#my actual answer is pretty short since i'm not really elaborating on the context of that scene for once lol

[jichanxo]

hiii jichan, long time no senseific asks from me... am kinda interested why you’ve thought the first kiss scene you wrote several says ago will have such, uh, destructive impact to the other plot points. i mean, it suddenly felt natural for them to kiss earlier than you planned them to, or 👀 (sry i’m awkward, can’t think of another way to convey that i. really appreciate your work)

(context for everyone else. my complaining was in the tags)

hi againnnnn :D well the short answer is that i'm probably being over-dramatic, but since a kiss is a big deal i gotta look over the stuff after that scene with new eyes and make sure all of it checks out with the new context

(more under the cut + general senseific updates for the curious)

it's their second kiss (so far), and i threw it in around the middle after shuffling around some plot points (the plot point shuffling is definitely going to be more, uh, destructive than the kiss is anyway, so i am just being over-dramatic), but uhhh... well it's an early release of tension and expression of yagami's frustration towards kitakata than i originally intended so... that's gonna change how their dynamic is going to feel afterwards until the tension is resolved completely (i.e. they sort their shit out)

i'd just placed those plot points in their new spots and saw a gap in the middle of my fic and was Struck By An Urge so now this kiss scene exists with only a vague idea of what the context behind it will be. ...well, i'll write it when i get to it, i suppose. but it was a lot of fun writing something exciting and new for senseific!

but now i gotta get back to the stuff i actually have to do 😔 which is mostly dance club stuff right now. i am thankfully actually making progress on that front. and later i also gotta check some stuff with the robotics club for a short part in chp 1 and 2. and just give everything a general look for cohesiveness.

chp 1 is, by my judgement, very close to its finished form (i just need to do that short robotics club part and general tweaking)

chp 2 still has quite a ways to go, but i've got big chunks of dance club where i want them now, alongside the existing kuwagami stuff (which is the other focus of that chapter). i also need robotics club stuff here but it's pretty minimal rn

chp 3 is.... well the front half has a direction (resolving the dance club), and then it gets a bit lost. (on a related note, those re-homed plot points start to get placed around here). my focus right now is to get the dance club stuff done and leave this problem to be solved later. when i move onto the robotics club, i'm hoping to see what comes up naturally. for now, i gotta focus on the immediate tasks and all that.

[tenuous separation between chapters 3/4 depending on where 3 ends naturally when i finish writing it]

chp 4 is where the new kiss scene is. and a bit of old writing of where i am generally expecting kuwagami stuff to go. around this point is where things get even further away from a readable state, so i won't go on. ....if their second kiss is in this chapter, feel free to take a guess at when their first will be. hehe.

senseific currently has a working title. chapters 1-3 have titles that i think are not gonna get changed, cause i'm attached to em (but you never know, right?)

general senseific update aside, since that kiss is around (what is currently) chp 4, i am eventually going to have to go over the older writing around that point and make sure it all matches the vibe

[theynanigans]

therion tarot theory - octopath traveler shitpost(?)

(aka this started out as a joke but then i ended up finding the biggest and funniest coincidence and now i need to yell into the void before my single brain cell decides to self-destruct)

i'll try to keep this short!

basically, i've been getting into tarot and other different kinds of card decks lately because the elements they consist of are really fun to play around with when i'm trying to find new art ideas and i love seeing how many unique meanings can be derived from the same symbols!

i started looking through a few different people's interpretations of the major arcana a couple of days ago and my eyes got stuck on the rider-waite deck because... pretty colors, i guess? so i inspected every individual card, theorizing about why certain colors were used in certain areas, when suddenly, i noticed something odd about the color palette of one card in particular - number 18, the moon.

at first i didn't know what it was, but then it hit me. the pillars, the wolf, the dog, the crayfish... i've seen those colors before, in a completely different context.

-"no, that can't be!"- i thought as i pulled up my art program and began furiously applying the eye dropper tool to my associations.

and these are the direct comparisons (or, at least, the closest i could get with how wildly these tend to vary from artwork to artwork)

top left - the pillars vs. therion's hair in most official art (this one is the least matchy because i was lazy and didn't do a double take) top right - the wolf vs. cordelia's hair (this also works with alfyn's hair - probably ophilia's as well - but hers is slightly closer to the original) bottom left - the dog vs. darius' hair (this one is especially funny because i found the matching color next to the dog's butthole) bottom right - the crayfish vs. therion's clothes in his character selection screen artwork (this is literally the same color! i was shook when i saw it)

... still not convinced that there's something going on here? let's look at some of the common keywords that popped up when i began searching for possible meanings of this card: - hidden enemies, secrets - illusions, deception - confusion, fear - the subconscious - intuition, instinct - (human restraint vs.) animal nature

the latter especially stood out to me, since it reminded me of a question of mine that had been left unanswered for a long time: why therion is named therion, greek for "beast" or "wild animal".

if this card was used as an inspiration for therion's story and character, this might actually be a neat explanation! i'm not going to elaborate on this because this post is way too long already, but if anyone wants a more in-depth clarification, i'd be happy to provide one at some point!

... but for now, that's just a theory! a gacdfgvfrtghhnjg- (unintelligible)

tl;dr: - at first, this was me pulling a heehoo funny - then it got out of hand - therion and the moon tarot card are connected somehow - i definitely need answers, not sleep /s