practicality: (Devil Pimp)
practicality ([personal profile] practicality) wrote2008-11-01 11:45 pm

\o/

A belated happy Halloween to everyone \o/ I dressed up as a zombie hunter (read: wore two-thirds of Leon), and went out to Rosie/Julie/Justin's Halloween party and got rather drunk and had a wonderful time. Also went to see Video Games Live on Wednesday, which was great fun - we went out for some excellent Italian before hand, and the music was amazing, although I felt it needed more Chrono Trigger and less random blathering from the host. The music was a nice mix of genres and ages - there was the typical Zelda/Mario/Squeenix properties, but also Halo, MGC, an oldschool arcade medley, Warcraft and Starcraft, Metroid, Castlvania, and a surprisingly beautiful piece from Civ IV.

In Warcraft news, my guild is now 3/5 in Mt Hyjal (which is hella fun as a mage, although it makes my graphics card cry), and we're heading into SSC tomorrow. I've also started playing Warcraft III, which is surprisingly fun, even if Arthas is basically the ultimate retnub, and all of the humans other than Uther and Jaina are total idiots. Lordaeron deserves a kingdom-wide Darwin Award, because their fall really is their fault.

Also, I've started digging around in Warcraft fanfic, because apparently I hate myself. Illidan/Kael is really deeply fucked up, but also interesting and pretty hot >.> I'm ashamed to admit that yes, I ship it. And kind of Thrall/Jaina, because it's sweet and a little silly, and they're both made of epic win, even if Thrall likes leeroying, as Olv so eloquently put it XD

...Although I'm remembering now why I don't go to FF.net any more - I just found these little gems:
Arthas and Thrall: Homosexual Lovers by

After years of having a loving relationship with Thrall, Arthas feels he needs to end it.

Tamed

A young Blood Elf male Hunter goes to Ashenvale to catch himself one of the elusive Elder Ashenvale Bears, but when he finds a rare, purplish bear, the young Blood Elf gets much more than he bargained for. Yaoi, MM, Slash, PwP.



...And, of course, assorted other self-inserts, as they are very, very easy in an MMO-verse.

[identity profile] ext_27041 (from dreamwidth.org) 2008-11-02 09:56 am (UTC)(link)
Whoot! I ship Illidan/Kael'thas too! It's very hot. But I haven't gone searching for fic. Have you found some good ones?

Also not clicking on those "gems" of yours. WTF, rare purplish bear?! *hides*

[identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org 2008-11-02 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
There's some excellent ones here (http://emerald-embers.livejournal.com/567690.html#cutid16) (scroll down to the bottom for the Warcraft links) although they're all fairly short one-shots, and some pretty decent ones here (http://the--ivorytower.livejournal.com/tag/warcraft) nestled among the Thrall/Jaina.

I couldn't bring myself to read the second of those two - the first one is pretty lousy, and not even amusingly so - it's just plain crappy. The title gave me a good laugh, though.

[identity profile] ext_164757 (from dreamwidth.org) 2008-11-02 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
hyjal makes me SO HAPPY that volley doesn't suck anymore omg

surprisingly it isn't TOO hard on my fps, lol; it's a lot worse in tk where it's a small area and I'm kind of forced to either zoom in on the floor or stare directly into the aoe

also I am so not clicking those links

[identity profile] ext_62595 (from dreamwidth.org) 2008-11-02 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Man, I call false advertising on the second one. No one even has sex with a bear. Talk about your bait and switch.

[identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org 2008-11-03 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
TK is bad for me in like...the first two rooms, and after that my framerate goes back up to 15 or so. Hjyal on the other hand is pretty much a constant 5 FPS, which I think is why I was having issues with sheep not going off.

Check out the stuff I linked Xandra to if you want to see Warcraft fic that doesn't suck XD

[identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org 2008-11-03 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
I think I'm actually disappointed by that XD As the lack of bear-sex moves it from trainwreck category into merely lousy writing.

[identity profile] ext_62595 (from dreamwidth.org) 2008-11-03 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly! I was looking forward to hilariously lurid descriptions of bear boners, but all I got was a night elf druid topping a blood elf hunter? That's vanilla. ;_;