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Important: Has anyone like, recognized a pattern in Alan's use of his "writing" voice? I thought he only used it when he was writing, but then I remembered the videos and when he's talking in the Mind Place also potray him talking in that very peculiar way. I'm wondering if he thinks that way, or whether there's a difference in his speech patterns to make him more of a Normal Person whenever he's a "character," or what.

Also, has anyone has recognized the pattern used in his writer's voice? I'm trying to write him accurately and boy it's a challenge. I know he uses frequent repetition, pronouns and proper nouns are sparsely used, short sentences with little variation, and he switches between the third-person and first-person, but I'm a little stumped beyond that.

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chocolate covered strawberries 🍓

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happy 15th anniversary to my favourite game

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THIS!!!! THIS IS WHAT IM SAYING!!!! RE-REBLOGGING BC THIS NEEDS TO BE SHOWN EVEYEHWERE

my thoughts on Saga Anderson and the lack of spotlight on her in fanworks

Hmmm…this has been bothering me since I waded into the fandom after AW2 dropped. WHY DOES 99.9% OF THE FANDOM SLEEP ON SAGA WHILE IT'S HALF HER GAME???

I DON'T understand the fixation on Casey (even though I adore him and he's the other half of my OTP), or Zane to the point that when Saga is in ensemble art, she's relegated to being the "bro". And for what purpose? She has just as much build up and storyline as Alan himself. She certainly has more screen time than FBI Casey. I see posts going "oh, I love Saga so much, she was so badass" and then almost nothing when it comes to fan work.

Do y'all understand, how, as a black woman, this frustrates me to NO end? I go to her tag on AO3, see new fics, get excited...just to see she's the bro or footnote to CaseyWake. I've literally been brought to TEARS over this. Saga was written with SO much love and care, and it's so obvious. She was not the stereotypical sassy, angry, loud black woman that we tend to get when we're even thought of at all.

And it's genuinely PAINFUL to see all of the love, all of that care, ALL OF THAT RESPECT, IGNORED by fandom because you want to focus on the white men. Because why? I get it, het is so icky for most of you, fine. But to not even give her fanart/fics just on her and her daughter? It's terribly egregious.

Saga Anderson is genuinely a role model. She's smart, warm, funny, dedicated, sympathetic and passionate. She will change REALITY just to save the ones she loves. She's NEVER had to deal with anything like the Bright Falls situation and she came through it with such GRACE. She saved the fucking day. She did what Alan couldn't do in THIRTEEN YEARS. And she gets no recognizance in fanworks?

And I know the majority of this fandom happens to be made up of women, at least for fanworks. You truly mean to tell me you can't, at all, even a little bit, relate to this woman? You can't make her the focus, instead of a background character? The white men are easier to understand and draw/write for?

I can't tell anyone who to like, or who to ship, nor would I ever try to, because on the internet, it seems like het is icky despite how amazing the woman is. But I've seen comments towards andercase fanart going "Saga, no, you're married!" But shipping CaseyWake in the same breath, despite Alan being married and getting back to his wife being the main motivation for Alan to do anything at all.

It comes off as hypocritical, it comes off a wee bit "I don't know what to do with this black woman...hmm, let's just make her root for CaseyWake" I'm left feeling that Sam and the team love Saga more than the fans ever do or will. And that fucking sucks. Because to put so much thought into a character and love the character, just to be ignored?

That hurts, really really badly. I genuinely enjoyed feeling like I was represented. I loved having a character I could relate to, one I could understand. But it feels like I'm in the minority. When she tells Alan he's not alone in this, this is THEIR story...well, that was the truth for me, and I wish others felt the same way.

I genuinely adore the works Saga has gotten that focus on her, and I see so much love and care put into them. It just somehow feels like fandom made this game into CaseyWake 24/7 and it's icky.

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remedyverse is crazy because imagine finding out that one mentally ill middle-aged writer you know, whose novels you sometimes see in airport bookstores, is actually God

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Alan Wake: a Star Wars AU because I missed the 4th and it’s Star Wars month anyway

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Ohhh I have really cool comms open and you should all look at them

And you should soooo check out my strawpage for more info

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Happy Face Equality Week

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I really wanted to draw some happy people with facial differences for this week so

if you tag this as "tw scars" or some other "body horror" I'm killing u btw

[Image description: digital drawing of 7 character with facial differences against a patterned background. The left side shows a gay couple sitting and hugging; one from them has a large bump on his forehead and widespread eyes, while the other has paralysis on one side of his face. In the middle is a teen girl cuddling with a cat, both of which are missing their left eye. Below her is a nonbinary person smoking a cigarette with heart-shaped smoke surrounding them; they have facial atrophy on one side of their face. The right side is split into three small panels; top one shows a Black girl with a cystic hygroma on her jaw on a pastel pink background, middle shows an Indian man with Crouzon syndrome from the side smiling, bottom is a zoom on the side of the head of a person with microtia; they're wearing a bone-anchored hearing aid and have a buzz cut with stars patterned in it. At the bottom, "Happy Face Equality Week" is written. End image description.]

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Exactly. EXACTLY.

Actually it makes me SO fucking emotional that Saga—the woman who arguably got the worst of Alan's craziness, the guy who directly caused the death of her daughter, who was surrounded by people he hurt and killed in his descent to madness who, understandably, hated him—SHOWED HIM COMPASSION REGARDLESS AAAAAAAAA

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Yoooo (I swear Im not a porn bot I've been here 5ever I just never reblog anything or follow anyone or like anything. I don't think Alan didn't know Saga was real. He talked to her in the gaps like she was and he has to know from his own experiences that characters in the stories he writes are real since he was Tom's. The question is WHY did he write Saga in Alex's place, like how is that any better than what he had? why did he write Logan dead when she already had a motive saving the world, why did these parts affect their universe when he can't write anything out of character for an individual like he does writing Saga as a divorced alcoholic and he also can't change entire scenarios. he can only push existing things around in the words of Sam Lake. Those are the things that confused me!!

Omg you're so right!!!!! Gahhh!!! It confuses me soooo much

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inspired by a friend misspeaking

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An animated icon commission that i recently completed for Ashdown/frankie!!💖💕

I love doing these but also gosh they take forever to complete lol😩💕

I’m super happy with how she turned out!!✨

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Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris Evans, Michael Pangrazio, Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw and Ralph McQuarrie ! Forever thank you, to their handmade art and the work of their colleagues, that made us dream of impossible worlds and fantastic places across Earth and the Universe.

There are more background paintings on this article, featuring comments by the masters/artists themselves ! 

Some of the following pieces were made by other artists 2:

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the grilled cheese burrito is so good ...