#i’m using mostly anime screenshots

[ilovekork]

I made more of these

#people pls stop saying gsnk is ending #i mean i understand #but i don’t want it to end #but like #gsnk fandom is so pathetic we get one (1) romantic moment and we are panicking over it ending #no idea why i am making these #i have more #my contribution to the gsnk fandom i guess #i’m using mostly anime screenshots #bc manga panels are inconvenient #but i’m begging read the manga #horikashi #they for some reason don’t have many shots together in the anime?? #mitsuya maeno #gsnk #gekkan shoujo nozaki kun #monthly girls' nozaki kun #umetarou nozaki #sakura chiyo #hirotaka wakamatsu #hori masayuki #kashima yuu #nozachiyo #mikorin #mikoto mikoshiba #seowaka #seo yuzuki

[pastafossa]

Warning About A Plagiarizing Fic Author

*edit: FIC HAS BEEN TAKEN DOWN OFF AO3! Her blog posts here on tumblr however remain up so I ask that this keep circulating. *Edit again: all accounts appear to have been taken down, and all blogs look down save for her @k-9bails account which she had the audacity to use to try to follow me again. I’ve got a reblog with all the relevant updates but I’m adding it here, too. Original post: Right. Time for the callout post, since the thief has refused to answer my messages or take down the fic. Before we start: do not send her hate mail. At most, I’m looking for firm requests that she take down her fic and, as you’ll see, all the blog posts where she’s stolen content from me. Mostly I’m just trying to apply firm pressure so she takes all the stolen work down, and so that people are aware of what she’s doing so she can’t do this to anyone else. So, let’s start. If you’re in the Daredevil fandom on tumblr and AO3 at all, you might have heard of my fic The Red Thread about a psychic reader/OC referred to as Jane Hind/The Hound, who can see, via third eye, psychic threads of connection between people, animals, and beloved objects. It’s this fic that’s been blatantly plagiarized by @k9bails (who’s blocked me at present, so here’s the link to her main blog which I managed to access before I was blocked). Her fic on AO3 is called Legend, under the username K9bails. She’s also got a side blog called @k-9bails​ which appears less active, and a wattpad profile here, so please, if you write, make sure your work hasn’t been stolen. She’s only got the first chapter as of today, but it’s already full of stolen material, and her blog is absolutely bursting at the seams with things she’s stolen from me. Fortunately, before she blocked me, I was able to get screenshots, both of the fic just in case she edited it later, and her blog (which I had to screenshot on PC, so apologies for messiness).  I’ve made a report to AO3 (please DO NOT report it on AO3, they prefer only one person do the reporting so that the volunteer team isn’t overwhelmed) and I am awaiting word back. But she’s also got my stuff all over her tumblr, and since she’s ignored my messages, it’s time to post it, since she’s active in the fandom and I don’t want her taking anyone else’s work.

Let’s start with the main bit from her fic. Left side is my first chapter, right side is her fic. If you’ve read TRT, you know that the concept of psychic threads seen through the third eye is incredibly important. They connect friends and acquaintances, family, pets, and even beloved childhood objects, with each type of connection denoted by a different color. She’s rotated some colors around, and taken some of the colors I introduce later like white, black, and purple, but this is very much my concept. Note she’s stolen a line almost directly word for word here: ‘Silver threads always struck Scout as the saddest,’ to compare to my, ‘That last always struck you as the saddest.’

In this case, she’s also taken the kaleidoscope effect line from a few chapters later:

I thought this was blatant, but it only got worse: she lifts two of my other original characters, and doesn’t even bother to change their fucking names. In this case, in her very first chapter, she’s lifted both Ciro, my OC’s Italian father figure (I’ve added a screenshot on the upper right from Ch17 of the first time his name is used), and Eli, an OC adopted by Ciro (also added to screenshot, bottom right). Eli doesn’t even appear until ch 36 so this stretches a long ways.

The rest of this I’m going to put behind a see more tag, cause we got a lot to go.

But we’re not done, believe it or not, considering there’s only a single chapter of hers so far - a single chapter containing a very similar opening line, and a bizarre lift of my frequent End Note message that leads to my tumblr??? That one puzzled me because there’s no real reason to steal that.

Yet another: she’s made use of the Hound theme, and made a barebones attempt to change the summary line enough to slide under the radar. If you’ve read TRT then you know, but if not: my OC’s code name is Hound, she’s frequently referred to as Hound or the Hound of Los Angeles, there are Hound metaphors galore, and Matt has taken to calling her his Hellhound, and those references are honestly so common it’d take hours to list them all. 

I also happened to notice, after all this, that she’d linked to her tumblr, much like I did. So I wandered over. And it only got worse from there. Her own ‘answers’ to asks mimic mine, including lifting answers from posts I made here on tumblr. I’m not going to keep having side by sides because the post will get crazy long but if anyone wants receipts on any of these, I’ll go find it on a case by case basis.

Here’s where she mentions her character using threads to track people down for Bad Figures who want to kill them, along with tracking down threads for information, aka a major plotline of my fic and literally my character’s stated profession. Screenshot:

Here’s where she describes more about how ‘her’ threads and abilities work (starred paragraph is an almost exact summary of how my character’s abilities work, including how she can send them images and feelings, down to how a red thread is needed to control a person, definitely her taking my major plotline involving body jumping via red threads). She also, SURPRISE! Steals my psychic animals that inhabit the threads, that I’ve hinted relate to the subconscious, and that usually have some traits from the character. Oh, and the part about how doing all that makes her sick, yet again lifted from my fic, where my character gets incredibly sick the more she pushes herself doing all this.

Here’s another section in which she lifted Ciro - my Ciro that adopted Jane Hind is a native Italian, founded the particular family-like group he’s a part of, and also basically adopted Eli - who was raised in the US.

This section is where she’s roughly stolen Jane Hind’s mental trauma and the cause: her childhood arc. I’ve discussed at length here on tumblr (going to work on finding those posts in my tumblr history and update here when I can) and in the fic itself all the things she’s missed, using exactly this sort of phrasing. In fact, our major arc we’re currently going through in the fic (chapters 130 or so)... hm, references frequently missed out Christmases, birthdays, and little things we take for granted. This is one reason I’m sure she’s reading the fic as it’s getting posted. On top of that, she decided she’d also lift how Jane had never seen a beach and fell in love with it the first time she did. It’s a small detail but it’s just yet another thing she’s acting like is hers, just like the details about how this is all new and her Nelson and Murdock friends have taken her in. 

Perhaps most bizarrely, her blog has even been reblogging posts friends have tagged me in that I’ve responded to. In this one, though, she gets a little too obvious - not only is she reblogging a post, maybe a few days after another friend tagged me in it and I reblogged it, but she also tried to tag her fic ‘the psychic thread’ as opposed to ‘the red thread’, which is my own series tag.

I have no idea why she’s done this. I have no idea why she was so blatant, why she thought she could get away with it. She also appears to have a few sock puppet accounts - for example, she makes a claim lifted straight from a half-joking post I made about my OC’s potential pokemon and then makes her own post using the same pokemon for her OC, and credits it to another account that seems to just exist to make her look more realistic. It was one of the more bizarre things stolen, since my post about it didn’t get much attention, but it proves she’s actively following me on tumblr quite closely, proven by a friend who snagged a few screenshots of her likes tab where she’d liked my posts.

She’s blocked me now, so I can’t see her main blog. I can’t ask her to take it down anymore, outside of the comment I’ve left on her fic and the report I made to AO3. But she knows, 100%, that she’s stolen my work, and just as frustrating, has gone on at length on her blog about how all your characters should be original, and truly yours, and how you should never imitate other authors. It’s a ballsy move considering how small the Daredevil fic circle is here on tumblr and AO3.

And look. I don’t want her to drown in hate mail. I really don’t. All I want is for her to take down the fic, and remove the posts in which she blatantly stole content from me. I’ve worked on TRT for years, I’ve poured hours and hours and almost a million words into this story, and the fact that this person is still reading it as they’re plagiarizing it is both incredibly insulting and incredibly hurtful. If you’re an author in the Daredevil fandom, I highly recommend blocking her. She’s mentioned a few very popular authors in the fandom in the blog posts, so I know she’s reading your work, too, and I don’t want yours stolen anymore than I do. If you see someone commenting about her fic, tell them its stolen. Warn your DD author friends. And if you’re going to say something to her, let it be a request to take down her fic and delete the blog posts that have plagiarized my content. That’s my end goal - not to burn her life down but to just pressure her to stop stealing something very, very dear to me, and hopefully learn not to do this in the future.

That’s all I want. *Edited 12/20: as of today, her fic on AO3 has been taken down! The scores of comments, or AO3′s plagiarism team, has done the job so this is a huge win, and I’m grateful to everyone that helped! Her tumblr posts on her k9bails account, however, are still up, and she has yet to respond, so let the pressure continue. I’m also hunting for her other accounts since it’s become clear the k9bails account and the @k-9bails​ account are both not her main blog. If anyone has any leads or knows who this person is, please send me a message! I want to find their main blog in case it’s following me so I can block it, and potentially apply pressure there to get her to take my work down on her k9bails account.

#plagiarism #the red thread #fanfic #fic #daredevil #matt murdock x reader #daredevil x reader #matt murdock x OC #daredevil x OC #using some of her tags so hopefully browsers will see it

[hybbart]

How do you do backgrounds for the raau dude???? They’re so goddamn cool and I’m literally amazed everytime I see them

unless it’s a “a good magician never reveals their secrets” thing then that’s cool too LMAO I just love your art

I'm not a magician and the honest answer is I don't know. I mostly start withthe characters and what theyre doing and use the bg to fill in the story.

