there is a parallel between mhok fixing day's shoes the moment day wants to use them again and august not only not finding a replacement for day's hair band but also not being able to find day a gift that isn't hie own head band which is tne thing they shared and that day has no possible use for anymore and more than just pity it was the very clear implication that august made that day's life has ended with his lack of vision and that everything in his life is the things that used to be there before. where even with the shoes mhok had been asking day to go for a run for a while and he refused to until august asked but mhok never touched the shoes until day asked him to and he also added some changes like the bright neon shoelaces (easier for day to see so he can maybe tie them himself? don't talk to me....) and a little pin of his favorite flower because that is a thing day still likes and the bright colour is a thing he likes NOW and the shoes are something he wants to use NOW do you see what I'm saying here
GUYS IM ALMOST DONE WITH STORYBOARDING THE PROLOGUE🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 sorry for the delay I have been child rearing my nephews for the past couple of days and it’s exhausting work, but I am BACK on the grind. Starting fall quarter on Monday though so it’s a bit of a damper but I’m powering through it🙏
MIDNIGHT SUN IS GETTING AN ANIMATED SERIES AT NETFLIX!!! THOUGHTS? FEELINGS? IM PERSONALLY VERY EXCITED
AAAHHH, my dear, I couldn’t be more thrilled! Something really lovely could come out of it—I think an animated series is a wonderful format for Twilight. (I can only imagine how excited @kellythepitiablefangirl must be! Lionsgate should hand her the project?? No one could do it better than her.) I’m still trying to process the fact that we’ll get new Twilight content, and that it will be Midnight Sun-based, and that (again) it will be animated. I just really hope it has a cozy vibe to it, and that the music is soft and soul-soothing with lots of piano pieces and rain sounds. I—I don’t know anything about it yet, but I relish it already!
I want a short story from Alicia Twilightzone’s perspective so bad. She’s a humanform robot made to be a companion for a man who was sentenced to solo exile on a distant planet. He is provided comfortably for, but his solitary confinement is the whole planet. Your name is Alicia. You’re a mass produced product, but you have an AI mind; initially he doesn’t want you, claiming you’re nothing but a mindless machine. But when he shoves you away, you fall, and it hurts, and he’s the only person in your world, and you’re the only person in his, and it’s confusing and distressing and it hurts. And when you express this… he believes you. He relents. And he starts treating you like a person. A companion. The audience sees this from his perspective.
And then another year later the supply ship comes and says the man’s sentence has been ended early and he’s pardoned and released. He can go home—with only fifteen pounds of luggage. At this point it doesn’t even occur to him to think of you as luggage. You’re a person! You’re his friend!
The supply ship captain does not see it that way. He gave you to the man to keep him company in his solitsry confinement, but now he’s going back to Earth! He doesn’t need fake company, he’s going back to where there are real people! Your name is Alicia and you can’t come.
I can’t decide who the episode agrees with. “She’s not a robot!” the man says, desperately. “She’s a woman!” The ship captain is impatient, and shoots Alicia in the face to remind the man that Alicia is, in fact, a robot. The man leaves, sad and despondent, and Alicia—or her sparking body, at least—remains on the sand. While the episode is sympathetic to the man and his relationship with Alicia, it also kind of agrees that at the end of the day she is a robot and that is incompatible with being a woman.
The story shouldn’t be the man’s; the story should REALLY be Alicia’s. She’s trapped just as much—and in the end, even more—than he is. Is she glad that he won’t leave without her? Is she hurt that he sees her as a woman and not a robot, when she is both? She can only be a person if she’s not a robot? I want to know her feelings about being introduced to the one person in her whole world and having him reject her. And how they are a human and a robot on more equal footing here, ultimately, than they ever would be anywhere else. I think she should survive getting shot and pick up the pieces of herself alone now on the planet. I think she should have feelings about this.