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amanda overton is the wlw writers' GOAT nobody talk to me
(link for the article)
she said let's give LESBIANS everything the straights have already had time and time again
i knew the romeo & juliet teas were real
she had all the right inspirations. tomb raider, mass effect, tlou. gosh i love her.
THIS IS WHY CHRISTIAN AND ALEX ARE ALSO THE GOATSSSSSSSS wow i need more feminist men in my life bro.
yuri cocaine YURI COCAINEEEEEEEEE
YURI COCAINEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
amanda overton, every single oldest sister lesbian in the entire WORLD owes you their very lives.
#amanda i don't think the people comprehend how influential you are#this is wlw history and all because of YOU#in 10 in 20 years people will still be talking ab how pivotal and important and groundbreaking it was to have THIS lesbian love story exist#and play out as was written by a lesbian; as was meant for a lesbian audience#this is a korrasami-level milestone/moment/hingepoint/historical event#caitvi is on the world's WLW timeline DON'T EVEN PLAY WITH ME!!!!!#and it's all because of one woman#THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!!!!! 🗣🗣🗣#THAT'S WHY SHE'S THE MVP!!!!! 🗣🗣🗣#THAT'S WHY SHE'S THE GOAT. THE GOAT!!!!!! 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣#she literally made gay history and it WILL be talked about FOR GAY GENERATIONS#i know i joke about yuri cocaine but she was actually on yuri genius like she sipped the dew of the universe for this AND DELIVERED#amanda overton#caitvi#piltover's finest#arcane#arcane season 2#arcane spoilers
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will also show my general ui/mock-up progress, for anyone curious. had a general idea of the screen division to start with, then tried to figure out more how it would look. i wanted there to be a heavier emphasis on it all being a sort of "stage" production to start with, so i initially had the idea to have an old roman stage on the left. ultimately i found this too distracting, though, so i ditched it; you can still see this influence in the scroll bar, whose base is a heavily simplified version of a roman pillar. lenora only got one sprite due to jam restrictions so i was figuring out how she should look throughout all of this (so that she could harmonize with the other UI elements). Everything was half trial-and-error, half looking up the UI of other games to see how they implemented things!
#the scrollbar fades because i wanted a visual indicator that you could scroll back up to past convos#i tried. so hard. to have a gradient effect on the text. so it faded at the top. did not work.#emperorvn#vndev#okay that is all gootbye#the original idea for this story was that you would find lenora as she was murdering someone so you can still see remnants of that#in the og ui pic before i fully decided to pivot
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the fact that megumi was supposed to be the MC makes me giddy as hell. ITS ALL COMING TOGETHER GUYS
#in the context of jjk it feels like the main character and the protagonist are not exactly the same thing#yuuji is the main character who was stripped away of all the things that made him the protagonist#and all the things that made yuuji the protagonist were later given to megumi#megumi is the “chosen one” the one in a million but all those things that normally would make the main character the protagonist#are out of megumi’s control#the story is still about yuuji#the story could only take place BECAUSE of yuuji and yuuji's CHOICES that’s why he’s the main character#yes kenjaku orchiestrated everything about yuuji's birth and role in life but yuuji is still the one who CHOSE to consume sukuna’s finger#yuuji was still the one who CHOSE to#not include himself in the binding vow sukuna made him enter#those are two pivotal points in the story and yuuji was the one who made them#yuuji may not be ”the choosen one” BUT THATS A GOOD THING#that means that even tho kenjaku orchestrated yuuji’s role in life yuuji was and still is the one in charge of his own life and story#he even decided to postpone his own execution wondering “why the heck I have to be executed”#he gets to chose what he’ll do next and NOT FATE#megumi is the one who’s “blessed” he inherited the most powerful zenin ct he’s father was the catalyst that started it all#he’s the one who was#the one in a million chance to be sukuna’s vessels#and megumi didn’t have ANY say in that#because all this time megumi didn’t get to be in charge of his own life#gege really had the fate toy with him just like reggie said to him back then#megumi gets to be the protagonist (or more like have a role of the protagonist) because he let the “fate” dictate his life for him#(unless noooowww he decides to finally take the reins of his life and save himself from his fate)#itadori yuuji#fushiguro megumi#I’m yapping I don’t even know if this makes sense I was caught in a moment skksskks
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I feel like Ogerpon may've ultimately had better development than Terapagos
Like. The turtle is what the whole game has been building up to the entire time, but for some reason to me the Funny Ogre has a fuller story? More satisfying?
