The Prison of His Days

Up next: the Djose Highroad!

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In the intervening time, I've played blitzball on my lategame save until it finally disgorged the Jupiter Sigil for me. Of course, it showed up right when I was prepared to reset until it did, like it knew I was finally ready for it. I also won a tournament that rewarded the Jecht Shot 2, but unfortunately Tidus doesn't have all his key techniques yet so I didn't get to actually keep it. :(.

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...but between brain problems (I'm really suspecting ADHD is a major factor) and broken AC in summer, I've been kind of struggling. Which is why I'm typing this at 6 am after a night of no sleep, preceded by a day of mostly sleep. Function, what is it. I sure don't know.

So instead of doing something sensible or difficult like "sleep" or "work on my KH Big Bang fic", I'm gonna play some FFX and ramble about it! As one does.

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I've been writing the last few days. Just haven't posted about it. Today I worked more on Epic HP Futurefic of Doom. I need to step this one up in a major way; there are seven years of stories I want to tell and I'm only on their first morning at school. And starting to push 10,000 words. Yeah. On the other hand, I'm having fun filling Hogwarts with cameos and interesting names. (Next task: can I possibly make 'Kain Highwind' not scream 'I am a Final Fantasy character hanging out here because HP crossovers are required? I begin to suspect not.) And developing characters while booting stereotype and generational cookie-cutterism firmly to the curb. So it's not like it's a *burden*. I mean, I just discovered that they're going to discover Sherlock Holmes and become *detectives*. Also, the house-elves will go on strike, the Triwizard Tournament will happen -- twice, and Albus Potter will be a terror when he discovers grassroots political organization. Which he will need what with the getting kidnapped and spied on and occasionally flat-out attacked he and his friends get up to. Not all in the same year, of course. That would be a bit excessive. Wouldn't it, Harry?

I also wrote a bit of something FFX, but I'm not sure it's postable yet. The prompt...would make a nice fanvid. So the text version is a bit fragmented. And by 'a bit', I mean it's all fragments.

However! Here's a bit of backlog-clearing of what *is* postable: And Share Alike, or In Which I Take An Establishing Shot of Dona's Backstory.

In my defense, RL spent a fair amount of the week coming up with new and fascinating ways to kick my ass and ensure I couldn't even study properly thanks to stressing out. However! I did actually write some things this week.

Tuesday, I wrote a FFX story for my Lulu, Wakka, and Chappu claim. It isn't posted yet because I'd really like to send it through a beta to help me kick the character voices back on track. ("Hey, I know! I'll write an all-dialogue AU piece! That'll be fun and not hard at all!") Any volunteers?

Thursday, I decided to start a new pyre_flies claim. Yes, I decided that what I really needed in life was another immense prompt list I would never finish. You see, I realized that I am really deeply interested in Dona as a character. Because yes, she's a bitch (though this tends to be more of a sellig point with me than otherwise; one day I will unpack the reasons why), and yes, she's obnoxious and demanding and dismissive...but also, she's a summoner. So there has to be something more than the obvious there. And I will ferret it out, using my mad ferreting powers!

Just a Little Game is the first attempt at doing a little ferreting. It's...well, if you recognize the title, you know when it's set. When she does something that, when you think about it, isn't quite as purely nasty as it appears, is it? Just like her.

Today so far I am 500-some words into ferreting with ferrets, part 2. This time: I invent backstory!

So, if hypothetically I were to have written a FFX/X-2 genfic about Kinoc and the plotting that went into various Mushroom-Rock-based events, and I wanted it to be posted in a community somewhere where people would see it (and by 'people' I mean 'people on LJ whom I respect as writers'), where would I hypothetically find such a community?

Seriously. Somewhere that takes FFX fanfic of a non-romantic nature and contains some reasonably good writers. I'm not that picky. But where is it?

Or maybe there's not enough gen to warrant a community. *sigh*

( My True FFX Personality Type: Easily Amused )

In other news, fandom has ruined my brain. I saw a story titled "The White Mage and the Slasher", the summary of which began something like, "Tidus is a crazy slasher..." and automatically turned that into a)a lot of giggles, b)a "Tidus is one of us!", and c)a pseudo-summary continuation, "and [Male Character's Name here] is the hapless victim of his fictional escapades!"

No more fic for me.

Today, I committed serial posting over at pyre_flies. Two fics, both Final Fantasy X, both gen. One is Death By Cute, the other is not so much so. Yay?

More people should join pyre_flies. Right now, there are something like six of us, and we can't fill a fandom void (i.e. lack of goodfic) on our own.

In related news, I obviously need at least one FFX icon, for posting purposes. I should have space...