#(i meant the stats HAHAHA)

[solradguy]

Some day ASW is going to release a piece of Guilty Gear media that REALLY goes into depth on Gears/Gear cells and I'm gonna translate it in record time. I NEED to know, Daisuke, the secrets of your interdimensional beasts

#textpost #The GG wiki page on Gears was one of the first ones I read because I wanted to know wtf the series' title meant #and it was so ridiculous I was just like 'Oh I have GOT to know EVERYTHING now' #Now that GG's so big here in the west I wonder if future media releases like books will have official English translations #Begin had a Korean one (rare as shit but it exists) though that was published a bit before Strive came out #The official recap comics had an official English translation though and they've been expanding their non-JP stuff #Like the new ASW store that launched earlier this year for America #Definitely an interesting time to be a Guilty Gear fan #I wasn't here for the really old stuff but you don't have to have been to see how small it was before #Still thinking about the peak player stats for Rev2 compared to Strive on Steam... #Something like 800 players peak for Rev2 while Strive's was 30.000 (!!) #For comparison iirc Tekken 6's peak was like 18.000 #It's a no wonder the Strive servers are constantly down hahaha There was no way they could ever have anticipated this

[hua-fei-hua]

Hey hey just wanted to let u know. Cause I saw ur post and figured u should get a reminder. Your writing is genuinely wonderful and funny. You've made at least one person very happy with ur fics! And I really appreciate you putting them out there for the world to see!

aww thank you!! this is genuinely such a touching and heartwarming ask to receive, it's like trying to stare at the sun hahaha

#Anonymous #asks #i meant to reply to this as soon as i got it but then a string of things happened and now it is hours later hahaha #anyway my ao3 inbox is pretty quiet these days bc a) not publishing often and b) recent works all anonymous #(so i assume you came here from my j/jk work obligatory token apologies for gnshn brainrot) #and i think as a result i've gotten a lot better at separating my writing quality or w/e from numbers n stats #n i also read a lot more fic than i did a few years ago so i see many more samples of excellent fic writing #and obvs as i've gotten older my quality cutoff standards for fic i'm willing to read has gone up so mostly i read recs #it's pretty easy to forget how good my writing is compared to average when i fail to even think of the chaff #when other fics i like in that same pairing/trope/category come to mind hahaha #thinking of applying to a zine this summer... i usually chicken out of applications bc. well before my writing didn't get much attn #so it was like 'oh i'm not a big name fan i don't stand a chance' but then jjk was kind of an ego boost #so a few months ago i mentioned always wanting to be in a zine but never applying bc i didn't think my writing was 'zine quality' #to a reader friend who then proceeded to hype me up n be like 'bro it's beeeeen zine quality' and ahaha that was good thanks kango #very proud to be able to say i'm very in love with a lot of my own writing these days!!! all the love n deliberation put into each word #when i was fourteen n first publishing fic i remember thinking 'as long as one person is reading i'll keep writing' #how nice it is to sit atop the mountain peak of your own making! the view you so admired as a child just as fresh and beautiful #as you dreamed it would be all those years ago~

[jamietarttsnorthernattitude]

it's okay bae i've used a cell phone in my dreams too. one time i spent an hour googling premier league stats on it

Thank you! Hahaha that’s hysterical. I love it!

I meant more though why am I calling 911 so often in my dreams lol I have a dream a lot of like someone breaking in to my house or a group of people about to break in or like having to physically fight someone who broke in and/or is a murderer.

#dreams #someone please interpret my dreams #my brain is too fucked up #like what goes on in there #maybe it’s bc my work exposes me to fucked up shit on the daily #or it’s just me #maybe both #I’ve lost the script in the tags again

[astrxlfinale]

Bad luck? She can fix that, totally ! How about a gentle, loving kiss upon the cheek from no other than Guinaifen ! That should do it. If anything, it'll leave a subtle lipgloss mark. " Maybe this will turn your luck around ! ~" Maybe just another one against his other cheek ... just in case ...

"Honeyyyyyyy--- Bwaaaaaaaaaa...." Don't mind him in the least. While the pain is true, when it comes to Guinaifen's presence he just has this impulse to be an utter baby about it. The moment she found herself close, looking at this tattered and broken soul that remained the ground. Those big ol' golden eyes would peer up towards her shadow, finding hope within the stirs of flowing coral.

Then strength came with her kisses. A big ol' sweet smooch upon the cheek! It causes him to perk up, for that heart of his to pulse with growing might as she began to turn around these lethal tides of circumstance.

"Firekiss..!" He'd dramatically hic, reaching over in order to softly grip the side of her shirt as he pulls himself up.

"This.. this power.. I might just.. have it!" A sudden, surprised gasp escaped the mere moment she'd double those blessings. Would she begin to notice how his path power emerged, surrounding him in an inspired aura as his will begins to gain turbulence!

"You're right-- I can't let this be my curtain curl."

"RULES! ARE MEANT TO BE BROKEN!" Comes the heaven clad declaration, history being made as he'd crawl back to those planar ropes!

The path of power must be realized!

..

..............

The required stat.. CRIT DMG...

His heart pounds with an unknown brand of exhilaration, surprise, wonder, acceptance culminating to a pivotal point!

Tears and despair? Never heard of them!

"Why are you just the best damn girlfriend EVER, dude look at this! Look at what you got here! Hah... hahaha! C'mere you!"

Let today be the day Ms.Guinaifen proceed to get her cute face peppered in kisses!

@avaere

#avaere #| Shuttle Mail #i #is the gui difference real #My Acheron finally has the fabled 60+ Crit rate and 240 Crit dmg. #THE DREAM IS REAL

[cerastes]

gf and I like to watch your VODs (timezones, man), and, ok, first of all, you are freakishly good at Dark Souls, you dismantled every boss so far except maybe two on the first try with just a dinky shitty dagger, so that's really metal, but also, you have converted us both to your church of leveling HP. The few times you got nailed by anything remotely dangerous, our first reaction was to think "oh yeah, he's dead" and then you'd take like maybe a third of your HP, from attacks that usually killed us outright. Maybe if we had leveled HP, we would've fared better. Also it's really funny 1) how chat called you out on your "hey man" habit, and 2) the fact that you just sort of know the frame data for every boss from what I could tell? To the point where you literally only had to focus to fight Midir, otherwise you were just reading chat and making jokes midfight? Even with Gael and Friede and shit? Is that just experience or did you datamine every single boss' frame data and commit it to memory?

Glad you are enjoying the vods, haha.

