Jul 17, 2017
To:James K.
I'm inconsistent with how I reply to things - I specifically remember I used asterisks on a list for someone else's comment here on Honeyfeed recently...so numbering, if I use it, is a spur-of-the-moment thing.
1) Moving around events is fine, so long as it feels naturally progressive at the end.
4) I always check before I point these out, but let me just say, "I thought so."
5) References are a hard thing to get perfect, and I try to generalise my work enough (e.g. "generic city" instead of, say, "California" or even "Sarkansas" from "Parable") to avoid such things precisely because I know I suck at dealing with them. The "I just know what I know" was generic enough to hit the threshold of "anyone could say this", regardless of how popular it is within the Monogatari fandom. It's hard to measure "anime osmosis" (so to speak), so if you choose to walk the fine line of references, all I'll say is "good luck".
Naturally I'm a fan of Bungou Stray Dogs (I vaguely recall you had Dazai prior to Araragi, so I should've expected you to mention BSD eventually), so I get your drift about Dazai. However, anime is a fandom where you can love one series and hate the next (moreso than Western cartoons, live action TV shows or comics), and that's why it isn't as effective to use references in as others.
6) Excuse my riffing this from Jio's comment, but the difference between fraternal and identical twins is more "general knowledge" than "biology specific".
Is "Oh boy, time for another long reply" meant to be a compliment or an insult? I genuinely don't know how to feel about it. However, yes. I spend long hours trying my hardest to whip other people's Honeyfeed works into shape, but that just means I'm procrastinating on something else instead...haha.
