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It feels a bit silly to measure time by fanfic, but according to AO3, it’s been over ten and a half years (!!!!!!!!!) since I finished First Impressions.

I’m just … it doesn’t feel recent, but it certainly doesn’t feel like that long, yet it was one of the last things I did in my all-Austen-fandom-all-the-time phase, before I jumped into SW fandom. And my earliest SW fics are ten years old now (somehow???).

But idk, it seems so strange.

Tagged: #my birthday is in ten days and i'm both looking forward to it and feeling a bit weird about it this year #idk i feel like i should be more ~accomplished at this point in my life #or more something #maybe because the things people point to as accomplishments whenever i mention it #are pretty far back too #in any case objective lengths of time just don't match up with how the passage of time feels and it's weird #might be different if my best friend were here (he was born 11 days after me) but we haven't seen each other for over a year #/sigh

Tumblr crosspost (6 March 2021)

I’m still thinking about the Catra-ditches-the-Horde-early Catradora AU. (I haven’t quite finished the show, but … ANYWAY.) I’m particularly fond of the variant that came up in my tag ramble where Catra not only ditches the Horde before she does in canon, but (with Adora) before the canon timeline begins at all.

My idea was that for some reason, they run away and escape into the Whispering Woods. Catra thinks it’s awful, they’ll never rule the world now. Then at some point, Adora finds the sword and turns into She-Ra, and Catra’s like “…actually, I have some ideas.”

I wasn’t sure exactly when in relation to the canon timeline this happens, though definitely earlier, and there’s some period where they’re mostly just trying to survive the woods together (I am 100% sure they encounter Razz, partly because I think it makes sense, and partly because Razz and Catra dealing with each other is hilarious to me). Maybe Adora manages to get the Crystal Castle to accept Catra and they hole up there while they’re figuring out what to do.  However it works out, they ultimately get drawn into the Rebellion as a duo.

The end result is that the Rebellion has someone as ferocious and resourceful as Catra on their side (for a certain value of “side”; she’s really just on her and Adora’s side and sees the Rebellion as the only available vehicle for them) alongside Adora/She-Ra. But that means dealing with early Catra as one of their own (also hilarious!).

It could go all sorts of places from there, but the main problem is figuring out what kind of inciting incident could drive Catra from the Horde and convince her that their only chance for power lies with the Rebellion. That’s a big swerve from canon. I was thinking vaguely that things are worse for her in some way that drives her to turn away for fairly self-interested reasons (hard to see her doing anything else), but things are canonically bad enough for her that it was still difficult to see, until I suddenly remembered—

Shadow Weaver was going to wipe Adora’s mind.

Suppose that in the AU, Shadow Weaver decides that Catra is such a liability that she’ll just wipe her mind and start all over again. Before she actually does it, though, Catra and Adora somehow find out and can’t think of any way around it except just not being there. They manage a narrow escape from the Fright Zone and keep going until they’re faced with Horde pursuers on one hand and the woods on the other. They choose the woods, and the AU spins out from there.

Tagged: #i'm thinking that catra is actually the first to think of joining the rebellion #because if she can't climb to power via the horde ... the rebellion it is #especially given that adora just morphed into a princess #she'll just have to reshape it to their purposes! #(this can only end well) #meanwhile adora is resistant because princesses are EVIL #but she gets a reality check and is onboard soon enough #leaving us with horde defector rebel duo catra and adora #<3

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turtletotem responded to this post:

#yes yes yes yes #do go on

ilonga said [on August 1st, 2021]:

#oooh

kataaitheskittle said [on March 22, 2022]:

#interesting concept

Tumblr crosspost (7 March 2021)

In honor of finally!!! getting the Legendary Defender of Ascalon title after fiFTEEN YEARS, a thing for my favorite location in any video game ever: pre-Searing Ascalon from Guild Wars: Prophecies.

Never forgive, never forget.

Tumblr crosspost (7 March 2021)

The game is 15 years old, so I wouldn’t assume anyone cares, but the Legendary Defender of Ascalon title I just got requires that you reach the maximum level for the entire game (20) in the tutorial zone, in which the highest level creature for most of the zones is level 5, and in any zone is four level 10 bosses.

You can get quests that spawn higher level creatures, but only at level 10, and only once a day. Also, they only scale up every few levels. I’ve been intermittently working on it for months and didn’t even try for years, since I’m honestly not very good at games, though I love them.

So getting it at last is pretty exciting for me :D

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heckofabecca responded to this post:

…. wow

I replied:

Thank you! :D

darkwingatlarge said:

Original guild wars was such a good game

I replied:

Yes! I love GW2, but I have a particularly soft spot in my heart for the original and still really enjoy playing it. The skill system can be a bit overwhelming, but it’s fun to have that much freedom + individualized instances and hero companions and everything. Also, Mesmer is my favorite class, so fabulous costumes, too :D :D :D