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To make people actually remember, here's it once for posterity: Minako is nonbinary and uses they/them. This message will be pinned so you people stop getting it wrong and pissing me off. If you get it wrong in the future I'm going to be much less nice, considering you have to scroll past it just to read the quest.
 
It's been well over two weeks since I originally posted the current last update of Sayakaquest 2 and I am struggling.

I intended to set time aside after work and do the comic. In the first two days I planned out the finale; twenty-seven pages of comic, all of varying sizes and shapes, essentially a large-scale version of the finale comics thus far in Sayakaquest 2.

But the biggest enemy I have encountered thus far while writing this story has reared its head once again.

Motivation.

I am struggling with motivation. I am struggling very severely with motivation and not just motivation but also perception. I'm finding it hard to write and draw because I don't know if anyone will listen.

It's the same thing that killed my motivation to write and draw Raging Sea of Flames. The same thing that makes it difficult to start new projects, the thing that I fear the most; the feeling of screaming into the void.

I struggle constantly to know if people will even like my output. What seems like the occasional critique can suddenly be amplified when it feels like nobody is enjoying the work I put out. I am finding it difficult to work because it feels as though nobody else is there to listen.

What does this story mean to you?

It can mean nothing at all. That is fine. It doesn't need to be a work of art; it can be disposable entertainment.

But I am struggling to finish. I need to know.
 
It mean something. I don't know what the words are, but it means something. It made me cry. It made me feel things. I want Mina and everyone else to live. I want resolution and I want closure and I want their pain and their dysfunction and their healing and their raw humanity to have meant something.

I want an ending. I want everyone we've come to know and love to reach the other side beyond this, and for Rin to be very, very, very dead and in hell fuck you Rin.
 
I'm very bad at participating in quests these days, in terms of both voting and discussion and all of that. I lurk.

But yeah: I enjoy it, and I'm invested, and I care about these characters. I always jump to an update whenever I see one and drop whatever it is I'm doing, if I can, to read it.
 
I don't really read this quest, but it's not because I don't like it; it's because I barely check SV anymore, and I barely read much at all these days. But for me it means watching one of my best friends find themselves more and more. I remember when you thought you were a cishet dude, and before that I remember where you used to be as an artist and as a person. It's nice to see you growing and trying things and putting your back into the work. It makes me happy and proud. (Also, "the NB lovechild of your two favorite teenage lesbians beats up TERFs with a baseball bat" is, like, a rad elevator pitch on the face of it.)
 
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It's kind of hard to quantify what this story means to me. All I know is that I'm always happy to read each chapter. It took me a little while, but I've fallen in love with the art that you've done for this quest, and I would love to see the conclusion of Minako's story.

I don't really have any advice or suggestions for getting through this (I sure as hell don't have the answers to my problems). Do what you need to to finish this, whether that be taking a break or pushing through, or something else. I know that I will be looking forward to the finale, no matter when it is released.
 
TheOneMoiderah said:
What does this story mean to you?

It can mean nothing at all. That is fine. It doesn't need to be a work of art; it can be disposable entertainment.

But I am struggling to finish. I need to know.
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For me, it's a story about not-quite moving on from the darkest times of your life, but moving forward all the same. It's a story about not letting fear of failure or the opinion of others keeping you from taking action. It's a story about how it's okay to be messy, irrational, or imperfect at times...because messiness, irrationality, and imperfection gives life its color and lustre.

Above all else, this story matters because it's a story about the things that matter to you. And it doesn't need any more justification than that.
 
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I've known you for years, and in a lot of ways that's what this Quest represents to me. It represents our friendship, and your growth both as an artist and as a person. I met you through following the first Quest, and I was honored you asked for my input with this one. To me, what you have written and drawn here is a story about overcoming adversity, about growing up, but most of all about compassion. That last is especially important to me, because to quote a good man: "Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the word. It must be given freely. In abundance."

I want more stories that share this theme. I want more stories where it is compassion that changes the world. I think you have written such a story, and I very much want to see it to the conclusion. You've made something wonderful here, and that's something you can take heart in.
 
This story has moved me, Moid. I don't talk often, but this story has kicked me so hard in the feels so many times. And my feelings are normally quite muted, so that's saying something. One that particularly stands out is the chapter where Minako discovers the true extent of their power, and three gems become shadowless. I was quietly screaming for a moment. And I can't even cry anymore.

I have been astounded so many times by your writing and art, Moid. As a Voidbound girl, I can say even the Void would be lesser without your work, to say nothing of all of us.
 
Choo Choo said:
I'm very bad at participating in quests these days, in terms of both voting and discussion and all of that. I lurk.

But yeah: I enjoy it, and I'm invested, and I care about these characters. I always jump to an update whenever I see one and drop whatever it is I'm doing, if I can, to read it.
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Pretty much exactly this to a tee. I find myself having more enjoyment reading the Quest than actually participating in voting and discussions. I still enjoy the hell out of it, I'm invested and I want to see how everything turns out for these characters, even if the actual discussion I get into with this quest is next to zero.
 
Choo Choo said:
I'm very bad at participating in quests these days, in terms of both voting and discussion and all of that. I lurk.

But yeah: I enjoy it, and I'm invested, and I care about these characters. I always jump to an update whenever I see one and drop whatever it is I'm doing, if I can, to read it.
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This is exactly how I feel about this quest, said in better terms than I could think of. Sidenote: Rin always felt like an intentional criticism of religion to me. And that's all I'm ever going to say about that (Also, obligatory fuck Rin). Infact, to add a little thing in. I've always thought of Sayakaquest as a big example of an actual, genuine, playing it straight example of Better than Canon. Not just a chapter or two, but the entire quest. You've made something beautiful Moid, don't lose your way, please.
 
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