#Chapters 1 to 2 of 12

[ask-de-writer]

I would like to thank Delightfully

EAGER BINGE READER

@furislupus​ for READING and LIKING

My whole MASTER STORY INDEX SECTION,

and read deeply into the MLP Fan Fiction

section

FORTRESS CANTERLOT!

BANANA PIE’S BANANA PIE!

De WRITER AND THE ORB OF THE AGES

From Darkness to Dawn

A DAY IN THE ANTIQUE TRADE

De Writer's Tale - a poem

DASHIE'S DAD - a poem

DID UNHINGED PONY JUST SAVE

EQUESTRIA?

Tam and Heather (Chapters 1 to 2 of 12)

and two written by @Wind-the-Mama-Cat

An Ancient Loop-hole

WHAT DREAMS MAY COME

[project-sekai-facts]

Tsukasa and Rui being in 3-C is a pun. C is pronounced as "shi" in Japanese, which is also how you pronounce the number 4. Oddball 1-2, in class 3-C.

1, 2, 3, 4.

[moeblob]

I unfortunately picked up Bravely Default 2 again (I bought it back when it released) and then started over since I last played it in June 2021. And. You know what. I like these silly beans. And then I saw concept art for Dag's expressions and I am not the same. Why did they decide to give him huge fangs in it.

(also I'm trying so hard to avoid spoilers less for plot but more for characters so if you know anything that happens to characters shhhhh. also the expression concept is below the read more so you can see what I mean.)

[jtl-fics]

Pretty boy please and thankyou

1-17-24 WIP Wednesday (Closed) | Pretty Boy

"I can't believe your brother is like this." Neil complains looking at Andrew with his too pretty eyes and pouty lips.

"Can always make him regret it." Andrew finds himself saying before he can think too hard on it.

Neil raises an eyebrow in question, "How can I make him regret me not going on a run tomorrow?" Neil asks.

"He wants you in bed." Andrew says.

"Yeah?" Neil asks.

"Our bedroom shares a wall with his." Andrew says.

1/31/24 WIP Wednesday Ask Options: HERE

[baeshijima]

it is now officially the 25th which means...

merry christmas everyone !!! regardless of whether u celebrate or not, i hope u all have a lovely day with whoever u spend it with or with urself <33

[anisaanisa]

Aren't you lucky, getting to touch something so nice! Now we're all square! I look forward to working with you, buddy! ☆

[aphel1on]

90k words into my xue yang fic and song lan and xiao xingchen have finally appeared🎉

[valentinedagger]

i have determined that bimonthly updates are a good pace for me to build up a backlog of chapter drafts, but a horrible pace for audiences remembering the serial exists.

at this point, just trying to get the entire thing drafted as quickly as possible so that i can switch to weekly updates (edits take significantly less time than drafting) and crossing my fingers hoping that there'll be a bit more interest in the beta discord in the next few months. obviously, weekly updates still aren't possible if i can't get any beta feedback at that pace, but... look, book 2 is slated to be about 40-45 chapters, and i do not think anyone wants it to be stretched out over 80+ weeks. holy fuck.

[i-can-even-burn-salad]

Today’s line:

She needed fire. She needed light. Night was falling, and the darkness would suffocate her. Like it always had. Tears ran down her face as her trembling hands refused to produce the spark she needed.

30 days 30 lines

[fadingwinnerpirate]

I think that Chapter 1 is poorly written.

Now, I don't say this because I'm like a Yuri simp or anything, though it does relate to her, I think Chapter 1 is poorly written because it fundamentally misunderstands the premise of Limbus Company. The premise of Limbus Company is, to me at least, 12 functionally immortal people with severe identity problems going on a road trip to collect a bunch of macguffins. Ideally, a story with this premise would focus on the main characters struggling with their issues and how their immortality can exacerbate those problems and separate them from the rest of humanity. Now, how does Chapter 1 misunderstand this premise? By treating the side characters the same way that you would in a normal story. By that, I mean that Chapter 1 uses side characters to issue threats to the main characters. This is not fundamentally a bad thing, and is in fact pretty essential for showing the development of the main characters in the premise I laid out earlier, but Chapter 1 doesn't use side characters to show the development of the main cast, it uses them to... show that the world is deadly? Which, while true and relevant to the story at large, is not relevant in the slightest to the main cast on account of the whole immortality thing. This makes the death of the side characters only as impactful as how much the player themselves feels specifically about that character, rather than how that death raises the possibility of the main cast getting hurt or killed. And even if you do care about the character that got killed, you're more likely to be frustrated with the death since it feels like your interest in that character is getting punished rather than it feeling like a natural progression of the story and that you're being forced to like the main characters. There's also something to be said about how Yuri is only really given a connection to Gregor after she's dead, but that's where I'll leave this for now.

