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Speaking of coattails: Lic, you're too kind. You literally tripled the followers on the rec blog. It used to just be my brother and some spam blog. I am a marketing disaster, as you can see. XD @ Ravynne: I sent you a PM through DW. My "personal" Tumblr is a hodgepodge of crap (both FF and...

Here are some FF7 tumblrs I know of: level99challenge: Lots of screenshots from the original game. vii-lights and tormentedchaos: Both reblog a ton of pretty Final Fantasy graphics. I dunno if it's worth following more than 1-2 people for graphics, personally. It all comes around eventually...

I've never heard anyone use "clichéd" in my life. Looks weird, sounds weird.

I did start an FF fanfic rec blog on Tumblr for gen, rare pairing, minor character, neglected character, and really old fics that people have forgotten about or overlooked. You can guess just how raving popular it has been so far. :P

Tumblr's a place for a certain type of fandom community. There are certainly people on Tumblr, but I'm not sure you're going to find what you want there. A lot of the interaction will boil down to reblogging pretty pictures or shoutboxing to your Tumblr friends. Think Facebook for fandom. TLS...

Our RP experiences might be totally different, but I actually find RP great for just throwing characters into random situations and seeing how they react -- so I personally think it can force you to contemplate facets you would otherwise not consider while writing fanfic. (I definitely don't...

Eh, RPing a character is like co-writing half a fanfic from one character's POV while your partner writes the other half from another POV. I used to participate in those large-scale community prose RPs on LJ (where there's an overarching plot, a ton of different people playing a ton of different...

There's also areyougame, which is a video game fic exchange with some FF7 representation. The main mod is gonna retire from modship soon though, so I dunno how long it's gonna keep going. Everyone is on Tumblr, so everyone goes there, even though everyone complains about how awful it is for...

Fic exchanges are great if you have the time and are willing to write things you wouldn't normally write. I'm a big fan of ff-exchange, which runs a pretty big FF fic exchange called DOINK but also has an off-season where they just encourage people to fill unfilled prompts with no commitment...

You can just say that in the author's note section without backdating: "Written in 20XX."

It's probably 'cause you backdated the other fics; backdating means they don't show up on the front page. Re: Inspire. I'm really not that bothered by it. The chances anyone will actually deal with Cait Sith's origins in their fics is extremely low. (But if anyone is interested, here's a fun...

I guess if one really wanted to mess with the Inspire idea, it'd make the most sense to connect it to materia magic somehow (e.g. the Manipulate that comes with Cait).

You're welcome! Though I can't really speak for anyone else's interest in Genesis, I'm glad to alleviate some of the (well-deserved) skepticism about his value as a character. My Reeve had made a remark about how he wasn't entirely sure where Cait's accent had come from, and you'd commented...

Far be it for me to keep singing her praises, but Sinnatious's post-DoC Cloud/Genesis story is extremely well-done for all the wtfuckery of the pairing. When I first saw the pairing, my reaction was: "Wait. Really? You're joking, right?" Then I read it, and, well ... I have to say that she...

I do appreciate him more now than I did before I started writing fic of him, but he's been my favorite FF7 character ever since I played CC. (Now that I think about it, I probably need to credit Genesis for getting me back into fandom at all. I stopped participating in fandom in 2010 and only...

@ Lic: I really like ambitious failures. Characters who try so fucking hard but never quite get what they want. Sometimes they legit don't attain their goals, but sometimes they're also the ones who don't quite know what they want; all they know is that it's not enough, they reach too far...

Grab bag of responses: If you're writing in third-limited, invent words if it's IC for your characters to invent words? I'd also use "literally" to mean "figuratively" if a character would think/speak like that. Speaking as a gen writer: I think it's unfair to say that writing pairings with...

I always thought that Leviathan's origins have pretty much lost all meaning in Final Fantasy and that it's more or less become a generic "huge fucking sea serpent." Same with a lot of the other monsters (e.g. Behemoth, Tiamat, Bahamut, the "Zu bird," so on and so forth). Also, people focus on...

SE does have a history of mapping fictional locations onto real world locations. The most obvious example (even more obvious than Wutai = roughly Japan, possibly east Asia) would be the Cape of Good Hope in FF8, which is a real location in South Africa with, you guessed it, a lighthouse and...

Well, clearly now you must tell us about your own Wutai worldbuilding. :P