flambeauFelid

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
bladekindeyewear
bladekindeyewear

Huh, I wonder how Tavvy might react to a version of his mom who's actually sane with no recollection of or particular ties to him, just being outwardly kind to him like she might be to any other child Nannasprite-style.

(If he doesn't like, somersault-kick her in the face first.)

flambeaufelid

This is one of the things I'm most looking forward to seeing. Tavvy meeting his mom but sane.

Yiffy meeting a version of Jade that probably will still love her, but less desperately.

Harry in a world where his dad is dead.

Vrissy is a world where her parents never bothered with her.

bladekindeyewear

I noticed when skimming the Beyond Canon AMA that both Chumi and Miles named Tavvy as their favorite Omega Kid, and Miles especially excited for the story they have planned to show more of who he is and where he's going to go... so I imagine a Jane-and-Tavvy meeting is going to work as a pretty interesting milestone in that story.

Yiffy meeting this QUITE DIFFERENT and much less overbearing version of Jade is bound to be confusing, amusing... potentially mutually hostile in a dog-to-dog way even, which Yiffy probably wouldn't expect! There are so many possibilities and they're all excellent to imagine.

And imagine Vrissy being confused FOR VRISKA by one "parent" (Kanaya) who can't recognize her as anything else, and another (Rosebot) who's a connectionless villain capable of magically surmising their past relationship while potentially ENTIRELY dismissing her significance, no matter how she might yell back up at her.

I'm not sure how disconcerted Harry is going to be by "John's" absence, if he meets Roxy, and given his nature I'm not sure how much masc!Roxy would concern him-- I'm not sure the main crew exactly knows what happened to John, especially given the weirdness of the Time-erasure way he was edited dead as if Dirk was writing him out of the plot (thinking him too boring a protagonist and the story better without him), combined now with the (retroactively?) burned farewell letters. It also depends how and when June Egbert enters the picture, and if anything similar to her former Retcon powers awaken with her new self-discovery... it IS odd that John saw a flash of her in the Plot Point, and I've had Taz (optimisticDuelist / @utopianparadoxist ) suggest there are visual hints in the Addendum that she's involving herself in subtle ways in current events even now-- not sure how much I buy that, but I can't rule it out.

flambeaufelid

Oh lol didn’t even realize that yeah, Harry wouldn’t expect Roxy being trans, that’ll be great too.

Honestly, it’s impressive just how different meat and candy really are.

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bladekindeyewear
bladekindeyewear

Huh, I wonder how Tavvy might react to a version of his mom who's actually sane with no recollection of or particular ties to him, just being outwardly kind to him like she might be to any other child Nannasprite-style.

(If he doesn't like, somersault-kick her in the face first.)

flambeaufelid

This is one of the things I’m most looking forward to seeing. Tavvy meeting his mom but sane.

Yiffy meeting a version of Jade that probably will still love her, but less desperately.

Harry in a world where his dad is dead.

Vrissy is a world where her parents never bothered with her.

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NEW CUTIE ALERT: Artmegia no Gokushinjuu (Imprisoned Deity Beast of Artmegia)

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…Okay, the hands are a little creepy, but other than that. Love the eyes, the plump belly, the ✨sparkles✨ around the head as he(?) looks down at the viewer, the scarf- ooh, and orange blue black and white is such a great color scheme (fuck the gold red green and purple accents on the ends of the scarf throwing it all off though). And as per usual: would.

Damn. Yugioh designers have been cooking like mad lately.

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alexanderwales
alexanderwales

One of a few things that I took from Save the Cat is that you should pitch to people early and often, mostly to refine whatever it is your story is about, to get the pitch to a point where people are positively responding to it instead of saying "interesting" in a way that makes it seem like they don't actually find it interesting.

This has unfortunately made me a bit leery about what was going to be my next project, Doomsday Pivot!, about a small startup company that shifts from saving the world with educational technology to saving the world with shadow monsters and swordplay after the end of the world arrives and demons descend on humanity.

I don't think that I've really ever had someone respond positively to this pitch, or any reframing of it, which is a problem in the sense of ... I would like people to read the stuff I write, and recommend it to other people, and one of the other things I took from Save the Cat is that you don't just need a solid pitch to sell other people on the story, you need a solid pitch so that other people can sell other people on the story. You need to be able to wrap the story up in a pitch in such a way that other people who aren't you can pitch it. Otherwise they're saying "it's good, just trust me bro, ignore all the red flags, the first book is weak".

