#spring thing

[itsphantasmagoria]

Did a quick little springy thing with a hint of sex pollen (suggested by @romaine2424)

(btw I started a ko-fi, that's a thing people do I guess)

#harry's like mlem #draco's clingy hands #spring thing #drarry #drarry art #drarry fanart #sex pollen #itsphantasmagoria

[manonamora-if]

Vote for the SpringThing!

The Spring Thing form is now live! You can vote to nominate entries for the Best in Show Award as well as giving special personalised ribbons to all entries!

Come play some great games!

#spring thing #interactive fiction #competition

[golmac]

About Repeat the Ending

I mentioned my game yesterday. So what is it?

Repeat the Ending is an Inform 7 game (parser) that can be played offline or in a web browser.

The story: A young man with severe mental illness and magical powers must travel across a small, southern town to see his dying mother at the hospital.

The setup: Explore a "critical edition" of a failed 1996 IF game called Repeat the Ending, complete with footnotes, menu-based hints, critical essays, and more.

The extras: Read a transcript of the infamously buggy 1996 version of the game, consult an "Interdimensional Entity's Guide to Primeoid Fashion," and listen to an obnoxiously obscure playlist of 1990s indie rock.

Get more than you bargained for: Over 150,000 words of code, most of which no one will ever see!

O pretty: enjoy several pieces of attractive-yet-alienating art by Callie Smith!

#interactive fiction #spring thing #spring thing 2023 #inform7 #parser

[atissi]

i don't really like when people say dungeon meshi is accidentally good autistic representation, because while i understand not wanting to make conclusions without explicit confirmation from the author, there's always the weird assumption that non-western authors somehow don't know about things like neurodivergency/queerness/etc. (on top of the assumptions that east asian authors are somehow more naive or oblivious to "western" social issues).

given that dungeon meshi started being published in 2014, it's not really a "work belonging to its times"—it's as contemporary as any other media we discuss on this site, which means it should be fair to assume it engages with contemporary topics (and at the very least, you shouldn't say that the representation is accidental with so much confidence)

but anyways, the chapter "perfect communication" in ryoko kui's "terrarium in a drawer" is some of the most straightforward autistic representation I've seen, and from now on I'm going to assume that laios's character writing is absolutely intentional in that regard:

#beepbeep.txt #dungeon meshi #ryoko kui #this is me trying to explain h/ollow knight lore #also yayyyy reading new things. chapter 18 'spring' is basically UFUT if you squint (sorry for the jumpscare if you know UFUT) #but the last two pages were such a surprising gut punch....it's hard not to see it as a metaphor for both the experience of raising childre #and of taking care of your parents in old age....aughh....

[ailelie]

Prosper.0

In this short fiction game, you are a cog in a corporate machine given a sudden, strange opportunity to save poetry. But you can't save everything.

As the poems delete, you must click on words to save them. Then, you re-arrange those words into new formations. Sometimes you have extra limitations to work within.

I admit, once the worldbuilding hit, it was mildly upsetting to watch the last words of this lost civilizations be deleted forever, the long-gone people finally silenced.

After you finish playing, you're given an opportunity to copy your poems.

Here are mine. I look forward to reading yours.

Assignment 447: Lleanee

and dreaming many die, and dreaming many indescribable dead lying bright suffer, their bright moon, emotional bright moon, Natural midnight, Natural dreaming

Assignment 459: Mol'ztor'lorian

Could Hope the feathered hit the sweetest song without the strangest

Assignment 465: Olkuts-pons

Between the mother and the flowers, Between the forests and the spring, faint joy and mute beauty play. When absence was hope, You. When the wood spirits Buried the Windflower, You. You, sad like mother, still like the silver wood

Assignment 471: Horrnann

As the sun sets, hungry Life is dancing brightly.

Assignment 475: Okiansfor

don't cry. I stopped. don't cry. the summer sun will rise. don't cry. winter will be gone.

Start

OVERRIDE Auth-Level-One OVERRIDE Pf-SIGMA-AUTH OVERRIDE Auth-Level-Two. ACCEPT Current-Authorization. PERFORM Civilization. TERMINATE CORPOTECH. INITIATE GREATER Civilization.

#prosper.0 #poetry #spring thing #interactive fiction #play the thing! #rec

[forestofsprites]

i think that sometimes the best thing that you can do is remind yourself that there are beaches. lakes, rivers, and ponds. there are forests. little woods and meadows. there are canyons. gullies and mountain cliffs. there are rainy days. dry spells and scorching blue skies. that the world turns. changes as much as it repeats. that feeling slow today won't stop tomorrow's high tide. won't make july's blackberries any less ripe

#i do think there's a comfort in knowing the world won't stop for me #that me feeling off kilter doesn't mean spring will come any slower #i suppose. when life feels out of our hands. out of control #the planet keeps doing its thing #and we will be there to meet it #to engage w it. to witness it. to make changes where and when we can #too much change lately!!!!!! too much life out of my hands!!! #thoughts

[wigc]

'The 2024 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction' Awaiting Submissions

Are you sitting on a brand new, finished, and unreleased interactive fiction project that you're itching to share with the world? It might prove beneficial to participate in The 2024 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction then! Why? Well...

