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The Unquiet Grave is an interactive fiction game where you take on the role of Catherine Earnshaw from Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. With a customizable appearance, name, gender, and personality, take on the challenges of life for a young child on the lonely moors as you grow to adulthood. Navigate relationships with the your friends and family, and forge your own path through life – and death.

The game covers the section of the novel until the original Cathy's death, as well as parts of her potential afterlife. Whether your protagonist meets the same fate, or defies the stars and society in making a different choice, only you can decide.

The Unquiet Grave is intended to be a fairly short game, with the current build featuring around 10% of the planned narrative per playthrough as it is now. I will in the future be developing new, longer, and more complex games, so please keep an eye out for those!

The game is still being developed, so I would deeply appreciate any feedback you have to give! It was created in Twine 2 and is hosted on itch.io. Please send feedback and bug reports to either the ask box here or the comment section on itch.io. Thank you for playing!

Features:

A customizable protagonist: choose your first name, appearance, and gender identity.

Please note that due to story limitations, your protagonist must be AFAB. However, you may choose to be nonbinary or trans, out or closeted.

Your last name is locked to the "Earnshaw" of the original, though this name may change with your later choices.

Romance one of three options: Heathcliff, Edgar Linton, or Isabella Linton.

These characters will also have possible friendship-based routes.

Choose your protagonist's fate: follow in the original Cathy's footsteps, or pick a new direction across the windy moors.

Play the game!

Last update: May 11, 2021

A show about an interracial disabled couple (that’s written well) is just as progressive as a show about two gay characters

A show with multiple well written POC characters, especially in leading roles, is progressive and should be part of the discussion

Representation has never only meant queer rep.

And I hate that so many of POC and disabled people see that shows and books that represent them, not get included or acknowledge in the discussion about representation.

Just because something doesn’t represent you, doesn’t mean it’s not representing someone else.

Yes queer rep is good, of course it is (I’m neither cis nor het) but I can not begin to understand how so many of you will just,,,ignore shows that represent POC and/or disabled people in a well written and positive way because it’s not what you are. Or tell us that when we mention them as good examples of rep that it’s not really representation.

hey, I heard y’all like evil biology facts like knowledge about horse blood types.

well! today I was researching alternative biochemistries extraterrestrial life could use and. man. I think Earth life is fucked up enough for me thanks

biological dark matter. WHAT DO YOU MEAN MY BLOOD HAS DNA IN IT FROM NO KNOWN SOURCE. YOU CAN’T JUST SAY THAT COME BACK HERE

One specific cave that has been sealed for 5.5 million years and has developed an ecosystem completely dependent on chemosynthetic bacteria.

Was anybody going to tell me that bacteria have decided iron is yummy and are eating the Titanic, or was I supposed to just read that myself

Terrible Berry (yes, that’s what the genus name means). This whole thing is so fucked up. These scientists were testing whether radiation could be used to kill pathogens in food, so they dosed a tin of meat with enough radiation to kill any known living organism (as one does) but guess what, it still fucking spoiled because of THIS BASTARD FUCKER.

(seriously, why is it like this? WHY has a bacterium evolved to chill in radioactive waste like it’s a soothing Jacuzzi tub? What does it know that we don’t know?)

(ANSWERS. I WANT ANSWERS, YOU CHERNOBYL ASS BITCH.)

Cursed worm, which has no mouth or digestive system and depends entirely on five (5) different species of bacteria, which consume hydrogen sulfide, hydrogen monoxide, and carbon monoxide, for food. How do you, a worm, even...figure out how to do...all that?

Bone worms. At least they like their bones already dead. I still could have gone without knowing this was a thing.

“Oh, parasitic plant, that sounds c—WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING”

Hello everyone!

I don’t know if you remember, but last January we did a little event in the spirit of NaNoWriMo called IFWriMo and mentioned doing another one in June or July (here’s Parker’s original post). So this is it!

✨ What is IFWriMo? It stands for Interactive Fiction Writing Month, and yes, we have two of them because we’re greedy like that (but mostly, that makes an event in summer and winter for people in both hemispheres, so you can choose what’s more convenient to you or do both). For a month, IF writers who want to participate set a goal for themselves and support each other while trying to reach that goal. ❤️

🌙 How do I set a goal? However you want! You can announce it on tumblr, set a word count goal on the NaNoWriMo website or keep it to yourself (we know it can be stressful to announce your goal to the world). The goal can be anything you want: a specific word count, finishing a branch or a chapter, writing for a set amount of time, etc.

☀️ Who can participate? Anyone who writes interactive fiction! Whether it’s visual novels or text-based adventures, whatever coding language you use!

This event is really meant as a way for writers to support each other. This is not so much a challenge as it is an excuse for us to hype each other up to write. ❤️

ಠvಠ Cryptid hunting  ಠvಠ 

Trans-Inclusive Radical Feminist, a TERF with different window dressing. They still share a lot of things in common, like the belief that a women-only space will be free of oppression or abuse. (Sorry, gonna soapbox a bit here)

Where a TERF believes it’s growing up with a penis and testosterone that makes someone fundamentally harmful and destructive, a TIRF believes it’s their masculinity. So TERFs exclude trans women but want trans men back as their “lost lesbian sisters”, and TIRFs accept trans women who have rejected masculinity sufficiently, but see trans men as the worst kind of traitor. Both varieties of radical feminist still believe men, however they define them, are fundamentally bad and oppressive, and cannot ever interact with or be in relationships with women without harming them.