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I really think everyone needs to truly internalize this:

Fictional characters are objects.

They are not people. You cannot "objectify" them, because they have no personhood to be deprived of. They have no humanity to be erased. You cannot "disrespect" them, because they are not real.

#‘stop telling people to encourage the cop inside their head’ is such a bar #I actually am starting to wonder if ppl engage in fantasy bc they want it to be real life & that’s the cause of some of the disconnect #because I don’t ever want fiction to be real life it’s intriguing BECAUSE it’s not real if that’s make sense #characters & scenarios in fiction exist to be projected upon and that’s the whole appeal of it #imagine only allowing your imagination to experience things as if it affected real life #that’s just so restrictive why do that to yourself 😭 #our wonderful inner worlds and how we engage in them is one of the only true safe spaces individuals have #don’t police it just be mature enough to know what’s real and what’s not

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⁑ Haven ⁑

↝ The name of the most esteemed pleasure house in Hellenia. Run by an elite courtesan named Sustina, it is known that any adept who is preened by her hands will be exceptional. Most students are female, but Sustina does not turn men away from her doorstep who wish to be trained, as they are rare and in high demand.

↝ Haven’s ubiquity is also due to the fact that it is the only pleasure house that is tasked with training Hellenian women for the High Lord’s harem. Wings are a recessive trait in Hellenians yet are required for any heir to the throne, so the High Lord mates with as many women as possible in order to conceive what is necessary.

↝ Haven’s doors are open to anyone who can meet the high asking price of its adepts, but Sustina has one hard rule: none of her courtesans are allowed to take an assignation from a patron going through a Rut.

#Fated to Flame #Hellenia

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#LMAOOOO #I just let them walk right into it & cackle when they come to me screaming LOL

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I just saw a post about an Ao3 writer who took down their fanfic because they were salty that they were not getting enough comments on their work & is now bitterly only emailing updates to those who did comment, and I cannot express more how deranged that kind of behavior is for a creator.

You are not entitled to the type of engagement you like on your work.

If your main motivation for creating is for that engagement, then you're just an attention whore.

Yes, writers love detailed diatribes on how much you love our work, but we can’t hold shit hostage over our fans like that. I know I've said this multiple times over the years on here because every time I saw one of those posts circulate that basically tried to guilt trip people into commenting on fan works for the sake of the creator, it made me roll my eyes so hard they flew into orbit.

"Comments motivate me to continue writing!" Yes, they're a great endorphin boost, but it's not on consumers to compensate for your insecurities.

"It's rude to consume what I create & not leave a comment!" I highly doubt that you took the time to write a Letterbox review on a movie/submit a book review/post a detailed analysis of a music album, etc for every piece of media you've ever liked. Does that mean you don’t appreciate the people who made it?

"I'm not getting paid for it so the least people can do is like & comment!" Unfortunately, even if you were getting paid, you still are not entitled to engagement. The vast majority of consumers partake in their media of choice quietly. Your injured ego is not changing that.

"If you don't comment, then the algorithm will ignore me!" Do you want fake, forced interactions for the sake of maybe a 1% boost in a fickle algorithm or do you want sincere & freely given feedback?

"How else am I supposed to know people want to see more of my work if they don't comment?" This is where you have to divest from needing an undetermined amount of outside validation to do what you allegedly love to do.

If you find yourself having trouble continuing on a creative project, it's fine to take a step back and re-center yourself. But do not lash out at your audience; it's a terrible look & it will not garner you the results that you want. If you let yourself be puppeted by the desires of randos who can & will turn against you the moment you stop being a content vending machine, you will burn out FAST.

#y’all really have to harness the love of creating for the sake of creating #it’s liberating seriously #you can handle disappointment easier #and praise even better #don’t worry about anything else but creating #don’t block your own blessings!

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#🥲 #writing is suffering and I’m nothing but a shameless masochist

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⁑ Hellenians ⁑ ↝ The name of a people estranged from their God. Averaging a life span of 300-500 years, they carry themselves with a rigid dignity and superfluous way of speaking. When they are allowed passage to the human realm, their passive influence results in the increase of mysticism, spirituality, and religion.

↝ With heads adorned with horns and fingers tipped with talons, Hellenians also carry with them an ethereal beauty that is timeless in nature and attracts gazes easily. When not glamoured to conceal their unique features to blend in with humans, they also sport unnatural eye colors ranging from blood red, vivacious purple, to metallic gold.

