#Thomas sanders updates

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Gorgeous photoshoot from Thomas this week

I think it was eluding to this one from September 2022

Major change, beautiful in both 🩶

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TS (re)tweet 17/5/24

and part of it will change forever in tomorrow’s video

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thomas sanders included this photo of him and ranboo is his insta post about 2023 :]

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Is the sanders sides fandom still alive?

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Fanders Sides Season 3 is complete

I finished writing it and in the last couple days I read it all: I can confirm that now everything works a lot better than before, I am satisfied wit hteh conclusion and I hope you will be too.

So, what happens now?

First of all, the episode analyses: they are all written, I just have to proofread them. Once they will be ready to go, I will post them - so you can expect frequent updates from now on.

After the episode analyses will be over, I will start posting the episodes of FSS3. They will be available on AO3 too, so you can save them here on Tumblr or on AO3.

And that's all for now. After all of this is over, I will write another post to explain what happens next, but let's not get too ahead of ourselves: this adventure is far from over.

The analysis of Can Lying Be Good will come soon, so keep an eye around for that one ;)

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I wanted to work on this more, give it nice lighting and make sort of a moodboard or something like that, but actually that's enough of a mood in and of its own.

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Filming what??????

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Roman's Psyche and Relationships Before and After The Season Finale

{This post is meant to be a sort of status update on Roman's emotional state and his relationships with each side. I'll be reblogging this post every time a part of the season finale gets released, making an update to all of the things listed here each time. Now with all that said, enjoy!!}

Before:

Emotional Status: Not great in the slightest. Probably doing the worst out of all the sides right now. Only has one stable relationship.

Roman and Virgil: Buddies. Virgil is currently Roman's only stable relationship, and I expect that they're gonna stay really close throughout the entire finale.

Roman and Patton: Not doing so hot. They are not getting along very well right now. Patton seems to be trying to reach out to Roman, but Roman's got his guard up around him ever since POF. Now I guess I can say that Roman's officially got Daddy Issues!! XD

Roman and Logan: Kind of meh from what I've seen. They don't seem to be on horrible terms right now, but I don't think they're doing so great relationship-wise either right now.

Roman and Janus: These two are on fucking awful terms right now. Roman is incredibly distrustful towards Janus, and I am almost positive that it's gonna take a long time for him to finally warm up to Janus's addition to the main cast. My guess is that Janus is gonna be trying to gain Roman's trust throughout the next few episodes, but we'll just have to wait and see how that goes.

Roman and Remus: The same as it's always been. They're the dumbass twins who hate each other, and they honestly have very few interactions to speak of so far. That'll probably change during the season finale, but we'll just have to wait and see. Roman has a strong dislike of Remus, and being compared to him is definitely something that causes a boatload of self-esteem issues.

Roman and Thomas: A mix of distrustful and meh. Roman definitely feels awful about the fact that (he thinks) Thomas doesn't see him as his hero anymore, but he still obviously cares about his well being. I just wouldn't be surprised if it takes a while for him to trust him again. But then again, who knows? We'll just have to see how it goes during the season finale!

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Remus Redesign!!! :D

I think I’ve forgotten the main part of drawing the Sides - to tailor it to what I want to see, not necessarily to be perfectly accurate. So I gave him earrings, heels, a whole lot of eyeballs, and a cape (because why not?). I can’t wait to draw him more! :)

Old design and closeups below!

Janus>

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And he keeps making merch 🙂 for a series that hasn't seen main content in over two years now 🙂 I'm fine, why do you ask 🙂

And I'm torn, because he's made a few collabs recently and it seems like it was a lot of fun! And I'm happy for him! I know he's had health issues recently and I'm glad he's getting to make content and enjoying it.

But making ad after ad after bonus content after whatever the hell the anime intro was, for a series that feels abandoned to the point where I barely remember the plot, is just disheartening. I hope whatever blocking he's having with the finale gets resolved

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Lil update

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TS tweet 19/1/24:

filming break

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thank you so much for all the love on this blog so far!! i really appreciate it.

asks are open, so if you have any questions about the silly guys, feel free to send them in, but i will be making a few posts in the future that will offer some more lore for you all! :D

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the true question is; will we still get trending when the season finale drops?

