#industry stuff

Popularity-wise, we can take a look at my stats on itch.io for a general idea. (You can see that Incubus Chapter 8 took a huge hit thanks to the paypro bullshit, but a lot of that was made up for in Patreon store purchases--thank you so much, everyone who jumped over there!)

My visual novels are all currently leading, showing perhaps a slight audience preference for the genre? However, they have had many more years to accumulate those numbers, and Incubus is both marked "adult only" and is an episodic release, meaning there may be potential players holding off from purchasing before the project is fully complete. Honestly, there's not that much in it.

Development-wise, IF is cheaper and easier to do as a one-person team, without having to budget background art, character art, etc. That's definitely a consideration. My biggest one, however, is what I feel like writing. When I've made visual novels, it's because I was playing a lot of visual novels at the time and my creative brain translated things into dialogue-heavy, character art-reliant expression. Now I'm biiiiig back into reading novels and when I get the creative itch it's usually to write prose--so IF is my current focus.

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"As of today, only one woman of color remains on the editorial staff of Teen Vogue"

Laying off your entire political correspondents the day before an election, too... I genuinely can't explain how good Teen Vogue's staff are and how important their reporting has been.

For Tk i feel Ch 2 solidified it more for me based on personal tidbits shared by Tae and Jk on how much time they spend outside group activities. These focus hardly have Tae focus content, forget about Tk 🙄

Don't you think it's weird to reconcile the way the company content shows relationships/bonds and outside those? Like we barely see any Tk interactions on hours of this footage shown for so many years? Jkk the glued together duo didn't hang out much in Ch 2 until this travel docu for which Jm selected Jk.

Any cutesy clingy interaction shown will always be jkk in these content and it's been the same across years and diff docus. Look at the recent Beyond the star trailer and you'll again see Jk cooking and Jm beside him and then Jm clinging on to Jk. Don't see any other duo interactions like that tbh. Do you think this is done purposefully to establish a narrative?

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During Suchwita recently, Tae and Yoongi mentioned how about 90 percent of footage doesn’t make the cut in In the Soop. That’s basically true for all content. What we see is what BH wants us to see. I feel BTS has some say about the kind of projects they take on, some say on what activities they do, probably a lot of say about their music, but not as much say on how things are edited after they have filmed stuff. That’s basically up to the editors, and it gets done according to pre-decided goals/lines/rules/whatevers. A company as big as BH, and especially a band as huge as BTS has a whole team of marketing, pr, image-advisors behind them, and those are the people who sit around and come up with what they want to put out. That doesn’t mean that BTS members fake the way they interact or that what we see is set up and dishonest, but there’s people deciding what we see.. so it’s filtered content. Talking about Jm and Jk, they do actually spend all that time together and they do actually enjoy their time together, it clearly shows. But it’s BH’s choice to show us them and relatively speaking less other duos.

Why more Jkk than other duos? They measure fandom reactions. They know which duos get the desired reactions and ofcourse that is what they will put into content more. Every member has their role, so you’ll get Yoongi and Namjoon for the serious stuff a lot, you get Tae being cutesy, you get Jin being funny, and you’ll get Hobi being the enthousiast… and Jk and Jm for the banter. It’s not as if those roles are fake, but they are played out a bit more. Jm and Jk are the main singers, which will also play a role. Jk and Tae cannot be shown too much, so there’s that.

This is actually a cool opportunity to illustrate how this particular flavor of sausage gets made in traditional publishing, so I'm happy to dig into it!

tl;dr: Ideally it'll come out next summer, but it may be pushed to fall or winter.

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