the trick is to keep breathing

For anyone who isn't watching M-U, I'm already having an interesting experience with FFI.

You can also watch me liveblog my thoughts in most classy fashion in the #sevplaysffi tag on Tumblr.

For the record -- and as I discuss in the M-U post -- I'm also simultaneously trying to play The World Ends With You and Dragon Age (I've been lent the PS3 version and am curious to see whether I enjoy it more on that system with that interface, or if I should stick with the computer).

Should be an interesting January.

So! FFVIII fans:

( questions on Laguna, Squall, Ellone; cut for pretty obvious but still-existing spoilers )

So guess who actually got sunburnt this weekend?! If you guess me, you are correct.

( Grad school, bike rides, beer making and scientific nerditude thereof, birthday parties, and more sunshine than you can shake a stick at )

Things I did not do this weekend:

• Write any words at all.


• lunaticdiscord. I didn't even check my email (thx for 250+ unreads this morning guyz)


• FFEX documents WHICH I AM GOING TO DO TODAY, I SWEAR

Anyway. It's beautiful here, again. I love this.

HEY GUYS!

There's a Rinoa fan-work-a-thon, here. Leave your prompts and ogle over some of the ones already posted! Rinoa needs more fandom love and less catty hate, y'know.

venefica_aura, one of my prompts is mainly your fault, and I am expecting you to pick up on it. ( #2.)

Come on over and give shanaqui some help in celebrating Rinoa! XD

God, I love fandom some days. *is a loser*

It is so freaking lame that I want these. I mean -- it isn't even grown-up Rydia. How will I make it make out with Edge and Kain???

EDIT: According to THIS, the FFIV characters will talk to you while on the map! They think thoughts at you! OK I WANT THIS GAME SO BAD RIGHT NOW.

New FFIV fic in the works, ladies and gentlemen!

Hunter
Authors: first_seventhe and rosencrantz (Sev and Enkida)
Fandom: FFIV
Characters: Kain, Rydia, Edge, Cast
Rating: M / R
Spoilers: Whole damn game.

Summary: Heroes aren't always automatically granted a happily ever after... sometimes, winning is only the start of the battle. Kain, Rydia, Edge - and the aftermath of victory.

Part I: Penance (01)
LJ: http://brokenprism.livejournal.com/19137.html
ff.net: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3622929/1/

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The fic is a gift for katmillia, or at least it started out that way. It's now the hugest, most tl;dr gift ever.

I'll be updating it in brokenprism, and I mean it this time ;), so I probably won't post about it here every time because I don't want to spam people. Consider this your introductory post! This is basically just blatant self-promoting spam. SPAM SPAM SPAM. I know some of you on my F-List are FFIV people, so please take a read and let me know what you think. <3 THERE WILL BE PORN IN THIS STORY, LATER

ALRIGHT GUYS. I know a lot of you have seen this on your FList already, so forgive me if you have. But those of you who may have not? ff_exchange!

It's a fanwork exchange-a-thon! You fill out a little form saying what you want to get, and what you're willing to give, and we'll match you up! You've got an entire month to work on your gift (fic, art, whatever you'd like). A MONTH. THAT'S NOT BAD GUYS.

SO? Well, since bottle_of_shine, justira, and I have worked so hard on this, OBVIOUSLY I want you guys to all sign up for it! The more people we have, the larger pool we have to pull from, and the more likely everybody is to get their top request. Plus, it's going to be fun and awesome. FUN AND AWESOME. What's better than that?

And if you don't think you can participate - if the deadline scares you, or you're nervous about writing gifts, or whatever - you know what you could do? Advertise this yourself. Drop a line in a Final Fantasy community where you're a member or a mod. Try to get some other friends involved in this. Like I said, the more the merrier.

**Especially fans of the earlier games, because certain communities *cough* have been meanieheads about letting us advertise.

ANYWAY! Yes, ff_exchange. You should go anyway to see Ira's absolutely adorable arts. But c'mon?

From twilightsrain - RULES: Each player of this game starts off with 10 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 10 weird habits/things/little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you need to choose 10 people to be tagged and list their names. No tagbacks.

(01) I love to conceive of and start projects, but I have trouble finishing them. (I'm INTP: excellent at creative ideas, horrible at follow-through.) This goes for stories, comics which have never seen the light of day, and everything else, up to and including the organization of my study.

(02) I have almost no ligaments left in my right ankle, after a series of totally awesome ligament-tearing accidents.

(03) Rina and I exchange like >100 emails a week on average. She's bad for me. in a wickedly awesome way

(04) I have to put on clean socks when I come home from work. I just don't feel clean wearing the same socks - when I change my clothes, I change socks, too. I used to wash my feet every day when I came home from work. It's like a little ritual.

(05) I ALWAYS toast when drinking. Every drink, every beer, every shot, whether in bottles or plastic cups, out or at home. I am very supersticious about this.

(06) I kiss my kitty on the head for good luck.

(07) My back will only crack to the right - not to the left.

(08) I have seven piercings, all in my ears. I can't get any more because seven is my lucky number (duh) and I don't want to mess up my rockin' aura.

(09) I only have one real friend left from high school, and none left from college. All of my current friends are 'new' friends from Akron.

(10) I have no short-term memory - I have to write lists on the back of my hand to make myself remember to do something.

As for tagging: feel free to tag yourself in the comments if you want to do the meme yourself. Amuse me!!

BALTHIER IS BRINGING SEXY BACK.

GOD OF SEX.

That is all.