Yeah see, I take personal issue whenever people start with the whole "Soulsborne games are codified by dying in one hit" bullshit people just decided to believe because they were garbage at building characters. You can get so, so tanky in any given Dark Souls, as I've proven countless times, even here with the dagger build, and yet, this line of thought is pervasive even among industry professionals! You go play Nioh 1 or Code Vein and they fucking also bought into that! Everything kills you in one-two hits in those games because of how prevalent the objectively incorrect opinion on how the game works was and still is. And it's not like Fromsoft has encouraged it, either, you can be Very Tanky in any of their games. Even Bloodborne, which is the most touch-and-go, agility based game, lets you take some considerable damage before you keel over. Whenever I hear people say something to the effect of "oh, Dark Souls, and games like it, are just hellishly, unfairly difficult because you just die in one or two hits" all I can hear is "I'm Very Bad At This Game And Have Opinions On It Even Though I Don't Know Much About The Game". It's not like pumping your STR or DEX to 40 frame one at the start of a run does you any favors, you get shit damage from stats in the early game, stats only contribute meaningfully to damage in the late midgame and endgame, when your upgraded weapons have scaling worth shit. You're meant to level up 1) dmg stats for weapon requirements 2) everything else into weight limit, stamina, HP, attunement, etc utility and quality of life stats for your build in the early game, and you start leveling dmg stats around the midgame.

Anyways! Yes chat lets me know about my habits more often than I figure them out myself, I find it really funny, though. To answer your question, I know the frame data just from experience. I have over 1000 hours of gameplay on DS3 specifically, and like 1700 hours over the three Souls games, not counting Sekiro, Bloodborne and Elden Ring. I'm dangerously obsessed with Soulsborne but that's given me insight and the ability to do party tricks like the ones you see in the vods, like low profiling specific moves or doing the barehanded switch parries, hahaha. It also helps that I did a Soul Level 1 run of DS3 and had to learn bosses REALLY well in order to finish it.

Anyways play Soulsborne and feel free to ask me any questions about it, they are my favorite games.

[sharkface-daydreams]

hello! i come bearing numbers!

for the 2023 fic writer asks: 6, 9, 16? 👀

hello :D

6. What ship(s) captured your heart?

Hmmm probably Caelus/Sampo and Blade/Luocha most notably. those roots sunk in deep and haven't let go hahaha <3

9. What fic meant the most to you to write?

This took a long while to decide .. partly because there's a lot to choose from but also because time doesn't really... exist for me? lol... so I had to filter my AO3 stats and see what I even wrote 'this year'

Liars' Game is probably the thing that sits heaviest in my heart, it's kind of the whole hinge of their relationship dynamic that I have for them. Plus I'm always excited when little things pay off and doing the extra work to embed chat stickers in the text parts of the work made it more fun I think (if people thought it was cringe well. they can get stuffed 😘)

Though that last Love Potions chapter was a roller coaster and I was really excited to get it posted bc there were a lot of things in there I'd had planned out for a while. Only one left to go but all my RvB brain has evaporated at the moment 💀💀💀 so that's going to be a while.

I got an idea for something im real excited to write just on the way home but I don't expect that to be done in any way until next year lol

16. What were your go-to writing songs?

hmm. I did make a couple playlists but to be honest I don't always write to music and sometimes I prefer no music. But I can pick out a song or two that got my head in the game for CaeSam if you like

Wake Up - Coheed and Cambria

Modern Swinger - The Pink Spiders

Drugs and Candy - All Time Low

This Feeling - Chainsmokers/Kelsea Ballerini

schmoop and yearning for them I guess lol

thank u for asking <33333 I'll go pick out some numbers for you next if you like ^^

#we just got a letter #my writing stuff #ask games #end of year

[allieebobo]

Hi allie! Loving the update and also how tidy the stats menu looks now!! Its so neat!

Wanted to confirm: Did you intend to change Tobin into a Junior instead of Senior? If so, whats the reason, and also I think in some scenes theyre still referred to as a senior but i cant remember where exactly sorry!

Also a heads up on the team roster page, Rayyans physical description is missing, and Blake's pronouns detail also.

(Sorry if this is kinda nitpicky but ive been going back and forth on the stats page cus its so clean now!!)

Hahaha thank you!! It IS, isn't it?? I'm proud of that as well. I think what you mention has been fixed for the stats page!

Yep I've officially aged Tobin down a year, I suppose their un-birthday is 10 Apr! Jk it was meant to be so their backstory with Felix makes more sense. If you see Tobin being referred to as a senior anywhere else, do let me know - I've done a first round of ctrl F + Replace but there could be more I've missed!

#ct:os #if #asks #college tennis: origin story #interactive fiction #tobin

[lynnaquinn]

So as I work on Rustbelt and Marked becomes the first book anyone will ever see of it, I grow more and more in love with the setting.

First off, recently because of other games, I've learned of a side of Post-Apocalypse media I never knew about, this honestly helped me develop the world into more of a unique setting. I never knew of the whole Roadside Picnic style settings.

But I digress, going back to what has happened.

So when I started arranging things, when the first book broke into three unique books, I rearranged what classes were in which Encampment Groups to have it make more sense to me. Marked went through huge changes in this in that I swapped out Dimensional and Lost to put in two of what I call "Blue" factions (reference to an in house categorizing of factions between Red, Green, and Blue, all lined up with the Terrain "Food Chain" and yes, these terms will change when final product is made.) I swapped the Rift-Scarred into a "Red" faction and then took the HUGE bite of putting the Ghostrunners as my "Blue" for book 1, making ECO the "Green."

The concept behind the world is that due to our fucking over nature, weather is so intense that we now live in what the corporations call Walled Cities. Through some "proprietary" tech that "wasn't given to them by something beyond us" the cities are shielded from the Apocalyptic storms happening outside them.

These cities are Capitalistic Hellscapes that sell different means of escapism almost like drugs; things like AR chips to remove the grime from your sight (or any other filter you choose,) splicing for cosmetics, and black bagging the homeless to "test new products on."

If the generator goes by its own failing or a storm getting in causing it, then for a brief moment a nuclear level event happens, ripping space and destroying the city.

The Rift causes the survivors to be forever changed. Some are scarred physically and mentally but gain psychic abilities, some become closer to the animal kingdom or even change themselves, and those unlucky to be connected to the AR slowly get their engrams dissolved into the digital aether.

You play the survivors of these Rift-Torn Cities within the first book.

Some rule concepts that used to be only some factions have also evolved to be an every faction thing honestly. These are things such as Leader/Unit Options and Archetypes.

Probably still need to figure more descriptive names for these hahaha.

Leader and Unit Options are a choice shared by Encampment Classes with similar themes that are a) Completely optional in your list, and b) meant to be thematic and fun. It is an option like having one of your Team be a Robot or an Intelligent Animal or what not or your Leader being a Cyborg or Hybrid or Splicer.

