Showing posts with label Other. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Other. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Dead Inside Edits and This Blog May Be Dead!?

First off let's talk about the blog.

Well, I stopped doing chapter commentary on here, and chapter commentary was basically the Only content this blog has been getting for the past two years so, yeah. It's kind of dead, tbh. Tumblr's just easier, more convenient, etc.

Of course I won't take the blog down, it'll stay open, but. Probably don't expect new posts on here frequently, if, ever again. We had a good run though.

Chapter commentary now lives on tumblr! It has its own tag on the ftpverse tumblr here.

Follow and/or stalk the ftpverse tumblr if you want hot ftpverse content. Or you can follow and/or stalk my personal tumblr if you want I guess! ftpverse-only related tags are here!


That Dead Inside Edit Update

I finished rereading Dead Inside, and have started edits again! Er, whenever I find the time and energy, that is.

I might do Dead Inside edit posts on this blog still, whenever I have five or so chapters to talk about. But. We'll see.

Keep stalking the "di edits" tag on the ftpverse tumblr to see what's up with Dead Inside edits.

I did go ahead and edit a few chapters recently, though!! The only one of note is chapter 90. Amaryllis was getting flustered about something and Alpha calmed him, initially, and we all know that actually that should be the other way around. So I edited it to make it the other way around!! And, uh, had a lot of feelings about the Alpha/Amaryllis dynamic..........

The other two chapters I edited (91 and 105) were just continuity edits, largely caused directly by the fact I edited something in ch90 and it affected those two chapters too.

Continuity edits aren't really interesting to report, though, so that's all I gotta say.


Sorry this blog is dying, though tbh I think it's been dead for a while now!! Feel free to contact me on tumblr Whenever my dudes.

Monday, October 31, 2016

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!

I DREW SOME THE FTPCAST DRESSING UP AS SOME UNDERTALE FRIENDS!!!!!!! CHECK IT



Anyway ATR's still!!! goin a little slow!!!! I have a lot of homework and am finding that it's hard to find energy to write AND draw on the same day but I'm........! I'm still getting there, promise!!

I HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS PICTURE

AND I HOPE YOU HAD A HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!

Saturday, October 22, 2016

Some Riku draws

Hey so I mentioned I've been drawing recently and since I'm starting to churn out some FtPverse drawings, well,

Here's a couple of Rikus I've done recently. Mainly just Repliku manga panel redraws becuase that's my favorite thing........ They're Very Good.

   

It's ya boy:




And then also some quick ATR doodles??



tfw you have weird darkness chicken pox



these are less high quality but i had to scan them so the purple pen might actually show up as purple lmao


ANYWAY YEAH!!!!!!!!

Check out my cool art (^0^)b


Sunday, October 16, 2016

ATR Hiatus Update - I REALIZE IT'S BEEN A WHILE,,,,

"rar it's been about a month" I KNOW,,,,,,

I am making headway on ATR though, I promise! I have 7 and a half chapters done (of what won't be much more than 10) and am finishing up the climax of part 3 right now! After that I just have to do resolution things. It might end up taking another few weeks, but I promise, we are getting there.

I wish I had some FtPverse content to share with you in the meantime, but...

I have something just as good, probably?


An Aqua-Replica AU

I actually posted the first fic in this series like three days after my last post on here? Sweats.

Anyway I don't wanna talk too much about this AU because it's only partially mine! But the basics is "what if the Org put the Replica Program to some extra use and also Xemnas did something with the Keyblade he had sitting in his basement" and so!! You have a Replica of Aqua throughout Days and KH2 and it's.... she's pretty good.

The best parts of the AU haven't been touched yet, but you can check out what I have written for it here:

- - > Link to the entire series < - -

The Repliqua AU is definitely on the back-burner as I'm pouring most of my attention into FtPverse again, but!! I would very much like to explore this AU in full, eventually, and more oneshots for it will probably come in the future.

Like, I haven't even reached any of the best parts yet lol....


In other news: I've been drawing a lot???

It's just been doodles of my Keykid Eri (from KHUx!) lately, but, they're pretty good.

Check 'em out!


Eri and Chirithy both have capes and it makes me Very Happy


Cool kids don't look at explosions. PEACE. 


I can't believe she forgot what a Keyblade was ((YES I CAN,,,,))


Currently Eri is dressed up for Halloween and this dress is very cute!!!! This drawing is also very cute. I'm so happy.

((Eventually I'll draw FtPverse stuff.......... eventually.........))

Thursday, September 22, 2016

ATR's hiatus continues..... but not for long!

Heya everyone! Now that Kairi Edits are done, the biggest parts of Dead Inside that really peeved me are outta the way, so we'll be back to ATR basically uninterrupted!

Kairi Edits are done??

Yup! I just posted batch 2 like, I guess it was a week ago. here


Are Dead Inside Edits done?

WELL, no. I still have some things I'd like to tackle, eventually:
  • I never did completely obliterate romantic SoKai
  • there's still some gross ShadKai things (like, ft Shad's gross crush on her) lingering around???? DYING WHALE NOISES
  • I'd wanted to make Namine actually think about Kairi during part 1 but shrugs if I'll get that done
  • I WANNA MAKE AERITH/LEON SIBLING DYNAMICS CLEARER!!!!!!!
  • I'd super duper like to make Riku a little more jumpy about people touching him / being yelled at, tho it's less important
  • I may need to change Kairi's thoughts re: Sora because she's a lot more conflicted about what happened as far as edits are concerned ((she will always forgive him because he's her best friend, but also Kairi has a problem called it's really hard for me to let grudges go and what happened in FtP the book was more complicated than a simple black and white thing, so, that's a thing))
These all have to get tackled on a chapter-to-chapter basis though, I don't have any convenient lists of where these things are yet! So, they'll get edited as I find them / actually have the energy to do something about them.

Dead Inside edits aren't going to happen regularly, and I can't even promise they'll actually continue for long (the ShadKai things are literally the only things that have to go) but!! They're still a thing.

THE DIFFERENCE NOW THAT THE BIG KAIRI EDITS ARE OUTTA THE WAY IS THAT THEY WON'T GET IN THE WAY OF ATR ANYMORE!!! Or, not for months and months at a time ever again.


So ATR's off hiatus?

Not quite! It's off hiatus in the sense that I've actually started writing it again, but as I've said in previous blog posts, until I finish Part 3 (something which is within 10 chapters away) I can't post anything. There's a timing thing I may have rushed a bit, and I need to make sure it works out, and I won't know until Part 3 is over!

Still, I am writing it now---In fact, I'm currently working on ch65! 

I don't have a timeframe for when I think everything will be done, but know that it will be as soon as possible!

Things to look forward to as Part 3 concludes
  • a conversation I've been sitting on for literally 2 years. It makes me very happy. I know that doesn't tell you a lot about it but I feel like even telling you who is involved would give it away. (Here's a hint: if you reread the last couple of uploaded chapters of ATR, especially ch61, it may give you a clue.)
  • a certain someone gets their ass THOROUGHLY kicked
  • Riku and Namine finally talk about things they were supposed to ages ago (the meltdowns, their no-longer-existent connection) 
  • Riku and Vexen talk????? Trust me it's good and important.
  • WE'LL GET A SCENE WITH THE MAIN FOUR ACTUALLY INTERACTING I don't think I've had one of these actually, or if I have, they've been few and far between. anyway they have a sleepover on the beach it'll be good.
  • Then we move into the endgame of part 3!!!! I can't really tell you anything about it but [steeples fingers] trust me. it's gonna be REAL good.

Other things

Hey yo if you aren't following me on AO3, you might want to reconsider? I write a lot of non-FtPverse KH fic now and all of it goes over there! (I've basically stopped using FFN except for FtPverse, sweats).


