Christian • Ninjago-Crazy Elemental Master of Randomness • Writer • Avid Reader • Fall Out Boy • Fangirl of Many Fandoms ✨ No reposting art without permission! ✨
You can also find me on my blog Randomosity: The Place for All Things Random. I've been running that blog since 2016 so if you really want to see my old art and analyses head on over there!
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Hobbies:
Drawing, reading, writing, fangirling ...
Music:
Whenever I'm drawing/writing you can almost guarantee I'm listening to orchestral movie soundtracks OR Fall Out Boy
in 2023 I listened to 5580 minutes of Fall Out Boy and I can guarantee you I still return to them with quite some frequency
although I also listen to Bring Me the Horizon, My Chemical Romance, AJR, Panic! at the Disco, Dove Cameron, Bishop Briggs, Bea Miller, and Glass Animals
Random Facts:
love FOB
am a sucker for bad boys (looking at Draco Malfoy right now)
I read like 60 books a year
INTJ
still writing my original novel "Long Live the Queen" (will it ever be finished?)
My fandoms:
I have a LOT but the main ones you'll see on here will be:
Ninjago, Final Fantasy VII, HTTYD, Star Wars, Gideon the Ninth, and the Cruel Prince.
My main tags:
#my art - self-explanatory
#ninjago - anything related to Ninjago
#ninjago fanart - mine or another's
#Ninjago Lloyd - I just really love my green runt, okay?
#anakin - look he is just the best
#funny - it's funny
#fic - anything related to fanfictions
#saved - lists of stuff I would like to return to
#writing - to do with the subject of writing itself
#toothless - from HTTYD - the most beautiful creature design there ever was
#analysis - self-explanatory, mine or another's
#httyd live action toothless criticism - thoughts about Toothless' design in the live-action alone, regardless of whatever other stuff is going on in the HTTYD live-action
#my writing
#allure - anything related to my original 160K Ninjago fanfic! Find out more about Allure here!
Other fandoms will hopefully be tagged accordingly.
I just tag the name of the fandom, and if you're looking for fanart, I add the name of the fandom with a space and then the word fanart afterwards.
If you're looking for fanfic, same idea applies but just name the fandom, add a space, and then fanfic.
Note: HTTYD is an exception, I rarely write out the full name. Look for HTTYD.
Also I'm trying hard to standardize FFVII versus Final Fantasy VII versus Final Fantasy 7 on my blog. I tend to use all three but you'll likely catch the most posts with FFVII.
So come on over and let's get to know each other! I'm open to asks!
This is a fanfic rec list that recommends stories that focus on or heavily feature Sephiroth. :) All ships, no ships, genfic. Nothing is tagged, so heed the fic warnings if you're sensitive to stuff.
Final Fantasy VII OG- Canon only Fic Recs (Compilation characters like Genesis and Angeal do not appear)
The Monsters Within by TheCalamity (The Nightmare Begins, A Cold-Hearted Boy, Minute to Breath) @the--calamity
A story about the destruction of endurance. What does it cost - as individuals, as a species - to survive?
We are how it ends.
[A contemplation and analysis of the original 1997 Final Fantasy VII. Chronicles the Jenova Project, Sephiroth's childhood with ShinRa, and the events of FFVII through the lens of Vincent Valentine. This series is a deep dive into the philosophy, themes, characters, dynamics, world, lore and message of OG FFVII.]
This quite possibly the story I've reread the most that I'll recommend on this blog. Banging soundtrack, gorgeous art, brilliant formatting, terror, awesome, gut-wrenching-- all words to describe this story. The author doesn't shy away from the grotesque, and there are tender moments woven through an epic saga about terrible people desperately seeking connection and meaning. I don't think I've ever read anything like in any fandom ever. I don't know if I ever will.
Lament of Memories by CryptCreeperX
From test-tube freak to First-Class SOLDIER to super villain to a quirky mechanic suffering from a bad case of amnesia… This is a strange tale of how the end of the world, a band of misfits, forgotten memories, and raunchy romance novels push a fallen angel to rise again.
It's a tragedy this is incomplete because I needed more of this 7 years ago. T_T
Earthing by Grenespek
Gast survives being shot by Hojo, only to wake from a coma seventeen years later. Searching for his wife and daughter, events find him in Nibelheim on the day Sephiroth disappeared. A Sephiroth redemption exploration.
