ALERT! The esteemed owlmoose needs as many fandom folks as possible to participate in a brief Final Fantasy Fandom Poll.

If you could stop by, 'twould be helpful.
It has ticky boxes.

(X-posted from own LJ)

For the record.

Chapter 34: Yuna's Cloister
Lulu returns Auron to the land of the living, and the survivors of the fight with Shuyin pick up the pieces.

Chapter 35: The Council of Yevon
Al Bhed and Yevon, living and dead gather to discuss the fate of the world.

Okay. Sorry to keep spamming you all, but just for the record, here's a synoposis of the changes/updates I've done due to Geocities shutting down in October.

1. NEW URL: The Auron/Lulu Shrine is now at http:/auronlu.istad.org/aulu-shrine, moved from Geocities. The Geocities site will die Oct 26. If anyone finds a broken link caused by the move, please let me know.
   
2. ABOUT TO EXPIRE: The old AuLu--Fanart archive (change URL to "fanfic" for fanfic page) will die with Geocities. I've downloaded it, contacted the artists hoping for permiss to re-host the art, [ETA: and gotten in contact with the site owner, who's tickled someone likes the site and will probably give me permiss to mirror her part of it.] But just in case, this may be your last chance to view those fanworks.
   
3. NEW URL: The Complete FFX Script has moved to http:/auronlu.istad.org/ffx-script (the old URL has an auto-redirect)
   
4. NEW DOMAIN: http:/auronlu.istad.org is my new fandom hubsite, a directory of all my Final Fantasy fandom projects including the Shrine and FFX Script.
   
5. FANLORE ARTICLES WRITTEN FOR: Auron/Lulu Pairing, The Auron/Lulu Shrine, AuLu (Geocities Fansite), including a summary and screencaps of the site.
   

If you know of any fansites, fanzines, or personal fan pages on Geocities, see Fanlore on Dreamwidth for more info about the Geocities Rescue Project. OTW is offering hosting to authors who are about to lose their fic posted on Geocities.

owlmoose and renay have been puttering away on the Final Fantasy categories of Fanlore, a Wiki devoted to documenting fandoms: communities, trends, major fanworks and sites, a history of each fandom, pairings, projects, fan resources, BRIEF summaries of relevant canon, etc. Take a look...it's kind of intimidating, but if we all add a little something, it could grow!

While poking about on the Geocities issue, I've gotten around to creating the following page on Fanlore:

Final Fantasy X/Auron/Lulu

I've never created a Wiki page from scratch before, only done minor edits to existing ones. I hope it's not too loooong, and I hope I haven't bruised anyone's feelings by omission: I debated a while about whether to include names of prominent fanartists (Kitt!!!) and some of the early movers and shakers in the fandom.

If anyone wants to tweak/improve the page, it's a Wiki, so obviously... poke away!

And that means that the Auron/Lulu Shrine must move.

This also means that the wonderful, early Auron/Lulu fanart posted on an OLDER shrine by a fan who left fandom years ago may be lost. If you haven't seen those pieces -- especially Auron/Lulu with "Spira Card: Everywhere You Want to Be", go look at them now.

1. I'm still trying to decide where to re-build the Auron/Lulu shrine. Options are my RL webhosting account, or OTW. (I'm out of date again: if anyone has Auron/Lulu work that's not in my index, please tell me!)

ETA: I have moved The Auron/Lulu Shrine to: http://auronlu.istad.org/aulu-shrine

2. I'm soliciting advice for a thorny ethical question. I hate having some of the best Auron/Lulu fanart vanish from the web. Normally, I would never dream of reposting the stuff. But what if:
a) I copied all the artist info and files precisely from that original archive (which is not mine)
b) I had a separate page which is declared as a MIRROR of that page, explaining that I'm hosting it since Geocities destroyed it.
c) I include a link to contact me if any of the artists wishes their stuff to be taken down.

I'm terribly torn, as I do NOT want to host someone's fanwork without explicit permission. Bad. Bad. Bad. But I can't reach all the artists, and I hate to see their stuff vanish from fandom (two of Laine's, in particular, are just wicked funny). So I don't know what to do.

...and they're doozies. The first more than the second.

Chapter 32: Otherworld (1450 words) Final Showdown with Shuyin

Chapter 33: Via Purifico (2100 words) Aftermath.

(@ff_press : X-post; original post on my LJ here) 

Title: Love Her and Despair
Author: auronlu
Fandom: FFX/X-2
Rating: PG
Featured Characters/Pairings: Isaaru, Auron, Elma, Pacce, Nooj, Paine, Baralai, et alia
Summary: Thirteen years after Yuna falls defeating Sin, Auron joins Isaaru's pilgrimage, Lulu-Sin is blasting temples to take out the aeons, and now Shuyin's attacking Bevelle to get at Vegnagun.

Chapter 30: The Tower
     Isaaru and his companions brave the destruction of the Tower of Light to chase Shuyin into the Cloister of Trials.

Chapter 31: Nightmare in C Minor
     Shuyin continues to lead the FFX crew on a merry chase. Meanwhile, the Crimson Squad reaches Vegnagun's vault, hoping to keep it out of enemy hands. Baralai, suspicious of betrayal, is still not sure who's the enemy.

( Dangit. Chapter 31 mushroomed, and I couldn't get to my favorite cliffhanger moment in the whole saga. Don't worry, Auron, you'll get picked on soon... and Sin's almost here... )

Note to ff_press: Only 25 of these are new; you've gotten most of them posted on my own LJ earlier.

