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Where can I find the comic?

hi! ghostlight isn't a comic, it's a fic series! you can find it here

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Apropos of nothing (okay, nah, the fic just came to mind when checking this out), did you get the ISAT artbook, or checked out the spoilers at any rate?

i have seen just about one thing from the artbook which was the nille stuff. which i won't lie to you i saw and for the most part just went "hmm no. i am right"

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HI HI HELLOOOO I found this skirt and I immediately thought of your Loop. And I wanted to share it !!!!!

oh this is so cute what the hell.... they would 100% have this in their wardrobe

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@ghostlightfic @kittenixie (Yes, I made a tumblr blog to post this xD) A bit late to the party, but I had great time reading ghostlight, thank you for feeding my brainrot <333 And addicting me to Northen Star ahdgwjdh#@#$@

Always wanted to make a fanart for a fic, but it's the first time I managed to do it, hope you enjoy it author ^^

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Okay, one more question about processes because I'm always curious about other writers, but what happened with Nille? I'm curious where the problems were because I think you did really well with her from what I've gotten to read. Might be interesting to see the issues vs the final result!

this ALSO got long so nille-flavored rambles under the cut

sea glass was kind of a nightmare to write in general honestly. i went through 2 different iterations before settling on what got actually posted, along with making a Later nille convo in advance to nail down her character a bit better

part of the problem with sg was that the initial confrontation with nille and loop was... a bit rough to get right. at first i tried to have her confront them along with the rest of the party which was Not Good. having like 7 characters in one interaction just was not working out whatsoever. it also made her beef a lot more immediately apparent to everyone and was defused by the Ghost Of Bambouche thing and it just was not good. it ALSO had nille arguing in front of bonnie which she does her best not to do ever.

second try also had the full group which was bad for the same reasons. it ended up mostly being loop and nille firing back and forth anyway, which left everyone else a bit listless. it was a lot better once i cut the cast for the scene like clean in half LOL....

there's also just that nille's character is very combative especially and specifically towards the pov character which is a bit Rough. i struggled to nail her down (still do a bit) and i often have worries about how she'll be received, but everyone's been very understanding of her and her various issues, which is appreciated!

her swift turnaround is also a bit of a worry for me, because I know why she's more normal now but the audience can only speculate for a while. lucky for me no one has seen it as a copout or anything which was my main concern with snowflake

in general it's just hard to portray someone who is extremely antagonistic to the pov character but who is also like. not a bad person. most of that is because i worry about reception but honestly you have to beat that part of you down or you'll never get anything done

the Last problem is making nille and loop similar enough to be clockable but still distinct in their issues which honestly i think i've done a decently good job at. they can both be really vindictive little shits when they want to, and they're fiercely protective, sometimes overly so. among other various similarities. one of the differences is just that loop has had a while to mellow out and nille uh. Hasn't.

thank you for the ask!! it's fun talking about behind the scenes stuff, i don't really go in-depth much very often! ❤❤❤ as a treat here's a tiny bit from a future loop nille conversation (that may or may not make it into the fic)

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@dragon-prince-lesbian As for the process, I think I was most interested in how you pace out the emotional beats, specifically in relation to Loop's intrusive thoughts. I find them so well balanced in that, even though they're always quite intense, I can tell when they're about to spill over. Also, what do you think about second person as a writing style in general, especially in the case of ISAT? I really like it. I think of writing style as a sort of matter of taste, rather than a "this is a speaker who tells the story to a person that has to be the reader," the way it's often done in traditional creative writing. Something about it just really appeals to me, like it's a mix of Loop speaking to themself and also kind of… not.

i don't know how much help i'll be with this but i'll sure try! i ended up running my mouth a lot so my rambles under the cut ❤

i'm certainly not the best person to ask about this because i don't do a whole lot of planning with my fics LOL... i think part of the trick is that i wrote the emotional climaxes of gl and bto before i actually got to them (fun fact, scene chewer and catharsis and technically some of paper cranes are some of the first gl things i ever wrote!), which helped me figure out the lead-up i needed to get there

in dead hang i think i skipped ahead to write dead hang in... around chapter 11 or 12? somewhere in that range. i realized i wanted a big emotional climax and knew more or less what i wanted to do with it, so i wrote it out in advance! dead hang didn't have as much leadup as scene chewer because the leadup was Mostly just dramatic irony being what it was, but it Did help me figure out what to do with di so it all works out LOL. i was very careful not to mention loop's party even once in that chapter

with bto, as mentioned, i had some stuff written Well in advance, though some of it needed to be rewritten for consistency and just. improvements. i.e. here's a bit i notated for what ended up being beta catharsis

