Don't mess with "his" Jazz or else…
People always like to learn the hard way.
Finally. A project that began back in June-July and finally it's done. Had tons of fun making this. The largest sequences I've done so far. To the point I can't upload the whole thing here either. So be sure to check part one.
I'd never written fanfiction before YMGH. I didn't think I really wanted to. I wanted to be an author; I had a world and characters and a story I believed in. But when faced with college, and some emergent mental health troubles, my original project became more of a chore than a joy. I couldn't think about my characters straight anymore.
At the same time, a franchise that I'd long since lost interest in -- having consigned it to the septic tank of juvenility -- suddenly burst back into my life in January '22, appearing to have changed as much as I had. With Security Breach, gone was the macabre atmosphere, the air of gloom and doom that defined the original FNaF trilogy; not yet apparent were the same traces of scattered, half-baked, incoherent storytelling that the subsequent titles had devolved into. And there, on the screen for me to behold, was a striking new world to lose myself in, to explore, hopefully to alleviate a deep depression that had followed me for months.
Security Breach, in the grand tradition of the series' post-2015 titles, turned out to be an effort suffocated by primitive gameplay loops, and crushed by the exact same kind of rudderless narrative incontinence that I had come to expect from FNaF. But for all its infuriating blunders and missed opportunities, two things rose above the wreckage: the neon-festooned, pearlescent halls of the Mega Pizzaplex itself, and the underutilized cast.
Chica in particular just clicked with me from the get-go. I ended up coming away from the game with a comfort character; who wouldn't want to stick around, snack on some pizza, jam out, and have fun with a silly robot chicken?
In lieu of any publicly available mods to swap out Freddy with Chica, and play the game with her as Gregory's guardian, I turned to fanfiction to find the well was similarly dry. I tried to tide myself over by reading swapfics where Roxy or Monty protected Gregory (and those were in plentiful supply just after the game's release), but by March '22, there had still been no substantive Chica-centric fics. It struck me that absolutely no one else was going to write the fic I wanted to read, so I'd have to write it myself.
Three years and 200,000 words later -- or 230,000 words later if you count a prequel fic which I wrote just for people who enjoyed the characters enough to want more -- You're My Guitar Hero is finished. And I made exactly the kind of fic I wanted to read. Considering it's my first fic, I couldn't be prouder of the final product.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
These four pieces, I commissioned from my good friend Tailblazer, with the hope of eventually using them as header images for “You’re My Guitar Hero,” an SB fic where Glamrock Chica protects Gregory. The intent was, and to some degree still is, to have one piece for each chapter of the fic; these represent chapters one through four. Of course, life has gotten in the way of progress, and plenty of other things have required our attention, so only these four have been commissioned so far. If you like these, please check out Tailblazer’s other content!
As for the fic which these pieces depict, the fic is complete, and you can read it at: https://archiveofourown.org/series/2860846.
in my head, greg went to go find DJMM and tried to reboot the big guy to help him clear a path while he tracks down where cassie is underground (i turned "cassie never finding the big guy in the dlc" a set up in my head) while Vanessa tried activating the security nodes to get mxes back online again
I wanted freddy's claims that DJMM "is a friend" to pay off somewhere
oh and also freddy's head stays with Vanessa, but she connected him online to have access to the maps so he can help guide greg and keep in contact through the fazwatch
After a delay last year, The Art of Amphibia was finally made available and my pre-ordered copy arrived just today right on the dot.
Obviously I haven't read it all through just yet, so don't expect this to be a proper review or anything.
Instead I will list off it's Table of Contents, and some words that I found interesting
.Forword by Brenda Song, The Voice of Anne (I actually did read this one first, and Song's words on her experience with Amphibia was short, but very beautiful. I can tell she actually loves this character and wasn't just "in it for a paycheck." Her opening quote was: "Amphibia Changed My Life!")
.The Amphibia That Never Was (AKA "Amphibiland". You better believe I looked at this chapter first!")
.100 Sprigs (OH GOD! but seriously, it's just pages showing several different designs made of Sprig. But the title alone sounds like it couldn't been a funny episode of Sprig cloning himself like something out of Dexter's Laboratory.)
.Anne Boonchuy
.The Plantars
.The Townies of Wartwood
.Sasha Waybright
.Captain Grime
.General Yunan (no joke, I keep getting her name wrong. Sometimes I refer to her as "Yuan")
.Marcy Wu
.King Andrias
.Mr & Mrs. Boonchuy
.The Core
.Darcy
.Crew Artwork (Bet this one will be fun!)
And now for an overview on the "Amphibiland" phase of the show's development.
No joke, initially Matt Braly's vision for Amphibia wouldn't ended up becoming no different from The Owl House, with a mood and look akin to "The Dark Crystal", "The Labyrinth" and "The Hobbit."
a Dark Fantasy in every sense of the world where Anne's introduction was her living in a cave surrounded by animal bones (that she presumably killed and ate).
There was no town, either. No Wartwood. Anne (whose personality wouldn't been more like Pacifica Northwest) would've been adopted by a frog family (The Plantars) living on a farm in the middle of a swamp (think Yoda on Dagobah. That is how Matt described it.)
The Toad Warriors were more dangerous, too.
There were Magic Swords, Magic Maps and "dead bodies."
If you thought The Owl House could be a Bizarre Hellscape, Amphibiland wouldn't made the Boiling Isles feel like Disneyland.
And, to quote Matt Braly on how Disney felt:
"Everybody loves the idea of a girl stuck in a frog world... they just don't like what you've done with it."
While I can kinda get where Disney is coming from, I would be lying if I said I didn't want to see "Amphiland Uncut" released at some point (even as an indie title separate from Disney.)
I'd watch a whole movie about the Amphibia that never was (even though I still like what we got instead. Both versions of merit.)
All I can say now is that...Please, Disney PLEASE release an "Art of The Owl House" next!
If any show deserves a book detailing scrapped concepts and artwork, it is THAT one.
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