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i just want to put them in a banjo-kazooie situation

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Do....

Do you have an idea on which book Ben will get his nickname...

Or is it still confidential....

This sounds so dumb, I regret asking you this

Yes

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will the s1 novels be illustrated like prison of plastic?

Yup

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what are each of the now trio’s favorite kinds of art to make? Like crafting, knitting, drawing, sculpting, etc!

Phoenica and Trixie love all kinds of crafts. Feenie is very into all things fabric and I picture Trixie being really into gift-based crafts like friendship bracelets. Trixie also strikes me as someone who would really love perler beads and bead keychains. Very bead-coded girl.

Molly doesn't like handicrafts. She has to do them to make small repairs around her home a lot, so to her they register as a chore.

I imagine she used to like playing dress-up with Lorelai because Lori could make her a bunch of cool costumes to play in, but they definitely don't do that together anymore.

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So far, most the primary named characters in Epithet Erased were also in Anime Campaign, but you also added a few new ones like Stink and his friend, alongside Giovannis Banzai Blasters.

Are there any upcoming New Characters that you're excited to write?

Most "new characters" are just unnamed extras in a script put there to facilitate a joke until their voice actor comes in and gives them enough personality that they morph into a person.

I don't have any other characters planned. They just spring up like mushrooms.

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How often do big picture things like overarching themes or ‘this is my thesis statement on [topic]’ factor into your creation process? Do they tend to be an impetus for creation more often than something that is solidified at the end?

I don't usually find the theme of what I'm working on until near the end of the first draft.

The Epithet book I'm currently novelizing took until about 70% of the way through the first draft for me to go "Ohh, I think this book is specifically about X and Y. That's cool."

Once I've got that figured out, I go back and do two more drafts to change things so the theme is present a little earlier and the whole story feels cohesive.

So, in summary, first I come up with a simple concept I want to write about:

EX: Prison of Plastic is about an older sister who throws her younger sister into a dream world she made with her superpowers. The younger sister has to save her friends and escape. They fight.

Then after I've gotten most of the way through the story, I go "Okay. What themes accidentally oozed out of this?"

EX: Prison of Plastic is a story about people failed by the systems of power meant to help them. It's about how sometimes kind people wish to help others, but if they refuse to break "rules" it can render their good intentions worthless. Sometimes a person must break rules to actually make a difference. It is also a story about learning to accept help from others, because if you do everything else, you will burn away.

The current book I'm writing appears to be about "the difference between healthy and unhealthy coping mechanisms". So that's exciting!

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colors

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Have read any of the absolute dc books wonder women and manhunter rule

I have never gotten into any kind of western comics. The idea of getting super into a series done by a specific writer only to have it all retconned later by a later, worse writer sounds infuriating to me.

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should i do anything about the shadows moving in my room at night? how datable are they?

You might have sleep paralysis, fella

Touch them and they dissipate. <- (has experienced the horrors)

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Favorite homstarrunner toon/email?

In terms of jokes-per-minute this one is probably the funniest.

Also a huge fan of Radio and Secret Recipes.

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Hey Jello! What's a show you've been wanting to watch but haven't gotten to yet? I finally started Gundam from the beginning and it has a hold on me. I may never see the light of day again!

Keen's voice was muffled from inside the cockpit. Those were his last words before his mech was jettisoned off into space.

Amy and I tried Millionaire Detective out the other night. We were not interested! Lmao.

We hopped back on Frieren afterwards so I think we're watching that now. I have a bad habit of not writing down shows I want to watch. Right now there's more games I think I want to play.

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piggybacking off of the person who asked about ramon's eyes-- is mera's eyes being chipped/mirror-like just a visual stylization thing, or does it impact her vision negatively?

I'm not sure about this.

The original draft of the script actually has 3-5 moments where her eyes were supposed to flash like cataracts, but those didn't make it into the final animation.

I think her body betrays her in a lot of ways, but I don't think I'd call cataracts a result of "fragility", so I don't know if those are canon now.

The chip in her eye is just her powers manifesting on her body. It's an aesthetic thing, like Zora's eye tattoos.

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if this doesnt spoil anything for the future, how long has bliss ocean been around/how long have the officers been there?

Bliss Ocean is six years old.

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What criteria/sorts of games are you looking for when asking for Fully Voiced suggestions? In general I know you want games that have a lot of dialogue and don't have a full English dub already, but are there any other aspects that you use to decide if a game would be a good fit or not?

Game doesn't suck (Danganronpa bypassed this clause for charity reasons)

Dialogue is actually good and fun to read, like in Of the Devil or Night in the Woods. Reading for Naegi in DR almost killed me. It was so boring.

No pre-existing VA work. If it's already voiced, we do not need to voice it.

Game is actually playable and can be emulated or purchased for streaming in a relatively easy way.

Game is not insanely short. Outside of special instances like Serre, I do not want to be doing one-sitting sessions.

Game is not insanely long. We are not doing a 700-part read-through of Umineko.

Can't be a game any of the pro VAs in our circle like Arim or Vixen actually worked on. This can get them in trouble.

Most dialogue must be spoken by recurring major cast members. I do not want to play a Pokemon game where every time we interact with an NPC there's a five second pause of "Uh... who wants this guy?" Every actor should be voicing at least once person every few minutes.

Dialogue must be frequent and appear at regular intervals. If a game has hours-long stretches of gameplay between major chunks of dialogue, we will not do it. That's way too much sitting around for the cast. You might notice I purposefully brush past unvoiced side content in order to get to more dialogue faster, like how I tend to skip puzzles in the Professor Layton games that I think might take me a long time even though if I were playing the game on my own I would do all of them. The Fire Emblem games we played were already pushing it but those are special exceptions because I knew the games very well.

Game is not a game someone else in my friendgroup has streamed before. Several of my friends run their own Twitch channels. Chula and Savvy both read games on-stream with their friends. I have a much larger following and I think it's rude of me to play a game they've already played or they're thinking of playing because that's taking away their potential audience who might watch them cover something instead.

Past that, I look for a mix of other elements.

Casting is one. I wanted to do Night in the Woods with Yam-Oz-Dani specifically because I thought they'd make an incredible Bea-Mae-Gregg. Will was a bonus. Ghost Trick is a great game that I thought Dani and Arim would absolutely rock as Lynne and Sissel.

I think it's good to have at least one player familiar with the game so we can cast things in advance. Chula, Vixen, and Arim cast Danganronpa because they'd already played it. It's important to spread the cast evenly. You don't want anyone talking to themselves for long stretches (i.e. if Vixen played both Makoto and Kyoko that'd be awful) and you don't want anyone gone for hours (me in the Of the Devil streams.)

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Hello Mr Jello! I know there are alot of LGBT characters in Epithet Erased, but are any neurodivergent?

Probably!

I like to be explicit with gender identity and sexuality, but for neurodivergency my policy is just to keep it vague. If someone interprets Molly or Phoenica or whoever autistic because the way they act speaks to you, that's no skin of my nose.

I have not purposefully gone out of my way to write any specific character in any specific way. My characters mostly write themselves. The only conscious choice I made when making them was to give Molly misophonia, which is something I have myself. It felt relevant to her power set.

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That art of Mera's dad said "porcelain eyes." Is that Epithet related or just a neat bit of character design? (Not that it can't be both but you know)

His epithet is "kaolin" which is a type of clay used to make porcelain.

I think it just means his eyes are colored like a white-and-blue piece of whiteware though.