#every letter

[self-proclaimed-mad-scientist]

I am once again thinking about Presentable Liberty.

[sirensallnight]

[itsjustrue]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I have a headache from all the tears I have shed, that’s all I gotta say.

Jk (no but for real I have a terrible headache now and feel dehydrated from all the tears I’ve shed lol) but my full review is in the comments under the story! Ended up writing an entire essay (I don’t shut up about my emotions unfortunately) and also about how much I loved this story as well as the wonderful author of this story @farore05 , Writing is absolutely unmatched.

I can proudly and confidently say this is the greatest fanfic I have ever read. Please please please Fayetos fans read it. I promise you you won’t regret it.

POV: me after finishing the last chapter

[ver4n0]

• THE FLAGS AGE SPECULATIONS PT. 2 •

I believe Pianoman, Iceman and Doc are all in very similar age and here is why.

Since all of The Flags are at the ripe age of 25 or younger and the Pianoman is told to be the oldest, he’s exactly 25 years old. The next one in line is Iceman, but we don’t get any hints about his age besides being the second oldest.

BUT

My man Doc got a Doctorate of Medical Sciences in North America. First of all, how cool is that? Second thing - Doctorate takes a shit ton of time to complete. There is no precise time brackets on how long you have to study in order to attain it, but it’s safe to assume 7 years is an absolute minimum (4 years medical school, 3 years residency). Later on, there had to be some time between graduating and getting into the shady mafia part of Japan.

Even if we assume he graduated from high school early (at 17 years old), 17 + 7 = 24. To my mind it’s the most ”optimistic scenario” in which everything went smoothly and he ended the education with the degree asap.

To sum up;

Pianoman is 25 (given in the Stormbringer)

Iceman as the second oldest is either 25 (the difference of few months apart in age) or 24.

Doc, even if he was speedrunning the medical career has to be either 24 or older (but still younger than Iceman).

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk, that’s what I’m thinking about at night.

[where-our-stories-start]

Cyrano (2021)

[splashink-games]

A Note On... The Art of Writing Letters

Every Letter is a short narrative game by @avioletfairy! Take on the unique job of writing letters for others!

Okay so I love the concept of this game. I was getting Violet Evergarden vibes from it because of the description on Steam, but only got confirmation just now (as I'm writing this) after checking the game out on itch.io.

As a writer, the idea of writing other's letters is super interesting to me. Because I'm never going to fully encapsulate the feelings of another person perfectly. While getting it mostly right is okay because the intention would be the same, unless the writer (in this case me) understands the sender and the reader, the words won't contain the sender in their entirety.

And that's one of the reasons I like the game (also its inspiration in Violet Evergarden) because the words in these letters have a lot of emotion and intent from the sender.

I had a lot of fun with this game! Especially when I was:

1) doing all the letters for the first time. I really took my time with all of them and tried to write meaningful letters. Except the joke one from Rin. I could not find a way to write a joke.

The game feels like a really good way to practice writing for prompts, which I find really cool. If more was added to the game, or we could add our own, I'd probably end up spending a lot of time in the office...

2) trying to find all the different writing tasks. I'm still at 18/19 because I don't know if there's a 19th one??

But aside from that! I didn't think I'd find it fun to do the prompts again because I'd just done them like 5 minutes before. But! For some of them, I'd find ways to change the meaning of the letter while technically keeping the meaning the same.

The one I'm thinking about specifically is the one about the friends fighting for 5 months and the sender wants to meet with the recipient to apologize (without you, the writer, apologizing for them)! After probably 10 times doing it, my letter devolved into something like "You. Me. 10AM. IHOP. Be there or else!!" and it sounds more like a threat or a challenge than trying to meet for an apology.

For others, I'd try to get the shortest response or find a different way of saying the same thing and I found it to be really fun.

Every Letter is a cool game about writing letters! Short and sweet and definitely encourages that creative side of your brain.

As always,

Enjoy gaming!

[lavenderlostfog]

I'll have whatever The National was having when they wrote Every Letter.

[girlhorrror]

thinking about that rolling stones(?) article that said something like ‘one of the members could be lgbtq+’ like yeah they’re all all of them at this point