You know, one of these days I'll have to go spelunking in my old files and see if I can find those maps again. I even had the embryo of a plot to go along with them! I hope that they haven't both been lost to the sands of time.
I think I was a bit too young to really get anything about the scripts in FF7, though I remember finding it interesting that the language in FF8 (at least in the English version) was explicitly recognized as English. ("Use proper English when speaking to Ellone!") I think I mocked that in one of my fics, though I can't remember which, now. With my luck it'd be somewhere in Damaged People.
[I like to joke that FF8 is like a mediocre fanfic that assumes you read the pairing tag, because oh, of course they are going to fall in love despite the fact that it's awfully set up.]
Hah! Man, I feel like that game had a lot to do with the virulence of my romance allergy. That and the fact that I kept encountering Squall/Seifer shippers who were of the "OF COURSE THEY'RE HAVING SEX, THEY LOVE EACH OTHER" variety, and I was like "NO FUCK YOU, YOU CAN LOVE PEOPLE WITHOUT WANTING TO STICK A DICK IN THEM, I HATE ALL ROMANCE FOREVER". I feel like all my teenage rebellion got directed at the culture of romance instead of my parental figures where it was supposed to have gone.
[All this means that I've got crippling author's performance anxiety now.]
Oh god, I know. >_< On the one hand, I know that having an internal editor weighing in at some points of the process is a really good thing, and helps my writing be much better! On the other, at some points in the writing, I really wish I could just shut the damn thing off. Because it's very frequently the opposite of helpful.
Re: Scars... I feel like there are ways to make the emotion a lot less on-the-nose, and I think there are some exposition and... general prose issues I could fix. Maybe one of these days I'll just take a few old fics and redo them for shits and giggles. Though I feel like the most enlightening (and painful) exercise might be Dark Legion, because that story was... so much mine. I still love the fact of that story, and a lot of the ideas, but I wrote it so very long ago. Before I had a grasp on things like "restraint".
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Date: 2014-12-19 11:57 pm (UTC)I think I was a bit too young to really get anything about the scripts in FF7, though I remember finding it interesting that the language in FF8 (at least in the English version) was explicitly recognized as English. ("Use proper English when speaking to Ellone!") I think I mocked that in one of my fics, though I can't remember which, now. With my luck it'd be somewhere in Damaged People.
[I like to joke that FF8 is like a mediocre fanfic that assumes you read the pairing tag, because oh, of course they are going to fall in love despite the fact that it's awfully set up.]
Hah! Man, I feel like that game had a lot to do with the virulence of my romance allergy. That and the fact that I kept encountering Squall/Seifer shippers who were of the "OF COURSE THEY'RE HAVING SEX, THEY LOVE EACH OTHER" variety, and I was like "NO FUCK YOU, YOU CAN LOVE PEOPLE WITHOUT WANTING TO STICK A DICK IN THEM, I HATE ALL ROMANCE FOREVER". I feel like all my teenage rebellion got directed at the culture of romance instead of my parental figures where it was supposed to have gone.
[All this means that I've got crippling author's performance anxiety now.]
Oh god, I know. >_< On the one hand, I know that having an internal editor weighing in at some points of the process is a really good thing, and helps my writing be much better! On the other, at some points in the writing, I really wish I could just shut the damn thing off. Because it's very frequently the opposite of helpful.
Re: Scars... I feel like there are ways to make the emotion a lot less on-the-nose, and I think there are some exposition and... general prose issues I could fix. Maybe one of these days I'll just take a few old fics and redo them for shits and giggles. Though I feel like the most enlightening (and painful) exercise might be Dark Legion, because that story was... so much mine. I still love the fact of that story, and a lot of the ideas, but I wrote it so very long ago. Before I had a grasp on things like "restraint".
...I'm not sure any of this comment was coherent.