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VioletEchoes

Another update

Been a month since the last.
Been feeling much better and working on something new to get back to my roots.

I've been thinking of reworking the Viverse, like a fresh start, keeping the same characters but doing a second pass at them. Like a reboot? I know that is going to disappoint some but a lot of it was built with me being in a bad head space and it's hard to work on it anymore as it is.

In the few months since I've been away I've come to realize that I had slowly let the random opinions of others get to me to the point that I had stopped making things for myself. Trying to appease an imaginary audience that is never satisfied does not go well and it's what led to my break down a few months ago. I've also discovered that it's a lot harder to rediscover your own passions and interests after you've lost sight of them. But I'm getting there...

I want to do more slice of life.

I don't want to write conflict and drama, and to slowly turn my stories into something that runs on the same plot every piece of media has been doing for the past decade. I know that will make it more simple. Maybe even more boring. But I feel there has to be a market to exploring a fantastical world and having fun along the way without it suddenly requiring to learn fight satan and defeat god.

But well, I guess that's the thing I'm still trying to get down.
Writing what I love because I love it. And not because I want others to approve of it.

I should be returning soon. My backlog of random commissions and art is getting a bit... long...
I just want to make sure I'm really ready for it before I do.
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Added: 1 week, 4 days ago
 
knolden
1 week, 4 days ago
Good to hear honestly. Looking forward to it as well. :)
LunarFlare
1 week, 4 days ago
I like the sound of that, I really enjoy the atmosphere and worlds you create.  I was reading through the The Raine's stuff again lately and I found their lives and their world very interesting!  I absolutely love the exploration.

So, count me in on that market!
curtainshowers
1 week, 4 days ago
Do whatever feels right! Writing for yourself and not for others is the way to do it <3
ZoneMaster04
1 week, 4 days ago
Sorry I am still new but what is the Viverse?
VioletEchoes
1 week, 4 days ago
It was my long term original universe project.
Very fun and I learned a lot but as said above, it wasn't perfect.
ZoneMaster04
1 week, 4 days ago
Oh ok, so do you have a link to it? And what is the lore about it?
VioletEchoes
1 week, 3 days ago
https://inkbunny.net/submissionsviewall.php?rid=ebcc527...
Here is the pool, the posts in it are in chronological order to the events of that world.
Springbun
1 week, 4 days ago
being yourself is the best quest you can undertake.
KrystalTentacion
1 week, 4 days ago
I can’t wait to read your future bangers! <333
(Of course I can, take your time and stay well please<3)
DireKyre
1 week, 4 days ago
Simple and casual is fun sometimes. It's a nice respite from everything else being conflict based. I look forward to what you do with your characters. I am certain I will still find them attractive given that you seem to like a lot of the same beats I do, design wise.
xcar
1 week, 3 days ago
Glad to hear... read from you again, and that you're better now.

Personally, I'm relly interested in to see a reboot of the Viverse, because, being honest, when psychic powers were introduced, I lost interest in what was happening, because that broke what was build before, and I enjoyed it more when there were just slice of life.
VioletEchoes
1 week, 3 days ago
The powers were foreshadowed from chapter 1 and was always part of the universe.
So I guess I just wrote it really badly.
xcar
1 week, 3 days ago
I don't want to put more salt in the wound, but there was also the fact that those powers were first showed (or at least published) in the second chaper of The Raynes, and I remember how confused I was when I read that because, as I mentioned, it felt this came out of nowhere, specially when the Rubies used them, because until them, they were showed as two rich-good hearted girls who were a little ackward around others because due the solitude they were living all their life, they have no experience in social interactions (pillows, we have a lot of pillows) he he he.

I wouldn't say it was a bad idea or bad written, but yeah, the foreshadowing wasn't really clear, because at that point, nothing showed that in this universe, existed superpowers or supernatural powers, specially if "Fine Feathers" was going to be the core of this universe (or at least it felt that that was the idea).

I'm not saying... writing this, because I think you're a bad writer or the stories were bad, I really enjoy many of them, and I was hanged to those stories, from time to time I return to them, specially the first chapter of The Raynes... but no one, specially artists, should live of praise only, to become better, one must be aware of what is not doing so well, our will be filled of hubris and that's pretty bad.
VioletEchoes
1 week, 3 days ago
Chapter 14 and 15 of the Hivally came first and showed that Espers were a thing in that reality.
We see them have issues with magnetism, blowing out the power of the building with an electric discharge etc.
They also learn of Figments and other aspects of Esperation during that time, if anything it's a whole 2 chapters introducing it.

Rayne 2 came after, and is implied to be set several months ahead, which was to glimpse the future of what they could do.
You are right that I should have done something smaller between but I don't feel there was no foreshadowing.

I have said I didn't write a lot of the VV in a good head space so I admit I don't even like a lot of the work I did for it.
I do want to keep some things like the girls having a mental connection and some form of powers.
Just ones that are set up better and have more presence.
xcar
1 week, 2 days ago
Mmm, maybe I read them in the wrong order.
Argentleaf
1 week, 2 days ago
Not disappointed in the reboot at all, your slice of life stories are my favorites on this site, glad you are back by the way
ElfenSciuridae
6 days, 2 hrs ago
Do as you want and what you are comfortable with. I'm here because I like your art and stories, I think they are great to the point where I wish my OCs were part of it. Take your time, when you are ready to return, we will be here waiting. Take care of yourself first and above all.

Until you return...
Enjoy.
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