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Omg thanks <3 this made me really happy 🥺 thank you bestie <3 you are also lovely as well too 💖💖

Thank YOU for your thoughtfulness and kind words! That's very nice of you. Things are really tough right now to be honest, but I'll get through it.

Here, have some bonus Boi content for the road:

He is healthy and doing great :) He's been kind of half-hibernating since winter rolled in, but when he's awake he's very active.

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Please stop asking me to type you, I get too much of these asks in my inbox and I can't answer that. I already shared that I'm not good at typing people. I will help with life advice in any way I can, but don't come with vague questions.

On top of that, if you're not 100% sure in your type, that's completely fine. You also have to keep a healthy dose of skepticism. Not everything comes down to mbti. Use the types you relate to the most to recognize which parts of your personality need work - not like a cruch with which you will get validation for some unhealthy thought patterns.

I'ma be real with u chief...They're all annoying assholes in their own ways and I wouldn't be friends with any of them lmao.

(Then again, I'm the most socially-anxious person on Earth, so that influences my answer a lot...)

I guess if I absolutely had to hang out with one of them, I'd pick Isaac. He's like an amalgamation of every silly-ass boy I used to be friends with when I was a kid, so I feel like he wouldn't piss me off as much as the others probably would.

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(Translated with Google Translator)

The last time I didn't understand the question, I asked what was a scene from a series or movie that marked you (trauma) in your childhood.

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Ah I understand now! Sorry, the translator didn't do a very good job last time.

I can remember seeing a lot of scary things I was too young to be watching, but I wouldn't say any of them "traumatized" me exactly. I actually liked scary movies when I was a kid!

I do remember a scene from Jurassic Park that I couldn't watch for many years, I'd always leave the room or cover my eyes. It's the scene where the family is trapped in the car with the t-rex outside and the glass is breaking. For some reason that really scared me, and I wasn't able to watch that scene until I was like, 11 or 12. I saw much scarier movies than that as a child, but that one scene always felt more real to me. Serious credit to the special effects team who worked on that movie!

I had a similar reaction to that scene from Star Wars where the characters are trapped in that trash-water area and there's a monster or something? I don't remember that movie very well, but I know that one scene made me feel genuine dread.

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Lore Masterpost

Good question! The World of Looming Gaia wasn't inspired by any one thing in particular. Rather, it's inspired by a bunch of different things that I've experienced throughout my life. Feelings I've felt, situations I've been in, music I've listened to, places I've been, stories I've heard, movies I've seen, etc.

I would say the biggest influences were:

Brian Froud's artwork (you can see elements of his work in some of the creature designs, especially the spriggans and adhene)

Devin Townsend's music (Every LG story has one of his lyrics sprinkled in it somewhere. Also Itchy and Mr. Ocean's "skullets" were an homage to Townsend himself, who was known for that hairstyle for many years)

Playing in the forest a lot as a kid

Meeting a lot of different people from many walks of life

Living in a lot of different places and situations

I actually don't consume much media at all. I've probably seen less than 100 movies in my life, I don't like TV, and I haven't read many books. So I don't think LG has much influence as far as other media goes.

I only mention this because people always ask if I like Tolkien, Harry Potter, D&D, Warhammer, etc. and they're always shocked when I'm like "I've never even seen/read/played that".

I write fantasy, but I don't really consume fantasy, because I tend to hate 99% of media I pick up for one reason or another. That was my inspiration for writing my own series in the first place! I desperately want to consume fantasy media, I just don't like what's out there. It's not even that things like Harry Potter or Tolkien are "bad", they're just not to my (extremely weird and picky) taste.

So here we are I guess lol

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Lore Masterpost