#had it for a while actually but the new skully character is making me think about twst again because nightmare before Christmas peak

[sophiethewitch1]

So sick of being the only one who comes up with my sorts of fanfic ideas like wth...

[tvmm7]

LMAO I GET SO WORRIED ABOUT RANTING!! but yes, I believe everyone should agree with getting Jay.

TO RANT MORE!!! ‼️spoilers lmao‼️

Okay I absolutely love the concept of Brian and Alex coming back like what you portrayed.

BTW IM NOT SAYING ANY OF THIS IS HOW YOU HAVE INTENDED TO WRITE THIS ITS JUST MY TAKE ON THINGS!! 🙏🙏🙏

I also enjoy how you gave Alex some sort of humanity, since he was such a morally gray villian in MH. Him warning Tim, (but of course Tim isn't gonna listen) and then him knowing Jessica wasn't ready, voicing his concern, showing that he really does care. He's worried, and seems to be more upset at Brian for letting Jessica do that – giving her the idea to dress up and then ultimately dying on her first mission. I wonder if he felt guilty for not fighting her and Brian on it more, since he was quick to try and make Tim not go to Jay's when Tim discovered that Jay is Skully.

Don't get me started on how you portray Brian. I absolutely love how you made his character so silly, but also so serious all in one. It's hard to do, and you did that perfectly with Brian in QB. Him knowing he can't stop Jessica, so easily giving in and having some sort of hope that she could help, giving her the disguise, and leading her to her demise. He had to have known she wasn't ready, just like Alex had told him, but he wanted to have hope. I'm wondering if it's because he also wants Tim safe? They were best friends (and I am... a Brim shipper.. so excuse me for this speculation but I love them!) Same with what i said with Alex, I wonder if Brian feels guilty for guiding Jessica to her death.

And then Jay. While I'm so angry at him right now, how you've written him feels so genuinely manic. How he still acts like Jay, you didn't take his character away, but you've expanded on the issues he already had and made them so much worse. You didn't exactly add anything extremely new to him – not talking about the scars um! Those are new alright! – but the way you expanded on his already present issues is so genuinely intriguing to me because that is so hard to do. You've built is character insanely well, how he seems to love Tim but he has something he "has" to do – or he thinks he has to do. I actually have no idea how you're redeeming this man btw because WDYM WHAT HES DOING IS WORSE THAN WHAT ALEX DID....

Tim. God Tim. You have actually written him so insanely well. As above you've written everyone really well! But the way you portray him after everything – accurately portraying the trauma he would have gotten from MH. The love he still has for Jay, the immediate comfort Tim finds with Jay because it's familiar. The fact that Tim is so easily manipulated by Jay. Tim having such a naive trust in Jay because Jay was all he had for so long during MH and he loves him. And that is SO HEART BREAKING because obviously, Jay either feels the same way, or he just knows and used it against Tim – though, I'd like to assume he feels the same way.

Jessica.. I love how protective you wrote her, how she was quick to realize something is wrong with Jay. How she knows they've gone into something they definitely cannot handle. How she knows Tim is going to throw away the life he's built for himself. And how she decides she has to find proof that Jay is Skully, because she doesn't want Tim to be manipulated by him. Which ultimately led to her demise. Her determination and care let her to her demise, and that hurts more than her dying in general. The fact she died trying to protect, trying to help, trying to make sure Tim stays free from whatever is happening.

All in all, you write emotions so well. It all feels so real, which really puts MH to justice since MH also felt SO real in emotions. Also, the way you draw it all is so so good. The way you can portray the emotions in the comic is insane, because it's hard to do. You have inspired me so much ngl I really wanna make art for this 😭

Anyways, after that long rant! Hope you enjoyed that LMAO

Hi! I am LOSING IT.. I just binged all of Quartz Bees and LET ME TELL YOU..

1. I am obsessed with it! It's so cool!!

2. Almost the entire read through either my jaw was on the floor or I was panic covering my mouth.

3. I AM GOING TO GET YOU.. I am so in love and angry all at once I AM HURT.. I am so angry at Jay 😭

4. Absolutely in love with Brian and Alex being ghosts!! The concept is genuinely so cool to me!! I love Brian's goofy self.

5. I saw the thing where you said that Jay is going to do SO MUCH WORSE than was Alex did in MH and you have no idea how scared I am like I am fr horrified. Idc how many times you're apologizing Jay idc how sorru you are I AM GOING TO GET YOU!!!

..sorry for that rant! Anyways, please expect fanart from me when I finish my art fight attacks!

