#creator commentary

Impossible requests: Ever stop yourself in the middle of something and realize "one more step and you'd have gone too far?" [...] Deep in search-mode, I started to look up zoos thinking maybe a giraffe had died that week. That could work. Then I stopped myself. Because, no.

Somehow I've had the Feeding Hannibal cookbook for multiple years now and only just wound up reading the end notes. They are a delight. 🤣

Happy Wednesday, everyone! Dracula: The Danse Macabre debuted a week ago today. Our little show is one week old!

To celebrate the occasion, series creator and Episode 1 writer/director Gabriel Urbina is doing a Creator Commentary for The Happiness You Bring over on his Patreon! He'll be listening through the whole episode and talking about the making of, including various adaptation choices from the book and the various hidden details that are peppered throughout this first installment.

He'll be doing that as a livestream at 8:00 PM Eastern tonight, and it will also be available to watch after the fact! (And if you're interested but not sure if you want to sign up for a recurring donation, there's a free trial option! So you can tune into this without needing to commit!)

See you all tonight - bring the red wine! And tune back in next week for Episode 2, A Stranger in a Strange Land! Here's another little preview of what's coming:

i've always liked the idea of having shorts between chapters for the small stories of barovia that are too small to dedicate a whole chapter to. i was planning on doing one for izek after the abbot's chapter, but... well, more on that in the news post with the next update, along with some ramblings about style changes that will have to happen to be able to Actually make the comic after a year lol. i want to try to get the next update out by halloween, but my commission workload is heavy -- a blessing and a curse. this was just a convenient way of answering a request on my art blog and shake a story out of my head that had been sitting in there for a while. it will, unfortunately, have to stay only on the tumblr until we get to that point in the comic where it can be slotted in due to the way the website pulls the pages from the files, but that's alright. i love my secrets, if it isn't obvious

speaking of secrets, time to spill some:

https://worldismyne.itch.io/mccarthy-academy-demo

There are some faves! There are actually 2 of us on this blog (I got help guys it’s so exciting!) so I’ll put the recs from each of us & try to indicate whose is whose? And maybe eventually we’ll introduce ourselves? (Sorry all of mine have been recommended already)

You could also ask me my fave fics tomorrow and they’d probably change and I’m pretty sure that’s true for both of us.

Cat’s Faves

Thief!Dick Verse by JayDick_Hell 

Dick Grayson’s life ended the night he witnessed his parents fall in the Big Top. He raised himself on the streets and learned to hone his various talents to grow into the talented and notorious thief known as Robin. One day, he finds himself in Blüdhaven, sizing up a place when he’s interrupted by the Red Hood.

Jason Todd finally branched out from the shadow of the Bat, ready to be his own hero. He just decided ‘Haven would be his Gotham when he came across a handsome stranger clearly up to no good. Naturally, he had to put a stop to the criminal. He never expected to get addicted to the wily thief.

For what it’s worth: So good. Very cute series, I love it so much.

Bite Me to the Bone by elwon

After six months walking around with a beating heart, Dick wishes he could use the speed, strength and abilities he’s used to. Because he’s still a soulless demon deep down. Being able to walk in the daylight and eat pizza do not make up for this utter humiliation and punishment. But then the Red Hood appears, and things start to look up.

For what it’s worth: So good. Just. amazingly fantastic.  Side note on this one: I actually told my mom how obsessed I was with this fic within 10 minutes of finishing it.

Fumes of our love by moonfox281

Behind every successful man, there is a woman… No, no it’s not! It’s 2016 for God’s sake. You can’t assume anybody’s gender.It must change to 'Behind every successful husband, there is a wife.’ Cause wife is just a title, not a gender, and, yeah, let admit it, there are a wife and husband in every relationship.Things are the same, just a lot stranger when you’re a powerful mob boss, and your other half is a hot ass super-hero. 

For what it’s worth: I think the coolest way to approach their relationship is when you’re looking at Jason being a crime lord vs Dick being a vigilante and this fic does it perfectly. 

Another Perfect Catastrophe by Mikimoo, pentapus (Artwork here)

Dick goes undercover as himself in order to catch a gang of international thieves. Jason reluctantly tags along as his long suffering bodyguard. During the ensuing mayhem they get to know each other again and build a few bridges.

For what it’s worth: they have to work together to take down crime while undercover??? sign me up. very very good & bonus: art!! the best.

Jellzu’s Faves

knocked me off the ground byWindmire

“It’s Jason Todd you’d be working with. You remember Jason, right?”

“He’s probably hoping you remember him.”

For his best friend’s wedding, Dick’s more than willing to double as best man and co-wedding planner, even if it means going back to the city he’s been avoiding for years on end. Then he meets the other best man and co-wedding planner and falling so hard and so fast was so not part of the plan.

For what it’s worth: This had me cackling. Dick sees a hot guy, has to work with hot guy for best friends wedding. Oh and, apparently he knows this hot guy but doesn’t remember and said guy sure does remember him? Well then, let the awkwardness ensue.

Two Worlds byxserenity

Dick thought it was just a dream, a weird dream but apparently it wasn’t. He found himself stuck in a reality where he wasn’t dating Jason Todd. Instead, he was dating some girl he didn’t know.

And he hated the fact.

For what it’s worth: I always love the fics where either Dick or Jason are transported to another universe where they aren’t dating each other. It’s angst and fluff mixed together but at the same time, amusing because then they always try to get their counterparts to date. Ah, my heart.

we will wear our masks again out after dark byIMightwing

Dick paused and looked straight at Jason. “I want you to be Batman until I’m healed.”

“No,” Jason said. No way in hell, he wanted to say, but the quicker he got this over with, the better.

For what it’s worth: A theory: Jason will do what Dick asks of him just because of the fact that _Dick is asking him to do him a favor_. He didn’t plan it, but here he is, in the batcave, covering for Dick Grayson… Great.

Hurricane bykeykiyoshi7443

The high school AU where Jason and Dick star in a musical that no one really wanted.

Y'all, this is so cool. Dave Gilbert’s been streaming his test plays of the Blackwell series now he’s upgraded the games to the new version of AGS, and he’s been taking real-time Q&A! He mostly streams on weekdays from 3 to 5ish PM EST. These are the streams he’s posted so far:

Legacy!

Unbound!

Convergence!

Deception part 1!

Deception part 2.1!

Deception part 2.2!

Will update when Epiphany goes live; wouldn’t be surprised if that one will have to be split over at least three sessions, it being so much longer than the first four games.