Video Games
 | : Final Fantasy 7 Fanworks Recs - Once upon a time, my FFVII section was pitiful. I really only read Cid/Vincent fanfic because a favorite author of mine had moved into writing it and I toddled along behind. I didn't read much, I wasn't even familiar with the world very much. Then Advent Children hit and I watched the movie and it was shiny and then I started to play the game and it ate me and now this section is growing constantly bigger. I'm all over the place, but my true love is Sephiroth x Cloud. With Zack x Aerith as a close secondary OTP, and then stuff like Sephiroth/Zack, Rufus/Reno, Cid/Vincent, Cloud/Tifa, and more trailing along behind. I concentrate on fanart a lot, but I'm slowly building up fic recs bit by bit. One day, I full plan for this section to be disgustingly huge. ♥ |
 | : Final Fantasy 8 Fanworks Recs - And this one, I blame squarely on Noel, because she's such a fan of the game and has been trying to get me into it. So, I read the occasional fic that she shoves at me or is written by my favorite authors or when I happen to stumble over the occasional pretty fanart or just whatever have you. It's not growing as fast as I'd like, because it seems like it takes me ages to get through the super long epics the fandom puts out, but eventually this section will be big. Oh, yeah. And I like Squall/Rinoa. You can all shoot me know. (But I also like Seifer/Zell as my primary favored pairing and Squall/Zell on the side.) |
 | : Final Fantasy 10 Fanworks Recs - In all honesty? This section is all about the fanart. All. About. The. Fanart. It started because there was a lot of FFX/FFX-2 fanart on the FFVII and FFVIII sites I was visiting and I slowly became slightly aquainted with the characters and started poking at the FMVs and the plot of the game and just... somewhere along the line, I started seeking out art for it by itself. I have no pairing preferences, I have no real attachment to the game, I've never played, I'll probably never read fic, but I really like the beautiful fanart it gets. Sometimes that's all I really want and, hey, it could always be useful to those who have played the game and want a place to get started when poking at j-fanart. Of course, this means I'm going to be all over the place, as I have zero pairing preferences... aside from maybe fondness for Tidus/Yuna. |
 | : Final Fantasy 12 Fanworks Recs - So. I played FFXII feverishly for about a week straight (and getting about 3/4ths of the way through the game's plot, I think) and then couldn't take it anymore so I dove into the fandom. I've since gone back to finish playing the game properly (after buying the damn thing because I couldn't resist) but I'm also happily tearing through fandom. I wound up shipping almost exclusively het pairings in this fandom, but I'm also greatly interested in gen, so this section will be a mixture of the two. For now, it's mostly fic with a handful of art tossed in (there'll be a higher yaoi concentration there, mind), focusing on Balthier/Fran and Bashe/Ashe and gen fic. I'm still at the point, though, that if it's well-written and about the main cast, I'm likely to be completely onboard. |
 | : Kingdom Hearts Fanworks Recs - Obviously, I never meant to fall for yet another game fandom, especially as I am emphatically not a gamer. But the Roxas/Axel lured me in and then I actually played KHII and downloaded the beginnings of those fan-movies for KHI and I have CoM sitting right here and... yeah. Eventually I found I liked the whole KH world instead of just the one pairing and I branched out. I like a mix of Roxas/Axel, Riku/Sora, KH!Sephiroth/Cloud, random pairings, and a smattering of gen when I can find it. I don't have huge plans for this section (especially since I'm staying away from j-fanart, though, you can find tons of KH e-fanart on the artbits page), but it'll at least get you started with fandom. |
 | : Odin Sphere Fanworks Recs - I played this game a couple of times on the recommendation of a friend, almost instantly being captivated by the stunningly beautiful graphics. As of the time I write this, I still haven't finished the game (I'm on Cornelius' epilogue), so I'm still avoiding spoilers, but I also know enough of the storyline to know that I would like to see more from fandom. For now, I mostly gravitate towards the fanart, it's such a visually stunning game that I want more of that aspect, but if good fic is written, I'm not exactly going to turn that away either. For now, I am most intrigued by Oswald and Gwendolyn, but the more I play, who knows? |
