Rambling Into the Abyss

Dragon Age fanart: Formalwear for Owain

2019-01-27T10:01:21Z

so Dragon Age: Inquisition was a super important game to me a couple years back, but tumblr's bullshit made it so I couldn't look at the game without wanting to roll my eyes until I could see my brain stem. but over the last couple weeks I've been replaying it finally, and remembering why I love it so much. I remade my very first Inquisitor, and I decided the ugly ass formal wear they all wear to Halamshiral was not gonna cut it. especially since they attend a masquerade but without any masks. so I whipped up a quick formal outfit for Owain Trevelyan, and I made sure it was an outfit that said 'no one is allowed to forget I'm a mage.'

there are a bunch of things I could have done better, and it will probably make more sense when I eventually draw the outfit on him, but for the time being I'm pretty content with it! I'll probably design one for his brother, too.

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shaicarus @ 2019-01-07T11:39:00

2019-01-07T16:39:50Z

huh. it turns out I do have a UTI. turns out when the doctor’s office called to give me my results, the lady was only talking about my blood test results. she just didn’t say that; all she said was that my test results were negative for infection. so now I have a prescription for Cipro (which I don’t like, because it tends to give me the entire laundry list of side effects and I am useless the whole time I’m on it, but whatever) and I’ll start taking that in a couple days when I’m no longer out of state.

if all goes well, my blood sugar will come back into something approximating control and I can stop existing as a vibrating ball of stress. fingers are crossed.

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shaicarus @ 2019-01-05T22:37:00

2019-01-06T03:38:44Z

so I’m a diabetic. have been since I was a toddler. usually I’ve got it pretty well in hand, but for the last month or so my blood sugars have been fucking disastrous. I don’t know why. it wasn’t a slow thing. just one day my numbers decided to go nuts. my A1C shot up to 8 from 7.4, and rarely does my blood sugar come down below the 200s anymore. my endocrinologist just kinda shrugged and said ‘well that’s not ideal.’

it’s not my basal rates. if I just straight up don’t eat, my numbers are fine. but I don’t know if it’s my bolus calculations, either, because it doesn’t seem to matter how fucking much I bolus for my food, it is never enough. I’m regularly taking enough insulin for 90 carbs for food that I know only has 50-some, and it’s never enough. it’s like suddenly my insulin is incapable of actually counteracting food at all and I’m so sick of this.

a few days ago, I had my typical physical, and my PCP ordered a piss test and a blood test to make sure there wasn’t an infection brewing in my kidneys or something like that.

and really, how fucked up is it that I was hoping I would have some sort of infection? because if I did, it would explain the blood sugar thing, and that would be something I could actually do something about. an infection can be fixed!

but the tests came back negative. I don’t have a UTI or a kidney infection, and this news disappointed me.

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Elsa Live Blogs AC Odyssey

2019-01-02T08:06:31Z

...I kinda ship it with the physician

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Elsa Live Blogs AC Odyssey

2019-01-02T07:45:36Z

this is a lot of work to go to just to sleep with a handsome physician

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Elsa Live Blogs AC Odyssey

2019-01-02T06:18:49Z

oh, hey, that's cool. if you get through the requirements of a quest before actually taking the quest, then when you finally get around to accepting the quest Alexios just pulls the necessary item out without going through the rest of the song and dance.

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Elsa Live Blogs AC Odyssey

2019-01-02T04:32:17Z

the fact that the menu music is literally Ezio's Family does not help the fact that it feels like they were going for Ezio Lite. not sure how I feel about it.

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shaicarus @ 2018-12-31T22:02:00

2019-01-01T03:10:20Z

my mom is watching new year's eve stuff, so it'll be a while before I can play ACO. instead I made myself a shiny thing. I usually put the jewelry I make in my Etsy shop, but I really liked this one, so it's mine.

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Elsa Live Blogs AC Odyssey

2018-12-31T08:12:11Z

me, a baby: *backs out of an opportunity to get a lieutenant because it will involve sharks and Elsa don't play that way*

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Elsa Live Blogs AC Odyssey

2018-12-31T07:16:52Z

there is a place in this game called Snake Temple. so named, presumably, for the kilometer long snake skeleton fossil just casually draped across the entire temple.

I am Afraid.

