NEXT EPISODE! [Vine, Video]

[ultimatedessert.livejournal.com]

I need a better budget for this...

On the next exciting episode of "Etna's Mysterious Garden!"

Our heroes have survived a sudden, nightmarish onset of winter, whose details shall no longer be spoken of!

*A giant photo of a censor block*

However, just as they begin to progress into the mysterious Wilds, something goes horribly, terribly wrong!

*A photo of several random Gardens attendees, dressed like men to the point of being reverse traps. Feel free to assume your character's one of them, or not. How'd she get this photo?!*

A strange spell drains feminity from the heroes, sapping ratings and ruining our mainstream appeal!

How will we regain our fanservice?! And what has caused this terrible fluctuation that could kick us out of our prime time slot?!

Find out, on the next exciting episode of "Etna's Mysterious Garden!"

(OOC: For those of you not in the know, Etna's very short on fourth wall. And does this all the time in her canon, and every crossover she's been in so far.)

Comments

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

...

... wait, we're on a cheap tv show?

[ultimatedessert.livejournal.com]

It's a perfectly sensible explanation for a lot of things. Except the crazy magic.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

But where's the cameras?

[ultimatedessert.livejournal.com]

Oh right, you humans aren't used to recording without them.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

...?

... oh, right. I guess some magical way of recording would make sense, considering this place...

[ultimatedessert.livejournal.com]

Mind, I wonder how much the "Queen" and crew can actually see that we don't post onto the vine. Putting them on an information imbalance with the audience would be interesting and thus good for ratings...

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

... I wouldn't really know anything about that...

[ultimatedessert.livejournal.com]

This kinda thing's important for any demon. Good ratings means good money, and we need money to make things work, you know?

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

Except it seems like there's not much use for money around here. Just that creation stuff.

[ultimatedessert.livejournal.com]

I mean in normal situations.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

...

... s-so what's the point of our ratings now?

[ultimatedessert.livejournal.com]

Well how the hell am I supposed to know that?!

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

You're the one that was talking about ratings and money.

[ultimatedessert.livejournal.com]

Just because I understand the concepts and tropes here doesn't mean I know what the ratings of our current situation are!

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

... so, maybe ratings are pointless...?

[ultimatedessert.livejournal.com]

... So what, you want a feminity-free environment now?

The preview itself is what's important, not the content of it.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

I didn't say that...

*you're just confusing her now...*

[ultimatedessert.livejournal.com]

*Etna sighs, composing herself.*

Either way. Being ratings-aware is important, even if we can't get the actual ratings around here.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

Alright, if you say so...

[ultimatedessert.livejournal.com]

I know so!