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klmwrites · 5 months
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Finally had the time to watch the FNAF movie in cinemas. Here are my thoughts (Spoilers ahead!)
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Overall, the story was pretty decent. It certainly had its moments where it went off tangent from the canon, but it wasn't so fantastic to the point that it was completely off brand. It even paid good attention to detail! In one of the dream sequences where mike was cut by  Foxy's hook, the next shot when he woke up to the flickering lights if u looked at his left arm there is a visible tear on the fabric of his hoodie in the same fashion he was cut in the forest sequence earlier.
Another good example of  the movie paying attention to detail would be the scene where Mike sees Abby with the animatronics. He grabs the chair in an attempt to attack Freddy but once he gets up and close to him he hesitates. It gives us - the audience - a glimpse into just how large and intimidating these robots are actually IRL. An educated guess on my part says they are probably on average 2 meters(?) in height.
Also, Lillard is THE William Afton. You will not convince me otherwise. He literally ate and left no crumbs in this role. The "I'll always come back" as he places the mask back on?! PLEASE 😩 👌
The scene where Mike first meets "The Yellow Rabbit" i.e. Afton in his suit is so well done. The atmosphere as Afton walks in with his knife was tense and intimidating in its own right. Mike attempts to tase him at first assuming he is just another animatronic but the fluidity in Aftons movements later says afterwards. This is especially in contrast to the movements of Bonnie, Freddy, Chica and Foxy. Once again, great attention to detail!
But if I had to pick favourites in terms of scenes, the springlock suit failure has my whole heart. Hands down. Lillards performance here as the springlocks "eats" into his body was phenomenal. The facial expressions of the animatronics in this scene was absolutely the cherry on top. What a way to end the movie with a banger! Honorable mention goes to the post credit scene where Afton was on the ground trembling in the pizzerias backroom. His hand reached out to the door in the last part, indicating that like Abby he can see the ghost children.
TLDR: to me, although the Movie is not the best horror movie out there, it is still worth the watch! Although it is produced primarily for the hardcore fans of this franchise (hence perhaps the reason why some casual audience members expressed their confusion with the plot), it certainly won't be a waste of money to the casual fan of indie video game horror.
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iviarellereads · 4 months
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The Plan, Such As It Is
tl;dr: System Collapse finishes the Murderbot series on Christmas. Last week of the year is a break, and then it's the Wheel of Time with likely between-book breaks for one-offs or shorter series, and someday maybe Alecto the Ninth.
I had a great time watching Desert Bus, and helping with the VST documenting and editing and uploading clips of the process of raising over a million dollars (over ten million in the lifetime of the event!) for a good cause. A most excellent week of "restoring my faith in humanity". But that's a little beside the point of this post.
I also got my hands on System Collapse, but because of how my brain works, I won't be reading it ahead, so we're going to have lots of fun as I read it for the first time in the format of the blog. Let's see if my style changes, if my predictions are well on or off the mark. (I have seen a few posts that spoiled a few moments and character bits, but I'm not concerned about those. I rarely feel like learning things that happen "ruins" anything about an experience anyway. If the story's well told, it's still fun to experience for myself.)
After System Collapse, well, that's the end of Murderbot to-date. And, I haven't run any polls for covering other things. That's because I'm pretty well set on rereading the Wheel of Time series, and revising my previous notes to this format.
It's something I could keep putting off, but the show has gotten so good, and it reminds me of all the things about the books that I loved so much (and how the show is fixing some things I didn't love). I'll also be very excited to do full-series spoiler posts again, Murderbot didn't have a lot that I felt needed commenting on, but the Wheel? Oh, buddy.
But, the caveat here is that the Wheel of Time has, well, fifteen very large books. Eleven thousand pages, over four million words. Coverage would take about three years if I didn't take breaks for other books in between, and I definitely will, so we're gonna be here for a while. I've said before that I was hesitant to cover Discworld for this, and I still am. Discworld has over forty books just in the main series besides the spinoffs, with a comparable total wordcount to WoT. Several of those, I have negative interest in ever rereading. Even if they're largely shorter than WoT bricks, they're also trickier to split, and I won't have as much context to share about them that isn't available elsewhere already. Whereas, the Wheel of Time lacks a lot of spoiler-free resources in print, despite the series being almost 35 years old. There was a huge influx of podcast coverage once the show publicity ramped up, but not so much blog style content. The few prologues and chapters that do need splitting, I've already calculated out from the first time I took the notes.
Mind you, I will be finding time for Alecto the Ninth coverage when Tamsyn Muir finally graces us with her presence, I'll just take a break between whichever WoT books I'm up to by then. And if something else strikes my fancy, I might alternate books. Like, making it through the Eye of the World might scratch the itch well enough, and make me want to dig into the Princess Bride as I threatened to once before, or perhaps when I reach my least favourite sequence of books in the middle, I'll alternate them with the His Dark Materials trilogy, though probably not its supplementary later materials because I'm still refusing to read the Book of Dust.
