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yukidragon · 1 year

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Remember the secret tape with a threatening message from Jack? I think it’s a message left for one of the other love interests and the “them” is Sunshine, but my question is, where do you think did Jack take the MC? He probably has MC close by, and he said that he’s in a place “they can never reach.” Do you think he means “Cloudy Town”? Does that mean he takes us into his tape, or to the original Sunny Time Crew Show studio?

Ah yes, the classic audio of Jack going full yandere. It’s really effective seeing him looking bloody and sanity clearly frayed while he’s giving his monologue too, as you can see on the official twitter.

You know what, why don’t I transcribe the monologue really quick for those who need to run it through a translator.

Quick disclaimer: I have auditory processing disorder, so if I get anything wrong, please let me know so I can correct the transcript.

You think you care about them... don't you. You've convinced yourself that they need saving. That you can save them. It's too late, you know. They're already gone. Where I am, you could never reach. And every day that piece of me grows bigger and stronger. It's only a matter of time until we're one... truly and forever. I love them... and they love me. I'm not letting them go... ever. (Unhinged chuckling)

There’s so much here that could be figurative or literal. We don’t have a full grasp on Jack’s powers, or even what he is exactly, since Jack being a ghost is still in question.

It does seem like that it’s directed at one or more of the love interests. It could even be something Jack would say to the specific love interest that the player is trying to pursue. It would make sense that he would go full antagonist on the other romance routes, since he has every reason to go to desperate lengths to keep his sunshine.

It could even be something Jack would say to one or more love interest that’s trying to get in the way of his route. After all, just because the scary yandere ghost(?) is claiming someone is mistaken about how their darling feels, it doesn’t mean he’s necessarily wrong.

I highly doubt that Jack would willingly want to return to the tape. He described the place as hell, it was cold, and he couldn’t sleep while trapped in there. I doubt he would be willing to hurt MC by forcing them to go there either, even if to keep them. He’s more of a softcore yandere after all; he doesn’t want to hurt his sunshine.

If we take what Jack says as purely figurative, he could just mean that MC has fully chosen him instead of whoever he is talking to. They are so deeply in love with him that any rival’s affections could never reach them the way he can. The piece of him that grows bigger and stronger would be the figurative piece of him they hold in their heart, the love they have for him that only grows by the day.

In this case, being one forever might mean making MC so in love with Jack, need him so much, that they feel just as strongly towards him as he does for them... so, essentially, turning them yandere for him.

If we go with a more literal interpretation, then Jack has physically taken MC someplace accessible only to the two of them. While the tape seems like the obvious location, it seems too extreme for Jack to be willing to send his sunshine to a place he described as hell.

In a fully literal interpretation, there would be a literal piece of Jack inside of MC that is growing in strength and size. Eventually, it’ll get big enough that they will be ‘one’ and as such that they become one entity.

There was a theory that Jack’s ultimate goal was to merge with MC and share their body, though Sauce debunked it. They stated that Jack just wants to bask in MC’s warm and happy light, and he wouldn’t want to do anything to diminish that. He just refuses to let anyone get between them.

This is another reason why I doubt Jack sent MC into the tape. I would imagine being sent to a cold, sleepless hell would absolutely diminish one’s warm and happy light!

What I think, personally, is that there’s a mixture of figurative and literal going on here. My theory is that MC can see/hear/touch Jack because they are literally connected. I think MC has a piece of Jack’s soul inside them, and vice-versa. I’ve gone over this in previous headcanon posts, particularly one where I dissected a quote from the “no” route.

I want him to re-write me in this moment. I want him to do what he wants to help me forget anything that isn’t him. He’s taking some part of me… Infecting me with some kind of fever… Some need… And I don’t want to admit it… But I want to surrender and let him fill it.

I think this is a direct reference to the piece of Jack that’s growing bigger and stronger inside of MC. This only happens in the “no” route, so it could be that the monologue will only happen in most/every route but his.

The very human other love interests certainly can’t literally reach inside of MC to remove Jack from them, can they?

MC could be “gone” in that they’re so under Jack’s influence by that point that he won’t leave, won’t be forgotten. He “re-wrote” them, took a part of them, and is filling the empty space left behind. They love him because they just wanted to forget everything that wasn’t him since he makes them feel so good...

Though, I can see Jack’s speech applying to the “yes” route as well. MC loves him and is choosing him. Sure, he’s nudging things along by making them feel really good, but he’s not going as far with those good feelings as he does in the “no” route. In the “yes” route, he seems almost amazed at times that MC desires him and even takes the initiative sometimes.

While in both routes MC is choosing to be with Jack, in the “yes” route it’s because they’re happy with him rather than being addicted to the good feelings and security that he offers them.

In that situation where MC is actively taking steps towards jack rather than being lured closer with everything he can provide, it almost seems silly to assume that they need saving. Why would they need saving from something they want? They’re an active participant. They want to be with Jack forever.

I think Jack grows stronger the more MC loves and needs him. In the “no” route he’s influencing it with his own emotions, being a living drug and giving them hits of his feelings of love. In the “yes” route, they don’t need that, even if they question the dreamy haze they find themselves in at times when they’re around him.

I think, to some extent, there’s a certain level of involuntary empathy sharing between the two. There are times when MC feels cold, and it reflects when Jack is scared due to the distance growing between them.

Empathy is a really strong feeling. What better way for a yandere to prove just how much they love their darling than by letting them feel it? If they feel it then surely they will understand that they were meant to be together, as this love is too strong to be anything else.

You could say that a yandere’s love for someone is like a drug, and Jack is just sharing his drug of choice with MC when they’re not making their own for him on their own.

Getting back to the monologue, I think “being one forever” does have a supernatural angle to it. I think with enough love, Jack might get more of a grip on reality. It might even progress to the point that he can be perceived by others, strong enough that no one could ever banish him to the hell of the VHS tape ever again.

Heck, if Jack gets stronger, he could possibly gain even more supernatural ghost(?) powers. We really don’t know the full extent of what he can do yet after all.

@channydraws @earthgirlaesthetic @sai-of-the-7-stars

#Sunny Day Jack #Something's Wrong With Sunny Day Jack #SunnyDayJack #sdj #swwsdj #Headcanon Ramblings #Ask #Transcript

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samsspambox · 2 years

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Hi Sam! I just wanna ask, do you read all of other boys' cards? If you do, do you collect all of them or just watch it on yt?

heyo nonnie! that is an excellent excellent question!

i do, in fact, read all the cards i get from any boi! if i pulled it i've read it! there was this one time i was pulling for perfect partner on the standard banner (because i had the tears) and i ended up getting narrow road. while i was bumbed i still read it. i don't have a lot of marius cards (rrg 1 was horrible for me LMAO) and i want to learn more about him so i read it. the s-chips were a plus too!

im not exactly a collector of cards. like if i get them i get them and if i don't i don't, there's nothing wrong with that. but! i do have a bias for cards i do collect, and that's...

behold my artem collection! i have almost every single ssr except the paid one (which, fair) and the stretching MR (rrg2 pulls weren't good so i had to go full ham on the tears, rip s-chips). otherwise i have every single artem card. he's the one i wanna treat like a pokémon. gotta catch 'em all

as for watching them on youtube: i tend to avoid it if i can. there's the vyn polo sr card that i don't have and i WANT IT but it hasn't been in the gatcha stars, but i haven't looked it up on youtube mostly because i hate the reading speeds 💀

like i want to be able to read at my own pace, ya know? actually i can compare this to a bit of twisted wonderland since they have similar UIs (you tap to proceed with the story) but the translations for twst are all placed as dialogue on some websites. while yes videos still exist, i much prefer the dialogue transcribed, even if i don't hear the voices. i have half the mind to transcribe all the cards i have for ease of access but nah. i'll do it if someone pays me 💀😂

though that's not to say i haven't seen some on youtube, which i have. ive seen vyns anni card, artem's anni card, artem's birthday card, and artem's revisiting youth card (there's a pattern, as you can tell). it's just,,, kinda aggravating not being able go at my own pace so they're the only cards i've ever watched. it's usually only bc my curiosity got the better of me, i like going into cards blind (or i needed it for a thing™️) i know youtube has a transcript function but it rewinds back to where the video is stopped and it's annoying af to keep clicking so i don't loose my place, so i really try not to lmaoo.

but yeah! i hope i've answered your question nonnie!! <3

#anon asks #sam answers #tears of themis #that's why i didn't want to write the marius fic to begin with #cuz had i not read any of his cards i would've gone for it #but because i've read the ones i have i have like...#a skeleton for his characterization and i just want more to validate certain points #the vyn polo card haunts me #wHY ARE YOU THE ONLY STANDARD SR IM MISSING SIR #vyn false tears stop coming home challenge

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unionize-aromantically · 5 months

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a simple translation for privatisert barnål by resirkulert. (a political song, I will provide short explanations for the political parties referenced in the footnotes)

first, a translation I can't do afaik: "barnål" means the "needles" (leaf equivalents) of Pinales trees (which includes: Araucaria, cedar, celery-pine, cypress, fir, juniper, kauri, larch, pine, redwood, spruce, and yew, according to Wikipedia, version 14. Dec 20:10 to 15. dec 17:43 and maybe further).

another note is that I'm pretty sure some parts were just written wrong in the lyric transcript, cause multiple lines weren't coherent sentences so I wasn't true to that.

[lyrics start]

Straight to the point with a lawyer

I have a quote, you probably vote pirate¹

demonstrate and respond to Karl Johan² against the state decision

React against the self-important and they look down on citizens like you

Bureaucrats everywhere and the serious talk puts me off

[instrumental]

The wave of right-wing politics pushes me further left than I need

Everything is covered in soot, blue and green³ and all the time the conversation is about money

Everything you hear around is a loud voice influenced⁴ by a discussion

And I'm starting to wonder if the whole parliament has become an illusion

[instrumental]

[chorus: With barnål and sewing thread, I am sewing myself in place, With barnål and sewing thread, I sew myself in place ]

[instrumental]

When we hit the streets, everything is financed privately

and on every corner there is a person who has been discriminated against

Norway will become a country where praise⁵ should feel registered

And I met a man in the street, he had unfortunately been privatized

[chorus x 4]

[lyrics end]

ok so the footnotes:

"voting pirate" probably refers to voting for the pirate party, which is a real party in Norway (even getting 0.1% of votes in the national election), want to make online piracy easier I think the name is from. They basically believe in a right to knowledge and lack of surveillance. In 2023 they changed their name to "the innovation and technology party". (source: SNL.no, itpartiet.no, no.m.wikipedia.org, en.m.wikipeia.org). It could also mean something else, I'm not the only song interpreter, but yeah, some cultural context I figured may be relevant.

Karl Johan (-s gate / 's street) is the street in Oslo, the capital, where the parliament (Storting) building is.

for this footnote I've interpreted "covered in soot" as a metaphor, considering Norway doesn't have coal power afaik. But this is about the criticism of "blue and green". both the green Senterparti (centre party), the blue-green color Venstre (left party (although they're actually right wing libertarians, pro privatization though pro queer) and the blue parties (all the right-wing ones) are for privatization. A notable exception here is mdg (The Environment Party The Green) who are leftists (criticized for dividing would-be Red Party (the furthest left with any power) voters) , but use the color green. (disclaimer that this is a politics summary and thus people have strongly varied perceptions of them, the parties vary locally (I'm not checking 10 k + communes), and I don't have any academic background in politics).

it feels weird to translate "å prege" as to influence, but it sorta does mean that. You could also say "informed by", "impacted by" and such. "his voice was [prega] by fear" means "his voice was full of fear".

I translated "annerkjennelse" as praise because of context, I assume it's about money, and basically praise = money being the message. But technically it means "recognition" (primarily), or "popularity", "acceptance ", "respect", "esteem" or "praise".

#ink.post #ink translates #musicblogging #translation

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cassidysparacosm · 2 years

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So i put 4 iconic scenes of True colors through google translate..

So i was watching some of malinda's google translated song covers, and thought to myself; "What if someone google translated amphibia?" and then i found out the wiki has a full transcript for true colors, so i took several important scenes, and put it through the translator!

Imma share them now because these are hilarious.

First scene is

Sasha's betrayal

(Translated from english, to russian, to portugese, to chinese (simplified), and back to english)

Sasha: Sorry if anything went wrong there. are you cool

Ann: (opens) Okay? Are you really serious?

Sasha: (approaches the throne and sits down) Poor, don't get lost. I’ll stick to this frog method (Marcy gets upset when Ann gets angry), but I can bring you guys back home if you want. Or ... you sit down to help me. What do you say?

Ana: What do I say? ! After all you did? ! I mean if you think I’m going to let you bully me and others so you just get what you want, then you’re really crazy!

Sasha: Ann, I know you're upset, but ...

Ana: No! I have stopped listening to you. I trust you. You’re such an awesome person, I can’t be your friend!

(Sasha is upset.)

Polly: (while Sprig and Hop Pop make faces) Oooooooooooooh ...

Long Meishi: (Remembering) Ann, that's not what you said. We can still fix it.

Ana: No, Marcia. We can't.

Sasha: Good. Well, since we're not friends, I thought I'd take you home. You can say goodbye to your little frog family forever.

Ann: You don’t like it.

Sasha: (holds up the recovery box) My box, my rules.

Marcy: Sasha, wait!

(Annie turns to look at the plant, and they are scared.)

Ana: No! (runs to the botanical garden)

Sasha: Sorry, Anya. Greetings to your parents for me.

(Anne joins the Plantards and Sasha simply opens the box. However, nothing happens.)

Sasha: What? (tried to activate the box, but it didn't work) Yes, it's a shame. Until I know how to use this thing ... Guard, take it to jail!

(Toad soldiers drag Ann, Marcy, Plantaz, Flobo, and Lady Olivia out of the throne room.)

Ann: It’s not over yet, Sasha! will you hear me ! Not done!

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And that's just the first scene i put through...

Onto the next one!

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Marcy's betrayal

(English to Chinese (simplified) to Russian to Portuguese to Japanese to Maori to English to Irish to Arabic to to Chinese (traditional) and back to English)

Marcia: Stop! Andreas, that was not the plan. I said no one would get hurt.

King Andreas: I'll tell you if that means you gave me a box. I hate to tell you that you were still a child, but you were torn apart.

Love: (sighs) But...but...

Annie: What did he say in March?

Sasha: Yes, what's your plan?

Long Meishi: (scared) He promised to take us into a whole new world with him, and it's... always a wonderful journey.

Annie: But why?

King Andreas: What? Don't lie, March to March. If you don't tell the truth, I will tell you.

Missy Long: You...don't do that.

Annie: I'm sorry, what's wrong?

King Andreas (sitting on the throne). Hmm, have you considered that? Sasha? Do you guys know more than you admit? Have any of you managed to lure them into being amphibians...in mind? (mercy is dead)

Sasha: You're laughing...

Annie: No...that's impossible.

King Andreas! According to your child, it looks like my tea has spilled. (smiles and pats his knees)

Long Walk: It's done for us (laughs).

(Annie looks at him with wide eyes.)

Love: The day we left, on his birthday, I asked my dad to get a new job out of state and move on. They will tear us apart!

Ann: Marcia...

Long Mi Shi: I... I got that box. I don't know if it actually worked, but (with tears and a sad smile) (goes to them holding hands)...he said here we are and I was taken to someone who had no room. .It's a far away place where three friends will be together forever!

(Sasha backs away angrily.)

Annie: What should I do? ! ! I am still grateful for my parents, my life!

Long Mercy: But look how fun it is. See how long it has grown. Look at the brain (referring to the brain). (double branch). I gave you this, I gave you everything! (Annie steps back) (please) I don't want to be alone. (kneeling and crying)

King Andreas: I think that's what you get by opening up to Flipwart.

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Anne's calamity powers activate

(Translated the same way as previous)

King Andreas: He's not happy. Brave you guys, it's scary. But this is about (holding the branch with the right hand).

Oda: Hello everyone, don't listen to this bully, I'm fine.

King Andreas: I see. (Branch sticks out of broken window) Now go back to the chest. Otherwise, lunatics will learn to fly.

Oda: Annie...No! (King Andreas is injured)

Ann: Champion! Polly, do something for her.

(Polly returns the crate to base. The robot removes it from the crowd and raises the castle again.)

Polly: (sighs) Fail...

Annie: (worried) Okay, man. have what you want. Put it aside for now. He is my best friend in this world and anywhere else.

BREAKFAST: (calls) Annie...

King Andreas: This is your friend. The more you love them, the more painful it is to part. I'll show you

(King Andreas drives Sprigg mad. Everyone is crying, Anne is sad, she remembers the time with Sprigg.)

(The sequence starts in reverse.)

(Back from "Annie or Best?")

Breakfast: You are the winner! bad bad!

(remember "reunion")

Annie: Thank you for believing in me, Twig.

Breakfast: for the world!

(The first part calls for a presentation from another angle.)

(Then Anne closes her eyes and opens them suddenly. Her pupil blinks. Blue Ivory interacts and communicates with Anne. She has one blue eye.)

King Andreas: No...no...

(The blue glass becomes blue flame. Mercy runs to the broken window, begging Joe Sparrow to save the branch.)

(The flame turns blue.)

King Andreas: Still hold on to the rock! But this is wrong.

Pop: What's the matter? ! !

Graeme: I don't know, maybe man!

