#halcyonwish

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Acianne sketch I did :)

This was just meant to b simple and cute, I think she turned out great , i love drawing my book characters :)

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For the fanfic writer meme ask, 1 and 9?

1. How do you choose your titles? Is there a method/pattern you use?

I use a few different methods, I guess.

Just stick two or three words together that convey something related to the fic. I used to prefer this kind of title since it felt simpler and more straightforward than longer ones, but it gets kinda repetitive-sounding after so many stories, so now I’m trying to use other forms more often.

Make up something that’s longer but still relevant. Like, with “In the Dust under the Stars,” I was going for something more ~artistic~ that referenced the setting and some of the feelings in the story and, like, kinda implied the word stardust. (That’s the spoiler fic I mentioned before, so please don’t even go near it until you’ve finished the newest VLD season!!)

Use a song lyric or quote or whatever that fits. For example, “The Words Won’t Be Enough” is a line from the song that story is based on, and “Not a Bad Guy” comes from the last point of Yuusaku’s positive list about Shima from episode one: “Third: you went out of your way to talk to an isolated and possibly lonely person like myself, so you don’t seem like a bad guy.” I’ve thought that line was cute from the first time I saw it, so it was fun to take part of it and turn it around to imply it was Shima’s view on Yuusaku. (Apparently that line is way different in at least one other translation though, rip.)

9. How do you choose a POV for a story?

I’ve already answered this question in a previous ask, so, uh...here’s that answer again:

Hmmmmmm. I’ve never really thought before about what my process for this might be, but I think it depends on the scene(s) I want to write. If the story is focused around one character’s feelings about a particular event or person or whatever, then obviously the story should be from that character’s pov, so that’s pretty natural. In cases where it’s less obvious–like if there are several characters in a scene, or if I have a story idea but am not sure whose thoughts I want to focus on–then I sometimes will write part of the scene in my head and see from the needed description which character is best-suited to be the perspective. Oftentimes, if one character is doing something unusual or just is unusual themself, then the perspective will go to another character so they can react to the unusual person.

iirc I’ve literally asked a friend before to decide for me which pov I should write a particular story from because I was equally stuck between two characters.

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LOOK AT THIS CIERO FANART MY FRIEND MADE!!

#オリジナル Untitled - Infernoのイラスト - pixiv

(featuring Ciero from Halcyon!)

*Cough* here they are on pixiv* you should go check them out!

It's Ciero with one of their own book characters!!!! I can't wait till their book comes out, It's super cool :3 and so is the fanart! his little face uwuuwuwu so cute!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just love this so much :') pls pls pls check their stuff out they're incredible uwu!!! thank you so much! Inferno has the COOLEST STUFF and you should absolutely check it out!

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A free open source Vtuber project in Godot!

Just made this public so anyone can use it! it has transparency, some basic audio sensing stuff so it knows when you speak over a certain volume and opens your characters mouth, etc. I made it since I personally wanted to have an easy Vtubing method that was completely free to use and now this is here! if you use it with krita and blender, since it's in Godot, you can do literally all of it for free! plus it supports 3d 2d and...something in between models! though i can't add support for Live2d theres projects out there I've heard of that can try to bring those models into blender, but you can get a very similar setup functionality wise in blender anyways and just plop it in which is how I made mine!

GitHub - SilentStares/StarsVGTuber: This is a little handy dandy VideoGame tuber (like as in its a vtuber made in a video game engine!) thin

This is a little handy dandy VideoGame tuber (like as in its a vtuber made in a video game engine!) thing you can use to make your own vgtub

Here's the very simplest way there is to throw your vtuber in :) Though again you can make it as complicated as you want this IS a video game development program. You could make a whole little world they run around in! the sky really is the limit. I hope you guys give it a try and like it! If you find this is too difficult to use, theres also Veadotube which is AWESOME and while it's technically more limited, they do have a lot more options in the paid version if you support the creators patreon. Not associted with them but I got started with vtubing thanks to veadotube so I'm cheering them on even though I've moved on to making my own thing, theirs definitely is more professional looking since this was a pretty rough homemade thing. I like the freedom it gives me : )

A very quick tutorial on making your own vtuber in StarsVgtuber! Okay so btw you can just drag and drop the files into that thing in the lower left to get your files in it's pretty simple! :) you have to download godot and open this in Godot to use it, this is godot it's a free open source video game making program :)!!!! https://godotengine.org Link here to the starsvgtuber repo: https://github.com/SilentStares/StarsVGTuber if you make something in it let me know! I tried to make it as simple as possible! the models in there already are mine but feel free to replace them :) The previous video i posted explains it all in way more detail but I wanted a shorter and sweeter video to help you guys know how to do the bare bones basics easier. you have to double click the record button then click play to make it work, i have no idea why, I'm still pretty new to programming, but I hope this helps anyone who wants to make a vtuber super easily! the process isin't much harder even for 3d models! So please give it a try! This is all free and open source, if you need an art program Krita is also free and open source and so is blender! so no matter what you're trying to pull off, this is a fun option with a ton of freedom as long as you're willing to learn a little bit about godot! #vtuber #vgtuber #opensource #godot #github #vtubing

