Middle school good for something
I have trouble with always being ashamed of things I did in the past that don't measure up to my current standards, so I wanted to record something more amusingly affirmative, with the unlikely tie-ins of middle school and filk.
Filk got me started on the train of thought that brought up the NES game Snake Rattle 'n' Roll. Takes the cake for most obvious filk concept ever, (the sheer obscurity of retrogamering involved in taking the bait would be insanely geeky, on top of the fact that I've heard filk called the geekiest thing anyone can do---hearing that prompted me to try it one time in my Fushigi Yuugi period...). I remember the game as a crazymaker; it's played on an isometric grid, the control pad is effectively rotated 45 degrees, and I didn't survive long enough to get the hang of that.
The thing is: back in the day, I wrote elaborate fanfic about this game. Building on that most obvious filk concept, it involved the eponymous ophidian protagonists starting a band. It was a script-fic.
So, I thought, yeah, having it dredged up and read to me would no doubt be embarassing.
But this I submit without reservation:
As ways to spend Middle School go, it was pretty damn good.
Filk got me started on the train of thought that brought up the NES game Snake Rattle 'n' Roll. Takes the cake for most obvious filk concept ever, (the sheer obscurity of retrogamering involved in taking the bait would be insanely geeky, on top of the fact that I've heard filk called the geekiest thing anyone can do---hearing that prompted me to try it one time in my Fushigi Yuugi period...). I remember the game as a crazymaker; it's played on an isometric grid, the control pad is effectively rotated 45 degrees, and I didn't survive long enough to get the hang of that.
The thing is: back in the day, I wrote elaborate fanfic about this game. Building on that most obvious filk concept, it involved the eponymous ophidian protagonists starting a band. It was a script-fic.
So, I thought, yeah, having it dredged up and read to me would no doubt be embarassing.
But this I submit without reservation:
As ways to spend Middle School go, it was pretty damn good.