#i'm simply incapable of being concise!!! and i'm sorry!!!!!

[byanyan]

me: alright, short reply, best way to dip my toes in and get started writing for the day!

spongebob narrator vc: three paragraphs later...

[scoups4lyfe]

So I'm autistic and agree with a lot of your analysis on it as well as him being coded that way. This isn't a direct attack on Hebi-anon as their opinion is valid and I can understand how their past experiences can color their perspective on the character. So I think it's important to mention that from Tarou's perspective there is a difference between him and Don Momotaro. Hence when he says he doesn't attack people he's referring to Momoi Taro and not Don Momotaro. This is a slight spoiler but we find out in a couple of episodes time that Taro literally cannot lie, as in he is physically incapable of lying, so there is clearly some distinction in Taro's mind between him and Don Momo. To go back to the example of his archaic language the story of Momotaro is a very old one that's been the basis and inspiration for a lot of stories over the years. His referring to the others as his companions is another reference to this. I think him throwing Haruka aside is both a projected personal frustration at his weakness and as well as him being annoyed at the others for not being good enough. In Taro's mind they're all the heroes and they need to be good enough to beat the monster. He's already told the others that he attacks them so they can get stronger but let's be honest have the others done anything to train up as heroes? I'm sure he'd be willing to train them if they asked. I also think this is why Taro didn't confide in the others about his kibidango situation and why he didn't tell them about the missing one, he needs to be good enough and he's not used to opening up. Just now thinking about it I think this might be why Jin doesn't mention certain things about Taro until he has to, in his own way he's still trying to get Taro to open up to others and rely on them. Also just wanna add that I'm not victim blaming Haruka at all and her and the others have every right to be annoyed about being attacked just adding some context from an autistic perspective. Also in regards to the training thing I think it's also him thinking from the perspective of being an old fashioned hero, training through sparring. Notice his response when Haruka and Haiku try to jump him. He's not upset they did it but rather than training more and trying again they resign themselves to him simply being better than them and almost come to rely on him, something that I'd imagine Taro is probably annoyed by. A detail I'd also draw attention to is how when Taro is happy or excited, for example when he's helping others or talking about shared bonds (notice how happy he gets when he meets Haruka at her house, which validates his worldview) his demeanour becomes more like his Don Momotaro persona, because by forging bonds he's being like the hero he's named after.

Sorry for the rambling lol but I have opinions about Taro, especially cause I can relate to him as a character lol.

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Thnx for sharing your perspective, it is absolutely valuable to the analysis of Momoi's character and the moment you said "Projected frustration" I was like

"Ö,!!!"

Same with the hero thing and being annoyed that his teammates choose to just easily rely on him / instead of training more.

Thnx for refining my nonsense >:].

And you weren't rambling at all. Very concise actually. too-high-to-be-ranked/10 homie.

[cerberus-writes]

Hi! First of all, let me tell you that your template and your coding answers are a lifesaver and we don't deserve you but we desperately need you.

My personal dilemma is how to use custom fonts that I have downloaded on my pc in the format True Type. From what I understood, I have to use the @font face in the CSS but (since I have no coding expertise whatsoever) I can't for the life of me understand how to create the url for my font.

Also, in this case, for other users to be able to see my custom fonts do I have to create a zipped folder (consisting of my html game and a folder "fonts", in my case) and send it to them?

(Sorry if all of this sounds chaotic, I'm bad at coding😅)

listen i simply code to make myself feel productive w/ my lack of writing so rly im just glad it's coming in useful for ppl fbdjksb

ahhh custom fonts my nemesis 💀 they're still a little hit and miss for me sometimes and my solution is simply to convert the font files to every possible format in hopes that one miraculously works (thank you online file converters my beloved) so i'll try to walk you through the process !!

explanation under the cut bc i'm incapable of being concise abt anything

i hosted my font files online out of habit, but bc of itch.io’s file upload capabilities, you can theoretically package everything into a .zip folder and upload it there without any issue (more on this later!). this means that the start of my css looks something like this:

@font-face {  font-family: "Ferrum";   src: url("https://dl.dropbox.com/s/fkqf1ribjomi88o/ferrum.otf") format("otf"),    url("https://dl.dropbox.com/s/yu5w5iokb8bt520/ferrum-webfont.woff2") format("woff2"),    url("https://dl.dropbox.com/s/us2wzot5qrou7yg/ferrum-webfont.woff") format("woff"),      url("/fonts/ferrum.otf") format("otf"); }

lemme break it down a bit more !!

the blue bit is the name of your font, in this case, "Ferrum". it's how you'll call your font later on, using something like font-family: "Ferrum", serif;

the purple bit is where all the urls of your fonts go! or, if you're calling it from within a folder, it'd be the location of your fonts. for example, if you have a folder labelled "fonts", then it'd probably look something like url("fonts/fontname.ttf") format("truetype"),

the location 'url' of your file is relative to your source folder, you don't need to copy the entire directory path. see below under 'packaging fonts with the game' for a pic of my folder layout!

i'm not entirely certain whether there's a way to import fonts in-app if you're using the default twine app, mostly because i p much use tweego/vsc all the time. if that's the case, it might be easier to host the files online. i'll explain both!

hosting font files online:

i use dropbox since 1. it's free 2. i'm a creature of habit who learned it way back when and now it's just What I Do i guess?? google drive or any other online hosting platform probably works in the same way

upload your fonts folder as per normal and set the sharing permission of the file to 'anyone with this link can view'

copy said link! you'll notice that it looks something like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fkqf1ribjomi88o/ferrum.otf?dl=0

remove 'www' and replace it with 'dl', and delete the '?dl=0' portion at the back as well (highlighted in orange to make things easier). you should be left with a url that looks something like this: https://dl.dropbox.com/s/fkqf1ribjomi88o/ferrum.otf

slap that into the code above, along with its appropriate format, which in this case is 'otf'. you can check the font types here. make sure the file type matches the format! most of them are identical btwn file extension and format, but double check if you're unsure.

packaging fonts with the game:

itch.io lets you upload .zip files on your 'edit game' page. it can help save loading time since you don't have to rely on a third-party server to load your assets for you!

make sure that your actual game file is named 'index.html' ! here's the packaged .zip file i used for walk with me as an example (i didn't have any custom fonts in the game since i just grabbed them from google fonts, but it should probably follow the same logic as images):

finally, re: font file types, some downloads already provide you with a handful of alternatives just to cover all bases for compatibility reasons. if you do need to convert them, i pretty much just...google something like 'ttf to otf' converted and pick one of the top three results or something LOL

hope this helped !!

[ursie]

Hi, it's me again.

I'm trying my hardest not to be a clown (I'm switching to pirating some books til I figure out where my money should go-- my brain will itch if I don't read, but I don't have to put any money forward or post about it to satisfy my hyperfixation, just read and talk).

New 52 is trending on twitter, probably because of Gail Simone defending Tom Taylor, citing that making Babs able bodied was a decision made at the company level a decade ago, and with Taylor reiterating that Babs is only suiting up for this Fear State event (which, and I'm not defending him for anything, just thinking of how this works, is probably a mandate from the higher ups).

Of course, Taylor has enough clout, I would think, that he could fight this decision.... though I'm not sure he would be successful. And he's responding really immaturely.

I guess my question is, considering that Babs was made able bodied in New 52, and that they seem to be gradually working Babs and other characters back to post-Crisis form but they aren't committing... how would you like Babs to go on? Should she be wheelchair bound again and the magic chip goes away so she can be Oracle again? Like if a writer is told "You must have Barbara Gordon actively in this story, and it must be consistent with the current timeline" what would you like to see?

It's only that I've seen a lot of talk about "re-disabling" Babs being a bad look because the way she became disabled in the first place was so traumatizing.

I'm asking partly because I don't want to put my money in the wrong place, and also because I've been having an itch to write Babs coming back to Oracle myself, and I don't want to do it.... shittily. I realize, of course, that no community is a monolith but the more I go through your blog the more you seem like a person to ask.

I'm sorry for rambling on like this, I am incapable of being concise, but I want to be really clear when I ask because I don't want to accidentally say some ignorant stuff and put my foot in my mouth.

