#don't i have a general ff7 tag too...

[farfromdaylight]

i started replaying ff7 remake while ff14 is down today and i'm so. hmmm.

on the one hand, i think there's a lot of interesting stuff in it. i love how it expands the world — ff7's world is one of my absolute favorites — and i really loved seeing midgar in more depth. the characters are also all true to how i remember them from the original game, especially barret. (i was so worried that ff7r would forget that barret is the deuteragonist for a significant portion of the game, but thank goodness it didn't.)

on the other hand... i still wish it was a remake, man. i get that they wanted to do something new and different, and i can appreciate that, but... i wanted an HD version of the game, not... whatever the hell it is we got. really, i should have known my hopes were dashed when sephiroth showed up in the first hour of remake.

i'm excited for rebirth as its own thing, but i'm also like... i can't view this as a re-imagining of the original game, it's its own thing. which is fine and there's a lot of interesting stuff in that decision, but it's not what i wanted, you know? still, it's what we're getting, so i've no choice but to accept it.

the game is beautiful though. i'm playing it on my PS5 now and it's absolutely stunning, i'm sure rebirth will be just as gorgeous. not that i think it looked bad on the ps4, but it's extra pretty this way.

#ff7r liveblog #let's go with that since i may make more posts hmm #don't i have a general ff7 tag too... #ff7 blogging

[valentinesie]

WELCOME TO VALENTINESIE'S PAGE!!

Gaybian lesboy aroace agender gothic, aroace omni sapphic, lazy decked (devils candy) turigirl icons, circled and bordered, horsegender gay, bunnygender gay flags with soft colours, bipan lesboy, Butch/futch/femme gaybian, techcore gaybian,

about, byf, dni ; under the cut!

‹𝟹‹𝟹‹𝟹 ABOUT valentine

◟◟001. the names! !

You can call me Valentine, Sephiroth, or Caelian (kah-eh-lian) I will always answer to those! more here

◟◟002. the head! !

Attention! I am borderline and histrionic, which are commonly tied together. I also have autism && generalized anxiety disorder, linked with paranoid personality disorder!

◟◟003. the identity! !

My pronouns are here. I'm a femme girlboyflux abro bisexual velaurian! I'm also a lesboy, a turigirl and much more! Otherkin stuff includes but is not limited to: angelkin, idolkin, vampkin && more

◟◟004. likeslikes! !

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‹𝟹‹𝟹‹𝟹 ABOUT the blog

◟◟001. will do! !

⠀⋆˒ xenogenders coining

⠀⋆˒ flag making

⠀⋆˒ flag combos

⠀⋆˒ names, pronouns or titles finds

⠀⋆˒ radinclu stuff

⠀⋆˒ Icons (♡)(♡)(♡)

◟◟002. won't do! !

⠀⋆˒ radqueer/transx stuff

⠀⋆˒ exclu, panphobic, blerf, terf, radfem flags

⋆˒ "x hating" flag

⠀⋆˒ overall stuff that fits my dni

⠀⋆˒ system / plural stuff! (I'm a singlet so...)

◟◟003. Byf! !

I love to defend the things I appreciate or enjoy!

I am autistic and borderline, I struggle reading tones and tend to take everything, too personally. It's nothing against anyone! If I get agressive, for a reason that might be futile, just kindly tell me!

If you block me, I might ask why. Not knowing the reasons makes me really anxious. I aspire to improve myself and so, I need to know what made you block me.

If I repost someone, it doesn't mean I support their whole blog, it just means this post somehow correlates to my opinion or to what I like. Naturally, I won't repost it if I knows the person dni && fit it.

Anyone can use my flags, just be respectful and credit me. My flags don't "support" nor "don't support" anything. Me making them has nothing to do with queer discourse.

Don't be rude, when I say something, it means I have arguments and reasons. Instead of randomly bashing me at the smallest things, ask for explanations! I'll kindly share them.

I support "contradictory" labels, this includes but is not limited to: mspec lesbian, mspec gay, lesboys, turigirls, trans women gays, trans men lesbian, etc!

◟◟004. Dni! !

If you are anti-mogai or think xenos/neos aren't valid.

If you think non-binaries can't be gay/lesbians or if you don't support he/him lesbians or she/her gays.

If you do not support "contradictory labels"

If you fakeclaim.

Against otherkin, non-humans, therian, etc!

Doesn't support self dx.

Dmsp, South park, fnaf and genshin fans, unless I follow first.

Pedos, shotacons, lolicons, maps, proshippers, etc or anyone who support those!

If you demonize the cluster b (npd, bpd, hpd, aspd) and this includes if you belive that narcissistic abuse exist.