Some choice fics I've posted lately:
  • a sudden rush of water -- a fic about Aqua wandering the realm of darkness and facing her nightmares, taking basically every Aqua scene from the 2.8 trailer at TGS 2016 and turning it into a cohesive fic
  • apparitions -- a 10k fic about Xion and Roxas bodysharing, or "what if Roxas could hear Xion's voice commentating on stuff that happened in KH2?"
  • my body is an orphanage -- the first in what will be a continuation of apparitions' continuity, exploring a fun concept called: "sora can hear xion and ven and sometimes roxas talking to him thruout the entirety of KH2" (don't worry, I write this randomly for fun, it won't interfere with FtPverse)
  • a sparkling, clear blue -- a fic about Aqua and Rinoa meeting and the start of what will probably be a beautiful friendship. I think I linked this one before, though?
  • the warmth of someone's hand in yours -- this will probably be the only Tales of Symphonia fic I write but a really gay thing happened between Sheena and Colette in the game and I had to turn it into a fic, bye,
And if you missed my post a couple weeks ago about the STW Crossover, well, check it out again maybe?? STW still isn't much at the moment, but I did finally write and post a scene from it that featured FtP Riku, and since that's obviously relevant here.....


That's it folks!!! Buckle your seatbelts, when ATR starts back up again, you'll be in for one HELL of a ride

Friday, September 9, 2016

STW Update....!? Aka: I wrote a thing ft Riku even if it's not FtPverse

I say STW update like STW is a thing I write regularly and not at random, and like this wasn't a scene I'd been sitting on for like three months before I finally felt like posting it.

BUT HEY,,,,

Do you remember my Save The World crossover? Also known as my mega fic crossover ft all my kids. I'm too lazy to link you anywhere so if you forgot the breakdown is:

All like 20 of my "kids" (my fave characters) are getting ripped out of their homes and thrown together into teams and have to work together to a) get back home b) save the world. It's cool!

Our boy Riku gets thrown in Team B, which also includes Penny from RWBY and Shadow the Edgehog.

I'm not gonna sit here and ramble much about this chapter I just wanted to let you guys know

I wrote a thing with FtP Riku in it and you should check it out because it's got him in it.


- - - > [ Read it here! ] < - - -


Also if you missed his cool profile on his team page, you should check that out too:

- - - > [ Team B Page ] < - - -

Thursday, September 8, 2016

WE'RE SUPER CLOSE FOLKS (hiatus update, uh, 9)

I just started working on ch119! This is the last chapter of this batch that needs a full rewrite vs some like, scene editing for continuity business.

It's going pretty good!! Writing's not as fast as it used to be, but like, school? Also magik was still staying with us and I was trying to beat Dragon Age Origins before she left! I managed in the end, but I completely tossed writing in favor of playing Dragon Age lol.

So that's a thing I was up to.

I also went to an anime con!! It was Saboten (a local con in Phoenix) and it was fun!! On Sunday me and magik and a friend of ours went as Rin and Len and Miku from Synchronicity!!! I've posted Synchronicity at least once in my blogging and FtPverse career because I love it dearly and it's probably my favorite Vocaloid PV ever, but, hey if you haven't seen it yet


This is part 2 but part 1 is boring. Also you can't find part 3 on youtube anymore but, whatever, it's fine.

ANYWAY THE COSPLAYS WERE SOOOO ELABORATE AND LOOKED SO GOOD...... It was so much fun, if a little exhausting. We entered in the masquerade (costume contest) and our skit was soooo good and even though we didn't win the crowd absolutely loved us and at least five people afterwards were like "WOW YOUR SKIT WAS SO GOOD".

It was.... it was so fun. Though it was kind of exhausting haha. I definitely did not get any writing done during those three days of con.

I've only got a fullbody pic of me but here's.....!!!!



Otherwise if you wanna see more pics / read about some of my impressions then check out!!! over here!!!


When it comes to Dragon Age!!! Well the short of it is I had a lot of fun. If you want more in depth impressions then you can check out here!


FINALLY!!!

I read a really amazing fic recently called Why The Sun Sets Red --- it's an AU of Days where Axel isn't the one who survives Castle Oblivion; Vexen is.

It's so good??? The characterization is on point and listen if you love shitty dad Vexen in FtPverse you'll love this fic just, like, hands down. It's all about Vexen awkwardly taking on the role of father figure to Xion and to Roxas and it's. aaaaaaa. there are so many good things to say about it but I don't want to spoil it just. listen.

It was so good. Everything about it was so good and if you enjoy FtPverse (and are bored waiting for me to update haha!) then you should really check this out!!! It was extremely up my alley so it's probably up yours, too.

((Also Repliku only was mentioned in passing like five times but I had a fit each time and idk if that's something to be said about the writing or about me because I'm embarrassing about him but Whatever))

If you missed the previous link, you can read it here!


ONE FINAL FTPVERSE THING!

You already know I did new character profiles for everyone, and now I have intro posts on the ftpverse tumblr for every character too!!

You can check 'em all out here!


Anyway that's everything! I should be done with this second and final batch of Kairi edits soon! LOOK FORWARD TO IT, I'VE PUT A LOT INTO THESE......!!

Oh yeah and check out the di bloggin tag for updates / fun thoughts etc, per usual


Thursday, August 18, 2016

hiatus update whatever the heck this one is

I've moved now!!!! it went fine. the apartment i'm in is nice everything is good and mostly settled (MINUS THE BOXES FREAKING EVERYWHERE STILL) and classes start on monday and that Sure Is A Thing


anyway i have to go to bed becuase i have a required (??) something to go to tomorrow morning super early so i can't make this long but I didn't want to forget!!!!


Ummmm writing's been good but it's definitely been hard to get into the groove of it again exactly. I've gotten past the worst of it though and I've only got about 5 more chapters to Kairi edits to make!!! they're going. slower than I'd like but they're coming out pretty good imo.


Anyway I'm on ch116/117 (depending on pacing) and only have to work through 120!! that's super close.


I have classes though and I'll have to figure out how to write around them and homework (and con prep????) BUT HOEPFULLY IT'LL BE..... soon.....

maybe not quite end of august like I'd proposed (tho I do still have two weeks) but. soon. soon soon soon soon soon.


I JUST WANTED TO UPDATE SO YOU'D KNOW MOVING WENT WELL AND THAT,,,,, writing was slower than I'd anticipated but still happening steadily. we're close folks. we're real close.

Thursday, August 4, 2016

Hiatus update 7 - I'M MOVING

HEYA!!

I start my first semester of college real soon and of course I gotta move!!! to where my college is!!!!!!!! IT'S ROUGH......!!!!!! but it's about time we got out of this shambling house and I'm really excited (EVEN IF EXTREMELY STRESSED BECAUSE WE PROCRASTINATED A LITTLE BIT ON PACKING HAHA SWEATS) so thats'!!!!! a thing!!!!!!

This means of course I won't be writing for the next couple days seeing as most of my time is devoted to packing and when it's not packing it's taking a break and though writing isn't exactly work I wouldn't count on it getting done until!!! WELL!!! YANNO!!!!


SO!!!

DEAD INSIDE UPDATES

I'VE GOT SOME EXCITING NEWS!!!!!!!!

while I'm not done yet with batch 2 of Kairi edits, I am over halfway done!!!! I've got, like, seven chapters to go (ISH....) and I'm confident they'll all be pretty short or at least manageable!!!

Honestly I'm fairly confident I'll have them done by the end of August?? Sure I've got find time between moving and the first days of classes but once the initial stress of DOING the moving is over I should be clear to write again!!

Shooting for the end of August I've technically got like, 4 days per chapter and that's about average for me??? and more than doable imo. We'll have to see how much time moving eats up, but!!! I'm pretty confident!!!!


