when you have too many Hero-Kings

Sep. 9th, 2025 08:37 am
taichara: (Hero-King!)
[personal profile] taichara
So I really badly both want to play one of Marth's Fire Emblem games because I want to poke Marf And Friends with a stick, and am absolutely spoiled for choices at this point.

That's where polls come in!

Poll #33591 I Need A Marf
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 1


What Marth FE should I play?

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Dark Dragon And The Sword Of Light (Famicom, ancient ~15 yr fan translation)
0 (0.0%)

Dark Dragon And The Sword Of Light (Famicom, 2017 fantranslation)
0 (0.0%)

Dark Dragon And The Sword Of Light (Switch port, official translation)
1 (100.0%)

Mystery Of The Emblem, War of Shadows (Super Famicom, old fantranslation)
0 (0.0%)

Mystery Of The Emblem, War of Heroes (Super Famicom, old fantranslation)
0 (0.0%)

Mystery Of The Emblem, War of Shadows (Super Famicom, Heroes Of Light fantranslation)
0 (0.0%)

Mystery Of The Emblem, War of Heroes (Super Famicom, Heroes Of Light fantranslation)
0 (0.0%)

New Mystery Of The Emblem, War Of Shadows (Nintendo DS, fantranslation)
0 (0.0%)

New Mystery Of The Emblem, War Of Heroes (Nintendo DS, fantranslation)
0 (0.0%)

mostly-faithful fan remake of Dark Dragon, GameBoy Advance
0 (0.0%)

Archanea Remake, complete fan overhaul of Dark Dragon's plot in Dark Dragon's maps, remake, GameBoy Advance
0 (0.0%)

holy shit that's a lot of Marfs
1 (100.0%)

where's the OAVs or manga at
0 (0.0%)

*insane dragon screeching at lack of Shadow Dragon because I'm a sadist*
0 (0.0%)

Fire Emblem Engage
1 (100.0%)

workaday AAAAAAGGGGHHHHH

Sep. 9th, 2025 07:01 am
marcicat: (agh a monster)
[personal profile] marcicat
It's back-to-office Tuesday! ::weeping:: (If even ONE person calls it 'back to work' I do not know if I will be able to control myself.)

Things I would like to have today:
*I have NEVER empathized more with Murderbot's desire to have a one-second delay on Every Single Thing that I say. I am 100% the "panicking, can't think. work on instinct. instincts bad" Spiderman panel.

Things I am likely to actually have today:
*Free food! And you know, that's nice too.

MCU15 > prompt tables

Sep. 8th, 2025 10:37 pm
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[personal profile] flareonfury
MCU15 banner
GOAL: Write 15 fanfics (100 words mim.) for 15 different prompts.
CLAIMING: NO LIMIT! ANYTHING (CHARACTER/PLACE/PAIRING/CROSSOVER/ETC)!!
PLEASE JOIN 
[community profile] mcu15!!!

12 Week Year WAM Week 11

Sep. 8th, 2025 12:38 pm
andersenmom: ChaeJin sticking his tongue out (Tongue to you)
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Weekly Score: 82.8 (24/28)

Goal 1: Declutter house and take care of family. 88% (21/24)

Review: I didn't do too badly, although not as well as I would have liked. Kept up with laundry, and dishes aren't too bad.

Goal 2: Catch up on Fannish50. 60% (3/5)

Review: I'm not caught up, but I can't post any more until I write more. The next bunch is going to be fun.

Goal 3: Prep for writing retreat. 100%

Review: I got back from it yesterday, and it was just... perfect. Well, not exactly, we didn't everything we'd planned, but it worked so well! I'm happy with it for our first outing, and I got around 8k words written. Learned things about my writing group people that came, too, and I'm just excited that we want to continue it. Even managed a poll about what to keep and what to change for next time. So I'm happy there will be a next time!

Intentions for the future: G1: I'm going to keep on the Conservatory and living room - those both need to get cleaned up. I need to get into some boxes and I hope some things I'm missing are in them. G2 - I have five posts to write to try to catch up, as well as some other writing to do. I'm looking forward to it.

What I Watched September 1 - 7

Sep. 8th, 2025 11:43 am
fadedwings: (Agatha: who me?)
[personal profile] fadedwings
New (to me) TV:

The Paper 1x01 - 1x10

Re-watched TV:
various episodes of the following

Community
Lethal Weapon
Leverage
Leverage: Redemption

*no movies this week*

25%

Sep. 8th, 2025 07:36 am
marcicat: (penguin)
[personal profile] marcicat
We're 25% of the way through the no_true_pair 2025 eight-character challenge!

