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Dear Creator,
This exchange is absolutely 1,000% my jam, and I'm excited for pretty much anything you might wish to make for it. My requests for this are extremely broad, as each one is either open to the possibility of any fandom or to any freeform you might wish to choose. I am eager to receive both work for fandoms that I have never experienced and in formats with which I am unfamiliar. Consider this an invitation to create something for the fandom of your heart or to finally get to experiment with a medium with which you're particularly smitten.
I would be very appreciative if you craft your fanwork with an eye towards reaching an audience unfamiliar with the canon if its a canon with which you suspect I will be unfamiliar. You might do this by making a work that doesn't rely on canon knowledge, or by providing a canon primer and/or links to relevant review resources. Please note that it might take me a little longer than usual to comment should I need to familiarize myself with a canon to appreciate a fanwork.
I should also note that I am open to works for my fandoms even if you are unfamiliar with them, and will gleefully accept works based on your osmosis of the two twenty-year-old JRPGs I am requesting. If you feel inspired to craft some production based on promotional art, weird character names, half-viewed Let's Plays, complaints you have read on GameFAQs, or any other brief and incomplete experience with these canons, please do so. I am stoked about both canons to the point that I am happy for any new content for them and for any new take upon them.
Lastly, my own fanworks are all up for grabs, and you should feel free to remix, repurpose, and generally play around with them as you see fit. (If you want to do something meta that comments on the exchange itself on some level, you might want to consider my fanworks for it from last year.)
Again, I'm unbelievably hyped for this exchange and for whatever you might wish to create for it. I'm hoping you have fun with whatever it is that you decide to make, and I look forward to seeing the results!
Do Not Wants: All DNWs are suspended for works with where you are choosing the fandom. Go nuts. I am happy to read through whatever depravity, violence, weird kink, or writing quirks you wish to deploy.
For Final Fantasy Tactics and Vagrant Story, I would prefer it if you avoid ageplay (underage characters and age gaps are fine); incestuous relationships written as completely healthy and normal (messed up, maladaptive incest is TOTALLY WELCOME); omegaverse; pregnancy-related kinks; and scat/emeto (watersports are okay; unsexy mentions of vomit are okay; all poop is a no go)
Opt-Ins: ANYTHING that is not a DNW. This includes all archive warnings, any perspective/person/tense, and gender/sexuality headcanons.
General Likes: bittersweetness; black humor; character death; complex family relationships; hurt/comfort; illness and injury (plague and head bashing in particular); fever dreams; existential despair; non-kinky explorations of pregnancy, childbirth, and parenthood; stoicism in the face of terrible things; surreal imagery; torture; religious, mythological, and/or plant-based symbolism; whump
Smut Likes: awkward, bad, or inept sex that's still enthusiastic; blasphemy/sacrilege kink; clothed or partially clothed sex; hate sex; non-con/dubcon in general; undead sex
Art Likes: I like things with dynamic poses; things that are cute/cartoonish; things that do something offbeat and a little bit exaggerated/surreal; and things that are a little over-stylized and dripping with symbolic imagery. Limited palettes and starkly inked black and white pieces are close to my heart as I am a rotten colorist and have an affinity for styles I could conceivably emulate. I also tend to like things that are de-saturated or a washed out looking. As with my general likes, I'm a sucker for anything that has cool symbolism with plants and religion in it.
Additional Note: If you are uncertain if something will be welcome/okay, please don't hesitate to ask the mod for reassurance. I know I've been reiterating that anything is welcome a lot here, but if you have a moment of thinking "Anything? Surely they don't mean _______ when they say anything?" I'm happy to clarify and to offer direction as to my general preference via a mod.
Contents
Canons I Pick
• Final Fantasy Tactics
• Vagrant Story
Canons You Pick
• Herbals, Grimoires, Bestiaries, etc...
• Audio/Visual Productions
• Records and Evidence
• Manifestos, Primers, and Meta
• Interactive Fiction
• Recipes
• Creator's Choice of Everything
Canon Review Resources: I have no idea what ports of the game are/are not garbage these days, but you can check out scripts of the dialogue here (PSX translation) and here (PSP translation). There are also a very comprehensive Let's Plays here (PSX translation) and here (PSP translation). If you have an emulator and wish to skip to specific save states, somebody put together a nice collection of them here.
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Canon Review Resources: There's a compilation of all the cutscenes here and an FAQ containing the complete game script here. Given that the game is very spartan in its characterization, you might also want to check out this translation of the Ultimania Guide for ideas (although don't feel obligated to adhere to anything not explicitly shown in the game itself).
( Read more... )
This exchange is absolutely 1,000% my jam, and I'm excited for pretty much anything you might wish to make for it. My requests for this are extremely broad, as each one is either open to the possibility of any fandom or to any freeform you might wish to choose. I am eager to receive both work for fandoms that I have never experienced and in formats with which I am unfamiliar. Consider this an invitation to create something for the fandom of your heart or to finally get to experiment with a medium with which you're particularly smitten.
