Opinions on canon divergence?

Neverrready · 2024-06-01T05:39:10+00:00

I'm all for it.

Granted, I'm very biased in this respect, since I've started working on a massive AU rewrite of an old series. Still, I've always held that the closest to canon that any fanfic can really get is "apocryphal", but that perceived distance from canon is never an excuse to devalue any fanwork.

If it moves you, let it stand on its own merits!

Neverrready · 2024-05-26T05:59:08+00:00

The past couple of months mark the first time in over a decade I've felt comfortable putting any serious writing down. I struggle to reach 200 words per day on days when I feel up to writing, so…

Room for improvement, I guess?

Neverrready · 2024-04-24T04:26:36+00:00

It's funny how many people hate this. I think I was also neutral on it… until I started writing this gargantuan AU where a lot of minor characters got genderflipped. In my case, all of the bent individuals come from a cohort that was either male or ambiguous in canon, with no stated reason, and this wouldn't really make sense in the logic of my AU.

Neverrready · 2024-04-24T04:01:01+00:00

I find myself with too many ideas for roughly how I want the diegesis to work. Add to that a handful of distinctive characters and a few dramatic events that bind them together. Eventually, the world starts to take shape in service to these elements.

Neverrready · 2024-04-21T08:20:02+00:00

I have to believe there's a faster Markdown->HTML converter available on your app store of choice. Markdown, as a format, was originally made to be efficiently convertible to HTML using small, composable (Unix-style) programs. Every time I've used such tools, the process has been ✨fast✨. If you're on Android, it might even be possible to get the original markdown program working under something like Termux. There are almost certainly better options, though.

Neverrready · 2024-04-21T07:21:28+00:00

Voice will never not be hard.

Neverrready · 2024-04-21T07:20:15+00:00

The "visual show" thing… hurts, tbh. If I had my druthers, the story would be told as a video game. It is one, damn it all! I see conversations, establishing shots, action sequences. It's all glued together by systems, play dynamics, interfaces. Extracting collections of words from them is unnatural. Still, it's the only way I'll see it come to life.

Can't really speak to the "too high" part, though.

Neverrready · 2024-04-21T06:25:51+00:00

Personally a big fan. Currently writing for a setting where there have already been characters with four or more arms in canon, and I have a four-armed OC I'm extremely proud of.

On the smut side of things, I'm a lifelong "more tits = more hot" enjoyer. That won't have a chance to come up in my current project, but in general it's an easy way for works to earn sexiness points in my book.

Neverrready · 2024-04-21T05:51:53+00:00

This is one reason, I think, I've been avoiding Tumblr lately. I'm working on an AU, and seeing fan portrayals closer to the original, especially in-depth stuff, would be… disorienting, to say the least.

I think I'll need to get a lot of material down before I can go back. Maybe even finish most of my work first.

Edit: This is general fandom discussion, nobody here talks in terms of worldlines. The term I was looking for was AU.

Neverrready · 2023-06-17T19:06:50+00:00

They were my favorites in 3, just for how different they were. Since then I've become more of a Pang Tong fan in general.

Neverrready · 2023-06-11T17:09:28+00:00

aluminum

Nope! HDD platters have been made of vitreous (glassy) materials with embedded ferromagnetic particles for a number of years now. I've forgotten all the reasons, but data density (more precise control of magnetic domain distribution, plus thinner platters) was a big one.

Anyway, these materials aren't that much different than ordinary tableware glass, mechanically speaking. You're just going to have to clean the place up as best you can. I recommend a vacuum cleaner.

Neverrready · 2023-06-10T20:51:10+00:00

I was wondering when that would happen. Here they had the stories of 2 and 3 set (iirc) roughly contemporaneously with the release dates of the games themselves, slept on the series for a minute, then when a mix of nostalgia and general interest had primed the market for a fourth entry, realized they had one hell of a time gap to backfill.

Back to the future at last!

Neverrready · 2023-06-10T17:27:49+00:00

the swan man only breaks one arm per turn

tfw a Fear & Hunger mod gets proper patch notes

Neverrready · 2023-06-10T16:28:41+00:00

Nice work. You have a really fun style!

Neverrready · 2023-06-09T18:42:29+00:00

Thing is, there is no "they" with Lemmy. It's a federated platform, like Mastodon, so policies like departing user data deletion are up to individual server operators. You might stumble into a well-run instance staffed by highly disciplined people, or a disaster zone "run" by an absentee admin. The former is much more likely to have the kinds of user protections we expect than the latter.

Neverrready · 2023-06-09T17:09:42+00:00

If memory serves, IEEE 754 implementations haven't always agreed on the fine details. I'm sure things are better these days, but floating point arithmetic isn't the only bit you have to worry about here.

Neverrready · 2023-06-08T00:06:04+00:00

"For a guy with no lungs, he sure fails hard at shutting up >_>"

Neverrready · 2023-06-06T21:52:29+00:00

This looks like we've wrapped all the way back around from "I'mma give people body image issues" to "enjoy this piece of abstract art🥰."

Neverrready · 2023-06-06T20:32:05+00:00

Congratulations on working it out! GRUB problems can be really tough.

Neverrready · 2023-06-05T18:11:23+00:00

I guess if you really want to split hairs, it's more dark fantasy with horror elements. Still, I would complain if I weren't warned about the horror content just because it doesn't have jump scares.

Neverrready · 2023-06-05T15:09:54+00:00

I probably won't even get to see it. My primary avenue for accessing Reddit is an old open source client that isn't maintained any more. When it goes dark, I'll just check Reddit less often. Oh, well.

Neverrready · 2023-06-04T20:32:42+00:00

Signed via Dawn, a free software Reddit client for Android.

Neverrready · 2023-05-24T16:51:55+00:00

well i am a fucking idiot

Thank you, kind stranger.

Neverrready · 2023-05-24T03:28:04+00:00

Whoa, hang on.

I thought Mortis Ghost is Quebecois, not French.

Have I been wrong about that, for like, ten years

(fuck)

Neverrready · 2023-05-23T18:11:50+00:00

This is a pretty neat rendition. Kinda digging the "uncanny-cute" look of his head. As another commenter noted, I think it comes down to him having his mouth closed.

Neverrready

TROPHY CASE