stunt_muppet

I got my lab all finished and turned in today, had nothing due tomorrow, and planned to spend a leisurely day writing today in order to recuperate a bit from the lunacy that the past few weeks have been.

Instead, I ended up watching The Fifth Element with rhia_starsong, who'd never seen it. She enjoyed it, naturally, and agreed with my sentiment that it was what the Star Wars prequels really should have been/were trying to be, but that wasn't the reason I got no writing done.

No, I got no writing done because I tried to hone my GLaDOS voice by listening to the Hellfire Commentaries Portal Playthrough. It actually helped, because you get to hear all of GLaDOS's lines in context; indeed, my GLaDOS voice might slightly have the edge over my Zoe voice at this point, sad to say. Plus, the commentaries were actually a bit funny; they're two British geeks chatting through the game and showing you how to solve the puzzles, and while they're occasionally crude they also made me giggle rather loudly quite a few times.

And then I found that they also did a playthrough of Sonic Adventure 2: Battle for GameCube. Which, shamefully, I loved the hell out of back in my 16-year-old days. I think there was some sort of objective level on which I knew it wasn't very good, because seriously any game that sticks Tails in a clunky, barely-mobile mecha for his stages is up against it to begin with, but I just loved it to pieces. I may have even written AU fic for it but it is not with pride that I admit that.

And then one of them made a commentary on how awesome the music for the Golem boss was. Which made me remember that, yeah, actually, it was. I mean, it was electric-guitar-heavy nineties-ish lyricless rock, and it was one of the standouts on a soundtrack that ranged from headbangingly awesome to appalling, but I confess: I used to put the game disc in for no other reason that to listen to that boss theme, along with the Pyramid Cave and Cannon Core level music, over and over again on the sound test.

Naturally, someone had uploaded the themes themselves onto YouTube (except for the third Cannon Core music, boo), so guess who spent the next hour or so with those on repeat.

I am not old enough to be this nostalgic. And I think the fact that I am nostalgic about video games speaks to just how insufficiently misspent my insufficiently misspent youth was.

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In slightly less embarrassing news, there's a new Doctor Who-niverse fic archive out there, meant mostly for shippy fic: Children of Time. It's not meant to replace The Splendid Spoon by any means, but it's sorted by pairing rather than era, so if you feel like mainlining one pairing for the remainder of the day, or if you'd rather get your Five/Turlough fix without having to face the ABJECT HORROR of Five/Tegan (I kid! I actually quite like Five/Tegan! 'Twas meant in jest! Don't hit me!), that's where you'd head.

I've an account there, naturally. There's nothing actually on it at the moment, but my shippy* fic on the Spoon will probably end up cross-posted there, because I just like to plaster my work on whatever willing wall I can find.

I also realize that I never posted a link to my Teaspoon account even after I got it, so, um, here it is, if you for some reason want to find it but haven't yet. Yes.

*"Shippy" here meaning "actually properly romantic and/or dealing with a relationship of some sort", not "really probably gen but with a pairing label slapped on it to meet a ficathon/challenge/odd internal sense of obligation".

And on that encouraging note, I am going to finally clear the stuff off my bed and sleep in it for the first time in a week. Goodnight, ladies (and gents), goodnight.