A Safe Space for Moogles

I had an interesting time today with my mom's family (cousin's being shipped to Afghanistan; put in a good word for him with your deity of choice if you've got a spare moment), but blogging about that will have to wait. My 'kick some ass' button is being pressed.

Brief overview and link roundup: a woman in the American military was brutally raped and murdered, and the investigation was halted and ruled a suicide. The mainstream media remains quiet on the subject.

Your Congressperson ought to be notified, but honestly I think it would be more productive to notify John Stewart.

I read this post first thing this morning, and it was like a shot of homicidal rage straight to the heart. Better than drugs, I swear. Anyway, it may have been the early hour or my tendency toward escapism, but I found myself thinking, "General Sephiroth would not stand for this shit." (Pre-Nibelheim Seph, obviously. Although I'd like to think crazy!Seph would dismember those responsible too.) And so, I wrote this. Changed the name of the lady in question, but basically it's the same situation picked up and dropped into Seph's lap.

( I'm channeling my agression into art. )

Ahem! First ficlet is a combination of several people's faults, including but not limited to chibirisuchan and seiberwing. FF7/Discworld crossover, Seph in the Library. No, not that Library, the other one.

( ...an organism that was apparently dead... )

And this one is entirely eponaharper's fault, for challenging me to do a fic with the words 'exorcism injury' in it. This is what came to mind. ;) Transformers, mid-S3.

( When he had a spare moment... )

Limp by Fiona Apple has a piano bit during the verses that sounds a lot like the unsettling music you hear when you're in the Shinra Tower. Just five notes, minor key (I think).

That's all. Carry on.

This was supposed to be a little longer, but I got tired of dawdling.

Title: On Broken Wings
Rating: PG, gen for now, though I make no promises as to later chapters
Word Count: 4378
Previous Chapter: Prologue

( He didn't know what he was doing here. )

From wrongly_amused:

Comment with a sentence from one of my fanfictions. Without looking, I have to try and guess which fic of mine the sentence is from. If I fail, the challenger wins a drabble request. Post this in your own journal and let me challenge you!

Also, a bit of Fluffiroth, because he's been making cow eyes at me. ( In which Seph has been told that he has chocobo pox. )

EDIT: I caught part of a documentary on the evolution of sex in humans, and at the end credits it showed (of course, how else do you end these things) a sperm fertilizing an egg. "Thus begins a nine-month-long odyssey that ends in a miracle..." said the narrator. ...And then we cut to How It's Made, which basically takes you inside factories. AT FIRST I WAS LIEK o_O - AND THEN I LOL'D. Oh, Discovery Channel. I swear you do these ironic juxtapositions on purpose.

I warned you all it was coming. You had plenty of time to defriend me.

"On Broken Wings" is a working title, though it'll probably stand as is considering how much I hate coming up with titles. XD It's kind of an aftermath-fixit if that makes any sense. Basic underlying assumption: aside from the whole "trying to kill everything" bit, Sephiroth's actually a decent guy. He just needs a chance to prove it.

Title: On Broken Wings
Author: ...um, that would be me. *hides*
Rating: PG, gen for now, though I make no promises as to later chapters
Word Count: 3328

( At first he was alone... )

Someone's imported the testify meme to IJ. My thread is here, because, as you all know, I am an attention whore. ^_^ So go participate, yes?

Also, Sephiroth sings about a subject that's very close to his heart.

Marlene's Limit Breaks
Level 1
Pink Ribbon - Marlene takes off her hair ribbon and spins it to ridiculous lengths, tangling a single enemy for damage and a 50% chance of Slow. Also, every time it's used, a dollar is donated for breast cancer research.

...but I just gotta know. Who here's played Dirge of Cerberus? See, I've got me a sort of idea surrounding Hojo for the Fluffing Of Sephiroth project, but I heard he already Came Back To Life in DoC and I don't want to step on anyone's toes. So... how'd he get un-stabby-deathified? And what happened to him in the end?

There's an advert for Crisis Core in this month's issue of EGM. I very nearly had an orgasm on the spot, and I don't even have any intention of owning a PSP. It's just. Zack. *paws at page*

It has occurred to me that I am ridiculous.

