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Hello as i ROLL THROUGH HERE with random things ive written and then run away again!

swallowed the dice (8383 words) by seventhe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Final Fantasy VI
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Celes Chere/Locke Cole/Setzer Gabbiani
Characters: Celes Chere, Locke Cole, Setzer Gabbiani
Additional Tags: Clothing Porn, Threesome - F/M/M, gratuitous appreciation of locke's ass, Heist
Series: Part 8 of Sev's Commission Run 2019
Summary:

I swallowed the dice / I make my own luck now. Locke, Celes, and Setzer are taking things into their own hands in the aftermath of Kefka. They're tracking the shadows of the Empire, taking back what belongs to others, and celebrating having found a life to suit them all.

and She who made kittens put snakes in the grass (4146 words) by sevdrag
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), Snakes - Character, Like a Fuckload of Snakes
Additional Tags: Parenthood, Snakes, dads, like i don't even know what to tag, Children, ????????? - Freeform, i am prepared to be defriended here, deLETE THIS
Summary:

Sometimes a family can be a doting angel, a cranky demon, and their adorable forty snake children.

amidst this bitterness (9503 words) by sevdrag
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Characters: Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes
Additional Tags: Background Winterhawk, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Soulmates
Series: Part 6 of Sev's Commission Run 2019, Part 2 of i'll know (soulmark universe)
Summary:

Tony’s always been fascinated by soulmarks. Like, what the fuck? There’s science that can see the soulmarks working in someone’s brain, chemical responses and nerve actions they can trace, but in the end no one really knows how it works, which is fascinating. He considers, for the four-hundredth time, writing a set of academic papers on what happens when your soulmate leaves you. Taking his own blood samples, monitoring his own brain, mathematically inscribing the pain he feels in his heart every time his left arm burns at him. It’s a field not many have looked into; he’s checked.

 

Steve and Tony, post-Civil War, and their soulmarks.

the sweetest (4513 words) by sevdrag
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton
Characters: Clint Barton, James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Pietro Maximoff, Wanda Maximoff
Additional Tags: Mandatory Fun Day
Series: Part 7 of tumblr mugged me in a back alley
Summary:

Turns out Clint's favorite afternoon snack actually comes from Hydra. It's a typical day for the Avengers, really.

(Mandatory Funday PopCycle prompt)

space, in the black (5073 words) by sevdrag
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Clint Barton, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Firefly Setting, Alternate Universe - Firefly Fusion, Bucky don't use proper grammar, Ensemble Cast
Series: Part 5 of Sev's Commission Run 2019
Summary:

When you're livin' on a ship full up with crew, sometimes you gotta keep things to yourself, give yourself a little bit of space in the black to hold what's private an' pure. Then, other times, you just gotta say, fuck it.

[MCU/Firefly mashup.] NOW WITH THE PORN!

I’ve got a bunch of other WIPs i’ll Share later this week, but hey, IM DOING ALL THE WRITING THINGS LOOKIT

So I haven't really been crossposting my work from the DOINK Chocobo Races -- I guess I should probably be posting it all over at brokenprism also, since I have been using that for years and like having a double archive in case something dies (since both LJ and AO3 are -- it's hard to imagine them not being there, but they've both had their issues in recent years, sadly; I'm not saying it's LIKELY but I'm mostly like OHGOD MY WORDS). But as I am lazy, today is not that day. Instead, here, have some links to fic I've written in the last couple months.

White (2395 words) by seventhe
Fandom: Final Fantasy IV
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Rydia, Asura (Final Fantasy IV)
Summary:

Rydia always thought she'd learn White Magic like her mother.

More meta from me - WHO IS SURPRISED - about Rydia's magic, and Asura. Will I ever get over my girlcrush on Asura? I AM NOT SURE.

Comfortable (922 words) by seventhe
Fandom: Final Fantasy V
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bartz Klauser/Faris Scherwiz
Characters: Faris Scherwiz, Bartz Klauser
Summary:

Faris has never been comfortable wearing the White Mage crystal. The White Mages do something about it.

I really would like to spend some more time on this idea and fully explore transgender!Faris; MAYBE WITH INCEST? I mean what. I didn't write that. Anyway, this is like the doodle that inspires a fuller work. I think it would be really interesting to go deeper.

Fades to Red (5119 words) by seventhe
Fandom: Final Fantasy VI
Rating: Explicit
Warning: Rape/Non-Con
Relationships: Celes Chere/Kefka Palazzo
Characters: Celes Chere, Kefka Palazzo
Summary:

Kefka asks Celes to help him with his research. He's only trying to help Terra, you know.