DON'T YOU EVER APOLOGISE FOR RANTING, I LOVE LISTENING TO PEOPLE RANT ABOUT SOMETHING THEY LIKED (my comics nonetheless o3o)

I am so happy you liked it!!!! Also I'm glad my whole audience agreed that they're going to get Jay XDDD

[chezzkaa]

Please continue with this arc, I am in love your style of writing! You love your fans and it shows in your writing. So looking forward to what happens next. I am wondering how you feel about the way that you have grown with these characters in your mind if that makes sense. I wonder if we can get a point of view of Ryan/Skully after Cinder's/Y/N's death. How Jeremy helped him in a way, aka the battle buddies forming? Do you have any tips for new writers, since I don't know where/ how to start?

I don’t think I’ll ever be able to give up Cinders, I love them all far too much. Whether that be through my own content, or someone commissioning for a specific event mentioned in passing. I’m going to jump at every opportunity to keep these guys alive and kicking.

These characters have developed into more than just elements of a story, I genuinely feel they could be real if only they had a physical body. After putting so much effort into the construction of their personalities, responses, humour and past it’s become easy to write for them. I can put two of them together with a situation in mind and the conversation just happens. But I also feel I’ve grown as an actual person while working with them. I strive to be a combination of each of them. Ray and Jon, more so - but each have a trait I admire and want the reader to take away.I could do a full analysis EASILY on each character and they’re importance to me/reader; but an essay isn’t always as fun to read. 

As for a Ryan perspective on the deaths, It’s something I’m considering for the Embers series. It would be extremely dark, and quite aggressive; no way around it. But you guys don’t seem to mind that!I love every single person that has given my work a chance. From the silent reader to people like you who shoot through messages. Without you guys I wouldn’t be in the process of rereading/editing Cinders for publishing. I have a novel because of every fan (that word still feels weird?) and you deserve to know at every opportunity!TOP 6 TIPS: 1) Writing is tough. The best piece of advice I can offer is just start. You’ve got a bit of dialogue/conversation bouncing around in your head? Jot it down. You’ve got an idea that may go nowhere? Write about it. 

2) Writing should be for you, and no one else in the beginning. Motivation can really plummet if you start posting and have a low note count. If you enjoy what you’re doing, and the character’s you’re bringing to life; everything will be easier. And the readers will come.

3) Work with something realistic when it comes to interactions. You could have the craziest situation EVER, and the reader will recognise that shit’s fucked up. So why not the characters? It’ll add another level to the narrative and make your characters more believable. Take Ray for example, buggers always poking sarcastic holes in everything. People also say ‘err’ and ‘um’, so keep that in mind. No one generally talks in proper English, so colloquialisms will be very beneficial. 

4) It doesn’t just happen. Writing can take hours and sometimes weeks. Sometimes you just can’t push any further with a fic, and that’s alright. Leave it and come back with a clear mind, and ask yourself what direction you were trying to go. You can’t force it, so work with it. Have a cuppa tea and enjoy a distraction. I’ll be there when you get back.

5) If you’re working with a concept that’s been rehashed thousands of times, it doesn’t matter. As long as you create something original you’ll have nothing to worry about. High school AU? Maybe someone got murdered during the semester and that’s unfolding in the background. FAHC Immortals? Hey, cybernetic legs, people can dye if certain things are damaged, etc (Cinders). Make the story your own through characters/events/situations.

6) Grammar and spell check. My lord, it can be difficult but it’s really worth it in the end. I’m sure my fic has some problems, especially now that I’m reading it back - but a well written narrative makes for much better content. I can’t count the amount of times I’ve found a concept and just can’t get past the first 500 words because of the clumsy sentences/structures. It’s more work, but will make the whole experience much more enjoyable in the long run.

[tumblunni]

ANYWAY! I’mma gonna talk about my playthru of Digimon World Next Order, to distract me from the fact i’m rapidly approaching the ending and have to wait to sate my JRPG tastes on Persona 5 afterwards...

