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A quick ramble/rant.

On the news that AO3 is now being scraped for AI content, I really, really don't want to lock my fics behind a "members only" wall, especially given how small the main fandom I write for (Megaman ZX) is.

However:

One: I am seriously considering it, because I don't want my stuff to be scraped. Which SUCKS because maybe like me when I was younger, some fans may not be allowed to make accounts on websites for whatever reason. I'd like anything I write to be accessible but not at this cost!

Two: If for whatever reason I decide not to finish my fics, I'll happily answer questions about how it was going to end AND post any unreleased content I had stored up. Please, do NOT put my stuff into ChatGPT for whatever reason.

Seriously, I've poured hours into these stories I could've been using to write my original stuff because I WANTED to, and I'd get pretty upset if someone shoved all of that into some predictive text generator.

Just ask me stuff! I'm happy to ramble about it.

Apologies if this comes across as pretentious or rude!

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Submitted a few Bidoof pics for the Pokemon Illlustration contest (PTCGIC2024) but didn't place. Small wonder considering the number of submissions... So I guess that counts as the go-ahead to share my work. It's watermarked to Hell and back, of course.

There's a lot of controversy over the fact that sevral AI pieces got in though...

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Was scrolling through you’re blog and noticed for one post you had really neat designs for Ashe and Grey for a later chapter of your ZXA retelling, but that made me wonder: Do you have a written outline for the fic or is it just a bunch of ideas and you’re figuring out the rest? I ask cause when I write chapter fics I have to write an outline doc of what happens in every chapter, almost like a plot summary, just to keep track of my ideas in a cohesive order. But I wasn’t sure how other fanfic writers handle approaching things and well you got the advantage of also following the game so I thought I’d ask ahah.

Hey hey! First off, thanks for the ask, I hope you're enjoying the fic and the art for it!!

Secondly, I'm approaching the fic slightly differently to how I normally plan my writing. Since I know how the plot of Advent goes as per the game, I'm treating the original script as my "outline," and writing notes for what I really want to include or change from the game, and justifications for a level sometimes. These notes don't always stay the same though! For instance, a note I had written for an early chapter:

You can see I'd planned to have Grey stop Buckfire monologuing pretty early on, and shoot Rospark too. But the why of how it happened changed (ie, original plan as above to catch them off guard, vs Ashe telling him to because the Pseudoroid freaked her out).

Normally, when I write, I have a rough outline of events in chronological order and write the chapters based on that. I did try the "chapter by chapter" approach for my biggest original work, but unfortunately it went off the rails and I had to throw all the planning out the window! So I haven't really tried it again lol.

I also tend to have separate documents for lore and character notes as well, which goes for all of my work.

In the case of FTGFTF, I've got a massive document that details quirks and backstory notes for the characters - for instance, since we were only given hints of the Big Four's backstories in game, I wrote down a summary of what I think they were, and this colours the way I write them in the fic. That's definitely been a lot of fun to explore!

Hope this answers your question and I didn't go overboard in doing so!