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Enough of the trope where memory loss undoes the damage or the corruption or whatever. More content where removing memories just removes the context.

The tragedy of needing to grieve and not knowing what or who you lost or why. The angst of having trauma and being denied the awareness that it's trauma. The suspense of being different somehow and left to wonder how and when. The tension of knowing that something is off and you can't find where it hurts. The Adventure Zone gets it. Kingdom Hearts gets it.

There is an aching inside you and you don't know how it got there.

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the strangest thing I've ever seen

oh my cod.

this took so long.

I started this back in October so I would have something nice to look at when I checked in for Nanowrimo... obviously I did not finish it by November lol but it was still fun to do!!!

here's some process photossss:

(I drew a terrifying amount of thumbnail sketches. It was in my head so clearly but it was so difficult to get)

I think this photo makes me look like a very skilled artist. also I think it's pretty. Look at that lighting yes it is wonderful to work in

chaos (I worked so hard on that toilet and that lamp and both of them are covered dude. For the sake of not making this any longer than it already is I won't include more photos but imagine perspective lines everywhere. Every color. Red (Red Rose) Blue(-da-ba-dee) green yellow cyan orange okay I don't think I got that far but it was bad so many layers I kept drawing on the wrong layer it was soo bad

this is the first version of the piece I finished in... December... for an art assignment. I don't know how I forgot to put a soap bottle on the sink when Sophie washes their hands in this scene... like it's the whole main focus....

Also the colors are different because my laptop colors absolutely suck and make everything more blue and desaturated. I asked like 10 different people and it is definitely a problem with my computer so I adjusted the colors in the top image... started doing that at 7:09 pm today thinking it would only take 20 minutes and it is uh. 10:40 pm. sobs

the colors are very accurate to what I am seeing on my screen though I promise you

anyways one more yapping section THE LORE!!! so basically REDSHIFT is a thing I've been working for a couple of years now, started as a book in like journal entry format and now it's flip flopping between a very small animated series or a very small movie I don't know which one. anyways

it starts when Sophie wakes up in a strange place after supposedly falling and hitting her head and she's pretty much fine except that she literally does not remember anything about herself and also forgot some Very Important details about the planet she lives on. Her best friend of 20something (Ashley) years takes them in and helps them adjust. As they're adjusting they realize that there is something very very wrong with where they live and they start to doubt whether it was really a bad fall that got them there and whether her friends and doctors are lying to her. And then strange things start happening, Sophie starts to get weird dreams and the things they find in their apartment get stranger and stranger and they're getting some strange cold... all up until they doodle some stars on their hand one day and it won't come off...

and by then Ashley admits that there is in fact something wrong with where they live but just as they attempt to fix it they are caught up in the consequences of Ashley's earlier actions!!! I sure wonder what she did (I'm not going to tell you that yet the timeline is complicated and my docs are even more complicated okay)

Anyways back to where this thing even happens it's a dystopian sci-fi story!!! which means. It takes place in a dystopia. And it is sciency. Their planet is really nice you know they've been the most environmentally friendly planet for the past 117 years in a row!! Did you know that they contribute to the largest space arsenal in the universe and they have some of the best technology??? WOw good for. them. okay im tired man I want to be done writing this it's late lol. Also there's Steve I didn't mention Steve because he's kind of irrelevant big happenings wise only character development wise but he's very cool and I think u guys will Love Him he becomes Sophie's friend :))

anyways one more thing about half of the population here are kind of just... voids. Like space voids. Like you look at them and they're just a silhouette of a person and you just see space through them. It's a bit inconvenient at times yeah you can't tell people apart unless they're wearing clothes yeah there are other planets with only humans and only spacey peoples and other planets have other species entirely but they're all pretty much in their own bubble and this one's got flesh humans and space humans. They've got quite a history I think you will find. Very big on science... experimentation innovation whatever... personal improvement. just want to make their world a bit better you know...

okay that is all. goodnight

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being a writer is so embarrassing sometimes like awww no my feelings got hurt guess i'll go make up 90,000 words about it. ugh

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also I've found a very good song to make an animatic of The Guys with

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turns out trying to make yourself write when you have a giant project to do for one class and one month with an exam every week is the Worst idea ever!!!!

here we go again

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accidentally wrote the side character of my story to be the desperate sapphic who has slowly fallen in love with the main character and ruins everything in her attempt to save him

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here we go again

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Hmmmmmm

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Found it spamming my emailsss it's Butterdocs. We will see how I like it

Dude what was the name of that screenwriting website that Nanowrimo gave you a year subscription of??? I put my thing in there.... to edit... I forgot what it's called...... what... where is it....

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Dude what was the name of that screenwriting website that Nanowrimo gave you a year subscription of??? I put my thing in there.... to edit... I forgot what it's called...... what... where is it....

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I just finished the acceptable (to turn in to my art teacher) version of the Nanowrimo cover oooo I'm so excited to show it here

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I've decided that toilets are my least favorite thing to draw ever

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nanowrimo out-of-context

sorry about the different-sized fonts idk what I'm doing 😎✌

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RAHHHHHHH I GOT ALL THE STUPID BADGES I'M NEVER TRYING TO GET THAT DAILY PAR GOAL EVER AGAIN 💪💪💪

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I DID IT I DID IT I HIT 50K WORDS!!!! Unfortunately I did not finish the rough draft because I had to do the dreaded Explaining:tm:.

The sentence that hit 50k:

CHR-117: Did you really think this through? Did you really think that we would not notice that her best friend would immediately start helping her, would start taking her to a strange health center we hadn’t heard of before, the amount of signals to unregistered technology? Are you stupid, Ashley? Were you so concerned with saving your friend, that you failed to notice you were revealing your entire life?

(yes I did put extra effort into this sentence most of them are absolute chaos)

quite the spoiler lol. Anywayssss uh I meant to put the certificate here but it doesn't want to upload ah well. I will explain the story when I finish the rough draft :)

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mmmm I should change my username on here to something Nanowrimo focused since I decided I liked the username marzules better and I don't want to have a super similar username because that's confusingggg

But what should it be!!! I don't know. I'm waiting to change it on Nanowrimo until I can think of something good to avoid confusion but I hope it doesn't mess with any of the prizes lol

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FLFLKBKLFDSNVM,ANKDS,MND,MSNV,MDSNBMDSNBM.

I AM LESS THAN A DAY AWAY FROM HITTING MY GOAL!!! And I'm on track to finish the final rough draft tomorrow as well.. Aaaahhhhh.....!!!!!!!!!