So. Two recommendations of a very different nature. (non-LJ Community, video)
1) BRILLIANT FINAL FANTASY FAN TRIBUTE VIDEO for the win.
Ain't No Other Man
So not my usual taste in music, so well-paced, so much fun. Includes clips from FFVII through X, with an emphasis on Advent Children (which I haven't seen, but I don't think this is very spoilerific, it's just random bits of action scenes and Reno being Reno). The ending makes me giggle every single time I watch it.
Now if only someone would do a piece like that showcasing the best Final Fantasy female characters instead.
2) Final Fantasy Project forums and online community.
[[[EDIT: After
ova_lexa discovered plagiarism on their wiki, I'm not quite so enamored of these folks. Hmmmmm. ]]
This place has so much potential, although it's small. It is a Final Fantasy fan forum + wiki + roleplaying hub + fanfiction archive.
~ It has forums for discussing the games.
~ Its members helped write the FFX wikipedia articles, and have their own wiki.
Its fanfiction archive's controls/options are better than most (I like being able to include pictures, comma, dammit).
~ Its blog/journals can be used for many purposes -- that's where I've been posting Lulu's Journal.
~ I haven't delved into the roleplaying forums because I don't want to let myself get sucked in, but it looks promising: Sin's Dawn, set 1000 years ago.
~ The members are thoughtful and especially oriented towards FFX, although they discuss all the games.
~ "Mythology, Canon, and Trivia of Final Fantasy" forum with some good topics.
They just don't have that many active members. I'd like to see what would happen if more people started participating.
1) BRILLIANT FINAL FANTASY FAN TRIBUTE VIDEO for the win.
Ain't No Other Man
So not my usual taste in music, so well-paced, so much fun. Includes clips from FFVII through X, with an emphasis on Advent Children (which I haven't seen, but I don't think this is very spoilerific, it's just random bits of action scenes and Reno being Reno). The ending makes me giggle every single time I watch it.
Now if only someone would do a piece like that showcasing the best Final Fantasy female characters instead.
2) Final Fantasy Project forums and online community.
[[[EDIT: After
ova_lexa discovered plagiarism on their wiki, I'm not quite so enamored of these folks. Hmmmmm. ]]This place has so much potential, although it's small. It is a Final Fantasy fan forum + wiki + roleplaying hub + fanfiction archive.
~ It has forums for discussing the games.
~ Its members helped write the FFX wikipedia articles, and have their own wiki.
Its fanfiction archive's controls/options are better than most (I like being able to include pictures, comma, dammit).
~ Its blog/journals can be used for many purposes -- that's where I've been posting Lulu's Journal.
~ I haven't delved into the roleplaying forums because I don't want to let myself get sucked in, but it looks promising: Sin's Dawn, set 1000 years ago.
~ The members are thoughtful and especially oriented towards FFX, although they discuss all the games.
~ "Mythology, Canon, and Trivia of Final Fantasy" forum with some good topics.
They just don't have that many active members. I'd like to see what would happen if more people started participating.
Comments
Also, did you not know about the Final Fantasy-only fanfiction archive we've been talking about for months now? For some reason, I swore you were involved because of your interest in communities. Huh. Well, whatever the case, if you're interested:
/Spoiled by LJ.
I'm having fun with a thread in the Mythology forum right now discussing the possibility of a mysticism strain within the Yevon religion, like the gnostic, kabbalistic, and Sufi traditions within Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
But
FF_project is so small that it hasn't attracted jackasses, except for one recent drop-in from a mostly-harmless munchkin Aurikku fangirl. I think what makes FF_project nice is that its fans tend to be general fans of Final Fantasy's worlds and cultures and myths, more than obsessive fans of ships or specific characters (mea culpa!) so it generates a slightly different set of topics.
Erm, embarrassingly, I'm not sure? Just poke around the forums and see if any discussion topics or parts of the site catch your fancy?
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It looks like it could be a comprehensive 'site in time, and I love chatting FF mythology, but... ... *Sits on hands.* I will not be confrontational; I will not be confrontational; I will not be...
Blesh.
That was my chief hairtrigger back when I was a moderator, and I used to get members suspended for it. (Mostly for posting other artists' artwork as their own.)
It's one thing to post screencaps and excerpts from the game where it's clear that's what they are, and one's not making any claims to it as one's own material. It's another to post other people's stuff as if you made it yourself.
Well, well, perhaps my initial enthusiasm was a little misled.
Heh. The last forum I looked into, I found a 'fic plagiarist as well. Must be a budding talent of mine. -_-'