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rionaleonhart) wrote2024-09-25 03:59 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2024-09-25 03:59 pm
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It's A Better Username Than 'Sqaull'.
Some more questions from this fandom meme! The full list of questions is here at trobadora's journal. I managed not to ramble for five hundred words on a single question this time.
What are the origins of your penname/username?
I misread Rinoa's name as 'Riona' when I first played Final Fantasy VIII. When I realised she was actually called Rinoa, I went, 'Well, Riona's a nice name' and used it to create my fanfiction.net account; I knew I wanted a straightforward, namelike username that I could easily be addressed by. I've gone by Riona online for over twenty years now, so I think this handle is here to stay!
'riona' was already taken when I signed up to Livejournal, so I added 'leonhart': the surname of Squall Leonhart, my favourite fictional character. It had not occurred to me that this would make me look like a Squall/Rinoa shipper who can't spell. (I didn't envision myself as married to Squall; I just liked the name!)
'rixareth' is a username I occasionally use, generally when I'm a little uncertain about a site's culture and I'm not sure I want my account to be too easy to connect to my Riona identity; I used it for signing up to Tumblr and Reddit. I'm more relaxed about letting the usernames mix now! In Kingdom Hearts style, it's an anagram of my name with an added X.
What's a fandom that you wish had a bigger following?
There have been a lot over the years! It's hard to narrow it down. I'm going to say Zanki Zero: Last Beginning, a fascinatingly weird game about traumatised bisexual clones struggling to survive together after the apocalypse, with a grand total of thirty-two works on AO3 and a great OT7 that nobody but me has written for. It's a flawed game in many respects, but it has such strong fandom potential!
What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom? What fandom was it? Not necessarily your oldest fandom, but a fandom that you started and still continue to read/write/create content for in some way.
I think Final Fantasy VIII is probably the most consistently I've been into something over a long period of time. I've loved Pokémon for longer, but Pokémon is more quiet background radiation in my life, whereas I spend more time actively thinking and talking about Final Fantasy VIII. There are periods when I don't think about it much, but I always find myself back there.
The most time I've spent actively in a single 'main' fandom was the fifteen months I spent writing for Top Gear. Wow, was it really only fifteen months? I was so immersed in that fandom; I wrote so much; we had so many in-person meetups! I was sure it was two years at least!
What would make you leave a fandom, or prevent you from getting into it in the first place?
I don't typically pack up and intentionally leave a fandom; I just drift away when my interest shifts to something else. Terrible real-world associations - e.g. something awful coming out about the creator - might make me hesitate to pick something new up.
What are some things that squick you in fandom?
Extreme underage, gore, depictions of surgery. Wounding is fine! Wounding is hot! The moment internal organs are visible or a precise incision is being made, though, I am out of there. People are free to write what they like; these are just the things I find personally offputting.
What's the hardest thing about writing, and why are titles the Worst™?
I often struggle with finding a direction for a fic I'm working on. I've got a rough concept, maybe a scene or two, but I don't know where to take it or what endpoint I'm aiming for. Once I've managed to come up with the ending for a fic, everything usually starts to fall into place. Titles are pretty bad, though!
Do you have a fandom that you follow - either regularly or casually - with little to no knowledge of canon?
I have never read Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, but I've followedzarla's JTHM fic Vargas, and the little fandom that's sprung up around it, for over twenty years. I have written fanfiction for this AU of a comic I've never read.
Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.
I've always got assorted low-level background ships going on, but I'm not really in passionate shipping mode about anything at the moment. I've been replaying the Uncharted series, so I've been thinking about my deep fondness for Nate/Elena. Other than that, I suppose Barret/Tifa/Aerith/Cloud of Final Fantasy VII Remake is the most recent ship I've had strongly on my mind.
A ship you have never liked and probably never will.
The Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler of Doctor Who never worked for me; I found their dynamic a lot less compelling post-regeneration. Which is slightly tragic, because I love the Ninth Doctor/Rose Tyler, and the two pairings are often bundled together in discussion or gifsets! It's a real challenge when your OTP and your NOTP are technically the same pairing.
Do you prefer art, fic, or vids? Why? Bonus: If someone was to give you a fandom gift, what format would it be?