AND ONCE I'M DONE WITH BATCH TO KAIRI EDITS IT'S BACK TO ALL THAT REMAINS FOR THE REST OF FOREVER PROBABLY,,,, there are other Dead Inside edits I'd like to do but they aren't entirely necessary and honestly I need a break from editing Dead Inside so they'll get tackled whenever the hell I feel like actually doing it again.


Does that mean hiatus is over when August is?

MMMM, NOT,,,,, QUITE,,,,,!!!!!!!

I'M GETTING HTE KAIRI EDITS DONE BECAUSE I'M SICK OF LOOKING AT 'EM BUT I'VE ALSO

I've also gotta finish up the end of Part 3 of All That Remains! (which, if you recall, is handling a lot of stuff and I didn't time this as well as I'd intended so I've gotta make sure it all fits w/o the pacing feeling horrible, and I won't be entirely sure on that until it's all written!! also I want my buffer back)

BUT, SOON FOLKS

SOON


ok cool fine. do you have anything else you wanna tell me?

YEAH!!!!!!!!

I FINISHED THE FTPCAST PROFILES!!!!

I finished them a while ago, actually, and I guess I forgot about them??? Or forgot to bring them up here, anyway, haha. OOPS.


Anyway head on over here  to view the shiny new homepage, as well as all the links to check out the new profiles!!! These ones are written from ATR's pov while also treading lightly around Dead Inside spoilers.

((A certain two characters had to get spoiler pages that were free to address things after part 2 of Dead Inside---you can check them out on the bottom of the page!!))

I've done profiles for around 50 (ok, mb just 40) FtPverse characters, including the Main Cast, the HB Gang, and Xehanort?? And like seven Replicas I cared about / thought were important. IT'S A LOT EVERYONE.


Also keep an eye on the ftpverse tumblr, because I've got a lot of *new* content being put over there!! I mean, some manga pictures I colored mainly, as well as intro posts for all the characters, but hey! that's cool stuff. 



WHOOHOOO


That's everything. Enjoy the character profiles


and, uh, wish me luck on moving related endeavors, i guess

Friday, July 15, 2016

Hiatus update 6!!! it's been like three weeks

IT'S EASIER TO PUT THESE OFF UNTIL THERE'S EXCITING NEWS THAN,,,, update and say "lol got nothing done this week"


anyway so here's things I've done in the past 3 weeks!!!

  • It was SGDQ week!!!
  • I WROTE AN AQUA AND RINOA FIC FOR MY FRIEND!!! this was an itch I've wanted to scratch for a while
  • NEW CHARACTER PROFILES FOR THE FTPCAST!!!!!!!
  • other misc kingdom hearts fic of varying sorts!!!!! neato
  • BEEN PLAYING SOME FUN VIDEO GAMES,,,

WOW!!! 


Let's go into some deets

...........but first a playlist!?



I made a fanmix for the KH(u)X kids, collectively!! Baby keybearers fighting in a war they did not sign up for....... I'm super proud of the mix and also it's getting a lot of traffic? Surprising, but cool.

Anyway while all of the songs in here are really good for KHUX as a whole, especially since we know where it's going (cough keyblade war cough cough) MY ABSOLUTE FAVE SONG IN HERE IS DEFINITELY LIVING LOUDER!!!! We're all just kids who grew up way too fast / the good die young but the great will always last? More like I cry every time.


ANYWAY!!!

FTPVERSE STUFF BECAUSE IT'S ONLY FAIR

I wrote an Aerith/Leon siblings fic!!

I've been wanting to write fic about them being siblings for a long while now, but wasn't sure where to start in my hypothetical oneshot series about this. I finally settled on a starting point!

Baby 8 y/o Squall gets his hands on a letter to Laguna, and has some Questions For His Mother. Also features some good old family feels and things that make me cry.

- - >  Read it HERE!  < - -

These fics as a whole will be written with the KH canonverse in mind, but everything up until Radiant Garden's fall should be considered FtPverse canon! So, these scene.

I'm really fond of it, and you should definitely give it a read. Even if you don't love Aerith / Leon sibling dynamic as much as I do (which is, fair, seeing as very few things in FtPverse currently read as if they were siblings) well!!! read it anyway!!! it's not a long fic, at all.

It also, um, brings a lot to light concerning Aerith's mindset re: adopting Riku! So, perhaps it's worth a read just for that?


NEW FtPcast profiles!

Around every year I look at the character profiles and I go "UGH THESE SUCK I WANNA REDO THEM!!!" and, well, the previous ones lasted two years, but now I'm redoing them! Have redone them!!!

All the profiles are done, actually, I'm just working on getting them all uploaded, so that rules! I already have the main cast + Roxas up. ((Psst scroll down to the end of the page for the spoiler section too, if you're up to date, because there are characters you care about there))

I think these profiles are much better than the previous ones, and, might finally be my winners. The previous ones focused heavily on character relationships and had very little about the characters themselves! I've fixed that up.

There's more detailed personality sections, a like/dislike section, and more!

You may have noticed I've deleted the character relationships section, but those were about 10 times more work to manage, so for my mental sanity I cut them. Perhaps I'll return them in the future, but, we'll see.

ANYWAY!!!!

New character sheets with more details and updated details! ATR-minded descriptions for personality stuff, but toes carefully around anything after Part 1 of Dead Inside so that there aren't errant spoilers.

I'm real proud!

- - > Check out them (and the shiny new homepage) here! < - -


ATR / Dead Inside updates!

WELL!!!! between SGDQ and being inspired for other fic + being on a deadline for the Aqua/Rinoa fic, I, uh, haven't touched ftpverse since the last update, and I cry. I really really miss it.

BUT!!! I've started writing ATR65 now, and have the entirety of it brainstormed. Look forward to a really nice scene between Riku and Yuffie, who don't interact nearly enough.

Dead Inside updates?? I started ch109 but got kind of Mad about it (I can only edit so much of Dead Inside at once before I want to die, so, fair,) so I dropped it. I've got some neat Ideas planned for it and subsequent chapters though! the Yelling sequence is gonna look a lot better in the future, imo.


I'VE BEEN DRAWING????

Drawing is addicting, I've found out, becuase, I can draw fanart of literally whatever I want now!!!! WOW!!!!!!!

Anyway I had to draw a Shad and a Roxas for the character pages so here they are, I guess



Shad!!! KHUX style because it's easy. Needed a new fullbody pic of him since the only other one I had was 5 years old and badly traced (and badly scanned and badly colored) so!!!! NICE!!!!! here he is my asshole son in all of his glory



A Roxas!!!!! my other??? asshole son????? there are zero (I've counted) official anything of him where he's smirking meanly and a total of one fanart which I wasn't comfortable using, so, I drew my own! NICE. It came out pretty good, actually. ((I'm laughing because Roxas hair was like stupidly easy to draw, somehow.))


NON FTPVERSE UPDATES

THINGS I'VE WRITTEN!!!!

Outside of the Aerith and Leon fic, I've only written two other things recently, but hey!! check 'em out

> old enough to sign, not old enough to die --- a KHX fic ft the foretellers yelling about why they shouldn't have kids fighting a war for them. Or, in which Ava yells at her fellow foretellers for thinking that it's ok???? it's not ok these are kids they can't fight a war for us.

> a sparkling, clear blue --- a stranger arrives at mysterious tower, and Aqua makes a new friend. This is the Aqua/Rinoa fic!!! It's very good I cried while writing it if Aqua and Rinoa being friends / geeking out about magic / reading about Aqua recovering after spending ten years in the hell realm is your jam, then, this is the fic for you!!!


BEEN PLAYING FUN VIDEO GAMES (MAINLY KIRBY)

While KHUX is exciting because the boy has finally arrived, I'm mainly here to talk about Kirby!