Warning: This is pretty legit noncon. It only qualifies as dubcon if you accept very dubious consent while under mind control. Just so you know, go in prepared, etc. Meant to be dark and creepy but of course I GOT META ALL OVER MY PORN so now I want to be like HEY EVERYBODY READ THIS except that definitely don't if consent is a must for you. It's cool, this is me taking the Fandom Hell Bus to the Shame Train. I'M NOT SORRY. I LIKE MAGIC!KINK OKAY.

So there you go - happy fun fic time. Chocobo Races have been fun -- we've gotten a lot more work than previous years and the Friending Meme has been a blast, for me anyway XD

This is mostly to remind you guys that sometimes I write things that are okay, so that when I start posting terrible Gundam Wing SHAME PORN this weekend no one mass defriends me.

Swiped this as soon as I saw it from rosencrantz and irish_ais ~!

Day 01: Favorite Final Fantasy Game

HOW DO I CHOOSE

Well, in typical Sev fashion, I am going to have to choose three because I don't do decisions, but I have reason for my choices, so here goes:

My favorite Final Fantasy game in general/overall is FFIV. This is for a lot of reasons that have nothing to do with the game itself and everything to do with nostalgia. FFIV was my first Final Fantasy - back when it was FFII - and I can remember first sitting down with my brother to play it: the boy I had a crush on in school had lent us FFII and Zelda for SNES, for one week, and I really just remember getting hooked on FFII. Jim and I couldn't beat it in the time we had it, but after getting that taste, we would constantly petition my mother to rent the game from the supermarket. It became our babysitter: Mum and Dad knew that if we had that game for an evening we wouldn't do anything else, including get hungry. It was real.

So I have a huge soft spot for that game overall. I loved Rydia from the second she came on the screen, adorable little green-haired nuker. I watched Cecil and Rosa be all sweet at each other, watched Kain's awkward honor/obedience thing twist himself up in ways I was probably too young to understand, loved Edge, cheered at Yang and Edward and Palom and Porom, and cried at the frigging Giant of Bab-Il when everyone comes back to fight, I'm not lying, I still tear up at that scene occasionally because, well, we're going on 20 years of memories of playing that (yup, just aged myself, didn't I).

I made Rydia and Rosa Lego People afterwards. I mean, okay, at that time, I liked video games, but I think I would have liked them more if they'd had girls in them - and FFII/FFIV did. No matter what (genuine and appropriate!) criticisms you can lay on Rosa and Rydia in terms of traditional female roles and female video-game-character roles (and I have!), you can't deny that they are important in the game, important to the plot. Rosa's at Cecil's side for a lot of it; Rydia saves the day with her summons. They both defy the menfolk and fly to the moon and won't take it back. It isn't - it was like, oh, okay, I can identify with that. I used to pretend I was Rydia more than I should admit online.

I've played this game more times than I should admit either. I've played it on SNES, on emulator, on PS1, on GBA, on DS, on PSP. I know it pretty well. And every time I play it I still enjoy it: so there isn't a lot of gameplay involved, no customizable characters, not even really replay value (except for the DS NGP option), and yet... I still love it, because I'm a nostalgic softhearted sucker for it. It still makes me smile and sigh and stabs my heart in all the right places.

So for those reasons, FFIV will always be my overall favorite.

My game I think is the best one is actually FFVI. It's complex and intricate in a lot of really awesome ways, with character backstories that are really fleshed out and personalities that are multilayered. It's funny and silly and heartwrenching and sad all at once. It has a fantastic villain and no real hero / "main character", but it's led by two awesome heroines who are central to the story being told. Gameplay is pretty straightforward, but characters are sort-of customizable (Esper levelling-up) and there's some replay value in that you can pick different parties and get different scenes in-game and at the ending. It's a great game and when I think of all of them, I still think it's the shining star.

It would be my favorite, but the nostalgia-value of FFIV pushes it over the edge, honestly. I have some pretty good memories of FFVI, too, though - dual-controller SNES games where I wanted to be all the girls and Jim had to be Sabin because I couldn't Blitz worth a nickel.

My favorite game to write for is FFVIII. As a fanfiction writer, as somebody in fandom, I think this is a slightly different angle: FFVIII was a fantastic and fantastically confusing game. And for a fanfic writer, it's still my favorite. I still haven't run out of stories to tell in that world; I omni-ship the entire cast; I'm still coming up with theories, past and present and future and why does no one pay attention to Ellone and the game was informative enough to give us these interesting characters, a time-twisting plotline, some father-son snippets, weird fated threads -- and yet confusing enough that it leaves plenty to write for, plenty to do, lots of things to say and explore and lots of directions to go.

It was a great game, and of the "later" FFs it is my favorite. And for fanfic, it is the winner.

( 30 Days of FF Meme )