"Back here again, huh."
"Right, looks like it."
"Yep."
. . .
"Is it me or does this feel significantly less substantial than last time?"
"Yeah, it kinda does."
"It is."
"I mean, pops couldn't even be bothered to show up. Think he's out golfing or something."
"Huh."
"Right, guess we shouldn't expect as much as last time, then."
"Probably."
"Think I'll get a standalone bit this time? I didn't in the last one."
"I dunno. Probably."
"Of course I still gotta show up!"
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but you use sickles meant for farming for combat purposes, right?"
"Yeah. Think they're kinda cool."
"But it's not very practical, is it? The way it's built, the cutting edge isn't likely to connect. Beyond that, it seems liable to getting stuck in walls and armor, assuming it's even sharp enough to pierce either of them. Which would be quite surprising in and of itself."
"I guess that's probably true. Come to think of it, I haven't really connected with these things much. Mostly I've just been using gravity. Well, gravity and, y'know..."
"Fear."
The following segment is what took place during and after the events of chapter 136. Specifically, what Michaus was doing after he sprinted off to untold danger in a fit of sheer rage.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-"
The following segment takes place during the events of chapter 149.
"Man, I'm bored. 3 dimensions is lame."
"Good thing I grabbed this guy a while ago!"
"Boop."
"Cool."
"Hey what's this do?"
"Gimmie."
The text is borderline illegible because of the 4th to 3rd to 2nd dimensional translation by the way. The BLLGRASFSH variety show production committee doesn't simply have bad handwriting. Any notion that they do is purely unfounded.
"Oh hey it's that thing I said."
"Nice."
"Who the heck are you guys?"
"Oh, please, pardon us. We're from a story that's currently a semi-complete draft, which may or may not ever get uploaded into an actual story. I'm not entirely certain why we're here, if I'm being entirely honest."
"Oh. Okay. Wait, why's he-"
"I friggin hate the way your face is."
"Tidd, please, that's not very nice."
"I don't care."
"That's fair."
"Ooh! Ooh! What's it gonna be this time!? What's it gonna be!?"
"That's... That's not a fish."
"I... Have no idea what that is."
"So... No fish..."
"Gee, I sure do enjoy aimlessly walking along the river nearby Basenholm while whistling a jolly tune. What a wonderous, uneventful ti-"
"Holy smokes! The ground is littered with damaged, bloodied, and probably contaminated knives!
FREE STUFF!"
"Well, I guess that settles tha-"
"Oh it's gone already."
"Oh shoot, I just remembered I haven't put the cat ears on S yet."
"Anyways, I guess it's about time I get hit in the gut agai-"
"Yep. Surprise show-ending pointing stick attack."
*Pfough!*
I actually came to read your comment first before reading the actual variety show.
I'm now realising. This shit's META as f*ck!
"So... No fish..."
And why you gotta do that her. Give Dyna her fish!!!
The part where Invisobill breaks the dimension was peak humour. And "le time stream" oh sh*t I sh*t my pants damn!! Well at least we know he caused the timeline to get all messed up.
S really likes sand huh?
Cat face is a sociopath.
Bald guy is still bald. Nice.
And if that picture you drew and Beyes using fear tactics was drawn by a good artist(hahaha) it would be incredibly terrifying. Knives must have been scared shitless.
Good ol Noble. sees something inconceivable and just goes, *sip*.
he really do be bald doe
also if I ever get a large amount of money under dubious circumstances and need to spread it quickly before the feds catch on, the first 50 or so big ones would be for commissioning an Actually Good Artist™ to draw that. For sure.
WARNING: LONG ASS COMMENT WITH 0 INFORMATION YOU’D CARE ABOUT AHEAD. YEP, MORE HALF ASLEEP INCOHERENT RAMBLING ABOUT WHATEVER RANDOM THOUGHTS ARE SPINNING AROUND IN MY BEAN AT THE MOMENT. DON’T BOTHER READING IT UNLESS YOU ARE ESPECIALLY BORED. EVEN THEN, SURELY YOU CAN FIND SOMETHING BETTER TO DO. ANYWAYS, ON WITH THE COMMENT.
Hey. Another one of these. Yeah.
This chapter was kinda fun. I had initially delayed it because I wanted to finish out the current “arc” and then be able to use the characters from it in their own gags, and I mostly figured I’d be done with said arc by around 154.
Of course, the thing went on for way longer than I anticipated. But I got a gag out of it, so it’s all fine in the end.
Now, if you’re especially perceptive, you might be thinking “But wait, those characters barely even showed up in this.” And you’d be right if you thought that. Yeah, turns out, I’m not really gonna have that many opportunities for bits when those characters haven’t been properly expanded on and characterized beyond the context of the arc itself. Now, one could argue that makes my delay utterly pointless and, if anything, counter productive.
One would be correct for thinking that. That was a dumb idea, and I clearly didn’t think it through enough. At least I got that one bit out of it tho. Haha.
Anyways, I do actually have 1 semi important topic to bring up. Schedule issues going forward. In the previous chapter, I said I was considering taking a short break after this chapter. However, it has recently come to my attention that writing will be very difficult starting next week and continuing to about the end of the month. Kinda forgot I had a bunch of real life stuff happening this month. Such a drag, isn’t it?
