"I may be a potato, but I am flaming" Me, Brooklyn, the singing, sassy, joking, hot-mess poato who does youtube videos, cosplay, writing, acting, and whatever I want.
Our group project was titled The Outback Way. It was a fairly simple linear moving boardgame that took a lot of inspiration from the (also boardgame) Tokiado. Our game involved going from Perth Australia and moving to Cairns. The group consisted of Dylan Brummel, Max Williamson, and Richard Liu. The division of labour was Dylan handling mechanics and themes, Max was in charge of board design and did the prestation at the end, And Richard worked on marketing and playtesting.
For anyone wondering about Tokiado the game we based ours off: Tokaido was designed by Antoine Bauza and was released in 2012. In the game, each player is traversing the ‘East sea road’, one of the most important roads of Japan. As it connects two of the largest cities. While traveling, you meet people, eat traditional meals, collect souvenirs, collect cards to complete the panoramas, and visit temples, all to gain the most points and therefore win. The more things you do/buy the more points you gather and the more likely you are to win.
Tokaido doesn’t have much narrative which in some senses can be good, you don’t have to worry about what this character says about you, or whether or not you connect with them. This left me feeling a bit empty though, where is the drama? when I played the game I was telling people that my character moonlighted as a samurai because I really wanted some backstory. As creative writing student that makes sense. I wanted to know why these people were traveling cross country and what shenanigans these characters could get into. This is why I expanded on the characters the way I did. I decided to not only conceptualise our characters but also to make a few come to life by cosplaying as them. The two I picked were The Runaway Bride and The Youtuber. The YouTuber was a bit easier, I wanted to give 2015 tumblr hipster vibes, hence the aviators and felt hat. I didn’t want to spend a large amount of money though and so I started looking for wedding dresses in op-shops, the one closer to my house was so small that it maybe would have fitted on my thigh, shout out to child brides though, I guess. It was 120 dollars and that included a veil but there was no way it would fit so I went to another op-shop. This one had one that would fit me but was 140 dollars which was out of my budget. I spent the next few days contacting people as well as other op shops and looking online but unfortunately, I had to buy the dress… Then they made me buy a carry bag!
So all together I spent about 235 dollars. Whilst that is a lot of money to spend, I do think I looked really good, and I believes demonstrates how seriously I took it this and my role of establishing narrative and characters. If given the choice I would probably do it again despite being strapped for cash for the next fortnight, but I also I’d probably look into a few more op-shops a bit further out of my way.
The group decided to simply make the bonuses that each character can get copies of the ones seen in Tokaido. We felt making a completely new point system would have been very time consuming and would have had to been play tested multiple times.
We also wanted to make the game a bit more challenging so there are also bonuses along the way that specific characters need to stop at to get a large amount of points (eg: there is a space where The Youtuber can make an apology video and they get an extra 20 points for this). This is based off the bonus stars that are given in ‘Mario Party’ but we also wanted some control so you can block other players from being able to stop there by stopping there yourself, but you cannot get the points.
The Botch is a bluffing card game with 6 items and 6 characters using one character and all items you must get 10 diamonds to win the game. Developed in 2015 by Talen Lee. A three to twelve player game that is supposed to take thirty minutes (ours took an hour; thirty minutes is a drastic under estimation!)
The Botch was probably the most enjoyable game. I had a really fun time playing it, the paratext (the art, the box, the diamonds) of this game is amazing. It was a bit more intense than most of the other games but that’s ok, because I enjoyed it. I am very competitive; I grew up with 5 very close cousins and our family raised us to compete because my dad and my aunt are very possibly narcists. So a game where you can win and everyone else can lose sounds amazing. We didn’t have the instructions, but I still feel like the game would have been a bit difficult with them. In class we luckily had the creator to guide us through it (shoutout to Richard) it is turn based and I think that’s very helpful for deciding what to do next and I was so close to winning, but I didn’t, sorry dad.
Throw Throw Burrito is a dodgeball card game released in 2020 released by the Exploding Kittens company. It’s a group game for 2-6 players, it’s usually quick the site saying it takes 15 minutes and the game in class took about the same amount of time.
As much as I enjoyed the art and punny cards I found this game hard because I for one don’t like sports and I don’t like thinking fast. Throw Throw Burrito focuses on that almost entirely. I think I thought this game would need a bit more brain power than yelling and throwing but that’s basically it. I think in the right setting I could have liked this game more. Say if I was at a party and everyone was a few drinks in, I think that’s the point of the game. It’s quick and easy there’s no lengthy story or setting. I feel like it’s a more casual game, I could see football bros playing it. I expected more of an ‘Exploding Kittens’ style game, where the cards seem to matter a bit more, I didn’t even know it was by the same company till today, but the art style and pun style humour is very similar.
