Dec 22, 2010 14:20
I 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.
ridic,
books:lgbtq,
video_games:ffx,
reading