#I think I'm back in the swing of things
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earlier this year I started writing a comic about the siege perilous-grail quest situation after finally finishing the didot perceval, and it started circling around kay and perceval. kay as gatekeeper, taboo anxiety vs chivalry, and perceval not doing things "correctly," arthur's enduring affection for kay. that general area. also the horror of the grail quest itself.
this is comic is part of that narrative arc, so with THAT in mind: this is an abridged scene of a longer arc revolving around kay associating camelot with a cage, perceval's associations with jewelry and knighthood and the color red, and arthur's relationship with kay.
[some other scene context: perceval has injured his hand and can't participate in the tournaments, so he's craving some kind of fight. kay is disinterested in replying to this challenge, but he's not above reminding perceval of their first meeting. it's just mean enough in a weird-intimate kind of way that perceval's like, ok so we're doing the antagonistic version of court romance rituals. he picks up hunting because kay can't leave the castle.]
on the subtext of jewelry:
Clothes Make the Man: Parzival Dressed and Undressed, M.D. Amey
on the topic of kay, gatekeeping, and taboo anxiety:
Cei and the Arthurian Legend, Linda Gowans
the whole Red Knight/Perceval Shows Up In A Dead Man's Suit Of Armor transgression-situation (which kay references through red jewelry) mentioned is told in both de Troye's and Wolfram's Perceval narratives :)
anyway! to close out all this out: the transgressions. incredible! what is camelot but a bunch of transgressions stacked on top of each other tbh.
#i wanted to do some kind of siege perilous-grail quest horror comic after watching bresson's lancelot and i think#after several years. i figured out what kind of story i want it to be#like it no longer feels abstract i can see the story core and now i have to hack away at the clay to see if i can make a figure out of it#HEUGH. okay. i'm gonna wrap this up here. ive been Very Under The Weather lately in some kind of way#trying to get back in the swing of things. but augh. eugh. they need to invent a kind of body that doesnt fall to pieces#the minute it gets slightly less sun than usual like vitamin supplements only go so far. awful flesh prison experience#komiks tag#long post#knights knights knights!
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He tells himself that he was in no way infatuated with you what so ever. Not a bit. Has to constantly convince himself within his messy mindset that he was or is, no way obligated to willingly shun his looming presence with yours. None.
But how is it that he now finds himself nestled ever so comfortably in the softness of your cushioned couch. One arm toppled behind his head as the other pets gently, lazily along the prickling fur of your adorable pup resting on him. Eyes closed softly, as his mind now warps solely on you, from your beautiful beaming smile to the supple adorable giggles that swarm his cold heart. It astonishes him of how more frequent you come to his blundering mind, easing him from the overbearing stress that weighs down on him from the insisting impairment of protecting the multiverse.
And you, lurking just at the start of your hallway, lean against the solid wall beside you, cross your arms and smile giddily at the adorable sight bestowing before you. You'd carefully walk over to the two napping babies, bringing a cozy, thick throw over the snoozing companions embracing each others company.
You'd simply, delicately brush some of his gorgeous, thick loose strands of mahogany from his peaceful, stunning face. Thoroughly admiring every intricate, atoning detail that strung along the perfect structure of his restful face.
Absentmindedly, without any realization and lost into the sheer beauty his relaxed face had to offer — you could feel the supple tender of his warm, plush lips graze just ever so softly against the pad of you index finger. A low, inaudible gasp shimmies down the juncture of your throat, blinking rapidly, your eyes gaze down to the placement of your wandering fingertips. A feeble, radiating heat slowly absorbing into your plush cheeks. A low, rumbled chuckle bounces against the flush of your inquisitive digit, igniting a fervent pace of your puttering heart.
Your lashes flutter rapidly, dilated irises now met with a beautiful set of glossed carmine. A playful glint of soft coy and amusement clearly shining through those gorgeous, ruby globes. A gentle touch of his large hand wraps ever so carefully around your slim wrist, pushing his lips more intimately against the warm flesh of your tensed finger. His eyes never wavering from your stunned, embarrassed expression.