Don't get me wrong, I loved the Indigo Disk, but when I caught Terapagos I was like "SWEET cool turtle son boy". as opposed to when I caught Ogerpon where I was like "If anything bad happens to her i'll kill everyone and then myself"
#I think the story pivoted to focus more on Kieran as opposed to the turtle in that regard#indigo disk spoilers#terapagos#ogerpon#quikyu banter#Is this a biased opinion because I'm number 1 ogerpon fan? Perhaps#AND THERE'S MORE TEAL MASK STORY ON THE WAY TOO!
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i would like mydei if he was a woman, but he's not, so i don't and i hope he dies. this is actually not hypocritical at all because i have seen 500 billion mydeis across so many stories over the years. Grouchy No-Nonsense Analytical Hardened Warrior Man Who Has A Funny Way Of Showing He Cares is nothing new i am literally so bored. HOWEVER you don't usually see women in this type of character archetype - not without wayyyyyy more attempts to soften her around the edges first, at least - so it would be rather subversive and fun. but we live in the worst timeline so this didn't happen and now i have a shirtless ab-bearing man on my screen and i don't want him there
#not impressed at all with phaidei either like i literally don't care#very interested in phainon himself but as soon as mydei enters the scene it's like oh my godddddddd GET OUT OF HEREEEEEEEEE#putting a shirt on that beast might also temper some of my dislike. i fucking hate abs dude#idk it's like. i rambled about it on twitter shortly after finishing the main quest and stuff but#i also have a lot of criticisms about the confused theming and messages they tried to send with mydei and castrum kremnos and nikador#like they couldn't figure out what they wanted to do. started doing One Thing and then pivoted halfway through#like they got scared to commit to the horrible-ness they established at the beginning#i'll bring THAT essay over later actually.. probably#that mess really soured my perception of mydei's character too because like . wow you guys almost did something pretty cool actually#you almost managed a thoughtful commentary on political and religious corruption and then you just didn't do that. because you're stupid#mydei miiiight grow on me later in the story but idk. i'm mad at him#usually need a man to give me about 10-15 reasons to like him but mydei needs to give me like 100#so far he has managed to give me approximately 5. to put how much ground he has to cover into perspective
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Why do I feel like they’re gonna make us wait so long for the VBS America trip? Watch the next event be entirely just “VBS decides if they want to go to America with Taiga or not”
#toya events are almost never at pivotal points of the story i’m sorry#i’m getting my hopes up because he hasn’t had much significant development since his first and maybe his second event#project sekai#pjsk#vivid bad squad#vbs#kohane azusawa#azusawa kohane#an shiraishi#shiraishi an#akito shinonome#shinonome akito#toya aoyagi#aoyagi toya
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So uh
Me remaking the character creator unnecessarily because the app still existed is a bit more relevant i guess
#jellyfish's thoughts#jellyheart rambles#they better be making some form of remake#theres no way you can have such a pivotal story to the plot of kh and silently remove it#kingdom hearts#khux#kh#khux picrew#btw if anyone has the character pieces from dr ill be very grateful#just because it bugs me that i have aqua and terra outfits but no ven
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convinced that the Doctor started looking into alternative forms of science/physics because he faced off with the Toymaker again. i think that after feeling so helpless when exposed to the Toymaker's reality-bending powers, learning the language of rope and the science of luck and coincidence are the Doctor's preparation to fight the Toymaker's legions (whoever the might be). these may be the Doctor's best weapons against the Toymaker and other beings which don't conform to the laws of the primary universe 👀
#this is feeding into my desire for the Toymaker's influence to have a serious impact on Fifteen's stories for a while#that we're experiencing this pivot towards fantasy because the Doctor is learning to work with play#and other non- or less-scientific rules structures#the toymaker#the doctor#fifteenth doctor#the church on ruby road#doctor who#doctor who spoilers#the church on ruby road spoilers#dw#dw spoilers#starleskatalks
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Look, one of the fundamental things I keep an eye on for DC writers these days is "is this person plotting a story arc that has sufficient escape valves in case of cancellation".