I love me three things in a Sephiroth story: 1) a Sephiroth that subsumes Jenova 2) Terrifying Sephiroth 3) Sciency Sephiroth. Told from the rotating perspective of terrifically flawed Gast, an in-character badass Aerith, and a Sephiroth that I can definitely see being the progeny of two insane scientists and a space alien.
Our Shining Past by Tocasia FFN | Ao3 @tocasia
A series of old-style (original game mostly, no CC) Sephiroth and Zack Friendship stories (all genfic) from a list of 100 prompts, in order of completion. Variously dark, silly, cute. Mostly one-shots; chapter format is a lie. Same AU? maybe… or maybe not. Halfway there on 7/1/2018!
Consider this blanket recommendation of all of Tocasia's works. Pair impeccable writing with nuanced characterization, humor, action, excellent integration of the game-mechanic style worldbuilding that is so rare in video-game fics, and you've got this series of one-shots. Zack's character is so much more interesting to me pre-crisis core, and unfortunately fics that explore what canon jossed 15 years ago are slim or mostly gone from the internet. Other favorites of mine from them include God of Paperwork and The World that Will Never Be, a Kingdom Hearts crossover.
A Good Son by myeve123
AR Ending for Nibelheim Incident. After Hojo fished him out from Nibelheim Mako Reactor, Sephiroth sets about cleaning up the mess. Preferably before the chemical imbalance in his brain drowns him for good.
Ugh, this story need so much more love than it's gotten. I'm a slut for stories that play around with the relationship between Lucrecia, Vincent, and Sephiroth, and take it in a true canon divergence! Excellent visual writing, and fast paced. Unfortunately, all the images are broken.
This Family Is Alright by axilet
A series of stories exploring the dysfunctional dynamic between mad science sibs Gast, Hojo and Lucrecia, and their son Sephiroth who they're completely unfit to raise. Just imagine what the poor kid will be like once he's all grown up. Sad Uncle Vincent tries to stage an intervention but you know how that turns out.
An oldie but goodie that I first encountered on FFN some years ago now, but I misplaced the link; now archived on ao3. How To Train Your Super Soldier Son (to become an insane destroyer of worlds) is the Sephiroth-centric fic of the series, and also the first one I read.
They Were Monsters by Yinza @yinza
In the midst of his breakdown in the Shinra mansion and desperate for answers, Sephiroth breaks open the locked basement door to find the man who might be his father… But though Vincent presents him with possibilities he hadn't imagined, Sephiroth struggles with who to trust, and what path he might follow--Jenova's, or his own.
Yinza is another ruler of horror. Actually maybe I'm just a slut for horror there's a lot of those recs on this list lol. Anyway, this fic is so well-written. If a sense of creeping dread is the sensation you seek, look not further than this story. For a not-Sephiroth centric rec, I must include their story No Moms Die, which according to my ao3 history I have 32 times @_@. If we exclude the chapter updates, I've reread it more than times since it finished :D It's that good.
Final Fantasy VII Compilation (includes Advent Children and Crisis Core)
To Be Human by LadyKF LadyKF On FFN On Ao3 [For Archive Users Only]
The world seems black and white at a glance, but the truth is never so easy. Where one draws the line between human and monster is a lot less clear when motive and deed don’t match, and a change in form is only proof of something that has been there all along. (Angel's Wings rewrite, Crisis Core fix-it.)
Ahh I was obsessed with Angel's Wings while it was updating, and To Be Human and it's compilation side stories blew the first story out of the water. The worldbuilding! The writing! The jump straight into action! The CANON DIVERGENCE!!! We all read fanfic here, we all know how rare an actual 'canon divergence' story is that actually sticks within canon without being a lazy rehash? This story is THE fix-it.
Be Not Afraid by Tiffany_Park On FFN
Hollander to Angeal: "Jenova's power has passed on to you completely."
What does it mean to have received "Jenova's power"? Chances are it's not pretty.
(Yeah, it was pretty ugly in Crisis Core. It's worse in this AU because Hojo got involved.)
Warning: These are horror stories. Check the tags and take them seriously.
I prefer to read this series on FFN because yay for giant font but I've linked the AO3 since it puts the series in order. I live for everything this woman writes. This series takes the body-horror in canon and amps it up to 11. From Zack's POV but the Sephiroth characterization is just *chefs kiss*. Unsettling and blue-and-orange morality kind of ride of die friendship love for the win.