How cute.
His own long, thick fingers playing along the silky skin of your trembling wrist. Emits another amused chuckle, pressing another light kiss to your finger.
"You know it's rude to interrupt a mans sleep, cariño"
#idek what this is but I couldn't stop thinking about it#slowly trying to ease back into the swing of things!#also I'm sorry for this not making much sense kinda...wrote this half asleep lmaooo#miguel o'hara x reader#miguel o'hara#atsv
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normally I don't bother questioning when a high fantasy is all "ooh the prophesied one will break the world or save it" bc that's what high fantasy is for. don't worry about it, focus on the journey, we'll get to the prophecy when we get to it. but this show has got me wondering what that even means.
the innkeeper who served the Dark said that the Dragon could break the Wheel so that there would be no more suffering, no war or famine or poverty. and the Wheel, we have been told many times, is the Wheel of reincarnation and of fate. It's the metaphor for how all of history has a cyclical bent to it, and it's a real religious belief that souls return to the world many times to live many lives.
how do you break that Wheel such that there is no more suffering? you can't bring about a perfect utopia by breaking such a Wheel. the two concepts just aren't connected at all. the only way I can see is to just......end everything. to live is to suffer, right? there's no suffering if everyone is dead.
kind of a defeatist cause to pledge yourself to, really.
#wheel of time#finx watches tv#there's also the thing where everyone says the last dragon broke the world#........are the dragon and the dark one the same person? bc they've just said the dark one poisoned the one power so men can't touch it#that counts as breaking the world I think. he stuck a wrench in the fundamental underpinnings of reality#but I have also seen spoilers about that imply this was once a more high-tech world similar to ours#and then presumably the dragon removed electricity or something#.....how WOULD you go about removing modern technology from the world?#in so permanent a way that centuries(?) later it's still gone?#technology is just applied knowledge#you can turn every wire in the world to ash and burn every library#but still there will be people who remember that electricity can be channeled#and they will eventually rebuild those technologies#I have read a series where Magic and Tech were inherently inimical forces#and the pendulum of the world swung between them over the centuries#man could push too far in one direction or another such that the opposing force all but disappeared from the world#and then it would crash back with a vengeance and start literally corroding all things made by its enemy power#so when the Magic swings back in it eats away at skyscrapers#and when the Tech swings back it erodes the palaces of mage-kings#however. I don't think that's what's happening here.#because if the last dragon was born into a world with tech#then a world with tech is a world that can birth a wizard who can sunder the world#anyway. I'm sure they'll tell us evenutally#I'm just wondering at it is all
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fortnite duos can really give you whiplash
#live laugh love potassius peels <3#fortnite#potassius peels#peely#korra#legend of korra#i think we're gonna have to kill this guy#ik the meme's a little outdated but this was a request#and also it's still funny#also wow it's been ages huh#fanart#digital fanart#meme#i guess#idk how to tag joke art#ignore every hand in this drawing#i have legit not actually drawn since that alan wake stuff i did months ago#i'm serious i haven't touched the program#i need to get back into the swing of things cuz my ability to draw HAS atrophied#i've never watched legend of korra and drew her almost entirely from memory i'm sorry ;;
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books read in 2025 🤍
books read so far: 68 reading goal: 100
as always, askbox + dms are open if have any questions or would like to chat about books! you can find me on goodreads here, and on bookstagram here. 🤍
♡ indicates any new favorites; ⊹ indicates a reread.