I like drawing little thingamajigs even though I'm terrible at thinking of them but when I do I kinda just scribble and erase until I get something vaguely like what I want. And of course references. The three books on the wall in the last page are actually all field guides and encyclopedias I own and I have several reference photos I saved for all the things the ranchers have with them at this time. I actually had to go through a lot of the guides to get enough tips for people to have scribbled on the board and papers. And I used my sewing box and old first aid kit someone had as references. The toolbox is more and amalgamation of various tools boxes I've seen.

The actual room and outdoors is just make up from memories of things like an old carport, my mums offices, an old apartment's balcony, my grandma's basement, and the vets office. Places I've seen in shows and just generic ideas of buildings also.

And the lighting is inspired by anime, recently I've meant to screenshot and study the latest dr stone opening cause it has a bunch of shots of very different lighting that I'd like to figure out how to make.

Since its a rough setting the rough style I think adds to it so I only really clean things up to the extent that you get the idea of what it probably is. I also only use SAI and I don't really know hwot to use perspective or ruler tools so I just sorta wing it... raau supposed to be a low stress personal project to mess around with backgrounds and lighting and interactions so I don't worry too much about that stuff.

#raau ask #raau notes #raau notes: art

[freddy-and-friends-au]

The band’s all here! (WIP)

I still haven’t finished their new endoskeletons yet, but I think I have their suits mostly down!

Feel free to ask any questions you may have in the inbox!

EXTRA INFO AND SCREENSHOTS UNDER THE CUT!!!

At first glance, these are obviously inspired by the traditional Chuck E. Cheese x Rockafire Explosion suits, designing them more like sports mascot costumes and having very little of the endoskeleton showing at all times (say for Foxy, of course). This was not only for more realistic world-building, but also to optimize animation, as we now have less moving parts that are actually showing, and therefore, less to render.

You might be wondering “if you wanted a more realistic approach to the suits, why not take a more realistic approach to the masks, like a more ShowBiz Pizza style?” And to that I say: everyone does that.

Okay, that isn’t entirely the reason. I like the idea of basing the designs more off of the canon models than something that already exists, because I like the idea of FazEnt having their own style of making animatronics. The ShowBiz style isn’t the only way to do animatronic masks, and these masks are how FazEnt would go about making them. Even when FazEnt does use the trademark ShowBiz rubber-face masks on the Junior models, they don’t do it the same way that ShowBiz does it.

Something interesting I want to do with Freddy & Friends is to set narrative moments apart from the moments meant to be passed off as real footage. The designs shown above are for the latter, meanwhile the narrative will use more artistically stylized suits textured to more so resemble a comic book, sort of like Into The Spider-Verse (except instead of going for a generalized comic book feel, the Freddy & Friends style is gonna be more reminiscent of the Batman: Year One comic). The designs will be more reminiscent of how I draw them on paper, as opposed to being faithful to the canon.

Here’s some extra info as to how I came up with the designs, as well as some extra renders and concept art!:

Original concept art from September 30, 2020.

Freddy was a little obvious to design, probably because everyone seems to design him like this when making more cartoonish versions of him. A more defined tuxedo complete with a collar and cuffs with a red stripe around his hat. It just seemed like the right direction to go in.

Bonnie was initially intended to wear a vest, though I was holding out for something else so that he could be differentiated from the evil rabbit (the evil rabbit wears a vest). I asked my friends what I could change it to, and one of them said “Try a cardigan”. Honestly, that fits Bonnie’s personality so much better, both in terms of spirit and cartoon.

You might also notice that Bonnie was supposed to have buck teeth, as well as more squared off teeth. That was originally part of his V1 model, but when I tried applying that to the new models, literally any way I tried to arrange it made Bonnie look like so much like an insufferable asshole that I wanted to punch him in the face. Ultimately, I ended up ditching the buck teeth and just gave him his classic teeth.

Chica was a little hard to do something unique with at first. I initially wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do with her, but when I modeled her V1, her little chef’s hat was a last minute addition to her design. I’m also thinking about changing her bib into an apron, per the toon designs that Henry posted a while back.

Foxy was probably the most fun to design. Obviously, his final model has a lot of details inspired by the FNAF movie, but when I was designing him 4 years ago, I really just wanted to go crazy with his design. I wanted him to have a beard, I wanted him to have a peg leg (I really liked the idea of animating him with a limp). Unfortunately, I don’t know if I’ll keep the peg leg, because it might be a little too hard for Henry to animate with the tech that he has.

As a cheeky little reference to the roots of the FNAF fandom, I wanted Foxy’s hook to resemble the hook seen on the Splinks Foxy model. ;)

Endo01 - Version 4 WIP

I’ve done a few different versions of the endoskeleton. What I’m trying to do for this new one is to assemble him modularly, allowing me to make each component a recognizable component (they’re also actually modeled after real components).

I’m not gonna go into detail about the functionality of this guy, because I eventually plan to make a Freddy & Friends Instructional VHS series centered around being a mechanic for FazEnt. However, what I will say is that these designs are intended to have plausible functionality, especially using the technology of the 1980’s (which is not restricted to pneumatic technology, because making an animatronic walk with pneumatic actuators while maintaining the traditional complexity of animatronic endoskeletons is simply impossible).

EXTRAS:

The original Version 1 designs

My failed attempt at giving Bonnie buck teeth (I wanna punch him so bad…)

Fixed Foxy

???

#freddy & friends #freddy and friends #freddy & friends AU #f&f #five nights at freddy's #fnaf #fnaf au #freddy fazbear #bonnie the bunny #chica the chicken #foxy the pirate #work in progress #wip #endo 01 #endoskeleton #animatronic #fnaf ask blog #fnaf fanart #fnaf movie #worldbuilding #webcomic #writers on tumblr #writing

[violin-check]

Hi! I’m just curious about Rocky from Lackadaisy, and if there’s any inaccuracies in his playing within the pilot.

[I.D: Screenshot of Lackadaisy where Rocky plays violin on a bridge. Behind him is one of the bridge's support beams and a view of a river, the moon, and a city on the river banks. His bow is on the strings, a little closer to the frog than the tip. End I.D]

Admittedly I'm not familiar with this show, but I did go ahead and find this scene of him playing violin, and honestly, I'm pretty impressed with how it's animated. There seems to be a good deal of care and attention put into how Rocky plays, and there's a couple things that I really appreciated.

[I.D. Two screenshots side by side of Rocky playing violin. His bow sits on the strings at the tip as he shifts to about fifth position, his hand moving to rest against the body of the instrument. End I.D.]

First of all: shifting. It's a pretty common thing in more advanced violin music, but isn't necessarily shown that much. It's really nice seeing it show up, especially in such a casual moment of a guy playing for himself as he monologues. He's not performing for anyone, but he's still playing well.

Another example of his variety in technique: in the clip, he uses his left hand (bow hand) to pluck the strings at one point, and plays double stops (two strings at once) at a few others. I get the sense listening to the music he's playing that he knows what he's doing, and is probably a decently advanced musician. Also, the music that he plays is impressive, as he basically seems to be improvising in this scene. He's messing around, basically, but there's solid technique behind it.

There's also a lot of attention paid to which string he's playing on- the angle of the bow is very different for the higher notes and the lower notes, meaning that the animators were actually paying attention to how a violin would be played. For example, in the above screenshots, he's playing on the E string (high notes), and has a mostly vertical bow. I also appreciate the fluidity of his bowing in the clip, especially the wrist position and movements.

There are a couple of shots in the clip where the proportions of the violin seem off- mostly at the start, when it looks too big for him. There's some weird bow hand positions are some points, and also a few places where the fingering seems a bit off. A lot of the time his fingers don't really seem to be changing the string they're on, but that's a matter of trying to animate super precise motions that most people wouldn't notice so I'll let it slide lol. (And to be fair, fingering probably works different when you have less fingers anyway. Maye his violin would be tuned differently than a real one?)

His violin doesn't seem to have a chin rest and he isn't using a shoulder rest either, but again, that makes sense from an animation standpoint. Besides, while those are common in modern day playing, this show has more of a historical distant past setting from what I can tell.

My overall vibe from this character is that he clearly knows what he's doing with his violin, but that he's also just playing for himself. He's not performing, he's not trying to impress anyone, he's just playing violin and enjoying it. I might be a little more critical of a few areas of weird technique if he were supposed to be playing an existing piece or performing for an audience, but overall I think for the most part the breaks in technique match the general air of carelessness/ carefreeness Rocky is giving off.

I do, however, question how often he would have to replace his strings given that long nails are a no-no with violins, and he has obviously pointed claws. He probably breaks his strings fairly often lol.

#violin #lackadaisy #rocky rickaby

[turntechgaykid]

Strawhats Vs Upper Moons

- Luffy would fight Muzan obviously.

- Zoro would fight Kokushibo, since they’re both swordsman and the 2nd strongest members of their groups it works perfectly. Even more so since they both have purple combat themes and have multi-blade transformations.

- Sanji would fucking hate Douma because Douma eats beautiful women for shits and giggles, and even prefers to eat pregnant women for extra energy. Not to mention the obvious Fire vs Ice dynamic.

- Jimbei would fight Akaza. They’re both Martial Artists. Not much more than that. After that it’s mostly surface level connections.

- Brook would fight Kaigaku. They’re both weaker swordsman than Zoro and Kokushibo respectively, Brook’s humming slash would be kinda similar to Zenitsu’s first form, so it would probably be pretty similar to Kaigaku’s actual fight. Plus Brook would dislike Kaigaku’s mentality about how he treats the people in his life.

- Robin would fight Nakime. Trippy fight, but Robin is kind of a hard counter to Nakime.

- Franky would fight Hatengu. A Technology vs Nature dynamic. Franky would be aggravated by Hatengu’s “never my fault” mentality. They’re also opposites in terms of personality.

- Gyokko would fight Chopper. Chopper would hate Gyokko turning people into monstrosities and meat statues for the sake of his art. Especially since Chopper is a doctor. Also an Animal vs Sea-Animal theme there.

