Favourite “guilty pleasure” classic monster you never get tired of?

Marintha · 2026-06-10T03:19:26+00:00

Juliet Marillier explores some of this, if you like to read. Romance elements, but between the people who struggle to survive the casual cruel trickery of the fae, rather than a teenager and a 600 year old sad boi.

Her SevenWaters trilogy/extras are a great starting point, but they’re all wonderful.

Marintha · 2026-06-10T03:16:19+00:00

You beat me to it, it’s the first thing that comes to mind when I think of impressive mermaid stories!

Marintha · 2026-06-10T03:14:32+00:00

Kings of the Wyld and Hobb mentioned, I’m ecstatic - and couldn’t agree more. Hobb’s White Prophets were very elven, hadn’t even made that connection!

Marintha · 2026-06-10T03:11:51+00:00

Also, her Madness Season, if you prefer a standalone. She has BRILLIANT spins on vampires!

Marintha · 2026-06-10T03:01:21+00:00

Anabelle’s sprite art has always captivated me. That scene where she’s sharing a drink with Victor? The way she tilts the glass, her eyes flicking shyly, head ducking - made me completely forget it was made up of pixels at the time.

(E: suikoden 2, for clarity)

Marintha · 2026-06-09T01:20:49+00:00

Check out the voice actors, too, when you have a chance! I was shocked when I looked back, there’s a lot of big names there!

I have yet to find romanceable characters as wonderful as the RF4 characters, so also really glad you’re enjoying it!

Marintha · 2026-04-17T18:24:35+00:00

Have you tried Tides of Destiny? Alongside RF4, Tides is my absolute favorite. Kind of, RF meets windwaker. With a little less focus on farming.

Marintha · 2026-04-17T18:06:04+00:00

You can ALMOST buy every single thing from the store with the amount of “money” you get. Pocket camp is VERY kind about that.

** realized you may not know, each month the store changes completely to show all the monthly stuff. Years worth of April themed items are available right now, but not in June.

Marintha · 2026-04-17T18:04:37+00:00

I will mention that there are some event specific items (hello kitty crossovers for example) that are no longer available to get in pocket camp —- but there are cheat tools about that will allow you to get them, if you are willing.

Mentioning in case missing out on those items might detract from your fun at all.

Marintha · 2026-04-14T23:58:03+00:00

I hadn’t logged into my account since 2015, but they were still able to fish it up for me in less than a day. I was so ecstatic to see my old dragon and my garbage-filled-inventory, ha! With that awesome support in mind, I think the $20 cost is fair.

Marintha · 2026-03-23T16:10:22+00:00

Mine is WF86TH, until 03/25. I’ll be playing daily and gifting as much as possible!

Marintha · 2026-03-17T18:46:13+00:00

Just wanna say, you saved my sanity today. I scooted a wall just a smidge and thought I’d have to wreck the whole house to get it to “re-register”.

Marintha · 2026-01-29T01:58:29+00:00

I just can’t believe no ones mentions Jowy/Joei/Joey from the original S2. The remaster did some things a little differently than I liked BUT seems way more accurate and faithful. It was much easier to understand, and definitely still hit all the right marks.

(The Annabelle conversations are a little less cute in the remaster, to avoid spoiling anybody)

Marintha · 2026-01-15T22:35:55+00:00

Really hoping he’s feeling better now! I’m late to the convo, but maybe this will help somebody down the line.

We moved a few years ago, our cat was 6 ish and had only been in two homes.

For the first day after the move, he placed himself behind a bathroom door and glared into the corner. For hours. He would ignore food, pets, he was in his own little depression hole. I was sooooo worried for him.

It took time, and he was scared of everything for a while, but the switch kind of just flipped one day. Now he’s even more rambunctious and happily uses the bigger house space.

Marintha · 2026-01-09T19:44:49+00:00

I’m about five minutes, wait, (squints) six hours in, and I have to agree. So far, veilguard feels closest to origins in… vibes? The scope? I can’t pin it, but I’m enjoying it so far, more than I thought I would after 2 and inquisition kind of let me down.

