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Truly inspirational.

Done.

I will pay someone to "Celine-the-Scene" where Marco grabs Star's hand, preventing her from being sucked into the green vortex. (AKA replacing the background soundtrack of the scene with the iconic song 'My Heart Will Go On' by Celine Dion, featured in the Titanic.

Fandom, assemble.

I’ve had a story idea rolling around my head for a long time and I’ve been basically spinning my wheels trying to hone my skills (read: procrastinating and doing a lot of unrelated things) to make it into a webcomic. Had a title picked out and everything that felt tonally relevant to the story and characters. I was going to call it Anywhere But Here; it seemed pertinent to this tone of restless personalities that are distinctly tied to the setting of the piece. I even recently reserved a tumblr url for that name (took me a while to find a variation that wasn’t already occupied).

I should’ve checked to be sure the name wasn’t already taken.

Not only are there several books by that name (I figured this was workable) there’s also a Natalie Portman film that comes up every time you google “Anywhere But Here”.

I spitballed about the pipe dream of someday having the goal of surpassing this movie in terms of google search result priority. And if that ever happened, tweeting at Natalie Portman as if it were something she would have given a crap about and probably she would never see it but it’d be dumb fun inside joke made very outside.

Then I decided to more specifically google “anywhere but here webcomic”

and wouldn’t you know it

In hindsight, you’d think that would’ve been my first step.

It’s some dumb newspaper comic style rag that hasn’t updated since 2006/2008/I don’t actually care when. Not something I’d really want to be accidentally associated with.

And just like that, down crashed any dreams of a fake made-up rivalry with Natalie Portman.

I’m not sure what I expected.

I don’t think I’m ready

I’ve been following this webcomic for 5 or 6 years. My readership has spanned a stretch of time that covers my entire adult life and a majority of high school. The gigapause stretched over a period when I couldn’t actually read any updates, as though it was waiting for me somehow. The only people I could consider “internet friends” I met through this shared interest.

Even if Homestuck didn’t drastically change the course of my life like I’m seeing it’s done for so many others writing sappier posts than this, it still represents a huge portion of my life. This comic has outlived schooling experiences, friendships, life phases. It’s so weird that it can come to a close like that and the whole rest of the world can just move on so casually.

I don’t know if I could ever just be ready.

don’t know if I ever asked this here but

In a story I’ve had rolling around my head for a few years, there’s a prominent protagonist named Kat. Recently, I’ve been wondering if that’s actually a terrible protagonist first name, given the prominence of various permutations of Katherine as names for main characters in YA fiction in the past 15 or so years. I’m wondering if that’s something I could play off of (her last name would be some sort of play on the words “last name” due to a paperwork mishap generations ago, which, coupled with a cliche first name, could be almost a dig at protagonist names in general), or if I should just change it to something less cliche. 

Thoughts?

New Yorke Skyline

Just tossed this together.

Highlights: 

The projected total cost of all DLC for Smash Bros for both consoles is $101.23. For only one console it’s between $72-$74.

To just get the fighters and stages would be between $39.41-$56.38

Also, buying in any of the collections saves no money compared to buying the individual collection items separately.

It’s too bad she’s super dead. If only the splatfest weren’t so high-stakes.