A Rec, and stuff
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auronluThing I mean to do:
(1) write more detailed comments/review of twigcollins' wonderful Final Fantasy XII fanfic series, moments in another time.
I posted a rec on Tumblr, but it's on Tumblr (boo). TL;DR: Start with A Kind of Integrity for Balthier/Fran awesomeness, then Life in a Box because it's also excellent and about the everyday/lowerclass people of Rabanastre, then a presumption that our eyes once watered, which is Vayne and Larsa sneaking into Old Town so Larsa can learn about social inequity and what it's like for the underprivileged and how (possibly) to make systemic changes, and if you aren't hooked by that time and wanting to read the entire series from start to finish I'll be surprised. Assuming you like FFXII, that is, and possibly even if it didn't quite come together for you.
(2) Redraw that Lucil/Elma portrait because I did it in a rush, and the anatomy and hands are a little weird, and now that I've thought about it some more I have a few tweaks I want to do to their costumes. (Also it irks me I wound up using a bit of very loose tracing to get elbows, knees, shoulders, hips in approximately the right spots... I SHOULD BE BEYOND DOING THAT. I'd photoshopped a Senshistock photo and a totally different photo of a woman leaning on a stick together to get the poses.)
But
(3) I'm going to a Who con in two weeks, and I usually do portraits and get them autographed, and I had better well GET ON WITH DRAWING THE ONES I WANT AUTOGRAPHED.
Oh
(4) I want to drag old LJ friends to read Love Her and Despair as I post the remaster, but on the other hand y'all busy, I know exactly how it is, and there's tons of fandom things and RL stuff I'm not getting around to myself. Still. SEV. RINA. OWLMOOSE. IRA. ET ALIA. I encourage you to read the thing while the chapters I've posted on DW are under 10K words and it's not too daunting.
(Sarasa, I don't have the urge to bug you because I'm guessing there's too many conventional fantasy tropes to suit your tastes, although who knows.)
ok enough procrastinating already
(1) write more detailed comments/review of twigcollins' wonderful Final Fantasy XII fanfic series, moments in another time.
I posted a rec on Tumblr, but it's on Tumblr (boo). TL;DR: Start with A Kind of Integrity for Balthier/Fran awesomeness, then Life in a Box because it's also excellent and about the everyday/lowerclass people of Rabanastre, then a presumption that our eyes once watered, which is Vayne and Larsa sneaking into Old Town so Larsa can learn about social inequity and what it's like for the underprivileged and how (possibly) to make systemic changes, and if you aren't hooked by that time and wanting to read the entire series from start to finish I'll be surprised. Assuming you like FFXII, that is, and possibly even if it didn't quite come together for you.
(2) Redraw that Lucil/Elma portrait because I did it in a rush, and the anatomy and hands are a little weird, and now that I've thought about it some more I have a few tweaks I want to do to their costumes. (Also it irks me I wound up using a bit of very loose tracing to get elbows, knees, shoulders, hips in approximately the right spots... I SHOULD BE BEYOND DOING THAT. I'd photoshopped a Senshistock photo and a totally different photo of a woman leaning on a stick together to get the poses.)
But
(3) I'm going to a Who con in two weeks, and I usually do portraits and get them autographed, and I had better well GET ON WITH DRAWING THE ONES I WANT AUTOGRAPHED.
Oh
(4) I want to drag old LJ friends to read Love Her and Despair as I post the remaster, but on the other hand y'all busy, I know exactly how it is, and there's tons of fandom things and RL stuff I'm not getting around to myself. Still. SEV. RINA. OWLMOOSE. IRA. ET ALIA. I encourage you to read the thing while the chapters I've posted on DW are under 10K words and it's not too daunting.
(Sarasa, I don't have the urge to bug you because I'm guessing there's too many conventional fantasy tropes to suit your tastes, although who knows.)
ok enough procrastinating already
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Date: 2019-01-28 03:31 pm (UTC)yay!
Date: 2019-01-28 11:17 pm (UTC)AO3: Goes up through Chapter 49, so you can keep going past the latest posted chapter on DW, but the AO3 version may miss a few still-to-be-posted tweaks (especially in the last 2 chapters) and artwork.
So on the one hand, reading it on DW means you have to keep coming back to it over the course of a year, which...might lapse, because we all get busy/distracted/life happens? Of course, it'll all be there to come back to, with chapters linked together for ease of navigation. But on the other, that means you get the "director's cut" version. :P Whereas on AO3 you can binge it as far as it goes, but the last 2 chapters have a few slightly clunky passages/scenes. No plot points will change, however.
So either works, but my inclination is to say DW is best, since the fic is designed as a chapter-by-chapter serial with shameless weekly cliffhangers. :)
WARNING: I am working on the final few chapters now, but they are not posted and not quite finished. However, they MUST be finished by the time I get up to that point in the remaster, so I'm in DONE IS GOOD mode.
Re: yay!
Date: 2019-01-30 12:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-28 05:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-28 11:18 pm (UTC)