The Unit Option offers new equipment, the Leader Option offers new Equipment Sets for your leader, but you get to keep your leader type's ability. Both of these give stat changes to their stat line.

Originally I was only going to do one per the few that allow it, but now each faction gets 2 sets they can choose from and allows 2 Unit Options in their list instead of 1! This increased the original 2 sets to 5 now!!!

Archetypes were another "only some Classes had them" mechanic. They originally were replacing faction equipment on those Classes and offered a choice to the player that they HAD to choose one of.

Each non-leader originally had 2 equipment slots, the Archetype would take one of them presenting 3 that a player could choose from that were thematic to the class and each had 2 pieces of equipment that a unit only could have 1 of.

They work the same now, but with every faction having one, I've pressed the equipment limit from 2 to 3 to compensate so everyone can have some fun with the equipment outside of Archetype Choices.

Another thing was increasing D10 to D12 and upping the 4 basic stats on ALL models by 1. This was just to have better variance on odds.

Beyond that, swapping around Speed and Perception stats then changing Will to Grit really seems like a minor change, but honestly is one that feels important to me.

What other changes am I thinking of? As I've narrowed the books down to 4 planned, I thought of extending the 12 Classes in future books. But in the hours before typing this, I started to debate putting the upgrades just inside the books that have those classes. This would add alternative themes and options for each Class and related NPC Classes.

Just some thoughts hahaha.

#game dev #game design #game development #tabletop #miniature #wargame #lgbtqia #lynnaquinn #Rustbelt #post apocalyptic #cyberpunk #random thoughts #story

[sweeteaolive]

I think this will be my final design!

My first kickstater (genshin x kirby pins) was successful, but according to stats no one came from Tumblr so idk why I’m even writing this as if there’s gonna be any backers from here lol. But I enjoy sharing on multiple platforms and tumblr is where I can actually type a lot (truly like a blog!) so it’s all good :3

This pin is definitely not for the weak of heart as it will most likely cost a pretty penny hahaha;; first of all, it’s big and meant to be like a collector’s piece. and second there’s a lottt of screen printing (i’m sorry manu!) and gradient effect too on the lanterns and moon. I was gonna even throw in some glitter but I felt like it actually made the whole pin look cheaper so I skipped out on it.

I really hope the KS succeeds again ;-; Lantern rite has a special place in my heart and I know many people also started playing the game during this event too. I’m hoping to get a sample made and THEN launch the KS so that I’ll have a peace of mind haha

#art by sweeteaolive #genshin #genshin impact #xiao

[bbnibini]

I came here from your black haired Solomon and eventually read your CYOA and wowowowow I had no idea fanfic can be so creative and out of the box! Literally I read PSISLY for a whole week with my proverbial yarn strings pinned on a corkboard. This is amazing! I even had to borrow my cousin's AO3 account because I couldn't access the other contents and I couldn't wait days before I get a membership. How did you managed to do this and do you have any tips?

Omg yessss Airin did such an amazing job with black haired Solomon! <3 And thanks for reading my CYOA! And also...for a whole week?! 😱 I saw some other people in the comments also mention when they binge this series(there were readers who live commented too and fdslfjsdfdks it made me so happy aaa ;A;!!).

As for advice...sdlfkjsdfj I honestly don't know what to advice. I mean...look at this old screenshot of me agonising over my writing process idkwhatimdoingeitherjdlfjd

I guess the only thing I can say is...go for it? I had no prior experience with CYOAs before this. But I took inspiration from otome games and stat raising otome games like Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side for the formatting.

As I wrote and wrote and done more research (both biblical and canon obm), I got more used to outlining the CYOA format and things kinda just fell into place.

Though it became more and more challenging to write as I get closer to finishing it. (We still have a few more endings left for Barbatos before the final route). In my case, that's my struggle right now. Barbatos' route was definitely super challenging especially OE A because it was so action packed and had so many things going on. Partner that with formatting and coding it, to even crossposting it and coding it again (and the skin failing to show in AO3 because I wrote the code wrong 🥲 now I just gave up lol) and I almost lost my mind haha! (I have more rants about the process below if you're interested, but fair warning, it's mostly complaints about Barbatos' Overflowed Ending A hahaha)

(spoilers for Barbatos' Overflowed Ending A under cut)

The most challenging obstacle I faced was making the timeloop chapters work. It's more than just a repetitive series of chapters. The passages have to make sense and have to integrate with the following time loops perfectly. An example is this passage:

This passage is meant to be vague and meant to represent a sense of familiarity but also longing. The initial draft I had, actually contained a confrontation scene between MC and Author (I had to scrap it because it ruined the continuity), which was then revised to a line which says,

"I think I read this (the letter) before, but I can't remember where."

...then another revision until you have what you have now.

You can see nuances of this paragraph gaining different meanings in the time loops. So yeah. There's definitely a lot of technicalities involved in writing them. There's many other examples but I'd leave it for you to figure out! c:

The length of the timeloop chapters is also meant to be tediously long to represent how maddening, exhausting and egregiously long-winded it was for MC to experience it, while also showing how determined Barbatos was to keep you stuck in it forever so you wouldn't leave him. c:

#ask #obey me #obey me fic #i rambled #non gave me a chance to complain about oe a and i took it hahaha

[warm-meelk]

a self indulgent stupid au idea of mine where the demon bros are robots created by mc but mc seems to have made them a bit way smarter and special than they should be

thus robots having their own developed feelings and personalities on their own accord

#obey me #obey me shall we date #obey me mc #mc #main character #dairy #lucifer #leviathan #au #alternate universe #doodle #warm art #(AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WANTED TO DRAW THIS IDEA CAUSE I HAVE A ROBOT PERSONA AND I LOVE HIMST) #(also DSJSNSJ LEVI'S SCREEN POV BE LIKE A DATING SIM SCREEN THO) #(i meant the stats HAHAHA)

[fanficwritersinterviewed]

MCM, furiosophie

<<This post is a part of a longer conversation about fanfic writers, how they view fanfic, and their writing process. All views are the fanfic writers’ own, and whatever fanfic they choose to write is entirely their own decision. No judgement value will be placed on fic content. These conversations are meant to provide insight for other fanfic writers in whatever stage they are at in their writing life>>

Meet-Cute Monday (with furiosophie, @furiosophie)

AO3 Stats:

Pseud: furiosophie Pronouns: she/her (currently) Current fandoms: Star Wars Current pairings: Dinluke (Din/Luke), Dopeyluke (Din/Poe/Luke) How many total fic: 6 How many fandoms: 1 Total word count: 202,988 Longest fic word count: 103,615 Shortest: 2,148 Highest kudo count: 2,928 Lowest: 107

What's the story behind your pseud? It's a dumb pun I have with myself - my name is Sophie, I easily get furious about fandom shit and I'm dyslexic thus "furios sophie" with one s and no u.

