So some Twitter discussion made me finally find the words for a Problem I have with FFVII's place in our culture-- the fandom, the sequels/spinoffs, etc., not the game itself. I might have complained about this to some of you before, in worse words, but I don't think I've done so here ( Read more... )

Hi friends who like Suikoden games! Do you like reading books? Because Ken Liu's The Grace of Kings is loosely based on the same story that inspired Suikoden II, and it's also a really fun read ( Read more... )

Yesterday a friend of mine posted this really excellent analysis of a pernicious myth about trans people: specifically, the idea that trans men are be especially masculine and trans women are especially feminine. The short version is that it comes from decades of dealing with terrible doctors. This isn't quite news to me, but it's the first time I' ( Read more... )

I don't have time to write a long post for the 20th anniversary of Final Fantasy VI's North American release, but damn do I still love and appreciate that game. Here's some music that Square-Enix itself linked to today.

Update: I posted something like this a bunch of places yesterday and as a result was reminded that there are people from so many ( Read more... )

Hi friends! This is safiiru, or at least it was until just a little while ago. If you follow me elsewhere-- but the sort of elsewhere that isn't enamored with Real Names-- you've probably noticed that I've been moving away from using some variant of "Safiiru" as my username basically everywhere, and the time has come to bring that to DW/LJ as well ( Read more... )

Today's great idea: an 80s cartoon version of Xenogears, in the style of Transformers, He-Man/She-Ra, Thundercats, and so on ( Read more... )

I finished the Wheel of Time. I was less impressed by the very end than I was excited to be in the middle of the Last WoT Book Ever, but I promised you all a spoiler post, and a spoiler post you will get. (I'm attempting to write for people who gave up at some point in the series and have forgotten an awful lot, though if you've actually also ( Read more... )

That "post the month's best Twitter links to DW/LJ" experiment back in 2011 was clearly a failure, but maybe I can make short link posts more often?

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[This is hardly the most important post I could make right now, but most of it is just copied from things I wrote elsewhere, making it one of the easiest posts I can make.]

So, thanks to mindy, I'm finally watching Community. I started with the fake clip show and some third season highlights (and the finale plot arc), and now I'm going through ( Read more... )

Friends on LiveJournal: you may have read that there is now an lj-spoiler tag, which is a bit like lj-cut except that it appears everywhere (in comments, in posts whether or not you're on a journal/friends or entry page) and that it's JavaScript based, replacing itself with its contents when clicked. Which could be nice, except it doesn't fail ( Read more... )