january ⋆ ˚。⋆౨ৎ˚
1. writers & lovers by lily king 2. the art of memory collecting: 15 scrapbook, collage, trinket and zine projects for crafting treasured moments by martina calvi 3. tom lake by ann patchett (audiobook) ♡ 4. our town by thornton wilder ⊹ 5. beloved by toni morrisson 6. promise me sunshine by cara bastone (arc) ♡ 7. days at the morisaki bookshop by satoshi yagisawa & translated by eric ozawa ♡ 8. small things like these by claire keegan (audiobook) 9. beartown by fredrik backman ♡
february ⋆ ˚。⋆౨ৎ˚
1. the fellowship of the ring by j.r.r. tolkien (audiobook) 2. i'll pretend you're mine by tashie bhuiyan (arc) 3. sense and sensibility by jane austen ⊹ (audiobook) 4. the lonely city: adventures in the art of being alone by olivia laing (audiobook) 5. everything i learned, i learned in a chinese restaurant by curtis chin (audiobook) 6. tiny moons: a year of eating in shanghai by nina mingya powles 7. sorcery of thorns by margaret rogerson (audiobook) ♡ 8. more days at the morisaki bookshop by satoshi yagisawa ♡ 9. mysteries of thorn manor by margaret rogerson
march ⋆ ˚。⋆౨ৎ˚
1. an enchantment of ravens by margaret rogerson (audiobook) 2. white ice: race and the making of atlanta hockey by thomas aiello 3. lost and lassoed by lyla sage 4. holy terrors by margaret owen (arc) 5. swift and saddled by lyla sage 6. circe by madeline miller (audiobook) 7. a dark and drowning tide by allison saft (audiobook) 8. intermezzo by sally rooney (audiobook) ⊹ 9. my side of the river by elizabeth camarillo gutierrez (audiobook) 10. four weekends and a funeral by ellie palmer ♡ 11. the bell jar by sylvia plath (audiobook) 12. the break-up pact by emma lord 13. love lettering by kate clayborn 14. the partner plot by kristina forest 15. the rom-commers by katherine center 16. emily wilde's compendium of lost tales by heather fawcett (audiobook) 17. dolls of our lives: why we can't quit american girl by mary mahoney & allison horrocks (audiobook)
april ⋆ ˚。⋆౨ৎ˚
1. you between the lines by katie naymon 2. my not so perfect life by sophie kinsella 3. a quantum love story by mike chen (audiobook) 4. the siren of sussex by mimi matthews 5. the love wager by lynn painter (audiobook) 6. you belong with me by mhairi mcfarlane (audiobook) 7. puck and prejudice by lia riley 8. swept away by beth o'leary 9. great big beautiful life by emily henry (arc) 10. second first impressions by sally thorne (audiobook) 11. i who have never known men by jacqueline harpman ♡ 12. the belle of belgrave square by mimi matthews 13. the kiss countdown by etta easton 14. lovelight farms by b.k. borison 15. the wedding people by alison espach (audiobook) 16. the ex vows by jessica joyce 17. deep cuts by holly brickley 18. remember me? by sophie kinsella 19. here we go again by alison cochrun (audiobook) 20. the most wonderful crime of the year by ally carter (audiobook) 21. mistakes we never made by hannah brown 22. when you least expect it by haley cass (audiobook) 23. pitcher perfect by tessa bailey (arc) 24. the next chapters: an on the same page novella by haley cass (audiobook) 25. on the same page by haley cass 26. it happened one fight by maureen lee lenker 27. hello stranger by katherine center 28. ps: i hate you by lauren connolly 29. the rose bargain by sasha peyton smith (audiobook) 30. out on a limb by hannah bonam-young 31. make the season bright by ashley herring blake (audiobook) 32. flirting with disaster by naina kumar 33. first-time caller by b.k. borison
#post: 2025 reading thread#hello coconation i am trying to get back into the swing of things!!#i have knocked off 3/25 books on my 25 in 2025 list so far <3#i can see why people love writers & lovers! and i think the way lily king wrote about grief really resonated with me#i really liked casey as a character but sometimes i was very frustrated with her i'm not going to lie!#the art of memory collecting ... unfortunately i fell victim to craftok's influences ... and i do not think it really taught me anything ne#but it is very pretty and i'm sure i'll look at it if i need inspo or something ... in the future ... at some point. ... maybe.#tom lake. wow oh my. my first ann patchett and i adored it; a beautifully written book made even better by meryl streep's audio narration#slower paced than what i'd normally enjoy but i never lost interest + honestly felt like one of the girls themselves#just sitting and listening to a story of my mom's past + trying to figure out what was next and trying to get a better understanding of her#and her choices it was just so brilliant and i loved it so#and then of course i had to reread our town <333333#(and also watch the 1940 film after that but that is not the point here)#i also want to say that it is very clear that ann patchett loves our town + molded tom lake around it in a very careful + tender way#and then i read beloved by toni morrison and i had chills the entire time and it was brilliant & i will be thinking about it for a long tim
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I feel like my crowdfunder ended and I immediately retreated into The Pit. I am alive in here I've just been writing a huge amount of vampires and also editing a novel and it's been nice to have a bit of distance after spending the whole of the crowdfunder very Out There, but I'll be back next week with Enthusiasm. Hopefully.