Snowball Effect by Tiffany_Park On FFN
Once upon a time in his youth, Angeal posed as the centerfold for an obscure porn magazine. When he made SOLDIER First Class, Shinra decided to erase its history for PR reasons. A few years later, Reno and Rude find an old copy in a used bookstore and purchase it so it can be safely destroyed. This results in many more complications than if they'd just left it to molder there.
If you read that summary and thought, "the premise of this story is utterly ridiculous", you would be entirely correct, but it's not a crack-fic in that it takes this completely seriously and runs with it. Features Shinra Corp. being dastardly, fangirls that fit effortlessly into the 90s sci-fi setting, and wonderful characterization of Angeal, Genesis, and Sephiroth, who all manage to be completely terrifying in their own special ways.
What is Lost by UnLike_Us
What little is left of Sephiroth after 100 years in the Lifestream suddenly finds itself without a purpose. Determined to find its lost history and reason behind its obsession, it goes back to where it all started.
One of the fluffier picks on this list, the author really plays with the idea of inner memories. A time-travel fic I don't hate lol, if only because the time travel doesn't result in an OP fix-it.
Father: Verb by Naughty_Nishitani
11 year-old WMD Sephiroth is assigned a new handler/bodyguard, named Vincent Valentine.
I am sure this has been done 10000 times but I can't stop thinking about it, so here's my version.
As the author says in the summary, I too am a slut for murder-baby Sephiroth, and this is one iteration of the trope I've reread many times. Another Sephiroth fic from the same author I enjoyed is First Soldier.
Starstruck by DyraDoodles @dyradoodles
Zack's limit break always mimics people who end up shaping his life in one way or another. Once he's met them, he can use a break similar to one of theirs, no problem.
This time, there is a problem: He's mimicked someone with the power to blow up a solar system, and he has no idea how to control it.
He'll have to track them down, and hopefully get them to take an active role in not just teaching the limit break, but his entire life.
This fic is crack to me. I've been salivating over every update since chapter 3. DyraDoodles has another more popular series Redux Hero AU, which I also enjoyed, but that one is much more Zack-centric and so not a good fit for this list; I rec it nonetheless.
Sephiroth Shinden: CLASSIFIED 'PROJECT S.' by goddamnitaisha
A series of one-shots exploring Sephiroth's life. One of the most no-woobie takes of Sephiroth's character, which I really, really like. Paired with an almost bleak writing style, the blunted amorality of the characters really shine through in each one-shot. A favorite of mine. Ao3 users only, unfortunately, but the author has a tumblr @goddamnitaisha. Her blog is truly gorgeous and definitely worth checking out! Not Sephiroth-centric but I really love The Unpromised Land. That's the first story I read from her on tumblr a long ass time ago.
Final Fantasy VII Remake (explicitly set within the Remake/Rebirth verse)
Swords into Plowshares by brilliantKatabasis
The purpose of the Jenova project was to produce a Cetra, someone to negotiate with the Planet on Shinra's behalf. The military applications for the entity were compelling, it's true, but ultimately limited in scope- they have robots for these things, after all- and so the SOLDIER proposal was rejected, quietly shelved away. The asset is instead committed to the significantly more lucrative field of agribusiness, where it is hoped the cultural cache of his mystic heritage will assuage the rise in environmental concerns and planetological sympathies among key interested parties.
Sephiroth, Director of Stewardship, tracks down the supplier of the only fresh flowers in Midgar he's had no hand in cultivating, oblivious to the web of time he's threatening. Oblivious to the probability he shares a name with, who longs to crush this flight of fancy and claim his rightful title of certainty, gathering like a cloud on the horizon. Oblivious to the attention he's brought to his local florist's door.
Ugh, remember everything I said I loved about Earthing? This fic is an AU with a similar vibe, completely different premise. I actually recommend you check out all of brilliantKatabasis' library; they truly are an excellent writer.
For the Love of Rain by Boomchick (On Tumblr)
Sephiroth is not human. There is no doubting that now. He fell in two pieces into the reactor all those many months ago.
And yet there he is again. Appearing between one heartbeat and the next, while Zack floats hopeless in Mako. There he is, opening the tanks and setting Zack and Cloud free. There he is, chuckling “there is no rush” and smiling an indulgent smile.
