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Real-Life BFB
Main infoProduction info

Yearly overviewShow timelines (Timeline of RLBFDIRLBFDIA • RLIDFBRLBFB before and after the split • RLTPOTExtra scouting) • General timelines (pre- and post-1950)

Differences from Pencil 2.OAestheticsMethodology (NamesNationalitiesHeightsAgesColours • AccessoriesTeam portraits) • Beyond the 64

TL;DR: InfoTimeline of the final project (part 1part 2part 3)

The (slightly un)official RLBFB yearbook! (Alternate takes)

Plan[]

RLBFB Yearbook Planning Stage (updated)
Right now
  • On Notepad/Flash
    1. Finish descriptions on "didja no" (done, 4 May)
    2. Compare to descriptions on Flash, modify if necessary (done, 5 May)
    3. Start thinking of ideas for the final page (done, 4 May) thinking of doing the current team configurations, i.e. as of BFB 17 and TPOT 1, except they're wearing the colours of their old teams.
      • Remake the final page; they look too different now. (done, 5 May)
  • For the final page photos
    • On Artbreeder
      1. Work on the older AB portraits, all this for consistency[1] (done, 6 May)
      2. Start saving pictures! More specifically, the ones with a neutral expression (for the back page) (done, 6 May)
    • On Photoshop
      1. Change background colours — keep consistent with team colouring as determined here (done, 6 May)
      2. Change shirt colours — ditto (done, 6 May)
      3. Change eye colours (done, 6 May)
      4. Adjust hairstyles (done, 6 May)
      5. Add modifications from the original final-image file (glasses, facial hair etc.) (done, 6 May) Renata has glasses, and T.B. and Violette have different ones.
      6. Add voting icons in the top-right left corner (done, 6 to 7 May)
    • On Flash
      1. Transfer them to Flash, resize them so that they are large enough to be possibly made into a tier list icon (done, 7 May)
      2. Save photo as "P. 9 - Final Page" (done, 7 May)
  • For the main page photos
    • On Artbreeder
      1. Work on each "senior portrait" (what I call the portraits for the main pages), making sure that they are noticeably different from the back page photos for authenticity — whether one is smiling, angry etc. plays a big part in this difference (done, 2 June)
        • Hint: Look up which sliders need to be set for the least difference in appearance after changing expressions, and apply them to the new photos — don't save those as separate versions; the linked images will lead to the hopefully similar backpage portraits
      2. Start saving their senior portraits now! (done, 2 June)
        • Actually saved more than once. Almost all images have at least one variant that needs to be merged with the original.
    • On Photoshop
      1. Merge the different versions of each image, possibly keep the separate files and save them into another folder (done, 2 to 3 June)
      2. Change shirt colours — keep consistent with the most common colour of their clothing by other artists, as determined on 25 March (done, 3 June)
      3. Change background colours — either to the background colour of their voting icon or a neutral off-white; includes contrasts (done, 4 June)
      4. Adjust hairstyles, should be the same as above or enough to be recognizable (done, 4 June)
      5. Add the same modifications as seen above (glasses, facial hair etc.) (done, 4 June)
      6. Add accessories with varying degrees of realism (hair ribbons, earrings etc.) (done, 5 June) I'll be using a different set of accessories from the ones mentioned on the other page.
    • On Flash, again
      1. Transfer images... if the files are too big, do it via PS (done, 9 May)
        • If necessary, edit the photos on PS — shouldn't want to do this, as the individual photos, i.e. the Flash-transferred ones, will be posted here

While this is happening

  • Finish the BFB 30 review (done, 8 May)
  • Change everything on the old RLBFB pages! Much of it is now outdated (done, 1 July)
  • Make a page for the yearbook proper (The Stories of Real-Life BFB, blah blah blah), so that viewers know about the format without seeing the images yet (done, 7 June)

Finally

  • Post the final product of the yearbook (recommend that it be dine before either the 8th of June[2] or TPOT 2's release! If it should come early, work on YB immediately...) (done, 2 to 3 July)
    • Rename each file (from the computer) to something that makes it more obvious that it's from a yearbook — the template remains unknown for now but will be thought up later (done, 9 May)

In session[]

4 May[]

Guess who finally has a plan?

I was going to post a screenshot with an Easter egg containing some of the character descriptions, but decided to type them up here instead, that is, where I have the word "plan" written.

Djaosidmoidmoidajsodamjdoiasjdao

Leave it anonymous: Sorry, but you won't find out what I'm called on AB until everything's done! Don't want to get anybody spoiled.

5 May[]

Just finished modifying the descriptions and the whole last page. As the screenshot will tell you, it's pretty empty because I haven't done the image-saving bit yet. But I have written out all the text that needs to be written out.

I even have the obligatory copyright notice… I've noticed Jnj themselves are including it at the end of new shorts, so why not return the favour?