You get furious? I am actually really surprised, I don't think I’ve ever noticed you getting furious before. Hahaha well I'm working on it. It's less furious, more very, very passionate. Like talking a mile a minute, forgetting to regulate my tone of voice, gesturing wildly, the whole deal.

How long have you been reading and writing fanfic? I'm not fully sure how long it's actually been but I remember asking my mom to print out fanfic at work that I copy and pasted into a doc so I could read it up in my room because we only had one pc at home, so I'd say probably 17 years or so? And I wrote my first fanfic at nine, I remember that very vividly because I wrote it in a notebook with some company logo on it and spent more time drawing the Star Wars logo on top than actually writing. Plus I had my mom proofread it so it would count as me doing my spelling homework.

It was set just before the beginning of Empire Strikes Back on the rebel base on Hoth and it was basically just a conversation between Leia, Han, Luke and the OC (original character) I created who used to be Vader's apprentice but had a change of heart and came to warn them about the imminent attack. Which I am aware is not super exciting but apparently my nine-year-old self really needed to write a fix-it.

No no! That's actually surprisingly involved for a nine-year-old kid, I'm impressed. Well my OC also rode a space skateboard and wore turquoise overalls so I feel that balances it out.

Ha!! Spectacular! Okay, so this furiosophie incarnation is your newest writing self, though you've been a few other people before this, right? I've had two other pseuds before this, yes. Kind of one for every phase of my writing: one for back when I was still writing in German during high school and one for when I first switched to writing in English during uni.

What was the inciting incident that led to the creation of this pseud?Honestly? I saw the Mandalorian season 2 finale, absolutely lost my mind when Luke showed up, went on tumblr to soak up any crumb I could get, got hit with a dinluke meme and thought "hahaha what a fucking dumb idea" and then three days later I found out that my note program apparently has a character limit because I had typed out the first 7k of “oh the things we left behind” on my phone. So I just resigned myself to my fate and created the new pseud. I had no idea what it would end up being. “ottwlb” was supposed to be three chapters, max maybe 30k. To put that into perspective - it had been roughly ten years since I had written anything at that point and the most I had written in one go was around 22k.

And it ended up being nearly 104k words. So what happened, exactly? What was it about this story that needed to come out of you and why? It started with the simple line of "Din thinks of the Jedi often. More specifically, he thinks of Grogu." That was the first thing I wrote down, and for a long while it was very much just an exploration of that thought I had since I first watched the movies which was something along the lines of "the Force and post-Return of the Jedi Luke must seem terrifying to others" until that turned into "if the Force and post-ROTJ Luke seems terrifying to others, how terrifying must that feel for him?" and I think that is where it clicked for me suddenly that I was processing a lot of my own complicated emotions around mental illness with some of this fic, that simple truth of "part of your mind is no longer your own.”

It’s funny to think, looking back, that I wasn't really aware I was processing anything with the story until I was in the thick of it. Like I knew I needed to process some shit-- I was one and a half years into recovery from severe burnout when I started writing-- but I didn't set out to do any of that processing through writing, it just happened. So this fic kind of became about accepting that sometimes the darkest parts of yourself just won't go away, that there is no absolution and no easy fix and that the only way through that is choosing to move forward. Or it's simply about two idiots taking 80k to kiss, you decide, haha!

If it’s not too invasive, do you mind talking a bit about what “severe burnout” means? Because before I met you I’d heard of burnout but it was always just a term tossed around when people got tired. I didn’t realize what it actually meant from a mental health perspective. Oh yeah sure! Though I'd like to preface this with simply saying that everyone's journey is different and this is just my personal experience. In retrospect it is not that surprising that I burned out eventually–  I had been struggling for a while in my twenties because I had a very intensive job, moved countries multiple times, tried to maintain relationships with friends, etc., but burnout is something that creeps up on you slowly and is often very hard to catch in time. It started with insomnia, then came the constant health issues, then the irritability, then I lost all interest in things I used to love, was unable to write at first, then draw, then hang out with friends, then watch TV, eventually I stopped making dinner because it was too much of an effort to make and then, right in the thick of it, I was unable to take care of myself at all.

But that whole process happened over the span of nearly two years, and in my case really probably my whole life because my specific type of burnout was brought on by the fact that I grew up undiagnosed autistic. So it wasn't one big thing, it was me continuously over-exerting myself from a very young age. There is this concept of disabled/neurodivergent kids being "twice exceptional"  which basically means that to excel you have to work twice as hard as your peers, once to bridge the gap of the base requirement of function and then once to actually thrive at school, or university, etc. and that ultimately led to me burning out. I actually had several unrelated burnouts throughout my life, the most severe ones after high school and university which, since I was seemingly functioning, were all treated as "you're just a little tired".

When you had that “a ha!” moment that your first fic was really about you processing what you’d just gone through, how did that inform your writing? I think the biggest plot point that was informed by that "a ha" moment was the choice to write chapter seven from Luke's perspective. Once I knew what I was doing it seemed impossible not to tell the story from his POV. I also kind of doubled down on the "being force-sensitive is a metaphor for being neurodivergent" thing because that analogy was just very comforting to me.

And “go and get your hands dirty”? Lmao. Very, very different vibe. I think dinluke kink week was going on back then and myomikan was drawing something for it so my idiot brain thought "you are incapable of writing smut why don't you also participate?" Which ended with me writing the first scene of that fic and then it just...I honestly don't know what happened, it was supposed to be max 10k. I had it all planned out, but apparently I am not only incapable of writing smut but also incapable of writing anything other than a slow burn. There really are no deep thoughts in that fic, which is probably why it was fighting me in the beginning, but it did end up being very helpful as a kind of sandbox where I could try out different pacing and character conflict that I struggle writing. I am still very on the fence about that fic, I know it had somewhat good reception but it is the one fic where I honestly can't tell if it works or not.

What's something in that one that you were intentionally trying out all the while knowing it wasn't your strong suit? The physical elements of it mostly. I am not joking when I say I am very bad at that, as well as the conflict based on miscommunication/a secret rather than outside factors, and the tension that comes with that. In “ottwlb” there is conflict but they are always a unit, while in “gagyhd” their turmoil is to some degree self-inflicted. Also parts of their relationship are genuinely unhealthy but in a sort of helpless way that stems from their trauma and upbringing which I really enjoyed exploring because trauma does not absolve you from being an asshole so my challenge was kind of to walk that line of "they are very dysfunctional but aware of it and trying to work towards being better."

Dysfunctional but aware. I think there’s a lot of us that can relate to that, lol!

