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This past weekend I (finally) resumed playing Fire Emblem Engage, two weeks and a year after the game came out.
It's not Engage's fault I bailed so badly, not really -- it was the years of being disgruntled at Fire Emblem as a franchise, and being intensely infuriated by the fandom for Three Houses in particular (and the uptick of bizarre purity culture/policing in general), and everything /else/ in the last few years, and stress, and the universe, and ...
... Well, I got back to Engage and I'm hoping I can stick with it, because I have great affection for this pack of little weirdos so far and the game is fun. And it will eventually give me Chrom, if only as a dlc Emblem, and that's fine.
There's a greater lesson here, I guess, in just how ground down I've been over the last few years -- pandemic related, family-because-pandemic-knockon-effect-related, and so many other things -- but I'm trying to do what I can, now.
(trying out geminispace is also one of the things I'm doing to try out what I can!)
I'd like to find my feet again, but it's going to take time and work.
Rotating my mental crops, as a friend put it.