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Ask The Lads Episode/Info Archive
Hop into a series of adventures featuring the New Squidbeak Splatoon agents. Your questions fuel this series, so thank you to those who ask them!
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Resources-
| Characters | Side Characters (coming soon) | Spinoffs/Extras |
Episodes-
Season One- It’s Pilot, Don’t Believe Everything You See
Romance
| #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6.1 | #6.2 | #6.3 |
Agent 4 Appreciation
| #A | #7 | #8 | #9 | #10 | #11 | #12.1 | #12.2 | #12.3 |
Memories
| #B | #13 | #14 | #15 | #16 | #17 | #18.1 | #18.2 | #18.3 |
Hyousuke’s Privacy is Invaded
| #C | #19 | #20 | #21 | #22 | #23 | #24.1 | #24.2 | #24.3 |
Season Two- Parasites Don’t Like To Share
Baby
| #D | #25 | #26 | #27 | #28 | #29 | #30.1 | #30.2 | #30.3 |
Tuxhero
| #E | #31 | #32 | #33 | #34 | #35 | #36.1 | #36.2 #36.3 |
Chillin’
| #F | #37 | #38 | #39 | #40 | #41 | #42.1 | #42.2 | #42.3 |
Detective Bea and the Missing Door
| #G | #43 | #44 | #45 | #46 | #47 | #48.1 | #48.2 | #48.3 |
Something’s Wrong
| #H | #49 | #50 | #51 | #52 | #53 | #54.1 | #54.2 | #54.3 |
Shenanigans
| #I | #55 | #56 | #57 | #58 | #59 | #60.1 | #60.2 | #60.3 |
Mystery
| #J | #61 | #62 | #63 | #64 | #65 | #66.1 | #66.2 | #66.3 |
Hostage
| #K | #67 | #68 | #69 | #70 | #71 | #72.1 | #72.2 | #72.3 |
Let’s get Meta
| #L | #73 | #74 | #75 | #76 | #77 | #78.1 | #78.2 | #78.3 |
On The Loose*
| #M | #79 | …
🎱”Confrontation”
Aftermath
| #N | #85 | #86 | #87 | #88 | #89 | #90.1 | #90.2 | #90.3 |
🍒”Recovery”/Finale Comic
Season Three- Dysphoric Cadenza
Species Swap
| #O | #91 | #92 | #93 | #94 | #95 | #96.1 | #96.2 | #96.3 |
“A”
| #P | #97 | #98 | #99 | #100 | #101 | #102.1 | #102.2 | #102.3 |
Hypno Quatro
| #Q | #103 | #104 | #105 | #106 | #107 | #108.1 | 108.2 | 108.3 |
The Spire Part 1: The Magistrate*
| #R | …
The Spire Part 2: The Harmony*
| #S | …
🩶”Bad Days In Orderland”
Valley Girl
| #T | #109 | #110 | #111 | #112 | #113 | …
Key-
Decimals- multiple parts/trilogy
Letters- bonus non-ask episodes (used to bridge the gap between arcs)
“…”- unfilled episode slot(s)
Bold + Colored Text- episode names
Bold + Colored Text w/ emoticon- non-ask, multi page comic
Larger Bold + Colored Text- season names
Sections with no links/underlines- the slot is filled and in the process of being developed :D (however asks for certain slots are not set in stone, and are arranged based on relevance to an episode and story pacing, which is constantly subject to change)
“*”- Special Episode: different character roster, different-er setting, a poster, + limited asks (other asks that were submitted for but didn’t get included in the episode will be answered later on)
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a-passing-storm · 3 days
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I just finished Episode 160 of The Magnus Archives!!!
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danswank · 2 years
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rian vacationed with cassadee’s family all the time and she did with his too so not unusual for him…i’ve been here for 15 years lmao
it says a lot about him that he tolerates frequent vacations with this christian cult
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frostygangg · 1 year
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new promo bio
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digitalmemoriez · 2 months
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two dark fairies ꩜ outsider (2007)
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grupimoderna · 1 year
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Here’s a silly little video of me, my best friend at the time and our argentinian friends just documenting the All Time Low concert and our experiences back in 2015.