6 May[]

Made some clarifications to the plan. Also working on the back page photos... for realsies this time! The only reason I had to discard the first version of that page was that they looked too different from how they look right now. I'll still post it as a supplement to the yearbook proper, though I consider it to be an inferior version of the new one (despite the contestants' being arranged by 1969 team status).

7 May[]

Finished the back page shortly after midnight. Let me just say that I'm in love with it! I don't remember my first version being as good as this one is; maybe it's because they're organized into their new teams (so the colours are more spread out and don't dictate row placement), or that the colours themselves are so much brighter than before, especially the individual backgrounds and the clothes (Free Food's team uniforms, for example, are one step short of hot pink). Or that the non-full humans are all gathered in the top two rows, representing the EXIT. Whatever it is, I think I'm proud to call this my final final page.

They're mostly smiling now, but none of them are showing their teeth. That's going to change for the main pages, and I'm excited/scared to see how that will develop.

Impromptu RLBFB FR - GELATIN AND FLOWER

Gelatin and Flowery!: Yeah, they don't look like this now. Only vaguely. And that's okay.

I plan on spending today reviewing the rest of BFB 30. Because that review page included a picture of my 擬人化 forms of Gelatin and Flower (from the old back page), I'll post it here because it's rather outdated. Then I'll replace the old picture with a newer version with the brighter colours.

I won't start the saving the photos for the main page until the review is done, but I will tell you who will and won't be smiling in the yearbook (and to what degree). I had been saving this on a Notepad document since March! A lot of this is based on calculations of who smiled in an old yearbook (see here), so things might have changed or been overridden since then.

Default facial expressions of the RLBFB contestants, as shown in the contestant yearbook[3]
Emotion Expression Male contestants Female contestants Non-binary contestants
Happy Big smile (with teeth) Ady[4], Frederic, Gabriel, Joaquin, Lothar, Marc, Rocky, Yitzhak Belle, Bethel, Briselda, Honorata, Lela, Maja, Naily, Penelope, Ruby, Violette Jessie, Pat
Medium smile (with teeth) G.P.[4] Lina, Nathalia, Peggy, Sana
Small smile (with teeth) Eddie, Leo
Very small smile (with teeth barely showing) Bilal, Jake, Spongy, T.V. Abbie, Kathy, Paula, Renata, Thérèse Venera
Regular smile Claude, T.B.
Small smile Columbus, Nick Arbutus, Barbara, Iris, Phuong
Very small smile Blaine, Bomby, Joe, Terry, Woody Astrid, Eugenia, Flora, Katja
Unhappy Totally neutral Donald, David[5], Frankie, Freddy, Roboty[5], Stefan Dora[5], Lill, Lulu, Toni
Neutral–angry Khaled Fannie
Totally angry Simon

8 May[]

One month later, and I've finished my BFB 30 review. Praise!

Today is dedicated to images: to embedding in the episode review, but also just to look at. I'm looking at the back page again and notice some interesting patterns that can only be coincidental. Not only are they sorted by their most recent team, but they're also in alphabetical order. So you get things like these:

  • Joaquin is directly above Flora (different teams in the post-split), and Flora is above her robotic clone (The Strongest Team on Earth was the first one to be named).
  • Simon really stands out among his teammates. As one of the shortest guys, Gabriel blends in with his smiling female cohorts, whereas Simon looks pissed off and is huge.
  • Brothers G.P. and Joe are next to each other and you can kind of see how they look related, apart from their different eye colours.
  • On the same team, married couple Eugenia and T.B. are also next to each other, looking more mature than everyone else.
  • Bethel is the only one on The S! whose last name comes before "L".
  • Renata Monteiro is the last one alphabetically on Death P.A.C.T. again.
  • Frederic and Lela are relatively close to each other, but Lela is one space below and to the left of Freddy—the EXIT is still at the top of the page.

9–11 May[]

A few updates these days.

Eyebrow JPG

Count the individual hairs: At this size, you can see what's going on in his head the moment his picture's taken. The verdict: nothing.

  • I completely forgot about this, but on AB you can save a picture in high quality. I wasn't sure if I should use it because the pictures will be in a yearbook (the pages have too many pixels already), but I also remember that I have to put them in individually as well. Well, at 400K, the pictures are big… perhaps too big. I tested it out by downloading G.P.'s back-page portrait, and, as you'll see in this very close preview, his eyebrow is 90 pixels thick. I'm sure that's fairly normal for Greek/Italian men.
    • You won't be able to see the rest of his face until later (which I'm sure he wouldn't be happy about), but I'm sure you've got the gist already. I'll soon adjust his eye colour just slightly, though I don't know whether to go in a greener or deeper blue direction.
    • Later edit: Yeah, the pictures are too big. I realize that if a contestant has glasses and their portrait is going to be of such high quality, then there will be a noticeable inconsistency since the images for the glasses have been scaled down already… and then there are the issues of the hair ribbons being manually drawn with the brush tool… okay, we're not downloading them in this size. Nvmd. Copy and paste from the site will do.
  • Also, the contestants now have yearbook quotes! You won't find them in the images, but they will be on the page, typed out for easy manipulation. Here's G.P.'s quote before I change it out of dissatisfaction.

