artificial aegis project, 5/11 and weird soup 3/13?
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er this got long so readmore
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5: What part was hardest to write?
ggggggod genuinely the escape sequence i think. mostly because i had written it literally twice prior so now i had to take those ideas and make a better one out of them.... or at least a passable one.... but it's so hard to let old ideas go, or to decide which old ideas to keep, or, or, or....
with a side of. my brain does a thing where if im rewriting and don't actually rewrite a scene (due to, it was fine the first time) my brain will insist it Isnt Fine and is of Lower Quality eventhough there is genuinely nothign wrong with it, in fact it was quite perfect, (except maybe the execution of properly weaving it into the rest of the fic,,,??? the old with the new?????? i try not to think about ti too much bc i am mostly convinced my brain is just being mean and its eaiser to discard the thoguht entirely than to slave over trying to make A Single Scene match a standard it probably doesn't need to)
anyway.
tho the actual answer is that i thought about rewriting the first scene of hte fic to get hte "what is an aegis" lore in without the, brief history vignette after the first scene, and that was so difficult that i decided simply not to do it. thanks for your time.
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11: What do you like best about this fic?
altered my brain chemistry permanently. like, i think the fic is good, general, and i am proud that i set out to do a thing and i did it, and i genuinely love the whole story, but like
jademythra, is the answer you are looking for here. i can't even offer anything concrete about what i like about it mechanically, technically, becuase the answer is that i made jademythra a dynamic and it altered my brain chemistry personally, and also genuinely, jade&citan dynamic is fun to play with.... sometimes you gotta indulge in something shitty yanno. i miss the way it made me feel when i was writing it LMAO like a lot but i couldn't feel like that again without rewriting it and im unhinged but not THAT unhinged
anywya jademythra. this fic gave me jademythra, and i enjoyed getting to play with them and flesh out their dynamic and fall in lvoe with it (though the rest of it was all VERY good, i adore the dynamics all over this fic, and i also adore that i am so proud of it AND it is only 100k AND it's self contained enough that i could tell anyone to read it and they could and it's not too intimidating the way, say, ftpverse is)
but tldr jademythra
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weird soup
3: What’s your favorite line of narration?
it's dialogue but i love “You good?” Mythra asks him. “Braincells back from their little trip?” quite a lot
tho upon a reread this from a few paragraphs down is also EXTRMEELY good, i am quite good with words actually
That’s all that matters, in the end. Whatever happened is beyond their memory. But it’s hard for Jade to let that go when he has spent his whole life obsessed with all the things that happened beyond his memory.
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this next question would not be interesting for weird soup original so this next one is for weird soup 2 aka the sun, tucked away in your chest
weird soup 2
13: What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story?
did you know, Mythra's VA publishes music on spotify under the name deva st john? did you know that most of these songs slap???????? anyway if i need to get into hte muse again i just turn on some deva st john (XV especially, which is jade - > xc2 mythra, the song)
i also have this mythra playlist which also helps since its torna era focused
