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Chasing New Dawn
An official tumblr for Chasing New Dawn short story series novella novel, a place where we share the media that inspired it and bits and pieces of the actual work.
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14 years ago,the mysterious New Dawn Foundation gave seven teenagers transformation devices that allowed them to transform into super-powered senshi. The Zenith Force Seven defended New York City against the kaiju, aliens and other menaces for four years, until their leader, Madison Callahan, made a fateful decision that cost her her morpher.
Now, the older and wiser Madison is forced to retake her mopher. But this time, she and her friends aren't taking their orders lying down. The world that the New Dawn Foundation helped to build is about to change forever.
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Artbreeder-generated tokustatsu hero images, Part 2. Some are more coherent than others, but there are some interesting design concepts artists can work off of.
#tokusatsu#artbreeder#aigenerated#aigeneratedimages#aigeneratedcharacters#ai generated characters#character concepts
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I experimented with ArtBreeder’s collager function and asked it to create a bunch of tokusatsu images. The AI images have flaws (like, say, messing up faces, or forgetting to put in arms), but there are some designs one can work with and refine
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“Spider Protector!”
Offscreen voice: “Spider power! Spider Power!
“Henshin”
Offsecreen voice: “With great power comes great responsibility!”
“Kamen Spider Amazing!”
What if…
Heisei era Toei Spiderman
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Filed under “another potential dress/look inspiration for Liamhain”
Merry Christmas ya filthy animal… and a happy New Year! 🤣 I hope you all had a kickass Christmas! I’ll be loading 2 new photo sets over the weekend! Also, check out this GORGEOUS wrap dress by @waxpoeticclothing ! Check out the rest of her work! I’m in love! The stunning peppermint wig is by @jmillsmakeupandhair ! Pic & set by @misschrissylyn
#merrychristmas #sheerdress #roses #peppermint #latina #whitechristmas #pinup #pinupmodel #homealone #thankful
https://www.instagram.com/p/CJPblZ5Hh2a/?igshid=1q78a12fpuwg6
#research material#concepts#fashion#fashion design#Liamhain McGuire#photo reference#ivy doomkitty#photography
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What's in the name - Raveena (?) Mazumdar
Crossposted from Livejournal
Usually, when I come up with a character, I figure out their first names pretty quickly. if a character comes from the culture I don't know much about, I usually have to dig a little deeper, but it isn't insurmountable. Usually.
For Chasing New Dawn, the novel I'm working on right now, I came up with the names for Maddie, Riley and Daisuke pretty quickly. Corey I had to think about, and it took me quite a while to settle on the names for Liamhain and Tony. But one name continues to give me trouble.
Back when Chasing New Dawn was still going to be a novella, Raveena wasn't even mentioned until the very end, so I didn't even give it that much thought. I did already have some ideas for her background. I decided fairly early on that she was going to be Indian. Sumitra from Urbis Arcana was Punjabi, and I thought making her Punjabi as well would be repetitive, so I decided she was going to be a Bengali (Why Bengali in particular? Because that was literally the first non-Punjabi subcontinental ethnic group I thought of, and I just went with it).
As the novella became a novel, Raveena became progressively more important to the overall plot, to the point where it seems kind of weird to think back to how small of a role she originally played. And I knew that I had to give her a proper name. I wound up doing similar to something that I did with Sumitra - I looked up Bengali celebrities. By that point, I already started to get a decent idea of what her mom was like, and she seemed like a kind of person to name her daughters after Bengali actresses, I focused on that. And Raveena Tandon seemed to have fit the bill.
Many months later, a writer friend of mine introduced me to Dipika Mukherjee, a Chicago writer who happened to be Bengali (and, incidentally, a fellow journalist). She was willing to take about 15 minutes to answer some Bengali-related questions, and she:
Immediately realized exactly where I got the name
Pointed out that Raveena Tandon wasn't Bengali, and that "Raveena" isn't a even Bengali name.(I've since figured out my mistake - just because an actress appeared in Bengali films doesn't mean she herself is Bengali)
My first instinct was to wave it off, because I kind of liked the name by that point... But, by then, I had some second thoughts about the name for a different reason. Participating in writing groups requires me to read the work out loud, and I was starting to notice that "Raveena" sounded kind of similarish to "Riley," and, to the lesser extent, similarish to "Liamhain." (It's pronounced "Leah-WEEN.") So now I had two good reasons to change it.