I've been watching the Kirby anime (subbed, because the dub is horrendous, actually) and been like!!! wow!!!! I wanna play a heckin Kirby game!!!

So I got Kirby's Dream Land 3 and it's been pretty fun?? I've been enjoying myself, that's for sure. If you missed it, here's a post I made about Riku enjoying Kirby because, Listen,

Also hey!!! if you aren't against watching japanese anime subbed, you should check out the Kirby anime! It's been pretty good and even though I know DeDeDe isn't like this in the games I'm still laughing about the fact everyone in town knows he's evil but aren't doing a thing about it, they just kind a live with it like "oh DeDeDe's up to no good again, oh well"

((Metaknight is also my favorite thing))


You may have noticed.... the "Please read ___" section has returned....

It's nothing super special, eXCEPT I'M HERE TO PLUG FOR WORRY FOR ME, I'M ALWAYS HERE TO PLUG FOR WORRY FOR ME!!!!!

I've added Worry For Me to the list, and, listen. Worry For Me is probably the best KH fic I have ever read.

It's a pre-BBS fic where Vanitas decides he's not going to listen to Xehanort and he's going to go find Ven on his own!! WHO NEEDS RULES!!!! It ends up turning into Vanitas getting adopted by the Wayfinder fam? And, it rules. It ruuuuuuules.

If you enjoy FtPverse, especially the parts concerning Riku getting adopted by the HB fam, then you should definitely read this!!!! It's extremely my jam, and, maybe it's your jam too.

Please try it out. It's so good.

((Also if you're looking for Wayfinder Trio Being Happy then, also hit this up? Because, helloooooooo))


SGDQ!!!!

SGDQ was a thing and I definitely did not write a week because of it. THOUGH, I DID,,, IT DID LET ME DO THE CHARACTER PROFILES SO I GUESS IT'S FINE

Anyway, the lineup this year was significantly,,,,, less cool than previous years, but here's some runs I really enjoyed!


THAT'S!!! mainly it. but it was cool. I love SGDQ so much.


Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Another week, another update (hiatus update 5) (ok it's been two weeks)

HEYA EVERYBODY!!!!! These blog posts are definitely not a priority for me, so that's why it's been two weeks! Also last week was E3 week so. lol.

FTPVERSE RELATED 

Because it's only fair if I start with these first.

- I've written ATR ch63, and half of ch64! Again, these won't get uploaded until probably I'm done with Part 3 (probably ten chapters from now) because I have to keep track of pacing things and make sure they work out ok! I ended up moving this plotline to sooner than I'd originally planned at last second and would rather not drag the entire story out, so I have to make sure it's pacing here feels alright despite things being a little bit crammed! It's coming ok so far, but, gotta make sure!

- Dead Inside updates....!!!!!! haven't been written since ch104/107. I ended up writing two ATR chapters in a row because I was on a role vs the one I'd planned to, so. If you missed the 15 chapters thruout Part 1 that edited Kairi related things, check it out here!

- I finally queued things over to the ftpverse tumblr for the first time in months ((per the usual)) so check it out maybe for facts you've missed / cool art that reminds me of ftpverse
- I've been rereading old FtPverse stuff! I finished rereading the Truth Hurts a while ago, and am now halfway through Falling to Pieces. This is partially so I remember my roots, but largely became me deciding what things I'll want to edit, at some point ((some of them are things that piss me off, some of them are continuity errors)). Don't worry: unlike the Kairi edits, these can be tackled one chapter at a time, so once I'm done with Kairi edits the edits will come at much more steady pace.

- I'm working on new character sheets for the ftpverse cast! These old sheets have lasted three years, but I realized recently that outside of "vague notes about them" there isn't much at all about their personalities and who they are? So, I'd like to tackle that! I'm fond of the new character sheet, but of course, I've gotta wait until I've done the sheet for everyone to change over completely to the new sheet though, so it might be a while before you see them.


OTHER WRITING

- Did you know that Leon is very insistent about asking Sora to find the 99 puppies in KH1?? Did you know Aerith and Yuffie make fun of him for it??? Well, it's a thing, and I decided to write a fic about it. Enjoy 400 words of fluff.

- Replaying KH2 ended up giving me a lot of fic ideas and now they're all bumping around in my head!!! You can check out the basics for them all out here. New footage for KHX Back Cover also contributed lol.


KHUX RELATED?????

This is a short thing just to say I drew my Keykid Eri again in her current outfit and she's super cute!!!!



SHE ALSO GOT FANART????? SOMEONE DREW ME FANART OF MY KEYKID OC?????????? I'M YELLING??????? scarlet-sora is a gift


I'M EXTREMELY STILL NOT OVER THIS...... look at her......... she's so good.......

anyway if you'd like to care as much as I do about my keykid OC Eri, then check out her tag on my tumblr, and my keykids bloggin tag, which is where I post thoughts about keykids in general, not just stuff for Eri!!! ((a lot of it does have to do w/ Eri tho lol))



E3 RELATED

WOW!!! E3 WAS A THING!!!!! EVERYONE PROBABLY HAS ALL THE INFO NOW BUT HEY WHATEVER IT'S COOL!!!!!

There were only two things I cared about this year (that's ok I care so much about both it doesn't matter) and those are.....!

1) THEY TALKED ABOUT ZELDA U FINALLY AND LITERALLY PLAYED IT ON STREAM NON STOP FOR AN ENTIRE DAY!!!!!! It looks super amazing and I can't wait to play it myself, eventually, whenever it's released. You can watch every video they ever posted for it here!

2) KH2.8 GOT A TRAILER like an entire week before e3. whoa.

IT RULES THO

if you havent' watched it here it is and if you have watched it then WATCH IT AGAIN


I'M SO EXCITED???????

Like, who cares about KH3D (I sure don't) BUT I CARE ABOUT AQUA!!!!!!!! I'm so excited to see this trailer focus on her. I'm so excited to see her in these beautiful graphics and excited to play as her??? PLUS HER MAGIC LOOKS AMAZING????? Also all the things you can theorize from this trailer Kills Me. The line "I'm doing it again" kills me.

She's hallucinating her friends?? It doesn't come off as malicious as it could be in the trailer / demo but I'm dying about her hallucinating her friends, doing it often enough that she recognizes it. And. There's so much potential here and I Scream.

ALSO KHX BACK COVER LOOKS SO GOOD???? I'm so excited because I love KHX's story and concept so much and I'm soooooooooo ready to see the foretellers and get to know them better!!!! KHX/UX doesn't give you nearly enough on them lol.


Oh yeah!! I also drew fanart for it because I was hype!!!!


Everyone on twitter was drawing Aquas so I drew an Aqua!!! And then it got out of hand. (Epherema is cute as Heck, Ava's cool, Gula's my fave.....)

I have Very Specific headcanons for Gula actually that are probably wrong but I STILL LOVE IT!!! FIGHT ME!!!!!! I think that Gula's actually a Real Jerk ((his "you can barely stand on your feet---just give up already!!" sounds cocky as hell)) and is the one who was tempted by the darkness / the ultimate power promised by Kingdom Hearts and was the one who started the war. IT'S PROBABLY WRONG but, I loooooooooove it.


ANYWAY YOU CAN!!! CHECK OUT????

I have an E3 2016 tag but the first half is 2.8 and the second half is Zelda and that's literally all that's in there.

You can browse my kh bloggin tag for thoughts I've spewed about Aqua / 2.8 / the foretellers, if you'd like??

I have a 2.8 tag, as well, but it's dedicated specifically to BBS0.2, A Fragmentary Passage (aka the portion with Aqua) which I did not know was called 0.2 when I made the tag and haven't gotten around to retagging / may never retag

I have a KHX tag, too!! 


AND THAT'S IT GET HYPE E3 E3 E3 E3 E3


Monday, June 6, 2016

hello more updates (hiatus update 4)

Ok!!!!