Under 13, unless I follow first.

If you are pro-contact paraphilia.

Don't cw/tw

If you're going to judge me or mock me/my interests.

Exclus or "Safequeers" ("inclusive" term that excludes mspec lesbians/gays and lesboys/turigirls && more.

Transmeds, transcums, gender skeptics, gender police, etc.

Anti-ageres.

Any kind of bigot.

‹𝟹‹𝟹‹𝟹 ABOUT the tags

ᨳ🎀﹕the prinzessin herself ﹕ my hoard!

ᨳ💌﹕a letter from the citizens ﹕ inbox!

ᨳ🦇﹕the winged one speaks ﹕ text posts!

ᨳ🌹﹕a gift for one's subject ﹕ coinning post!

ᨳ🐈‍⬛﹕rise the flag ﹕ flag making!

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[lynmars79]

— MUTUAL CATCHUP —

tagged by @rinzukodas

LAST SONG: "Flow" from FF14 Endwalker. I was listening to a bunch of FF music earlier and that's one of the last ones on that playlist.

CURRENTLY WATCHING: Just Candela Obscura at the moment; haven't really been following the main Critical Role campaign for a few weeks. There's a buncha shows and films I do want to catch up on though...

THREE SHIPS:

Goliath/Elisa Maza (saw some saucy art the other day)

John Sheridan/Delenn (Reactor Mag's starting a B5 rewatch)

Clive Rosfield/Jill Warrick (Fire & Ice slowburn in FF16)

FAVORITE COLOR(s): Blues.

CURRENTLY INTO: Agreeing with Rin's change of wording here. So in no particular order:

Midst - Podcast, weird scifi western, 3 unreliable narrators, a fascinating cast and unique setting. Morally questionable people who think they're each in control of things (they're not) and a cult/government that uses morality for currency and social status. Hosted by Critical Role, but they let Third Person do their own thing. The videos are mildly animated art, the sound and music are amazing, I love how they use words and like combing through the transcripts, there are appendices with lore each episode. It's in its 3rd and final season, wrapping up a distinct story. Episodes are only 15-40ish mins long, 19 episodes a season. It's great please listen (with headphones on for the sound design).

FF7 Rebirth - Watching a friend play. It's pretty great but oh so many sidequests and minigames! The story changes are fascinating and often clarifies or explains things that were nonsense or ignored in the original. Adds new mysteries and oddities all its own. Adds in some things from side games in the same world (like Cissnei).

FF16 - Have to watch friends play this too as I have no PS5 and am waiting for the PC release. I love the characters and the overall story (tho I have my quibbles). Also could use some more sidequests and minigames, but Rebirth took all of them.

Flight Rising - clicky browser game where you breed pretty dragons, giving them patterns they can pass on to offspring. Can dress them up, give them familiars, play games, fight coliseum battles. I've been playing to one degree or another for 10+ years. I'm currently trying to catch up my neglected familiars and max out their bonds.

FIRST SHIP: Probably from the 1980s cartoons when I was a kid. I don't remember. There's been so many.

PLACE OF BIRTH: The clinic no longer exists, actually.

CURRENT LOCATION: My bedroom.

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Happily Single

LAST MOVIE: Legit cannot remember; rarely watch movies, though there's plenty on my To Watch list…

CURRENTLY WORKING ON: an original fantasy story. I know the characters, I know the plot. I know the world state. Backstories. Figuring out where and when it starts, how characters get to various points and places (and what they change in my plans along the way). Have more research to do but want to have the general shape wrangled into place to narrow that down.

TAGGING: whoever wants to!

#tumblr #blogging #about me #lyn prompts

[thecloudstan]

I totally get your point about the original, and I didn’t mean to criticize the game itself because I know it’s practically ancient, at least in terms of videogame standards. It’s just that I’ve seen so many old fans saying how the original is superior in every way and it pretty much discredits everything added to the remakes. Like I get that they have their nostalgia, but it gets annoying after a while if you genuinely enjoyed the new stuff and you just have a bunch of people complaining about everything. I’ll go on Reddit to see if anyone has theories about the ending or what they thought about the game in general and I’ll run into a good amount of people on every post complaining about something- even if it’s inconsequential- and it’ll feel like they’re doing it just because they’re grumpy it’s not a one to one remake.

Again it’s not meant to be criticism against the original which is like three decades old by now, but rather of the people who just refuse to accept change. I do agree though that people on both sides need to calm down. There’s so much anger for nothing. If you’re going to get mad about something can’t you find something better to take your frustrations out on? Like is all the complaining about time shenanigans and slightly altered plot points really worth all the energy?