Goal!! Whoops, wrong sport.

  • The Vietnamese name order for Pin is wrong. It's supposed to be Nguyễn Thị Phương, not N.P.T. After all, Thị is a middle name, i.e. the name in the middle.
  • Working on my final round of modifications for the main-page photos. This time I plan on changing them not to the point that they're unrecognizable, but so they differ only a little bit from the back-page portraits.

12 May[]

Switched the glasses of Astrid and Violette. For some reason, I think a giant flashy pair would totally be Foldy's thing and not Book's.

Slow down a bit[]

13–17 May[]

I'm either on a break, working on the CHRONOLOGY page or working on a new secret something. If I keep lollygagging, there's no way that this yearbook will be done by its due date! Okay, that's a lie... it will get done, mark my words, but the pages surrounding it won't. And that's okay because, as you all know, deadlines are pretty flexible in the online world.

Blocky the terrible dad

Kind of spoiled Terry's interesting fact: But you'll never know the name that it's under here!

The chronology is getting pretty interesting so far, though I'm still trying to find a way to standardize the information. I'm pulling it all from a fancy-looking Notepad document that includes all the birth dates, full names, name changes, death dates, spouse names, wedding dates and divorce dates of the contestants, their parents, siblings and, for some of them, children (even of those rejected from RLTPOT).

I should have also included some locational data, like when someone moves or something, but I decided to just wing it, which is somewhat uncharacteristic of me.

18 May[]

Time to make a second timeline! Though not right now because I feel like it's time to transfer some images...

19–21 May[]

Yeah, the transfer didn't happen. I was working on a separate timeline on a Google Doc, and now it's time to transfer its contents to this wiki for all to see.

Also, I'm back in the episode writing business! Kind of... today, on the 21st of May, I will be releasing a special (crapfic) episode that I wrote. I'm really proud of the end result, even if it's not canon to any universe whatsoever. Now, why did I choose to post this today? Take another look at my TPOT speculation page and you'll see.

22–26 May[]

Date reckoning

When does this take place again?: It's a good thing that TPOT includes a chronology at the bottom of the screen.

Working on the chronology by re-watching all BFDI episodes of each season.

27–29 May[]

This is eternal!

Since almost all of my school stuff ends on Wednesday, I've decided to transfer the images then... well, not here, but to Photoshop.

30 May–1 June[]

I wake up and find that the Wiki's format has changed on every platform. Goodbye Arial/Helvetica, hello, whatever this new-age stuff is.[6]

But it's not really that bad... and I've other things to be worried about. Luckily, I'm done with the chronology (for now) and most of my school stuff, so I should be uploading to Photoshop all day today.

Saved![]

Previews maybe

Can't type in it!: For those wondering, "full" and "light shirt" are just variations of the same image, but a gene has been applied to the "full" portrait that makes the lighting more authentic to the era (at least I think so), but it also makes the colour of the clothes darker. We can't have them all in dark colours, no matter how trendy they are at the moment.

2 June[]

Good news, everyone... all photos have been saved and are on their way to Photoshop as of tonight! This might be on time after all!

A few tiny changes from the table above:

  • Rocky and Violette do not show their teeth when they smile. It's just not fitting for Violette's personality, and Rocky only smiles with a curved line.

3 June[]

Finished the saving of the images. Now it's time to change the colours, one aspect and one contestant at a time.

4 June[]

Everyone at once

Another preview!: This time, it's of all of the contestants (who aren't David, Dora or Roboty), combined into one face. It's not like the composite that was used to make Pat, since that was done on AB (with differences in face shape, mouth locations, hair etc. taken into account). Don't they all look gorgeous?

It's not that bad, actually. Because I'd done the same thing with the older pictures (i.e. for the final page), I didn't have to google "blue eyes men", "brown eyes woman" all the time.

5 June[]

Last night, I added the glasses to the portraits of eight contestants (totally not the nerdiest or introverted ones). They're mostly unchanged from those from the back page. I also adjusted some of the "hair shapes"—Kathy, Belle and Lina have more realistic flips. Such is life when wanting to depict the hairstyles of the early 1970s.

Today, I'm adding the accessories. Well, in 1971, hair ribbons were still a thing, though they were not as popular as they were a few years earlier (namely RLBFB's first twelve episodes). So, prepare to see some differences from the sketches on the AESTHETICS page.

