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📢Official Stuck at Home Con 2024 announcement mega-thread!

SAHCon will be happening this year on July 20th, 2024, with the Friday Showcase on July 19th!

Links to applications for everything below!

Panelist Applications: https://forms.gle/AatVQ1HmxH2qdoaL7

Friday Showcase: https://forms.gle/vCFULiamEYoqd3Dv6

Artist Alley: https://forms.gle/EGpfzGHatK8Q6oLZ8

Deadlines for all applications are May 17th, 2024 at 11:59 pm Eastern time!

Note that this is just the deadline to APPLY - you don't have to have everything done for the showcase or your panel by then!

We'll be posting more announcements about guests, events, and more as we get closer to SAHCon!

#homestuck #sahcon #mspa #mspfa #community

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#legacy of kain #video games #kain #soul reaver #memes #oasis memes

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Alabaster Update: Back On Tracks

[ CROSSOVER EVENT WITH THE CERULEAN MOTLEY CREW ] Chever and Govani appear, rushing towards their destiny. Read the new Alabaster update here!

#homestuck #alabaster: the doomed session #the cerulean motley crew #webcomic #science fiction #alabaster the doomed session #alabaster

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Radical queerness is subversive, anti-state and anticapitalist.

"DNI: freaks" do you realize how conservative you look

#lgbtqia+ #queer #pride #anticapitalism #antistate #reblogging drawings

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That is an incredible funny concept, and VERY efficient in terms of gameplay. Someone should definitely make a game out of your idea! :)

Pseudo-metroidvania where you play as an only-nominally-sapient little slime creature who found the corpse of a badass deep space bounty hunter and stole their power armour. The central gimmick is that you start with what is effectively an endgame loadout, but the upgrade descriptions are all incomprehensible gibberish (because, you know, you can't read), and they're all activated by awkward and counterintuitive input sequences – imagine some of the more baroque fighting game inputs as a point of reference – which the player is unlikely to stumble upon by chance. The "upgrade progression", such as it is, consists simply of gradually revealing to the player the tools they already possess and how to activate them.

#video games #gameplay #slime #gameplay concepts #creativity #reblogging texts

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Nonbinary people do thank everyone for using they/them pronouns as the indefinite, the default when you don't know someone's pronouns. Since you cannot trust someone's style and appearance to indicate their pronouns and gender identity (which are also two separate things), it's just proper manners.

Nonbinary people do not thank anyone for making they/them pronouns a catch-all encompassing every individual deviating from what is considered traditional femininity or masculinity.

Listen to people, wait to know for the proper pronouns, do not correct when you're not sure yourself, and understand cisgender women and men are allowed to do things differently as well.

Long life the queer, death to gender roles.

girl help I'm getting they/them'd by well-meaning people who don't know what a tomboy is

#queer #lgbtqia+ #nonbinary #gender expression #gender identity #reblogging texts

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While I'm talking about writing I do want to rec two INCREDIBLE writing apps that have helped me immensely as a writer with ADHD

Stimuwrite is a little program that you can customize with all sorts of really rewarding instant tactile feedback, for example sound effects every time you hit a key, emoji notifications and balloons when you hit your custom goal (which can be as low as you want for low energy days), and neat animated backgrounds.

4thewords turns writing into an RPG and you can kill monsters via word count in order to complete quests and progress through what I personally find to be an interesting and fun storyline. It comes with all the RPG trappings like loot, gear, even custom housing (win more stuff for your house by writing).

I cannot stress ENOUGH how amazing both of these have been in terms of my writing productivity as someone with pretty severe executive dysfunction issues. Usually I use Stimuwrite for the instant feedback and then copy and paste those over into 4thewords for the gamification.

Both are small indie projects, Stimuwrite is pay-what-you-can-afford and 4thewords is $4/month but they are very good about helping people who genuinely can't afford it.

and AS THE CHERRY ON TOP, Stimuwrite's programmer is a trans woman, and while I'm not sure about the 4thewords team in specific, the game is FILLED with really great rep, they are literally having a lesbian wedding global event going on right now as I type this. So like. I like giving money to them more than giving money to a lot of other projects lol.

Anyway no neither of these projects have told me to write about them or anything I just want to spread the love. Go check them out!!

Stimuwrite

4thwords

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PSA: Don't use Open Office

I keep seeing people recommending Open Office as an alternative to Word, and uh... look, it is, technically, an open source alternative to Word. And it can do a lot of what Word can, genuinely! But it is also an abandoned project that hasn't been updated in nine years, and there's an active fork of it which is still receiving updates, and that fork is called LibreOffice, and it's fantastic.

Seriously, if you think that your choices are either "grit your teeth and pay Microsoft for a subscription" or "support free software but have a kind of subpar office suite experience", I guarantee that it's because you're working with outdated information, or outdated software. Most people I know who have used the latest version of LibreOffice prefer it to Word. I even know a handful of people who prefer it to Scrivener.

Open Office was the original project, and so it has the most name recognition, and as far as I can tell, that's really the only reason people are still recommending it. It's kind of like if people were saying "hey, the iPhone 14 isn't your only smart phone option!" but then were only ever recommending the Samsung Galaxy S5 as an alternative. LibreOffice is literally a version of the same exact program as Open Office that's just newer and better – please don't get locked into using a worse tool just because the updated version of the program has a different name!

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#homeless people #politics #anarchism #anticapitalism #housing politics

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#legacy of kain #soul reaver #melchiah #video games #oasis memes

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I love the fragility and resolution you can feel in Raziel's stance and expression here. The character in a nutshell. Thanks kval0 for offering us all this great drawing.

Raziel, from Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver

#soul reaver #legacy of kain #raziel #fanart #vampire #wraith #reblogging drawings

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It's been years and a few brain-breakings since I've drawn him last, but after playing through Blood Omen for a friend I felt like drawing some Kains

She's disappointed I don't draw him as "cute" as I used to, lol ;; I just wanted to be a little more accurate...! 😭 Although I'm softening him the further down the page(s) we go lol...

#legacy of kain #blood omen #fanart #kain looks SO COOL HERE

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Loving the new counterpoint that not only is posting activism, not posting is complicity. Why doesn't everyone with any fame or internet presence immediately release a lengthy but perfectly-worded statement telling us where they stand on every issue? Is it because they're evil??? It must be because they're evil

And then the usual answer is "they don't post online very much". Which is all very suspicious, don't they know everything of importance is done by posts on social media now

#politics #activism #internet culture #alienating injunctions

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This Saturday, the French Homestuck community gathers to celebrate 4/13! If you're in Paris, don't hesitate to join!

It's 7 pm (19h) at the Sushi Chérie restaurant, 13 boulevard Auguste Blanqui, Place d'Italie, in Paris!

You can tell you'll come here, or just PM me! :)

#homestuck #paris #meetup #irl #community

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"I cant draw" then do it bad who gives a fuck.....

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#legacy of kain #video games #soul reaver #pipeline #memes #oasis memes

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Alabaster Update - Renart: Realize the error of your ways. WEBSITE --- MSPFA --- RETROSPRING / F.A.Q. --- DISCORD (no minors) The character development of our favorite serial killer finally flourishes. Read the new update here!

#homestuck #alabaster: the doomed session #alabaster the doomed session #webcomic #april fool's day #horror #fun #alabaster