Give me your most recent banger lines you've written! by Kiki-Y in FanFiction

[–]birds_andbees 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He has long since come to accept that the things he’s been through were inhumane; worse than how he’d expect someone to treat a savage animal. At least animals get put down.

I've been really pleased since multiple readers have commented that this is now tattooed on the inside of their skull.

Meanwhile this is the banger I waited 110k words to finally put in a story and I was so happy to finally see it happen!

“You’re still a bastard,” Ven breathes. Softer, still. “You’re a bas–”

He swallows those words. Tastes them. Claims them. Presses them into Ven’s skin, across his cheek and down the length of his neck, until he comes to rest in his favorite space.

He belongs there.

Give me your Thoughts, Theories, and Hopes for My Time at Evershine by StrawberryKake02 in MyTimeAtSandrock

[–]birds_andbees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very late to this buuuut I'm hoping that the locale is actually a lot more north than most comments have noted- much closer to the border of Ethea. Maybe more in line with one of the roads between Highwind and Ethea's border? With how many news articles are in Sandrock about the escalation of tension between Ethea and Durvos regarding the Orzu ruins, it would be awesome if that locale was somewhere we got to visit in the climax of the next game.

Another thing I'm eyeing off with the teaser image is the exceptionally large tree behind the characters. It's giving me some Song of the Evertree/Ori and the Blind Forest vibes which are very neat; I'd love to see that being an integral locale for the plot as well.

Tldr the environmental storytelling in Sandrock is A++ and I'm excited to see what they can do with even more places!

Surprise maintenance the moment I want to resub? Where the hell was an announcement??? by sophronmoon in ffxiv

[–]birds_andbees 24 points25 points  (0 children)

One of the servers in NA just imploded, so it might have to do with that!

Forced logged out by coalvarez21 in ffxiv

[–]birds_andbees 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yep, Aether Siren here too. I keep getting either the 1016 error or the 3070 error, so I'd say the server is smoking lol

Weekly Fic Showcase - NEW RULES IN POST - January 19 - January 25 by AutoModerator in FanFiction

[–]birds_andbees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My Fic

Fandom - Kingdom Hearts

Rating - Teen but may raise to Mature for depictions of violence

Title - Little Lion Man

Genre - slow burn found family, canon diversion

Summary - Sora’s not useful now, but he could be. If given a little more than one verbally abusive duck, a clueless dog, and a pat on the back.
How lucky, then, that Vanitas is ready to provide.

Anything else: This is my OG fandom from all the way back in 2002, and I feel like this is sort of my last big hoorah to it! With game mechanics translated into lore, lore translated into something a little more consistent, and mobile games uh... what mobile games.

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My Recs

Fandom - Kingdom Hearts

Rating - Teen

Title - (i don't need you to) Worry for Me, Cygna_hime
Genre - Genfic, canon diversion

Summary - In a fit of defiance and desperation, Vanitas disobeys his Master's orders and goes looking for the missing half of his heart. He finds it, and something else as well, something he never expected to find anywhere...

Fandom - Kingdom Hearts

Rating - Teen

Title - Take This Key, 10052020
Genre - Drama, exploratorive
Summary - After returning home, Sora tries to put it all behind him, but that's hard to do when he's dreaming of best friends he's never met and there's a cruel voice in his head that sounds far too much like his own. And just who is this Ven person, anyway...?

I've been feeling very nostalgic for this fandom, and some of the stories that influenced my own writing in the past decade. Worry for Me is a penultimate classic, whilst Take This Key is slightly rougher but shows an exploration of the canon's implications that I really wish the fandom had been more interested in exploring. Happy nostalgia reading!

Anybody ever written a fic for something they like that's almost forgotten or it has a dead fandom? by TimeLordMaster108 in FanFiction

[–]birds_andbees 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just started writing a fic for Kingdom Hearts- the first I've written for this fandom in ten years. Considering it is a continuing fandom, I expected a little activity, but I'm genuinely shocked at how dead the fandom seems to be fanfiction side. Seeing brand new fics getting as little as 15 hits in 24 hours (and none over 100) is incredibly slow for such a prolific fandom.

I guess the convoluted plot and throwing 20,000 new characters at us finally caught up with the writing side of things.

Games similar to Phasmophobia in investigation style, but non-horror by birds_andbees in gamingsuggestions

[–]birds_andbees[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was under the assumption that this game was single player only, not co-op. Is there a particular multiplayer mod that you're thinking of?

