TheRedStranger

We would like you illustrate a scene from one of the Official works on site (some like EoT will be posted or have teasers later this month). Also, if Sonic is involved I would like you to tweak his design to look more like the rest of the cast (no cyclops eyes). Let's see if you can experiment with the aesthetic. Have fun with it! Pull this off and the Admins will reward you ;). I will inform you of when every single one of the stories have a post for you to read through. You can look through WfM and P&D in the mean time.

I have a request F07E. One that might give you a bit of a challenge.

I agree 100%. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. That's some nasty stuff when you actually approach it rationally and morally. It's sad though that many are blind to this. Japanese culture and by extension SoJ in particular has this problem. Most Female's are portrayed as child-like artistically and in voice. In character they are too irrationally clingy by nature and such behavior is portrayed as socially excusable as if a man's attention is a basic need and thus a fundamental right, like a child's to their parent (let that sink in - it just makes it all the more creepy); really puts the pater in patriarchy). That's sexist both ways. What is even worse is that such is marketed as "kid's games." Way to go SEGA. I think that's enough proof that they are indeed morally neglectful to say the least. A girl like SoA's Sally would be considered a "Yankee girl" and unfeminine in many eyes. In real life I have been harassed by women many occasions before in school, many times verbally and I have twice been touched without any permission in the classroom. My third ever encounter was actually with a dude in college who was actively predatory. I shot him down fast though; I am as straight as a ruler. Though I was more frankly repulsed by the encounter with someone who bluntly, well, to put it cleanly and discretely, would desired sodomize me; both felt equally denigrating to my personhood. If that guy tried to do more than verbally harass me, I could have snapped his scrawny spine like a tooth-pick (though being "gay" made him somehow invulnerable enough to even try some moves on a male, married faculty member as well - people were scared to punish his sexual language for fear of being considered homophobic). However, sad thing is that if he was female instead and I even pushed him away, then I could have ended up in court and a simple lie could make look like the perpetrator. I guess men don't have as much of right to their bodies as women, or a case to make when it comes to any form of sexual harassment. Thank you liberalism for make the world a more egalitarian place...am I right? Being a Christian did not make that process any easier, being abstinent with a bunch of hormonal ill-raised mongrels makes you a target to those aggravated by what you morally represent. They have to drag you down to their level to prove their behavior as the norm, as if to remove any pretense of self-control. Bottom line if the tables were so slightly ever turned; I could have been suspended or worse. These girls were just given a lecture and asked to move and that's after handling the situation quickly and having a good reputation. Others might not be so lucky to be free from any prejudice I was able to overcome through active example of good character. Currently this all is symptomatic of a double standard and clearly says that a man has less right to protect his person or moral values. Sega is not just promoting such a societal double standard, they are also making light of it with a punchline that got old a decade ago. It is also celebrating a female's codependency (which leaves your vulnerable to domestic abuse if you are woman) and that it's okay to harass men with romantic advances.

When I think Vortext I recall the metal cork-screwing classic from Ohio's King's Island. The Storm sounds interesting given that it's like a Ferris Wheel. Does Chaos involve emeralds and glowing herehogs? XP

Dang straight. Love to see you try one, Ish.

Love to see this guy end up stuck a week in the universe of the Teletubbies. Grade A surreal comedy there. Lots of dead Teletubbies. It would actually make a great horror comedy if you pulled off right.

July Newsletter will be up hopefully Saturday.

Any ideas/improvements for our logo?

We will most likely be announcing the Fanworks of July and June both this weekend during the time of our Newsletter, unless anything bizzare happens like a Xorda apocalypse or a coupe involving a fat, bald, ginger-mustached fat-man. So keep an eye open.

I will be gathering up some previews and exscripts from some of my original works. Stay tune for that when I dig through my Deviant Art and Hardrive of stuff I have done through the years.

How would you portray Antoine, or make his character grow in theoretical seasons beyond the second one?

Yeah...If Pixar was captaining the ship, the only thing holding Sonic back would be Sonic's oppressive over-protective father, clueless SEGA itself. Imagine what they could with Sonic if they just reached out a little.

Improving your formatting, tighten your focus, and add some more commentary on what could improve the work, and I think you would have good review with a diverse perspective. Try to summarize more in the begining of your work perhaps. I actually recommend this guy if you want get into subtextual criticism while being fun and entertaining to the reader. Don't copy him persay, but take a note of the structuring of his reviews.

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Being a military brat, I always loved this show and loved how it mixed scifi, military drama and the present day. The challenges were tough, the stakes high, and the mystical aspect of mythology intriguing. Cue epic theme song. Anyone else love and miss this series?

If people like it - we will make more memories.