Honorata's bow is vaguely inspired by Icing's bow.

Later edit: Just finished the accessories bit! Took about four hours, but now I've got

14 decorative earrings, 8 yarn hair ribbons, 8 hair fasteners, clips and ornaments, 8 pairs of eyeglasses, 5 headbands, 4 AB-generated earrings, 4 bows, 3 regular earrings,[7] 2 plain moustaches, 2 vegetable crowns, 2 pieces of yarn tied at the bottom of the head to look like artificial flowers, 1 large hair ribbon, 1 semi-tiara, 1 "browband" and 1 piece of long jewellery that traverses the forehead.

After I do a few more minor adjustments, I think they're ready for transfer to Photoshop.

6–7 June[]

Crap, one day.

Yesterday, just changed some of the descriptions and the quotes a bit. I'll make the page right now, but hardly anything of substance will be posted on it just yet.

Today, I added sideburns on, like, half of the guys.

As an addition: although I find the new line-break formatting on the Wiki hideous (it only appears in the blogs, not on the pages themselves), I will not be adding extra blank lines to the blog posts that already exist here. I trust that Fandom's format administrators are good people and will fix this bug in due course.

Later edit: Just made the page and am including the character descriptions a day (or a few) early. That shouldn't be a problem, since I predict most will come for the pictures.

8 June[]

Okay, I'm not finished with the yearbook yet, which could be considered bad... but I've discovered tonight that you revert to the old theme using the Preferences function on this site. I'm still keeping the formatting of the top template as a compromise for those who have moved on to Fandom Desktop.

Also, my new place has signs written in the BFB font, the one that's on all of the text in the thumbnails and in the show. I'm not going to show pictures because that would give away where I live, but I still thought it was interesting anyway. You know you're a BFDI fan when something like that is the first thing you notice.

Imageless Preview

Can you find them?: Pencil and Pen are being quite intimate with each other at the top of this image.

9 June[]

Working on the yearbook... in Photoshop! Since all of the information is already on the Internet (specifically this Wiki), I might as well post a preview of what part of it is going to look like.

10 June[]

I've got good news and I've got bad news.

The good news is that I'm finished with the yearbook! I mean this in the sense of "hey, all the pictures are transferred to the photos I'm going to upload, complete with filters meant for mobile viewers". The bad news is that my week is so full that I don't know how long I'll have until I actually do the uploading.

11 June[]

Sorry for the delay again. The thing is, I've realized that something was really unrealistic (even for this show) when I was working on the extended family trees for the RLTPOT recommended characters (Kazzy has 26 cousins and I've only got six names for them). A lot of these contestants-hopeful are married, have children, whatever, and while that's happening, over 80% of the original cast of RLBFB remain single and childless. And they're meant to be old! It paints a completely fanciful picture of what a reality show should look like, even in the liberated seventies.

Of course, I could upload the yearbook pictures now and work on the families later, but I've a lot of things to do away from the keyboard, so that will have to wait. But I will tell you what's been addressed on in this headcanon that hasn't been before:

A number of contestants got married during the various hiatuses in the series, whose unions were otherwise glossed over by me (I wonder what could have happened... oh yeah, uncreativity). Note that these marriages are of the least frequently shipped characters in the canon, at least in my opinion.[8] For example:

  • Bilal, after RLBFDI. Now a dad of a boy and a girl.
  • Barbara, after RLBFDIA.
  • Jamie Blaine, after RLBFDIA. Now a dad of two boys.
  • Frankie, after RLBFDIA. The fact that he is married and has a daughter is a closely guarded secret that only Honorata knows.
  • Khaled, after RLBFDIA. While he was dead (in the object show sense, which is not the same as the sense en droit français), his wife divorced him and he now lives as a bachelor… although lately he's had his eye on Venera.
  • T.V., after RLBFDIA. Now has one daughter.
  • Donald, after RLIDFB.
  • Lina, after RLIDFB. That she joined RLBFB before she could have a child made her feel #FOMO, which is part of why her maternal instinct kicks in when she interacts with Gabriel.
  • Claude, after RLBFB 12. Now has one son.
  • Peggy, after RLBFB 12. Now has one daughter.

There are also a few things that kind of give away who I see as a couple on BFB, so that's always controversial.

