FFT and other FF and other things
Jun. 5th, 2025 02:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taicharaSo I woke up yesterday evening to the announcement of the long-awaited Final Fantasy Tactics remaster and after all this time, I find I'm kind of mixed feelings about it? Or maybe more accurately, I don't feel as much as I expected/would like to?
But then I can already play multiple iterations of FFT, and also this doesn't look like it's getting half the attention Tactics Ogre Reborn did (just the Collector's Box merch -- which had already sold out by maybe 1am my time last night), and something tastes bad about this finally turning up now that Squenix has basically admitted they're going to be virtually a dead zone for ~2 years, an nuked their global mobile games, and ...
... And, yeah. I'll no doubt get this, but right now I can just play FFTWotL. Or FFTA2, more likely, grand glorious DS game that it is.
All of this, of course, while I'm trying to sort my FF issues and also push some small blocks into place for making my own FF, as well as some other things-related chewing on my brainstem, like:
- Dissidia. I want to poke at (a) Dissidia.
- similarly, a Theatrhythm. probably the first one, pretty sure that one had the dungeon setup I liked more.
- doing incredible violence to basically everything using mtl to read the FFIV novels.
Also I finally after decades have the other volumes of the tiny original FFIV sourcebooks on the way, including the setting book. So I can check that one translation against crazed mtl and see what my brain makes of it (also pictures. it will be nice to actually own the book with the Kain's white magic command screencap in it.)
Unrelated, I finally got a bloody fiction zine put together and made a post over on![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
makezines about it. Go me. Now keep doing that. Maybe by, oh, making that bloody FF zine.
But then I can already play multiple iterations of FFT, and also this doesn't look like it's getting half the attention Tactics Ogre Reborn did (just the Collector's Box merch -- which had already sold out by maybe 1am my time last night), and something tastes bad about this finally turning up now that Squenix has basically admitted they're going to be virtually a dead zone for ~2 years, an nuked their global mobile games, and ...
... And, yeah. I'll no doubt get this, but right now I can just play FFTWotL. Or FFTA2, more likely, grand glorious DS game that it is.
All of this, of course, while I'm trying to sort my FF issues and also push some small blocks into place for making my own FF, as well as some other things-related chewing on my brainstem, like:
- Dissidia. I want to poke at (a) Dissidia.
- similarly, a Theatrhythm. probably the first one, pretty sure that one had the dungeon setup I liked more.
- doing incredible violence to basically everything using mtl to read the FFIV novels.
Also I finally after decades have the other volumes of the tiny original FFIV sourcebooks on the way, including the setting book. So I can check that one translation against crazed mtl and see what my brain makes of it (also pictures. it will be nice to actually own the book with the Kain's white magic command screencap in it.)
Unrelated, I finally got a bloody fiction zine put together and made a post over on
makezines about it. Go me. Now keep doing that. Maybe by, oh, making that bloody FF zine.I just think it's pretty
Jun. 3rd, 2025 09:06 pmchase_acowI never know if anything or anyone is actually popular, but I saw this Anthony Hurd's art because his book it coming out, and I just love everything. He does some really interesting surrealism in his i was born in a gay bar show and his dark optimism series. Also, he does some really good cacti.
But mostly my attention turned to his most recent work and the content of his book. He arts queer cowboys that include men in dresses, bipoc, and older men. It's really colorful, I love the blocking, and everything feels so tender. You can decide if it's tender like a bruise or not.
Gay Dreaming. There are several galleries if you back out to his main site.
I'd like to buy a print for my birthday.
But mostly my attention turned to his most recent work and the content of his book. He arts queer cowboys that include men in dresses, bipoc, and older men. It's really colorful, I love the blocking, and everything feels so tender. You can decide if it's tender like a bruise or not.
Gay Dreaming. There are several galleries if you back out to his main site.
I'd like to buy a print for my birthday.
Starfall Stories 47
Jun. 2nd, 2025 08:29 pmthisbluespiritI'm still a bit behind on crossposting these:
Name: Trap for the Unwary
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #1 (Hope); Vert #28 (Fear less, hope more)
Supplies and Styles: Chiaroscuro + Thread
Word Count: 2375
Rating: PG
Warnings: Imprisonment, nausea.
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Leion Valerno. (Leion's side of On the Trail.)
Summary: Leion walks into a trap.
Name: Blink of an Eye
Story: Starfall
Colors: Beet red #18 (Easy does it); Azul #19 (Trust the strength of another)
Supplies and Styles: Pastels (forno_true_pair prompt "March 27th - Osmer and Pello out in the woods") + Canvas
Word Count: 1091
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: 1311 somewhere in High Eisterland; Osmer Nivyrn, Pello Ahblan. (Slightly random snippet as yet.)
Summary: Pello gets his first taste of the Paths.
