Chosen By The Crystals

Okie so when I said on fandom50challenge I probably wouldn't be posting as much this month I didn't actually mean I'd be falling off the trolley altogether, but here we are? It's kind of been a possum scream couple of weeks.

This post is for a different kind of possum scream though!

The fannish kind where I go "Sunrise are you actually seriously putting new canon material for a Gundam setting into a goddamn mobile game?!" -- and honestly the mobile part isn't even what's getting me! If it was a bog standard console G Generation game I'd be just as fucking baffled!

(the timing is dumb as balls because it's for Cosmic Era and SEED Freedom was last year; I blame how delayed G Generation Eternal was)

But yeeeaaaahhhh filling in, apparently-supposedly, what Kira was doing and what Athrun was doing between SEED and SEED Destiny -- as opposed to SEED Eclipse, which is also between series but is about a new cast altogether -- and it's stuffed in a bloody SD G Generation game.

A mobile one at that.

I guess arguably being a mobile game actually makes it more accessible to fans ...?

Still. What the actual fuck.



Also where is my fucking new Wing material in this 35th anni Banrise where the fuck is it

Have spent the last week with bleary eyes half on the news and half on trying to keep myself some kind of busy-distracted while the world burns and I slide down the glass trying to make some kind of difference. Bleh. Also the federal election is in less than three weeks and I expect an absolute fucking tire fire. Bleeeehhhh.

Mostly I've been reading some things I picked up in a get-now moment and lo and behold, for the first time in way too long I've actually managed to get books that aren't written by absolute fucking idiots. (seriously, if you want me to doubt you know any-fucking-thing-at-all about the history of hand manuscripts/texts/etc make the wtf claim that in Egypt they didn't write on both sides of a papyrus scroll so inventing the codex was so~ brilliant~ of the white folksGreco-Roman Christianity blah blah.)

The one on space stations in specfic is looking like it may fall on the 'slog' end of the 50/50 guess, though. But that's fine because Downcrawl has arrived and someday The Perilous Void will join it ...

Other than that it's been mostly hunting up packets of brightly-coloured papers because apparently I'm making little notebooks when I should be making zines >.>;; but I want to make little notebooks. And I haven't decided what fiction to zine first yet >.>;;;

I am not watching the new Gundam because fuck Anno, but I'm happy to rubberneck at it.

And climbing back onto the gaming horse again because what's the point of collecting Marfs if I don't play them -- also, I need to dig through Fire Emblem The Complete because it looks like a wonderful time capsule of pre-remakes Archanea/Valentia stuff ...