I would be very appreciative if you craft your fanwork with an eye towards reaching an audience unfamiliar with the canon if its a canon with which you suspect I will be unfamiliar. You might do this by making a work that doesn't rely on canon knowledge, or by providing a canon primer and/or links to relevant review resources. Please note that it might take me a little longer than usual to comment should I need to familiarize myself with a canon to appreciate a fanwork.
I should also note that I am open to works for my fandoms even if you are unfamiliar with them, and will gleefully accept works based on your osmosis of the two twenty-year-old JRPGs I am requesting. If you feel inspired to craft some production based on promotional art, weird character names, half-viewed Let's Plays, complaints you have read on GameFAQs, or any other brief and incomplete experience with these canons, please do so. I am stoked about both canons to the point that I am happy for any new content for them and for any new take upon them.
Lastly, my own fanworks are all up for grabs, and you should feel free to remix, repurpose, and generally play around with them as you see fit. (If you want to do something meta that comments on the exchange itself on some level, you might want to consider my fanworks for it from last year.)
Again, I'm unbelievably hyped for this exchange and for whatever you might wish to create for it. I'm hoping you have fun with whatever it is that you decide to make, and I look forward to seeing the results!
Do Not Wants: All DNWs are suspended for works with where you are choosing the fandom. Go nuts. I am happy to read through whatever depravity, violence, weird kink, or writing quirks you wish to deploy.
For Final Fantasy Tactics and Vagrant Story, I would prefer it if you avoid ageplay (underage characters and age gaps are fine); incestuous relationships written as completely healthy and normal (messed up, maladaptive incest is TOTALLY WELCOME); omegaverse; pregnancy-related kinks; and scat/emeto (watersports are okay; unsexy mentions of vomit are okay; all poop is a no go)
Opt-Ins: ANYTHING that is not a DNW. This includes all archive warnings, any perspective/person/tense, and gender/sexuality headcanons.
General Likes: bittersweetness; black humor; character death; complex family relationships; hurt/comfort; illness and injury (plague and head bashing in particular); fever dreams; existential despair; non-kinky explorations of pregnancy, childbirth, and parenthood; stoicism in the face of terrible things; surreal imagery; torture; religious, mythological, and/or plant-based symbolism; whump
Smut Likes: awkward, bad, or inept sex that's still enthusiastic; blasphemy/sacrilege kink; clothed or partially clothed sex; hate sex; non-con/dubcon in general; undead sex
Art Likes: I like things with dynamic poses; things that are cute/cartoonish; things that do something offbeat and a little bit exaggerated/surreal; and things that are a little over-stylized and dripping with symbolic imagery. Limited palettes and starkly inked black and white pieces are close to my heart as I am a rotten colorist and have an affinity for styles I could conceivably emulate. I also tend to like things that are de-saturated or a washed out looking. As with my general likes, I'm a sucker for anything that has cool symbolism with plants and religion in it.
Additional Note: If you are uncertain if something will be welcome/okay, please don't hesitate to ask the mod for reassurance. I know I've been reiterating that anything is welcome a lot here, but if you have a moment of thinking "Anything? Surely they don't mean _______ when they say anything?" I'm happy to clarify and to offer direction as to my general preference via a mod.
Contents
Canons I Pick
• Final Fantasy Tactics
• Vagrant Story
Canons You Pick
• Herbals, Grimoires, Bestiaries, etc...
• Audio/Visual Productions
• Records and Evidence
• Manifestos, Primers, and Meta
• Interactive Fiction
• Recipes
• Creator's Choice of Everything
Canons I Pick
Final Fantasy Tactics
I really really really like this game, and I have oh so very very many feelings about all the vaguely sepia-toned, noseless pixel people who are doomed to die within it. I love its fakey JRPG Catholic church horror. I love that its filled with biological and found families with a variety of complicated relationship issues. I love how labyrinthine and full of details the plot and character interactions are. I love that the whole thing is generally a big downer, and that the resolution is, even at its happiest, still more bittersweet than joyous. I love pretty much everything about this game, and I love explorations of its darker facets in fanworks.Canon Review Resources: I have no idea what ports of the game are/are not garbage these days, but you can check out scripts of the dialogue here (PSX translation) and here (PSP translation). There are also a very comprehensive Let's Plays here (PSX translation) and here (PSP translation). If you have an emulator and wish to skip to specific save states, somebody put together a nice collection of them here.
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Vagrant Story
Vagrant Story is the most recent twenty-year-old, bleakly gothy Ivalice game I've fallen in love with, and I love it for reasons that both do and do not parallel my passion for FFT. I'm into its sense of foreboding, atmospheric ambiguity, and how it does so much to create a sense of dread and desolation with just a few narrative strokes. As with FFT, I really dig the darker aspects of it in particular, and I'd love just about anything that explored them in fanworks.Canon Review Resources: There's a compilation of all the cutscenes here and an FAQ containing the complete game script here. Given that the game is very spartan in its characterization, you might also want to check out this translation of the Ultimania Guide for ideas (although don't feel obligated to adhere to anything not explicitly shown in the game itself).
( Read more... )
