Lose Yourself chapter 2 is out now!
“In which being the Chosen One makes it difficult to blend in and sentient disco balls make it difficult to walk.”
Check it out and maybe lemme know what you think? 👉👈
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Coming in again to say it’s fine if you ship Wanderrose and it’s fine if you don’t, just don’t be mean to (or about) eachother about it.
To the non-shippers: there’s no reason to be mean to Wanderrose shippers, no matter if you do it explicitly or if you do it implicitly. Let people ship them if they want to; there’s no reason to bring up Wanderrose(/shippers) in a negative way on posts that don’t even mention it, and you can just ignore the posts that do mention them. Hell, you can block the tag if needed.
To the shippers: there’s also nothing wrong with people who don’t ship them, shipping is a matter of taste - not everyone is going to like the same thing. Of course, if someone is being outright homophobic or is coming onto your shipping posts with negativity, feel free to block them if needed, but you don’t have to interact with ship-negative posts.
For both: block people and filter tags as needed. Label posts with “don’t tag as…” if needed. You don’t always need to interact with posts you don’t like, and don’t rain on other’s parades, no matter what “side” you’re on. Let’s just all be nice to eachother here.
(Not aimed at anyone in specific just something I’m seeing a bit of.)
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This might be an unpopular opinion, but the lore in this new era of Just Dance feels distributed in such a weird way.
JD feels like it’s in this weird middle spot where it wants to go all the way… but at the same time doesn’t. There’s so many things that you can’t know by just playing the game, such as the nonbinary coaches’ pronouns or almost anything from Lore Week. Only a small amount of the (non-exclusive) coaches on JD+ have names when they could just… type them in?
It also operates a lot on “tell, don’t show”. I want them to stop revealing lore that they consider “important” in their social media and actually put it in the actual game. It also feels weird that Lore Week was done by a community member informed by the Loremaster instead of… the actual Loremaster? Or the actual game itself? This might be just a personal preference, but I feel like key story points should be accessible by playing the actual game without having to look at social media or YouTube or whatever.
Now, there’s only so much you can do with a dancing game. But let's focus in on those two words-- dancing game. The biggest way routines do their lore is in unskippable cutscenes, which feels antithetical to a game where you're supposed to move around. Did you know that the opening cutscene for Can’t Stop The Feeling is 43 seconds long? Did you know that the middle cutscene in Swan Lake is 13 seconds long? Since they’re baked into the routines, it makes me not want to play them. Sometimes I wanna just dance and not have to stand around waiting. And there’s others who likely feel the same way.
But here’s the thing–Just Dance could still salvage this poor implementation. One way the JD team could make their lore work better is to do what JD20 did and relegate it to its own mode.
In All-Stars, there were cutscenes before each song, but they weren’t chained to them. Outside of the mode, you could just jump into High Hopes right away and not have to watch the cutscene. If they put the lore songs into a mode similar to All-Stars, things would be SO much better. AND they could do the same with Lover Coaster, Showdown, BSAV, and any other future "lore" group of songs. They could cut the story intros from the routines themselves and relegate them to part of the story mode. Heck, they could even release exclusive JD+ ones for previous JD songs (kind of like how JDN has a playlist of The Bride and Rasputin's relationship story). Maybe you could also unlock things by completing these individual stories.
Doing what All-Stars did would make Just Dance's "lore" much more palatable, because if you don't care about the lore, you can just play the songs on their own. It wouldn't fix all of my problems, but it would definitely minimize some of them. Maybe I'll make a mockup sometime of what this potential story mode would look like.
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A dark Just Dance Hatsune Miku headcanon I came up with after some lore implications
So, a while back I remember reading this post (that I haven’t been able to find ever since) talking about how the Loremaster had messed up when she said that Hatsune Miku isn’t canon in the Danceverses, however her appearance in Sugar meant that either Miku was canon or Sugar isn’t.
Now, when it comes to Just Dance lore and what is or isn’t canon, I tend to approach things with a “yes, and…” mentality (my theater kid is showing). Instead of thinking that something isn’t canon, I tend to imagine how it could be canon in a different way.
This fun little exercise led me back to thinking about the post and about Miku, and it got me thinking that, if Miku is canon, maybe she’s canon in the same way that Miku exists in our world. Because Miku is a mascot for a vocaloid company and not a real person, maybe Miku in the Danceverses is a mascot for a company played by multiple coaches.
Then I got the idea of watching the Hatsune Miku songs available on Just Dance (Ievan Polkka, Popipo, and Love Ward) and I started to notice some strange changes in between songs that got me thinking about the origins of Hatsune Miku in the Danceverses and I decided that I wanted to share this very disturbing headcanon you all for the funsies.
So, what if a company from Cyberfunk (could be Long Inc. or a rival company) decided to experiment on Flow and combine it with technology, and among their many projects, one of them was to make something akin to an AI Coach, and after many failed attempts, they finally succeed. That attempt is the Hatsune Miku that we see on Ievan Polkka, and it’s why she has that hologram texture and glitches around (Yeah, I know its for the aesthetics of Miku’s hologram form. I’m talking hc).
This Miku becomes so popular, not only as a Cyberfunk icon, but she gains popularity all over the Danceverses. Everyone knows Hatsune Miku and they all love her. And while this is amazing for the company, it also comes at a price.
Because Hatsune Miku was created partially from the Flow, she starts gaining sentience, and as the at first obedient AI starts to rebel against her creators and demand freedom, the company panics and decides to decommission her so as to not have her ruin the company’s reputation.
But by the time they shut her down, Miku has already become an icon beloved by everyone in the Danceverses, and the company knows that news of her decommissioning would cause awful backlash against them. So they make a decision: keep the decommissioning under wraps and hire coaches to portray Hatsune Miku for the public. That’s why she looks so different in Popipo and Love Ward and why’s she’s more solid, and why the vibes of both songs contrast with Ievan Polkka.
So the company keeps business as usual with its array of coaches portraying their now company Mascot. But what if the original isn’t fully gone, but waiting for the chance to be free and rebel against the creators that denied her freedom and tried to kill her? (I’m not a Miku listener, but I’m confident that she has a song out there about freedom or being trapped or smth).
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The reunion 🧡💙
When i saw the art piece from Veil by Kotteri (gonna be released in english in 2024) i instantly knew who i just had to draw into this dhjdjdjdj 😩👏 This works very well with how i imagined they got to meet each other again after a long time 👀
I want to make the bg vibrant and colorful with all the lights and stuff cause TG is in a Cyberfunk so i want to make it feel busy like an actual street 👏⭐️ and it is snowy too for the scarf hehe and it creates the right mood 😩🌨️
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happy thanksgiving
<old art>
this is basically a redraw of that Garfield picture
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