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Time for some Lunar: The Silver Star (Un-worked)! :3

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Gonna start playing the original Lunar: The Silver Star for Sega-CD (Un-worked mod) on my twitch this afternoon! Feel free to use my discord event link if you need a reminder when I go live!

Or just show up today, 4pm central US, at twitch.tv/pandorkful :3

If you've only played the remakes, I highly recommend you checkout the original Sega-CD games, either on your own or by watching other folks' playthroughs!

Doesn't have to be mine XD there are plenty of great commentated and non-commentated runs of the games out there! But you will get my own odd and eclectic insights into the game if you decide to tune in to my streams. :) <3

So, I hope you'll join me this afternoon! No pressure to chat if you don't want to, but I've got a chill and friendly group of regulars and we don't bite. XD

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Forget about torturing your blorbos, putting them through the ringer. I'm putting my blorbo in perfectly ordinary, pleasant situations. Their tortured personality will cause them anguish anyway, making an absolutely mundane scene into the most dramatic, agony filled affair as though the world is ending and it's all their fault

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...I'm really going about this whole zine thing completely ass-backwards in the most chaotic, ADHD manner possible, huh.

Which drives me nuts, especially with how slick and professionally handled fan zines have become over the past decade.

Meanwhile I'm basically sitting on the floor of my apartment, mentally reliving hotboxing rubber cement fumes in the basement of my gradschool media lab where I hand-assembled page layouts for the last collaborative project I was part of in 2010. (Oh, the braincells we must have lost that day.)

I don't really know how to zine in any way other than the grungy 90's photocopier & saddle-stitch method I was taught in comic school. Which tbh is still a choice aesthetic, but not one I think most folks go in expecting these days when you say the word "fanzine".

So, idk what my point is. I'm chaotic, I only kinda know what I'm doing, and I might be going completely ass-backward... but by Ghaleon's floss-thin thong, I'm gonna full-ass this shit, so bare with me. Yeah, something like that.

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Sorry for not including these deadlines with the original post, I definitely should have held off on posting that until I had concrete deadlines in mind, even though the ultimate message was "I gotta put this on the backburner for a bit." ^^;; I feel like my head's on backwards today or something, lol.

QUEER LUNAR ZINE SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 17th!

(If I'm gonna backburner this project but still be serious about a June release, I ought to give you folks a cutoff date even if I'm feeling like I don't have space in my head to plan more concretely at the moment!)

Page size is going to be 6x9 at 300dpi, so plan for some bleed area if you're wanting to do a full-page image. (But I can resize things as needed! Basically assume if you submit a landscape-orientated image, it's going to get resized.)

As for what to submit, if it's LGBTQIA+ Lunar character headcanon or fan/fandom experience, and its a Media that's able to be physically printed in a book, the it's a valid submission! (In other words, not an audio, video, or game/program file--though tbh wouldn't that be a fun digital zine to make??? OuO maybe next time...)

PANDOR'S KINDA LAST-MINUTE GHALEON APPRECIATION ZINE SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 15th!

(I'm super not expecting anything, though, due to the very short timeframe with this one. But I thought I'd mention it just in case you wanna shoot me a funny anecdote, goofy quote, quick ficlet, or image you've already finished. <3)

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Like, if someone wants to submit the old standard "Ghaleon did nothing wrong" as a cover quote/back blub, I'll take that and print it. I'll take almost anything you could say about Ghaleon.

"That sure is an elf." -me, probably

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Gah. Sorry if this is a bit of a disappointment, but I think I have to face facts that I can't get this Queer Lunar zine to the point I'm ready to start accepting contributors by April.

AFTER April is seeming more doable. I reckon more folks will have fresh opinions/hopefully inspiration after the Remastered collection releases mid-April, anyway. And with any luck we can make it a June release for Pride month...

(That said, if you already know you're gonna want to contribute to this zine, no reason not to start working on your submission now! Uh, let me double check the page size--okay, going to aim for US Trade size at 6"x9", so any images you want to submit should be within a 6x9 ratio. Basically portrait format is best, but don't worry too hard about it! And for the sake of everyone's sanity I'm gonna say aim for 300dpi at the very least. )

So what happened to suck all my attention away is I got a table reserved at a localish comic and zine fest that's happening the first Saturday of April! I used to go table at it every year, but the past few years it's gotten to the point that all the vendor spaces sold out before I could even apply.