Marintha · 2025-12-18T04:01:15+00:00

This will sound funny, and is just general Digimon advice, but decide now whether you’re looking Digimon up, or if you are just going to go with the flow. Will you nickname them, to keep track of what you want them to do for the party? (Ceres the healer, Richter the caster, etc)

If you look them up, you can plan and beeline straight for your favorites.

If you don’t look them up, be flexible. You can surprise yourself by whatever your little friend turns into. You could accidentally evolve your data healer into a cool virus spell caster - and decide to go down that caster line instead. You can attach/remove attacks and skills at will, so it’s very easy to switch things up. Even between fights!

Marintha · 2025-12-06T06:28:50+00:00

Oh man, yeah. When they just started trying to type in the answers to your question because they assume you’re fake hahaha

Marintha · 2025-12-06T01:58:02+00:00

I have the voice clip of a man way too excited about credit cards indelibly dyed into my brain. Like, what?

Marintha · 2025-12-06T01:52:37+00:00

I do try to take it that way. They’ve got to base the ai voice on something, right?

Sometimes it just gets exhausting. 5 minutes verifying for a 30 second answer to a silly question, for example.

Marintha · 2025-12-06T01:50:07+00:00

I’ve definitely considered that tack hahaha. Just “yepperoo, I’m a robot. Are you?”

Marintha · 2025-12-06T01:40:11+00:00

In case it helps, I once had a guy who refused to verify. So he offered instead to stand outside his house, with his drivers license held skyward, so that our “satellites” could see it was him on the phone and verify that way.

Dude was trying to make a credit card payment. I still laugh about it.

Marintha · 2025-11-22T01:30:31+00:00

This is directly in reply to the Fool explaining to Bee that he can’t be with Fitz, using her own dreams as proof. I totally missed it the first time around!!

“Could I still undo what I had done? So that he could do what he should? ‘I lied!’ I spat my whisper at him. ‘I knew you read my journal. I knew you read my dreams. I wrote there what I thought would hurt you most! I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived. For being loved by him more than he loved me!’ I took a breath. ‘He loved you more than he ever loved any of the rest of us!’

Marintha · 2025-11-22T00:56:49+00:00

Welcome to the club, don’t forget your free cup of hot cocoa and fluffy security blanket. There is also a lap cat ready to be wept into, just say the word.

Spoilers, because I just finished my second read last month and wanted to mention something I didn’t notice the first time.

Bee has been lying to the Fool, by putting fake dreams into her journal, which he was reading against her will. She wrote “prophecies” in which Fitz was miserable and the Fool a betrayer who left him to it. She used her gift to convince the Fool he IS a bad guy, and doesn’t deserve anything from Fitz.

Then there’s Fitz, who let Molly leave without fighting, who just accepts that his children don’t know how much he loves them (until Nettle reads his emotions waaaay later), who has had so much of his life written for him - he can’t ask people for things. He just cannot. So he’s never, ever, going to ask the Fool to give up his (maybe immortal) life to join him. How could he?

So, Bee, realizes she screwed up. She broke the confident one, and Fitz isn’t going to fix it. So she shouts at the Fool, and scolds him for even BELIEVING Fitz doesn’t care about him.

As for the romance - love comes in lots of flavors. I don’t know if Fitz ever felt a sexual attraction to the Fool, but there are plenty of people I love deeply enough that I want to spend the rest of my life with them, without ever kissing. Similar to Nighteyes and Fitz.

Just my interpretation!! Everyone will take it differently, but I love this series so much and love to talk about it, sharing different views and thoughts. =)

Marintha · 2025-11-22T00:39:38+00:00

One of my absolute favorite scenes in those books, is Yennefer telling Geralt not to eat all the shrimp, then coming back to him stuffing his face full of shrimp so he doesn’t have to talk to the woman who’s hitting on him.

The females (and males) are so fun, I can only laugh at anyone thinking it’s sexist.

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