#fanfic writers interviewed #furiosophie #fanfic #fanfic writing #meet cute monday

[maddogofshimano]

A Chance Meeting Between Guardians: Majima Boss Rush

Y0 Spoilers

NEW LEE CONTENT. YES.

So yeah this is a boss rush against Majima! We’re following Lee as the main character as he tries to figured out what the hell is going on while dealing with the only guy who knows even less than he does. Here’s his new card!!

It’s a KSR! Majima also just got a new one so I’ll show it off too.

I threw away all my diamonds trying to get it, and failed. The stats are absolutely batshit with twice the defense of the current best defense card. All the KSRs are like this, it’s a nightmare. This also meant I was broke when Lee came out, so just hell on earth.

Anyways Lee’s tanktop was a reward (literally just called “Lee’s tanktop”) and I beat up so many Majima’s for Lee. I’ve said before that I don’t generally like these events, gameplay-wise, and that’s still true. However, for Lee, I did beat up three hundred Majimas. 

Summary:

Set during the events of Y0 following Makoto’s kidnapping by yakuza. Lee, having been shot, has made the decision to hole up in his favorite mahjong parlor while his pals are out looking for Makoto. A yakuza hitman makes an appearance, and Lee tries to figure out what game this strange eyepatch wearing man is playing...

Makoto: Gyaa! Who--What are you doing!? Let me go! (Tl note: this is just word for word from the Y0 cutscene so I don't have to translate anything lol. The majority of everything that isn’t an internal thought in parentheses is straight from the game)

Underling: Guhh--shut up! Yakuza: Go! Get her outta here!

Majima: Holy shitballs... The hell's goin' on here!? (Tl note: I never knew what the original line was in japanese for holy shitballs it's JUST kuso-! )

Lee: Help her... Get her away from them!

Majima: Whaddya--? Lee: You're the only one who can... Hurry... Hurry up and go! <gunshot> Lee: Guh...... Lee: (A.... Anyone please..... save.... Makoto........)

<Lee blacks out and wakes up to the sound of tiles clacking> Lee: Th........ This is..... Guh.... Where's Makoto? (Tl note: this section is not in-game)

Chinese Back-Alley Doctor: Lee-san! Are you awake!?

Doctor: We've got everyone looking for Makoto-chan right now! Don't worry! Lee: But then... I need to hurry up and help! Guh... Doctor: Lee-san! Don't do anything unreasonable! Lee: Shit... I can't move my left arm.... Doctor: It's dangerous outside! There's a ton of yakuza all looking for you and Makoto-chan! Doctor: You can't fight in this condition! If they find you, you're dead! Lee: The yakuza are... looking for both of us? <outside> Underling: Oi, have you seen Makoto Makimura? .......Tch, find her already!

<back inside> Lee: (Those are the yakuza that broke in, ain't they.... Those assholes are still searchin', so....) Lee: (...That one eyed assassin... Did that guy really help Makoto escape?) Doctor: Lee-san! With everyone looking we're sure to find Makoto-chan! So please calm down-- Lee: ........Fine. I'll wait here... but I wanna pass along a message to those guys out there. Lee: Tell 'em "Keep a look out for a guy with an eyepatch and a ponytail. If he asks about me, tell him where I am". Doctor: Eh? O-Okay. Got it. Doctor: I'm going to go get you a change of clothes! Please wait here for a moment! Okay? <the doctor runs off> Lee: (That said... that eyepatch fella did say he was here to kill Makoto. ....He might have already done it.) Lee: (But he did seem pretty thrown off when he found out his target was a woman... I gotta hope that's enough to keep him from goin' through with it....) Lee: (Given the situation.... It's possible he wants me to help him avoid being killed by his boss) (Tl note: struggling a bit on this, the line is その場合…　雇い主に殺されんために恩を売ったワシに助けを求めてくるかもしれん ) Lee: (After that, there'd be a chance to get Makoto back... ) Skinny Chinese Man: Lee-san, it's no good to sit around all anxious! Let's play some mahjong to keep your mind off of it!

Lee: ...Heh, feelin' cocky since I'm down an arm? I thought swindlin' was forbidden here? Skinny Chinese Man: Ack, you caught us! Hahaha! <tiles clacking> Lee: (Even if I did get Makoto back from that eyepatch guy, would I be able to protect her by myself right now?) Lee: (...Even with these guys, handling a yakuza hitman with a gun, that's a tall order.....) Lee: (...And as more people show up, the odds of betrayal from my pals will rise too...) Lee: (Someone strong enough to handle themselves in a fight against yakuza... someone like that's my only option) Lee: (Dammit... Is the only person who can help me save Makoto... that guy?) <door opens> Skinny Chinese Man: ....Who's that? Lee: ......My customer. Ya don't gotta worry. Lee: Hey. Was wonderin' when you'd get here! Took ya longer'n I figured. (Tl note: back to cutscenes I'm saved Lee this is so difficult) Majima: What?

Lee: Heh heh, drop the scowl, friend. Lee: (If this guy came here, then that means Makoto must still be alive...) Lee: (...Well, I better not hope for the impossible here.) Lee: (I will take Makoto back from him, and protect her!) Majima: You... You're tellin' me you expected me to find this place? Lee: Eh, let's say it was a distinct possibility. Lee: See, I ain't yer average acupuncturist. God Hands, remember? Lee: (...If he's lookin' for a way to avoid gettin' killed by his employer, I'd expect he'd come here) Lee: (Though, if it gets out that we don't have the muscle to protect him... He may kill Makoto to save his own skin)

Lee: (.....I can't afford to show any weakness in front of him. I need him to think that I'm "a reliably awesome guy".... ) Lee: Whoa, hold up! You didn't think I'd let that one slide, did ya? I been waitin' for that east tile. Lee: You just suck, buddy. Why don't ya give the newcomer there a turn? Lee: ....And gather up people to wait nearby. In case of emergency.... We'll need to beat this guy.... (Tl note: we don't hear this line in game) Skinny Chinese Man: G-Got it.... Lee: You're in, right? Why else would anyone show up at a mahjong parlor? Lee: See, I always wanted to play a round of mahjong with a hitman. Lee: (...There's no guarantee he'll talk if I try to beat it out of him. That'll be my last resort.) Lee: (One way or another I gotta get him to trust me... Then he'll tell me where Makoto is of his own volition...) <at the table> Majima: You seem fine for somebody with holes in 'im.

