Bleeeeeehhhh.
Sorry I've been AWOL so long. Chapter 2 of Reaction's hit a bit of a roadblock when I realized I really needed to plan out where I'm going with it more. I mean, I have a general idea for the "Myth Arc", but almost none of the specifics. In a fic where a decent amount of the cast (including most of the antagonists) are going to have to be new characters, this is a serious problem. So Reaction's been put on semi-hiatus while I work on getting a lot of details ironed out.
Seriously though, if you like Reaction, feel free to talk to me about it. REALLY. Discussion is muse food. Good discussion is like a delicious, nutritious three-course meal.
Another roadblock for Reaction's progress has been Dimension Shift.
Dimension Shift is... ... ... it's... a self insert.
...
SHUTUPDONTJUDGEME. >>;;
Seriously, I had been playing with the idea of a TotA for a while, just in my head and just for fun. I hadn't actually been intending to write it. But then I started talking with my RL friend Flakeblood (who, incidentally, is the person who introduced me to Tales of the Abyss), and when I brought it up... I forget how it happened, but I think it was something where she said "Well, if I was there, I would've..." And then I was suddenly like "What if we BOTH went there?!" And then my mind latched onto that idea and played with it for the rest of the night. I still only meant to play with it in my head for fun, though.
Next day was declared a snow day (which would later turn into the rest of the week being all snow days), and I asked Flakeblood if she wanted to come down to my room (we both live in the dorm) to hang out. She came down, and when she was there, I made a (jokingly) accusatory statement about how "that plotbunny you gave me is still torturing me!" And then she was like "Yeah, I wrote a bit about it last night."
Me: ... whut.
Turns out I wasn't the only one who got plotbunnies from the idea. So now we're working on it together, and having the time of our lives. Well, maybe that's exaggerating, but yeah. We'll probably post it eventually, but not until we get a few chapters done.
Part of the reason why both of us going WORKS is because, while we have many things in common, there are several ways in which she and I are two fundamentally different people. So you will be seeing two different people go through the story and reacting differently to the same events, not just the same person going through the same thing twice.
Soooooo... yeah.
Also, bit of ranting here, for DeviantArt because I really don't want to look like an ungrateful idiot on the site itself but I gotta vent about this somewhere.
Dear DeviantArt,
Can you please stop sending me notifications that someone has favorited/added either of my stamps? Seriously, I get that they're popular, that people like the messages. But after several hundred times, it just starts to lose its meaning. Meanwhile, I have plenty of art/stories that I spent a LOT LONGER on and put a LOT MORE meaning into, that is getting nothing. So when I see my feedback counter go up, I keep hoping that it's for one of THOSE, and when I see it's just ANOTHER fave for my stamps AGAIN, it's not a happy moment.
Thank you, Gorsecloud
Also, one last grumble.
I hate horror. So having to watch a horror film for my class's exam is not sitting well with me right now. :|
Yep.... that's all from this corner of... whatever you call here.