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fotographee · 1 year
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instagram archive: Really hipster picture ft. Phone I never use. #iminlesbianswithyou #atltonights
april 26, 2014
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archangelazariah · 1 year
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I make music and clothtes dead ass my specialty. I’m fye with the board too. (👖 made by me)
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callilemon · 1 month
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@bookdragonwrites, thank you for creating such a wonderful story!
HAPPY ATL ANNIVERSARY 💜💙
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Noé & Vanitas are telling you to read it! What are you still doing on the post??
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prettyanb · 5 months
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Snapchat Archives. 6.22.2022 📍Atl,ga
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Spinoffs/Extras Archive
Be No Evil- (will begin when ATL ends)
Comic, Spinoff
Main Characters- Etto, Sleuth, Drip, Futta & Nebett
How To Find- #be no evil comic, @be-no-evil-comic (?)
Ask The Lads: Jr!- Ongoing
Questions from comments, Additional Content
Main Characters- All
How To Find- #ask the lads jr!
Ask The Lads: After Hours- Ongoing
Comic, Additional Content
Main Characters- Hyousuke, Milo, Liam, Beatrix
How To Find- #atl: after hours
Ask Slam!- Ongoing
Non-ATL asks, Additional Content
Main Characters- All
How To Find- #ask slam!
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THIS IS MY 6000th POST! 🎉🎉🎉
And I refuse to give a major number post to the still-ongoing troll situation, lol. Ergo, I have searched through the screencap archives and found something truly worthy of a major number post.
IT'S THE 2015 ATL DICK REPORT!
LOL, you may all be mad at him right now, but I know somewhere deep down in your thirsty hearts, this is still something you want to see. I mean, okay, you actually already saw IT if you were online in this fandom in September 2020 or later. But here's where you get to read a five-year previous accounting and see if you think there's some... similarity.
REMEMBER: GRAIN OF SALT. GOSSIP. I MAKE NO ASSURANCES THIS IS NOT SOMEONE'S FAN FICTION. NSFW.
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Now back to your regularly scheduled programming...
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arimiadev · 9 months
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Visual Novel Developer Interview – Scene Direction in Of Sense and Soul
Hi everyone! For this month's visual novel dev article I thought we’d try something different. I typically write articles based on my own experiences and research, but I want to include more commentary and experiences from other developers.
So today I’ll be interviewing another visual novel developer!
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ingthing is a visual novel developer and friend of mine who is currently developing Of Sense and Soul, a queer Victorian romance visual novel following a pair of men after a misconstrued newspaper ad.
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Of Sense and Soul (@ofsenseandsoul) is a highly detailed, lovingly crafted visual novel that showcases how we can elevate indie visual novels to new heights. Its attention to visuals is something that can be felt throughout every store page and screenshot for the game but is even more breathtaking once you actually play it.
Today I’ll be interviewing the lead developer, ingthing! You may have seen her previously talk on this at Visual;Conference, an annual online visual novel developer conference.
find the archived version of this interview on my blog.
Note: ingthing will be referred to as “Ing” and Of Sense and Soul will be shortened to “OSAS”.
Arimia: Hiya Ing! So to get us started, can you introduce yourself and tell people how you got into visual novel development?
Ing: I’m Ing, I’m an artist and designer who had a gay webcomic idea with her friend one day and then two years later we decided it should become a visual novel instead! Now I lead my own little studio and we’re making a Whole Thing out of OSAS. [Of Sense and Soul]
Arimia: Cinematography is such a large aspect of OSAS. What made you want to focus so much on cinematography for it?
Ing: In the beginning we actually didn’t consider cinematography so much—our original Demo was very static and was a simpler affair of putting sprites on a background. 
It was really when I was designing the user interface that I began to think about it, starting with a NVL style screen that displayed a letter that the main character was reading. I had the idea of placing the main character sprite on the left of the letter in order to display their emotions while reading the letter as a close-up—and that meant I started the framing of the scene, and how the “camera” could affect the player’s experience of the game.
