"if i had a time machine i would go back in time and kill hitler"
I would put sea mines around medieval britain. i would give hannibal barca ww2 era heavy artillery and tell him not to stop till he starts seeing gauls. i would give boudica a fucking abrams. i would appear before jesus like an angel and tell him "you gotta stop. not cause theyll kill you, youre fine with that, surprisingly, but because your fanclub is gonna spend about 1500 years making everything worse for everyone, everywhere." I would take a glock back in time and shoot romulus, shoot remus, and shoot that damn dog too just to be safe. i would be on the side of christopher columbus' ship in a scuba suit planting c4 on that bitch like rainbow six siege. i would be waging a one woman campaign of terror across andalusia to prevent the reconquista. i would be getting way out in front of that shit is what im saying,
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I've seen a couple of people on other sites do one of these, so I think I'm gonna make one for myself this year to encourage getting through my backlog and finally finishing/starting some books.
12 for 12 Games for 2026:
Final Fantasy (Pixel Remaster)
Final Fantasy II (Pixel Remaster)
Final Fantasy III (Pixel Remaster)
Final Fantasy IV (Pixel Remaster)
Final Fantasy V (Pixel Remaster)
Final Fantasy VI (Pixel Remaster)
Solasta: Crown of the Magister
ZeroRanger
Inscryption
1000x Resist
Avowed
Dispatch
12 for 12 Books for 2026:
Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
The Devil in the Dark Water by Stuart Turton
The Wager by David Grann
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkein
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Explanations and initial thoughts under cut. This is where I'll also be updating with my thoughts after I complete each entry.
GAMES:
(1-6): I have a huge love for the Final Fantasy series. However, I started when FF XII came out, and never really pursued the earlier titles. I picked up the Pixel Remaster on Steam a while back when I was gripped by an urge to play FF and never really got around to them. This year I'd like to change that!
(7): I was watching the game awards with some friends, and saw that Solasta II was announced! I'd never heard of Solasta before, and they told me it was based on DnD 5E, so I'm really interested to check it out!
(8): Obvious addition. A shoot'em up released by System Erasure before Void Stranger (IF YOU ARE READING THIS GO PLAY VOID STRANGER DO IT NOW). I've heard that while the games are related/have things/characters in common, they are not part of a series and are standalone experiences. I'm interested in how I'll think of this one considering I played Void Stranger first.
(9): I watched a really interesting deep dive on Inscryption, which proved that my initial read on this one was totally wrong! There's a lot more going on with this one, and I'm excited to try it out for myself.
(10): Recommended to me by the same person who suggested I play Mouthwashing. Which is to say, I'm pretty sure this will also kill me in ways I didn't even know I was alive in.
(11): Nice game to kill time while I wait for The Outer Worlds 2 to go on sale. I love Obsidian and respect their work so much, but I simply will not pay $70 for a standard edition of a video game. Also, I've heard it's set in the same world as Pillars of Eternity, so! Very excited about that!
(12): I was never really into Tell Tale Games' The Walking Dead or The Wolf Among Us (though I do always enjoy a good "glass him" meme), but Dispatch definitely caught my eye after a lot of people in a discord server I'm in started hyping it up!
BOOKS:
(1-3): I was gifted this series by a friend back in college as part of a book exchange (think secret santa, but at the end of the year, and the purpose was to give the person something you'd think they'd like to read over the summer; it was recommended you give people something you'd already read to sort of set the stage for further discussion when we returned for classes). However, I was given this at the end of my senior year by an underclassmen, and they were really excited and positive that I would like this. Unfortunately, and as many people in the workforce know very well, it can be difficult to find the time/energy to do things you like, and my reading dropped off severely as a result. I haven't spoken to this underclassmen since she graduated, but I'm hoping to make good on their wish now. Better late than never!
(4): Turton's The 7 and 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is one of my favorite books of all time (I went out of my way to secure a special edition hardcover copy when I briefly worked in a bookstore a couple years ago), and I've heard very good things about this one too.
(5): This book was pushed so hard while working at the bookstore mentioned previously as the book of the year. It always sounded interesting—a book detailing the real-life tragedy of the ship it's named after and the consequences that result from it—but I never got around to reading it.
(6-8): The Mistborn series has been recommended to me numerous times, but I've never actually made an effort to read it. Not anymore! Surely that many people can't be wrong!
(9-11): My dad recently showed us his copies of the Lord of the Rings series, all in very good condition still. Again, another series that has been recommended to me numerous times, but I've never settled down to actually read it!