  • Columbus and Phuong: In order for Phuong to stay in the States as long as possible (she's essentially an early Vietnamese refugee), she had to get married within 90 days of her arrival. There's a even show about that very process on The Learning Channel, I suppose because that's always a fun thing to learn about. So yeah, they get married in 1965 and have two kids during the following hiatuses.
  • Ady and Toni: Got married as quickly as possible when they came home after RLBFB ended. They have a child on the way, conceived before episode 30 was shot... Ady wastes no time.
    • Toni was married after RLIDFB but got divorced during the hiatus after RLBFB 12. Her husband was seriously worried that she would ABANDON him, so he decided that the marriage was not worth keeping.
      • After Ady and Toni got married, they moved to a suburb of New York, but before they did, they went down to Texas to take care of some unfinished business. RIP, Toni's ex.
  • Penelope and G.P.: Not a married couple like Fredlanda or Thomgenia, but they did interact with each other in a more intimate way during the post-RLBFDIA hiatus. As such, they have one child together... that Penelope gave up for adoption after G.P. went back to Canada without knowing what he had done.[9] Once RLTPOT is over (c. 1991) and G.P. returns home, he's going to find a young man and woman (the latter being from a relationship from his fraternity days) watching old RLBFDI clips together of the absurdly young-looking father they just discovered. Well, I'm sure he'll love them just the same.
    • Likewise, a number of contestants have some children outside of marriage that they never knew existed: Ady (before RLBFB), Joe, Stefan and especially Simon (imagine his hundreds of progeny over the centuries). Only Maja could be bothered to take care of her two.

12–13 June[]

Still working on the "statuses and locations" spreadsheet when I realize that Naily hasn't lived on three continents, only two. Got to change that one... she went to school in... Wales. We need a Welsh character.

14–15 June[]

After I watched Jnj's really funny "Thanks for 1,000,000 subscribers!" video,[10] I have finished the spreadsheet! Sort of. Well, not that I'm going to be posting it here (how could I?); it's just there to calculate what a character looks like and how old they were on a certain date.

Woody was here kind of

I don't speak German natively: … but I find it somehow more helpful if this is the language in which the column labels are written. Also Mahaliland is the new name for where RLBFB takes place.[11]

In the meantime, I'm really starting to get things ready for the actual yearbook posting, and to prove it, here's a screenshot of what I've been doing for the past few days, including:

  1. Two slightly different portraits of Woody (the differences between which will be discussed on the ALTERNATES page.
  2. The spreadsheet that had been on my mind... but not any more!
  3. A draft of the alternates page. Right now, it doesn't include any images and the entries aren't in order, but I still think I've got it down.

16 June[]

Just watch, I'll be working on the alternates page all day until after midnight, just like last time.

Tant Tree Terry

Well, it's clear to me now that...: This picture is pretty useless because you can't see Terry's face, which means you can't compare him with the other guy.

But while I was writing, I realized something that might be a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy (I don't think that's the right word, but I found it fascinating anyway). The guy who voices Tree looks a lot like Terry, who is of course Tree's human version in RLBFB. I found this out when I was randomly cruising down the wiki and wondering what the rest of the BFDI cast look like, because I think I'm relatively uninformed about such things compared to others. I don't even think I'm that much of an "object show community" member!

Well, maybe it's just the shock of the moment and tomorrow they will look nothing alike, but I just wanted to point this random opinion out before the yearbook gets published.

17 June[]

Spent the day working on the alternates page. The power went out earlier today for no apparent reason, which meant that work was hampered a bit, but I'm actually finished with the page right now! So the next step in this "page modernization" process is to do some editing to the yearbook descriptions, quotes etc., which should involve a lot of photo editing in addition to editing on the page proper. And this is after everything's been uploaded to PS. Sigh.

18 June[]

I haven't actually been quiet here. I was just working on the alternate photos that aren't just an image with a tiny watermark on it.

19–22 June[]

Happy Juneteenth![12] Taking a little break to work on something else.

23 June[]

It makes sense because of this wiki, but in the alternates section I'll add the large-format photos of the main characters from Pencil 2.O as a bonus. Today, I've been working on one of their photos—I have to combine his regular look with his "mullet" and "hairy" portraits, while editing it so that the quality is evenly distributed and not concentrated in one place. See, with the actual main character of this series, I don't have to do these things exactly.

I've got a date![]

24 June[]

I hate promising people things with due dates, but I've got a somewhat tentative date for when the yearbook will to come out: 2 July 2021. It's a date that coincides with G.P.'s 80th birthday.[13][14][15] It's also more than one week from now, so I'd better get to the structuring bit soon.

25 June[]

The 2nd is a week from now

ROOOOBEEEEEEE: It will look like this, except you'll be able to see her face (and the others' too) in the final product. I was surprised at how legible the word 擬人化 is here.

Honestly, I don't expect mainstream people to come here once the yearbook is published. Just this small community... and that's really okay with me. But there some things I'm worried about, namely the idea that someone can claim any picture I post here as their own. There's a good chance that won't happen, but I've seen the promotional photos of the "Before BFDI" characters on various YouTube videos (and thumbnails) since 2015. Also, Pencil's image from this very wiki is the 29th result you see when you Google "pencil bfdi" (at least for me).[16]

Because of this, I've decided to put a tiny watermark at the bottom left of the official yearbook portraits (not the ones in the book itself, but as individual photos). They should be small enough to be inconspicuous, but large enough for the average viewer to know who created the picture in the first place.[17]

Perfectererer censorship

Gosh, that is giant: And I'm not talking about Tennis Ball, who might be a little smaller in real life, depending on your screen (though Thomas does have a large head).