I agree, My People (oldies) are way too fucking precious about the original. Devs were in this rock and hard place of "don't change my thing but remake it and make it perfectly." Girl, what? It's not possible. Open your mind. Massage your ego a bit, take the nostalgia glasses off. YOU ARE MISSING OUT ON THIS. I just want to shake them!!

My husband was one of these types and we had HEATED arguments between 2015 and the release of Remake in 2020 about this very subject. I'm happy to say he's 100% reformed. LOL.

And if I sounded touchy, it's only because I'm old and tired. I actually avoid Reddits and tags about the game for the same reason you stated. I'm either going to see new fans confused and misinterpreting things or old assed fans who just won't accept any changes. Remake is a SEQUEL. It is literally Sephiroth trying to RE MAKE the events of the original so he can win. Everything that happens is inconsequential to the original game, so if they want their precious baby intact, it very much still is. And tbqh with you, the new fans are a lot more fun lmfao. Which honestly just makes me sad for my people because I'm like...guys, relax. You of all people should be enjoying this because of your knowledge of the Deep Lore. That's a layer of added interest, not something to get all babyish about.

As far as the original being SUPERIOR, ignore those fools. They're literally robbing themselves of a great experience over an apples and oranges argument.

Actually!! This happened wayyy back in the 90s, too. I got a lot of grief from people for loving the original so much. Back then it was mostly male Nintendo fans that I was surrounded by, so I was that sole bitch straight up defending Cloud's honor on the battlefield (the schoolyard). And then by the time I was in high school, all those guys had played FF7 and loved it.

They'll come around. Just laugh at them for now.

#stanswers #dogsovercats504 #ff7 #ff7r #ff7 rebirth #ff7 rebirth spoilers #ff7r spoilers #final fantasy 7 rebirth #final fantasy 7 rebirth spoilers #final fantasy vii rebirth spoilers

[quietborderline]

Fandom Questions

I was tagged by @illusivesoul. Thank you, my friend! <3

I'll tag: @satashiiwrites @tkwritesdumbassassins @missanniewhimsy @outtoshatter @whimsyswastry

... and I'm drawing a blank on people/who writes these days/etc. but please feel free to include yourself and say I tagged you if you want! No pressure at all, as always.

How many works do you have on AO3? 10

What's your total AO3 words count? 113,195

What fandoms do you write for? Mostly Mass Effect these days. In theory, Generation Kill and Final Fantasy VII as well. And a few other random ones I have WIPs for that I've never shared at all.

What are your top 5 fics by kudos? 1. Black Holes and Revelations 2. No Matter How Many Deaths That I Die 3. Undisclosed Desires 4. Rise & Shine 5. A Song To Come Home To.

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? Usually, yes. To show my love and appreciation. Sometimes it takes me a while.

What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Sleeping With Ghosts definitely is/will be my most angsty ending by far.

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? I don't know, I think they're all about equal except for Sleeping With Ghosts. I'm typically an "Angst with a Happy Ending" type of person.

Do you get hate on fics? Not usually. And any hate I've ever gotten has been here on Tumblr, never on AO3 itself thankfully.

Do you write smut. If so what kind? Sure sometimes. And WTF do you mean what kind? Whatever kind I feel like? So confused.

Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written? I LIVE for crossovers lol. But craziest? I don't know... recently, the most random is probably my High Seas MEA fusion fic. The most complex, though, is definitely Depuis Le Debut.

Have you ever had a fic stolen? Yes and it sucks. And honestly, that and other experiences I've had are a big part of why I don't really post much at all anymore. It takes quite a lot to make me feel a certain specific way and fandom lately has succeeded in that regard where pretty much all else has failed. Sad but true.

Have you ever had a fic translated? No, not that I'm aware of.

Have you ever cowritten a fic before? Yes, tons. I used to exclusively co-write and RP. Many moons ago, in another life.

What's your all-time favourite ship? I don't think I could choose just one single all-time favorite.

What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will? I'm not sure I'll ever finish sharing Fools Can Be Kings, my MDV Reyes fic.

What are your writing strengths? Dialogue. Music. Planning.

What are your writing weaknesses? Everything else.

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic? It depends on the context. The way most people tend to use it kinda squicks me out, but I have seen it done well IMO on occasion too.

First fandom you wrote for? FF7, I think.

Favourite fic you've ever written? Black Holes and Revelations.

