candymayvary

[candymayvary]

Generally, it's about 1,200-1,500 an episode on average.

🤔 really? I genuinely thought it was more than that...

#*replies #hmmmm #Anonymous

[candymayvary]

Castiel castiel castiel~~

#*reblog

[candymayvary]

After seeing the announcement for a return of HSL (but different), it almost has made me consider actually spending money to catch up and see what the rest of UL/LL was like, especially since when UL launched and they made the changes to the AP system, I was just about ready to replay large parts of HSL and get all the illustrations I could.

But I wouldn’t even know what the cost of it would be, y’know? Trying to work out an average spend per episode off the top of my head, from what I remember early UL to be like alone and it’s just... hm.

#*personal

[candymayvary]

@candymayvary what are they looking at? 👀

#*reblog #i remembered this... #i miss like... how it felt in that weird time between end of mcl and beginning of ul #strange time but there was still like fandom presence #every one was still talking #sighs

[candymayvary]

@draconess-tania​ i don’t quite know how to feel as that’s not something i entirely expected for his story to go the way of! the only thing i vaguely remember from UL is ‘one night stand with castiel’ which i may or may not have imagined!

wait they made nathaniel a cop

#*personal #draconess-tania #i was debating getting back in because i miss castiel #but ... what @ nathaniel #also i have no idea WHAT is happening with eldarya as well and havent for quite some time #(and if u saw this reblogged to my main no u didnt sjkdf) #*replies

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wait they made nathaniel a cop

#*personal #i log in for the valentines event and this is what i find out #also WHAT happened with eldarya??? #i almost wanted to catch up on UL and see cass but now im like

[candymayvary]

Hey! Can you do 6 with Castiel? If it hasn’t been done before sorry I’m slow lol

Prompts here!

6. Wrapped up in a question. How’s your day been, have you eaten, you know you can tell me anything, right? You know you can tell them anything. Right?

In the studio. First room on the left, tucked in between the kitchen and living. Low thrum of pre-recorded melodies, chopped and changed as he worked through it all. Overlaid by the tapping of a pencil, in time to a beat that does not match, one she hears as she walks to the room.

Scarf off, bag dropped by the door. Singing out the “I’m home!” that breaks Castiel’s reverie. Pencil dropped, chair pushed out from the desk. 

Crosses the threshold in four quick steps. Barely enough time for Gigi to pull her jacket off, as he picks her up. She laughs, stop, oh my god, stop! but he spins her around. Good measure, as he doesn’t make a move to drop her anytime soon. Arms firmly holding her up, walking further into the room.

How are you, he asks, setting her down in his chair. How was your day?

And she replies, as Castiel leans back over the desk, with a hand on his lower back, under his shirt so as to feel the warmth of his skin. Leaning in, to see what he was playing with before. I’m great. Punctuated with a grin. I’m great.

Tilt of head, to look over his shoulder at her. As Gigi is not staring at the screen, not with that kind of smile. Simply, truly, at him. Always.

#Anonymous #*replies #my candy love #mcl castiel #mcl candy #this is old #im cleaning out my drafts #i also drafted a few asks from earlier w prompts #so just watch this space #*mcl gigi #*my fic

[candymayvary]

Was going back through your writing again and just wanted to say I love them so much still

#thank you so much........................ sheksjhfdkjhk #Anonymous #*replies

[candymayvary]

Hello ! Im afraid we’ll have to cancel the game idea, many people told us that beemoov won’t allow it , even though it falls in the same idea as fan fiction or any fan content, so since they already took down a similar project before we don’t wanna risk it. Thank you for everyone who supported us though it means a lot to us ! And I’ve already said this before but we are actually working on our own game just us two , so even if this is canceled , we’ll do our best to make a game you enjoy in the near future. Thank you again for everyone who left a comment and liked the idea, and I’m sorry if you feel disappointed, I do too, but we just wanted to make a game for the fans and not get a lawsuit ;-; so I hope you’ll understand . And as promised you’ll get to see our a full otome game from us very soon !

