User blog:Garr9988/UGH...

I just tried to make a page based on the Red Thread of Fate from Chinese mythology to get back into the groove of things. I had a concept, something about it being able to reveal interpersonal connections and its status being connected to those relationships (meaning, if it were somehow severed, so to were those relationships), romantic or not.

But, I got stuck on how it would work. My first idea was that if it were unraveled, the string would snake its way towards the user's destined lover(s), no matter the distance - but I realized that's an impractical effect, especially if there really is a great distance between lovers.

Then I tried thinkinf of the idea of something like, when wrapped around part of a user's body, the string leads them to the same person, or a string of red energy rather than physical string does that, or something - I could sort of picture it, but I just couldn't figure out how it would work exactly.

It sucks, because not only is this an excellent artifact origin and I just... can't figure out how to make it an artifact, but I've been gone so long and I just got a burst of motivation and inspiration to do something here, to get involved again, and I was HAPPY - and now this is just making me depressed...

I'll be honest, Idk how I feel about asking for help with artifacts, because it no longer feels like MY artifact, it feels like it belongs to whoever helped/came up with the effects, and I have a hard time accepting other people's ideas as good enough... Idk what to do, but I feel like shit now...