i did have more notes for scene chewer and etc. originally, bto was Just going to be scene chewer, catharsis, and a worse version of paper cranes, and gl was SUPPOSED to be written as exposition for that fic, but uh. that did not happen that way. so after gl i knew i wanted to flesh bto out more, since it'd be very jarring to jump straight from gl's hopeful ending right into the deep end of scene chewer. and then that turned into... four whole chapters. Oops! it was necessary though and i'm glad i did it

as a bonus here's some notes from when i was reworking bto into what it is today

in regards to loop's intrusive thoughts, they depend on a lot of different factors! how well they're doing, who they're around, and what people around them are doing. as a rule loop doesn't really have a lot of intrusive thoughts about most of the party unless they're doing particularly poorly, siffrin gets most of it and isabeau second most. majority of their violent intrusive thoughts about other party members were specifically in scene chewer because they were at rock bottom. their intrusive thoughts also tend to be worse around people who are "defenseless", i.e. sleeping or otherwise not paying attention to them. Among Other Things. it's really context sensitive

as for second person, i mostly agree, yes! i find it shockingly easy to write in second, sometimes when i write in third my tenses end up getting mixed up, and i just... don't really like first much LOL. second person is pretty flexible imo, you can use it as just a regular writing thing Or you can do some fun stuff with it (instructional, narrator speaking directly to the audience, etc etc). i can't say that there's a specific reason for me choosing it other than that The Game Is In 2nd Person, but it is a lot of fun to write

gl is very much in loop pov despite the 2nd person though! most everything that is written in prose is something loop thinks, and it's written with their specific vocabulary and mannerisms in mind. it's really funny trying to write from siffrin's pov after gl because i have to dumb their vocab down a little bit. siffrin doesn't say shit like Dither or Suppose

thank you for the questions!! hope you find something useful here ❤❤❤

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Okay, one more question about processes because I'm always curious about other writers, but what happened with Nille? I'm curious where the problems were because I think you did really well with her from what I've gotten to read. Might be interesting to see the issues vs the final result!

this ALSO got long so nille-flavored rambles under the cut

sea glass was kind of a nightmare to write in general honestly. i went through 2 different iterations before settling on what got actually posted, along with making a Later nille convo in advance to nail down her character a bit better

part of the problem with sg was that the initial confrontation with nille and loop was... a bit rough to get right. at first i tried to have her confront them along with the rest of the party which was Not Good. having like 7 characters in one interaction just was not working out whatsoever. it also made her beef a lot more immediately apparent to everyone and was defused by the Ghost Of Bambouche thing and it just was not good. it ALSO had nille arguing in front of bonnie which she does her best not to do ever.

second try also had the full group which was bad for the same reasons. it ended up mostly being loop and nille firing back and forth anyway, which left everyone else a bit listless. it was a lot better once i cut the cast for the scene like clean in half LOL....

there's also just that nille's character is very combative especially and specifically towards the pov character which is a bit Rough. i struggled to nail her down (still do a bit) and i often have worries about how she'll be received, but everyone's been very understanding of her and her various issues, which is appreciated!

her swift turnaround is also a bit of a worry for me, because I know why she's more normal now but the audience can only speculate for a while. lucky for me no one has seen it as a copout or anything which was my main concern with snowflake

in general it's just hard to portray someone who is extremely antagonistic to the pov character but who is also like. not a bad person. most of that is because i worry about reception but honestly you have to beat that part of you down or you'll never get anything done

the Last problem is making nille and loop similar enough to be clockable but still distinct in their issues which honestly i think i've done a decently good job at. they can both be really vindictive little shits when they want to, and they're fiercely protective, sometimes overly so. among other various similarities. one of the differences is just that loop has had a while to mellow out and nille uh. Hasn't.

thank you for the ask!! it's fun talking about behind the scenes stuff, i don't really go in-depth much very often! ❤❤❤ as a treat here's a tiny bit from a future loop nille conversation (that may or may not make it into the fic)

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@dragon-prince-lesbian As for the process, I think I was most interested in how you pace out the emotional beats, specifically in relation to Loop's intrusive thoughts. I find them so well balanced in that, even though they're always quite intense, I can tell when they're about to spill over. Also, what do you think about second person as a writing style in general, especially in the case of ISAT? I really like it. I think of writing style as a sort of matter of taste, rather than a "this is a speaker who tells the story to a person that has to be the reader," the way it's often done in traditional creative writing. Something about it just really appeals to me, like it's a mix of Loop speaking to themself and also kind of… not.