I totally understand if folks who followed me for other stuff want to jump ship when my WoT coverage starts. I love and can recommend it with some massive content notes and caveats which will be in my intro post for it, but it's not for everyone and treating it like a universal joy is nonsense. But, especially if you can get a library borrow of the first book, whether you get it in print or ebook or either of the incredible audiobook narrations (the full series by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading, or the first three are now available narrated by Rosamund Pike, who plays the character of Moiraine Sedai on the show), I hope you'll give it a try with me, and my analysis and commentary might help pull you into a series that's otherwise quite intimidating.
So, System Collapse will finish posting on Christmas, I think I'll take the last week of the year as a breather, and the Wheel of Time will kick off my 2024. I hope you'll consider sticking around and reading with me, especially my Locked Tomb girlies because I've said it before and I'll say it again, these two stories have SO much in common, hashtag Women's Wrongs and unreliable narrators. And, I am gonna try to break it up every so often since these are LONG books, most of them have 40+ chapters so will be two months apiece. But either way, if I'm gonna follow my heart, it's gotta be next.
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Hi friend! Hope you're well ❤️ I'll try, and fail, to keep this short by getting straight to my question: I was wondering whether or not you plan chapters. I just started getting into writing (and into reading fanfic tbh, A Girl of the Night's Watch is the second fanfiction ive ever read -- im loving it so far) and wanted to know what your process is; with this book in particular. I love how you build tension, and how you nurture the dynamics and allow for them to grow in a slow and real pace.
One of my favourite things you've written, which you deserve high praise for, is the whole sequence of Caitie being sent off the the Night's Watch. The little snippets we see of her conversation with her brothers and how Owen's send off later ties in with Lord Commander Mormont's short talk with her. And then we get the full scene after finding out the truth of how her brothers and Mormont worked together. It was such a satisfying and well planned out reveal. I had to go back a few chapters just to go through the whole thing again. Absolutely beautiful, truly. And it was subtle, too. I hope you got all the love for it.
Im fangirling, sorry. Back to my question: your process. You seem to have planned out the rest of your fic and where you're to take it (im scared but I know you plan on doing all these characters justice). Do you do this before you ever start the fic, or is it something you do sporadically? Do you write 10 chapters beforehand, or upload immediately after writing a single one?
Sorry if this was intrusive or boringly long. I appreciate your work and just had to ask. Cannot wait for the update, im genuinely on the edge of my seat.
Firstly, let me just say congratulations on your journey into fanfiction (and into writing as a whole)! I hope you continue to have a good experience with it, and feel free to ask whatever you want whenever you want—I don’t mind.
Now to answer to your question. To be honest, it’s a bit… complicated, because I am not a well-organized person, and so my writing process is pretty all-over-the-place. I have a document with the chapters all listed (even the ones that haven’t been written yet, which are always subject to change) and I have a rough idea of what will go in those chapters which definitely keeps me on track—but for the most part, my philosophy when it comes to outlining is: “know the basics of where you’re taking the story, and bullshit your way through the rest.”
For example, some of the major plot beats of the story I did have mapped out in my head from the very beginning—the Mormont thing, pretty much everything to do with Caitie and Grenn, her being found out after the battle at Castle Black, etc. I actually even wrote the events of S8 first (though the final version will be very different because the story and characters are wayyyy more developed than they were when I started). But there were also a lot of plot beats that developed on their own as I was writing, and I simply adjusted as needed. For example, Johnna and Willa didn’t exist until I was doing some early drafting for parts of season 5 (I think I was still posting season 4 chapters at that point), and Caitie’s friendship arc with Wun-Wun didn’t really become a thing until I started drafting Hardhome and went “Oh yikes, she’s probably gonna have issues with giants, isn’t she? I should probably acknowledge that,” and then things spiraled from there. I also tend to jump back and forth between scenes when drafting, so like, if I have any ideas for a much later scene, what I’ll do is open my drafts document where I basically just vomit words into blocks of text without paragraph breaks, and write the snippets there so I don’t forget them. Then whenever I get to the scene it belongs to, I can expand on whatever little bit I’d written down earlier. And honestly, half the time, I’ll start writing a scene and let it just go wherever it wants.
I do, however, write the final drafts of chapters ahead of where I’m posting. I usually try to be about 4-5 chapters ahead, although at the moment I’m closer to 7-8 because I really, really, really, wanted to get through season 7 as fast as possible so I blew through it. But if I had a time machine and could go back to 2020 to do it all over again, I probably would write everything out before posting. Because there are always things I think of later or change my mind about and waiting to post would have been a lot more convenient than editing afterwards.
TLDR; I vomit-draft whatever comes to mind, do the bare-bones of plotting by figuring out chapters (when I’m really stuck I will actually go and plot out the chapter on paper beat by beat), then write up a final draft that I spend way too much time editing. And I usually like to have at least 4 or 5 chapters finished (pre-edited, though) ahead of posting.
I hope this made sense! If you need any clarifications, let me know.
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cobaltfluff · 3 years
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Thank you SK8 for the best time I’ve had over the past few months!
I’m still a beginner at all sorts of stuff, but my love for SK8 beats any embarrassment I might have haha
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