(As the plant grows, Anne's hair begins to grow, a bright blue eye surrounds her body, and Sasha looks at her in surprise.)

Sasha: Not for men.

Annie: Please return it. ...he's... back! ! !

King Andreas: Where is he...

(Annie bursts into tears, her face removed and crown torn. Gap between Graham, Hopepop, Polly and Sasha. Andreas backs up and tries to beat Anne, but she is A duck. On the roof. It works.)

KING Andreas (angrily): Fire!

(All droids fire lasers at Annie. Andreas touches, avoids the droid and vaporizes it with ease. Andreas uses his shield to protect himself, but Annie protects him. Cut him down and push him down. Annie descends slowly and everyone is crying for her. She loses control.)

Annie: Please return it. Please return.

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Final one! and it's short!

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Marcy gets stabbed scene

(Translated the same way as previous)

(Anne and Brandt get a chance to enter the hallway, and Polly puts Flobo's head in Annie's bag.)

Maggie Long: Come on, everyone (looking at her) come in through the door, come on!

(Andreas tries to kick Sasha, but he refuses and gets a chance to kick him in the foot. Andreas pushes Graham and hits Sasha with the tail.)

Andreas: (runs to Annie, mercy, spirit) Chest! ! ! ! !

Years: Marcia, hurry up!

Mercy :: everything you need

(Marcy disappears suddenly, her face trembling. She looks at the silent light on King Andrew's chest.

King Andrew: Look what he did to me.

Mercy: (I'm sick) I'm sorry. for everyone...

Anna: Marzia! ! ! !

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Tell me if i should google translate more amphibia scenes!

Hope this got a laugh outta someone!

#amphibia #anne boonchuy #marcy wu #sasha waybright #king andrias #sprig plantar #hop pop plantar #polly plantar #google translate #amphibia shitpost #not art

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rataltouille · 3 years

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GEOMETRY OF THE HOLY MOON (1 AM): A SHORT STORY

GENRE: surrealism, literary fiction.

POV & TENSE: this little space is not enough for how wild the form is so i talk about this later!!

SETTING: a small desi village, 1924-25.

TONE: dreamy, unsettling, melancholic.

THEMES: faith vs reality, how people perceive others and how they perceive themselves, grief dealt the wrong way.

AESTHETICS: the splash of water on a quiet night, thick clouds obscuring the sky, rippling the moon’s reflection on the water. the intensity of a garden in spring, the emptiness of a dying town, the suffocation from being singled out. hands grazing lightly but never fully held. a lingering sadness behind your laugh. believing in things you shouldn't believe in. putting faith on a starless sky.

STAGE: completed first draft, 4085 words.

LOGLINE: a young boy, surrounded by loss, claims to talk to god. the story follows him and his conversations with this god, all while his village spies on him as he weaves his way around the two most crucial and lonely years of his life.

LITERAL LOGLINE: on today’s news let’s talk about a small backward town that hates sad little boys who worship god, even though the place is lowkey a cult!!

CHARACTERS:

THE SUMMER BOY: he’s around thirteen, and he’s very emotionally attached to his past. he lost his family at a young age to an unstable force, so he spends his time talking to himself. he’s a quiet, demure and sweet person, always willing to help others. he’s outwardly oblivious and sees only the good in people to a point where he doesn't understand when they’re trying to do him wrong. but! considering how the story [like a lot of my others] has themes of perception vs reality, it needs to be said that he isn't all that innocent. he’s rather impulsive and rash, never afraid of hurting himself [and thus accidentally harming others].

A GOD: is he real? do we even know if he’s an actual god? a very elusive figure despite having a lot of screentime. he’s a surprisingly humanised character and arguably the one with the most empathy. he has a soft spot for the boy and the two have a deep bond which is not common for a human and a god to have. you don’t get insight to what the other gods are like, but they’re implied to exist. this story has a very messy and hazy view towards religion and godhood and their nature towards humanity, and this vague figure, a dreamlike character, is proof enough of that.

THE VILLAGE: okay so in general these people suck. the village consists of, well, the village, but they’re very fluid in the way they appear in the story? as in for the most part they appear as a collective, a unit. one character, the summer boy’s “friend”, is somewhat separate considering he’s a pretty important character. it’s very hard describing this unit of a character but essentially they’re the main antagonistic force and they hate the protagonist for seemingly no reason.

WHAT GOES DOWN:

sometime around this time, the boy chances upon meeting his “god”, this being who lives up in the clouds and whom he talks with often, except you don't know if this god is real or not. that’s one of the recurring themes of this story: what’s real and what isn’t. it’s :) a fun time :) for sure :)

essentially Things Happen And It Only Gets Weirder. i cannot even try describing what happens because it’s all very spoilery but let’s just say that this is a very sad story but not even in a “this makes me cry” manner, but rather in a “this is so fucked up wtf why”. the prose of this is very, very hazy and thick, in a manner that’s both smooth and suffocating. there’s also a lot of moon and water imagery which we love. i love the atmosphere + the setting—colonial india— as it’s a subtle but key element to the plot.

FORM:

OKAY YES be prepared for the true colours of how unhinged i am. i apologize for the form brainrot.

POV: so in this story i really said “what if it had all three of the main povs... jk jk... unless 😳😳” and then proceeded to use all three povs. you’re probably wondering, how did i do that? WHY did i do that? and my answer to that is: 🙂

the first-person pov: the summer boy narrates in first person. his pov takes up about 40% of the story, and this is where we unlock family backstory + how he feels about the various forces playing into his life. he’s an extremely unreliable narrator and he knows it; his narration oscillates between very naive and very self-aware, and this effect is pretty disconcerting. the summer boy is kind of a walking contradiction and we love that conflict.

the second-person pov: a god narrates in second person. his pov takes around 20% of the story, and his scenes all involve his conversations with the boy. his pov is extremely detached, and suspends belief because he seems awfully made up. there’s an edge to the prose in his narration, where you know that something's off, but you can’t exactly pinpoint what.

the third-person pov: the villagers narrate, either as a collective, or as an individual figure, in third person. they take up the other 40% of the story, and there are so many different people and differing opinions with this, and every time we read a third person excerpt it’s a different person, and this is mostly used to add onto the different ways in which the boy is perceived. this is also where the structural part of the form gets really wacky.

STRUCTURE: if my story isn't told in vignettes is it my story though /j. gothm is told in vignettes, each one between 50 to 500 words. the first and second person bits are normal-ish vignettes, with straightforward narration. the third person vignettes, on the other hand, are super assorted. we have a lot of epistolaric sections— there’s a letter, a folk song [which was found around the summer boy], and most of the conversation is told as just plain dialogue without tags. there’s also a phone call transcript, and finally some normal chunks of prose. what am i doing wtf.

also to add onto this the story is told non-linearly. 😀 the only thing that keeps me from going insane is the fact that there are chronological tags before most vignettes [also the manner in which they're tagged differs from pov to pov. for example a few of the third person conversations are marked just as “sunday” or “thursday”, while the summer boy’s narration is marked with the full date and year]

in all this clownery i completely forgot to mention what the tense was [the way everything else was so complicated that i forgot tense was a thing lmao] and good news!! it’s the only sane thing about this story!! it’s told fully in present tense. thank everything.

AN EXCERPT:

okay i’m once again not sharing much because this will be submitted to litmags 🧞

[The boy is scrawny as always. He carries an air of diswant— even death had rejected him when the plague killed only his grandmother— but walks like he doesn’t notice. He smiles at them, jitters, and wipes his hand across his knees. Blood comes away in thin, translucent lines. He saves it on the kerchief he keeps tucked in his shirt, careful to dirty the cloth even more. The villagers scrunch their noses in disgust; who knew how old and rotten the kerchief was, or how long it had carried blood like the unwashed sword of a warrior?]

also by the way this excerpt is in square brackets because it is a third-person interjection in a vignette that is otherwise first-person [at this point...]

SPARE THOUGHTS:

this was inspired by a conversation i had with my grandfather, where he was telling me about how people used to sing songs to the skies, as a way of devotion to a specific god. he used the [loose translation of] the english word “yearning” to refer to the emotion the singers would invoke, and that sparked the concept of a disillusioned young boy who talks to the moon as a way to please the god he’s in love with. it’s a very softly disconcerting story and once again deals with the theme of “perception vs reality” which if you know me and my work, is the theme i’m forever obsessed with.

i really like how this turned out? the atmosphere is exactly how i wanted it to be, and there’s so much i have to add on as i edit and i’m really looking forward to that. this is also the only short story i’ve written where i knew which litmag i’d love for it to be published in? like i never write things with publishing in mind, but for some reason while writing this story it occurred to me that it would be a perfect fit for this specific magazine and i love that. anyway if you’ve made it through the post till here,,,, bless you and your braincells. and that’s all for today!!

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