Later edit: That's not good. I was working on the watermarks for the alternate portraits and wanted to distinguish them from those on the main-page portraits (so people don't get confused). I made the text black instead of white, which turns out to be very noticeable in portraits of contestants with light-coloured shirts. It takes up a large part of the image, which is something that goes against the advice of one of the blogs that I'd previously consulted on the subject of art watermarks. My ego ain't that big; it's because I thought the black text (+ white outlines) would work well with contestants like Alelsatan, but awfully for others.

26 June[]

Another editing day. There are just a few things I need to change in the contestant descriptions and so on. This involves changing the descriptions that are on the yearbook pages themselves… luckily (I think?) I still have the old versions saved as photos on my phone, so only I (and people checking the history of the pages) know how I previously described some of the contestants.

27 June[]

Still haven't started the editing bits yet, only because I've been thinking about what to put as descriptions for the official portraits when I upload them to this website—those things are necessary for people with vision impairments or those who are unable to see images on the device they are using.

So this is what I've got for Frederic (since his picture is the first file I uploaded that's not the non-humans, even if it's just a placeholder for the actual thing):

A brown-haired, brown-eyed young American man of predominantly British descent poses for RLBFB's (un)official yearbook. He is smiling and looking slightly to his left. He is also wearing an orange (plus some yellow) shirt and has somewhat long hair, done in a way typical of young people from around 1972 to 1980.

And it will be the same for the other contestants, just with their own details in place of the other words.

28 June[]

Full disclosure: I wasn't working on the yearbook earlier today... even though it's due this Friday. That's because I'm writing another Fake TPOT episode. I'm going to be doing this series until the actual episode comes out, just watch!

Anyway, here's a series of lines from the episode... it's not finished yet, but I just know that going to be much longer than "Horseback Lightswitch" was.

Nickel: Maybe we should just give up.
Pillow: Why give up? We're just getting started! We should make up fake spoilers all the time. We should write more lies, like Flower and Teardrop had a date at the mall. That a profile picture became a contestant for no reason. That the Announcer comes back!
Book: [suspicious] Pillow, did you actually watch the all-new BFB?
Naily: She couldn't have. Everyone knows that the Announcer won't be returning to Earth any time soon.
[The rest of the team agrees.]
Pillow: Just trolling again!

29 June[]

I started some of the final edits, including changing some of the portraits on the pages to their current form. For some reason, taking a screenshot from a Flash "document" gives a different result than saving the whole photo itself. It's strange, but the differences are really subtle, in my opinion.

I've been a little busy with other things today, though, namely finalizing the edits to the fake third episode of TPOT and deciding whether to add more to the genealogies of the contestants, especially the failed TPOT debuters. I mean, we don't know anything about them in the series, so why should I care how many brothers and sisters Sílvia (the Itaguaí-born wife of Chico, or Scissors in our world) has?[18]

30 June[]

JOAQUIN (RLBFB)

Official portrait #1: ¡Feliz 76º cumpleaños! Among his many nicknames are Danger Joaquin, Jack, Jackhead, Jackie, Jackie Boy, Jackie Friend, Jackman, Jock, Jocko, Little Jocko and Speedy Fernandez.

Did you know that BFB 13 was previewed about a month before the actual episode came out?[19] That's dedication. And so, I think I should give a tiny preview of the yearbook before it is officially released two days from now!

Yesterday was apparently Gelatin's birthday; it was all over the subreddit. And since that information is more or less canon (at least that's what the Other Wiki says), I spent much of yesterday changing all of my documents on and off this wiki—not to mention the yearbook pages—to update Joaquin's birthday to 29 June and Jamie's birthday for 1 January (because Balloony first appeared in BFDI 13). Today, I am going to post the actual portrait of Joaquin from the yearbook onto this wiki as a trailer, spoiler, whatever you want to call it.[20]

1 July[]

Oh my goodness, it's July. Time to finally change something... the words on the pages. Funny thing is, I don't know exactly where to start. Last night, I worked on the "Did you know?" and the quote changes, and that was a good thing because, unlike the main descriptions, they aren't meant to be part of a picture.

Later edit: It wasn't that hard to make the text on the older pages look presentable, which is a relief because I don't exactly want people to come across my CRINGE from earlier in the year.