* it is really really REALLY REALLY really REALLy great to finally be able to play a game in the DW series as a female character. Holy SHIT, man this is overdue! And it isnt handled awfully like in Cyber Sleuth where everyone constantly calls you male and the character design is really oversexualized and doing weirdass poses for everything. There’s still a lil bit of ‘cliche girly option traits’ but seriously she’s like the least stereotyped design we’ve had in the games since Dusk and Dawn! She gets to wear SHORTS and A HOODIE! A hoodie that has an inexplicable hole in the back for some reason, but whatever! xD Also I actually like her version of the Protagonist Hair better, even tho I think its lame they colour coded them in the ol cliche genderedness. Boy character just has one streak of coloured hair at the front, but girl has a spiralling streak on the end of her ponytail that looks like a punk poison sort of fashion~! And it leaks pixels when she runs, and has a really nice glow effect that kinda makes it draw patterns as you swing her model around. Makes me wanna run in circlesssss~ Her dubbed voice is a bit boring cliche anime love interest tho, a bit squeaky after you’ve been hearing it for hours. But the dude is Like Every Shonen Hero Voice Ever, so i think its meant to be intentionally generic for both of them. I could swear he’s voiced by a bad Tai impersonator! XD Also I’m just kinda thankful cos every other girl in the plot gets a REALLY squeaky unbearable english voice, thank god protagonist is spared...

* its a lil bit of funnyness tho that for some reason the skill list is the only place where the translators forgot about the protagonist options. Like.. a LOT of Tamer Skills are weirdly gendered when it would have taken five seconds to change that. Why does it have to be stuff like ‘Cooking Boy’ and ‘Cooking Man’ instead of basic and advanced cooking? Especially cos the other one in between is called Gourmet Cooking...

* I love forever that so many of the virus type recruitable digimon are sweethearts of hugs and joy. Now THAT reminds me of the original Digimon World! Seriously I am SO GLAD that Literally The Same Myotismon has a sidequest about rescuing his precious myobrella so he won’t faint in the sun. or like.. if its not the same Myotismon then MAN he would totally be a great ship with the other equally helpless one in the first game XD He has a nice new function as a townsperson, instead of just being ‘a manager’ in the colloseum and never even being a fight. (That annoyed me as a kid! He just stands there!) Now he runs the card gallery, cos you collect ‘antique cards’ in this game and he restores them with his painting skillz. its a nice lil in-joke cos they’re all the original first trading card artworks from waaaaay back in the first season! And Piedmon is in this one too, yay! He’s actually like the only morally dubious virus type AT ALL, he talks like a cliche mwahaha mad scientist even as he does nothing particularly evil. His sidequest is a funny thing of playing hide and seek and he sucks at it. While yelling hammily about being an evil genius! And then he has quite a useful function in the town, he does a random effect on you once per day with his evil science, and it could be good or it could be bad, but if its bad he actually pays you compensation money for it! EVEN THE EVIL GUY IS TOO KIND And OH MAN I am so happy and sad for Skullgreymon! A good guy skullgreymon was always one of my ideas for a DW fangame, im so happy it happened for real! In this game Skullgreymon is a fashion designer with low self confidence, and you recruit them by finding weregarurumon who’s their biggest fan and becomes their first friend. Its so sweet! They never actually interact once you recruit them both tho, cos they work at different parts of the town. But im still gonna assume they keep in touch! Its also a shame skullgreymon doesnt actually run a fashion shop, cos there actually WAS a fashion shop in Digimon World Redigitize aka the one damn game we’ll never see dubbed T_T Instead skullgreymon gets this kinda depressing role of just standing around outside the entertainment area saying ‘i wish i could work with children but they’re always scared of me’, and then if you bring a newly hatched digimon to see them then they gain bonus stats from being terrified somehow?? NOOO WHERE IS THE OPTION TO TEACH MY CHILDREN THAT SKULLY IS A FRIEND

