#I tried to do an fiction

[kithj]

happy friday the 13th here are some spooky text-based games for halloween:

contrition - As a priest, it’s your job to listen to your parishioners’ darkest secrets and absolve their guilt. But when a sinister stranger comes to the confessional one Halloween night, you realize it’s your soul on the line.

familiar - You are a familiar. Your mistress has some requests for you. Help her complete her ritual, or pay the price of failure.

jagged bone - A branching choose-your-own-adventure horror game about transformation and perspective. 

the forest of candles (and the man with a lighter) - follows Maggie, a young woman with a fear of forest fires sparked by an old town folk tale. She's spent years trying to escape her hometown and the fear it inspires in her, only to be called back for the funeral of an old friend.

mary's hare - Mary's Hare is short interactive horror story about a woman and a rabbit, based on the story of Mary Toft.

only this - "And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming / And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor..."

what girls do in the dark - a slumber party text adventure.

god is in the radio - you are death, one of 22 members of the major arcana, a cult dedicated to some far-off god. the night is halloween, and you watch in scorn as the unknowing dance among devils and dress to indulge in sin. the high priestess receives a message from the all-mighty himself: the arcana must gather in an abandoned house and find his song on an old radio receiver.

anchorhead - Travel to the haunted coastal town of Anchorhead, Massachusetts and uncover the roots of a horrific conspiracy inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft. Search through musty archives and tomes of esoteric lore; dodge hostile townsfolk; combat a generation-spanning evil that threatens your family and the entire world. (illustrated version on itch.io)

my father's long, long legs - An interactive horror story about family, unease, and loss.

beneath floes - Qikiqtaaluk, 1962. The sun falls below the horizon and won't return for months. You wander the broken shoreline, wary of your mother's stories about the qalupalik. Fish woman, stealer of wayward children: she dwells beneath the ice.

the silence under your bed - An interactive horror collection about the strange, the spooky, and the macabre. 

bogeyman - You can go home when you learn to be good.

#god is in the radio and what girls do in the dark can be considered VNs i guess #i've played all of these except for anchorhead bc im bad at IF games like that lmfao #i played bogeyman a few days ago and im still thinking about it.... #sorry i just love making lists. i tried to go for a strictly halloween vibe #and keep them completely text based this time #games #interactive fiction

[ryllen]

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#sdv #stardew valley #sdv alex #stardew alex #sdv haley #stardew haley #sdv farmer #stardew farmer #probably pierre wouldn't want to hire anyone to do paint job to save money #but maybe caroline be like i'll pay it from my saving; it's dangerous for you to try reaching the high spot or something like that #o wait i forget long paint roller stick exists #oh well anyway fshdh #i love farmer who totally gives blind eyes on whatever bodily charm he tries to flaunt #it's hard to actually do it #but in this case; fictionally; the farmer can #stardew valley alex #stardew valley farmer #stardew valley haley #fanart #fsfhsh alex #ref on the linked icons

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

WAKE UP!

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan wangji #wei wuxian #I tried *so* hard to draw deflated wwx (per the reference to the garfield comic) but I could not get figure it out. #Yes lwj is straddling wwx. He's been shaking him this whole time. #LWJ has also been shaking. Like a nervous little dog. #What else is he to do when the love of his life collapses in front of him? #I also like to imagine that going through the nightmarish empathy showed on wwx's real body too. As in - he was thrashing about. #I am fond of my headcanon that wwx kicks and yells in his sleep and lwj is just getting a preview of it. #And oh my god. Am I ever a fan of accidental bonks (in fiction. I feel immense guilt for them in reality) #I'm really excited for several comics coming up. One in particular I have been building up to for *months*. #Sorry I've been mysteriously absent for a lot of November...I will do my best to be more consistent this December! #Thank you all for your support. Take care and stay healthy <3

[redhoodie1723]

esteban ocon being considered really tall when he's shorter than my dad, brothers, and a lot of my male friends is so funny to me

part 2 part 3

#fernando alonso is my hero and the person i aspire to be #also theres so many f1 textposts out there and i tried my best to not use the same textposts and stuff but if i accidently copied someone #then lmk and ill take it down and u can also shoot me #also not even from a shipping perspective but the whole charles and max childhood rivals to whatever they are now red and blue thing #is actually crazy #like no one is doing it like them #seriously it doesnt even feel real like thats a fictional story to me #fernando alonso my favorite rookie #logan sargeant for president 2024 #lets be real hes a better option than our current ones #lewis hamilton #nico rosberg #fernando alonso #charles leclerc #yuki tsunoda #logan sargeant #max verstappen #sebastian vettel #esteban ocon #lh44 #nr6 #fa14 #cl16 #yt22 #ls2 #mv1 #sv5 #mercedes #ferrari #reds textpost tag

[avephelis]

every time someone mischaracterises jay ferin as the therapist friend a fairy loses its wings btw. put some respect on her emotionally-constipated ass.