#tag games #thank you friend! #<3 #fandom life

[secret-engima]

What's the Little Nox universe? Hi, I'm new and I found you through your HZD x FFXV crossover which has a too long for me to write in this ask. I know the barest minimum of FFXV -- let alone the FF universe on its which is close enough to zero -- but I started the game the other day because I'm almost done with HZD... and I stumble upon this Little Nox thing that is the cutest stuff ever even if I don't know half of what I should about FFXV or FF in general. Hence this ask XD

Hi! Welcome aboard my crazy! Can I just say real quick that I ... ADORE the fact that you found me through my crossover? That thing gets barely any reviews on my Ao3 and FF accounts so knowing someone reads it (and knows the HZD side of it) makes me smile.

Really quick, ineffective summary of FF: don’t worry about playing FFXV before anything else because all but a handful are stand-alone games. Final Fantasy is just a Brand and all Final Fantasy games thus share some world-building traits such as the name of currency (gil), the use of potions and phoenix downs, the existence of chocobos (think Giant Adorable Ridable Chickens), some flora and fauna and some reaccuring minor characters (there are two characters named Bigs and Wedge after the Star Wars pilots who always pop up SOMEWHERE in an FF game as something of a running gag/cameo for example). But when it comes to overarching PLOT and major characters, each game is a new thing unless it’s popular enough to spawn spin-offs (such as FF7′s expanded universe, which had several spin-off games and a movie).

Hopefully Non-Spoiler summary of FFXV: Evil Technological Empire of Evil offers a supposed peace treaty with the Magical Kingdom Of the Good Guys after about 100+ of intermittent war, with one of the conditions being that the MC, Prince Noctis, marries their Oracle Princess, Lunafreya. Insomnia (the magical kingdom of good guys) accepts the treaty because it’s that or continue to slowly loose ground to the empire’s superior technological might and thus four bros consisting of the Husband-to-Be, his buff bodyguard Gladio, his faithful Team Mom advisor Ignis, and his civilian photography loving friend Prompto head off on a road trip to go to a neutral city to get Noctis married.

OBVIOUSLY things go Sideways stupid fast because Evil Empire of Evil™.

Also no one dares travel at night because of a plague of creatures called daemons that are slowly getting stronger and eviler and more of a threat to the world. Noctis is going to have to Deal With This at some point but that falls under spoilers so if you haven’t already been horribly spoiled by my blog or want to AVOID spoilers than I shall stop there.

Also if you want to avoid spoilers ... read my blog with caution. I have tagged literally nothing as spoilers even though I talk about late game meta and lore A LOT because I honestly never expected to drag newbies into my fandom.

If you DON’T mind spoilers or are just curious, feel free to drop me an ask! Or read my blog, the spoilers are all in there somewhere. Anyway-

 My Little Nox verse is ... sorta complicated? Okay so- I have a HUGE weakness for time-travel shenanigans, so I have multiple AUs for FFXV where Noctis (the MC) time-travels either alone, with his three bros, or with Ardyn who you may or may not have met yet depending on where you are in the game. ANYWAY, the AU where Noctis and Ardyn go back in time together is called Nox verse because Noctis can’t exactly parade around with the name of the young Crown Prince who ALSO exists. Since Noctis is terrible at thinking up cover names and needs something similar enough to his old name that he’ll respond, he calls himself Nox.

Now, in Nox verse Prime, Nox is 7 years older than his non-time-travel counterpart, which leads everyone to believe that Nox is a royal Oops baby from back when his dad was traveling the world. Because Nox and Ardyn travel together and Nox is always jokingly calling him Uncle, everyone thinks that Ardyn is Nox’s mother’s brother who is taking care of the teenling Oops Prince. They later get discovered by Regis, who takes in his son and ... sort of brother-in-law.

Of course, SOMEBODY yote the brilliant idea of an AU of my AU where instead of coming back in time OLDER than his counterpart, Nox was YOUNGER. Way younger. So young that his body couldn’t handle his adult magic/memories and so he kinda mentally regressed to a kid, even if he still has his adult memories in something of a dreamlike state. Ardyn, who never once took a childcare class or raised a kid, promptly panic-rampages his way across the local timeline, trying to figure out how to CARE FOR SMOL CHILD and ends up making everyone believe that the Evil Empire of Evil attempted to clone the royal good guy family and that the teeny clone is Nox. Regis, upon discovering a supposed clone child, immediately takes him in and raises him as his own because Regis is the Dadliest Dad to Ever Dad (his official in-game Epithet is the Father I’m not even joking).

Being a sucker for Fluff and Drama that I am, I immediately took the idea and ran with it, thus spawning the Little Nox verse spinoff of my Nox verse.

I ... hope that ramble was helpful?

#SE asks #spectrumcrovn asks #Little Nox verse #Nox verse #Secret Engima Rambles #ffxv #final fantasy