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Multi fandom blog with an attempted focus on writing. Video games and lots of Ghost Trick--beware spoilers--and various other bits and bobs. Sideblog: The Adventurer's Log for adventure games journeys
Major game spoilers + bonus photos + yapping under the cut
I made Sissel very early on when I began learning how to sew and make patterns, and while the first version is very special to me, I think this one is a marked improvement. He is shaped a lot better and can also actually kind of sit on your shoulder now! I do hate sewing faux fur though oh my god.
I actually made him all the way back in October, but I never know where to photograph these guys other than in my garden, and it was gross and winter so I just waited until it was nice and green again.
If you were wondering, I do NOT have a full Yomiel cosplay, what you see is all I have. I was wearing shorts + socks with slides lol.
I wanted to take some photos in a different spot of the backyard, but these little baby mourning doves where absolutely camped out there and I am not going to bother them.
Title: Supporting Authorized Access to Information Act
Description: An Act respecting the obligations of electronic service providers in relation to authorized access to information
"Part 2 enacts the Supporting Authorized Access to Information Act. That Act establishes a framework for ensuring that electronic service providers can facilitate the exercise, by authorized persons, of authorities to access information conferred under the Criminal Code or the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act. It also makes related and consequential amendments to the Intelligence Commissioner Act."
This bill, among other things, requires that the service provider hold a second digital key to every private message and text you send, on any platform, to be made available to the Canadian government under the authorities above. Including creating a process to facilitate its release to foreign governments. The privacy, surveillance and hackability implications are just the most visible issues.
Here's a good explainer, from "Don't Surveil Me", a volunteer, unfunded group connected to OpenCivics.
I especially like the final section on actions to take, from the personal to the political to the creative - ideas that can be adapted for all kinds of needs.
More actions to take., from OpenMedia
I have not yet seen a petition to recall or rewrite this bill, but it has just recently passed its first reading. I'll add petition links here as I find them.
Behold: the list! More than 150 prompts ripe for the taking! Now everyone can pick something cool (even if you didn’t submit anything) (no need to claim it anywhere) and start drawing it or writing it or any other creative verb of your liking. Next stop: June 19th, when we’ll all post together to celebrate GT’s original anniversary (there will be a reminder with brief posting instructions).
Prompts are numbered for your convenience, in the order they came in. The block divisions are just because tumblr gets twitchy about long numbered lists. Full rules here.
And now, without further ado:
BLOCK A:
pennamepersona - sissel & lynne besties, please no ship
pennamepersona - yomiel being part of the "family" post-game
pennamepersona - some or all memories regained by lynne/kamila post-game
pennamepersona - ace attorney crossover of any kind (but I do think jowd & yomiel & phoenix could be friends; I wrote a couple crossover fics on ao3 that could give insp)
pennamepersona - sissel learning how to read post-game
pennamepersona - the melding of everyone into a found family in the new timeline
pennamepersona - jowd & yomiel friendship in new timeline
pennamepersona - sissel meeting yomiel's fiance
Jowd/Cabanela, who fell first and who fell harder?
What's Lovey's read on Sissel during game events?
Emma's latest masterpiece?
Cast member(s) of your choice as a DnD class, art
Cabanela and Yomiel rivalry mid-game angst, art or fic
Ship of your choice, art or fic, in case someone wants an excuse to indulge
Post-game Cabanela/Yomiel on vacation, ship, art or fic
Kamila playing something on a Nintendo DS (for the sake of remembering the origins of the game🥹), art
Pre-game Yomiel trying to figure out how give Sissel the cat a bath, art or fic
Crack ship of your choice! Art or fic
the-grey-hunt: sissel in a service cat vest
the-grey-hunt: yomiel in a wheelchair!
the-grey-hunt: yomiel and fiansissel's wedding (i wanna see them in fancy pretty clothes)
the-grey-hunt: alma and fiansissel being (or becoming!) friends
the-grey-hunt: the gang goes to an escape room. they either escape in 5 minutes or are too used to real mysteries and fumble it SO bad. would vastly prefer kamila to get some kind of spotlight here!
