Hello dreamers and seekers! I'm Nike Monroe, writer(?), occasional artist, and CYOA lover. This is a blog for all my lovely musings both personal and writing related! Amberwood is on hiatus. Current project: Agents of Lucifer! [She/her pronouns, although it doesn't bother me} ^.^
Link to the Forum Thread for Agents of Lucifer and Direct Link to the Demo AND Direct Link to the OLD version of AoL No longer available as of now!
AoL Raziel/Lucifer Short Story (Canon): Not yet re-uploaded!
I made a Kofi! I... have no idea how to use it. Ignore this, as I'll be going to Patreon soon!
For ramblings, reblogs, and unrelated nonsense. And for my baby Monty. He deserves his own tag.
The Wall of Fame For Those Thirsty For Lucifer
Questions for Nike
Nike Doodles (for little doodles and bits I've done and posted)
Agents of Lucifer NSFW Asks
Fake RO Instagram Posts
More Under The Cut!
Lucifer Asks and Lucifer Aesthetics
Raziel Asks and Raziel Aesthetics
Eugene/Eugenia Asks (Gen's link currently has zero posts-) and Eugene/Eugenia Aesthetics
Andrei/Anya Asks and Andrei/Anya Aesthetics
Min-Jun/Ji Asks and Min-Jun/Ji Aesthetics
Maples Asks and Maples Aesthetics
General AoL RO Asks (Question for no single RO)
Agents of Lucifer ROs React to MC Asks (for questions specifically where ROs are asked for a reaction to a certain type of MC or MC doing something/MC in a situation)
Bug Reports (this will be for ALL projects and not separated by specific title/project)
Agents of Lucifer General Questions and AoL Shitposts
Agents of Lucifer Aesthetics (aka, inspiration I shared here from pinterest)
Nyx Asks and Nyx Aesthetics
Cassius Descartes Asks and Cassius Aesthetics
Ileana Dracul Asks and Ileana Aesthetics
Freya Halaema Glynneiros Asks and Freya Aesthetics
Astrid Cain Asks and Astrid Cain Aesthetics
Amberwood Theories (mostly about Nyx and what he is)
Amberwood NSFW Asks
Amberwood Fanart and Amberwood Shitposts
General Amberwood Questions
General Amberwood RO Asks (Question for no single RO)
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Hello I VOLUNTEER. I'm anon because I mainly use a sideblog so I can't send asks from that account sadly :<
But its me. I sent an ask awhile ago asking if you wanted feedback for book 1 - which I love btw but there are a few pacing issues ans stuff that needs to be fleshed out imo. I just got distracted by writing my own story that has +35k words now and I haven't been able to get to AoL 💀 my bad.
I love to brainstorm with people and ask in-depth questions and I'm very thorough because I'm too curious 🥹 but I loved angels. And I love Lucifer and I'm do happy we got to kiss him so I'm happy to help if you don't mind.
Oh, please tell me where the pacing is an issue and stuff! That'd be most helpful.
I'm not sure how much you'll like the Angels after this, though. 😂
I wish group chats were a thing on Tumblr, if multiple people wanted to read the draft, because I so don't feel like making another Discord to use for IF purposes.
Unless I explicitly say so, I promise you, it isn't abandoned. I know Book 1 isn't exactly finished! There's a lot I want/need to fix and adjust, the biggest thing being pronouns for everyone because, had I thought it sooner, I could have used multireplace, which would make the code look a little cleaner. And probably be easier for myself.
I've been working on Book 2 (inconsistently, mind you) because I genuinely want the draft done so I can get right into that once the first book is completed and all that. Is it weird? Nonsensical? Probably. But it is what makes me brain happy.
I...may need beta readers for book 2, though. And when I say beta, I mean beta. The draft so far has 76k words, despite there being an unfinished scene or two (because I got stuck). When I write, I choose not to write any branches and focus solely on writing it like it were a traditional book. It makes things far less daunting. So if I asked anyone to read it, this is what I mean by it being beta. It has no choices. I'm very worried about its pacing; I'm concerned there isn't enough happening to justify the length. It does have over 20 chapters but that's mostly because I'm trying to make them small wherever it makes sense.
I don't know how beta reading would work, honestly, as I have no means of sharing it. The most I could do is upload it onto CoGDemos and make it private, giving permission only to specific users or something. However, uh, this also requires a massive amount of trust, because obviously, no one who reads it would be allowed to share any of it. I mean, I couldn't stop them really, but it would devastate me if they did. Like it's fine to be really secretive about what you read in a "Dude, it was so ass but, hey, we can only go up from here!" way or "I stg this one moment had me messed up bro.". Maybe I'll just ask people I know. I dunno yet. 😭 That's future me's problem.