Because, realistically, even if you've been handed a headline title and an ongoing run, any writer should be tying off their story every 12 months and immediately before every major company-wide event. They shouldn't need to yank that cord, but you can always tell the difference between someone who has figured out how to exit their arc in advance and has just had to compress the story, and someone who's been caught on the hop (for active examples of this, go read literally any comic leading in to either Infinite Crisis or Flashpoint, as everyone got shuffled on their titles after both. You can see when teams were informed they were about to lose their books and when books were needed for the event in terms of how the stories all suddenly pivot to Getting Stuff Done ASAP).
There is also the evil cousin, 'run extended beyond expected plotting and ideas' which can show up but obviously is a rarer beast to spot.
#interestingly Zdarsky's Batman run is actually a current good example of making sure to plot to leave the book every 12 months#Failsafe + The Bat-Man of Gotham make a short but coherent run#He then used 136 to pivot the story in terms of the downward spiral but if cancelled could have used it to tie off the stories#as of 148 + 149 Zdarsky has pulled Bruce out of his downward spiral and tied off a 2 year storyline#and you have examples of both him having to rush a storyline (148 should have been two issues) and a coherent end point as of AP#he's now clearly ready for his third year's pitch which looks like a 'rebuild relationships' one but it's not essential#someone else could pick up the title after AP and send it in whatever direction if needed#because Zdarsky made sure to contain when he set things on fire to be resolved IN that year's arc#and you can really see the structural stuff AS he's been messed around quite a bit about when he can work on his plot#as he keeps having to redirect around events
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okay i had to go deal with some black mold situation but now i can sit down and talk about it ----, due to the somewhat similar pose i was reminded of this piece from last year, that at the time cost a lot of time and effort and was the ultimate nail in the coffin of succumbing to the OC insanity
and! im really happy about what i managed to do with it then, but also haha holy fuck! i love my painting process now and how much it has evolved! i feel very happy with the brushes ive been experimenting with and how much better i feel ive gotten about conceptualizing values and light. very proud of how far i've come in terms of painting these two :")
yapper's delight corner: side by side these are kind of After and Before a life changing event for the two of them,
todays piece, ie Before: as in Wolfgang suspects they might be walking into an ambush following their latest lead, and they stop by Bastien's clinic for - something? anything. a reason to stay. after their routine check up and memory upload, they push in for a kiss and while at first Bastien gives in,... he doesnt let himself act on his feelings or let himself have something he wants (partially due to the loyalty he feels to his boyfriend, largely because he's unable to commit and make the decision to change his life so much). so, rejected for one final time, Wolfgang walks off into the night and to their doom.
what that night spurs - Wolfs violent death and beheading, the clinic and all of its precious materials torched with Wolfgang's body tossed inside as a message, Bastien finding them and driving away with their body without saying a word to his boyfriend-- nothing can ever go back to the way it was.