It's not like it would be unprecedented. Liamhain was "Connie" until I realized that it sounded a little too much like "Corey." So it shouldn't have been too hard to change it to something more appropriately Bengali and not Riley-or-Liamhain-sounding, right?
Well, it's been over a year and I still haven't settled on the alternative.
I toyed with just naming her "Dipika," but while it doesn't sound too similar to "Daisuke," I figured it would be better to avoid "D" names. Or names that start with "C," "M," "L" and (obviously "R"). At one point, I did contemplate naming her "Sushma," after the aforementioned writer friend, but it sounds too similar to the name I picked for Raveena's older sister, Supriya. (I did give the Mazumdar sisters a Sushma Aunty, because I figured they deserved more positive and supportive Indian influences in their lives).
I toyed with calling her "Poonam..." But if I did that, I'd get plenty of side-eyes, because they'd know exactly who that would reference. And that actress isn't Bengali, either.
So I've been looking at the Wikipedia list of Bengali actresses, I've been kind of leaning toward "Paoli"... but not enough to actually commit to it. Because none of them grabbed me quite as much as "Raveena," or as much as "Liamhain" did when I came across it. At least not yet.
For now, I'm just continuing to use "Raveena," while feeling grateful that Microsoft created Word Replace.
#raveena mazumdar#CND Behind the Scenes#chasing new dawn#CND characters#writing#bengali#bengali characters#writing process#raveena tandon#dipika mukherjee#name
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I remember the first time I took Brooke there, she just stared, and I couldn't blame her. It kind of looked like a pit, with rows and rows of bookshelves spreading out below and along the walls. There were few areas around the edges – the coffee shop, the cash registers, the shelves with greeting cards, stationery and other not-books – but that just emphasized the view.
For the first time since we left New York, I saw Brooke smile, even if only for a few moments.
from Chasing New Dawn, Chapter 1 (the most recent version as of this post)
#chasing new dawn#CND excerpts#wip#writing wip#skokie#old orchard mall#barnes & noble#chicagoland#photography#bookstore
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Pretty clever and well-executed, and I would actually be interested in a deeper exploration of superhero/supervillain morality in this world. And I can’t help but wonder if Erin was meant to be on the spectrum, or just super-logical.
You are the completely ordinary secretary to a team of superheroes, and the only person who knows their secret identities, hideouts, etc. What happens when the supervillains find out about you?
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Why There Are Magical Girl Transformations In Anime
A fascinating explanation of how magical girl archetype evolved, and how magical girls as we know them are actually merging of two traditions - magic users in the mold of Bewitched and Super Sentai.
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Let’s unpack that. In this universe, Big Girl is a group of women who have devoted their lives to fending off kaiju, who used to be men. Its newest member, Ember, is a 300-foot-tall woman, trying to bury her feelings so she can focus on beating up monsters. Howard tells The Hollywood Reporter that, aside from the charcuterie of tantalizing franchises that inspired this series, Big Girls is also grounded in some real fears.
“The heart of the story really came from me sometimes feeling overwhelmed by the size of the world’s problems, it can seem like the only fix is an equally big solution. Exploring that feeling became the story’s setting, where their problems are literal giant monster men who are destroying the world (science you crazy!). Fortunately, they have an equally giant solution, Big Girls who kick monster butt.”
So what better solution to larger-than-life problems for a creator who grew up with Robotech and Evangelion than Big Girls?
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Power Rangers: Dino Knights (2021) Opening
Like Dennis Alexander Nicholson’s other fan themes, his theme for a future adaptation of Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger works because it’s catchy, it’s exciting and it hits all of the best Power Rangers song tropes (including the cheesiness) while still doing its own theme. The homage to the previous dinosaur-themed seasons might be a bit too on the nose, but hey - it’s not like it’s going to be an official song anyway.
#kishiryu sentai ryusoulger#super sentai#power rangers#power rangers 2021#theme song#dennis alexander nicholson#power ranges dino knights
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The forest moon of Tsukimori plays a relatively small part in Chasing New Dawn, but I still wanted to try to get the details right - like what the day/night cycle would look like, and what the gas giant the moon is orbiting around would look like in the sky. And I found out some interesting bits about the phases of the planet, and how each day brings a few hours of total darkness - which is one of those neat little details that never would have occurred to me.
