Fuck Yeah Friday! [2020-03-20]

FUCK YEAH FRIDAY!

Hey everyone! There hasn't been a ton to be excited about these past few weeks, but I want to take a second to introduce you to a thing that's been bringing me joy in this uncertain time:



Red Dead Redemption II is a Western action-adventure game, created by Rockstar Games as a follow-up to the previous Red Dead Redemption, which in turn was created as a "spiritual successor" to the original Red Dead Revolver. I do not own and have never played the first Red Dead Redemption or Red Dead Revolver, but RDR2 (as it's affectionately nicknamed) lured me in by virtue of its stunning graphics and its main protagonist, a taciturn and dry-humored cowboy known for his brusque manner and notorious sour temper: one Arthur Morgan.




( Dropping the meat of the verbiage behind a cut because there are some spoilers involved, though I have tried to black them out if they're major. )

Overall the writing in the game is phenomenal and really encapsulates the feeling of a diminishing American frontier through the lens of a band of outlaws who are torn between clinging to the old ways with the last of their strength or adapting as the world evolves around them. If that's not enough for you, it's also one of the few games where the scenery is beautiful enough that I rarely, if ever, fast travel or skip the opportunity to wander about on my horse.


( More back here because I couldn't confine myself to just one. )

Anyway, it's an amazing and beautiful game full of delightful characters with a really great balance between shoot-em-up and skill-based missions, and I highly recommend it if you're looking for something to keep yourself occupied for any length of time whatsoever.

Crossover Post from Tumblr~ (with a couple of minor edits)

Hey y’all!

Everything is terrible and the world is a nightmare, so to help my clinical anxiety I’m planning to dissociate through the art of fanfic. I’m flexing my long-form muscles on a couple of Big Bangs but wanted some smaller, one-scene pieces to work on in-between, so I’m opening myself up for prompts! I know, I know, LLSS is out there and I definitely plan to still take advantage of it, but wanted to drum up some ideas for other, non-HBO War fandoms, too.

I’m mostly looking for little one-offs so if your prompt is really involved I might kick it back to you, but otherwise I’m open to pretty much whatever. As most of y'all know, I tend to prefer period pieces stay period pieces rather than making them modern AUs but I’ll allow it if you’ve got a fun one.

I'm anticipating completed pieces to land somewhere between 500-2K or so, so don't expect like a fully rendered fic out of this so much as a quick-and-dirty character scene, probably with a lot of banter because y'all know how I do.

( Here is a list of fandoms/pairings I'm interested in, should the mood strike you. )

Anyway, hit me up, if any of these strike your fancy.