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shizucheese · 10 months

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Hello...

I feel like I need to put some kind of intro here before I start filling this blog with fandom-related shower thoughts and snippets of my writing or whatever.

So hello, my name is Shizune. I'm a twitch streamer that mostly plays Final Fantasy games but sometimes other stuff too. Come check me out on Sundays starting at 4:30 central time and Wednesdays and Thursdays starting at 7:30 central time.

I'm currently playing FFXVI and I have so many feelings for that game right now. Once I'm done with that I'll be diving back into streaming FFXIV (we left off with the post-Titan content before XVI came out). I've been playing FFXIV since ARR and am streaming it on a fresh character, doing everything at minimum item level (I will definitely need help when I hit level 50, 60, etc. content when I start doing Alliance raids ;w;). I'm going to Fanfest at the end of this month and am hella excited.

I also write. Mostly I write original fiction, primarily high fantasy and urban fantasy, but I got into The Magnus Archives this past October, have since listened to it twice, and am now super hyper fixated on the relationship between John and Martin (probably because I'm demiromantic and somewhere on the ace spectrum and the fact that John is canonically asexual means that his relationship with Martin is purely based on romantic attraction and I just....ugh), so now I have 3 different TMA fanfiction continuities I'm working on that all take place after Mag200. Part of my master plan is to eventually post some of my work on AO3 and then I'll use this blog to post previews and update announcements. Keep your eyes peeled! I also just in general listen to a lot of podcasts, especially D&D (and some non-D&D) actual play campaigns and horror podcasts. According to multiple people I know I consume podcasts at an impressive rate, but I have ADHD and if I'm not listening to *something*, preferably with a narrative, then I'll go crazy. I love anime but don't marathon it quite on the same level that I marathon podcasts at because with podcasts I can multitask while with anime I want to actually watch it and fully appreciate not only the narrative but the animation. I think that pretty much covers the important stuff. I tend to be really awful about posting on social media but hopefully this time it clicks and I can stay on top of it...

#introductory post #introduction #final fantasy #final fantasy xvi #ff16 #final fantasy xiv #ff14 #writing #the magnus archives #tma #jonmartin #teaholding #fanfic #fanfiction #hopefully i'm doing this tagging thing right...#ADHD

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callmearcturus · 3 years

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Do you have podfic recommendations?

boy fucking howdy do i

the best podfic of all time is the due south podfic, Chicago’s Most Wanted. I owuld rec this to literally everyone. just go read a fucking summary of what due south is about and then listen to it. The plot is that Fraser, the do-good Canadian mountie of the lead duo, is undercover in prison and gets a concussion leading him to forget who he is and that he’s undercover. He hatches an escape plan from the prison and becomes a truly inspiring criminal mastermind. Meanwhile, his punk rock Chicago PD detective (who is in love with him), Ray, has to track him down. IT’S..... JUST GREAT. The POV is split, so one podcaster takes each side, and while the Fraser narrator is good, the Kowalski narrator...... /sits back in chair and stares at the ceiling. God. Goddamn. Jesus.

All time greatest, right there.

the one that is literally an episode of WTNV: The Devil Made Me Do It. Solemini is a fucking WITCH who perfectly emulates the tone and cadence of Carlos as he does the show for Cecil when Cecil is unable to speak. Like, the impression is utterly uncanny.

for TMA, I feel like everyone knows the incredible reading of the Polish Martin Fic, but I prefer but I was looking at his hand by the same reader. this reader (who has tragically orphaned ALL THEIR STUFF, i’m horrified to learn in making this list) has the most pitch-perfect Jon. if the real Mr. Sims ever has a voice problem, there is a backup available. the understated emotion, the pacing, the voices, this one is so good.

another WTNV one, inspired by your laugh to wait for things. this is a classic WTNV, written before most of the characterization for Carlos was cemented and thus reads as out of date now. but the language..... it’s gorgeous, and hearing it read and read well is a fucking treat. this is one i have put on a lot at work just for something to listen to.

