pauraque | Entries tagged with fandom: monkey island

Okay, this was more questions than I was expecting! Thank you! Here are the first six, I'll work on the rest later.

sixbeforelunch asked: ( What's the best game you've played recently (define 'best' and 'recent' however you like)? )

yarnofariadne asked: ( What extinct bird would you most like to have seen? )

octahedrite asked: ( What's your favorite fictional creature? (along the lines of dragons, rocs, etc) )

lightofdaye asked: ( What are your oldest and newest fandoms? )

lilysea asked: ( What languages are you learning, and what made you choose them? )

senmut asked: ( What, in your opinion, was the video game that hooked you into perusing them into adult hood? )

Today is my birthday! Already, somehow!

On my last birthday I treated myself to talking about The Secret of Monkey Island, which is my favorite game of all time. It wasn't my intention to wait an entire year to talk about the sequel, which is also a game I have been passionate about since childhood, but here we are.

stopped by a tough guy at a bridge, the player highlights guybrush's dialogue option: I don't pay for nothin'. I'm a pirate

stopped by a tough guy at a bridge, the player highlights guybrush's dialogue option: I don't pay for nothin'. I'm a pirate

Guybrush's epic defeat of the Ghost Pirate LeChuck in the first game brought him fame and fortune, but what daring feats of swashbuckling has he done lately? To prove that he's not a one-hit wonder, he sets out to find the legendary lost treasure of Big Whoop, which surely must be impressive even though nobody quite knows what it is. But his quest gets more complicated when he realizes that while he may have defeated the ghost of LeChuck, the villain's body is still somewhere out there...

( cut for length )

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (Special Edition) is on Steam and GOG for $9.99 USD.

Will it take me another year to review the third game? Do I even realize that at this rate I won't be replaying Return to Monkey Island until 2029? Will there be yet another surprise new entry in the series by then? Stay tuned to find out!

Today is my birthday. My gift to myself is to allow myself to gush unreservedly about my favorite video game.

player character: My name's Guybrush Threepwood and I want to be a pirate.

player character: My name's Guybrush Threepwood and I want to be a pirate.

In this Age of Sail comedy adventure, you play as Guybrush Threepwood, a naive young man whose dream is to become a pirate. In the course of honing his skills in swordfighting, burglary, and treasure-hunting, he meets and falls for the beautiful governor of Melee Island, Elaine Marley. But the governor has another suitor, namely the dreaded ghost pirate LeChuck, who is not happy to learn he has competition for Marley's affections.

I am not able to be objective about this game. I'm pretty sure it is actually good—at least, the consensus among adventure game fans is that it's good, if perhaps not as great as some of its sequels. But it was the first game I fell in love with, and love isn't rational.

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The Secret of Monkey Island is available on Steam and GOG for $9.99 USD. It is a good game, and it is my most loved game. Thank you for attending my highly self-indulgent birthday celebration.

Pirate Theme Park (Focus Hill Games, 2023)

screenshot: child attempts to use orange juice on sign

( A Monkey Island fan game with the serial numbers... lightly abraded )

The Misadventures of Jeffrey Jetsam (Steven Don, 2021)

screenshot: castaway describes a palm tree

screenshot: castaway describes a palm tree

( A game based on the 1992 screensaver Johnny Castaway )

*surfs in on a giant wave of drabbles*

Hello everyone! I've had a pretty rough week of vaccine side-effects, but I'm finally doing better now, and just in time for

multifandomdrabble reveals. This round totaled 752 entries in 327 fandoms. :o I didn't get to write as many drabbles as I'd hoped, but I was very generously gifted with several delightful ones. There's supposed to be another round later this summer, so I hope to put the scales back in balance then. :)

(And I'm obviously incredibly behind on everything else, but I promise to catch up eventually!)

Written for me

Bench by a Pond by

katherine (G, She-Ra, Adora/Catra/Glimmer)
A bench by a pond, in the palace grounds.

For a new beginning by

HandmaidenOfHorror (G, She-Ra, ensemble)
The Best Friends Squad accidentally finds the planet Catra originates from.

Third Wheel To Four Paws by

walgesang (G, Star Trek: Discovery, Michael/Book & Grudge)
Michael and Book have just started traveling the universe together, doing heists and escaping the bad guys. That's all much easier than trying to win over Book's ornery cat.

Future Averted by

Alfer (G, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Beverly/Deanna)
The aftermath of Deanna witnessing Beverly's death that one time.

Coffee Tribbles by

kingstoken (G, Star Trek: Voyager, Janeway & B'Elanna)
"Captain, I have the schematics. Wait, is that coffee?"

Best Laid Plans of Mice and Cat by

NervousAsexual (G, Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, Amy & Brad & Yumyan)
Amy discovers unexpected collaborators in the rebuilding of Ratland.