If you like Sephiroth-fic, you've probably been recced Boomchick before. If you haven't, I highly recommend you read all her fics, especially The Trooper Series and Restart. A lot of her stories are accompanied by epic art by tomowowo. Why did this fic make it onto the list and not the rest? Because, and I quote, it gives me the tag "Nightmare Sephiroth chooses friendship." That is epic.
Little Seph by ToastedCatBread @toastedcatbread
A life spared, a life returned.
A future unseen, a future to fight for.
This is the story about the Candle and the Star.
On the note of Nightmare!Sephiroth, what if he was tiny instead of hot and terrifying? :D That's what this story is. Love it!
Those Called by the Reunion by EllaEpoche
Shinra Electric Power Company’s Administrative Investigator Agatha Highmore has just landed the gig of a lifetime - investigating the leak of compromising photographs of the SOLDIER hero Sephiroth.
But after a night of passion, Agatha finds herself entangled in a world of human experimentation, corporate scandal, and mysterious illnesses, with only one goal: find and reunite with her lost love.
This fic is a trip @_@. EllaEpoche is one of those authors whose brain cooks up the most insane plots and has the writing talent to back up the wild storytelling. Also recommend Schrodinger's Sephiroth, which explores the multiple timelines introduced in the remake. Ten Thousand Cold Nights also gets a mention here.
Epiphany by Fenrir4life, The_Story_Maker
Sephiroth is looping, repeating the events of Final Fantasy VII over and over again. He has experienced not only the events of the original game and the remake, but many more cycles beyond, stretching into a multitude of similar and yet ever-so-slightly different worlds. Regardless of loss, death, or even victory, he has been unable to free himself from this time loop – or even uncover why he is looping at all.
Determining to find answers, he seeks out Aerith Gainsborough to see if he can convince her to interrogate the planet itself for information. However, it turns out Aerith is not completely ignorant of the cycle. Fed experiences by the planet of the events of the original Final Fantasy VII, she has good reason to distrust Sephiroth and his plans.
This story revolves around their interactions with each other and the resulting consequences that ripple through this particular cycle.
This is probably my favorite Remake fic. It matches the perfect balance of silliness and action that attracted me to the characters in the first place and hits it with a hefty dose of perfectly written Aeriseph, like you hit the pot with the hot pepper to make the flavor pop. Love it!
Alternate Universe
The Host by CryptCreeperX
A troubled youth, Cloud leaves home to join an elite gang of soldiers. But flipping burgers at Chocobo Chow and living in the Slums during unsafe times wasn't in the plan. Neither were rejection letters from Shinra Inc. An encounter with an enigmatic silver-haired Host presents a new obstacle. Guided to a world of sensual pleasure, Cloud bonds with a man who revels in dark passions
This story is sensual. Even the most mundane moment are described so thoroughly? So intensely? Like, this is a POV of a dude who has zero-chill and you can feel that every moment in his narration, even when man is flipping burgers. Plus, Sephiroth is HOT. The makeup of my bi-dreams.
The Boy Voted Most Likely to Rule the Planet by CryptCreeperX
In High School, there's the pressure to fit in, raging hormones, and seeing the boy of your dreams with someone else. Sephiroth deals with all this. He's been on the run his whole life. When he and his nutjob dad move to Nibelheim, things get complicated. An unruly boy catches his eye. Now he must contend with his feelings while making sure Dad doesn't turn him into a pet project.
I hate high school AUs. But sprinkle some mad science and psycho kids and all of a sudden you have a perfect story. It's like when you don't like a certain fruit but cooked into a pastry that shit is godly? That's this story.
Wonders of the World by CryptCreeperX
Once, a man driven by love nearly ended the world in hate. 200 years have passed since Meteorfall. A film crew documents a derelict mountain village shrouded in snow. Isolated from the world, it's rumored the Lifestream runs black there and spirits of the dead stalk its grounds. Their guide is Wolf, a man with odd blue eyes. He likes to smile. He also says some memories never die.
This thing's got the pacing of an M.Night Shyamalan movie. Love it!
The Prophet by NazoFox2501
In Assiah, there are prophets that are chosen by the god Sephiroth to speak on Their behalf. Cloud, an atheist college student, is afflicted with a deadly disease, the mark of the next chosen prophet. On a journey with his friends, will he be cured and accept his fate, or can he overcome it?