the-grey-hunt: rindge and memry being friends
the-grey-hunt: lynne on the run with sissel
the-grey-hunt: sissel with some cat friends (either in the previous timeline or post-canon)
bluestbadger - Jowd and Cabanela as Sherlock Holmes & John Watson! Preferably ACD era, but any variation works. Either can be Sherlock or John, romantic or platonic! (art)
bluestbadger - The different weird but useful gifts Cabanela has given Jowd over the years (like the tracking compass)
bluestbadger - Cabanela/Jowd, but Jowd is still with Alma who isn't aware of the infidelity -- how does this work out for them?
bluestbadger - Cabanela angst after Jowd's arrest -- how is he holding up? Romantic, unrequited, or platonic is dealer's choice!
bluestbadger - Cabanela as a mentor figure for Lynne after Jowd's arrest (not romance)
bluestbadger - Lynne's backstory beyond Temsik! Where is her family in all this? Was Jowd more directly a father-figure before his arrest? But go any direction you want!
bluestbadger - Kamila & inventions -- could be what she gets up to in the future or an exploration of her relationship with inventing after Alma's death, go wild!
bluestbadger - Lynne and/or Kamila swapped with Ace Attorney girls !! i.e., Lynne as Ema, Kamila as Iris Wilson, etc etc (art)
Red-headed-target - Lynne and Kamila spending time together, can be during the previous timeline or post-canon, angst or fluffy.
Red-headed-target - Sissel relearns how to use his powers in the new timeline, while Alma and Kamila notice that something is up with their cat.
Red-headed-target - Anything with kid!lynne and kitty!sissel. Bonus points if its a scenario where she adopts him in the new timeline (or if she’s helping jowd care for him).
Red-headed-target - Sissel and Lynne vs an exorcist/ghost hunters/paranormal investigators from a more typical ghost story,
Red-headed-target - Yomiel in the doomed timeline either messing with Cabanela or grappling with getting screwed over.
siverwrites - Missile DOES swap Jowd orb and a ball
siverwrites - warm, soooft, lovely times for Jowd/Alma &/ Cabanela (please no infidelity)
siverwrites - Sissel (cat!), Missile and Lovey-Dove animal team-up! Ghost Tricks optional for Lovey-Dove
siverwrites - Pigeon Man and Jowd friendship, any timeline
Jowd &/ Cabanela hurt/comfort in either direction or both ways
siverwrites - Cabanela and Pigeon Man weird friendship and working together
siverwrites - Lynne has to team up with someone completely unexpected to solve a case
siverwrites - free square for the FFVI AU - https://archiveofourown.org/series/1196335 https://archiveofourown.org/series/1169099 Info on what we've done in the links, or go wild with your own ideas
alto-tenure: sports au. any sport but track & field is my preference. coaches jowd & cabanela…very enthusiastic but not as talented lynne…
alto-tenure: inspired by a novel I read recently, AU where Sissel is (a/the) Grim Reaper, tasked with reaping a soul about to die when they shouldn't…
alto-tenure: putting in a request for Yomiel + Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, bonus especially if you put him with Claire & Dimitri <3
alto-tenure: steampunk grick…so many mechanics and gears for sissel to mess around with, if you catch my drift :)
alto-tenure: for the second year in a row I just think it would be really funny if Sissel was on Rokkenjima foiling Beatrice's plans
aviatoons - Any interaction between Jowd and Ray
aviatoons - Something featuring Jeego and Tengo’s rivalry
aviatoons - Art of Lynne and Kamila walking Missile
aviatoons - Anything featuring Metal Yomiel
aviatoons - Post-canon Sissel being a “completely normal” cat (because he definitely still thinks he’s at least a little bit human)
frogpotat - Your favorite Ghost Trick character with an ace Pokémon that suits them.
frogpotat - Kitty Sissel having a strange, sibling adjacent relationship with Weirdy (The Hollow (Netflix)), and/or Michael Afton (FNAF). Don't question it.
frogpotat - Amelie when she isn't sick. She already gets up to some crazy shenanigans in the game, imagine how she acts when she isn't too dizzy to walk.
frogpotat - Jeego, Tengo, Dandy, and Beauty hanging out between missions, just having some watercooler talk as if they have normal jobs. Please no shipping of Jeego and Tengo.
frogpotat - Lynne and Kitty Sissel investigating together.
frogpotat - Draw someone else's Fiansissel design in your own style. Remember to tag them!
frogpotat - Missile's heartfelt reunion with the rest of the cast in the new timeline.
frogpotat - [FREE SPACE] Yomiel aura farming.
