So immediately following the last post, because I've been more actively sharing this with Ms. Tessa than anyone else right now, Ms. Tessa wanted to post a comment.
And that made me feel uncomfortable because I was pretty sure she'd just drop a comment as her self using an in-character account. So I told her to wait off on it until I made my next post because I wanted to set some commenting rules.
And thus here they are:
1. All comments made with in-character accounts must be made in character. So if I was say, Konaa's writer and I commented using Konaa's in-character account (I have no idea why I keep picking on Konaa.) then that comment would need to be made from that character's perspective as if they were seeing it as themselves still very much involved with whatever is going on with konaa in his story at that time.
2. To comment as an Author you need to have your own Author specific account just for you.
3. As an alternative to all that time and effort you would otherwise spend making a blogger account specifically for your author persona (Because believe me, my real name isn't Fraggle.), you can comment anonymously or use the Name/URL option.
To make these rules immediately visible to anyone jumping in on this later, I've added a note to the side bar of the blog so these rules will be visible on every single page of the blog.
I also added the blog list app to show off my work, because its awesome.
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So moving on, new post on Wrath is Eternal. And yes, I'm gonna plug every single post I make as part of a post on here every time I post somewhere.
If I can't plug in the safety of my own Mod Blog, where can I plug?
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Speaking of topic transitions, Mod Blogs. That's what this is. A Mod Blog. Its a concept I got from Tumblr. The ARGs on Tumblr usually have a link to what is labeled 'Mod'. And when you click it it takes you to the author of that ARGs' hub page where he talks about personal news, game updates, takes commissions, shares thoughts, and is ultimately just him being himself.
Mod accounts also usually have links to all of the Author's projects and to other authors whose work hes interconnected to. So on Tumblr if you like an author, you can just follow him to his hub and then to his other works assuming they have any.
So that's part of what this blog is about. Trying to figure out how that can work for the Slenderverse on Blogger. We can't exactly do it just like they do it on tumblr. Immersion is usually highly valued in the verse so links that lead off to a site where you can read that the blog is a lie is probably a big no no.
But we'll figure it out eventually... probably.
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MORE TOPICS. So I had my last post looked over by FreedomCaged. My post was his first run in with the concept of the 'Denizens'.
He had this to say:
"I really do like those later descriptions of the denizens.
Detailed enough to be creepy and horrific, but still fast and leaving plenty to the imagination, also with the implication that there really is no theme or consistency, which is disturbing all by itself.."
Which is great because he would be the first person I got feedback from on the Denizens without my having explained what they were ahead of time.
So naturally, I ruined that with this explanation:
"I didn't actually name them that, but its kind of catchy so I've stuck with it.
I don't know what other writers have done with the denizens since I introduced them but the denizens are supposed to be deformed humans that have been mutated like that from over exposure to the path.
Those mutations are supposed to be random with heavy influences from elements of nature.
All of which came from an effort to make the path less safe for proxies. Even to the servants, no domain should ever be safe."
Now, I bring all this up because if I have one regret with the denizen's its the failure of their use to deter proxies from pathing.... at least best I can tell.
I'm not all seeing and I don't follow a lot of the new blogs so I can't know for sure, but from what I've seen Authors have been acknowledging the existence of the denizens and then writing them to not attack their proxies. (Usually as a note to how cool their proxies are or because their already established lore and/or history can't take the path being an unsafe place to visit.) I know its not my place to try to control how writers hand things but I kind of wish they just didn't acknowledge the denizens if they were gonna make them a non-issue.
But again, not my place to impose on someone else's creative vision. If I don't like it, its on me to ignore it.
And I can't even say for sure that the Denizens are entirely mine. I had not seen them anywhere else before I brought them up on one of my post... but that could be a coincidence.
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I'm thinking I'm gonna explain some of the other elements I've tried to introduce to the verse in my next post. Usually the biggest problem with things I add is I can't outright explain them and then I forget about them.
It would probably be a good idea to get them all down on here
Fraggle out.
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