If religious trauma horror is your cup of tea, this story is for you. If your favorite bit of FFVIIR is how terrified Cloud is in Midgar, this story is for you.
I don't know if anyone has pointed this out before, but I just realized that
In season 7, the battle with the time twins took place 40 years ago right?
and this is what Wu and Garmadon looked like. In season 11 it was confirmed that they've been alive for more than a 1000 years. So in this picture, they were probably around 990-1000 years old?
Now, 40 years later, and this is what they look like:
So my question is,
HOW DID THEY AGE THIS FRIGGIN MUCH IN 40 YEARS??? HELLOO?!
So you’re correct in the 40 year gap there but there’s an even shorter gap that’s literally never explained (apart from, you know, as it’s been said, writers just don’t care enough).
So it’s been stated that Garmadon attempted to go after the golden weapons when his father died. His attempt at doing so resulted in a fight between him and Wu, which is how he got banished to the underworld. We have to presume that Lloyd was born before Garmadon got banished, since Garmadon knows his son’s name (and apparently vaguely what he looks like) come season 1.
When the show starts in season 1 we kind of guesstimate Lloyd is around like ?? 12 years old, at most.
This means the FSM died about 12 hecking years before the show starts. This is wild for a number of reasons, but during the fight over the golden weapons, Wu and Garmadon look like this
(feat my own lame screenshot)
My explanation (apart from poor timeline management and lazy writing) is that their immortality was mostly due to their father, and after he left the mortal plane that effectively stopped and their age caught up with them. Fast.
They’ll still probably be kicking for a number of years tho
The First Spinjitzu Master had to have died before the Serpentine War because that’s when Morro was trained by Wu and then left to search for his tomb.
It isn’t clear how long before the war he died, but it wasn’t a very short time either.
Allow me to add... in s8 (during Zane's flashback) we see Wu searching for him, and Dr Julian tells him that the old master of ice had been there the night before.
The problem? We know that Zane must be at LEAST 30 years old (because in s1 after he discovers his memory switch, we watch his father grow old).
Soooo, that s8 flashback is 'fairly' soon after the HoT fight. (Less than 10yrs!) But Wu already looks old.
Wu might have gotten old in even less time. Wu was young when Garmadon was banished, so the S8 flashback had to have been after Lloyd was born (about 30 years after the Serpentine War).
There was approximately a decade between Dr. Julien’s death and Zane’s recruitment, while Lloyd is around 10 in Season 1. All of those events (Lloyd’s birth, Garmadon’s banishment, Wu turning super old, Zane getting his powers and meeting Wu, and Dr. Julien dying) had to have happened within a short amount of time, maybe a couple years.
I finally figured out how to move the plot forward on my fic BUTTTTT
every time I open my fic, depending on my feelings of the day, i've decided to give or take a few years from Lloyd's age and I spend my writing time just jumping between the chapters i've already written and editing all of the times I mentioned Lloyd's age to the new age I'm feeling like that day
HELLPPPP
why does Ninjago's timeline have to be sooooo complicated 😭😭😭😭
I think I've settled and Lloyd's going to be 18 per his birth certificate, 22 per his biological age
here's my reasoning for today:
the Ninja are around sixteen (child soldiers!) during the pilots. Nya is 14. Kai is two years older.
Lloyd is 12 and ages up to around 16 physically with Tomorrow's Tea (thus skipping through "puberty" aka most of teendom)
Only months pass through S1-S2, culminating in the Final Battle
Rebooted: logically should take decades to rebuild Ninjago City but I guess only took 2-3 years lol. Ninja are 18-19. Lloyd is legally 15.
Tournament, Possession - only months pass. Events were pretty back-to-back. Sensei made some comment that he was only just aware the Ninja had split, so tension had been going on a bit but they weren't split up too long before the season started.
Season 6: exempt
Season 7: months (although maybe on the longer side, Lloyd seems to have gotten over his immediate grief regarding his father and his Possession trauma to at least be functional)
Season 8: at least one year has canonically passed after HoT. The Ninja are probably in their 20s, Lloyd is 16-17.