LEFT: An earlier draft of the Letter Reading Screen in OSAS. RIGHT: A screenshot of the same scene as shown in the Extended Demo.
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What really solidified my pursuit of cinematography in OSAS was the prologue sequence—I knew immediately I wanted to use the art for it with a camera pan down the long, vertical image. I watched Visual Novel Design (Vimilikesart’s) YouTube video Ren’Py Images and Action Editor Tutorial and decided to use Action Editor to achieve this, and once I learned how to use the tool the rest was history!
Once I knew what the possibilities of the Ren’Py in-game camera were, I quickly learned more about its Animation and Transformation Language (ATL) through manipulating it, and started adding cinematography to the entire Of Sense and Soul demo.
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Arimia: Why do you think this is important in visual novels?
Ing: As an experience, visual novels are unique in that they are a time-based interactive medium. You’re asking your audience for their attention for a significant chunk of their time, the same way a movie or TV series would—and that’s a lot of hours spent in front of a screen if it stays fundamentally unmoving. 
Dialogue and narration are also commonly shown in a text box at the bottom of the screen, and the text content itself is what tells most of the story. In my opinion, having a static screen that only changes when images are being switched in or out discourages players from paying attention to the visuals, and more of their focus might turn to the text alone—which would not only make their playing experience more monotonous but also impact their enjoyment of your hard work.
I think every visual novel developer or player is familiar with the imagery that makes up a scene—namely, sprites and backgrounds—and these are very important to get right, as they offer a visual to connect with stories and characters. Most backgrounds and sprites offer variation for appropriate times of day or facial expressions, or even props, poses, and outfits if they’re fancy—but I would say their possibilities as image assets alone are finite. You can match a scene to a narrative and match a character to their description, but their effectiveness in conveying a scene is entirely dependent on when, where, how, and why you display them, which is one major element you have control over when scripting a VN. 
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With Of Sense and Soul‘s demo, I’ve had the joy of watching in real time as streamers and players respond to my cinematography—and the level of investment in the story they develop when given engaging visuals cannot be overstated! It was clear the action happening on screen through the main character’s eyes was connecting with them. Sudden angled zooms on shocked characters’ expressions earned a gasp or laugh, while thudding heartbeat effects and pans across a character’s face with their eyes concealed drew concerned looks or “Oh no”s from players without fail, every time the scene was intended to elicit those reactions. It’s one thing to show a character’s emotions on their face or describe how they’re feeling—it’s another entirely to tell it through the audience’s visual instincts.
…the level of investment in the story [streamers and players] develop when given engaging visuals cannot be overstated!
(As an aside, I’ve been told that when they arrive at the voiced segments of OSAS, some players begin to feel like they’re watching a movie instead of reading a visual novel—which in my eyes means the cinematography was successful!)
Utilizing cinematography in your visual novels can not only help you keep your audience’s attention by creating a better visual narrative and keeping them eager to see what comes next, but also allows you to maximize the image assets you do have—which, for many visual novel developers, is limited. I think that’s pretty important, and a win for everyone all around!
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Arimia: I think using what limited assets you have is definitely key. What are some ways you think other devs can make better use of their limited assets, from what you’ve seen in other games?
Ing: I think prime examples of devs making creative use of their assets can be seen in a lot of games made for the O2A2 game jam in which each game can only have one of any asset. Some ways devs have used their backgrounds, for example, with added motion or repetition, like in lastrain by usarin in which a background is looped to give the appearance of a moving train, or in Fleeting Confession by xxmissarichanxx where the foreground confession booth screen is used both in front of the sprite and in the back, but blurred and semi-transparent for the latter.
A more simple and commonly used way to better utilise image assets is just by changing the parts shown of them—many visual novels will zoom into a background or sprite to show off specific details, especially if events described in the story itself are taking place in, say, a table in the corner of the room.
I think what most devs who do play with camerawork and presentation have set up, though, is they’ve already planned their assets ahead for those uses—devs who do full-body sprites will have more flexibility than half-body sprites, and backgrounds that are larger than the final game window offer better quality when zoomed into.
Some devs also play around with “comic book” style cut-ins, like the prologue for Tomorrow Will be Dying by Team Robo and actually, your game, Lost Lune! Even in the screenshots you can see some fun silhouetting of sprites and comic frames being used to bring drama to scenes.
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Arimia: These are all great ideas for VN devs! Personally I love playing around with camera stuff and trying new things to make scenes more dynamic—there’s so many ways you can frame scenes. Is there any technique or method you’d like to add to OSAS that you haven’t been able to yet or plan on?
Ing: I do actually want to do some cut-in style frames and potentially use a vignette effect for flashbacks. I tend not to plan a ton for scene direction, but I see what other devs are doing and go “this looks so cool” and hoard it in my brain like a squirrel preparing for hibernation.
Arimia: Yeah, definitely. I was playing Mahoyo recently and it took me forever to finish it because I’d get so inspired by the scene direction!
How do you mix the visual scene direction with other aspects, like audio? I’ve never delved into voice acting for my games but I know voice acting is a large part of the charm for OSAS.
Ing: Definitely relate to just staring at sequences for ages and rolling back and forth to examine how cinematics work!
Honestly the weirdest part with voice acting for OSAS is we never originally thought it would be part of the game. Because the game has a very “paper-like” feel and was intended to be more grounded in words, VA wasn’t something we felt would be necessary.
What really changed that was the addition of scene direction. Once cinematics were in and we knew what the sprites and settings could do to tell the story, voicing was a natural next step because the game was suddenly so lively!
The audio absolutely plays a big part in how scenes are directed and sequenced—to an extent we follow the emotionality of the soundtracks playing in the background to reflect the emotions of the scene. A more melancholic track might be accompanied with more sluggish-feeling pans across the scene, where a lively track might have quicker pans between sprites to reflect the dynamic of the conversation!
One of my favorite audio-led camera effects is the heartbeat effect used in Seamus’ demo segments; when the heartbeat is pounding in Seamus’ (and the player’s) ears, the camera zooms in/out and blurs along with the sound effect, creating a much more impactful effect than if we were to just add the audio.
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Arimia: Yeah, the heartbeat effect is something that just sticks with you—I’ve never seen anything like it in other VNs. Parts like that really draw you in (literally and figuratively).
Okay, my final question is- share a cool trick in Ren’Py!
Ing: I’ll share two!
The first is boring, but…
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You can actually define your color hex codes in your files and apply them wherever you need them (like your GUI styles)! And then when you need to change the color itself you won’t have to find all instances of that hex code and change them individually, you can just do it from your main definition.
If you’re in the Ren’Py developer console (Shift+O) you can change your save file name using $ save_name = "filename" for your personal testing needs and it won’t affect your save_name for the game itself.
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And that way you can keep your save files for testing named and also make yourself laugh with them!
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And there you have it! I hope this interview with ing on scene direction was helpful, inspiring or at least interesting. Cinematography in VNs has been something I’ve been really interested in this year and I hope to see more visually unique VNs in the future.
You can find Of Sense and Soul’s demo on itch.io and Steam via their website. There’s so many super inspired segments, I really recommend you to check it out! The game is also currently on Kickstarter—if you’re planning to host your own, I fully recommend checking out the page for it. The attention to detail on the Kickstarter page is a league of its own.
You can also follow them on Tumblr @ofsenseandsoul!
