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For the writers ask, 18 & 21!

18. Do any of your stories have alternative versions? (plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterisations?) Tell us about them.

I think I mentioned before that the Revan holocron could've been outright evil and planning to steal Barriss's body early on. If you're a fan of Amphibia, Darcy shows exactly what Revan!Barriss would sound like and how they would interact with Ahsoka.

Reviss: Ah, the famous Ahsoka. Dumber than a bag of rocks, and yet somehow, the Rebellion's last hope.

I'd brainstormed the plot for Obsolete Products before TEotS ended, and it was originally going to be part of that story, but since Season 7 of TCW was coming I decided to remove that arc and work on it after seeing the finale.

More recent, Barriss's encounter with Yoda could've become much more hostile, including Barriss demonstrating her form of Force lightning. I decided it didn't make sense to escalate that far, and made the meeting more somber. Meeting F, the Jedi survivor from "The Village Bride", was also a possibility, but that could be its own story.

21. What other medium do you think your story would work well as? (film, webcomic, animated series?)

Animated series, definitely. Most of the stories are meant to be visualized like a Clone Wars episode.

[electricshoebox]

7 and 15 (for TEOTS?) 🙂💜

Aw thank you friend!

7. what is you favourite sentence/paragraph? read it to us! Well first of all thank you for asking in general and for TEOTS in particular because this would be a lot harder with A Line in the Sand lol. Secondly, I'm afraid I don't have an easy means of recording myself, and I'd kinda feel extremely self-conscious (I can babble on stream but reading my own writing feels a little weird), so I'm just going to quote. This was an angsty little thing, but I felt good about Deacon finally putting words to this.

He’s let MacCready help. Well. He’s let MacCready help to a point. He frowns as he lets the punching bag settle again while he circles it. Deacon’s let MacCready in closer than anyone else has ever gotten to be, close enough to be part of the thing Deacon cares about most. But even then, as far and as deep as that trust has carried them, there is a point where Deacon does draw a line. Because… because Deacon would give everything for the Railroad. He doesn’t know how not to. He doesn’t know how to be any other way. He doesn’t know how to give less than his life, because giving his life is the only thing that feels like giving enough. It’s the only fair trade. Barbara gave up hers just for being what she was. How could he give any less and still have it be enough?

15. describe your wip in the weirdest/most contrived way possible! Oh my god. Okay. God. "Bestselling instructional manual for spies and mercenaries who fall in love and have to figure things out from there, featuring sections such as: How to Pretend You Two Aren't Fucking When You're in Public, How to Balance Your Lover and Your Hyper-Paranoid Spy Organization When the Dislike Is Mutual, and How to Let Yourself Be Loved After All. Featuring a special new bonus section: What to Do When Your Boss Blows Up a Vertibird and Starts a War Right in Front of You."

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[korelore]

nobody asked for this but i’ve been doing a marathon of the doctor who christmas specials to prepare for winter holidays and i have developed a Take: christmas special regenerations bad.

first of all, this is a personal vendetta. i’ve been watching doctor who since i was 10, so not just once, but TWICE (for eleven and twelve) i was at my aunt’s house on christmas, huddled away in the master bedroom, sobbing my eyes out, while everyone else played games in the living room and then laughed at my emotional distress when i emerged from my cave of sadness.

secondly, i am an adult now, and i think that making the christmas special a regeneration episode is lazy and stupid for logical reasons. this was revealed to me through the scoring system i use to rank these episodes, which is:

quality (0-5): mostly ranking the quality of the plot. it’s doctor who, so being a little weird is a given, but if i had to watch it more than once to figure out what was happening (the next doctor didn’t make sense to me until i was 15) or if i have trouble suspending my disbelief then it loses points.

ridiculousness (0-5): again, it’s doctor who. if it doesn’t get weird i don’t want it. episodes i dislike can earn back points here by virtue of creativity and quirkiness. examples of points earned here were the master being an electrokinetic carnivore (the end of time), the doctor living on a cloud (the snowmen), and flying the TARDIS on a highway (the runaway bride). basically creativity points. it doesn’t have to be good, just weird.

holiday spirit (0-5): easy metric. does it make me feel like i’ll look outside and see snow? does it seem to forget it’s a christmas special halfway through? is it literally just a regular episode with some christmas decorations in the back?

bonus point (0-1): usually for soundtrack, sometimes costume design.

a trend i have picked up on through this marathon has been the descending quality of the regeneration episodes over time. the end of time (1 and 2) got a combined score of 3, the time of the doctor got a 2, and twice upon a time got a 1 (ouch). ridiculousness scores varied widely, and holiday spirit was 3-4 for each. most interestingly, TEOT and TTOD both got a bonus point for soundtrack.

this has led me to the conclusion that, over time, it has been revealed to the doctor who writers that a regeneration episode can be bad. not just boring, but messy and weird and not as good as the rest of the season. it doesn’t matter if you combine two different sources of nostalgia (christmas and regeneration), go nuts on the soundtrack, and let the doctor have a long goodbye monologue before he goes to prompt the fans to cry. the problem is that a great soundtrack and flowery monologue does not a good episode make, even if it gets people to cry.

this theory is proven by the fact that the average quality score of the non-regeneration specials is 3.5, which is 1.5 points higher than the quality score of the regeneration specials. without the regeneration to lean on, it seems like writers generally put in more work to make a good episode. there are outliers (the next doctor is my punching bag i hate that one so much), but most of them seem to put more weight on a tighter-knit plotline and an actual christmas theme than intentionally forcing an emotional response independent of the episode plot.

also please stop making me cry on holidays. my family has been making fun of me for years about it.

tl;dr: regenerating on christmas lets writers slack on forming a good plot because they know everyone’s gonna cry anyway, so the actual quality of the episode goes down when the doctor regenerates in it.