TL;DR: If a consequence doesn't or can't apply to the main characters, then don't apply it to side characters, or else it'll feel like you're severely hurting or even taking away characters that people like for no reason.

[cobbssecondbelt]

I know we are all worried about the pacing of this season's plot, but let's not forget the past two seasons weren't much different.

The "real action" always started only towards the sixth episode (with Greef's holocall in s1 and Grogu's kidnapping in s2). Before that, we had a general idea of what the quest was, but the stakes weren't too high. Heck, the main antagonist of the show was only introduced in the seventh episode of season 1. The first half of a season usually takes its time with side quests and little hints and installements and then it really delivers in the last 3 episodes.

So yeah, season 3 feels like it's dragging a little bit and the plot sure is less clear than in the precedent seasons, but it's not exactly a huge change from what we've seen in the past.

[vermillioncrown]

Fuck you and your writing. What the hell. How tbe fuck did you make a tasteful brothel scene, how the hell did you manage to do all this shit. This chapter was fuckin heart wrenching. I wanted to see WWX get fucked up and then he did and it wasn't satisfying, but it was good writing and i liked it regardless. God. How the hell did you do this shit. What the fuck.

:^) thank you, i hit my target :^) :^)

=

because i really, really cared about getting the exact flavor of this chapter right, so much so that it took over a year.

the brothel scene is so important in what it means in the fic, which is more than showing that zyx fucked. or that zyx fucked a girl for real. or to do some questioning of sexuality.

(which i think i had to go through the five stages of grief when someone excitedly talked about it like having sex means someone is no longer aspec like... every day i am confronted by the fact we all coexist with vastly different perspectives on reality, and these realities are all true to some extent, sigh)

it's also not about being edgy and buying hookers, getting drunk, and all that.

so without using prostitution, nightlife, and sex as a prop and just being real with it, i hope that it doesn't come off goofy, edgy, or objectifying. the perils of trying to convey complicated feelings without therapy speak in-fic, and being really honest in someone's motivations and reactions (bc, unavoidably, it IS an SI).

the brothel scene and its whole fallout was so important, in fact, that i rewrote the entire order of the chapter. originally, the scenes were supposed to be in chronological order. logical, but it just felt like a boring recounting of events. sure, the events are fresh and we wanna see what zyx-mess happens next, but it's just a bunch of 'and then, and then, and then'. works for interlude chapters (ch8, ch15), but this really isn't one.

seguing, i learned a lot from how i wrote bil. dbd will never be as lean as bil, but it reminded me that when i drafted the fic, i focused on certain developments and ideas for a reason. also, since it's a chapter that doesn't involve too many canon characters, which let's be real that's usually the reason we stick around these kinds of fics, it needed to have purpose and be clear about what feeling it's trying to convey

even at the cost of simplicity in order of events

it would have been so difficult to keep the type of upset that zyx is feeling through a chapter that spans months, develops two interpersonal relationships, has a big oopsie, in chronological order without a too-angsty tone. too many periodic reminders would feel jarring and obtrusive, and exaggerate it. and that's also just not how zyx (i) deal with upsets, thank you adhd

and like, doing that for 10k+. (eternally i thank my readers for their patience and willingness to read so much bc people don't read fanfic for deep analysis and extra hw...) that's too much.

=

the second most important scene is the wwx duel, you got it. (i'd lump the lxc duel there, too bc those two are kinda related)

(sometimes i worry i made wwx too annoying. but then i talk myself back--it's always perspective. wwx isn't doing more than he already did in canon. we just have someone who can articulate how they feel about what he does, and he's not the main narrator of dbd.)

we get to a very clear demonstration of zyx as a character--it's more or less "i have no mouth and i must scream". here's your chance to be violent. you know you want it. do it. act out, make yourself heard.

zyx doesn't do it.

and you know what? i will be honest, truly honest here: i am sorry if you can instantly clock why zyx is the way they are, because for real 'recognition of the self in the other'.

lack of satisfaction--when you know what you wanted all along was for something to have never have happened at all, would punishment (displaced punishment) satisfy you? would it fix you? sometimes it helps, just for a moment. but i've answered this question enough times that i know i'd rather have never had to ask that question in the first place.

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tldr: it's because it's a chapter about emotional honesty, and i as the author was really fucking honest and tried my fucking best to convey that.