I meant to do one of these last week, but got distracted by, well, various things????? Also I spent a whole week longer on a fic than I meant to, and I wanted to come in here and link to that, but when it dragged on for like 10k words longer than I meant, well,,,,


THIS FIC I WROTE (KH2 NarraXion AU)

I started replaying KH2 extremely recently!!! I think it was just last Sunday, literally a week ago. Not, like, yesterday, the Sunday before. May 29th.

Anyway, the short of it is "Roxas narrates Sora's adventure / provides flavor text" AUs have been discussed w/in my friend circle before, but when I saw the flavor text during the Roxas prologue I was like "WAIT A MINUTE!!! WHO NARRATES FOR ROXAS!!!"

Xion, of course, was the obvious choice.

So I decided to write a NarraXion fic!!! It was supposed to be a short little thing to just, get out the concept, but then I started thinking about what Xion would actually be saying and what was on her mind in general and somehow it turned into 11k words??? alright.

>  You can read it here!  < 

It's super good imo. Plus, yanno, since you're waiting for FtPverse Updates, YOU MIGHT AS WELL!!!!!


Dead Inside related

If you missed it, I made new DI OST mixes!!! they're pretty good imo. I updated the soundtrack page w/ them, but, forgot to do a post again. (LIKE I SAID THO, it probably just would've been talking about song choice and junk, which I already did on tumblr, so)


Kairi Batch 2 edits?? Coming along! I have chapters 104/107 done, and, I dunno, around 15 more chapters to go before I've finished the Yelling Sequence and everything else among Kairi leaving Destiny Islands.

104/107 edits consist, in short: Namine and Kairi having an actual conversation about things that matter and has very little to do with Boys. Ren is an awesome dad. Joseph tells a pretty neat lie.

I'm excited for them, and I'll be excited to finish them, too!! Who knows how long that will take tho lol.

Missed the Batch 1 Kairi Updates, covering 15 separate chapters thruout Part 1 of Dead Inside?? CHECK 'EM OUT HERE!


ATR related???

OKay, in one hand to combat the fact If I Spend Too Long On Dead Inside I Start Feeling Gross, as well as letting myself move forward on ATR, I'm gonna tackle Dead Inside and ATR concurrently again!! I mean, I had to get this buffer back eventually. (Not that this is probably going to take any more/less time than Dead Inside first then finally back to ATR.)

Nothing has happened yet, but as soon as I finish this post I'm gonna start working on chapter, uh, is it 62??? 63??? Idr, but, I mean. I know it as the next sequence. I JUST CAN'T TELL YOU THE NAME OF THE SEQUENCE BECAUSE LOL SPOILERS.

I won't be posting ATR, of course, until I finish at least Part 3! finishing Part 3 should at the very least get back my buffer, which is the main reason. Another, still important though largely secondary reason, is to make sure the end of Part 3 works??? Some really big things happen in this section, and I need to make sure I don't mess it up. AND, THAT'S NOT EXACTLY SMTH YOU CAN, UHH,,, that's not something you can manage as well once chapters have been uploaded, so.

ANYWAY! I can't tell you what's up but I'm hyyyyype.

Take a moment, as well, to reread ch59 because it rules and maybe it's a little bit related but SHH


Other FtPverse related things!!! 

I'm rereading FtPverse as a whole, because, I never have??? It'll be good to explore my roots or whatever, plus this hopefully means I won't forget about important things that happened in the past, maybe??

I finished rereading the Truth Hurts a couple weeks ago, but haven't started Falling to Pieces yet!! oops. I'm bad at reading.

Regardless, along with remembering important things, going back to my roots, getting a better sense of character development I may have forgotten, I'm noting down things I want to edit as I go, too!!

It's,, coming,,


I'm also planning new character sheets! I know, I do this like every year lol but!!! Well I won't say these ones will be the final ones because I bet next Year I'll find something wrong with them, BUT!

These ones are gonna focus more on who they are as a person instead of "notes I keep in mind when writing them and that's kinda it" BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT CHARACTER PROFILES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE FOR??? Lmao.


KINGDOM HEARTS RELATED!!

Like I said, I've been replaying KH2, and it's been a lot of fun!!! It also has provided me with like 20 KH fic ideas??? oops. NONE OF THESE SHOULD END UP AS LONG AS THE NARRAXION FIC THO,

Anyway you can check out all the fic ideas I thought up here!!!

I'm definitely looking forward to writing a few about Namine (largely just, the one about her pictures, which ended up in another post!)

And the "heart hotel collaborative effort" which, while my friend coined, I'm extremely banking on!!! I don't have anything written, just thoughts for it, but it's gonna be a continuation of the NarraXion fic (of sorts), where Xion now narrates for Sora. So does Ven. And Roxas too, eventually, when he stops being a grump.

It'll be a lot of fun heartsharing thoughts!!!! You can check out my tag for the AU here!

I also made alot of fun posts about Namine. You should check them out (1, 2, 3, 4)

You might want to check out my kh bloggin tag, in general??? there's been a lot of new thoughts floating around in it.


Other things I've been up to!!!

There's probably more than just this one thing, but, I'm gonna leave it at this one thing and call it a night!

I've been listening to a really fun podcast called The Adventure Zone recently!! I never liked podcasts before this one, but this is a DnD podcast where three brothers and their dad play DnD together. Basically, they just live-roleplay out a story and sometimes there's dice rolling involved.

This is definitely not a podcast for younger ears, so if you're made uncomfortable by cussing and sex jokes (nothing crude, exactly, just more talk about wieners than probably necessary) then skedaddle outta here!

Otherwise, The Adventure Zone has a wonderful story and some stellar characters! There are funny moments almost constantly, and the story just gets better as we go. The third arc, Petals to the Medal, absolutely slayed me. It was so good and so enthralling I had to binge listen to like five episodes to get to the end of it (AND THEN CRIED LIKE A BABY ONCE I GOT THERE!!)

The Crystal Kingdom arc just wrapped up, and it was a lot of fun too!! It was either funny, or thrilling, or both at the same time, and started introducing music into the show. It, rules, in general, and there are a looooooooooot of good moments in there.

While I'd definitely recommend starting at the beginning, so you get some inside jokes and understand the lore of this universe, if you're looking for a single episode to sell you, then go with episode 31! This episode kind of encapsulates the entirety of what the Adventure Zone is, and is overall just a really good episode.

SO YEAH

CHECK IT OUT????


this was a long update post my fingers are tired i meant to start writing like two hours ago help


OH WAIT LMAO. E3. KAIRI. ETC.

I WON'T SPEND LONG HERE BUT YO! E3 IS COMING UP AND I'M HYPE FOR 2.8 BECAUSE I THIK AQUA'S COMING BACK

ALSO THERE'S ANOTHER KAIRI E3 FEST. YELL ABOUT E3. YELL ABOUT KAIRI

I'M MAKING A VIDEO FOR IT AND IT'S KIND OF HELL

Friday, May 20, 2016

Hiatus Update 3 - What I've been doing in the meantime (again)

There's a lot!!! Some of it's really cool stuff that I've been working on for a while!!! You've probably seen it already, maybe, considering I posted about it lol.

ANYWAY

FIRST WE START WITH

Something I forgot to post earlier whICH IS NEW DEAD INSIDE OST MIXES!!



You get an embedded Part 3 because it's arguably the best! I mean, all of the new OST is extremely good, and I worked really hard on it and am proud of my song selection, but Part 3 / Endgame has some of the juiciest stuff!!

--> You can check out the full masterpost, linking to liner notes and the other mixes, here! <---

I extremely meant to post it on this blog, but forgot! I was doing a lot of other things though.

Anyway, you can find the full OST youtube because that's a convenience thing. And also, check out the thoughts I had behind selecting each song here, if that's your jam! That's probably what I would've talked about had I remembered to post about them on this blog. Oh well.

