#once i finish some other projects

[affiesque]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 奇蹟 | Kiseki: Dear to Me (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Ai Di | Eddie/Chen Yi (Kiseki: Dear To Me) Characters: Ai Di | Eddie, Chen Yi (Kiseki: Dear To Me) Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Explicit Sexual Content, Breathplay, Explicit Language, Heavy Angst, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Canon-Typical Violence, Fake Character Death, no one actually dies, an unsurprising amount of crying, but also a lot of comforting, background Bai Zong Yi Summary: Just an exploration of a couple of months post-canon. Ai Di grapples with his past and tries to figure out how to live in the present.

So this fic was an attempt to weave together some scraps of backstory we got throughout the show, along with some good old fashioned smut and a bit of fluff. (Please take careful note of the additional tags in case there’s anything that’s a no-go for you.)

Enjoy! 🖤

[sysig]

Moving out of concept art and into what’s Actually Done! Showcased here are a couple expressions for both pets so far with their dialogue balloons - mostly pulled from NPC references, but I did get a screenshot of my pet in-game using it in reply, not just in Kinzchat! So cute <3

They’re both introducing themselves here with the names I’ve given them, but I really wanted the process to be as Webkinz-like as possible, with a few extras :)

Which started with being able to pick pet pronouns! Thinking about it now, Webkinz doesn’t ask for player pronouns, does it? :0 But I wanted that to be an option too! It was...something of a process to go from one set of adjustable pronouns to three, especially as I haven’t played with any Ghosts that give you the option to assign both the character(s)’ and player’s pronouns! I had to give it a fair bit of thought of what to check against and how to not have them interfere with or overwrite each other (which did happen early on lol), but I got it! Only took a couple hours of frustrated-sleepily hammering away haha

These screenshots were taken pretty much back-to-back - the only thing changed here is what shell is being used, and shell-checking has come in soooo clutch here ahh, thank goodness ♥ Many and big thank-yous again to @cherryistired​​ for helping me troubleshoot menu shell-switching! Exactly what I needed, am very grateful :D

My original concept sketch of this process was perhaps a little overconfident in what I could accomplish for my first time playing in code lol; I have seen custom pronoun-setting though! And I think I probably could do that, but multiple pronouns... Again, I think I could, but... The name of the game was limiting my scope (lol) to see how many Different things I could implement in short order, so I’ll gladly take my three sets of pronouns and pet names vs. player name and go haha

It’s also a bit funny to look back on this little Diamond - I really haven’t drawn her much! Kind of loosely following Webkinz’ style, her face looks especially silly I think haha

I’ve also got my main menu balloon looking rather fabulous imo ✨ Technically there’s two - More and Back - and most of the features are Very Much in the Coming Soon To A Ghost Near You phase lol, but they’re all {bracketed} up to be filled in as I get their assets made :D There’s still a few placeholder pieces here and there - especially since I haven’t gotten to inter-Ghost communication just yet. Everything in its own time!

I ended up having a lot-a lot of fun with naming and renaming, I went a little silly with Just How Many reactions the pets could have to their names haha

They’ll refuse to be named after any of the Hosts directly, and they’ll give you a side-eye if the name is Close To but not Quite a match haha

The mischievous expression has gotten an awful lot of use already! Although I’ll probably change the “Nu-uh!” expression to something else once I have an alternative that fits better - I need that gradient-to-mad expression set so bad!

And although they won’t accept NPC names, you can name yourself after a Host, and they’ll react! :D There really is so much flexibility for Easter Eggs like this ahh, it’s fun!

All told, I ended up playing the most in Bootend, Menu, Nameteach (hgh), and String, although I’m realizing now that maybe a lot of the stuff I put in String belongs in Word...? It’s all been OnFunctions anyhow, and it’s organized in a way that makes sense to me but is perhaps not as intended lol - nothing says I can’t go back in and move some stuff around, as long as it continues to function properly haha. I’ve kept my error log neat and tidy!! As many times as I’ve broken something, I’ve fixed it thereafter! :D It’s a very satisfying process ♪

[icewindandboringhorror]

little lord cottonball gazing down from his ominous perch

[puppppppppy]

I made a lmk oc

[ask-thearchivists]

Not a ask but I see many occasions in which askers could accidentally say the Archivists's true names:

- Asks about the Earth's moon.

- It's the only planet's natural Satellite.

Cartographer: Eeek!

- Asks about the sun's name in other languages.

- Sun, Sol, Solaris... Etc...

Curator: Eeek!

- Asks about the moon again

- Oh it has many phases! My favorite one is Crescent!

Charmer: Eeek!

- Asks about eclipse

- Oh, what I most love about the eclipse is the Penumbra in the ambience.

Coordinator: Eeeek!

XDDD Imagine that!

Yeah, I love that they're all saying "Eeek!" like a cartoon woman from the 50s seeing a mouse. XD Fun fact about Penumbra's name is that I'm pretty sure I came up with her name first and I was like "Space names, space names...is Penumbra space related? It means 'shadow' or 'darkness' right?" *googles it* "IT IS SPACE RELATED, I ALWAYS WIN!" also to make up for the lack of asks here's an EVEN OLDER picture (that I literally found by accident right before answering this) of their original designs where you can see I had different colors for Satellite and Penumbra's skin (I feel a little bit of regret about changing them, I actually like these colors more in retrospect), and THREE of them had different pronouns. The Ancient Lore. Satellite has had they/them energy since the dawn of time.

Another fun fact that I learned a few months later after googling whether console like "console table" and "to console" are spelled the same, and though they are, they have different origin words, like for instance, in "to console" the "sol" is derived from the Latin word for "soothe" which is. Solari. So that's funny and half ironic.

[birdylion]

Folks with too many hobbies and not enough time, how do you keep track of your hobby projects?

[gatoraid]

My contribution to the Kitchen Extended Universe! And it's an OT3!!

5900 words, Esen POV

Established Ouyang/Xu Da, eventual Ouyang/Xu Da/Esen (but it takes them years to get there)

Featuring Esen realizing some hard truths about life and trying his best to be a girldad

[courtillyy]

dude i have been looking forward to today for weeksssss but lowkey i just want to stay at home and write fic and work on the tournament ideas/plans lol

[typheus]

anyway. started the yearly mystery sock pattern :p

[lilleputtu]

We're heading down the forest path for the next household this round. Elena Thistleroot, her plantsim son Aspen, as well as Lilith Pleasant and Miranda Capp are living in the patched up ruins of the Abandoned Keep.

No family trees this times. You can find the relevant ones here and here.

[sysig]

Guess who :3c (Patreon)

[icewindandboringhorror]

Apparently I can meet my goal of roughly 400,000 words in 6 months if I just somehow write at least 2,200 words a day ghbjh... Almost 2,500 today... huzzah...

[heartbeatbookclub]

guess who spent way too much time working on writing stuff and thinking about ddlc tonight and is going to regret it in *checks watch* 5 hours

this guy!

[good-beansdraws]

He took a flower in its prime, and then he used it, and he abused it — it was a murder, but not a crime!

Cell Block Tango gave me too many Mahiru thoughts to pass up a reference 👀 (Textless ver under the cut)

[seventh-district]

it’s finally getting cold enough that i can bring my cardigan collection back into rotation without feeling like i’m gonna melt into a puddle the second i step outside!!!

[jaeyunverse]

only 6 more days for 12th grade to officially finish and my exams to be over. perhaps jaeyunverse comeback with a long fic ????? 😳