* Anyway, my main digimon are (still) Hershey and Zephyr, and I love them! I’m still working on hoping to eventually get the full terriermon and lopmon canon digivolution lines with them, wow its hard. But I adore them no matter what form they take at the moment! I ended up loving them so much that i never raised any other digimon ever. i just rename them the same name every time they reincarnate, and pick the same eggs! I’ve gotten close to unlocking every single variation of the bunno brothers evo lines!! But it IS getting really annoying that you have to type the name manually every time, why no option to just stick with the previous name? DW1 had that and it was on way worse hardware! Oh, and its funny that I started off calling them the bunny brothers cos thats what they were in adventure 02, but then after playing the game for ages I’ve settled on headcanoning hershey as female and zephyr as nonbinary. And also I started off with the cliche personalities of sassy rebel terriermon and stoic lopmon like in Tamers, but Hershey ended up being the rebel instead and Zephyr is like a shonen hero cinnamon roll! They’re both equally sassy and eccentric tho XD I’m not quite sure yet what would be their ‘canon’ final mega forms that I wanna keep them in for the final boss and stuff. But hershey’s made me regain my appreciation of Ladydevimon after I stopped liking her as soon as I grew old enough to understand that most of her fans only liked her for being ‘a stripper’ :P Like.. she’s a really damn good design even without the fanservice?? I like her way more than devimon, myotismon and etc, I wish she’d gotten to be a major villain! i mean it sucks that devimon got to be one when she’s literally his evolved form. (And yes I am happy that it continues to be canon that ladydevimon can digivolve from devimon and the same for angewomon and angemon. DIGIMON AINT RESTRAINED BY HUMAN GENDER ROLES YO) So yeah anyway, I kinda headcanon Hershey as a hypothetical less skimpy redesign of LadyDevimon? or like.. if she got her own unique Mega form that kept a similar design, rather than just being retconned into lilithmon and rosemon’s evo lines. I just don’t think the skimpyness fits with Hershey’s personality but the rest of the design just has such a cool piratey thiefy type look?? And she’s like THE BEST monster girl in the franchise, she’s the only one who really gets to be monstery looking, even if she’s still an hourglass figure sex object. i mean i always thought it was meant to be a subversion of that?? She has that giant monster claw hand and is really vicious and powerful in battle! All her animations in the game are her shredding things with it and doing the classic dracula rise-from-the-grave when she’s knocked out, and just... ITS REALLY BADASS!! I didnt know how cool a fight with her could be, cos she just got that stupid ass fanservice joke slap fight in the anime... ANYWAY Ladydevimon is good I appreciate her I like her even though she’s in the general genre of fanservice digimon that I dislike. She’s like the one single one I dont hate! (Tho I still wish we had more than like.. two un-fanservice female digimon in the entire damn series) Buuuut I dont think her design quite fits Hershey even though she’s the digivolution I keep using ingame. Maybe if I can find a different Mega that I prefer, and make up a fanmade digivolution line? or I could do a fanart variation of the digimon...

* ANYWAY I kinda ended up headcanoning Hershey as a former member of the broken apart pirate crew in Mod Cape. Cos like.. what if your digimon had backstories of what their life was like before they met you! like Gatomon in Adventure, they were chosen to be partners to a destined hero but had to wait so long they’d become disillusioned. Cos when you meet em at the start of the game they’re mega level and only get poofed back into eggs cos of machinedramon’s attack. WHAT LIFE DID YOU LEAD WITHOUT ME. I AM HERE TO PROTECT YOU NOW AAAAAAA!! So yeah it would be cool to headcanon Hershey as a former highway bandit type character who has trouble adjusting to living in a city surrounded by happy innocent people and hugs. I dont see her as grumpy tho.. like, she’s kind of a bombastic trickster archetype but she’s still super cynical and ‘I only care about myself, anything else gets you hurt’. I was thinking maybe if I designed a fanmade mega for her she could be like a magician pirate zombie demon??? Like.. yknow piedmon is a deck of cards clown guy with those four daggers? i actually got Piedmon as her digivolution when she was a Ladydevimon and I was thinking MAN it could be so cool if we had like a zany zombie digimon who attacks by stabbing a sword through her own back! Like ‘watch me saw a woman in half’ XD A design where she has a load of weapons stuck in her and uses them to fight with! like how mummymon is a mummy + soldier in a leg brace design, hypothetical zombiemon could be a zombie + actual tragic assassination victim. Plus a magician. Or a clown. And ladydevimon. And a pirate. LOOK I JUST HAVE A LOT OF MUTUALLY CONTRADICTORY HEADCANONS OKAY xD

