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#Letters from Watson #lettersfromwatson

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hi i love your mice so much they bring such joy to my days thats all i wanted to say thank you very much :)

aaaa thank for kind words!! feeling is much mutual i am very happy to hear :)

[ID: two simple pen doodles of a mouse with triangle feet, big ears, a pointy nose and little whiskers. the first shows it standing with an alert expression and a big open smile, a little heart floating above its nose and expression lines above its head showing attention. the second shows the mouse with a smile and closed eyes hugging an anon (circle with thin shadow and sunglasses). three little hearts and many expression lines arc around the mouse's head. end ID.]

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I watched @quinton-reviews 's new video and I wanted to do my set homework and come up with my own dream Nicktoons Unite team, except I never had any of the american channels growing up and I'm not familiar with a lot of these shows.

But nevermind, I came up with a compromise. Here's my concept for if they did a Nicktoon Unite style game but with CBBC and CBeebies characters:

1) Danger Mouse: reboot DM in particular is the obvious pick to replace Jimmy Neutron in this lineup. He's already dealt with cross-universe travel and portals in canon, and he has Professor Squawkencluck, who already just invents whatever device the plot requires. He's both practised enough at saving the world to be believable in these situations, while still being incompetent enough to need help from the others. Plus it'd be fun to see how his massive ego would react to these other guys.

2) Victor from The Secret Show: the most niche pick here, but come on. He's literally a secret agent. I'm not going to leave him out. (I dithered over whether to include Victor or Anita since I could only pick one. I chose Victor not because I'm sexist but because I just really want to hear Danger Mouse deliver the "Victor! Are you still alive?" line.)

3) Postman Pat: Now I know this looks like an insane choice. I know that making a postman fight baddies in life or death situations is ludicrous. But listen. Postman Pat: The Movie did it first. Blame them, not me.

4) Dennis The Menace: People who've never read The Beano might think that an un-superpowered 10 year old boy would be way out of his depth on a team with three adult men, two of whom literally fight evil for their job. But people who have read The Beano know that in canon Dennis has already thwarted alien invasions, travelled through time many times and dealth with the ramifications of changing the past AND avoided being beheaded, fought killer robots and man eating plants and sea monsters, toppled multiple dictatorships, got the British prime minister arrested, and fought climate change by going directly to the source and tearing down the factories. Whatever these games could possibly throw at him would be just another tuesday for Dennis.

5) Tiny Clanger: she's kind of the Spongebob of the group, both in the sense that high stakes situations and saving the world are really not what she usually does, but she would if she had to, and in the sense that she'd be the heart of the group. DM, Victor, and Dennis are all kind of self-centred assholes at heart who only save the world because no-one else will, and Pat is a middle aged British man (and therefore emotionally repressed), while Tiny Clanger is unfailingly loving, and kind, and friendly, and empathetic. Also her best friend in the world is a large metal bird, and I think Tiny suddenly riding around on the Iron Chicken would be a really cool power up for her.

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hi! do you have any games without romance/ROs?

Hey! This list will feature mostly works of interactive fiction that don’t have much of a Tumblr presence (likely hosted on itch.io) since the usual IF scene over here has a greater focus on romance. Still, we obviously encourage to give all of these a try to find out new things! And you can look through our database for more!

As usual, we highly encourage you read through the information, tags and content warnings for some of these before playing!

WIPs

Crosshollow Foundations by @townofcrosshollow

Dimension Jumper by @dimension-jumper-if

Echoes by @echoesdev

Exquisite Cadaver by @manonamora-if

lost birds by @if-lostbirds

Scotch Broom by fia glas

SPS Iron Hammer by @manonamora-if

To be Aspec-ted by @tobeaspected

Finished longer reads

CLOSED HANDS

Grofast Industries by Brwarner Studios

NEBULA (VN) by @nebulathegame

Project Zagreus by LenzKLeiser

Violeta by milkcoffees

The Silence Under Your Bed (VN) by Kevin Snow

Finished shorter reads: (please check our full collection for so many more!)

13 Laurel Road by @townofcrosshollow

A Limber Love by @copperspines

A Lovely Lie by @nemowrites

a man outside by @litrouke-works

A Mortician's Tale by Laundry Bear Games 

ALL @ ONCE by Lawrence Marable 

An Angel Among the Aspens by @townofcrosshollow

Average by Sk8terboii 

Beneath Floes by Kevin Snow

Bycatch (VN) by VOWTogether

Congee by Becci 

Dead Lake Crossing by @hpowellsmith​

Eleutheria by @gcbaccaris

Forgotten by Aether Interactive

growing pains: lucbán by sayonara, sai yonara !!