Season 11: just a few months, Wu would not have let them lounge around longer
Season 12 - 13: months. Nya mentions at the beginning of S13 that everything from S11-S12 was back-to-back. The Ninja are probably 21-22 and Lloyd is legally 17-18.
unfortunately i cannot promise when I open my fic tmrw to write I will feel the same 💀💀💀
Ninjago fans, share your timeline theories to help a writer out 😭😭😭
Ok, if we're following the canon lore (as best we can given how messy it is), then this is my guesstimate on the time between seasons (under the cut cause it's kinda long):
Pilots to season 1 - I would say at least 5 months, though could be a year imo, given how out of practice the Ninja were in the first episode of season 1.
s1 to s2 - no more than a week. They're still fixing up damage from the Great Devourer, and I doubt the Ninja would be homeless for any longer than that.
s2 to Rebooted - no less than 1 year, though I would say more like 2-3 years.
Rebooted to Tournament of Elements - I've always seen the time skip as 6 months, though I'm not exactly sure why; it just seems fitting.
ToE to Possession - no more than 2 months, as I can't imagine Morro would wait very long to put his plan into action.
Possession to Skybound - Idk, 5 months? The Ninja aren't particularly popular or well known in Possession, so I imagine they would need several months to become as popular as they are in s6 (also Nya hadn't learned Airjitzu yet in ep1, so it couldn't have been too long or short of an amount of time).
Skybound to Day of the Departed - 3-5 months. Everyone has calmed down about the Ninja by this point, and Cole is starting to lose control of being a ghost.
DotD to Hands of Time - just a day or so, as the Ninja are still cleaning up the museum from the DotD fight.
HoT to Sons of Garmadon - confirmed to be 1 year.
SoG to Hunted - confirmed to be 1 week
Hunted to March of the Oni - like 2-3 months. Most of the damage from SoG and Hunted seems to have been fixed up, but they're still doing some construction, and a whole new Bounty was built.
MotO to s11 - Idk where, but I think it was confirmed to be 6 months.
s11 to Prime Empire - I would say 2-3 weeks
Also, according to this post (which has info from Tommy Andreasen), Lloyd was 9-11 before getting aged up, and there's 3-4 years between s2 and Skybound (as this post was made when Skybound was new).
FSM I don't believe I've ever seen those particular tweets by Tommy Andreason and I stalk the wiki and links to his tweets like every month😭😭😭 thanks so much!!!!
(now to procrastinate more by rejiggering my timeline and editing everything I wrote again 😫😫😫)
but in all honestly at least we're thinking along the same lines and I'm not completely off base 😂 maybe now I can settle on some sort of solid canon for my fic
I finally figured out how to move the plot forward on my fic BUTTTTT
every time I open my fic, depending on my feelings of the day, i've decided to give or take a few years from Lloyd's age and I spend my writing time just jumping between the chapters i've already written and editing all of the times I mentioned Lloyd's age to the new age I'm feeling like that day
HELLPPPP
why does Ninjago's timeline have to be sooooo complicated 😭😭😭😭
I think I've settled and Lloyd's going to be 18 per his birth certificate, 22 per his biological age
here's my reasoning for today:
the Ninja are around sixteen (child soldiers!) during the pilots. Nya is 14. Kai is two years older.
Lloyd is 12 and ages up to around 16 physically with Tomorrow's Tea (thus skipping through "puberty" aka most of teendom)
Only months pass through S1-S2, culminating in the Final Battle
Rebooted: logically should take decades to rebuild Ninjago City but I guess only took 2-3 years lol. Ninja are 18-19. Lloyd is legally 15.
Tournament, Possession - only months pass. Events were pretty back-to-back. Sensei made some comment that he was only just aware the Ninja had split, so tension had been going on a bit but they weren't split up too long before the season started.
Season 6: exempt
Season 7: months (although maybe on the longer side, Lloyd seems to have gotten over his immediate grief regarding his father and his Possession trauma to at least be functional)
Season 8: at least one year has canonically passed after HoT. The Ninja are probably in their 20s, Lloyd is 16-17.