Anyways, I’m gonna keep writing as normal ‘till the 11th, and then I’ll be off for some amount of days. I should hopefully be back at the start of next month at the very latest. More than likely, I’ll be back by the 28th, or potentially even earlier if I don’t suck. I’ll comment this all again when my “””break””” actually starts and probably elaborate on it a bit. Yeah.
Back to assorted useless crap.
Here’s some stuff about characters. Or at least one character. Probably just one character unless I think of something funny, whoknows. Nothing about their actual lore or story elements, no spoilers here, just some funny or otherwise novel behind the scenes stuff. Beware of mild verisimilitude destruction.
Of all the characters that have been revealed thus far, The Immortal is easily the one that underwent the most changes from their initial concept to their actual debut. They were initially created because I quickly realized that Beyes wasn’t going to fit my original idea of a truly bored and disinterested character. I still like the direction he was going, so I decided to push that aspect onto a wholly new character. I figured a semi-omniscient immortal would fit the bill nicely. So I fleshed that out, and thus, “Sis” (though I refer to them as “The Immortal” in my notes because “Sis” is, as Beyes said, a weird proper noun) was born.
Though, initially, they weren’t “Sis.” They would’ve been “Bro”, I guess. My initial image of the character was that of a young boy, a little brother type. They had basically the same characteristics, bored face, same eyes, same hair color, reserved demeanor and all that, except they were a dude. Though, that basically just amounted to them having shorter hair. Nothing else really changed all that much in this regard.
And they were all set to go as a dude, except at around the time I was writing chapter 20 I had the thought “Hm, there aren’t any strong female characters yet. I should make them one of those!”
Of course, I realize that’s the dumbest reason to do anything, ever. Somehow I got it in my head that someone might get mad about that and criticize me and I guess I got anxious… Yeah, it’s dumb. It was dumb. But, I went through with it anyways, and the rest is history.
Obviously, this doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things, I’m sure as hell not about to retcon it or anything like that, “gender” was and probably never will be an important part of their character, but I thought that my reason things being the way they are was funny enough to share. Who knows, maybe in a million years I’ll go back and rewrite this story from scratch and I’ll revert them back to their original state. Or maybe I won’t. Who knows. Really, it’s not important at all, I just thought it was funny enough to share with anyone who was especially bored.
(The really poetic thing about all of this is the fact that I did it to avoid claims of sexism, without realizing that this character had all the traits of old timey sexist representations, like being reserved and quiet in groups, being a comically devoted caretaker and, LITERALLY BEING A TOKEN FEMALE. If anything, this decision made me seem more sexist. How novel. It’s poetry, really.)
But that’s not the only major thing that was changed! Their whole fishing thing, their primary hobby and driving force for their character and fighting style, I only thought of that a week or so before their initial actual reveal. In their initial concept. They were an unarmed punchy brawler type character. Their thing was gonna be about how they don’t really know how to fight, but they do know human anatomy, and they were gonna greatly utilize punching people in the genitals very often as a wacky punchline.
Eventually I realized that having a major part of the youngest consistent character’s characterization and joke being genital related was… Reeeeealllly not a good idea. Reeeeeeeeaaaallly not a good idea. So, I needed something else. So I started thinking about it. Which led me to look into other aspects of their character, like their hobbies, which I decided was gonna be fishing because I somehow started thinking about Fishing Funnies and decided that was haha funny. I eventually thought “hey, wouldn’t it be funny if I just leaned into that reeeeeallllly hard? What if thats how they fight! And what if it’s ALSO A GRAPPLING HOOK!”
And then, well, yeah. And I gotta say, I think it turned out way better. I’m a big fan of the way they are now. Actually, I think I should lean into that a bit more.
Once again, I feel like I had something I wanted to put here, but I can’t quite think of it.
Ah well, if I think of it I’ll just put it in chapter 250 (or 200 maybe. I haven’t decided whether or not I’m doing one for that one yet.)
As always, thanks for reading, whether you’ve read every chapter, some of the chapters, just this chapter, or even just this comment (if so, why and how?) I am ever so grateful for every view, every comment really brightens my day. So, yeah. Thank you once again.
I’ll try to think of a better thank you by the next milestone, whatever that is, preferably when I’m not about to pass out at my keyboard.
AH I JUST REMEMBERED THE THING I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT.
As of last month (June 11th, specifically) I’ve been writing this thing for a year. A whole freakin’ year. 365 and a quarter days (more than that now, obviously, but you get the idea.) That’s insane to me. I don’t even have any words for that. This is the first time I’ve started a long term project and actually stuck with it for an extended period of time. I know that what I’m doing isn’t at all impressive, or even all that good, but man does it feel great regardless. And, y’know what, I think for what it is, just some kid with little to no education in the field of creative writing just making a stupid little story for fun, I think it could be a whole lot worse. I am at least proud of that.
Also in my bio I wrote that I’d just be writing for “20-60 minutes” a day.
ahahahahahaahahhhHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAAHAHHAHAAHHAHAAHHAHAAHHAHAAHHAHAHAAHHAAHAH i was really funny when I wrote that. Hilarious, even. Straight up wacky. Goofy and ZANY even. What a real funnyman I was.
Ahhh… optimism.
One last thank you for good measure.
Thank you.
I put a dislike because I dislike how good I feel about your progress.
Keep working hard man(?)
Godspeed. Good luck and all that crap.
Kisses.
@otakusociety
Man I was gonna type out a full comment but I got lazy suddenly so here's two words on each of my main points. Unexpected good, comments night, notifications jumpscare, should sleep. Good luck 👍