Continue reading

#Spring Thing #interactive fiction

[lauradonnelly]

I love...

#heartstopper #heartstopperedit #heartstopper spoilers #heartstoppercentral #heartstopperdaily #narliesource #charlie spring #nick nelson #nick x charlie #narlie #tas makes things #🥺 #hst 2.08 #DO NOT REPOST WITHOUT CREDIT!

[whimsigothwitch]

Ostara (March 19-21)

Ostara is this week, with this sabbat we celebrate the beginning of spring and perfect balance between night and day. The winter months are officially over, and from now on everything will bloom and get warmer 🌞

Correspondences for Ostara: Symbols | Eggs, seeds, flowers, hare Colors | Pastel colors, green, yellow, pink, white Spells | Fertility, growth, balance, purification and abundance Crystals | Amethyst, clear quartz, lapis lazuli, rose quartz, jasper Herbs and flowers | Lavender, tulips, rose, daffodils, lily’s Foods | Eggs, breads (hot cross buns), cake, chocolate, seeds, fruits How to celebrate | Baking, dying or painting eggs, planting seeds (woth intention), nature walks, spring cleaning.

#witchy #witchy things #witchyvibes #witches #witch #whimsigoth #whimsigothic #witchythings #whimsical #witchcraft #witch aesthetic #witch blog #witch community #witch post #witch stuff #witchcore #witchcraft community #witches of tumblr #witchlife #witchy stuff #magick #pagan #ostara #spring #spring equinox #wheel of the year #witchy woman #paganism

[nikkas-cottage]

Special spring tapers I made in honor of Persephone’s return 🌸

#witchcraft #witchy things #hedgewitch #green witch #eclectic witch #altardecor #pagan witch #pagancommunity #witchy vibes #candle magick #witchy candles #persephone devotee #persephone deity #hades and persephone #demeter #persephone worship #spring equinox

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

peoples' moments for the Year of Loong(chinese dragon)

#things going as you planned in the Year of Loong(chinese dragon) #china #cny #spring festival #chinese new year #year of dragon #year of loong #douyin #video

[ejsuperstar]

Imagine you live in pelican town. The new farmer has been here a couple weeks now and seems to be settling in, except... He's picking the weirdest friend choices. Like sure it's not weird to befriend the local fisherman, especially when he has an interest in fishing himself, but you're pretty sure you've seen him rooting through the Saloon's garbage with the local homeless man. As well, he keeps harassing the poor guy who works at Joja even though you KNOW he doesn't want to be friends with him.

And since you're on the topic of weirdness, isn't it odd he seemingly runs everywhere at a full sprint? Or just... Eats entire raw fish while fishing for "energy reasons"...

...

Despite all that, it's too early to call him off putting or anything... He has been engaging in town traditions, and he's started helping out with the old community centre. He's probably like the rest of you. Someone with a few quirks, that will fit in with the valley great!

Surely he can't get any weirder... Right?

#been playing my new sdv save some more recently #i keep thinking about the whole “eldritch” farmer thing #where the famer is just... objectively strange #i fucking love it #i love the idea of the farmer being some sort of higher being #someone who doesnt understand local conventions #someone who doesnt get why its considered weird to eat whole raw fish fresh from the river #or how it might be offputting to greet someone for the first time using their name #but at the same time #this eldritch entity genuinely wants to be a part of the community #they want to learn and they want to love and they want to learn to love #i see minmaxxer/speedrunner eldritch famer a lot #mainly played off for gags #but not genuinely loving their live in the valley eldritch farmer #at least not often #theres so much temptation to write an eldritch farmer x shane fanfic set in spring 1 or some shit lmao #text post #stardew valley #sdv #sdv farmer

[manonamora-if]

The Ritual awaits...

Are you ready to make your choice? The one that will shape the rest of your life? Or will regret the roads not taken?

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In this short parser-like Twine game, play a being about to go through The Ritual, where you will be asked to make a choice to shape the rest of your life.

Life is about choices. Best to make the correct one...

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Features:

a keyboard-only Twine game

multiple endings

about 17.000 total words

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This was my first attempt at creating a parser. And because I don't like to do things the easy way, this was created in Twine (which is more a program to create a choice-based/hypertext stories)!

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This game was submitted to the 2023 Edition of the SpringThing, an IF festival. You can find all entries (and vote for them) here!

If you prefer to play on itch, you can find my entry there instead!

