Utena/Anthy hurt/comfort fic. I read one earlier today and got all "eeee~" about it.

I find it amusing that those two have to be one of my favorite couples in anime OF ALL TIME </kanye> but they're two girls. And I still consider myself straight!

Anyway, I never really thought their gender really mattered. In Revolutionary Girl Utena, that matters way less than the feelings between the characters. As I'm sure I've said before, I think that's what I like about it. Love that transcends gender. That concept has always fascinated me way more than loving, or being attracted to the male gender.

Lately I have been thinking again about my ideas to continue Reborn Again. How I wish there was enough energy and inspiration in my body to do that now! I still need to heal, mentally, though. Everyone's worried about me, because I'm always so worn out, to the point I can't even keep up with my games and I have to keep taking mini-breaks from Dragonrealms.

Two things I'm really enjoying right now... despite life otherwise sucking. (No comment, other than that I'm having illness related to stress fatigue right now.)

Knights in the Nightmare has a high learning curve at first, but I dutifully went through *all* the First Steps, Tutorial and Tips before starting. It was worth it. Though it looks complicated in explanation, actually PLAYING the game is fast and fun!! I'm moving my wisp around like a pro now, swapping items and knights in and out between turns, and lining up my 'kill bingo' (cause I mean, that's what it is. Kill bingo. You'd know what I mean if you played it.)

I admit to being really wowed by the presentation of the story, too. It actually has a very Valkyrie Profile-ish (the first one, anyway) feel with how the story and setting info is revealed gradually through the eyes of others (some of them dead, or soon to be dead). It really makes you want to play more, and later replay to get some of the knights you missed and find out more about their stories too.

I just felt kinda bad about my site for a while because I couldn't get the server upgrade I wanted, so the migration nver actually happened. :( Apparently it isn't available yet, and someone else had misinformed me. Meh. I mean, I COULD get it if I went and moved my site to a new web host, but... I'm not keen on moving from where I've been a customer since 2001. It'd have to take some pretty bad service.

I may eventually consider it, though, but it'd have to be after a lot of research and with some free time for me to move things properly. I don't envision myself having much free time for months, if not years, so I am going to stick with what I've got unless slow website loading starts to bug me again. Eventually I should be able to get my upgrade!

Whoa birthdays. Eni's was yesterday but I was out all day. And today's is Selina's and Lumi's. I'm sending birthday wishes all over the place.

Still feel rather sad I'm not sending gifts because I like being generous, but right now being generous may not be a good idea. Still no financial aid yet and Jon is just starting a new job at the end of this month.

On the other hand I DID spend *some* money as I had some left over... namely, to get Dark Spire. FINALLY. XD And Jon bought some music CDs which I will talk about later.

Dark Spire is just... totally awesome so far. Mmmmm challenging dungeon crawlers. The premise is very simple (go to the top of the tower, kill the bad sorcerer, get back the treasure--it's very Nethack-ish actually), and the gameplay seems deceptively simple as well. But this game totally does NOT handhold you through much at all. Even the tutorial had this attitude of "just DO IT already, stop asking questions!" which amused me to no end.

God, I'm just so worn out mentally right now. I can hardly think straight, and I have so many things to write. Nnngh. Mostly a couple character sheets (one is just number crunchy fortunately) and I oughta try to actually PREPARE a post for Dynastic Moon, to try to preempt yet another week of FAIL.

I don't know where all my time goes. I always feel like the days are too short. It takes me hours to write relatively short posts.

I am thinking that I'm going to seriously break down if I don't rest, due to the extreme writing fail I've had recently. Not just with DM, but also just in general... after doing Snow Tempest's sheet I've had an increasingly difficult time getting enough inspiration to write anything. (Makes me very sad because I have this Zenith concept I really, REALLY want to create. *sigh*)