A sufficiently desperate amalgamated waffle sorter

I really need to keep better control of my inputs and thought, and the collision thereof.

Also my computer is not helping.

So. A while ago, I started up this Sims game with the intention of getting a Felix and a Sheba together, preferably without the enormous tragedy that seems to happen whenever I try to fic that relationship.

More recently, I have been reading logs of various people's Sims Legacy Challenges (and variants). Given that the Legacy Challenge involves getting a family through several generations, these often involve proposals and marriages. And some of the writers are rather good at evoking emotion.

The last few days, I have also been trying to get an OOM written. It's from canon; specifically, the scene at the end of the first game where Felix is attempting to rescue Sheba on top of Venus Lighthouse.

So these have been colliding into periods of DO WANT, although I'm determined that certain things in the Sims game happen in a certain order. In particular, Sheba is not allowed to grow up just yet.

And then just now my computer decided to switch to this as its wallpaper. As I said, not helping.

I don't even know. This brain of mine...

Okay, so. I recently did a big reread of ( Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality )

More recently - including a few minutes ago, as I type this - I am also rereading ( an Avatar fic called Embers )

So. Brain being what he is, these two ideas are attempting to merge.

( By your powers combined, I am... Avatar: The Last Logician! )

Blargh.

As some of you may recall, some time ago I did a thing linking up Harry Potter characters with the Signs from The Dark is Rising.

It appears that Brain has decided I must do the same thing to another set of six characters.

( When the Mare comes rising, six shall turn her back... )

Incidentally, I have no idea what to do with the "Three from the circle, three from the track" part. All six are female, there are two of each race... maybe something to do with the fact that three of them have manes and tails in colors vaguely similar to their coats?

My little sister has been making a plush version of Toothless, from How to Train Your Dragon. She finished it last night, and this morning I took a few pictures.

I have become convinced that Brain is taunting me. It started innocuously enough a few months ago, when I sort of started idly statting out Felix for Homestuck. All was fine for a while, until... someone posted this to one of the Golden Sun groups on deviantArt. Buried in there is a snippet that changes (inner) worlds: "[S] Ivan: Do the windy thing" Immediately, Brain started in on the parallels, and before long had decided that I needed to set up all sixteen party members from the Golden Sun games for Sburb sessions. Soon I had set up a spreadsheet with all the HS kids and trolls, their colors, titles, lands, and so on, and started in on the Sunnites. Now Brain has decided that I ought to set up Himi - the last person to join in Dark Dawn - as being related to Mary, from Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town. Due to the rather twisted way Brain works, this would make her a one-person four-way crossover. (Because, you see, Mary entered the picture as another potential ship for the version of Felix in the Young Wizards 'verse, after I decided it would be too much trouble to make Sheba work both as a similarly-transplanted character and as a love interest for this Felix.)

And, as long as I'm here, ceitfianna has presented me with questions from the Interview Meme:

→ Leave a comment saying you want to be interviewed.
→ I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
→ Update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
→ Include this explanation.
→ Ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.

( Here's what she asked! )

Brain, one thing at a time! I don't need yet another - this time completely gratuitous - Ghibli/ATLA crossover in the middle of plotting out a Ghibli/GS crossover.

Sheesh.

In other words, no, Pazu's town isn't built on the ruins of Ba Sing Se. Not this time.

Or at least that's what we're saying.

You see, she made this entry, mentioning that her cat had taken her Yellow Lantern Ring. Someone commented with a link to a scan of a cat with a Red Lantern Ring. So, naturally, I went on a wikibinge to see what they'd done to the GL cosmology since the last time I looked (around when they made the first Pink Purple Lantern). I feel that their "emotional spectrum" system is fundamentally flawed - in particular, the "emotion" that started it is no emotion by any definition I've ever heard; also, where do you fit things like sadness or annoyance?

Anyway, on my way home today Brain was running through tangents' tangents' tangents, and wanted an analogy for the way I see rap. You can guess, from the previous paragraph, what sort of comparison I drew. (In case I misjudge you, the answer is the Black Rings.) A few minutes later it occurred to me that I can name songs that more-or-less fit each of the colors. Then it branched out from songs to Star Trek species, and then...

Well. You get the idea. So I blame Kip.

He's been plotting.

It started, as nearly as I can recall, with some idle speculation on what Felix's canonmates would be doing, seven-plus years after their quest. I decided years ago that Isaac and Jenna got married between one and two years post-game.

( That's when brain stepped in. )

That's where things get complicated. It's one thing to ask someone to NPC an OC, especially a four-year-old. But I'd want people with some experience and familiarity with the relevant canon for the other two established characters. Based on a series of interest searches and friend links, complicated by the fact that there are apparently a number of current or former Golden Sun RP accounts with no listed interests, there are more Golden Sun character journals than I thought, but nothing like (for instance) Harry Potter or Lost journals.

And, if Felix makes a slip of the tongue as Brain suggested and has to show Milliways to the others, a Milliways Jenna-mun would be absolutely required. Sigh.

*points* That pair of tags seems to go together more often than any other combination.

Dear brain:

Who was that? Oh, don't give me that look. You know who I mean. That headvoice that dictated the last three or four entries. Who was it?

Dear brain:

No, Will and Bran can't go to Fionavar. Nor can Merriman. It's not going to happen.

Dear brain:

No. One cannot travel between Valinor and Fionavar. Don't you think Rakoth would have tried to enlist Melkor by now if it were possible?

So, yes, aside from odd military posts, I've been reading the Fionavar Tapestry, and partway through The Wandering Fire the resonances with Silver on the Tree got a bit too built up. And then Jennifer mentions something about the third not being there, and I start to wonder if she's talking about Mordred, except I can't remember his name, so what should float up but "Morgoth"?

Also, I want to shake Jennifer and say that "can't try for light because it might invite darkness" is not a valid argument. If you're not climbing, you're falling; give yourself a chance at light, rather than the certainty of darkness.

This could get a little rambly, but bear with me.

As some of you may be aware, I once played Felix from Golden Sun, venusadept_2, at milliways_bar. As you are probably not aware, I want to bring him back. (I always seem to decide this just after apps close, which is probably good as I'll soon have next to no available time or brainspace.)

I am also subject to short-term obsessions. These are usually for video or computer games, and tend to last a week or so. Runescape is the only game I recall having multiple occurrences of this for. I thought the weirdest instance happened beginning in January, when Final Fantasy X took over my brain for some three or four months after reading something at milliways_bar, only to end when I transfered the obsession to Puzzle Pirates and Heroes, both of which behaved normally thereafter. However, see below.

Practically ever since I had to give Felix up I've had a plot for him in my brain, involving the soundtrack of the Scarlet Pimpernel musical. There would not actually be much correlation with the plot of Scarlet Pimpernel, but.

Recently I loaded Scarlet Pimpernel onto my MP3 player. This awakened the Paragraph 2 obsession with regards to bringing Felix back, as in Paragraph 1.

Now, I recently realized that when I am reading, I usually have sort of a movie running in my brain, but without actually characters - that is, if you ask me to describe a character in a book, I usually can't. There are only brainshapes that fill the roles. This appears to also be the case with text-based roleplaying.

So I've been muttering to myself that I want Felix back, and meanwhile the music behind his plot's playing through my earphones, when the brainshapes twist and quite suddenly I have the sprites from the game in my brain singing the songs as though they were speaking their in-game lines, and they are doing so on backgrounds that generally look like those from the games in style, but don't actually appear. (Except for the one that has the Colosso spectators in the Normal gym from Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire.) So yes, my brain is reworking the Golden Sun images instead of reworking the character images into the already-established Milliways backgrounds.