quakefultales

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indie game dev, AI and narrative design researcher, playwright


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As told from the perspective of an older butch girl who runs a lesbian bar and takes new magical girls under her wing. Teaching them things like "don't trust the institutions" and "you can dress however you want outside of your work attire".

Something for my eggy younger self and also have some fun writing a butch trans lesbian while I'm at it. Again, giving my younger self something from current me


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This idea came to me after watching some more Kamfer. Young, eggy me was obsessed with it inspite of never bothering to watch or read any of it for any length of time. It's one of those things that I would hesitate to call good or even really entertaining, but it's TF and I have to like that on some level. Plus magical girls generally give you something

But yeah, experiencing trash fiction is very good if you're a creative yourself, cause here I am, I don't even want to do something that fixes Kamfer, I just want to do some magical girls gender fuckery better



I think I'm at a point where I haven't done any super lengthy creative writing in over a year, largely because of all my other career related needs, mostly writing papers. I find myself mostly thinking about all the things I'll potentially start after I finish the visual novel and less finishing the visual novel

Some of this is because new ideas are exciting and easy, whereas sitting down and working on a scene is work. It's also something way less collaborative, at least the actual writing a scene out. Writing a scene has always been solitary for me. Concepting, editing, the rest of the process is very interactive and social, writing the actual text? not at all

I've outlined the rest of the scenes as of a year and a half ago and it's just a matter of doing the thing which isn't glamorous. It's just sitting at my desk until I'm at a point where there's something worthwhile to show someone else

Being in charge also makes it hard. I'm literally the only person I answer to, especially when it comes to writing, and again this makes the whole thing feel lonely even when I do have people who will happily read what I write. I don't really have a point other than writing in isolation is hard and coming back to that kind of project is even harder. As much as I want to finish this visual novel, give my girls some closure and let them kiss, I'm at the lonely part of the process and constantly being pulled away from working on making the lonely part of the process less lonely