#summon-daze

[sarcasmprodigy]

I just want to say, I absolutely love your oc Montag and the art for her Base E.G.O. and "Windows and Mirrors" have absolutely captivated me! Your art is fantastic, I love how you draw poses and your coloring is amazing.

WHAAAAT.....THANK YOU!! Montag's very near and dear to me right now so that's a delight to hear.

Drew this today. heehee

[oblivious-melodies]

I've stumbled onto Oblivious Melodies and I am completely in love with your prose and characterization, every time I get a choice I get so giddy about the implications and wonder about how things might differ in another playthrough. The Horne siblings are fascinating protagonists. You have such a way with words, it's a delight.

What a lovely ask this was to wake up to! I'm so glad you find the choices compelling - it's very much designed to have a butterfly effect kind of vibe where a seemingly innocuous choice might have unexpected outcomes far down the line, so this is really encouraging to hear! 💞

I feel like I should also say I know the next chapter has been in the works a long time but I promise it is coming ahah! Hope you love it x

[theothin]

saw a great post about issues with how modern fandoms look at... being fandoms, and I would have reblogged it had it not been for lumping AI art/writing in with *checks notes* harassment over ships or dark topics. I'd rather have people post properly tagged AI fanworks and still have fun being a fan than people assuming because they use AI they aren't as much of a fan when fandoms nowdays have people who fandom hop to just complain about works not meeting their expectations and try to police fanworks before moving on to the next thing that caught their eye. And then I checked twitter and saw someone calling out a fanfic and going line by line trying to prove it's AI when it could have easily been written by a third hand fan since some of the evidence they claimed wasn't even true. Like. if people don't feel safe to tag AI-gen fanworks but will get harassed either way on mere suspicion? That's incentivized not tagging things properly and people being dicks for no reason.

yeah, it seems to be a frustratingly common position. policing use of AI in fanworks is no different than policing the content, but lots of people just jump to the opposite and cause all the same problems

[leakedexperience]

After your really fascinating article on Naoto from P4, do you have a plan to look at how other characters from the game were translated like Kanji?

Thank you for checking out the article!

I gave particular attention to Naoto's case specifically because it's the one that goes all the way into "people are practically arguing about two completely separate things, and a lot of this could be significantly simplified if the issues with the translation were brought up." Since I didn't get the impression that this level of confusion applies to the other characters, I unfortunately don't have any plans to write any other articles about Persona 4 at the moment, since D.A. and I have a lot of other topics we want to cover too (along with other things unrelated to the site that are keeping us busy). But I do definitely think Persona 4's official translation actually has a lot of general issues that people often don't know about, and I do like the series myself, so I wouldn't rule out the idea of touching on another topic regarding the game someday! (H.C.)

[possumcollege]

Mundane fantasy might be one of my new favorite genres. Up there with Shakespearean western, atomfarce, and freezerpunk, the genre in which all conflict is heightened by it being too cold for the characters to go outside.

[weirdlypersonalrpmemes]

For the pt3 of "random shit ive thought about saying" meme- you're writing a book? What is it about?

bestie you have no idea how much this ask cheered me up; i was having such an awful day and this ask made me smile so big, so thank you so much for it! (for reference, the post being talked about is here!)

it’s hard to describe my novel succinctly, but in essence, it’s about these four characters who are trying to find a cure for a supernatural illness and... well, about everything they go through along the way. the plot of the novel operates on a very small scale, with the whole book being structured in a super interpersonal way. there’s four main characters, as i mentioned, named henry, beatrice, danny, and violet, and they all live in the same small farming village. which is cool! because going into the novel, all of them have relationships with each other. henry and beatrice are siblings, danny and henry were childhood friends turned enemies, and violet is the only maid in danny’s household. in the book, you can kind of say that henry is the main protagonist and danny is the main antagonist, with beatrice and violet being, like, the sidekick to either one of them.

the book’s really evolved since i created it at, like, ten years old where all of the characters were based on a video game i liked at the time, and now it’s less like “look what these cool people are doing!” and it has a lot more going for it thematically. a huge theme in the novel is about family, which is a big value of henry’s, but there’s also a really strong theme of letting go of things you’ve previously held dear. a lot of the characters have things they really, really want, and they’re forced to confront not being able to have those things, and moving on from that. sometimes what they want, either from another person or from life, is just completely impossible to achieve. your crush won’t always like you back, you won’t always be able to protect the people you care about, you won’t always find the answers you’re looking for. but that doesn’t mean that life is over. it just means that you have to start focusing on what you do have, and cherishing what relationships and successes you already have in your life. so, thematically, there’s a lot of that going on, too, both within the interpersonal relationships of the characters themselves and worked into the plot of the story at large.

another theme in the novel is about gender roles and how they affect people, which was... actually what i was talking about in the text itself. i was talking about how people might interpret the way i incorporate normative gender roles into the characters; for instance, with henry’s insistence on providing for his family and being “the man of the house” potentially being cast aside or emphasized in ways i don’t personally agree with. that actually happened to me once with a friend of mine, where he said “oh, my headcanon for henry is xyz” and i just... i was so upset. i didn’t say it outright but i was like, no this headcanon can’t work because it doesn’t make sense at all for his character! but obviously, like, everyone can do what they want with the characters! they’re just all so deeply personal to me that i know it’ll be painful to watch if i ever actually publish it. i probably won’t end up reading fanfics or following rp blogs of the characters, it’d be so much. too painful. i can’t imagine,

umm but to cap this off, i actually do write my ocs on an rp blog! it’s a sideblog so i won’t be able to follow back, but the url is hellhaunt! if you find yourself interested in the novel itself and want to know more about the characters, that’s where you’ll find ‘em! not all of the ocs on there are from the novel, but... you know. and of course, thank you again so much for sending this in! i love my ocs and my novel with my entire heart and literally leap at the opportunity to talk about them, so i really and truly appreciate the ask!

[hajimehaga]

Reading "The One Who Listened" and wow, that was a shock! not only did some prior lines in the narration make more sense with a "audience", it made me remember some art with Gaspard wondering if Mason truly liked him for himself, or just as a replacement for Avery and now I am CONCERNED in a good way. God I love this series, every time I read it I see something new and it smashes my heart up once more.

yes! and that is why there wasn’t any narration of Mason saying anything like “i took the head of the spy to my RED spy” because there’s no need for him to explain that since he’s talking to the man in question lmao.

and ah! yeah Gaspard is truly a tragic one isn’t he? we won’t be seeing much of him and Mason for a little bit as starting from the next update i’ll post, it’s going to be centered around Avery’s conversation with Ludwig. Mason and Gaspard get to have some time to themselves- the “break” everyone’s been begging for Mason to have hahaha

[nopanamaman]

What if the kids from Pafl were in demonverse?

most of these are very old and very shitty, but here ya go