News for Friday, April 2nd, 2011

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News
darkhavens: Anyone modding a community needs to read this.

LJ is at it again. They've introduced a new OPT-OUT 'Spam Protection' feature, which is actually a new privacy setting. It automagically screens comments containing links onto a special 'suspicious comment' page if the link is to a site that is not on their unpublicized whitelist*.

andresonion: Official website updated with the DLC pages for Vaan and Yuna (Dissidia 012)
FinalFantasy-XIII.net: Type-0 Official Site Opens
FinalFantasy-XIII.net: V Jump: New Type-0 Character Details
Final Fantasy Union: Final Fantasy Type-0: Chocobos and a Moogle


Activities
ffchaoticcosmos: Dissidia 1sentence party
wallwalker: Game Fic and Art Feedback-Fest
ff7_drabbles: Prompt #100: Crude
ff_exchange: Pinch Hitting for DOINK! Final Fantasy Exchange 2011

Fanwork Quest!
seramars: Looking for Rinoa fanworks for RInoa shrine! (FFVIII)


Fanfiction
Final Fantasy IV
rijsg: Riding On the Wind (Barbariccia/Rosa) (NC17) (400 words)

Compilation of Final Fantasy VII
kazura_uyurin: Anthem of the Angels (1) Sephiroth (Sephiroth/Cloud, Kadaj) (PG13) (1,372 words)
deadcellredux: Discolor (Reno/Rude) (FF7) (1,190 words)
jukeboxhound: Eir's Tomorrow - Interlude II (Sephiroth/Cloud) (R) (1,400 words)

Final Fantasy VII
hazelator: Edge of the World (8) (Rufus, Hojo) (PG13) (4,000 words)

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
notraffic: Skirting Darkness (Tseng/Rufus) (NC17) (2,901 words)

Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
albedo-soyna: Black and White (Tseng, Rufus) (PG) (2,023 words)

Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy
valentineninja: Distance Between (Cloud/Tifa) (PG13) (2,261 words)

Crossovers
ryu19: You Know You Wanna (FFVII/FFX) (Tifa/Lulu/?/?) (NC17) (497 words)
Scribbler: The Sky and the Dawn and the Sun Chapter (96) - Return of the Ninja (KH/FFVII/FFVIII/FFXII/Disney) (Aerith, Cloud, Zack) (PG13) (7,460 words)


Fanart
Final Fantasy (General)
viress: ACEO 02: my valentine... Mogry (Moogle) (SFW)

Final Fantasy II
paulcellx: The Emperor Mateus Palamecia (SFW)

Compilation of Final Fantasy VII
shiro-usagi-san: Sketch a Day 12:Life's Usurper (Sephiroth) (SFW)

Final Fantasy VII
toxicteardrops: Contest Entry: Friendship (Cloud, Tifa) (SFW)

Final Fantasy VIII
chibikinesis: Kramers for Helena (Cid/Edea) (SFW)

Final Fantasy IX
nekolchan: Melodies of Life (Garnet/Zidane) (SFW)
ididnttouchher: Day 22 Quina (SFW)

Final Fantasy X & Final Fantasy X-2
outerwall: hopeless desire (Tidus) (SFW)
punpunichu: Rikku trolls Auron (SFW)
b-agt: Rikku Final Fantasy X-2 (SFW)

Ivalice Alliance
Final Fantasy XII
yuujin: Basch fon Rosenburg (SFW)

Final Fantasy Tactics (The War of the Lions)
naomiful: St Ajora (SFW)


Icons
Compilation of Final Fantasy VII
rik45: 40 icons (FFVII, AC) + 10 banners (FFVII: AC)

Final Fantasy VIII
aeroja: 20 icons (Seifer/Zell)

Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy XIII
hilian: 265 icons (FFIII, FFIV:CC, FFV, FFVII: AC, CC, FFVIII, FFIX, FFX, FFXII, FFXIII, DIssidia 012) + 4 banners (FFIV:CC) (Kain, Edge, Ursula, Ceodore)

Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy
ocvalkyrie: 20 icons

Mixed
thbogzdd: 17 icons (FFX, FFX-2, FFXII)


Cosplay
vampirate777: Wallmarket Cloud (FFVII)
solatomato: Final Fantasy III: Protect (Ingus, Arc, Aria, Refia, Luneth)
eyes-0n-me: For the Reunion... (FFVII:AC) (Kadaj, Yazoo)
cjacks0809: Without You (FFX-2) (Yuna)


Miscellaneous
munchinglunch: Dear Kunsel (Podfic) (Comp FFVII) (Cloud, Kunsel) (PG) (1:00:38)
arlequinne: FF x KH Girls dressup (FFVII, FFX, FFXIII) (Tifa, Yuna, Lightning)
devfmorgana: Fang's voice actress in contest to read in Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" audiobook


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