It's time for one of those posts where I ramble about an aspect of videogames! I've been thinking about how videogames guide the player to where they need to go.

My first experience with videogames, if I recall correctly, was the Sonic the Hedgehog games we had for our SEGA Master System II. Working out where you're supposed to go in a 2D Sonic ( Read more... )

I've had to devote an entire entry to this particular question from this fandom question meme, because I somehow ended up going on an entire journey in my attempt to answer it.

How did you first get into fanfic, and what was the first fandom you wrote fic for?I got on the Internet around the turn of the millennium, when I was eleven or so. As an ( Read more... )

Old Fanfiction Book Club is an occasional project in which I revisit and annotate my embarrassing early fanfiction. As my recent Final Fantasy VIII fic Wake Up was a rewrite of I Need You, one of the oldest and most embarrassing things I’ve ever written, it seems an appropriate time to annotate I Need You!

I originally posted I Need You in May ( Read more... )

This fic is a very loose reworking of I Need You, the first fic I ever completed, which I wrote at the age of thirteen. I was interested to see how different the fic would be if I wrote something similar as an adult, two decades later. To ensure I wouldn't copy it too closely, I didn't reread the original before writing this ( Read more... )

I'm enjoying having a website!

Before I made it, I was concerned that maintaining a website might feel unrewarding, given that it's not really a format that encourages feedback. If you update your website, it can be hard to tell whether anyone saw the update at all.

But it feels good to have somewhere I can just talk as much as I like about Final ( Read more... )

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... )

I can't remember if I've ever asked this before, but, if I have, it's probably high time I asked it again.

What mistakes, misconceptions and/or superstitions do you remember from playing videogames as a child? (Or, indeed, as an adult.)

For example, when my brother Joseph and I were kids, we'd often play Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on our Sega Master ( Read more... )

Just finished the first disc on my replay of Final Fantasy VIII! I just want to talk about this game at all times.

(Both Balamb and Galbadia Garden are joining forces with the general from the Galbadian Army. Why? ...No point in me thinking about it. SeeDs aren't meant to question why.)Oh, Squall. He can only see himself as a tool; any misgivings ( 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... )

A while back, I revisited and annotated my earliest fic, Rachel's Pokémon Journey, for a project I called Old Fanfiction Book Club.

None of my other early fics were quite as ambitious as Rachel's Pokémon Journey, but I've got a few other embarrassing works of youthful fanfiction under my belt. Here's a one-off Old Fanfiction Book Club for Trapped ( Read more... )