↝ A very rare but distinctive mark in Hellenians are a pair of wings. It elevates the individual to an elite position in society and is a required feature for the High Lord of Hellenia.

↝ Clothing choices for Hellenians veer towards dark colors with deep jewel tones as accents. Silver is their preferred metal of adornment. Older generations lean heavily towards the Victorian-gothic aesthetic, while the younger ones mesh it with elements of steampunk or gothic couture. White is a sacred color reserved only for death, as it signifies purity that Hellenians believe they can only attain once the soul leaves the body.

↝ Orandi gratia dei nobis in tenebris luceat – “May God’s grace shine upon us in darkness.” A common phrase amongst Hellenians uttered at formal events or farewells.

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#I have leveled up slightly #behold a blended image! #it ain’t much but it’s honest work #Fated to Flame #Hellenia

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some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

#okay I was using the regular thesaurus and it don’t give me enough options sometimes #so ima bookmark this expeditiously

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#honestly I liked SSS more before the rework #it was never a great mode but now it feels over-engineered to the point of ridiculousness #but whatever patience I have with SSS is non-existent once I reach floor 6 in Emergency mode #danger level already cranked to hell #bosses get even more ridiculous with the mobs and handicaps #just kill me fr 🫠 #also starting with like a 20-Operator size squad is TOO MUCH OMG #you have too many garbage units shuffling by the time you reach the end #but yeah the only reason I do SSS these days is to get the notif off my screen when it refreshes #I’ll never run out of secondary module mats at this point #arknights #明日方舟

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⁑ Hellenia ⁑

↝ A realm hidden away from humans, home to the descendants of fallen angels. ↝ Most of the populace lives in a tightly packed metropolitan area centered around the Exousia manor. The architecture is Gothic in nature, accented with flying buttresses, fleches and stained glass windows. Stone sculptures of angelic figures are a common sight along the cobbled streets lit with lamps powered by magic. ↝ Daylight never crests beyond dusk here, and the air is often heavily laden with plumes of fog. The weather is moderate and lends itself to the lush forests surrounding the main city. It is not unusual for random showers or a light dusting of snow to fall. ↝ Aside from walking, the main mode of transportation are horseless stagecoaches. Hellenians use magic in place of animal labor, which helps keep the streets clean of detritus. Notable families have their own coaches emblazoned with their family crest or are otherwise uniquely embellished.

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#as you can see I failed to make it asthetiqué #I just do not have the patience anymore #so have a dark souls image placeholder #tbh when I invisioned Hellenia I totally pictured Yharnam from Bloodborne LOL #just minus all the eldrich horror kinda things #Fated to Flame #Hellenia

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I’ve decided that I’m going to do a series of random posts about the places/people in my book, Fated to Flame.

Is it self-indulgent? Damn right, it is. 😂 But I also just love lore and any excuse to expand upon it, so ima do it!

It also helps as prep to the upcoming related VN, so if I need anything promotionally relevant down the road at least I’ll have something to pull from.

All of you are a captive audience to my ramblings. I apologize in advance!

#of course I need to make lil graphics to go with these posts #which will take time because my photoshop/image editing days are SO behind me #but ima use this burst of hyper-focus to try and reclaim some of that #you know what I miss? paint shop pro 7. it was janky but it was familiar and easy #now all I have is Gimp and idk what I’m doing with it 😭 #anyway yeah so that’s what I’m finna do!

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Fictional characters are more Concept than Person.

Something I came across on Twitter the other day that made me go, “yes, this is exactly what I’ve been trying to put into words for a hot min!”

I still (futilely, perhaps) hope that the antis or people who are otherwise heavy into fandom discourse internalize this. Fictional characters are nothing but a concept, so to attach morality to them in any way is very flawed.

It may be hard to hear for some of y’all, but what you engage in fictionally has no bearing on anything materially. There’s staunch lesbians who will buss it wide open for male characters. There’s people who wouldn’t harm a fly who are comfortable regularly consuming extremely dark or taboo media. There are literally no rules to this shit, no 1:1 relation of fictional preferences to real life values. To believe otherwise does not make you safer, but it does keep you dangerously naive and easily manipulated.

If you cannot maintain an appropriate psychological distance between who you are as a person and the media you create/consume, that is a problem, not a virtue. Well-adjusted individuals treat fiction as an escape and not a stand in for being a Good Person™️. If more folks settled with this, then at least 90% of the heated discourse/witch hunts in fandoms wouldn’t exist and we’d be much better off for it.

