Dear Yuletide Author (Backup Copy)
(Saving a backup copy of my Dear Author letter on Dreamwidth over here, just in case. Lengthy, so behind a Keep Reading cut.)
Silly. Dork. Fujoshi.
More Yuletide Talking
I managed to sign up for Yuletide 2018 just in time before the deadline came up. :D
Already got my assignment! Now I’m fretting over wanting to please this person and making something nice, aaaaaaaaaaaa. @_@
[I’m also fretting over who I was assigned to. I hope they liked something out of the fandoms/prompts I offered! And I hope my Dear Author letter was up to snuff. :O ]
Can we talk about this?!
HEY remember in WWII when Jewish people were fleeing Germany and the USA put a quota on how many Jewish immigrants they would accept because they were worried there were too many Jewish people coming over to the USA???
Reminder that the USA has always been fucking garbage to immigrants and basic humanity
Here’s how you can help:
- Sign this petition calling for the investigation of the mass murder and torture of LGBT people in Chechnya
- Support the Rainbow Railroad, actively involved in rescuing LGBTQ+ facing violence in their home countries
- Read this article by out.com for more ways you can help stop Chechnya’s concentration camps
Please reblog this. There’s a lot of arguing in the reblogs/replies, but no links to actual concrete ways to become of help to these people.
(via calanchan)
Yuletide Promo Posts - Arc the Lad, Wild ARMs 1, Lunar series (crossposted at Dreamwidth & Pillowfort)
Well, since the mods over at yuletide-admin (Dreamwidth) were pretty encouraging, I wrote up some promo posts for all three of my fandom nominations. :D
I’m not sure how well I did at pushing why my fandoms are great, but they do have a bunch of useful links too, so I’ll be linking the posts here and copy/pasting the contents under Read Mores to save them for posterity!
Hope people take interest in joining Yuletide 2018 (AO3) for these! :D (Or for other rare fandoms, natch. X3)
Arc the Lad promo post (Dreamwidth)
Wild ARMs 1 promo post (Dreamwidth)
Lunar series promo post (Dreamwidth)
(Text saved for posterity below the Keep Reading cut, also on my Pillowfort and my personal Dreamwidth.)
Yuletide!
My nominations for the Yuletide rare fandom exchange were all accepted!
And I managed to get the original Arc the Lad trilogy onto the listings! \ :D /
(It’s too bad I only FINALLY took the chance [I’ve been debating trying to do this and join an exchange for at least a year.💧] and did this last-minute [because I found out pretty last-minute too, lol], I couldn’t find someone to coordinate with on time. It would’ve been cool to also get Twilight of the Spirits in, and we could’ve had more characters from the games total if we avoided repeat nominees.
It’s still cool though, my other nominees [also approved!] were Wild Arms 1 and the Lunar series, and those are awesome too!
Now, if I could just find a few other people who wanna sign up to write for any of these!!! :D)
Semi-random thought I’ve had for a while, from the last few times I’ve listened to it:
Shante singing Emilie Autumn’s “Fight Like a Girl.”
Additional thought: AMV of the Arc series girls set to this song, at least those from Arc 1 and 2 (Seems most fitting bunch?), LOL. XD
It’s been TWO years since this account was first opened, so we have ANNOUNCEMENTS!
(Technically, our anniversary is December 8, when we celebrated our first post just two days or so after the original announcements for Arc the Lad R being in the works were coming out. However, as September 16 marks the day I reserved this username to make the fanblog, I figured we should do a few special somethings for all!)
- First off: A while back, I quietly started work on a Discord server, and while it’s still just starting, I consider it ready enough to launch.
I repeat:
FELLOW ARC THE LAD FANS, WE HAVE A DISCORD!
https://discordapp.com/invite/YcH5TcE
I sincerely hope you will all consider joining up and hanging out with those of us already there testing the place out, a few of us have different project ideas we would like to discuss with others, or are seeking help with!
(For one thing, we would love to find more people who know Japanese who would like to help Sparrow out with translation of some kind, be it either for Arc R topics or for items regarding the older games! We’re also hoping for fellow information wranglers and those good at research, both for topics discussed here on Tumblr and off-site!)
- Secondly, please enjoy the clip featured at the beginning of this post, of the footage that plays after you first enter your username and while the game data downloads.
It has really lovely music and covers part of what went on in the first two Arc games, and many of you might recall a lot of it being used in the promotional videos as well.
You can find a larger-size file of it (the Japanese should be clearer on it to read) here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SjZAXjF1h11Xa_xuKEgqk1SewS9191lP
I hope to make more clips documenting the actual game story and a bit of the play style soon! :D
(Also, I apologize in advance: Though it is fairly minimal, I messed up the audio in the recording a little, so you’ll hear some slight noise interfering with the melody.
I’m slowly learning how to use the recording feature my phone has, so I played with the settings and I should be getting it to work better now, though I will need to re-record some of the old footage I did – thankfully there’s a replay feature for the game scenarios that’s also useful for levelling!)
Anyway, thank you all who’ve been following us and liking and sharing these posts, and I hope we continue to grow!
~Aruru (Arc R friend code: f669443062)
Wild ARMs: Million Memories English Project
With the release of the game being potentially only a few days away, we would like to gauge how many people would be interested in a translation for the guides to the game as well as events and story content.
The blog is still very much under construction, and we need any help we can get. We’re looking for people interested in translating, proofreading, subbing, editing and making guides.
Our main focus will be on guides so that anyone with no knowledge of Japanese can easily enjoy the game. In the meantime we will try to cover info that has already been released.
If you have any interest in helping out, please send us an ask off anon or message us. Thank you!
Oh! This sounds really interesting! I’ve been hoping for something like this for Arc the Lad R (I’ve been recording my gameplay for that one!) as well!
I hope you don’t mind, but I’ve followed you! :D