#there's a whole ongoing bit where she either a. forces chip to do feelings talks for her or b. says the most awkward shit ever #like someone opens up to her she's like “wow that was a lot. anyway.” #jay “well i'm just a girl so” ferin. jay the answer is gun ferin. #i get this is a common issue with fandom treatment of female characters but COME THE FUCK ON. IT'S A CANON CHARACTER TRAIT. #and it adds so much depth to the times she DOES try to help or comfort people like in 81/82 where she goes up to chip about gill like #“i'm kind of shit at this emotional stuff but i'm going to do my best for you damnit”. AND SHE FUCKING TRIES. BECAUSE SHE LOVES THEM. #also her getting tipsy and spewing the most insane shit and going teehee ^_^ was that awkward sorry ^_^ and falling over. so fucking funny. #jay ferin #jrwi #im so normal about these fictional characters <- lie #i talk about this all the time in my dms im finally making a post about it I CANT STAND IT ANYMOREE

[yeyinde]

bought the SIX novelisations for fever ~inspo~ and they're both trash but I'm kinda obsessed with this description of Bear

#godddd it's trash and i paid for it *sobs* #the things i do for fictional men is unhinged but what else is my dull ass supposed to live for? #i tried to illegally download them but my laptop started making choking noises for ten minutes 🥲 #joe bear graves #joe graves #bear graves #six #ALSO BARE CHESTED AND BARE FOOTED??? #the FUCK WE DID NOT GET THAT IN THE SHOW??

[spirk-trek]

Daring Attempt Fanzine #7 | Shellie Whild & Tere Ann Roderick, 1987 + scenes from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

Sad Song by Tere Roderick

I watched a friend die today...

It was an easy death -- As deaths go. He just seemed to slip further and further from me Until I could not feel him "there" anymore. It was not an heroic death, No glory... Only the silence of an unshed tear. Now I sit staring into the brandy... I do not drink... did not drink... before... Or so I told him. Now the amber fluid is all I have. I watched a friend die today. My soul went with him.

#tried something new with this one #hope you enjoy :) #and by enjoy i mean cry #wahhh why did they do this to us #the wrath of khan #khan #captain kirk #william shatner #leonard nimoy #spock #poetry #fanzines #fandom #star trek #star trek the original series #star trek movies #star trek II #black and white #my edit #screencaps #angst #i have been and always shall be your friend #spirk #k/s #the premise #vintage #sci fi #science fiction #star trek tos

[irlkisukeurahara]

"why would you want to claim (insert anime character) for the trans community? They're a bad person beca-"

I don't appreciate this insistence that transgender people have to be a good person to be valid. Transgender people are just as likely to be good-for-nothing pieces of shit as everyone else. Why do we all have to be "pure soft good boys" to be enough for you? It's a fictional character anyways, why must they adhere to real life standards?

#rambles with miles #giselle bleach #giselle gewelle #bleach #anime #bleach anime #tybw #bleach tybw #crocomom #crocodile #crocodile one piece #one piece #one piece anime #i am not even far enough to understand the crocomom theory yet #but i see this a lot in the 'anti-crocomon' group of peolle #'why would he be trans and luffy's mom he tried to kill him' buddy bad people exist #why do you think that this fictional villain would be tied down by realistic real life human morality #ya know???

[bluerosefox]

Cuckoo Clocks

Red Robin (Kinda) AU where everything during that timeline happens and Tim finally has his proof Bruce is still alive and he's ready to tell the JL and stop Ra's (whose on his way to Gotham to destroy all of things/people Bruce loves to get back at Tim for the whole blowing up his bases thing) all at once...

Only he suddenly finds a glowing green sticky note on his forehead. He is no doubt confused and jumpy from everything so far so he's tempted to forget about it and just move on but Tim has always been curious so he reads it.

