05-10-2025, 01:57 AM
oh, interesting question!
i can appreciate me a good timeline, and i've occasionally strung one together if only mentally when information is scattered around a game and i feel the need to keep tabs on it, but its not my strong suit and I mostly prefer to appreciate other people's hard work - i am very much looking forward to your Rafayel manifesto once we get there and I can't be too majorly spoiled on anything anymore. i have really really been enthralled with your summations as i go through the chapters catching me up on stuff that i flat out missed, or discounted, or didn't think actually hung together.
this game does have me wanting to go back and start scratching my own notes, though. while other people can pull together the "hard facts", its the ambiguous stuff that's really where the meat is and where personal preference takes over and keeps you engaged on a mental level.
i am pants at meta analysis because i'm too emotional when i'm invested to properly debate a topic. i do like to read the ones that align with my personal views and that are well researched or come with some insight that isn't just 'vibes' but while i don't have any interest in yucking anybody's yum out loud there's some character takes that i just can't get behind and do my best to avoid. there's been a few stories and characters in various mainstream medias that have gotten me so hard, i've HAD to write meta-posts if only to get it out of my head, but again, i try not to bust out at the seams because i'm not geared to argue a point about a fictional anything - and its just so damned easy to get into an argument on the internet.
Emet-Selch did nothing wrong!
i am a fanfic writer if i'm anything, because when my imagination goes into overdrive, that's first thing i reach for - words and more words. i'm not prolific or anything, but there are times when i read something that came out of me in a flurry of soaring feeling at 3pm on the sunny afternoon and think... yes. this is fucking PERFECT. this is exactly what I wanted to say, how i wanted to say it, and i will change nothing about it, not a single comma. then i post it to Ao3 and two years later i get a review saying "that was really good!". ah, hubris.
i prefer to stick to canon or canon-adjacency, moreso than wild flights of fancy free headcanon. i like a story because the story is intriguing and i like to stay with it with just "what if" scenarios branching off. i am not constitutionally capable of writing Alternate Universe, it doesn't do anything for me although I've certainly read good ones that others have done. i gotta admit that i avoid "modern era" alternate universe scenarios like the plague though - i live in this reality, i really don't want to read about it.
i will be honest too - with the amount of audio in this game with no accompanying visual, i am sincerely and sorely tempted to find my drawing tablet and practice some very rusty skills, even if its just to copy the cards for practice. i wasn't great when i put my pencil down the last time but i have more time and patience now than i did before and more willingness to fail. there's also about every single reference possible in this game as the boys pose at all angles and nobody would have to know but me.
so yes, i would peg myself on the "creative" side by a solid 85%, with the other 15% being thrashing forum code to satiate my logical, organized side that loves me a good spreadsheet.
you, i feel, are opposite? i have been in awe at your lists of things, it feels like you're pulling all these facts out of thin air and its been great. you can absolutely lead this horse to water and she will be a grateful drinker.
i can appreciate me a good timeline, and i've occasionally strung one together if only mentally when information is scattered around a game and i feel the need to keep tabs on it, but its not my strong suit and I mostly prefer to appreciate other people's hard work - i am very much looking forward to your Rafayel manifesto once we get there and I can't be too majorly spoiled on anything anymore. i have really really been enthralled with your summations as i go through the chapters catching me up on stuff that i flat out missed, or discounted, or didn't think actually hung together.
this game does have me wanting to go back and start scratching my own notes, though. while other people can pull together the "hard facts", its the ambiguous stuff that's really where the meat is and where personal preference takes over and keeps you engaged on a mental level.
i am pants at meta analysis because i'm too emotional when i'm invested to properly debate a topic. i do like to read the ones that align with my personal views and that are well researched or come with some insight that isn't just 'vibes' but while i don't have any interest in yucking anybody's yum out loud there's some character takes that i just can't get behind and do my best to avoid. there's been a few stories and characters in various mainstream medias that have gotten me so hard, i've HAD to write meta-posts if only to get it out of my head, but again, i try not to bust out at the seams because i'm not geared to argue a point about a fictional anything - and its just so damned easy to get into an argument on the internet.
Emet-Selch did nothing wrong!
i am a fanfic writer if i'm anything, because when my imagination goes into overdrive, that's first thing i reach for - words and more words. i'm not prolific or anything, but there are times when i read something that came out of me in a flurry of soaring feeling at 3pm on the sunny afternoon and think... yes. this is fucking PERFECT. this is exactly what I wanted to say, how i wanted to say it, and i will change nothing about it, not a single comma. then i post it to Ao3 and two years later i get a review saying "that was really good!". ah, hubris.
i prefer to stick to canon or canon-adjacency, moreso than wild flights of fancy free headcanon. i like a story because the story is intriguing and i like to stay with it with just "what if" scenarios branching off. i am not constitutionally capable of writing Alternate Universe, it doesn't do anything for me although I've certainly read good ones that others have done. i gotta admit that i avoid "modern era" alternate universe scenarios like the plague though - i live in this reality, i really don't want to read about it.
i will be honest too - with the amount of audio in this game with no accompanying visual, i am sincerely and sorely tempted to find my drawing tablet and practice some very rusty skills, even if its just to copy the cards for practice. i wasn't great when i put my pencil down the last time but i have more time and patience now than i did before and more willingness to fail. there's also about every single reference possible in this game as the boys pose at all angles and nobody would have to know but me.
so yes, i would peg myself on the "creative" side by a solid 85%, with the other 15% being thrashing forum code to satiate my logical, organized side that loves me a good spreadsheet.
you, i feel, are opposite? i have been in awe at your lists of things, it feels like you're pulling all these facts out of thin air and its been great. you can absolutely lead this horse to water and she will be a grateful drinker.
