Thirteen

Unlucky for some. The fear of the number 13 and all it entails is called triskaidekaphobia, and there are 2 main possible reasons for the association of ill fortune. The first comes from Norse myth, where 12 gods had a party in Valhalla, but didn’t invite Loki. He crashed the party anyway, effectively becoming the 13th guest, and shenanigans happened, Balder died, the world went dark, and “it was a bad, unlucky day.”

The second stems from Christianity, where at the Last Supper, Judas was the 13th disciple to sit at the table. There’s other myths and legends too, including Hammurabi’s Code having no 13th law, October the 13th 1307 being when the Knights Templar were arrested in France, tortured and killed, and some monks being annoyed that some years had 13 full moons, which messed up their festival plannings.

Italians, who obviously relish the idea of contrarianism, consider the number 13 to be a lucky number, and 17 to be the unlucky one. Also, my favourite couple of sentences from the page for 13 on Wikipedia:

In Petanque, standard games are won when a team reaches the score of 13 points. A 13-0 score is called Fanny.

~Wikipedia

Fanny. Supposedly, the 0 scorer in that 13-0 washout must “kiss the bottom of a girl named Fanny,” and you find woodcarvings at most places petanque is played of a rear-exposing lady. Nowadays, the fanny just buys the winners a drink, which is a lot more wholesome.

There’s even old-timey art of this occurring! I’m not making it up!

FIRE EMBLEM: THREE HOUSES

Finally I have this game. It was meant to arrive on my birthday, and was apparently delivered at 12:29pm, except it was not, and we had major ordeals attempting to get in touch with the local sorting office due to the coronavirus. They were shut on days they don’t shut, they closed early on days they close late, Google was misleading about the times/days they were open, and eventually we learned they now only open for two hours a day, between 7am and 9am! What!

So the boyfriend got in touch with Amazon themselves, who were initially like “contact the post office,” spent like 2 minutes on the automated help service, and a new one was dispatched the next day and arrived on Easter Sunday! If only we had known we could do that.

ANYWAY, I’ve got Fire Emblem now, huzzah, it was always one of the 3 games I’d buy a Switch Lite for (the others being Pokemon and Animal Crossing, and I was waiting for all 3 to be released), and I can’t wait to get stuck in!

I chose the Leicester Alliance, because who doesn’t like Leicester? Lovely city, famous for crisps and winning the Premier League that one time. This was literally my justification.

OTHER STUFF

  • I finally beat the Scorn of the Demon Wall in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, and I did it with Beatrix (from FFIX!) as my main damage unit!
  • *plays Rose of May*
  • Still not beaten the Scorn of the Venomous Vines though, the second round batters me to death!
  • I also got the new Gilgamesh (WOTV) unit. Lucky me!

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