Speaking of, I really need to tempt some people over to ffvii_100 so that the Turks aren't winning by fifty million points every single damn weekend. I hadn't had any real bunnies spawn on me for this prompt, but it looks like I'm going to have to do one each for Avalanche and Soldier just so they're not shut out. *ties plushies on strings and dangles them* Heeeeere fangirl fangirl fangirl... >)

Playlist-inspired flashfics. No guarantees when/if I'll get to the rest, but there are a few I won't be able to leave alone. ;)

For dragovianknight
666: Under The Sea: The Little Mermaid

( It's Better Down Where It's Wetter )


For ladyofshadow
24: Star Wars: Imperial March - Metallica S&M

( Dum dum dum, dum de-dum dum de-dum... )


For _kyri
42: The Fierce Battle (FF6): Nobuo Uematsu

( The Cat And The Cow )

...Of course I'm crocheting her something. When you Make Stuff of any sort, your mother expects you to spend some of that labor on her. I expect that if I was a math major, Mom would want me to build her an algorithm.

Anyway, skibbles:

Zack, Aeris, and umbrellas on the beach. One of Aeris's weapons in the game is a parasol, and apparently one of Zack's weapons in Crisis Core is a beach umbrella. CLEARLY IT WAS FATE.

In which Sephiroth's chocobo is Fearsome. Set in ciceqi's Anthroverse. This skibble is part of a larger scene that dropped into my head unbidden the other day and involves Seph really, really wishing the stablemaster hadn't come to fetch him before Draugr pecked Hojo to death.

Zack, Aeris and Girl!Cloud, presumably post-coitus. This is fanart for this fanfic, also by ciceqi. (Yes, I am a raving Coyofan, why do you ask?)

And finally, something from one of my fanworks. In which Sephiroth, experiencing his first viral sickness, has his first real talk with Cloud. ...Or something. (I really need to come up with a title for that arc one of these days. I can't keep calling it Fluffiroth forever.)

FFVII fans, question: post-AC, how much does the General Populace know about That Thing With Meteor and Sephiroth's involvment therein? Because I mean Seph didn't exactly tend to leave witnesses, and Shinra placed the blame on Avalanche... but Our Heroes sure as hell wouldn't keep it a secret, and someone's probably asked why Shinra isn't mad at the tree-hugging hippy ecoterrorists anymore. Would it be reasonable to think that most people still think of Sephiroth as a war hero who disappeared under mysterious circumstances? Or have underground sources ferreted out the truth, or did Reeve make a press release...? I'm debating whether Rufus would find Seph a useful symbol, among other things.

I think I banged this out in the space of three days. Sephiroth wouldn't let me go until I finished it. You can put your sword away now, General Sephiroth sir...

This will make a hell of a lot more sense (relatively speaking) if you read ciceqi's Tentacleverse first. Like, all of it. Trust me on this. (There's not that much, and you will not regret the time spent.)

Title: Cling
Author: raisedbymoogles, to my eternal shame, I'm sure. ^_^;;;
Series: Final Fantasy 7, Tentacleverse, crack AU
Characters: Sephiroth/Cloud with hints of Sephiroth/Zack, Rufus
Rating: T for tentacles.
Word Count: 1877. *faints* haet u, Sephiroth.

( If there had been anyone else there, except Zack... )

For varied reasons, it's hard for me to find shoes. Mostly it's that I'm picky about what I spend my mom's money on - most shoes come across to me as boring, ugly, or like they wouldn't be out of place in dragovianknight's collection of torture implements. (I have an antagonistic relationship with heels, which is another reason why I have a hard time with shoes. Girls, answer this for me - why, in Primus' name, do you feel the need to winch up your heels to unnatural angles?) Then, assuming I find something I like, I still have to deal with my monster feet. My feet are flat and wide, and hover somewhere in the 8.5-9 area, so finding a shoe that will accomodate all that is an adventure all in itself. Invariably the shoe I like best will pinch my poor toes, or have a bump to support the arch I don't have, or slip off my heel. Shopping for shoes, especially once I hit my growth spurt (in my case it was more of a halfhearted lurch, except where my feet were concerned), has always been an exercise in frustration.

So imagine my glee when I come home from Shopping today with not one but two pairs of shoes I absolutely adore. ^_^

Brown shoe with pink and purple and white... stuff all over it. Fits like a glove and looks adorable with tights. (I may be starting a love affair with tights. They're just so warm and cozy..!)

The black shoe. Basic, but not boring; pretty, but not froofy. These are the things that make a moogle's feet happy. ^_^

...And did I mention they were both on sale? :D (Gods, I'm such a girl sometimes.)