Tokaido is a turn based boardgame made by Antoine Bauza and published by Funforage, in either 2012 or 2013 (the internet was rather unclear about that) the average game time is 45 minutes which is about the amount of time we experienced.
Tokaido is another game that is extremely beautiful I’ve always been a fan of Asian art (not me being a weeb, I watched a lot of Sailor Moon as a child, shout-out to my Dad again) I also really liked a lot of the gameplay the idea of the person whose in last going first is interesting, like previously stated I’m not very good at sports and would usually come in last if the sport involved running so that was something I really enjoyed. I feel like some characters are a bit OP like the old man who usually wins based on the points he’s able to squirrel away in the temple. I also found it difficult when you were in last place because all the good spots would be taken by other players. No, I don’t want to go to the hot spring, AGAIN! Also some things were not explained to me till too late, I didn’t know about getting item cards from the set, a student told me after I had bought something. “You didn’t know about the set?” Sir, you are holding the instructions, you should have told me!
Fanfiction is the practice of writing fiction based off an already created work that the writer has enjoyed and is a fan of. Contemporary fan fiction is often posted it onto the internet or as it is more commonly known “fanfic”. Fanfiction is defined as “stories involving popular fictional characters that are written by fans and often posted on the Internet” (Fanfiction, 2021). Fanfiction can be based on books, movies or tv shows. There are websites that are designed to house works of fanfiction including FanFiction.net or Archive of Our Own (AO3); websites like Tumblr and Wattpad also have a large base of work known as fanfiction. This report will also discuss where fanfiction should fit into already existing literary categories. This report will also show that women and queer people are the main producers and readers of fanfiction; it will address the value of fanfiction as a form of creative writing and recentering an established narrative to be more relatable to those demographics.
Fanfiction has been around for a long time. Stephanie Burt wrote a piece in the New Yorker magazine in 2017 called ‘The Promise and Potential of Fan Fiction’ in which she discusses the origins of contemporary fanfiction. She writes: “First there was “Star Trek,” the original series, whose viewers—many of them women in stem[sic] fields—organized conventions and created self-published journals (a.k.a. fanzines) with fiction about its characters, a small but notorious slice of which included sexy doings between Kirk and Spock. Or: first there were fans of science-fiction novels and magazines who held conventions and traded self-published journals as early as the nineteen-thirties. Or: first there was Sherlock Holmes, whose devotees, hooked by serial publication, pushed for more stories, formed clubs, and wrote their own. Or: first came Virgil’s Aeneid. Or: first, the Janeites.” (Burt, 2017)
This paragraph shows that the roots of fanfiction are seen in readers responses to the works from the classics all the way up to Star Trek. Many creative genres have been used as a basis for fanfiction. Readers have come together to enjoy the original works and have created demand for more. Readers have become writers. Wattpad- a site for uploading original work- currently recommends 1,590 fanfiction stories to the readers who visit the site. Which might not seem like many but that’s just the top-rated ones.
The Method of Fanfiction
There seems to be two main structures or models to Fan-Fiction: AU and OC.
AU refers to Alternative Universe. In this structure, many things about the established story are changed while characters are kept; The already established characters experience a different plotline or are thrust into a different environment. Take for example Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith. This book takes most of the original love story and adds a plotline about zombies. The author extrapolates the humor in Pride and Prejudice by adding this element. He honours Jane Austen by using her much admired sentence structure as seen in the first line of the novel: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.” (Grahame-Smith and Austen, 2009).
OC refers to Original Character. The fanfiction writer has created a new character who is put into the existing storyline. Or sometimes the reader is put into the storyline utilizing Y/N, meaning your name. You are now the original character. A good example of this structure is the new character, Enola Holmes, appearing in her own detective series. Her older brother is the established character Sherlock Holmes. The Enola Holmes series is written by a woman, Nancy Springer, for a young adult audience. She is a smart and resourceful young woman who is shackled to the gender norms of the earlier 20th century. Enola frequently has to pose as a male and has to solves mysterious without the resources or authority of Sherlock. The OC structure allows the writer to explore gender roles in a light-hearted and accessible way for young adults.
