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slowly realizing that any deltarune fanfic scenario that allows the characters to hear the background music has the potential to be extremely funny just because of how many major leitmotifs are also used in diegetic/in-universe music

ralsei sings the legend theme during battle as a lullaby (and it also shows up in jazz form being performed in castle town). the "don't forget" motif is not only the centrepiece of kris's big piano performance but also the actual choir music in church. tenna's theme is almost definitely from his actual television show themesong. kris plays several other tunes on the piano at noelle's house in the light world, which suggests either they can already hear the BGM, or these are also songs that exist diegetically somewhere else too

but also please imagine

noelle: wow kris, so this is what the music would sound like if we were characters in a video game? }:D

noelle: wait why is my theme just a remix of raise up your bat by the blood crushers

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Specifically, two of them. Mirrored from my post on Tumblr.

OUTER WILDS SPOILERS BEYOND! This includes both the base game AND the DLC (Echoes of the Eye)!
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[personal profile] voidbeetles posting in [community profile] little_details
Hi!

I have a character in a sci-fi universe who ends up "shipwrecked" alone on a completely uninhabited planet for two years. The planet, and the specific environment he lands in, are perfectly habitable by humans (we are in soft scifi territory here, very Star Trek inspired) and he's able to survive with some effort. (The details of how are not really important to the story - I know at least that he's the kind of guy who'd be able to salvage some tech and emergency supplies from his wrecked ship, and I'm comfortable with brushing past the details of what exactly he brought with him - but if anyone's really interested in coming at it from that logistical angle, I won't stop you!)

What is more relevant to the story is how this experience would continue to affect him by the time he's back home safely. I think there are a bunch of possible avenues here and I'd love to see people's takes on how they would approach this or approach researching it. For example, here are some of my cursory thoughts:
  • PTSD is certainly a likely long-term complication
  • It's implied that his shipwrecking was not an accident/was engineered maliciously - I imagine this is something he has dwelt on heavily throughout the two years and will affect his ability to trust people (and to visit other uninhabited planets in the future!). Seems like it would be easy to get caught in delusional spirals in a situation like that.
  • I know that prolonged isolation can cause hallucination/psychosis in some cases, especially in solitary confinement, sensory deprivation contexts, etc. Is that as much of a risk in this case? And if so, do you think he'd still be experiencing psychotic symptoms after the fact?
  • One of his personality traits is that he's fairly attention-seeking - I think it's likely this incident will exacerbate that and make him more desperate for connection
  • It'll probably alter how he approaches social situations in the future in general; that's something I'll definitely be thinking about
  • Perhaps he got into the habit of talking to himself on the planet, and this never went away
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[personal profile] hyarrowen posting in [community profile] little_details
For large-scale projects, specifically for ships. All my ship-related resources for the era are for the British Navy, and books on colour that I've read have been on artists' paints or dyes.

How would a French Imperial Navy vessel be painted, not at one of the big shipyards? Would it be mixed up on site from raw ingredients, or bought in? Would there be barrels, buckets with lids, cannisters, vats or what - and what would the paint be made of? 

Searching online produces info on painting scale models, or contemporary pictures of ships. I found a chapter on ship decoration in Conway's History of the Ship: The Line of Battle but that doesn't have the early-in-the-process details I want. I found an article on the pre-Revolutionary Navy in the International Journal of Maritime History, by David Plouviez, that's too early and still doesn't cover paint.

Thank-you in advance.

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