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malibu-barb · 1 year
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Trixie's Happy New Year Cocktails at TITS at 6pm CST
Trixie DJ set at the Eagle in ATL on Saturday 7 Jan
Trixie Cosmetics Night Time Realness drops Friday 13 at 10 am PST
Trixie will be at GLOSS! Valentines Day in Weho, 14 February from 9pm onwards
Trixie and Katya Live rescheduled leg starts 16 Feb - 8 March (11 shows)
Trixie and Katya Bald and Beautiful podcast, live at the Auditoriun Theatre, Chicago, IL on 24 February
Trixie Mattel, dj'ng at Beauty Bar, Chicago, IL on 24 February
Trixie Mattel Pink Disco LA, Thursday 16 March at Zebulon
Trixie Mattel, DJ set at Meatballs Fat Slut St Patrick's Day at Precinct
Trixie Mattel Pink Disco Tour starts in Perth finishing Easter weekend in Sydney on 9 April (6 shows)
Katya Zamolodchikova, Artist Talk, April 8, MassArt - 6pm to 7.30pm
Trixie Mattel, DJ set at Evita - 22 April with Jaida Essence Hall
Trixie will be performing live at Palomino Stagecoach Festival on Friday 28 April.
Trixie will be at Trixie Motel, 29 April for Cocktails from 4-7 pm
Trixie will be at Trixie Motel, 30 April for Pink Pony Pool Party from 11am to 3pn
Trixie Mattel, Pink Disco music video taping
Katya Zamolodchikova's birthday - 1 May 1982
Trixie and Katya Bald and Beautiful podcast, live at The Novo, LAX on 13 May *(CANCELLED TBC)
Katya will be at Sydney Drag Expo 19-21 May *(CANCELLED)
Trixie Cosmetics Pillow Princess collection drops 26 May at 10am PT
Katya will headline at TITS on 31 May, for Pride 2023 from 10 pm onwards *(POSTPONED DATE TBC)
Veep presents Trixie and Katya Live - last show on June 1
Trixie Mattel, DJ set at Utah Pride, 2 June, Washington Square
Trixie Mattel, DJ set Solid Pink Disco at the Bourbon Room 12 June
Trixie Mattel, DJ Pink Disco Pier17, NY, June 22 w Katya Zamolodchikova
Trixie Mattel, will be at Gag the Party, July 20 at 10pm
Bald and Beautiful Live Fall Tour July - Dec 23. Tickets
Trixie is DJ at Rooftop Summer party on 28 July
Trixie Mattel's birthday - 23 August 1989
Trixie will be at Happy Land, PNE Amphitheater, 6 August
Katya will be at Drag Haus, Melbourne on 10 August (RESCHEDULED)
Palm Springs 🌴 Trixie Day is 1 Sep 2023
Trixie Mattel, Orville Peck - Pioneertown, California on 11-13 November
Trixie, Solid Pink Disco - Melbourne 2 Dec and Sydney 3 Dec
Trixie Mattel will be at Dreamland NYE 29-31 December.
Footnotes
Trixie and Katya in 2022
Trixie Mattel Pride 2023 DJ set
Bald and the Beautiful Podcasts (Spotify/ Apple Podcast come out before YouTube (which is usually the following day)).
Gooped Archives
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Hi! I've been... kinda out of the fandom for YEARS. Do you have/know of a masterpost of what went on with Alex and Lisa for... the past two years, apparently?
Want to preface this with it was less Big Obvious things and much moreso IYKYK vibes of weird shit or most importantly, the lack of certain types of posts. An semi-hinged timeline of Summer 2020-October 2022:
2020
June 
They start doing Crash Test Live and from the first episode Alex isn’t wearing his wedding ring. It gets talked about amongst fans a bit for months but with farm work it seems practical enough.
July
Lisa is posting him, seems normal!
By end of Summer/Augustish it’s becoming more noticeable Alex is consistently no longer wearing his ring on CTL or in zoom M&Gs.
October-November 
 Alex is in LA a lot.
December 
Everything seems normal despite Alex's missing ring because he's home and Lisa is posting him.
He's home with Dorl and Steve for his birthday and it’s the last time we see him at the farm till April 2022. Lisa doesn't make a grid post but she posts. His birthday post for her is a little weird. Not huge red flag weird, but was absolutely something some of us noticed as being more over the top than usual.
Alex posts his social media hiatus. Something he's never done before but hey it's pandemic so everyone needs a break.
