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Summer is drawing to an end, which is kinda lame because I don't like being cold. BUT I love autumn/fall colours. Here to give you a feel for the upcoming season: :thumb145763859::thumb173056912: :thumb171445182: :thumb147732407: :thumb178511159::thumb177256699: :thumb154942896::thumb102569926: :thumb158953064: :thumb69437302: :thumb129823298: :heart: :heart: :heart:
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FINALLY. ~Wtfisthatplz (https://www.deviantart.com/wtfisthatplz) I honestly didn't think it would get done. Evar. But it is. My Final Fantasy IX doujinshi, The Conch Shell, is fini. :iconkermityayplz: I just have to finish up the cover. And pray that the winzip thing I downloaded *cough*totallylegally*cough* will actually work. So... don't expect anything professional. It was just for fun. Because I love the game THAT MUCH. I wont be charging anything for it, because doujinshi should be free for everyone to enjjoooyyy. :peace: But if you want to regard commenting, favouriting and spreading the word as payment, I wont stop you. :iconheheplz: There are a number of colourful mi
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Just thought I'd, y'know, update my life status, if it pleases the interwebz. Need I say, yay summer? For those who are wondering: My slow-moving project of fun, 'The Conch Shell', a Final Fantasy 9 doujinshi (or whatever you wanna dub it) is ALMOST finished. Like, five pages away - if that. I'm excited about getting it done. (If you missed the memo check back a few journal entries). As for my summer so far, it's been a hustlin'. Went straight from uni to Oxford, then went home for a few days then jumped on a plane and boat respectively, and visited the following points of interest: Sardinia, an island that belongs to Italy. I love Mediter
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Read your “Brick by Brick” fic a while ago, it’s nice.


But there are some problems, the biggest problem is following the actual canon of the game, which, to be honest, is poorly written. IX is one of the weaker entries in Final Fantasy. I made an entire review fic called “Everything Wrong With Final Fantasy IX” that takes the official script of IX and I comment through it, picking apart things, pointing out plot holes, inconsistencies and bad writing, especially Zidane’s and Garnet’s love story, which was NOT well done and was lacklustre. Please, check it out.


You don’t have to follow canon, especially when in Canon, Garnet DRUGS AND ABANDONS ZIDANE in Disk 1 Lindblum, ruining the love story, making the whole beginning of the game and “kidnapping” her to get her to Lindblum, COMPLETELY POINTLESS, not to mention the chain reaction of all the destruction that is caused as a result, a lot of the bad stuff that happens such as with Cleyra and Lindblum is Garnet’s fault, due to running back home like an idiot and pretty much handing her Eidolons over to her crazy mother on a silver platter, and to make matters worse, NEVER getting called out for any of this, especially by Zidane, who should very rightfully be upset with Garnet for blowing him off after everything that he did for her. I noticed that your fic skipped over the first disk and a significant portion of the second disk that had all that, and not really having any references or attention called to it, you could have really taken a jab at one of the worst moments in IX, if not the series. Garnet WANTED to run away from home and escape from her crazy mother and Zidane swept her off her feet to help her and show her the world, only for her to pull a one-eighty flip and run back home to the danger that she wanted to escape from for no good reason.


Another problem with following the canon is that the actual Zidane and Garnet depicted in IX were really bland and cliché characters, Zidane in the game doesn’t act like a real teenage boy (aside from the hormones around Garnet anyways) he mostly just says clichéd and corny lines that you would see from a typical Shounen, most of the time it's "character suggests that they go to 'X' and then Zidane goes, 'That's a great idea.'" He doesn't feel like the leader of the gang, just a tag-along. Zidane's schtick which is repeatedly emphasized by almost all dialogues with Amarant, is "do different garbage without thinking about anything, and everything will work out perfectly fine for you." The worst thing about this is what Amarant (and the game itself) concludes: Zidane is so cool and invincible BECAUSE HE DOESN'T EVEN THINK. Wow, right? He also never gets rightfully upset with Garnet, he comes off as a simp.


And there is Garnet, she is really bland and boring, aside from being mopey and serious all the time, she spends most of the game whining about her insane mother, it overwhelms the game and gets in the way of Zidane’s and Garnet’s love story that the game tries to act like is such a big deal and focus. This is one of the problems with Dagger and part of what's wrong with the love story, she is so wishy-washy, in the first disk, after Alexandria and the Evil Forest, she suddenly gets flanderized into a really cliché naïve princess stereotype, whose naïvety was so implausible and overdone that it reached unsympathetically foolish levels (which I have already addressed in rigorous detail in the review fic), and now, in Disk 2 she's morphed into some sort of annoying Tsundere who spends most of her time huffing indignantly at Zidane despite that he and their friends risked a lot to save her from Brahne and Kuja (in which her getting into that situation in the first place was her own darn fault) and is working on getting her where she needs to go, and we haven't even gotten to how she acts on Disk 3 yet…


Which brings me to you actually deciding to put the mute segment from the game in this fic, to sum up that scene, here is a quote from my review fic of that segment: “This is what I've been talking about before when I said that all that melodrama between Zidane and Garnet for the last few chapters when we were going through the coronation and that FMV of Zidane swinging with Garnet on a rope along with Eiko would have been rendered even more pointless. All that build up and it all gets forgotten and swept aside for this dumb and wangsty "Garnet goes mute" subplot that Zidane isn't even instrumental in undoing. The whole thing just arbitrarily fixes itself later. It's just another roadblock that gets in the way of the love story. Just like Garnet drugging and abandoning Zidane before. Not to mention how this affects gameplay in battle during this point by having a halfway chance for Dagger to not perform an action.