Lee: You fuckin' crazy? Hurts like a bitch. Can't move my arm, either... Wish I could trade with you. Lee: (I really wanna ask where Makoto's at right away, but I don't wanna spook 'im) Lee: (The fundamentals of negotiation is hidin' what yer really after... So I'm keepin' that to myself while I wait for Makoto to come up...) Majima: You not gonna ask what happened to the girl? Lee: If Makoto was dead, you got no reason to come lookin' for me. She's alive, right? Lee: (Heh, all accordin' to plan... I'm gettin' exactly what I want without tippin' my hand, all thanks to stayin' patient) Lee: (....Did ya want me to bring up Makoto right away? That's a valuable bargaining chip...) (Tl note: he looks SO pleased with himself)

Lee: (Conversely.... I'll start off by sussin' out what's most important to this guy...) Lee: (I'd bet it's somethin' like "I want ya to help me not get killed by my boss"...) Lee: You've never killed before, have ya? Lee: I can tell just lookin' at ya. You got the look of somebody strugglin' to cross that line. Lee: So riddle me this. What's a guy who can't kill doin' taking hit jobs? Majima: You don't know shit about me. Lee: Chill out. Green kid like you can play tough all he wants, you ain't scarin' anybody. Lee: I can tell plenty about you. ...Everything, really. Majima: ............... Lee: (Heh, bullseye. His expressions give him away, he's really easy to read...) Lee: (Maybe I oughta ask him straight up if he wants me to help him dodge his boss...) Lee: That's ron. Sorry, pal. Lee: Makoto ain't hurt, is she? Majima: Nah. The girl's fine. Relax. Lee: Good... Hehe, then what? You here to try to find yerself a way outta gettin' whacked? Lee: Now that the killer's screwed the pooch, he's tryin' not to be the next name on his boss's list, huh? Majima: ............... Lee: (Heh.... Another bullseye? I've got ya all figured out.....) Lee: (Good... Soon he'll drop the act and ask me to help him out...) Majima: Just so we're clear, I... I still ain't decided not to kill her. Lee: ....... Lee: (....Guess he's not gonna crack so easily. He's still frantic to keep himself alive...) Lee: (I'll have to be a lil more roundabout to get him to spill what he wants...) Majima: I'm not the only guy after her. Take the yakuza who put air holes in that body of yours, for instance. Lee: What about 'em? Majima: Why do they want her? Lee: Go ask your employer. He's after Makoto too, ain't he? Lee: (Why's he wanna hear about that? The motivations of his competition oughta be the last thing on his mind.) Lee: (Unless... He's plannin' on switching sides to them? What other reason could there be...) Majima: Is she a target because you two have been sniffin' around about a guy with a bat tattoo? Lee: (...The bat tattoo? That ain't related to this... Does he think it is?) Lee: (This guy... Why's he after info on his competition...) Lee: (...It can't be!? This guy... Does he let Makoto get away!?) Lee: (So he must be after info to try to catch her...) Lee: (The real reason he came to see me was to find out if there was to find out where Makoto would have run off to?) Lee: (Aw hell... This guy really is an amateur hitman. ...If this is happening, it's not something to dally on.) Lee: (...I need to find out everything he knows as quickly as possible so I can go search for Makoto!) Lee: (Looks like everything's ready outside. Alright...) Lee: ...Hard to say. Majima: ......! Doctor: Lee-san, are you all right!? I brought help! That man is after you!

Lee: (....I thought preparations woulda taken longer, but it is what it is...) Lee: ...Nice playin' with ya, "slim." Majima: We ain't done talking here. You still don't know whether I'm on your side or not. You gonna fight me anyway? Lee: If I can't tell whose side you're on, it's safer to just kill ya. That's how the Chinese in this town do things. Majima: So much for diplomacy, then. Lee: Don't bother holdin' back, guys! Let 'im have it!

<EVENT START, Misery Comes On Beat starts playing>

Majima: ..............

Lee: Well, now. I guess you're more than just a lousy hitman. Could be I underestimated you. (Tl note: once again right from the game) Lee: (He tore through everyone and he ain't even breathing hard.... This eyepatch guy, he seems plenty strong...) Lee: (....Guh, still can't move my left arm....... There's no way I can throw down with this guy right now.... What to do.....) Majima: I ain't here to mess with your turf. I really just want to know why the girl's a target. Lee: .............. Lee: (....Seems like he wants to talk before he's done) Lee: (If I get killed there's no one to save Makoto... Guess I got no choice but to talk...) Lee: (No matter what unsightly grovelin' I gotta do, I gotta find Makoto before anyone else does.... So I'll do whatever it takes.) Lee: If you were thinkin' the reason they're after her has anything to do with the guy with the bat tattoo, I'm tellin' ya you're wrong. Majima: And how can you be so sure of that? Lee: Makoto didn't tell you anything? Majima: She said you knew. Told me to come ask you. Lee: (Come as me....? Did Makoto manage to escape before telling him?) Lee: She knows. Just doesn't like talkin' about it herself. Majima: Meaning what, exactly? Lee: Her eyes... She's only blind because of the man with the bat tattoo. <we cut ahead to after Lee has explained how he met Makoto> Majima: And you been searching for this guy with the bat tattoo to get revenge for her? Lee: Makoto says she just wants to stop the same thing from happenin' to anybody else. Lee: Me, though... I want to snap the fucker's neck in half. Peel the goddamn bat right off his arm. Majima: ......... Lee: But there's yer answer, right? The bat piece'a shit is small time, goes around town picking off innocent girls where he finds 'em, probably all by himself. Lee: Can't imagine a man like that's behind what's happenin' to Makoto now. The yakuza hire street punks to do their dirty work, not the other way round. Majima: Then what? You got any other ideas? Lee: Can't say I do. That's all I can tell ya.

Majima: ......... <Majima turns to leave> Lee: (....Don't go. Ain't this guy gonna tell me where Makoto is?) Lee: (A fight would be completely one-sided... He wouldn't even need to pull out any tricks....) Lee: (Even still, he ain't gonna tell me where she is?) Lee: (No way... This guy, did Makoto actually get away from him!?) (Tl note: hooo boy it's early and I'm struggling on if that's a "didn't not escape" or just a "didn't escape" in まさか……こいつ、マコトに逃げられたわけちゃうかったんか!?)

Lee: (If that weren't the case, then why would he come to me askin' about a bat tattoo...?) Lee: (He could just make her tell him if she was still there)

Lee: (A timid person like Makoto, there's no way she'd be able to endure threats for long...) Majima: The girl... She's inside the Haru Building on Shofukucho Street. In a warehouse a club called Odyssey owns. Lee: (Is that so....! After all that, he's really tellin' me where Makoto is!?) Lee: (This guy, what the hell is his goal here........!) Battered Chinese Men: Uughh..... Lee: (....Despite looking like they were seriously injured, everyone was just knocked out... Did that guy hold back?) Lee: (...No, he's a yakuza hitman.... That would be stupid.... But...) Lee: (He chose to come talk to me about the man with the bat tattoo rather than breaking Makoto's will...) Lee: (And he told me where Makoto is... If it were me in his position, I would have killed Makoto as well as myself...) Lee: (This guy is...) Lee: So what, you're plannin' to just give her back? Majima: ....... Lee: The hell you plannin' to tell yer boss if you don't kill her? You're a dead man. Lee: Besides, that just means Makoto's gonna get hunted down by the guy they hire to replace you. Majima: So what? What do you want me to do about it? Lee: (.......This ain't acting. I think he actually wants to help Makoto.)