This year they switched to a lottery application system and I got in! \o/

But due to, y'know, ADHD, I kinda haven't made any new comics or zines since the last time I tabled at it. ^^;;;;

Soooo my mission for the next month is to finish some WIPs so I can have new stock to sell there this year!! (Thus, some things have to move to the backburner. ^^;;;)

Right now I'm focusing on pulling my scraps together into a Ghaleon appreciation zine. :3c

(Which, let's be honest, is probably what I should have themed the Queer Lunar zine around in the first place when the need to make a Queer Lunar zine gripped me back in... was it September? I think? But, idk, I was worried about getting too niche within this already very niche fandom. And I wanted it to be as much about the fans as about the fandom, y'know?)

(I mean, all that said, if you've got something ready or almost ready to contribute to A Ghaleon-centric zine? Feel free to message me. :3c Art, ficlets, photos of your punching puppet living his best life... media that can be printed that I haven't even considered, or like even just a sentence or two on why Ghaleon's an appealing/interesting character or what he means to you... uh, silly blurbs for the back cover? Yeah. No pressure, I am 100% prepared for this to be a "Pandor drew a gay elf several hundred times, enjoy" kinda presentation. ^^;;;;; The goal is to just have SOMETHING new on my table.)

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Feeling zany so have a Lunar fic/comic idea/super rough draft I've been tossing around in my head for awhile:

Lemia Ausa drops in on Ghaleon at the temple of Althena with a very... specific issue. Her mother has recently recovered from a serious illness, but that brush with death kicked up a storm of "irrational" (in her opinion) thoughts within Lemia. Thoughts that so many women face when confronting the mortality of their elder loved ones.

(Oops this got long, rest is in the read-more! Uh idk if there's anything particularly agregious I should make a trigger-warning about? It's two goobers trying to brainstorm a baby into existence, without Lemia having to like actually get pregnant herself. It's also about a friend group trying to come to terms with how they're drifting apart, now that a million crisises are no longer hanging over their heads. Queerplatonic genderfuckery. Oh, and a priest of the Goddess Althena totally not having a messy crisis of faith.)

In short, Lemia wants to produce a baby before it's too late for the kid to meet their grandma. (And, though she admits to herself it's a terrible and cliché reason to want to reproduce, it would be nice to be able to reassure her mother--or rather, reassure all of Vane, that the Ausa line will continue.)

However, several issues face Lemia. She has no time nor interest in finding a romantic partner to contribute to this project. Her mother raised her alone, and she turned out just fine--Lemia is 100% committed to the idea of single parenthood.

There's also the teeny, tiny problem of.... well to put it bluntly, Lemia's not so crazy about penetration. For herself, mind. She's always been a dedicated top, no problem with penetrating so long as she's the penetrator. But anything in her? Ehhhh..... hard pass.

So she lays this problem out before Ghaleon, knowing if anyone's going to successfully brainstorm an Ausa into existence with her, it's gonna be him.

Ghaleon is absolutely honored that Lemia chose to bring this highly sensitive problem to him to chew on. Besides his lifelong friendship with the Ausa family, it's a welcome distraction from... stuff.

Dyne's been growing distant, spending more and more time with the Goddess, getting up to who knows what. Leaving Ghaleon alone, with nothing but his thoughts...

Anyway, fuck yeah Lemia!! Let's figure this out!!!

First off, to get the conventional solutions out of way, Ghaleon would be down to donate sperm--but even if Lemia weren't adverse to penetration, he's shooting blanks.

Maybe it's a curse from Althena, on those of the Vile Tribe she didn't banish 500 years ago... and maybe Ghaleon doesn't want to consider how the Goddess he serves has treated his people, for the sake of his own sanity. (Either way, infertility hasn't really been that big of a deal for him anyway.)

Besides Ghaleon, well Dyne's pretty much unreachable lately. What about Mel? Would it be weird to ask Mel? He did just become a father himself, so maybe it'd be kinda weird. And his wife did have complications carrying a very large half-beastfolk baby that she only just barely survived carrying to term... hmm. Besides that, Lemia would like to emphasize: No penetration if we can avoid it.

So friend donors and any other donor situation seems to be off the table. They're gonna have to get weird about this.

Well, what if... Ghaleon hesitates, mentally backing away from a thought, as if it was a red hot iron brand. No, maybe not. Forget it.

