#journcy

[phidica]

@journcy​ replied to your post:

dark violet show me the forbidden posts

[fisherpon]

Hmm, okay. So they’re not episodes in the standard sense, but I should still wait till they’re aired on DFam before I liveblog and whatnot.

Thanks!

[mlp-hearts]

journcy replied to your post “Another fun fact: I was involved in a dA pinkiedash colab for a month,...”

You're honestly the most yung nsfw artist of all time and I don't know how to feel abt it

conceal don’t feel

[howdoponieswork]

I finally had time to play The Difference Between Us! I really liked it! Exploring all the different routes was fun, and I also really like how many smaller other stories you worked in throughout everything. It made the world feel very full and alive. And of course Pinkie and Fluttershy were both great! (Though I have to admit that the grumpy Twilight when she mentions writing the scripts is probably my fave pose in the game.)

Oh, I’m so happy you liked it! I wanted all the characters to have their own things going on, so I’m happy that worked out.

Hehe, grumpy Twilight was fun to draw, too. I actually really liked drawing all the different expressions for each of the characters. I made a lot of different ones and it was really rewarding seeing them kinda come to life in the game.

Thank you for the kind words!

[jllongwrites]

Do you know of any particularly excellent sources (preferably online, but not necessarily) of 50s-90s LGBTQ literature? I've found it remarkably hard to come across the few times I've needed to find things for papers and the like.

For lists of texts, I suggest looking up college syllabi. I took both Lesbian Fiction and Gay Men’s Fiction* when I was an undergrad, and each course covered from the late 19th century or early 20th century through the 1980s or 1990s. (Though, of course, that was some fifteen years ago.) Here are a few I found online to get you started:

Introduction to Comparative Queer Literary Studies (Stanford University)

Gay and Lesbian Literature (Western Kentucky University)

Gay and Lesbian Literature (University of Texas-Arlington)

Most college syllabi will probably lean more “literary” than mass market. If you’re looking for more mass market stuff, “gay pulp fiction” or “lesbian pulp fiction” will be good search terms. (For a good example, check out the Beebo Brinker series by Ann Bannon.)

Hope this is helpful!

* I don’t remember if this was the actual name of the class, but that’s what it was. Lesbian Fiction, though, was definitely called Lesbian Fiction. (Ask me about Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness sometime.)

[howdoponieswork]

The hardest part of VNs/other choose-your-own-adventurey things always seems (to me) to be (aside from just making a billion things, ofc) keeping all the paths of the story straight and organized. What's your approach?

Well, this is a pretty short, simple VN, with only three routes, so there’s admittedly very little to keep straight and organized. I have a .txt file that has my outline and then I just write the script directly in ren’py. When I first started making it I started a flow chart to help me plot it out but honestly I just turned out not to need it so I haven’t kept it up at all. I have a good memory anyway so I can write most of it without needing to refer much to the outline.

The basic structure of the VN is this: The game starts with a picnic that Pinkie Pie planned for her and Fluttershy. After the picnic, Pinkie asks Fluttershy if she wants to do anything, and you’re given a choice of three activities that Fluttershy thinks of. That one choice is what determines which route you take, and the other choices you’ve made along the way affect certain things that happen after that. Each route has a couple choices within it as well.

So most of my outline is just written like it’s outlining a story, but anytime something that changes come up I write “If you made this choice earlier, this happens, and if you made that choice earlier, that happens,” and stuff like that. Several things throughout all of the routes are affected by prior choices, including all of the endings.

If I were working on something bigger with more routes to work with and more complex interactions between the choices, I would probably need a better organization, but this works just fine for a project of this scale.

[phidica]

*lifts dumpster lid* Your bag is awesome but it makes me want to ask you questions like "what is your everyday carry?" I'm not one to deny my impulses though, so what is your everyday carry? And is it going to include that Mio figurine that you've thrown everything away for?

Thanks! That’s the new backpack I got to replace my old zipper-encrusted one. It’s a Fjällräven No. 21 and is very good. I take it to uni every day and for that purpose the main contents are my drink bottle, lunch, snacks, iPad, wallet, and keys. But I also carry some other stuff in there for convenience, like additional accessories or clothes (sunglasses/beanie/gloves/scarf depending on forecast), an umbrella, light reading material, headphones, pens, phone charger, and pocket knife. The only thing I used to but no longer keep in there is a notebook, since I don’t have lectures any more

The Mio figure will be living quite comfortably in my bedroom, now that I reside in the garbage and do not need such space any more

[phidica]

@journcy replied to your post “I love having a name that hasn’t been in ...”

I'm not trying to rain on ur parade but u could avoid the subject entirely by just never going on FB

I would love if there weren’t certain things I can only get updates on through Facebook, which necessitates me scrolling through my entire newsfeed once a day. Unfortunately, I don’t live in that world (or at least, not yet)