And it’s not great that Square Enix never gave Final Fantasy VI the HD rerelease that it deserves.
For what it’s worth, I read your story and loved it. I read it twice, actually, and I am looking forward to reading it again. Honestly, as much as I love FFVI, I like your story even better, and one day I will be good enough to draw the sort of fan art and fan comics that Darkness and Starlight deserves. It’s incredible both as a romance and as an enjoyable and well-written work of fiction, and the fact that it exists is meaningful. And amazing! Seriously, it’s some next-level good shit.
(And this isn’t the place to have this discussion, but so is the story you wrote for me about Kentucky Route Zero. It’s one of my goals this summer to finish and post the comments I started writing, and once that’s done maybe we could have a serious talk about what that story can do, because damn it’s good.)
I’d like to think that, if there’s ever a quality rerelease or adaptation of FFVI, then Darkness and Starlight is going to have some long legs. I saw this happen with a lot of older Good Omens fanfic; and, if giant explosions of love and positive feedback could happen in that formerly small and sleepy fandom, then I can’t even imagine what might happen in FFVI fandom, which still sees dozens of amazing dōjinshi released every year by artists who are currently working as high-profile professional manga artists, character designers, and game developers. I feel like, with so much love and talent, there’s no way that FFVI won’t have its Good Omens moment (or Breath of the Wild moment, at the very least) in the cultural spotlight.
I apologize for the long and totally off-topic comment, but I just really like that story a whole lot.
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Date: 2021-05-24 07:37 pm (UTC)And it’s not great that Square Enix never gave Final Fantasy VI the HD rerelease that it deserves.
For what it’s worth, I read your story and loved it. I read it twice, actually, and I am looking forward to reading it again. Honestly, as much as I love FFVI, I like your story even better, and one day I will be good enough to draw the sort of fan art and fan comics that Darkness and Starlight deserves. It’s incredible both as a romance and as an enjoyable and well-written work of fiction, and the fact that it exists is meaningful. And amazing! Seriously, it’s some next-level good shit.
(And this isn’t the place to have this discussion, but so is the story you wrote for me about Kentucky Route Zero. It’s one of my goals this summer to finish and post the comments I started writing, and once that’s done maybe we could have a serious talk about what that story can do, because damn it’s good.)
I’d like to think that, if there’s ever a quality rerelease or adaptation of FFVI, then Darkness and Starlight is going to have some long legs. I saw this happen with a lot of older Good Omens fanfic; and, if giant explosions of love and positive feedback could happen in that formerly small and sleepy fandom, then I can’t even imagine what might happen in FFVI fandom, which still sees dozens of amazing dōjinshi released every year by artists who are currently working as high-profile professional manga artists, character designers, and game developers. I feel like, with so much love and talent, there’s no way that FFVI won’t have its Good Omens moment (or Breath of the Wild moment, at the very least) in the cultural spotlight.
I apologize for the long and totally off-topic comment, but I just really like that story a whole lot.