#chasing new dawn#worldbuilding#exomoon#amanogawan empire#cnd world-buidling#writing#research material#cnd research material
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Writing games
"I mean, if Ma wants to boink a younger guy from work, whatevs, not like any of us can stop her, but now she’s trying to reenact a freaking Hallmark holiday movie with him? That’s not right.” #WriterlyWIPchat https://t.co/AbLkh0o8QD
What's hillarious to me is that that most people who read it have no context whatosever, and have no inkling that the mom Supriya refers to in this bit of dialogue is an awful, awful person.
(h/t @tanyalisle)
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An interesting thing about background characters, like other background elements, is that you don’t notice them unless they are not there (*cough* early seasons of RWBY *cough*). So while it seems like a lot of effort to go through to design something you barely notice, it actually matters quite a lot.
Xeris people (From S01E06 “Xeris”)
Most of the post show you the main characters of each episode. But what about the background characters ? All these people you see, but don’t matter enough in the story to even have a proper name ?
Well, as the universe would be pretty much empty without them, here are a few of these characters, from episode 6 “Xeris”. It’s our tribute to all background and crowd characters ! And if you like them enough, maybe we’ll show you Sunny Bay citizen too. ;)
Characters by Bertrand Todesco, Gaëlle Autin, Bénédicte Ciaravino, Color by Flore Pipari
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Quinta da Regaleira (Torre)
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Free Guy | Official Trailer | 20th Century FOX
The beginning actually doubles as an interesting look at what it’s like to be a regular person in a superhero/action movie universe
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"Chasing New Dawn" influences
As I shared Chasing New Dawn in various writing groups, I realized that the vast majority of people in those groups had no idea what tropes I was referencing, because they didn’t grow up on things like Sailor Moon and Power Rangers, or the teen dramas I watched and shojo manga I read. So, just for fun, I decided to put together some of the major influences. Some influences were more direct than others, and, in a lot of cases, it was more about being influenced by themes, aesthetics and world-building than any plot points or characters. And I’m well aware that several of the things on this list are a bit obscure (if not completely unknown) in the West - but then, I would be surprised if there’s anyone who would recognize everything atop of their heads.
In cases where there’s more than one version of a work (like a book and a TV adaptation). In cases like that, I listed it under whichever version I’m most familiar with/inspired by.
Anime and Cartoons
Clémentine
Code Geass
Digimon (mostly seasons 1-2)
Final Fantasy: Advent Children
Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still
Godzilla: the Series
Gundam Wing
Sailor Moon
Sym-Bionic Titan
Transformers:Masterforce
Vision of Escaflowne
X (the TV series)
Books
Airplane Named Seryozha By Vladislav Krapivin
Animorphs by K.A. Applegate
Genome trilogy by Sergey Lukyanenko
“In the Depths of the Great Crystal” series by Vladislav Krapivin
A Princess is Worth Dying For by Sergey Lukyanenko
The Reluctant King and its sequels by L. Sprague de Camp
“Watchers” series by Peter Lerangis
Comic books and Manga
Astro City by Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson
Babel II by Mitsuteru Yokoyama
Danger Club by Landry Walker and Eric Jones
“Lost World” (a Planet Comics serial)
Majin Devil by Oh! Great
Miracleman by Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and various artists
Neon Genesis Evangelion manga adaptation
Powers by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Oeming
Scott Pilgrim by Brian O’Malley
Shadow Star/Narutaru by Mohiro Kitoh
Wildcats 3.0 by Joe Casey and
X-Day by Setona Mizushiro
X-Men
Zenith by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell
Live-Action
The Adventures of the Elektronic mini-series
Doctor Who (mostly Series 1-3 of the 2004 revival)
Kamen RIder franchise (especially the original series, Kamen RIder Kabuto and Kamen RIder Dragon Knight)
Lizzie McGuire
The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo
Power Rangers (especially Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers in Space, Power Rangers Dino Thunder and Power Rangers RPM seasons)
Super Sentai
Victorious
Zoey 101
Other
Channel Awesome meta
Persona 4-5
SCP Foundation
#CND Inspiration#CND Behind the Scenes#nickelodeon#animorphs#Giant Robo The Animation#Power Rangers#kamen rider#Zoey 101#victorious#astro city#В глубине великого кристалла#super sentai#Clémentine#CLAMP#hunt bowman
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The related interview is online, but I feel like the photoshoot loses something when it’s viewed on the magazine website - so here’s the link to it in magazine format.
Incidentally, this photoshoot just feels weirdly appropo for Chasing New Dawn.
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