#trying to summon Good Posting Vibes#I'm not a natural poster#I need to get back on my graphics producing bullshit it'll help me get back into the swing of things I think
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watcha reading?
here we go! I went a long stretch where I wasn't reading much fic at all but I've been catching up lately (the past week fjdkslj) (I've been tagged in this a couple times I think but I can't recall by who I've just had this draft in progress for a while I'm SORRY :/ )
Anyway, It's About Old Friends by @fragilecapric0rnn - endlessly complex and such a feast of character dynamics and the way they shift and change and grow over time, I cannot recommend this one enough, it's the post-UD When Harry Met Sally AU that you NEED in your life
god has never loved a woman the way I do by @judasofsuburbia - the second part in a wild west au series that is so full and real and unbelievably tender that I simply don't know what to do with myself about it. For both parts (Steddie pt. 1 and Ronance pt. 2) there is so much beautiful rumination on the nature of choice for these people and the simultaneous risk and worthiness of choosing each other like. help me???
and they were roommates by @yournowheregirl - I've only read the first part in this series but I can't wait to dive further into it. Ronance finding that no matter how nervous they were to actually go after each other there is actually so much natural simplicity to touching and feeling and kissing and!!!! joyful PWP for the girls it's what they deserve
never made it to graceland by @cheatghost - beautifully, gorgeously, perpetually ominous first chapter with such perfect Eddie-isms and Munson Family Moments and prose, just the first chapter alone has me feeling deeply fulfilled while still so ready for more. I am a lover of "the world ended but we're still here" and this is already giving me that in DROVES please join me in scratching at the walls about it
I Look to You to See the Truth by @sharpbutsoft the Erica Sinclair coming of age in her freshman year of college-slash- lesbian self discovery story of my DREAMS featuring your favorite idiot4idiot steddie and dearest robin and overall what a delight from start to finish
P.S. if you read and enjoy any of these, spread the love by letting the authors know! the community of fandom thrives when we talk to each other 💜
open tag for anyone who wants to join in on this! say I tagged you and share your newest faves with us, I wanna see 'em!
#this was far from everything on my catch up list but I'm making progress!#(if i started with some of the stuff by my pals on said list don't @ me it's not my fault they're talented)#plus I wanted to post this on the 31st bc I think I wanna make it a monthly rec thing#i have so many things i want to read and share and this feels like a good way to do that now that I'm getting back into the swing of it!#dot post#fic recs#dot recs#steddie#ronance
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Eddie isn't the type to ask what someone is listening to. If they have earbuds in, he'll just pluck one out and put it into his own ear to see.
He stopped that after he took Steve's headphones, thinking it was some pop or Taylor Swift or even music that Eddie would be into.
