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On August second Anastasia was born
This person was a rose who had a unique thorn
They were made by God to be a voice
For the oppressed and abused who had no choice

Anastasia was not quite a woman or a man
But they can do things no one else can
They are non-binary and intersex
I understand that they are quite complex.

But what’s important is that Anastasia is kind
They have a good heart and a powerful mind
Anastasia is Vegan and Pro-Life
They work for peace where there is strife

Anastasia looks good no matter how they dress
Their brilliance can be seen when they play chess.
Like me, they are a person of the Rainbow
I thank God that Anastasia is someone I know

Their favorite music is by Taylor Swift
On Anastasia’s Birthday I want to send a gift.
So even though my words could be misunderstood
I want Anastasia to know my intentions are good

I love you Anastasia, in a special way
And I hope this poem doesn’t sound too gay
But regardless of what you think of me
Your kindness and beauty is something that I see

I follow you and I support your work
And I will reply if someone else is being a jerk
If there is anything I can do for you, please ask
Because like you I can do almost any task

I feel so limited and wish I could do much more
And I am sorry if the things I say are annoying or a bore
This poem is my gift to you straight from my heart
And maybe you have ideas of how I can assist you with my art

And now I leave to work my Walmart overnight shift
And I will think of you like always as I listen to Taylor Swift
I wish you health and happiness as long as you shall live
So please accept my tiny gift that’s all I have to give

I saved the best for last with this song! This song is the 8th and final track in my album “Chastity’s Chess Challenge” as a tribute to the chessboard having 8 rows and 8 columns. However, none of the lyrics are about the game of chess!

OR ARE THEY?

You see, this song is a love story between darkness and light. Many years ago, I wrote the following poem:

Hikari and Yami Love Poem

I’ll tell you a story, both black and white. Of darkness who loved the light.
And light loved the darkness, but when the light came near, the darkness would disappear.

H: Why do you run when I appear? What is it that you fear?

Y: I have no fear it’s just the way. I rule the night, and you rule the day.

H: I want you with me in the day. There must be something to make you stay.

Y: I cannot stay; it is a rule. Whoever made it is a fool.

H: This makes me sad and want to cry. I won’t give up till we die.

Y: Do not cry, only shine. For I am yours, and you are mine.

H: For you, I’ll shine, and nature rewrite so that darkness can coexist with light.

Y: Shine brightly, Hikari, for in the night, the smallest candle gives those who are lost sight.

H: And you, my Yami, stay as black as you are and know that I am never far.

For those who are confused by the poem, Hikari is light in Japanese, and Yami is darkness. If those are the only Japanese words you know, then that is enough.

The poem was written in 2018 but it wasn’t until I discovered Artificial Intelligence can make music that I tried to turn the poem into a song.

This song reminds us that light and darkness are not enemies, except in the game of chess where when they must battle. But then again, don’t even lovers fight sometimes?

Maybe the game of chess is light and darkness trying to checkmate each other and finally catch up to each other so that they can be together.

If you think about it, every time a white piece goes to a square occupied by a black piece, the black piece leaves. However, the reverse is also true. Light and darkness are chasing each other and are the oldest lovers in existence. The dance of the chess game could be how like and darkness dance with each other.

Finally, I will end this post with the lyrics of the song. They are also in the description of the YouTube video above as well.

Darkness and Light

[Verse]
I’ll tell a story in black and white
Darkness loved light through the night
When light came close
Darkness went away
In love they stayed but couldn’t play

[Verse 2]
Shadows long and whispers low
Light would come and darkness’d go
Seeking balance side by side
Heartbeats race but worlds collide

[Chorus]
Darkness and light
They wanted to be
Together forever
But never could see
In the presence of one
The other must leave
Yet heartstrings they tugged
In dreams they believed

[Verse 3]
Light would shine and darkness’d fade
Seeking ways shadows played
In the twilight they would meet
Their love story bittersweet

[Bridge]
Echoes in the night
Hands that never touch
Yearning deep inside
They missed each other much

[Chorus]
Darkness and light
They wanted to be
Together forever
But never could see
In the presence of one
The other must leave
Yet heartstrings they tugged
In dreams they believed

The context of this album is based on the events of Final Fantasy 6.

By giving AI text written based on events from the game, I have created original music that is very accurate and should be appreciated by fans of this game. It was the best Final Fantasy game in my opinion because of story and music.

https://chastitywhiterose.bandcamp.com/album/ff6-the-legend-of-the-magic-lost

The following are the 3 songs included and a little bit about each of them.

War of the Magi

Before the events of Final Fantasy 6, we are told that 1000 years ago there was a war between humans and espers and that the world was burned and in ruins. Much time has passed since then and there is a human society but not much is known about who the espers were.

Terra’s Journey

You need to play through Final Fantasy 6 to appreciate how accurate this song is about Terra’s search for identity. Her father was an esper and her mother was a human. For this reason, Terra is the “Best of Both Worlds”. Because she is “More than One thing”, she was born with Magic and is the only human alive who uses magic without stealing it from other espers like the Empire does.

For this reason, the story of Terra from this game matches my own gender identity of being both male and female at the same time. Like Terra, I have fabulous secret powers. She is the video game character who represents me. But it’s not just that, the entire story depends on her because without a human-esper hybrid to bridge the gap between humans and espers, the empire would never have been defeated and Kefka would have forever killed people with his powers stolen from the goddesses.

Half Esper Half Human

This song is based on the events of Final Fantasy 6 after the final boss, Kefka is defeated. Terra has a conversation with her father, Maduin, who explains that her human side can remain in the world even though magic is disappearing because the goddesses and Kefka are destroyed.