#*reblog #OH THIS IS GREAT NEWS!!! #congrats!!! #if you need a hand with anything feel free to lmk

[candymayvary]

are you gonna do fic prompts again? not to pressure you but i miss when you used to do like a dozen a night it was CRAZY

Thank you and I know. Can’t believe I was churning out that much.

But yknow what? Why the fuck not. If you have any prompts + MCL characters, like one word or a quote or something, any of the MCL characters, chuck them in here. I’ll get around to them tomorrow or something but eh. I’m missing it enough to wanna write for it.

#*replies #Anonymous

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have you seen any of the new castiel illustrations since you stopped playing? theyre really cute and reminded me of some of your fics

You know on receiving this I actually looked up @sakurina-mcl ‘s illustration viewer here and I’m just,

#*replies #i still looooooove him!!!!!!!! #my heart is still so tender.... #Anonymous

[candymayvary]

how long has it been since you played mcl?

✊😔 haven’t touched it since ep3 buddy

#*replies #i couldnt even tell you when ep3 came out #its been THAT long #every so often im like maybe i should play again but #its so expensive yknow #akjhefkjshkfj #and i keep looking at HSL like... wish i could finish #Anonymous

[candymayvary]

hey candy its been a while how have you been?

I’ve been good! Very busy. how have you been?

#*replies #havent touched this blog or mcl in months kjehsfkjsh my bad #Anonymous

[candymayvary]

beemoov rly sits there in a boardroom and throws around ideas on just how to make their games infinitely worse and unattractive dont they

#*personal #how in the hell do they come up with some narrative decisions #do they even understand the concept of an otome game? #considering it all started with an attempt to be a western version of otome? #its very formulaic #the player 'wins' at the end #not sits there and wonders why they bothered for the last 10 years almost #like oh my GOD

[candymayvary]

i got a few anons asking if i had finish UL or whatever (didnt realise it had finished tbh). no im still on episode 3, i cant justify spending money on it because im honestly not as interested. i thought i had established that...

i have been logging in for events of course! theyve always been a big part of this for me. also because the clothes are generally pretty good and i can do stuff like this:

but i digress.... i dont know if i will go back. maybe if i get sad enough i’ll drop money on it lmao but ive said a number of times over i dont like the new scheme with AP, or gold... and i just...... am still so disappointed in their executive decisions.

if you enjoyed the game, honestly, all the power to you. its easy to say dont let arguments get you down, but if you enjoyed the game that is honestly, sincerely a good thing and im happy for you. i do miss gigi and i would like to do some stuff with her but i dont have it in me right now.

#*personal

[candymayvary]

Where are you from?

Australia

#*replies #straya m8

[candymayvary]

Hello, my name is korny and some of you know me as a former beta, then sweet elite’s former clothing artist, that also (singlehandedly) drew the animated mini-game with momo and the little coffee and coin icons. I never had a proper introduction which is why probably most of you see me for the first time now.

I didn’t plan on publicly making a statement, but it has been brought to my attention that the se management said rude and nasty things that – most importantly – are just plain bullshit and I cannot let this be said without a proper response.

If you click this link you will find a google doc with various screenshots, showing what exactly has been going on that made me (& cecile) finally leave the team. I made the doc and the screens a few days prior to leaving (April 2019) and already shared it with all the betas and some staff back then, but also some people on tumblr who have come into my dms asking me to clarify what happened. I feel the right time has come to share this link with the public, although it might be a little confusing to understand for some.

Now, what bothers me the most about serenas ugly behaviour from the past few days is the topic of “’lazy’ cecile”. I’d like to clarify that this entire post is MY opinion, and was written because *I* am angry about this, I was not forced to write this whatsoever by Cecile or anyone else. I’ve kept my mouth shut so far bc I could not be bothered, but this is where I draw the line.

“Lazy Cecile” has been something even BEFORE my beta days (which started in January 2018). Serena used (and still does, as you can see in her latest posts) to call Cecile “lazy” a lot jokingly, but saying it that often didn’t make it funny anymore, and it certainly isn’t a nice thing to say to a good friend. She continued to say it even after Cecile approached her not to.

