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Eva, 36, Italian, translator, she/her. Commissions open!Myst, Myst and some more Myst, Twin Peaks, Pyre, Kentucky Route Zero, assorted surrealism, excited indie games blogging, FFX and JRPGs, occasional Ueda, #sworcery, Journey. Aesthetic: road cones lined up along luminescent subterranean lakes GHOST TRICK GOES ALL ON THE SIDEBLOG: LAUGHINGMANGO Shorahtee, ciao, hello!
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DEATH TO VENICE by lichene, laughingpineapple, McKid
Come die in the sinking city and negotiate your dream
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part of the BRIEFS 2024 DEATH COLLECTION free bundle

Take part in a collective rite of putrefaction. The world is dying, and you with it. Venice - frail, alien, abandoned - welcomes you in your last moments. Experience memories of death in Venice's past through six game poems across the city's sestiere districts: a death of biodiversity, a death of institutions, of community... then ponder your feelings on endings and change, talk it out with the city herself. It's all either of you has left. Venice is dying. This game is for her, and for the Venetians who resist.

  • Experience six different kinds of puzzles-less, frictionless interaction
  • All dialogue choices steer you toward one of three endings
  • Informed by global+hyperlocal social and environmental issues
  • Enriched by more than a hundred photos taken in and around Venice
  • Fullscreen recommended! Optimized for laptops; playable on anything bigger than 1000x550
  • Approximately one hour long
  • CW: terminal illness, death, environmental catastrophe

By far my most ambitious IF piece yet, both in scope and presentation!

#death to venice#videogames#twine game#interactive fiction#if game#my games#The toootally unbiased BRIEFS organizers promoted it as 'possibly the best looking twine game'#so anyway this is what I've been doing all summer
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generally you shouldn't write run-on sentences because they get confusing and it doesn't give the reader a break. that doesn't apply to me though my run-on sentences are fun and understandable and they have a rhythm to it that makes you want to keep reading

#italo calvino
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Time machine test run: go hand Jorge Luis Borges a laptop with Twine

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Reblogged renmorris
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I feel like we need to focus more on just how crazy this line actually is.

How did it work, Donna? Are we talking the early stages of polyamory? Are we talking about an acceptance of always standing aside for Laura because that was the established dynamic? The safety of being allowed to pine from a distance without the weight of having to make an actual romantic relationship work? Or the safety of having a male to transfer all feelings of longing onto? One who happened to be directly connected to the very dead someone you're yelling at in the middle of the night?

A major issue I had with the show my first go-around was my confusion on just what I was meant to think about James/Donna. A frequent sense of "are they for real or just grieving?" It's only now I'm starting to see the writing was much more explicit in presenting their relationship as one of emotional transference and a desperate need to cling to some sense of prior dynamics than I'd noticed.

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#YEAH#tp
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someone convince me that downloading PDFs is not actually the same thing as working on my dissertation

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I just came out here to have a good time

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"A student [downloads] hundreds of pages of [PDFs] and takes them home, and the manual labor he exercises in doing so gives him the impression that he possesses the work. Owning the [PDFs] exempts the student from actually reading them. This sort of vertigo of accumulation, a neocapitalism of information, happens to many."
-Umberto Eco (in How to Write a Thesis, originally discussing photocopies)
#'called out personally by Umberto Eco' is a good feeling once in a while
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The Rodionov postulate (pale-particle duality) by laughingpineapple
Love in the time of certain ruin, or: world-historical thirdwheeling
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Love in the time of certain ruin, or: world-historical thirdwheeling Dramatis personae: · Kras Mazov, father of scientific communism · Ignus Nilsen, his evangelist · Eight thousand years of failures, missed chances, fears and partings · ...and you, untethered from linear time more often than not, basking in the greatness of the end of all things, pale glorious and total, where all revelations turn to naught Be a good friend, will you?

A standalone Elysium fangame, approximately 4500 words per playthrough, four endings across six variables. Yuletide treat for @vriskarlmarx who wrote the most wonderful thing for it!

#itch.io support came through!! 🥳#this is finally under my own name!#yippee! at last!
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Working theory on the source of Pharod's bodies: rats.

No amount of talking to the guy at the Office of Vermin and Disease Control etc etc can prepare you for portaling into a room and being greeted by ten rats frenziedly casting magic missile and ice knife at you #littlesigilthings

#torment lb
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For March 8—International Women's Day—here is our draft program to resist patriarchy and transphobia.

https://crimethinc.com/GenderPoster2023

First, abolish gender segregation. Ensure that people of all genders have access to the same opportunities, resources, social ties, and forms of agency.

Second, abolish fixed gender roles. Break free of the fixed roles and binaries that tie certain traits to certain genders. Demonstrate new constellations of the qualities and capabilities that are currently associated with one gender or another.

Third, abolish gender hierarchies. End practices that privilege one gender over another. Do away with institutions and attitudes that value some qualities and capabilities over others on account of the gender that they are associated with. If a person of any gender has to outdo all other contenders in demonstrating traditionally masculine characteristics in order to get a foothold in politics, gender oppression remains in effect even if not everyone in a position of power is a man.

Finally, abolish gender gatekeeping. Do away with the boundaries that control who can identify with any gender. Defending trans identity, gender nonconformity, and other departures from fixed binary gender is a step towards this goal.

Against patriarchy—for the free flourishing of all!

🏴🏳️‍⚧️🏴🏳️‍🌈🏴

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