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and lsz is like "how could i have let this man go" or what if ljy completely hides the pregnancy and disappears (maybe zewu jun helps him? i'm for the headcanon that zewu jun is related to ljy) and lsz is confused as to why his best friend is gone and was it all because of that one night, or perhaps lsz is under the impression that ljy terminated the pregnancy, but ljy still disappears. one coincidental meeting in the future shows ljy with a small child and lsz is ??? THANKS FOR THE FIC!!! (2/2)

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Short answer: Yes.

On the scale of the Sonic 3 video, where it’s an inherently interesting topic because Sonic 3 contains a number of mysteries that people are hungry to learn about?

No.

A video with proper scripted voice over and real production quality?

Yes.

Unfortunately, I am fully prepared for this video to come out and hit like a lead weight. Video reviews haven’t been doing super great numbers for me for a long time. The people want more “Definitive Way To Play” videos or what-have-you. At the very least, they want more Sonic videos. I know where my audience primarily is. This is not a video for my audience. This is a video for me. This is a script I wrote years ago and it’s been rattling around in my Google Docs for a rainy day.

Most of the video projects I’ve done in the last four years have been big productions. Some of the longest, most involved, most in-depth videos on my channel. Absolutely exhausting to put together.

I am sitting on a number of fully-complete scripts. Many that I also wrote years ago that had to take a back-seat to TSSZ work or whatever ADHD whim my brain distracts itself with. Most of those scripts are going to be big productions.

I have mentioned it offhand many times, but I literally wrote a documentary on NiGHTS into Dreams. It is 6000 words flat. By comparison, my “How Do We Fix Sonic?” script (aka the most complex video I’ve ever produced) was 4900 words. The NiGHTS video is going to be enormous and I am afraid of that fact, but next year is the 25th Anniversary, so it’s getting in to now-or-never territory.

I have a Shenmue video that I wrote on a whim after a friend suggested revisiting some of my old video reviews now that I am older and wiser. That seemed like a fun idea, but I had no idea what to do there, then I watched like... two minutes of Jeff Gerstmann complain about Shenmue in a Demo Derby video and suddenly 2900 words fell in to Google Docs. I’m waiting until I eventually buy and play Shenmue 3 before committing to calling that totally script finished, but it currently reads as a complete thought.

And then there’s the long-awaited Sonic Forces video, which at this point isn’t entirely about Sonic Forces anymore. That script has gone through a lot of evolution (more than any other script I’ve ever written) and currently sits at 3300 words. It’s also not done yet, but it’s moving in that direction. Ideally I want that out before Sega announces a new Sonic game next year, but I’d settle for having it out before it hits store shelves (likely this time next year).

I picked this Jurassic Park video because I figured it would be simple. I was burnt out after the Sonic 3 video and I rode that burnout in to the pandemic, where it grew a long, long tail. From the outside, the Jurassic Park video looked short and easy, but after all is said and done, it’s 3500 words. The recorded dialog puts it somewhere in the ballpark of 23-25 minutes. I guess I just have to accept that I probably can’t make short video reviews anymore.

Can I just say how much I appreciate you describing “Wedding Bells” as “moody”? From comments, I gathered that most people find it funny, which wasn’t my original intention. So really, thank you for experiencing the fic the way I intended it.

Thank you for liking my writing enough to check out stuff from a different fandom (whichever fic you found first)! It’s surreal that you say my writing is like poetry, because I’m absolute pants at writing actual poetry lol. But if it works for you, then I’m really glad. :)

I haven’t thought about this before, to be honest. I don’t think Jingyi would go crazy with the gift giving, but yeah, making his gifts himself sounds very likely! Maybe he’d even make a new grass butterfly for his hair every month (a visual gift for Sizhui’s eyes!), and Sizhui gets to keep whichever grass butterfly Jingyi wore the month before. I’m not sure what other kinds of gifts Jingyi would give Sizhui since they’re from a well off clan and thus want for nothing. And given how austerely the Lans live, I don’t see either of them wanting too many non-essential luxuries. Perhaps a tassel for Sizhui’s guqin cover?

Anyway, I like to think that Jingyi might commission a jade pin for Sizhui as well so they’d match haha

A...draft? What does that mean? Do you mean an actual fic? The amnesia AU thing is not so much a prompt as a ficlet. I actually intended to transfer it to AO3 after a bit of cleaning up so I don’t think I’d be comfortable with someone posting it with only some details changed, sorry.