I also hate how Zidane doesn't seem that shaken up by all this, he made a promise back in Dali about how he would protect Garnet, yet no matter what he did he couldn't prevent all this stuff from happening to her. (Not that that was completely his fault) He should be the one feeling distraught. Seriously, if Garnet has way too much angst, then Zidane has way too little angst, the most we get from Zidane is really forced moments like when Garnet was being coronated a few chapters ago, and the "You are not Alone" scene later ahead (will be tearing that train wreck apart), which is part of why their chemistry sucks so much.”


The parts of your fic seem to also imitate that. In chapter 9 you have Zidane go through the drama of Garnet returning to Alexandria to be coronated, the next chapter, 10, you show Garnet going through the drama of not wanting to be away from Zidane and not wanting to not think about him (also, WHY DOESN’T SHE JUST INVITE ZIDANE TO THE CASTLE?! Everything about the start of Disk 3 between Zidane and Garnet was such forced drama, which I address heavily in my fic), but then in chapter 11 you do the mute scene from the game and Garnet forgets everything she thought about the chapter before about Zidane, and the next few chapters Zidane also forget about all of that (forced) drama, making those previous chapters pointless. Also the scene where Steiner punches Zidane was a shock, but it ultimately doesn’t really go anywhere since Steiner doesn’t really play any significant role after that chapter. That mute subplot was just more contrived drama that just made things more incoherent and unfocused.


I mean no offence, it’s not your fault, it’s the fault of the game that was pretty mediocre and overrated. It would be better if your fic just disregarded canon and had way more charm and wholesomeness with Zidane and Garnet, unlike the game’s poor attempts.


Which is the fundamental problem with FFIX, it knows the themes it wants to tackle and it wants to have these big emotional moments, but it goes about it so poorly to the point where it comes off as pretentious at times.

Happy Birthday! I'm a recent watcher, but I love your drawings, especially your artstyle. I hope you have an amazing day~
Woh. xD So I was just looking through FF9 fanart (after replaying the game again) and stumbled across you work here. I favorited one of your pics and then noticed that one of your pictures was the profile image of my absolute favorite fanfiction writer. And then I noticed your username. xD And realized that you are, in fact, my favorite fanfiction writer. It's great seeing all of your art (it's all absolutely beautiful and I'll probably favorite a few more)! I just wanted to say that I love all of your work on here and fanfiction and to keep being amazing!
I don't know if you still log on or check up on your Deviant Art profile anymore but I feel like I need to say this. I recently got back into playing FF9 again (still my favorite video game ever) after I downloaded it for my PS3 and one day, I simply had the curiosity to search for fan fiction (because FF9 had a perfect but very open ending which could lead to endless possibilities) but I'm not really one who reads fan fiction as most are just garbage anyhow. Despite this, I searched Google for at least decent FF9 fan fics and your "Brick By Brick" story was on a list of recommendations on TV Tropes so I checked it out; it was simply beautiful and it fit PERFECTLY within the game's universe... almost like those events could have actually happened in the story :D. Anyhow, I finished "Brick By Brick" and I'm currently reading "Foundations" and I must say that your work is beautiful. They aren't entirely perfect (no fan fiction ever is) but these are the closest thing to accurate that I'll probably ever see in terms of fandom works. Whatever dreams you're pursuing in writing, I hope that you achieve them because your work is great and I can't stop reading "Foundations"... it's made me utterly obsessive. Keep up the good work, I appreciate the fact that you took time and talent to write such well-made stories about my favorite video game ever :lol:.

I disagree a bit here you don’t have to follow the games “details” and you don’t need to follow the games “characterization” of Zidane and Garnet because let’s be honest FFIX was really poorly written and Zidane and Garnet are poorly written characters, their love story was poorly written especially with how Rebochan describes Garnet and her stupid “return to Alexandria” actions and ABANDONING Zidane, not to mention all of Garnet’s wangst after the attack on Alexandria which the fic really could have just pretended never happened, it was forced drama (and people whine about Cloud and Squall and VII and VIII in general as being “emo and try-hard”), not to mention it contradicts the chapter before that where Garnet didn’t want to be away from Zidane, while afterwards Zidane is just acting all hunky dory, if anything Zidane should have been the more angstey and sad one here, it was dumb in the game and it was silly here, not to mention Steiner’s violent reaction to Zidane is never brought up again and doesn’t go anywhere. (I mean no offence to CrimsonCobwebs, I’m just giving criticisms against the game itself, IX is really overrated and has a lot of it’s glaring flaws overlooked)


Other fanfics like “Filling in the Blanks” and “The Thief and his Princess” ignore the games canon and it’s much better for it, having a much better done, deep and strong wholesome love story for Zidane and Garnet.

Oh my Gaia, I didnt know you have a dA o.o and you draw very well! You're so talented :aww: Um, actually I've known you through your FFIX/ZiDag fanfics (read it years ago but since I've always loved your writing style, I re-read it <3) Anyways, I'm glad I found your page but it seems you're already inactive for a long time now :c I still hope you'll come back soon and post more of your amazing works! :love:
Happy Birthday !! :cake::party: