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Month
Here’s hoping you’re all having a festive (and safe, whether you’re an east-coaster or otherwise) holiday! : )
Aw, thank you : ) (I swear I won’t stop drawing Mother art, though XD I have unending feels.)
Thanks, hugging anon! :,D
Just for reference, mostly. It’s not like I’m never gonna post Mother art again (HAH, RIGHT, LIKE THAT’LL EVER HAPPEN. I MEAN REALLY, NOW), but I’m curious about people’s opinions on the matter since I’m pretty sure most of my followers follow me for Mother stuff and I’m so amazingly insecure wow and yeah.
Not gonna lie, I feel kind of conflicted.
I mean, I know this is my personal blog and everything, but I guess I’ve always considered myself mostly a Mother series blog? And then I get really in to all this other stuff, and is it really okay for me to be posting all this non-Mother series stuff?
Because damn it if I don’t consistently indulge myself in fandoms until I completely burn out (save the Mother fandom, which is honestly one of the few that I’ve been constantly in to at the same degree since I started.)
…And oh no I just remembered that Impact exists I SHOULD WORK ON THAT.
I TOTALLY JUST MADE (SEMI-)WORKING 3D GLASSES OUT OF A TRANSPARENT FLOPPY PLASTIC CASE AND COPIC MARKERS
YESSSSSSSSS
So, Madoka Movies.
…Nothing will ever be the same.
2:30 am revelation:
Three days until Meduka movies.
There’s a Majora’s Mask joke in there somewhere…
3 am
Besides that thing that wasn’t my idea exactly.
I still keep thinking about drawing more Ice King. /sob
Why am I such an awful person…?
But…but…ICE KING. *sobbing buddies*
Finally finished watching all the available episodes of Adventure Time…just in time to watch I Remember You.
Time to be caught in an endless feedback loop of feels.
And then I went on the Dream World and realized I have no dream friends.
Huh.
(The things I do to procrastinate, jeez.)
Wow it was a pain to fix the formatting on that post so that all the quotes were properly attributed, what the heck Tumblr
my mistake was letting the quotes live orz
Nah, it was because for some reason Tumblr wouldn’t let me just reblog the post without shortening it, so I went back and copypasta’d the fic links in, but then I wanted the rest of the commentary there too (and the link to your AO3 because hey) and then Tumblr was like NOPE.
Wow it was a pain to fix the formatting on that post so that all the quotes were properly attributed, what the heck Tumblr
give me mother 3 fanfics
Does the man wear the clothes, or the clothes make the man? Spoilers to chapter five.
Lost Soul by KMSymphonyOfSilencereviews
An innocent soul lost. Scarred for life in a silent shell. This is a poem about Lucas after his mother’s death and his brother’s disappearance. Rated T for Hinawa’s death.
Painful Silence by Ms. Issippireviews
Lucas waited adamantly for three years for his brother to return. They told him to move on, to face the facts, but Lucas knew that Claus would come back. And he’d wait forever in the pained silence if he had to. Lucas inspired poem.
Claus will always let Lucas win; it’s in the natural order of things, after all.
Slaughter for Slaughter by LittleLinorreviews
The Chimera Lab creates monsters. Rated for blood and traumatic responses, spoilers to mid-chapter 7.
Something’s Gotta Give by The Exilereviews
Irresistable force meets immovable object when the Ultimate Chimera tries to eat the Absolutely Safe Capsule.
/Oneshot/ Be wary, Duster, as you take your first tentative steps on Tanetane island: there be monsters just beyond your field of vision. / Tanetane island, from Duster’s POV.
MOTHER3. Time can change a man, though his routine remains the same.
Alone by Useless Dreamerreviews
Lucas waits for his father as he tries to get warm, with a mute Claus at his side. Claus doesn’t speak, and the villagers seemed worried about his mother. Lucas felt alone for the first time in his life. ONE-SHOT.
Dragon’s Heart by Kurukreviews
Lucas’s heart has always been a few sizes too big for a little boy.
thank you and bless your soul
And if I could have a moment of….vanity…..
Reblogging in full because GO READ ALL THE THINGS.
Sorry I haven’t been online basically at all for the last week. (Lots of schoolwork, and a little Pokemon-based procrastination sprinkled in. But mostly schoolwork, holy crap.)
This week will probably be much of the same. At least I get some meguca movies this weekend as a reward?
I just realized I never drew the twins in oversized sweaters, after all.
I…I think I missed the Sweater Train. By the time I get around to it everybody will either forget that it happened, or think I’m trying to bring it back and be all “: U”. “: U” is a thing people say, right?
Now that I’m done with (one of) my essay(s), I can finally play some White 2.
So, you guys all enjoying your Pokemans? I am essay.
…On a more coherent topic, remember when the Pokemon game manuals had all sorts of art and little snippets of worldbuilding in them? Now it’s all technical information and stuff like that.
(Then again, at least this is an…
Oh yeah! I remember reading through that. Really interesting stuff.
When I think about game manuals from my childhood, the first one I think of is actually the Gold/Silver manual - I just remember it’s “welcome to the world of Pokemon”-esque first page and how much wonder it incited in me, more than anything else.
I do remember Fire Red and Leaf Green preorders came with this really nifty Pokemon Trainer’s Manual thing - about the size of the game box, though obviously not as thick, but it was this surprisingly comprehensive guide to type matchups and characteristics and it talked about the gym leaders and other cool things, and it had lots of decent-sized art in it. It was pretty cool.