So I guess I'm staring down the barrel of putting this story on hold to write something else that pitches better, something that does all that Blake Snyder shit, centering the protagonist, putting a promise that's distilled down to a single sentence.

And unlike people who pitch scripts, I'm planning to work on my next project for at least a few years, a pretty significant amount of my life. I want to write what I want to write, but I want to write a lot of things, and maybe it really is just a matter of finding something that I think pitches well and writing that instead, hoping that it has a better chance of finding its audience than something that people just kind of shrug at.

Ideally I'd have worked this all out before writing a book, but better to figure it out now than three books in, when there's feedback on a pitch that I cannot meaningfully change.

(I do still think that Blake Snyder is a hack.)

flambeaufelid

Not much of a writer myself, but I went and read the “noncanonical first chapter” you wrote and linked to in a previous post, and all I can think of to solve this (not that you necessarily asked, I guess, but I’ll throw my opinion out here anyway) is to divorce the premise from the pitch a bit.

Like, yeah, reading that premise I did NOT want to read the story. I only did so that I could see if it was really as hard to think of a better pitch as you were saying- and now that I’ve read it, I DID enjoy it, and really want to read more.

However, most of my enjoyment didn’t come from the premise- the startup that’s going to pivot to saving the world in a new way- no, I enjoyed the characters, the dynamic between Jake and Nat. The humor. The fast pacing. The idiosyncratic class names. Those were that chapter’s charm points to me.

If I were going to pitch that first chapter- not that it’s much to go on with how short it was- I would say something like:

“It’s about a group of coworkers having funny underreactions to their world suddenly operating by RPG rules. Looks like it’s basically an office comedy litRPG. And it’s by Alexander Whales, he wrote Worth The Candle which is one of the best isekai stories ever.”

Hell, that bit, “office comedy litRPG” would probably sell some folks. If I were to condense it to one sentence: “A litRPG office comedy by the experienced author Alexander Whales, about a group of in-over-their-heads coworkers trying to use crazy and humorous video game mechanics to do their jobs.”

Gets across the emotions better, I think, than actually describing the nature OF their jobs- all the apocalypse talk makes it sound morose. Which I guess maybe the rest of the story might be, I don’t know, but if you open with comedy then the pitch can probably get away with mostly reflecting that.

Also, while I’m sure “office comedy litRPG” has been done, I’ve never seen it, and googling the term doesn’t come up with much. I guess The Daily Grind was kinda supposed to be that, but I feel like it got away from that feeling pretty fast… so I would personally see this framing as an opening in a mostly saturated market.

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gazemaizeisdead

flambeaufelid asked:

You've already began filming? Just how fast is this project moving? Can we get an ETA? Actually, if you have a moment, I have a few questions that I feel the public needs answered to know this project is in good hands:

Do you know yet which actors will be reprising their roles?

Will the events of Disney's Dreamlight Valley be canon to the movie?

Is it true that Brad Bird is himself controlled by a small bird in his hair?

Will there be at least one tangential, unintelligible dream sequence?

Where will this movie fall in the overall "Pixar theory" timeline?

If you or Brad have the authority to tell us, how big exactly is Remy's dick is supposed to be, canonically? Apologies if this question is gauche, but assuming you continue with Pixar's cowardly trend of not showing such things on screen, I'm not sure how else audiences could find out this vital information so that we can all mentally superimpose it on the screen while we jerk off in the theater watching it.

Will Remy even be a major character, or is his "adoptive rat son" going to take most of the screentime? Does this character have a name yet?

Thank you for your time.

gazemaizeisdead answered:

Can we get an ETA?

Not currently. I’m famously excellent about meeting deadlines; part of maintaining that reputation is knowing when to keep your mouth shut.

Do you know yet which actors will be reprising their roles?

I’m not able to speak on everything, but fans can be reassured that we were able to retain Ratzenberger on as Mustafa.

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Mabel’s voice actress (Ego’s mother, the elderly woman shooting at the colony at the start of the film) has unfortunately passed away, though we have been in extensive talks with a spirit medium who assures us that she is willing to reprise her role, “for the right price”.