IFDB Page

#the roads not taken #trnt #twine game #parser #interactive fiction #twine #choices #indie game dev #game #competition #spring thing 2023 #spring thing #springthing

[golmac]

Thanks to everybody who played, voted, or hell even read my posts about it. Wow wow wow

#interactive fiction #spring thing 2023 #parser #inform 7 #spring thing #best in show

[strawberryblondedoll]

𔓘 living life like a sarah kay girl 𔓘

#sarah kay #vintage #vintage art #girlblogger #girlblogging #coquette #girly stuff #moodboard #dollette aesthetic #aesthetic #cute #cinnamon girl #coquette art #coquette aesthetic #dollette #just girly posts #just girly things #art #female hysteria #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #girlboss fr #spring #cottagecore #cottage aesthetic #cozycore #cozy #lana del rey #girly things #it girl

[flamingpudding]

Glitterbombs for rogues

A/N: I got sick over the holidays. So I did not do any of the writing I originally wanted to do. So instead of that Christmas Story you get this Mark Rober inspired little tidbit.

Tim had a new favorite Engineer Youtube. The boy was a bit younger than him but a genius Engineer judging by the hand full of videos Tim had marathoned through. According to the listed self-introduction part of the video, Danny was currently an engineering student in Gotham with the goal to work one day for NASA. (Tim held out some hopes that he maybe could snag the kid for WE if possible. He had already sent out an internship offer after the third video he had watched)

Either way, Danny had potential and ideas that borderlined on mad science. But made his videos of his little projects even more entertaining and interesting to watch. Tim's favorite so far was Danny's explanation on how he reconstructed his toaster so that it would launch itself into space after the third his roommate burned toast with it. He did buy his roommate a new toaster at the end of the video though.

Still Tim liked this guy and his videos. So with anticipation he clicked on one of the newer videos. The title having caught his attention: 'Why Glitter'.

Instead of the usual introduction bit with little highlights of Danny's previous project the video started out with a big fat warning in red letter to not attempt to replicate anything in the video. That had Tim very curious already, but then a little video clip following that had Tim spitting out the coffee he was just sipping from.

Thankfully he missed spitting on his phone, still he jumped out of his cozy bed where he had been watching YouTube on his phone and hurried over to his laptop. The video, meanwhile, was continuing playing. He could hear the usual music from the introduction part as well as Danny's voice explaining his reasosn -which were valid, Tim had to agree with some of them- once that part was done.

By now he had fired up his laptop and was researching. The video in the background was explaining how Danny had build his Glitterbombs similar to the once another youtuber had but slightly modified them since he was not going to use fart-spray. Tim eyes widened as he found the first correlating news articles, wondering how they hadn't seen them sooner, but a glance at the date revealed that they were only posted a couple of hours ago.

Danny in the video was no explaining about his fist chooses victim and Tim dived onto his bed from his desk to get his phone back in his hands. Wide eyed, he watched as Danny obviously with a GoPro strapped to his head, crawled through what looked like an air vent. Once he reached an opening he looked through the slits into what appeared to be Riddlers hide out. Danny took the Camara of his head so that he could grin into it making the sign for silence as he barely contained his own chuckles. The other then waited for a moment, the camera work now getting wonky and the video even glitching out but a second later Danny was back in focuse before pointing down and then directing the Camara to his view. There in Riddlers hideout now sat Danny's self engineered glitterbomb.

"No he didn't..." Tim muttered as the video cut to a different scene. Danny was now walking through the sewers, humming cheerfully while explaining why he chose who he choose.

Another cut and... Tim spluttered. How the hell did Danny manage to just walk into Arkam?! So he hadn't seen wrong at the beginning of the video.

Growing paller with every cut on how Danny delivered his self-engineered Glitter bombs, Tim started to fear for his new favorite youtubers safety. Thankfully he had already done his work on Danny's person when he sent the internship offer. Now he just needed to get Danny to freaking safty.

He dragged himself to his laptop still in disbelieve as various clips of the rogues getting glitterbombed from the bombs perspective started playing. And yep, he definitely didn't see wrong now in the beginning. The Joker was one of Danny's chooses victums. Aside from the fact that he was so going to download and save that video for eternity as well as share it with his brothers and friends, (because as funny as it was that most of them were Gotham rogues, Luther and another millionaire by the name of Masters had also been made victims.), he still had to figure out how to ensure this definitely insane youtubers safer from the warmth of 90% of their rogues now.

Great newly discovered favorite youtuber has just painted a big fat red target on himself.

Tim was just about to call everyone in when a bonus at the end of Danny's video started to play.

He recognized that safe house.

He recognizes the weapons displayed on the walls also.

Oh... that's...

Still laughing Tim still sent out a message to everyone. When asked why all he did was sent them the link to the video with to timestamps.

The first one of the Joker getting glitterbombed

The second one being Red Hood getting glitterbombed.

#danny fenton #danny phantom #dp x dc #dpxdc #crossover #dcxdp #tim drake #youtuber Danny #mark rober inspired #Danny is making videos on his engineering projects #which includs sending his toaster to space #bulletproofing his fridge against hotdog revolution #homing forks #spring board closets #and any other crazy thing he could come upf with #Tim liked his videos #but his latest made him worry for the youbers live #Danny decided to Glitterbomb some rogues as well as Luthor and Vlad #probably crackish #feel free to go crazy with this #i am sick and rewatched Mark Rober on YT #blame that for this idea if you will XD