Release day! (and more)[]

2 July[]

  • FREDERIC (RLBFB)

    Official portrait #2: Hey Firay! I'll most likely go in order of the contestants as listed in the yearbook (so Columbus is next, followed by Lela, Kathy etc.), and I'll start some time after 12:00 PDT, when I'm done with other stuff.

    00:10: It's after midnight, which means I don't have enough time to upload all the portraits before I have to sleep… I'll only upload one right now, and that is the one of Frederic. He is the first one in the yearbook and his file has already been set up, so you don't get the awkward "picture-only" thing when you click on his photo in the IN-TEXT section.
  • 00:45: I think I'm going to bed now. Parting note before I sleep: the expressions are going to be a tiny bit repetitive—I can see it already with Joaquin and Frederic smiling in essentially the exact same way. Remember, it's AI, not actual people (though I wish they were).
  • 10:00: An hour until my appointment. Should have time to squeeze Columbus Lela in... out... whatever the word is.
  • 13:20: I'm back! About sixty more to upload, plus alternates, actual pages and a promotional poster.
  • 14:35: After one hour, I have uploaded all the main-page portraits. I'm still not finished yet, but I'm going to take a small break.
    • But oh my gosh, they're on the page! It's so weird seeing them not as individual photos on my tablet!
  • Later: Uploaded the actual pages. That might be all for today; that may not.

3 July[]

It's just not. There are also the many alternates, the extra photos, all that fun stuff... the bottom line is that I've uploaded all the photos I wanted to upload here so far today except the final page. I'll upload it later tomorrow today because I need a way to explain that my Artbreeder name is not the same as my real name, and then I still need to do the clickable links on the "in-text" part of the yearbook.

Later edit: Okay, I've been caught. Like X in BFB 9. Well, I allow myself to be caught. That's because I must say that my Artbreeder name is andreasybzo. Fun fact, my real name is neither A, An, Andre, Andrea nor Andreas, but I think it's a cool-sounding username. Yeah. This is the announcement of the day as I publish the final page of the yearbook and all my RLBFB portraits.

Huh, so I guess I am done.[]

6 July[]

When a viking stareth at thee

How did I not notice this before?: I should have given Maja the "angry look" too!

This is the part where I'm meant to reflect on what this project has meant to me and what great new knowledge I've gained by working on something for longer than half a year. But I'm not quite done yet, because the links in red in the navbox above don't have a page attached to them. And that sucks, because I was really looking forward to a break.

Well, to heck with those who say I can't have one; I'm taking a holiday! I do regret one thing, though: it's the order in which the contestants are listed in the yearbook. As you might have guessed, contestants are grouped by the people they hang out with, so friends are pretty much all together. It's a better system than alphabetical order in my opinion (even though this is, you know, a yearbook). There are still some bugs that should have been fixed through over the months, and I had even come up with a better, alternative order for the yearbook that hasn't got any such holes. And now I've decided to release it here.

So the yearbook starts with

  1. Pat because they are a symbol of RLBFB viewership—they were congratulated by…
  2. Lela, who is with
  3. Frederic, who in RLBFB 15 was chastised by…
  4. Nathalia, who is best friends with…
  5. Phuong, who is with
  6. Columbus, who in two seasons has been on the same team as…
  7. Donald, whose apparent best friend is…
  8. Barbara, who until RLBFB 14 was close to…
  9. Spongy, who in RLBFB 16 impressed him by saying he was hot, and that he was…
  10. Joaquin, who was in the Newbie Alliance with…
  11. Thérèse and…
  12. Lulu, who before the split had some unfinished business with…
  13. Toni, whose only teammate that didn't disapprove of her was…
  14. Katja, whose best friend is…
  15. Sana, who gets a bit uneasy with, but is still cordial around…
  16. Astrid, who in RLTPOT 1 was read by…
  17. Paula, who in RLBFB, shares a similar personality with her fellow Death P.A.C.T.er…
  18. Bethel, who in RLBFB was frequently seen with…
  19. Renata, whose apparent best friend is…
  20. Bilal, whose meaning of life is most similar to that of…
  21. Abbie, who seems to be a bit protected by…
  22. Terry, who once had a thing with…
  23. G.P., whose best friend is…
  24. Joe, whose very good friend (with G.P.) is…
  25. Ady, who in RLBFB 24 has chosen as his successor…
  26. Woody, who in RLBFB 29 encouraged her to relax, and that her is…
  27. Flora, whose very good friend is…
  28. Ruby, who is no longer in an alliance with, but fondly remembers…
  29. Penelope, whose best friend is…
  30. Maja, who somehow shares a personality with…
  31. Simon, who since RLBFB 13 has been on good terms with…
  32. Kathy, who in late pre-split RLBFB was defended by…
  33. Fannie, who for two seasons has been on the same team as…
  34. Leo, who in RLTPOT 1 has become friends with…
  35. Marc, to whom she was ambiguous and is now hostile, and that she is…
  36. Belle, whose apparent best friend since RLTPOT is…
  37. Violette, who is (was?) with
  38. Stefan, who suspiciously spends the most time with…
  39. Lill, whose good friend in the EXIT is…
  40. Briselda, who idolizes…
  41. Iris, who is in a truce with…
  42. Khaled, who idolizes…
  43. Venera, who was once in a partnership with…
  44. Lothar, who was (is?) idolized by…
  45. Jake, who has her proclaimed as his friend, and that her is…
  46. Peggy, who shares a voice actor (yeah, not the strongest connection, but you can't not notice it on YT) with…
  47. Naily, whose new close friend is…
  48. Jessie, who in RLTPOT is on a team with…
  49. Bomby, who in RLBFB was on a team with…
  50. Freddy, who in the EXIT might be close to…
  51. Eddie, whose best friend is (was?)…
  52. Lina, who is protective of…
  53. Gabriel, who for two seasons has been on the same team (with Lina) as…
  54. Arbutus, who is the closest mechanical mind to…
  55. T.V., who in RLTPOT is on a team with…
  56. Frankie, whose best friend is…
  57. Honorata, who for two seasons has been on a team with…
  58. Eugenia, who is with
  59. Thomas, who in RLBFDI was the informal guardian of…
  60. Rocky, whose apparent best friend in RLBFB was…
  61. Blaine, whose best friend in RLBFB (and afterwards?) was…
  62. Claude, who in RLBFB was on a team with…
  63. Nick, who in RLBFDIA was rather close to…
  64. Yitzhak, who in RLBFDIA 2 went digging with…
  65. Dora, whose sworn enemy is…
  66. David, whose true calling was praised by…
  67. Roboty, whose favourite place is the waterfall inside Four's eye, which looks like the eye of (sure, it's a stretch)
  68. Alelsatan.

