EMOTION 2.0

[Fact Checking Gardevoir]

Creeped out. Really, really creeped out.

Spoiler:

See, my mom has been fighting an infection for a couple days now. To distract myself from the stress, I began writing out a fic based on the one Italian Pokémon fan game. You may recall I was very enthusiastic about it too, because I'd been planning it ever since I did my first run of the game in January and I had just found a way around the kind of messy plot. Thing is, whenever I'd put hands to work on it or play the fan game proper to get the "feel" for my writing... she'd start feeling worse out of nowhere. Conversely, on the days I'd stop working on it because I was too busy, she'd feel better. I told her about this and she said not to mind because there's no correlation, that it's just a funny coincidence, and so on and so forth.

Well, I'm not convinced. Here's what happened from last night to this morning.

Before going to bed last night, I showed her all the cast of the game to see what she thought of them. Even though she said she wasn't tempted to play the game, which is okay because she's never even played the main series games, I was still damn happy, especially because she liked "the cyborg, the Ghost leader, and the Water starter." Seeing her reaction made me want to tempt fate and devote today to finishing the first "chapter" of the fic.

Come this morning, she's complaining of pains again and seriously considering going to hospital despite the extremely windy weather. As a result, I got really freaked out and deleted the game itself, what I had written of the fic up until yesterday, all the reference documents for the fic, my image folder with pictures related to the game, a WIP review I had hanging around since earlier this year and my entire YouTube watch history, without her knowing. Now, she's sleeping well with little pain, and she'll likely go for a check tomorrow instead. It's good that she feels better, but... *shivers*

You know what the creepiest part is? This year started out on not-so-good-terms for me - up to and including my thrice-vaccined father having a breakthrough COVID infection. You know what Pokémon fan game I was playing through at that time? The Italian fan game.

Needless to say, I'm not redownloading that game or touching it even with a ten-foot pole EVER again. I'm all kinds of scared right now, and pretty depressed too. I just really, really wanted to tell my own version of the story, and I can't do it if this keeps happening to me; I've just lost all my enthusiasm for it. Seems that all I'll remember about this game in the end is how it led to me living through a goddamn real-life creepypasta.

Shocked and sad.

Apparently polio might be making a comeback in my country.

Sorry to hear this...
Best wishes your family and you to get, and feel better, soon, Vielleroue.
And I hope things will get better for your country, Shooting Star.

 

[Ivysaur]

Contented.

 

[Orion☆]

Grateful. Not only because of the direct support I'm getting here, but also because of the enthusiasm I'm seeing in the Get Together. I never thought I'd partake in a community event again until today. My mom's also feeling a lot better and I can't thank God enough for that.

 

[Ivysaur]

Emotional because of videogames, man

Spoiler:

So today I had a surprisingly bonding moment playing one of the 7-match series in tower in ranked mode in Splatoon 3
I had just lost one, and was 3-2 - needed to win two more in a row to rank up or else I'd lose all my points. so one of the people I had just played with remained with me, in the 'online ghost' mode in the lobby.
they went into squid mode, I followed into octo mode. we jumped for a bit, until they started making motions telling me to follow them. they went up the stairs, to the pub in the first floor, and I went behind. they sat in one of the stools, and I followed. and we spent there a few second, mulling the defeat over an imaginary beer, until the next match started. we won the following ones, the first by a knockout and the second by two points. I got my new rank and called it a session.

 

[Piedrozan]

Grumpy

 

[Orion☆]

Cautiously hyped. So many exciting things coming up this week, but I also have to mind the fact that they might not be as exciting as I think.

 

[Fact Checking Gardevoir]

Grumpy

Same.

 

[Sweet Serenity]

I'll just use an emoji to signify how I'm feeling right now:

😏

 

[Corrin]

Kind of sick, but not too bad.

 

[Fact Checking Gardevoir]

Kind of sick, but not too bad.

I wish you to get well soon.

 

[Piedrozan]

Kind of sick, but not too bad.

Get well soon !

Tired....

 

[Fact Checking Gardevoir]

Get well soon !

Tired....

Best wishes for you to have a good rest and to feel better soon.

 

[Orion☆]

Mixed.

I just recalled that Monday marked the 10th anniversary of Pokémon RéBURST's finale. I have to admit I've all but lost hope that it's ever going to be fully translated or even digitalized to read in its original language. I don't think I'll ever get over that.

On the flip side of the coin, today (or tomorrow?) marks two years since I deleted my Twitter accounts. It remains one of the best decisions I ever made for my life. It wasn't a snap decision as I'd grown disillusioned with it (and the people I was throwing my lot in with) over the last few months I was there, but I actually took action that day and began walking a path to recovery, which I'm still on. I admit I was pretty depressed over it at first, but looking back, my life looks so much better now than it did when I was still there. I admit I've been hanging around there to look for fanart on the road to the release of S/V, but thankfully it's no longer my lifeblood as it used to be - and to be honest, it's expendable to me now that I rejoined Pixiv. Bye-bye, blue bird - may I never hear your song again!

 

[Zeostar]

Pretty happy. I got a Shiny Spiritomb on Wonder Trade.

Came from a YouTuber who streams giveaways. I ran into him by lucky chance.

 

[Ivysaur]

Horeendously exhausted in every way imaginable. Thank god it's the weekend now

 

[Fact Checking Gardevoir]

Horeendously exhausted in every way imaginable. Thank god it's the weekend now

I wish you a good and relaxing rest!

 

[Orion☆]

Satisfied.

I went to the local book fair today and while I didn't find any interesting English-language books (blame import restrictions), I did get three books for my children's literature collection in Spanish - one by a longtime favourite, and the other two for my fairy tale retelling/parody collection.

I also found a volume of Pokémon Adventures/PokéSpe, Yellow arc, but didn't buy it. I showed it to my mom though, and she made me laugh when she said that Yellow was "Ash's grandson." (She does disguise herself as a boy and calls herself Amarillo del Bosque Verde, but this is a whole different universe altogether!)

 

[Venonat in Space]

Heart-broken

Some of my brother's friends were at the family thingy tonight and I KNEW this one hot guy would be there. We had a good dance, then we had a drink and I asked him if he was single and he said yes, so I suggested we'd exchange phone numbers. He said he didn't want to date me because I guess there's a bro code? IDK! I thought for sure it'd be a romantic evening, but it bombed in my face. At the end, we admitted we wanted to keep in touch, but we didn't exchange any info. *sigh* He was so HOT too!

 

[Fact Checking Gardevoir]

Heart-broken

Some of my brother's friends were at the family thingy tonight and I KNEW this one hot guy would be there. We had a good dance, then we had a drink and I asked him if he was single and he said yes, so I suggested we'd exchange phone numbers. He said he didn't want to date me because I guess there's a bro code? IDK! I thought for sure it'd be a romantic evening, but it bombed in my face. At the end, we admitted we wanted to keep in touch, but we didn't exchange any info. *sigh* He was so HOT too!

Sorry to hear this. I hope it will get better for you and work out!

 

[Starlight]

Hopeful.