TEXT PLAY QUICKIE: Final Fantasy 4: Chronicles Version (2001; PS1): Issue #016: Taking My Time

I'll be doing this in stages, I think.

TEXT PLAY SIDE GAME: Final Fantasy II (Famicom 1988/PS 2003 [Origins]): Issue #030: Mysidia Tower, Part Two

Or: Just Getting On With It

Pulling An All-Nighter

I would really rather not, but I seem to have put myself into a situation where I kind have to regardless of want to or not.

MiSTing: Digimon: DigiDefenders Episode 3, Part 2

Here we are again, for the second half of Episode 3 of the DigiDefenders MiSTing series. We're leading off with the host segment I was mentioning last time. The whole point of this segment and the riffs leading up to it was that I was trying to show at least a tiny bit of self awareness of where I could have gone with this and that I was making something like an effort to avoid it. By the time I wrote this, I'd seen a couple instances, at least, of fan writers, usually male, building out their fantasies regarding their favorite characters and/or franchises, only to have it all come crumbling down on them in an unfortunate way. I was hoping to avoid being one of them, and I'd like to think I've had a fair amount of success on that front. I'm not sure if I actually did or not, but this is one of those things where self assessment is difficult at best. It's something I don't remember ever feeling compelled to address quite this way in the years between first writing the “episode” and these endcaps.

Of course, there are a few somewhat related things that came up later in the continuity I was going for, but I think I delt with those in a reasonably acceptable manner. I think I already shared the one of these I did where it was just my character and the “other Renamon” character that was more or less his companion. There's more to that coming, but the way I've been getting these out, there's a very real chance of that being a good ways out still. We'll get to them in due time, though.

As always, there's more I want to say about this thing, but I'll save that for the bottom endcap. Until then, let's get on with the main event.

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A Long Week

Maybe not in the ways one might think, but still on the long side.

MiSTing: Digimon: DigiDefenders Episode 3, Part 1

Well, here we are again, with another repost. I'd meant to get to this sooner than I did, but real life's been busier than one might expect, considering some of what's going on. Between health issues and working a fair bit of overtime at my day job since the first of the year, this wound up getting delayed a couple months I'm feeling a bit better now, and I've got a little more free time at the moment, so I may as well get on with this.

As for the episode itself, this is one I'd do a little differently if I were doing or redoing it today. The thing I'd at least change, if not get rid of completely is the “no swearing” bit towards the beginning. As I look at it now, it was kinda hypocritical of me to have done it just that way, because my own character may have toed that line a bit closely in the previous episodes, definitely does so in this one, and there's even an outright drug reference as we aproach the end of this part. So yeah, that's not exactly my proudest bit of writing there, but for now, anyway, I'm going to leave it as is for the sake of “historical accuracy”.

Another sketchy bit I'll at least point out now is the number of times where the Renamon character gets a little handsy with mine. For the moment, I'll admit that it's a little creepy in its own ways, and even then, I knew it, but there was, and still is, a good reason for all that to be the way it was, and I'd probably leave it the way it is. I'll get more into the why of it in the endcap for this one and in part two, simply because this part has gone on long enough and there's one last thing that needs to be said before we get to it.

That last note is that this is going to be another two-parter rather than three or four parts because at least one part would have been needlessly short otherwise. That said, her we go!

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And Then I Forgot...

I had a chance to work on some of the stuff I mentioned in my previous post the other day, but I kinda muffed it.

A While Longer

An update on a few things because it's already been a while on some of them.

Final Fantasy This Morning: March 5, 2021: Switch!

It's been awhile since I've done any Final Fantasy, but there's a somewhat passable reason for that.