This is beyond amazing...He's BACK!!! #Bluelivesmatter. Ps. If you are not excited or understand - you are not as trained in the ways of the force as you thought you were. Or don't read as much as you should. XP

Oh you gotta share some of the juicy details when you are done with that book. We could all go over it in the dialogue section.

Any cool coasters in particular?

Do I know you? You sound familiar. XP

"Alright, alright. Removed that bit." --- Great. If specific persons do ever harass you coming onto our Deviant-Art partition or on this site; PM me. I will handle it personally.

Specifically no. Everyone has the right to criticiize a movement, but things are starting to get too specific (like with DA groups). That is going to far. We can decry something wrong with a movement in our sub-culture but should not talk behind a specific groups back. That is divisive. Also - the admins are getting tired of the language W-T, even if "censored." I would also ask that you actually give rational reasons for some of your opinions. This is a place to express thoughts, not emote. Do not be like that which you accuse...

1. @Prince By-Tor and I have been accused of being border-line Satam supremacists but were more Satam purists. I personally think it is the fountainhead for all narratively strong Sonic material and I would sacrifice all of the new cast to Chuthulu to just have Sally, Bunnie, Rotor, Uncle Chuck, a much more believable Tails, and heck even Ant'. It is the only place we see Sonic really loose loved ones, feel defeat, have meaningful relationships, and have an actual sense of conflict and dramatic tension. SatAM is what gave us the core concepts that Archie half-heartedly adopts (don't get me wrong I love some of the comics expansions on the Satam ideas but it lacks such tonal consistency). Let's be honest the comic would have been still bad puns and krudzu if it weren't for Satam. I would have never even returned to the fandom if I did not discover it on YouTube one day. I also got my best friends out of it. In a world peppered with overused crystal mcguffins, blindingly colorful supporting cast of yes-men, and villains like well...Boom Eggman... Satam brought me back when years ago Sonic Heros took the series in a much, much, more juvenile direction. I finally found the story to satiate me after the more narrative-driven tales like Sonic Adventure 1 & 2 developed by preconceived notion of where Sonic should be heading towards. 2. Antoine x Bunnie makes no sense, especially in the context of Satam (by season two I wonder if Bunnie would have just left him to be eaten by the Nasty Hyenas XP). Antoine and Bunnie were narratively forced together by the writers. It is more like fan-shipping than good writing. It makes a whole lot more sense for Rotor, her mechanic, to begin to crush over her. He has to get handsy with her cybernetics after all.A beautiful cyborg woman is an obvious turn-on for a geeky mechanic like Rotor lead to something. And yes, Rotor is straight. Just because he's socially awkward does not make him randomly and supposedly homosexual. Penders is the worst shipper of them all; he was one that could have much more power to pander to vague ideals of Political Correctness. Bottom line, you should not make characters randomly an object to an ideal, especially one as ethically shortsighted, self-righteous, and white-washing of complex moral issues like pop-progressivism. Doing so in the context of egg-shape men and colorful super-crystals just makes somewhat disrespectful. I don't want creepy-mustached Penders teaching your kids about sexuality, just saying. Now to my third: 3. I have a huge problem with shipping, especially when it forces characters to "date" someone not compatible with them or forcibly changes their orientation in any way. A character is being objectified and there is no real world sense of consequence from their relationships. You can't just flick a switch and make people love each other and their previous loves forget them. As person who has actually been in a love triangle my teen years, I can tell you it does not work that way. It can get messy. I'm sorry folks but if you force two people together you are entering exibitionist territory both of which desecrate art and story. 4. I wish to see Sonic grow up with me and continue evolving. I love the realism of the anthro style over the noodly and trite SEGA style. I draw Sonic in such a style because that's how I sincerely think he should be. I write Sonic on a deeper and more mature level because I think on the foundations of Satam it is the next logical step. I have been confronted by people over this but I have snapped back hard enough to make them question if they are even fans of the series. Many "fans" are exploiting Sonic for the sake of their own regressive nostalgia-high. They want to recall their childhood highlights and really don't care about the Blue-blur as character but as silent, unchanging idol to their early adolescence. In a sense they have already given him up and have resigned themselves to looking back at Sonic. To them any change in aestetic or progression in the narrative or tone (for many of the game fans any change at all) is to be treated with disdain, like you desecrated an idolized corpse. When I see the conformity of the new character designs to a SEGA aesthetic and the comic's stories constantly recalling past games, I fear the cult of Nostalgittes and the Segasonic-cult has tried to wrap any chance for artistic evolution into their sarcophagus of nostalgia. Any change is brutally criticized, all the while Sonic is being buried alive in childhood fancy as his core demographic matures year by year. Yet still a clueless SEGA and the "fans" that support them seem to chant: "Nothing must change, the sacred idol must stand still and collect dust. Thus sayth Nakayama." It's sad that the most acclaimed recent Sonic game, the "turn around," was just a rehashing of all the previous games. I think that is solid proof of what I am talking about. I hope you all would consider what I say and think twice about keeping things "as is" because soon enough there won't be anything to keep as is anymore.

