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I love Stardew! It’s one of those things I kind of… Default to playing, I guess, when I’m not doing anything else or if I don’t really want to play anything in particular. One day I’d kind of like to get all the achievements, but the chances of that actually happening are pretty low. It’s one of my favorite games, and it doesn’t show any signs of falling from that spot any time soon.
So, I just checked and apparently any asks I’ve gotten for the last… Couple months or so at least, probably, have been eaten. I just wanna apologize if you sent something and assumed I ignored it! I’ve answered every ask I’ve received in that time period.
Don’t worry too much about bringing up politics, I don’t mind it.
Yeah, it’s just a lot easier to focus on the problems sometimes, I think? Like, sure, the majority are against him, but the ones that aren’t are a vocal minority.
Oh, this has been here a while now. Oops. But yeah, that’s what I perceive it as, and I’m glad it’s not just me.
My best guess, though please remember I’m a certified idiot and not that informed compared to like, 90% of the people I know, is that he gets less (and generally better) publicity in the USA. Meanwhile, we have to live with whatever his decisions are, so we end up hearing a lot more of it (and living it), if that makes sense? It probably doesn’t, honestly.
ashgdgasdgasdhg is that who i think it is
I’ve never been to Vancouver or anywhere around it, despite having family there. We’ve planned it a couple times, but plans always get cancelled and we head to New Brunswick instead. (On the bright side, I know a very nice motel in Fredericton. And a few other nice places in surrounding areas, though it’s seemed emptier in recent years.)
Once! But it was late at night in a smaller area (I think it was Vanceboro, Maine?) and everything was closed. I went to a Wal-Mart, that’s about it. I remember they had so many ice cream flavors in brands I’d never seen, though. One day I wanna try them!
Hey, random thoughts are the best thoughts!
Wasn’t there a post about that, actually? I think I saw one a couple months ago. Something about how time periods that were around 30 years ago is when they come back into relevance, or something like that. Like, it’s long enough ago that it seems distant but recent enough that…. Something. I dunno, I can’t find the post (if someone does, please let me know!). But I’m pretty sure it’s a real phenomenon!
A few decades down the line, I’m sure people will look back on all of us as having interesting aesthetics but terrible worldviews for whatever reason.
This got me thinking a bit, so thank you for sharing. ❤
8: Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
Oh boy. This is… A really hard one for me, actually. Most of the stuff I write is self-indulgent stuff that’s not meant for anyone but me to read, so it can be hard finding something I feel okay with sharing. But let me see what I’ve got. Spoiler warning for the most recent My Little Pony: Equestria Girls special (Forgotten Friendship) under the cut.
I have no clue how to talk about my own writing. So I guess I picked the worst thing to try to talk about, actually. There’s only one recent finished (well, sort of – this part is) work of mine that I’m even remotely proud of, so I guess that’s what I’m using. This piece isn’t titled yet, but it’s set a little while after Forgotten Friendship, for context. I felt like something was missing, so I wrote what I wanted to see. This is just a scene from it.
Twilight placed her hand on Sunset’s shoulder. “Listen, Sunset. I know you want to help everyone, but… Sometimes you can’t always manage to do all the right things. How many students go to Canterlot High? You’re never going to be able to help all of them. Even all seven of us working together couldn’t manage that. There’s too many people with too many problems, and we couldn’t solve some of them in the first place. And sometimes they become our problems too, because they get their hands on Equestrian magic. …Seriously, do these famous sorcerers from your world ever think about the consequences of dumping magic into another dimension?”
Sunset shrugged. That was actually one of the things she had been wondering about recently. Exactly how many random Equestrian artefacts were hidden in and around Canterlot High? “No idea.”
“Anyway, back on topic. You can’t blame yourself for Wallflower. None of us noticed her, it’s not like you were the only one who couldn’t see her. She was angry and resentful towards you, maybe, but it wasn’t anything you did that caused it.”
“So was I, for a long time,” Sunset reminded her. “And you’re right, as usual. But what am I supposed to do, then?”
“Help when you can. I’m not telling you not to care about other people, Sunset. Just not to believe that every problem someone blames you for could be fixed by you alone. And to remember that it’s not your job to make sure everyone’s problems are solved.“
“You didn’t see how I acted… I was so much like my old self for a minute that it scared me.”
Twilight smiled at her. “Don’t you remember? Your first interaction with me was yelling at me, too. But you’re usually only like that when something happens that threatens the people or things you care about. Nobody expects you to be a saint, Sunset.”
I’m supposed to explain why I’m proud of it, right? Well, mostly it’s because I think I captured my personal interpretation of Sunset here (just mine, I can’t speak for anyone else!) – so anything from this point on is discussing that interpretation. She still struggles with the aftermath of the first Equestria Girls movie, remembering how terrible she was, and sometimes she tries to overcompensate when she’s blamed (or perceives herself as being blamed) for things – and that rarely solves much of anything. Trying to take things into her own hands and fix problems she feels she caused, and just generally blaming herself for those problems, that kind of thing. (Also, I have a lot of feelings about the Wallflower situation in general, but that’s irrelevant.)
And as for Twilight, she was harder because I can’t relate as strongly to her as I can to Sunset, but she’s trying her best to be helpful and a good friend. Trying to point out the reasons Sunset shouldn’t be blaming herself.
Aside from that, though, I barely remember this fic ‘cause I wrote it in like, an hour directly after watching Forgotten Friendship when it was first released
(as such, it abides by the version that was initially released and not the currently-being-released extended version.)
. I might clean it up and post it somewhere when it’s Really Actually Finished, but it was really just something self-indulgent I needed to read after watching, so I made it myself.
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