Title: AVALANCHE Chronicles
Chapter: 7 - The Fortress and the Fort
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII (original game canon)
Characters: Barret, Tifa, Cloud, Biggs, Wedge, Jessie, Aeris, and cast
Rating: PG-13 (for language)
Genres: Alternate universe, action/adventure, gen

Summary: A retelling of Final Fantasy VII in a world without Jenova.
Chapter Summary ( Read more... )

The cat got neutered yesterday. We thought this would calm him down some, but it seems to have made him crazier.

I walk away from my desk for a sec to find my Cloud Trading Arts Mini figure on the kitchen floor with a few bite marks in it (keep in mind this is a trading figure that is a few years old, and is therefore not easy to replace). Also, ( Read more... )

Give a guy a goofy last name and they FORGET THAT YOU WERE EVER IN THE ORIGINAL FFVII!

One of yesterday's TGS-related posts on Game|Life features an official Cloud Strife unisex perfume, complete with Cloudy Wolf branding. When I posted about it on the Cit Forums (as I wasn't sure about dignifying the frontpage with this bit of WTFery), an impromptu guessing game started up as to what Eau de Cloud smells like. Love Exy's suggestion ( Read more... )

I know Game|Life rarely updates on weekends, but it's in a set of Safari tabs I have titled "regulars" and thus gets opened along with all my other usual stops at least a couple times a day (when I'm home). Today, at around 2:30 this afternoon, I saw this:

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JESUS FUCKING CHRIST YOU THOUGHTLESS BITCH THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO BE POSTING SHIT LIKE THIS.

BTW, =windinmysails is swash, aka that person who called the waaaaambulence because regular Citadel Forums members who specify their gender as female get pink usernames. My first impression of them wasn't good, and now the same can be said for my last

First off, some good old fashioned Citadel Wackiness. I got an email this morning from someone named "Preston". It kind of says it all:

Hey mate im a huge fan of final fantasy 7 and love the citidal site, i tried to contact you on the citidal itself but Im sadly not a member atm =/ anyway I thought you might be interested in something i ( Read more... )

Thank you, Parish and the Retronauts podcast, for the major plot spoiler for Klonoa-a game that I'd been planning to get, a Wii remake of of a PS1 platformer that NOBODY PLAYED-provided without warning.

By which I mean, no thank you.

AAARGH.

*unsubscribes*

Yes, I had to spell that out, because of the end of this post at the site formerly known as Toastyfrog:

On a less stupid note, congrats to GameSpite contributor reibeatall for getting hitched today...and liveblogging it. A brave new frontier for nerdkind!He was Twittering it, actually, but that's not the point. If Jeff did something like this at ( Read more... )

( Just nod your head and... stare blankly. )