FE8 Noodling

 Dire Straits's Brothers In Arms is my ultimate FE8-writing music.  It just works so, so well-- especially the title track, "Ride Across the River," and "The Man's Too Strong."  Though the last could work for a number of games.

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Man, Seth/Eirika is a pairing I'm so on the fence about.  Sometimes I love it, and sometimes I just get sick of it.  I read this story and was really turned off.  I'm still trying to formulate a review for it.

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Speaking of Seth/Eirika, I picked up some books for the holidays and am back at work on "Borderline" again.  I scrapped some bits from Orson's POV and decided to use his love letters to Monica (modeled off nineteenth-century examples) as a device instead, which is some pretty twisted fun.  Little nothings like "I shall never grow tired of hearing you say you love me" just sound different when it's Orson/Monica we're talking about.  

Evil Cupcake Update

 So.

Faygo Cupcakes.

The Red Pop ("Strawberry") one was pretty good.  Probably the best thing I've had from that bakery, even if it wasn't freshly baked.  The Orange one was fine; my most excellent spouse described it as "inoffensive."

The Grape one... well, when I was a kid, I loved "grape" flavored stuff, mostly because it was purple and I'm old enough that I remember a time before blue-colored kiddie food was widely available.  When I was seven-and-a-half we went to the Grand Canyon and I got a stick of grape off-brand Chapstick ("Chap-et") from a gas station, which I treasured for some years thereafter.  If I could resurrect that chapstick and mash it into some Play-dough, that might approximate the texture and scent of the icing on these violently violet little cakes.  That thing was vile.  I ate one quarter of a fairly small cupcake and felt nauseated for at least an hour thereafter.  It was not food.

I am, as you might have noticed, fairly adventurous with food on both the high-end and the bargain-basement end of the quality spectrum.  Grape Faygo Cupcakes are the nastiest thing I have tried in quite some time.