...I just felt like I should post something. Even if the post is basically a nothingburger. I'm trying to nudge myself back into writing since I pretty much stopped for, eh, maybe 2 weeks? So I guess you could say I took a break. Before then, I was doing it sporadically. The other day, I wrote so little that it discouraged me. My brain is completely incapable of coming up with ideas. Maybe it's stress . I've been consuming new media, which is always recommended when hitting a slump, but even still, nothing. Nada. It's a betrayal, honestly.
One day, I almost took down the wip entirely. My frustration with things and writing makes me want to chuck my laptop and pens and paper into the garbage and just give up on it entirely, you know? But even if I legitimately consider doing it, it feels unfair to those who have given their time to reading my work, pointing out errors and flaws and shortcomings. I'm fine throwing away years of work but... maybe not at the cost of essentially wasting your time.
To be fair, I barely do anything creative these days! I just don't have the heart for it. I still pop on to Tumblr and the forums though, because it makes me happy to see other authors and artists continue to put out human-made work, even if I'm stuck in waist-high mud.
Blah! I feel like I've failed. There's no other way to put it. I feel like, even if I keep trying to push myself, I've still wasted everyone's time. I wish this stuff came easy to me 😭. Maybe by now, I'd have dozens of projects out to show for all that time, regardless of their success.
...I just felt like I should post something. Even if the post is basically a nothingburger. I'm trying to nudge myself back into writing since I pretty much stopped for, eh, maybe 2 weeks? So I guess you could say I took a break. Before then, I was doing it sporadically. The other day, I wrote so little that it discouraged me. My brain is completely incapable of coming up with ideas. Maybe it's stress . I've been consuming new media, which is always recommended when hitting a slump, but even still, nothing. Nada. It's a betrayal, honestly.
One day, I almost took down the wip entirely. My frustration with things and writing makes me want to chuck my laptop and pens and paper into the garbage and just give up on it entirely, you know? But even if I legitimately consider doing it, it feels unfair to those who have given their time to reading my work, pointing out errors and flaws and shortcomings. I'm fine throwing away years of work but... maybe not at the cost of essentially wasting your time.
To be fair, I barely do anything creative these days! I just don't have the heart for it. I still pop on to Tumblr and the forums though, because it makes me happy to see other authors and artists continue to put out human-made work, even if I'm stuck in waist-high mud.
Blah! I feel like I've failed. There's no other way to put it. I feel like, even if I keep trying to push myself, I've still wasted everyone's time. I wish this stuff came easy to me 😭. Maybe by now, I'd have dozens of projects out to show for all that time, regardless of their success.
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I just wanted to post again, since it's been a minute, although I don't have any updates. My personal situation has gotten to a point where I can't really write as I'd like? Depression is SO fun, guys! (That was sarcasm, I promise.)
I almost debated just putting everything I've written and thought of for everyone to see because I genuinely don't know when I'll be writing and uploading again. I'm scared it'll be, idk, like literal years. Which may be dramatic but it's a fear nonetheless. I have been writing to a point, then got stuck, tried other things, but none of it sticks. I don't know if it's the perfectionist talking or my god awful mental health. I just know that I don't really "feel" any of it. I think part of it comes from, real talk, the pressure I put on myself to make it "absolutely amazing because I've been gone and I'm not posting regularly like other authors so I gotta show up and prove I'm not a flake" or something like that. Does any of that make sense???
Anywho, if it comes to it, I will actually put it all out there and ya'll can do whatever you want with it. I'd probably put it on AO3 or somethin. Ideally, I DON'T do that and I have a ton of inspiration and everything going on right now smooths out and we're back to uploading with much wow and success.
Until then, the hiatus continues. I apologize. Thank you for following and sticking along this far.
I just wanted to post again, since it's been a minute, although I don't have any updates. My personal situation has gotten to a point where I can't really write as I'd like? Depression is SO fun, guys! (That was sarcasm, I promise.)
I almost debated just putting everything I've written and thought of for everyone to see because I genuinely don't know when I'll be writing and uploading again. I'm scared it'll be, idk, like literal years. Which may be dramatic but it's a fear nonetheless. I have been writing to a point, then got stuck, tried other things, but none of it sticks. I don't know if it's the perfectionist talking or my god awful mental health. I just know that I don't really "feel" any of it. I think part of it comes from, real talk, the pressure I put on myself to make it "absolutely amazing because I've been gone and I'm not posting regularly like other authors so I gotta show up and prove I'm not a flake" or something like that. Does any of that make sense???
Anywho, if it comes to it, I will actually put it all out there and ya'll can do whatever you want with it. I'd probably put it on AO3 or somethin. Ideally, I DON'T do that and I have a ton of inspiration and everything going on right now smooths out and we're back to uploading with much wow and success.
Until then, the hiatus continues. I apologize. Thank you for following and sticking along this far.