It depends on the fandom, come to think of it! I'm usually more of a fic person, but there are a few fandoms where I often find myself seeking out art. These tend to be for canons with a lot of interesting symbolism that fanartists can do cool things with, e.g. Death Note, Omori, Revolutionary Girl Utena.
trobadora's journal. I managed not to ramble for five hundred words on a single question this time.What are the origins of your penname/username?
I misread Rinoa's name as 'Riona' when I first played Final Fantasy VIII. When I realised she was actually called Rinoa, I went, 'Well, Riona's a nice name' and used it to create my fanfiction.net account; I knew I wanted a straightforward, namelike username that I could easily be addressed by. I've gone by Riona online for over twenty years now, so I think this handle is here to stay!
'riona' was already taken when I signed up to Livejournal, so I added 'leonhart': the surname of Squall Leonhart, my favourite fictional character. It had not occurred to me that this would make me look like a Squall/Rinoa shipper who can't spell. (I didn't envision myself as married to Squall; I just liked the name!)
'rixareth' is a username I occasionally use, generally when I'm a little uncertain about a site's culture and I'm not sure I want my account to be too easy to connect to my Riona identity; I used it for signing up to Tumblr and Reddit. I'm more relaxed about letting the usernames mix now! In Kingdom Hearts style, it's an anagram of my name with an added X.
What's a fandom that you wish had a bigger following?
There have been a lot over the years! It's hard to narrow it down. I'm going to say Zanki Zero: Last Beginning, a fascinatingly weird game about traumatised bisexual clones struggling to survive together after the apocalypse, with a grand total of thirty-two works on AO3 and a great OT7 that nobody but me has written for. It's a flawed game in many respects, but it has such strong fandom potential!
What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom? What fandom was it? Not necessarily your oldest fandom, but a fandom that you started and still continue to read/write/create content for in some way.
I think Final Fantasy VIII is probably the most consistently I've been into something over a long period of time. I've loved Pokémon for longer, but Pokémon is more quiet background radiation in my life, whereas I spend more time actively thinking and talking about Final Fantasy VIII. There are periods when I don't think about it much, but I always find myself back there.
The most time I've spent actively in a single 'main' fandom was the fifteen months I spent writing for Top Gear. Wow, was it really only fifteen months? I was so immersed in that fandom; I wrote so much; we had so many in-person meetups! I was sure it was two years at least!
What would make you leave a fandom, or prevent you from getting into it in the first place?
I don't typically pack up and intentionally leave a fandom; I just drift away when my interest shifts to something else. Terrible real-world associations - e.g. something awful coming out about the creator - might make me hesitate to pick something new up.
What are some things that squick you in fandom?
Extreme underage, gore, depictions of surgery. Wounding is fine! Wounding is hot! The moment internal organs are visible or a precise incision is being made, though, I am out of there. People are free to write what they like; these are just the things I find personally offputting.
What's the hardest thing about writing, and why are titles the Worst™?
I often struggle with finding a direction for a fic I'm working on. I've got a rough concept, maybe a scene or two, but I don't know where to take it or what endpoint I'm aiming for. Once I've managed to come up with the ending for a fic, everything usually starts to fall into place. Titles are pretty bad, though!
Do you have a fandom that you follow - either regularly or casually - with little to no knowledge of canon?
I have never read Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, but I've followed
zarla's JTHM fic Vargas, and the little fandom that's sprung up around it, for over twenty years. I have written fanfiction for this AU of a comic I've never read.Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.
I've always got assorted low-level background ships going on, but I'm not really in passionate shipping mode about anything at the moment. I've been replaying the Uncharted series, so I've been thinking about my deep fondness for Nate/Elena. Other than that, I suppose Barret/Tifa/Aerith/Cloud of Final Fantasy VII Remake is the most recent ship I've had strongly on my mind.
A ship you have never liked and probably never will.
The Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler of Doctor Who never worked for me; I found their dynamic a lot less compelling post-regeneration. Which is slightly tragic, because I love the Ninth Doctor/Rose Tyler, and the two pairings are often bundled together in discussion or gifsets! It's a real challenge when your OTP and your NOTP are technically the same pairing.