(12): I've heard great things about the series as a whole, so I picked up the first book when working in the bookstore mentioned previously, so looking forward to finally diving in!
Obviously, list is subject to change, and listing order is not necessarily the order I will play/read things in. As the games are from my backlog, I don't have to worry about getting delayed by getting them. I have most of the books, but some I'll have to wait to get. And obviously, some of these are series and some are only the beginning of a series. So I'm giving myself some wiggle room with alternates if I start a series I end up not liking or I end up really liking one and want to substitute something with other books from that series.
Completed games: Final Fantasy I*, Final Fantasy II
*Okay so TECHNICALLY I finished Final Fantasy I like 29 December 2025, BUT I am counting it bc it is my list and I can do what I want. I read once that Final Fantasy was going to be the last game made by Square bc they were in dire straits financially (here the "final" in Final Fantasy) and uh...god it shows. They put their entire Squarussy into that game. Obviously the story is a little bare bones, but what's there is incredibly interesting. The part where you retrieve the stuff for Bahamut and he upgrades all your characters to better classes that CHNAGES THEIR SPRITES? A transformation sequence (however minor it may given the pixel art) in MY final fantasy? SO GOOD. And all the little hallmarks of early games of this type (unclear pathing, vague at best directions in the form of NPC dialogue) are more charming than frustrating. It's so different from modern final fantasy games, but the bones are still there clear as day.
And if Final Fantasy I is so different, the jump from I to II was insane! The story was so much more complex, and involved so many different characters and miniature storylines, I was blown away by the differences between the two! And the introduction of Dragoons, my favorite class, being so depressing and tragic. God the entire story overall was so good. What if death dogged your heels so hard it irrevocably changed the lives of not only you, but everyone you meet? I thought for sure death was gonna be the final boss (and maybe it is, I haven't gone back to complete the achievements yet). I think the only thing that kinda irked me was the leveling system. I understand what they were going for in allowing how you fight to kind of influence how the characters grow and improve in order to suit the player's play style, but it sort of made the game a grindy mess when suddenly you need something you never used before and had to do random encounters to level up a spell so it can 1) actually hit and/or 2) do worthwhile damage.
Also, fuck coeurls.
Completed books: The Long Way to a Small, Angry, Planet by Becky Chambers
I can see now why the person who gifted me this series thought I would like it so much given how much I liked Mass Effect in college. The life and relations between species is so well described. Chambers paints such a vivid picture of the galaxy, the crew, and all the shenanigans that happen between the two. I love the Wayfarer crew so much and I can't wait to keep reading this series.
Like I and II, Final Fantasy III was very different from FF II in a lot of very good ways. I prefer the uniform levels, with Jobs affecting your stat growth. I loved loved LOVED the story; I don't think the feeling I felt when you leave the continent and find AN ENTIRELY NEW MAP waiting for you ever before. If there's one gripe I have, it's that it feels very much like the game is expecting you to change up classes pretty often, but if your job levels for the final level/bosses aren't high enough, you're going to have a miserable time grinding bc that final level is a "point-of-no-return". I ended up reloading an earlier save and grinding (which still was miserable, but significantly less miserable than grinding in the final level where monsters were basically killing me every fight) to a point where random encounters in the World of Darkness were more manageable but the bosses themselves still pretty challenging. Also, high level Ninja is ridiculous. Get shurikened, idiot.
Completed books: A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
I was a little disappointed to find out that this book doesn't follow the crew of The Wayfarer exactly, as I was really looking forward to continuing reading about the crew, but I still really enjoyed this one! Pepper and Blue I love you so much, and Sidra and Tak's relationship felt so real that I found some parts hard to read. I was so so SO happy that Pepper got to reunite with Owl. After what happened to Lovelace at the end of previous book, I was so worried something had happened to her or they weren't going to be able to salvage her but they did and then she finally got to hug Pepper I 😭 Really loved this one and looking forward to Record of a Spaceborn few! Curious to see who we'll be following this time!
Decided to take a little break from Final Fantasy and also Monster Hunter Stories 3 was releasing this month, so I wanted to pick something that was a little lighter/shorter to play. I totally get why people were so obsessed (and still are!) when this came out. It is genuinely so good; Robert is such a good protag and the Z-Team are my best friends. I only got one ending so far, and I think I'll go back one day to see the others, but overall just a really good narrative-driven game! I definitely recommend it to people who are into that kind of stuff.