However you write is the right way to do it. There's tons of advice out there suggesting different ways to do the damn thing and each one claims they're the only way to be a writer. That's bullshit. Write. Congratulations, you're a writer.
you can download current and past hi-res versions of these over at my ko-fi (ok to print for personal use): https://ko-fi.com/mxmorgan/shop/freedownloads
you can also snag shirts here which go to various orgs: https://mxmorgan.threadless.com/collections/pride
these get reposted a whole lot from here to reddit to twitter to tiktok and on and on, and i don't personally care whether or not i'm credited. i made these for everyone to use, enjoy, and find meaning in them. i appreciate folks who do credit me, but if able, please at least link to the threadless shop in the previous post - folks can get an official shirt where 90% of earnings go to trans led orgs focused on mental health (which is an important matter in general, but very personal to me) and not from a scam bot site selling AI-churned maga garbage where you probably won't get one anyway. i also suggest downloading the files from my ko-fi - they are free/PWYW and you can use them to make your own shirt, patch, embroidery project, whatever. tips are always nice, cuz i do like a pizza now and then, but never required for download.
final thought - breaking the pride tradition and more than likely won't make a new piece. the top one from TDOV is all i'm making this year. i have my focus on other projects currently and i don't want to force a poster design. these came from a specific head space and my current head space is Very Tired lmao so i wanna work on other things. 👍
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if your response to, “I wish there was more sex repulsed asexual representation,” is to point out not all aces are sex repulsed, maybe first stop and ask yourself why you are doing that. We live in a society that’s constantly telling us we need to have sex and I’m so glad there are aces who aren’t bothered by that, but it doesn’t invalidate those of us that do not want to. This isn’t a competition, I want to see all kinds of aces, being upset with a lack of respect for sex repulsed aces doesn’t mean I think the rep that’s already there for sex positive aces should be changed. I am capable of wanting both, why aren’t you?
I just wanted to post again, since it's been a minute, although I don't have any updates. My personal situation has gotten to a point where I can't really write as I'd like? Depression is SO fun, guys! (That was sarcasm, I promise.)
I almost debated just putting everything I've written and thought of for everyone to see because I genuinely don't know when I'll be writing and uploading again. I'm scared it'll be, idk, like literal years. Which may be dramatic but it's a fear nonetheless. I have been writing to a point, then got stuck, tried other things, but none of it sticks. I don't know if it's the perfectionist talking or my god awful mental health. I just know that I don't really "feel" any of it. I think part of it comes from, real talk, the pressure I put on myself to make it "absolutely amazing because I've been gone and I'm not posting regularly like other authors so I gotta show up and prove I'm not a flake" or something like that. Does any of that make sense???
Anywho, if it comes to it, I will actually put it all out there and ya'll can do whatever you want with it. I'd probably put it on AO3 or somethin. Ideally, I DON'T do that and I have a ton of inspiration and everything going on right now smooths out and we're back to uploading with much wow and success.
Until then, the hiatus continues. I apologize. Thank you for following and sticking along this far.
It's no surprise that Choices is collapsing. The Captain just joined the Choices Preservation Discord to keep the memories of the app we used to love alive.
If you want to do any recordings, The Captain suggests doing routes that are not well represented, like MLW routes, LIs people don't usually play, or MCs with they/them pronouns.
Remember that EVERYTHING needs to be preserved, even the ones that are not well known.
A couple days ago, I made a post addressing Pixelberry/Series Entertainment's "It Lives Within." At the time, I wasn't aware of the story, I only knew that the name was the same. Since then, I saw many people accusing it of plagiarizing our game. I decided to look into it more, and after having watched all the episodes on YouTube, the claims of plagiarism unfortunately seem to be valid. As such, I'd like to further address this situation, and provide a list of stolen ideas and art with screenshot proofs and explanations.
A few years ago, I had a video call with one of the original writers for the It Lives Series. He no longer works for Pixelberry, and did not work with them at the time of the video call. Though I knew nothing about their original plans for the game before starting this project (including that they also intended to name the game "It Lives Within"), he told me their plans on that call. It was going to be a survivor-type cave crawl story with giant bug-inspired and creepy crawler monster enemies, where you play as a new character who is attacked by these creatures while camping and separated from their friends. From my understanding, Connor and his crew would be sort of like Sam and Dean from SPN, acting as these experienced "hunters" who help protect them.
That is not what the story of what Choices "It Lives Within" was. At all.
This means that the AI """writers""" at Series Entertainment/PB were not creating this story based on the original writers’ plans. They made their story idea later - after ILW was completed in its entirety. Therefore, it's reasonable to follow that unlike the title, these similarities are not coincidence. Though even then, the title It Lives Within had to do with the cave setting and going literally into the earth, while the AI version has nothing to do with caves. So the reasoning for the title is not the same as the reasoning for their original title.
