Reblog now for good wizard luck in 2024 🤞

And the crowd went wild!

On thoughts of a continuation....

I'll be honest, they probably didn't have anything initially planned beyond the series.

The thing to remember is that Bandai-Namco have been very gunshy about non-Universal Century Gundams ever since the abject and miserable failure of Gundam AGE, the underperformance of Iron-Blooded Orphans (in Japan, it had more traction in the West) and the success of Gundam Unicorn in the early-to-mid '10s. Both AGE and IBO were not UC, while Unicorn was and helped bring back some older fans that had left when the Universal Century was left behind as the main Gundam continuity for television series in the early 1990s.

Since IBO, which ended six years ago, not only have there been no mainline television series, practically everything has ever been set in the safe comfort of the Universal Century, or have been a Gunpla-based animation. (As an aside, watch Gundam Build Divers ReRise. It's actually secretly a very good Gundam series.)

G-Witch was basically them dipping their toes in the water. It's why this weekend with the series ending, they immediately released a trailer for a long awaited movie set in the most popular AU, Gundam SEED, as well as a new UC project. They had planned those announcements ages ago to cover their base if G-Witch was a failure.

That being said, because I know that sounds discouraging, Witch from Mercury is not a failure. It's basically brought Gundam back to relevance outside it's normal fandom for the first time in a long time, pulling in new viewers and new people to a franchise that, to be honest, had grown very stagnant.

I have to think that some conversations are being had, and have been had about new possibilities, they'd basically be foolish not to. Whether that means we'll see a return to the Ad Stella universe, and whether we'll see Miorine and Suletta, and when that could be, I can't say or promise, but I do think the odds are better than it was, say, this time last year.

I think I might have had a bit of a revalation this fine morning.

Last night, @horizonproblems and I attended this truly amazing talk in a public lecture series on Star Trek that my uni is hosting this term. (It was all about the Third Age of Star Trek and some very valid, nuanced perspectives on hope and optimism and writing utopias under neoliberal capitalism and it was just... amazing. But that's not the point right now XD)

Afterwards, we chatted with the presenter about "Trekademia" (I love that concept so much!). I mentioned I'd seen the call for papers/talks for this lecture series that went out over a year ago (I was working for the English dept. at the time), but I never applied, because the only remotely Trekademic writing I'd ever done was my in-universe essay on holo-sentience and holographic food "The Cake is a Lie". And he asked me to send him a link, even though I never managed to finish writing and it's essentially missing the most interesting section.

But I took the opportunity to reread what I have posted and then look through my WIPs and I realized something: One of the reasons I think I was never able to finish writing the findings section of this "paper" is because I had So Many Ideas that I wanted to weave in. So many little moments with the holos, so many character facets and worldbuilding snippets. And it doesn't work with the extremely academic tone I'm going for.

And after sleeping on it, it occurred to me: I can still post all the outtakes that don't make it into the actual paper! I can keep the tone and focus of that essay and cut out any extraneous bits that don't work in that fram -- and then post a separate work that's like... the researchers field notes or something, where I put aaaalll the little details that didn't make the cut of the official writing!

It will be in bullet points and disconnected and self-indulgent as all heck -- but I'm sure there will be at least a handful of people out there apart from me who would still enjoy that particular take on various holo-headcanons. And even if I'd only be writing it for me, that would still be allowed!

So, no promises that anything might happen, but I just wanted to put it out there as a reminder to myself, if nothing else. Being deeply attached to your ideas and self-indulgent bits of writing is allowed! And even if you need to cut them from the concrete story you're trying to tell because they hurt the pacing or structure or tone, that doesn't mean you have to completely abandon them. There are always ways to share your outtakes and additional notes, on AO3 or tumblr or Discord or whatever, and you're always allowed to share them. Even if nobody but yourself will get a kick out of them, you're still allowed!

(And chances are, somebody else will be interested in reading your rambling thoughts and delighted to find them, actually.)

me: lmao it would be cool if there was a fanfic about Jay leaving with her dad because I think that would just be neat. not me tho since I'm kinda busy n stuff haha

also me:

me: shit.

Girlies I promise I’m not dead I’m just shit

"Demonic Romance Nonsense: DSM- Bonus Tattoo" Please!

@kedreeva

thanks for the WIP ask!!

my beta reader has proven me to be easily manipulated and so behold: potential bonus DSM snippet

You thought you would be nervous now that the time had come to actually get your tattoo. It’s taken time to save the coin for it, but really it had been the artist you had been waiting on. You needed the right tattooist, one who could do the design you’d taken months to refine justice.

I’m joining this years artfight!

You can find me at https://artfight.net/~IsatohLee

This is my second year and I hope to draw more. Though being in another country for over half the month of July is definitely going to hold me back.

Still excited to participate nonetheless.

And all the attacks I’ll do will be posted here

your ryoma panels are giving me enough serotonin to live omFg.

Ajkskjd same anon, same. Even if the scene itself has a slight touch of sadness.

Thank you so much! I'm happy to know that someone besides me needs those pages

oh my god I can’t believe I completely forgot to do a christmas drawing

Can you please "tag goncharov" things with the unreality tag please?

Thank you 💖

I will if I remember to

I don't know why but coming back from my lurker era and starting to reblog/post again is a lot of pressure on myself.

THE SEMESTER IS ALMOST OVER. FINALLY, TIME TO DRAW GAY BITCHES.

Your tiktok is 🤌🖤💙❤❤💛💚🤍🥰😍

omg thank youuuuuuu

I’m just trying to post the vids I took at the shows I went to, (and maybe an occasional shitty meme if I think of one) seems like a lot more people see them on there

Wanna know something kinda cool that happened earlier over there?

Guess he likes ghost?

Feeling the baby move inside of me is 100% the weirdest thing ever. 50/50 between awww and wtf

happy sunday 🤗 gonna finish appearance matchups and then start working on drabbles :)