Book(s) completed: Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
I was surprised after so much time being dedicated to the rest of the world, that the third book chose to focus on the Human Fleet. I like that we got to see a lot of perspectives: someone who grew up on the Fleet before the acceptance into the GC, someone who was born on a planet and returned to the Fleet (RIP Sawyer, you were trying buddy and I saw that), and young people who sort of grow up in this new inbetween where there's tension between staying on the fleet and leaving to go to a planet. A good read, especially if you liked the rest of the series, but I think I still like A Closed and Common Orbit the best.
The only time I've used the boost to give myself 4x exp just to get through it faster. I can't believe the ATB system was this shit at it's inception and Squeenix STILL tries to use it to this day. I've heard V and VI make it better, but considering almost every version of the ATB system aside from XIII's I've had the thought "this would be better if it was just turn-based" I don't have high hopes. Story itself was pretty good; I used Cecil a lot when I played Brave Exvius, so it was nice to experience his backstory and journey. I haven't played either the Interlude or After Years, but maybe I'll go back for them.
Books completed: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
I had seen commercials for the movie, but only found out from a Discord friend who went to their local premiere that it was based on a book! Funny and interesting sci-fi. It's pretty cool how despite occupying a lot of the same niches, Chambers' Wayfarer series and this are so different! I hope when we meet extraterrestrial life in the future, they're as friend-shaped as Rocky. I haven't seen the movie yet, so don't know how it stacks up against the book, but considering how good of an movie The Martian was, I have hopes that it will be entertaining.
This was a spontaneous addition, so I think I'll remove either Devil in the Dark Water or The Wager. I'll decide when I have a stronger opinion on them (and hopefully not the hubris to think I can do both in a single month)
The ATB system is slightly better in this one, but nowhere near good enough to warrant Squeenix trying to force it into every game.
At the time I thought my dislike of ATB dimmed FFIV's shine, but I think now the story was just...okay. FFV's is so so so much better. However, it does strike me as one of those stories that probably would've been better if someone else (like Lenna or Faris) was the main character instead of Bartz. I do still love him, though, and it was nice to have a little more humor compared to the previous entries. Not to say it was completely unserious; I did almost cry when Galruf died, and again when he granted Krile his power and she got all of his job levels (mainly bc I was so pissed if they were handing me a new party member at the eleventh hour that needed to be completely leveled).
The job system is also really good! Being able to mix abilities that you've mastered from other jobs makes changing up and leveling jobs really meaningful, and allows for some totally broken builds (hello max Summoner Bahamut and three mimics).
Not sure if I'll jump right into FFVI, or maybe buffer it with something else first.
Books completed: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
I get it now.
The movies came out when I was very young, so I didn't really get into them, but now my dad and I have plans to watch the first one again this weekend.
I really liked this one! Really scratched the itch that I'd momentarily been freed from after playing BG III for the billionth time. I made two characters (a Rogue and a Cleric) and filled out my party with two pre-mades (Fighter and Wizard). I respect the devs' desire to adapt the game as closely as possible, but there definitely some QoL changes in BG III (no even attempting to hide while enemies have line of sight of you was hard, especially with a rogue, and potions requiring a full action) that I missed having. And I loved love LOVED the scavengers mechanic in the game. You mean I don't have to worry about having the inventory space (especially bc they adapted the carry weight rules the way they did) after a random encounter??? And I can even save items I might have missed before they're sold off???? Incredible mechanic, and I hope it makes it into the sequel (which I am definitely looking forward to!). Also, I read online some people take issue with the...jank...of the VA but I personally loved it. I think my biggest gripe tho was how the DLC worked. What do you mean almost half the available classes are locked behind DLC? Why are character customization options locked behind DLC? Thankfully sales mean I was still able to get everything at a reasonable price, but it really rubbed me the wrong way.
I only played the Crown of the Magister campaign, but I think I'll take my characters and import a save to do Palace of Ice bc it seems like (based on the end cutscene) that there's more to the story than we were able to get in the base campaign? Also, with how well this has been adapted from DnD, I'm interested in trying the dungeon maker. Maybe I'll start off with trying to adapt a pre-written?
Books completed: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
So, at the beginning of this month I watched the movie adaptation of Fellowship of the Ring with my dad and 1) Ian McKellan makes an EXCELLENT Gandalf, but 2) I was so thrown by the final sequence where Merry and Pippin were kidnapped and Boromir died bc I hadn't started this book yet so I was so confused. I was like "did I miss an epilogue or something?" Bc I had checked out the chapters when I picked it up from the store, and knew the first one was called like "The Departure of Boromir" which like fair! At the end of Fellowship he did have a little episode, but he did seem to genuinely regret it and I assumed he would probably like leave to return to Minas Tirith in like his shame or smth and die heroically in like a big battle that I assume happens there at some point. Way to bury the lede with that chapter title, Tolkein!
