emersonfreepress

[emersonfreepress]

Super happy for you that you're doing better and found back the love for writing 💖

me too and thank you! i'm at my healthiest state yet and finally in a decent living situation with minimal financial worries. the good feeling i have for this year is far more justified than my usual purposeful optimism 😆

#lovely anon #<3

[emersonfreepress]

help i'm alive

So! Long time, no see. 2023 was a whole goddamn lot lol

I don't have a demo update to share yet, but that's because I had to scrap nearly everything I managed to write during a very, very, very bad stint of writer's block last year. I hadn't even realized it had been a block like that until I went over my work so far last month and realized it was bad -- like, trust me; a slog to read that didn't even sound like me. It's been extremely frustrating but I've finally broken free of that and it's been easy and actually fun to write again for the first time in actual years. I just hate giving updates that have no actual news in them. And I really had nothing to share other than: I deleted thousands of words and feel so much better now 😅

Anyway, little about my demo plans have changed: I'm still putting out the Chapter 3 demos in Choicescript/on Dashingdon and then will be going dark to move things over to Twine. Where I am in the process right now is... feeling like 35% done with the overhauled version of this chapter and 50% done for the next demo update.

As far as asks, I'm... not really sure what to do?? I believe I've read them all (I love you guys), but so much time has passed since getting most of them that I'm not sure if it's, like... still pertinent??? To go back and answer them?? I suppose some of them like character asks could be, but all the nice messages of support -- that feels weird since I've practically ghosted this blog since August! Idk. Y'all tell me what to do with 'em and I'll do it. Maybe I should make a poll.

Uh... that's really all there is to say regarding the game! I've added some personal stuff after the cut, but if you're done here: Thanks for reading and sticking around. It means the world, for real.

So what has occupied my time all this time? Doctor, therapy, money, and friends. And improv! But especially the first two. There was a lot of non-writing related stuff fucking up my ability to focus and write, so hopefully with my mind and body both feeling a lot better, I can get back to being present and active with the game. I didn't realize how physically unwell I was until last year and it's been like... life-long issues I've been treating. It turns out it's not normal to feel exhausted enough to sleep at any given time, at all times, for your whole life! wow!!

I also uninstalled Tumblr from my phone back in February, so you could say I'm sort of generally focused on offline life. (And what an interesting coincidence that my writer's block dissipated shortly after that...) I also just moved!! The last two weekends have been so expensive and stressful -_- But I can't even compare the old place to the new. We're basically paying the same price for idek how much more space. The cats are so happy; which means the house humans get to be happy.

My schedule is finally freed up from constant medical shit (there was a 3-month stretch this winter with multiple doctor appointments literally every fucking week 🙃🙃🙃). My mental health is doing a lot better -- literally incomparably better compared to where I was this time last year. There's live comedy now (which I dabble in, to be clear lol), but I've finally found myself able to like... balance it all. The physical and creative energy that goes into it all, anyway. The lovely thing about improv is that you kinda just show up and do your thing -- it doesn't cut into my writing time so much as it costs energy. Unless I end up in this comedy debate show thing next month, which I am very excited to give up writing time for

So like... Life is life-ing and I'm just vibing. Or something? I'll be around.

Thank you all again so much for your interest, support, patience, and readership <3

#oh and if anyone knows where i can stream mob wives uncensored without paying any extra money i'd love you forever lol #that is unimportant- unless y'all find it important that i have access to all of my most influential pieces of media at all times IJSAYING! #jk jk ofc <3 thank you for reading #conspiracy in emerson #if cie #progress #cie ch 3

[emersonfreepress]

i wanted to compile the resources listed in my pinned post into a quick shortlist for the dash. these will stay accessible in my pinned post

(usa) call your representatives

donate esims

donate to taawon's initiative to supply food to people in gaza

donate to anera's initiative to supply hygiene kits to women in gaza

#far more important than my silent ass dev blog

[emersonfreepress]

TAKE ALL THE TIME YOU NEED AND REMEMBER TO ENJOY WRITING!

this is an old one, but I needed to see it today. I'm not dead, folks, and I'll be back soon ✌🏾

[emersonfreepress]

i noticed on the dashingdon demo it says you moved to twine do you have the twine link available i tried google but couldn’t find it

The Twine move hasn't happened yet!

#i'll make sure it's super easy to find when it's live #lovely anon #answered #cie twine

[emersonfreepress]

Sorry that this blog has been slow to answer new questions and goes through these active spots followed by quiet! Honestly, I see myself cutting back on how much I use this blog until I get the next update ready. My CiE energy has just been very writing- and planning-oriented for the last few weeks; that creative energy is finite, though. Especially since I'm working again (boo), I'd rather pour that energy into the game itself than the dev blog.

So, yeah. It'll be quiet again aside from the simplest of asks for a bit, but I'll return with news!

#conspiracy in emerson #if cie #progress #cie ch 3 #running the blog shouldnt feel like a drain on my main writing energy... but it does lol #wish it didnt but alas

[emersonfreepress]

Y’all in the American SW and west Mexico better check the national hurricane center and your weather for this weekend and next week.