* I don’t really have as much development ideas for Zephyr yet, aside from that they’re Hershey’s more cheerful and positive sibling. But I see them as also being kinda creepy and battle-hungry and stuff? Like.. both these twins are total virus types, clown type, typical final villain type of acrobatic doom! And both are good guys deep down. But Zephyr is a more cinnamon roll type of good and Hershey is grumpy unwillingly dragged into goodness. And like.. Zephyr is a bit dotty and only accidentally creepy, not really understanding how to socialize properly. And probably they would be like ‘NO BIG SISTER, STEALING IS BAD’ *currently stabbing a guy* I think maybe my headcanon for Zeph might be that they were for some reason left completely alone while waiting for the protagonist? Hershey at least found some companionship with the pirates, even if she became super bitter after the team broke up. I think Zeph maybe started off as a wild forest mon that’d even forgotten how to speak, until by pure chance they bumped into their long lost twin sister and then met the protagonist. So like an innocent angel who’s all new to the city and excited about everything, but also kinda fighty and dangerous because of the same stuff that makes them innocent. I dunno, I might make them an angewomon or ophanimon to match with Hershey? Tho I wanted to make them both good guy virus types, it could be an equally interesting contrast to have a vicious battle-obsessed angel who’s the absolute opposite of softspoken fancyness! And I also kinda associate them with the colour green even though I ended up picking a grey themed digivolution for Hershey instead. But all of Terriermon’s natural digivolutions are all machiney and don’t suit this personality as much... I dunno, maybe I could make up another headcanon/variant type thing? Cos after all lopmon’s line gets two champion level forms and two megas but terriermon only has two recolours for the same ultimate level. Maybe even it out, lol! Or like, I’m thinking like.. what if Terriermon had a mega that suited Henry more? i was reading someone’s review where they said it was weird that pacifistic Henry got a giant robot specializing in attack while Rika got the humanoid pacifist digimon. And yeah, that IS totally weird! And it got me imagining what if Terriermon got a humanoid digivolution that was like a martial artist?? or maybe like a speedy superhero lookin armour thing! Like just a more humanoid rapidmon! or I dunno maybe if puppetmon is in this game then zephyr could be puppetmon. I miss puppetmon. puppetmon never got to be in ANY games except dusk and dawn! I WANNA SEE A 3D PUPPETMON YO!!

* Man I just spent this entire post rambling my headcanons for silent protagonist characters instead of actually talking about the game... aaaa...

[brittlebutch]

Question about Marble Hornets: What's up with Skully (I think that's his name), I've seen fan art of him but I don't remember seeing him in the videos at all?

Yes!! Skully is an excellent example of a dropped plotline in Marble Hornets; when they planned the series, they never really planned for anything past season one (which ends with Entry #26; Jay’s thanks was meant to be the last thing we’d ever see from him), but decided to pick it back up and follow things through when the response was super positive (and thank god they did lol)

as a result, there are some plotlines that were introduced that wound up being dropped as the story developed further, Skully and the Stigmata arc/theme are two really good examples of this. We do actually see Skully at least two times in the series, but they’re Very quick cameos. We see him through what seems like a peep hole of a door in Entry #26 (the link should go straight to that point of the video), and then another quick reference to him in the totheark upload Memories. 

I’m going to put a further explanation under a read more, because I know a lot of people are starting to watch Marble Hornets after seeing me post about it and I want to be a little more careful about spoilers (even if it might be a case of ‘too little too late’ lmao); plus this might just get super long

Skully was meant to be a masked state for Jay, the same way that Tim and Brian have Masky and Hoody respectively. Outside of the 7 months that he lost because of the Operator at the start of season 2, Jay had been struggling with losing time (particularly on the twitter. there’s one incident where he didn’t post for 2 weeks or so, then tweeted saying that he had woken up in his car near the forest and wasn’t sure how he got there and definitely didn’t know that 2 weeks had passed. He then takes at least another week to make his way back to his hotel, despite the fact that he seems to think that he’s getting things done over a matter of hours.) Jay’s disappearance in Entry #19 (and reappearance in Return) are also allusions/the precursor to this state. 

In the Memories video above, the phrase that shows up with the drawing of Skully’s mask “So much more than time has been taken” is in direct reference to this. Jay’s lost a lot of time (the 7 months), but he’s also lost awareness/consciousness of whatever actions he might have been taking in that state. BUT they wound up dropping the plotline and it never went anywhere

But, he’s been a fan favorite for a while, because everyone loves the masked characters lol, and it’s what makes his reappearance in the new comic series very interesting for a lot of people! technically Jay being Skully is never settled as Canon, so there’s a lot of curiosity around whether Jay might still be alive, might be ‘technically’ alive but thoroughly changed, or if someone else is undertaking the role of Skully entirely!! 

(Personally, i sort of waffle back and forth about the concept as a whole, almost entirely because I do kind of prefer the interpretation that the people under the masks are operating entirely as themselves (tim as a debatable exception). if jay was completely unaware of himself as skully, then it sort of raises a bunch of questions as to what Is going on with the masks. we know for sure that the operator does NOT use proxies or any kind of mind control, and even if it did we know that the masked characters Don’t work ‘for’ it because they take deliberate and consistent steps against it and alex throughout the series. but if masked characters are their own sort of separate entities from the people under the mask, then what the hell are they? idk if that makes sense, but that’s sort of where i stand with it. that being said, if the comic iteration does turn out to be jay i’ll be over the moon; i miss him!!)