If you make a VGtuber in StarsVgtuber setup make sure to tag me so I can check it out :3 I want to see everyone chase their dreams and have fun!!! I hope this will make vtubing a bit more acessable and maybe even get more people into using godot because it's an awesome free open source project you should also totally support if you've got the money!

if you want to support me and making this sort of thing though uh...you can buy Halcyon here on amazon https://a.co/d/044ZjYft or if you like books with supervillain protagonists who love theater and cute superheroes who really, really need a vacation or maybe to retire :) I don't have a donations page or anything but i plan to work on this whether or not I get support , but I figure I should mention it since I would love if I could make this sort of thing a living, if there is enough support I'll make a patreon or something like that :) I'd also like to add that at NO POINT EVER will I be using ai in any of my projects. However I am a bit of a goober so if you guys find a bug let me know. currently i know of one bug where it crashes if you don't click the record button twice then click play, I have no clue why it does that so if anyone DOES know let me know so i can fix it. Here's a thank you Ciero Tube for reading this far! he loves and supports you!

(oh also Halcyon 2 is done writing, editing is in process, so for those of you who follow me for more info on that, don't worry! things are going swimmingly!)

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Happy Villaintimes day-? hold on Ciero no it's Valentines day stop trying to fight Acianne that's NOT how you flirt!

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OH HEY I FORGOT TO POST ABOUT IT BUT HALCYON 2 HAS BEEN WRITTEN AND WILL BEGIN EDITING...SOONISH

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I made a little comic trying to draw the opening sentence of Halcyon in comic form!!! I hope you guys like it!

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Hello. It me. How about Kusanagi + “so what? you did it.” ?

[Note: this is set in a vaguely timed future where Yuusaku and Kusanagi have already started working with others to fight Hanoi and Yuusaku has Actually Made Friends (kinda) (if anyone commented on it he would probably deny it tbh). The joys of writing for a show still super early in its story.]

Leaning on his elbows against the guardrail, Kusanagi kept an ear on the clumsy chatter behind him as he skimmed the recent news on a tablet he’d borrowed from Yuusaku. His food truck had been parked for hours on the hill overlooking Den City, the setting sun had nested in the trees behind him to cast every shadow towards the distant buildings, and the tablet’s battery was on the verge of an unceremonious death.

It had been a pleasant surprise when Yuusaku first asked if he and his classmates Aoi and Shima could borrow the computer for the afternoon—both because it was still rare to see him spend time with people his own age outside school, and because Yuusaku never asked to do anything—but it was getting late. Kusanagi would soon need to go down into the city to set up shop for the night’s Duels, but the conversation inside the truck showed no signs of slowing, and he couldn’t bring himself to cut it short yet. Besides, Blue Angel had a Duel scheduled for that night, so surely he could trust Aoi to keep an eye on the time.

Shima’s voice was the best at squeezing through the truck’s barely open service window, especially when he was excited. “But why would they be targeting this series? It doesn’t have anything to do with that weird Cyberse stuff—” A yelp drew Kusanagi’s gaze back over his shoulder and was followed by a small, metallic ting. “Ah, crap!”

“I told you to watch it!” Aoi’s voice, low and snapping.

“You got it on the keyboard.” Yuusaku was definitely scowling.

“My bad! I’ll clean it up—”

An electric crackle sounded, and Yuusaku’s last words were a quiet, “What the—?” before a BOOM rattled the truck on its wheels. Smoke billowed through the service window’s gap, and Kusanagi winced.

Oh, yeah. He’d forgotten about that.

The window flew open under Aoi’s hands, and smoke poured around her as she stuck her head outside to cough. A second plume appeared at the truck’s back end as Shima threw the door open.

“Shima!” Aoi leaned out further to look towards the back door. It was doubtful she could make eye contact with him from that angle, but he flinched anyways. “How many times did I tell you to keep that can away from the computer?!”

“Sorry, sorry!” With two exits available, the worst of the smoke had cleared, so Shima looked back into the truck. “Fujiki, are you all right?” He frowned. “What are you doing?”

Aoi glanced back too, and when they both retreated into the truck, Kusanagi closed his borrowed tablet and approached the now wide-open window to look inside. Standing before the computer, Yuusaku pressed a paper napkin over his nose and mouth with one hand and typed on the keyboard with the other. Error messages crowded the screens, but he ignored them the same way he ignored the two people behind him as he muttered, “This doesn’t make sense…”

“What happened?” Kusanagi had to bite the inside of his mouth to keep his expression neutral as the three teenagers turned around—Shima’s face red, Aoi’s arms holding each other across her stomach, and Yuusaku’s eyes narrow above the napkin.