- Nami vs Daki. Daki’s 13 year old kid mentality would probably trigger something in Nami due to her love of children, so that could be an interesting dynamic. (Arguably the weakest of their groups)

- Ussop vs Gyutaro. Mr Negative vs Mr Negative. Ussop probably has the hardest fight on his hands. He has an advantage at long range but gets shredded at short range. The impact dial could probably be used against Gyutaro as a physical manifestation of his “pay back the pain I’ve felt” mentality. Any thoughts? I’m probably kinda stretching for some of these.

(Saw this originally on Reddit but don't know who wrote it an It was too big to screenshot so I copied it)

#one piece #straw hat pirates #monkey d. luffy #roronoa zoro #vinsmoke sanji #cat burglar nami #kny #demon slayer #upper moons #one piece crossover #demon slayer crossover

[spacenintendogs]

Hi! I love your art and I’m so curious to know what your art process is like!

i've been trying to figure out how to answer this & i've honestly realized that my process is a mess LOLOL i did record myself!!! drawing fishlegs bc he is the fave & easiest for me to draw! i hope everything i explain under the read more makes sense!!

it took me over 44 minutes to draw & the screen recording in the art program i use (autodesk sketchbook) brought it down to about 7 minutes and 25 seconds. i didn't wanna speed it up even more bc it'd be way too fast & jarring i think but!! i've uploaded the video to youtube (with some animal crossing music <3)!! i will still try to explain what i did here tho!!

my initial sketches are EXTREMELY loose! i start with the head by drawing a circle & extending past it for the chin of the character & proceed to do the nose, eyes, & mouth!! hair is next, but if there's a helmet i need to draw, i'll do that before the hair!! then i'll do the body starting from the shoulders & going down!! for the hands i just do circles/a general shape! no details!!

the sketch layer is a layer of black for the brush color with with lower opacity

i immediately do lines on top with the same brush but with black at full opacity on the kayer above!! this time i actually take my time to be more careful with details BUT i am still very sketchy & if smth isn't 100% accurate after i try a few times, i leave it be! hands however...

i almost always end up taking a photo of my hands using the front facing camera set to a 5 second timer on my phone! i also draw using my phone so it's literally having everything i need all in one place lol!! i do trace my own hands but obv i adjust based on what i'm drawing!! fish's hands are def gonna be wider than mine!!

NOW for color i color pick directly from screenshots!! however i use it mostly for flats & then pick my own for shading!! let's focus on the flats for now!! i start with the skin always!! the skin is going to have color layers above and below it, so it's easier for me to see where everything else will go if i've got the skin all settled. here you can see my color layers!! these are ALL flats!!

shading & lighting i don't rlly... focus on being accurate 100% but i try to do it based on where a shadow would absolutely be/to give the appearance of some type of depth (my art is very flat either way tho!) like where his lower hand is cupping i'll shade but leave the top of the upper hand unshaded for the most part! i lay out everything in a multiply layer first (can be any color u want based on the vibe u want!!) & then use a smudge tool to blend it out!! same goes for the lighting layer!!!

my art overall is a lot of scribbling big lines & curves then using the lineart to do the same but slowly make adjustments until it looks acceptable to me. it's SO much erasing & reshaping & i always have sketch lines everywhere but i like how it looks. it looks like i drew it, u know? plus the httyd books art style is a HUGE inspiration to me, at my core. i didn't even realize it was until ppl on here pointed it out :') i also enjoy drawing fast & moving on!! which is just smth i've trained myself to do since my star fox days (the reason i draw in the first place!!)

thank u!!!! i hope this made sense!!

#rose answers #evilwriter37 #httyd #fishlegs ingerman #httyd fanart #🌹 art #i hope this makes sense!!!!!!! #this was rlly fun to do!!! #i'm so unaware of my own process that i feel like it's a lil painful to watch the screenrecording of me #BUT u know what it works!!!! #also: i love drawing freckles LOLOL

[dawns-beauty]

Calling for TES community screenshots!

Hello! I’m dawns-beauty, aka allonsywisegirl on the Nexus.

I am working on a community-driven modder’s resource for Skyrim and I’m looking for screenshots taken across the franchise (Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, and Elder Scrolls Online) in order to make them into lore-friendly paintings that can be used in-game.

Here are a few in-game examples I’ve already made from both Skyrim and ESO screenshots, as seen in Khajiit Has Wares:

Stipulations on Types of Screenshots I’m looking for:

Pictures of scenery, both natural and cityscapes ✅

Still lifes, architecture, flora and fauna ✅

Pictures of TES historical figures ✅ ✅(you will also receive my unending devotion and we shall be wed in the spring)

No visible HUD (please hide it or crop it out)

No Skyrim spoilers (ie, nothing with Alduin in it, or shots from key moments of various quests. Mostly so the paintings can be used at any point in the game without timeline divergence.)

Modded screenshots are absolutely allowed and welcomed, with the requirement that it can’t be unbelievable as a place in the TES franchise, or look too ‘gamey’ (like ESO’s fire wolves or etc). ENBs/ReShades are also welcome!

Edited screenshots are totally okay too

Character portraits might be accepted, with a few extra stipulations:

Edit: Canon characters, OCs, in-game historical figures, and modded followers are all welcome

No horny, anime, or joke mods, please

No too-obvious references to characters outside of the franchise (stuff like your character having a DA Vallaslin or etc is fine as long as it’s subtle.)

Lore-friendly races only (different Khajiit furstocks and extinct races like Lilmothiit and Kothringi, etc are welcome, as are non-Tamrielic races like Ka po’tun, Maormer, Tsaesci, etc.)

Please take extra care to make it believable pose/angle/location for a painted portraits (look up old school portraits for an idea of good composition.) Props/pose mods are good for this.

If you have the know-how and want to, feel free to edit your own screenshot to look painted! Otherwise, I will use filters to give them a more painterly look. Please don’t apply a canvas texture: I’ll take care of that part, so it will match up with the normal maps I’m planning on using.

Crediting and Permissions

This resource mod would be posted on the Nexus and free to use for anyone who wants it (as long as their mod is 100% free.) Anyone who provides a screenshot will be credited and, if they want to, have a link to their blog/profile/etc posted as well (no direct links to donation sites, however.)

If, for any reason, you want your screenshot removed from the mod at any time, I will do my best to comply for as long as I maintain the mod. Please message me on here directly, though.

Please, reblog > likes, I’m not a large blog and have very little reach in the community, and I would really like this to get to enough people to make this a reality :)

I don’t really have a timescale on release, my plan is to work on this as a side project while hopefully people keeps submitting things. It’s one of those things that I’ll continue to add files to as I get them.

Feel free to submit screenshots to my blog, DM me, send me an ask, reply to this post, or send me links to posts etc!

#skyrim #oblivion #elder scrolls #morrowind #eso #tes #tesblr #I’m really excited for this I hope people participate!

[insertdisc5]

Devlog #8: QA and Q&A

(all the screenshots i have left are spoilers. while i take more, have a meme)

Hello everyone! Welcome to this month’s devlog!

If you just stumbled upon this, I am Adrienne, also known as insertdisc5! I’m the developer, writer, artist, main programmer, etc of the game. The game being In Stars and Time, which is the next and final game in the START AGAIN series, following START AGAIN: a prologue (available here!).  You can find out more about In Stars and Time here!!! 

LET’S GET TO IT

With the game’s alpha finished, I didn’t do anything much worth talking about this month. QA is underway! I’m fixing bugs! I’m writing changelogs that say stuff like “At the hallway before that one room, getting to the edge 2+ times wont softlock anymore if you do it between the wall and a column”!!!! I’m also resting because September was a LOT!!! 

So, since I have very little to say, I asked people on Twitter to ask me questions, so I could answer them. Q&A time!

@ItsMeLilyV asks:

1. I really have been in love with monochrome & limited palette styles recently :3 How did you figure out the art style for ISAT? Are there any distinct challenges or walls you've run into? 

2. did you get to take any good naps. how would you rank the naps on a 10-pt scale

1. The TLDR is: it’s more fun to draw in black and white. And it’s faster. And it looks cool as hell!!!

I did run into some challenges especially when it came to UI- how do you draw the eye of the player to a selection, or something they need to interact with, when you can’t use an eye-catching color to draw them in?!? I ended up relying a lot on level design to do that… And animations, too, especially in the House where everything is frozen! Keeping a very limited palette also helps, I think I mostly used black, white, and maybe 5 shades of grey in between… It’s all about contrast! And not having a big muddy grey mess!!!

2. I got some good naps in, yeah. I’m a big fan of naps after lunch, so I eat, wait for the sleep to kick in, and sleep for 2-3 hours. Solid 8/10 naps. That’s heaven babes!!!

@gertritude asks:

I am curious about what your writing process is for the game!! Like, what is your planning process (if you have one) and how do you approach actually writing for it?

My writing process… It’s a little all over the place to be honest! 

I had the big strokes of ISAT figured out from beginning to end before I even finished the prologue, but then I had to really sit down a bunch of times and really figure out how to get from point A to point B. So it involved a lot of writing, and also rewriting, to Foreshadow some Cool Stuff. Also, early on I was really struggling with some plot points, so I sat down for a whole day and wrote down the entire plot from beginning to end, and tried to get really granular and write down those middle point A to point B things! If I didn’t know what would happen I just invented something on the spot! As long as the whole story was written!!! It took a while, but I’m really glad I did this, because this saved me a lot of time later on hehe

Apart from the big plot events, the smaller events that are conversations between the characters usually just come out of nowhere, like “ok I have a table here and I put cookies on it. How would everyone react?”. I try to strike a balance between “this is how people talk” and “does it say anything new about those characters”, whether it’s a character’s favorite food, or a nice foreshadowing moment that you’ll reread later and go “OH DAMN… ALL ALONG THIS WAS HERE…”

My big go-to technique to actually write is that every day 1. I decide I’m going to work for 15mn and I start a timer 2. I put my headphones on 3. I start my concentrate playlist, which is full of instrumental electro/dubstep/wub wub adjacent music 4. ????? 5. Writing accomplished. The 15mn goal is just because it’s easy to write for 15mn. I always write for longer, but I just need to get started with an easy goal!

