Progress update
Edit: laptop broke (hard drive issue), so thing will either be delayed a week or A Lot depending if my shit is recoverable. Back up your files regularly yall
Realised I should probably update yall on how things are going! Things are almost ready, just need to stich the book together together and finish a couple things, then I can order a sample of the book. I don't want to start the kickstarter until I have a book sample in hand that I'm happy with.
Admittedly looking like my original timeline isn't quite going to fit but such is life. its a close enough timeline so im not too annoyed just not in time to advertise it this weekend
to thank yall for your patience with this, here a sneak peek of the stickersheets made because I'm very happy with them and also because I just approved the proofs the manu sent me for those samples:
disclaimer: colours may vary depending on how the samples turn out (converting rgb to cmyk, my beloathed).
[id: two stickersheets, one of characters from chapter 1, and the other chapter two: chapter 1 sheets has: rami (civilian clothes), his whole team, tsunami, inkmaster, swarm, sound flood, and mori. as well as some smaller stickers: a sparkling wave, rami's logo, two diamond shaped sparkles, a small fireball, swarm's butterly, and three hearts with the ace, trans, and rainbow pride flags.
chapter 2 sheet has: lewis and sound flood (both in civilian clothes), iris, faete, mindforce, and omen (super costumes). also several smaller stickers: mindforce's eye, a yellow and pink rose, a snowdrop, faete's sword, iris's notebook (with the words "stay safe"), a starry sky with city view, rami's hand holding a rose, and 5 blue pink and white hearts. end id]
also here's the cover (minus the blurb)
[id: image of the cover design, layed flat. aka the front cover is on the right side, back on the left, and the spin inbetween. designed to look like a corkboard with photos pinned to it, and red sring connecting things.
on the back there are photos that are from various panels in chapter 1 and 2 (redrawn, specifically faete after transforming, cam readying her forcefield, lewis on the roof, and tsunami riding his wave. the back also contains enamel pins: a trans flag, an ace flag, and mindforce's eye. as well as the corner of a missing persons poster, a business card for "cullen's bowls 'n' bowls", and a blank sheet of notebook paper where the blurb should be. the spine has some starry washi tape with the title written on.
the front has a piece of blue paper torn off at the end with the title on it, and stickers of a silver star and rami's logo. below is a large image of rami sitting in the water staring intestly at the viewer, light emerging behind him. around him, hands all strech out towards him, hands belonging to the significant character significant in chapters 1 and 2 of sac. end id]
so specifically what is left (no particular order):
spellchecking
adding page numbers to the bottom
finishing the rest of the not comic pages (aka the thank you note, about the author, deciation and the bit where im going to add names of people who pledged to the kickstarter) 75% done
character bios (admittedly optional i just want to do them)
bonus pages for art and sketches (i have collected all the art and sketches, its just deciding which ones to ue and which ones to save for next time because it makes more sense to put them with the more spoilery chapters 3-5 specific arts)
assembling these and sending a sample off to print
actually starting the kickstarter (once i have decived book sample back and am happy. i am not starting it without knowing 100% that i can fufill it right then and there)
(in the intrest of transperency: while these are all easy and mostly quick (aside from character bios. havent started that one yet), i also have some upcomign events that will have to take priority. that being a convention this weekend, next weekend, and my sisters wedding the weekend after (and the wedding gift, which is custom artwork of my sister and future brother in law. like a wedding painted but not on the day and also digital. so that will take up a bit of time after [another reason i wanted to get this done before then but ah well])
for real though one day i hope to be able to do art stuff full time because i am. so tired of doing a day job
also also there are versions of lewis and rami stickers in super outfits, they'll be seperate stickers
[id: drawings of lewis and rami, same as the stickers in the sheets, just seperate and in different outfits, the drawings have been placed close together, so it looks like thye're holding hands. end id]
you can make them hold hands :)
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I have once again gotten sucked into MSQ.
At this point, just assume I'm making story progression if I go a bit without posting. xD
Also, Happy Starlight to everyone, from Sunshine and I! ♡
I hope you all celebrate the season how you see fit, and that you enjoy every moment of it.