and there's the After, from last year: back when painting this i didn't have a solid idea for continuation of their story past this point basically Until i finished the painting and i got some visions thanks to my playlists. to keep it short, their death doesn't stick for too long (just. a couple months of Bastien driving with their lifeless body in the backseat) and the two of them are set on a very dangerous path, the burned remains of their lives behind them. but - it's the most alive both of them have ever felt : )
#long time readers might remember me mentioning parts of this before as its one of the huge pivotal moments#that i still havent drawn properly outside of a symbolic painting here and there... though its been scripted for over a year now#i think its one of those things i want to build up to slowly because its de facto the finale of the first major arc of the story#btw i love their body language in both of these so much. yes i made the sandwich but listen. Wolf is so protective always#they want to shield him as much as possible. blind him to the horrors if necessary#and how much they enjoy holding him and touching him and cradling his head after they are finally allowed to indulge in their desire
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just when i thought it couldn't get any worse i realized i want to go to grad school
#speak friend and enter#im not paying for that shit tho im gonna get a job at a school first.#long story short im pivoting to rest mgmt bc quite frankly i dont want to become the very thing i swore to destroy (mean cokehead chef)#and to put it bluntly FOH/FBV mgrs make more money than chefs. by like a lot.#because chefs don't get rich unless they become a bobby flay type which is entirely anathema to my principles tbh.#and i know that i get too emotionally involved in the food so. it's probably a net good that i stay out of that#but i can be passionate enough about the food from a business angle while still not letting it eat me up inside yk?#aspiration ended with lesbian carmy berzatto. to be the lesbian richie jerimovich is now my goal
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finished hera & started lady macbeth and we have got to start blaming women for shit again for real
#this is a joke. but.#if i have to read one more retelling~ that’s just#‘but what if the woman was ASSAULTED ALL THE TIME and had NO AGENCY so everything bad she did was JUSTIFIED or a LIE???’ please stop#when you’re actively taking agency away from women written and portrayed in deeply patriachal cultures you’re not giving them a voice#youre taking the voice they had away.#women worked around and within the patriarchy while having feelings and ambitions and wants and dreams and flaws and virtues forever.#without the necessity of ‘but what if the MAN in her life was just SUPER EVIL and NOT NUANCED and she was just ASSAULTED’#what if no women wanted anything but SAFETY ever what if they were never power hungry or jealous or predatory ever themselves?#yes circe did this too if i have to see one more person say ‘oh except circe’ i will scream.#circe is literally like. the worst offender here.#pivoting back though sorry but it also all feels very bioessentialist PRESUMABLY without meaning to but ‘oh men are just inherently evil#with no nuance. nuance is for women and by nuance we mean was just super oppressed and wronged’ is uh haha actually terfy as fuck#good ol lady macunsexmeherebeth who definitely didn’t plot the whole thing to begin with for sure needs to be Given a Voice#i haven’t finished this one yet btw. i like this author’s work on the whole i just think this one is a swing and a miss because like.#this is not a woman who didn’t do anything and who didn’t have a voice.#if you want to show us her perspective in terms of her psychology and her inner workings and how she got to this place excellent wonderful#but not when the answer is just ‘but actually nothing was her fault ever!!!!!!’ like. lol let her want that crown for reasons that aren’t#my husband is abusive.#like oh my god.#same with hera you’re gonna go with the ONE tradition where she didn’t want to marry zeus#and all her rage is just about Injustice and the Patrairchy and not actual envy. okay.#she & zeus were an og most toxic couple of all time but they WERE in virtually all tradition a couple still who had times of reconciliation#and attachment.#like you know. actual toxic and abusive relationships do.#also it completely erased rhea who was actually the character whose story this more closely resembled#(warrior goddess with flop husband she finally schemes against)#instead she just. uh. went away oh no hera’s so afraid of being weak like mama she must break the cycle.#like okay this is the story you want to tell stop superimposing it on mythical entities from thousands of years ago then.#justice4rhea.#okay sorry. end rant.
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I get a good few comments on the Too Close fic about me doing the character voices well and like. That's not even me!! I can't claim the bragging rights to that one that's all the game!!! The characters have really distinct voices in the game I'm just emulating it to the best of my ability!!!!