Homage, Parody, and Pastiche
This essay has explained the methodology behind fanfiction so it is time to explore where exactly it fits literarily. Homage, parody, and pastiche are all corresponding literature devices which are rather similar to fanfiction but there are some differences between all of them which create contrast between the three as well as unite them as a literary grouping.
Homage is a literature device which pays respect to another piece of literature or style of writing. It is usually used by writers to honour what has impacted or influenced them. Writers who write homage will often use the same writing style or story, but the author will put their own originality into it. “Something that is done to honour someone or something” (Homage, 2021) is the meaning in the dictionary but homage as writing technique is rather new. During the post-modern era it was a very common writing practice. “… they increasingly point to the compatibility of homage and invention, to the coexistence of renovation and variance, novelists today are breaching that paradigm of narrative self-reflexivity perpetuated under the rubric of postmodern free-play.” (James, 2007) as we can see a homage needs a bit of Authors originality to function while it needs to have the largely good parts of the person or literature the homage is being written for. An excellent example of homage is Jeanette Winterson’s Fran Kiss Stein. Which is a homage to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Mary Shelly is even written into the book as a character, and we see her write Frankenstein during that fateful weekend “My husband adores Byron. Each day they take a boat out onto the lake and talk about poetry and liberty…” This compares and contrasts to modern day robotics “I’m here for the global Tec-X-Po on Robotics” which is shown side by side. We clearly have the homage to Mary Shelly along with the originality of the storyline of robotics.
A parody is a work which mimics form and style of another work and often exaggerated it for a comedic effect. A parody can be written anywhere between light-hearted fun and a simple but brutal ridicule of the original work. “a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule” (Parody, 2021) Parody is written purposefully and for a reason“a parody is ‘an intentional imitation – of a text, style, genre, or discourse – which includes an element of humour and which has an aim of interpreting its target in one way or another’” (Chan, 2017) There are many examples of parody in the digital age but even Shakespeare wrote a love poem, ‘Sonnet 130’ that was parody of the poetry at the time.
“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks…”
He was parodying the common love poems of the time, often poems would compare the body to beautiful things like the sun or roses and whilst Shakespeare does compare them, he doesn’t seem to think it’s the right comparison to make, so instead he mocks the common metaphors.
Pastiche is defined as very similar to both parody and homage it does often emulate the original work and often it lightly make fun of it but it is done with love and respect for the original work and often it can also blend more than one authors style. Pastiche in the dictionary is defined as “a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work” (Pastiche 2021) Pastiche can also often be seen as a pasting together of a few writers works but no matter the number of authors it imitates it still is a purposeful emulation. “This practice has an honored heritage and, done well, involves high craftsmanship. The idea is to evoke an older style with respect, which doesn’t mean you can’t have fun with the original. But if you make fun of it, then it’s not pastiche; it’s parody.” Tommasini, A. 2014 An example of Pastiche is Dave McClure’s “The Traveler” a pastiche of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”
“Long ago upon a hilltop (let me finish then I will stop)
I espied a curious traveler where no traveler was before.
As I raised an arm in greeting all at once he took to beating
At the air like one entreating passing boats to come ashore.
or an over-eager whore.” (McClure, 2019)
It duplicates the arrangement of words used by Poe in the original poem. It also utilises the same rhyming style as well. You can compare it to the opening paragraphs of Poe’s ‘The Raven’:
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“‘Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door –
Only this, and nothing more.” (Edgar Poe, 2005)
The largest difference between the two is that Poe’s is clearly very serious, while McClure clearly is trying to make a poem that, while respectful, hasa more humorous tone.
Are these not literary devices we clearly see in fanfiction? A respect and inspiration from the original source, and in some cases, enough self-awareness to see that your favourite media can sometimes be problematic. Therefore it should be sometimes exaggerated in the hopes of at least having a good time? Fanfiction overlaps all three of these categories so why isn’t it just as respected as the other previously mentioned literary classifications?
Who Writes Fanfiction?