HOW WE KNOW WE'RE ALIVE by Motvind Studios 

i'm scared someone's mad at me by rednexttoblack

if not us by ub4q 

In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines by Laura Hunt 

Jagged Bone by Nessa Cannon

Kaleidoscope by imxbim

Long Journey Home by skiddyhale

Look Within by Novenaa  

Mama Possum by Kevin Snow

Mayday by Eumkoe 

Please Answer Carefully by @litrouke-works

Raik by Harry Josephine Giles 

Remember? by Patchworked Rainbow 

ROSA by DreamCartographer

Soft Earth by rudeghost 

Teeth and Ice (cw body horror) by @hpowellsmith

That Which Faith Demands by Jenna Yow 

The Bog by Jacoblloyd1 

The Empress of Aeser by Sun Labyrinth 

the relief of impact by ghoulnoise

The Tower, The House of God & The Horizon (they’re a trilogy) by communistsister

Those Days by George Larkwright 

Unto the Night by Nic June 

walk with me by @cerberus-writes

What Girls Do in the Dark by olivebranche

What the Eye Sees by gershwins

Winter's Trumpet by Sun Labyrinth

You Don't Know Tom Anymore by Victor Hannibal

Up & Coming (no demo yet!)

The Ghost of Fairview by @ghostoffairview-if

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I think I might have more ideas given more thinking time, but my initial gut response was Voyager. That's the only one which currently leaves the story in an unsatisfying place for me. I want to see the aftermath of their return home, and how they settle into life on Earth.

DS9 is my fav in many ways, but I feel like it got a satisfying ending.

For bonus points share one thing you wish would have happened in that extra season

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it's crazy how, if you really want, quantum leap can be a complex, multilayered text about a genderfluid transfeminine autistic time traveler scientist sent on a divine mission by God doomed to martyr herself for humanity while her sixty year old closeted bisexual best friend pines after her in an impossible cosmic tragic romance where they can never touch; with themes of trauma as a disruption of linear time, tragic heroism, dog motifs, etc. but also if you don't actively want it to be that, it's literally not that at all and that is an insane thing to say

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Can confirm.

Obviously life's peaks and troughs occur at different times for everyone, but more experience at life + greater self-confidence and assurance + more knowledge + established career and slightly more disposable income is making my 30s a much better time than my 20s.

I bet my 40s are going to absolutely rock at this rate.

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#Letters from Watson #lettersfromwatson

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Once you get this, you have to say five things you like about yourself, publicly. Then you have to send this to ten of your favourite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool~) 🌈 🌈

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I think I somehow worked myself around to being a pretty snappy dresser?

I'm a pretty good conversationalist. Not small talk, but I think I know a little bit about a lot of things, so I'm good to chatting to people about their passions.

I've made some cool things that I'm proud of.

I'm pretty good at living my life how I want to live it and not getting too worried about societal norms.

I have really pretty eyes. They're big and watery blue.

#Ask game

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I trust him to solve dog crime

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Our next comic anthology is on its way! Follow our launch page and our Tumblr to be notified as soon as it goes live!

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Twitching, flailing, desperate to get my Beverly Hillbillies fix in the wake of YouTube's destruction.

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I saw a post about tumblr user ages...

Reblogs are welcomed for that sweet, sweet increased data pool (aka getting more than 20 responses 😅)

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Yeah! I think the later 2D King's Quest games did too? I'd have to check but I don't think they were lip synced. It probably says something that I don't actually remember.

The tool I've found partially automates the process so it was mostly correcting the automation which took 2-5 minutes to do each line of dialogue, but I was already feeling the weight of doing that for each line of dialogue in the game (2500+ of them...)

OK SO...

This isn't deliberately lip-synced, it's just random mouth shapes that play over the dialogue.

And now I'm thinking... it's not that bad?

Admittedly I'm only thinking that before I sat back and calculated how much work deliberately lip-synced dialogue would be.

I'm leaning towards this being the option I go with as a default, and the meticulous lip syncing being a future goal I can aim for if I really fancy giving myself a lot more work one day.

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If I find myself flagging marking students assignments this week for my day job, I can just look up at this board and think, "Give me strength, Roman mosiac kelpie, Kiki, Neo-Raphaelite painting woman, Queen Victoria holding a steampunk gun, vintage postcard couple and Cat Sherlock Holmes!

#life stuff

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I got to the comicverse adaptations before the video went down 😞

MINOR SPOILERS FOR: How The Beverley Hillbillies Changed TV

reblog for bigger sample :)