I know this doesn't seem like a very large bullet point, but that's because all the content is elsewhere! You should really check it out.

The mixes flow together better, have a better selection of songs, and all around I'm 1000x more proud of them!


Kairi edits!! Batch 1 is finished and I'm lifting my hands in praise!

I started these like five months ago, back in January. At the time I was just editing Dead Inside on the side while doing other things, which, when you're only minorly tweaking a chapter and uploading it once you're done, isn't so bad.

But the Kairi edits involved complete rewrites of various scenes, and I had to wait until all 15 of them were done, otherwise things wouldn't line up on a major scale.

But, those are done now!!

You can check out them and all the deets about them here.

They were a lot of work, and I'm super proud of, well, most of them (the new new ch87 rules and the new ch97 rules and the new ch46 also kinda rules) and if you haven't read them yet you should!



Save the World - A Mega Fandom Crossover

I've started working on a really cool crossover! And I'm really hype about it!!

"Rar," you may say, eyeing the "This House Is A Home" AU ft the Undertale kids in FtPverse "do you really think this AU is going to last that long?"

I do!! This is a completely different style of AU! In fact, idk why I'm calling it an AU, because it's really more like a crossover! It, is a crossover!

Anyway, I've mentioned this before, but just in case you missed it: This is a huge crossover spanning around 10+ fandoms, and is an excuse to get all my favorite characters to interact. It's sort of just a fun thing I'm writing scenes for in my downtime, but I spent the past week working on a blog for it, and now the blog is finally done! I'm really excited about the blog (and, about the crossover itself), so I'm putting them here for you to check out!

You can check out the blog here!

It'll link you to the about, plus where you can read what I've written for it so far, along with the team pages! The team pages are what I spent so long working on, and, they rule.



THINGS I PLAN ON DOING / STILL NEED TO DO BEFORE HIATUS IS UP

  • Batch 2 Kairi edits! Batch 2 covers about the first 20 chapters of Part 2. Literally all of them, actually (well, 20 of the first 25 that have Kairi in them). IT'S,,, I dunno how long it's going to take, but I want that done before I touch ATR stuff
  • Rereading FtPverse. The entirety of it. I've actually never done this and seeing as it's been 5 and a half years I think it's About Darn Time. I'm kind of tired of going "wait was that a thing?? I forget" so rereading will be good. Also it means I can peg where I need to make continuity edits.
  • I wanna redo the character sheets again!! I know I do this like every year but I want more about their characters than just a list of notes I have about them. I also want to trim down the character relationships section because while I Love That Stuff, needing to write a hecking essay every time I sit down to update the pages so they're current?? Not as fun.
  • I'll have to update the soundtrack page w/ the New DI OSTs but, that's not something I have to do just, something I will do! Probably soon. Hopefully I remember.
  • Finally: actually build up that buffer for ATR that I wanted. At least finish Part 3 before I start posting, probably?? We'll see. 
It's hard to tell you to get hype for something that won't be coming for months, but, um, the end of Part 3 is gonna freaking rule. 

The Kairi edits are probably also going to rule.

But trust me. I've brainstormed what's gonna happen at the end of ATR Part 3, and it's gonna freaking rule. Get hype, yo.

Sunday, May 8, 2016

Another Update

I dunno if I'll do an update every week or anything, but, I just!! There's only a few small things to cover here, most (all??) of them ftpverse related. This week I haven't done much else, really.


Dead Inside Edits!

These are still coming. We're (well, I'm) tackling them a little differently now though. Maybe I only talked about this on tumblr, but the plan lately had been to finish editing ch104/107 and then upload those two chapters along with about ten other chapters from part 1 of Dead Inside all at once.

Well, I hit a snag called "ch104 leads into 107 which leads into 109 which leads into the rest of this sequence at the start of part 2". And, I've been wanting to edit that sequence because a) it kind of sucks b) despite being the sequence where Kairi finally leaves the Islands like none of it is her pov and I'm a little peeved c) I edited earlier things so, continuity issues

ANYWAY

So that it wouldn't be another month or two before I could upload any Dead Inside edits, I decided to shift my efforts.

I've got two chapters in part 1 of Dead Inside that were also marked for Kairi related edits (though both of them less pressing edits) and I decided I'll just.... I'll fix those up, and then I'll upload all the Kairi edits I've made for part 1.

After that I'll tackle the first, like, 20 chapters of part 2 and edit those. There will be some things between parts 1 and 2 of Dead Inside that won't line up until I've finished the part 2 edits, but, I really just want to upload something finally lol.


Dead Inside OST updates??

I've actually had these done for a while (like, a month or two now) and they've even gone up on 8tracks already, but I held off on uploading any of the liner notes because they reference edits to Dead Inside that I haven't uploaded yet.

I thought it wouldn't take that long to finish all the edits and upload them, so I held off on uploading the liner notes. I realized a week or two ago that the edits weren't going as fast as I wanted but I was committed to wait at that point.

Well, these will probably go up shortly after batch 1 of the Kairi edits go up, so look forward to them. Big things are coming within the next week.


I'd talk more about the OST updates but the short short of it is "I'd found a lot of new (better) songs also just thought the old OSTs sucked so I decided to make new ones so I completely redid them and they're better now."

Trust me. I'm really confident the OSTs are so much better than the originals and are just Good In General. I'm excited to actually share them and why I feel these ways about them. Look forward to it.


Hey how's ATR goin?

I just finished writing ch62! I don't know when I'll upload it. And, though I may write more ATR chapters in the middle of the DI edits, the point of this hiatus is as much to finish up the biggest (Kairi-related) DI edits as it is to build up a buffer for ATR again.

I don't know how long any of this is gonna take me. It could take one month, it could take three. I don't know. But I promise I'll be back eventually. I'm not leaving ftpverse until I'm done lol. I just need to shift my focuses for a while. That's all.



Closing

Anyoo that's all that's really been going on lately. At least in terms of ftpverse, and, I don't think I did anything outside of ftpverse (or at least, not, exciting). So!

That's it.

Idk if I'll keep doing weekly updates like this or not, but, hopefully, by next week (if not within the next couple days!) I'll have those Kairi updates finished and that'll be my next post!! We'll see.

Weeeeeeee'll see.


Sunday, May 1, 2016

Things I've been doing lately!!

I've meant to do a post about what I've been doing in the downtime of this All That Remains hiatus, but kept putting it off!! OH WELL!!

We're here to talk about it now. I hope you were interested in what I've been up to, because, there's a lot of things that I want to tell you about, lol!


The Meltdown Project (blog post)

I posted this literally last week, but in case you missed it!

The Meltdown Project was a video / AMV I did four (five??) years back. It was like, Namine's Meltdowns in AMV format. I could say a lot of things about it but in general it's this big thing with a lot of kind of hidden meaning in it. Also I'd made a post about all the "details" behind it but the post was really just "lol I forget" at every other thing and I?? I was mad at that and decided that since I still remembered a lot, I'd go ahead and just, do a new blog post for the darn thing.

You can check it out here!


Dead Inside Edits

These are!!! These are still impending. I only have two more Kairi chapters though, and then I'll be uploading around 10 chapters all at once, all with Kairi related edits. The reason I'm doing them all at once is because a lot of this is an overarching thing, and I didn't want Kairi to be like "WOW I'M SO MAD" and then "lol it's fine" twenty chapters later. SO.

Unfortunately, after that I have to rewrite almost an entire sequence for Kairi related reasons (ch110-120, along with a few chapters before that that were Kairi issues but separate Kairi issues) BUUUUT, that's a separate thing and I'll upload those separately from this first batch.

