Okay, I really wanted to analyze this brief moment.
When I first saw him falling and saw his friends running towards him, I was thinking "Catch him, catch him!"
They did not catch him. (To be fair though, after a few more rewatches I realized that he actually crashed WAY further away from them; he just skidded a long way. They probably wouldn't have been able to reach him in time, anyway.)
And then they're just standing there looking at him. He's quite literally unconscious on the ground. Again, when I first watched it, I thought, "Why aren't they checking on him? Why aren't they helping him up?"
Then it hit me.
These are Sonic's closest friends. They know him, better than anyone else. They know he doesn't like to be fussed over, or touched (especially when he's more vulnerable than normal) even if he did literally just almost die.
And with this knowledge in mind, I could suddenly see how very concerned they really were. Look at the tiny bits of body language they express in just this moment.
Amy covers her mouth and reaches towards him with both hands, but doesn't touch him.
Knuckles just stares at him, half-lidded eyes, and when Sonic starts stirring, he moves a hand towards him ever so slightly like he really wants to help him get up, but he doesn't.
Tails has less to analyze, since the impact literally knocked him backwards off his feet and he's just getting back up, but his concern earlier and the fact that he was the first one to start running says enough.
They love him. They know him. And they respect him.
They know he'll get up. They respect his boundaries, even when those boundaries are vastly different from the average person's boundaries.
And that knowledge that he'll be okay works out, just like they knew it would. Watch the change in their expressions and body language as he stand back up and smiles at them.
Knuckles straightens up and smiles, regaining a more normal expression for him. Amy lights up and holds up her hands excitedly. Tails gets just as excited.
And THEN Amy jumps to hug him, and high fives and fist bumps ensue.
I dunno. I just really liked the volumes spoken by this silent, wordless progression of events. The animation team really went all out.
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the coward's way out
if the fates conspire
that only one of us may live,
then lover,
it must be you.
i will save you the grand speeches
about how you are good and deserving.
you are. you are. you are,
but in the end, that is not the reason why.
the world may call me brave
or strong
or selfless
but lover, you know the truth
don't you?
in the end, i am only more afraid
of facing a world without you
than i am of facing death
of facing anything.
in the end, i am only too weak
to be the one left behind
to pick up the pieces of a broken life
a broken promise
a broken heart
and keep on bleeding
when the blood in your heart
is already dry.
i'm sorry. i'm sorry.
but will you let me be selfish
one last time?
can i ask you to live
for me?
to face what i feared most
so that i might find peace
in my eternal sleep
with a smile upon my face?
if it is cruel of me to ask,
then i beg you to forgive me.
or curse my name
and hate me if you must,
only live.
only live, my lover
so that my life and my death
and all that came in between
may mean something.
may mean everything.
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Hello! Just want to say that I love Mushroom Oasis! It's the first and kind of only VN to make me cry, the endings so far are so well done!
My question is: do you have plans for another game after Mushroom Oasis? Either it's own thing or in the same universe?
Looking forward to whatever comes next!
Thank you so much!! I actually do have an idea or two for future VNs which I'm kinda excited about, but for now I'm focusing on releasing Day 3 of Mushroom Oasis before anything else.
Maybe after Day 3, I'll take a short break and work on something mini for a change, just to spice things up a little. We'll see!
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The whole “Trunks and Goten in High school AU” webcomic is being soft-rebooting, more properly this time and not just a “fan art stuff”. This is more like an adaptation for an art assignment now, which is really nostalgic for me.
This webcomic series’s name is “The UNSPOKEN” anyway, it’s much shorter than its original name and much more concise ✌️
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CRK 4/24 Update Preview - Heaven-Splitting Lightning
Images from CRK’s Discord
New Legendary Cookie: ⛈️ Stormbringer Cookie
Charge ✊ - Front - “Lightning Blitzstorm”
Guaranteed through daily gifts after update launch
Sublime Cake Towers - possible retexturing of Tower of Sweet Chaos as an event - Decadent Choco Cake Tower in Part 1
Adding Electricity ⚡️ element for ⚡️🔫 Twizzly Gummy Cookie, 📖 Blueberry Pie Cookie, 🍋🎸 Black Lemonade Cookie, 🎤✨ Shining Glitter Cookie, 🪼 Frilled Jellyfish Cookie, and 🫒 Olive Cookie
⛈️ Stormbringer Cookie will most likely have this element by default
🌩️ Dark Cacao Cookie and ✨ Wizard Cookie were shown to have gotten this element in the preview video on YouTube (link here) but are not in this image
New Epic Treasures: Grim-Looking Electrifying Scythe - increases CRIT% for ⚡️ Electricity-type Cookies, described above - Scythe variant
Thunder God’s Paper Charm - deals ⚡️ Electric damage to and removes all buffs from the closest enemy - Paper Charm variant
—————————— ⬇️ Potentially Part 2 ⬇️
Legendary Costume for ⛈️ Stormbringer Cookie
Sublime Cake Tower - Endless Strawberry Cake Tower
Magic Candies for ⚡️🔫 Twizzly Gummy Cookie AND 📖 Blueberry Pie Cookie
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Happy (belated) update day!!
In this update you get to spar with Nazeri, and coming up next is Bautista's sparring scene as well as a super special appearance by a secret character. You also get to flirt with Nazeri for the first time in this chapter -- where that leads will be up to you.
I'm not entirely happy with how the scene is written, but I also haven't had a lot of time to work on it this month. Not only have I been working a lot at the day job, but I also accepted a position as an associate writer for an upcoming VN. I'm giving myself a little grace. We'll see how it goes.
Most importantly, with this updates comes changes to the Patreon. As of September 2023, the Director tier will no longer be available. I don't really feel comfortable not offering a lot of content for 10 cheevos a month, and the streams + Deep Lore Q&A haven't been successful enough for me to justify keeping them around. So only two tiers for now!
Tier 3 will reopen when Greenwarden enters Alpha Build, in order to offer Alpha testing access if people want it. :]
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A quick xanlow comm for @honeydots! :)
Laslow stop that, he's trying to concentrate!! Those notes are important!!
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Everything in life is stressing me out so badly (especially with a new hopefully treatable med problem with Zen) and just rereading the comments and the new reblogs make me so damn happy.
At least I got two pages done out of a usual 10(?) page one. Idk rn cause I'm on mobile but I think the average was 10.
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I’ve gotta catch up on sso updates I haven’t played since they added the path of whimsy
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Getting close to finishing chapter 11 for Abrtl. I'm around 7k in - about 2k of which has been written for over a year - and have probably 1k-2k to go. It's so exciting to make real progress quickly again, I finally feel like I have direction for what I'm writing and I'm enjoying the process again. Most of chapter 10 was a slog to write, especially because I've been so excited to get to the next part of the story.
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Okay guys -- I know I've been dragging my feet when it comes to responding to my inbox asks; apologies for this delay. It's been a trying week, but taking some time away from this platform has done wonders for my wellbeing
I know it may seem like stalling, but first I needed to get a few ducks in a row. So hang tight y'all - answers are coming your way!
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asking for all the positive vibes & thoughts for my friend who gave birth today & my new niece who had to be transferred to the children’s hospital
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