BLOCK B:
Kayoticinconvenience - post canon Cabanela being an uncle figure to Kamila and Lynne
Kayoticinconvenience - Sissel and Missile hanging out being creatures, and maybe Lovey Dove too
Kayoticinconvenience - Bailey and friend playing cards with each other
Kayoticinconvenience - Lynne in investigation mode, and Sissel within an item Lynne is holding
Kayoticinconvenience - Yomiel and cat Sissel, during the ten years
Kayoticinconvenience - Yomiel in the prison cell, painting something
Kayoticinconvenience - Jowd and Lynne doing detective work together
Kayoticinconvenience - Cat Sissel and Kamila playing
memry, lynne, and rindge on an outing of any kind (can be either romantic or platonic!)
RandomK- I'm curious about the first timeline. Tell the journy of how Missile got to the Yonoa after failing to save his girls.
RandomK:- In the first timeline Sissel leaves Missile In the junkyard. What did our favorite ghost cat get up to on his own that timeline?
RandomK:- Ray knows a lot about Sissels Ghost Trick abilities. What would a teamup between Sissel and Missel in the first timeline be over and how long would it last?
RandomK:- In the first timeline, what if Missile sucessfully saved Cabenela. What would their partnership look like?
RandomK:- what if after time traveling Missile got the attention of Yomiel and Sissel that fateful day in the park? What would their friendship look like?
RandomK:- Cabenela died to Yomiel, who was carrying a Temsik. Could he have been able to use Ghost Tricks? What would his be?
RandomK:- Say the Curry Man and the Punk Rocker had escaped from prison? What comes next for them?
RandomK:- AU where the plot kicks off because Kamilia saw her friend get taken by strangers. When she calls Lynne about it, the newely minted detective decides that her dinner can wait. She needs to investigate! -Or, where a simingly simple kidnapping investigation, is the thread that unraveles the foreigners plot.
diathadevil - Post-canon Sissel (ghost or human form), being upset over finding Lynne dead once again, which leads to them arguing and realizing how much the past affected them and Lynne's deaths affected Sissel. Reconciliation may or may not happen at your choice, we're here for the angst and drama.
diathadevil - Art of FianSissel wearing your favorite outfit! Could be from your own closet, or an outfit you've saved that's your fav. (Bonus if Yomiel is there reacting at her fit)
diathadevil - Memry drinking with Lynne as they're commiserating, and mayhaps even flirting together and smooching too I mean what who said that.
intervalart - Jowd being a good dad, interacting with his family, being happy/supportive. If you do angst, plz let it have a happy ending.
intervalart - Post canon Yomiel and Jowd hangin' out. Bein' cane/disability pals and sharing an emotional support cat.
intervalart - Jowd with an emotional support Shiny Spheal (pokemon). I kinda headcanon that would be like a therapy animal for him in jail if pokemon were a thing in that universe, cuz it would be round and pinkish like Kamila's hair, and when it evolves into Walrein, it's pink and has the same hair shape that he does, and is pink like his painter's smock. In fact Jowd with any stage of the Shiny Spheal line would be cool. Pokemon trainer Jowd? I'm not picky lol.
intervalart - Jowd and Cabs butting heads as they're working on the job. Can be pre or post canon; funny, angst, or both.
intervalart - Alma catching on that things are amiss post-canon. Maybe cheeky one-sided conversation with her and Sissel, and Sissel is thinking about what she's saying the whole time. Can be played for laughs, angst, or both.
intervalart - Cabanela/Junkyard Super. Maybe a late night at the office; reminiscing about Jowd, discussing findings about the Manipulator, Soops talks about radiation and sciencey stuff that Cabs doesn't get. Cabs does some of his flowery bs, Soops just cuts right through it; disarmingly so. Good old fashioned old man yaoi like the gods intended (obviously keep it sfw)
any of the cast with their mii / tomodachi life counterparts
man in red tricking objects but its that one levitating pizza with your mind meme
sissel accidentally calling yomiel dad + their reactions
sissel trying to read gullible on the celling (he cant pfft)
sissel keep bothering fiansissel or alma cooking, knowing damn well he can't eat anymore
yomiel painting his fiancee when he's in jail (maybe sissel is also in the painting)
raisa-drawz - [Detective in Black]/sissel human image and lynne trying to solve a case
Reefflux - Yomiel being a cat dad, either pre-game or post-game! Can be happy or sad.
Reefflux - Hugs! Cabanela/Jowd/Yomiel/Lynne/Sissel, anybody really!! These people just need some hugs. Happy hugs, sad hugs, all the hugs.
Jobswaps! Programmer Amelie? Rockstar Pigeon Man? Novelist Jowd? All of the above, none of the above, you get the gist.
(art) Steampunk it up. AU? Just a hobby? Whatever works!
Danganronpa AU, ages and species adjusted if necessary. Who's the Ultimate at what? Can Sissel change the fate of every victim in a killing game?
The gang has a night at the casino. Chaos ensues, of course.
Missile getting as loved on as he deserves.
Jowd & Yomiel, platonic, talking through their issues or finding solace in each other's presence, or just hanging out together, whatever floats your boat.
Yomiel and Sissel (cat). Any timeline or genre goes.
Yomiel & Fiansissel. Ideally something sweet and fluffy.
Any combination of Jowd, Alma, Cabanela, polyamory is welcome. No infidelity, please.
Bailey and co-worker shenanigans. Can be romantic or platonic.
sunnyaliceart - Cabanela wearing a pink coat like a flamingo or any other color of the rainbow
sunnyaliceart - Yomiel babysitting Cat Sissel and Missile. Bonus points if Yomiel is using mobility aids like a wheelchair or cane
sunnyaliceart - Jowd, Alma, and Cabanela taking Lynne and Kamila to a fair, maybe riding a ferris wheel together
sunnyaliceart - Kamila playing with Missile, Cat Sissel and Lovey Dove. She's the animal whisperer
sunnyaliceart - Jowd asking Cat Sissel to look after Kamila on her first day of high school. Hijinks ensue. Up to you if Kamila knows about Sissel's ghost powers or not
sunnyaliceart - Lynne and Kamila clothes shopping with Missile and Cat Sissel
sunnyaliceart - Jowd being great at ice skating, but Cabanela surprisingly is terrible at it
sunnyaliceart - Pigeon Man and Kamila bonding over engineering. Lovey Dove and Cat Sissel hanging out while they infodump
azurefishnets - Worldbuilding fic! There are so many things about this world they live in that are so interesting! There are robots! There are ghosts! There’s some kind of cold war??? There are tiny submarines that can be run by only ten crewmen! My suggestion: pick a location and a couple of characters and put them in a Situation there. See what worldbuilding develops from there!
azurefishnets - Emma & Memry. When the odd girl who always gets what she wants comes up against the Justice Minister's wife in pursuit of opposing ends (you decide what those ends are), how will they form some sort of unholy alliance?
azurefishnets - Amelie & Lynne (& MIssile?). Surely they have run into each other previously while living in the same apartment complex. What do they think of each other? What happens if Lynne happens to catch Amelie in the middle of throwing one of her legendary tantrums? Or engineer a missing moment during the in-game timeline!
azurefishnets - Emma & Kamila. Not certain they know the deeper meanings of who one is to the other, but I'm so curious how Emma's curiosity/principles would handle a small, sad little girl living next to her precious angel. Or engineer a missing moment during that night where they do actually meet!
azurefishnets - Alma & Emma: Alma’s job has been the source of much speculation and I like to think she’s a secret cat burglar who is hired to test security at various important places, so here’s the prompt: Alma is hired to test security at the Justice Minister’s compound as a fake cat burglar, and runs afoul of Emma in some way. They probably know each other, distantly, so how will Alma manage to finish the job with reputation intact? Will Emma pass the security test? Will the Justice Minister ever recover?
azurefishnets - pet swap! Put a pet with a person and let some magic happen. What would have happened if Emma had a Lovey-Dove to help her write? What if Missile was hanging out with Rindge that fateful night? What if Sith had a pet rat instead of his adjutant? Just some of the many possibilities!
azurefishnets - Alma/Cabanela/Jowd (or any /& subset therof) - Always and forever the OT3 of my heart, and I will happily devour anything that develops any facet of their happy poly triangle relationship (but please no infidelity). I love these three together, or doing things with just one of the others, but always with the knowledge that they are a threesome at heart, you know?
azurefishnets - forever free square for the FFVI/GT AU! For information on the premise and previous works see: https://archiveofourown.org/series/1196335 https://archiveofourown.org/series/1169099
BLOCK C
Lemchi - Alma being Jowd’s muse for his latest masterpiece
Lemchi - Alma and Jowd taking care of newborn Kamila
Lemchi - Alma, Jowd, and Cabanela all dressed up for a fancy night out together (have fun, make them look stunning)
Lemchi - College aged Alma, Jowd, and Cabanela having fun and messing with each other while at a beach/on the lake (one of them forgets to put on sunscreen, one of them wakes up to being buried in the sand, who knows what happens, it’s up to you to decide!)
Lemchi - Just Alma and Jowd, recently married, happily in love, enjoying each others company, what a peaceful time for them
Lemchi - Alma has gotten into knitting, and now she’s made a fun sweater for the character(s) of your choosing
Lemchi - Take an album cover of your choosing, and ghost trick-ify it (replace people on the cover with the characters, change some objects on the cover with the ones from the game, etc.)
cappyjara - fic or art, what if Detective Rindge was "awake" after dying and developed a core?
cappyjara - fic or art, it's the 13th overall Ghost Swap, we already got a black cat -- give any character some bad luck baybee
cappyjara - fic or art, Missile and Sissel bonding post-game
cappyjara - fic or art, Lynne and Kamila having alone in the submarine, the more angst the better >:)
jorb-ponderer - Alma-Jowd outfit and/or role-swap… i just think it'd be delightful to see her in the big coat or rocking the jorb look :)
jorb-ponderer - yomiel/jowd! post/pre/during canon, sad or sweet, all flavours are good
Sissel and Missile having fun together!
Yomiel angst! As light or heavy as you desire.
Memry x Lynne having a meal together!
Amelie and Kamila hanging out as besties!
A manga-style panel of Yomiel striking a super cool pose with Sissel nearby!
Yomiel's time in prison!
Role swap AU designs!
Missile and Sissel as humans, and human characters (as many or few as you want) as animals! Feel free to get creative with the species!
allpatchedart- Sissel/Yomiel working at a cat cafe
allpatchedart- Ghost Trick x Death Mark/Spirit Hunter crossover
allpatchedart- What would it be like if Ghost Trick had a rep in a crossover fighting game?
allpatchedart- Ghost Trick has become a turn-based RPG! What's the party composition and what are their classes?
allpatchedart- Ghost Trick x Paranormasight crossover or AU
allpatchedart- Ghost Trick x Persona crossover or AU
laughingmango - ghost household shenanigans. Anything that might happen in the new timeline, with Jowd, Alma and maybe Kamila (and Cabanela. and Lynne?) all aware of their wonderful ghost kitty
laughingmango - Cabanela/Jowd heart to heart somehow, somewhen
laughingmango - a friendship that's still new-ish for Cabanela but that Jowd remembers for a decade and more…
laughingmango - show me your grown-up Kamila and Amelie!
laughingmango - average Jowd&Sissel interaction
laughingmango - Alma&Kamila! What's their bond like, especially in the new timeline? (generally I like it when Alma comes to learn about the old timeline but this specific prompt can do with or without it. …unless it's about Kamila finding out too, when she's not a child anymore?)
laughingmango - Cabanela/Jowd, game timeline missing moment, giving an outlet to Cabs' yearning. When? How? You tell me!
laughingmango - Jowd does something nice for Cabanela. Imagine that
Hello and welcome to the thirteenth edition of Ghost Swap overall, third edition in fest form! As always, we are here to create fanworks based on each other’s ideas, to eventually post them all on the game’s anniversary to celebrate it with a bang!
Schedule:
Prompting begins: May 12th
Prompts are posted: May 19th
Works are posted: June 19th
It’s a simple schedule for a simple format. First we gather the prompts, our big pile of cool shiny things, then we pick whatever we like and fill it, with no intermediate steps.
At the form, you can submit up to eight separate prompts, anonymously (“Jowd orb”) or listing your name at the start of each one if you would like to be tagged in any potential fills (“laughingmango - Jowd orb”). You can also specify fic or art if you want. If nothing is specified, the prompt is meant for either medium.
In each prompt, please write in a loose description of the character(s) you would like to receive and of the situation(s) you would like to see them in. The prompts don’t have to feature completely different characters and situations - one could be a sad take on Yomiel and Sissel’s friendship, another could be post-game Yomiel and Jowd friendship fluff, a third one could be a fantasy AU where Sissel is Yomiel’s familiar. Or the old GSwap staple Rindge/Sith, of course, what is Gswap if not three rats in a trenchcoat and the uncollapsed possibility of Rindge/Sith. Crossover prompts are allowed. As always, you can look at past prompts for inspiration. If you want to avoid something that might come up in filling your prompt (maybe you are prompting a scenario that might lend itself to a shippy reading but you don’t like that ship), state it simply and politely in the prompt itself - there is no separate field for likes and dislikes (“laughingmango - Jowd orb, art, please no Missile swapping Jowd for a ball”).
On may 10th, the list will be published and everyone will be free to pick whichever they like best and create a fanwork based on that request. Late prompters are welcome but will get less visibility. It’s okay if more than one person is working on the same prompt, we don’t have to coordinate. It’s very welcome if one person decides to fill more than one prompt.
As usual, all works will then be published on Tumblr on June 19th, the anniversary of Ghost Trick’s original release.
These light rules mean that you are free to pick what you like and work with the prompt of your dreams. However, there is no guarantee that one of your own prompts will get picked. All the same, from past experience (and last year’s smashing success!) I sincerely hope that among the works posted on June 19th we will all find something that’ll make us happy, regardless of whether we prompted it ourselves or whether it came from someone else with similar (or surprising!) tastes.
These new rules also mean that there is no mod checking that all participants have a work ready to post on the 19th. Honor system: if you submit some prompts, please try, in good faith, to then pick someone else’s prompt and give it a spin. If RL then gets in the way, it happens and that’s okay.
Happy prompting!
IN SHORT:
Between now and May 19th (plus stragglers), we will be creating a shared pool of cool ghost trick prompts. That list will be published on May 19th and everyone who has submitted some things will try to pick at least one prompt to fill - there’s no claiming, no assigning, just work on whatever you fancy. And on June 19th, all our works will be published on tumblr to celebrate the anniversary!
Hello and welcome to the thirteenth edition of Ghost Swap overall, third edition in fest form! As always, we are here to create fanworks based on each other’s ideas, to eventually post them all on the game’s anniversary to celebrate it with a bang!
Schedule:
Prompting begins: May 12th
Prompts are posted: May 19th
Works are posted: June 19th
It’s a simple schedule for a simple format. First we gather the prompts, our big pile of cool shiny things, then we pick whatever we like and fill it, with no intermediate steps.
At the form, you can submit up to eight separate prompts, anonymously (“Jowd orb”) or listing your name at the start of each one if you would like to be tagged in any potential fills (“laughingmango - Jowd orb”). You can also specify fic or art if you want. If nothing is specified, the prompt is meant for either medium.
