Or when it is available in those more broken-down and individually accessible forms, it's called "not really reading/not real literature" by the kinds of people who think fiction peaked with Dickens, thus discouraging/shaming even those who might have been eager to read in those formats.
A screenshot of Final Fantasy 14 showing the interior of a rural inn, featuring a burly pale green-skinned NPC making an aggressive pointing gesture. He has a small, thin moustache that reminds me of J Jonah Jameson from the Spider-Man comics/shows/etc
Me: * walks into an Eastern La Noscea inn *
Random FFXIV NPC: "Bring me pictures of Spider-Man!!"
Oh god it did a bit of AoE damage to me just reading it second hand lmao
The owner of that AirBnB sounds like they were crashing out after a bad reaction to something when they wrote the plaque on that crucifix. D:
Yup, I was a rabbit shaped hole in the wall a few seconds after that interaction.
Random on discord: "Generic defence of person with ghastly bigoted views."
Me: "No."
* Owner of channel is typing *
Me: "Oh good someone with authority to say something sensible."
Owner of channel: "Now now there's two sides to every story, everyone has their vices."
Me: ...well fuck. 😬
Haha yeah, I randomly rolled (well, span a wheel) and got summoner, didn't even realise it was 2-for-1 at the time. :o
A screenshot of the MMO Final Fantasy 14, showing my player character standing dressed in an ornate dark blue and silver trimmed robe as the glam for her Summoner job, wearing a silver mask reminiscent of the ones worn by Ascians (who certainly encourage a lot of summoning!)
After a week or so's distraction with various crafting jobs, I've finally started levelling my second combat job in FFXIV. Since I'm going summoner, I even put together a little glam which... uh, well... the folks who wore this stuff REALLY liked summoning, right?
Tuvokkol Dankol. I hate myself for that one. 🙃
B'ahamut Torres!!!
Star Trek Voyager, FFXIV edition. Starring:
Captain Kathryn Livingway
Commander Miqo'te
Ensign Hoary Kim
Lt Tom Varis
Chief Morale Officer Slowfix
Seven of Solution Nine
And Robert Picardo as The Chirurgeon.
I couldn't figure out names for Tuvok or Torres though. 😭
Today I achieved a feat I haven't accomplished since childhood. I sneezed so many times in rapid succession that I gave myself a nosebleed.
It's always the mark of a great episode when I catch myself snort-laughing and saying "Oh Jesus" out loud once, then still do it again like 5 minutes later. 😂
For the 2026 Dan and Phil fan in your life: the leather polo shirt, apparently on sale for actual legitimate money in a TK Maxx near you (if you live in Dundee, Scotland at least). 🤣
90s British boy-band East 17 desperately waiting by the phone. 😆
A large ceramic bowl full of homemade jollof rice.
Every time I make jollof rice it seems like I accidentally make a bigger batch, but it's so good I can't complain. (This large bowl will probably be 10 or 12 portions lmao) <3
Epic the Musical Odysseus relaxing with Penelope on a beach on Ithica after his voyage home: "Ahh now to chill and watch the new Pokemon Presents."
Pokemon: "Presenting the Gen 10 games: Winds and Waves."
Odysseus, flashing back to Aeolus and Poseidon related trauma: "WHAT?!"
A screenshot from Final Fantasy 14 showing my viera player character standing in the shopping district of Solution Nine, dressed in a modern style outfit dyed a deep green with red accents, and red shoes with deep green accents. Beside her is her current minion (pet), a rabbit. ^^
FFXIV update! I've got all three of my gathering jobs up to lvl100, which means snazzy new gear. I think dying my gear-sets green is gonna be my 'look' going forward, and while more understated than the vivid space-y blue, I love how this set looks. <3
I feel like I've written this story... 😅
Fucking oof. Landlords gonna landlord. D:
A screenshot from the video game Final Fantasy 14 (FFXIV) showing my player character standing on a log peering out at a large tree with a glowing meteor embedded in it, which looks INCREDIBLY reminiscent of a similar environment from Final Fantasy 10, in which Tidus and Yuna share an incredibly tender moment together. ;-;
For some reason my warrior of light seems ready to break out into a rousing chorus of "Suteki da ne". XD
Welp, it happened. After less than two months since I got back into it, I've officially written FFXIV fanfic. 😂 And yes, it's about Loporrits, because of COURSE it's about the bunnies!
Homemade chicken katsu curry! 🥰 No green onions though, still too early in the year to grow them. 😭
Purely by chance the story I posted on FA today is a personal piece that feels rather fitting for Valentine's Day in an ironic way. It's called Conditional, and in a rare case of Jeeves using a subtitle, "An Aromantic Romance". 😆
Winter Olympics 2026
🥌👈🧎♂️
Should a thing tasting like what it's advertised as being flavoured with be the default to begin with? Absolutely. But since we live in a world where that's not the case, I'm gonna enjoy this rare case. 🤣
I don't know if I've ever eaten a kind of crisp/chip that tastes more like what it's advertised as than the hot honey doritos available in the UK right now. Like... yeah, they just straight up taste like honey and (mild) chilli pepper. Not generically 'a bit sweet', but full on "whoa, that's honey".
The only time I saw someone get distracted by noise during a curling match was in the Olympic trials at Scotiabank centre, and that was when the noon cannon went off mid-way through a match, so it was a good reason to be surprised. 🤣
