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☆ I got so mad at Octopath Traveler 2 I had to come here to yell into the void. Agnea's last boss fight is driving me nuts I can't get past it!! The game's old school in that there's no difficulty settings or anything you just have to grind levels if you're stuck WHICH I HAVE BEEN and yet still I keep dying. I guess the only solution is to grind even more but I'm already above the recommended level so it's just super annoying. -_- Like I'm almost done with the game, I want to finish up so I can focus on FFXVI!!

☆ Anyway while I'm here, a weekend update? I was mildly productive on Sunday, I finished updating my spreadsheet for tracking indie artist purchases with pretty much everything I got over the past few years AND I cleaned up/consolidated everything that was just sitting in piles on my bedroom floor. So instead of 1,000 different mailer packets piled up I've got everything down to a couple boxes. Not ideal but at least it takes up less space. Maybe someday I'll finally get a big board or wall hanging or something so I can actually display all the pins lmao.

☆ I also watched The Marvels this weekend. Definitely not their best, but I'd still recommend it solely for Kamala. The plot's mostly whatever and there's like...no character development? Or the world's smallest amount of development, I guess. But Kamala is sooo fun, I love her so much and her actress deserves the world. 😔 The bright spot of the film is for sure her interactions with Monica and Carol. And it seems like they're FINALLY trying to pull together a Young Avengers thing lmao call up 2012 me and tell her the good news!! Honestly I'll watch whatever they do even if it's a mess, the Kamala and Kate scene was so cute sksjhfs.

☆ I made it through a decent chunk of FFXVI, I'm up to the second time skip (the 5 year one).

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• RIP Cid we hardly knew ye. Absolutely hilarious of him to announce that he knew what the hell that thing was that's after Clive and then immediately die without telling Clive anything about it.
• Very interested to see what's going on with Ultima and those creepy guys though, I guess they're the Fallen?? Or related to those ruins somehow or something. That all definitely came out left field I was not expecting it at all.
• Also why has Joshua not told Clive he's alive lmao where has he been these last 5 years!!
• Hopefully Jill actually gets to do more now that the Clive and Cid show is over (not that I'm complaining about Clive/Cid they were fun). But she's basically just been following Clive around and getting in like 2 lines of dialogue, aside from that one good convo she and Clive had in the barn about being forced to kill. I'm pretty sure Torgal has had more to do than her so far.
• The second time skip really took me by surprise too like damn 5 more years?? They haven't changed their clothes in 5 years. OMG the Hideaway though :( thank goodness Cid died so he didn't have to see it get demolished.
• But yeah I stopped as soon as they got back to the new Hideaway so I'll see what's been happening during the time skip hopefully soon! I'm curious to see where this plot goes.

☆ Someone left a nice comment on an old fic I posted in 2016 so I took a moment to re-read the fic and found THREE blatant typos. I can never show my face on AO3 again.