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Twenty-something English graduate student in Alaska (ask me about it! I've lived here most of my life, including five years in Barrow, the northernmost community in the US) who seems to be in a holding pattern waiting for life to start--rather, less "waiting" and more "omg so busy I must be out of my miiiiind," repeat ad nauseum. Writer, reader, wannabe novelist, hopeful cynic, traveler (up to 15 countries! *fist pump*), Ravenclaw, Browncoat, Whovian (Ten will always be my Doctor), member of way too many other fandoms, proud geek and gamer girl, etc. (favorites so far include the Mass Effect, Portal, and Fallout series, and Red Dead Redemption). Politically conservative-to-moderate feminist (yes, it's possible). Living with clinical depression since at least 2004. Somewhere around the demisexual end of the asexual spectrum. Possibly a vampire.

You can find me in multiple elsewheres, in varying degrees of regularity: in my writing journal, mostly for fanfic and fanmixes; last.fm; and Twitter (same username for Echo Bazaar, where I misunderstood the character creation for some reason and picked the wrong gender), among others. I'm thestarvelingcat on PSN, which is mostly only relevant if you want to find me in Red Dead Redemption multiplayer, and 100indecisions on Steam, as well as at Playfire.

I also run F Yeah Fireflies and F yeah Raspberries, which are...pretty much what they say on the tin, as well as another one for one of my novels-in-progress, and I co-run the Red Dead Redemption blog the gunslinger's lament.

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8 April 12

risk-of-being-free replied to your post: risk-of-being-free replied to your photo: (via…

Well, instead of trying to get to the middle of the two lower ledges, you have to get up to the one directly above you, otherwise you’ll always get hit by the hands. I would screenshot it for you, but for some reason Eversion stopped working for me.

GORRAMIT. I can’t figure out how to do that either—you have to like…jump out and up and then right back in, somehow, without falling in the water or hitting the hand, and I don’t get it at all. I need like…platformer lessons. Like typing lessons but with platformers. Something really easy and forgiving so I can actually learn this stuff without going out of my mind first.

Posted: 8:59 AM

risk-of-being-free replied to your photo: (via Steam Community :: 100indecisions ::…

This part took me *forever*. >.>

Good to know it’s not just because I suck at it, I guess. Is there some trick I’m missing or do I basically just…need to keep doing it over and over and over again until I get it?

7 April 12
(via Steam Community :: 100indecisions :: Screenshots) I am not kidding, I gave myself a bite mark on my hand out of SHEER FRUSTRATION with this part. The end of this world is RIGHT THERE (you can’t see it, but it’s just offscreen, which I know from watching walkthroughs), and I CAN’T GET THERE BECAUSE I CAN’T GET PAST THIS BIT. If I try to run across the gap without jumping, I don’t have enough momentum and I fall in the water and die. If I do jump, I hit the hand and die. Going above the hands where the gems are is pretty much out of the question because even if I have some idea of the principle of how that’s done, apparently I don’t have anywhere near the manual dexterity and timing for it. …have I mentioned that I’m really bad at platformers? Seriously, it’s not even funny. I suppose it’s mostly because I have so little experience with them, but as frustrating as Limbo can be, I’m having a much easier time with that; Eversion, for me, is nearly impossible.

(via Steam Community :: 100indecisions :: Screenshots)

I am not kidding, I gave myself a bite mark on my hand out of SHEER FRUSTRATION with this part. The end of this world is RIGHT THERE (you can’t see it, but it’s just offscreen, which I know from watching walkthroughs), and I CAN’T GET THERE BECAUSE I CAN’T GET PAST THIS BIT. If I try to run across the gap without jumping, I don’t have enough momentum and I fall in the water and die. If I do jump, I hit the hand and die. Going above the hands where the gems are is pretty much out of the question because even if I have some idea of the principle of how that’s done, apparently I don’t have anywhere near the manual dexterity and timing for it.

…have I mentioned that I’m really bad at platformers? Seriously, it’s not even funny. I suppose it’s mostly because I have so little experience with them, but as frustrating as Limbo can be, I’m having a much easier time with that; Eversion, for me, is nearly impossible.

20 January 12

the-night-and-the-storm replied to your photo: (via Steam Community :: 100indecisions ::…

If you go down to the ground whenever you can, you can jump right under the hands

Yeah, or I can get over them most of the time when I can’t go over their wrist/arm area, but they’re kind of terrifying in general.

Posted: 3:13 PM
(via Steam Community :: 100indecisions :: Screenshots) Okay, I finally got past the first advancing wall o’ doom. I did not get all the gems but whatever, next time. Now I’m…stuck at this world. Because these giant horrifying hands come shooting out of the already-deadly water to kill you.

(via Steam Community :: 100indecisions :: Screenshots)

Okay, I finally got past the first advancing wall o’ doom. I did not get all the gems but whatever, next time. Now I’m…stuck at this world. Because these giant horrifying hands come shooting out of the already-deadly water to kill you.