Aoi stepped forward. “I’m sorry, Kusanagi-san. Shima spilled a can of soda on your computer—”

“I didn’t know it would have a meltdown, okay?” Shima said. “My tablet never does this no matter what gets on it!”

Aoi turned on him. “It’s common sense to keep liquids away from computers—”

“But it shouldn’t have reacted like this.” Yuusaku lowered his napkin. “First, not even the cheapest computer out there should internally explode because a little soda got spilled on its keyboard. Second, this one was built to survive in a working food truck. Third, even with all this smoke, the smoke detector hasn’t gone off, and I know it’s working because we checked it yesterday.” His eyes flicked from Aoi to Kusanagi. “What is going on, Kusanagi-san?”

“Let me have a look.” Kusanagi set the tablet on the counter, headed around to the back door, and stepped up into the truck. Aoi and Shima moved back to clear his way to the computer, and he held down the power button as he typed on the keyboard. Working against time to remember the right combination, his actions were slow, but as soon as he finished the sequence, the smoke still pouring from underneath the keyboard stopped. The screens cleared with the air to reveal windows of information and forum debate on a new line of Dueling cards. Kusanagi turned from the computer to find three pairs of eyes staring at him.

Yuusaku raised an eyebrow. “That was a trap.”

“Kind of.” Kusanagi ignored the glare he got for that by looking at Aoi and Shima. “When we first installed this computer a few years ago, Yuusaku kept having drinks around it no matter what I said, so one day I rigged it to fake a ‘meltdown’ if anything liquid was spilled on its keyboard while in use.” A small hmph came from Yuusaku, and Kusanagi chuckled. “Well, to be fair, Yuusaku never triggered it, so I’d mostly forgotten the trap was there.”

Aoi’s eyebrows furrowed. “That…sounds like a bit much.”

“Yuusaku’s stubborn,” Kusanagi said, earning him an even more sour look from the boy in question. “It needed to be something drastic to affect him, so I was hoping a little classical conditioning would get him to stop.” He grabbed a rag from a shelf and wet it at the sink. “In any case, that soda still needs to be cleaned up before it dries—” He rung out most of the water. “—and I’m not doing it.”

Shima spoke a little too quickly. “Shouldn’t Fujiki be the one to clean it? After all, it was because of him you installed that trap—”

“So what? You did it.” Kusanagi offered him the rag, and, despite his grumbling, Shima took it. “Hurry, please. I need to set my truck up for the big Duels soon, or I won’t make any money today.”

Aoi blinked, then slipped past Kusanagi to where the school bags had been set in the space under the computer and knelt to dig out her phone. After checking the time, she relocked the screen and stood. “Kusanagi-san, can you take me home from here? I have a Duel tonight I need to get ready for.”

“We have an access point here in the truck,” Yuusaku said, but she shook her head.

“My brother won’t be happy if he comes back to our apartment to find I’ve logged in from somewhere else. He says it’s too dangerous, so I have to go home now.”

How nice it was to see someone who actually listened—well, kind of listened. The Charisma Duelist Blue Angel wouldn’t exist if Aoi obeyed all of Akira’s commands, but at least she acted considerate sometimes.

“Okay,” Kusanagi said. “Go get in the cab, and I’ll take you to your place in a minute.”

As Aoi left the back and Shima scrubbed soda from the keyboard and floor, Yuusaku grabbed the empty can, dropped it into the trash, and retrieved his tablet from the counter. He opened it and tapped on the screen, apparently returning his attention to his own matters, but when Kusanagi turned to leave, Yuusaku stopped him with a low, “Kusanagi-san.”

“What?”

“You rigged your computer like that. The one we do all our work with. The one we use to fight Hanoi.” He looked up, his eyes expectant, but Kusanagi offered a mere shrug in response.

“Maybe one day you’ll listen to me when I tell you not to do something, eh?”

Yuusaku turned away. “You also drained my tablet’s battery and used up a chunk of my data. Please stay close enough to use the truck’s Wi-Fi next time.” He closed the tablet, grabbed his bag from under the computer, and headed towards the door. “I’m walking home.”

“All right. Stay safe,” Kusanagi called as Yuusaku went out. Glancing away from the door, he noticed Shima looking around with the dirty rag in his hand and a question on his face and waved towards the sink. “Just drop it in there. I’ll take care of it later.”

“Oh, okay. Thanks.” After disposing of the rag, Shima grabbed his books and bolted out. “Wait up, Fujiki!”

A little smile tugging at his mouth, Kusanagi cleared the windows from the computer’s screens so he could shut it down. Yuusaku’s stubbornness may not have changed, but at least some other things had.