After that I'm out of Kairi edit hell and can go back to editing and updating Dead Inside on the side, one chapter at a time. I think actually uploading the things I'm editing will help me a lot, so it doesn't look like I've been doing nothing (BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN WORKING HARD ON THIS!!) and also it feels more like things are getting done, because they're uploaded, they're finished.

Anyway, while I might do a blog post about Kairi in the future, I think I'll probably wait until after I've uploaded the first batch of Kairi Dead Inside edits (which should happen in the next few weeks, like I said, I've only got two more chapters to go). The things I want to talk about it will be more evident after I've posted the edits, anyway.

Per usual, if you want to hear me yell about the parts of Dead Inside I don't like (or yell about why I think these rewrites are real good) then you can check out the di bloggin tag on my personal tumblr!!


Misc FtPverse Things

There hasn't been anything super major, but, I have posted some things to tumblr you should maybe care about??? I plan on cross posting a few of them over to this blog in the future, but also, shrugs on when that'll happen

  • Aesthetic posts!! This is something I started for the heck of it months and months ago - I dropped them for a bit after finishing Kairi / Namine / Sora, but didn't upload them because I didn't have Riku. ANYWAY I FINALLY FINISHED RIKU AND THIS IS AN OVER EXPLANATION FOR A SET OF PICTURES YOU'LL PROBABLY ONLY LOOK AT FOR TEN SECONDS, check them out anyway because they took a lot of time and I'm Proud (tm)
  • I rewatched some Stupid Mario Brothers and did ANOTHER post about the Darkness and Shad. I guess I'll be doing these for forever.
  • Made a post about some important revelations for the Namiku dynamic!! These will be crossposted to this blog eventually. I'LL SHOOT FOR SOON.

I may have forgotten to post about it, so:

I updated a few chapters of Falling to Pieces!!  It was nothing major, just some edits to the HB gang / Aerith's introduction, so that it read more in character / stopped being such a blatant rehash of KH1 dialogue.




OTHER WRITING THINGS??

I created a writing blog on tumblr!! It's not for much other than "I don't want to post this fic on FFN/AO3 yet (or ever) but I wanted to share it w/ a few people so take it here."

You can find it at rarwrites.tumblr.com!

There's not a whole lot on there right now, but I have written

Other than that I haven't written much, I have been really just working hard on the Dead Inside edits!

I mean, currently, I'm writing what will be ATR ch62, but it's going to be a looooooong time before that's ever uploaded, unfortunately! Maybe I'll be ready to come back by June?? Who knows.

((Ok, I guess ch62 of ATR could get uploaded sooner rather than later because it Extremely finishes up the sequence we were on, but, idk. I'll debate that and am not making any promises.))


KAIRI THINGS

The Kairi Needs Love / Kairi4KH3 movement is still going strong. 

I, I'm not totally sure why I decided to include it here because I'm not actually advertising any events because the only close one isn't until E3. 

I mean if you love Kairi and have the means to post stuff to tumblr or twitter, then check out the deets for the E3 fest we'll be hosting this year!!!



VIDEO GAMES NEWS (RELATED TO ME)

Nothing super duper major has been going on, bUT!!

I got Twilight Princess HD for my birthday (courtesy of magik!! ILU!!) which I probalby posted about around my birthday but just the other night I 100%'d it!!!

I mean, okay. I don't have any of the stamps that are new to the HD version, but I got all the poes / golden bugs / pieces of heart, which was more than kid rar ever did despite her really aggressive summer obsession with TP!! I JUST,,, I decided when I got TPHD that this time would be the time where I 100%'d it and NOW I'VE DONE IT!!! I'VE DONE IT!!!!! HECK YEAH!!!!!!!


I also bought a cool little game called Klonoa: Door to Phantomile recently! It's a simple platformer for the PS1 (which I got for 6 bucks on the PSN store) which isn't, like, groundbreaking or anything but it's a cute little game and I watched someone livestream it a while back and, given it was only 6 bucks, figured I might as well get it!! It's, uh, a lot harder than the guy who I watched play it made it look, lol.


I've also been, obviously, playing a lot of KHUX! I talked about it previously, but, yanno!! It's still a pretty fun game. I think if you're a KH fan you should at least try picking it up (especially since it's free and we ALL know that the plot is going to eventually be relevant to the main KH storyline, seeing as this is basically the prequel to the Keyblade War).

The driving plot unfortunately doesn't begin until pretty far into the game (I HAVEN'T EVEN REACHED IT YET RIP) but we're!!! We're getting some cool story eventually, and the game isn't like horrendous to play. It's set up so you can do one or two missions while on the go, and each mission really only takes a minute, three tops to do, so it was extremely designed with smartphones in mind.

I dunno! I know some people who weren't that into it but I like it! I like it. And I can't wait to see it's story play out in full.



OTHER MISC THINGS

Mother 3's 10th anniversary was a little over a week ago! I did a blog post about it on my other blog, and, you should check it out! I talked about why I loved the game so much, and, why you should consider playing it yourself, lol.

I also talked about my hopes for an English localization of Mother 3, which seem to be more likely than ever? Even if you don't listen to the rumors, the out of nowhere localization of Mother 1 / Earthbound Beginnings last year, along with Mother 3's release on the Japanese Virtual Console back around Christmas... Well, that seems to point good places. And Nintendo definitely knows US fans want it. OH and it's the 10th anniversary and if they're gonna do it any time, well, this year seems like the best potential year.

SO YEAH, I'M EXCITED FOR THAT


SGDQ is!! coming!!! Not until July but they have their game schedule up already and I'm really excited to see some of these games broken in the name of a speedrun!

If you don't know what SGDQ is and why you should be hype, you should check out this post I made on tumblr.

Games I'm looking forward to:

  • Klonoa!!
  • Another blind Mario Maker Race!!! They did this last year, and, um, it was really good.
  • Super Mario Sunshine
  • Mario Kart Double Dash!!
  • FF6 done in 20 minutes because of the abuse of a real big glitch
  • Harry Potter: Chamber of Secrets, which was a kind of bad video  game adaption, of, well. You know. I owned this as a kid and am really interested in seeing what the hell they can do with it, lol.
  • SONIC 06!!! SONIC 06!!! S O N I C 0 6!!!!! This game is already broken as hell and I caaaaaaan't wait to see it broken in the name of speed
  • They're also doing SA2, and while it's probably also broken, I just love that trash game and, yanno
  • SUPER MARIO RPG!!! This is like the only one I'm really hyped for that I didn't see on the accepted list before the schedule went up, so it caught me by surprise, and I'm kind of interested!!! I'm not sure if it has any gamebreaking glitches (which are, like, the best kind of run to watch) BUT! Well. I'm hype.
These are only games I'm into, so, you should check the schedule and see if they're running any of your favorite games! And, consider tuning in (or watching old runs of your fave games on youtube in the meantime). It may seem like such a strange thing to be interested in, but, trust me, they're a lot of fun.

I'll probably post more about SGDQ here was we approach it, but if you for some reason aren't following me on tumblr and are interested in hearing me talk about SGDQ and other GDQ events, I have a tag for that on tumblr!





THAT'S ,UH,

THAT'S MAINLY IT!!!

I hope you enjoyed this look into what rar has been doing with her life.

See ya later.


Thursday, April 14, 2016

ATR ch61 - In which we have a SoShad, and the hiatus officially begins

Heya!!

We'll get to the update in a bit, but there's a lot been going on since I last posted and, well, I'm gonna talk about all of those things! There's a lot, so, scroll down for a bit and you'll eventually get to the chapter lol.

OH BUT FIRST!!!! HIATUS NEWS!!!

I'm really sorry to take another hiatus for All that Remains, but man!! This is a long fic!!!! It didn't bug me so much back when I was writing Dead Inside, though I thiiiink that may because I was constantly ten chapters ahead when writing Dead Inside (it being only two/three years into the campaign, vs 5-and-a-half, probably also contributed).

