#oberin

[sakurasblossoms]

please, do not judge my opinion, but I really love this episode! yes, people were getting murdered, just like that, even they ring the bell, even that Lannisters soldiers put down their swords. But hear me out: It is called  KARMA!  this karma bitch is all around in Game of Thrones. In this episode it all came to King´s Landing, where thousands of people were murdered even before the Mad King.  I will start with Cercei - it was kind of bittersweet ending and really a karma, when I saw her and Jaime trying to escape. Remember Danys mother? Still pregnant with Daenerys, she flew out too, because the Lannisters, Baratheons wanted to kill her and her baby.  Then we have : common people - I don´t know, I am kind of skeptic all about this, my personal opinion is that, it is a karma - again. They threw shit and garbage at Cercei at her path of Atonement, they also believed that Ned Stark is a traitor. They are many of them, they could have start a revolution, like people in Meeren. The French are a very good example of it. But as Tyrion said, they are afraid. But of whom? Of Cercei, but she is only one. They are many. (it is only my opinion) Jaime and Cercei got their karma. Because their father created it for them. Tywin killed Robb and Talisa. Robb as King in the North with his pregnant wife. Euron died by a crippled man, ONE HANDED MAN. What an irony.  The Mountain died in FIRE!! In Red Keep where Sansa Stark was beaten.  I dont know guys, but I sensed all of wrath of Olena, Oberin, Rhaegar, Ned Stark, Robb Stark, Catelyn Stark, Ellaria Sand and her daugthers, all of NORTHS WRATH. IT WAS ALL IN THIS EPISODE! I FELT IT!! Daenerys is QUEEN OF WRATH and I am her servant for all of my life.  preach

[lunamanar]

why oh why did they skip ff8 in the switch? not that i got money for the damned thing, but come on!! seriously though, seifer has been on my mind a lot. poor kid gets fucked over.

There’s…probably one of two answers. Either they just don’t think it’s going to make enough money for the effort they’d have to put in to port/remaster it, or, and this is a very skeptical but hopeful me talking, they have something in the works to be either announced or delivered on for the 20th anniversary. 

I really, really want the latter to be true, and there’s good speculative arguments for why it should be true, but I also know there are many factors working against FFVIII’s favor. Even though it did well internationally, it just wasn’t that popular in Japan…also, from my understanding (this is hearsay, but it’s very prevalent hearsay, so take it for what you will), they’ve lost a lot of the development code and assets and would have to rely on the PC or PSN version, making any Switch version essentially a port of a port, and any remaster more of a re-make (more resources, more $$). And, Nomura probably has personal reasons to want to leave it behind (if you’re curious, go look up his romantic life during production…not the sort of stuff I like to speculate about in a public blog though). I don’t know how much influence he has on business decisions, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that factored into it at least a little bit. 

Finally, FF7 and FF9 have already been remastered/tidied up in recent years and just make better/cheaper ports that probably make more money. And Crystal Chronicles was a Wii/DS title, so it’s easier to update. X, X-2, and XII, also are already updated. 

It really, really sucks and I wish they’d just do it anyway to have it done and take my money, but with the way SquareEnix behaves with their mobile apps and other properties…I feel like the bottom line is what’s hurting FFVIII, rather than any particular animosity towards it. I don’t think SE hates FFVIII or its fans in particular, I just think that, as a Switch port, they made a business decision not to include it. 

I’m just hoping that part of that decision means we’ll be getting something good next year. 

[lunamanar]

oberin replied to your post “Never safe”

I am super glad that things worked out for you. I was thinking on this a lot since your original post!

Aww, thank you! You (and everyone who has wished me well) are too kind, but it does make me feel better to know people think of me. 

However, I apologize for the smattering of pissed-off-at-life posts I’ve made recently...that’s not really what this blog was for and I feel bad having used it for that purpose. I have another blog for that, but no one follows it, haha. Not surprising, as I barely ever post there, anyway. 

[summonerluna]

18) were there any works you read that affected you so much that it influenced your writing style? what were they? 19) when it comes to more complicated narratives, how do you keep track of outlines, characters, development, timeline, ect.?

18) were there any works you read that affected you so much that it influenced your writing style? what were they?