Lee: (........He's a softie, despite bein' stronger than me.... I think I can trust this guy.) Lee: (Him and me... we could protect Makoto together....!) Lee: It ain't impossible to get away.

Lee: There's just one way you, me, and the girl all get away clean from the yakuza. <we skip ahead through Lee outlining the plan> Lee: How do I get in touch with you once I'm ready? Majima: Cabaret Grand. I'm there from evening on. I run the place. Lee: You serious? You're the guy in charge of the Grand? Majima: Next time you're thirsty, drinks're on me. Lee: Heh, all right then. I'll get in touch tonight. Lee: What's your name? Majima: It's Majima. Goro.

<Majima walks out> Lee: ...Looks like my prayers have been answered. (Tl note: literally "[meeting a] buddha in hell")

Lee: ....Makoto. No matter what, we're going to keep you safe....

<END>

bonus time:

LEE WEN HAI I HAVE FEELINGS FOR YOU

clearly the rggo team does too given they did a board game, a character story, AND now a boss rush! Nishitani only got a boss rush, and that was more of a Majima event than a Nishitani one, and--..............oh my god I never translated Nishitani’s character story. I’m a fake fan. I’ll get to that soon

I’m glad this was half transcribing cutscene because oofa I struggle with translating Lee, he uses big long complicated sentences compounded with kansai-ben than makes me question everything all the time. if I made a mistake don’t hesitate to tell me and I’ll fix it!

It is extremely funny that Lee was trying to play 4D hitman chess games with Majima, and getting the completely wrong conclusion because Majima had literally no idea what was going on. The smartest tactics fail against the stupidest enemies.

here’s the card skills btw!

Lee Wen Hai (Fighting Spirit) - Sorrowful Guardian

Prepare yourself! - Increases heat gauge by 300 at start of battle Acupuncturists' Twin Needles - Hits two enemies with 800% atk and inflicts bleed Essence of Infallible Pursuit - Hits for 400% atk with penetration to a single enemy, and does a 250% atk penetration pursuit to invincible enemies Stiff Muscle Loosener - Increases crit rate by 6% per defense ally (tl note: it's kind of a pun too with the name of the clinic being Hogushi Kaikan and this starting with ほぐし甲斐 "hogushi kai") Streetside Massage Therapy - For each support type ally who is a civilian, reduce chance of being afflicted by a status condition by 25% Acupuncturists' olfaction - Increase atk power against bleeding enemies by 20% (tl note: I feel like this is a reference to his event with the cheap soap smell)

Majima Goro (1988 Kiwami) - Lord of the Night

Show time! - Grants immortal to all defense type allies and cuts all damage by 10% Spine of the Lord - Grants reflection to all defense type allies for 10 seconds and resurrection Essence of Dodging Strikes - Randomly attack enemies 5 times for 500% defense (tl note: 躱身乱打の極み not certain on what 躱身 is) Civilians' playground - Increases defense of all allies that are ex-yakuza, civilians, or red-light workers by 15% Lord's Hospitality - Grants immortality to himself Demeanor of the Manager - When remaining HP is 40% or more, reduce all damage to self by 15%

and this one that I was so thrilled was going to be an offense card but she’s not. she’s support. sexism wins today

Makimura Makoto (Kiwami) - Seeking the Light

Let me do something to help too! - speed up ally battle skills by 20% Hometown Lullaby - Increase the atk and crit of 3 highest atk allies by 30%, and 70% chance to put 3 enemies to sleep for 7 seconds Essence of Light and Darkness Reversal - Invincibility on all allies, removes invincibility/immortality/recovery from all enemies Innocent Prayer - Increases sleep durations inflicted by 1 second and accelerate heat action cooldown by 10% Curtain of Darkness - Normal attacks have a 25% chance of inflicting 3 seconds of sleep Heroic Support - Increases damage by 10% for allies that are civilians or ex-yakuza

#yakuza #rgg #Ryu ga Gotoku #ryu ga gotoku online #rggo #Majima #Majima Goro #Lee #Lee Wen Hai

[mysterystarz]

hi! first and foremost, i love your layout! 💕 (i swear, whenever i see blog layouts that i think are cute, i’m like “damn, mine could never compare to theirs” LMAO 😂) anyways, so i read your nekoma manager headcanons and i love them! i was wondering if it’s alright if i can have some nekoma x manager!reader in which the reader is either a second or third year (i’ll let you pick) and is a foreigner (no need to specify their nationality). let’s say that in the country the reader is from, they don’t have honorifics for upperclassman like they do in japan, so whenever the reader’s underclassmen calls them “senpai”, they get a bit flustered (they don’t even know why they’re flustered, it just happens) idk, i think it’d be cute 🥰 i think it’d also be cute if the underclassmen decide to mess with the reader to see who can fluster them first by calling them “(f/n)-senpai” in every single sentence whenever they’re talking to them and eventually yaku’s like “knock it off!” 😂 tysm! 💖

the manager game (nekoma deluxe edition) <3

g!n manager!reader + the shenanigans of nekoma!  ☆ a/n ☆ AWWW thank you!!! this request was super fun to write and being from a country that doesn’t have a concept of upperclassmen, i can proudly say that i’d be flustered if someone called me “nova”-senpai too <3 hopefully, i did your request some justice hahaha

when you moved from your home country [insert country] to japan, you were not prepared for the cultural differences 

before you moved, you had practiced some Japanese so you could interact with the people around you, but the idea of people using honorifics on you was something you never imagined 

cue you walking into nekoma high for your third year! 

you already were familiar with the volleyball club and even managed for them 

tough love style because serves can’t be flubbed and they cannot sacrifice the poor underclassmen

one day you were walking through the halls when you accidentally bumped into lev 

he was all apologetic and started wildly gesturing before he said “sorry (f/n)-senpai! I never meant to bump into you!” 

your composure 

GONE 

(hotel?) trivago (sorryyyy!!)

you were so flustered that you just nodded and ran the hell out of there (you go!!!) 

lev reported this to the VBC at their usual practice and kuroo decided that the underclassmen should mess with their little foreign manager and call them (f/n)-senpai...for everything

and thus started....THE MANAGER GAME™ 

monday morning, all the first years were at the gate, ready to greet you (like they always did since they are sweethearts), except they were going to switch out the honorific 

instead of the (-san) that they usually used they were going to use (-senpai) 

so you were the unsuspecting victim and walked up to meet them and...

