#forget me not visual novel

[forget-me-not-vn]

Characters: Mars

he/they | Cambion

Mars is the first companion you meet in the game, and the only one that definitely stays with you until the last choice of the game.

He's the person who knows you best, probably better than you really know yourself. You've known each other for the most part of your lives and even if you do not remember, he does.

Mars is so used to being separated from the rest of the world that his friend group splitting up, puts him into a situation that he himself describes as "worse than hell" (very literally considering that he has been in hell before).

So while everyone in your former friend group has adapted, and grew apart, Mars is the only one who is still holding on to the past, doing everything in his power to fix what was broken.

"I've been so...utterly alone before I met you. And now I'm alone again."

[oceans-beloved]

WE'RE BACK WITH THE MEMES!!!

Inset vinfire

Heh~😌✨️

[priropro]

a vampire merman with eyes like sapphires. he loves perfume, forget-me-nots, and shiny red nails, and if he loves you, he'll call you "dear" ✨️

[luckydaikon]

From BugBug 2002年01月号 - 忘レナ草～Forget-me-Not～

[thimack]

They should change the title for the tv series from Percy Jackson and the Olympians to Percy Jackson and the Yappers.

CAUSE ALL THEY DO IN THIS SHOW IS YAP!!

WHATS WITH THE FIVE 3 MINUTE LONG EXPOSITION DUMPS EVERY EPISODE THAT JUST SUCKS THE FLOW AND LIFE AND SUSPENSION OUT OF THE STORY

like guys be fr

[flovverworks]

my little boy,,,,,,,,,

[bmpmp3]

DRAW headshots of the vague character designs of the cast of the horror visual novel with a romance-based route structure u were going to make when u were like 17. DRAW them for your health

[clownboymcchucklefuck]

Okay so I'm going to be doing a few big changes for some characters of Despairs Hand with their talents and stuff.

I also have the layout of the school/dorms sketched out and just haven't posted it yet along with some other things I've been working on hehehehe :]

[bisupergirl]

just remembered they're specifically adapting supergirl: woman of tomorrow into a movie. who else is scared.

[coquelicoq]

Hi! I like your commentary and taste on the books and shows you talk about, so may I ask, other than Natsume Yuujinchou, what other anime/manga do you enjoy and why? Sorry for being nosy! Thanks for listening! 🐰💛

sorry to disappoint you, anon, but i think natsume is the first manga i've read? graphical modes of storytelling are generally difficult for me to follow, so i don't read a lot of comic books, graphic novels, or the like. it takes so much effort generally for me to figure out a) who's speaking, b) what order i'm supposed to read the bubbles/panels in (even in western forms that are generally left to right), c) what exact action is happening, etc., etc., that often it's just not worth it to me. the only reason i'm reading the natsume manga is because i've already seen the show and thus can use my preexisting knowledge of the premise, characters, and plotlines as cheat codes to follow along with the manga.

the only other anime i've seen that's coming to mind is cowboy bebop, which i watched long enough ago that i don't really remember much specific about it except that i thought it was really good lol. that one would be fun to do a rewatch of.

so yeah i can't really help you here haha. but i'd love some recommendations from others, especially on anime series! not so much on manga because as stated before it's not my preferred medium.

[forget-me-not-vn]

Forget me not

"Forget me not" is an urban fantasy visual novel that is not only named after my third favourite flower, but also surrounds itself with themes of memories, identity and friendship.

In the game you play as the MC that has lost most of their memories due to a tragic magical accident, but by now have adjusted pretty well to your life again until your former best friend shows back up at your door, and convinces you to reunite with your former friends, that you don't really remember.

Throughout the story you meet six companions who each have their own personalities and former relationship to you. And with each of them you have the chance to decide whether to make up with them or continue their trip without them.

Between the stops of meeting with your friends, you get the chance to have smaller moments with the companions that are already with you, getting to know them better and maybe, just maybe, getting a few glimpses of your old memories. 

With a lot of choices to be made that heavily influence the life of the people around you there are currently 30+ endings planned, depending on which companions, at the end of your road trip, are still with you and whether you are ready to remember again.

[amerasdreams]

My writing process includes some days where I don't write but do writing related work. I plan as I go because that is the best way to keep writing flexible and free, not bound so tightly to a rigid track that it kills allcreativity. Sppntaneity is essential to creation. You need to have rook rook surprising developments your characters add at the last minute. These are some of the funnest parts of writing ans they can lead you in new, fresh directions, providing something better thqn you could have planned ahead of time, because there is no real life in a planning document. Life is where the characters are moving and speaking, and such a dynamic environment creates a woeld for imagination to thrive.