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Elsa Live Blogs AC Odyssey

2018-12-31T06:31:25Z

for most of the dialogue that you don't pick, it kinda feels like Ubi was trying to create, like...Ezio-lite, just with a slightly less grounded accompanying cast. Diet Auditore.

granted I've been comparing the games to the Ezio trilogy for ages now

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Elsa Live Blogs AC Odyssey

2018-12-31T04:50:10Z

yeah more of this. this is just how it be for now.

I like daggers, spears, and staffs. so I can either attack at range, or attack in rapid succession.

I don't mind the sea travel.

I adore Barnabas.

I had a 'oh!' moment when Herodotus showed up.

what I don't like is the game's tendency to freeze, make a loud stuttering noise, and crash every so often. it's not great.

also if it tells me that another mission is available one moRE FUCKING TIME--

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Elsa Live Blogs AC Odyssey

2018-12-30T09:31:25Z

Alexios looks like...someone. I can't put my finger on who, but he definitely looks like...someone.

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Elsa Live Blogs AC Odyssey

2018-12-30T09:15:22Z

wait so if he's going to find his honor is he at least going to tell stentor he's leaving
is he going to tell stentor anything
if this guy abandons ANOTHER kid then next time i'm not hesitating, i'm just throwing the asshole off the nearest cliff

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Elsa Live Blogs AC Odyssey

2018-12-30T09:08:25Z

"You think my life is entertainment?!"

"No, no. It is art."

*IMMEDIATELY SKEEVED OUT*

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Elsa Live Blogs AC Odyssey

2018-12-30T08:46:04Z

so I walked up that cliff fully expecting to kill him, and then...I didn't. and I think that was actually more emotional than if I had killed him. I mean I've been sort of snickering at the game this whole time for being a bit overwrought, but confronting the Wolf for answers made me feel a feel.

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Elsa Live Blogs AC Odyssey

2018-12-30T08:40:03Z

on one hand, I don't really like Stentor because he kinda seems like a prick and he kinda seems like a boot-licker. on the other hand, I think I feel bad for him? Nikolaos probably didn't hug him enough.

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Elsa Live Blogs AC Odyssey

2018-12-30T08:24:59Z

hmmmm

yep, yeah, makes sense

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Elsa Live Blogs AC Odyssey

2018-12-30T08:07:06Z

*gently trots Phobos in circles around the eight foot woman with the gigantic slow hammer and stabs her 87 times with a dagger*

playing fair is my favorite thing to do

but really, i love Phobos, he's my best friend in this game so far. he looks janky as hell, I'm pretty sure his neck is broken, he runs down absolutely anything in his path, he gets caught on every piece of scenery, his pathfinding frequently has him just prancing in circles, and he is made of 8000% undiluted M A J E S T Y

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Elsa Live Blogs AC Odyssey

2018-12-30T07:46:08Z

*knifes some poor jackass in the kidney, kills and skins his dog, and steals all his shit*

a family game

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Elsa Live Blogs AC Odyssey

2018-12-30T07:12:05Z

FINALLY KILLED HIM

I waved a torch at him a lot and Sparta kicked him off a cliff

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Elsa Live Blogs AC Odyssey

2018-12-30T06:54:58Z

like, I get that I'm bad at this game, but that's why I'm playing it on easy. because I'm bad at it. so, considering I'm playing it on easy, I feel like Hyrkanos shouldn't be impossible to kill? and yet I've died like eight times trying to kill him. I thought it was just a matter of me needing to level up, but the game rubber bands his leveling, so he's always a level higher than me. and I get that he's pyrophobic and I need to set him on fire, but he doesn't actually walk down to the area where all the braziers are except for once a blue moon, which makes it a tiny bit difficult to shoot him with a flaming arrow. and I don't want to confront him up by the temple again, because that just results in me getting dog-piled by every other soldier with him, who are all also persistently a level higher than me. I'm getting legit annoyed by now.

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Elsa Live Blogs AC Odyssey

2018-12-30T06:31:02Z

I ran all around this map so I could tell this old guy stories, and all I got out of it was a pair of pants that I can't even wear for another eight levels

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Elsa Live Blogs AC Odyssey

2018-12-30T05:48:49Z

'Leap of Faith

Falling causes damage, but is never fatal.'

...*slowly looks at Ezio* why couldn't you do that

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Elsa Live Blogs AC Odyssey

2018-12-30T05:36:52Z

me, climbing a giant statue of athena: does this count as sacrilege

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