ANOTHER WTNV one: Open & Notorious. this is not a podfic per se. it’s 11 minutes long. just..... just give it 11 minutes of your time. it’s hysterical. also i have a crush on one of the voices.

(okay I’ll explain Open & Notorious a little bit. in the first few seasons of WTNV, when they were on tour, it was common for the opening statement from “The Real Joseph Fink” to be voiced by whoever was around, including Hal Lublin, Dylan Marron, Symphony Sanders, Meg Bashwinner, and others. this is playing off that.)

Fayjay did a lot of incredible early podcasts, but in my recent relisten, I think my favorite is the SPN and I wake up blind, like my dreams were too bright. I... think this might be the only surviving version of the story? which is a fucking shame since its incredible. But Fayjay was always an amazing reader and this one, about Jimmy Novak dealing with an amnesiac Castiel, is harrowing and dramatic and just riveting to listen to.

who i have most recently been marathon listening to is Tenoko1, who has a METRIC TON of podfics. they are truly tremendous at reading, giving just enough affectation to each voice to differentiate them. I thoroughly enjoyed Play It All Night Long, but I finished 300 Things literally like two hours ago and that one. THAT ONE is the one you need. its fucking eight hours long, and I kept thinking I would get bored or want a break, but NOPE. it’s incredible. also their Castiel voice has the perfect “i’ve just been gargling gravel” tone and its great.

and.....

I really debated on reccing this because I feel like my thoughts on Homestuck are well known. but.....

Detective Pony, the Audiobook is far more than a podfic. it’s a tour de force. I consider it the definitive version of the story, as NakedBee’s editing and Duckface’s performance as the main narrator bring so much extra to the story. If you know nothing about Homestuck, just think of Detective Pony as.... “House of Leaves, created by a teenager with a philosophy fetish defacing a serial children’s story.” I still haven’t listened to it since The Epilogues Happened and maybe I never will. But there are monologues of this story that still live in my brain and probably will until I die. This thing, this audiobook, is literally a better work of art than anything Andrew Hussie could dream of, and it’s the actual best podfic ever made.

#podfic recs #spn #hs #wtnv #due south #tma #Anonymous

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dundeelemonade · 4 years

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things i could watch/do

wilde (1997)

pros: perfect reference material for my 1800′s homoerotic gentlemen’s club au

cons: the website has really poor streaming and it would take hours to get through pausing every five minutes to buffer

doctor who

pros: nostalgia! comfort. fun goofy sci fi stories with interesting lore

cons: i can’t fucking take the cgi okay i can’t handle it i am magnetically repelled from bad cgi

penumbra podcast

pros: a detective falling in love with the perp he can never get his hands on??? pure fucking romance. it’s like if jake peralta and doug judy kissed each other with passion and tenderness every time doug came along to put the blinders on jake.

cons: voice... acting........ and foley work....... and the writing is not super strong where i am in the series, i’m sorry but it’s true.

friends at the table

pros: my most favorite fic author can’t get enough of this series! the character dynamics must be really fun!

cons: this is so fucking dense i cannot keep track of anything that is happening, and i haven’t even listened to everyone introduce their characters yet, also four hour long episodes.

critical role

pros: i’m already quite a few episodes into season 2, and am just barely starting to Feel Things about their characters and the bonds they have with each other!

cons: four hour long episodes. FOUR HOURS. i cannot tell you how many times i’ve had to restart the same episode because every time i listened to it i ended up taking a nap.

relisten to the magnus archives

pros: picking up all the subtle character dynamics from the earlier episodes will benefit my rambling fanfics that i only ever show to my friends

cons: listening to tma the first time around made me physically nauseated from anxiety. actively listening to the episodes didn’t scare me, but immersing myself in a narrative about fear and the nature of fear and people’s relationships with fear and the way that they are afraid of other people and afraid of themselves, for multiple hours, for weeks, was actually not very good for me. who’d have thunk!!!