Hurricane Hilary is about to make landfall and that whole desert area is supposed to get a years worth of rain or more. Death Valley is supposed to get twice the annual rainfall. Severe winds, massive flooding, and landslides are all strong possibilities.

This is gonna get ugly. Please spread the word. This is a majorly anomalous event and people may be unaware of the threat headed their way.

[emersonfreepress]

i finally got my consultation date for gender-affirming care 🥲

#not cie #but im very very excited and happy and relieved and dont have enough ppl to express that to 😅 #rb

[emersonfreepress]

^They're currently taking donations for Maui mutual aid

[emersonfreepress]

not really sure how to start this but in the past few days maui has been devastated by wildfires caused by a dry summer and the high winds of a passing hurricane. at least 36 people have died and over 270 structures, homes, and small businesses belonging to kamaʻāina have been lost.

many people who have evacuated have lost everything, and are left with only the clothes on their backs, so every little bit helps. please keep sharing news and encourage others to help where they can.

if you can, please consider donating to organizations like the Maui Strong Fund, Maui Humaine Society, Maui United Way, and the Maui Red Cross (write 'maui wildfires' in your donation).

sharing some recent images that have come out in the aftermath, since it's hard to understand the scope of devastation these types of disasters bring, especially for our small islands so far away from the mainland.

The historic town of southern Lahaina, on June 25 (left) vs Aug 9 (right). (maxar tech)

People at Kahului Airport waiting to evacuate off the island. Hawaiian Airlines canceled flights to bring planes to Maui to aid evacuation. This airport is TINY as well, and half of the waiting areas are outdoors. (ap news)

photos from the guardian and ap news, top right is from a video screenshot via ap news

[emersonfreepress]

When cassettes ruled the world….

Source: Musikkassetten & Tapedeck

#rb #so 90s

[emersonfreepress]

I feel like my ADHD is responsible for me not realizing that my psychiatrist already diagnosed with me ADHD a year ago LOL

#😅😅😅 #not cie #i impress even myself sometimes..... that's the nice way of phrasing my thoughts rn lol #i was literally over here trying to advocate for myself and he was like #yea. ive been treating you for ADHD #🤣

[emersonfreepress]

If Marcus wants to hook up w/ an MC who's attracted to Curt, but he's straight, will the hook up only be for female MCs? ..............can MC be his gay awakening too lol?

Pretty much! A gay awakening that pushes him further into the closet 😅 But to be clear, there isn't a Marcus hook-up — it'll just be apparent that the dude is going through some Things lol

#he's not doomed to be an unhappy bisexual forever tho don't worry #i like him a lil too much for that 😆 #lovely anon #answered #marcus #new kid #c emerson

[emersonfreepress]

I find the idea of a dnd campaign with Kile, R, Vi, Curt, Mc, and Jack incredible funny because I just cannot picture that group hanging out together, I would pay good money to see how they would interact and play it's just such a funny idea to me I don't understand why.

That really is a very fun and unpredictable group 😆 R and Curt are both agents of chaos liable to make dumb decisions and flirt with everything just to see what happens. Vi always takes games too seriously and I can imagine them being genuinely upset when group antics permanently affect their character... and Kile just wants to kill and fight things, with way too much faith in their odds.

How Jack would handle a group like this, I have no idea 😆😆 And how all the potential New Kids could affect such a group, oh god

#i used to listen to nerd poker like a decade ago lol #lovely anon #j goodnight #r da costa #c emerson #k moore #v washington #new kid

[emersonfreepress]

I need to know your thoughts on the Montgomery Brawl that shit was too funny. Mans really got beat out his crocs lol

https://twitter.com/tendrasiarief/status/1688618173283885056?s=46

eh, i don't really have thoughts cause i don't find brawls entertaining or funny

#lovely anon #passed #as in i don't get anything out of real life vids of violence other than upset

[emersonfreepress]

i am patient. and a patient person will wait. so ill wait until your return with official chapter.

thank you for your patience, seriously

#genuinely genuinely genuinely #thank y'all for the continued interest and excitement #it'll pay off i promise #lovely anon #writing

[emersonfreepress]

Are the Emerson twins genuinely close? Like, are they truly fond of each other or is it just a sibling obligation?

They're close! They're just Emersons 😅 so sometimes it might not look that way or seem questionable. Especially when they find themselves on conflicting sides of an issue, usually meaning Curt is stirring the pot while Heidi is trying to resolve things — very easy to assume they don't like each other or have some sort of rivalry going.

The two of them do mostly get along, though, and rarely get into real fights. Both of them have learned to avoid the topics that would start one, like religion or their parents. You'd only know when they're actually mad at each other if you're close enough for one to vent about it or if you manage to catch on to their mutual silence treatments.

Other than that, though, these two Emersons are quite close and supportive of one another. Not very common in their family since Emersons normally make their kids compete against each other.

#a tradition tbh #lovely anon #answered #emersons #h emerson #c emerson