In each prompt, please write in a loose description of the character(s) you would like to receive and of the situation(s) you would like to see them in. The prompts don’t have to feature completely different characters and situations - one could be a sad take on Yomiel and Sissel’s friendship, another could be post-game Yomiel and Jowd friendship fluff, a third one could be a fantasy AU where Sissel is Yomiel’s familiar. Or the old GSwap staple Rindge/Sith, of course, what is Gswap if not three rats in a trenchcoat and the uncollapsed possibility of Rindge/Sith. Crossover prompts are allowed. As always, you can look at past prompts for inspiration. If you want to avoid something that might come up in filling your prompt (maybe you are prompting a scenario that might lend itself to a shippy reading but you don’t like that ship), state it simply and politely in the prompt itself - there is no separate field for likes and dislikes (“laughingmango - Jowd orb, art, please no Missile swapping Jowd for a ball”).
On may 10th, the list will be published and everyone will be free to pick whichever they like best and create a fanwork based on that request. Late prompters are welcome but will get less visibility. It’s okay if more than one person is working on the same prompt, we don’t have to coordinate. It’s very welcome if one person decides to fill more than one prompt.
As usual, all works will then be published on Tumblr on June 19th, the anniversary of Ghost Trick’s original release.
These light rules mean that you are free to pick what you like and work with the prompt of your dreams. However, there is no guarantee that one of your own prompts will get picked. All the same, from past experience (and last year’s smashing success!) I sincerely hope that among the works posted on June 19th we will all find something that’ll make us happy, regardless of whether we prompted it ourselves or whether it came from someone else with similar (or surprising!) tastes.
These new rules also mean that there is no mod checking that all participants have a work ready to post on the 19th. Honor system: if you submit some prompts, please try, in good faith, to then pick someone else’s prompt and give it a spin. If RL then gets in the way, it happens and that’s okay.
Happy prompting!
IN SHORT:
Between now and May 19th (plus stragglers), we will be creating a shared pool of cool ghost trick prompts. That list will be published on May 19th and everyone who has submitted some things will try to pick at least one prompt to fill - there’s no claiming, no assigning, just work on whatever you fancy. And on June 19th, all our works will be published on tumblr to celebrate the anniversary!
Hello and welcome to the thirteenth edition of Ghost Swap overall, third edition in fest form! As always, we are here to create fanworks based on each other’s ideas, to eventually post them all on the game’s anniversary to celebrate it with a bang!
Schedule:
Prompting begins: May 12th
Prompts are posted: May 19th
Works are posted: June 19th
It’s a simple schedule for a simple format. First we gather the prompts, our big pile of cool shiny things, then we pick whatever we like and fill it, with no intermediate steps.
At the form, you can submit up to eight separate prompts, anonymously (“Jowd orb”) or listing your name at the start of each one if you would like to be tagged in any potential fills (“laughingmango - Jowd orb”). You can also specify fic or art if you want. If nothing is specified, the prompt is meant for either medium.
In each prompt, please write in a loose description of the character(s) you would like to receive and of the situation(s) you would like to see them in. The prompts don’t have to feature completely different characters and situations - one could be a sad take on Yomiel and Sissel’s friendship, another could be post-game Yomiel and Jowd friendship fluff, a third one could be a fantasy AU where Sissel is Yomiel’s familiar. Or the old GSwap staple Rindge/Sith, of course, what is Gswap if not three rats in a trenchcoat and the uncollapsed possibility of Rindge/Sith. Crossover prompts are allowed. As always, you can look at past prompts for inspiration. If you want to avoid something that might come up in filling your prompt (maybe you are prompting a scenario that might lend itself to a shippy reading but you don’t like that ship), state it simply and politely in the prompt itself - there is no separate field for likes and dislikes (“laughingmango - Jowd orb, art, please no Missile swapping Jowd for a ball”).
On may 10th, the list will be published and everyone will be free to pick whichever they like best and create a fanwork based on that request. Late prompters are welcome but will get less visibility. It’s okay if more than one person is working on the same prompt, we don’t have to coordinate. It’s very welcome if one person decides to fill more than one prompt.
As usual, all works will then be published on Tumblr on June 19th, the anniversary of Ghost Trick’s original release.
