LOLZ. No, really.
Dec. 22nd, 2010 02:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osarabaI haven't been online a whole lot in the last week as I've been caught up reading things offline. There are a whole bunch of fic I've meant to rec and to comment on (though since I've got at least tomorrow free to do nothing, I hope to get on that).
I'm reading a gay romance (ebook, by Jet Mykles) right now that reads like a yaoi fic. It really isn't bad at all, but it's kind of... unpolished? And not very deep. Which is fine! I was just surprised, I guess, because I'd read something else by her (a more recent one, though) that was waaaay better. In any case, I'm more amused than anything else... except for the fact that two of the characters are playing Final Fantasy X.
Um, together? (It's not really a two-player game...)
And all the words the author uses to refer to "playing" the game are... not quite what I'd use to describe it?
It's actually quite hilarious because I've never seen anyone include a FF game in a story just to appeal to a larger audience? I mean, why else would you put it in, if you aren't actually into video games? And FFS, couldn't you play some of it first, or watch someone else play it, or something?
I'm half laughing ridiculously about it and half wincing in pain.
I'm reading a gay romance (ebook, by Jet Mykles) right now that reads like a yaoi fic. It really isn't bad at all, but it's kind of... unpolished? And not very deep. Which is fine! I was just surprised, I guess, because I'd read something else by her (a more recent one, though) that was waaaay better. In any case, I'm more amused than anything else... except for the fact that two of the characters are playing Final Fantasy X.
Um, together? (It's not really a two-player game...)
And all the words the author uses to refer to "playing" the game are... not quite what I'd use to describe it?
It's actually quite hilarious because I've never seen anyone include a FF game in a story just to appeal to a larger audience? I mean, why else would you put it in, if you aren't actually into video games? And FFS, couldn't you play some of it first, or watch someone else play it, or something?
I'm half laughing ridiculously about it and half wincing in pain.
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Date: 2010-12-22 08:40 pm (UTC)Would you like some story recs? I can give you a whole slew of them, and they won't read like fanfic either.
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Date: 2010-12-22 08:53 pm (UTC)The first one I read of hers was "Indigo Knights: Squire" and I really, really enjoyed it. Then went and read the first in the "Heaven Sent" series, which is the one where Johnnie & Tyler are playing FFX in the beginning (it was amusing but I skimmed it and it was a bit TOO shallow -- and they were a bit too stereotypical in their roles -- for me to really enjoy it). So, I'm really glad I read the "Squire" one first because if I'd read the other one first I probably wouldn't have given her another chance. ^^;