#I like the look and asthetic 👍

[star-trekster]

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine for the Gameboy

(These are Fan-edits)

[villainintern]

Holy Hell, ngl this was already such an interesting read. Great start to a story. I especially liked how the characters(mc included) actually talked/s about the looks/origin of the mc, felt like they were more then just asthetics for the reader to imagine specifics, but an actually important part of the world and the mc.

I have a few points i wanted to ask about tho.

1: Will you add saves? While it was a blast reading it, needing to restart from the beginning just because one maybe missclicked, takes out the flow and kills the mood yk?(Of course thats just how i feel at least about it)

2: Would it be able to make the background white, cause it kinda hurts my eyes looking at the white text with black background, and it won't change on a white background even if you try to change the setttings.

3: Do you plan on making character intro posts(yk the whole nine yards of appearance, little details etc.) if not, could we get the physical descriptions of the ros?

Anyways that's all, good luck with writing and stay hydrated.

It's looking like people prefer the sepia in general, so the dark mode is optional now. The demo currently defaults to regular CS theme 👍. Saves are also something I'm definitely going to implement, I have them planned for the next demo update.

As for character posts, my goal is to spend most of my dev efforts on the writing/coding of the game itself, so you won't see quite as much activity on this blog as maybe you see from other IFs.

I am working on a character introductions post! But it probably won't have every little detail down to each freckle yk, I like to leave something to the imagination. But I'll do like general appearances, personality traits, stats, fun facts etc.

Thx for checking it out!!

(salute)

[kari-izumi]

I concur to a degree, but mostly I'm reblogging for the use of the word "squick" because that needs to come back into fashion yesterday 👍

I can't say Puzzleshipping is a squick of mine, but asthetically, it does nothing for me for the reasons you mentioned. I do like more recent Puzzle artworks I find on Tumblr when the artist darken Atem's skin a bit (after all, he *is* Egyptian and it is canon) so they don't look quite the same.

(as an aside, I fucking love our fandom where we can have this conversation without fear of it turning into a damn drama filled wankfest or accusations of being a ship basher. My other current fandom...let's just say August 10th is gonna be fun times and I'll be staying out of certain character tags)

Tbh, Puzzleshipping has always kinda squicked me out.

And no, this isn’t a newfangled “anti culture“ thing or whatever. it’s a gut feeling ive had since around 2006-2008, when i first found ygo and its fandom. it’s just then i lacked the ability to really understand what made me uneasy about it.

Yugi and Atem think they’re literally the same person for a good chunk of the manga, and think of each other as “the other yugi“ for 90% of the manga. Atem’s mental self image, as an amnesiac spirit, is based directly on Yugi’s body. even in his own body in Millennium World, his character design is basically just a racebend of Yugi-posessed-by-him. Without context, looking at a screenshot or panel, Yugi and “Yami no Yugi” look like they could be twins (manga), or at least a younger and older pair of brothers (NAS anime).

It’s not exactly selfest, I guess? but it’s pretty, uh, selfcest adjacent. especially the earlier in the canon you go, chronologically. But speaking of how fandom culture’s term for characters fucking themselves (or au versions of themselves) uses the -cest suffix, and the word that suffix is probably derived from…

Even though i know, rationally, that they’re not literally brothers, puzzleshipping sets off the same WARNING WARNING WARNING INCEST WARNING signals in my monkey brain that things like Osomatsu-san incest shipping fancontent and those fucking redhead twin boys from Ouran High School Host Club do.

Seeing two characters with the same character design, or almost the same character design (like one is practically a gender bend of the other, or one has slightly different hair/skin/eyes from the other, but they’re otherwise the same), romantically involved, just tends to makes me uncomfortable on a gut level.

this isn’t like, a big mean #callout for puzzleshippers or whatever, it’s just an explanation of why I’m personally not comfortable with the ship, and you won’t see it on this blog. My gut interpretation of Yugi + Atem leans far more familial.