No no I understand!! Truth be told Babs as bg is not nearly as revolutionary/necessary for dc or her character as dc says it is like sgdhdhdhd if I wrote dc I would just have her start as disabled and of been injured in like a gymnastics accident or something. She’s not even the first bg 😭 like she can just be Oracle

Also if you want to read her being disabled outside of redacted I recommend reading “The Oracle Code”

But in the current timeline I think the chip could simply malfunction or something I’m not a fan of the whole eugenics chip obv so it not like. Working would be ideal. It doesn’t need to be traumatic or anything could just be a unrelated medical issue ect. I hope this makes sense?? Thank you for asking 🥰 interesting to think about

[mkstrigidae]

Okay so I'm making my way through your masterlist and I'm in love?? Like let's start off with Winter's Child- a masterpiece. You make Sansa a loving and relatable character and interweave the powers into cannon in a way that actually makes cannon make more sense (preconceived biases and such). Jon and Sansa's relationship is SO SWEET and they way they bonded was absolutely adorable (and the backstory with the houses and the powers they have make so much sense) 1/3

(2/3) Neon Rain literally the best Cyberpunk AU! I've ever read. Like what you did with the world building?? The stark class differences (haha see what I did there?), the choices in SOUND, and I could FEEL myself there! I love the family dynamics between the Starks and I'm loving the little details you're dropping with the Greyjoy's , Jon's parentage, and all of the medical procedures. Jon is dramatic af and I love it and Sansa is a bamf AS SHE SHOULD. Nothing but love for this

(3/3) A Past Worth Having has a special place in my heart. You build up this setting like a tapestry, just seeing more richness and depth the longer you look. I'm proud of Sansa for holding her composure, just FEELING in the angst that the older Starks feel at her return, and loving the relationships with Robin and the rest of the Starks + Jon Arryn. The detail that you're putting into the investigation/Oberyn is awe inspiring and I can't wait to see what you do next with the trial + Jonsa

Haha thank you so much!!! This is such a sweet ask to get! My response is under a cut, because this might get kind of long! (lots of my own meta below, bc i accidentally had a lot to say, haha)

With ‘Winter’s Child’ I’ve really enjoyed weaving in fantasy elements to the world because I like to look at stories and pick at loose threads until they unravel and asking ‘what if?’. I thought it would be a super interesting concept to take a character like Sansa, who in ASOIAF is exactly what she is supposed to be as a noblewoman of her class and conforms very well in that role, and put her in a position where she was essentially a societal outcast in a lot of ways! In WC, Sansa has a lot of similar coping mechanisms to ASOIAF Sansa, in that she sort of romanticizes society to avoid thinking about how absolutely awful it is. In ASOIAF, Sansa holds tight to the notion of knights and chivalry and courtly love to cope with the fact that she essentially has no control over her future and, as a woman, is basically property. In WC, I have her really struggling to make herself into that perfect lady and using that as a sort of shield to the fact that, without a gift, there isn’t anything she can do to improve her lot in life. Sansa has these ideas about becoming a perfect lady and hoping that being perfect in other areas will ‘make up’ for what society perceives as deficient about her, but is more jaded than ASOIAF Sansa due to her age and her earlier exposure to the ills of society. So you get a Sansa who gets along better with Arya and Jon as a result, in part because she’s had that exposure to what it’s like to be an outcast in society. I think that the best fantasy has a really strong emotional backdrop (a really great example is ‘Fruits Basket’ which starts by hooking you with this wacky, fun premise about people in a family turning into animals when hugged by a member of the opposite sex, and slowly builds into a point where you can see that the family ‘curse’ is a representation of generational and familial abuse- of bonds that should be broken, and of bonds that may kill us even as we cling to them- it’s extremely complex and rich and if you haven’t read or watched it, I can’t recommend it highly enough), and so while I really love writing about the fantasy aspects, and writing scenes where Sansa does really cool things with her ice powers, the core of the story is really about Sansa coming into her own, and learning that she was a person who was worth something even without any sort of gift. Sort of overcoming societal stigma and realizing your worth and forcing others to see it. It’s so much fun to write, but i’m stuck at the moment, because i need to reread the books, and my roommate is borrowing them right now haha!

