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        "Other Stuff" is anything that isn't either a piece of regular fiction, an MSTing, or a link to someone else's page. Most of this is made by me, except for a few things that were too cool to pass up. By the way, the wallpapers aren't that low-res; only the preview pictures are.

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Final Fantasy VII wallpaper, "On that day... Five years ago..." 800*600   (148kB) My first attempt at a Final Fantasy-themed wallpaper. I have no idea why I decided to use Tifa as the focus for this one, but she works, so...           Actually, at first, I intended to use both her and Cloud, but after searching for way too long for a decent CG of Cloud, I asked myself what Cid would have done and, having found the answer to that, thought "¤&%#¤ that!" and went with Tifa alone.           That old photo from A Certain Scene was what sparked my interest in making this. I thought about it for a while, and came to the conclusion that some fire might be nice and symbolic (or something). I twisted and turned it a bit in a couple of editors, applied a "gritty" filter to it to make it look old, placed the coffee-cup stain (which I had to make for myself, and it shows, grr), folded the corner, and cut away a bit on the left side.           The greatest challenge was the fire effect. I tried PP's default "fire" background, but it didn't work at all. Then I experimented with a variety of brushes, until I found that "brushed oils" could give me an at least slightly fire-like appearance. I used it, and you can see the results (which, as usual, I'm not too pleased with...).           The large Tifa portrait is cut/pasted from a screenshot taken from the ending CGCs, captured by yours truly using PSMplay. The logo shows up everywhere; here, it's pasted in with transparency and a bit of the white background left intact so it doesn't disappear in this dark environment. The "title" - the text with "On that day..." - is made with a command called "flaming text", slightly brightened, and finally turned to about 15% transparency. Um. And that's all. ^_^' Enjoy.

Suikoden 2 Wallpaper, "Nanami - Through a Glass Darkly"
800*600   (265kB) I seem to be one of very few to actually like Nanami. I fell in love with this picture from the intro of Suikogaiden the moment I saw it (the picture, the picture! Not Nanami, the picture!), and decided to do something with it... probably didn't turn out as good as it deserves, but I think the end results are kinda pleasing... pleasing, but depressing. (It's such a sad pic... ;_;)           The process of making this was very simple. Pressing PrintScreen at the right moment while watching the SuikoGaiden intro is so easy that even G. Bush could do it. As for the editing, well, Picture Publisher comes with a prerecorded macro called "brush strokes", which I've never found much use for. This time, however, it looked good, so I used it. Then I typed up the lyrics in a nice font, pasted them in with a bit of transparency, and added the larger words with an "invert background" command, and, well, that's it.           Song lyrics are taken from In the Arms of Silence, © Bay Laurel 1994.

Suikoden Wallpaper, "I have no regrets" 800*600   (230kB) This is - duh! Surprise! - another wallpaper... something quite unique... namely a Suikoden wallpaper featuring everybody's favourite mage, Crowley! (Everybody's. I shall hunt down the nonbelievers later with my Spork of Smiting™.) Thanks goes out to Vivi-chan for letting me use her Rune pics. ^^           In case anyone is wondering, the "I have no... regrets" quote is his "death quote" - what he says if his unit gets defeated in a major battle. I think it suits him. ;P           I didn't spend a lot of time working on this. The reason for that is that almost everything is made from an original image - Crowley and the Runes are simply copy/pasted in. Crowley's portrait needed a little bit of smoothing, but otherwise it was fine; the Runes, I simply pasted in twice, once at normal size and once at about 2x size. The only thing that provided troublesome was the wedge-shaped thing under the quote, but with a little work, it wasn't that difficult. The text and the wedge are coloured with a gradient fill tool, one white-black and the other black-white, in that order. The faint quote on top is simply very, very transparent and written in something that PP calls "glass text".

Phantasy Star Wallpaper 800*600   (320kB) Well, what it says (duh). A wallpaper featuring Alis, Noah, Myau and Odin with the Algo solar system in the background, as it may have looked around the time Alis lived (that is, Palma is still in one piece). It has "simplicity and elegance", according to RPGamer's Theme Central. Hehehe. ^_^;           I got the star-sprangled background to this from *PSII SPOILER - highlight the text if you want to see it* Nei's death scene in PSII. I darkened it towards the edges with the good 'ol gradient fill (not too pleased with this... looks too "flat"), used a lighting tool to create the "star", and pasted in the planets from Sega's official artwork. Alis and friends are also from Sega's art; I simply turned them black and white and tinted them blue, then pasted them in with a bit of transparency. The barely-visible PS logo in the corner is just the same; pasted in with a good deal of transparency on it. Quite simple, in fact. Well, fairly simple, at any rate. :P

The Midi Massacre
This is a little project I've been working on for some time. The Midi Massacre is a bunch of remixed tracks, in midi format (that's where the name comes from, duh)... I had to put it on another page to save space. If you're interested, click on the link above to read more.

Neon Genesis Evangelion "chibi" active windows characters
This, too, I've had to put on a separate page... If you're interesting in having a small NGE character on your window (Windows window, not the glass kind...), you should have a look. I think they work with any version of Windows after 95, but I'm not entirely sure. No idea what happens if you run Linux, though...

"A Book of Five Rings", by Miyamoto Musashi

This is a must-read. I don't know if this is the complete book, as it was some time since I read it... but there's some interesting stuff in here.
          Oh yeah, and I don't know the person who translated this, nor do I have his/her permission to post it here. I don't have Miyamoto-san's permission either, obviously. So I may have to take it down if someone complains. That means, if you wanna dl it, do so now, before it's too late...

The Suikoden Fan Fiction Drinking Game (v.0.3)
Something I fixed up when I was bored... A drinking game for use with fan fiction based on Suikoden, either the first or the second game. When the third comes out, maybe I'll add that as well... ^_ ^

The Final Fantasy Fan Fiction Drinking Game (v.00.7)
A Drinking Game for use with Final Fantasy fanfics. It contains characters and situations from Final Fantasies "1" to 8, so you should be able to find SOMETHING to drink about...
          I'm in the process of adding some FFIX stuff to this. Happy-happy. That means update within the not-so-distant future. And no, you can't sue me for using that line.

About me
It's exactly what it says. Don't expect too much, but its' better (?) than nothing.

Final Fantasy VII Encounter Generator (v. 1.0)
Manual
Program
This is a very simple program that generates "random encounters" for characters in Final Fantasy VII. You feel like writing a fanfic but don't know who you want in it? Just use this program to generate the characters, and you're halfway there! ;P Or maybe you want a character to team up with someone else, but don't know who? Same thing there! The FFVIIEG - it doesn't slice, it doesn't dice, it definitely doesn't make french fries, but it does create random encounters! Get yours today! Oh yeah, and read the manual first, 'kay?