Racing Towards The Light

A story that was found underground...

[sanitizedsubject]

Hey! Just a little bump and reminder that if you liked SaniSubject, you might like my most recent project.

https://skipperstarchaser.itch.io/project-revive-phase-1-system-recall

I consider it a spiritual successor and if you liked a lot of the themes and ideas in SaniSubject, this might be right up your alley. Please go give it a shot!

Project RE:Vive - Phase 1: System Recall by Skipper Starchaser

What happens when the game ends? Phase 1 of a speculative story about VR, identity, and the world online.

[sanitizedsubject]

Hey! Just a little bump and reminder that if you liked SaniSubject, you might like my most recent project.

https://skipperstarchaser.itch.io/project-revive-phase-1-system-recall

I consider it a spiritual successor and if you liked a lot of the themes and ideas in SaniSubject, this might be right up your alley. Please go give it a shot!

Project RE:Vive - Phase 1: System Recall by Skipper Starchaser

What happens when the game ends? Phase 1 of a speculative story about VR, identity, and the world online.

[project-revive]

RE:Vive Phase 2 sneak peak

(Excerpt may not be final)

Lucky’s gaze locks onto the chat for a second, frozen in a smile. Then they read something back.

“Rose is one of those fairy girls? You mean NineRealms, dude? Yeah, well, I’m not sure why you think Saber Wars is any more mature.”

They freeze again, then laugh. “Oh, that was not a negative— you’re also a NineRealms player? You see her fight in a world raid yet?”

I sit up straighter. Lucky nods again.

“Scary.” They affirm, before leaning towards me with a smirk. “They say you’re scary.”

I press my free hand to my cheek, and my voice goes high and traily. “Oh noo…!”

The chat UI goes pink with sakura emotes. My cheeks get warmer.

“Well, that’s a good place to start— let’s talk NineRealms. Now, I haven’t played, but it’s currently the top MMO in Asgard. Legend has it that you’re a beta tester. How choking is the NDA?”

“…N…D…A?” I repeat, blinking. “I don’t think we have one of those!”

“Awesome! So you’ll spill everything for me?”

“Pff—!”

I clamp my mouth shut, thumping into the back of my chair. “I mean, it’s a lot… But I can tell you how weird it was when the world map was basically a big field of grass with a couple landmarks!”

“Okay, that’s creepy.”

“It got worse when the day and night cycle was put in—“ I gesture, making an arch with my free hand. “A big flat plane of grass at night… you can’t see the edge of the map, right, it’s the size of a whole island, so if you weren’t near anywhere that had gotten built yet…”

They raise their eyebrows, laughing without dropping their smile. I keep talking.

“So eventually one of Xeira’s friends— Athena— she’s like ‘we need to at least add some ambiance’— but suddenly there’s just wind and some vague crickets and other rustling sounds, but most of the map is still just a dark field…”

My voice trails off with a squeak. Lucky starts laughing properly.

“No, you’re kidding.” They whisper, loudly. “That’s so freaky. But NineRealms is one of the biggest Realized Spaces out there now. Did you all even sleep?”

I shake my head. “Oh, no, not really. Xeira caught a cold the second we hit live.”

[project-revive]

START HERE

What is RE:Vive?

RE:Vive is a transmedia webseries about VR, identity, and the world online.

It tells the story of a mysterious new VR platform called Asgard, and the users who inhabit it.

RE:Vive is released in phases and fragments over time, so check this page for updates.

Links:

YouTube

TikTok

Phases:

Download Phase 1’s full content on itch.io

Read Phase 1 here

[PHASE 2 COMING SOON]

[sanitizedsubject]

i dont know if you still check this, but hi! i still think about stachi n friends sometimes and i thought i’d put this doodle of mine here despite me still having no online presence whatsoever! thank you so much for creating a story that stuck with me all these years, cant wait to check out your latest project! :)

I do still check these!!! TYSM, I am so happy you liked the comic. :)

[project-revive]

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Thank you for your support on Phase 1 of Project RE:Vive

[project-revive]

THE FIRST PHASE HAS BEGUN.

[💾 PROJECT RE:VIVE DROP 1]

(Project RE:Vive contains content and themes that could potentially be disturbing to some readers. There is a full list of content warnings in the OPENFIRST.txt file inside the ZIP.)

[sanitizedsubject]

DID MY SELF PROMO FUCKING REVIVE SPLATOON?????????

[project-revive]

1: GREY

[maids-of-stardust]

Enjoying the launch of Your Prisoner? You could become a part of the vision!

Submit a design for a citizen of Atlantis, and you could win the opportunity for them to feature as a background or side character in the upcoming comics! Keep reading for all the requirements and rules to see your character come to life in the official YP comic series.

YOUR PRISONER OFFICIAL DISCORD FULL CONTEST TERMS

We look forward to seeing everyone’s entries and getting to meet all of these new citizens of Atlantis~

[maids-of-stardust]

Thanks to your engagement, our webtoon title has over 1500 subscribers! We're so thrilled that you're all here and have taken an interest in Your Prisoner...

Full disclosure, we did NOT expect this reception when we published our entry... so it might take a bit, but we're hard at work making more content to share with you all as fast as we can! You can expect a public discord server within the week, and another surprise right alongside it that's sure to get everyone just as excited as we are! In the meantime, you can help us get the recognition we need to keep this show on the road!

Make sure to leave a like on each episode we have up on webtoon- every single one makes a difference! We're looking forward to bringing you more of the characters you love!

... And lots more Eve. Let's be honest. Everyone wants more Eve. <3

[maids-of-stardust]

I mean, it really isn't that complicated to get our heads around, indeed. There is nobody quite like her....

