#starkmaximum

[getyourchangeon]

"Also as a fanfic writer myself, I'd be delighted if this blog helped other writers!" What sort of fanfics do you write?

This might come as a huuuuge shock given what I write about on this blog, but I primarily write GX and specifically a lot of introspection and/or character study - mostly around Judai and Yubel, but also other characters when the occasion calls for it. Of course this blog is an exercise in analyzing many other characters beyond those two, which is why I've gained even greater appreciation for Hayato while working on it.

You can check out my AO3 here if you so please! For any readers who haven't finished the series, please mind that there will be spoilers. Most of my fic writing is currently on hiatus until I've finished grad school (fingers crossed), but I definitely have more I want to do!

[shihalyfie]

Hi, I just wanted to let you know I'm a very recent Digimon fan who was introduced to it over the past year, because my boyfriend really likes it and I eventually started watching it with him. It went from "yeah this could be fun to do together" to "hey let's keep watching these" to "I have Digimon OCs now, it's over for me", and now there's no going back. Your blog and your posts have been an absolute delight to read and has helped me contextualize a lot of this series that I'm new to!

Thank you for checking out the blog (and I am so sorry for how late I'm responding to this)! Welcome to the series, there's lots to love here!

[madocactus]

Hello Mado! You mentioned Scrivener in your tags of the poll about writing programs, could you take a moment to go into more detail about why you like it so much and what some of its best features are?

ACK i am very late with my response, but yes, i'll be glad to!!

the reason i like it is because it allows you to create folders and notecards for larger writing projects. and when i say writing project, i mean any writing project - it can be prose, research work, scripts... anything. i'm currently using it for the Violence series story bible!

say you were writing a long fanfic; you could break down your fic into several sections, and use color-coding to track your progress on each section.

at the same time, you'd could also look at your notes on the characters you were writing - to remind yourself on how to write them.

of course, this is only the surface of what scrivener can do. i highly recommend giving it a look on its official website!

there's a month-long free trial for it, and scrivener itself is a one time buy that's way cheaper than alternatives like microsoft word LOL

[rabbiteclair]

starkmaximum replied to your post “new (Arknights) fanfic almost certainly going up by Monday. if I had...”

Ohhh who's it about

Ptilopsis n’ Silence. introducing myself to a new fandom by busting down the door and going ‘HEY I KNOW SARIA X SILENCE IS LIKE THE SHIP HERE, BUT WHAT IF THE FUNNY OWLS KISSED’

[catboy-supremacist]

starkmaximum replied to your post “Kingdom Hearts really isn’t THAT convoluted”  Look I’m sorry your...”

I feel like it's convoluted UNLESS you've been invested from day 1 and a lot of people forget that. A lot of the things I'm into would feel convoluted if you were trying to get into them now but they evolved to where they are naturally.

That’s definitely a factor with some franchises. But for Kingdom Hearts specifically I find personally it’s not so much an issue of “this is a story that has gone on for a long time and has many coherent twists and turns” so much as “this story is full of many poor decisions that were not properly executed and the final product suffers as a result”. Like a chef throwing too many things into a dish.

[anime-scarves]

How are you feeling today?

Pretty good actually. Just kind of took the day easy and didn’t do a whole lot. It’s been raining a lot here lately too, so it was definitely a lazy day. 

[turtlessuggest]

starkmaximum replied to your post “why am you call them thieves and not rogues?”

Rogue is the term they go with these days but Thief and Rogue are usually interchangeable.

charmelon replied to your post “why am you call them thieves and not rogues?”

it actually is Rogue but i think everyone gets what it means lmao they're close enough

Ahhh

See I always got chastised way back when by the D&D enthusiasts for using “rogue” cause I was used to WoW classes, so I drilled it into my head that they were thieves, not rogues. 

[darkohexar]

You know what? You know what?? Let's come out swinging. Garbodor.

not my favorite │ average │ cute │ adorable │ best │ ultimate fave

See, I’ve never been one to dislike object-based Pokemon. (In Silver and Crystal, I had Magnetons on my team. Yes, both games. I don’t know why.) So while I know it’s a commonly-disliked Pokemon due to being literal garbage, that never really counted as a factor for me.

That being said, I wasn’t always fond of Garbodor - I didn’t use one on any of my teams, and I didn’t have any particular feelings towards it for the longest time. As time went on, I ended up liking it more and more, and fun lore is always a plus - to quote Bulbapedia: “Alola was once home to many Garbodor, but the population shrank precipitously after Grimer was introduced to its habitat. This is said to have made the remaining Garbodor population stronger than its counterparts from other regions. Alolan Muk preys on Garbodor.“ 

Of course, being fond of the TCG, I’m also no stranger to Garbodor’s presence in the metagame, and while I’ve definitely played against some nasty Garbodor decks, it somehow makes me smile to know that actual garbage is actually not garbage, competitively. These facts, combined, make me enjoy Garbodor as a Pokemon, thanks for coming to my TED talk.