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ff_exchange2011-11-16 09:32 pm
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DOINK! Friending Meme!
We’ve always wanted to have a friending meme for Doink, but... in an exchange where gifts are surprises, and gifters and recipients are big secrets, it never seems like the right time. So we’d like to have one now! No one has to worry about ruining the big reveal, and we all get to have fun and make some friends!
If you’d like to participate, we’ve prepared some text you can copy and fill out to tell the community a little bit about yourself, where friends can find you, and which parts of Final Fantasy fandom make you sparkle like a happy Megalixir. Feel free to fill out as much or as little as you’d like - we encourage everybody to share their fandom likes and loves, so that you can connect with like-minded fans, but it isn’t necessary.
The way to play is quite simple:
Just two notes before we start:
Enjoy!
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If you’d like to participate, we’ve prepared some text you can copy and fill out to tell the community a little bit about yourself, where friends can find you, and which parts of Final Fantasy fandom make you sparkle like a happy Megalixir. Feel free to fill out as much or as little as you’d like - we encourage everybody to share their fandom likes and loves, so that you can connect with like-minded fans, but it isn’t necessary.
The way to play is quite simple:
- Copy the text, fill it out, and leave a comment! We’ll have two posts, one for LJ and one for DW - if you’re looking for new friends in both places, feel free to fill both out.
- Scan the page and read about the Doink community! Does someone look interesting? Strike up a conversation! Make some friends! WRITE COMMENT FIC. Whatever you’d like!
- Add folks to your various friend networks as you desire!
- Repeat as needed.
- Everyone wins!
Just two notes before we start:
- This is not exclusive to Chocobo Down participants, or to Doink participants. It’s open to everyone! So please spread the word.
- We hope this doesn’t really need to be said, but please stay kind, positive, and respectful of everyone’s widely different kinds of fandom love.
Enjoy!
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Journals (LJ, DW, etc) / AO3 username:
Other places I’m looking for awesome fandom friends: I have a yet-to-be used tumblr account that will probably become far more active very soon, once I have fandom friends there. :)
FF canons I’ve experienced: FFIII, FFIV, FFVI, FFVII, FFVIII, FFIX, FFX, FFXII, Dissidia, FFT, Vagrant Story
FF Fandoms I’m active in: FFXII (Ivalice in general), occasionally Dissidia
Ways I participate in fandom: reading, writing, lots and lots of flailing on stories that don't want to be written in a short straight-forward manner, meta'ing, art recs, occasionally making icons and image manias
5 characters I love and one sentence why
1. (FFXII) Noah aka Gabranth - A bucket of tragedy, trying to do right yet flailing spectacularly, all while caring deeply about the people closest to him yet, confusing hurt with hate (all that hate for Basch stems from fraternal love).
2. (FFXII) Fran - A strong female with great lines, fantastic snarky voice&body acting, great backstory with so much potential for fandom interpretation and additions.
3. (FFT) Ramza - He just plain does what he must (and I swear he is a far future descendant of Basch).
4. (FFX) Auron - Epic ronin badass, with epic katana, and a punch-in-the-gut backstory that becomes increasingly more epic as his story unfolds.
5. (FFIX) Vivi - For me, his quest for identity and meaning was the highlight of FFIX.
5 pairings I love and one sentence why
1. Balthier/Ashe(/Al-Cid) - Because Balthier and Ashe have already decided that they cannot be together despite wanting each other, and because of Balthier's Far Too Obvious eye-rolling groans around Al-Cid/Ashe (and Fran's smirking while watching it unfold).
2. Basch/Vossler - Crossing class boundaries, clashing interpretations of loyalty, duty, and noble action, and tasty hardbodied knightly omnomnomnomnom.
3. Delita/Ovelia - class issues, political intrigue, love, betrayal, gut-stabbery.
4. Auron/Lulu - because they are two kindred spirits who could have an endless conversation about death without ever saying a word (and because Lulu/Wakka is the biggest piece of crack that Squeenix has ever sold us).
5. Penelo/postgame!Noah - because if a seriously injured & disabled Noah survived, orphan-mothering Penelo would offer to be his carer for All The Wrong Reasons the moment Larsa bats his big, long eyelashes at her and Hero of the People Basch puts his hand on her shoulder and says, "I know you will take good care of my brother," and once Penelo, Vaan, and Noah are living under the same roof, not only does the situation demand the utmost of forgiveness, they have to deal with Rabanastrians thinking that Noah is kingslayer Basch (or kingslayer Noah), ANNNNNNDDDD EVENTUALLY, after the 3rd or 4th time Penelo breaks up with Vaan during yet another screaming, yelling fight, a very upset, slightly drunk Penelo will no doubt seek comfort and sympathy from Basch's mirror image lookalike, which, of course, quickly ends up with needy!insecure!Noah not saying "No" as a half-naked Penelo crawls in between his sheets (for All The Wrong Reasons) ... and two weeks later Vaan wants to stick a fork in his eye right after Penelo and Noah "secretly" hold hands under the dining room table after learning that Larsa and Basch think that Penelo/Noah is Very Good News.
Themes, kinks, tropes that I really love to see in Final Fantasy fanworks:
- Crossing social class boundaries and cultural boundaries.
- Explorations of how political issues infest people's lives and shape their relationships (Ivalice, anyone?)
- Supernatural themes, gods as bastards, death, ghosts, memories, reflections
- Porn/sex that deeply explores characters' inner selves
- Stories with meta, layers, and subtext under subtext
- Complex, anti-cookie-cutter relationships
- OT3s, OT3s with twincest
One ridiculous thought or question I have about FF and/or fandom, to start discussion with my new fandom friends: What's your theory of why Vossler's armor has some dog collar action in it?
Anything else? Due to life weird shit a little over a year ago, I hastily put most of my fic (pr0n!) under friends lock. I plan on using much of my upcoming winter break to put my fic back into public spaces, so right now only my non-porn fic is up in ff_fortnightly and ff.net.
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And now, we return to our regularly-scheduled Wakka and Rikku. Come join the teeeeeny tiny fandom, most of whose active members have deactivated. (Oh, how I miss cupcakemonster. She wrote tons of it.)
I actually think Cid/Edea is an even bigger piece of crack. Come to think of it, the dynamics are slightly similar. Weird.
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Holy spumoni, Penelo/Noah. There's a new one. I'm still getting used to 'ira's Vaan/Noah.
Vossler's dog collar is of a piece with Dalmascan Battle Wedgies: he is into bondage, the more painful the better. Basch has the leash, of course.
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For sanity, I'm adding regularly scheduled gaming breaks into my life (I've done such little gaming for the past 2 years.) which gives me good reason to look for little canon scraps of, saaaaay, Wakka/Rikku for some quick fun fic.
Yes, Cid/Edea is very cracktastic, but so is much of FFVIII's plot. O_o
In an exchange of comment with chaosraven way up north on this page, we discuss how Vaan/Noah and Penelo/Noah explore similar thematic territory: loss and forgiveness.
I really need to start doing art again because your answer to my Vossler question wants to become an NSFW bit of fan art.
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My stack of unfinished-need-to-pickup-again games is getting a little too tall. If only work and life and grad school and all that other sort of stuff didn't get in the way. ;)
(btw, feel free to friend me!)
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