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Various ranting

A summary of things I didn’t like in canon Me that has been … fixed. Someone told me I was arrogant in thinking I could write better than Bioware. Buddy, at this point, I’m not even having to TRY very hard, given my competition is a comic that everyone I know thought was the dumbest shit since Daikatana.

First, the Alliance not finding the wreckage of the Normandy for two plus years. How in shit is this even possible? Who in hell picked up the life pods?  Fixed.

The goofy comic resolution of how Cerberus got a hold of Shepard’s body. Being fixed.

Feron being replaced with Shields. Fixed. C’mon, really? I read that comic three times and aside from gratuitous ass shots of Liara at every panel, not one word in six made any sense. I’ve said before and I’ll say it again, the only good thing in that train wreck was Tazzik.

Fourth, all of ATTWN gave people a reason to care. A reason for Liara to take a risk on trusting TIM.  A reason for the Alliance not to recover the body on their own. A reason for Liara to go batshit insane, Joker and Tali to go batshit depressed, and Garrus to just go…batman.

Fifth, some kind of explanation for why in the HELL the Broker would have or could have gotten a hold of Shepard  — or how , for that matter, the Normandy could have been blown up.

Sixth, Ahern and von Grath pimpage.

Seventh, a framework around how my version of ME2 starts. For reasons that will soon become clear, this mess with Shepard will still get blamed on the geth, and the geth are not the pushovers they were in ME2. It will be war, lots and lots of ships will be built, and the galaxy will be about four or five times as strong as they were by the time even Canon ME2 rolls around, much less ME3.

I’m aware that some spelling, grammar and other mistakes and issues remain. Hell, I haven’t finished editing up OSABC yet and I’m in sight of the end of ATTWN.

But eventually I’ll burn out again, and then I can edit. For now, enjoy the update pace and forget canon. I hope you enjoy the ride.

Unrestrained giggling

Oh, Shepard honey, I’mma kill you so hard.

The absolute best part of writing this fic has to be drawing together all the lines and plots so that it is conceivable that no one could see what is happening without an omniscient view, without it becoming some kind of uber-conspiracy.

The second best part is the slow realization that if Shepard died bad in canon, there is no telling what kinds of atrocity will be inflicted on her in the Premiseverse.

It’s coming, dear readers. And it’s going to be bad. My goal in the next segment of chapters is to reduce even Progman to crying.

Ratios of reads to reviews

Just a curious thing I noticed:

The latest chapter of ATTWN has had 386 unique visitors but only eight reviews. That’s dipping pretty low below the average of about 180 views per review.

Are the last three chapters underwhelming or something? Or do I need to slow down my updates?

 

Images of the SCV Kazan

Liethr (my beta) had his sister create this completely fucking incredible image of the Kazan from nothing more than descriptions in the text.

kazan paint back kazan paint front

I am completely blown away by this. I personally think she should get paid. Feedback welcome!

I haven’t made any progress because I’ve been playing Dynasty Warriors 8 : Empires

I blame the internet.  Also, I blame Lu Bu.

More seriously, I should have the next chapters :

– OF ATTWN : by tonight or tomorrow

– OF ANN INTERVIEW: By tomorrow

– OF STG REPORTS: This weekend

– OF NO SINGLE RAINDROP: End of the month

– OF THE CERBERUS FILES: HAHAH Not soon , hit big snags in Batarian research.

Artwork Suggestions

My personal situation is not exactly getting better, as since I make just enough to not qualify for any kind of subsidies, the cost of insurance, prescriptions and just basic living is eating at my savings.

Thus a lot of the highly disposable income I once had is not so disposable anymore. That means, for all of 2015, I will probably only commission one artwork (either from Armesan or NikitaStewart)

It’s a toss up between three choices:

1) The Wedding of Sara and Liara and the Processional of Blades

2) The Final Moment of Benezia

3) A series of colorless sketches for Dragunov, Branson, Tetrimus, and other characters.

 

Interested in people’s thoughts.

Two new features upcoming

I haven’t gotten around to final review or posting yet, but there will be two new updates to the OSABC line up in the next week or so.

First up is due to a request from AlsoKnownAsMatt, the ANN Media Archive. This will be mostly story-based interviews (as opposed to Westerlund style, text only transcripts) with Emily Wong and various people in the story as it moves along. The first interview will be that of Emily and Shepard when Shep announces her marriage to Doctor T’Soni. The second will most likely be Wong’s interview with Liara in the immediate aftermath of Shepard’s death.

The other new feature will be the STG Files : Benezia Incident, a pack of STG related stuff — profiles on OC’s and modified minor canon characters, STG backstory and investigations into Saren and Benezia, and some ideas of what Benezia and Saren were up to prior to ME1. Like the Cerberus Files, the STG Files is told from an in-universe perspective, but the writers are not all terrorist racist nutjobs, so it’s far more unbiased than a Season of Sorrows Unending.

If you guys and gals who read this have any more ideas, comment and let me know.

Possible ATTWN Update this weekend

I have about 4500 words done on the next chapter, and a revised outline for the rest of the second Arc.

Might get something out this weekend.

ATTWN Update

A bit of the muse struck and I managed to dust of the bits of the chapter I’d been working on and finish it.

The batarian history is coming along….slowly. But I should be able to get it out this month, although physiology and psychology will take a bit longer.

Another “Liara in the SA” sketch by Armesan

liarasketch

I have no idea why no one has done this before. Also, All Nighter Productions is awesome.