(See more of the fabulous Miss No. 2, and her hapless... visitor, in Your Prisoner and it's first three episodes, which are live on Webtoon!)

[hypnothesis-au]

Out of Inkopolis and into Atlantis... if you've missed us, you can find us at our new project, Your Prisoner, a fully original Webtoon!

[fandomstuckportal]

YOU'RE TAILOR-MADE FOR THIS DAY AND AGE CAUSE YOU'RE POWERLESS AND LOOK LIKE PREY

((mesmerizer is such a pistachio and mimic song to me idk

stachi belongs to @squidkiddoesstuff))

[sanitizedsubject]

hey!! you dont have to answer if you dont wanna, but stachi and friends were on my mind today as they are once every few months… and now that the blog’s over(?) i always wondered if there was some sort of lore reason why four’s name is never revealed, but we know three and eight as aleena and libby. maybe it was said before and i was too dumb to remember! idk. love your work btw, these silly cephalopods still live in my head every so often :)

OH MY GOD I AM SO SO SO GLAD SOMEONE ASKED. So, part of the reason's Four's name was never revealed was because... Four is a really old OC and I wanted to give her a fresh start, but she DOES have a new, canon SaniSubject name. Four started going by Four because she wanted to commit herself to hero work fully. She felt a lot of guilt over what happened with Aleena and her running away, and so part of her desire to atone for not helping her sister was to fully abandon her old life and become a hero. (Four didn't do anything wrong, but she felt like she did.) Four did also ACTUALLY just wanted to commit herself to the hero thing like that. It was guilt over Aleena and it was her own morals and wants over who she wanted to become. There was also, to me, really fun symbology over Pistachio being saved by someone called FOUR, since Japan's word for death sounds the same as their word for the number four. which I thought was very fun symbolism. I think there's a really weird bit around what dying is and how death is treated with Pistachio's character, but it's not super strong in the final text, so... *shrugs*

[maids-of-stardust]

The perfect way to let someone know you're thinking of them, be they across the hall, across town, or anywhere within those bounds!

With all our machinations underwater and underway, we wanted to send our love, and our promise of great things just around the corner. Be seeing you all soon...

[sanitizedsubject]

Why did Squidbeak hide so much from stachi?

TDLR: they were scared shitless.

Non-TDLR:

Imagine how Aleena and Libby feel. Aleena has just been told like a week ago that she’s to train to be captain— to her, this is not “lead a military squad!”, this is “hey kiddo, you’re head of household now. Objectively terrifying to hear at 17/freshly 18.

Libby is in no better position. She’s caught between the splatoonified idea of ruthlessness, an identity crisis over her mom being a dead assassin, and guilt over what she “did” (read: forced to do) in the metro. She swore she’d never commit senseless, ruthless violence like her mother— ran from HOME for it, and then Tartar forced her to do that anyway.

Then Four, who Libby thinks is too idealistic, and Aleena believes to still be a child, RESURRECTS A CORPSE THAT THEY BOTH HAVE TRAUMA ATTACHED TO. Because Four resolved to LOVE PISTACHIO.

So Four just broke the laws of physics, probably proved the existence of some kind of afterlife, and you just… what? “Sorry dude, science says you’re probably doomed” to the poor thing?

Stachi starts moving, following Four, then starts talking and having opinions and stuff. Four’s smiling more than they have seen her in years. Do they break both of their hearts?

As for HOW Four did it? The answer is love and something way more complex.

[sanitizedsubject]

on the subject of gmod addons...

the "removal" is blatantly surface level and half assed

every reupload i've seen has stayed up, and thats not even counting alternative sources like gamebanana (oldhead source for source engine game mod stuff, reputable in my eyes), im still rocking rival octoling PM

also i love gmod and i love your stuff ive seen so far!!!! it's way higher quality then i usually expect from posing stuff (as much as I love doing it myself rarely)

First of all: thank you. Using gmod was an artistic choice, at the risk of sounding pretentious?? The uncanny valley source feeling was really intended to draw out just how hollow pistachio felt (in different ways!) throughout the story.

I especially am still VERY PROUD of the Squidbeak’s apartment. It’s actually smaller than it is in narrative, so I tried to use camera angles and deliberately kept doors closed to make it seem bigger. (Really, I think it’s smallness still came across, which actually might’ve made it BETTER?) the map was on the workshop, but I did a lot of texture editing/refurnishing. Pistachio’s room was the most extreme example.

Most people I’ve told are a little scared to learn that I did not use a posing mod. I used the physgun the whole way through. Most of the quality came from an abuse of lighting engines and camera angles. The models are VERY chibi so I was constantly trying to get across in their body language that these weren’t like… little kids, they were teenagers trying their best to rapidly mature.

Favorite example of that is PROBABLY this video from the start of the turning point.

https://youtu.be/jZzIcbDLIto?si=dmSWLedoHnpTKw3r

And, uh, yeah, the “apocalypse” wasn’t that big of a deal. I saved most of my mods and I know how to boot them locally so nothing is LOST, I’d just have to reconstruct everyone’s models and I… don’t wanna do that. I made most of them years ago and I don’t quite remember how I did it.

I’m not sure I’ll be coming BACK anytime soon— I’ve got a project that’s gonna take 3 novels, some (DRAWN) animatics, and a prayer to complete. If I do, it’s getting drawn, with additional chapters and hopefully more time to dig into Squidbeak’s issues. That being SAID, as it stands, if anything was unclear, go ahead and send me an ask and I’ll answer.