But Terra’s love for her friends and the children she has adopted after their parents were killed is what keeps her alive. Her esper side died that day but she is the “girl who lived”.

Locke’s Quest

Locke is a treasure hunter who is commonly called a thief. He says there is a huge difference between the two. Whatever he may be, he is good at sneaking around to avoid detection by the empire and he protects his friends like Terra and Celes who are both fugitives running from the empire. Together with other friends, Locke plays a part in destroying the empire and falls in love with Celes, who was once a general of the empire and now works against them.

Underground King

Edgar is the king of Figaro but he is as sneaky as his friend Locke. He is a master of machines and created his castle so that it can go beneath the sand. This saved the life of everyone in the castle when Kefka set fire to it.

Power only Breeds War

The lyrics for this song were partially AI created but then I made some edits to be more accurate to the game of Final Fantasy 6. This song is meant to be sung by the character, Celes.

Other than Terra, she is the only one who can use magic at the beginning. But her powers are not natural and were forced on her through experiments done by the empire to create a super race of humans with esper powers. This is a lot like surgery done to babies in the real world to force them to be what others want them to be instead of letting them be the way they were born.

And in the game, Celes says she wishes she had never been born. That’s why I wrote some of the lyrics to reflect that. This hit me emotionally because that’s something I used to say too. But I know better than that and that God has a purpose for me here.

I guess you could say that I heavily relate to Celes just like I do Terra. As someone who has played Final Fantasy 6 on the SNES, Nintendo Switch, and the Pixel Remaster on Steam, I know the story of this video game more than ANY other video game I have played in my 37 years of life.

Final Notes

I know that this album requires people to understand the story of Final Fantasy 6 to a good degree to appreciate the lyrics of the songs that I worked hard at getting just right. Even with AI, there was a lot of failures that didn’t make it into this album. For those who will never play the game, I recommend the following video which covers the entire story in less than an hour.

Considering that it can easily take 10 to 20 hours to play through the game, I definitely think you should see that video and decide if you want to play the game. If you like RPGs then you won’t be disappointed!

The logos, colors, and fonts, as described in my first post, are perfect the way they are, and I have spent years developing this style of color. Now that I have chosen a font that is freely available to use, I can begin working on new images to communicate what I am about as a person and also the main selling point of my business, Chastity’s Chess Challenge.

I have designed a new draft of a logo for my Twitch Streams that I can use sometimes. It combines the progress flag but also the very readable white text on a black background. In the center is the chessboard with the light and dark squares of C0 and 40 in hexadecimal.

What this image communicates is that chess is not for a specific group of people. You don’t have to be a rich white cisgender heterosexual man to play chess. People may have this idea that just because these people dominate the official over-the-board tournaments around the world, you can’t learn to play the game for your enjoyment with friends and family.

And with the internet, everyone has a way of being able to play with opponents in different countries! And the online chess scene is also a sport in every sense that football or baseball is. People do play competitively in tournaments and sometimes there even are cash prizes.

But for anyone who has played chess as long as I have, the greatest satisfaction is the war of the mind that takes place between two people. In the battlefield of the mind, there is no such thing as race, gender, or sexual orientation. Therefore, the progress flag reminds us that this game is for all people!

In fact, I asked AI to make a song about how Chess is for everyone. This will also be a part of my brand message.

For personal branding, there are two major different logos I use depending on the context of what the content of a blog post is about. If I am talking about LGBTQIA topics, then the obvious choice is the progress flag. The following flag is an image I designed in Inkscape, and I use it on many of my social media sites so that people will know that I am one of the rainbow people. In fact, it’s quite effective because I get a lot of people flooding my comments on Instagram as a reaction to my profile picture. The colors are brighter than what you will see on other flags and were chosen for my autistic mathematical satisfaction.

But there are also times when the topic I am discussing or promoting is my business, Chastity’s Chess Challenge. In this case, I have specific images I also designed for a chessboard image. I have two of them with different colors for the checkerboard background. The first one is black and white which looks more visually pleasing to me. The second, with light and dark shades of gray, is probably easier for others to read. In both cases, they are made for people who are color-blind and only see grayscale anyway. This simplicity in color fits in with the theme of Chess anyway because it is a battle between the white and black pieces.

When it comes to fonts, they all look basically the same to me because I can read the letters and numbers of any font. However, there is a font family called Roboto that I made sure to install on both of my computers because it was part of the official streamer kit on lichess.org. Because Lichess is the site I recommend to everyone for playing Chess online, I decided to start using this font in all of my programs for a consistent look for the text in my Twitch Streams, Word Documents, and art designed in Inkscape. The following image shows what the font variants Normal, Italic, and Bold look like.

Colors are the most exciting part of my creative design. I will not hesitate to use any colors that are relevant to the project, but when it comes to my preferences in color, they can be reduced to the following 8 colors.

The colors in the image above are the ONLY 8 colors possible when the primary colors of light, Red, Green, and Blue are either zero or at their maximum intensity. The following list shows how they can be represented in binary, along with their English names.

000 Black
001 Blue
010 Green
011 Cyan
100 Red
101 Magenta
110 Yellow
111 White

Of course, these 8 colors are not enough to represent all colors that might be needed, not even for the Progress Flag at the top of this post, but they are always my top choices when designing a website.

As an artist, I carefully craft my images to be mathematically precise, and sometimes, this takes priority over how they actually look to other people. While it is important to catch the attention of people when the goal is to promote a message or a product, I would never commit the crime of destroying geometry or compromising on color because people prefer softer colors. I have my values, and I have consistently been using logos and colors like this, so my content has been pretty consistent over the years.