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Does Oscar know what? 👀

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The Rogues Take Patreon! Episode 034 - Checking Levels

Every time I start a new character's recordings, I have to get their levels and check for spikes and all that jazz, so when I start editing and line the tracks up, it sounds like an actual ensemble getting ready to record.

It amuses me.

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Fledgling Loggerhead Shrike! I was surrounded. It was such a pleasure to watch this nest through the whole cycle. #loggerheadshrike #fledgling #trtp #angelesnationalforest #angelesnationalmonument #sangabrielmountains #acton #palmdale #nestingbirdsurvey #birdbrain #birding #nature #naturephotography #cameraphonethrubinoculars #goodmorning (at Angeles National Forest)

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Season 2 looks boring to some because Star is meant to be an action/adventure show with a little bit of mystery. Sure there can be some comedy and drama but SVTFOE isn't meant to have episodes with those sitcom plots. Babysitting (Starsitting), Third Wheel (Just Friends), Starcrushed (Star's side) That's a huge change in the formula. Episodes like My New Wand and Baby feel like it was slow paced. Hey, in Starstruck, Star didn't have her wand. Only a crazy lady, Mina, and a cliched plot.

When a show uses a cliched plot, anon, it’s up to the writers to twist it into something worth watching. They have to make it funny, create an original ending, and just generally keep things interesting.

Not to mention, it’s impossible to write any story without tropes. Even the act of avoiding some tropes is a trope in and of itself. It’s very difficult, if not impossible, to write something truly original.

Even my show is not completely original. It was inspired by other fan projects. I tried to combine the short and sweet approach of Vailskibum94, and the official feel of The Royal Order of the Holy Mackerel, into a podcast like Talking Rainbows Talking Puppies.

And while I’m at it, let me just say that IMO, the way the love triangle situation was handled is the best I’ve ever seen. There is no clear winner here. Star and Jackie are both great people and I would date either one of them. Marco loves them both. And they love each other. In every other love triangle, either somebody is clearly a better choice, or the person in the middle doesn’t deserve either one. And usually somebody is a jerk about it. Here, the writers respect Marco, Star, and Jackie. I trust them to do the impossible and make a good love triangle.

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When I get home from visiting @lunahhhhhhhhhh I promise I’ll write the next The Road to Parenthood chapter :3

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Fun fact about The Road to Parenthood!

As some of you might know, Simi and Kimi Räikkönen were both tags in the fic when I first uploaded but then they were removed. The story was moving in a different direction than what I had originally planned and a lot of people were becoming heavily invested in Seb/Mark’s relationship (including myself).

The chapter where we find out Mark might be cheating on Seb but is actually planning on brining home baby Oscar was meant to only be about Mark getting caught cheating!! Mark was supposed to get caught with Fernando somewhere in Australia or Spain which would lead to the fall of their relationship. It would have been so hard not only on Seb but Charles too. Mark was becoming this father figure for Charles only for the Man to go and break his Papa’s heart. 🥺

This is when Simi would have come into play. Kimi coming to pick up the pieces. Slowly gaining trust from Seb and Charles who are both guarded, Kimi would go above and beyond (in his special Kimi way) to prove he is genuine and wants to be a part of their family 🥹

There was always this idea of adding Baby Oscar to the mix and when I found @lunahhhhhhhhhh’s story To Build a Home and saw the way they wrote baby Oscar in their fic, I KNEW I needed a baby Oscar in mine. So that’s what sealed the deal. The Simi plot line was put to the side and SebMark continued to live on with the addition of a new baby boy!

Anyways! Just felt like Yapping 😋

EDIT: I was 100% going to post an April Fools chapter basically breaking the family apart with the cheating trope. I ended up forgetting so ya’ll are LUCKY 😂

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

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How sick of me would it be to post an angsty chapter for the one year anniversary of The Road to Parenthood?

Did I have a sudden strike of motivation between the hours of 2am and 4am last night to write a heart tugging chapter? Of course. Ya’ll have had to much fluff recently

EDIT: @lunahhhhhhhhhh said it would be evil of me, so you know I have to do it now

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I've realized I haven't worked on The Road to Parenthood in a hot second so HOPEFULLY, I can get a chapter to ya'll soon. I am aiming for the end of the day <3