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btw happy birthday to Jeremy Heere Lifeisweird !!!

i have nothing specific to share for today (maybe i'll find something previously unposted?), but! it's still his birthday :)

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Wildest thing from Centaurworld, ngl.

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hi guys <3 still alive:)

[[ i (mod mell) have been working lately (AKA the past several months) on a neocities site for all things Life is Weird, most notably the wiki-esque thing i was trying to make in another sitemaker. this static wiki will have a lot of spoilery information in it, and obviously will be much more in-depth than [this page] ! but it will look WAY cooler and should be fairly responsive on desktop AND mobile :D

it's nowhere near done, and what IS being worked on isn't quite shareable yet imo, but i've been coding a lot and porting information into it for a while now. with this site, i'll also be able to host any non-linear story installments made using twine (program) without a fuss \o/ plus, it's another place to host the regular written updates, most important art, and other stuff!

in other news, a few days ago i got home from visiting mod nova for a month :} it was a good trip, and accidentally the longest one to date, oops ^^; now we're slowly starting a backlog of LIW story stuff again, though it'll take a hot minute to have enough for any of it to be post-ready. bear with us as we pull the curtain closed on episode 1, slowly but surely haha. please continue to read and reblog!!

i also hope to start crossposting the story onto pillowfort.social sometime this year, once their drafts & queue features are finalised. there's a lot i have on my plate wrt the AU, so we'll see when that actually starts, though it HAS been planned for a while now.

thanks for reading this modpost <3 ]]

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he’s a 10 but he can’t stop flipflopping btwn trauma-dumping and pointing a gun at you

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never bought a shirt faster

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Rich: Things have actually been going really well with Chloe. Our friendship is in a really good place.

Rich: Last week I said, “Did you know the weiner dog is neither a weiner nor a dog?” Instead of saying, “Shut up, Rich,” she said, “Okay.”

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about your tags on my post, explain to me anything you want about your bmc aus I'm curious

(rubbing my gay lil hands together) you've opened the floodgates i hope you know, so i'm sorry in advance for the walls of text incoming aha.

BUT ANYWAY!!!!

this week (oct 9 to oct 13) is THE exact same dates as the week my LIS AU "Life is Weird" takes place (in 2017 tho), so this infodump will be ALL about that AU in particular!!! also bc the 6-year anniversary of the blog was last month ♥

my icon on this blog is my art from that AU too :]c

EDIT: putting this under a cut actually, so i don't have a mile-long post lol. also, i think i'll make a pinned post with a list of all my other AUs for reference! i have a LOT of half-baked ones i'd love to talk about as well

so:

Life is Weird is a Life is Strange-inspired AU i created in 2017!

the askblog it started with (@asklifeisweird) follows Michael as the protagonist (a la max caulfield), and Jeremy as the equivalent to chloe price.

there's a couple more roles that were originally fairly 1:1 (squip as jefferson, rich as nathan, chloe as victoria, christine as kate, dustin as rachel), but over the years they've mostly grown away from being "reskins" as me and my boyf keep developing the au!

i've also stolen several characters from the BMC book– either entirely or just in name– to fill the background space/chars, since LIS has a whole world of characters and BMC as a musical kinda... didn't, at least back in the day :'D now there's more named bg chars, but keep in mind this AU started before even the 2017 Exit82 revival, so we had uhhh about 11 characters and a book. anyway.

while the askblog itself hasn't exactly gotten very far in the story yet, the au has grown to include more LIS-based ideas as That franchise grew, alongside a lot of our own brainstorming ofc!! there's SEVERAL other stories planned following other characters besides Michael, and a lot of different timelines i'd LOVE to explore (some during blog canon, some just in side stories)

not to mention: since conception, the blog has gone through so many styles of getting the story out there that i consider it a multimedia project at this point. askblog with square panel comics in between, full-on comic pages, writing/fics... and most recently, bust-sprites with different expressions and text in between. i'm also working to add interactive fiction into the mix!!

Michael's story (nicknamed "Redshift" behind the scenes) mostly follows the same beats as the first LIS game, but the further in we get the more we've added to it. i'm especially excited for the LIW-equivalent to the alternate timeline LIS1 shows in (iirc) ep4, as well as the timeline post-Redshift that's inspired by the LIS1 comics :)

shifting tracks, i mentioned this was started Before the first musical revival. because of that and the revival coming out like 2 months later, a lot of the original character designs were based off the 2RT/2015 cast, the E82/2017 cast, or entirely headcanon-based. since then, as more productions happened, appearances have shifted or changed completely!

off the top of my head, some of the more notable ones are:

jeremy: 2RT for current, E82 for younger

brooke: E82 for current, 2RT/NYC for younger

dustin: originally all headcanon, now mainly E82 with some hc

jenna: originally 2RT, now mainly NYC

jake: originally 2RT, now NYC + clothing insp from 2RT

i'd like to take inspiration from other productions as well tbh, but i can't change full appearances much anymore since i've done the fullbody sprites already and i don't wanna completely redraw anyone if i don't have to XD

ok so. i WOULD keep talking but i've realised i have to get ready to see the BACCP production today!!! so i'll leave you off with the AU blogs if you wanna know more or read it or whatever! or feel free to send me more asks, i love this AU with all my heart :]

@asklifeisweird (main/ic askblog)

@bemorestrange (extra content/ooc sideblog)

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jenna, explaining something: it’s very straightforward. however, if it isn’t clear, feel free to say so.

jenna: but know that you will be judged.

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I PROMISE WE HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN THIS AU!!! HOPEFULLY A POST ON FRIDAY IF EVERYTHING GOES TO PLAN!!

TLDR; mod nova's been super busy with school and i (mod mell) have been trying so hard to shift focus while also having a vacation and convention during the same time ^^;;

i'll make sure to post SOMETHING on friday for the anniversary of the AU, promise. whether it's a proper update or behind the scenes stuff i'm working on, something WILL be posted 👍 ]]

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[[ life/work stuff (and a new current hyperfixation) have gotten in the way of posting, but we’re still alive, i promise!! ]]

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this ominous shirt from goodwill in maplewood, mn

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Hi,

It’s you friendly neighbor fanfic author here. In the light of this apparent new trend of people feeding unfinished fics to AI to get an “ending,” and some people even talking about “blanket permissions,” let me just say this:

I EXPLICITLY FORBID ANYONE TO FEED MY FICS TO AI. DUDE, THAT IS ABOUT THE LEAST RESPECTFUL THING YOU CAN DO. IF YOU DO IT, SHALL YOU BE EXCOMMUNICATED FROM YOUR FANDOM AND WALK ON LEGOS BAREFOOT TILL THE END OF DAYS.

That is my anti-permission.

Thank you for your attention.

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The problem about having brainrot for your own fic is that I want to talk about it constantly but I don’t want to spoil anything but I want to talk about motives and characters and just the events but I want to preserve mystery and suspense

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rich: well, i already know i’m going to hell. at this point it’s really go big or go home.