Thanks Alex. I think keeping it as Sonic's fault is indeed doable and I would love to see what Arcan does with it! Right now I have not taken Sonic's flaws into account because I am looking at this tabla rasa. Trust me - we could do a LOT with Sonic. I think we all remember the supergenocide he was indirectly responsible for with E.V.E. Honestly I have to give a shout out to @Mike Arcade for point that one out to me. I think the quick choice idea F07E has could work with Sally if you went the original Ben Hurst route with Nichole. She has to choose who to save and she tries to save the one who would have the most gruesome fate( or she arguably was closer too in one moment of subconscious favoritism.) That would give Sally a psychological reason to feel so responsible and how she developed flaws when it comes to micromanaging. She is still making up for failing both of them. I pick Sally because she could probably be a better counter-point in actuality. They make good potential character foils of each other. The famous gut-punch scene would be even more thrilling to see. Their Idealogical counterpoints would be a war for Tails's mind and heart. And Archie is failing big time to capitalize on the reality societal tension. In the real world we have people shooting and bombing each other because of the superficial color of their skin and/orwhere they are from. If we had a world where people are whole different animals...well that would be a whole different animal. Cultural disparity would be even more amazingly unique and yet have many more points of contention. Presently stories such as Zootopia have really outshined Archie in this regard and they could have played these story cards on the table a decade ago but keep folding. Let's go deeper. Who knows? I think we can actually get Sonic into the backstory as well. The question you have to ask is how does sonic fail and how does it impact the mindsets of characters and the overall deeper subtext of the story?

1) How would you handle her introduction? Fiona was introduced as someone who held a grudge against Sonic and Mighty, because they'd seemingly abandoned her in a prison. Why they did this was never explained. So how do you give her this grudge without making it a giant unanswered OOC-moment for Sonic and Mighty? __ The trick to character writing is to abandon your sense of self and allow the character to take over you. Sounds creepy at first, but this is how a vast majority of the Greats do it. Stephen King is one shining example; he even writes about the process in his work Memoire of The Craft. I recommend it to any writer wanting to develop characters. When it comes to Fiona such a process would really help. Let's start with the begining. Fionana is a character whose themes' focus on abandonment and the need for others (and the conflicts such motivations give us). Knowing that core motivation, we can begin to develop a psychohistorical picture of why she has shifted alliances and stances over the years. The prison should not necessarily be our first stop. And if we want to involve Tails, let's do so directly by having him involved with Fiona and not a robo-clone in our upcoming reconstructions. We should also ingrain her more into the backstory of the Freedom Fighters directly. Her connection now is incredibly abstracted and vague. Our characters actually have very little concrete connection to evoke any drama, let alone inner-conflict, when it comes to Fionana. The reader is getting a major disservice; we are expected to empathize with what was nwither seen nor developed. This is frankly an arc that comes out of nowhere and we are expected to relate too. We must do everything we can to flesh that backstory out and fix it to be relevant to the reader's experience of the story and a sense of Fionan being thinking and feeling person existing merely beyond the pages of the comic. We must develop a sense she is someone with agency in an equally active world beyond the mere aspects of one printed issue. Let's make her an early friend of our main cast, before the Coupe even. Perhaps we can make a fear of abandonment be an early motivation in life which leads to her eventual flaws like trusting people like Scourge and her dissent into a darker, dog-eat-dog worldview. We could do such like this: Her father left for a more exclusive Mobian faction during the Great War, divorcing her mother who remained loyal to the Monoarchy. We show the reader a divided house hold in a divided world; it shows divisiveness and betrayal are things that then form her early view of Mobius. Also, being she still lives in Mobotropolis, she weighted down by a stigma that she does not seem to fit. She is the daughter of a traitor from a species that might even be stereotyped as deceitful. Secondly she comes from a non-traditional family with a single mother struggling to make ends meat. Foxes are famously monogamous and mate for life, you could draw on that as well. Her family being broken would be subject to societally judgement even in vulpine circles. Loosing her father and perhaps others in her family, the friends she does have then she clings onto and relates them to the inclusive values of Mobian culture (all differing Mobians together in one just and right society). Having these friends, which are our future Freedom Fighters, is actually her biggest anchor and the affirmation of what her mother believes in enough to be separated from a father that chose to leave Mobotropolis. Sally would be a huge influence on her then, she is the biggest symbol of equality and the Acorn ideal of inclusion. She is a Princess, but treats a young Fionana a friend. Perhaps we should even switch the focus away from Sonic when it comes to the infamously unseen prison scene and allot the failure to a novice Sally. How we do such following scenes I will tell you perhaps in a later post or...perhaps a creative work of my own on the boards...