The Cover Art For My Binary Star Hero Fanfic. I Swear To God, Trying To Get This Out Of My Head And On

The cover art for my Binary Star Hero fanfic. I swear to god, trying to get this out of my head and on paper took longer than the whole damn fic. Thank god for Gimp- I COULD NOT do this in Krita no matter how hard I tried.

This piece is inspired by one of my favorite pieces of yandere media out there- more people need to watch it~

Chapters: 1/13 Fandom: Binary Star Hero (Visual Novel) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Ray | Binary Star (Binary Star Hero)/Original Character(s) Characters: Ray | Binary Star (Binary Star Hero), Original Female Character(s), Original Characters, Luke | Blaze (Binary Star Hero) Additional Tags: Yandere, Stalking, Obsessive Behavior, Unhealthy Relationships, Suicidal Thoughts, Romance, Eventual Smut, Dry Humping, Mutual Masturbation Summary:

Syzygy (noun): the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies (such as the sun, moon, and earth during a solar or lunar eclipse) in a gravitational system.

(Every eclipse is a syzygy but not every syzygy is an eclipse. It could refer to, for example… the planets aligning. Or the alignment of something else…)

Ray’s plan is simple- talk to the woman he’s been stalking for three years and make her fall in love with him. What does it matter if it seems the universe itself is trying to stop him; signs are for lesser beings. She didn’t recoil from the pull of his ability, that’s the only sign he cares about. They were fated to align. Nothing will come between them.

He won’t allow it.

if I had a nickle for every time a fanfic had such amazingly intricate worldbuilding and deep character connections and lore that it inspired me to watch the OG show assuming that it has to have at LEAST the skeleton of all those amazing details, only to find out the fanfic author created all those details themselves and that the actual show is bland, boring dogwater that I refuse to watch because I have too much self respect, I'd have two nickles.

Which isn't alot, but it's weird that it's happened twice...

op: let ppl ship what they want, it’s fictional! 

me: that’s fair 

op: so it’s ok to ship inc*st and p*dophilia 

me:

art dumping

realizing (or maybe remembering) that I actually created a lot of art after ragequitting tumblr several years ago (on account of most of my art of fully clothed adults being nuked because of the then-new nudity ban), and while i had been posting on twitter, I also quit twitter years ago (long before muskrat showed up) so now I guess I'll be dumping it here. Let's see how long it takes tumblr to erase all my hard work again!

Finding & Fixing Plot Holes

– A lot of the time, we know there are plot holes in our stories but it’s difficult to identify them, and even when we do, it seems impossible to fix them. I decided to make a list of the most common forms plot holes manifest in and some suggestions on how to resolve them. Happy writing!

Events That Make No Sense

If you have a villain with a reputation for being “all powerful”, it shouldn’t take 10 minutes of hand to hand combat to kill them and make everything go back to normal. If a character has been a warrior for a thousand years, defeating hundreds of powerful enemies, chances are that their young, naive little apprentice will have a very difficult time killing them or even catching them off guard. If an event in your story doesn’t make any sense, you have to add an element or two that make it more believable, like adding more obstacles in front of your protagonist that add to the suspension of disbelief.

Unexplained Changes

If your character is speaking to a colleague in New York and is described as being in Los Angeles 5 pages later, that has to be explained to the reader, or they’ll be more focused on looking for context than the actual story taking place. If your character suddenly has blue hair, you need to explain to your reader why they’ve dyed it. Context is important, people.

Continuity Errors

If your main character has freckles in the first half of your book and then no freckles in the second, that will confuse your reader. It’s an easy fix, so just make the final choice and revise wherever it’s inconsistent.

Forgotten Characters

If you introduce a side character, then they go off to grab something and never come back, either explain why or pick them back up and insert them where you meant to. If they’re just an extra, that’s fine, but make that clear to the reader by not going overboard on making them seem relevant. If they’re just there to shout “fire!”, don’t spend a paragraph explaining their appearance and backstory.

Contradicting Details

This is extremely common in Fantasy and Science Fiction, where the rules of the universe are different and difficult to keep up with. This is totally okay in your first draft, as you don’t usually have your whole world built before you begin writing, but once you’ve fleshed out that first draft, you have to review and establish the system of rules in your universe, then go back into your draft and apply them. If an event relies on a phenomenon that is impossible according to your world system, then either cut the scene, fix it so it follows the rules, or rewrite the events but under a different premise.

Unresolved Subplots

If two of your side characters have some romantic chemistry and it’s emphasized at one point then never revisited, your reader will be left confused and unsatisfied. It’s okay to leave these subplots unresolved if they’re going to be continued in future installments of a series, but in a standalone, you have to take the time to wrap them up in a nice little bow. This can usually be accomplished by tying the subplot’s resolution in with the overarching conflict resolution.

Lack of Relevant Information

If a beta-reader (someone who is essential to detecting subplots because they don’t know your story inside and out as you do) has questions about how something happened or what happened to such and such, you probably forgot to explain an element of your world or revisit a character in an event, which can easily be resolved by adding a paragraph or two that refer back to that event or character and add some information the reader needs to satiate their curiosity.

Un-synced Timeline

Your story happens in a set period of time. Events occur in a certain order. The past has a specific order of events as well. Make sure these events are on one consistent timeline and that you don’t mix up the order of events when explaining stuff in a story. Information comes to readers in bits and it’s easy, as a writer, to forget that certain things have happened that you’ve already explained, so my suggestion is to, while writing, keep track of every event that you retroactively describe and that occur in the timeframe of the story and record them, in their order, so you have a timeline of your own to fact check when editing.

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So let me get this straight

if you consciously decide to throw yourself down the stairs, and end up breaking your leg in the process, it’s clearly your fault

but somehow, if you know a certain type of fic will cause you mental harm, but consciously decide to read it anyway, it’s somehow the author’s fault?

take the most common arguments:

I wanted to know if it was as bad as the tags say - translated: I wanted to know if I’d really break a leg or or if I’d somehow miraculously float down 30 steps instead like a fucking miracle dove unburdened by sin 

It’s the author’s fault for writing it - translated: The person who designed the stairs is at fault for my decision to throw myself down them; clearly if they hadn’t made the stairs, I would have nowhere to hurt myself on purpose 

There was only one tag that might trigger me, but the content turned out to be much worse - translated: There was only one handrail so I assumed I could just hurl myself down thirty steps head first and everything would be fine

People should just write fics that are safe for me to read - translated: I’m an entitled asshole who will willingly break a leg on any set of stairs for no reason, so I want everyone to eliminate stairs and only use elevators

People who write these fics must be bad people - translated: People who build stairs are bad people; whenever I see a set, I will willingly hurl myself down them in order to break a leg, and then spend the rest of my life complaining about it