the trick is to keep breathing

I give you The Last Order, an FF8 story in which basically everything goes to hell and in the Squall vs Life battle, Life pwns Squall.

OK, it's not quite that depressing, it's full of snark and angst and lots of coffee. But it IS eventually going to deal with something I find fascinating: mistakes. Lots of them. The Orphanage Gang screwing up, for once, and not being able to be super undefeatable heroes. The fact that they're human. That Squall may not really be cut out to be a leader. That no one is perfect. Also, that basically everyone is a caffeine addict. IT ALSO HAS IRVINE.

It's an interesting and awesome pretense, and I hope irish_ais and I can do it justice.

Also, FREE BEER INSIDE. CLICK NOW http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3606277/1/

collabs are totally eating my brains! jana and enkida, i totally blame you both

At this point I am seriously, hard-core pimping my birthday presents because they are all freakin' awesome. Apparently I hang out in the totally cool corner of the internets!

I have been spoiled today.

I want to say "It is like Nay gave Irvine head for my birthday!" Because she DID and it made me LAUGH with snark and it was HOT all in ONE and that was FREAKING AWESOME. IT IS SEIFER/IRVINE, right there, and Seifer's all sober because you know he's been planning it for a while and Irvine's all drunken-mind-wandering hot and OK I will stop rambling now just go read it. I LOVED. WOULD READ AGAIN. PROBABLY WILL BECAUSE IT'S HOT.

AND THEN NIKKI WROTE ME MORE AND THEY ARE ALL BASICALLY <333333 I will summarize them for you here!

THIS is Irvine/Seifer wandering home, and groping each other, and otherwise being hot

THIS! Is Rydia, a couple snapshotty views of her life and her childhood (SQUEEEEE) and it's sappy and bittersweet and punches you in the gut like it should, because Rydia doesn't belong and I LOVE seeing fic that deals with this

and THIS is probably my favourite of all of them - it gets an extra star - this one hits everything I like to see in FF8 fic with Squall-Ellone-Laguna dealings. JUST READ