And that's how it could have gone. I like this order a little more, even if it comes at the expense of Penelope and G.P. right next to each other. Ah, well, he's got Terry.

Notes[]

  1. Artbreeder saves newer images with a much lower preview quality than those made a number of days ago.
  2. For personal reasons, a significant date before which all productivity must be done.
  3. They're going to be divided by gender because I want you to notice firsthand the pattern that I noticed when I went through the old books.
  4. 4.0 4.1 I'd written Ady down for very slightly happy closed, which is my personal notation for very small smile without teeth, mainly because he's usually rather angry and smiles out of evil. But I have since overridden that and decided to give him a "slasher smile", just as he's described on TV Tropes… for the most part, all at the expense of G.P. smiling largely; I think he'd be a little more modest in front of a yearbook camera. Also, Ady looks really cheeky with a large smile. You've got to see him.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Not only is neutral this contestant's default expression, it is also the only expression that is carried (for Dora, before July 1971).
  6. Just kidding. I've seen this font before, but only in mobile format.
  7. The reason this is an odd number is that Nick's only got one earring on his left ear. He's not gay, but thirty cents is 30¢.
  8. Doesn't include kids like Thérèse or Woody, whom I see shipped a lot.
  9. It sounds harsh, but illegitimate children are not counted in the family charts, diagrams, timelines etc, unless they seek a connection with their parent(s).
  10. Not to mention the new III, a party I was surprisingly late to. Busy week.
  11. Per the Other Wiki's article on the show's setting: BFB takes place in North Goiky, or Goyiki ya Kaskazini to the locals. RLBFB's showrunners didn't want to tell superfans (i.e. Pat) the exact location where the show took place, so the set was called Mahaliland, mahali meaning "place" and land meaning "land".
  12. It's also one of Freddy—Firey Jr.'s—middle names. Lela and Frederic agreed on it (although this was when the father had a Confederate middle name), so technically he's not exactly a "junior".
  13. Due to age-averaging (born in 1948 after '72, 1953 after '82, 1958 after '92, 1963 after '02, 1968 after '12...) he's actually got the body and appearance of a 53-year-old, and next year he will be 49.
  14. To answer the question, why not Penelope's eightieth birthday...? do you really want to wait until February of 2022?
  15. I could have had the chance to release the yearbook during someone else's milestone birthday: just this year, Kathy turned 80 on March 10 and Khaled on 11 May, while Nick turned 70 on 13 April and Renata 60 on 1 March.
  16. Well, I'm not complaining. At all. Maybe I should post more pictures of the objects and get some worthless Internet points!
  17. Not the character. That's all Jacknjellify.
  18. I am already 20% done with that part. On the document I'm working on, you can see that Claude named his son after his brother-in-law, who had died before they could even meet.
  19. Here. RIP, meetings.
  20. Spoiler alert: Aside from the grin, the green and the grey (background), he doesn't look that different from when he was on the BFB 30 review page.

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