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Post by chronoeclipse on Sept 5, 2020 13:15:31 GMT -6
Hey fellow AP fans! After some encouragement from Kappa I decided to make a thread for anyone who wants to discuss my reality show AP story A Day In A Lifetime! It's basically the Age Progression equivalent to a long running soap opera! For those of you who have no idea what i'm talking about and are curious - Day's 1 - 4 can be found here: A Day In A Lifetime Day 1A Day In A Lifetime Day 2A Day In A Lifetime Day 3A Day In A Liftetime Day 4 (Still In Progress) For those of you who have been reading the story as it goes along and want to talk about it - This thread is for you! I'm still really happy to receive thoughts and comments on the story threads themselves but I figured this could be a dedicated place for more on-going discussion without digressing too far from the actual story for folks who just want to read that! So give me your thoughts, ideas, criticisms, questions, stuff you liked, things that made you laugh, things you didn't understand etc. etc. and we'll talk about them here!
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Post by chronoeclipse on Sept 5, 2020 13:17:17 GMT -6
Tobin The Tit Fucking Toad (Kappa's) Comments [Copied and Pasted from Kappa's AP Nerd Talk]:
The plot intrigues me. It definitely took a lot from the reality show motif. It gives the story not only a sense of whimsy, BUT, a grounded structure in a magical scenario. I find that charming. Furthermore, the confessional construct, a very common trope in the genre, really emphasizes the theme. Love that.
The characters are excellent exaggerations of reality show contestants. I'm loving how they change with age. Mental AP is definitely an AP I love reading!
The Host: Generic, YET, mischievous. Any one else feel that way? And, to be clear, I don't mean generic in a bad way. He just comes off really basic. Which is great, what reality show host isn't a basic bro or bitch?!
Family Day: You've got some people aware magic is real and then you're lying to others. LOVE THAT. It's a variety and it feels like a choice made to really make the experience of Family Day vary form contestant to contestant.
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Post by keith943 on Sept 5, 2020 14:04:27 GMT -6
I really enjoy it very much and am curious how it affects reality tv, movies, news broadcasts, sports channel, science fiction, tv shows, comic book super hero tv shows, video/computer games, educational internet research so on so forth as the characters go on through each and every one of the nine days day and spend their free time on entertainment industry multimedia. I guess something like hideyoshi lacan's Disney AP parts 1 and 2 agingwomen.freeforums.net/thread/638/disney-ap-1?page=1&scrollTo=7436
agingwomen.freeforums.net/thread/675/disney-ap-2
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Post by chronoeclipse on Sept 5, 2020 14:30:40 GMT -6
I really enjoy it very much and am curious how it affects reality tv, movies, news broadcasts, sports channel, science fiction, tv shows, comic book super hero tv shows, video/computer games, educational internet research so on so forth as the characters go on through each and every one of the nine days day and spend their free time on entertainment industry multimedia. I guess something like hideyoshi lacan's Disney AP parts 1 and 2 agingwomen.freeforums.net/thread/638/disney-ap-1?page=1&scrollTo=7436 agingwomen.freeforums.net/thread/675/disney-ap-2 So my answer - which i'm betting is not the answer you were looking for - is that other shows and media aren't effected at all by the aging in A Day In A Lifetime. The world outside of the show is not changing, just the cast members. And they aren't being led to believe they are in the future, they are being programmed to believe that they are older in the present. Take Gabby, for instance, was born in 2000. But on day 2 if you asked her what year she was born she would say 1990, and on day 3 she would say 1980 and so on and so forth. So there is no need for the showrunners to make other actors or TV personalities appear older. They all stay the same age, it's just the cast that's age (Or in the case of our family and friends that visit on day 4 them as well to keep that specific continuity.) The only thing i'd say further about your idea is that it's possible to have anyone in this world aged, including celebrities and public figures, since the show exists in a reality where Age Progression and Regression are possible. But I am not going to be exploring that in this story, I will just be focusing on the aging of the central core of characters.
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Post by keith943 on Sept 5, 2020 14:39:41 GMT -6
Thanks and apologize if it was annoying especially since it was quite similar to the earlier suggestion of mine for the story I just had to know/understand that particular area of the story.
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Post by chronoeclipse on Sept 5, 2020 15:06:14 GMT -6
Thank you!
To address your (or rather Tobin's) comment about the women changing as they get older - I really enjoy mental AP too. But I also really like the 'freak out' of a young woman realizing she's suddenly old. Which is why I threw in the bit every day at midnight when the girls get their young minds back and get a chance to react to what is happening to them. It's kind of a way to have my cake and eat it too.
With the mental aging - I really love the concept of cool, tech saavy, trendy young people becoming lame, boring old fuddy-duddys. (I hate this in real life and constantly rage against people who think you can't enjoy new music over the age of 35 or the adage that you get more conservative as you get older) But in an AP story its fun to play with those kinds of shifting mentalities. I like the idea that if any of the women got to meet or have a conversation with their older selves that they would HATE and be mortified by them.
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Post by chronoeclipse on Sept 5, 2020 15:36:04 GMT -6
My mother is a good example of the opposite (Mind you, she's a 65-year-old WASP who, when I was a child, ran out of the room crying during Jurassic Park because it was so vulgar).
When I was growing up she was physically unable to say the word 'cool' naturally. She would push it out of her mouth like she was pronouncing something in a language she had never heard before. She also would (and probably still does) wink when she would say something is 'awesome', like using slang was her over version of clever word play.
She has basically not listened to popular music since 1982 but i've heard stories from my aunts that in the 70s she was the wildest, most bitchin' chick at the disco.
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Post by chronoeclipse on Sept 5, 2020 15:48:51 GMT -6
I'm trying to have fun with some of the women becoming 'Karens' to a certain degree without going too far and just making them awful and unlikeable. For example, I was debating having Brooklyn be an anti-vaxxer mom on day 3 but I was talked out of it by how polarizing that would make her.
So hopefully you all have been enjoying the characters personalities as they age and not feeling too put-off by how Karen-ish they might get.
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Post by spyguy on Sept 5, 2020 16:55:18 GMT -6
Yeah, I'm really digging the personality shifts as well. As different as the girls may seem from when they started, I'm excited to see how the years weigh on their personalities in their golden years.
Could be some fun and unexpected shifts as they get more confident/don't care as much about what other people think
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