What. Spill it, Ghaleon.

Okay fine, what about Althena.

You mean... praying to the Goddess for a baby?

Thousands of mothers have done so before. Though, I'm not sure they were expecting or received a virgin birth for their efforts.

I'm not a virgin, Ghaleon.

You know what I mean, Lem.

Hm. Thinking about it with this level of granularity, Lemia's starting to question if she isn't a bit put off by the thought of getting pregnant at all... but wait, why had Ghaleon been so hesitant about that suggestion in the first place? He's a priest, turning to the Goddess for divine intervention should be like the number 1 option for him. But he's being kinda cagey about it...

Is something going on with Althena?

I wouldn't know. Ghaleon fails to hide the hurt and bitterness in his voice, and realizes it. But Lemia is one of his dearest friends in the world, someone he trusts completely. He can't keep his problems a secret from an Ausa, never could.

But, it wouldn't be right to dump his problems out on her, not when she came to him first with a conundrum of her own--

Ghaleon. Spill it.

Augh. Fine. Althena has been... distant, for some time now. Distracted. Troubled? I don't know, she... ignores my prayers.

That's... very concerning.

To be fair, I've been pleading with her for one thing and one thing only. I've... probably just irritated her, that's all.

Hmm. And how's Dyne taking her "distance?"

What do you think I've been praying for.

Oh.

Yeah.

I'm so sorry, Ghaleon.

It's... it'll be alright. He's just... he can be so single-minded. Though, I'm not much different, with my own focus... I just wish... I keep praying...

That she'd release him from his duty?

Mm-hm.

Lemia wraps her friend in a furious embrace, and Ghaleon curls into it desperately. She mentally tries to tamp down on the flames of her rising Ausa fury, while he tries hard to not think about how long it's been since he was last held by anyone, or how very very much alone he's been left.

It's many long minutes before they speak again, and when they do, Lemia continues to hold on to Ghaleon.

So... we were talking about your baby conundrum...

Oh forget it, it's silly 30-something hormonal bullshit.

No, I think it's more important to you than that, Lemia. Beyond just some warped sense of duty to Vane or to your mother. I know your extended family, it's not the end of the world if you don't produce an heir to inherit the position of Guildmistress. You've got heterosexual cousins in spades, Lem.

Pfft. You're making it sound as if they breed like chiros.

In. Spades.

Hmph. Fine. So besides not needing to worry about causing a succession crisis if I just dropped this entire line of thought, I'm starting to come to the conclusion that I might not be crazy about the whole... conception thing.

There's the rub. Baby only, no pregnancy, huh?

Oh, I don't know... no me pregnancy, that's for certain... ah, this is dumb, let's just forget it.

They lapse into silence again for awhile, until Ghaleon perks up with a sudden thought.

Lemia. I've figured it out.

What? No, I told you it's fine, we can drop this whole thought experiment.

No, no. Listen to me, Lem! I've got it!!

Alright alright, I'm all ears.

If the thought of getting pregnant and carrying a child to term makes you squeamish... perhaps you don't want to be a mother.

..............Ghaleon. I was literally just saying that.

Wait, wait. I wasn't finished.

Oh by all means, please continue this brilliant original thought you're expressing.

Thank you. As I was saying. You don't want to be a mother.

So it seems.

Lemia.

Yes, yes, I'm listening. Ghaleon.

Lemia, has it occurred to you that you might want to become a father?

......................

Lem?

.......................................ohh.

Lemia bites a knuckle, finally releasing Ghaleon from her arms, her warm golden eyes flashing wide and wild with a new, mysterious and sudden excitement.

Ghaleon can't help the sly smirk that's crept onto his face--a smirk that will one day become a familiar and well-worn quirk, but today it's still almost uncharacteristic on him.

You want to be a daddy, Lemia?

Lemia makes a strangled, high-pitched squeal in the back of her throat, then takes a few deep breaths through her nose to calm herself.

Ghaleon. Ghaleon.

Mm-hm?

I wanna be a daddy.

This time Ghaleon wraps his arms around Lemia's shoulders, pulling her into a warm hug.

You'll be a great dad, Lem.

Lemia buries her face into her friend's chest and belts out a guttural scream, Ghaleon just holds her close and laughs.

So ends BABYQUEST, PART 1

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What Unhinged Things will you make me draw today? Only one way to find out!

