We're Clearly Too Cute To Be A Terrorist.
Sep. 30th, 2024 10:38 amI'm enjoying looking through everyone's responses to the 'mistakes you noticed after posting fanfiction' poll! Please continue to share your shame so I can feel less alone.
I've just realised I should really have included a 'forgetting crucial worldbuilding details' option. I fell prey to this twice recently, when writing for In Stars and Time!
My first mistake: I needed to name a location in Vaugarde. Vaugarde is fantasy France, so I wanted something that sounded appropriately French. In the NaNo I wrote when I was sixteen, there was a location called the Endless Plains, so I named the place in the fic the Toujours Plains as a little nod to that; 'toujours' means 'always' or 'forever'.
A week later, I suddenly remembered that Vaugarde worships the concept of change. The idea of endlessness, of changelessness, of remaining the same: that's anathema. Why would a society like that name a place after the concept of forever? Does everyone in Vaugarde just really hate these goddamn plains?
My second mistake: I described the sky as 'a brilliant, vibrant mid-afternoon blue'. This is fine! Until you remember that In Stars and Time is set in a world where nobody can see colour. A reader pointed this one out, and I was mortified.
Tem and I are nearing the end of our Master Detective Archives: Rain Code replay. Here are some more notes from our adventures with this silly game.
Shinigami: I don't smell any corpses. I thought there'd be some around here.
Yuma: Of course not!
Tem: Of corpse not.
One of Yuma's voice clips is just 'what do??' and it's extremely funny.
Having taken a wrong turn, I was cornered by Guillaume and the Peacekeepers. 'Let's dunk his head in the river and suck the water out through his ass,' Guillaume proposed: a colourful threat that I am recording mainly so I won't be the only one haunted by the mental image.
When Yuma is arrested and panicking:
Yuma: Shinigami, what do I do?
Shinigami: I must admit, seeing you so pitiful is nice. I'm gonna stare at you for a while.
Riona: Shinigami truly speaks for us all.
In Danganronpa, if you max out your relationship with a character, you receive that character's underpants. A part of me is now conditioned to expect underpants whenever I bond with characters in other games.
Shinigami: Master, you and Yakou have formed the ultimate bond together.
Riona: Well, where are his fucking underpants, then?
The rest of my notes are spoilery, so I'll share those once we've finished this replay!
I've just realised I should really have included a 'forgetting crucial worldbuilding details' option. I fell prey to this twice recently, when writing for In Stars and Time!
My first mistake: I needed to name a location in Vaugarde. Vaugarde is fantasy France, so I wanted something that sounded appropriately French. In the NaNo I wrote when I was sixteen, there was a location called the Endless Plains, so I named the place in the fic the Toujours Plains as a little nod to that; 'toujours' means 'always' or 'forever'.
A week later, I suddenly remembered that Vaugarde worships the concept of change. The idea of endlessness, of changelessness, of remaining the same: that's anathema. Why would a society like that name a place after the concept of forever? Does everyone in Vaugarde just really hate these goddamn plains?
My second mistake: I described the sky as 'a brilliant, vibrant mid-afternoon blue'. This is fine! Until you remember that In Stars and Time is set in a world where nobody can see colour. A reader pointed this one out, and I was mortified.
Tem and I are nearing the end of our Master Detective Archives: Rain Code replay. Here are some more notes from our adventures with this silly game.
Shinigami: I don't smell any corpses. I thought there'd be some around here.
Yuma: Of course not!
Tem: Of corpse not.
One of Yuma's voice clips is just 'what do??' and it's extremely funny.
Having taken a wrong turn, I was cornered by Guillaume and the Peacekeepers. 'Let's dunk his head in the river and suck the water out through his ass,' Guillaume proposed: a colourful threat that I am recording mainly so I won't be the only one haunted by the mental image.
When Yuma is arrested and panicking:
Yuma: Shinigami, what do I do?
Shinigami: I must admit, seeing you so pitiful is nice. I'm gonna stare at you for a while.
Riona: Shinigami truly speaks for us all.
In Danganronpa, if you max out your relationship with a character, you receive that character's underpants. A part of me is now conditioned to expect underpants whenever I bond with characters in other games.
Shinigami: Master, you and Yakou have formed the ultimate bond together.
Riona: Well, where are his fucking underpants, then?
The rest of my notes are spoilery, so I'll share those once we've finished this replay!
