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Parks and Recreation reinforces the fact that I’m not against heterosexual couples in fiction. I just want them to be good couples, and a lot of shows like to write heterosexual couples as adversaries who always argue, seem to hate each other, and should probably get super divorced 😬

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Mia Luna Tearmoon: Angry Pout in Tearmoon Empire

I also like the Tearmoon Empire “villainess” who is NOT a sweetheart, but is often good for selfish reasons. I love this because I will forever insist that goodness to others benefits ourselves, too, and she demonstrates that. (Also she grows as a person even if never truly saintly)

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ALT: Mia Luna Tearmoon: Angry Pout in Tearmoon Empire

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WHICH is why I don’t like the twist of the heroine becoming a villainess in place of the sweetheart villainess. I’m there for the good vibes! I don’t want the tragedy of the corrupted otome protagonist or whatever! 😭

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Catarina Claes: Anime Girl Eating Donut

I gravitate towards villainess and saint manga / anime for the same basic reasons: I like a protagonist being genuinely kind and trying to help people. Which sounds weird for the villainess genre, but the irony is the villainess is almost always a sweetheart.

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ALT: Catarina Claes: Anime Girl Eating Donut

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Dan Shive @danshive.bsky.social · 8h

I tend to gravitate towards them because I like the idea of a healer helping people, but there are a lot of repeating plot elements. The Secret Saint has the benefit of being a bit goofy and different in its premise.

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Dan Shive @danshive.bsky.social · 8h

I’m mostly familiar with it because of a bunch of stories with “saint” in the title (most of which are about women with magic healing powers who aren’t appreciated or acknowledged for various reasons right up until they are). Latest one’s pretty different in its setup (A Tale of The secret Saint)

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Dan Shive @danshive.bsky.social · 12h

Hang on, I think I’m mistaken about this. It SOUNDS like they’re saying “sage,” but I think that’s a coincidence. What they’re saying is 聖女, which sounds like “sage-oh,” but apparently means “holy woman.”

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Dan Shive @danshive.bsky.social · 12h

(There are a couple Sage / Saint stories similar enough that I jumble them in my memory, but there’s also plenty doing their own things enough that they do stand out.)

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Dan Shive @danshive.bsky.social · 12h

For further clarification, there is an entire genre around sages / saints. They tend to be young women who are super special awesome healers who are for some reason or another mistreated by their own people and find appreciation either elsewhere or later on. There’s some Villainess genre overlap.

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Dan Shive @danshive.bsky.social · 13h

I scheme to have text in an upcoming sketchbook, and needed to determine the size for it to look right. This involved… MATH ⛈️ #egscomics

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Dan Shive @danshive.bsky.social · 14h

Let it be known that I was perfectly willing to give the movie Susan and Jay are going to see a sensible name. The problem is too many things exist, and it’s a silly movie anyway, so now its name is ridiculous. #egscomics

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Dan Shive @danshive.bsky.social · 15h

Sage (person, not a plant) in anime tends to get localized as saint. Saint works fine, but I don’t know why it’s so frequently chosen over Sage. Maybe it‘s simply perceived as localizing its meaning better? Maybe ending on a “T” is thought to sound better? 🤔

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Dan Shive @danshive.bsky.social · 17h

But I Thought I Was Buffy - www.egscomics.com/comic/falsek... Buffy is an actual name (and apparently a nickname associated with Elizabeth? Huh), so Diane COULD be a Buffy, but she probably shouldn't use that name AND fight vampires. Could get me in trouble. #egscomics #webcomics

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Standing dry erase boards are good for scripting train wrecks of thought.

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She DEFINITELY can't call herself Buffy!

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COMIC ONE MILLION YEARS LATE! Okay, that’s not true, but now any earlier is going to feel super early. (A stylistic choice I would have made anyway should help keep it from being very late)

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Dinner! No more barking for this dog. It’s time for an owl to hoot and this penguin to waddle!

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They originally wanted Michael Caine for that.

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They wrote this in before it was certain Conan had the show, and Conan wasn’t confident when recording that he’d still have the show by the time the episode aired.

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YES! RIGHT DISC! That pig will oink!

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The insert that says which episodes are on which discs is missing from my season 5 Simpsons box set, AND THAT HORSE WON’T GALLOP But no time to search now. I’m going to guess disc 3, and may God have mercy on us all.