These light rules mean that you are free to pick what you like and work with the prompt of your dreams. However, there is no guarantee that one of your own prompts will get picked. All the same, from past experience (and last year’s smashing success!) I sincerely hope that among the works posted on June 19th we will all find something that’ll make us happy, regardless of whether we prompted it ourselves or whether it came from someone else with similar (or surprising!) tastes.
These new rules also mean that there is no mod checking that all participants have a work ready to post on the 19th. Honor system: if you submit some prompts, please try, in good faith, to then pick someone else’s prompt and give it a spin. If RL then gets in the way, it happens and that’s okay.
Happy prompting!
IN SHORT:
Between now and May 19th (plus stragglers), we will be creating a shared pool of cool ghost trick prompts. That list will be published on May 19th and everyone who has submitted some things will try to pick at least one prompt to fill - there’s no claiming, no assigning, just work on whatever you fancy. And on June 19th, all our works will be published on tumblr to celebrate the anniversary!
The path, it is known, begins in via Sant'Orsola 35, one door among the maze of narrow alleys which spreads underneath Duomo and Cairoli in old Milan. At the end of the path, it is also known, lies a life of happiness, whatever that may mean to you or your dearest friend, whatever that may have meant to the generations of travellers who came before and to those who will come after. And here comes an echo, a shift, a molting, a metaphor, the symbolic weight of the journey, a trick of the mind: you are on the path, you put your foot forward, and the ‘you’ who exists now is not the person who took that step. If you don't stray, if you endure the path, you accept that you two won't reach that destination. Someone will. You will not know them.
Do you push forward?
Made for Artenaut* game jam. Optimized for laptops and bigger (fullscreen recommended) but playable on phones. 30 minutes long, each playthrough is unique.
"Horse but make it a lizard and give it bat wings and horns"
didnt know how to interpret "make it a lizard" so i wrote lizard and drew an arrow pointing to the horse so people know its a lizard. Also didn't know what bat horns were so I gave it a horned bat nose
"A body like a big cat but completely covered in scales, the head of a crocodile with the horns of an ibex, and the wings of a bat on its back"
On it boss o7, ive mashed all these animals together and threw scales all over it. This the dragon you saw?
"Take a lizard, extend the neck. Add a pair of bat wings to the back. Add horns and sharp teeth."
Seems like we're onto somethin' boss! Though idk how it'd be so fearsome bein such a small thing.
"Imagine a winged alligator that was 70 feet tall and aware of its existence"
i dont know if this is a dragon but it could definitely be some kind of god
"Dinosaur with wings and horns?"
Dunno which dino you were talkin about so i just picked a random one. Stegosauus :}
"Big snake with legs and horns that can breathe fire"
Ah. Hm.
"A dragon is like a tree, in that it's a made up category for a broadly similar type of mythological creature that has no relationship to other dragons, but you know a dragon when you see one the way you know a tree when you see one."
I have completed my personal challenge of drawing every single fan creation of what "their" Fiansissel looks like and OH BOY DID IT TAKE A WHILE. No redos, no editing, not much rendering—just a doodle a day until I had made my way through seventy-plus Sissels.
Full list of original creators, with @'s and links to publicly posted references when available, in order of appearance:
2crepes here
@alto-tenure here
animo
@bardace here
@blockmind here
@sissel-posting here
@buttercupsanddreamsart here here here
@canelinaart here
@catamaris here
@ocekhaz
@chortlebot here here
@chulacola here here
@critter-ghosting-some-tricks here
demik the trik
@diathadevil here
dynamite
evelyn
fethengine/padparadscha (deactivated) here
@fungii here
@genkooii here
@ghost-nick here here
@ghost-on-my-trick-till-i here
@goomyloid here
@gummyartblog here
@hellaorion here
inspectorlatkabanela
@jellyjack-cheese here
@kamil-a here here here
kay
@kiaroou here here
@laughingmango here here
@lunafandoms here
@maireadralph here
@missyzero (my ref was from tumblr, but I can't find it now...)
eva laughingmango has never lost sight of the jowd/cabanela/alma truth that shines so brightly. we all closed our eyes against it unable to behold its power but NOT eva
vaporwave
turnnoffyourmind
2087
titsay
gummygunk
annaxmalina
ellievsbear
blakekathryn
