Dreams of the Quill

Yup yup! Finally got done with Fuyu. As you probably know, TLS was supposed to be finished by the end of 2005. This update marks the 2/5 mark. There are three more seasons to cover.

The Last Season: 「Fuyu」 Not Alone

This section is muchly changed from the original, far more so than the previous two. For one, Akane doesn’t smooch Reo. A more significant changes, Akane doesn’t break down and “pounce” on Midori (as I so eloquently put it in previous writings.) These two changes are based on a few factors, they are:

• - The way I wrote out the original scenarios suuuuucked. With a lot of ‘u’s.
• - I wasn’t happy with the pacing.
• - Akane might have been a hospital patient, but she wasn’t a mental patient. And the changes that occur in her mental processes to lead her to act the way she did in the original writing are not sane.
• - Various inspiration has led me to the conclusion that there are much better ways to lay out a situation, and I’m trying to build up to this.

Remember, as always, that The Last Season is an experiment, much like Tundra of Heroes. Unlike Tundra of Heroes, which is a fairly typical fantasy tale, The Last Season is an experiment in something I have pretty much no hands-on experience with (and most likely relies all too heavily on anime-granted knowledge. bah.)

Oh, and I should mention this, though it’s been there for a couple days now- I got up that disclaimer I was talking about. You can find it here:

The Last Season - Disclaimer, Medical Info

Sidenote: I’ve moved the completed Kaze Emoticon Set to Wordpress and renabled smilies.

EDIT: I shall never ever use smilies in DotQ’s news ever again. They look horrid in it due to line spacing issues.

KingCrazyGenius has been posting some shorts over on the forums, and now with contributions open he’s submitted them to the writings section. You can find them here:

A Series of Short Stories

They’re definitely an interesting read, so check them out.

Contributions are open again. Hurray. This is quoted from the Site Info page’s new blurb about contributions.

Aight, I decided to make a new post instead of continuing to edit the TLS 2.4 and 2.5 announcement. By the way, what I’m doing with the site takes precedence over editing, so I might not have the last section of Fuyu up tonight. On the other hand, I might. Who knows?

Anyway.

What I’m doing is putting content into WP pages. The visual experience on the site will only be altered in terms of the different comment boxes. URLs will be a bit different but content will be unchanged, and the site layout will, for the most part, be unchanged as well. (little note: I added poetry to Writings and set up the Collective Gallery, these will most likely be the only changes I make.)

The benefit of doing all this is for comments. WP comments are stored in a database and I can delete them if they’re made by spambots very easily. What’s more they look nicer, can be edited, and… yeah. They’re good. They’re what I’m going with.

You don’t need to be registered/logged in at the forums to post comments, you just need to put in an e-mail address. This will not be displayed, but stored in the DB with your post.

What’s been moved…

Art, Writings, Site Info, Affiliation, Projects, and Features pages.
All Art subsections.
All Writings, including all HC stuff that was previously on DotQ.org.
Added some previously hidden submitted material, two poems and six chapters of a story- all by KingCrazyGenius. This is in anticipation of reopening submissions this weekend.

What’s in store…

-set up contribution once more

About the last one in that list; I should have moved everything and set up submissions by sometime this coming weekend. A while ago it was decided I should get them back up, and while I said to expect them sometime “this month” (February) that’s clearly impossible now. I’m going to re-open for new submissions once everything’s moved.

KingCrazyGenius, if you read this and are upset with me putting your stuff back up, lemme know and I’ll take it down.

Ahh, I feel better now. One more section and I’ll have completed Fuyu’s editing. Expect it later today or tomorrow. This means that Fuyu will be done by Friday this week. Furrealz, yo. For now, I have two new sections of Winter up, TLS 2.4 and 2.5:

TheLastSeason: 「Fuyu」 The Snow of a Short Season
TheLastSeason: 「Fuyu」 Winter’s Child

Surely, you will want to read over the two new sections, as they differ from the original TLS quite a bit in style, words, and thoughts. Most notably (and not a literary thing), I changed Tojuu’s age from 11 to 10. This may be stretching the “zomfg he remembers her,” but I figure it’s feasible if there are photos and pictures in his house. This also allows me to lower ages of the older generation. As will be seen in the next installment, 2.6 (when ages are revealed), Akane and Yuki are now 27, and I plan on lowering Midori’s age to 24 or something. I decided I didn’t want to write a story about 31 year olds. Forgive me.

Also, having read through Narcissu and looked at Insani’s site on it, I realized that somewhere I should have a note that, for one, the disease that Akane has is fictional, and that hopsitals do not actually simply let terminal patients out alone. I’ll have a blurb about the fiction in TLS up sometime this week, hopefully following 2.6, “The Last Season 「Fuyu」Not Alone.”

Look forward to it!