In other news, tomorrow is the last day of class for the quarter, and it will be spent Presenting things. While I don't enjoy presenting, at least I don't have to actually do anything either. HUZZAH. I'll probably spend break (when I'm not at Ohayocon, or allowing my Relations to fuss over me in Illinois) writing Sephfic. He's been poking around my brain and asking all sorts of questions. I think he's making up for not having much of a childhood... *worried look*

Had a fun weekend, but because fun weekends usually lead to floppy moogles, I'll leave the report 'til tomorrow and hope you'll be content with a linkdump.

So beckyh2112 showed me this, which is basically an index for a Japanese fanart site. Because I couldn't find any comprehensive image list links, I took it upon myself to look through every single image in search of the ones y'all might be interested. That's right, my dear flist: I looked at scary Japanese porn so you didn't have to. Well, unless you want. ;P

Divided into links for Transformers, FF7, Kingdom Hearts, and a few random ones I didn't recognize but thought were cool. The rest were all characters I didn't recognize. WARNING: a good handful of these are not worksafe. The bad ones are marked with a **; click at your own risk.

( Transformers )

( Final Fantasy 7 )

( Kingdom Hearts )

( Other )

Also, FF7 fan remixes from our friends at OverClocked ReMix! Absolutely gorgeous. *pokes BitTorrent to download faster, dammit*

In other news, I finally got my hands on the last issue of Megatron: Origins. I... think I need to switch factions now, excuse me... *wobbles, swoons, thuds and worships*

If you've been on the internet longer than five seconds, you know what this was inspired by. ;P Just brainstorming, though I may write out a few of these scenes. Feel free to add your own, and you may get a ficbit out of it!

( Because Zack is walking trouble. )

The feeling of having finished a project you know your recipient will adore is second only to the feeling of having a challenge ahead of you: the challenge of creating something from your skill and imagination that you know the recipient will adore.

Bouncy, squeaky, happy moogle. ^_^ ^_^ ^______^

EDIT: No, self, a Phoenix Wright/FF7 crossover would not be a good idea. On the long list of things Sephiroth needs, 'legal counsel' does not appear. And a Phoenix/Seph/Edgeworth sandwich, while hot, would probably just be messy.

...and the brief period I'll be at home is for Lunch and Packing. Imma goin' out with my friends tonight! Yay! ^_^

Springkink Recs, for the people who eschew LJ. We still have good porn on LJ! We're just, uh, quieter about it. ^_^;;;

Advance and Follow, in which Skywarp and Thundercracker get up to Mischief. Of the sexy kind. ;)
Oh Merciful Descent, entirely-too-cruel Sephiroth/Cloud movie fic.
Untitled, Starscream, Tracks, violence and related themes and also angst. *wibbles and hugs Tracks*
In The Old Country, fluffy gen involving the Protectobots on Cybertron. *hearts*
Training With Kyo, Kyo/Tohru/martial arts/utter cuteness.
Jump The Gun, in which Starscream finally gets the better of Megatron. This one appeals to the gunkink sector of my brain. (Actually, anything involving Megatron appeals to that sector; this fic brought it roses and whispered sweet nothings in its ear.)
this, and only this; it is enough, Sora/Riku, massive amounts of cute that spiral right into "guh" territory.
Comm Signal, Judy Witwicky/Frenzy. YA RLY.
Piecing, Beatrix/Garnet pre-game fluff. There's an unfortunate dearth of good FF9 fic out there, which makes me rather a sad moogle.
Not Quite By the Book, Tseng/Reno: swift, hard and hot, just the way I like my Turks. ^_^

And since no rec post would be complete without pimping myself:
Holy's Touch: the prompt was Aeris with tentacles, and I of course came up with fixit!crack. Which I have been implored to continue. Oh, help.
Lab Assistant, Agatha/Gil from Girl Genius. Verreh short canon scene from Gil's POV.
Marquis de Air Commander, Starscream/everybody. Well, technically six people, but that's more than enough getting laid for one fic. XD
Spark's Oath, in which Magnus runs headlong into Rodimus's issues. Angst, hugs and Metroplex being protective.
Junkyard Wars, Hook, Ratchet, Perceptor and Scavenger in various combinations. In which, as apathocles puts it, Hook and Ratchet battle for Perceptor's love. (Unfortunately they forgot to ask Percy about it first.)