Do you prefer art, fic, or vids? Why? Bonus: If someone was to give you a fandom gift, what format would it be?
It depends on the fandom, come to think of it! I'm usually more of a fic person, but there are a few fandoms where I often find myself seeking out art. These tend to be for canons with a lot of interesting symbolism that fanartists can do cool things with, e.g. Death Note, Omori, Revolutionary Girl Utena.
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Oh, I just now got it!
Squicks are fascinating. Because this makes perfect sense for you to have as a subjective preference, and at the same time I'm giggling at the idea of someone going "You can only use knives on others if it's done imprecisely, for the purpose of violence!"
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It's definitely a weird set of preferences to have! 'Yay, people getting cut open! WAIT, NO, DON'T CUT THEM PRECISELY WITH SCALPELS IN ORDER TO HELP THEM, THIS IS AWFUL'
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Hee!
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There are periods when I don't think about it much, but I always find myself back there.
Yes! Why is FFVIII like this? Definitely same for me.
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For me, it's eye injuries that squick me. Yet I find myself with quite a few fandoms featuring some kind of eye incident, whether it's an injury seen on screen (House of the Dragon's Aemond), running gag about an eye injury never being explained (Dark's Torben), or what's under Lost's Mikhail's patch.
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Condolences on being plagued by Eye Incident canons! I'm not great with eye injuries either, to be honest.
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I don't typically pack up and intentionally leave a fandom; I just drift away when my interest shifts to something else. Terrible real-world associations - e.g. something awful coming out about the creator - might make me hesitate to pick something new up.
This is me, all the time. It'll be like seeing a mention out in the wild and realizing oh, it's been a while since I've thought of this fandom, huh.
Anyway, I've been enjoying reading your answers to these fandom meme questions and look forward to more (if there is more).
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It's always a strange realisation! And then the fandom will catch the light in a particular way and I'll somehow fall straight back into it.
There's definitely more of this rambling to come! I'm glad you've enjoyed it so far.
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This! I haven't encountered it in the Who fandom, but closeness/adjacency to an OTP has been the #1 thing that's turned a ship into a NOTP for me. Either in adaptations, where I love A/B but not that version of A/B, or otherwise when A/B/C or poly with B/C is popular enough that it's included untagged in A/B fanworks.
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Ohhhh nice! I love it haha
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i wonder how many people who read/enjoyed vargas actually read the comic first or at all lol, maybe i should do a poll
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"Why is a misspelling relevant here," I wonder. *looks at username* Looks fine to me. Always looked fine to me. Still looks fine to me. *looks again" OH
Hahaha. I would never have found you again, if this account of yours disappeared!! 😂
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Yeah, I love the Pokémon, but it's rare for me to give much thought to the human characters! I'm fond of Team Rocket, and I ship Ash/Gary a little, but I've never felt compelled to write fanfiction about them. All the Pokémon fics I've written have been crossovers, with the exception of the fic that's all about Me And My Friends And Family and definitely not about any of the canonical characters from Pokémon.
I'm looking forward to seeing your answers, if you do decide to tackle these questions!
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Thinking about it, the line in my head might be between 'fast, heated wounding' and 'slow, deliberate wounding'. A quick slash is okay; a slow cut is not. Stabbing is fine, but don't twist the knife in the wound. The wound can cause harm over a period of time - it can be painful, it can bleed - but the wounding itself should be quick.
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(Feels weird to say that while using an icon of Light Yagami, one of the most cold-blooded harmers there is! But, if he were to wound someone, I think it would be impulsive. He prefers to keep his killing detached and at a distance; he'd only physically attack someone if he really felt cornered into it.)
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I feel you with the NOTP and OTP being the same pairing! It does get a little complicated.
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For work, I once had to edit a book that contained a character named Leonard. It was a real challenge, because I accidentally started typing 'Leonhart' whenever I tried to write his name. (In fact, when I wrote 'Leonard' earlier in this paragraph, I first typed 'Leonh', had to delete the 'h', and then somehow ended up writing 'Leonart'.)
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I have only just now realised that your handle is "Riona" and not "Rinoa". *facepalm*
(I didn't envision myself as married to Squall; I just liked the name!)
Leonhart is an awesome name!
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