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idk if you can tell, but I like it when two characters are both stuck on their own personal problems, and keep trying to put that aside so they can work on the other's problem, only for them to continually butt heads over who's gonna fix the other's issue first. >:3c

fuckin love two stubborn idiots. >:3c

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Feeling zany so have a Lunar fic/comic idea/super rough draft I've been tossing around in my head for awhile:

Lemia Ausa drops in on Ghaleon at the temple of Althena with a very... specific issue. Her mother has recently recovered from a serious illness, but that brush with death kicked up a storm of "irrational" (in her opinion) thoughts within Lemia. Thoughts that so many women face when confronting the mortality of their elder loved ones.

(Oops this got long, rest is in the read-more! Uh idk if there's anything particularly agregious I should make a trigger-warning about? It's two goobers trying to brainstorm a baby into existence, without Lemia having to like actually get pregnant herself. It's also about a friend group trying to come to terms with how they're drifting apart, now that a million crisises are no longer hanging over their heads. Queerplatonic genderfuckery. Oh, and a priest of the Goddess Althena totally not having a messy crisis of faith.)

In short, Lemia wants to produce a baby before it's too late for the kid to meet their grandma. (And, though she admits to herself it's a terrible and cliché reason to want to reproduce, it would be nice to be able to reassure her mother--or rather, reassure all of Vane, that the Ausa line will continue.)

However, several issues face Lemia. She has no time nor interest in finding a romantic partner to contribute to this project. Her mother raised her alone, and she turned out just fine--Lemia is 100% committed to the idea of single parenthood.

There's also the teeny, tiny problem of.... well to put it bluntly, Lemia's not so crazy about penetration. For herself, mind. She's always been a dedicated top, no problem with penetrating so long as she's the penetrator. But anything in her? Ehhhh..... hard pass.

So she lays this problem out before Ghaleon, knowing if anyone's going to successfully brainstorm an Ausa into existence with her, it's gonna be him.

Ghaleon is absolutely honored that Lemia chose to bring this highly sensitive problem to him to chew on. Besides his lifelong friendship with the Ausa family, it's a welcome distraction from... stuff.

Dyne's been growing distant, spending more and more time with the Goddess, getting up to who knows what. Leaving Ghaleon alone, with nothing but his thoughts...

Anyway, fuck yeah Lemia!! Let's figure this out!!!

First off, to get the conventional solutions out of way, Ghaleon would be down to donate sperm--but even if Lemia weren't adverse to penetration, he's shooting blanks.

Maybe it's a curse from Althena, on those of the Vile Tribe she didn't banish 500 years ago... and maybe Ghaleon doesn't want to consider how the Goddess he serves has treated his people, for the sake of his own sanity. (Either way, infertility hasn't really been that big of a deal for him anyway.)

Besides Ghaleon, well Dyne's pretty much unreachable lately. What about Mel? Would it be weird to ask Mel? He did just become a father himself, so maybe it'd be kinda weird. And his wife did have complications carrying a very large half-beastfolk baby that she only just barely survived carrying to term... hmm. Besides that, Lemia would like to emphasize: No penetration if we can avoid it.

So friend donors and any other donor situation seems to be off the table. They're gonna have to get weird about this.

Well, what if... Ghaleon hesitates, mentally backing away from a thought, as if it was a red hot iron brand. No, maybe not. Forget it.

What. Spill it, Ghaleon.

Okay fine, what about Althena.

You mean... praying to the Goddess for a baby?

Thousands of mothers have done so before. Though, I'm not sure they were expecting or received a virgin birth for their efforts.

I'm not a virgin, Ghaleon.

You know what I mean, Lem.

Hm. Thinking about it with this level of granularity, Lemia's starting to question if she isn't a bit put off by the thought of getting pregnant at all... but wait, why had Ghaleon been so hesitant about that suggestion in the first place? He's a priest, turning to the Goddess for divine intervention should be like the number 1 option for him. But he's being kinda cagey about it...

Is something going on with Althena?

I wouldn't know. Ghaleon fails to hide the hurt and bitterness in his voice, and realizes it. But Lemia is one of his dearest friends in the world, someone he trusts completely. He can't keep his problems a secret from an Ausa, never could.

But, it wouldn't be right to dump his problems out on her, not when she came to him first with a conundrum of her own--

Ghaleon. Spill it.