I have my writing process which works for me: I have a rough plan, a path, often a striking image at the heart of the novel im working toward. I have to find the right place to start, then each scene sparks ideas for the next scene so I rarely get stuck writing, rarely get writers block or stare at a blank page. Before I write thr next section, I always edit what I wrote the previous writing session, and i write down notes in my notebook then type them up in an organized way: notes which are directly related to the plot I put in order in my writing document; other notes like for chatscter or setting I put in my reference document. Rereading my own writing always sparks new ideas. Another way i don't get stuck is I leave a cliffhanger sentence. The last sentence that I write for the day is open ended. Sometimes it is not even a completed sentence. Plus perhaps some notes for starting next time. Since it doesn't stop where things are resolved, it leaves space for ideas to spark the next day.

So my writing process includes days I don't necessarily write. Some days I only research, some days I only plan, especially in the beginning, some days I only edit. I don't worry if I get words in because any writing task moves me forward. And on days I write, I consider 1 word a triumph, but I never write just one, because writing one word, even if it's a nonsense word I will delete later, sparks other words. And suddenly I have 300... or perhaps 3000 words.

Another thing which helps get words in is always writing for fun. Writing what I like. Even if it's a lot of "work" it doesn't seem like it bc it's also fun.

One reason it's fun, the main reason really, is that my self absorbs into the character im writing. I become that person and see what they see, feel what they feel. My writing is always better the more successful I am at this, the more I disappear and the more the character emerges, eclipsing my own wants and desires. Then I just have to write what they experience-- and the more clearly I feel what they feel, the more clearly and freshly I can write it.

They say you should write every day, but sometimes a functional writing process looks like writing 1k in a sitting because you're getting a head of yourself, writing 500 words because you had a chapter to wrap up, writing 50 words because you felt too sad to write, writing no words because the state of the world overcame you for a few days, writing 1.5k because sometimes ennui turns into fury and purpose, and then 700 the next day because you remembered that there was a cool scene you wanted to get around to and—

[pan-withnoplan]

I've seen a lot of people get confused by Xie Lian not recognizing Mu Qing the third time he ascends while immediately recognizing Feng Xin, and I don't want to assume but I think the issue is most people forget that in the novel the communication array works only with voices. Like a vocal call, instead of a video call. Granted, the donghua rightfully takes pride in its visual appeal and there's a method in grouping all the characters inside an array with only one background as opposed to switching between multiple places = more work.

When Mu Qing was still a disciple under Xie Lian's protection, he always spoke "softly", "quietly" in general, "coldly" but "enunciating" when he was upset with Xie Lian and Feng Xin, and was very careful to show respect to everyone who was of higher standing than him, even the shixiong who bullied him. As Xie Lian's deputy he was a little more confident and comfortable in showing emotions in general and annoyance in particular, but it's still a long shot from the first words he says to Xie Lian in 800 years, voice (disclaimer: this quote is taken from an unoffical translation) "quite cool and indifferent, and the sentiment it carried was also cool and distant, causing that soft gentleness to turn into something more malicious in intent". Xie Lian says it very candidly when Ling Wen asks him whether he really didn't recognize Mu Qing: "He didn't talk to me like this back then".

Then you have Feng Xin's introduction:

[...]a voice roared angrily. "WHO THE FUCK TORE DOWN MY GOLDEN PALACE?! SHOW YOURSELF!!!"

Didn't change one bit in 800 years lmao. And if this hadn't been the deadest of giveaways, he and Mu Qing immediately start arguing. Of course this one Xie Lian knew.

[horsebeast]

i need to bring back my ttfv insp tag grrr

[physalian]

You don’t have to pay for that fancy worldbuilding program

As mentioned in this post about writing with executive dysfunction, if one of your reasons to keep procrastinating on starting your book is not being able to afford something like World Anvil or Campfire, I’m here to tell you those programs are a luxury, not a necessity: Enter Google Suite (not sponsored but gosh I wish).

MS Office offers more processing power and more fine-tuning, but Office is expensive and only autosaves to OneDrive, and I have a perfectly healthy grudge against OneDrive for failing to sync and losing 19k words of a WIP that I never got back.

Google’s sync has never failed me, and the Google apps (at least for iPhone) aren’t nearly as buggy and clunky as Microsoft’s. So today I’m outlining the system I used for my upcoming fantasy novel with all the helpful pictures and diagrams. Maybe this won’t work for you, maybe you have something else, and that’s okay! I refuse to pay for what I can get legally for free and sometimes Google’s simplicity is to its benefit.