@_blade0fgrass_ asks:

Is it hard coming up with such immaculate puns

I would like to thank punpedia from the bottom of my heart. And also google. Thanks punpedia thanks google!

@kayleighdotjpeg asks:

keeping spoilers in mind, who are your favorite characters to write? which character dynamics are your favorite? did any of them surprise you?

This is THE question. Thank you so much. 

I loved to write Siffrin (especially when they’re all depressed teehee), but Odile ended up being my Actual Favorite to write. Most characters are either 1. Full of secrets or 2. Pushovers and/or oblivious, so it’s very nice to have Odile be the one to say “Alright, enough of this. We will talk about the elephant in the room Right Now”. She’s very blunt and doesn’t care about anything and she is so useful as a plot device and I love her.

Siffrin and Odile is my favorite dynamic, followed closely by Siffrin and Loop! As for surprising character dynamics, I reaaaaally enjoyed writing Odile and Isabeau… I didn’t get to write them often, but they are so fun to write together. Please ask me this question again once the game comes out so I can say more.

@novvclutchmate asks:

How do you go about finding a balance between levity and seriousness? Would you say your story tips more in one direction than the other; if so, was it on purpose and why?

What a good question! Hmm, for me and my writing style personally, it’s less about finding a balance, and more that One Cannot Exist Without The Other. It’s like adding sweetness to a savory dish- adding them together elevates the whole thing!!! 

If I have a serious scene, I like to add some levity to kind of bring the characters back to earth. I don’t know about you, but when I have a serious conversation for too long, I automatically laugh or tell a joke to break the tension! I get uncomfortable when it’s too serious! It’s normal! I’m normal!!!! It’s also a way for the audience to breathe out- don’t worry player, we’re good! We’re back to the usual stuff! Plus, I find that funny scenes right after a serious emotional scene hit harder.

As for seriousness to levity, I think it’s fun when you have a funny slice of life scene and then the story reminds you that this scene is Serious Actually. Like having everyone talking happily and the narrator saying  “it makes you sad when your friends keep repeating the very same lines every time.” :)

ISAT tips more towards levity I’d say, because of the reasons listed above! If you’re used to funny cute scenes and then I give you a Serious Emotional scene it makes you go Σ(っ °Д °;)っ

@gala_ksyz

is there any words youd like to tell aspiring/young indie devs?

Just make the dang thing!!! Stop putting it off!!! Just do it!!! Buy a simple game maker thing like rpgmaker or renpy or whatever and make the thing!!! Yes it’ll take time!!! Yes it won’t be as good as you imagined in some ways!!! Yes making games is hard!!! But you gotta just do it!!! It’ll be so much better than you imagined in other ways!!! It’ll be real!!! You’re the only one who can make it!!! It’s yours!!! It comes from your heart!!! It IS your heart!!! No one else can make it but you!!! So just make the dang thing!!! I believe in you!!! JUST MAKE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That’s all I have to say for today! Let me know if you have any questions, or if there’s any aspect of the game development struggle you’d like me to talk about! See you next time!!!

AND DON’T FORGET TO WISHLIST THE GAME ON STEAM ALSO IT REALLY HELPS BECAUSE STEAM’S ALGORITHM IS MORE LIKELY TO SHOW OFF GAMES WITH A HIGH AMOUNT OF WISHLISTS THAT’S THE REASON WHY GAME DEVS ALWAYS ASK TO WISHLIST!!! OKAY BYE!!!!

#in stars and time #start again start again start again #devlog #indie dev #game dev

[incorrecttowerofgodquotes]

about the kiseia thing - im honestly more upset that they dumbed her down into a crazy yandere waifu whos obsessed with her brother. in the webtoon shes vengeful and genuinely resentful, but in the game she mostly wants to kill him cuz shes "into" that kinda thing. also respectfully disagree - i agree that including an element in a story doesnt necessarily mean the author condones it, but in this case incest is just used in a fetishy way to waifu-ify kiseia, not really portrayed as something messed up. also i think the incest is more uncomfortable here since aguero and kiseia grew up together and they're so closely related, as opposed to like family members from distant branches hooking up with each other

I can accept not liking Kiseia’s character as shown in this event, and I wouldn’t be too surprised if the Kiseia we meet later on in ToG’s story isn’t like this

Also I guess I just learn to roll with these types of “younger sister falls in love with older brother” stories because I’ve watched so many anime. So while the inclusion of incest elements will probably squick out a lot of people, I’m desensitized.

Though I will say that to me honestly, Kiseia doesn’t come off as in love with Khun and more like she’s obsessed with receiving validation from her only remaining family member.

Kiseia is an orphan taken in by Agnes and groomed to be a murder weapon all for Khun’s older sister.

We see from this that even as a child she struggled with her self worth, that she wanted to be fully part of Agnes’s family due to the trauma of losing her own. That’s also why even though Khun states his older sister was difficult to interact with, Kiseia still bonded with her, because she wanted an older sister to love her.

So obviously these attachment issues would also affect her relationship with Khun. She trusted him, and from the above screenshots, took his opinion very seriously.

And when she saw that Khun didn’t like what she was doing, her self worth took a big hit, and this got even worse when it came out Khun betrayed his family and her trust by working with Maria, and then setting off the events that led to his older sister’s suicide and Agnes’s banishment.

I’m only halfway through the event so I can’t say any more, but to me, Kiseia seems like a very broken and lonely girl groomed to be a killer and then rejected by the one person she has left.

Of course, just because the way she’s written makes sense to me, it doesn’t mean it’s the same for everyone else, and people don’t need to like it either. I’m just saying that a lot of people are knee-jerk reacting to the upfront disturbing implications of Kiseia’s character without looking deeper at how this personality was formed.

#also there’s the fact that sworn enemy kiseia is meant to be an avatar for Khun’s guilt in his sister’s death and supporting maria #I wouldn’t be surprised if sworn enemy kiseia was a mix between the original kiseia and Khun’s older sister #tower of god #tog

[destinymanticor]

Tag 9 People You Want to get to Know Better

(^・ω・^ ) Thank you for tag me 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

@avomorg @bumblebeeenby

Currently reading:

Well, according to fics, only on AO3 26 pages of subscriptions... ლ(╹◡╹ლ)

But I can mention from AO3 "Fractures"

From Ficbook (!rus), I can only note "Truth is a cave" by chiwich

Oh, if I’m rereading book with infernal detectives (1991) (!rus), which fell into my hands back in 2012-13

I don't really remember the events where I got it from. I just remember that I picked it up on street, for some reason a "garbage bin" pops up in my head, but it definitely doesn't seem to be from it, right (⓿_⓿)???

Favorite color:

if roughly specified, they will be dark green, silver, ~terracotta, and purple

Its hard for me to describe in words, so I'll attach ~approximate pic for colors

i like all colors

except for bright red shades, especially when there is a lot of it or if it is an accent color..... like

that's why I usually not use bright red in the arts, even when draw Kai -- I dim red a bit

oh what is there? ah eah

Last song

well I'm hooked now on (╯▽╰ )

"Dear Wormwood" -- this is pretty related to the end arc for one of my OC now ahah

"You're the Only Thing in Your Way" -- this one for one of those AUs "that I probably donno how write"

"Lemon Demon - Modify" -- its just fun music + funny animation 🔪🔪🔪

Last movie:

Does the Lego Ninjago Movie count? when I watched it for screenshots? I just don't remember the last time I sat down and watched it just for the sake of a movie.

"Ирония судьбы, или С лёгким паром!" in new year i don't count

Sweet/spicy/savory:

I really like sweet, milk chocolate, jelly and various caramels. I also really like sweet and sour things, especially if they cause a reaction like in cartoons, but in reality. But there are few of them, so lemons and kiwis will help me (○｀ 3′○)

I love spicy, of course, jalapeno, chili, and other spicy peppers

not against wasabi and horseradish (although for me they mostly differ in the burn duration and resting speed)

savory doesn’t evoke special feelings, like okay, not insipid and okay ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Currently working on:

A small animation like "into the game". I have the first part sketch-animatic, but it seems to me that with the second part I put too much information for timing

some pictures for 14 february

and a small picture with butterfly 🍋

(ʘ ͜ʖ ʘ) wow how many txt

Tagging:

!!! (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ @sunnylighter @sebilini @quiznak-ofgrayskull @howuart @peachyninjago @pixanefan @emisnt2 @tokaywineandcheese @kdragon107

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sorry if you had something like that, I have a worse memory than a goldfish, and the attentiveness like stone ༼ ◕_◕ ༽

#txt #tag game #oc #post

[frida-kahl-of-the-rocky-horror]

I saw this back when I used to use Reddit (for animal crossing and trans+ stuff mostly), and I felt so honoured that they used my Florida flag redesign in this that I screenshotted it. But when I looked to find the original poster, they had deleted the post (likely because of negative replies, vexillology Reddit is scary).

They recreated the state flags to be more about symbolism and individuality rather than about aesthetics (which is the problem I see with a lot of over simplified state flags). All while keeping the flags that actually carry deep meaning and are beloved by the residents.

I’m not the biggest fan of Nebraska’s, Virginia’s, and Wisconsin’s, but all the others are wonderful (especially Florida’s… I will not apologize for being biased lol)

The original Reddit person’s caption:

“I kept some flags which I believe are currently great. Most of them are all over State merchandise, and people of these states carry a lot of state pride for these flags. They are:

1. Alabama

2. Alaska

3. Arizona

4. Arkansas

5. California

6. Colorado

7. lowa

8. Maryland

9. Mississippi

10. Missouri

11. New Mexico

12. Ohio, my home state! [not mine, OPs]

13. Rhode Island

14. South Carolina

15. Tennessee

16. Texas

17. Utah

18. Wyoming

19. District of Columbia [I believe you mean the Douglass Commonwealth]

20. Guam

21. The Northern Mariana Islands

22. Puerto Rico

I've switched some State’s boring Seal on a Bedsheet flags into their more popular historical ones. They are:

23. Conecticut ~ New England Flag

24. Hawaii ~ Kanaka Maoli

25. Maine ~ Original State Flag

26. Vermont ~ Green Mountain Boys Flag

27. Virginia ~ Gadsden Flag

28. West Virginia ~ Original State Flag

I've made a few tweaks to some existing flags so they look more unique / are more easily recognizable. They are:

29. Indiana ~ Golden Frame

30. New Jersey ~ Added Stripes

31. North Carolina ~ Un-Tex-ified

32. Oklahoma ~ Added Stripes

33. American Samoa ~ Added Southern Cross

I designed some using the Pan Cascade colours for the Pacific Northwest (BC will have the tree one). They are:

34. Idaho

35. Oregon

36. Washington

I borrowed some other designs which I found on here which I found beautiful. I mostly looked for flags which were designed by locals from the states that they are redesigning or included state symbols on their old flags. They are:

37. Florida [omg they chose mine!!!]

38. Georgia

39. Kansas

40. Kentucky

41. Louisiana

42. Michigan

43. Montana

44. Nevada

45. New Hampshire

46. New York

47. North Dakota [I prefer my communist flag better wajajaja]

48. Pennsylvania

49. South Dakota

50. Wisconsin

51. Virgin Islands

I left the flags currently in the process of a redesign blank, for, given the recent track record, any new flags are probably going to look amazing like Utah’s and Mississippi’s. They are:

52. Illinois [this is your reminder to vote for your new state flag if you’re from this state!!!]

53. Massachusetts [this is your reminder to vote for your new state flag if you’re from this state!!!]

54. Minnesota [this is your reminder to vote for your new state flag if you’re from this state!!!]

I kept one Seal on a Bedsheet flag to honour this horrid time in American vexillological history. That is:

55. Delaware

And lastly

56. Nebraska (idk)”

While I agree with most of the OP’s opinions, I think Nebraska’s flag would look better if it looked something like this:

Better designed of course, I made this on Pic Collage in like 5 minutes

Im not sure about Wisconsin and Virginia, I just know I’m not the biggest fan of either (since Virginia’s flag has a separate meaning and Wisconsin’s is just bland.

Let me know what you think!

And if you’re the OP of this, please let me know, I like your choices!!

#usa #united states #state flags #alabama #alaska #arizona #arkansas #california #colorado #conecticut #delaware #florida #georgia #hawaii #idaho #illinois #indiana #iowa #kansas #kentucky #lousiana #maine #maryland #massachusetts #michigan #minnesota #mississippi #missouri #montana #nebraska

[aemiron-main]

[panicked chittering]: an analysis of the “henry killing the rabbit” scene

Henry Creel didn’t kill that rabbit. Well, I mean, he did, but he also didn’t.

SO! The rabbit scene. The one that supposedly proves that Henry was just an inherently horrible child randomly tormenting animals and his family for fun. Let’s take a look at it, because I REALLY don’t think he chose to kill/torture that rabbit. 

To begin, it’s interesting that the trailer gives us a shot of Alice walking TOWARDS the rabbit instead of running away from it (all while Virginia stands behind her) and then immediately cuts from a shot of the dead rabbit to a shot of Virginia eating. Why is this relevant? Well, people/creatures killed via powers like Henry’s (powers that Virginia likely also has) are consumed by the person who kills them- Brenner literally uses the word consume to describe Henry’s absorption of his victims.

Plus, it’s worth keeping in mind just how similar Henry’s “rabbit killing” shirt is to Virginia’s dinner table shirt. except Henry’s has more orange whereas Virginia’s is even between orange and white- this is a small detail but if Henry was possessed by Virginia during the rabbit-killing scene, it would track with the amount of orange in his shirt. Why? Well, we see that Henry, when he gets older, is often associated with the colour white, with his lab orderly uniform. And Virginia seems to be the only character in the Creel house who wears orange (besides Henry, and Henry only wears it during the rabbit scene). So, if Virginia is represented by orange (and pink but for the sake of talking about orange, she’s the only creel associated with it besides Henry & she wears more of it than Henry), and Henry’s shirt is mostly orange, then that would reflect the idea that Henry is possessed by Virginia, the shirt is mostly orange, it’s mostly her influence, but the white is still there, Henry’s still in there, just possessed.

This also ties into something I’m going to talk about in the full analysis with the idea that Virginia and Henry both had powers and were fighting against eachother mentally at the dinner table, especially considering the “overlapping signals” subtitle regarding the radio that only starts up as soon as the lights start flashing- Virginia and Henry’s powers are overlapping, they’re fighting. This ties into Virginia’s clothes because Henry is now breaking free from the possession (“she left me with no choice- no choice but the break free”), and so, whereas previously, the orange in Henry’s shirt represented Virginia having more power/control over Henry, the orange in Virginia’s shirt at the dinner table is equally split with white- Henry has realized his power and is breaking free from his possession, they’re on equal footing now, fighting. Henry isn’t winning though, they’re equal.

And take a look at the orange and white curtains behind Virginia in the screenshot prior to the above one- the curtains are orange and white, with basically equal amounts of orange and white- and yet, the white is encased by the orange, trapped, which is also the case on Henry’s shirt. Henry talks about how Virginia left him with “no choice but to break free,” and this feeling of being trapped is demonstrated by both the costuming choices and the set design. The white (Henry) is trapped by the orange. Also, there’s the fact that the dead rabbit was supposedly in three different places (Alice found it near the slide according to Victor’s retelling, but then in the trailer it’s in the front of the house, and then in Henry’s retelling, he’s shown killing it around the side of the house.)

And in the Creel sequence that Nancy witnesses, we don’t see the rabbit die onscreen. we hear noises, it’s implied, and we see it laying down, but we don’t see it die. Henry also never talks in his 1979 monologue to El about killing any rabbit, simply that he could “reach into others.” I still think it died in that moment but it’s an interesting choice on production’s behalf not to show us that death- as if we aren’t seeing the full story.

As well, regarding the fact that Henry never said he killed the rabbit- of course he doesn’t need to say it for it to be true, but it’s a strange detail to omit, and even stranger when we consider the Henry dialogue line that plays over the rabbit scene- “I could reach into others, into their minds.” Sure, that could tie into him killing others, but he talks later about “growing stronger with each life I took,” he’s not afraid to talk about killing. And the key thing here, and why I’m talking about this, is that from a production standpoint, Henry’s monologue is simply being played over top of the scenes that Nancy is witnessing. The scenes Nancy’s witnessesing don’t necessarily align with the scenes Henry is referring to in his monologue, which would explain why this dialogue seems so strange for this scene. Henry, in his mind, in 1979, was very likely picturing totally different scenes that we didn’t see. Think of it this way- with Victor’s retelling in Pennhurst, we seem to be seeing what he’s thinking of in that moment, what he’s remniscing on (for the most part, but there’s also a lot of weirdness there with a lot of those shots being through Henry’s eyes), but with Henry’s monologue, the audience doesn’t see that, because we see Nancy’s 1986 trip through the memories instead. 

Also, there’s the fact that hHenry kneeling down and reaching out to kill the rabbit is paralleled to him reaching out to the spiders- and yet, he shows empathy and compassion to the spiders. he’s not inherently violent or cruel. So, what changed?

Something else that’s interesting to me is his hair.  I have so many thoughts on Henry’s hair in general, but sticking to the topic of the rabbit- during the rabbit scene, his hair is tightly gelled down, controlled, whereas during the spider scene, it’s much looser and fluffier. We know that hair and hairstyles are often used to represent a character’s mental state and experiences in ST (see: El being re-traumatized by NINA and also getting her head shaved again, she’s being controlled again, she’s reliving that trauma mentally and physically.) I would bet that in S5, we’re going to get a scene of Virginia slicking Henry’s hair down with gel that later parallels him getting his head shaved at the lab. Because both scenarios are about control- Henry says as much in the lab when talking to El, Brenner wanted control and when he couldn’t control Henry, he sought to recreate him. Henry is being controlled in the scene with the rabbit. We’re going to come back to Brenner and the theme of control later, so stick a mental pin into it for now.  What’s even weirder here is how the whole sequence with Nancy watching this rabbit scene play out is set up. We focus on Henry’s face, and then Nancy’s face. I talked a bit about this earlier and the idea that we don’t see the rabbit die and aren’t technically seeing the full story, but I want to talk about just how strange this shot setup is. 

We aren’t seeing what Henry is seeing, but we also aren’t seeing what Nancy is seeing. They go out of their way not to show us the body of the dead rabbit. We hear it screaming but we don’t ever see it’s body during this sequence. They chose, for some reason, to focus on Nancy’s face instead. Why not show us what Nancy is seeing OR what Henry is seeing?? Why no Nancy OTS shot here? Why no Henry OTS shot here? They gave us a Henry OTS in the attic drawing where Nancy was looking over this shoulder (and so we saw through Nancy’s eyes and got a Henry OTS), and yet for some reason they’ve set up the rabbit scene in such a bizarre way. 

It’s setup this way because Henry doesn’t have the memory of the rabbit dying- we can’t see it through his eyes because he lacks the memory, and so, from a production standpoint, we don’t see it either, because these are supposed to be Henry’s memories- instead, they keep the focus on Nancy. Henry is filling in the gaps here in terms of what he’s showing Nancy, but also, what Nancy is seeing is not the same as what the audience is seeing. Nancy is not seeing a closeup shot of her own face. They’re keeping things from the audience that Nancy knows about (such as what the corpse of the rabbit looked like in this scene/seeing it die). Like, think about when Vecna showed Nancy her vision of Hawkins being destoryed- the audience saw the cracks forming in Hawkins, but Nancy saw something totally different, she saw the bodies of her family, she saw dead soliders in the street, and a gaping mouthed creature. 

 “But if Henry doesn’t have the memory of the rabbit dying, how did Nancy see it dying?” Well, Henry does technically have it- it’s just repressed, like El’s nina memories, and Nancy is seeing it because it’s still there, in his memories, he just can’t access it, whereas the audience is being shown the parts that Henry actually remembers/aren’t repressed for him. It’s like how Will’s memories were locked away when he was possessed in S2- Henry is being possessed by Virginia in a very similar way, but that’s also another post in and of itself. 

And when DO we see the rabbit’s dead body? A.) In Victor’s retelling where alice runs away from it at the slide and b.) in the Creel family trailer, which, I’m going to make another post demonstrating this at some point, but the Creel family trailer seems to be Virginia’s pov. And going based on my post from the other day about Alice being in a vision when she supposedly saw the rabbit at the slide, Virginia would then be the only person who actually saw the real irl corpse of the rabbit- and that’s why they give us the closeup on it in the trailer. Because she’s the one who remembers killing it. 

Not to mention that in the scene of Henry killing the rabbit, 1979 Henry’s voiceover is talking about reaching into peoples’ minds and memories- almost like that’s exactly what happening here with Virginia reaching into Henry’s mind. 

The rabbit was the innocent creature Henry was torturing (as a result of Virginia’s influence/control), but a Henry was the innocent creature Virginia was torturing. In the script AND in the show, it’s not just about killing the rabbit, and it’s not just about torturing it either- it’s about the fact that the rabbit is trapped, trying to break free (“She left me with no choice but to break free.”) The suffering rabbit is also directly paralleled to the suffering child in the crib in VIctor’s vision, and the screams of the rabbit and the screams of the child even sound very similar, and the scene of Nancy seeing the rabbit happens right before the scene of her seeing Victor’s burning cradle. Because it’s about suffering and feeling trapped, because that’s how Henry feels- and beyond how he feels, he IS trapped, he feels trapped because he knows he IS trapped. 

Also, there’s the fact that Virginia is paralleled to Lonnie, who forced his son to kill a rabbit. The rabbit was the innocent creature that Jonathan killed- Jonathan was the innocent creature that Lonnie killed (figuratively, in a “death of innocence,” sense. And just like with Virginia and Henry, it wasn’t just about killing the rabbit, it was about Lonnie forcing him to do it, Lonnie didn’t just want the rabbit to die, otherwise he would have killed it himself- he wanted Jonathan to do it. He was tormenting Jonathan. Virginia was tormenting Henry, just as Henry tormented the rabbit. 

  And the scene with Nancy and Jonathan and the dying deer in S1- the deer is SUFFERING, and the way it wiggles around is very, very similar to the scene of Henry with the rabbit. And what is Jonathan preparing to do? He’s preparing to put it out of its misery, but he’s also suffering as a result of this. Nancy offers to kill it, but Jonathan declines, and in the end, neither one of them kills it. Jonathan and Henry are paralleled here, the rabbit died, the deer died, but Henry didn’t kill the rabbit (not by choice), and Jonathan didn’t kill the deer.

So, once again, I don’t think Henry CHOSE to kill that rabbit at the Creel house. i think he physically did it, but he had about as much choice as Jonathan did- and actually, he had even less of a choice.  Jonathan? Jonathan still had a choice. I am NOT saying that jonathan was in the wrong, i COMPLETELY understand why he killed it and how dangerous Lonnie was. This is not me saying that Jonathan had it easier, but rather, that he literally, technically had more of a choice than Henry. even if we go to the worst-case scenario and assume that Lonnie would have killed Jonathan instead, Jonathan still had more of a choice because the choice is ‘do or die’. with Henry? There is no choice. death is not even an option. he’s being controlled/possessed in the deepest sense, he can’t even make the choice to kill himself because he’s not in control in that moment. it’s like what we see with the flayed. Billy regains enough control to make a last-minute decision to sacrifice himself, but thats AFTER El gives him strength by focusing on billy’s best memories. not only did Henry NOT have somebody like el doing that for him, he also seems to have very little in terms of good memories at ALL.  And on that note, let’s look at the themes of Henry’s character- he is a character who is robbed of agency and choice, much like Will. Henry, unlike Will, goes on to try and cope with this loss by controlling and hurting others. however, prior to that, henry and will are very, very similar in terms of their loss of agency. henry was one of the key factors who took will’s agency and choice away from him. virginia was one of the key factors who took henry’s agency and choice away from him. The lab also did this, but he wouldn’t have even ended up at the lab if it wasn’t for virginia. Jumping back to narratives and themes, and what I said about Jonathan and choice, even if the choice is death, Henry sees death as an escape. Because of Soteria, Henry couldn’t leave the lab- he would be tracked down and brought back. Death was LITERALLY his only chance at escape unless Soteria was removed. 

Also, Nancy’s sequence at the creel house, the dying rabbit happens right before Victor sees the vision of a burning cradle, like Nancy runs inside, into the front door (which is interesting because the trailer show the dead rabbit being in front of the house even though Nancy supposedly just saw Henry around the back/side of the house), which is strange, because  Victor’s retelling claims that Alice found the dead rabbit by the slide much earlier than when Victor had his vision, but Nancy’s sequence frames it as being back to  back- almost like Henry skipped parts of the story/is missing parts of the story- almost like how Brenner canonically skipped through some of the NINA footage for El. The Creel murders are Henry’s NINA equivalent. That’s a whole separate analysis in and of itself, though.  Now, let’s go back to the beginning of this post- people/creatures killed via powers like Henry’s (powers that Virginia likely also has) are consumed by the person who kills them- Brenner literally uses the word consume to describe Henry’s absorption of his victims.

And let’s look at the lab scene where El is supposed to kill the cat. Brenner wants her to kill it not only as a show of her powers, but to build her strength in terms of being emotionally capable of killing people and creatures, which is why he’s so pleased when she kills the guards- and most importantly, beyond any building of emotional strength, he wants her to obey him. He wants to be able to control her. What does Brenner value most? It’s not power. It’s control. That’s why he tried to recreate Henry, it wasn’t because Henry was lacking in power, it’s canonically because he couldn’t control Henry.

Brenner doesn’t have El punished until the moment she looks at him and shakes her head. It was never just about killing the cat- it was about control and obedience. 

Even when El rips the device off her head, Brenner is staring at her, but doesn’t take action until she directly disobeys him. 

The moment El shakes her head is when Brenner’s mind is made up, because she’s rebelling against  him, it’s not just her sitting there refusing to kill the cat- it’s her looking at him and shaking her head and defying him, and THAT’S what results in punishment. 

Virginia is doing something very similar. Although El doesn’t absorb/consume people/creatures and gain strength from them in that regard the way that Henry does, Brenner was still trying to emotionally strengthen El by forcing her to kill an innocent creature. He was trying to control her and get her to bend to his will and obey him. Virginia was trying to physically strengthen Henry’s powers AND control him, she doesn’t need the emotional aspect, because unlike Brenner with El, Virginia already has control over the emotional aspect, she’s already inside of Henry’s mind, controlling him in a supernatural sense. Brenner does not have this. He cannot force El to use her powers, the only methods of control that he has over her is abuse and emotional manipulation, he can’t physically/supernaturally go inside of her mind and make her do things. But Virginia DOES have that ability with Henry. But she’s also trying to make sure she maintains it, so she’s trying to make sure she can control Henry and build his strengt, she’s trying to test the limits of that supernatural control, especially as Henry seems to be beginning to break away from her emotional control.

Also, Let’s take a look at a movie- “Fatal Attraction.” Specifically, let’s look at Alex from Fatal Attraction. And then let’s look at Virginia Creel. Alex’s floral pink robe is like a combination of Virgnia’s pink bathtub scene robe and her blue and pink floral robe during Alice’s nightmare scene. There’s more parallels (which im working on another full analysis about), but for now, long story short, these two are paralleled. 

And what did Alex do in Fatal Attraction? What’s one of the big things her character is known for? Killing a rabbit. Killing and boiling the family’s pet rabbit. The daughter’s pet rabbit. Now, the rabbit outside the Creel house wasn’t Alice’s pet, but Alice was the one who found it, so the association between the daughter and the rabbit in Fatal Attraction and in ST is there.The Creel rabbit and the Fatal Attraction rabbit both even have similar poses, with the blood on the cest and head outstretched. 

And finally, let’s circle back to the title of this analysis: [panicked chittering].  This scene with Nancy isn’t the only time we’ve seen the word “chittering,” used in a subtitle, but it IS one of the few times. When else have we seen it?

The spiders in the bathtub with Virginia.

The phone in the byers house- and who was likely on the other end? Henry. Henry as the Henrygorgon/Demogorgon (which is interesting because the demogorgon in the prison is described as “roaring,” rather than “chittering”)

And then look at the subtitle setup during the rabbit sequence with Nancy- we go from “shrill shriek,” to “panicked chittering” to “rabbit shrieking”.

And looking at this “shrill shriek,” scene, it’s interesting that Nancy turns to look at the front door, and then we magically cut to her around the back/side of the house. It’s almost like the “shrill shriek” was Alice, as we have that shot in the trailer of Alice, seemingly entranced, walking towards the rabbit in front of the house. 

Why would they give us “shrill shriek” and then “panicked chittering” and then “rabbit shrieking”? Why remove the “rabbit” prefix from the other two scenes? At first, I thought that maybe they kept “rabbit” out of the subtitle to build suspense & didn’t want to tell us it was a rabbit until they showed the rabbit- but the “rabbit shrieking” subtitle shows up before we see the rabbit. So, I think there’s a chance that the “panicked chittering,” wasn’t meant to refer to the rabbit- I think there’s a chance that the “panicked chittering” was a subtle nod Henry panicking because he’s being controll by Virginia and forced to kill a rabbit. 

And going back to the spiders in the tub, this is tied to a separate full analysis I’m working on, but I think there’s a solid chance that Virginia actually saw Henry in the tub. So, he would have been the one “chittering.” It’s also interesting to me, as “chittering,” tends to refer to birds and their chirping- and we see Henry associated with absolutely CONSTANT owl imagery, right down to using owl pieces on the chessboard when playing against El. Like, since when do spiders chitter??? Since when do they make chirping noises?? Has a spider ever chirped at you?? I know there’s artistic license, especially because it’s a vision of spiders, but considering the other uses of “chittering,” in ST and considering the analysis I’m finishing up about how Virginia may have seen Henry in the tub, I think there’s more to it.  So yeah. I don’t think Henry chose to kill that rabbit. 

#stranger things #st analysis #creel family #creel family analysis #virginia creel

[twilightknight17]

So, P3R.

This is an interesting experience for me, because, remember, I’ve never actually played 3 or 4. Just 5s and Qs. I was an anime person. So I know what I’m getting into, but not all the details.

And so far, it’s fascinating. Where I stopped, it’s April 20-something, the world is not ending (yet), and Minato is both having and not having a time.

First of all, the game opens with a warning about the heavy themes of suicide, among other things. Which I do think is appropriate. What happened with Shiho in P5 is horrible, but it was one event, with a mostly-positive outcome in the end. Shiho was okay, she got better. Suicide is a much more... prominent? theme in this story, and I know that can be too much for people.

Anyway.

It’s strange seeing this translated differently after so long of knowing “You will be given one year. Go forth without falter, with your heart as your guide.” God, I’ve been in this fandom for approaching eight years. When did that happen.

Always delightful to see how unconcerned Minato is with everything, even though they sort of imply later that he’s never experienced this before. I like to assume he’s lived most of his life with his own localized Dark Hour and has either never been out at midnight or just slept through it, so maybe he’s used to the green, but you’d think the coffins would raise some eyebrows at least.

Hello, baby boy. I dunno if it counts as choosing this fate of mine own free will if I don’t actually know what’s going on yet.

...I wonder if we ever get an answer about why he’s playing errand boy for Igor?

Ms. Toriumi mentions that Minato has lived in lots of different places, which definitely gives me the vibe of being passed around orphanages and foster families and distant relatives. He’s had a decade to internalize that he has nothing and no one.

It’s also hilarious to note how differently the opening of this is from P5, just from the perspective of like… Everyone is awkward, but well-meaning, and the primary rumor running around is about how you walked to school with Yukari and how there MUST be something between you. Like, random classmate, I have been in Iwatodai for MAYBE 9 hours and most of that was sleeping. We are not “close”.

But no one thinks I’m going to stab them! :D Sorry, Akira.

Also, I met the Female Student:

Walking around Gekkoukan is an experience, because I knew it was like a super-fancy private school, but it’s fucking enormous. Observatory? Indoor pool? MASSIVE entryway? Fancy courtyards?? All of it.

Time to leave school and go wander the town. The strip mall is mostly restaurants, which is cool. And I found something interesting in the back alley.

Red Hawk, huh? I gotta come back here, even though I don’t know how to play mahjong.

Weird having only 3 social stats to worry about, but I’m not gonna complain. Less burgers to scarf down to talk to one random adult. :P

Also weird that the command room has cameras in SEES’s bedrooms? Or just Minato’s, but like… Ikutsuki. Stop explaining the Dark Hour to two people who already know what’s going on and stop being a creeper watching me sleep.

After a blissful two days of school, the first full moon arrives, and Akihiko, darling dumbass, leads the magician directly back to the dorm.

The new Dark Hour screen is really cool.

And the Magician is awful. Like gloom hands if they were carrying knives. So, awful.

This entire cutscene is so pretty, though. Orpheus is beautiful, and then the part where he immediately gets shredded by Thanatos clawing out of him while he screams... The screenshots don’t do it justice. Orpheus explodes and then Thanatos kills the Magician in like ten seconds flat.

I love them.

That’s my future husband, Akihiko. Shush.

So Minato apparently passed out for a WEEK, and in the meantime, I checked out the trophy list. I dunno how to nurse a cat back to health yet, but there’s a trophy for it, and by god I will obtain it.

Yukari then proceeded to dump her entire backstory the instant Minato woke up. Which… at least she acknowledged that that was weird.

Ikutsuki wants to talk, to explain about the Dark Hour and ask us to join SEES, and I have to question Minato’s observational skills, because like…

Mina. Sweetheart. Beloved. You were just unconscious for a week after fighting a monster with a concept that ripped itself out of the manifestation of your soul. Extra hour is nothing.

But we’re part of SEES now! Meeting adjourned.

...sir, even if you weren’t you, I’d still want to punch you.

Anyway, tomorrow is Sunday. Time to go to bed and hopefully tomorrow I can explore Paulownia Mall. I wanna see how close it looks to what I was picturing.

...Minatooooo. I know the end is coming and you’re a sleepy mess, but come on. ALL DAY?

Whatever. Tartarus Time.

This teleporter makes me think of the teleporter in Xibalba/Ameno Torifune, and then I remember that the Kirijo Group broke off from SEBEC and probably took some of the blueprints and they’re probably manifesting in a similar way as the one in the ship.

OR I’m just looking for stuff to blowtorch. XDDD

Tartarus is really interesting, and I like it so far. It really does emphasize that the Thieves knew absolutely fuck-all about what was going on all the time, though. Mitsuru and Akihiko know what they’re doing. They’ve got a weapon supplier. They know how to fight. They know how to navigate. They’re explaining everything they know so far, and SEES is coordinated and functional.

Even Morgana was guessing on a lot of stuff. The Thieves were making it up as they went.

No wonder my Akira and Mitsuru are constantly butting heads. :P

After Tartarus, I went to sing karaoke by myself so I can be brave enough to go in Club Escapade, worked a shift at Chagall Cafe, and went to the Velvet Room to play with fusion.

...I mean yeah because Minato is the first Fool Wild Card, but Tatsuya is right there, canonically doing NG+.

It’s so weird to have Igor commenting on my menuing and prompting me for choices and like… doing his job. I’m so used to P5, it’s hysterical. But like… I’m glad he’s here. And the menu is nice.

Why are these arcade games $10-$15????????

Anyway, where I stopped, apparently I gotta go join the track team or something. I can’t picture Minato in organized sports, but whatever. XD I’m already flailing my way through my first social link, Kenji. I’m completely helpless. The realization that I don’t know this person, don’t know how he wants me to act, and also that he’s weird as heck was like getting smacked upside the head.

He’s going to ask out a teacher or something. Godspeed, my dude, but also like… why.

Actually, don’t tell me. I’m gonna go join the track team.

#Li plays P3Re #here we goooooooo

[head-empty-just-sigma]

hhhhhhmhmmhmmnnnnmmh Buddy Daddies is making me Think Thoughts and Feel Feelings

but i’m not gonna be doing any analyzing of the show or plot itself since 1. i know absolutely nothing about Japanese family/culture/norms/society in general and there’s plenty of amazing posts that talk about that already and 2. the show doesn’t really keep things hidden like a series like bsd does, so there’s not much to theorize about. so i’m not going to go searching for things that don’t exist in the story

however, what i am going to do is over analyze and look for things that probably don’t exist in the songs in the OP and the ED of the anime. yep. my brainrot is that bad

listen episode 7 did something to me okay

i think both songs symbolize Rei and Kazuki in their own ways, especially the OP since i think it encompasses both of them from the first to second verse of the song. the ED is where it really gets interesting, since for now it only really symbolizes one of them

🔺spoiler warning for episodes 1, 3, 6 and 7 and also basically the entire premise of both Kazuki and Rei's characters lol🔻

also long post warning. like, really really long post. i pulled out all the stops in my analyzing for this thing

The opening - SHOCK! by Ayase

fun fact Ayase is the vocaloid producer for the duo YOASOBI

So for this song I’m taking both the translated lyrics provided by Crunchyroll subtitles and the translation on the Miraikyun website I found while digging for reliable translation sources (I found… almost none for this song tbh). But I’ll include screenshots from the OP mostly for the first verse of the song that’s actually used for the opening of the anime.

So at first this song came off as lighthearted to me because the music itself is pretty upbeat and pop-ish, and while yes it is both of those things, the lyrics definitely tell another story of their own. The overarching theme is essentially the contemplation of what love is and what it means, and how the person singing isn’t able to understand love when they see it. They also don’t know what’s going on in another person’s head (who is potentially experiencing said love that the singer doesn’t understand). Immediately this makes me think of Rei’s character, in a couple of ways.

In his character PV it explicitly says that he’s someone who “doesn’t know love”, specifically using the character 愛 (ai) which is used for a more general type of love (could be family or other long-term relationships) and doesn’t necessarily have romantic connotations. This is a perfect example of how Rei, as a person, doesn’t understand the concept of “love” in general. It’s foreign to him, and it’s pretty obvious after episode 3 that he wasn’t raised as a normal child by his parents, he was raised to be a hitman by his father who wanted Rei to only refer to him as his “boss”. I don’t think I need to explain how much that would mess up someone’s perception of love in any sense of the word, and the anime actually does it for us by showing Rei as unfit for taking on a proper parental role in the makeshift family in the first few episodes. Hell, even in the beginning of episode 7 he seemed more like another kid in the house instead of Miri’s caretaker. He’s not used to being responsible for another human being, and it shows, but it’s because he genuinely has no idea about any of it since he doesn’t have any parental figure to base his standard of being a ‘parent’ off of. Kazuki is arguably the same in that regard, but he’s much more mature as a parent compared to Rei because he knows what it’s like to not have any parents or caretakers at all, and he wants to make sure Miri has good parental figures in her life so she doesn’t go through the same thing.

The lyrics in the first half of the song and the lyrics in the chorus can absolutely be used to symbolize Rei’s character here.

Rei does want to be a part of the family here, we solidified that in ep3 when he declared that he was Miri’s Papa. That was a key piece of character development for him, since before this we don’t see them interacting during the episodes as much as Kazuki and Miri do. So the lyrics about ‘wanting love’ is symbolic of him admitting to wanting to be a part of the family. The part about the city being ‘madly in love and excited’ is just how he sees things, since he was taught to never smile or really express any emotions for that matter, so everyone else is automatically more expressive than him. He stays home a lot to play video games nonstop and chain smokes through all-nighters when Kazuki isn’t there, and he also tries to go home before ultimately being dragged outside by Kazuki. The next few lines could symbolize how Miri entering his life turned everything he was used to upside down, and his perception of life is slowly being torn down by Miri as he learns what it means to love and be loved in a parental way. The chorus just further drives in the fact that he truly has no idea what ‘love’ is, literally saying ‘How the heck should I know?’, but also that he doesn’t entirely understand Kazuki and why he’s so adamant on being a good parent. The ‘I don’t know what’s going on in your head’ line is perfectly fitting for ep6 when Rei was questioning a lot of the things coming out of Kazuki’s mouth (same. ‘our genes’ bro what). He’s also dragged through shenanigans time and time again by Kazuki and despite his complaining, he goes along with it anyway. The line about being unfairly friendly could be towards Miri or Kazuki, since sunshine Miri accepted Rei as he is and she loves her Papa no matter how emotionally dead he is, but also because Kazuki is probably the only real friend Rei has (which is something I’m sure will be explored in a future episode. Hopefully). The last one is directed at Miri, since Miri is also able to drag Rei into playing with her and doing other things despite his reluctance (just look at ep3). However, he still very much acts like an irresponsible child and more like Miri's sibling that Kazuki also has to take care of, so he has a long way to go before he's any sort of model parent…

Kazuki on the other hand is 100% symbolized in the second verse of the song.

I will die on this hill because there’s literally no counter argument after ep7, where we are explicitly shown that Kazuki is clinging on to his past to his own detriment. He’s scared of changing because he’s scared of forgetting Yuzuko if he’s fulfilled by something else (his family). He also calls himself pathetic in ep7, connecting the line about laughing ‘at my pitiful self’. This part of the song truly captures how Kazuki feels on the inside for the first 6 episode and the majority of ep7. The chorus could be a bit different in regards to 'it's not fair that you're so friendly', since that could be directed at Karin because she wants Kazuki to be able to move on and be happy with what he has since she believes that that's what Yuzuko would've wanted.

The ending lyrics symbolize that changing and looking towards the unpredictable future is okay, but oh my god did the ending hit like a freight train after episode 7. Just. Just holy emotional damage. Oh. My god.

The ending - My Plan by DURDN

I was able to find a translation that was basically the same as the Crunchyroll one on Genius Lyrics to reference the second verse yipee but I also included screenshots from the ED itself of course

I cannot get over how impactful this song became as the ED, especially at the end of episode 7. It’s basically an entire episode dedicated to Kazuki’s backstory, which we were shown glimpses of back in ep1 for crying out loud. And oh my lord it did not disappoint, that’s for sure. Emotional damage for everyone. So much character development in one single episode. I just--it's just great. That's all I can say.

I love this image and it lives in my head rent free. Sleeping Rei is always 10/10

The song has a theme of accepting the future and that things are going to change, but that it’s okay because there will always be something consistent there, like a home to come back to every day. It also has a lot of references to love, like the 'I softly whisper a lullaby' and 'let's try to share our love together', which is symbolic of Kazuki as a father. It doesn't really have any romantic connotations at all, it's just wholesomeness. Plus 'I chased after you as you ran barefoot' is reminiscent of the few seconds in the OP where we actually see Kazuki running past other people going the opposite direction, and then following behind Miri with Rei at his side.

Also episode 7 really brings out the last 5 lines, from 'and it'll shine down on our sadness' to 'when the future is unpredictable'. That scene where Karin told Kazuki that he should move on and be happy with what he has because that's what Yukuzo would've wanted, and then the rain stops so the sun can come out and shines on Kazuki's new outlook on the future and accepting change... It's so fucking beautiful and symbolic. Not to mention it's taking place where he and Yuzuko first met, where she was his proverbial ray of hope when he was wounded in the rain, now the rain stops and Kazuki is able to see hope in his future with his new family. I just cannot express how impressive that is from a storytelling standpoint, and it's all literally just using the changing of the weather.

Also the line of 'maybe one day, you'll surpass me' could be referencing how Kazuki wants Miri to be able to have the things he never did: a family, stability, and that familial love. Kazuki is painfully self-aware that he became a hitman (and a malewife) because he grew up with no parents and had to fend for himself his whole life. He wants to make sure Miri never has to go through any of that, and have more opportunities that he never did when she gets older.

The ending song doesn't really fit Rei as a character, even in the part not used in the ED. The second verse is still very much relating to Kazuki and Miri's interactions day-to-day and him enjoying raising Miri, and knowing he'll be endeared by everything she does no matter how old she gets (like any other parent, I assume. idk I'm a Rei kinnie). But we know that Miri is changing Rei slowly, from ep3 when he begins to see what being a Papa means to ep7 when he learns that sometimes taking care of another human being can make you feel powerless in the face of a 'crisis'. Most other times we only really see him being a real parent to Miri when he's dragged into it by Kazuki, but ep7 showed him going from irresponsible second child of the household to going to Kyu-chan in a panic because Miri is sick and he has no idea what to do as a parent. Hopefully we get to see this built upon further in the coming episodes, even if we don't get to explore his backstory as much as we have Kazuki's this season.

#why did i go through the lengths i did for a silly found family anime #idk but it was worth it #buddy daddies #buddy daddies spoilers #rei suwa #kazuki kurusu #kyutaro kugi #miri unasaka #meta analysis #this was a fun change to my usual meta posts for bsd too #this anime gives me incredible amounts of serotonin #maybe i’ll do another if we see this kind of development for Rei but in his own way yknow

[rootvegetableboy]

cm dev log #5 - march 2024

march was mostly a resting month for me, so this dev log is a bit sparser than you may have come to expect. i’ve still got a few things to show off though, simple as they are ^_^

[photo ID: a gif of the player character shooting small orange bullets around a room. the bullets have a short sparking-out animation upon impact. end photo ID.]

to start, i figured out destroy animations. this is a great step forward because now my bullets actually make a little sparky explode upon impact instead of just disappearing… and since i figured out the code for this already, it won’t be too difficult to expand & apply elsewhere, like death animations for enemies. that’s the nice thing about coding: once the code works, i scarcely have to touch it again, and it’s easy to replicate.

actually, it’s kind of funny that i’m saying that, because the next thing i did was rework some amount of previous code for my save/load system.

[photo ID: the in-game menu’s save/load section. it has three available file slots, two of which are in use. end photo ID.]

way back in january i talked a little about building this system; i kind of glossed over the specifics but mentioned i had some issues with integration into the larger in-game menu. this wasn’t intentionally misleading, but i realized recently i’d left a lot unfinished in this regard… i hadn’t actually coded a way for the save file to be labelled by the room the file was created in, (the “Wicker - Neighborhood” in the respective january screenshot was just a placeholder) and i ran into a bunch of unexpected issues when i tried to create multiple save files. one of the funnier ones was that every file’s name would change to reflect the most recent one created, even though the files themselves were still distinct in every other way. it was a fun example of how sometimes what the problem looks like is very different from what the problem actually is: it looked like every save file was getting overwritten by the most recent save, but the only thing that was actually being overwritten was the displayed text.

after i fixed all the issues i could find and the save/load menu was working exactly as intended, i turned to my partner to express great relief at being finished with this particular system! and then halfway through my next sentence i realized that there is currently no way to access save files from the start menu, and you can only access them when you’re already in-game… so, still more work to do actually…

[photo ID: the first screenshot shows the inventory holding only the item “Parchment” with the options “BACK”, “USE”, “LOOK”, and “DISCARD”. “LOOK” is highlighted. the second screenshot shows the same inventory, no options visible after “LOOK” was selected, and there is now a textbox that displays “> It’s a little drawing of a ladybug playing the flute.” end photo ID.]

another change i made to the in-game menu was to the inventory. previously, item descriptions were displayed in small text above the inventory window and were not optional to view. the description was always there (provided you had at least one item) and would change respective to the item currently selected. i realized pretty quickly that this would get hard to read if the menu was opened against a light background… so now, the “LOOK” item option will provide extra info via regular textbox for those who desire it. (i’m planning on displaying the player’s HP in a different way for the same reason). i also think something as small as item descriptions are only really sought out by players who enjoy reading in games, so it’s not something i need displayed at all times. this way of handling the text also lets me write longer, multiple-page descriptions if i so desire :-)

aside from this, i made a few small adjustments to combat. the gameplay is still pretty easy at the moment, but the few adjustments i made will let things ramp up in difficulty nicely once i let the enemies also have bullets.

well, looks like that’s it for march. i hope you have a good april! i’ll see you all on may day ^_^

#cmdev #indie dev #gamedev #gamemaker