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I just remembered how the Life is Strange remaster completely butchered the original game’s art direction and now I’m sad.

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77k words of Aerti? In MY FF7 fanfiction? It’s more likely than you think!

Chapter 15 is up, you should give it a read? Maybe?

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Local lesbian too angry to die

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With so much of the first five seasons of the X-Files shot in or near Vancouver, I think it’s fair to say, the truth is oot there, eh?

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Fuck I forgot that Scully’s dad is also Major Garland Briggs

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Few things more gratifying than successfully converting someone to Utena.

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This fic of mine just passed the 77 subscribers mark, and it's currently a whopping 70k words worth of a slow-burn Aerti adventure, with many more chapters to come! You should give it a read!

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Algernon Femcel Era (got dumped by text)

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[Jeff Mangum Voice] Ooooh Chadley

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65k words of slow-burn Aerti? In my fanfiction? It's more likely than you think!

(chapter 13 of this little thing is up, and I think it's rather neat!)

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(I refuse to acknowledge DoC)

(NPTK is from FFVII Rebirth but my finger slipped before I could write it)

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Just like Remake, FFVII Rebirth features one of Advent Children's best tracks, “the Promised Land” in a way that I find really interesting

Remake has it very early on, in chapter 2, after Cloud's first vision of Sephiroth. It's just an instrumental track, but it definitely adds something somber to that scene when you walk around Sector 8 and see the damage caused by the Reactor's explosion.

Now why would a song from AC, a film meant to be taking place 2 years after the events of the main game, play now? Back then, I appreciated the nod, but I didn't think about it much at all.

In Rebirth, “the Promised Land” shows up several times.

First you hear it in Cosmo Canyon, you get an a capella group singing it in the original AC tune. It might even be the same recording as the one they used in AC. It's the same lyrucs.

Later, during the final chapter of the game, you hear a new arrangement of the song, with bits of “Those Chosen by the Planet” interspersed. Once again, the same lyrics.

Is it fanservice? Yes, of course it is. You know this song. You know that it announces somber things. It's a good song, too. You probably made the Leo DiCaprio pointing thing when you heard it.

Is there something more to it than that?

Why on earth would people sing “stella nobis non concessit” now? Clearly there was enough money into this soundtrack to make not one but two Stamp songs (bow-wow-wow) so if they'd wanted to, the people making this game could have changed the lyrics to something else.

I can't fully wrap my head around this but I get the feeling that it has to do with the very nature of the Re- games as requels and their relation to memory, both the players' and that which is contained within the Lifestream.

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Chapter 11 (!!) of my Aerti fic is up!

This time around, it's the grasslands and the marshes! I'm really happy with this one, you should give it a look!

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My Aerti fic has just hit its 10th chapter! 50k words! You should give it a try!

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I’ve kept it from all of you for too long and I have to come clear…

I…

Think Chadley is a neat little lad and I quite like him, always have.

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Hey! That Aerti fic of mine? It’s just reached 8 chapters, 40k words and 100 kudos!

You should give it a look!