This is my first year participating, where 'participating' means 'I am writing but not actually posting, because I am feeling emotionally fragile and cannot bear the thought of anyone perceiving my writing at this time.'

But I'm posting them in a private sticky post in my journal, and they will definitely be shared at some point, and I'm having a great time! Truly an exceptionally fun challenge!

F-FW Challenge 490 - Pulp fiction

Sep. 8th, 2025 08:05 pm
m_findlow: (Ianto Jones)
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Title: Pulp fiction
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack, Ianto
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 1,292 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 490 - Issue at 
[community profile] fan_flashworks 
Summary: Ianto thinks he’s finally cracked a secret message lurking in his pile of monthly trash rags.

Pulp fiction

New Comm!

Sep. 7th, 2025 06:14 pm
westiec: yellow face with a wide smile and fangs (Default)
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At long last and with absolutely no demand whatsoever, I have created a comm for [community profile] polyshipweek !

This has been such a fun event to run these last few years, and I thought it would be nice to bring it here too.

The marriage of ship and plot

Sep. 7th, 2025 03:03 pm
mxcatmoon: (ML Inspire)
[personal profile] mxcatmoon
Fans on social media who hate romance, complaining about too many fanfics being about shipping.

Why can't it be both? My favorite type of story are the ones that have an interesting plot going on, and also a budding, developing, or complicated romance woven into them.

The stories I enjoy writing the most are the ones where there is a mystery, or something to solve, or a problem to get out of, and it's also furthering the relationship (and that means even the friendships and family dynamics).

Read more... )

THE GOOSE GAUNTLET

Sep. 7th, 2025 08:48 am
marcicat: (cats at sunrise)
[personal profile] marcicat
It's raining today (finally, hooray!), so this story is actually from my Friday walk. There's a local cemetery that's popular for walking, and (at certain times of year) also popular with geese. So I wasn't entirely surprised to start down one of the roads and see a couple geese on one side, even when I realized it was actually four geese.

Best goose advice: AVOID THE GEESE

I know this advice. I love this advice! But the cemetery geese are usually pretty chill, and this isn't gosling season, so I figured 'hey, the geese are all off the road on the left, I'll just swing wide to the right and we'll all be cool about this.' That would have left a comfortable 10-15 feet between me and the geese. Not enough distance to outrun them if they decided to really go at me, but enough to put that option in the Very Unlikely category.

And then two of the geese started to cross the road. (Note: it's a looooong straight road, so I had a long time to watch this disaster unfolding.) Still, I thought 'no problem, all the geese are going to cross the road, and then I'll swing wide to the left instead, and we'll all be cool about this.'

Except ONLY two geese crossed the road. And then there were geese on both sides!

That's really the point that I should have turned around and just gone back the other way. (See: best goose advice)

But I did not turn around. I was pretty close to them already by that point, and everything had been fine so far, right? I slowed down, trying my best to look non-threatening and chill. There was, optimistically, still 6-8 feet of clearance between me and each pair of geese. I thought 'this is fine, we're all fine here.'

And then one of the geese on the right started hissing. One of the geese on the left started making an even scarier sound, like a growl (I know geese can't growl, but I'm not sure this goose knew that). ALL the geese were looking at me. I quickly moved from 'I really don't want to have to explain this choice at the emergency room' to 'genuinely fearing imminent goose attack,' but by that point it seemed quicker to keep going than to turn back, so that's what I did.

By the grace of the small-town cemetery gods, I emerged unscathed from the GOOSE GAUNTLET, with a story to tell and a significantly stronger commitment to following the Best goose advice: AVOID THE GEESE.
kalloway: (Xmas Ornaments 6 Golden)
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The pile got too high again...

Gundam SEED Destiny (Original Version + Final Plus) - watched pretty much as canon review for war-gaming and there were a lot of things I kinda forgot or found more interesting this time around. Anyway, Freedom only makes sense with Final Plus and now I'm wondering if they just edited it into the remaster. Actually, I think I started with the Remaster but switched to the original because I like the old English dub (and British!Arthur) a lot.

Char's Counterattack - again, canon review for war-gaming, I swear. It's been some time and I both love and hate everyone and Gyunei is such a jealous boyfriend, lol.

Natsume's Book of Friends (Season 1 & 2) - delightful, though it seems like only a couple more seasons are on disc and the rest streaming-only.

