I have done a major edit-sweep of LHAD, to help me get all the canon back in my head before I embark on the big battle sequence. Most edits were cosmetic. However, in response to reader-questions during the Shuyin-confrontation, I've revamped the Via Purifico chapter to make Lenne's cameo somewhat more clear (while still leaving an intentional ambiguity) as well as, "what happened to Maroda?" Hopefully...

So I've been continuing my "let's see what my games look like with crisp graphics" explorations. (Fran's clawed feet are my new favorite detail.) ETA: Oh, owlmoose is right. This should've been posted behind a cut. Hope I didn't spoil one of the early dramatic plot twists for anybody. SO. Basch. Reks. King Graminas. Nalbina Fortress. WTF happened there? I'm still confused by...

ALERT! The esteemed owlmoose needs as many fandom folks as possible to participate in a brief Final Fantasy Fandom Poll . If you could stop by, 'twould be helpful. It has ticky boxes.

Hey, you two. I decided to give you your own scene, in order to give one of the ten jillion secondary story arcs justice (and as a treat for owlmoose , perhaps). STOP sitting around with that sort of flat, tense "there needs to be a climax and resolution to this scene sooner or later, and yet there isn't, and it's all grim and gray and patches of dirty snow" conversation that reminds me of...

From owlmoose ! Comment with the word "ICONS" and I'll select six of yours for you to talk about in your journal. This is Maeve and her bird/brother, Dermott, from the old TV show Adventures of Sinbad . The show is pretty (awesomely) bad but I loved it when I was in high school and I thought Maeve was so cool. When I got the DVDs, I realized I was still in love with the visuals,...

Oops. I did this meme without realizing quite how self-explanatory my icons are, which makes it more boring. But that won't be true of those who reply. Taken from dagas_isa : Comment with the word "ICONS" and I'll select six of yours for you to talk about in your journal. "Butterflies!" When I started my fandom LJ, I  needed a happy icon, but neither Lulu nor Auron ever look happy...

Okay. Sorry to keep spamming you all, but just for the record, here's a synoposis of the changes/updates I've done due to Geocities shutting down in October. NEW URL: The Auron/Lulu Shrine is now at http:/auronlu.istad.org/aulu-shrine , moved from Geocities. The Geocities site will die Oct 26. If anyone finds a broken link caused by the move, please let me know. ABOUT TO EXPIRE: The old AuLu...

Today I was going to hash out the Council of Elrond Lucil Yevon chapter of Love Her and Despair , with my usual starting point of spamming owlmoose , muggy_mountain or trekqueen with my inchoate ideas. In these incoherent letters, I babble at length and ask for advice, and have usually solved about 3/4ths of my questions by the time I hit Send. But first, a glance...

Final Fantasy Exchange Round 2: Thanks, Stats, and Tales from the Crypt Dark Side! The mods have been hard at work doing the last bits of cleanup for Round 2! All our Chocobo Down penalty emails have now been sent, so if you think you might have earned one, check your inboxes — we promise we tried to be nice, and you have plenty of time to work it off! We've also left comments on...

Thanks to owlmoose , I have learned that a prominent net-trend-tracking website has declared 9/9/09 a "Day Without Cats on the Internet" day, in which no cat videos, photos, or lolcats are uploaded to the net. Naturally, a counter-protest is circulating. Here is our contribution.