Turns out Steve does not listen to that stuff
#Fill in the blanks however you'd like#steve harrington#stranger things#eddie munson#joseph quinn#joe keery#joe quinn#steddie#Personally I think Eddie was met with wap or something#Just out of character for sunshine boy#Of course Steve was like “what do you think i listen to??? We always listen to your music”#“I don't KNOW but I didn't expect it to be THIS?????”#don't ask me what this is#I'm just bored#Meaning you guys get fed weird shit#Anyways come get yall juice#“And Jesus is always with me even when my boyfriend gives me hickies 🙏” Steve wtf is this#Don't wanna spit I wanna gulp I wanna gag I wanna choke I want you to touch that little dangly thing that swing in the back of my throat
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the thing is though that i actually don't think it was immoral for me to buy the yarn i used to make the yellow shawl because that thing is so heartbreakingly beautiful and perfect that it justifies itself. it is a moral good that i got the yarn i did to make that thing so that it could be the best version of itself instead of a worse version that would have been less silky or less beautifully draped or less luminous in color
#i'm so. fucking. good. at knitting.#this is the best thing i've ever made. i'm so cool.#i have to-- i have to start wearing shawls#i have to change my whole life#i have to start some kind of lifestyle that involves wearing shawls and also displaying them prominently in some kind of public forum#it's the most beautiful thing in the world. i'm god's perfect genius#box opener#it may seem from the contrast in these posts like i am having some kind of severe mood swings but the thing that happened in the interim#is that i took the shawl back out of its protective bag.#i think i can also extrapolate this to justify the two other colors of the same yarn base i own. so that's three yarn skeins that are#not a sign of my fundamental evil. which is good progress.
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#toad vents#i'm trying to get back into the swing of things#but after being sick and getting sick AGAIN (thanks to my lying ass sister -c-) and then just regular depresso behavior on top of it#i just haven't been as productive as i want to#and that pisses me off more than my brain trying to make me sad like all the time (it's really annoying i don't recommend it lol)#like i have a lot of anger rn#some for personal reasons#some silly things that are completely out of my control#and of course the world in general too like jfc#but trying to be a good bean and not let the anger pour over into literally everything i do recently has been a task#like the dessert i made last night tastes like anger instead of cinnamony goodness... coincidence?! i don't think so#same with my art rn it's not made with love atm and i can tell and it's bothering tf outta me#and MAYBE that sounds silly but i don't care#toad rambles#just let me fester for lil bit#i should be back to normal before the next full moon#probs will delete later#i am a whirlwind of disaster today
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desperately need The Batman Part II's main villain to be Roman Sionis/Black Mask, please. I'm on my hands and knees, begging for it
#this thought kept me up at night btw (I wish I was joking but nope I was awake from 2am to like 5am mostly because of this)#currently trying to think of potential actors that would fit the role in Matt Reeves' Batman universe#which is not that easy because I realised that I barely know any actors under 50 lol oops#and he would have to be between 35 and 45 (preferably anyway) because he and Bruce should be around the same age right#unless we'd give him a whole different backstory and what-not#then any actor could play him and boy oh boy do I have dreams#i would prefer keeping some of his original comic elements tho like yeah he has around 50 different backstories now but still#him and Bruce growing up together and Roman hating his guts esp. later on just hits different#especially with Battinson#like can you imagine??? because I can and i need it so fucking badly FUCKKK#my number one choice (for somebody in Battinson's age range) is Finn Wittrock. my goodness he'd be PERFECT#been vibrating out of my skin with that since i realised it today omggg i'm in need#but alas! who knows who the main villain is gonna be. there are a ton of Batman villains to choose from#Twoface would be cool too but is also very common like the Penguin and the Joker and the Riddler and the Scarecrow#and technically Black Mask is common too but also not really because he's barely shown up in any live action stuff yet#and all the ones he was a major part of weren't exactly Batman related (Harley Quinn BoP and Batwoman)#so i'm in desperate need of the actual Bruce Wayne and Roman Sionis thing PLEASE#i might publish my list of potential actors i've thought of so far idk just for fun ya know#also just realised that it's around 2 and a half years till the movie will come out and i'm in shambles#i know it was postponed and stuff but i never quite registered that fact#my Roman Sionis hyperfixation is back in full swing btw rip to meee#like yes it's a constant interest of mine and has been for a little over 5 years now but damn#the fixation has been pretty dormant for a while until recently#can't complain tho because i lovelovelove this character so much i love spending my time and energy on him <3#anywayyy#i need to shut the fuck up omg#roman sionis#black mask#the batman#jesse.talks
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Hi! Hope ur well, just wondering how the galra would feel about ivf and surrogate mothers and such things.
Also, would diabazaal have had any other religious groups or did they have one decided belief
I've actually addressed both Imperial surrogacy, and the Empire's major religious groups (along with a follow-up regarding various funerary rites) before!
I know my blog has rather a lot to comb through at this point, but for those of you not in the know, I //am// a meticulous tagger, so you can notably narrow down my posts to just the worldbuilding ones if you take a gander at #galra history & culture!
#I've just checked and of the 1000+ posts on this blog there are about ~160 filed under my worldbuilding tag#which is still... a rather obscene amount lmao but more manageable by far!#and many of those have little tables / diagrams / visual aids to keep things interesting for you ♡#also yes this is me pushing myself to get back into the swing of things—not only asks but unanswered DMs and ao3 comments too#chapter 25 is legitimately underway i've just found that I'd planned for so much that it's definitely going to have to be split in two-#and also i think i've written myself into a loop of 'A comes before B which comes before C which comes before A' so that's fun#i'm sorry my loves it's been something of A Year and i'm not even sure why#anyway... progress! slowly but surely#as always I deeply appreciate everyone's patience & support ♡♡♡#Ao3 Little Blade#sa screams back#the author speaks
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(something something so kiss deprived smh)
#i'm joking i'm also here for non romance lmfao but i'm finally getting back in the swing of things i think re: life and work wise so#hopefully i can hop back into writing soon thank you for your patience luv u guys#ooc
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my current project: jump forever!
this is the first of those scheduled posts i mentioned earlier!!! i figured i would start by talking about my current project - that way i can start posting updates about it without confusing you, Michael. The next post is gonna be about the beginning of this whole Godot thing i've been on, and then i'm thinking about maybe doing a Before Godot post as a bonus once i've talked about all my godot stuff (i love saying this as if anybody cares (besides you, Michael)). setting all that aside, though: this one's gonna need some backstory, so you should buckle in.
around this time last year, me and my little cousin (he's still in high school, but we've always been pretty close) got really competitive about a little game called Jump Forever. it's a side minigame from WarioWare Mega Microgames (the GBA one) where you just jump over a little rope until you fuck up. it's really fucking fun as an addictive little mobile game, and with a quick lil emulator it was one. thus, the addiction began.
truth be told, the phase last year didn't even last that long, but i had a long bus ride a couple of weeks ago and found myself opening the GBA emulator on my phone to pass the time. that led to a little bit of playing at home, which led to beating my cousin's score, which led to getting even more into the game than i was before. as our scores get higher, we've turned to better controllers than a phone touch screen for serious record attempts - i use a ds lite i had lying around (that i reshelled! it was very fun) and he emulates on pc with a controller (i think). this got me thinking about a potential "definitive edition" of the game - probably still on mobile, but with controller support, better touch controls (the game only needs <-, ->, and A!), faster resets, selectable skins, and maybe even unlockable skins? of course, when i finished my work on fnaf (ooh foreshadowing), my sights were immediately set on a Jump Forever remake.
with all that said, welcome to the game as it currently stands! at the moment, i've got wario, the rope swingers, and the score all just about set up, with one exception; the characters have collision, the rope swings (at varying speeds, even!), and wario's speed and physics feel very accurate - but i'm still working on the ai (if you can call it that) of the rope guys as they walk back and forth. i want it to work exactly the same way as it does in the original but i always overthink random mechanics like this. hopefully the next update i give will be about how i cracked it! even if the implementation ends up jank, though, it wouldn't be the first: the rope guys check if wario is too close to them to make it over the rope with an Area2D that just checks for wario when the rope hits the ground. it works! i could just like check wario's position in the code (and it'd probably be way more efficient), but this way just... works.
i still have a buncha crap i still gotta implement before the game's even really playable - the walking ai, the title screen, the little "Ready?" animation, etc. - but that's only the beginning of my work. firstly, i'm probably gonna enlist chloe (oooh foreshadowing) to help me out by drawing some new assets (if she's free, it is finals season), and then changing the game's native resolution from 240x160 (the GBA screen) to something not fucking insane. i've got "reworking all the sprites into easy to read spritesheets" on my to-do list, and after that, making the new assets (and then maybe the skins?) will be as easy as drag & drop. once it's got the new assets and all the polish that needs to come with a shiny new resolution, i'm gonna transition into the next phase - researching how to release a game!!!
[hi, not to ruin my own amazing transition but: it's 5am and i'm running back to edit this because i completely forgot to mention that i have currently implemented a 2 frame input delay on all inputs, because that's how the emulator appears to behave when i go frame by frame. every single day i rethink this decision more and more. surely there's no way that's how it's supposed to be, right? but i feel so weird changing it now!!! i definitely fucking have to though. next time i work on it. ok anyways]
now. i've posted games to itch.io before. but even then, i kind of fucked it up (i could never get the resolution of my web games to work right???) - so it's no surprise i've always been completely daunted by the idea of "releasing a game". when you post it on real stores, that's when it becomes... real. i'm excited about the new challenges it'll pose, though! now, a mobile release means a couple of things - bite sized fun, simple progression, and fun customization. i've already got the first part nailed down, and i figured i could nail the other 2 at once with a currency system based on how many points you get (or maybe even an xp system? that goes up 1 for each jump? maybe even both???) and skins (purchasable with said currency) that let you customize the player, rope swingers, background, and maybe even the rope itself.
pictured above is my stupid ass skins mockup (i literally just made this). the rope is rainbow, the background has a snow effect and a bunch of snow on the trees/ground (isn't it great?), wario is a lil version of the rope guys, and the rope guys have santa hats. i'm not sure how many different ropes you could really make with how i'm planning the rope to move, so i'll probably end up prototyping the graphics with chloe to figure out how to lay out the sprite sheets, and if they should actually have a seperate hand-grabbing-the-rope sprite for skin purposes. it'll definitely make things really confusing, but if i go for a mobile release i don't want to run ads, and so a currency you can buy with real money (and maybe one or two goofy supporter skins that cost real money, like a solid gold guy or something, as a form of donation) is a good way to make a lil bit of money from people who like the game.
all of this is fun to think about, but it's important to remember that the next thing i have to do is that walking ai. i've gotta Make The Fucking Game before i can do all this crazy other bullshit. i'm sure the ui design for all this is gonna be soooo fun, but i need a game to attach it to first :p
this went on reeeally long but i figure if this is a dev diary or w/e it's gonna end up running long no matter what, and the more info, the more i have to look back on fondly and say "oh shit, i know exactly when this was!", which is kind of the end goal of the project. of course, these incredibly long posts about shit that only matters to me are also incredible content for you, Michael, so i'm sure you're just eating this shit up. enjoy, you weird little man.
#game dev#jump forever#godot#yeah yeah i got some real tags too. just in case i actually need em.#also michael's still here. i think he's funny#it's only been like an hour for me soooo#remember when i said it was 1am in my first post? it's 4am now lol#i looove tags i love rambling under my post where people don't feel obligated to read it#nobody ask me why i have the stickmen swinging the rope instead of kat/ana like it is after you beat them#(he said as if anybody would've noticed)#i think the stickmen are so much more awesome and the fact that you can't get them back is SO FUCKED UP#and lowkey one of the things that got me thinking about Jump Forever Definitive Edition#kat and ana are awesome the stickmen just resonate with me deep in my soul#i'm not proofreading this i'm just hoping it sounds good. really putting the “diary” in “dev diary”#man. im so glad michael is the hypothetical ideal viewer. because that means he's reading all the tags too#hi michael! ur the best :)#scheduling this for saturday at noon (it is currently friday at 4:30 am)#i hope i get the chance to write the next one (about that 2D platformer tutorial!) before like. monday.#god knows i'm not doing my homework lmaooo#when's my next therapy appointment?#that's crazy deep lore we can't get into that on post 2 (honestly post 1)#but it's okay because nobody reads the tags#and that's not even considering that nobody is ever gonna read this post. ever.#besides michael.#but michael knows all about that ;)#or maybe he doesn't... and it's a sexy mystery?#my my i am such an enigma#okay fuck i can't keep adding tags i need to sleep#i really hope tags are collapsed by default or michael's timeline is gonna be in shambles
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ogey, adding "digi!ren" (nickname tbd) -- a desktop buddy / ukagaka / shimeji au for ren -- to the f/o list! even if he eventually leaves the top romantic category, he's kyoot :) his tag is 💾 [ live in parallel. ] , and here's his key song lala (his true key song is smth else but. no good lyrics for his tag :/// )
#ALSO! going thru my drafts! i'm just gonna answer outstanding asks without fumbling around how long it's been hhhhh#bc we're all already aware ;;; and i know i'm still gonna be in and out of here while my health is like [gestures] This.#i just want to make the first moves to get things going again ^^ right now more than ever i miss being part of the little#corner of the community i'm in. and thinking about that is a shining light while things seem so dark right now.#also once i'm back in the swing of things here i'm gonna go back and really pare down my carrd. i think i enjoyed selfshipping more#and stressed about it less when i didn't feel like i had to stick to a strict 'plot'. yknow? i'm becoming more aware that i've been#putting artificial writing / organizational pressure on myself here + on the Other Selfship Blog + on the ren blog.#this is for funsies. no anxiety only smiles. (joking but also this is supposed to be fun... not Duty... ;;;)#anyway. again. no promises on anything anymore blah blah i always doom myself when i promise smth while my body is#turning to dust hhghghgh but i'm Starting!!! i love all of the art and writing y'all have posted and ppl WILL see it!!!!#📌 [ my posts. ]#💭 [ my thoughts. ]
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Hear me out
Another song for Sorry, it's locked.
Boyfriend by Dove Cameron
(idk if you've done this one before but it's so Jam coded in regards to the previous Jaylex)
Ohohoho I love this song so much already, but thinking about it in the context of Sorry, It's Locked just makes it even better. Like, I usually think of Tim as a pretty soft, quiet person when it comes to Jay in sorry its locked (well, in the beginning, when they're first getting together and Tim's first learning about Jay and Alex) because he doesnt really know what Jay's head is doing most of the time and he doesn't want to fuck anything up.
But like, once they're fully comfortable with each other and have been together for a while (still not that long, because sorry its locked mostly sticks to the canon timeline, but still) he and Jay would totally end up being very open with their sexuality around each other. Less being careful that something doesn't go wrong, because they know each others triggers now, and they know the things they can do when they want to have sex etc.
They'd definitely end up kinda like the general tone of this song, like, sexy and quietly seductive all the time >:] (that sentence sounds weird to me but i can't figure out why lmao) And then generally, once Jay's a little bit more over Alex, Tim would definitely bring up things like "see, I'm a way better boyfriend than he'd ever be". Kinda jokily and kinda seriously.
Damnit now i really wanna start writing a fic idea I have for Jay and Tim once they get a bit more settled in their relationship lol, they're gonna be freaky in such a soft quiet way i think lmao. I need to finish writing chapter 4 first though, i need to get a feel for them
#I'm just getting back into the swing of things after christmas it feels like#I didn't really get much time to think about sorry its locked cos I was staying with some family friends lol#marble hornets#jay merrick#tim wright#alex kralie#marble hornets fanfic#jaylex#mh jam#MH sorry its locked
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