There's no such thing as being too late to a trend (is what I'm telling myself here.)
Made using Canva. Extra slide via link cuz Tumblr caps at 10 pics. Also may be better quality.
This took a really long time but I'm really happy with the results!! 😭💕 Trying to explain or summarize my story is hard and nerve-wracking but something about making a presentation clicked for me.
Tagging everyone bc I'm so so stoked about thisss ❤️🔥
because I can't come up with a WIP without making a shitty little comic sans presentation: here is one for my arthurian wip
let it be said that I've actually written two chapters for this one already so if you're at all interested: kick my ass to keep going before the procrastination wins again lmao
welcome to the wip that's been eating my brain for more than six months. i recently started draft one, and having the time to explore writeblr more inspired me to do one of these! image description can be found in the alt text (hopefully it looks ok).
i have no official taglist yet, but if anyone is interested, please just let me know. all interaction is appreciated.
TEXT: Abyssal Scrutiny: an urban fantasy hot mess by tumblr user sodaliteskull
(IMAGES: the background shows a washed out image of a person standing before Cthulhu. They are minuscule in comparison. A speech bubble coming out of Cthulhu's mouth reads, "gimme yo FAKKIN MONEY!!!!"to which the person is responding, "NO!")
SLIDE TWO
TEXT: The city of Port Crowden... IS UNDER ATTACK!
people are being gruesomely murdered
property is inexplicably damaged
monster sightings!?
ANGEL SIGHTINGS!?!?
There's only one thing that can save it... MUTHA FUKKIN SUPER SENTAI!!!!!
(IMAGES: in the upper left hand corner is a picture of Vancouver, standing in for the fictional city of Port Crowden. Along the bottom is an image from the 35th anniversary of the Super Sentai media franchise, showing nearly 200 precursors to the Power Rangers)
SLIDE THREE
TEXT: wait wait wait! I'm gonna need a little more context than that!
hokay so, ON THIS ALTERNATE REALITY EARTH! for the last handful of decades, this comet would swing by every twenty-ish years and hang out for roughly twelve months of so.
one of the weird things about it is that is always becomes visible to the naked eye during the week of the Cancerid meteor shower, almost as if the meteors were coming from the comet - BUT THAT'S NOT HOW COMETS WORK!!!
every time this bitch shows up, a lot of weird crime happens. weird in a "literally what is the motive for any of this" kind of way. weird in a "reliable witnesses claim the culprit was some kind of eldritch horror" kind of way. weird in a "conspiracy theorist's wet dream" kind of way
authorities have claimed it's a bunch of shit: mass hallucinations caused by some kind of chemical leak, influencer publicity stunts gone horribly wrong, viral marketing gone horrible worse, run of the mill gang activity, miscellaneous cult tomfuckery. and while suspects have been arrested on suspicion, no one has ever been proven guilty
(IMAGE: a picture of comet Hale-Bopp, standing in for the Star Dealer comet)
the Ishinomori-Haim comet, also know as "the Star Dealer"
(IMAGE: along the bottom is a faded out photo of "POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS" tape)
SLIDE FOUR
TEXT: okay, cool. so what's REALLY going on?
siblings Morgan and Al Kurosawa, along with their cousin Grant Jardine are each struck by a fallen fragment of the Star Dealer comet, which gives them superhuman abilities and equipment. not long after, they encounter Dirk Silberg, a local entrepreneur, who explains that the arrival of the Star Dealer causes - or potentially coincides with - a thinning of the veil between this world and a realm he calls the Otherworld. from there, a malevolent force known as the Spread launches its invasions to try and snatch up any fallen stars that hadn't found their way into human hosts.