eldena doubleca5t’s pokemon let’s play series

pros: i love this man and his gentle unobtrusive manner of talking about how much this series means to him

cons: it makes me want to play pokemon... and the game frustrates me somewhat, cause i am a Bad Gamer...

digimon adventure thingie

pros: i don’t know anything about this game!! it seems really exciting! digimon hits an odd nostalgic streak in me, cause i didn’t watch it when i was a kid, but i did marathon it in like, 2013 or something, and i have fond memories of admiring the watercolor landscapes. plus i’d be able to talk to eo about it!

cons: i’d have to boot up my desktop and get through all the updates it will require... also clean my room enough to wrestle my computer chair back into the corner. also remember what i was doing the last time i played it.

wakfu

pros: HUGE nostalgia factor. this is my top mmorpg, it is so fucking stylish and cute and i understand it well enough that i can throw myself back into it without having to worry too much about learning a complicated system

cons: i don’t know if those plants are still extinct. it’s been years. i can’t level up as a farmer until i harvest those plants. this is so fucking sad i can’t believe wakfu deliberately created the ability for its players to harvest a plant species out of existence. also i’d probably get a little addicted to it again and i don’t think i need another addiction while i’m trying to move.

leverage

pros: it just seems like such a fun series! i think i could really get into these characters and the shit they get up to. anti-capitalist series of my dreams.

cons: this is the kind of thing i’d really want to watch with someone, and since they shut down rabb.it that is no longer any kind of possibility :(((

#big dee #rkewjhdgfjfbhv i can't fucking decide

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marlasomething · 2 years

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A Tight Weird Family 2: Georgie

Last October I wrote a TMA fic and posted it on AO3. However, I know it is veeeery long and only two chapters so...I decided to repost it on Tumblr chopping it off per character.

I poured my heart into this tale that I wrote because TMA, as silly as it might perhaps sound, helped me to actually be FAR MORE BETTER now at all levels that I was before I discovered it and...I cannot be thankful enough.

This takes place in my main AO3 TMA AU universe, but can be read separately (just: they brought their consciences back in time and had created a completely alternative timeline, the Institute now also serve as a refuge for runnaway kids because I have issues and Gerry is alive because I love him too much).

This is dedicated to Nadia and Paloma, thank you for being there and indulging all my writing.

Characters in this chapter: The Admiral, Georgie Barker, Jonathan Sims

TW: mentions of self-sabotage, VERY MILD swearing

Words: 1151

Previous chapter: Martin

Next chapter: Sasha

Just, as usual, please forgive my non-native speaker and quick tipper mistakes! Allons-y! Marla

Georgie was almost cent per cent sure the Tunnels were even colder than London itself on Christmas Eve. She shivered, glancing at Jon in the process, who was walking next to her with the expression of someone who had just run a marathon.

“It wasn’t that hard” she commented, petting The Admiral, who rested on her shoulder, almost completely normal-looking right now.

Jon gave her an almost murderous look.

“That it wasn’t…Ok, fine, I get you don’t feel fear but that…” he sighed. “Let just say this is the last time we go through with one of my ideas.”

“Oh, I am so marking these words for later on” she laughed at his frustrated expression. “Aw, come on! Be happy! The Institute is no longer linked to the guy who caused the end of reality as we know it, but to our little boy!”

“He wasn’t that little back there…”

She scoffed.

“Yeah, sure thing. But, please, at least admit I am right and that, with what you can know about The Admiral, he is going to be around for a quite a while, likely longer than, at least, some of us…so, this was kind of a good plan.”

“Yes. However, you weren’t right about everything…” before he could continue, she left their son on the floor and held her ex by the shoulders.

It was easy, since he was a head and a half smaller. He took a step back.

“Ey!”

“You are not going there again. You didn’t know what you were causing by reading that. Youa re to blame for a lot of things, but the end of the world isn’t in that list. You didn’t choose to read that bloody statement!”

“Yes; and people in cults happen to have been brainwashed more often than not. Still murder!”

“Shut it! Look, I get why you feel guilty, and I am not telling you not to feel guilty. That’d be plainly stupid. Just…please, do realise that that guilt…it’s not based on facts. It’s just a feeling.”

