the fanworks) always returns to those. It's funny because they're all fluffy and for the NDS, LOL.

I don't mean games alone, though. Actually, anything but games is preferable. Books, manga, TV shows, movies. I have so much stuff to read/watch that I feel overwhelmed and this is why I've been gaming lately. I don't know what to jump into because there's so much to try and I'm eternally undecided.

Things I've read/watched and loved before are fair game too. And if you don't know me enough, then you could tell me what you've been enjoying lately. But no "Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies" recs, please. INB4 people tossing Magical Madoka and Homestruck anyway.

Comments

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Aww, I have my Futurama DVDs at my uncle's right now. (Although some episodes are the biggest tearjerkers ever and one game I played recently was very Jurassic Bark in a subplot so.) I... watched one adaptation of AMS!/OMG! in the 90's and while it was okay I kinda think it's overrated? Probably because I can't stand Belldandy's dull yamato nadeshiko and she was so popular at the time, bleh. Urd and Skuld were great, but I don't think I can stomach the scenes where the boring sister gets the spotlight. Never heard of Origin, I won't watch Earthsea because I like the first novel and I was told that film is awful, Totoro is cute but it's not my favorite Ghibli movie.

Would rather not, as I'm sure I'll get very attached to Vivi and I know there are sad scenes about him.

No problem, Soy una persona muy difícil |D; Las dos personas que no tenían ni idea de qué recomendar son justo las que me conocen mejor, qué dirá eso de mí.

[lepluvium.livejournal.com]

The only time I watched Futurama was when it was on TV, so they never showed any of the sadder episodes. Then I found I out I could stream the entire series (well most of the episodes), so I was all like "HOORAY HAPPINESS!!" Then I watched the few episodes that are depressing, and oh my god, I almost cried. I feel stupid in saying this, but I was NOT expecting that at all!

I think the OMG adaption I watched was more... recent? I think. Great, now I'm doubting my own sanity. I know the manga is a bit old, but yeah, Belldandy kind of annoyed me too. I was sort of expecting that, though, I rarely ever like the female lead :C

Lol to be honest, I was obscenely tired when I watched Earthsea so my judgement as to how good it was is probably super skewed XDD I kept falling asleep the entire time, and I woke up enough just in time to see the ending. Go me~

The first half of the game is really funny, but then the second half everything gets more serious, Vivi starts having an existential crisis, and just auijngagjata The story isn't the most original thing (OMGOMGOMGOMG WE MUST SAVE THE WORLD!!!!111!), but the characters were very well thought out. And the male lead (Zidane) isn't a whiny bitch (Tidus), an emo mope (Cloud), or a douche bag (Squall). So that was nice. ANYWAY, I think someone suggested Psychonauts here! I haven't played much of it, but it's fun :D

Ahhh I fail... Lo siento por la falta de buenas recomendaciones! Es solamente que no sabía lo que decir, entonces te recomendé la primera cosa que tenía en mente XDD

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Same! I never get why people was so hdgjagdg when mentioning two episodes in particular, until I bought the whole thing and watched it. OH MAN. But the fact the series is good at comedy and drama is quite awesome.

My little brother (the one who's not a douchebag) is playing a PC version of FF9 and he's liking it despite of the old graphics. I should finish FF6 advanced first, but considering how I'm normally meh/annoyed at Squeenix protagonists that sounds pretty nice!

Tranquila, está bien ^^