The Time Traveller’s Wife, by Audrey Niffeneggar. Her style, her characters, the passion between them… Aside from my own marriage, nothing has influenced the way I write Squall and Rinoa more than this book, and my overall writing style definitely shifted after reading this for the first time and discovering EXACTLY the kind of writer I wanted to be. Fanfic-wise, so much of @irishais earlier works. She was one of the first FFVIII writers I really got into, and reading her fic, and the friendship (and absolute shenanigans) that came from that influenced both how I found my own voice, and a lot of my headcanon. And Charles de Lint. Everything about him is just magic. 

19) when it comes to more complicated narratives, how do you keep track of outlines, characters, development, timeline, etc.?

This is a problem I’m actually running into with Dissolve, because until this story, I didn’t really *have* complicated narratives. The Successor, for as much time as it spanned, is actually rather simple in its narrative. I had a separate text file with a timeline that I continually referenced, but that was really more a story about a relationship, not about Things That Happen, so there was less to keep track of. 

Dissolve though… We have a Scrivener account which is helping, though I have yet to fully use it as it is intended. So most of what I have is scraps of paper–things I jotted on hotel room stationary back when I was travelling for work, several pages of notes on Sorceress headcanon I wrote on in downtime when I first started my new job; I also have a separate text document with an outline, not for the story events, but for more headcanon notes. I desperately need to move all of this into my Scrivener file so it’s all in one place and I can more easily cross-reference as I go. 

An original story I started for NaNo like…7 years ago, I had a similar method of organization, where I just had multiple text files; one for a timeline, one for character notes, one for key events/locations. It just gets annoying having to toggle between them, and I end up forgetting about files, particularly if it’s a story I haven’t worked on in awhile. So yes–I have high hopes for my relationship with Scrivener. 

[victorprotagonist]

FFVIII and the idea of male sorcerers.

Okay, so... A while back, @summonerluna and I were discussing the Succession in Final Fantasy VIII and I brought up the idea of a male potentially winding up with the powers.

As it stands, game canon (and her headcanon) is that this cannot and will not ever happen.  When a bearer of the powers dies, the powers will simply transfer to the nearest female and take up residence - even if ‘nearest’ is miles away.

My AU headcanon allows for a male to receive the powers under a very strict set of circumstances (I’ll use Squall and Rinoa for my examples, ‘cause why not):

If Rinoa gets injured past the point of being able to heal herself, the powers will keep her alive and mend her to the point where she can resume taking care of herself.  The powers will eventually need time to recharge themselves, but they are more than capable of keeping Rinoa alive for an extended period of time.

So if another devastating attack were to occur when Rinoa is still at death’s door (or worse) and the powers are unable to fully defend against further injury, they would be forced out of the destroyed Rinoa and in desperate need of a new host to reside in.

Let’s say Rinoa and Squall find themselves out in the middle of absolute nowhere.  It’s just the two of them for 30 miles in every direction.  Now, perhaps a space-based weapon - a satellite, an orbiting ship, whatever - fires a massive laser blast at Rinoa.  Her body is vaporized and the powers are instantly reduced in potency.

This theory, mind you, allows the powers a certain level of cognizance - instinct, really - and they recognize the very basic drive of ‘fight’ or ‘flight’.  They cannot fight, obviously, and flight is useless unless they are fleeing to a new host.

Squall, being Rinoa’s Knight would be a suitable vessel for the powers because he’s someone the powers inherently recognize as an extension of themselves, so they’d go to him.

That wasn’t quite as ‘straight to the point’ as I intended, but there you go.

[summonerluna]

Fanfiction Work-In-Progress Guessing Game: Window (if i sent you one, just ignore this!)

You did not–so yay! 

This is actually from a story I have yet to start posting. (And when I went back to find it, realized it has been almost a year to the day since I last worked on it…) 

She looks through the window from their bed and forms the image in her mind, and the raindrops that fall from the magnolia leaves pause, lift, take shape.

[theabhorsen]

oberin replied to your post:okay lbr though, can you really call it high...

also, crap. i just seen the no srs answers! Sorry! my reading skills are on point today. Ugh.

haha, no its okay! I just get a little frustrated because it seems my library system has two modes- urban fantasy and high fantasy, and as you pointed out there are a bunch of things in between. But also I'm *almost* serious about the map thing- the true, purest, most distilled and finest form of high fantasy for me will always include a map (and maybe a glossary/index/appendix)

[benfilin-blog]

Oberin hatte zu viel Style um so früh zu sterben! :(