forty years ago, Dirk, along with his twin Drake and their friends Tony and Barb were starstruck, and battled the Spread. sadly, Tony, Barb, and Drake lost their lives fighting
(IMAGES: Picrews of the characters mentioned. Morgan has short brown hair, brown eyes, tan skin, glasses, and is associated with the colour blue. Al has short sandy brown hair, brown eyes, tan skin, and is associated with the colour green. Grant has short dark brown hair and beard, dark brown eyes, olive skin, glasses, and is associated with the colour red. Dirk has short ruddy brown hair, hazel eyes, olive skin, and is associated with the colour green. Drake has short ruddy brown hair, hazel eyes, olive skin, and is associated with the colour red. Tony has short black hair and stubble, light brown eyes, olive skin, and is associated with the colour blue. Barb has long ginger hair, blue eyes, fair skin covered in freckles, and is associated with the colour yellow.)
SLIDE FIVE
TEXT: this is just a Power Rangers reskin, isn't it?
sure the fuck is! more so these guys tho -> (IMAGE: a team photo of the Gokaigers. Gokai Red is seated with his arms crossed, while Gokai Yellow is to his left, and Gokai Pink is to his right, holding the mechanical bird Navi in her arms. Gokai Silver is standing behind Gokai Red, while Gokai Blue is to the left of Gokai Yellow, and Gokai Green is to the right of Gokai Pink)
the absolute gorilla GRIP Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger has on my psyche…
Sentinels, empowered by fragments of the Star Dealer, are the only thing that can halt the Spread
they have special suits they can morph into, which protects them from the corrosive effects of the Otherworld, with weapons and special attacks to help them take on the nasties that dwell there
they are also granted superhuman abilities outside of the suits, like how these guys in the 2017 Power Rangers movie were able to jump crazy distances and crush cell phones with their bare hands (IMAGE: a screenshot from the aforementioned movie, showing Billy, Jason, Trini, Zack, and Kimberly standing in the Command Centre)
I call them "Sentinels" as a nod to both "sentai" and "senshi", since Sailor Moon is as much an inspo for this as Power Rangers is (IMAGE: a promotional image from the 90's Sailor Moon anime, showing Sailor Venus, Sailor Mars, Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, and Sailor Jupiter striking their signature poses against the background of a Tokyo night skyline)
look, I just like teams of pals who fight monsters together, okay!?!
SLIDE SIX
TEXT: design inspo because I am a visual thinker but shit at drawing!
the Mecha Will Rise/Bulletpunk figures from Devil Toys are the closest to what I have in mind for the look of Sentinels
skin-tight armour suits that manifest underneath street clothes
funky helmets that reflect the personality of the Sentinel
glove and boot armour
clothing changes colour to match the Sentinel's signature colour(s)
some kind of batshit anime weapon for fighting
definitely going more for style than practicality with these things, because who doesn't wanna look cute when fighting Cthulhu?
(IMAGES: thirteen figures from Devil Toys, all of which are wearing cyberpunk/techwear fashion in an assortment of colours, all of them wearing mecha style helmets, while some of them are wielding some kind of over-the-top weapon)
SLIDE SEVEN
TEXT: so I take it you aren't talking about butter?
nope! this ceaseless wave of nightmare fuel wants one thing and one thing only: to monch and cronch on fallen stars. they are single minded in their pursuit, closer to a fire consuming whatever is flammable in its path rather than an intelligence that is working towards a goal
At least, that was the case, until these tarot themed weirdos showed up and started bossing the Spread around! (IMAGES: arrows pointing to four figures - the Empress, a woman with long black hair and pale purple skin and dark purple eyes, associated with the colour silver. the High Priestess, with long pale green hair, darker green skin, and even darker green eyes, associates with the colour purple. the Magician, with a short ocean blue afro, sky blue skin, and pale blue eyes, wearing glasses and associated with the colour red. and the Fool, with long orange hair tied in a pony tail, khaki skin, and golden eyes, associated with the colour yellow)
the Spread are hard to categorize, as they're all chaotically shifting messes of tentacles and teeth. the only exceptions are the very rare, very powerful, and distinctly humanoid looking Abominations
(IMAGES: five pictures of eldritch horrors looming in nightmarish landscapes, representing the Spread. there's a lot of tentacles and pustules and assorted other body horror going on in each image. representing an Abomination is a humanoid figure somehow both skeletal and fleshy, with a mass of tentacles coming out of its back)
SLIDE EIGHT
TEXT: hold up, you mentioned something about angles at the start of this!?!?