God, APWH is like, indulging my inner world-building suspense-narrative loving writer persona. It’s literally my all time favorite trope- which is of someone growing up to find out that they’re a long-lost somebody or have family they never knew about- combined with a lot of research on trauma (which i’ve been doing for academic and other reasons for a while) and a lot of slowly growing psychological horror courtesy of Petyr Baelish (trust me, it’s going to get WAY more intense). There are so many pieces of media that I love, but I think that GRRM has so many characters and such a well fleshed out world that it’s very fun to dive into his worlds and create something there. Inherently, I love a slowly unraveling mystery and morally gray characters, and this is allowing me to indulge in both!!! World-building is my favorite, because i tend to be fairly detail oriented, and i’ve been laying bread crumbs in so many places throughout the story to hopefully build up to a decent conclusion! I know sort of how it ends, and I think people are going to absolutely lose their minds if I execute it correctly. We have a few chapters to go until we get to anything in the semblance of a trial- there’s some more emotional aspects that I think need to get addressed first, and so I’m so grateful that people are so supportive of being willing to wait for the Jonsa, because they really start spending a lot of time with each other during the trial and prior to the trial (i’m a big believer in bonding via long car rides and so there’s a lot of that!). I’m just so humbled and awed by the response to it- I never dreamed that people would enjoy the story this much- when I started it, I was writing a light-hearted family piece that wouldn’t be too long, and, uh, it kind of evolved from there. Clearly, I am not good at keeping things concise haha.

I left Neon Rain for last, because your comments on this one really made me smile! Of all of my stories, oddly enough, Neon Rain is actually the most deeply personal for me, and I’m just so flattered at your kind words! I spend a lot of my time thinking about the flaws inherent in our society, and without getting too detailed, Sansa’s experience with a family member struggling in the medical system is not unfamiliar to me. There’s a weight that comes with the realization that a system that is supposed to care for people is based on capitalistic ideals of profit maximization, and as someone who has experience working in the healthcare system- no matter how bad you think it is in the US, I can promise you it’s actually worse.

Neon Rain actually just started out as a series of mental images from listening to music that I had to get down on paper, and evolved from there. I actually really love the ‘soulmates’ and ‘class differences’ and ‘mastermind art thief’ tropes, but am incapable of writing fun stories without thinking about the reality of those tropes (see APWH for another extreme example of this haha), and so as I was writing and trying to capture this mental image, the rest of the world began unfolding around me. Jon is different because of a different upbringing here, and so is Sansa, and to see the formerly idealistic Sansa become so jaded by the time she meets her soulmate is just catnip for me. You have this interesting dynamic between them, because Jon wants nothing more than to have Sansa in his life, and give her everything she wants and needs, but where the old Sansa (who was arguably middle-class and somewhat naive, as financially secure teenagers understandably tend to be) would have swooned over that, the Sansa who meets Jon when the story begins is seeing the world and all the unfair and unequal systems in it. She can’t just live happily ever after with him right away- there’s a sense of guilt there, of sansa not feeling like she deserves nice things, and there’s also Sansa’s deep sense of compassion and kindness that won’t allow her to just live life as the well taken-care-of girlfriend of a wealthy man, because she isn’t able to just put on blinders and pretend that all the injustice in the world around her doesn’t exist, simply because it wouldn’t affect her that way anymore.

I think that the core to writing Sansa, for me, in any universe, is that she is a kind and compassionate person who is capable of feeling sympathy towards even the people who have done horrific things to her and her family- that emotional awareness and empathy is a harsh thing to have in a world like Neon Rain, and in our own world, honestly. I’m so glad that you appreciate Sansa’s BAMF-ness in the story- I think that her chapters demonstrate that she is capable of doing extraordinary things when she’s doing them for people she cares for, to be kind (The scene where Alayne helps Robin down from the eyrie is most indicative of this I think), and so in this world, I just love having Sansa be a complete badass out of necessity. Also, it’s fanfiction, and I really wanted to give Sansa a cool motorcyle, because no one else was gonna do it!!!

Also, my characters like to run away with me, and before I knew it, Rodrik Greyjoy had a huge adorable crush on Sansa in the story that I immensely enjoy writing. The Greyjoys are fun because they’re all absolutely insane, and i’m a total sucker for ‘gruff dangerous character is completely a sucker for the kind sunshine-y character’ trope.

God, this accidentally got really long??? I’m sorry- thank you so much for such a kind ask!!! I love hearing what people think of my stories, and this was so sweet :)