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December fannish updates
And here's my fannish update post.
• The main exciting thing is that a new Mana series game has been announced -- Visions of Mana! *_* Here's the announce trailer:
I'm sososo excited about this. It's been so long since a mainline Mana game has been released, and HACCAN's character design is very fitting for the series. The producer for the series announced quite a while ago that a new Mana game was in development, but then we didn't hear anything for, like, two years? So I was starting to lose hope a bit lol. But I'm so glad about this! :D
• I have finished my![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
multifandomdoodle assignment (and I have a present waiting for me which I'm very excited about!). I now only have one open assignment which is chugging along, although I need to go faster on this one... I was hoping to finish off two (already partly complete) chapters this weekend, but then apparently while writing, my brain decided there needs to be more character development in between point A and B, so the writing keeps expanding the more I write... And just in general, the words aren't really flowing. I'm hoping to finish this quickly enough for me to pick up one of the pinch hits, but it will be hard balancing this with other Christmas prep I have to do.
I'm also working on a couple of late art treats forlatetreatbonanza. Those are surprisingly going well (like, my art skills so far seem to be up to the task of achieving my artistic vision) but also very slowly. It's likely I will also be working down to the wire with these, but they're extra presents so I'm not too worried if these don't come together on time.
It would be nice if I could make some icons forfandomtrees, but I just don't think I have time this year. Next time.
• I checked out a copy of GRRM's Fire and Blood from the library, which is making me tempted to pick up my ASOIAF visual reference wiki project from where I left off with it. But of course I wanted to migrate it from the truly awful Fandom.com to one of the free wiki farm alternatives (the two main ones I found were Miraheze and Wikidot). My request for a wiki space was approved on Miraheze, but unfortunately I had trouble importing my old Fandom wiki database dump to Miraheze and basically had to request a manual import, which I'm still waiting to be completed. So I'm kind of blocked until that's finished.... But once I do a bit of template clean-up and put in all the info related to "The Sworn Sword" and "The Mystery Knight" that I have sitting on my hard drive, I might share this wiki again. (Even then... IDK, the wiki is so uneven because I don't like rereading books, so most of the info there is actually for the Dunk and Egg stories, which I read fresh and took notes on visual descriptions as I went. It would be nice if I had more descriptions from the main books...)
• I'm also hoping to post at least two more media reviews posts by the end of the year. One will be a book review round-up. Actually, I can probably do that now as I have no book reviews that still need to be written and I am very unlikely to finish any new books by the end of the year that would need to be added to that post. So I will probably put that together pretty soon. The other media review post I am hoping to be either TV reviews or movie reviews, depending on which one is coming together faster.
• Interesting links: People may be interested in this (nearly 4-hour!) hbomberguy video on plagiarism on YouTube, which is kind of blowing up the internet. The examples are pretty incredible and get more egregious the farther in the video you get. As someone who has struggled with plagiarism cases (and this is getting worse the more people rely on ChatGPT), I appreciated the examples and analysis here, especially the common motivation behind plagiarism often being that people want to accomplish more than they can in the limited time they have. But also, in the Somerton case featured in this video, it really was just a simple case of collecting decades of labor from dozens of people and stealing it for the purposes of making a buck... Like, that's a pretty shocking case of just appropriating people's work for profit!
Another interesting aspect of the Somerton case is that, coming from a background in fandom, Somerton's particular use of SJ language and accusations of politically-motivated, bigoted bullying to deflect and bury people's callouts of the plagiarism in his videos, as well as his own misogynistic rants that he can frame as left-wing just because he prepends the word "white" or "straight" in front of "women" is uh... shall we say, extremely familiar. I was just like ExhaustedBenAffleck.jpg hearing the examples hbomberguy pulled out of Somerton making unsourced and untrue claims about women fangirling serial killers and (straight) women fetishizing gay men (criticism that often erases non-white, gay/bi women, and trans creators, or forces queer artists to come out of the closet to avoid being dogpiled for writing some "problematic" piece of art). He is far from the only person I've seen have this style of criticism -- it's kind of just a bog-standard form of literary criticism you can't avoid running into in fandom, unfortunately, made by people who earnestly think they are being progressive.
• The main exciting thing is that a new Mana series game has been announced -- Visions of Mana! *_* Here's the announce trailer:
I'm sososo excited about this. It's been so long since a mainline Mana game has been released, and HACCAN's character design is very fitting for the series. The producer for the series announced quite a while ago that a new Mana game was in development, but then we didn't hear anything for, like, two years? So I was starting to lose hope a bit lol. But I'm so glad about this! :D
• I have finished my
multifandomdoodle assignment (and I have a present waiting for me which I'm very excited about!). I now only have one open assignment which is chugging along, although I need to go faster on this one... I was hoping to finish off two (already partly complete) chapters this weekend, but then apparently while writing, my brain decided there needs to be more character development in between point A and B, so the writing keeps expanding the more I write... And just in general, the words aren't really flowing. I'm hoping to finish this quickly enough for me to pick up one of the pinch hits, but it will be hard balancing this with other Christmas prep I have to do.I'm also working on a couple of late art treats for
latetreatbonanza. Those are surprisingly going well (like, my art skills so far seem to be up to the task of achieving my artistic vision) but also very slowly. It's likely I will also be working down to the wire with these, but they're extra presents so I'm not too worried if these don't come together on time.It would be nice if I could make some icons for
fandomtrees, but I just don't think I have time this year. Next time.• I checked out a copy of GRRM's Fire and Blood from the library, which is making me tempted to pick up my ASOIAF visual reference wiki project from where I left off with it. But of course I wanted to migrate it from the truly awful Fandom.com to one of the free wiki farm alternatives (the two main ones I found were Miraheze and Wikidot). My request for a wiki space was approved on Miraheze, but unfortunately I had trouble importing my old Fandom wiki database dump to Miraheze and basically had to request a manual import, which I'm still waiting to be completed. So I'm kind of blocked until that's finished.... But once I do a bit of template clean-up and put in all the info related to "The Sworn Sword" and "The Mystery Knight" that I have sitting on my hard drive, I might share this wiki again. (Even then... IDK, the wiki is so uneven because I don't like rereading books, so most of the info there is actually for the Dunk and Egg stories, which I read fresh and took notes on visual descriptions as I went. It would be nice if I had more descriptions from the main books...)
• I'm also hoping to post at least two more media reviews posts by the end of the year. One will be a book review round-up. Actually, I can probably do that now as I have no book reviews that still need to be written and I am very unlikely to finish any new books by the end of the year that would need to be added to that post. So I will probably put that together pretty soon. The other media review post I am hoping to be either TV reviews or movie reviews, depending on which one is coming together faster.
• Interesting links: People may be interested in this (nearly 4-hour!) hbomberguy video on plagiarism on YouTube, which is kind of blowing up the internet. The examples are pretty incredible and get more egregious the farther in the video you get. As someone who has struggled with plagiarism cases (and this is getting worse the more people rely on ChatGPT), I appreciated the examples and analysis here, especially the common motivation behind plagiarism often being that people want to accomplish more than they can in the limited time they have. But also, in the Somerton case featured in this video, it really was just a simple case of collecting decades of labor from dozens of people and stealing it for the purposes of making a buck... Like, that's a pretty shocking case of just appropriating people's work for profit!
Another interesting aspect of the Somerton case is that, coming from a background in fandom, Somerton's particular use of SJ language and accusations of politically-motivated, bigoted bullying to deflect and bury people's callouts of the plagiarism in his videos, as well as his own misogynistic rants that he can frame as left-wing just because he prepends the word "white" or "straight" in front of "women" is uh... shall we say, extremely familiar. I was just like ExhaustedBenAffleck.jpg hearing the examples hbomberguy pulled out of Somerton making unsourced and untrue claims about women fangirling serial killers and (straight) women fetishizing gay men (criticism that often erases non-white, gay/bi women, and trans creators, or forces queer artists to come out of the closet to avoid being dogpiled for writing some "problematic" piece of art). He is far from the only person I've seen have this style of criticism -- it's kind of just a bog-standard form of literary criticism you can't avoid running into in fandom, unfortunately, made by people who earnestly think they are being progressive.