Heya! This is a masterpost for a chapter series I'm currently working on solo, I've been working on it since April 2021 (2 years now!)
The name of it is "Paper's, Please: Hope or Glory"! It's an AU I made based off of the game, with minor alterations, new characters and deeper lore!
(Please Reblog so I can get this to more ppl!)
What is Hope or Glory about?
Hope or Glory will be mostly spoken from the perspective of 3 characters, Inspector, Manya Holland and Alexie Holland.
This is not only a retelling of the game, but a new story following a past incident with the Inspector's father and the Holland siblings, Nadja and Rostislav.
Meeting the Characters!
Our main man, Inspector! He's an introverted guy who's pretty plain on his own. He got his job as border inspector for the sake of his family, he lives with his wife, son, mother in law and uncle.
Though he's introverted for a slight reason, he's been trying to solve his Father's criminal case for years. The government has claimed to have solved this already but he believes there is more and will do as much as possible to prove his Father innocent.
Alexie, the brightest sunshine in Grestin and proud childhood friend of Inspector!
He's the Chief of Border Security who is surprisingly kind for his status! His father, Anatolli Holland, was a First Lieutenant in Arstotzka's Marine Forces and died at the time Alexie was born. His mother and siblings had moved to the United Fed when he was 20. But for the sake of Inspector, he stayed behind and kept him company.
Manya, a strange woman who has many secrets. She's the only daughter of Rostislav Holland, but after her father's death she was raised by Danic Lorun in Republia. She now works as an expert investigator in Arstotzka, catching criminals and solving other's mysteries. But what about herself? Is she just acting weird for the sake of it or is she hiding something behind closed doors?
What will be different?
There's quite a bit of things that are different from the game's canon, both minor additions like adding last names and new background characters to big changes like diving into Arstotzka's Economy and History and making minor characters crucial to the new plot!
Speaking of which, I've added a whole new faction, which has been renamed to:
фиолетовый капитал (fioletovyy kapital)
They're a group that not only strives for freedom, but for equity and peace, half of its team works on protests and donations in the day, but sabatoge the rich and greedy at night. Their symbol is a violet and they usually leave the petals of the flower behind when they complete a mission.
How can I read this?
While I don't have an AO3 yet, I'm currently posting the chapters on my Art Tumblr! And I'll update this post for links to the newest chapters!
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4 (Coming Soon!)
Thank you so much for reading! Again, please Reblog so I can get this around, I'm working really hard on it!
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I feel like im watching a wedding ceremony from a country i didnt know existed. Like, I have no idea how all this stuff is important but good for you?????
btw she gave him a single which can be made in a matter of minute depending on pattern and size but he gave her a giant cuff which can take hours or even more than a day to complete based on just how complex the design and materials are. she wanted to trade something small and simple and he gave her a massive token of his love and respect for her as a fellow raver (and possibly his junior in the scene)
a trans woman, drag queen and recent contestant on drag race has lost all of her social media accounts, and hence multiple bookings, because some washed up actress successfully sued her for the rights to "Lexi Love" because its what she named her business of....making shitty AI generated images. at one point she flat out said she didnt want her "brand" tarnished by association with a trans woman with a history of survival sex work, homelessness, and drug use. this poor woman has been through enough in life, was clearly going through a lot while filming a reality tv show, and now only has access to social media under her deadname.
Platforms like Cameo and social media sites like Facebook have removed the drag star's accounts as a result of claims from an AI artist and
EVERYONE BE CAREFUL. ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN PHISHING SITE (first link)
(the link is purple bc i clicked on it to get the link w/o special characters to report to various phising page report places).
the page leads to what appears to be the normal archive page, w/ the popup about the privacy policy & everything, with the url https://xn--iao3-lw4b.ws/media DO NOT LOG IN. THEY ARE HERE TO STEAL YOUR LOGIN CREDENTIALS. LOOK AT URLS BEFORE ENTERING ANY PERSONAL INFO.
I think teens need to be able to go to trusted adults and say “I saw something in a porn video that freaked me out and now I’m worried I’ll have to do it too” and then the adult can say “it’s ok to be nervous about sex, but remember that you don’t have to do ANYTHING you don’t want to do, ever, no exceptions” and this should be an ongoing conversation to remind young people that sexual desire isn’t monolithic and they are not uniquely weird, cowardly, or undesirable for expressing their feelings, and they deserve sexual partners who prioritize consent & autonomy always
it is statistically normal for teens to watch porn. what we do now is about trying to reduce harm and support safer sexual practices/habits, not attempting to promote abstinence. we already know abstinence-only doesn't work.
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head.
Genuinely, one of the measures that's stopped book banning the most when districts implement it, is having the would-be banners fill out a form that demonstrates if they've read the book or not. Like where they have the summarize the plot and characters and do a mini book report and give a review. It stops them in their tracks. This is why in my high school, every time someone wanted to ban a book it ended up going nowhere. There was one where a conservative student wanted to ban the manga "Legal Drug" for having a marijuana leaf on the cover, then got the form that required them to actually read and either balked, or read it and realized it was not pro-drug at all.
(The other one that reduces book bans even further is "requiring the would-be banner to be affiliated with this actual school in some way, either by being a student, faculty/staff or a parent of a child at the school" because the vast majority of bans are "activists" with no affiliation with the school who just travel around trying to do this in districts all over the U.S. IIRC a few years ago someone crunched the numbers and just 51 parents were responsible for all the book bans that year nationally. 51! In a country with 50 states, with over 300 million people total!)
this is 100% just a silly vent and not that deep but I’m not actually a fan of the terms “I’m so late” in fandom space, because “being late” implies that there is a window, a period of time where fandom is “alive” and while I’m aware there’s a period of time where a fandom (mostly new media) is considered mainstream and popular before people move on to their next interest/hyperfixation. the thing about fandoms—for me—is that they aren’t about popularity or going viral on tiktok. so what if you discovered your blorbo after the hype died down and joined the fandom after most casual viewers have already left? fans who are still active in the fandom aren’t gonna call you “late”, they’re gonna be so happy and excited to have a new member in their community.
fandoms are kept alive by fans, by you and me. not how mainstream or popular the media currently is.
fandoms are timeless. as long as fans still talk about blorbos, as long as fans still create fan art and write fanfics and as long as you engage with posts about blorbos (you don’t have to make fan art or write fanfics, just support artists and writers by letting them know you appreciate their works), your fandoms will always stay alive.
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