i don't know how much help i'll be with this but i'll sure try! i ended up running my mouth a lot so my rambles under the cut ❤

i'm certainly not the best person to ask about this because i don't do a whole lot of planning with my fics LOL... i think part of the trick is that i wrote the emotional climaxes of gl and bto before i actually got to them (fun fact, scene chewer and catharsis and technically some of paper cranes are some of the first gl things i ever wrote!), which helped me figure out the lead-up i needed to get there

in dead hang i think i skipped ahead to write dead hang in... around chapter 11 or 12? somewhere in that range. i realized i wanted a big emotional climax and knew more or less what i wanted to do with it, so i wrote it out in advance! dead hang didn't have as much leadup as scene chewer because the leadup was Mostly just dramatic irony being what it was, but it Did help me figure out what to do with di so it all works out LOL. i was very careful not to mention loop's party even once in that chapter

with bto, as mentioned, i had some stuff written Well in advance, though some of it needed to be rewritten for consistency and just. improvements. i.e. here's a bit i notated for what ended up being beta catharsis

i did have more notes for scene chewer and etc. originally, bto was Just going to be scene chewer, catharsis, and a worse version of paper cranes, and gl was SUPPOSED to be written as exposition for that fic, but uh. that did not happen that way. so after gl i knew i wanted to flesh bto out more, since it'd be very jarring to jump straight from gl's hopeful ending right into the deep end of scene chewer. and then that turned into... four whole chapters. Oops! it was necessary though and i'm glad i did it

as a bonus here's some notes from when i was reworking bto into what it is today

in regards to loop's intrusive thoughts, they depend on a lot of different factors! how well they're doing, who they're around, and what people around them are doing. as a rule loop doesn't really have a lot of intrusive thoughts about most of the party unless they're doing particularly poorly, siffrin gets most of it and isabeau second most. majority of their violent intrusive thoughts about other party members were specifically in scene chewer because they were at rock bottom. their intrusive thoughts also tend to be worse around people who are "defenseless", i.e. sleeping or otherwise not paying attention to them. Among Other Things. it's really context sensitive

as for second person, i mostly agree, yes! i find it shockingly easy to write in second, sometimes when i write in third my tenses end up getting mixed up, and i just... don't really like first much LOL. second person is pretty flexible imo, you can use it as just a regular writing thing Or you can do some fun stuff with it (instructional, narrator speaking directly to the audience, etc etc). i can't say that there's a specific reason for me choosing it other than that The Game Is In 2nd Person, but it is a lot of fun to write

gl is very much in loop pov despite the 2nd person though! most everything that is written in prose is something loop thinks, and it's written with their specific vocabulary and mannerisms in mind. it's really funny trying to write from siffrin's pov after gl because i have to dumb their vocab down a little bit. siffrin doesn't say shit like Dither or Suppose

thank you for the questions!! hope you find something useful here ❤❤❤

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Hi, not really an ask, but I just revived this account to tell you that Ghostlight is making me physically ill (positive). I love my little loop, my little hurt-comfort. You've captured their essence so well, as well as the general writing style of the game, and I binged all of Ghostlight (and Back to One) in 3 days. It's giving me a lot of feelings. I'm finding my love for reading again, for re-reading and learning books by heart. I'm rediscovering an excitement for music and theater and performance that I thought I'd lost. So yeah. Many big feelings. This kinda changed me irrevocably. I'm also doing the thing again where I mark and look up words I don't know! "Dither." Such a good word. Anyway, big feelings, love them all, hope this is as fun for you to write as it is to consume directly into my veins.

AHHH THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! i'm always so startled when my silly fic has an effect on people who aren't me LOL...

dither has to be one of my favorite loop-words and i'm sure it's apparent based on usage lmfao. they're literally always dithering. writing loop is always fun just because of their vocabulary. verbose little freak

thank you again for reading and for the kind words!!! it means a lot ❤️❤️❤️

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ooooo 17 and/or 28 for the ask game ? :>

17. What is something you recently felt proud of in your writing?

i haven't written a whole ton recently but honestly just like. the sheer AMOUNT i've written is crazy to me. i'm also really happy with my characterization in general :)

28. What's the angstiest idea you've ever come up with?

-i smile ominously at you- but other than that uh. i did have the idea of an alternate version of bto 6 where loop has their own mdp-type moment before they get picked up. which would've been very fun for me and not at all fun for them

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back to one chapter 15 is FINALLY up!!! ghostlighters come get your food

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One And A Half Hours Remain.

great news everyone i got tired of staring at it so bto chapter 15 is going up on monday at around 6:00 pm cst! get your rereads in ❤️

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great news everyone i got tired of staring at it so bto chapter 15 is going up on monday at around 6:00 pm cst! get your rereads in ❤️

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I'M LATE. CHAPTER 7 OF THE LIVE READ IS PREMIERING NOW

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Happy birthday!

THANK YOUUU ❤️❤️❤️

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