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Hi, and welcome back to Seabed! This will be a very quick one since the scene itself isn’t very long, and only a few things really stand out in my mind about it. Back in the regular story, we join Takako and Sachiko at an airport, bound for Paris – city of culture and, of course, Parisians, who are known for being quite rude. And by ‘rude’, I mean there’s a rare culture-bound psychological condition, primarily afflicting Japanese people such as Sachiko and Takako, caused by the sheer disparity between the reputation of Paris as a place of art and culture, and the attitudes of the Parisian people at large. It’s called Paris Syndrome, and knowing about it probably isn’t going to help us analyse the story in any way, but since this is a psychological type of VN I thought I might as well bring it up. More significant, in a meta-narrative kind of way, is the fact that the two are travelling at all. We’ve already discussed ‘a town surrounded by mountains’, and the ‘closed circl

I've mentioned  on Ko-fi  that I want to do an OJ VN and would be using my Ko-fi donations to pursue that goal, so I'd like to talk a little more about that project - what it involves, what the scope is, a very basic outline of the plot, how the plans have changed from the original draft, and a few other minor details. First, I'll talk about the original draft. I came up with it a year or two ago, and did some semi-detailed planning on the way the plot would flow. The setting would be a university/college setting, which retains some of what makes high school AUs so enjoyable, but allows for greater character agency and a wider range of experiences than a standard high school. The protagonist and viewpoint character would be Sora, for a range of reasons. Firstly, she's my favourite, which isn't a great  reason in the grand scheme of things, but it's still a reason. Secondly, my experiences with writing OJ fanfic have taught me that Sora adapts very  well to t

A/N: Since this series stopped for a while and now is re-starting, here's some links to the previous parts if you want to review them: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Hello, and welcome back – at long last – to the Seabed Slow Read! For a few little administrative points: I wasn’t intending to let this sit for as long as it did, but sometimes life just gets the better of me, and the daily grind redoubles its efforts. I’m not great at picking things back up once I’ve started them and loss the thread, so please bear with me as I get re-acquainted with the workflow here. Part of my motivation for doing this is that I’ve enjoyed great support on ko-fi, and while I don’t feel good specifically saying ‘pay me and I’ll do this thing’ (a la patreon) because I wouldn’t want to disappoint people if I fail, I still wanted to have a goal to show some appreciation for the people who tipped me so generously. I spent some of the money on helping a friend afford a plushie in Wave

Foreword: These drabbles are also up, and probably better formatted, on Ao3  here.  This is more or less just an archive. I'll dump drabbles in batches of 50 where possible/sensible. I'll also try to put some basic tags (series, characters) in the titles of the individual drabbles so they're easier to sort through.

Genre: Humour/Slice of Life Length: 1945 words B/D: It's been a while since I had time to update this blog, but I have definitely been doing stuff... I promise! This is a quick, breezy little Kae/Nanako piece, requested by Quincy via Ko-fi.

Genre: Slice of Life, maybe? Length: 2721 words B/D: It was Altela's birthday recently and I felt like making a (late) gift for them, so at long last, here's an introduction for Alte in the Survivalverse.

Genre: Slice of Life Length: 3317 words B/D: This ended up being a more dialogue and world-building chapter, which I'm fine with. Sometimes it's nice to take the time to do that kind of thing.

Genre: Slice of Life Length: 3073 B/D: I still don't have any Sham related cover art, but this is a more Sora-series oriented story, even though Suguri and Hime will be around. I really like the Cuties dlc and the UWG song pack, and I wanted to do a story about it, so here we go!

Genre: Romance/Slice of Life Length: 1801 words B/D: I wrote this for Nath day, but finished a couple days late. It is pure, unfiltered indulgence, and not canon to the rest of the series. Warning: implied nudity and adult happenings.

Genre: Slice of Life Length: 2156 words B/D: The style of this one may be a bit janky, because I wasn't originally intending to post it -- it was a just-for-me story. But then I accidentally put development in there, and also the Sora & Sham cuties pack came out and I wanted to make a story for that, so I ended up hurrying this one.

Genre: Slice of Life Length: 3775 words B/D: Just a normal, friends goofing around kind of story.

Genre: Slice of Life Length: 3627 words B/D: And here's the QP story I was working on as well. It's not a continuation of the baseball series -- which will be a series, eventually -- but just an idea I wanted to do.

Genre: Slice of Life Length: 2,301 words B/D: I've been away for a little bit, but wanted to make at least one Sugihime post in recent memory. They don't get as much spotlight as Sora and her crew, and I always want to go back and give them some attention but never find time.

I’ve written a lot of stories for 100% Orange Juice and its associated properties, and I’d like to encourage other people to do the same. In this article, I’m going to be talking about my own AU, the Survivalverse, why I made it, and what design factors went into it, in the hopes that it sheds some light on some of the difficulties of writing OJ fanfiction and how to get around them. Why make an AU? I made an AU because, simply put, the characters and canon of the Suguriverse are designed in such a way that writing stories about them in that universe is difficult, but that eases the process of making games with them. What do I mean by this? Well, to begin with: the Suguriverse is composed of four games (plus Mixed Juice, but leave that aside for now): SUGURI, AoS, SORA, and AoS2. All four are an odd flavour of shmup/fighting game hybrid, trending more towards the shmup side of the genre, and mostly following shmup genre conventions. This means that Suguri and co. are, for th

Genre: Slice of life Length: 2499 words B/D: I've been having a bad time recently, so I wrote something cute and trashy to cheer myself up. It's not good, by any means, but it made me happy to imagine the image.

There will be spoilers contained within. Read at your own risk.

Genre: Slice of Life Length: 3082 words B/D: Despite the picture, this one's actually all about Sham and Nath. 

Series: Flying Red Barrel Genre: Romance? Length: 2291 words B/D: I actually started maybe three Valentine's Day themed stories this year, and this one was the only one that made it in time. An extremely hurried story for busy pilots, maybe? I might polish up the others later, when time allows.

Genre: Comedy Length: 2927 words B/D: Giving baseball the heavy comedy meme treatment with QP and company. Please excuse me when I miss the finer points; I've done some research, but I am  British. This is going to be a multi-part story, so there will probably be three or four more of these when I get around to doing them.

There will be spoilers contained within. Read at your own risk. 

There will be spoilers contained within. Read at your own risk.

There will be spoilers contained within. Read at your own risk.

Genre: Slice of Life Words: 3852 B/D: The companion piece to Balcony , focusing more on Sham and Sora.

Genre: Slice of Life Words: 2464 B/D: Not super sure about this one, but then I went ahead and wrote a companion piece for it (which I'll post in another day or two), so I guess I've gotta post it anyway.