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| Usually Dead:
Okay! Since the forums got rebuilt, I suppose it's appropriate that I repost the notification of my contributions so far. All works are on www.usuallydead.com, under: Stories --> Retelling of Oriental Stories The main work here is Touhou Ibunshu, which is a long arc of many short installments. The installment list so far includes: 1. Touhou Maiketsu - The Reinterpretation of Scarlet Devil 2. Touhou Jinkeiki - Redepmtion of Precarious Puppeteer 3. Touhou Zetsubunsho - Requiem Bibliophilic 4. Touhou Seireikun - Resolute and Ghostly Gardener 5. Touhou Shikanzai - Remixed Cherry Blossom 6. Touhou Aizokuri - Recovery of Beloved Matriarch 7. Touhou Kimikaku - Repose and Inclusive Power 8. Touhou Toshinanto - Remorse in Secession's Nobility In addition, some archived and discontinued content exists under the "Story Features" heading. These fall under the title of Touhou Tagigen, and include Ask Yuyuko! and Nitori's Notes. This thread is more for just giving Ibunshu a presence on MoTK's new build, but feel free to discuss or whatever. |
| WRATHIE_Beatrice:
whoa UD is mod?? |
| MSN-02 Zeong:
Didn't even notice Usually Dead was a mod until wrathie posted it. I'm not one for long commentary when it comes to this, so I'll just say that Repose and Inclusive Power was an incredibly fun read as usual, though I was surprised that it ended up Spoiler: perfectly segueing into the events of Imperishable Night, though I should've realized it after seeing who was actually going to attend Reimu's party. |
| Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin:
Yeah, MSN, that seems to be everyone's reaction. That's one of the ways UD is awesome. He gets you like that. And yet ... a part of me is on the fence, and thinks that, um ... Well, to cut to the chase, UD's stories are about as different from canon as Blade Runner is from Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? They're awesome, but they take just about every detail of Touhou canon, short of the characters' personalities (except in Reimu's case) and appearance, and run the other way with them; they end up bing "retellings" of the originals the same way a broken clock is right twice a day. I know some people who've been driven away by the poetic license UD's taken. And when UD isn't being epic-awesome, some bits really fall flat. I facedesked when Suika referred to her gourd as having "immaterial and missing power" in as many words, and not in a good way. The fact that everyone speaks English and refers to Japanese as "the old tongue" is somewhat awkward -- I'm somewhat morbidly curious as to why UD did it like this. Yes, I know the in-character explanation, which is buried somewhere in Nitori's Notes, I want to know why the author decided to do it. Also awkward is the way the stories tend to get rather violent, and at the same time try to fit a "Power of love!" philosophy, two elements which don't go well together. Plus, there's a bit of Moral Dissonance -- in Reinterpretation of Scarlet Devil, Spoiler: Reimu kills Meiling. Except wait, she's a youkai, so she's okay! The thing is, Reimu didn't know it at the time, and very little is done to address the fact that Reimu basically tried to murder someone, not entirely in self-defense, beyond "okay, I'm not going to act out of anger or fear anymore." Remixed Cherry Blossom doesn't have that kind of problem, since Sakuya's supposed to be morally ambiguous, but Ran's explanation about the purpose of love in Recovery of Beloved Matriarch is either a rather shrewd look into the mind of an immortal, or seriously messed up. Or both. I've also noticed the formula of Spoiler: "It was actually the Extra Boss all along!" which makes me feel kinda "meh" about being surprised by whatever the ending is, and ... I'm gonna be generous and say that about three-eighths of, um, Retellishable Night wasn't completely telegraphed by RoIP. It's just a vague "do not know if want" which I'm able to rationalize, I guess. I still mostly think they're awesome, but Retellishable Night is going to need a pretty darn snazzy twist to make up for the fact that we basically know most of the story (the bit about Sakuya included). However, I believe that this is something which, on the whole, UD is going to be able to do. (I also realized: "oh, god, what's going to happen to Mystia, given how unmerciful UD tends to be?" and I thought I came up with an idea for how Koishi would be behind the events of ... Subrevision Aminism, but I forget what it was.) I also make no value judgments on the fact that, in just about every story, at least one character ends up naked (or depicted naked like in RaIP) at least once. |
| Usually Dead:
--- Quote from: KimikoMuffin on April 23, 2009, 05:05:20 AM --- I also make no value judgments on the fact that, in just about every story, at least one character ends up naked. --- End quote --- Oh damn! I've been found out! You got me. I've been doing it all as cleverly couched pornography the whole time. :P |
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