The biggest downside is that you have to manually input and update your data, but as someone who loves organizing and made all these willingly and for fun, I don’t mind.

So. Let’s start with Google Sheets.

The Character Cheat Sheet:

I organized it this way for several reasons:

I can easily see which characters belong to which factions and how many I have named and have to keep up with for each faction

All names are in alphabetical order so when I have to come up with a new name, I can look at my list and pick a letter or a string of sounds I haven’t used as often (and then ignore it and start 8 names with A).

The strikethrough feature lets me keep track of which characters I kill off (yes, I changed it, so this remains spoiler-free)

It’s an easy place to go instead of scrolling up and down an entire manuscript for names I’ve forgotten, with every named character, however minor their role, all in one spot

Also on this page are spare names I’ll see randomly in other media (commercials, movie end credits, etc) and can add easily from my phone before I forget

Also on this page are my summary, my elevator pitch, and important character beats I could otherwise easily mess up, it helps stay consistent

*I also have on here not pictured an age timeline for all my vampires so I keep track of who’s older than who and how well I’ve staggered their ages relative to important events, but it’s made in Photoshop and too much of a pain to censor and add here

On other tabs, I keep track of location names, deities, made-up vocabulary and definitions, and my chapter word count.

The Word Count Guide:

*3/30 Edit to update this chart to its full glory. Column 3 is a cumulative count. Most of what I write breaks 100k and it's fun watching the word count rise until it boils over.

This is the most frustrating to update manually, especially if you don’t have separate docs for each chapter, but it really helps me stay consistent with chapter lengths and the formula for calculating the average and rising totals is super basic.

Not that all your chapters have to be uniform, but if you care about that, this little chart is a fantastic visualizer.

If you have multiple narrators, and this book does, you can also keep track of how many POVs each narrator has, and how spread out they are. I didn’t do that for this book since it’s not an ensemble team and matters less, but I did for my sci-fi WIP, pictured below.

As I was writing that one, I had “scripted” the chapters before going back and writing out all the glorious narrative, and updated the symbols from “scripted” to “finished” accordingly.

I also have a pie chart that I had to make manually on a convoluted iPhone app to color coordinate specifically the way I wanted to easily tell who narrates the most out of the cast, and who needs more representation.

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Google Docs

Can’t show you much here unfortunately but I’d like to take an aside to talk about my “scene bits” docs.

It’s what it says on the tin, an entire doc all labeled with different heading styles with blurbs for each scene I want to include at some point in the book so I can hop around easily. Whether they make it into the manuscript or not, all practice is good practice and I like to keep old ideas because they might be useful in unsuspecting ways later.

Separate from that, I keep most of my deleted scenes and scene chunks for, again, possible use later in a “deleted scenes” doc, all labeled accordingly.

When I designed my alien language for the sci-fi series, I created a Word doc dictionary and my own "translation" matrix, for easy look-up or word generation whenever I needed it (do y'all want a breakdown for creating foreign languages? It's so fun).

Normally, as with my sci-fi series, I have an entire doc filled with character sheets and important details, I just… didn’t do that for this book. But the point is—you can still make those for free on any word processing software, you don’t need fancy gadgets.

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I hope this helps anyone struggling! It doesn’t have to be fancy. It doesn’t have to be expensive. Everything I made here, minus the aforementioned timeline and pie chart, was done with basic excel skills and the paint bucket tool. I imagine this can be applicable to games, comics, what have you, it knows no bounds!

Now you have one less excuse to sit down and start writing.

[deerspherestudios]

hello!! i finished the mushroom oasis demo last night and its safe to say that this is the best visual novel i’ve played so far and i’m so excited to see what’s coming for the approaching days!!!/gen

now for the asks,

1. is there any reason in particular why specifically forget-me-nots were used in day 2?

2. will we get to know more of mychael’s past as the story progresses?

Aaaa thank you, that's always such a high compliment for a silly yan game like mine haha <3! I'm excited to release Day 3 soon!! As for your questions:

is there any reason in particular why specifically forget-me-nots were used in day 2?

Actually, in the first draft of the Day 2 background, the flowers were gonna be white or yellow! I was more focused on how it'd look visually, and couldn't decide between the two, so I released a poll where players help decide and forget-me-nots won! In a way I think it worked out perfectly, I myself am happy with the final results!

2. will we get to know more of mychael's past as the story progresses?

I wanna say yes and no? Mychael isn't the type of person to talk about his past, but you can definitely speculate. He's not the kind of character with history he's running away from, moreso just a guy wanting to live his days out peacefully in the woods. I'll only give as necessary that's related to the ongoing story, don't expect him to traumadump anytime soon haha.