It definitely worked! So the ten hour reinstall did the trick, at the expense of my sleep schedule. But I'm happier that my laptop is functioning properly again

If it used songs you add from your local files, my Wrapped would DEFINITELY be weird because of my go-to songs just to vibe to. They're... literally just long mashups of nothing but songs used for memes XD

Oh same here. I found a comedian singer that I’ve listened to one song of his super often — I KNOW that song will be on my Spotify wrapped lol

Sadly just maybe like 2 hours of sleep, but so far my laptop is STILL installing the repair updates XD

Though with how long it’s taking, it makes me hopeful it’s the actual solution

I’ll help you remember >:)
Bug you in dms we can help each other remember to work on refs

For real! Can’t wait to see what the Spotify end of year thing has to say haha

- I do wish I set up a relationship between Kris and TV Time. Like maybe their family won a trip to the studio and a personal meet-and-greet with Tenna, so they knew each other. But, sadly, I realized this too late. Not to say it maybe still didn't happen! Just nothing pointing that out in the story

- Clara Cast (Tenna's mother) originally wasn't even in the story. She was just mentioned a few times. But I decided to add her for some world building about CRT/TV Darkners. Mike wasn't either, but he needs to be set up for the sequel >:)

- I will admit, as the story nears the end, more changes have been happening. I tried making a rule for myself to just leave it be and only do grammar/punctuation corrections when doing a final read-over, but then more ideas happened! I still need to apply this rule, and have learned a lot

- I worried about pacing (and still am), so I cut a lot of scenes, but ADDED a scene that was originally a oneshot. The VHS tape scene? That was a oneshot! And it originally was before Channelle and Tenna started dating. There was another I wanted to add... but pacing again was a concern

- I started writing it with it being closer to canon! i.e. dark worlds, heavily into Tenna just not wanting to be turned off forever instead of the whole studio. But I kept writing myself into corners and wanted to include characters who likely won't be in a dark world canonically in a sequel