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I don't know if I will be actually be doing anything in cursive (in part because my handwriting is currently atrocious), but I might. There are benefits to doing things handwritten, though not necessarily as much as some might think. I think the main thing is "in your own words" notetaking.

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I can do most of it, but there are some letters I sort of just "whoosh" through without them looking right. I think I'll be able to get in the groove of it again with just a little reminding.

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( tries writing in cursive) 💨 ZOOOOOOOOM 💨 Oh. THAT’S why they used to teach this. Yeah, I’m gonna need a refresher.

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I think the barrier to that is not having a template in Procreate set up for that, or any of those other apps. This suggests I should try out a template (and possibly other apps) and see if it’s something I’d realistically stick with.

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Yeah, my Apple Pencil can no longer hold a charge for very long. Now to consider if future me would use a replacement enough to justify it. I actually should use my tablet for thumbnails, but should and would don’t always overlap 😑

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I like presenting ideas that might not necessarily work, but have much to consider when thinking about.

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If space-faring, I’m thinking REALLY smart in ways humans would find baffling. Like, “you need computers for that, how cute” smart. Not super smart about everything, but there’d be things about them that we’d consider beyond super-human. And yet they *literally* can’t learn to read.

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To clarify, I understand how learned and not instinctive reading is, but we humans do have the capability to learn it using what we have. I am suggesting an alien species that doesn’t have anything like that to work with in spite of their intelligence.

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I’m not suggesting it is, but we are capable of learning to do it using what we have. I am considering an alien species that does not have that.

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What if powerful, super intelligent species that can’t read? Not as in “never learned,” but as in their brains literally can’t do it for some reason.

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Note to self: Things like donuts can be occasional “in addition to” treats with an actual breakfast, but they cannot *replace* breakfast. You get hungry again way too quickly.

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Past me apparently highlighted what I meant by this! ”Genre savvy” might not be the exact right way to put it, but I think it fits in a general sense. (The ”bad at directions” was something Ashley suggested because of characters like Ryoga from Ranma 1/2)

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I also think it’s possible our minds will look at the text that’s there and try to pull autocomplete nonsense. Instead of what you’re thinking, part of your mind might go into general next word prediction mode. Again, not a mind scientist. I could be COMPLETELY wrong.

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I suggest this because I think looking at the words as you type can disrupt the flow of what you’re writing. your language centers are both looking at what’s there, and what you’re thinking of. They’re potentially competing, not working in tandem. Or not. I’m not a mind scientist.

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When stuck on writing something, I think it helps to look away from the text itself. This is easier on a keyboard (as in a literal, physical keyboard), as I don’t need to look at it while typing. Granted, I’ll need to go back and check for typos, and should do that frequently, but still.

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I think it be important that she’s not confidently right, either, and potentially as surprised as anyone else when right.

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Something I want to bring back is Ashley being right due to genre savvyness. It hasn’t come up much, but she correctly guessed Andrea had a bad sense of direction, and that Nanase couldn’t reach Elliot with her fairy doll spell at one point because Elliot was Cheerleadra (so stuff like that).

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Susan wants Sarah all to herself for platonic hugs and sitting in somewhat close proximity that isn’t quite cuddling but is cuddling-adjacent.

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Anime in which an incredible new VR MMORPG is struggling because people are invested in their social investments in a janky MMORPG from a decade ago, and the protagonist is on a quest to get more players 🤔

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Consider why Diane wasn’t given a mark first. Diane being second to last suggests Pandora put off going to see her, and if THAT’S the case, it’s odd there’d be anyone after her. Pandora would have gone to her after procrastinating to give her protection magic… But that failed… 🤔

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If not for my hair and eyes, I’d look weirdly young when clean shaven. Something about facial hair seems to add ten years. Or maybe its absence subtracts ten? I dunno. It’s weird. I swear it seems to affect parts of my face where it doesn’t even grow.

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Reasons I might not eat invlude: - An inability to be proactive and being in an anxiety state. - Actively being proactive and not wanting to stop to eat. I think I’m just prone to skipping meals and need to make it a scheduled thing on a checklist.

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Spelling Out The Spell - www.egscomics.com/comic/falsek... "C… H… A… R… I…" "It's an orange dragon spell?" "No, let me finish! Also, that's not dragon type." #egscomics #webcomics

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Spelling Out The Spell - www.egscomics.com/comic/falsek... "C… H… A… R… I…" "It's an orange dragon spell?" "No, let me finish! Also, that's not dragon type." #egscomics #webcomics

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