Posted: 2:41 PM
(via Steam Community :: 100indecisions :: Screenshots) rrrrarrrgh cannot get past this part

(via Steam Community :: 100indecisions :: Screenshots)

rrrrarrrgh cannot get past this part

25 December 11
Man, I really need to go back to Eversion. I am just really bad at platformers. If I had lives instead of having to restart the level (or at least the last checkpoint, which is hard enough to reach for me) every time my timing’s off and I fall in the water or bump into a bad guy, I would probably be a lot less frustrated with it. Or I wouldn’t get as frustrated as fast, anyway.

Man, I really need to go back to Eversion. I am just really bad at platformers. If I had lives instead of having to restart the level (or at least the last checkpoint, which is hard enough to reach for me) every time my timing’s off and I fall in the water or bump into a bad guy, I would probably be a lot less frustrated with it. Or I wouldn’t get as frustrated as fast, anyway.

(Source: tatermo)

Reblogged: avoicelikethunder

10 September 11
the-night-and-the-storm: Wait, when was Eversion put on on Steam? And now you have to pay for it? Well, I mean, Steam support would be nice, but I don’t know that it would be worth $5, especially if they really didn’t add new levels or endings or something… Oh who am I kidding, I’ll probably get it anyway… I am horrible at saving my money for actually useful things… Oh yeah, didn’t we talk about this at some point? It’s been available on Steam for a while now, but you can still get the free version. The one on Steam is supposedly HD with nicer graphics and some more awesome creepiness in the backgrounds, plus achievements and a new possible ending created just for that version. I was tempted to buy it just for the achievements, but since I haven’t even gone back to it after being stuck on the first Advancing Wall O’ Doom, it’s probably as well I didn’t. I will if it goes on sale at some point, of course…more for the premise of the game than anything, because I do love the premise but I suck at platformers.

the-night-and-the-storm:

Wait, when was Eversion put on on Steam? And now you have to pay for it? Well, I mean, Steam support would be nice, but I don’t know that it would be worth $5, especially if they really didn’t add new levels or endings or something… Oh who am I kidding, I’ll probably get it anyway… I am horrible at saving my money for actually useful things…

Oh yeah, didn’t we talk about this at some point? It’s been available on Steam for a while now, but you can still get the free version. The one on Steam is supposedly HD with nicer graphics and some more awesome creepiness in the backgrounds, plus achievements and a new possible ending created just for that version. I was tempted to buy it just for the achievements, but since I haven’t even gone back to it after being stuck on the first Advancing Wall O’ Doom, it’s probably as well I didn’t. I will if it goes on sale at some point, of course…more for the premise of the game than anything, because I do love the premise but I suck at platformers.

Reblogged: the-night-and-the-storm

8 August 11
Reminds me of Eversion. I suppose I should really get back to that game, it’s just that I really suck at anything that involves having good timing, and I’m at that point now since I reached the first advancing wall of doom…

Reminds me of Eversion. I suppose I should really get back to that game, it’s just that I really suck at anything that involves having good timing, and I’m at that point now since I reached the first advancing wall of doom…

Reblogged: avoicelikethunder

15 May 11
endangeredmonkey: ….Or not. THIS MOTHERFRAKKING GAME. Half the problem is that I have no experience with sidescrollers so I suck at it, but I haven’t even managed to clear World 3-4 yet. That’s the first one with the advancing Wall O’ Doom, so at least there’s that, but seriously…dying this much and having to start over is REALLY FRUSTRATING. …and then of course there’s the whole creepy factor (how much do I love that it starts with a Lovecraft quote? Kind of a lot) which does bother me a little even though 1) I like creepy, 2) I was thoroughly spoiled for this game before I ever played, and 3) the creepy is most of the reason I’m playing it. I dunno, maybe it’s just because I’m going through most of it over and over and over…and the vaguely unsettling stuff starts as early as 2-3, I think, and then starts ramping it up pretty quickly. 

endangeredmonkey:

….Or not.

THIS MOTHERFRAKKING GAME. Half the problem is that I have no experience with sidescrollers so I suck at it, but I haven’t even managed to clear World 3-4 yet. That’s the first one with the advancing Wall O’ Doom, so at least there’s that, but seriously…dying this much and having to start over is REALLY FRUSTRATING.

…and then of course there’s the whole creepy factor (how much do I love that it starts with a Lovecraft quote? Kind of a lot) which does bother me a little even though 1) I like creepy, 2) I was thoroughly spoiled for this game before I ever played, and 3) the creepy is most of the reason I’m playing it. I dunno, maybe it’s just because I’m going through most of it over and over and over…and the vaguely unsettling stuff starts as early as 2-3, I think, and then starts ramping it up pretty quickly. 

Reblogged: endangeredmonkey

Posted: 12:46 AM

This is a Public Service Anouncment: DO NOT PLAY EVERSION!

xoxoelise:

If you hear about it warn others not to play. Spread the word. This game is scary! It starts out nice, then progresses to frightnening features and music!

Yeah, that’s…kind of the whole point of the game? It does start with a Lovecraft quote and a warning that it’s not for children or people of nervous dispositions, after all…

Reblogged: xoxoelise

Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh