#and when i clicked next chapter

[thetablestspoon]

A thing I love about Tumblr is whenever ao3 stops working and I don't know if it's my internet or tge site, the first and immitdiate reaction is to hop on Tumblr and see if people are panicking or not. Never disappoints.

[locallygrowndaikon]

This might be vaguely related to how little ive been posting these days if youve been wondering

[writeouswriter]

Reading a fic that's so well written I wish I could close my eyes and just let the descriptions and atmosphere wash over me, but the dilemma with closing my eyes is, well, I then would not be able to continue reading this fic, now would I.

[jacqcrisis]

CHAPTER TWO OF JAYVIK MAGIC REALISM AU IS UP FOR PERUSAL (if you want to)

Last of the two introductory chapters. Now we can get into real relationship building hours.

[player1064]

I desire him carnally. who said that.

[frankencanon]

that's new.

[mukuberry]

webtoon would be such a better app if they removed comments

[arionaleilani]

ao3 being down during my bedtime stories time is horrendously upsetting actually

[ceiling-karasu]

Update on AU World-building

Like how the concept of Jollin means I have to restructure my plans with Cherry Valley and the Flower Hill Command Center, the idea of Rana Roja means that I need to do some restructuring of some of my countries in the AU.

This is a lot of work that is coming from a reporter background OC that I might plan on using for one or two scenes later down the line.

I was talking to both kosmicpowers and 32girassoisdevangogh about some of the countries in my AUs, and I realized that I have been seeing the Equatorial Allegiance (Africa)

As one 'country,' per say, with the color separations representing a flag, while in South America I have been seeing this

As two entirely separate countries divided down the middle, with the one on the right being the República de Cultivos Oleaginosos (mostly Venezuela, and I know the name is awkward in Spanish, but I did not expect to ever have to say it more than a few times).

I'm not sure why my brain decided on that? Possibly because this screenshot suggests that many countries just have one color on the flag, and I attributed that to South America but not Africa somehow.

Assuming those are the flags of other nations and not symbolizing something else, or even just not showing detail here.

So now the problem is more or less this area.

I kind of want Rana Rosa to be pink like the figurine I found, but not unnaturally so.

She would need to be a natural color found in nature. The closest to pink a frog (for the most part) can get in a variant of the Strawberry Poison Dart Frog found around Red Frog Beach of Isla Bastimentos, Panama.

Naming the entirety of Panama in the AU as Red Frog Beach, a peaceful fishing, tourist, and agricultural nation, sounds nice. It also sets a precedent for the entirety of China to just be called 'Rabbit Village.'

The problem is, why would that area not already be a region the United States Alliance had taken over in order to be used as a base or foothold to get the oil down below? It could be protected by the República de Cultivos Oleaginosos, but it is next to the green country.

UNLESS the green and yellow there are also a flag, and this was one country all along. Kind of big though, but I guess it did the same thing as the Equatorial Allegiance, with a group of countries banding together to protect from occupiers wishing to steal their oil and lives.

I DO NOT PLAN to just retcon my own stories and AU once they have been already published, though. I skimmed back through The Rod that Blocks the Lightning, and I do not appear to have mentioned a separate country next to the oil producing one, so I should be good to go in making it one country.

Red Frog Beach, however, was not allowed to join the República. It is too distant and remote for the army to move into the areas if they were invaded. They would also need offices and collections of important documents, which could be used against the rest of the country if occupied by the United States Alliance that wants the oil.

As per a treaty, both the República de Cultivos Oleaginosos and the United States Alliance leave Red Frog Beach as a neutral territory, although both may have secret bases of operations within the country. Something like this may have happened in real life? I'll have to look it up.

Perhaps The Hague also have an office there, in order to keep the peace as much as they can, which is how Rana Roja joins after she accidentally stumbles upon a secret wolf base one day and successfully manages to gather evidence and report on it.

Anyway, here is a basic Picrew of how I would expect she dresses as a court reporter (since I can’t draw frogs yet).

[maofa]

help, does anyone have any tips on Frankys pov?? im struggling -.-

[manofthepipis]

I was wondering how chapter 14 is going. I’m really excited to read it when it’s out. I’m sorry if this is an annoying question

not an annoying question at all, anon! :D tho the Ol Life™️ thing is driving into my writing time a lot more than i'd care for haha

if i could project all my thoughts and plans into words quicker i'd most happily do so and oh boy do i have thoughts and plans

[pensivespacepirate]

AM I IN FUCKING ESKEW AGAIN

[marleysfinest]

update: i'm up to date. @vampyrsm my heart is in ur hands

[charmikarma]

one thing about hs2's original run that is super noticeable to me is like. how do i put this. like it's not Bad Art (though there was one update where the art was. pretty bad). in fact there is a lot of FANTASTIC art in the original hs2 run, and a lot of chapters that don't fall into what i'm about to describe. but a not-small number of panels just... do not fit the text below somehow... idk how to describe this but it's the same thing i see in a lot of fan adventures where like, yeah, the image matches what the text below is describing/the conversation happening, but it just doesn't ADD anything. like it's just a still frame of x and y character with their mouths open and gesturing because they're talking. it's nothing! like it looks nice sure but it doesn't DO anything. needed a bit more workshopping or something i guess.

and this is something i have not noticed with hsbc (this era) yet and i'm quite glad about this. like very fucking happy. this is the number 1 thing that sets apart new and improved hsbc from hs2 as something that is, in fact, new and improved for me. old habits crushed

[chirpos-pencil]

Ah, I just finished my second Danganronpa 1 playthrough. Very refreshing and my head is filled with juicy new drawing ideas. Really, what an amazing game!! 🥰

[trickstarbrave]

in one of the comics i read the mc has an eating disorder (for numerous reasons but one of them is her brother is physically and sexually abusive) and her brother came to see her so she started binge eating out of pure stress and fear after vomiting just prior to dinner.

and ofc there are ppl bitching in the comments like "why doesnt she just talk abt her fucking problems instead of just thinking abt it. oh my goddddd" are you fucking stupid. she's literally in the middle of an episode. she hasn't gotten the nerve to tell anyone her brother is abusive yet. bc just a few weeks prior some bitch framed her for harassing her after said bitch nearly got her killed. and people BELIEVED her. her brother has an excellent reputation do you think most ppl would believe her? esp in what is clearly the italian renaissance era but fantasy land? i know whats gonna happen bc i read spoilers for the novel but the reason why everyone believes her is bc they walk in on him beating her senseless.

sorry abuse victims cant just perfectly articulate their feelings????? this is literally a story abt an abuse victim. why are you here if you dont fucking like it. read literally anything else. you're so obnoxious stop commenting.