Me? I'll be attempting to socialize at rp venues for the first time in my year of playing. Please wish this socially awkward cat luck. ♡
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At the end of the day you can use "Varric is an unreliable narrator" to overwrite literally any part of DA2 that you don't like. Like you can say, "Oh of COURSE Varric isn't actually against mage freedom! He just said that he objected to Hawke freeing the mages because Cassandra was interrogating him." And sure, I can't prove to you that he isn't lying about that. I can't prove to you that Varric isn't lying about anything. I can't prove to you that the entirety of Inquisition isn't also Varric making things up because he did also write a book about that and we hear Cassandra reading it in the end credits. At the end of the day if you want to you can basically wipe out Varric's entire character as presented to us and say, "Actually he was lying! He's really this."
But at a certain point you do also have to acknowledge that the frame narrative is a storytelling device that's meant to enhance the story, not like... erase it. Or at least I prefer to acknowledge that, because going too far the other way basically guts the story of all meaning. If Varric is a character we are meant to engage with on any level--and I think it's clear from his prominence in the franchise that he is!--then at least some of what we see him say and do needs to be able to meaningfully interpreted, even if we second-guess him, even if we can pick out half-truths here and there, even if we cross-check our interpretations against how he behaves in other parts of canon.
Like at least some of what we're given about Varric has to be meaningful to his character, or why even bother, I guess is what I'm saying.
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I’ve posted about it before and I’ll post about it again: starfield literally means so much to me, and i am glad for the presence it now has in my life.
it, as a game, represents a lot of the things i care so deeply about, down to its core: science, knowledge, astronomy, space exploration, wonder, discovery, optimism, humanity, existence, and our place in the universe. constellation is the epitome of those things, asking questions and searching for answers i, too, want to find.
to play starfield, to me, is to entertain deep desires which lie hopelessly unfulfilled in my real life. i would love to live in an age where extensive exploration of the cosmos, in-person, is possible. i would love to see the wonders of our universe with my own two eyes, my own two feet on foreign ground.
i would love to live in an age without such meaningless struggle and pain and loss and injustice and exploitation and uncertainty as our own. starfield depicts a universe highly imperfect in that right, but even just the prospect of living on a planet not currently undergoing unprecedented, catastrophic global heating - as a result of avoidable inhumane, selfish greed - means a lot to me. it’s a fiction in which it’s difficult not to indulge.
anyway, on a lighter note, starfield stands on its own as a universe i love to get lost in, but it’s also given me a fun and challenging new hobby as a mod author.
as far as that’s concerned, i never pictured or planned becoming a mod author, but it stands as a testament to my adoration for the game that i taught myself how to modify it, create for it, and enhance it.
i appreciate, truly, getting to help others, through my mods, play a more personalized, or fun, or interesting game. it fills me with joy that i can bring others joy, on such a large scale as this. my creations have enough downloads to fill hundreds of madison square gardens, and that is absolutely insane and incredible to me.
starfield has held a special place in my heart for just over a year now. i said, then, that i loved the game at launch and that it would only grow, and that’s been true. i am confident that starfield will not only stay with me for many years to come, but remain something i cherish for a very long time.
happy birthday, my favorite game.
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So I went to the wiki page for the henghill Bullet & Brain mission of 2.2 looking for some dialogue I had missed and
a) I found something incredibly tasty that slotted into some other thoughts I'd been having, more on that on another day, and
b) I saw this super fun little trivia at the bottom, which!
I knew Penacony characters like Boothill took a lot of inspirations from old movies, but I didn't realize it was even in his and Dan Heng's relationship, that's so cool!!
It fits them very well, it's such a fun reference. "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" was an old buddy Western film (from 1969- nice) about a pair of outlaws. Butch Cassidy was the leader of a gang, and described as clever, affable, and talkative. Meanwhile, his closest companion, the Sundance Kid, was known as a man of few words.
Cassidy's original birth name was much more plain, but similar to Boothill, he took on a new moniker when he became an outlaw. "Cassidy" had been the last name of his beloved mentor, who taught him how to shoot and ride. And Sundance Kid was known as he was because Sundance was the name of his hometown, and it was the only place that had ever managed to catch and jail him, back when he'd been younger (also similar to Dan Heng, but ouch).
These two stick together like glue throughout the length of the film- through Cassidy's leadership of the gang being challenged, through a train robbery gone wrong, through being pursued by mercenaries, and even through fleeing to Bolivia and trying to start over together.
I don't want to say too much more, since the mission title is referencing one specific movie that I've never seen. I kinda wanna watch it now, though, just to see the inspiration that went into Boothill and Dan Heng and how they get along. I just think it's really sweet that these two were literally made to be the best of bros, how lovely is that. 💕
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