"Finding the Lost in the stream will not be easy to fish out even with help gained. Find me first and I might lend you the correct lure.

Finish your battle with the False Immortal and find Phantom, he shall lead you to me and should you be right on time, I might be inclined to help.

-CW"

And Tim... well, he's done a hell of a lot of questionable things so far at this point, why not take a chance on this too.

#danny phantom #dp x dc #blue rambles #batman #crossover #writing ideas #random idea #danny phantom dc #tim drake #dc x dp crossover #clockwork #mentions of danny #I havent thought of the RR storyline in a bit and well this spawned from what I do remember #so it might not be canonical but eh thats the joy of fiction #and fandoms we can mix things up for fun #clockwork reaches out to Tim #because he needs to make sure he gets this timeline right #he cant send Tim to him early or too late #cause he knows something BAD is going to happen soon to Danny and he can't interfere like last time #the Observants are going to interfere if he tries #Tim will basicly comes to Amity Park looking for Phantom and find him almost being caught or in the middle of being cut open #it depends on how much angst one wants #anyway Tim saves Danny so yeah #and Danny helps Tim get to Clockwork #this has been an idea I've had a while tbh so enjoy

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

Kink discourse is so fucking wacky to me. It is just roleplay. It’s a game. It’s make believe. Please calm down. People who play dnd don’t actually want to kill other people with swords, either, since this is apparently hard to distinguish. People who watch horror movies are not secretly serial killers waiting to strike. Watching game of thrones didn’t make people fuck their siblings. Are you listening to me.

#yes this is is about the fucking aita post #it’s so ridiculous I can’t get over it #someone in the comments tried to do the ‘being into cnc kink is a moral failing’ routine #like bud. come on. #kink discourse #purity culture #moralizing fiction #caitie speaks

[fictionadventurer]

The worst part about reading in a genre where you have low expectations (in this case, Christian historical fiction) is that when a book impresses you, you have no idea if it's actually good or if you're just overly impressed because it was a fraction of a degree better than the usual garbage.

#basically lately anytime i read a christian fiction book that isn't romance-based i find myself surprised by the quality #i do think that some christian publishers are getting better #and trying to tell stories that dig deeper into real faith and messy issues #instead of making only vapid squeaky clean prayer-filled tropefests #but i'm not sure *how much* better #because anything above the low bar feels like great literature #the most recent is 'in a far-off land' by stephanie landsem #and let me tell you setting the prodigal son in 1930s hollywood is a genius concept #i have some issues with the history and the mystery #but the characters! #it has been a long time since i cried this hard over a book #several chapters of solid waterworks #(and i also have the issue of figuring out if it's actually that moving or if i'm just hormonal/sleep-deprived) #i keep thinking about this book but also i worry about recommending because what if it's actually terrible by normal book standards? #(also the author DOES NOT understand the seal of confession and i was SHOCKED to find that she's actually catholic) #but also looking at the reviews makes it clear that if most of christian fiction is vapid garbage it's these reviewers' fault #here you have something that's digging into sin and darkness and justice and mercy and these people are just #'how can it call itself christian fiction if it only mentions god at the end?' #are we reading the same book this WHOLE THING is about god! and humanity and our fallen nature and how this breaks relationships! #your pearl-clutching anytime someone tries to get even a tiny bit realistic is destroying this genre #i'm gonna run out of tags so i'll stop now

[coockie8]

"You can't create fiction about X problematic thing without explicitly condemning it otherwise your readers/viewers will think it's okay to do irl!"

Okay see well I was under the impression that since I'm not creating fiction for literal 5-year-olds that my readers/viewers would already be aware of the fact it's not okay to rape, torture, and murder people in real life without me spoon-feeding that to them like they're toddlers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If you're over the age of 10 and still don't know that it's bad to hurt people in real life without a fairy tale telling you so, then that is 100% a you problem, like I don't know what to tell you here :/

#just anti things #anti bs #proship #proshipper #proship safe #tw: rape mention #literally every time an anti tries the ''this could make someone think this is okay irl'' argument on me #all I can think is ''K? Literally not my problem if some stranger needs to be told by fiction not to rape people in order to not do that.'' #like if you need your morals spoon-fed to you by fictional media #then might I suggest you avoid horror and other ''taboo'' genres and stick to Dora the Explorer huh? #but we don't just eradicate things from existence because 0.1% of the people who *might* see it *might* try to act it out irl #like if that's the case the bible makes a grating vocal minority act like complete assholes #so are we banning religious texts now because some religious people get a little too into it and make people's lives difficult?

