It’s got 14 full-page b/w illustrations plus a fantasy map (I love a fantasy map!) plus all 55 unique chapter inset illustrations from the original run on Tapas. There are 3 books planned total, and Vol 1 is a character-motivated adventure story. This is a pretty barebones campaign, just the books (physical and ebook) plus a small selection of bespoke merch!
Thanks very much if you decide to give it a look!!
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OVER A THIRD OF THE WAY FUNDED ON DAY ONE THUS FAR THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH!!!!
BTW, I forgot to mention here that this story is a prose novel for adults, with sex, violence, and mature themes. Some of the illos are pretty sexy too..
This is the sorta segment I wish still existed in kids’ shows. Soothing voiceover, mellow music, no flashy graphics. Just a calm behind-the-scenes look at something you might call mundane but that most of us would never have a clue about if no one pulled the curtain back to reveal its inner workings.
Okay but imagine being in kindergarten and seeing something like this, you would absolutely change your mind about wanting to be a fire fighter or teacher or whatever Job you’ve been told is cool and possible to grow up to do because wait a minute it’s just like play-doh, there’s so much it’s kept in trash cans, you can use your hands to smear icing everywhere? It smells like cinnamon buns all the time?! Yes please!
I vaguely remember having a field trip to a bakery in kindergarten and thinking croissants were magical and that I wanted to make them in the future cuz kneading dough looked fun.
This is way more engaging and easier to watch than those sped-up videos with no voiceover and trashy pop music playing over the top.
It actually does make me remember similar segments in shows I watched growing up, like that one program. I don’t remember what exactly the segment was about but it followed a young boy, and he briefly mentioned stopping at a friend’s house and trying goat milk for the first time.
Very little else stuck with me but it sure made me curious about goat milk.
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As you can see above, theyre all patterned like marine life, but theyre also reversible! One side has the pattern, the other is solid color, and they’re all fun colors like blues and reds and greens, but some like the whale and tiger shark ones are more subtle grays and blacks. I have the whale shark one and the spongebob one (which was a limited run), and theyre both very well designed and printed. My spongebob one has served me for roughly four years and it hasn’t worn at all.
What really matters? The binding power, and these things are great. I’m a triple D cup and with a medium I look like I have subtle pecs. They’re also much less compressive than other binders due to their materials (which are mostly recycled!), so you can wear them for longer without getting sore. When I did more intensive theater and band performances, I could still act, dance, and play bari sax without getting winded or hurting myself. They’re also swim tops, and I’ve scuba dived in these as well comfortably.
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My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character’s mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it’ll feel in character.
Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that’s so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn’t cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?
What counts is often not so much ‘would the character do this?’ and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?’ If you get 'how’ part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn’t feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?
Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they’d sound while doing it.
I don’t remember where I saw this piece of advice so I can’t credit it, unfortunately
But it was along the lines of “instead of asking whether something is out of character, ask ’what would it take for this character to do this’”
Which I think fits really nicely with this advice of making the actual action itself also feel in character
Chapters:
2/?
Fandom:
For a Horse and Horseman (Webcomic)
Rating:
Mature
Warnings:
Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships:
Şehzade Cemil/Osmund Haldebard
Characters:
Şehzade Cemil, Osmund Haldebard, Emre, Sakina, Mirhan, Nuray, Nienos, Kemal, Ayaz, Banu, Anaya
Additional Tags:
Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - College/University
Summary:
Osmund is a sophomore trying to make the grade in the political science program of a prestigious university. He’s not very academic - his true passion is horseback riding! His other true passion? Cemil, the popular and handsome son of a State Senator. When Cemil asks Osmund to join his polo club team, they start a whirlwind romance that sends their lives in new directions.
hello, I’m a queer author and, being very disabled and often too ill to watch TV or get out of bed, I read A Lot. This year, after deciding to stop reading anything I wasn’t enjoying right away, I ended up reading SO MANY amazing books that really got me through it.
If YOU want to read more cool and/or gay books, I wrote some proper blogs about my favourites, what exactly I was most obsessed with, and whether you might like them too:
I’m noticing some interesting choices with regards to pronouns in Laura Pohl’s translation of All Systems Red. See, in Portuguese we don’t have object pronouns like “it/its” and neutral neopronouns like “elu/delu” are considered more analogous to the English “they/them”, so gendering Murderbot the way that it is gendered in the original was always going to be tricky. There’s also the other difficulty that adjectives are gendered in Portuguese, so whenever Murderbot describes itself or it’s emotional state or anything, necessarily it was going to gender itself grammatically in some way. What this translation does at first is that the Murderbot’s internal dialogue it genders itself in the masculine which I assumed to be just sort of defaulting Murderbot to be a masculine character, but in reflection of a different detail, I think it’s just defaulting to this formal almost archaic notion of the masculine as neutral. Now, the detail that made me rethink this is this line that I just came upon of Dr Mensah’s:
“UniSeg, preciso que você fique parada aí até eu chegar.”
[SecUnit, I need you to stay still (female form) until I arrive]
The reason that Mensah is referring to Murderbot in the feminine in this case is that it’s referring to it as a security unit, right, and the word Unidade, Unit, in Portuguese, is a feminine word. So I just went back now and I found one other previous instance in which characters refer to Murderbot in the third person and, Ratthi, he calls Murderbot by masculine pronouns but that’s when it’s being referred to as a robô, robot, which in Portuguese is a masculine word. So I guess the way that Pohl found to express Murderbot’s object pronouns is by just using whatever pronouns are in agreement with the word being used to describe it. Which to be fair makes a lot of sense for treating objects in Portuguese. If you call something a cadeira, chair, you’re going to refer to it with feminine pronouns, but if you call the exact same object a sofá, sofa, you will be using the masculine pronouns.
okay I just realized the reason Murderbot refers to itself with masculine pronouns in its internal dialogue all the time is because it’s referring to itself as a robô assasino, murderer robot, which is masculine okay this is kind of genius actually
okay okay this is so cool actually literally the next page and Murderbot is talking about other SecUnits right and it says this
“Elas não eram os robôs-assassinos mais astutos, (…)”
[They (feminine plural) weren’t the (masculine plural) most astute murder robots, (…)]
…feminine pronouns for Unidades de Segurança, SecUnits, and masculine pronouns for robôs-assassinos, murder robots…
so yeah it’s it’s literally exactly as I understood it we are simply using our own grammatical gender rules for objects… it’s so cool
hey, translator here! (: this was absolutely done on purpose. gendering Murderbot would always be a problem, so I, the copyeditors and the brazilian editors worked together to make sure that bots/constructs could be referred with both masculine/feminine pronouns, sometimes even in the same paragraph. same goes for ART in the second novella, who’s also an It in english, but varies between nave (ship, femine) and transporte (transporte, masculine). it’s an important detail and i’m happy it was noticed!
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