Emma Tyler | Castle of Golden Illusions

Writer, VN gamedev, hobby artist. Occasionally will ramble about Dies Irae. Itch page:

[Emma Tyler | Castle of Golden Illusions @ESTyler7]

It's live! My #O2A2VNJam VN is uploaded!
Now it's time to face the music, also known as the judgement of people other than me 😨#vndev #visualnovel
https://t.co/lJu5SZ6uZ5

[Emma Tyler | Castle of Golden Illusions @ESTyler7]

Starting with #nanoreno2022 this year, hopefully I'll have something at the end (RL could easily get in the way... but I'm praying for the best!)
#visualnovel

[Emma Tyler | Castle of Golden Illusions @ESTyler7]

I come back to Twitter from my months-long hiatus because my life went bananas after I got my job, and first thing I hear is Aditya starting on 18th??? Thanks for the birthday gift, Masada-san!

[Emma Tyler | Castle of Golden Illusions @ESTyler7]

@DistantValhalla Before: Oh my gosh, he translated some of my favourite VNs and has incredibly valid opinions on translations between different languages and cultures!
Now: JFC, how are you still alive, relatively sane and in mostly one piece? Also a fountain of incredibly on-point sassiness

[Emma Tyler | Castle of Golden Illusions @ESTyler7]

@KageakiFatAss @rantakekikuume I'm legit dying over here
How do you even get that out of Habaki XD

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I've just arrived at the point in my NaNo project when I'm thinking 'you're dumb, this is dumb, why did you even start this shit'
Look girlie, you're 20k into a sequel to an 80k novel, too late for take-backsies now lol
#writing #nanowrimo2021

[Emma Tyler | Castle of Golden Illusions @ESTyler7]

@bry_yvette_gary It's not a cheat to do a skip into the next scene if you run into a wall, but know what happens after - you can fix that later!

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@Toadcialism Good luck with your game! (I should probably also go back to mine, but doing NaNo on top of my job is already killing me XD)
And yeah, Steins;Gate is a big boy ... don't be shy to use the walkthroughs for it (most of those 50 hours+ VNs have them online, and they're a gift)

[Emma Tyler | Castle of Golden Illusions @ESTyler7]

@Toadcialism 𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘜𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘬𝘰, 𝘏𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪, 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺
All are over 70 hours length... if you are a fast reader...

[Emma Tyler | Castle of Golden Illusions @ESTyler7]

@DistantValhalla I get off work and find this on my TL
Urge to study Japanese to read K3 just so I can laugh at those terrible translations rising
(joking, I'm already studying, this just makes me wish I could do it faster XD)

[Emma Tyler | Castle of Golden Illusions @ESTyler7]

@NaNoWriMo Water is for evening and midnight writing, coffee and tea for morning and afternoon (so, up till 5 PM) - alcohol is only for 3AM ideas XD

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@DistantValhalla Dare we all ask what happened, or is it so bad it's better NOT to ask 🤡

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That's how Ao3 started - being stubborn to point of idiocy.
Also no, the amount asked? It's not too much. One day I'll screenshot you how much would Ao3 cost if it was hosted on, let's say, AWS - 40k is the base freaking minimum to keep the lights on for 6 months XD

[Emma Tyler | Castle of Golden Illusions @ESTyler7]

It's Ao3 drive season, meaning I get to see same old clownery and wank talk while I munch on my chips and drink alcohol XD Reminds me just how little people know about websites and what it takes to keep 'em up

[Emma Tyler | Castle of Golden Illusions @ESTyler7]

Really amuses me every time - like, are you not tired of screaming into the void? With all that energy, you could've just started a new site yourself - oh, but I forget, that's soooooo hard and expensive and how are we gonna do it - if you want to, you'll find a way.

[Emma Tyler | Castle of Golden Illusions @ESTyler7]

@idoIgenre *non-English natives, sorry, my autocorrect decided to speak stupidity

[Emma Tyler | Castle of Golden Illusions @ESTyler7]

@idoIgenre + to correct myself, it's just that pervasive, implied and unspoken expectation that I *should* know it all by simple magic that's tiring and feels alienating for many English natives

[Emma Tyler | Castle of Golden Illusions @ESTyler7]

@kijaeha__ ... again missing the point of my thread XD it's not 'upset about being corrected', it's 'tired because no matter how hard you try, you're still treated like an outsider/barbarian'
I'm old enough now to not let it bother me, but that wasn't always the case

[Emma Tyler | Castle of Golden Illusions @ESTyler7]

I love how most people don't really get the point behind AAVE complaint. I've been learning English since I was 6 years old... The stuffiest, most robotic and formal English known to world. I picked some AAVE words simply because they sounded less like overly formal stuff and +

[Emma Tyler | Castle of Golden Illusions @ESTyler7]

(+ 'I'm still being treated like an outsider, why do I even try')

[Emma Tyler | Castle of Golden Illusions @ESTyler7]

+ so I totally get it. (also, y'all, reading comprehension? The Tumblr writer clearly said they'd be told it was no good, and they'd go and unlearn it - so it's really just you being 'why are you being iGnOraNT' when in reality it's 'shit, tried to blend in but +')