So not loving the new update screen

[clo_again]

It freaks me out everytime I open it, which means I've started this entry about three times and ended up closing the window. Argh, LJ. If it ain't broke, don't 'fix' it.

What I was trying to say, before LJ went and confused me, was that I haven't stayed up until stupid-o-clock in the morning because I simply couldn't stop reading fic, for the longest time. And it was even in a pairing I never actually *got* before because seriously, Squall/Zell? I *laughed* at that back in the days when I could actually remember more than vague details from FFVIII's plot. Which by the way, is stupidly confusing and I wish someone would write it up as a novel so I could remind myself without having to buy a Playstation 2 to replay the damn game. (Do they do that? Because they should, for all the big games. I can complete Occarina of Time with my eyes closed now; it'd be nice to get to revisit it in a different format.)

Sidetracked. Yes. Meant to pimp out the seriously fun FF8 series I spent a good four or so hours reading last night. There's some serious pretty right there. Squall/Seifer, Squall/Zell, Zell/Seifer, Zell/Irvine, Irvine/seemingly everyone, if you have a favourite pairing it's probably in there somewhere and the writing isn't too shabby either. In fact, I only found it last night and I'm already into a second reading. Good times.

Dad dropped by a while ago to pick up clothes and stuff I want at home for Christmas, so I can just catch the train back whenever I feel like, probably Monday as it stands since the flat'll be pretty much empty by then. He'd been working up in Scotland and said it's mostly underwater by now, what with all the rain. And here I was figuring it was just Lancaster. He said the high winds yesterday were blowing trucks over on the M6 too; he'd passed some of them coming down. :-/

This weather is not natural. Really, really not. At least they reckon it's going colder at last, so some semblence of normality might be resumed by Christmas. I was meant to be going Christmas shopping today but I got soaked in the two minutes I was outside to wave Dad off; I'd come back dripping if I went to town. It's just impossible to do anything in weather like this.

And I'm *British*, so when even I think the weather's worse than usual? It must be bad.

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[lillyv.livejournal.com]

Which by the way, is stupidly confusing and I wish someone would write it up as a novel so I could remind myself without having to buy a Playstation 2 to replay the damn game.

I could possibly give it to you in sort of a Movies in 15 Minutes version? Would that help?

[clo.livejournal.com]

Thanks but I went running to Wikipedia last night when I couldn't remember if things in the fic were canon or not. *sighs* It'd just be nice to have a novel version onhand -- the game's awesome but playing through fifty+ hours of it to get the story can get old.

Which is probably something dedicated gamers would have me killed for saying. ^_^ It's all because I'm lazy, really.

[lillyv.livejournal.com]

Well, I've always kinda felt that 8 was the best for fic because there was a ton of room for speculation...but that was mostly because I thought 8 had the weakest plot of the "new breed" FF games (7 through 12 currently).

And I think I'm doing a M15M version anyway. Only I'm going with VG30M (Video Games in 30 Minutes, because I cannot condense most VG's into 15 Minutes).