Sunbathing by

NervousAsexual (G, Monkey Island, Carla & Guybrush)
Carla's thoughts as they sail for Monkey Island.

Written by me

The First Breath of the Morning After (T, Star Trek: Discovery, Detmer/Owosekun)
When Joann awakens, the first thing she notices, even before the fact that this isn't her bed and everything that means, is that she's breathing.

Half Full (G, Star Trek: Picard, Zhaban/Laris & Elnor)
"Look at that innocence in his eyes," Zhaban murmurs with a gentle elbow to her side, and takes a sip of wine. "It gives me hope."

Superior (M, Star Trek: Voyager, Janeway/Seven)
Kathryn is acutely aware of Seven's strength.

Five Things You Can't Do Under the Sea (G, The Little Mermaid, Ariel/Eric)
Ariel finds that life on land presents many unexpected challenges and delights.

This year I posted 33 fics in 12 fandoms, for a total of 56,049 words. That's by far the most fic I've ever written in a year. (According to AO3, second place was 39k in 2003, the first year I got into HP fandom, but even that's an overestimate since my longest fic that year was a collab.)

Writing that much fic was a lot of work, but a lot of fun too. I enjoyed getting more involved in the AO3 exchange scene and branching out into new fandoms and characters, as well as revisiting some old favorites. I probably pushed the limit of how many fests I can do in a year, but the overlapping deadlines did help me break the bad habit of leaving things until the last minute.

I think the sheer number of things I worked on also helped me feel less anxious about each one, and more able to let it go when a story didn't quite turn out as I'd hoped. I was happy with most of what I wrote, and I'd even say that a few of this year's fics are among my all-time favorites, which to me suggests that agonizing so much over the writing process probably wasn't accomplishing much to start with.

Anyway, here's the whole bunch:

( Star Trek (TNG, VOY, DIS, PIC) [15 fics] )

( Harry Potter [11 fics] )

( Disney (Aladdin, DuckTales, The Little Mermaid) [3 fics] )

( one-offs (Dogsbody, A Little Princess, Monkey Island, The Venture Bros.) [4 fics] )

The

multifandomdrabble collection opened this week with a staggering 772 entries in 313 fandoms. :O There truly must be something for everyone, so check it out!

Here's the stuff by and for me, all either 100 or 200 or 300 words. I was surprised and delighted to get multiple gifts! They were all great. ♥

Written for me

Second Thoughts by

sweetcarolanne (The Little Mermaid, Ariel/Ursula, rated E)
Ursula gives Ariel a taste of what pleasures of the flesh are like for women with legs, but when Ariel reaches land and her beloved Eric, she begins to have second thoughts about being part of that world...

Dark Desires by

sweetcarolanne (The Little Mermaid, Ariel/Ursula, rated E)
Ursula undertakes a dramatic transformation to reclaim her Ariel!

Obligation, Self-Given by

shadaras (Star Trek: Picard, Laris & Zhaban & Jean-Luc, rated G)
Laris and Zhaban help as Picard prepares to leave.

Old Wine in New Bottles by

vaznetti (Star Trek: Picard, Laris & Zhaban, rated G)
One night in the vineyard, looking up at the stars.

Written by me

With Stars in Their Hair (A Little Princess, Becky/Sara, rated T) for

sweetcarolanne - we matched to each other :D
Years later, Sara tells Becky a new story.

Fifteen & Fifty (Harry Potter, Narcissa & Andromeda, rated G) for

human_veil
Narcissa lost her sister at fifteen. At fifty, maybe it can be different.

Mother Knows Best (Star Trek: Discovery, Michael Burnham & Mirror Philippa Georgiou, rated G) for

vaznetti
This Michael Burnham is not Philippa's daughter. Not yet.

Looking-Glass (Star Trek: Discovery, Michael Burnham/Mirror Philippa Georgiou, rated M) for

miri_cleo
Michael is with Philippa again. But not her Philippa.

Children & Dogs (Dogsbody, Miss Smith & Kathleen O'Brien, rated G) for

frausorge
They're alike in many ways.

We'll Surely Avoid Scurvy If We All Eat an Orange (Monkey Island, Guybrush Threepwood & the Cannibals, rated G) for

thedevilchicken
In which Guybrush joins the Barbery Coast Barbershop Quartet and earns the ire of the Blood Island Cannibals.

And for my last trick, I will fill the 'rough body play' and 'immobilization/mummification' squares on my card with some words and moving pictures about those two things in The Curse of Monkey Island.

Though I hit several of the major plot points, there are no actual gameplay spoilers that tell you how to solve the puzzles (I mean, the game's 16 years old, but you never know), and all is G-rated and worksafe.

( The Cursed Ring )