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…even though the content isn’t so much “carefully curated” as “posted by anyone who asked for an invite and signed up for an account.” But still!

(Friendly reminder that we’re now sending out 750 invites once a day, and there are 131 people in the queue as of this post. There are virtually no wait times anymore!)

April Showers are over, let National Masturbation Month begin! \o/ Or, you know, just browse some gifs, fanart, fanmixes, graphics, videos, and music, read some fic, write some fic, create stuff, drop some knowledge, go wild. Here’s some suggestions to start with:

Week 1.

Week 2.

Week 3.

Week 4.

Week 5.

[Description: Screencap of a scene from Suidoken II. Two characters are talking to each other in a night-dark landscape. Jowy is saying: “If we make it … … but … somehow get separated … Let’s return to this spot.”] icksmehl: Suikoden II Let’s have a moment of feel. (This concludes this year’s April Showers fun times! Watch this space for a round-up post. Many thanks to everyone who followed, reblogged, liked, added their works to the AO3, or edited articles on Fanlore. Most of all, thank you to fandom on Tumblr. You really do have a gif set for everything. ♥)

[Description: Screencap of a scene from Suidoken II. Two characters are talking to each other in a night-dark landscape. Jowy is saying: “If we make it … … but … somehow get separated … Let’s return to this spot.”]

icksmehl:

Suikoden II

Let’s have a moment of feel.

(This concludes this year’s April Showers fun times! Watch this space for a round-up post. Many thanks to everyone who followed, reblogged, liked, added their works to the AO3, or edited articles on Fanlore. Most of all, thank you to fandom on Tumblr. You really do have a gif set for everything. ♥)

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shimatsuken:

 Genso Suikoden II: Orrizonte - Plastic Castle in the Air

[Description: A gif set depicting a scene from the Suikoden V game. It looks like one of the characters dies.]

ravenrune:

Suikoden V bad ending.
I think you need to recruit 60 SoD or less to get this one…

[Description: A drawing of a young man in flamboyant 16th century finery, including an exceedingly puffy pair of (the Internet reliably informs me) pumpkin breeches. There’s purple everywhere and it’s awesome.] shiny-wartortle: When you’re feeling down Remember this was a recruitable character in Suikoden IV.

[Description: A drawing of a young man in flamboyant 16th century finery, including an exceedingly puffy pair of (the Internet reliably informs me) pumpkin breeches. There’s purple everywhere and it’s awesome.]

shiny-wartortle:

When you’re feeling down

Remember this was a recruitable character in Suikoden IV.

[Description: A screencap from a Suikoden game, including a dialogue caption. Lu is saying: “Squeeeeeeeee! Wowies, wowies! This, is like, the most kewlestest thing EVAR! I gotta go tell all my friends!”] vilkalizer: I think I figured out who’s been drinking my Distilled Essence of Tumblr.

[Description: A screencap from a Suikoden game, including a dialogue caption. Lu is saying: “Squeeeeeeeee! Wowies, wowies! This, is like, the most kewlestest thing EVAR! I gotta go tell all my friends!”]

vilkalizer:

I think I figured out who’s been drinking my Distilled Essence of Tumblr.

Reminiscene

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i-d-y-l-l-e:

I’ve played this game since I was 6 and this song always gives me chills…it’s beautiful and it makes me think about Riou and Jowy and how sad their story is. I wish they’d make more games like this.

firesprings:

“Recreate any Game/Film/Album cover using ONLY Clipart and Comic Sans”

I will admit I spent far too much time on this

[Description: Elaborate gif set depicting characters from the Suikoden games.]

Transcending time. Eternal life. The story never ends. Love never dies.

(In honor of our April Showers festivities, we’ll be spending this April highlighting one fandom each day through the awesome power of the reblog button. We invite you to add your fanworks for these fandoms to the Archive of Our Own, or contribute facts, figures, and links of interest to the related Fanlore pages!)

(Source: starsofdestiny)