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FSS3: an update

Hey,

Two days ago, I finished the first draft for FSS3, a fanwriting of Sanders Season 3 (season 2 finale included) that I am doing thanks to the sweet contributions/ideas/prompts given by the people of this fandom.

When two days ago I was writing the final episode that would end Sanders Sides, I realized that 

it was boring

I was not satisfied by it

it was not what I planned

not all concepts seemed to be developed well

There was one possible solution only: to check everything again.

Some of you might think this is useless, because I already planned everything in advance, right? Well, when you write, stuff tends to be added or to change. Also, when you plan in advance, everything seems very smooth. But once you have the final result of your planning, things might be different. Still, it’s better to have it, because it makes it easier to go back from the start and check if everything really is as smooth as planned.

And so, here’s how I checked it.

Those are all the main concepts/plots I developed in each episode. I needed this to check

if all plots were developed during the season

if there weren’t too many temporal gaps

If they have been all wrapped up

But since this wasn’t enough, I also put the main ones into another graph

This gave me a better vision of how the themes have been developed and also how Character!Thomas should be developed.

And if you see these post-its, they all have a title. The title of a song of Character!Thomas’ playlists. After all, his playlist follows his character arc, so why not using it as a base to see if/how I followed his arc correctly?

And speaking of characters, I couldn’t leave behind the real main ones:

Here I wrote down what they did for each episode, then added the song titles. In this case, the songs don’t just help me see if I followed their arc, but act as a reminder of how I should write the Sides and focus on their personalities.

This also made me realize the dark boys never had a chance to talk about society, which is of course a huge oversight because they clearly love doing it every time they can.

And once I noticed this, I also realized what was sitting wrong with me: it was Roman’s character arc. Only by adding his songs, I realized that after the season 2 finale, I reverted his arc and made him full of doubts again. It could’ve worked if season 2 finale was one episode, but since we’re talking about 4 parts, Roman should start season 3 with a better understanding of himself.

Once I corrected this point, Thomas’ arc improved as well and I was ableto take away one prompt that was more of a nuisance, rather than something useful.

And so, I planned season 2 finale again. Now Roman goes through a real arc, Patton is not in the back anymore and I have a chance to show Janus’ character better: this guy is useful, but he should be used well, otherwise he will end up being just a way to make jokes.

Now you may ask: why are you telling us all of this? The reason is that I learned some stuff that I want to share - and that I hope it could be useful for people who wants to write/plan to write anything.

First of all, this second check after the first draft confirmed me the importance of planning/putting down a whole project in advance, before submitting it to the public. Just imagine if I started posting stuff, without writing the end: I would’ve reached the last episode and realized that the beginning didn’t work. Then what? Take everything down and start again? All while people already read the first bad stuff I gave them? I would’ve lost credibility and people would’ve wasted their time.

Also, some episodes I planned are very good and I love them, so I would’ve hated to reveal them mixed with the bad stuff.

It also made me question, once again, how can Mr. Sanders think that writing a couple episodes at the time will help him properly wrap up the series. Sanders Sides currently has so many threads and plot points to explore, it’s impossible to properly wrap them up by planning just a couple episodes at the time. Even by planning the entire series in advance as I did, I realized there were a couple things I forgot! How can he not entirely forget/dismiss huge themes and concepts, if he doesn’t write the whole thing at once?

Last but not least, this served me as a reminder of how fun writing is. Planning the season 2 finale again made me happy, I loved the better focus I gave on Roman and Janus. And I can’t wait to replan/rewrite Roman during season 3.

Speaking of that: as you can see from my graphs, I planned 24 episodes. And I like that number, but I also realized some episodes are very short and they can be put together into one. Also, Roman’s rewrite will probably lead to less episodes in the first part.

So... well, I might end up wrapping all of this in less episodes than planned. Which is better, in a way, because it follows the trend of the first two seasons being less than 20 episodes.

In any case, I will keep you all updated.

Bye for now and I hope you are all having a great summer <3