[cuddlebearable]

So yeah, I mentioned this a little while back, but I think this is something I need to delve a bit into as to give some sight into the experiences (at least mine) as a creator in the undertale community. 

Also how it was both some of the best and the worst periods in my life. Yep.

So, we all know it. Or I suppose that most people reading this does. But undertale as a fandom, especially after the initial release skyrocketed as a fandom. I personally never played the game but instead watched Cryaotic play it. 

It was great and it was fun and it was huge.  

I had no idea where to start, it was my first fandom I wanted to dip my toes into after I left my previous fandom of 4 years. 

At the time I entered (late 2015) it was humongous. 

But it was also very varied in what content was popular. 

I didn’t know for a long time, I just kept my toes dipped in loosely and never really devoted myself to the fandom fully. 

There were already so many iconic and influential creators in the community that I was just satisfied with taking in others content. 

However, again, late 2015 while I was abroad with a exchange from my school, I finally dedicated myself to something. With a push from a friend back at home, I did manage to get started on a project relating to this specific fandom. 

And it was, perhaps my biggest decision leading up to my content to this day. 

It was Fanfiction something I hadn’t touched upon in years and damn could it be felt. In comparison to nowadays I was new, I was weak and I was learning. 

Grillby as a character hadn’t been touched upon much at this point by the fandom, the main focus still circled around Sans and Papyrus, the exciting skeletons that have such a great amount of content already produced by the time I jumped head-first into the fandom. 

So, it was calm. For a while at least. 

But it was hard to ignore what was happening in the fandom. 

Reader-inserts (my main focus) was not something that the fandom was very approving of in the first place. A lot of content on tumblr was being bashed about the subject and a lot of artists started to receive harassment about their art.  

Still I kept writing, started to include more characters. 

I started and attempted to write other full-length stories. 

I didn’t manage to. 

By the time mid 2016 rolled around. I started to lose my passion. 

I’d written thousands of words, had so many different stories written out. And I started to feel the burnout. 

The thing is, since long ago, I’d wanted to also include my other medium in the fandom; Art. 

By then 2016 was starting to really get rolling both life and school-wise. And oh boy did it hit hard on me. 

Some of you being here from the beginning might’ve noticed that some of my content began to be about suffering from sensory overload or causing harm to myself or others. 

A lot of content like this I never published. 

But returning to my previous point, I did want to also create art for this community. But at this point the fandom had gotten so toxic and so...

I was scared. 

My only foothold in this fandom was my fanfiction. I was terrified if I also delved into the illustrative front that I’d start receive the same backlash (especially about certain ships that many of you surely know of) that many of my other acquaintances and friends had begun to get. 

I didn’t realize that it was the cause, and its only recently that I realized what it was exactly that. 

And on top of school starting to give me so much anxiety. 

I started to waver. 

Writing had stopped being enjoyable, I was suffering from a mixed bag of stress, depression and anxiety. 

2017 came. And. I dropped off the radar. 

Undertale wise at least. 

The only things I still tried to produce despite my stress was the rare chapter of TeoT or PaBD. Aside from that, I didn’t get involved in the fandom anymore. 

I stopped following blogs about it here. 

I don’t think it matters what else I tried to get interested in meanwhile. It’s not important to this. 

But, despite me trying to abandon it, undertale was still something that was still an inspiration to me. 

I wanted to get back into it. But despite late 2017 rolling past, the fandom still seemed terrifying to me. 

And, I also discovered something else. With all the stress on my body, I found out what’d partially caused my depressive state. 

School and other stuff had literally caused my body to shut down. 

Well at least it managed to explain to my parents why I had such issues. 

It helped. 

I got on meds, I started to feel better and 2018 rolled around to some of the best times in years. 

I’d been out of school for about half a year at this point, but it’d taken me this long to even start putting myself back together. I’d saved up enough money to visit some out-of-country friends. 

And. 

I managed to finally take that final step I never got to back in 2016. 

Because of a friend of mine from way back then, I finally started to create fanart. Right then @arceal-doodles who also wrote fanfiction when I did did a lot to encourage me to jump back in. 

Also the great support from my DnD group (we’d been active for almost half a year at this point) really helped me to try and shake my fears and supported me immensely. 

So, I started to make my own shaky steps into fanart-territory, and I enjoyed it despite my hesitations. 

I even started to pick writing back up. 

And now I’m really enjoying the fandom as a whole. Though I still occasionally have some issues with me wrestling with my old habits, especially with content that starts seeing some popularity. Its a mixed bag of hope and fear. 

I’m trying to shake the paranoia and anxiety, but it’s an upwards fight for me since I’m still recovering. But I hope you all will be patient with me. 

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