The Twilight Realms

 It's time for the OC quiz once again, and this time it's Ketana's turn! Ketana: I hope I can remember everything well enough... *giggle* 1. Pick which OC you are going to answer this in. 2. Answer all the questions Truthfully. Make it interesting! -- Name: Akira Ketana. ...Call me Ketana. It... I put the first name last, because my girlfriend does too. Birthdate: Umm... I... don't know, I'm sorry. I don't know where I came from, or who my parents were, or anything... Everyone just found me wandering in the forest near Tekata one day. I think it was... 20 years ago, now? Birth Place: Again, I have no idea, I'm sorry. No one else does, either... Current Location: Usually in Tekata, unless I'm going to the city, or touring with the band. Eye Color: Hazel. Hair Color: Umm... blonde. Height: I'm... normal height, I think? Maybe a little taller than normal... Weight: I don't know, but I can float in water... Tattoos: I don't have any. ...

 How about some pointless trivia about... me? Hey, why not? XD Look it's my blog and I can do what I want, shh I originally considered changing my name to Sarah when I transitioned, but after some thought, I realised it didn't really fit me. I thought about it and I've always liked April as a girl's name, so I picked that one. Though among friends, I'm twilight. Yes, my name is spelled with a small t (twilight, not Twilight). The origin of that? It's a story I've told before, but it came from me being in an old hypnosis channel on IRC which had a rule where your name had to start with a capital letter if you were dominant or a small letter if you were submissive. Since I mostly identified as a sub at the time, I had to change my name to "twilight", and I liked how it looked, so I kept it. The character named twilight who is based on me and who appears in a few pictures on Hypnohub originated in a hypno-themed MUD game called Legend of the Green Dra...

 Today, in honour of St. Paddy's Day (yes, Paddy's, not Patty's), I decided to write this little blog post on how to actually talk and behave like an Irish person. I'm partially Irish, though I grew up in England, so forgive me if I get some things wrong.  First of all, speech. As the great Irishman JackSepticEye once put it, Irish people have "a very special way of talking". Here's some useful turns of phrase. No self-respecting Irish person ever says "Top o' the mornin' to ye". Ever. Avoid using this phrase if you want to sound like an actual Irish person. For a real Irish greeting, try "Hiya" or "How are ya?" Talk about the weather a lot. Another common Irish 'greeting' is to comment on the weather, often with euphemisms that make it sound nicer than it actually is. For example, if it's windy, it's "a great day for drying [your clothes]". If it's raining, it's a "soft day"...

Rika Akira, one of my many characters, has a rather interesting way of speaking. English isn't her first language, and in her simple form of logic, she feels like somehow it's wrong for her to speak a language she isn't fluent in. So she compromises by speaking it as little as possible, and has developed her own special form of broken English, which I will attempt to teach you how to speak. You know, in case you... ever wanted to do that. "Rika talk" as she calls it, uses as few words and syllables as possible, so meaning is often ambiguous and needs to be derived from context.  First of all, Rika always refers to herself in third person - she never uses first-person pronouns, whether singular or plural. Instead, she substitutes her name - for instance, "I like ramen" becomes "Rika like ramen". (Which she does.) Verbs are always conjugated in first person present singular - "Rika like" rather than "Rika likes". Pronouns are ...

 Being as I am in fact transfemme, I thought I'd take this time to debunk some common myths revolving around trans people (mostly trans women, since that's what I am and all). Myth: Trans women don't get periods. Fact: While we don't menstruate, we do still have hormone cycles (assuming we're on HRT, that is) and that can still cause us to get period-like symptoms every month. What those symptoms are varies from person to person, but can include feeling bloated, constipation, feeling irritable/cranky, tired, random aches and pains in our bodies, etc. Myth: All trans people eventually have surgery. Fact: Some choose not to. Dysphoria manifests in many ways, and genital dysphoria is only one of those ways, and not always present in trans people. Some are totally fine with their genitalia not matching their gender. This does not make them any less trans than others, and surgery is not like... the definitive final step in transitioning or anything like that. Myth: The p...

This is more a "I got the urge to talk about this so I'm gonna make a blog post about it to get it out of my system" kind of thing. So I'm gonna talk about the names of the player characters in Pokémon games. Gen 1 (Red/Green/Blue/Yellow) - The official name of the Gen 1 main character is Red. His rival is known as Green in the Japanese version, and Blue in the international version. The reason for the difference is that the original two games released in Japan were Pokémon Red Version and Pokémon Green Version . A third game, named Pokémon Blue Version , was later made, which fixed some bugs and other problems with the original two games. This game became the basis for the international Gen 1 games, which were released as Pokémon Red Version and Pokémon Blue Version , with the original Pokémon Green Version never getting an English release until the remakes Pokémon FireRed and Pokémon LeafGreen came out. (The title Pokémon WaterBlue was trademarked, but no suc...

 Another guide no one asked for. So there are a few really useful accessories in Final Fantasy X-2 that are kind of a pain to get, mainly due to conflicting stories in various places on the internet about how exactly you get these things. So I'm here to help with that. Ragnarok Why you want it: Gives the Spellspring auto-ability, making the cost of all spells become 0 MP. So feel free to spam Flare and Ultima as much as you like with this on. How to get it: You need to implicate Rikku in the Mi'ihen Highroad mystery. Here's a checklist of how to do just that.  - In Chapter 2, go to Mi'ihen Highroad and enter the Travel Agency to find a familiar face asking about chocobos. Exit and go to the cliff edge. Talk to Calli to begin the Cuckoo for Chocobos mission. During this mission, make sure you do not capture the chocobo during the "blocking" section (when you have to predict which way it will run). Just mess up a few times to ensure that the mission continues...