#siffrin feels to exposed

[ack-cough]

Throwing this into the cursed sprites ring

Oh

Oh I don't like this,,

[ricecaqes]

(You want to tear those feelings out.)

goodmorning guys putting siffrin into the blender on this fine day . ihad this idea mostly cause i was feeling insane but then i remembered that crush dialogue and realized oh perfect. ingame dialogue ...... a reasonable way to justify this drawing . Yay! anyways i havent rendered like this (ordrawn anything similar to this at all tbh) in forever so it was scary but its done and out into the world Goodbye

[schellybelly]

I finally beat, In Stars and Time

And all I have to say is... wow... I'm an emotional wreck. Time to recommend this game to everyone I know. :)

[mantisgodiveblog]

First off: “ We want to know if Siffrin would actually eat it if presented with One (1) raw potato during snack time.” I feel like he would. He is so ‘commit to the bit until I (perhaps literally) drop dead’. Secondly: Yeah, I can understand getting sick of seeing the same repetitive tropes! Somehow fanfic feels bite sized enough anything goes for me, but in actual books? Sometimes they feel like a nothing sandwich made of the same tropes as the last sandwich I just had.

We think that Bonnie should commit to the bit and start feeding Siffrin One whole raw potato, on grounds that it would be funny. Going to make the man commit to the bit so hard he gets food poisoning.

It's the other way around with us, honestly. Because fanfiction uses pre-established characters, all of the little ways in which poorly-handled tropes warp characterization become immediately evident. You're taking a character with their own particular personality and fitting it to a mold, and the contrast between the once-was and the is-here makes it so that every little crack is blindingly obvious. You see the shape of the roles that the characters are forced into, time and time again, and you see precisely where characters splinter to fit that, because you have that before and after comparison to show precisely where the traits are being selected.

The bite-sized-ness of fanfiction makes it a bit worse, honestly. It condenses it down to hit just the key points, and if you don't have the longform fic time to show the progress, it's all the more evident what you're introducing to get things over with in a quick period of time. We aren't immune to this, of course - we've probably got our fair share of distortions, especially in AU work - but the way that it narrows down differences to just the shift in author perception shines a brilliant spotlight on these little cracks, at least from our perspective.

It's not as though published books don't have their own flaws, but there's nothing to expose a bias like working with something people already have a vantage point on, and there's absolutely nothing that shows a critical gap in judgment as much as an author horrifically fumbling a scenario you've seen done infinitely better with the exact same characters multiple times before. Everyone working with the same tools means that it's much easier to judge execution, and it also, unfortunately, lets you know precisely who doesn't know to use the tools they've got without twisting them into something fundamentally different.

[instarsandtime]

isa left them alone 🙏🙏🙏 (nooo but i love isa come backkkk)

sif looking at loops awful coping mechanisms: woah that’s fucking crazy why can’t i do that i need to do that

loop fluctuating wildly between the fighter isa and isabeau this is beautiful

2!!!!!!!!!! siffrins!!!!!!!!!!!! yes!!!!!!!!

isabeau tripping and sif blaming himself goes crazy (in a good way)

they’re just two little adorable idiots and i’m in love with their love they’re actually so cute 😭

THE FIRST KISS THEY WOULD BOTH REMEMBER AHHLABCJSNAKXJAOEHDAJSHOSAB ( <me disintegrating) godddd they’re so cute together like im going insane they’re so cute

i feel like loop probs has some issues with their appearance bc. yk. they’re a star. but i feel like bonnie being this enthusiastic about wanting to glow like loop and kinda be like loop in that way might help them (i hope god i love loop)

mirabelle picking out the outfit for loop 😭😭 she’s so cute and so determined to do well

ok i literally don’t know if i want odile to investigate and figure out who loop is or if i don’t because on one hand i don’t want loop to freak out and have a break down (because im in love w them) but on the other hand i want odile to know and i wanna see her reaction to finding out (bc im in love w her)

OMGG ENJOY UR VACATION HAVE FUN AND RELAX SO HARD!! 💪💪🔥🔥

also yes fantasy cuba is def correct what else could it possibly be

Yay for getting to read your comment!

I'll answer from the part it cut off on Ao3!

They are really cute, Isa and Sif. My precious lil guys.

Loop definitely has issues with their appearance. Especially the glowy part. I mean Sif kinda hides under their cloak so Loop must be feeling pretty exposed too. Like they are attracting a lot of attention.

Who knows if Odile will figure it out or not. We'll see! It would probably be better for Loop but also yes they would very much panic. But we'll seeeeeee

Thank you I'll have a good vacation. See you sooooon (I'll probably still be on Tumblr tho lol)