A large percentage of readers and writers of Fanfiction are women. “Fanfiction surpasses romance as the most female genre of all, with more of its readers and writers identifying as genderqueer (6 per cent) than male (4 per cent).” (Carvan, 2018) It could be argued that women create fanfiction because media has traditionally been skewed towards men. Women want to see themselves in media, but often the only way to do this is to write for yourself and other women. Fanfiction creates an audience for women writers and has brought women together as readers and writers for generations. in fact as Henry Jenkins suggests in Textual Poachers, “fanfiction is a reaction on the part of a female audience trying to find their own pleasures in media that caters mostly to men.” (Jenkins 2012)
In contemporary fanfiction women often create a different and more equal world out of the one that has been created by the original authors. Women writers use these structures because they want write and read fiction that caters to their wants and needs while still being in the fictional world that they enjoy. “Fans, as one longtime Trekker explained, “treat the program like silly putty,” stretching its boundaries to incorporate their concerns, remolding its characters to better suit their desires.” (Jenkins 2012) Women read and write fanfiction because they often don’t see themselves, their skills or their aspirations represented in the word created by the original authors, so they write it. In NyxEtoile’s and OlivesAwl’s ‘Six Maids A’ shopping’ a fanfiction based around ‘The Avengers, superhero movie, we see badass women take a break from saving the word to do some Christmas shopping and bonding. “The car is idling outside, and Darcy has made a shopping plan worthy of the Normandy Invasion.”
“Copies have been sent to all your mobile devices,” the girl added, waving her phone.
Nat looked over at Jane, who said, “She’s a highly competent assistant.” The “despite appearances” was unspoken.
“It helps when I actually understand the mission parameters,” Darcy added.” (NyxEtoile and OlivesAwl 2014)
In this we have Darcy a woman who is talented in computers and science making a game plan for Christmas shopping. Their skills aren’t just for saving the world and in this instance the most important person in this scene is a sassy computer tech who puts a whole shopping strategy together.
As we saw above, fanfiction was often created to share with other women and is now uploaded onto free to use websites. It has always existed outside of the commercialisation of literature. The writing of fanfiction is less about fame and fortune, it gravitates more towards the pleasures of reading and writing. Becca Schaffner says about her own work as a writer “In short, I am not a big deal – and it doesn’t matter. Fanfiction is about the whole community of fans, not just the stories, and not even just the writers who are a big deal…Community and friendship come naturally in fandom, because the fan world is both free and reciprocal. It is ingrained with practices of sharing and responding, of reviewing what you read, of giving fanfics as gifts, making reading recommendations to friends (and recommendations, not automated searches, are the final word in finding good stuff), and “beta reading” friends’ stories before they’re posted.” Schaffner, B. 2009. It’s this community that’s motivates the writing, reading and sharing of fanfiction for pleasure alone.
Fanfiction is undervalued the same way most of women’s art has been undervalued in a male dominated culture. This is now well documented, in a research article written in 2018 it found “On average, titles by female authors are priced $17.92 lower than those by male authors, with an average price of $37.45 compared to $55.37. Overall, books by authors with female names also receive slightly less investment on average from publishers, meaning that they are less likely to be published in the formats that are more expensive to produce and distribute.” (Weinberg DB, Kapelner A 2018) The quality of fanfiction varies as does the quality in all genres of fiction, but fanfiction is often dismissed by genre alone. Because the reader and writer base is so heavily composed of women it’s hard to avoid the conclusion this dismissal may be due to gender. The value of fanfiction to those who read and write it is based solely in the worlds created by it and the pleasures derived from it.
Queer people seem to write fanfiction for a very similar reason but instead of the love of reading and writing being the main reason, with the secondary reason being representation. Queer people seem to do it the other way around, the main reason for queer fanfiction is to reimagine cis and heterosexual characters as anything but. Whilst the love of reading and writing comes secondary to the representation. “Interactions with slash fanfiction reorient cis/heteronormative content. Reorienting normative content describes participants’ actions that identify and attempt to subvert cis/heteronormative themes in EM [entertainment media]. Participants note gaps in EM landscapes, read slash fanfiction to fill those gaps, and write slash fanfiction to address further gaps that they identify in both more mainstream EM and slash fanfiction.” (Floegel, 2020) As we can see it’s less the pleasure of the writing and more the emptiness queer people see in popular media.
Fanfiction is work that yes, draws upon another persons work but so does homage, pastiche, and parody. Fan fiction has been around for just as long. This essay believes that if we respected the writers of fan fiction more we would realise that it belongs next to those categories. There are not that many original stories left to be told so maybe writers should lean into it more because fan fiction is written because people love to write.
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or alternatively titled: I am so tired, oh my god!
So first things first let me give you a little run down on my media niche! mine is Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney. this is video game and although its old (coming out in 2003) it still seems to be staple in Japanese culture and even has another game coming out soon, as well as releasing one this year! What drugs are they taking to be making all of these and can I have some, because I have another essay due!
So I think it would be remiss to not at least mention this wasn’t where my project was meant to go originally. Here I am again mentioning things I did not do to reach a word count I will not reach! So my first idea was to make a music video clip to the song ‘These Hands’ by Teeks. It absolutely slaps! I wanted it to kind be like a real life animatic (Do I have to explain them again, animated, song, characters!) I thought using a character like Shelly de Killer was a smart idea because although he’s a well known character, he’s not super popular. or at least isn’t popular the way some characters are. As far as I can tell there is only one case with Wocky Kitaki and everyone on instagram calls him their bastard son. The less popular a character is in this sense then the less likely it is that someone looks at what you made, decides it doesn’t vibe with them and they don’t support what you’ve done or even straight up just send you hate! The other characters would be Stephanie Hardin an OC. (As a child of a politician let me tell you the ship isn’t that unreal. politicians are also straight up crazy!)
That did not happen! Which is ok, not to overshare on the internet but you know you’re gonna have problems when you’re scouted for a therapy documentary! instead I changed my scope did something a lot more low-key and turned my eyes to fanfic, I was always threatening to do it and I did it, I finally failed enough to have to go with my back-up! Bet you’d thought it would be gay! haha same people/characters just different experiences of them! So I used Shelly de Killer and Stephanie Hardin but not a video instead fanfic we get a deeper look into what bought them together.
Now I did put a bit of effort into my cover! It’s not hugely ethnographic but I’m going to explain it anyway!
Simple design! using Shelly De Killers calling card!
look at the fancy cursive, you know its gonna be sophisticated, this isnt your Ikea sex scene!
Yes this is fanfic and it is by me, thank you for noticing!
and hey a lyric from the song because we know where we came from!
So I started to try to get readers, get some ethnographic comments (just a few, as a treat) so I started promoting it on ALL my social media… almost like this is my entire persona and personality.
This video was shared to my Facebook, Instagram, twitter, and obviously my tiktok!
as you can see I got 18 likes on the tiktok but also 156 views
On Instagram I got 110 plays and 10 likes.
On Twitter I got 21 views and no likes.
Facebook got me 54 views but only 2 likes and one was from my Mum!
Of course there gonna be some cross over with people seeing both videos but that would not amount to much as I try to keep my personas a little disconnected. I even posted it on the Ace Attorney Ladderposting Facebook group but a lot of people ship Maya and Phoenix in there and they then back it up with “it’s legal in Japan!” like ok but its also legal to have a donkey sleep in your bathtub but that would be weird and stupid so you don’t! anyway one guy said he’d read it cause it would somehow help his Phoenix x Iris fanfic, another nasty ship, oh my god, the toxicity (riff from Toxic by Brittany spears plays). I doubt know how sir, but pop off!
So, after all that cross posting. I got a whooping 30 extra views on the fanfic but like way too many likes and views on the videos. (JUST CLICK THE LINK, DON’T JUST LIKE MY POST, THE FUCK?!) seeing as that wasn’t working but for some reason making lil funny vids in my normal clothes gets me views that’s what I did!
So, I guess what I learnt from all this is that people hate clicking on other links otherwise maybe more then one person would have commented on it! (they just talked about the writing so I don’t think it’s important to put here, also you told me not to share what other people had said directly) also I know them personally so it may have just been enbies supporting enbies!
I really feel like I honestly only got the hang and point of this project like two days before the due date.
So where is the next chapter? I hope you read this on Monday!
So I think it’s important to explain more fo why I hate giving comments so deeply. its because I often don’t understand this subject. I get the first 3 lectures then my brain leave the chat no I have no idea what is going on or why its important.
I often don’t understand part of other students work because I don’t know what’s going on in class 70% of the time. I understand the basic concepts but I still own know what that means or why its important. I cannot in good faith. are a comment on someone’s blog making suggestions about something I don’t really understand. It feels I’m lying! that being said here are my comments.
anyway here are my comments
Hey James. I think this Beta is REALLY interesting! also Brb I’m getting a VPN cause most of my fans are American! its such a basic concept with a lot of information surrounding it though! Only thing I want to bring up is that you repeat a lot of the same info, the video and blog post are meant to be different as far as I know.
wow your post is full of so much info, in good way! your blog and your video are different (finally) so you’re not repeating information! out of interest do you think that ‘that girl’ness is something that could still be an end goal for some? You’ve obviously done a heap of research and I applaud you for that but I boarders on a bit too much!
