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Messy notes for my personal B design. Kinda went very hard on the 2010s tumblr artstyle look for their initial design, since they’re so full of whimsy at the start. And then plot happens lol. It’s a bit messy, especially post book, so apologies for that. But hey, B is out now!
Talking about the Oracle Deck here for Murdle and some implications, if you don’t want to be spoiled then avoid it. Also CW for mentions of racist stereotypes accidentally arising out of fanfiction
So I’m guessing it’s been soft confirmed that there are no set “canon” designs for any of the Murdle characters? Because Oracle Deck!Irratino looks pretty different to Puzzle!Irratino. I think I prefer the Puzzle design, that’s what I based my headcanoned design on, but the Oracle Deck look isn’t bad! I like the extra accessories.
But if this isn’t a soft confirmation, it does mean I have to update my Logico design quite a bit. Especially with the facial hair. I did not think he’d pull it off as well as he does ngl, I do like it. Also the pencils on the hat is something I am incorporating into my HC design, no matter what. That’s genius. Also I do like Logico being darker skinned in this, I think that’s nice.
The only thing I don’t like is that if this not a soft confirmation that there is no “canon” design then this comes with unfortunate implications for my fanfic (for context: it features child abuse and abandonment, and I (a white person) don’t feel very confortable writing that subject matter about a PoC character because of racist stereotypes). It’s not cancelled, but if this isn’t soft confirmation that it’s cool to just carry on with my own designs and go forth with it, then it might take longer to write.
Also I was gonna end it there but I checked on the Barnes and Noble page and there’s a very small render of Dame Obsidian and I’m pretty sure she also has darker skinned than her Puzzle and Website counterparts. Again, I think that’s soft confirmation, but at least this time she’s moving closer to my headcanoned design. I love the red on her, to boot. Hat less so, I don’t think Dame Obsidian needs a hat.
I’m about 1/8th of the way through the new Bordergrams book, and here are my thoughts so far:
It’s a bit more difficult than the previous book. There were some clues that really stumped me. I thought there being a leftover word would be more of a struggle, and while it very much has the chance to soon, it’s not too bad for now.
There are more pun names! There’s Sir Vivor (survivor) and Sir Mount (surmount, but also serves as a mount for Render) in the main plot and Sir Prize at the start. I wonder if Prize will get a main story cameo, but considering his “killed by a bear” status, I’m guessing lot.
There’s new terms! The territories are now parcels, the shadow states are shadow lands, and a disputed territory is now a pivotal parcel. And given the plot so far, it doesn’t look like we’re conquering anything so we’re not forcing apart or together lands, just organising things to find our way through.
I like the journal entries interspersed in the main story itself, and the lead to finding the solutions having their own little twists. I think that adds to the charm of the book.
My only gripe so far is that my book came with an error! In Quest 5, one of the terms was “Monkey” when it was posted in the answer as “Futz”. Which is annoying, but I bet they’ll include an errata somewhere on the Bordergrams site (like with Murdle) and fix it on reprint. Ah well, it doesn’t seem like the book is littered with errors like this, and it was just a one-off.
Hey to all my fellow Murdle fans! There’s tons of cool colours still out there to name your OC after, and even some that work as first names too! Wikipedia has a whole list of ‘em! Knock yourselves out OC makers!
This note was in part addressed to me, who after failing to come up with a colour for my OC, gave her an actual surname that featured a colour instead.
So, here’s a fun tip for those looking to have a more pronounced rolling r in SynthV (idk if this works for SV2, I’m just talking based on my experience since 1)
- set the note with the rolling r to Spanish. The rolling r phoneme is labelled as “rr”
- the note before the r roll, you’re gonna want to insert an extra “r” phoneme. I’ve only tried this with Japanese, but it works really well.
Also Yuma’s r rolls are very neat
You know, if I had a nickel for every time I wrote a fic about characters wanting to steal the moon and using it as an excuse to ship them and be a bit cute, I’d have two nickels.
Anyway, I wrote a quick Bordergrams fanfic. Enjoy!
OMG I THOUGHT I LOST THIS ACCOUNT LMAOOOOO I WAS SO FREAKED OUT!
Tumblr auto logged me out and I got so scared I forgot to switch my email from my deleted one, but no I remembered! Thank god for that!
You know if I had a nickel for every time I checked out a piece of media with themes of suicidal ideation, loneliness and the interplay of real life and the digital world; told myself to not ship any of the characters because they are not in the right headspace for that sort of relationship; and then ended up shipping the artist of the group with the canonically transgender character because they had cute chemistry and helped each other get out of their shells; and also the purple one is also transgender but they have discourse related to their writing and how they black hole-ify their work; I’d have two nickels.
(Amazing Digital Circus, Abstragedy and Jax; and Project Sekai, Mizuena and Mafuyu)
