Love Is A Place Where Your Innocence Goes When It Dies

Because I'm rewatching Five Nights At Treasure Island: A complete Retrospective by SirFiftyFive I've been thinking about the original "Abandoned By Disney" story by slimebeast.

So I wanna clarify I think its mostly good! When I reread it for the first time in years, it was surprising how genuinely good the text was. It felt like an actual post on a blog about an island & the exprience the author had with it. I also felt like it had a good atmosphere, building up good tension in the story about the unease of the setting. Even the giant snake section felt like a real experiance the protag had despite the reported size of it.

& then photo-negative mickey happens...

I don't think it should've been executed the way it was. The idea of a costume standing in front of the protag, asking the line it does & taking of its head is fine in concept. It can be a creepy way to end the story. But the fact the costume is photo-negative instead of regular or moldy & that the blood is yellow and shown ruins the story for me. I feel like it was an attempt by the author to bait the audiance to draw art of it. Which, fine I guess, and it worked. But I feel like it doesn't fit the setting or tone of the story.

I've heard that slimebeast wrote 3 other stories in this universe & I'm curious about how the author furthered this setting. But I will admit that this story in specific leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

We haven't writen much during our vacation, like at all. We've got days on weeks were we've written next to nothing. But very early today we wrote 200-ish words for another pre-game NDRV3 fic. Though we should likely edit/write further the FNAF fic we have in Ellipsus. A friend of ours has offered to write out one of our fic ideas. Though I expect I will have to edit it a lot to make sense, since he hasn't played NDRV3.

Now, I was thinking again about what character should be the nightguard for my DR FNAF AU, i was considering Shuichi UNTILL-

Ryoma Hoshi popped into my mind.

It's just, weirdly obvious? Like we joke a lot about "who ze fuck would work for Freddy's", but Ryoma being an ex-convict would make it that he has little job prospects to begin with. And him being depressed/suicidal could explain why he doesn't leave despite the killer animatronics.

Plus he just got, a nice dialogue style? At least to me. So that'd be a bonus.

So, for those who remember the old days of Five Nights At Freddy's fandom, you know it was pretty diffrent from what it is today. Now, I'm not really deep in any fandom nowadays. I've personally grown tired of fandom drama so I try to avoid it like the plague. But I'm not here to talk about that here. I'm here to talk about the period of time where the main fandom activity in the FNAF fandom was make gijinkas + make up backstories for them.

Now it wasn't the only activity obviously, theorizing was popular since the first game. But How we theorize and ingage with the games has changed. Now this is partly because over the years Scott & now Steel Wool has added a lot more lore and actual charactization for the charcaters for FNAF. Back when before 4 or 5/sister location (depending on how you count them), there wasn't actually a lot of charactization for the characters or even setting. It very much feels like Scott was just throwing spaghetti at the walls and seeing what sticks.

Back then, people went buck wild with this. They would design gijinkas or anthro designs, make up their own bullshit characterization, and make stories semi-set in pizzarias & just go wild with what the story could be. Anyone who's been here for a while knows no-canon-characterization couldn't stop hundreds of people from having shipping wars with the bots.

Now not everyone loved this. I vaguely remember there baing hate for FNAFHS (which I get, but also I was one of the ppl who loved that series regardless). And now that kinda fan interaction has gotten a whole less popular unless you're going selfshipping with mostly the Daycare Attendant ngl.

To be honest I kinda miss old FNAF fandom. Yes eventually the series would need to do new stuff with itself and yes, this would naturually change fandom. But I can't help but have nostalgia for the fandom I grew up watching too many speedpaints for.