Anyway, I really wanted to hold off until part 3 was over, but, I think it's for the best I take one now!! There are a lot of big things coming up for the end of part 3, and I really need the time to write them, to look them over, to make sure they all fit and are good! I can't really do that if I don't have a buffer and am constantly on a deadline.

The goal of this hiatus is:

- build up my buffer again / finish part 3 when I don't have to worry about update deadlines (it'll be better for that, I promise!)

- finish the Kairi edits to Dead Inside!!! GEEZE!!!! I ended up finding like five (??) more chapters that needed to be updated outside of the Initial Pass, but, look. It's fine. You'll see what I'm doing with them once I'm done. ((Hopefully, within the next few weeks, I'll have part 1 of the Kairi edits finished!))

- write a few non-ftpverse things I've wanted to for a while!!! I wanna write a KHX fic ft my keykid, and also a non-ftpverse KH AU with the Aerith/Leon sibling concept, AND MAYBE!!! Get at least one scene of that KH vs TP AU down, but, idk. IDK!


MIITOMOOOOO!!

This is just a real quick plug of Nintendo's new.... MOBILE PHONE APP?? It's called miitomo, and it's basically watered down social media. The concept is you get asked questions and then your questions get told to your friends by their miis, while their answers get told to you by your mii! (Also, your miis have voices, like they do in tomodachi life.)

Like I said, it's kind of Whatever when it comes to the questions/answers thing, but it is pretty fun to dress up your mii in cool clothes (though clothes are suuuuuper expensive, rip), and the BEST part is the miifoto portion. You can insert your mii, your friends' miis, and any mii you make into a photo editor, change the background, change their poses, created funny scenarios, etc. IT'S BASICALLY SOMETHING I'VE ALWAYS DREAMED OF!! You kind of got that with AR cards on the 3DS, but not on this scale, and not with this quality.

Maybe you even noticed my icon updated - yup, that's thanks to miitomo!

this is me and rarbot, my clone/replica/whatever

Oh yeah, if you need it, Miitomo's official site is here!


KH UNCHAINED X, FINALLY!!

It came out about a week ago, finally, after like a year of being promised it (ok was it really only 6 months since the Japanese version came out?? mb it was) and well!! It's pretty fun!!!

It's certainly not, like, the most entertaining KH game I've ever played and I guess the missions get a little repetitive, but they're all in bite-sized sections (like, shorter than Days' missions by a lot, each can be finished in like >5 minutes in KHUX) and it's pretty easy to sit down every day and do one or two.

Plus, I know important plot stuff comes later, so I'm Sticking Through It.

It's not like I hate it, though!!! I do think it's a lot of fun!!! It's definitely not, like, the greatest game I've ever played, but if you're a KH fan (which, uh, you are if you're reading this blog, probably!) then you should definitely consider downloading it! It's free, after all.


This is my keykid, her name is Eri, she's cute and I love her. She's also constantly tired and isn't here for any of this war bullshit. Please let her take a nap.

Also, I love her so much I DREW HER!!!


PLEASE LOOK AT MY COOL ART!! ISN'T IT COOL!!!!!! I saw someone else draw their keykids and I was like "wtf!! I wanna draw mine!!" SO I JUST!!! I DID!!!!! I'll probably do it some more!!!!!!

Anyway now that that's out of the way.....

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This chapter went through a couple rewrites, because I couldn't quite settle on what I was doing for it. First I was like "Sora will ask Leon the question while Riku's still sitting there!" but that proved difficult (and a little redundant) because it was like I'd Just Fixed things for Riku but, nah, here's a few more things to worry about.

So I made it so Sora asked his question away from Riku, and just to Leon. Then I thought it would mess with the SoShad convo I had planned (and was more attached to) and so I took the Leon conversation out. Then it turned out I still needed it....

Regardless, I think it turned out Pretty Okay in the end, and I got to touch on all the things I wanted (and, provided myself something for later ATR chapters??? nice) so it's pretty nice in the end. Heck yeah!

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

ATR ch59 - Roxas is here.

I'm trying to think of cool things that are happening in my life but other than TPHD (which is gorgeous and playing it is kinda like being 12 again, lol) nothing.... exciting... has really happened.

OH WAIT!!

I wrote some Twilight Princess fic, if you're interested!

- Reekfish ~ thoughts about Link catching the Reekfish.

- Zelda's Gift ~ Midna/Zelda + bodysharing, aka, what if Zelda could talk to Midna while sitting in her heart or, whatever that was. IT'S GOOD.

- In which Iron Boots suck and Link needs to take a nap for three years after Goron Mines so his muscles stops aching ~ the long title says it all. based on year-old thoughts I had about TP.


SO YEAH THOSE ARE COOL!!

I'm also working on a TP vs KH AU, the biggest bit being "the HB gang replaces everyone in Kakariko", but I've thought about some other character matchups since. I have to write a bday gift for magik, a commission, and probably finish the Kairi-related edits to Dead Inside already before I can work on it more, but.... it's a thing!


Ftpverse Related

Er outside of a quick clarification, there isn't anything. But! This clarification is probably important.

Dead Inside edits are still happening, but I was going to tackle about 20 chapters with Kairi-related issues and post them all at once when I was done with them. I still have three Kairi-related chapters to tackle, and each of them need massive rewrites, not simple tweaks.

And, since I have to write a bday gift and that commission, well, it'll be a while.

We're getting close, though, and I hope you look forward to these updates and edits! It's not perfect, it will never be perfect, but I'm feeling a lot better about Kairi in Dead Inside (and, I think Kairi feels better too.)


MOOD MUSIC (SORTA)




I listened to this on repeat while writing this chapter because it was a pretty good vibe for Roxas showing up, and, honestly, is the vibe I relate most to FtPverse Roxas at this point.

Technically, I have a whole playlist of songs I made just for this chapter but it's kind of... messy. So just take this song. It's the only one you need.

((Also you get Spanish subtitles because this was the only copy of the song I could find that wasn't the official video or official lyric video, and, the official lyric video had some pretty disturbing imagery so I, nah. NAH.))


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I had a whoooole lot of fun writing this chapter!

I, uh, don't know if I have a lot of notes to post for it though, because all the notes I took revolve around a pretty big spoiler. Hopefully I'll remember to post them once they aren't spoilers, because, they're pretty good!


For now, here's what I can post:

I had a little trouble with this at first because I was like "yeah them trying to sabotage Roxas being Rebuilt was A Thing" and plotted the chapter around that. Then I reread the sequence in Dead Inside and realized, no, actually, outside of one throwaway line, they weren't actually planning that. 

So, uh, I had to rework the script a lot for this chapter. MAYBE I'LL POST THE ORIGINAL SCRIPT??? Lmao. Like I ever do that.


I was kind of afraid of going all out for this chapter but then I just. took myself by the shoulders. looked myself in the eye. this is fanfic and if you don't go all out on fanfic what even is the POINT.

Also it's probably better since I went all out, just. Like. That's a well known fact. Things generally go better when you go all out.


SIIIIIIIIGHS, Joseph was going to butt in w/ the logic of “Roxas you didn’t even ask anyone about Xion, kinda, ridiculous to assume” buuuuuut him doing that completely derailed where I wanted this to go, so, UNFORTUNATELY, JOSEPH, unfortunately. I gotta cut that line.


This scene gives me life gives me so much life I love Roxas being a shit.


Honestly I couldn’t care enough to decide if Aerith and Leon have met Roxas before this or not so I just, uh, didn't bring it up. I'm almost positive they haven't in story, but the chances he dropped by at least once during these past months are pretty high, so, like,,


And uh, that's it. That's all I can post.

I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THIS CHAPTER BECAUSE BOY I HAD A LOT OF FUN WRITING IT.