[alexis-royce]

Sorry if this feel like, random, but how did you learn Ren'Py? Is there any tutorial you'd recommend? I know enough Python to work with the terminal, but I have noooo idea how to work with graphics and stuff ^^;

Hey there! I learned Ren'Py little by little, by making progressively larger games. I've also come across a lot of resources, so here's my recommendations for learning:

Crack open the script.rpy file for The Question. This microgame is packaged with your copy of Ren'py, so you'll come across it naturally after downloading. You'll be able to see how to make backgrounds, characters, text and music appear, as well as how to create branching choices.

Watch Vimi's channel. He's a cool dude that I respect immensely, I worked with him on a game last year, and his vids are a ton of fun! Here's an absolutely rapidfire tutorial to get you started. I would recommend pausing frequently or returning to the video often while you work.

Play indie games! itch.io is full of wonderful indie VNs. They're short and will open your mind to new possibilities. Also, you can often crack games open to learn how to do new things. (If you're nervous, then know you have my express permission to look at my games' code.)

Connect with other VN makers! The DevTalk discord is a very friendly place, and you can get both encouragement and serious advice on your projects.

Participate in a game jam! If you're starting out, you should be making short VNs. NaNoRenO and The Spooktober Game Jam are super popular, and the Winter VN Jam is going on right now! Jams also have resources, and the NaNoRenO page is one of my favorites.

Good luck! Aim small with your first game; try making something that's well under a thousand words, and try to do it with one location, and as few characters as possible. Making a game is already enough of a challenge as it is! XD

#visual novels #renpy #ren'py #visual novel #indie games #otome #dating sim #vndev #interactive fiction #There are a TON more resources that I'd like to mention #But I tried to keep this list down to several ways to get actually started making the actual games #Do not get distracted with bells and whistles and itchio pages and uploading to steam and all that jazz #Right now you are a machine that turns thoughts and imaginings into playable code #You are a bouncer throwing distractions out of the code machine room #tutorials #game development

[inbabylontheywept]

Want Better Things

“You thought that was a bioweapon?” 

The translator broke down for a second as the creature did a sort of broken exhale. Connotations were all that came through. Vague implications. Pity, the software flashed. Disgust. Anger.

A pause as it decided.  

Sadism. 

Valta was already backing away. The final decision didn’t change his behavior, it just made the hall feel far, far too short. 

“I didn’t order it deployed. I didn’t make it.” 

The thing was staring at him, and he couldn’t look away. The two eyes moved in such perfect tandem that he didn’t think it was conscious. It only had binocular vision because it only needed binocular vision. Always the predator, never the prey. 

And now it was moving in on him. 

“Oh, but what if you had? Then I could tell you all the things that were wrong with it.” 

One of its hands - a sprawling, five fingered  spindly thing - traced carelessly along the station's walls. 

“No incubation period. Symptoms arrive within 40 minutes of exposure. No time to spread undetected. Minimum should be one week. Embarrassingly low.” 

The pressure the thing was putting on the wall increased, the gentle glide turning into a buzzing scratch. Humans were strong, but not strong enough to cut through metal like this. The suit had to be powered and clawed. 

“Spread through contact. Limited waterborne. No airborne. Intended mechanism of infection is viral load being put on hands from scratching, and then passed into the environment. Pathetically inefficient.” 

The translator was working, but the thing was overeunounciating each word. The meaning was being passed along by a clean, helpful voice in his suit, even as the sound was being passed on through the environmental speakers. And the sound was dreadful - clicks of ceramized bone jarring against each other, wet muscles modulating air into something sharp and rasping. 

“Mechanism of death? Lysis overload. Could be dangerous if it was transmitted into the lungs, but since the initial load tends to be dermal all we wind up with-”

It took its helmet off. 

It took its helmet off. 

It took its helmet off it took its helmet off it took its helmet off in a biozone it - 

It looked a little pink, actually. A little scratchy. It lifted a delicate, taloned hand and rubbed its face against it for a moment before finishing. 

“-is a rash.”

Valta’s prey drive had glued him to the spot. It was too close. The stupid, stupid part of his brain that still thought he was grazing on Duranga hoped that if he stood still long enough, it might not notice him. 

The human paused a moment before continuing. 

