#rainbowmagicmarker

So, thank you. Your shrimp towers bring joy and delight to the worst day of the week. And for facilitating this ongoing conversation with my mom even after all these years.

I love Scrivener. 

I love Scrivener.

I’ve been pretty much a 100% convert and devotee since the first time I opened it up, back in 2007(ish). I went on a program-trying spree about a year ago, trying free trials of about a dozen other programs, but none of them even tempted me. I love it so much I bought versions for both my Mac and my PC (back before they had the cheaper price for both as a package!).

Now for the caveat: the Mac version and the PC version are not equals. I have both. I use both. I suppose if you’ve never used the Mac version, the PC one might seem perfectly wonderful, and, don’t get me wrong, it’s still a great program. But the Mac version feels smoother, has a few more bells and whistles, and (I don’t know if it’s just my PC or what) but when I cut and paste from the Mac version onto tumblr or AO3, it keeps my formatting (italics, etc), but the PC version doesn’t. I find that really frustrating. (To be fair, I haven’t done a test with Word on my computer to see if its C&P formatting works better, though.)

The other caveat: what works for one person might not work for others. For every person I know who worships at the altar of Scrivener, I know someone for whom it just didn’t click. I love Scrivener for its organization, I love the interface, I find it a very aesthetically pleasing workspace, and I really love features like the document notes/summary notecards/binder. There are also a ton of features I don’t use at all. You can customize your experience as you see fit, using only what really clicks for you.

I hope that you like it and are having a good holiday so far! Same for everyone else here, I hope you all are safe and having excellent holidays!

You live in an area where pits are stigmatized? Do you mean everywhere? Seriously, though, I'm glad to have been of help. May I recommend some reading for introducing two dogs to help the move go more smoothly?

In one fell swoop, we loved and lost, conquered and capsized.

It was months delayed. For that I can do nothing except say I know, and I'm sorry. There is some truth to the coward's story -- I invest much in these creatures and the adventures that spring up around them, and it's very hard to watch them fall to fate.

Sure, it's a game, and at any point in time I could technically break the rules.

Where is the meaning in that, though?

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On another note, if anyone does still poke their head in or sees this on their dash, that means we've finally broken past LeafGreen and can move on to a new generation. HeartGold, Sapphire, and of course LeafGreen have been traversed, to varying degrees of success, leaving me with a handful of options unless you'd like a repeat of one.

Diamond and Platinum are both in my possession, and come next in the order of adventures, chronologically by the games anyway, but I admit I do want to eventually play through White 2 all the way, and how better than by playing it back to back with White? That would require skipping to White, though, naturally. Not that I would mind at all. As I've said before, White is very possibly my favourite Pokemon game period.

(And if you want me to play Pokemon Y, trust me, I'd effing love to, but I own neither the game nor a 3DS on which to play it, so alas I cannot bring that adventure to you unless you have an extremely generous donation to make for the CZ Plays Hard mode cause.)