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[stressweets]

Good afternoon ☆ Your local Tsukasa Suzakura has a simple request for the artists of Retrospec...

I'd like a poster encouraging people to vote for the return of horses... I'll pay, of course ♪ Hard work should not go unrewarded.
Serious inquiries only. People who are fans of horses preferred, but not required.
Thank you for your cooperation ☆

Otherwise... I have a game I'd like to share with everyone. It's called renga -- essentially, one person begins a poem, and the other person finishes it.
We'll be using the usual format of 5-7-5 / 7-7 for this. The first person will do 5-7-5, and the second will do 7-7. (Those are syllables, for the record.)
Reply with a beginning to this post if you're interested in playing! Others are encouraged to reply around as well to finish poems and start new ones when it's their turn to do so.
I will be indulging myself as well, of course ♪

[ ooc: ...he's seriously willing to pay for horses— ANYWAY, just as stated, renga is a collaborative poetry game! trust me it doesn't matter how bad you are at writing this stuff i am just as terrible. tag around and finish each other's poems, or make fun of them, or whatever— it's a free-for-all. ]

Comments

[compendiem]

A question for you:
How do votes return horses?
Also what art style?

[stressweets]

[ WOAH, INVENTIVE... this'll be hard though, hmm. it's a little rough, but: ]

A survey appears; you vote!
A dynamic style, please.

[ His turn... ]

Are you an artist?
Or do you know of someone
who may be intrigued?

[compendiem]

I paint sometimes, however,
"dynamic" is not a style.

Your answer is vague.
Where do I find the survey?
I'd vote for horses.

[stressweets]

[ DYNAMIC IS A STYLE...... ]

To be honest, I don't know.
A friend mentioned it to me.

I'm thankful, though!
Horses mean a lot to me.
I'd like them back soon.

gives up immediately LMAO

[compendiem]

[ He was looking for realism or cubism or something, dynamic can be applied afterwards...

but also screw poetry, he's just going to type as normal and insert line breaks as necessary ]

It's better to get all the
information you need be
fore asking for help.
Are you one of those "obscene
ly rich" people who

[ ...

Sorry, he's taking your turn too ]

get horses for their birthdays?
Let's stop doing poetry.

YOU FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT i had a good laugh when i realized you did it in poem format though

[stressweets]

[ He's an expert on horses, not on art!? He just wants something attention-grabby. ]

I was very impressed by your dedication ♪
But no, I'm not. I work at the stables, and horses are my favorite animal! They're even why I started working there initially.
That didn't change when they turned into chocobos, mostly because I wasn't on Retrospec until earlier this month... but I'd never quit now anyway.

[ he has good standing and a friend, so. and he likes chocobos? they're just not horses. ]

I feel like it's natural that, with all that in mind, I'd really like for horses to make a return?

[compendiem]

[ Minato's art can be attention grabby, but not in the way Tsukasa would want, so he'll let somebody else take that mantle. ]

I thought it might be fun, but it lost to frustration.
I like horses, but they're harder to draw than most animals. Weird legs. Not a lot of reference material.

[stressweets]

Would you really consider chocobos easier...?
They have all of those feathers.

[compendiem]

Yes. Feathers and fur are easy to paint. You don't have to be as exact.

[stressweets]

Oh.

[ ...see: someone who doesn't paint animals. ]

I guess it's the same with bark and all...
You could always just cover their legs with something.
Like a bush, or a fence, or some bales of hay.
Or just do a portrait?

[compendiem]

I guess some very tall, very thick bushes might work... Or a horse's face poking out from inside the shadows of dense foliage. One of its eyes gleam red. The words underneath read:

Vote for Horses
(o r e l s e)

[stressweets]

We are not fear mongering with horses!!!

[compendiem]

...Fine. What is your artistic vision for the poster like?

[stressweets]

Something that shows off the best side of horses, of course ♪
How strong and hard-working they are, yet gentle and kind. Elegance personified.

[compendiem]

Yours and my artistic visions can match up... We don't have to do the red eyes.

[stressweets]

I think a horse head coming out of a bush is still a little too scary?

[compendiem]

The horse can be eating flowers?

[stressweets]

[ .... ]

Really cute flowers.

[compendiem]

Yes.

[stressweets]

And the horse can have a flower crown as well...! Or a wreath of flowers.

[compendiem]

...Yes, that's fine.

[compendiem]

I did a preliminary mockup of the concept. Are you sure you don't want red eyes?
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[stressweets]

[ .............. ]

There is a lot to discuss here.

[compendiem]

Go ahead.

[stressweets]

1. This looks like a horror movie poster?
2. We are not fear-mongering with horses for horses!!!!
3. Horses deserve better than that!!!
4. The flowers look very nice, however.