So I always put these blog posts off until the last minute! which I guess is good for me bc my while project has changed! That’s ok! y’all can read dates!
I think I somehow forgot that most of my online persona (Tiktok, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram) are already geared up and ready for me to post about my fanfic and get people interested!
it was a rainy Thursday afternoon at about 4pm and I didn’t know what I was about to embark on! So basically I had gotten pretty pissed off at my measly 10 reads and no comments. Not even 13 year olds! So I made a Tiktok and posted the link on every page I owned!
Tiktok, Twitter, Facebook, instagram all got the same style video and a link!
and now I have 32 views… I hate is here!
I will defiantly go more into this in my research paper and I would like to keep that information till then!
This was a trend where you used the sound and then showed ships in your own fandom that related to the sound.
That is a whooping 428 likes. I normally don’t get that many and tot his day I still get likes on it! its 6 months old! Often my cosplay/OC cosplay gets maybe 50 likes tops and that’s a good day!
Here’s one of my most recent videos in an OC cosplay.
So what does that mean for me? I’m unsure. I truly like cosplaying my OCs and its like a chance to play dress up and laugh a bit at myself and what I have created but my reception feels like most cannon cosplayer go “oh great this weirdo again” (we live in hope that they don’t but who knows?) Anyone who says that you should cosplay for yourself says it because they’ve never had trouble getting likes or views.
The likes and views are so skewed I’m not sure if I can even appeal to my larger fanbase on tiktok with my little teaser trailers because most of my teasers will be in cosplay!
Wow, I spent like 150 thousand dollars on a creative writing degree and this is what I can produce!
So very clearly I have not made a video clip but I have gotten the idea, the characters, the persona and niche, shook it all up in a cocktail shaker and I have given you all some fanfic. In the wise words of Bo Burnham “but look I made you some content” feels very accurate.
I unfortunately have had no audience engagement seeing as this is going up on the same day but I have been lurking in in the Ace Attorney ladder posting group and it seems that a few people have questions to Shelly De Killers whereabouts, me included. The writers seemed to want to go somewhere with his storyline but he sort of just disappeared and was only featured in two games. (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Justice For All and Gyakuten Kenji 2) this fanfic looks to make sense of this gap or at least a set-up to that.
I have had many interactions on Wattpad before mostly positive except the random 13 year olds in your comments trying to role-play with you! But if anything interesting comes up I will update this!
Heya Ross, I think your pitch is really great and very well produced but you seemed to repeat a lot of information my understanding was that the video is meant to be ‘here is my idea’ and the blog post is you going into it in more detail? I think the good thing about your idea is that you’re not trying to be funny, this is just a thing you like and have a lot of information on which is really good in terms of niche. Only issue was that the background music was just a touch too loud. I think its really great first pitch though!
Hey Bella, I really liked your pitch and I think the video was so well produced, pop off with your premier pro skills! I think you’re idea is super interesting. Your schedule is really good and it’ll help you keep on track once you’re handling a discord group. I would have liked it to be a bit more personal though’ like why is this your niche and what have you learnt from RP-ing in these groups so far?
Hey Alysha. your blog is very aesthetic and well made. I think this is very interesting cause a lot of Tiktokers have started getting onto Vogue and the Adison Rae was… interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnjKalUkDH4&t=1s&ab_channel=miiasaurous I think your topic is really interesting and you’re going in a really interesting direction with it. Are you also going to talk about plus-size fashion? Its very hard to thrift as anything other than size 8-12, so i think that could be an interesting/important issue.
Reflection: there is nothing I hate more than giving comments to people. I am nothing but a fool and my comments further prove that. I obviously have blog envy, I only ever use this site during these classes and it shows! I am also not an asshole? Why be needlessly mean when I can say they have nice blog instead?
To be perfectly clear I am focusing less on the game and more on the fandom, the paratext if you will, what a throwback and even more of a throwback I’ll be probably doing some original character bullshit.
The ace Attorney fandom is really interesting to me because the game is 21 years old but if you go to any social media platforms and you’ll still find fan-art and memes being posted. plus it’s still being played through by internet gamers.
You don’t have to watch any of this stuff it’s just an example
This is shameless self promotion cause this is me and my friends channel, my partner goes really hard on the voices!
Ace Attorney has kind of set standard for court style games with games like Danganronpa coming after it. It’s not a revolutionary game but it really blended game mechanics well and makes us care about this bike riding lawyer himbo. Also its cultural staple of Japan with them holding a concert where an orchestra just played the music from the game!
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