I’m looking through notebooks of old #iHunt material, mining for a writing advice book I’m writing. Stumbled on this ancient doodle of Lana. It’s not great. But it’s history and context. Which all good myths need.
I also found the sketch for the cover of the second full-length #iHunt novel I’ve been planning for a while. Not sure if it’ll happen, but I have a full outline and about 30 pages that look pretty tight.
When I was first planning #iHunt, I wrote some diaries/blogs as Lana to get a feel for her as a person.
Sometimes just getting into your character’s head and being brutally honest helps you to understand them as a person.
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In just under four hours, we're streaming @NightInTheWoods. As a Southern Ohio native, this one has me REALLY excited thanks to their appearance on @thetrillbillies.
Short thread talking about #maschinezeit. Bear with me.
It's a much shorter book than the original. The game was supposed to be good for one-shots. The original took forever to get to the meat of the game. We felt that we had to make the book bigger to appease audiences. This time? Super tight and barebones.
Kindly shut up. We’ve had numerous rapists as Presidents with zero consequences.
The only thing that’s not normal is the discussion of possibly making it matter this time.
"This is not norma—"
YES IT FUCKING IS. IT FUCKING IS AND MAYBE IF WE SHUNNED MEN LIKE THIS 25 FUCKING YEARS AGO INSTEAD OF GIVING THEM EVEN MORE POWER, WE WOULDN'T FUCKING BE HERE TODAY
THIS IS NORMAL. GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEADS. THIS IS NORMAL. WE HAVE A RAPE CULTURE BECAUSE THIS IS FUCKING NORMAL. IT DIDN'T START WITH GODDAMNED TRUMP AND IT WON'T FUCKING END WITH GODDAMNED TRUMP.
I get some of the points about the new contrapoints video. Some I think are reaching. But the response to the video is one reason I don't work out complex feelings about my gender in public very often.
I am so deathly afraid that if I present my conflicting feelings, that I'll be perceived not as an individual, but as an usurper trying to speak for a community.
So, yay, more visual novels! This is a good thing. But I can't quite put my finger on why an article talking about how if you don't like (insert very Japanese genre), you'll like (games by non-JP developers) "reinventing the genre" rubs me the wrong way.
Actually, replacement works to explain. “Don’t like burritos? Think beans are gross? Here are four non-Mexican chefs who might change your mind. They’re reinventing the dish.” That’s it.
I wouldn’t be bothered if it was framed differently. “Can’t find Japanese VNs? Here’s some great English-first language ones you should try!” It’s that reinventing thing that makes it seem culturally imperialist.