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I think celebrating character birthdays is a wonderful thing for fans.

I have to be reminded of my closest friends and family's birthdays multiple times in the weeks leading up to the date. I cannot treat my characters birthdays as yet another deadline or task to prepare for. 😂

But I think it's awesome that people are celebrating! I just don't think bait reminders like this are going to get anything you want out of me, and are actually a source of stress, not joy. Wish it was different but I ain't built like that unfortunately!

I'll be trying to reblog fanart and stuff to celebrate but that's all I've got for now.

And if you DON'T have AppleTv,,, get it, or pirate it

What if I told you I accidentally saw a devastating spoiler without knowing what I was seeing just because an edit went crazy on Tiktok............

I have a feeling found family is one of them /pos

Here's my hot take.

Found family as a primary building block trope is too mundane to be captivating. It should be a tertiary result and maybe not The Point.

Ironically, the classic "the friends we made along the way" bit works because it is the road traveled that actually sells it and not the trope itself. I think it works better as a realization than like......the thing.

Which I guess you could say that's implied to begin with, but my point I'm meandering towards is that I don't think of it in the moment I'm conceptualizing and putting it together. Like if you think about BitterSweet, that tag wouldn't work until later in the story and I didn't know it was going that direction until I was there.

And as I try to think about what excites me right now I'm sorta...? Struggling.

Maybe it's that I often start from a character centered idea and build outwardly from there. I'm often thinking in the direction of "oh this archetype but do THIS with them" not "oh this trope would be fun if I put this archetype in it".

Cart before horse etc. which I think varies between every writer and their strengths.

I don't get a ton of recommendations actually. 🤔 Nothing I can think of off the top of my head, I've long forgotten if there was something that fits the question.

The same "idk wtf to do" I'm facing with every other illustration filled narrative story applies here. I'm trying to determine what I want to do and how I'll do it, but once I get that nailed down I can figure out how to get rolling.

I'm sure the day is coming where I'll decapitate someone again, and we'll get a round of the omg you're so mean shit...but not today, chat.

Not today.

as for a question…like you’ve done with the other boys in the past, what would be some tropes/cliches/genre descriptors you’d assign to Thomas and his storyline? like the ones they have on their wiki pages?

Oh man. Uh.

Hm.

There are probably several great options that are all escaping me right now. I'm not sure what I'd use, honestly. I've referred to the hero's journey a bit, though it's quite condensed in the way I'll be doing it. There's not great trope that jumps out for him and his listener, because it's a dynamic I've yet to explore and haven't set a lot of expectations for as I'll be feeling it out as I go.

I wouldn't.

If it were in my power today and I could do it again, I would put that time and effort towards the continuation of those stories we've been waiting on. That immense amount of work Jackie did, the editing that Thoo did. It was in pursuit of a white whale that I think ultimately may have done the health of my consistency and path forward more harm than good.

I love how chapter one is now.

Today, in my heart of hearts, I wish I wouldn't have gone in that direction. And that pains me a great deal to admit, but I think this year has given me a new perspective.

I think that whatever goals I thought I'd achieve with the BS Director's Cut feel very small today, and that it was a selfish vanity project where I felt like I had to prove something to people who do not exist.

I have genuinely never thought about it, which might sound like an insane confession in itself but let's explore it now.

I think, in typical YuuriVoice fashion, it was not a deliberate distinct confession or something like that.

I think that at some point there was a change. Probably the first instances of the boys viewing the other as a hero of sorts. Maybe one spoke up for the other at school, or showed them a perspective that changed their point of view, or something. A breakthrough. The kind that tend to happen when you're young and starting to become a person whose got a few extra wrinkles in the brain.

There must have been a moment where they both distinctly realized that the other had that part of them they lacked and wanted to learn it for themselves.

From there it would have shifted. The lingering gazes, awkward oops our hands touched moments, etc. maybe throw in them clashing a little as they struggle to accept the new feelings that are sprouting up.

And one night, camping out together, dreaming about what could be in the future, the idea of not being together to experience that future might have left a long heavy silence between them.

Seth knows what absence of someone you love feels like, Jessie would be gone at that point. So I think he cracks first. He's found something he doesn't want to lose. Alphonse probably doesn't get it. He couldn't imagine a guy like Seth feeling romantic feelings for him. I bet Seth has a lot of girls crushing on him at this point, and Alphonse being the pastel oddball in their community he might have an even harder time thinking that anyone at all would feel some type of way about him.

I could see Seth trying to explain his feelings without stating the obvious. Alphonse making him jump through hoops, not to tease him, but to try and find hole to poke in this supposed importance Seth feels for him.

Then, the classic bratty move..."prove it".

And in the way that awkward teens do, a nervous, chapped lip first kiss by the campfire.

I have many itches that need scratching creatively. Have a list of ideas to tackle that I'll be diving into this week. If you were part of the Discord work session stream, you know what I'm cooking.

But also I just desperately need to write some substantial, juicy fucking stories. I've been wanting to set aside time to work on Red Tape's general outline as well as review what I had written for the first chapter just to see what was going on so long ago when I was starting to work on it.