[bebebisous33]

Jinx: 🤬 Well Done, Joo Jaekyung ! 😉

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[jtl-fics]

anddddd all hallows days cause i know you want to finish it alright bye i'll leave you alone

WIP Wednesday - 12/20/23 (Closed) | FIC: All Hallows' Day

He hits the answer button.

"This is-"

"I know who it is Kevin, I called you." Nicky interrupts with a laugh and Kevin rolls his eyes.

"It's polite." he insists.

"You know what is also polite?" Nicky asks.

"Not putting solicitations as your contact name?" Kevin guesses with a frown.

"What? No! Kevin you still haven't figured out how to change that?" Nicky laughs.

"Shut up." Kevin hisses. "What are you calling me for?" he asks.

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[rustedleopard]

source on Flint?

The dirt.

Okay, joke answer aside, I'll put the source under the cut...

I'm going to assume that you're likely referring to the fun fact tidbit that I posted yesterday about Flint originally intended to be involved in the Jealous Bass boss fight.

The Cutting Room Floor has an archive of stuff that was cut from Mother 3 but still exists as data within the game. If you scroll down to Flint, you'll see that he has unused sprites for dodging the train, which is an event that happens in chapter 4.

And if you put Flint into your party as the second party member in debug mode then go to the train, he will dodge the train with that sprite animation. Compare that to Claus, who when programmed to be the second party member, does dodge the train like intended (and Boney, as the third party member, does not) but does not display the proper animation for this motion, we can see that while the behavior of jumping out of the way is programmed into the second party member, they only have the proper sprite for the scene if they're supposed to be there. This tells us that Flint was supposed to be involved in Chapter 4, at least up until the train, but was cut late into development. The only thing that stops Flint from jumping out of the way is the fact that he isn't there.

We also have a cut animation of what appears to be Flint clinging onto the airship, which is what Lucas and the rest of his party does at the end of chapter 5. Now, can I say with absolute certainty that this is what this animation is intended for? No, because I wasn't on the development team. But considering how closely that sprite of Flint resembles the rest of the party in that scene:

And how close Chapters 4 and 5 are to each other, as well as how the Spaceworld (1999) Earthbound 64 trailer* (apologies for the blurriness, but TCRF does have a clearer image of this scene on their website) does show Flint, along with Lucas, Claus, Duster, and Boney clinging to an airship, it's easy to deduce that's it's highly likely that Flint was intended to be in the party at least up until the party separation at the end of Chapter 5.

Also, so no one could say that that animation of Flint was actually supposed to be for Chapter 7 when Lucas and company were clinging onto the bird cage, here's a screenshot of that. You can see that if Flint was involved here, his animation would've had him hanging on from the wrong direction (apologies for the Lucas mooning).

[Also as a small aside: while not exactly evidence on its own but something worth pointing out, there is a notable difficulty spike in Chapter 4 when there's only Lucas and Boney in the party. The enemies at this point in the game the can wipe your party quite easily if you're not careful, and I always struggled against them even in the standard mode and I'm sure I'm not the only person who experienced this (while the game tells you not to mess with the Cattlesnakes, there's nothing to stop the Horsantulas and Ostrelephants from running right at you and initiating a battle). Having a heavy hitter in your party like Flint would've made the chimeras outside of Club Titiboo as well as the Jealous Bass easier. Again though, I'm not going to use my experiences as evidence because it could just be that I'm not good at the game.]

So, we have a timeframe that says that Flint was supposed to be in the party from around the beginning of Chapter 4 to at least the end of Chapter 5, which is well within the timeframe that the Jealous Bass boss fight occurs. Now, of course, just because there's evidence that Flint was supposed to be in the party for Chapters 4 and 5 doesn't mean that he would've been involved in the Jealous Bass boss fight with a 100% certainty. Flint could've been rendered incapable of participating in the attic dungeon (and, subsequently, that fight) for one reason or another. Maybe he gets locked in the bathroom while showering? Who knows? While it would've been an odd story direction, I wasn't the one making those sorts of decisions, so I can't say with absolute unshakable faith that he was going to be there. And for that, I apologize. I have changed the wording of that post a bit so it's a bit more ambiguous. There's nothing I can do for versions that have been reblogged unfortunately, but at least the base post reflects that. But there's at least enough evidence to prove that this is likely what was intended to happen.

* While I do not consider Earthbound 64 and Mother 3 the same games, it's undeniable that Earthbound 64 did lay the grounds for the direction that Mother 3 went in. If the only piece of evidence I had for Flint clinging to the airship was from that trailer alone, I would not have used it.

[calliemity]

my plan was to make like a big 3 hour video essay about my orin project but i dont even think thats possible it might have to be a series of like, 3 seperate videos. mostly just for pacing reasons so i can focus on one section at a time