#they feel v dramatic

[b00k10ver]

My friends dragged my by the ankles into the vocaloid fandom.

[short666bread]

[stackslip]

actually i do have something to say about this chapter and it's quite critical of it but also i'm tired tonight and i've been talking about it long and hard on discord already and putting it all together in a coherent post feels like too much of a task tonight. all i'm gonna say is that part 2 was very obviously going in a certain direction from the start, and i loved that direction, and to an extent it is still going in that direction but now very obviously missing a huge chunk of what stirred it in that direction. and i'm hesitant to simply say it's fujimoto that's dropped the ball on this (though it might the idealization, who's to say) because from the actual shape of the writing + slump in paneling/art + recent bitter interview by fujimoto + japanese audience is apparently vocally not a fan of asa + my own cursed knowledge of shounen jump and shueisha editors and how they react to a fall in sales = i think the lack of focus on asa has really hurt the themes of part 2 when she was an integral part of it + i think this wasn't entirely fujimoto's doing and it's very likely because she is apparently strongly disliked in japan and there's good reason to believe that fujimoto was told to not focus on her nearly as much bc sales slump and people complain as soon as she shows up. which sucks. becaue what made part 2 work as well as it did was the synergy and parallel between the two protagonists' paths, and the absence of asa's path in the past few months (both in universe and by real time in the comic) feels like a genuine writing and thematic and emotional hole in the comic that to me shows that she WAS supposed to be there. fujimoto had fully intended to write her in there bc there's a hole in the shape of her where she is very obviously supposed to fit. it isn't simply a question of "author forgets his female character" it's a question of "this crucial part of the manga is missing and the author is painfully aware of it and bitter about it too"

[lightbulb-warning]

i used to freehand comics all the time as a child and since the part i liked was the drawing part i would just draw panel after panel because i didn't want to stop drawing to think about icky icky words, plus the story TOTALLY still made perfect sense! to me! and noone else, but 'whoooo caaaaares omgggg its not like comics and sequantial art are a communicative meeediummmm lmaoooooo'. i spent my entire childhood telling myself stuff like "oh pfft I know this story by heart- ill SIMPLY remember the dialogue and write it later" ...and. I can't help but admire baby maiora's (call that a minora ba tm tsk) fucking audacity? hubris? confident wrongness? kid couldn't even remember to finish the comics in the first place? INCREDIBLE levels of unearned self assurance, wish that were me, genuinely- what an icon!!! anyway i think i have forever cursed myself

[belleandsaintsebastian]

i love having the shittest week ever and feeling so so tired and so gross and just basically like i'm constantly behind in Everything even though i'm studying all the time and then calling up my dad basically just looking for someone to tell me that i'm. doing well. only for him to do Concerned Disappointed Father voice like i'm worried about you...i don't think youre doing enough.....why haven't you joined any societies yet....you don't socialise enough.....etc etc AND SO ON :(

[vayneoc]

[riacte]

false and ren bullshitting up lore about how his plants mutated and they're setting things on fire and she's the river lady developing a cure with her water........ is this. is this a superhero enemies AU- [INTERRUPTED BY SOUND OF RAID NOTIFICATION]

No seriously. False using her briefcase as a weapon bc she traps rivers in it. Ren being infected by the spores and his flowers growing out of control.... and in the end it's revealed False is also infected by the spores 😳 and she keeps the spores because she killed / defeated Ren and wants to keep a piece of him because they are crazy

[n0g0dshere]

Me and the devil Walking side by side

[icewindandboringhorror]

Hrmm... Revising my game and I feel like there's still sooo much writing left to do, for something that probably won't even amount to much, so.. I do want to narrow my focus more (especially given my health problems seeming to get worse/less energy the past few years), but I'm not sure how would be best to...

I currently have 5 characters as the Main ones with full planned questlines and such, with each character having 6 quests you can do for them. But I haven't really started the writing for the 5th main character. So then I was thinking, if I were going to write 6 full quests worth of content anyway... is it better to allocate that time on just doing a Complete 6 Quests for ONE single character, OR would it be better to do something like.. choose THREE side characters and do 2 quests for each of them? So that people have a wider variety to interact with and sort of sample around (of course with the idea that, once the first version of the game is released, IF people actually care about it enough to make it worth the effort, I would then add additional content to complete those 3 characters stories as well)

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SO... If you were playing an interactive fiction sort of game centered around talking to & doing quests for a cast of characters (like there's no larger plot, more it's just about interacting with people, every character kind of has a self contained story, the focus is just learning about them and the world and exploring the area) --- Which would you rather have?

(and of course it would be stated up front which characters have only partial questlines, so people don't expect them to have full quests like the others and then get disappointed, or etc. etc.)

Basically, is it better to just focus in specifically on having one fully complete questline? Or for there to be a few stories that are not complete yet, but have more initial options available?

[coollyinterferes]

"Back by unpopular demand:"

"Us!"

[starlightlightning]

"Hm... I have a bad feeling all of a sudden..." -Trying very hard to not break the glass she's holding-

[merrilark]

idk what it is, but sometimes a toasted pb&j sandwich at night hits just right.

i think i'm gonna have one with some tea. and maybe i'll hunker down with a book.

[pastryfriend]

i'm gonna be real. i don't know how much longer i can do this

[chessbird]

Beika and Ichiya were friends, once. ever since childhood, the two stuck together like a shark and a remora. playing together, studying (unsuccessfully) together, even writing songs together. both of them had an endless passion for music, and Beika actually knew how to make a song that wasn't just sick guitar riffs. somewhere, in an old notebook filled mostly with Ichiya's drawings instead of notes, lies the first draft of Now or Never!. It's signed with both of their names.

When Ichiya moved to Inkopolis, their once airtight friendship fell apart. Ichiya thought of using the song they wrote together as bringing his best friend along for the ride. A way to show he still cared. Obviously, Beika didn't share the sentiment.

[elliesbelle]

okay tell me if i’m being crazy, like if i’m being petty about this or whatever

(context: my ex had been going out on dates with this one girl the past week and got her fucking sunflowers, knowing that those are my favourite fucking flowers, and posting about it on insta)

[penrose-quinn]

I hope my three day trip with my friends will finally put my mind at peace. I just feel so lonely...