thankfully, not everything in the Otherworld is out to kill you! looking like something of a cross between the angles from Bayonetta and Greco-Roman marble statues, are the Courts. in contrast to the chaotic Spread, the Courts have an orderly hierarchy. ruled by a King and Queen, every Court is defended by Rooks, advised by Bishops, while the Knights lead Pawns in their battle against the Spread. they are quick to ally themselves with the Sentinels
the assorted Courts are all named after metals (the Court of Gold, the Court of Iron, etc), and the rarer the metal, the more influential the Court
the exception to this rigid societal structure is the Court of Gems, which is composed entirely of Knights, and are even more single minded in their desire to wipe the Spread out than the rest of the Courts are
(IMAGES: several different enemy angels from the Bayonetta games, all of them looking like mythological monsters made of white marble and wearing crimson and gold armour, with statuesque faces in places where they should not be. behind them are several white marble statues with veins of gold running through them, almost giving them the effect of the Japanese style of Kintsugi, wherein one uses gold to mend cracks in pottery)
SLIDE NINE
TEXT: overview of the Otherworld
the Otherworld is a reflection of our world - the landscape and structures of here have mirror copies there. organic things, such as plants and animal life, do not have Otherworld counterparts, however. beyond the Courts and the Spread, the Otherworld is lifeless.
it's divided into two distinct locations - the Heights and the Depths. the Depths are especially deadly, as it's blanketed by a corrosive cloud roughly 100m tall. without protection, organic life does not last long in the Depths. the Heights, in contrast, are corrosion free.
(IMAGE: a rough outline of five buildings on a flat plateau, to the left of which slopes down off screen)
the Heights
the Courts make their homes in the upper floors of skyscrapers
(IMAGE: the three tallest buildings are poking up into the Heights, while everything else in the city resides in the Depths)
separating layer looks like waves from below, and clouds from above
the Depths
the Spread live in the dips and valleys of the landscape, surging up onto higher ground whenever they sense a fallen star nearby. when inactive, they just look like an inky black, viscous ocean
SLIDE TEN
(IMAGE: the background is the person standing before Cthulhu image from the first slide, only washed out to the point where it's barely visible)
TEXT: so sum this shit up for me…
a comet swings by every twenty years and (potentially!?!?) shits debris all over the place
if a comet dropping hits a person, they become a Sentinel
if it lands on the ground, the fragment shifts the area around it into the Otherworld
drawn by the power of the fallen star, the Spread destroy everything in their path to get to it, people and buildings alike
in order to protect those around them, Sentinels need to hunt down these comet fragments and find a way to safely dispose of them
but how are Morgan, Al, and Grant going to deal with all this?
does Dirk have ulterior motives for helping them?
if Sentinels happen every time, why no mention of the team from twenty years ago?
what is going on with that tarot team?
if they've been fighting the Spread this long, why haven't the Courts succeeded yet?
all these questions (and more!) will be answered… once I actually fucking write this thing!
Feeling accomplished tonight because I managed to put together this silly little comic sans presentation on the last day of october, meaning i now get to put it out before nano officially starts!! yippee!!
Enjoy a plethora of possibly nonsensical information about my nano wip formatted in a way that honestly took way too much effort, but was a lot of fun to make nonetheless.
A new WIP which means a new Shitty Comic Sans Slide Show!
Maybe it'll be my nano project? It will depend if I get far enough with planning to be able to start properly drafting. I might also do a bit of cheating and use it for worldbuilding other wips. So who knows what I'll do.
