Twisted Games by Ana Huang, 454 pages, published July 29th 2021 - 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

If I could give this book more than five stars I would. The dynamic of these two characters that are focused upon in this book was just what I needed. It honestly only took me so long to finish because I didn’t want to finish. I wanted to stay in that world, that relationship, that mind set for as long as possible. I am excited to continue the rest of the series with two books left, however I am just a tiny bit dragging my feet cause I don’t want to leave Bridget especially but also Rhys.

30/11/2023

what're they dancing to?

squints, looks around.

It would appear some merch options have come and I need some opinions

1 - I can put buttons into the packages with the keychain and stickers, as I planned originally

2 - To make up for the over 30 people interested in buying something, I can put the money meant for buttons towards another keychain design instead. Which would be sold separately

Option 1 would just mean one listing to buy when the shop drops, the package deal with keychain + stickers + buttons, only 30 available

With option 2, when the shop drops there would be 2 listings to buy, The Poptart keychain + stickers deal, and a standalone keychain (probably that sprout design).

I know you're not fond of Twilight Princess, but what would you think if they brought back worldbuilding elements from it (the Twilight world and Midna, mainly) to a newer game? I'm not familiar enough with the series to know a whole lot, but that stuff at least seems really neat to me from my secondhand knowledge, but if Twilight Princess was as bad as you say... I would love to see them revisit it somehow with the BotW/TotK continuity.

i have this. thing about twilight princess. we know this. but genuinely even looking at the lore from an objective standpoint i think trying to pull any of it into other games is a bad decision at best and actively detrimental to the new game in question at worst. there are two main reasons for this:

the first is that mainline, non-sequel zelda games have a general rule about standing alone. in order for the games to remain accessible to players of all ages and backgrounds, every original (non-sequel) zelda title has to be able to function as an introduction to the franchise, meaning any lore required to understand the story must be exposited WITHIN the story of that game. the few lore-points that HAVE been adapted from other games (sacred realm, oot ganondorf, talking sword) are generic enough that they can be explained briefly within the story without taking too much time away from the player's journey. while those of us who ARE versed in the lore might have a deeper understanding of the overarching implications of these elements, NOT understanding the history behind them isn't going to impede your understanding or enjoyment of the game. for example, this is likely the practical reason why fi was never named or appeared in botw beyond her generic sound effect and the glowing of the sword, because even players who don't KNOW fi are able to tell from context that the sword is magical and is speaking. not knowing who fi is doesn't impede your ability to understand how and why the sword is speaking, given the rest of the context of botw's story. the two elements of tp that you mentioned, the twilight realm and midna, are VERY difficult from a writer's standpoint to work into a game without requiring the player to understand the plot of twilight princess. neither element easily fits into a new cycle's story without requiring a ton of expositional explanation which will inevitably take players out of the story, and relying on convoluted lore that new players won't even be familiar with to drive your story just sets you up for failure.

the second reason is that, from a writer's standpoint, neither midna nor the twilight realm were well-written enough in TP to be compelling. lmao. If you're going to adapt world-altering lore like the twilight realm into consistent canon, you need to have a firm grasp on the implications of adapting it. even the writers of TP had no fucking clue what the twilight realm was or where it came from or how it tied into the existing world of hyrule at all. literally the first sentence on the zelda wiki for twilight realm history is "The Twilight Realm's full history is incomplete." adding something like a new dimension to your consistent canon is world-altering. when you do something like that, it HAS to be thought-out and for good reason, or you're just confusing your audience unnecessarily. IF the twilight realm was to be brought back, it would HAVE to be with explicit knowledge of of how it effects the narrative and theming of the story its being written into, something that wasn't even present in the game where it was introduced. the same goes for midna; if you bring her back, she needs a reason to be there. she needs narrative weight and thematic consistency with the entire rest of the game, things that were barely present in her original story. ripping these elements out of their own game and tossing them into another only makes them more likely to feel out-of-place and confusing to players. And to be completely honest, almost anything that writers wanted to accomplish with the twilight realm could be done just as easily utilizing the sacred realm, an element which is already in consistent canon and is much easier to write into a given story than something as mysterious and confusing as the twilight realm. with midna, almost anything that she would accomplish could be accomplished by a game-specific guide character, which is already staple of loz anyway. using a game-specific guide character would also remove any potential confusion for new players who lack the context of midna's past appearances. the only reason you might NEED midna as a character is if you ALSO have the twilight realm and specifically require a twili guide character to explain it, but. for all the reasons stated above. you shouldn't have the twilight realm. lol

MAG 29: Cheating Death reblog if you agree

Also I want to be clear:

Even if I do add DC stuff into the Crossover, that does not mean that anything from To Bee A Bat will be canon re: Bruce being Chloé's dad. I already have a bio dad set up for her in HC/LL and having a Crossover Dad would complicate things a little much for how I have set up the Crossover.

comic planning/roughs on the clock at work 👍 ok. this one's still a few posts out though

the maister system and the new 'find vocations out in the world' system is...ok, but I prefer the old colour system

Oswald Danes is 100% based on Donald trump and there is nothing you can do to convince me otherwise. In 2011!!!

Heartless by Elise Silvers, 474 pages, published October 14th 2022 - 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Okay so I know I absolutely adored the first book, like it made me so happy and calm. Yet this one guys!!! I want to say, is even better!!! Jules and Cade!! The sass, the love, the everything. This book was perfect for me and I wish I could read it for the first time again. Thank you Elise Silvers!

it really is painful being a jojo fan because like you truly cannot reccomend it to people. and not because theres nothing in it worth reading/watching, like ik people who would love parts of it and in general id reccomend diu stocean and sbr to people in the sense that i genuinely think that theyre interesting and fun stories. but like the problem is that if someone wanted to get to them theyd have to sit through all the other parts and i literally cannot ask another human being let alone a friend to do that

GUESS WHO'S BACK YOU WONDERFUL BASTARDS

Bridging the Gap

Okay, so in the new Cookie Run animated series, I imagine there’s gonna be some slice of life episodes featuring adventures in the kingdom, if that’s not the majority of the episodes. From what I can tell of the things in the promo, the Cookies of Darkness will also be there, sneaking around and spying on them and likely causing mischief

So now I want there to be an episode where the CoD sends Dark Choco to the Cookie Kingdom for whatever reason, only for him to get caught up in shenanigans and end up having a good time, maybe making some friends with the side cast who don’t know him or his affiliation. I just think that’d be nice

Scared Half to Death caught my attention so can you tell me more about it? Dead Wayne prompt also but I love Uncle Wayne and I am afraid that your answer might break my heart, so let's stay with the first option 😂

have a great day/night! 🍀

Scared Half to Death is actually the second chapter for a Steve/HendersonCousinOC! fic I'm drooling over (most of the Steve wips in my folder are related to that 😅) It'll be loosely based on 50 First Dates, but I'm still ironing out the major plot points - I just really wanted to write out that scene! I won't start pushing it out until I finish RtL, though, because if I have to worry about writing 2 fics at once I will explode 💗

[And as for the Dead Wayne prompt, I will say it's based on an ask submission I'd seen floating around months ago that I just expanded on. I do plan on writing it {the Wayne cd is part of that - cd meaning "character death"}, but again, only after RtL ends, because the two stories will connect. I will say that it made me cry, though!]

have a great day/night love! 💗💗