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For anyone that has played FFT, I finally finished the PSP remake, loved the new translation, and I just need to beat the dead horse: ( spoilers )

I have MGS:DW, FF7CC, and Dissidia on my to-play list, and I went with Dissidia since I felt like something that didn't make my brain hurt. So, this just in: I suck at Dissidia. Specifically, I suck at caring about difficulty ratings. I'm thinking I shouldn't have started with Warrior of Light's story mode, it having five stars and all. I also just suck with WoL in general. I can't use his damn HP attack. I end up just running around spamming brave attacks until I get an option to hit Square. Which I do, because lord knows I'll never land one on my own. Hopefully I'm better with other characters.

The incessant videogaming is because I don't have an active WoW account to play Cata. Just be glad I don't see fit to update anyone on my FM2011 game.

In other news, I made cookies today. It was a haphazard affair since I was helping out other people, but I had to salvage their recipe (they added about 3 cups of extra flour during the whole rolling out the dough process, which was umm, not good), and they came out good even though my NEEDS MOAR BUTTER GUYZ motion was vetoed. They're basically very orangey, very gingery, very cinnamony madeleines. They were supposed to have the consistency of a sugar cookie, so I'd be a little down about this, but I like madeleines better anyway.

Yuletide recs

Been digging through the Yuletide fics from this year. Since no one's online for me to spam recs at, I figure I'll just make my f-list suffer.

Fandom: Old Spice Guy
Meta Yuletide Fic (The Fic You Wish Your Fic Smelled Like)
Why hello, Yuletide reader. Why don't you sit down for a bit? Get comfortable, because when you click my link you will be reading a work of such magnificence that you won't be able to look away, even if a crew of zombies breaks through your window and bites your neck.

Fandom: A Complete History of the Soviet Union As Told By A Humble Worker Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris
An Incomplete History Of History, As Written For Yuletide, In Five Acts And An Epilogue.
What's the point of it all, when you’re building a wall, and in front of your eyes, it disappears?

Fandom: A Study In Emerald (ie, Sherlock Holmes + Lovecraft, link takes you to a PDF)
Black Shuck
There are things lurking on the moors that man was not meant to know -- but Sherlock Holmes is not most men. (A retelling of The Hound of the Baskervilles, Cthulhu-style.)

Fandom: Discworld
Carrying A Concealed Weapon (and other crimes to commit while being Adora Belle Dearheart)
Adora Belle is arrested, Lady Sybil is there to help, or at least there to make the tea.

Fandom: Princess Bride
Family
When Inigo was four, he loved teddy bears, kittens and swords. When Westley was four, he didn't know what love was.

Fandom: FFX-2
First Impressions
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. The Crimson Squad's thoughts as they meet each other for the first time.

Fandom: Slender Man Mythos
Here then at long last is my darkness.
Many different elements of the Slender Man mythos, squished together into some semblance of a logical narrative. (The title is a quote from House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.)

Fandom: Tanz der Vampire
Quartet
Four different sons and four different transformations.

Fandom: Tanz der Vampire
Let the Fire Be Started
Alfred and Sarah post-musical, embarking on their journey to take over the world and arriving at their first stop.