May Happiness
May. 29th, 2025 06:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingThis is what’s been making me happy this month:
A good book:
The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre is so weird and so good. I have no idea how to even begin to describe the story, but the translation is wonderful, as is the publication quality of the print version. I had to import this book from the UK, but it was worth the trouble.
A good game:
Ender Magnolia was on sale for $15 on the Nintendo Switch store, so I bought it to play during a long plane ride. I initially didn’t like how muddy this game looks on Steam Deck, but the Switch version is crisp and clear and colorful. I really loved it the second time around.
A good movie:
Flow is about a black cat and its animal companions navigating the ruins of a postapocalyptic world as the water level rises. It (mercifully) has no dialogue, and it’s beyond gorgeous. Nothing bad happens, but I cried a lot.
A fun thing I created:
I made a Breath of the Wild illustration that’s based on how I actually play the game, which is to have a weaponless Link decked out in full stealth gear as he hunts for Koroks. I especially enjoyed painting the grass and flowers in the foreground.
I want to have a “someone was nice to me” category, but this is difficult to quantify. I guess it’s fair to say that I’m grateful to all the people who still leave comments on AO3 and Dreamwidth. I’ve become extremely shy and somewhat isolated in real life, and it really does mean the world to me that people take the time to reach out.
A good book:
The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre is so weird and so good. I have no idea how to even begin to describe the story, but the translation is wonderful, as is the publication quality of the print version. I had to import this book from the UK, but it was worth the trouble.
A good game:
Ender Magnolia was on sale for $15 on the Nintendo Switch store, so I bought it to play during a long plane ride. I initially didn’t like how muddy this game looks on Steam Deck, but the Switch version is crisp and clear and colorful. I really loved it the second time around.
A good movie:
Flow is about a black cat and its animal companions navigating the ruins of a postapocalyptic world as the water level rises. It (mercifully) has no dialogue, and it’s beyond gorgeous. Nothing bad happens, but I cried a lot.
A fun thing I created:
I made a Breath of the Wild illustration that’s based on how I actually play the game, which is to have a weaponless Link decked out in full stealth gear as he hunts for Koroks. I especially enjoyed painting the grass and flowers in the foreground.
I want to have a “someone was nice to me” category, but this is difficult to quantify. I guess it’s fair to say that I’m grateful to all the people who still leave comments on AO3 and Dreamwidth. I’ve become extremely shy and somewhat isolated in real life, and it really does mean the world to me that people take the time to reach out.
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Date: 2025-05-29 12:53 pm (UTC)based on how I actually play the game, which is to have a weaponless Link decked out in full stealth gear as he hunts for Koroks.
I am fascinated. So basically no one can see you or attack, and you can just live your best explorer life? This is genius.
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Date: 2025-05-30 08:34 pm (UTC)...but I do not. Whenever the spirit moves me, I ambush and backstab and enjoy every second.
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Date: 2025-05-29 07:35 pm (UTC)*sends hugs* connection is important.
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Date: 2025-05-30 08:30 pm (UTC)Meanwhile, it's possible to spend 200 hours of Tears of the Kingdom doing nothing but designing and flying airships around the map while dressed like an Aztec prince (to extend the battery life of your crafts, don't ask), and one day I might have the artistic skill to make that illustration.
There's currently a "TotK critical" hashtag micro-trending on Tumblr, and I get where these people are coming from, but also. I think I might have played a very different game.