Lisa doesn't have any major Christmas or New Year's posts which is off brand but again, it's fucking pandemic so everyone is being weird, right?
2021
January
Alex posts that he's hiking with Danny who lives in LA. I don't have the posts or exact dates, but around this time, Lisa has posted about her Dad having some health issues and eventually having a quadruple bypass. And Alex seemingly is not home. Lisa never being overt has some interesting posts.
February
 ATL plays Good Morning America and Lisa makes no acknowledgement. Valentine's Day comes and goes
February/March
Alex takes a ski/snowboard trip with Danny (we all forgot to archive stories) which is interesting because he and Lisa took trips to Park City so he’s doing things they would typically do together. Somewhere in this time Danny’s Caroline also sends her a bracelet or some sort of gift which seems interesting.
March
Alex still has not been back to the east coast, but takes another vacation with Rian, Steve, Rian's terrible new girlfriend and her Trump supporter friends at Rian's gf's family's Aspen mansion. They release Once in a Lifetime which is straight to the point! When it seems like Lisa won't post about it, she does! In the fucking weirdest of ways.
The next night, Alex posts and deletes a poem to and video with his horse. It’s confusing and we briefly think he’s back at the farm.
April
It’s their 5 year wedding anniversary but Lisa takes a conveniently timed social media hiatus and Alex doesn't post but he’s definitely back in LA and acting weird about his personal life in interviews.
June
Alex finally goes to the east coast and seems to be packing and/or rummaging at his parents, finding nostalgic shit.
July
Alex is confirmed at his parents.
Lisa hangs out with their mutual friends for 4th of July, clearly not wearing her ring and Alex gets weird. Later in the month, more questionable related shit.
The night of the first show ATL plays, Lisa posts about her bed.
August
Sad Summer starts and Alex is just happy to be on tour or?
 ATL has a day off in NYC and Lisa goes to NYC. We still don’t know why?!?
Lisa is featured in a Baltimore Homes spread. There is no mention of a s/o in anyway but there is a picture of a shelf featuring a wedding photo, and ATL/Simple Creatures things.
September
About a week later, Lisa posts a video dancing in front of the shelf and it’s different. Later she posts directly about redecorating the shelf, void of all Alex relics.
Alex does an interview saying he lives in LA and when asked where he stays when he goes back to MD he starts with “Good question!” and lands on staying with his parents.
October
 the allegations happen so Alex is even less present online than before, which is already limited. We’re still struggling.
November
It’s noticed Lisa has removed Alex posts from her “Fam” highlights on Instagram
December
Lisa posts “Good Riddance to 2021″ and notably ATL decor is missing.
2022
February
Lisa takes a trip to Mexico City and never mentions who she's with. One of their friends posts a comment about "him" that gets deleted. We assume she was seeing someone serious enough take a vacation with and that's all we ever gather about that. Ever.
March
 Janelle makes the "boyfriend soft launch" post which features a picture of 2 glasses of wine she had previously posted in a story  only showing 1 glass, and a pic of her IN HIS T-SHIRT. There was never anything overt to prove they were together but there were LOTS of vibes and timings that never necessarily made sense to compile. I made this timeline on what I think is their precursor to the Lisex split but it’s all speculation.
April - Another wedding anniversary goes by wayside however!
THE WALL - Alex posts a some promo videos and for days it’s debated if they are recorded at the farmhouse. Reader, they are!
Lisa posts watching Batman which just feels telling.
May
Jack and Alex write “Sleepwalking” which seems to have big Missing Her vibes.
June/July
Speculation recap about some things. But includes Lisa posting a pic of Alex on her goat account.
September
one of Alex's aunts tags Lisa in a Facebook post about how lovely it was to see them (twice, to be specific) and Lisa responds that they are looking into a November trip to visit.
October
They are both at Post Malone in New Jersey
Their friends publicly post them together.
Hilariously, Lisa has not posted the new ATL song nor did she repost the tagged posts on her account. Alex virtually has no personal posts anymore but off brand for Lisa.
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