To add, Cecile is - if not THE - most hardworking person that ever participated in the production of the game. While juggling a full-time job, she also drew AND redrew ALL the sprites, for a short time also drew ALL the illustrations WITH customization (2 genders x 3 three different hairstyles), AND new backgrounds because An already left the team. And that’s just the art she did! She also took part in writing large chunks in almost every chapter, even writing an entire big ass chapter 7 ON HER OWN, which she now has posted on her blog @retconomics (which Serena in response tried to make us afraid by telling us how merciful she is by not suing us for copyright. Your case wouldn’t be that strong honey LMAO not without a contract anyway 😉 ). ALL WHILE WORKING A FULL DAY JOB AND GETTING A DOG, WHICH ALSO REQUIRES A LOT OF ATTENTION. Meanwhile, it took Serena several months to almost a YEAR now, guessing from the release date, to write chapter 6 and it wasn’t a rare case for her to magically loose the file or it getting corrupted. So please tell me how the fuck cecile is lazy? In any fucking way?

Her time schedule was very demanding, so of course we had to cheat a little bit, which brings me to my next point: professionalism. Serena claims that Cecile was very unprofessional, “cutting corners” and her art “unpolished” and “not up to par”. In her example of ‘proper’ professionalism, serena used this image:

Illustrating how the new artist does things better and more polished.

This is where I call huge, MAJOR bullshit.

I have worked on the sprites with cecile. Due to the tight deadline Serena has given us, Cecile would give me the rough sprites and I would finish them & look for any spots that were smudges/did not have clear edges or full transparency. Wanna know how these files looked like?

Hm! Absolutely no fucking different! The expressions were all on one layer, unlike in the example above, but as Serena said: she didn’t say anything against that. That was because Serena wanted to pump content out, which, fair enough, and she needed everyone in the team to “set priorities”, as she said. And adding so much customization was NOT a priority at that time and she knows it.

However, if it DID bug her that much, it’s her own fault if she won’t say “hey Cecile, could you put all the brows on one single layer, all the mouths etc”. And if her excuse is that Cecile lacked the time, I could’ve done it just as easily, as I worked on the sprites anyway and did not have the huge workload cecile had at that time. If the manager is unhappy with their product, they should say something, otherwise nothing will happen. So, if Serena was unhappy with the ‘lack’ of expressions (lets be real tho, 5 expressions isn’t lacking at all)? Her fault.

“Not to mention, all of the sprites will be polished and the artstyle will finally be consistent throughout the entire game (something that our old artist really struggled with at times). Also, both Alita and Ariel are awesome at what they do, take growth and sustainability seriously, and constantly look for ways to improve and build onto the world of Sweet Elite.” Taken from here (x).

Ah, yes. You want consistency and yet hired two artists with two very different styles, and even *advertised* it as something good. Also, if somebody improves art wise, they rarely stay the same way. Art is FLUID. Art CHANGES, especially while improving. And if ceciles art was so unprofessional looking and unpolished for you serena, why didn’t you just tell her to stop drawing? Why not “get rid of the garbage” sooner? Would have saved both you and cecile the clownery that has happened and is going on right now.

(taken from here)

Also calling Cecile a weakness while she literally held the weight of the entire game on her shoulders while having to provide so much art and writing while you failed to write even one chapter during all that? You’re pettier than you care to admit.

I literally could go on and on about this, but this is already 1k words, so im gonna wrap this up. But I am so mad about this “boo hoo there is a narrative spun against me ☹” “I was creatively constricted by my cowriters” (also bullshit lmao, but another topic). You’re just a big liar and an awful person overall, and don’t get me started on your boyfriend.

While you’re getting “rid of the garbage”, please also remove MY minigame which I was forced to make while I was collecting money for my dog, and pay me 100€. You can have the clothes as I actually *agreed* on doing that for no money. 25€ for all the coffee and coin icons would be appropriate as well.

Now, as a former fan thats been on this journey since 2015, I am very dissapointed in how this game is developing. You’re taking this game into a direction you promised not to - not diverse, full of clichés, mainstream. As a fan, this broke my heart. A lot.

I hope you learn that your actions have consequences and that I will NOT be quiet if you decide to spit some lies again.

#you wanted answers #here they are #serena and SE are not the angels you believe them to be #*reblog