“good morning (f/n)-senpai!!” 

you were all red and were gesturing to try to ask them what the hell they were doing when fukunaga walked up to the gates 

and you thought “phew, at least fukunaga will probably be in his senses” 

but instead, he waved at the first years and said “what are you waiting for (f/n)-senpai? class is going to start soon” 

and he freaking WALKED AWAY WHAT

the first years and fukunaga laughed at your shyness as you waddled off to class

you thought practice was going to be better

OH HELL NO, IT WAS NOT BETTER 

anytime the ball went out of bounds, or they needed a specific set of stats, kuroo would always send a first or second year

“hey, (f/n)-senpai, how do I have a stronger receive?”

“(f/n)-senpai, what do you think the correct angle is for a good spike?” 

YOU. WERE. SO. FLUSTERED. 

SO FLUSTERED THAT YOU STARTED SPEAKING IN [insert language of your country]

the VBC was laughing their head off

but you couldn’t help them or give them tips because of the seniority and respect you were being given 

you were always fine with a (-san) or (-chan/-kun) 

it was the final straw when kenma said “hey (f/n)-senpai, can you get kuroo to stop giving weird speeches?” 

YOU EXPLODED (hinata style pftttt) 

yaku had been observing (and kicking lev) for most of practice but he knew he needed to intervene or else they were going to virtually kill their manager 

so in the typical yaku fashion 

“YOU GUYS NEED TO CUT IT OUT! NOW!” 

BONUS: 

once you calmed down you put on your most evil smirk....and sentenced the underclassmen to an eternity of calling you (-senpai) >> the underclassmen were TERRIFIED because now if they called you anything but (-senpai) they’d have to do flying falls 

AHH you really loved those boys <3 

©mysterystarz all rights reserved - please do not plagiarize, modify, or translate this post in any way or form

click here to join my taglist (if you're interested!)

#nova scribbles <3 #nekoma #fukunaga #senpai #kuroo #kenma #lev #anime #hq #haikyuu x reader #hq x reader #foreign reader #foreignmanager #manager hq #nekoma manager #haikyuu heacanons

[lost-kiwi-dev]

thank you so much for the suggestion, gem! not sure if it’ll work on my computer lol (i have a mac), but i’ll still check it out.

i have a question about planning. so first, you outline the whole chapter i’m guessing? for the codes, do you type out the codes on a separate document and paste them onto the program? how does that work?

expect me to raid your dms after you answer this question HAHAHA.

okay, so...(long answer incoming and i'm not on desktop so i can't add a read more, apologies!)

you're right, i draft out each chapter in one word doc, sometimes over multiple paragraphs and sometimes only one. i then write each chapter in a separate google doc. i find this is good because it doesn't take as long to load 33k words as it would to load 100k words (one chapter vs all chapters) and also if something were to happen at least you're only losing one chapter and not all your work!

when i wrote chapters 1-3 i didn't add in any code until i was finished, which was definitely a mistake. i kept referring to the ROs as "they" rather than for example $Che (which would make C's pronouns he or she depending on player choice). it meant that i missed a lot of these "they"s that really should have been coded in but i overlooked. but at least coding after gives you a good opportunity to read over your work and edit it.

for chapter four, i have decided to go through and code as i write, which i'm finding much easier. it tends to break the flow a bit when i write "$che looked at $chis creation, a true replica of $chimself" but at least i'm not missing any MC or RO pronouns. it gets a little more complicated when i go into the choice options (but trust me it only looks complicated!)

<< link `”→ I turn around and discover $C is doing the exact same thing (♡).”` “I turn around and discover $C is doing the exact same thing.”>>

    <<set $cromance += 1>>

<</link>>

is the code that i use for my choices. the first part in the `" "` is what text the player will see. the second " " is the new passage that it links to (e.g what page the player goes to, i'm lazy at naming mine lol). and then the <<set>> variable will increase/decrease whatever stat you put in there - in this case choosing this option will give you one C romance point.

it looks pretty complicated right now to someone who hasn't coded before but trust me, with literally just this one piece of code you will be able to have a fully playable game! these bits of code are all throughout my google doc and so when i'm ready to add it to my game i go into twine and copy + paste each text into the right passage!

#long post soz #stellumi #vera my beloved #i hope this makes some things clearer #although i acknowledge that it's a lot of words of nothing if you have no experience #so i recommend downloading twine (if thats what you wanna use) and having a play around #and as always my dms are open :D #do tags even work anymore? 🤔

[herotome]

hi wudge!! your work for nanoreno was AWESOME, you did such an incredible job!!! I finished in time as well, and i'm so proud of us both 😊!! what were your favourite things about making Ballads of Midnight? & are there any other nanoreno games you've played and enjoyed?

Lovely anon, I looked a few times and couldn't narrow down which game is yours... but I looked again just now and AHA, I think I've finally found it! Oooh your love interests are so cute, congratulations on submitting on time with 15.000 honkin words! I was cheering you on all the while!! <3

(Is there a reason you're not mentioning the name of your game? Just shy? Regardless, thank you for stopping by again, I'm looking forward to playing it!)

What was YOUR favorite thing about making yours? Did you learn anything interesting in the process? Was there anything that excited you like "wow yay, I get to do X"?

My favorite thing about writing Ballads at Midnight was... well, honestly I'm a very cranky writer so my favorite thing was being done with each chapter and getting to read them afterwards hahaha. Having 10+ team members also meant I got to see everything come together without having to do all the work myself, so that was really nice too.

But other than the end productttt hmmm... I had a severe love-hate relationship with the sheer amount of research I've had to do. Like, I learned about different ways to testing whether or not a piece of gold was real (including biting down on it to see if there are teeth marks, as done by the protagonist); I learned a lot about vampires (coincidentally, using DnD stat sheets as a primary baseline); I learned that moats did NOT historically have alligators in them... and currently I'm in the midst of researching how best to portray stages of grief. Shortly before this I looked into horrific magical spells and how to write Lovecraftian feelings of dawning dread.

Oh, but I guess I did enjoy designing the backstories and the brainstorming process of linking all the story elements together! That's a very pre-development part of the process though. :^)

The most exciting part of BaM for me was realizing that it was shaping up to be an enemies to lovers. The progression from cagey hostility to "wow weird we have the exact same sense of humor <_<" to a mutual "wow b*tch you live like this?? no it's not OK, let me take care of u" was very fun.

Are there any other nanoreno games I've played and enjoyed.. hahah..... not yet...... T_T But when I'm 100% done with the secret end!! I'll make a whole week of it, I've got my eye on several and I wanna write some nice comments.

#ballads at midnight #bam