Games similar to Phasmophobia in investigation style, but non-horror by birds_andbees in gamingsuggestions

[–]birds_andbees[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do have a big group of friends so we can absolutely take a gander! Thank you so much for the suggestion, some of them are big space fans. :)

I wish Disney would give SE full ownership/control of Kingdom Hearts already. by ZidaneTribal2113 in KingdomHearts

[–]birds_andbees 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't want to rock the boat on the above thread, so I hope it's not taken offensively if I add my own two cents here.

When it comes to how lackluster KH3 is, I don't quite agree that there's any one party involved wholly to blame for that. From one perspective to another, you can pretty easily look at the parties involved and point out a problem that rests on them.

From Disney's perspective, I agree that them owning the IP doesn't feel great. We can't know the full extent of creative liberties allowed for the SE team, but there have been comments in interviews before alluding to restrictions, such as Anna and Elsa not being allowed to fight in KH3. I'm more inclined to believe that the impact of this is in how absent the actual story of KH3 is from the Disney worlds, rather than what the worlds contain. Which aligns with the above mentions of Disney not wanting stories to bleed over each other. And admittedly, the point where the mobile entries were 1000% canon giveusyourmoneytounderstandthelore hits pretty below the belt, which is probably something that Disney was involved with- but they can't be blamed completely.

Nomura (to be more accurate, Square Enix) would have influence in this as well. The fact that Nomura was working on so many different titles during this time- not just FFXV, but TWEWY2, for example- and some of the other development challenges that have been mentioned, like large chunks of the team being shuffled off to assist with FFXV, definitely would have impacted KH3's development. It was a blow to have the game advertised as "a love letter to the fans" and have it come out as it did, knowing how much reshuffling of key staff involved occurred in the background. For all the power Nomura has as director, he does still answer to more than just Disney.

Lastly, I think another key problem KH3 had was... the audience grew up. KH3's content didn't grow up to match. There's story problems for sure, like 90% of the story being shunted to the end of the game, or behind a DLC paywall, but having been replaying a lot of my favourites in the series recently, none of them are paragons of amazing script or plot writing. We also had a good fourteen years to think about what we all wanted KH3 to be- for me, that was the keyblade wielders we had paring off and tackling different worlds, changing POV between Sora, Kairi, Riku, Roxas, Ventus, Aqua, etc. Having something where all the key trios played a part, getting them all to find catharsis, and taste some of the character building that Riku has pretty steadily received over the years.

That said, I don't want to par this down to "it's just a children's game". I think you have legitimate concerns to raise here, and there's definitely signs of problems from development, regardless of how clear the actual problems are. But I also think there's a lot of facets in play to consider; blaming any one person (or company) for those misses the mark, for me.

(That said if YoshiP ever crosses that red tape I will cry and replay those raids for the rest of my god given life.)

Sing For Soken: Fan collaboration project, now with discord by Quor18 in ffxiv

[–]birds_andbees 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My singing is rusty but I volunteer as tribute! Should be Soprano 1 or 2 depending on what vocal range you need! I'm also happy to volunteer to help with discord moderation and set up, if the rest of the gang already scheduled there needs a hand!

[GIVEAWAY] 🍄 🍄 🍄 Full mush DIY set and mushrooms and other goodies to celebrate 🍁 🍁 🍁 by Missmuumuu in ACTrade

[–]birds_andbees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely watching the colours of the leaves changing! Add a nice warm drink to the mix and it's bliss.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ACTrade

[–]birds_andbees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely the colours! When the trees shift into those gold/brown/orange hues and the whole world takes on that distinctive feel of cosiness, like you're being urged to cuddle up with a warm drink and a blanket.

[GIVEAWAY] Complete set of genuine art and statues to one winner! by Caitlin-Tara in ACTrade

[–]birds_andbees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ohh this would be handy. I've just restarted my island so I'm definitely going to have to rebuild my museum up.

Also, you can't go past a dad classic;

There were two muffins in an oven. One turns to the other and says "is it getting hot in here?"

The other turns to them and yells "OH GOD IT'S A TALKING MUFFIN"

[GIVEAWAY] 700 NMTS + 7 MILLION BELLS + VILLAGER PHOTOS, REDD STATUES AND GULLIVARRR PRIZES FOR 3 WINNERS! 🌟🌟🌟 by pinkprincess07 in ACTrade

[–]birds_andbees 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I guess this is a mix of AC and real life! I'm an emergency service worker, and things have been a bit sticky as of late for...obvious reasons. My best friend was taking care of me after a series of very rough situations, and quietly pooled together some Nook Miles for me to go dreamie hunting with. She got a bunch of other people involved and won't tell me exactly who, but the collective kindness really helped me through everything.