How Was Your Day Thread V5

[Myrin]

A fresh thread is nice. Also Nintendo Direct was awesome Dragon quest for the 3DS and Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow in the E-shop.

It's probably too much to hope that either pokemon from the eshop versions of those games can be transferred to more recent games, or that Yellow still has the Mew capture glitch?

*would kill for a Mew*

[Raneth]

A fresh thread is nice. Also Nintendo Direct was awesome Dragon quest for the 3DS and Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow in the E-shop.

AND CLOUD IN SMASH!

I know right? That was awesome though I voted for a character from Golden Sun.

Me too. I wanted Isaac. I like Cloud, but I worry that he's now take up the last "blond spiky-haired swordsman" slot that Isaac could have filled. I loved the Golden Sun games. (Although to be fair, I never played FFVII--I loved FFVI though!).

@Myrin: I doubt it. The old games had completely different methods of storing Pokemon and different stat distributions (there was no "special defense" stat). Plus it's not the original games if they don't have the missingno/rare candy duplication glitch, which would likely make for a lot of technically illegal Pokemon if they were allowed to be traded.

I would like my surfing Raichu again though.

[Namyre]

Wooo! Shiny new thread to post my nonsense!

[Kestrad]

I'm trying to acknowledge the existence of gay and trans people in the world of my NaNo, but the story focuses really narrowly on a cis het pair of assassins, so the only time that anyone's orientation is going to come up at all is when they're reading up on their targets - like the viewpoint character will off-handedly mention that a female target is married to a woman. I just realized that it might seem a bit unfortunate if I introduce gay characters only for them to be killed off. What should I do?

[MSolara]

Boyfriend got sort of an internship/possibility of stable job in the future as a manager in a bank.

For one part, it's amazing! It's quite a difficult task to obtain that job in my country. And he truly deserves it.

For the other part... we will most probably have to cancel the trip we just booked for Punta Cana . Plus Christmas at the Iguazú falls (a beautiful argentinian landmark) we were going to do with his family. I hope they return the money to us... at least the plane tickets his parents bought!

I am also a little bit scared... if he does not get a place as a stable employee once the internship ends, he'll be jobless. I really don't mind that, but he'll get depressed until he gets a new job (he doesn't really know how to cope with 'failure', and can't understand that getting rejected at a job is something rather common), and that breaks my heart.

Edit: note to myself: start enjoying the present, and worry about the future later? I believe I sometimes overthink stuff. I can't be entirely happy with this achievement, because I am worried he'll get rejected and depressed in the future. F*ck you, brain.

[Sochitelya]

I'm trying to acknowledge the existence of gay and trans people in the world of my NaNo, but the story focuses really narrowly on a cis het pair of assassins, so the only time that anyone's orientation is going to come up at all is when they're reading up on their targets - like the viewpoint character will off-handedly mention that a female target is married to a woman. I just realized that it might seem a bit unfortunate if I introduce gay characters only for them to be killed off. What should I do?

You must have other characters, even if they're only mentioned briefly? Female MC has a gay sister, male MC's cousin is trans, stuff like that. Even if they're not actually in the story, maybe your MCs are idly chatting while on a stakeout and one of them tells a story about their [family member] and [family member's queer partner]. Or even just in description, like if they're in a crowd, two women are holding hands or a cute boy in a frilly skirt is buying flowers.

[ShadowVixen]

Me too. I wanted Isaac. I like Cloud, but I worry that he's now take up the last "blond spiky-haired swordsman" slot that Isaac could have filled. I loved the Golden Sun games. (Although to be fair, I never played FFVII--I loved FFVI though!).

@Myrin: I doubt it. The old games had completely different methods of storing Pokemon and different stat distributions (there was no "special defense" stat). Plus it's not the original games if they don't have the missingno/rare candy duplication glitch, which would likely make for a lot of technically illegal Pokemon if they were allowed to be traded.

I would like my surfing Raichu again though.

I think I'm the only one who didn't vote for Isaac, in fact I went with that beast girl from Dark Dawn. I think her moveset could be cool.

It's probably too much to hope that either pokemon from the eshop versions of those games can be transferred to more recent games, or that Yellow still has the Mew capture glitch?

*would kill for a Mew*

I hope they leave the glitches intact but it's hard to say for sure. But I find it unlikely the Pokemon can be sent to newer games.

[Tyriagris]

Whoooo, new thread.
Champagne, anyone?

[pegasi1978]

Oh the perils of helping a 10-year-old with their long division homework.

[Kestrad]

I'm trying to acknowledge the existence of gay and trans people in the world of my NaNo, but the story focuses really narrowly on a cis het pair of assassins, so the only time that anyone's orientation is going to come up at all is when they're reading up on their targets - like the viewpoint character will off-handedly mention that a female target is married to a woman. I just realized that it might seem a bit unfortunate if I introduce gay characters only for them to be killed off. What should I do?

You must have other characters, even if they're only mentioned briefly? Female MC has a gay sister, male MC's cousin is trans, stuff like that. Even if they're not actually in the story, maybe your MCs are idly chatting while on a stakeout and one of them tells a story about their [family member] and [family member's queer partner]. Or even just in description, like if they're in a crowd, two women are holding hands or a cute boy in a frilly skirt is buying flowers.

Those are really good suggestions, thank you!

I feel kind of dumb for not thinking of things like that. This probably means my writing has too little in the way of background details, period.