#because it's pivotal to the story

[nathaniacolver]

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.

[gertritude-art]

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!

[olasketches]

the fact that megumi was supposed to be the MC makes me giddy as hell. ITS ALL COMING TOGETHER GUYS

[not-poignant]

Daily excerpt from today's writing, chapter 118 of Underline the Black:

‘I work as a psychologist,’ Michael said conversationally. ‘Primarily with alphas who take their powers too far. Teenagers who force beta teachers to present to them for fun, who bite Kaeper glands and run, force claiming omega strangers, thinking it’s hilarious the bond only goes one way and they won’t ever suffer for it. It’s truly amazing how awful alphas can be, don’t you think?’ Efnisien’s eyes closed. ‘I’m not like them,’ Michael said. ‘And honestly, I try my best, but I do really get tired of not just...doing what I’m genetically supposed to.’ Efnisien wished he had enough energy and courage to grab the toothpaste off the counter, and get Michael’s pheromones out of his mouth. ‘The reality is, Efnisien, that even if you don’t like it, and fight me, it’s the natural course of life for you to be claimed by an alpha, and to understand your place. It must be very hard to accept it with the level of brainwashing you’ve suffered, and I respect what Gary is trying to do, as a radical who believes in omega rights to the degree he does. I believe in them too, you know. I’d let you have your own room, your own hobbies. I’d care about your pleasure in the bedroom.’ Efnisien thought about Flitmouse, and the things he said he’d gone through as an omega, and Efnisien knew by comparison, Michael really wasn’t that bad. As far as alphas went, he seemed normal enough. Except for the drugs, and the manacles, but Efnisien had tried to kill an alpha before, and omegas just didn’t do that.

[quikyu]

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"

[mymarifae]

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

[rorynni]

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”

[jellyfishvibes]

So uh

Me remaking the character creator unnecessarily because the app still existed is a bit more relevant i guess

[starleska]

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 👀

[zahri-melitor]

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.

[magnolia-sunrise]

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 : )

[girltakovic]

just when i thought it couldn't get any worse i realized i want to go to grad school

[faithchel]

finished hera & started lady macbeth and we have got to start blaming women for shit again for real

[therantingsage]

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

[horrendoushag]

beginning to think that this rewrite is going to be way longer than the first draft

[kikizoshi]

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.