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A woman in her thirties quits her job. That's it, that's the story.
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Quistis Trepe, 33, is underappreciated, underestimated and constantly undermined.A chance encounter (sort of) with an ex-delinquent-student-turned-revolutionary-turned-war-criminal-turned-insurance-professional convinces her that she's had enough of that shit.
So she does what every burnt-out professional dreams of doing.
She fights with her boss, rage-quits her job, starts therapy, reconnects with said delinquent and moves cities.
Maybe, just maybe, she'll even find out who she really is.Totally not a coming-of-age. She's 33 and will whip you if you call it one.
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- Part 2 of Growing up is for losers
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Set fifteen years post‑game, in a world where therapy works, rehabilitative justice exists, and the economy has evolved faster than Garden ever will.
Ironbridge Mutual Insurance (Dollet) sends “Mr. Hadley” to Balamb Garden for a routine insurance review. Unfortunately, “Mr. Hadley” is Seifer Almasy — finally functional (not redeemed), heavily therapized, and gainfully employed — but nothing about this visit is routine. Least of all running into one Quistis Trepe, who absolutely should not recognise him but absolutely does.
Featuring: corporate incompetence, Garden incompetence, post‑war paperwork, panic attacks, interns who think their traumatised ex‑child‑soldier boss is just going through a breakup, and one woman quietly having an existential crisis as she realises her institution hasn't served her in years.
Everything in this timeline is weird.
Implied Seiftis — the way La Croix tastes like juice.
Welcome to the niche corner.Series
- Part 1 of Growing up is for losers
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Seifer of the Opera (or, Seifer's Constructively Weaponised Theatricality) by enobywei
Fandoms: Final Fantasy VIII
23 Feb 2026
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Discont. for now as i've lost my whimsy :( AU High School Fic. Seifer Almasy, a blonde six foot two disaster faces threatened expulsion from Garden, an elite military academy for kids who really need scholarships/jobs in the military (see: orphans) and/or political connections (see: old money military brats), following a series of disciplinary issues and an unfortunate training accident with Squall Leonhart, the emotionally-constipated , model-student Captain of the Combat Arts Club. Seifer's not a bad kid, he's just a misguided, talented teenager with problems, a need to be The Chosen One (i.e. Main Character Syndrome) and major impulse control issues. He's crushed when he receives the threat, which puts even more distance between him and his romantic dream to be someone great. Overcome with emotion, he monologues to himself in the library - unaware that straight-A student/peer mentor Quistis Trepe overhears this. Garden's resident multi-hyphenate/resume-padder Selphie Tilmitt smells talent, when her straight-A prodigy friend Quistis Trepe recounts witnessing The Blonde Disaster's monologue, and Selphie's determined to cast Seifer as the Phantom in her whacky student production of the Phantom of the Opera. Chaos ensues。
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FF8 fandom's hottest series is Growing Up Is For Losers
This series has everything:
Actuaries (they work with Insurance, not birds), incompetent administrators, (in)human resources, cussing out your boss, fake glasses, and Uniqlo-but-called-something-else.
This series also has Not-Seifer-Almasy. It's like a Seifer Almasy but it's like he's aged 15 years, during which he's been incarcerated, provided psychiatric help, a college degree and a sane means of sustaining his (non-reofffending) future and very, very humbled.
This series also has Quistis Trepe. It's like a canon Quistis but with her stand-out traits (high-achieving, neuroticism, perfectionism and tendency towards burn out) plausibly extrapolated for 18 years, against the backdrop of Garden's institutional bullshit deteriorating (plausibly) over the same period of time.
Special guest stars include: General job dissatisfaction, Xu (I don't like her), Squall being (un)surprisingly emotionally literate, and Zell Dincht the short king.
In short, I made this up while very sleep-deprived and trying to quit my job and acquire a new one.- Words:
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Final Fantasy VIII: The Musical by angelosearch
Fandoms: Final Fantasy VIII, Beauty and the Beast (Disney Animated Movies), My Fair Lady (1964)
19 May 2024
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A retelling of Final Fantasy VIII through some of its most pivotal scenes, featuring songs based on pieces from well-known musicals. A story told in stage directions, lyrics, and dialogue with descriptions of realistic props, set-dressing, and effects, you are intended to feel like a member of the audience seeing a stage production of the game.
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13 Jun 2026
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In the frozen mountains of Trabia, something ancient begins to shed a tear. A broken man of heart and fire and a woman of steel and ice intertwine their souls. The crystal awakens.
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30 May 2026