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chofi ([personal profile] chofi) wrote2009-03-02 12:15 pm

Meme, meme, meme, Association Meme

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 [livejournal.com profile] 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. [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] 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.