Anyway, my dad and I are gonna watch Two Towers over the long weekend and this is the only one I sort of remember watching as a kid bc Gollum freaked me out. But based on his description in the books versus what I can remember from the movie...they gave him an upgrade in the movie.
#(thousand-yard sex-disinterested aroace stare) cool opinion. love seeing this same sentiment 10000 times a day on this website
im also aroace. being disinterested in sex and romance is still sexual perversion in the eyes of the state. get more perverted in whichever direction fills you with the most joy!!!!!!
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its crazy that megan thee stallion is not considered a queer artist by some people. the woman is not shy about the fact that she finds women attractive and likes having sex with them. she references it pretty frequently in her music, she made a whole song about enjoying having threesomes with a woman and a man, she made a Jennifer's Body-themed music video, she had Victoria Monét full riding her thigh on stage at a coachella, and there's literally a video of a lesbian interviewing glorilla at a party & asking who she would date if she was queer and her immediate response is "megan. megan like girls!" and then megan turns around and immediately starts flirting with the interviewer. i don't know what more you want. that woman is Bi Sexual and we should all be thankful every day for that. bi women are still bi when they wanna fuck men too you know. the fucking of men is also done bisexually.
Gotta tell you guys something wild in the Chinese fan sphere
So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.
So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.
And that is how this charity received over 1 million in donations in three days lol. Oh btw the “freedom of expression” side won by a landslide (960k to 40k)
i sent this gif to a black cowowker at work then later asked my white manager if he likes apple fritters and he was like "i fuckin love apple friters" and she laughed so hard she got a migraine
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ohtori academy group chat getting into heated discourse over whether utena can use he/him pronouns as a lesbian that becomes utter chaos when utena chimes in with "im not a lesbian though I'm just a normal girl"
Greatest hits of FIFA cultural exchanges thus far:
Learning about flyovers and pyrotechnics at American games being a thing
Non-americans discovering the size of American football stadiums....for high schools in texas. Also the size of our stadiums in general.
Going to baseball games as a side treat! Lmao.
Non-americans losing their minds over "like, 100 petrol pumps," at buc-ees.
Related: Americans often forget how huge target and Walmart is.
People discovering American BBQ
Non-americans being obsessed with mid American restaurant chains like Golden Corral and Taco Bell
A lot of them really did feel god in this chile's apparently
The rightful obsession with waffle house
New understanding of American Big Drink With Ice supremacy as summer creeps in
Americans realizing we have a Team USA and we are not, in fact, just "hosting our friends" from around the world — mostly because we won our first match and our team is decent??? Not amazing but not the worst.
Side rant: us women's football team is legendary good and we should care about that more like. Hello???
Understanding that America really is that fucking hot and summer is just starting
Related: the english team did warm ups in Florida RIP, and also the there's a video of the French team just being like fuck the heat, fuck the sun, this is so hot...
Americans who do not normally care about international football but fucking love a sport and cheering so we're just hyping whatever team is nearby, like we see a party and just show up and learn the chant. Like sorry many of us don't know shit about soccer but if we see a bunch of people in viking helmets or kilts or holding a bunch of flags and cheering we're game.
TAILGATING!!!!
I already said this but American yellow school bus is an international celebrity
The Scottish drank Boston dry of beer apparently, like they quadrupled what Boston normally sells for fourth of July weekend. SAM ADAMS HAD TO GET AN EMERGENCY BEER DELIVERY.
Also the English team fans got kicked out of The Londoner pub in Dallas after drinking 5,000 beers and going over max capacity lmao
Free refill drinks, tortilla chips & salsa.
So many non-americans are going to be here for the 4th of July for our 250th anniversary which is going to be great and hilarious
Non-americans discovering ranch as a beloved condiment
Non-americans understanding American obsession with hamburger now
Japan's homebase is in Texas and the cultural differences are frankly great and also the Japanese fans are SO NICE and helped clean up the stadium after a match???
All the short videos with the eagle screech (which I think is actually a red tail hawk but whatever)
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"Vanderhorst had been under the influence of MDMA and three litres of vodka she had consumed on the night of the offence last September, her lawyer Michael Hill told the court."
