Thank you! I read the first two chapters on the return trip back, and it seems to be a pretty solid retelling, which even implements aspects of the original legend. I was also pleasantly surprised that it was narrated in first person. I will be sure to continue it now that I’m back, and express my appreciation for the author!

Thanks for the suggestion! I wanted to preview it first, so I’ve gotten a little bit past the part where Sonic meets Chip, and it looks nice! I can’t say I’m too familiar with Sonic the Werehog, since I’ve never played the game, but I find the concept cool. I like the art style, there’s a nice subplot with Team Dark, and Chip seems like such a sweet cinnamon roll 😌 And best of all—gloveless Sonic! (And I don’t even like seeing Sonic without his gloves—usually it triggers intense disgust in me, but I found the author’s rendering of his hands pretty tolerable, cute even.

There’s only one issue…I have a limited amount of mobile data, and I won’t be able to access any sort of wifi for most of the drive, so I won’t be able to read it in my browser without costing me. Do you know if there’s an option to download it on the site, since I can’t seem to find it? (I did a little research about downloading webcomics with unofficial software, however all of them seem to rely on .exe files, which means I can’t run it on my Chromebook or Android). If not that’s fine, I can always read it at home. And I did come across an older fic I read partially a few years ago that I might revisit if I can’t read this.

I lately got into a fandom for an older indie game, and I never expected it would have any fanworks, and if it did, I expected them to have been written years ago. But when I looked on AO3, there was just one fic, written a little over two weeks prior. The author was really grateful for my comment, responding with one twice as long as mine…something that’s never happened to me before! A few months later, someone else commented, and posted a fic of their own a few days afterwards. I really want to keep the momentum for this fandom going, and it’s finally given me the boost of motivation I needed to finish—and publish—my first fanfic. It’s not done yet, but I have about a thousand words written as of right now.

It’s cool to see another writer who’s also an artist on here :D And I admire your ability to draw things outside your interest, I’m trying to develop that discipline as well. I used to draw only “fun” things that were directly related to my fandom/area of interest, but I’ve since become interested in making fancomics. And in order to be really good at making them, you need to be able to draw lots of boring/difficult things, like buildings, cars, airplanes, etc.*

*Cars and airplanes are awesome, since a lot of my fandoms include them in fun contexts, but for whatever reason I feel immensely bored even thinking about drawing a house in perspective. Though I could probably make it fun with study/practice

I started looking for alternatives when they added the weird character voices and I started noticing inaccurate pronunciation of kanji in my Japanese course. A lot of people on the message boards recommended Memrise, and it’s been great! The official courses contain actual video and audio of native speakers, so I knew for a fact the pronunciation would be correct—even better than the old Duo voices!

There’s also user-generated content, too, some of which might not be accurate, but most of the user courses I’ve found are pretty good. You can even make your own set and publish it.

(I haven’t visited the site in a few months, so I can’t guarantee it’ll be exactly as I found it, but I doubt it has changed much)

And depending on what languages you’re studying, you might be able to find some good ones dedicated to your language if you do some digging. For Spanish, I used SpanishDict, and for Japanese, I used Kanshudo (both are freemium, with more restrictions than Memrise)

This is about the best thing I could have hoped for, so I really hope it doesn’t get taken down! (but then again, the for-profit Fandom wiki farm hasn’t taken down Breezewiki or other mirror sites yet, so maybe corporations figure this sort of thing isn’t worth the effort to take down.🤞

I’m not trying to undermine the idea that Star Trek was progressive for its time, far from it, but since no one else has pointed this out, I thought I’d say it. Star Trek was NOT the first interracial kiss on television. In fact, the actors’ lips never touched in the shot.

Well, sort of. I’ve been reading William Shatner’s autobiography, and they had to fight really hard to include an interracial kiss. The network was going to forbid it, telling Rodenberry that televisions across the South would rather black out their televisions for an hour than allow something so highly offensive. When he insisted upon it, they kept making concessions Rodenberry wouldn’t agree to, like instead having Uhura kiss Spock, since it there would be a little more disconnect between reality. Eventually, Rodenberry offered to film the kiss both ways—one way with their lips actually touching, the other with Uhura’s back to the camera as they embraced, giving the illusion that they kissed without their lips ever touching. The actors were really upset about it, because It was originally going to be a passionate kiss, but the only way they allowed it to be filmed on television was if the actors displayed clear discomfort—which could be used to reinforce the idea that interracial relationships were bad.

Soo…yeah! That’s your Star Trek history lesson for the day! (I’ve never watched the original episode, I’ve only watched TNG and Discovery for myself, so this is all secondary info, but if you watch the episode, you can see for yourself.)

I mainly lurked on the art and fanfic forums, and considered getting an account when I had the time/had created something worth sharing on there. But when I learned about the disabling of apps to improve accessibility…I started looking for alternatives.

Plus, I don’t like the idea of the karma system on there. Supposedly, it reduces the number of trolls and low effort posts, but I’ve seen it cause people to post ragebait to karma farm on subreddits that reward you with upvotes for making up outrageous stories. I’ve also seen “debate” subreddits where people downvote people who make good points, but disagree with. Then those people leave, not wanting to be punished on other subreddits that require a high amount of karma to post, leading to “debate” subreddits that are laughably one-sided.