Further adventures in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth! I must be nearing the end of this game at last, I think; I've reached the Temple of the Ancients. I've neglected huge swathes of side content, and yet somehow I've still been playing for over sixty hours.

( Notes on Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. )

I was recently looking at Neglected Pokémon Lovers Unite!, zarla's Pokémon website, which she's kept online since the late 1990s. This was my favourite place on the Internet when I was twelve years old, and it's the website that first inspired me to write fanfiction of my own. I'm glad it's still around, a little piece of a different time. (There's an ( Read more... )

For each of my major fandoms, I do a short writeup talking about how it fits into my fandom history. A fandom qualifies as 'major' if I've written five fics for it, or ten thousand words across at least three fics.

It's only just occurred to me that Red Dwarf technically qualifies. It's the only fandom in which I've permanently lost all copies of ( Read more... )

On 3 August 2003, at the age of fifteen, I created a Livejournal under the name rionaleonhart.

I moved to Dreamwidth along the way, but I imported all my entries, so my Dreamwidth is functionally the same journal, and I still keep the lights on at Livejournal in case any old friends come by. So I've been keeping the same blog for two decades, from my teenage ( Read more... )

Lately, I've found myself thinking a lot about an online interaction I had about twenty years ago, which really shaped my approach to online interactions in general ( Read more... )

The official Deltarune Spamton Sweepstakes page is absolutely fascinating. It makes me so nostalgic for the Internet around the turn of the millennium, when there were countless maze-like personal websites filled with spinning GIFs and music files and weird little secrets ( Read more... )

For a while now, I've been making entries talking about how each of my major fandoms fits into my fandom history. I considered a fandom 'major' if I'd written at least ten thousand words for it across at least three fics.

I'm starting to wonder if those criteria are too strict, though. Persona 5 falls short on wordcount; I've written just over ( Read more... )

Finished rewatching Christopher Eccleston's run of Doctor Who!

We really didn't get enough of the Ninth Doctor. The entirety of my favourite Doctor Who era, over in just thirteen episodes. I wonder what Doctor Who would look like if Eccleston had stuck around for another series or two. (I know he came back to do some audio dramas recently, but ( Read more... )

I finished the Pokémon Shield postgame!

The first time I faced Hop in the final battle against him, he actually defeated me: the first and only time I've been defeated in this game. His Zacian took every Pokémon I had down in one shot, without even giving them a chance to attack.

I was weirdly proud of him. Hop! You were a joke at first, and now you' ( Read more... )

You may or may not remember Old Fanfiction Book Club! Back in early 2019, I started rereading and annotating Rachel's Pokémon Journey, the first fic I ever posted, written between the ages of twelve and fourteen. It was never completed, but it got up to twenty-one chapters. However, I only annotated up to chapter fifteen.

This is because we're about ( Read more... )