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one more scene then im free of the suited rat man's clutches over my writing time

Ricky lovers everywhere thank you 🫡🙏

Jacob and Finley lovers are next they're the other phone call branches so get ready for me to hate them on main too

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one more scene then im free of the suited rat man's clutches over my writing time

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Hello!! I’m glad to see you’re still active and haven’t given up on your story!! I just wanted to check in on you, see how you’re doing. I hope you’re okay ❤️ I’m doing a reread/replay of MC:U and I wanted to ask if you’ve ever considered writing a screenplay for it? Because in the beginning of the story when MC/the reporter is falling from the building, before being rescued by Red Light, it just hit me how interesting your story would be - not only as an IF, but as a show as well!! A “sleazebag” reporter with a villain as their ex at the center of the story? Would be very cool to see that play out on TV. Anyways just wanted to say your writing inspired me to write again ❤️ I’m out of practice but I might try that screenwriting idea for my own MC (free of profit, of course). Thank you for the inspiration and motivation - it’s hard to find nowadays - and I hope you have a good day!! Sending all the motivated writing juju your way too!!

Oh my gosh this is such a kind message so thank you so much first of all! Second of all ooh that sounds like so much fun! I haven't ever considered a screenplay but I have considered doing novelizations of certain characters' stories. (Namely Finley's, Finley's novel was one of the earlier forms of this story and I'd still love to write it one day.) But absolutely! I write this story because it's my fun little brainchild I love to mess around with, so it makes me super happy to hear it gives others some joy as well!

I hope you have a fantastic day as well and sending return writing motivation too!

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Would youbsay the divorce came as a surprise to the mc or was there alot of Raf trying to distance themselves first?

Oh it was a big surprise.

It was a surprise to your Ex too.

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ricky dempsey let me out of the dialogue tree before i die please

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so anyway i continued working on the scene I posted previews of as a holiday gift and guess what

tbf if i’m nice to him it doesn’t drop by much all things considered

Ricky's stat bar is intended to be a roller coaster ride, some things may drop his stat bar but aren't "wrong" answers by any means-- iirc there's some already (and some that will in the future even if there's none now) which may lower his stat bar but up the invisible stat I keep for his attraction towards the MC

he's just

strange like that

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ricky when i catch you ricky. ricky when i catch you ricky. i love your work and i hope you have a good day

Do it get him.

And thank you so much!! I'm glad you enjoy and have a wonderful day as well!

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Originally I was hoping to have the update done for the holidays as a gift. That didn't quite pan around but I still thought it'd be fun to give y'all a gift and a thank you for your patience.

So! Since I've been putting up a few little screenshots here and there of my tests as I write and fix my broken coding, I thought it'd be fun to do a longer preview featuring a scene in the coming update with everyone's favorite wet cat of a man, Ricky Demspey.

Spoilers below, of course, but nothing story relevant, just character bonding.

Happy Holidays and New Year, everyone! I hope this time brings rest to all.

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this option is for those disaster MCs

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hi! I recently found your work and I wanted to check your discord/patreon but noticed the link either doesnt work or there is no active patreon with the link presented. Is that intentional? < : )

Hiya! First and foremost it's very sweet of you to be looking for that / want to look into that support, thank you!

Second, I didn't realize I still had the broken link to it on this blog, haha, whoops. So thank you for alerting me to that as well!

To answer your question: yes that's intentional! Patreon worked ok when I was less busy, but the busier I got the more I felt I couldn't keep up with it, so I closed it down a while ago!

Thank you again for checking though, that's very sweet of you to do so! And I hope you enjoy Model Citizens! Welcome!

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Shoutout to Yolanda's interview (including the new stuff) breaking 100,000 words all on its own

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I just love tall strong/buff and mean women.

Honestly, so fair.

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I love giving people the option to recall either a happy or sad memory and then remembering halfway through I'm supposed to be writing the happy memory but oops we've gotten existential in the club

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I love giving people the option to recall either a happy or sad memory and then remembering halfway through I'm supposed to be writing the happy memory but oops we've gotten existential in the club

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Yolanda's Interview is now almost 95,000 words. Yolanda's interview is now almost a full third of the entirety of the Model Citizens demo.

Did this mean I thought it was getting too long for one scene file? Yes. Does this mean I decided to put all the opinion questions I've been working on into a gosub scene file? Also yes. Does this mean I just spent a half hour making sure the formatting was correct because they were in their own file now and not under a specific choice? Also also yes. Does this mean I am confident I didn't break the code in doing so and won't need to spend even more time later on banging a hammer against it until it works? No.

My code is a mess and I pray for everyone's sanity no one but me needs to look behind the curtain at how it all functions because Model Citizens' code is run by a very tired hamster on a very broken wheel but my god are his little legs moving.

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Since you said you have a soft spot for writing couples communicating through their boundaries etc, who is the best RO at setting/keeping/respecting boundaries in a relationship? Who really needs to learn to work on it??

Ohhh, I'll split this into two parts since some are really bad at setting their own boundaries but good at keeping yours. (.... Raf.)

I'll also note, just because I feel like it'd be uncomfortable for me to read an IF where I have my MC set a boundary (often because I wouldn't want to read that particular thing), and then have a character not respect that boundary (even if it's in character for them), I'm not really gonna do that here.

Even more chaotic ROs will all respect any boundaries you, the player, set. I'm treating those things the way as what would make me have an enjoyable reading experience as a reader, since the ultimate goal of Model Citizens is to have fun and be fun for all involved.

(I'll also note, perhaps... making that disclaimer a bit redundant, all of these ROs would respect boundaries anyway. The ones lower on the list are more the more excitable ROs who, for example, in a moment of great excitement and energy and joy might sweep up and kiss an MC in public who isn't a fan of PDA. But would do so because they were excited and not thinking and then apologize after.)

But! Disclaimer aside:

Best to worst at setting their own boundaries in a healthy way:

Finley

Lucy

Jacob

Yolanda

Informant

Eileen

the healthy threshold, these following people don't know how to set boundaries appropriately

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Ricky

Erin

Raf

Best to worst at respecting boundaries:

Finley

Ricky

Eileen

Yolanda

Informant

Raf

Lucy

Jacob

Erin

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