Comment and I give you a list of stuff I associate you with; you post in detail about them in your journal.

What I got from icedark_elf:

1. Fellow Squeenix fangirl
2. Writer of very interesting fics
3. Valkyrie Profile
4. Monster Papers


Fellow Squeenix fangirl

Hrm. I lean more towards the "Square" bit than the "Enix." I haven't really played anything from the Enix side, barring Valkyrie Profile and a bit of Bust a Groove.

The "fan" part might also be misleading. I don't really write fic or make icons anymore. I don't draw, needlecraft, cosplay, RP, vid, cook etc. within the franchises. I used to have fanlistings until I couldn't be bothered anymore. Most of my free time is spent reading and gaming, leaning more towards reading. Now, I enjoy the games I play, but in some circles, it's the participation that makes you a fan. Despite reading all of those social justice blogs, I still need someone else to label me. Tell me I'm X, and I'll be X. If I say I'm X, then I'll feel like a poseur until someone tells me otherwise.

And now, for the bits that I'm sure that people wanted to hear in the first place:

Like I said before, I leaned more towards the Square side of things than the Enix. My first Square game was Super Mario RPG, then I moved onto Final Fantasy II US. (A good move, because the Culex fight in SMRPG was one big FFIV reference.) Sometime around then, my cousins and I would play Secret of Mana together. (I would be the girl, and try to use all the weapons evenly.) I remember seeing stuff about Final Fantasy III US when it was coming out, (A walkthrough from GamePro.) but I wasn't interested, because it sounded hard. Final Fantasy VII was the big one, obviously, since I still hang about the fandom ten years later.

The timing of the PSX-generation Square games US releases made it so most of the games I anticipated came out around my birthday. So, I tended to get myself something from that line. Since this was my money, I couldn't spend it on every damn thing I wanted. I think there's also self-justification in there, because I could only get a few games a year. I loved them so damn much in part because I had to excuse myself spending the crazy amount of money (Fifty dollars was an insane sum for me in high school).

And now, a list of my Square-Enix games:
SNES

• Super Mario RPG
• The Secret of Mana

PSX

• Final Fantasy VII
• Final Fantasy VIII
• Final Fantasy IX
• Final Fantasy Tactics
• Final Fantasy Anthology
• Vagrant Story

PS2

• Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII-
• Final Fantasy X
• The Best Damn Slumberparty Ever Final Fantasy X-2
• Final Fantasy XII
• Kingdom Hearts
• Kingdom Hearts 2
• Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories
• Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria

GBA

• Final Fantasy IV Advance
• Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories

DS

• The World Ends with You
• Final Fantasy IV

PSP

• Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-
• Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions
• Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth

Writer of very interesting fics

I'm... cautious about this statement. It sounds a bit like "She's got a great personality." Interesting... how?

I like to toss ideas around and overthiink, but the rub is that when I'm overthinking, I feel that I don't have the license points the background necessary to justify my insane leaps of logic. (What a lovely teacher I'm going to make, huh?) When I do decide to make my insane leaps of logic known, I get defensive when people try to get me to justify things, or try to let me see another angle I could take. It's like the worst of both worlds.

And again, I don't write much anymore. I've gotten lazy about it. Now all I do is random chat stuff (Which I won't even do with you unless I'm extremely comfortable around you. Otherwise, if we're on AIM I'm panicking over not looking stupid and getting defensive because did xe just imply that I don't know what I'm talking about? Oh, God, and what if they didn't imply that I was stupid but I got defensive over nothing and now they think I'm petty so it's just better if I shut up and let everyone else talk, because they've known each other for longer and they don't want me in their group and now I don't live up to their expectations of me so I should just go.) and tossing ideas around in hopes that I'll eventually post something.

We won't get into the OC's stealing the spotlight. I rant on that enough as it is.

Valkyrie Profile

My current ElJay layout and default icon of Lenneth Valkyrie, of course, is the biggest clue. senkami dragged me in, and it's a pretty good series. I know I ranted a bit about it, gameplay and plot-wise. (I've also spammed artimusdin with RuAli fanart, but that's neither here nor there.) I don't know if I'll write fic on this series yet. Or at all. Post FFVII, I've been paranoid about what I do in fandom, for fear of being labeled "that fan." I don't feel like I know the franchise and the fandom yet. I suppose it's a confidence issue. Also, Covenant of the Plume's out in two weeks. More canon for me to consume. (And I haven't even finished VP2 yet...)

Monster Papers

It looks like I whine about those more than is necessary. I've really let down my mission statement for this journal since I started grad school. I mean, this is Fandom in the Raw not Chofi in the Raw.

Also, I whine because I fail at time management. (Ironically, I was assigned to do a time management speech during a "welcome grad school n00bs" meeting. I blew it because I also fail at public speaking.) To think that I want to get a doctorate one day. I mean, you have to have ultimate time management skill for that, since the thesis is the ultimate monster paper. At least it's the ultimate until you get a professorship, and then you have lots of monster papers to do, because it's publish or perish. Sigh.