“They used to tell me the same about monsters under the bed” she gave him a cold stare; she knew that tone, it was the same he had started to use before they…well, part in bad terms.

It was what he did; when he decided to harm himself in any way possible. Being always the first step to alienate himself from the rest, so they didn’t care and, therefore, didn’t go down with him.

Melanie sometimes seemed capable -and willing- of doing something similar, but she had (somehow, still was, she guessed) learning to control it. Therapy had been of great help in that aspect.

She wondered for a moment if she had a type; but filed the thought for later analysis quickly enough.

She had more important matters to attend right now.

“Promise me you are not using that tone with Martin” she thought about adding again at the end of that sentence (she knew how rocky their beginning had been, but decided that Jon would probably be punishing himself for it until the day he died; so he didn’t actually deserve extra torture there, nor need extra recalling).

“Wait, what? Why would I…?”

“It’s call self-boycotting, Jonathan. God, so All-Knowing for some things and so blind for others…”

He reluctantly laughed.

“That was a terrible pun.”

She shrugged.

“But it got the point through. So…you are not, are you?”

“Good Lord; no, I am OBVIOUSLY not. Sorry, it is just…I guess I can’t believe Jonah is just another regular threat for us. I am still getting used to winning, if you may.”

He lowered himself to The Admiral’s height, who was staring at a point of the wall as if he could see through it (thing that, for what they had learned in the last few months, he could actually do now), and starting scratching his back.

“Who is a good monster-cat? You are going to make us SO PROUD…just, remember what mom and…er… Aunt Melanie taught you; try to feed exclusively in non-completely-innocent people, ok? They can be animal abusers if you want…”

Georgie laughed.

“Please, don’t have any human children. That was almost creepy and totally morally questionable, in the best case scenario.”

“He doesn’t kill them, just…”

“…left them scared to the state of shock and perpetually traumatised?”

“Precisely.”

She kneeled too.

“Don’t listen to dad; he is the anti-Christ, after all.”

“I am not, ugh, who came up with that? Was it Tim? Melanie? Daisy?”

“Actually, it was Martin” he blushed.

“Oh, ok then…”

She smiled warmly; he had never been this…this when they had dated. It was sweet, similar to what she had seen in Melanie now that she was with her compared to the way she had acted in previous relationships. It was as if they had to find the one (or ones; who knew what could happen in a future) to get in that state in which things that previously would have been taken as straight-up outrageous became just fine when said person was the one that did the deed.

Well, shit; she might actually have a type.

Not that she was going to wonder about it right now; as long as Melanie was there, she just couldn’t picture herself falling for anyone else…

…and, yes, maybe their situation wasn’t ideal. Being as they were the only completely regular people on an institution linked to a primordial horror; chosen by those non-completely-human people as their bosses of sorts to cut them in case they went too far at some point, as their anchor to the normal world…

…and that was just the tip of the iceberg of their bizarre new reality, but she wouldn’t have it with anyone else and, being honest, it wasn’t all that bad.

Especially the money; with the kind of money she had now she could say goodbye to the stupid mattress adds on What the Ghost?

When she came back to reality from her inner digression, she found that Jon was lying flat on the floor, next to The Admiral, who was carving the Tunnels themselves with a paw much stronger than it should be.

“Jon?! What are you two doing?!”

“Mouse, he wouldn’t let it go! So, I thought, might as well support him.”

“And you indulged the boy, of course you did! Again, please, never have human kids” she shook her head and took The Admiral, who meowed with annoyance in her arms. “Sorry Admiral, dad should already be with Uncle Martin” he frowned and took a look at the time on his phone. Then, his expression turned into a worried one.

“Shit, yeah, fuck. Let’s hurry.”

“Fine, but don’t speak like that in front of The Admiral.”

“Oh, please, he lives with Melanie; I bet this was a children-rated movie vocabulary in comparison to what he has to hear every other morning.”

She couldn’t deny that.

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