revisiting bits of godfeels and i've gotta say this is my absolute Favorite kind of scene to write. here's a robot who for the last 3000 words has seemed like a personality-less shell for gathering information for administrative purposes. then suddenly it's a mortal person who was just being professional. i love doing this. i love introducing throwaway gag characters and then refusing to throw them away
the exact same thing happened with the joke character Burning Romeo, described as "a sentient bonfire stuffed into a space suit" who only speaks in descriptions of types of flame, eventually refusing the call to adventure in fear of its own mortality
and oh man you KNOW i've got even more bullshit like this up my sleeve for the future >:)
@sarahzedig constructing a newer, bigger and more elaborate wringer to put these kids through, huh
@irisjaycomics i would never do such a thing*
*without testing it on a few OCs first
@sarahzedig DAVE: goat, you're funny all the time
@sarahzedig this mf saying "sometimes"
@sarahzedig you're funny c:
@sarahzedig dare: i absolutely respect this especially since the terms of division are meaningful, but the further we get through "chapter 8" the funnier the titles get.
@sarahzedig DAVE: jegus i forgot about that
@sarahzedig I’ll admit, I did screenshot this when I was reading through GF in a moment of “wow I am really reading a fanfic with this chapter taxonomy, huh”
@irisjaycomics all of this stems from my conviction that the entirety of chapter 8 needed to be one single unit of story because this fic needed to have a total of 8 chapters and no more, it just kept getting bigger and bigger
@sarahzedig chalk it up to A Literary Tradition
@irisjaycomics luckily my high school shakespeare teacher gave me a lifelong obsession with the five act structure, so it all worked out in the end
@sarahzedig this is fine
@pataphysicker the thing about this chapter is i think it's genuinely going to be a huge crowd-pleaser
@sarahzedig i'm excited to find out what that means and hopeful that it involves a lot of dana
@pataphysicker hehehehehe
@sarahzedig the vibration of my soul accelerates to ultrasonic frequencies
the fun thing about the double album conceit is that disc B is *also* titled DEATH HANDS, B1 is simply the eponymous track. get out of the way grr martin with your "many people throughout history are named robert" we're playing with prog rock now