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No updates here for 2025 although I could've sworn I wrote an announcement for the indefinite hiatus that MR went on...
Until now!
WIP 1 and relaunch announcement
"At last. It's working again. We of Architect Deco House succeeded!" Fiorina said, looking in awe at the art installation piece and wiping a bit of sweat from her brow. She chugged the rest of an energy drink and tossed the can behind her, which flew precisely into the recycle bin without her looking back..."
"That always impresses me! How much practice did you need to do for that?" Felicity said..."
"Quite a bit." Fiorina said in a deadpan but boastful way.
"I think I can use another one for the event." Felicity said, yawning.
"Yeah, yeah, I'll get it." Fiorina said and walked over to the mini-fridge; the stock ran low after another night of rebuilding the art installation piece and testing that its machinery worked, but there were still a few cans left. She walked back over and handed Felicity one of them.
"Thanks for handing it over this time!" Felicity cheerfully said. She immediately opened the can and took a large gulp of its energizing contents.
"You're welcome." Fiorina said.
The art installation piece was a sculpture made mostly of metal; the centerpiece of it was a large brass 5-point star that was a few inches deep with a middle section that lit up. Rivets were on each of the interior corners of the star shape. The middle section of the centerpiece had a glass panel that showed the light and other materials inside. When the art piece was powered on, the gears inside the centerpiece could be seen moving, and the crystals and glitter in it reflected the light at many angles. This centerpiece was being held up by a humanoid figure but also looked to be levitating in its hands; a pair of thick metal tubes lifted it up; when the installation was powered on, a line that ran through the length of each tube also glowed.
The humanoid figure was standing and was wearing an outfit with a vest, boots, a pleated skirt and gloves. It was standing on a platform that had a wooden panel and a metal panel on the top side and a row of rivets along its sides. Also on the platform but behind the humanoid figure was a cylindrical column with segments in toroidal, spherical and rounded cube shapes. The top shape was a glass sphere, and near the middle of the column was a rounded metal cube with the power button on the front.
Magical Renegades continues as an illustrated webnovel after emerging from an indefinite hiatus! To distinguish the new webnovel series installment from the other installments, its subtitle will be Polished Diamonds Culmination. This title sums up how I feel about Anathema to Commonsense (the webtoon) and what I intend with PDC: I see ATC as a diamond in the rough of what it could've been; there's a lot that I want to keep, and PDC will be a culmination of what I keep from it, material incorporated from spin-offs and new stories.
The stories within MR:PDC will have their own titles. The WIP is for the first chapter of a prequel story that takes place 4 years before the present time of ATC. Everything that's been in ATC and its spin-offs is still canon unless I later specify that they aren't.
PDC takes a fresh perspective by beginning with a new angle; I wasn't dissatisfied with how ATC was going. I liked it a lot, but making a webtoon eventually became unsustainable for me. The events of ATC will be adapted and continued, but I may need to reconsider whether it'll have the overarching plot that I intended.
Since I couldn't bring myself to make another webtoon episode, I focused on my other series throughout 2025 which is mostly in an illustrated webnovel format. That format worked so well that I decided I'd continue MR that way, but simply continuing where the webtoon left off didn't feel satisfying for me. I needed another way.
When I found one, the pieces could be put together for a new lead-in. The new perspective I found was what I needed and I began this last July. Some characters might not be as expected in these first stories, but it gives room for more development for them.
I'm excited about this and overcoming getting stuck, but it's bittersweet because I've been through this before. The News Stand page was updated with a post about the fate of MR, and the other story project I was working on during 2025.
Alas I burnt myself out from making webtoons, but the fire of determination to tell stories and draw something with them still burns brightly as ever! The work I did with my other project showed how I can sustain this.
The art style will be experimental. I'm still keeping a 90's anime-inspired style overall with the characters, but I plan to take inspiration from more styles for the backgrounds depending on the scene and the mood.
With this relaunch also came an updated design philosophy. I updated the About page with this change.
I also updated the About the Series page with this information, but still need to update the https://synergyeclipse30.neocities.org/90s_Resort/ATC_index">Anathema to Commonsense page.
Two other things I should work on for the site is polishing its CSS and moving a lot of the front page updates to the archive. A lot of kludges I have with the CSS date back to 2021 when I was putting this site together before launch and fixing that up is long overdue.
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