Augh. Fine. Althena has been... distant, for some time now. Distracted. Troubled? I don't know, she... ignores my prayers.

That's... very concerning.

To be fair, I've been pleading with her for one thing and one thing only. I've... probably just irritated her, that's all.

Hmm. And how's Dyne taking her "distance?"

What do you think I've been praying for.

Oh.

Yeah.

I'm so sorry, Ghaleon.

It's... it'll be alright. He's just... he can be so single-minded. Though, I'm not much different, with my own focus... I just wish... I keep praying...

That she'd release him from his duty?

Mm-hm.

Lemia wraps her friend in a furious embrace, and Ghaleon curls into it desperately. She mentally tries to tamp down on the flames of her rising Ausa fury, while he tries hard to not think about how long it's been since he was last held by anyone, or how very very much alone he's been left.

It's many long minutes before they speak again, and when they do, Lemia continues to hold on to Ghaleon.

So... we were talking about your baby conundrum...

Oh forget it, it's silly 30-something hormonal bullshit.

No, I think it's more important to you than that, Lemia. Beyond just some warped sense of duty to Vane or to your mother. I know your extended family, it's not the end of the world if you don't produce an heir to inherit the position of Guildmistress. You've got heterosexual cousins in spades, Lem.

Pfft. You're making it sound as if they breed like chiros.

In. Spades.

Hmph. Fine. So besides not needing to worry about causing a succession crisis if I just dropped this entire line of thought, I'm starting to come to the conclusion that I might not be crazy about the whole... conception thing.

There's the rub. Baby only, no pregnancy, huh?

Oh, I don't know... no me pregnancy, that's for certain... ah, this is dumb, let's just forget it.

They lapse into silence again for awhile, until Ghaleon perks up with a sudden thought.

Lemia. I've figured it out.

What? No, I told you it's fine, we can drop this whole thought experiment.

No, no. Listen to me, Lem! I've got it!!

Alright alright, I'm all ears.

If the thought of getting pregnant and carrying a child to term makes you squeamish... perhaps you don't want to be a mother.

..............Ghaleon. I was literally just saying that.

Wait, wait. I wasn't finished.

Oh by all means, please continue this brilliant original thought you're expressing.

Thank you. As I was saying. You don't want to be a mother.

So it seems.

Lemia.

Yes, yes, I'm listening. Ghaleon.

Lemia, has it occurred to you that you might want to become a father?

......................

Lem?

.......................................ohh.

Lemia bites a knuckle, finally releasing Ghaleon from her arms, her warm golden eyes flashing wide and wild with a new, mysterious and sudden excitement.

Ghaleon can't help the sly smirk that's crept onto his face--a smirk that will one day become a familiar and well-worn quirk, but today it's still almost uncharacteristic on him.

You want to be a daddy, Lemia?

Lemia makes a strangled, high-pitched squeal in the back of her throat, then takes a few deep breaths through her nose to calm herself.

Ghaleon. Ghaleon.

Mm-hm?

I wanna be a daddy.

This time Ghaleon wraps his arms around Lemia's shoulders, pulling her into a warm hug.

You'll be a great dad, Lem.

Lemia buries her face into her friend's chest and belts out a guttural scream, Ghaleon just holds her close and laughs.

So ends BABYQUEST, PART 1

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Ngl I get so anxious about sharing my headcanons and infodumping Lunar lore and pointing out the teeny tiny things I've noticed in the series that no one else seems to have noticed ^^;;;;

So like from the bottom of my heart, thanks for indulging me rambling non-stop about Ghaleon and his polycule the Four Heroes for almost 5 hours on Friday. ////^^////

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Lunar Legend

GBA - 2002 - Japan Art Media

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he's a monstrous heartless villain to YOU. he's a pinup girl to me

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Happy Ghalentines Day! We're readin' some Lunar manga!

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For those who're interested: We're gonna read some Lunar manga together on stream tomorrow, Feb 14th at 4pm (central US)! So heads up if you've put off reading them or just want to hear me read the dialog in a variety of silly voices!

Will start with Vane: The Story of the Inheritance and see where we end up from there. :3 Catch it at twitch.tv/pandorkful <3

If you're not interested in a manga read-along, then, umm... Ah, have some drawings people made me draw of their OWN FREE WILL, from past Sunday Art streams you might have missed!