Name: Trap for the Unwary
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #1 (Hope); Vert #28 (Fear less, hope more)
Supplies and Styles: Chiaroscuro + Thread
Word Count: 2375
Rating: PG
Warnings: Imprisonment, nausea.
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Leion Valerno. (Leion's side of On the Trail.)
Summary: Leion walks into a trap.
Name: Blink of an Eye
Story: Starfall
Colors: Beet red #18 (Easy does it); Azul #19 (Trust the strength of another)
Supplies and Styles: Pastels (for
no_true_pair prompt "March 27th - Osmer and Pello out in the woods") + CanvasWord Count: 1091
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: 1311 somewhere in High Eisterland; Osmer Nivyrn, Pello Ahblan. (Slightly random snippet as yet.)
Summary: Pello gets his first taste of the Paths.
not so final
Jun. 2nd, 2025 09:45 amtaicharaA few years back when I got Big Mad[tm] at Fire Emblem in general (the culmination of several different factors) at the end I threw up my hands, swore a lot, and said fuck it, I'll make my own damn Fire Emblem. And then I did.
(it's not a videogame, don't get your hopes up)
It got a lot of spleens vented and let me sort some stuff. Was a good thing and I enjoyed iteven when I was grating my face on the desk.
Clearly I need(ed) to come to the following jeezus:
Fuck it, I'll make my own Final Fantasy.
(it's not a videogame, don't get your hopes up)
It got a lot of spleens vented and let me sort some stuff. Was a good thing and I enjoyed it
Clearly I need(ed) to come to the following jeezus:
Fuck it, I'll make my own Final Fantasy.
Write Every Day - May 2025 - Day 31
May. 31st, 2025 06:37 pmfalknerAnd now for the real last post of the month, how did you do?
Our host for June will becornerofmadness, so see you there starting tomorrow.
This post will be updated as long as people comment, so feel free to come back and check in late for May.
Welcome post.
( Days 1-7 )
( Days 8-14 )
( Days 15-21 )
( Days 22-28 )
Day 29:china_shop, larryhammer, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, goddess47, trobadora, cornerofmadness, brithistorian, yasaman, kissed, sanguinity, nafs, ysilme, shadaras, chanter1944
Day 30:china_shop, sylvanwitch, badly_knitted, goddess47, larryhammer, sanguinity, nafs, brithistorian, cornerofmadness, ysilme, shadaras, kissed, trobadora, yasaman, chanter1944
Day 31:goddess47, shadaras, badly_knitted, china_shop, trobadora, sanguinity, kissed, nafs, cornerofmadness, ysilme, sylvanwitch, yasaman, chanter1944
Our host for June will be
cornerofmadness, so see you there starting tomorrow.This post will be updated as long as people comment, so feel free to come back and check in late for May.
Welcome post.
( Days 1-7 )
( Days 8-14 )
( Days 15-21 )
( Days 22-28 )
Day 29:
china_shop, larryhammer, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, goddess47, trobadora, cornerofmadness, brithistorian, yasaman, kissed, sanguinity, nafs, ysilme, shadaras, chanter1944Day 30:
china_shop, sylvanwitch, badly_knitted, goddess47, larryhammer, sanguinity, nafs, brithistorian, cornerofmadness, ysilme, shadaras, kissed, trobadora, yasaman, chanter1944Day 31:
goddess47, shadaras, badly_knitted, china_shop, trobadora, sanguinity, kissed, nafs, cornerofmadness, ysilme, sylvanwitch, yasaman, chanter1944(no subject)
May. 31st, 2025 11:23 ammalurettehello? i got ripped up by my own brain?
i was having a Fantastic dream this morning
dreaming that i was sleeping in a room not my own when suddenly a beam of light came from a hole in the ceiling
you know how tiny holes can act as a lens? yeah
this one played tiny short movies in black and white across the bedsheets
animation was a bit choppy but every short had a different style
there was minimalist drawing
there was freaking 90ties shoujo
there was Berserk??
and so many more
but
i forgot almost every detail once i woke up
because my brain replaced them by another dream about freaking menu lists
(who cares about menus? i have a written memo in the waking world for menus and grocery lists! so i don't have to use my brain space for that! give me back the dream art!!!)
i was having a Fantastic dream this morning
dreaming that i was sleeping in a room not my own when suddenly a beam of light came from a hole in the ceiling
you know how tiny holes can act as a lens? yeah
this one played tiny short movies in black and white across the bedsheets
animation was a bit choppy but every short had a different style
there was minimalist drawing
there was freaking 90ties shoujo
there was Berserk??
and so many more
but
i forgot almost every detail once i woke up
because my brain replaced them by another dream about freaking menu lists
(who cares about menus? i have a written memo in the waking world for menus and grocery lists! so i don't have to use my brain space for that! give me back the dream art!!!)