SO, Auron/Lulu people. I've been puttering away on an Auron/Lulu icon challenge for ages. I'm up to 70something for the challenge plus variants and alternates. Enjoy. Please credit if you find any worth using!

Fandom/Characters: Final Fantasy X- Auron and/or Lulu
# of icons in post: 71+ alternates  (25 New)
# of icons completed total: 71/100
Credits: textures/brushes

Teasers:

     

 

( Swordsman and Sorceress )

Whoops. Keep forgetting to cross-post here.

Chapter backlog. Posted to my own LJ:

Chapter 28: Juno, PG, 2500 words.

Chapter 29: Illusions That Exalt Us, PG, 2600 words.

Estimate another Auron/Lulu chapter in 3. Right now Auron's dealing with all the other chocobo chips hitting the fan.

"Our Story So Far: Thirteen years into High Summoner Yuna's Calm, a new Sin is suddenly the least of Spira's problems. Cid has been possessed by Shuyin and launched an attack on Bevelle. Summoner Isaaru, his guardians and Al Bhed allies have arrived in a second airship to stop him, but Bevelle's defenses have been turned against them as well."

Er. I posted this on kimahri_love.

Title: Wish Fulfillment
Fandom: Final Fantasy X
Pairing(!): Auron/Lulu/Kimahri
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 3600

FAKE CUT TO THE PRØN

And they're actually drabbles, for once.

Eons ago, I used to write a lot of Aulu drabbles for the pyre_flies community. The community's faded, but I get the urge now and then to finish the claim.

So. Both smutty, both 100 words.

Clinical (Prompt: "Dirty Hands")
Vortex (Prompt: (W)hole)

X-post; original posts and headers on my LJ:

40+ Auron/Lulu icons for 100variations; only 15 are new, though. ;)

Love Her and Despair: Auron/Lulu epic saga
Chapter 26: On the Brink, pause in the action for some good Auron/Lulu angst (also some Elma/Lucil)
Chapter 27: Incoming, back to the main plot. (currently dealing with Shuyin & Vegnagun, but Lulu's still out there)

Posted on my LJ (full headers there):

Love Her and Despair...
Chapter 25: "Family Matters" Word count: 3100
[...in which the Crimson Squad plot gets flung at the FFX plot, and everything becomes twice as complicated.
Also, Rikku calls the Cactuar Patch, and needles Auron.

So, well, I've been buried in dissertation, sinus infection, being BLIND in one EYE (life imitating art?!), and trying to make some amount of money online (ha), and let LJ lapse for several months. Wow, time flies.

I needed a break before I could get all my ducks in a row on this new phase of the saga. Posted on my own Journal (full headers there), with a handy 1-paragraph recap at the beginning so you can remember what the heck was going on, I give you:

Love Her and Despair
Chapter 23: Echoes of Woe (3100 words) -- in which our heroes encounter Nooj, and everything goes to hell in a handbasket.
Chapter 24: Anima Sola (2100 words) -- in which our heroes attempt to sift through the messy remains of the handbasket.

http://www.freepowerboards.com/auronlulu/

So..We've already aulu Lj,shrine..and now I applied for a forum for this pair.Not familiar with the forum thing,so I will put the admin Id and Password here and we can manage this forum together!! Id:auronandlulu  Password:123456

If anyone what to take in charge of it please just say ^^

ff_kissbattle How's about a little Aulu love just in time for v-day?

Finally got this one done. Let me know what you think of it.

Title: Hymns of Fayth
Chapter: Nine
Final Fantasy X
Characters: Lulu, Auron, Tidus, Yuna, Wakka, Kimahri
Rating: G
Word Count: 2221
Summary: Tidus rides a Chocobo for the first time and gets himself and Wakka into a bit of trouble.


Fake Cut To: Chocobo Trouble

So I've finally gotten around to posting the rest of the chapters to 'Hymns of Fayth' here on LJ. As promised, there are a few minor changes to some chapters. Only two though. If you don't want to go back and reread them you don't have to, the changes are not very important to the story. In chapter two I only added a bit of Lulu's and Auron's conversation about helping the Crusaders round up the escaped sinspwan. In chapter seven I altered the scene with the Warrior Monks and Lulu.

Chapter One: Meeting
Chapter Two: Where I've Been - Altered! -
Chapter Three: A Deal with the Devil
Chapter Four:Strange Yet Special
Chapter Five: Gohsts of the Past
Chapter Six: Ominous
Chapter Seven: Devil's Rising - Altered! -
Chapter Eight: Worthy Opponents?
Chapter Nine: Coming Soon!

Title: Love Her and Despair
Chapter: 22
Final Fantasy X
Characters: Auron, Isaaru, Maroda, Elma, Rikku
Rating: G
Word Count: 1700*
Summary: Facing the fallout from Yuna's sphere.

(Fake Cut to Chapter 22: The Falcon Cannot Hear)

Final Fantasy X Fanart?
Title: Auron & Lulu, Gagazet Edition
Characters: Auron and Lulu
Rating: Very G.
(Apparently some locals throw fits even when you add breasts to snow people, so we toned down Lulu's cup size)

Note: white outlines are due to my clumsy attempt to poke at the levels/curves in Photoshop to bring out more details/shadows in the white snow without turning the background to dark murk.

PREVIEW:


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I did all of Auron; Mom did most of Lulu and then I added a few details (eye, lips, belts). Note the "chopsticks."

The snow was dry powder, so getting it to stack or stick was nearly impossible.

UPDATE 12/27: I tweaked Mom's Lulu the next day and gave poor Auron his jug of nog.



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