idk how to say this without sounding really boomer-ey, but like, what happened to horror content for kids? maybe i’m using the word “horror” a little liberally but i remember when i was a kid there was SO much out there that existed solely for the purpose of scaring kids in a safe, fun, age-appropriate way. just off the top of my head there’s goosebumps, scary stories to tell in the dark, tales from the crypt (little before my time though), coraline, mirror mask, monster house, dark crystal (more incidentally scary but w/e), even courage the cowardly dog; all these really fantastic books and shows and movies that let kids explore being scared on their own terms.
now there’s idk, those new addams family movies? but those aren’t really scary.
i see people talking about the “kid-ification” of horror games and i can’t help but wonder if part of the reason kids latch onto that stuff so much now is because there’s nowhere else for them to experience healthy, safe fear. a little kid wants to get the thrill of being scared, but their parents won’t let them watch any actual horror movies, so they go on youtube and what do you know, there’s markiplier playing another cheap horror game set in a toy store or whatever, and now that kid’s fear quota is being met. (obviously there’s more to it than that, but it’s a theory i have)
this like, doesn’t really matter probably but idk, i feel bad that ~kids these days~ aren’t getting the experience of something scary made specifically for them with their genuine enjoyment in mind, rather than whatever the next fnaf ripoff is that just wants to sell them merch. being a kid and watching a well-made scary movie feels like you’re finally being taken seriously; you’re not being babied or coddled, you’re being trusted to face the skeksis and the other mother and the nebbercracker house and not back down. i wish people were still making media that respected kids that much.
Downright criminal that I have trouble finding any translations for summer Baobhan Sith’s my room lines or profile but Melusine’s were out there since day one.
I cannot stress this enough, write it poorly. Write the shittiest draft you possibly can, stick ‘ah fuck something happens here and now they’re fighting’ to get over
Write the worst fucking version you possibly can and stick it in a folder and forget it for a month or two before you look at it again. You know what you have now?
A first draft. And with enough time to think some new thoughts about it, you’ll soon end up with a better, second draft! And eventually, you’ll end up with something you’d be perfectly okay with letting other people read!
You’ll never believe this process works no matter how many times you do it, but it totally does. You just have to drag your brain kicking and screaming to that blank page and get the bones down first.
I’m sure there’s a reason he hasn’t tweeted about it
Oh boy gudaguda antics
congrats to you for being the first to ask for chaldea twitter adventures lore. in terms of engagement it’s made of various servants + fou + miscellaneous chaldea employees + beasts + various souls from kur + living things from nps and reality marbles + oberon’s moth + the crypters + random people with insane luck that have no idea that these people are real and just think they’re enthusiastic roleplayers.
as I work my way through gideon the ninth I simply have to say that we as a society need more the locked tomb aus, I need to see my otps as necros and cavs and I needed them to have multiple 20k word slowburn fics by yesterday.
nasu can squeeze in every fsn bitch under the sun into every damn fate property he makes but somehow can’t put a SINGLE NON EGYPTIAN AFRICAN SERVANT IN ANYTHING???? NOT EVEN YASUKE??? Y’KNOW ONE OF ODA NOBUNAGA’S RETAINERS???
Isn’t Queen of Sheba Ethiopian?
Possibly? She has a whole lot of origins but most historians attribute her to the historical region of South Arabia which is largely based in Yemen. If she is that’s great! But that means they only have one, and she’s in fgo with only one relevant chapter to her name.
Her profile says she can be from either region but also says she could be from Ethiopia
The non-Egyptian African servant meeting went well today
nasu can squeeze in every fsn bitch under the sun into every damn fate property he makes but somehow can’t put a SINGLE NON EGYPTIAN AFRICAN SERVANT IN ANYTHING???? NOT EVEN YASUKE??? Y’KNOW ONE OF ODA NOBUNAGA’S RETAINERS???
Isn’t Queen of Sheba Ethiopian?
Possibly? She has a whole lot of origins but most historians attribute her to the historical region of South Arabia which is largely based in Yemen. If she is that’s great! But that means they only have one, and she’s in fgo with only one relevant chapter to her name.