Season 11: just a few months, Wu would not have let them lounge around longer
Season 12 - 13: months. Nya mentions at the beginning of S13 that everything from S11-S12 was back-to-back. The Ninja are probably 21-22 and Lloyd is legally 17-18.
unfortunately i cannot promise when I open my fic tmrw to write I will feel the same 💀💀💀
Ninjago fans, share your timeline theories to help a writer out 😭😭😭
you get a comment on tumblr. it's a bot trying to scam you. you get a DM. it's a bot trying to scam you. you get a message on instagram. its a bot trying to scam you. you're an author and you get an email telling you how much they loved your book and want to showcase it at their bookclub. it's a bot trying to scam you (and it uses bad AI to pretend it knows your story). you get a comment on ao3 saying how much they love your fic - and they made you fanart!! it's a bot trying to scam you. you get a hate comment on ao3 which insults your writing or calls you a monster for writing something "problematic". it's a bot. but at least that one isn't trying to scam you.
there's just something really cruel and insidious about this wave of scams going after creatives. You get an email and think someone genuinely loved what you made but - no. It's another scam. It's someone trying to trick you into sending them money. On AO3, it might literally just be a bot someone made specifically to be a hateful little shit.
putting the stuff you've made out there for everyone to see is hard and scary and we're all just bumping around looking for a bit of appreciation and love and connection and these bastards are using that to try to rob us. I hate it.
Okay everybody go leave a comment on the fics you're reading, find your favorite author's social media and tell them you liked their book, and comment on your favorite artist's YouTube or Bandcamp page, go go gooooo.
any time Sephiroth flies I am overcome with confusion. And also laughter because it is just so unexpected.
i think we are all in Cloud's shoes at that moment. We are all tripping balls with Cloud.
this scene of Sephiroth throwing stuff at Cloud, levitating into the air, doing a flip and zooming away like Superman while Cloud looks as baffled as I feel is living rent-free in my head
I was slightly disappointed to find out Sephiroth does not somersault and speed off in Rebirth, but I feel Chapter 17 in Remake gave similar vibes
Cloud is just looking around and Sephiroth just casually starts floating away. This is so out-of-pocket LOL and then Sephiroth/Sephiroth clone jumps off Shinra Tower too like ?????
meanwhile Cloud somehow compartmentalizes this wild event and is able to return to the group and casually say "nah he got away" 'cause he's just trying to survive in this crazy world.
Sephiroth is downright hilarious sometimes. like no one needs to be that dramatic but here he is. Maybe it's because he was told he was so special by Hojo that he developed such an inflated opinion of himself?
anyway I saw Sephiroth counting down when fighting him in FFVII Remake and I wondered what happens when he reaches zero (this was before I beat Bahamut or encoutered a DPS timer)
the internet did not disappoint
the "no need to panic" right before Divine Punishment was the best part
also the 9999 damage LOL like bruh that was so overly dramatic with a giant rock hurling towards the party, but it was VERY Sephiroth
I don't think you guys fully grasp just how messed up my brain is
So, sometimes I'll come across a Tumblr post, and I'm not quite sure if I want to reblog it, but I also don't want to lose it. Do you wanna know what my solution was? Make Google Doc dedicated to Tumblr posts to deal with later.
Now I know this isn't necessarily that bizarre of an idea, but this Doc is now 12 pages long, and I have not dealt with an single one of the posts in it.
do you ever think about how Dagur says "they do exist!" about the Night Fury, implying that Toothless never went near Berserker Island? Like Berk really was the front line for all kinds of fucked dragons and raids wasn't it?
also imagine trying to explain to the Berserkers the Night Fury - a dragon you've never seen and never killed that doesn't take food but only occasionally shows up to one shot your village.
@queenofthearchipelago true, it’s possible that Stoick was just better at holding onto food reserves, or Berk is unusually rich in resources! but I was more so thinking that Berk is just the closest to Helheim’s gate & therefore is the literal frontline against the attacks from Dragon Island
I know the canon map doesn’t include berserker island or the shivering shores, for reasons no one knows… but Berk seems to be the only one launching invasions into dragon island and seems to bear the brunt of the worst dragon attacks. Which combined with the canonical placement of outcast island (presumably the crappy stone island on the eastern most side) led me to believe that it was the closest to dragon island & the first pit stop for the dragons.
In my mind this is why the berserkers, outcasts and shivering shores are not involved in the invasions into dragon territory - they don’t care, Berk is their shield & takes the brunt of the attacks, leaving the, with only the scavengers & wild dragons not from dragon island. They’re not risking their people or resources on something that doesn’t directly affect them. Not when Berk is still standing.
Which to me is also part of why Hiccup has such a dismal opinion on Berk. It’s the ass end of nowhere and constantly in turmoil over the dragons compared to places like berserker island or the shivering shores, who don’t have to worry about starving because their flock was carried away by dragons, or freezing because their homes were burnt down.
Which is all a big headcanon but I still like that idea the most.