Also unrelated but. Speaking of fic comments people keep saying how excited they are to see the party react to stuff. And it occurred to me that this is almost one of those "characters watch the show" fics in a sense. Except the characters playing through isat rn aren't in a post-game setting like is standard for that fic format. They're all playing through isat while also being still in the middle of isat. It's fun. Usually I'm not fond of "characters watch the show" stories but isat being a timeloop game lends itself well to that kind of narrative. Because that's literally what happens to Siffrin, they go through the story so much it BECOMES a story to them eventually. Still it makes me worry about the pitfalls that comparison might lend itself to...I'd hate for it to get stale to write.
I mean. It's isat. Repetition is kinda the point lol
#Too Close AU#Also one or two comments pointed something out that I hadn't thought of#And I was fully ready to pivot the story in a Direction because of it#And then other things happened in the most recent chap that makes that oversight of mine redundant#But now I need to acknowledge it in a different way so it doesn't seem like I ignored an obvious plothole#sakdfjhasdkfhsadkf
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beginning to think that this rewrite is going to be way longer than the first draft
#i've been going ''oh maybe an extra 10k words''#but i'm on page 105 and uhh.#at this page in the first draft i'm at a point in the plot which is still several chapters away#and i really want to get there too because that part of the story heavily involves the extremely pivotal comic relief characters#who are so fun and easy to write it should be illegal#writing
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can we form a coup against asagiri and make you the writer instead? genuinely... I am not taking the Fyodor immortal information well.. please help............................ ( ´,_ゝ` )
Oh, I would absolutely not do BSD well either. I just wish Asagiri had stuck to his roots more. He was a great comedy writer, and the beginning of the story was great for it. It's the action and Death Note stuff he can't seem to get mastery of. But for the immortal part: I'm not entirely sold that Fyodor's immortal, yet. It seems like yet another twists that will twist to reveal oh, shocker, he faked his memories to confuse Sigma/the ADA... or something. Could very well be immortal, but not 100% guaranteed.
#bsd#anon#I still support his right to write his story however he wants#and a lot of people seem to enjoy this sort of shock-value shounen writing he's doing now#I just happen to hate that sort of story#so when BSD pivoted to that I was dragged along into it because of Fyodor and Nikolai#and get salty whenever characters who own a part of my heart and soul are subjected to bad shock writing#and yes I know the version of them that I love the most exist within my own perception#and are a product of the years I've spent working on and developing them for my own stories#but I still love and adore the originals too#and so it's painful and irritating#because the characters are no longer the main focus of the story#it's all about the shock... the next biggest thing#Nikolai's doesn't have a motive to be the ferryman I need to get all the characters in the same place/start the next arc? No problem!#he just wants to kill Fyodor now. problem solved.#how did he use his Ability to get Sigma to France when his Ability only travels 30m at a time?#eh don't worry about it. I made an omake about it so you know I know it's an absolute joke#Nikolai's whole character and Ability practically changed just for convenience... for the story and shock#so as a fan of character-based stories it hurts that sometimes characters just aren't respected at all#with Fyodor I know it's more a case of Asagiri's vision of him seems to have changed as the story progressed#in that realm I'm so happy that BSD is serialised because it means I still have the initial version of Fyodor that I loved with all my hear#when I really can't stand Meursault!Fyodor at all and wish he would just die already so I could be fully free
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goatlings has been suffering blow after blow after blow this year huh
#just read a long ass statement from the event NPC roleplayer stepping down and that means we arent getting that for the rest of this event#OR next year. like damn!#i mean idgaf but yknow. a lot of people did. feel bad for this staff member though bc i know lots of people didnt know how to act lol. lmao#i wonder if the suggestions to pivot to short stories and a narrative are going to be taken up#i would like that. because im one of the people who came up with it. lol. lmao again. at least in the on-site live chat#gonna have to join the discord.. to yknow be kept in the loop 🙄 fuck this site#meow.txt#goatlings
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