#and that’s that on that #I don’t know how fandom was more sane in the early 2000s than now but #I guess that’s just the reality of things 🥲 #but yeah y’all don’t get caught up in over policing the only safe space you have which is your imagination #good values aren’t quantified by how many proshippers you harass in a year #or how many wholesome fics you read in a month lol #for all the talk about certain fiction having ‘real life consequences’ y’all don’t be living in real life long enough to develop discernment #and that’s concerning to me beloveds

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You ever hear of a game called love and deepsace? It's an otome gatcha, but there's a character named Zayne who seems right up your alley 👀

I have heard of the game! I actually lurk on the subreddit for it, but…

I have literally never seen a more visually boring assortment of LIs paired with the corniest assortment of situations and lines in my LIFE 😂

I may be too old now to find that type of otome appealing to me, sadly. 😔 The stuff I’ve seen folks squeal about or find steamy with Love & Deepspace reads as juvenile to me. The VR aspect of it is pretty cool tho, I’ll say that. But I think I need a more mature approach to otome (which probably ain’t happening outside of indie games now).

#I think it was at that moment that I truly realized that these games are for teens now #or at most early to mid 20s #and I am much closer to AARP than I am to that age group #so it makes sense why I feel this way but it’s also kinda sad to come to terms with lol #I don’t even play that much otome anymore because a lot of it reads too young #so now I’m stuck tryna figure out how to market my own VN when the time comes knowing it ain’t like these #but whatever WE BALL #anon ask

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Me to every Collapsal-possessed enemy in IS4:

#no it’s getting tired 😭 #y’all need to CALM THE FUCK DOWN #rippin n running through these damn stages like a Tomb Raider omfg #don’t even talk to me about the drones #Collapsal’s Afternoon is so ass without the right ops #Eik also is a ‘burst him down quickly’ type cause he’ll run through half the stage if you damage him enough #WHY ARE Y’ALL IN SUCH A HURRY #THIS ISN’T A TRACK MEET #is4 #arknights #明日方舟

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#OH BITCH I KNOW THAT’S RIGHT #Jessica I was not familiar with your game #I thought all you did was cry #but now you grew up #and keeping your foot on ppl’s necks #I have no choice but to stan #AK is so good with these storylines holy shit #but unfortunately I just hate anything coming out of Columbia at this point LMAO #just capitalist vultures from Rhine Lab to Blacksteel #but hey I guess HG modeled Columbia after America so I suppose it tracks #come catastrophes or wakes of vultures #arknights #明日方舟

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https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3o4huY/ i just thought u might like this 🫶🏽

It really warms my heart to know the kids on tiktok are still making these lil fancams of Ignis 🥹 Like damb, Ignis hell really do be eternal!

#honestly the height of the FFXV fandom on here was one of the happiest times of my life #just a great experience through and through until the end when Discord got involved & I burned out fairly quickly LOL #I wanna write fics again but lord am I burnt out on writing for now #I’ll get back to it tho 🫠 eventually #anon ask

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At 200k words, I have successfully finished the script for the VN adaptation of Fated to Flame.

Now, excuse me while I potato in order to recharge.

#I never thought I’d make it 😭 #I’ve been working nonstop just to grind it out #let me tell y’all sumn #I OVERSTAND why otome/VNs have writing teams #this is tew much for one person 🥲 #unless you do something really quick and easy it’s gonna be a mountain #I just hope everything pays off when it’s all said and done #next hurdle is going to be programming it all #but that’s not for a few weeks still so #for now I get to lose myself in IS4 proper #then I will come back and answer asks sitting in my inbox

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It’s going swell.

#it’s nasty work locking me in ‘easy mode’ with the score penalty #but ‘easy mode’ is whooping my ass like ascension 7 did in is3 #this humbling… is difficult for me to shoulder LMAO #I cannot remember the last time I struggled in IS like this #maybe in Fungimist when my roster was ass and I had no clue what I was doing #but Dawg if I don’t start with a Medic then IS4 refuses to give me one later #I literally have yet to do a run where I’ve been given a Medic ticket #did Sami cannibalize all the Medics? is that what this is? #Gummy & Quercus have been putting in an absurd amount of work 😭 #Wtf is with that first final boss tho #why is my Collapse rating off the goddamn charts all the time I’m already HURTING #Sami got TOO MANY HANDS rn LMAOOO #but we ball #arknights #明日方舟 #is4