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u r very welcome to draw the little sonadow kid if you wanna that would be awesome and cool :D
oh word lets go
wow image is so crunchy. my bad. anyways used my new (touchscreen) laptop + pen for this for fun and also bc im in bed. hope its okay. i tried to color but im so sleepy and krita kept malfunctioning LMAOOAOA
Throwback Thursday
Tagged by @thelordofgifs to self-rec a fic at least a week year old, and finding it very easy because I literally spent several hours today+yesterday rereading large chunks of What Does Kill You Can Make You Stronger, Too, the MDZS longfic I wrote during the height of quarantine! Because you know what? This is pretty damn good!
Look at the parallel endings of chapters 1 and 33!
Ch.1 “The Yiling Patriarch Returns!”, Jiang Yanli & Wei Wuxian:
“Yes, that’s about right,” Wei Wuxian repeated admiringly, as he tucked in another wisp of dark energy like it was a loose strand of hair. “You’re a fierce corpse, but you’re also somewhat of a ghost possessing your own body. Maybe haunting your family a little.” There was no judgement in his pronouncement, just facts and eye-shining curiosity. “Even if you didn’t have that necklace on to stabilize you—you’re here because you want to be.”
“A-Cheng helped a great deal,” she demurred, brushing a hand against her necklace, the work of over a decade of trial and error. She hadn’t taken it off in years, now; her moods were so unpredictable without it.
“Of course, of course.” Wei Wuxian waved her off even as he stared at her with wide-eyed wonder. “Shijie, how did you do that? How is that even possible?”
“Ah, A-Xian,” she chided teasingly. “Don’t you remember what sect we’re from?”
Ch.33 “Attempting the Impossible”, Wei Wuxian & Jiang Cheng:
Wei Wuxian started to let go. Before he went more than an inch, however, Jiang Cheng tightened his grip and whispered into the space between them, “Is a-jie here?”
Wei Wuxian nearly laughed. It was so good to be on the same side as his ever-practical brother again.
“Yes,” he breathed back. “I need thirty seconds with that statue.”
Jiang Cheng pulled Wei Wuxian into leaning their foreheads together, for apparently the express purpose of showing off his rolling eyes.
“The one in the middle of the hall, in full view of everyone?” He bared his teeth. “Impossible.”
Wei Wuxian returned the grin.
They’re SIBLINGS, your honor! They’re siblings and they attempt the impossible TOGETHER!
Tagging @smallblueandloud
Sorting out a magic system
One of the things that keeps me from properly sitting down and writing new chapters of fic (especially my longer ones that involve some dose of magic, like What Doesn't Kill You) is defining the "rules" of the world I'm in.
I don't mean inventing them wholesale; that'd make my fic an AU, and that's not my particular flavor of jam. But I do take the existing magic seen in Yu-Gi-Oh! and tweak it to my desires, often to create more interesting plots and character development.
For example, Yu-Gi-Oh! takes the ancient Egyptian concepts of ba and ka and simplifies them, turning them into a mechanic to explain why regular ol' humans are able to "summon" these incredible, god-like creatures "from another dimension," ranging from horrific spider-like demons to awe-inspiring white dragons. But there are rules: no one has more than one ka, and only the special Millennium Item holders can even summon more than one ka, because captured ka (in stone tablets) can be summoned by them. Ka can also be developed over time, starting out as weak and puny and turning into fearsome creatures of great destruction... despite not really having a physical form until they are "summoned." But once they are, they can save their wielder's life with their powers, ranging from webs and swords to their own body.
One needs to have a certain amount of heka, or magical skill, to even be able to see ka, let alone manifest one, but that doesn't mean you aren't impacted by someone else's ka when it, say, destroys the building you're standing near.
And then you've got ancient tomes and prophecies that dictate a chosen Pharaoh will be able to summon three special "god" beasts, but bad stuff and reincarnation happens, and other people can summon them, and... you see what I mean about magic systems being complicated? Writing all this stuff out when you know it'll influence your story is supposed to be helpful, rather than a hindrance. It means I won't accidentally write myself into a corner with a character doing something they shouldn't, or an overpowered character that comes across as a Sue, or something like that.
To that end, I'm trying out Campfire Blaze, to see how it differs from my current preferred writing tool, Scrivener. It seems more oriented toward Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Steampunk writers, RPG game masters, graphic novelists, and so on, but we'll see how it fares for something like an epic fanfic.
Have you used Campfire or Campfire Blaze? What have you thought of it?
I'm writing some WDKY and there was a cream mention and i realized that cheese was probably fuckign ten years old and this is exactly how that played out in my head
Love this creature.
Some art I made of the Chaotix!! I really really love Vector/Espio/Vanilla with all my heart. I love them. They are great. Mwah. They area family.... they are in love.....
These were drawn with Chapter 24 of What Doesn't Kill You in mind, but I really do love them very very much.
Sonadow doodle page. I love writing these guys. I posted a new chapter and its been very fun.
For context, in the beginning of the chapter, Sonic falls into a well like an idiot and Shadow has to pull him out.