Will the events of Disney’s Dreamlight Valley be canon to the movie?

No, but Kingdom Hearts 3 is.

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Is it true that Brad Bird is himself controlled by a small bird in his hair?

Whether he is or isn’t, it would not be my place to out him, nor is it yours to inquire in this way. Incredibly inappropriate question.

Will there be at least one tangential, unintelligible dream sequence?

There will be six.

Where will this movie fall in the overall “Pixar theory” timeline?

As we spoke about on during our last podcast, it’s set concurrently with Cars 2. Occasionally people get confused when we explain this. Easy to miss within the Cars franchise is the subtext that the vehicles exist at the same time as humans (much like the good dinosaurs once had!) though not together with them. The vehicles have been segregated to several continent-sized ghettos formed from reclaimed land, featuring in-depth recreations of various human cities and architectural wonders, resized and redesigned to fit their needs.

How forced or coercive this separation between these two civilizations is never explored (are the cars the aggressors or the oppressed? which party initiated this? was it achieved peacefully?) though I think we must necessarily view it as negative, if not tragic.

If you or Brad have the authority to tell us, how big exactly is Remy’s dick is supposed to be, canonically? Apologies if this question is gauche, but assuming you continue with Pixar’s cowardly trend of not showing such things on screen, I’m not sure how else audiences could find out this vital information so that we can all mentally superimpose it on the screen while we jerk off in the theater watching it.

I think there’s a lot of value in death of the author conceptually; in most cases, it’s probably the superior way to engage with a work, though I definitely see it misapplied in situations where a reader wants an answer to a relatively straightforward object-level question about a text and are told that it’s up to interpretation.

Take Worm, plausibly the work with the most amount of Word of God supplemental material from a single author. A question like “Can Taylor control crabs?” is very different than “What was Grue feeling when he made love with Taylor’s dad?”; the former benefits from an understanding of literal authorial intent (whether within the text or outside it) that the latter question mostly doesn’t.

It becomes tricky then, because as with your question, many don’t easily slot into one binary or the other; it’s not as easy to immediately know if it’s something where my input would be useful. Rather than directly answer or refuse your question, then, I think it’s more instructive to offer some roundabout insight: Brad’s greatest regret in the first movie is this frame, which has been frequently misinterpreted as showing Remy’s reluctance to acquiesce to one of Linguini’s unspoken suggestions.

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Remy’s expression was meant to indicate only one feeling: pity.

Will Remy even be a major character, or is his “adoptive rat son” going to take most of the screentime? Does this character have a name yet?

Ratticus Pinch.

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flambeaufelid
youropinion-iswrong

rhythm heaven fans and mii fans are holding hands and skipping in a field together right now. 2026 is the year of the true believers.

flambeaufelid

Meanwhile, Deltarune fans are laying face down at their feet, letting them dance atop their prone body.

And Silksong fans are drowning in a nearby tar pit.

flambeaufelid

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

LETS FUCKING GO LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

DELTARUNERS DANCING NOW. SKONGERS RISING FROM THE TAR TO FLY DIRECTLY INTO THE SUN

VIDEAO GAMESSS

flambeaufelid

Oh god, is Duskbloods basically Bloodborne 2???

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Look at this cute little rat bird thing. Somebody get to drawing, I need porn of it immediately.

Kirby Air ride sequel. Chibi robo playable on switch 2

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I REPEAT: CHIBI FUCKKKKKING ROBO

You bitches don’t even KNOW. It’s one of the best games ever made you fucking plebeians. But now you can educate yourself. Because it’s gonna be on the switch 2.

My flesh is melting off.

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flambeaufelid
youropinion-iswrong

rhythm heaven fans and mii fans are holding hands and skipping in a field together right now. 2026 is the year of the true believers.

flambeaufelid

Meanwhile, Deltarune fans are laying face down at their feet, letting them dance atop their prone body.

And Silksong fans are drowning in a nearby tar pit.

flambeaufelid

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

LETS FUCKING GO LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

DELTARUNERS DANCING NOW. SKONGERS RISING FROM THE TAR TO FLY DIRECTLY INTO THE SUN

VIDEAO GAMESSS

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