Write Every Day - May 2025 - Day 30
May. 30th, 2025 07:47 pmfalknerETA: LMAO sorry was totally zoned out when I made the entry. One more day!
It looks like we made it to the end of May. Our host for June will becornerofmadness!
This is the SECOND TO LAST last entry on here for the month, but feel free to come back later to check in if needed! I will keep this post updated as our final tally.
Welcome post.
( Days 1-7 )
( Days 8-14 )
( Days 15-21 )
Day 22:goddess47, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, larryhammer, luzula, china_shop, cornerofmadness, brithistorian, yasaman, kissed, ysilme, trobadora, nafs, chanter1944
Day 23:china_shop, goddess47, sylvanwitch, trobadora, badly_knitted, larryhammer, luzula, cornerofmadness, brithistorian, sanguinity, yasaman, kissed, chanter1944, ysilme
Day 24:china_shop, falkner, goddess47, badly_knitted, trobadora, sylvanwitch, cornerofmadness, sanguinity, nafs, brithistorian, kissed, yasaman, chanter1944, ysilme
Day 25:falkner, goddess47, badly_knitted, luzula, sylvanwitch, trobadora, china_shop, kissed, cornerofmadness, sanguinity, brithistorian, yasaman, chanter1944, ysilme
Day 26:china_shop, goddess47, sylvanwitch, kissed, badly_knitted, trobadora, nafs, cornerofmadness, brithistorian, yasaman, chanter1944, ysilme
Day 27:falkner, sylvanwitch, kissed, goddess47, trobadora, cornerofmadness, birhistorian, yasaman, badly_knitted, china_shop, chanter1944, ysilme
Day 28:falkner, sylvanwitch, badly_knitted, china_shop, trobadora, goddess47, nafs, chanter1944, cornerofmadness, birthistorian, yasaman, kissed, ysilme
Day 29:china_shop, larryhammer, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, goddess47, trobadora, cornerofmadness, brithistorian, yasaman, kissed, sanguinity, nafs, ysilme, trobadora
Day 30:china_shop, sylvanwitch, badly_knitted, goddess47, larryhammer, sanguinity, nafs, brithistorian, cornerofmadness, ysilme
It looks like we made it to the end of May. Our host for June will be
cornerofmadness!This is the SECOND TO LAST last entry on here for the month, but feel free to come back later to check in if needed! I will keep this post updated as our final tally.
Welcome post.
( Days 1-7 )
( Days 8-14 )
( Days 15-21 )
Day 22:
goddess47, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, larryhammer, luzula, china_shop, cornerofmadness, brithistorian, yasaman, kissed, ysilme, trobadora, nafs, chanter1944Day 23:
china_shop, goddess47, sylvanwitch, trobadora, badly_knitted, larryhammer, luzula, cornerofmadness, brithistorian, sanguinity, yasaman, kissed, chanter1944, ysilmeDay 24:
china_shop, falkner, goddess47, badly_knitted, trobadora, sylvanwitch, cornerofmadness, sanguinity, nafs, brithistorian, kissed, yasaman, chanter1944, ysilmeDay 25:
falkner, goddess47, badly_knitted, luzula, sylvanwitch, trobadora, china_shop, kissed, cornerofmadness, sanguinity, brithistorian, yasaman, chanter1944, ysilmeDay 26:
china_shop, goddess47, sylvanwitch, kissed, badly_knitted, trobadora, nafs, cornerofmadness, brithistorian, yasaman, chanter1944, ysilmeDay 27:
falkner, sylvanwitch, kissed, goddess47, trobadora, cornerofmadness, birhistorian, yasaman, badly_knitted, china_shop, chanter1944, ysilmeDay 28:
falkner, sylvanwitch, badly_knitted, china_shop, trobadora, goddess47, nafs, chanter1944, cornerofmadness, birthistorian, yasaman, kissed, ysilmeDay 29:
china_shop, larryhammer, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, goddess47, trobadora, cornerofmadness, brithistorian, yasaman, kissed, sanguinity, nafs, ysilme, trobadoraDay 30:
china_shop, sylvanwitch, badly_knitted, goddess47, larryhammer, sanguinity, nafs, brithistorian, cornerofmadness, ysilmeClose Enough
May. 30th, 2025 08:13 amkallowayI have a habit of making, like, 97-Point Plans for the day and then managing two things and calling it good. That's fine. Though eventually I do need to get some stuff done. But also, my to-do lists end up long because I can't just, like, clean the kitchen. It needs to be doing dishes, cleaning out the fridge, taking trash, etc.
It is not quite the end of the month but I think it's close enough to report in!
( May Intentions )
And June!
( June Plans! )
It is not quite the end of the month but I think it's close enough to report in!
( May Intentions )
And June!
( June Plans! )