But yeah, the relationship between games and their manuals seems like it’s really changed - as more can be fit in a game (I mean with literal technological limitations, not in any imaginative sense), there’s far less, if any, vital need for worldbuilding and flavor text in manuals. Whether that’s a good or bad thing is, of course, entirely subjective.
So, you guys all enjoying your Pokemans? I am essay.
…On a more coherent topic, remember when the Pokemon game manuals had all sorts of art and little snippets of worldbuilding in them? Now it’s all technical information and stuff like that.
(Then again, at least this is an actual, multi-paged manual: OoT3D just had a folded insert. I remember after opening the OoT3D box for the first time and staring blankly at the insert, I pulled out my Wind Waker box, opened the manual - slight water damage on the first few pages, page corners bent and unbent and literally worn with how much I used to flip through it - and cried nostalgia tears. Okay, I didn’t actually cry, but still.)
I have to go pick up my copy of White 2
And then get groceries
And then finish my essay, while staring at the game box out of the corner of my eye every few minutes.
Yep.
That feel when the cleaned Mother 3 version of Leder’s Gymnopedie has better audio quality than the non-Mother 3 version of Gymnopedie #1 that’s sitting on my computer.
I’ve been listening to these all week and they’re just… it’s like listening to them for the first time all over again. I love hearing the little details you can’t hear over the fuzz.
Ah, that’s exactly how I was going to describe it XD It’s like going back in time and listening to some of these tracks for the very first time.
That feel when the cleaned Mother 3 version of Leder’s Gymnopedie has better audio quality than the non-Mother 3 version of Gymnopedie #1 that’s sitting on my computer.
NEW CLEAN MOTHER 3 BGM
GET ON MY COMPUTER
We now return you to your regularly scheduled Nonakani working on essays time.
UGH SO MUCH STUFF TO DO
Even when I get White 2 I’m not really gonna be able to play it (more than a tiny bit, because come on) for at least a week, probably two. (Which might be for the best because I tend to plow through those games at least somewhat quickly, but still.)
And that means there probably won’t be a SaB page this month. Whether or not I can finish other fandom-related stuff this month (a Halloween Funfest pic, among other things) depends entirely on if I can adequately write several essays (and by “several,” I mean three or four since I’m not sure about the due date for one of them) in a brisk and orderly fashion while not becoming a dried husk in the process.
So, uh, sorry if I’m not on here much for the rest of October. ;_;
: nonakani: perfchroma: nonakani: perfchroma: nonakani: GOD DAMN IT…
GOD DAMN IT WORLDBUILDING STOP BEING SO SOUL-BREAKINGLY COMPLICATED AND UNSATISFYING
IT’S ALWAYS SATISFYING.
NOT WHEN…
GOD DAMN IT WORLDBUILDING STOP BEING SO SOUL-BREAKINGLY COMPLICATED AND UNSATISFYING
IT’S ALWAYS SATISFYING.
NOT WHEN EVERY TIME YOU TRY TO DEVELOP THE WORLD IT STARTS TO BECOME HEARTBREAKINGLY DERIVATIVE
I’LL…
I don’t mean that there’s never worldbuilding in fanfics (hell, I spend tons of time building up the world in my fics, I love how it makes everything fit together and how it helps to fuse canon and headcanons without turning things in to a giant mess). I’m talking specifically in the context of an original work.
I just…I get so few original ideas (and even less original ideas that I really like), but they’re almost always concepts or just flashes of ideas, and then I just can’t seem to be able to put these ideas together in to a cohesive original world. Somehow, when I try to do so, they either end up fitting with a derivative work and becoming magical (semi-)AU ideas, or as I try to develop the original world I’m going for a certain feel and then it suddenly becomes far too close to a pre-established work to be called anything but a knock-off, anyway.
And then I am sad.
GOD DAMN IT WORLDBUILDING STOP BEING SO SOUL-BREAKINGLY COMPLICATED AND UNSATISFYING
IT’S ALWAYS SATISFYING.
NOT WHEN EVERY TIME YOU TRY TO DEVELOP THE WORLD IT STARTS TO BECOME HEARTBREAKINGLY DERIVATIVE
I’LL BE SATISFIED WHEN I CAN COME WITH SOMETHING ORIGINAL
And then I realized I will never come up with something original.
orz.
Come join me in the writer’s despair corner
There’s fanfics and chips with dip and stuff, maybe we’ll watch a movie
GOD DAMN IT WORLDBUILDING STOP BEING SO SOUL-BREAKINGLY COMPLICATED AND UNSATISFYING
IT’S ALWAYS SATISFYING.
NOT WHEN EVERY TIME YOU TRY TO DEVELOP THE WORLD IT STARTS TO BECOME HEARTBREAKINGLY DERIVATIVE
I’LL BE SATISFIED WHEN I CAN COME WITH SOMETHING ORIGINAL
GOD DAMN IT WORLDBUILDING STOP BEING SO SOUL-BREAKINGLY COMPLICATED AND UNSATISFYING
I rejoined ff.net and it’s like I’ve dropped into another dimension
That’s only the surface, it’s still a painful place
It’s still the place you’re most likely to get feedback though…. Forever a double-edged sword.
Indeed. u___u And not to say there’s no good fics there, either, you just gotta dig deep for them sometimes.
Dammit I will learn how to use watercolors
After writing these two essays and drawing these pictures and doing that one other writing thing and finishing my calligraphy project where I have to write my name in Japanese as many times as I can as small as I can on a single piece of paper with a brush.
And after I figure out this original world I thought of because dammit I have to try so hard to make things not seem derivative, whether or not they actually are
