Does anyone use Google Wave?
I've been absolutely binging on 
ciceqi 's FFVII fic for the past few weeks, and grabbing other rec's where I can get them. If anyone has recommendations for this fandom, I'd appreciate it!
One thing that struck me, in perusing the fandom, is the alternate terms for the Cetra. Specifically, "Ancients" and "Ancestors".
So, predictably, I've been developing this Stargate Atlantis/Final Fantasy VII crossover verse... *headdesk* Thing is, I can't really write. I'm good at the world building thing, once I actually make decisions on various options, but the writing? No attention span here, no sirree. Anyway, I've been using Wave this time to sort of, plot out loud with a few friends at the moment. (If anyone wants to join in, just let me know.) And I kinda have the beginnings of a plot! Not the middle or the end, and I think I'm the kind of person who needs all her ducks in a row before starting anything, but this is more than I usually get.
FFVIIxSGA xover bunny
(this is totally not a fic, but more of an atmosphere sketch. comments welcome.)
Prologue: Nibelheim
Nibelheim is burning. The sickly slow perspective of war, spinning and lurching. Racing to the reactor /why why why/ barely in time to discover Zack, to pick up the buster sword he'd only tried in practice rooms, charging at Sephiroth in a last ditch, almost beserker fury. Surprises himself even more than the General when he lands a hit hard enough to throw him into the next room. Shining blue pool /i thought mako was green, what the/ Parry the next blow, try to get under his guard, but the General backsteps quickly and
Look down to the blade embedded in his chest, wrap a hand around the slim blade in shock /from the pain, not disbelief, who is he to think he could hold back the General/ and raise his eyes to the eyes mere feet away, eyes steady and almost -- sane. Push at the blade, and General Sephiroth steps back again and
Falls.
(Cloud collapses then and there, and doesn't notice the blue light winking out as he loses consciousness.)
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/think about where we are in the solar system/
I have more of an idea of what I want the FFVII characters to do -- or not to do, as I'd like to avoid the tragic proportions of the original -- than I do of Atlantis. Actually, I'm kinda at a loss as to what the fuck I want Atlantis to do, period. I suppose I could always just have Sephiroth roaming Pegasus (oh god, the image)... Or have someone else write the Atlantis sections. Or something.
By the way, has anyone come across a piece written [almost] entirely in the present perfect? Just curious. (The original version of the atmosphere sketch had about 4 tenses, I think, lol. Not to mention multiple POV switches in one sentence [fragment]. Yay, stream of consciousness. I want to poke this into something resembling fic eventually, but that day is not today. Comments welcome, regardless.)
ciceqi 's FFVII fic for the past few weeks, and grabbing other rec's where I can get them. If anyone has recommendations for this fandom, I'd appreciate it!One thing that struck me, in perusing the fandom, is the alternate terms for the Cetra. Specifically, "Ancients" and "Ancestors".
So, predictably, I've been developing this Stargate Atlantis/Final Fantasy VII crossover verse... *headdesk* Thing is, I can't really write. I'm good at the world building thing, once I actually make decisions on various options, but the writing? No attention span here, no sirree. Anyway, I've been using Wave this time to sort of, plot out loud with a few friends at the moment. (If anyone wants to join in, just let me know.) And I kinda have the beginnings of a plot! Not the middle or the end, and I think I'm the kind of person who needs all her ducks in a row before starting anything, but this is more than I usually get.
FFVIIxSGA xover bunny
(this is totally not a fic, but more of an atmosphere sketch. comments welcome.)
Prologue: Nibelheim
Nibelheim is burning. The sickly slow perspective of war, spinning and lurching. Racing to the reactor /why why why/ barely in time to discover Zack, to pick up the buster sword he'd only tried in practice rooms, charging at Sephiroth in a last ditch, almost beserker fury. Surprises himself even more than the General when he lands a hit hard enough to throw him into the next room. Shining blue pool /i thought mako was green, what the/ Parry the next blow, try to get under his guard, but the General backsteps quickly and
Look down to the blade embedded in his chest, wrap a hand around the slim blade in shock /from the pain, not disbelief, who is he to think he could hold back the General/ and raise his eyes to the eyes mere feet away, eyes steady and almost -- sane. Push at the blade, and General Sephiroth steps back again and
Falls.
(Cloud collapses then and there, and doesn't notice the blue light winking out as he loses consciousness.)
--------------
/think about where we are in the solar system/
I have more of an idea of what I want the FFVII characters to do -- or not to do, as I'd like to avoid the tragic proportions of the original -- than I do of Atlantis. Actually, I'm kinda at a loss as to what the fuck I want Atlantis to do, period. I suppose I could always just have Sephiroth roaming Pegasus (oh god, the image)... Or have someone else write the Atlantis sections. Or something.
By the way, has anyone come across a piece written [almost] entirely in the present perfect? Just curious. (The original version of the atmosphere sketch had about 4 tenses, I think, lol. Not to mention multiple POV switches in one sentence [fragment]. Yay, stream of consciousness. I want to poke this into something resembling fic eventually, but that day is not today. Comments welcome, regardless.)