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girlofprey) wrote2019-10-26 02:04 pm
girlofprey) wrote2019-10-26 02:04 pm
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Life:
My ON is now in a foster home. After an altercation with my sister's partner where no-one could quite decide who was telling the truth (my ON does lie plenty, about things we've literally seen him do), he came to stay with us for a bit while the police investigated. But my parents had already booked an expensive holiday for not long afterwards, and I can only just look after myself living alone and working, so it was arranged that he'd go into a foster home that week. But apparently he got on really well with his foster parents, and is now just staying there. He came back to ours the day after my parents got back, but that evening the foster parents came over and my ON went back with them, and took all the rest of his clothes, so it seems like a pretty settled thing. He's claiming he won't ever go back to my sister's house while the partner's there, and my sister is very attached to the partner and there isn't a huge amount of evidence that the partner did anything wrong besides get very frustrated with my ON, who is very frustrating. So my sister has said she doesn't think he'll ever go back. And it's selfish, but if he really is happier with the foster parents, they're better set up to have him than we are, and it's probably better that he's there. But also it feels a little quietly disturbing. Disquieting, I suppose, to have one of the kids in the family living outside the family. It's very odd.
Crusader Kings:
I figured out a bunch of stuff from the tutorial and some wikis online, turned off a few things that were outright ruining my game and made it so no-one was annoyed at female leaders, and let me tell you. My most successful dynasty so far involved a queen who had twins, then another boy, and then finally beautifully a girl, during a pregnancy and labour so difficult it nearly killed that queen. Then my queen died of illness in the middle of a (very successful) battle to try to take back a title from one of my vassals and keep it for her family. The son couldn't continue that questline because he had to start the process over again, and none of the vassals liked him enough to back him with it. Then he died in battle, leaving only his daughter who was a child, so I couldn't do shit till she grew up. I'm now attempting to get things going again with her, but all her talented relatives hate her because they want her throne, and after ten years of marriage to a man she married as soon as she came of age, she hasn't had any kids yet, so she's got no heirs. The beautiful daughter my queen originally had has grown up to be the best diplomat the world has ever seen, despite her harelip, but now she wants my current queen to go to war with Navarra so she can inherit the throne, and she hasn't even bothered to have any kids so even if I end up playing as her she'll have no heirs either. But I have changed the life focus of my current queen to Seduction, and she's just bought her husband a remarkable horse to replace his that died, so he's now deeply in love with her (+20 opinion modifier). So hopefully some kids will be forthcoming.
It's a hell of a game.
Temeraire:
I'm on book 8 now, and back in the torture section she puts in every book. Laurence has amnesia. AMNESIA. And while that was amazing when I realised it was happening, she also decided to have him lost overboard a ship and from Temeraire, and then held prisoner and chased across a country while people hunted him and he didn't even remember anything from the past 8 years and that Temeraire was waiting for him, and it took 130 pages for them to even meet again. And now he doesn't remember Temeraire or anything they've been through together, he just thinks dragons are dangerous animals (although he doesn't feel that way, deep down), and I don't know how long Naomi will have him lose his memory for, or if it'll come back in bits and pieces and take a long time to fully come back, and ugh. It's always worth it in the end, but so painful when these bits are happening. She must know all people want is for Laurence and Temeraire to be together, and she always contrives things to keep them apart, and adds in new bits of plot when it really feels like they have enough plot to be getting on with. I don't know if I love it or hate it. But I have worked out now that the ultimate plot of the series is Dragon Rights, not Beating Napoleon, so really they have to get intimately involved with every country possible to see how all their dragons live, and what different kinds of dragons there are, and how different people live with them differently. TEMERAIRE HAD AN EGG. WITH A FIREBREATHER. Who knows how long it will take to hatch? Sometimes eggs take ten years. Maybe the last book will have a massive time jump we'll have to catch up with, and Laurence will be old. And Temeraire will be older. But I have faith that Naomi will make it all good in the end.
Work:
Work is very odd, because one of the guys I work with has lost his mother, so he's off work, and my boss in on holiday, so we're on a really low amount of staff. I'm mostly stuck with the guy who got angry with me about plastic surgery, and he's not bad generally - not that bad all the time - but I really don't feel like he's quick off the mark, and doesn't always think of things. Twice this week we've had contractors or workmen in to do something in the building, and the guy (P) hasn't said anything to me about them before he left for the day - or spoken to them as far as I know - and I was left there at half past five, knowing I have to leave at six, wondering if they'd be finished in time or if I'd have to explain to them how to get out of the building without me. I don't even know when my manager will be back, because he didn't even tell me he was going on holiday before he left. And even when he gets back he might not be around much.
But I have some time off this week - I decided to take a bit off for Halloween - so I only have to go in on Monday and Tuesday next week, and then I am free. And I don't have to worry about it.
My ON is now in a foster home. After an altercation with my sister's partner where no-one could quite decide who was telling the truth (my ON does lie plenty, about things we've literally seen him do), he came to stay with us for a bit while the police investigated. But my parents had already booked an expensive holiday for not long afterwards, and I can only just look after myself living alone and working, so it was arranged that he'd go into a foster home that week. But apparently he got on really well with his foster parents, and is now just staying there. He came back to ours the day after my parents got back, but that evening the foster parents came over and my ON went back with them, and took all the rest of his clothes, so it seems like a pretty settled thing. He's claiming he won't ever go back to my sister's house while the partner's there, and my sister is very attached to the partner and there isn't a huge amount of evidence that the partner did anything wrong besides get very frustrated with my ON, who is very frustrating. So my sister has said she doesn't think he'll ever go back. And it's selfish, but if he really is happier with the foster parents, they're better set up to have him than we are, and it's probably better that he's there. But also it feels a little quietly disturbing. Disquieting, I suppose, to have one of the kids in the family living outside the family. It's very odd.
Crusader Kings:
I figured out a bunch of stuff from the tutorial and some wikis online, turned off a few things that were outright ruining my game and made it so no-one was annoyed at female leaders, and let me tell you. My most successful dynasty so far involved a queen who had twins, then another boy, and then finally beautifully a girl, during a pregnancy and labour so difficult it nearly killed that queen. Then my queen died of illness in the middle of a (very successful) battle to try to take back a title from one of my vassals and keep it for her family. The son couldn't continue that questline because he had to start the process over again, and none of the vassals liked him enough to back him with it. Then he died in battle, leaving only his daughter who was a child, so I couldn't do shit till she grew up. I'm now attempting to get things going again with her, but all her talented relatives hate her because they want her throne, and after ten years of marriage to a man she married as soon as she came of age, she hasn't had any kids yet, so she's got no heirs. The beautiful daughter my queen originally had has grown up to be the best diplomat the world has ever seen, despite her harelip, but now she wants my current queen to go to war with Navarra so she can inherit the throne, and she hasn't even bothered to have any kids so even if I end up playing as her she'll have no heirs either. But I have changed the life focus of my current queen to Seduction, and she's just bought her husband a remarkable horse to replace his that died, so he's now deeply in love with her (+20 opinion modifier). So hopefully some kids will be forthcoming.
It's a hell of a game.
Temeraire:
I'm on book 8 now, and back in the torture section she puts in every book. Laurence has amnesia. AMNESIA. And while that was amazing when I realised it was happening, she also decided to have him lost overboard a ship and from Temeraire, and then held prisoner and chased across a country while people hunted him and he didn't even remember anything from the past 8 years and that Temeraire was waiting for him, and it took 130 pages for them to even meet again. And now he doesn't remember Temeraire or anything they've been through together, he just thinks dragons are dangerous animals (although he doesn't feel that way, deep down), and I don't know how long Naomi will have him lose his memory for, or if it'll come back in bits and pieces and take a long time to fully come back, and ugh. It's always worth it in the end, but so painful when these bits are happening. She must know all people want is for Laurence and Temeraire to be together, and she always contrives things to keep them apart, and adds in new bits of plot when it really feels like they have enough plot to be getting on with. I don't know if I love it or hate it. But I have worked out now that the ultimate plot of the series is Dragon Rights, not Beating Napoleon, so really they have to get intimately involved with every country possible to see how all their dragons live, and what different kinds of dragons there are, and how different people live with them differently. TEMERAIRE HAD AN EGG. WITH A FIREBREATHER. Who knows how long it will take to hatch? Sometimes eggs take ten years. Maybe the last book will have a massive time jump we'll have to catch up with, and Laurence will be old. And Temeraire will be older. But I have faith that Naomi will make it all good in the end.
Work:
Work is very odd, because one of the guys I work with has lost his mother, so he's off work, and my boss in on holiday, so we're on a really low amount of staff. I'm mostly stuck with the guy who got angry with me about plastic surgery, and he's not bad generally - not that bad all the time - but I really don't feel like he's quick off the mark, and doesn't always think of things. Twice this week we've had contractors or workmen in to do something in the building, and the guy (P) hasn't said anything to me about them before he left for the day - or spoken to them as far as I know - and I was left there at half past five, knowing I have to leave at six, wondering if they'd be finished in time or if I'd have to explain to them how to get out of the building without me. I don't even know when my manager will be back, because he didn't even tell me he was going on holiday before he left. And even when he gets back he might not be around much.
But I have some time off this week - I decided to take a bit off for Halloween - so I only have to go in on Monday and Tuesday next week, and then I am free. And I don't have to worry about it.