“Do you know why they sent me? Alphonse Ericsen, PhD, MD, civilian doctor, here to speak with you?”

Valta’s snout twitched. The suit translated the gesture for him. 

“No.” 

“Because one of our grunts is a dumb fuck,” the human said simply. “And he spent two days fighting on your station with his helmet off. He got infected that way and brought back your stupid, itchy plague to our carrier ship, and now we’ve all spent the last 8 hours scratching ourselves raw. But the jokes on you, because when we were treating that guy you know what we found? That he was in the asymptomatic phase of a COVID infection. So if this-”

It gestured to its pink face with a snarl. 

“-is your idea of a bioweapon, then COVID is going to be your apocalypse. But if you work with me, and shut everything the fuck down for the next three or four months, I might be able to save most of you.” 

Valta unstuck at that. He’d spent weeks down here, worrying about nothing more than the next skirmish. Now he was looking at a genuine existential threat. 

“...What? Why would you help us? We wanted you to die. All of you. I wanted-”

The human cut him off with an exasperated wave of his hand. 

“You wanted something stupid. Doesn’t mean I have to join you. Best I can do to fix you is keep you alive and hope that you feel ashamed later. That, I genuinely look forward to. Now come on, you’re going to be the one explaining to all your friends what’s at stake here. My bedside manner is so bad that they limited my patients to virology slides and USMC marines. I think that’s actually one rung below the guys that just dissect cadavers.” 

Valta would’ve made an amused hum at that, but something already felt scratchy inside his throat. 

#hfy #more flash fiction #I think I just needed a little brain break from pushing for larger works #fun tho #I really loathe HFY where the moral is like 'what if humans comitted war crimes and it was BASED' #so I tried doing one where it was 'what if humans took the moral high ground and like didnt do war crimes'. #the doctors prayer: that you live long enough to know what a dumbass you were #HASO #Humans Are Space Fae #sci-fi #770 words i think

[quinns-art-box]

rarepair week day 2: running away/death

i’ve drawn so much cute fluffy art of them (definitely more to come in the future) so i wanted to give them something more thematic and sad!! they make me go a little bananas ok…… the tragedy of it all…….

@dr-rarepair-week-blog

#danganronpa rarepair week 2023 #danganronpa #kaede akamatsu #kiibo #kiimatsu #drv3 spoilers #i've already rambled about them a lot so yall already know but i just love how their deaths are sorta like endcaps to the game #ik kaede didn't die first but her death sets it all in motion For Real which then starts breaking the fictional world apart #like shuichi becomes the protagonist & everything is different now and it all starts to fall apart yknow bit by bit #and it ends when kiibo blows himself up and takes the 4th wall with him #even if they barely interacted their roles are so intertwined... i think kaede had a lot of impact on kiibo’s mindset up until the end #just two protagonists who tried so so so hard and went off the deep end..... left it all to their bf smh #telling him 'do what i can't do bc i'm confined to my role end the killing game i believe in you' #also i found out one of their ship names is CHIPTUNE which is the cutest thing EVER IN THE ENTIRE WORLD #disclaimer may be a ship name that only one of my acquaintances uses BUT I LOVE IT

[procrastinatorrex]

“You didn’t tell me your name,” Arthur said, enjoying the way the man jumped as he was pulled from his thoughts.

The sorcerer blinked owlishly, then focused his bright blue gaze on the prince. “You again? I didn’t realize princes read.”

Arthur gestured to the towering shelf of books, “I didn’t realize Geoffrey of Monmouth was stupid enough to let a Druid in here. Did they make you take the oaths?”

The sorcerer tsked, “I’m not going to steal anything.”

“Ah, nothing useful then?”

“You’re awfully talkative for a sublunary from Camelot.” The sorcerer eyed Arthur’s red vest disdainfully. “Didn’t your father tell you all about the scary magical Druids? Don’t all the little boys and girls in Camelot know that looking at a Druid for too long will turn your teeth green or make your hair fall out or something?” The man waved one long hand dismissively, “Alakazam, boo, go away little prince, before I turn you into a frog for being annoying.”

Arthur laughed, enjoying the sorcerer’s irritation immensely. “Alakazam? Seriously?”

#merthur sass #merthur fan fiction #merthur #merlin fanfiction #mine #arthur x merlin #I cannot resist sassy!merlin #to be fair I’ve also never tried #but I'm pretty sure I couldn't do it