 | : Okami Fanworks Recs - Okami is one of the most beautiful games I have ever played, a surprisingly moving plot underneath the gorgeous graphics, and it's a ton of fun to play, I just... I can't recommend it highly enough. As soon as I finished playing it, I immediately headed for the fanart, which is amazing, amazing stuff. I definitely have a fondness for Waka/Amaterasu (at least in a potential human form, shut up, she totally could have one!) and there'll be a lot of Oki/Kai as well. There probably won't be much fic, it's a hard game to fic for, given that there's no real "voice" for Amaterasu, even if it's not impossible. Note: There are going to be a lot of spoilers for the end of the game, since that's when a lot of the fanart takes place (post-game, that is), so I wouldn't advise getting into the fandom until you've played the game all the way through at least once. |
 | : Tales of the Abyss Fanworks Recs - Originally, I played Tales of the Abyss just to get a smidge of experience with a non-Squeenix RPG game and become at least passingly familiar with the characters that seemed to be popping up everywhere in fandom. To my surprise, I fell rather genuinely in love with the game and its characters and immediately dove into fandom. The fandom isn't as big as it first seemed when I was first poking at it, but there's enough j-fanart to at least give me a fix. The main focus of my recs will probably be there, simply because that's where the bulk of fanworks are. I will likely be fairly evenly split between het and yaoi, I lean towards het OTPs myself, but I'm open to a lot of pairings so long as they're well-done. I'm weak to fanart, okay? |
 | : Vagrant Story Fanworks Recs - So. I am not a gamer. (Or at least I wasn't until recently.) I have never played this game and I doubt I'll ever get the chance to (since it's so difficult to get one's hands on), despite wanting to. I'm hardly going to let that stop me from enjoying the series, given how much information/cut scenes are available on-line, including the complete script. It's a small fandom, so I doubt I'll be terribly fussy, but I like Sydney and while I prefer Sydney/Ashley, I'm hardly against Sydney/Hardin. Whatever happens to come along, really, I think. Note: Vagrant Story recs may contain some spoilers. I'll try to watch it, but they'll occasionally leak through. I may also not always remember to warn for spoilers, so I would suggest avoiding this section if you're trying to remain unspoiled. |
Dating Games
 | : Harukanaru Toki no Nakade Fanworks Recs - Wow, did this series ever eat my life for a few months. >_o Tomomasa x Takamichi is still one of my favorite pairings (Hence the "tomomichi" of my LJ mirror.) but I'm wildly in love with the entire cast. I've scoured the J-fanart web looking for prettypretty art, so there'll be a ton of recs here. Sadly, there's not much fic yet, but I hope to eventually see some fic someday~ *pines* Will be largely yaoi, but occasional het, too. A lot of the sites are probably going to be taken down and even after the anime started, there doesn't seem to be a lot of new stuff popping up, so I hope this section doesn't get too out of date. As things stand, I probably found every major Tomomasa/Takamichi, Tenma/Akane, Yasuaki/Eisen, Akuram/Akane, and Yorihisa/Tenma site in the fandom, though. <3 |
BL (Boys Love) Games
 | : Apocripha/0 Fanworks Recs - I really wish I had more time to devote to this series, because I really like the characters and the character designs and the game seems very fun. I know I *heart* the seiyuu involved with it and the drama CDs (to be honest, the manga didn't really grab me) and I think I could get into this series. There's a little art here, will hopefully expand in the future. Given that it's a yaoi game, I would hope that you'd go into it expecting that. ^_~ |
 | : Gakuen Heaven Fanworks Recs - measuringlife totally sucker punched me with this series and the anime was actually sort of not taking itself too seriously while still being really pretty and then there was this King/Queen pairing that I got all hyped up on and... I was gone. I'm not much of a fic reader for the series because most of the pairings I want (Niwa/Kaoru-chan) aren't written a lot and I'm not quite there for gen yet. But there's a lot of fanart for the game out there and I've been deteremindly hunting down tons of it. It's spread out pretty well among the Everyone/Keita pairings (my favorites being Naruse/Keita and Kazuki/Keita), with a little bit of the rest of the cast being paired up with each other. I already ♥ this dorky game. |
 | : Togainu no Chi Fanworks Recs - I'd seen this game around for ages, always intrigued by the gorgeous quality of the art, always vaguely curious about the characters. I'm not sure what got me to finally look into it more thoroughly, maybe it was just happening upon the right corner of the j-fanart population. Whatever the reason, I was hooked on these characters and especially the gorgeous, gorgeous fanart. Shiki/Akira is my pairing of choice and it tends to get most of the art in the fandom. But I also have a soft spot for Gunzi/Akira and there's a lot of other pairings floating around, basically if it happened in the game, I'm sure to find art for it in the fandom. A lot of art for it. XD |
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