A Magical Girl Retires (Park Seolyeon) - enough people talked about this that I got curious and oh, it's an entire journey and then some in like 150 pages. At it's heart, it is very much a magical girl story and the route to the ending is never entirely obvious.

Jianghu (L Si X Xi Y) - baihe short story, interesting and delightful in weird ways. (More Info)

Broken Controller #4 - zine about retro-gaming. I wanted to like Broken Controller but it became very image-heavy with difficult to read layouts. I know the group doing it are still doing zines and I wish them success but they just weren't for me.

Samurai Pizza Cats - this was a stupid lot of fun; I can't say I paid close attention to every episode but this was great to have on in the background in general. Absolute kudos to the writing team. If you don't know the story, Kyatto Ninden Teyandee underperformed in Japan and a lot of the production materials weren't kept. When it was licensed for an English syndication, it arrived with partial scripts and audio. The writers literally just made everything up and dialed the ridiculous to 11. It does not 100% hold up, but it's very very good.

Twittering Birds Never Fly - a BL movie that kept catching my eye on Sentai's sale page. It was okay to watch but that's about it.

The Da Vinci Code - was given this, after being asked if I'd seen it. I promptly described what I think is actually the plot of American Treasure and then realized that. Anyway, nothing about this felt original but this was an entire genre for awhile, too.

American Graffiti - a loaner that shoot, I need to give back. Didn't get into at first, enjoyed it by the end. Nice cars, good music. I think I'm the wrong generation to really some of the nostalgia, though.

Bastard!! (S1, new anime) - a surprisingly good adaptation! Apparently quite a few of the voice actors went uncredited because it is a horny, mature show. But it's a different actor doing dub-Darsh which is a little disappointing because I still hear OVA!Darsh in my head from time to time. (dub!Darsh sounds a smidge young, which is kind of interesting all around) Spends the entire season telling a thorough version of the story that's raced through in the OVAs.

and then last quarter's JFF titles:

Ito - about an awkward introvert who goes to work at a maid cafe and everything that happens along the way.

A Handful of Salt, The Genealogy of Sake - two documentaries.

Three Sisters - family drama, where I never quite worked out how every single bit of the drama but there was a lot, but also a lot of good moments between the sisters.

Love & The Grand Tug of War - another family drama, also centered on a cultural festival that culminates with a city-wide tug of war.

Nabbie's Love - family drama, and all of these family dramas are set in specific parts of the country so also cultural dramas, with a wall-banger of an ending. This one had a lot of traditional musicians in various roles so there was a lot of music and song.

Of these, I probably liked Ito the best. I enjoyed watching all of them, as well as all the little cultural shorts explaining more about music and food and festivals and art, but none of them really hit the same spots as some previous JFF films.

Randoms

Sep. 6th, 2025 11:01 pm
kalloway: (FFVIIAC Hear Me Now)
[personal profile] kalloway
[community profile] fandomgiftbasket has all the baskets posted now, so I'm skimming through to see what I might be able to fill.

The folks who made the mobile game Grimlight are about to launch a TCG, Echoes of Astra on Kickstarter. I don't need another TCG but I'll definitely watch and see how things go for them and probably end up with a starter.

Still deciding on Wares Blade (TTRPG) but there's time. I'll probably just get the basic hardcover.

I've possibly either finished Starfall, or finished him for now. He's on his shiny base and while I feel like I have a lot of leftover parts, some of them are because I cannot make him look as cool as some of the promo stuff and some are because of how runners work. I suppose I'll figure out where he's going to get displayed and go from there with packing the rest up. He does have a lot of decals but honestly, his stark darkness is a big part of his draw.

Visited a trio of cemeteries earlier, two on purpose and one on accident. The latter was very small, in extreme disrepair, and managed to be an absolutely overwhelming liminal space without feeling in any way creepy, scary, or upsetting. Of the other two, one was an old but active township cemetery and we darted out quickly when suddenly a couple dozen cars arrived for a service. The other was possibly also a township cemetery. It, too, was old but still active. And somehow surprisingly difficult to find, which was how we ended up at the small, liminal space cemetery. (Except getting back was very easy! Looking at the notes and book I was working from, the addresses were hysterically incorrect, maps drawn wrong, etc. So I wrote in some new notes but wtf. At least the farmers we kept encountering were all friendly.)

Semi-related, [personal profile] spook_me is open for sign-ups. No clue what I'm going to write, but something.

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