With all this in mind, let’s go over the similarities between our game and the Choices It Lives Within AI show. I am going to be putting it beneath a read more, in case there are people who are interested in playing ILW and don’t want to get it spoiled.
Major things they stole:
Their villain, Silas, is Matthias. Literally, that's it. He's Matthias.
Silas is an immortal man who's been alive for almost 200 years and was a member of the Westchester cult, where he knew Cora. Matthias is an immortal man who's been alive 200+ years and was a member of the Westchester cult, where he knew Cora. Silas wants to sacrifice redfield Noah due to his connection to the Power as part of a complicated ritual he's put together in order to... I'm not quite sure what, exactly, as the story was a bit hard to follow. Matthias wants to sacrifice Rowan, due to their connection to the Power, as part of a complicated ritual he's put together in order to gain more power and freedom and heal the corrupted Power. Silas thinks he’s all manipulative and the main crew states that "He’s getting us to do his work for him!” Matthias thinks he's all manipulative, and gloats about being a "puppet master" and getting people to do his work for him.
And then there's his appearance. That's literally the same hairstyle - even has the part on the same side and the same curly swoops. He's the same age. Same race. Literally, just like Connor in their story is a recognizable AI-version of his in-game sprite, that's what Silas looks like to Matthias. All he's missing is the beard.
The gang's base of operations is Cora’s cabin
This one is interesting. It's such a tiny detail, and I'd grown so used to the cabin being their safe place that when Connor was like "We need to get back to the cabin" it literally took me a moment to realize - wait. They had nothing to do with that cabin in the original series. Using that as a home base was literally our idea, an It Lives Within original.
The main enemies are mind controlled townspeople working for Silas
Instead of following the precedent of the previous games and having the enemies be Power-twisted animal monsters, they decided to make their enemies humans that are mind-controlled into zombie-like beings with that attack the gang in hordes. This is a rip-off of It Lives Within's horrors, which are power-corrupted townsfolk that Matthias takes advantage of to oppose the main crew. And on top of that, they copied the carnival scene where Harper drives through a horde of horrors, including a scene where Devon drives through a horde of mind-controlled/zombified townsfolk.
Noah and Devon's relationship
Their relationship in this '"TV show" has suspicious similarities to their friendship/romance routes in ILW. They made Devon be redfield Noah's anchor to reality, and even had Devon use memories to help ground Noah, which we showed in the cabin scene where Devon and Noah play baseball together. And I know there were Noah x Devon shippers outside of me before ILW released, but it was never PB's plan to canonize them. So the fact that they are seemingly changing course to canonize them after they grew so popular in the fan version feels a bit too coincidental.
Scraping fan art for their AI animation frames
But what's even more egregious is that they have even stooped to scraping from fan artists, who have nowhere near the same following or exposure as our project does. Seriously, what are the odds that the MC they choose to use matches this artist's MC's race, gender, hair, and outfit exactly, that they used Noah's old outfit, that they are literally positioned on the same sides of the image? It's blatant plagiarism, and it's despicable. @errajay I'm so sorry they did this.
These are the biggest similarities, but considering that it was only like 15 minutes of content, that means that a high percentage of the story was stolen. Sure, the exact details of "Silas's" plan are different (he's like a horcrux for the "entity" aka power and he was split into 43 parts and Noah's one of his parts and he needs to kill him to get it back and be free or something) it's the same concept: immortal man who's trapped making a complicated ritual requiring sacrifice while manipulating people to get everything into place.
If you want to see for yourselves, please find it on YouTube. Do not support them with clicks or traffic on their app. Thank you! Oh, and just in case anyone was wondering, no AI was used in the drafting of this post 💖
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I just wanted to post again, since it's been a minute, although I don't have any updates. My personal situation has gotten to a point where I can't really write as I'd like? Depression is SO fun, guys! (That was sarcasm, I promise.)
I almost debated just putting everything I've written and thought of for everyone to see because I genuinely don't know when I'll be writing and uploading again. I'm scared it'll be, idk, like literal years. Which may be dramatic but it's a fear nonetheless. I have been writing to a point, then got stuck, tried other things, but none of it sticks. I don't know if it's the perfectionist talking or my god awful mental health. I just know that I don't really "feel" any of it. I think part of it comes from, real talk, the pressure I put on myself to make it "absolutely amazing because I've been gone and I'm not posting regularly like other authors so I gotta show up and prove I'm not a flake" or something like that. Does any of that make sense???
Anywho, if it comes to it, I will actually put it all out there and ya'll can do whatever you want with it. I'd probably put it on AO3 or somethin. Ideally, I DON'T do that and I have a ton of inspiration and everything going on right now smooths out and we're back to uploading with much wow and success.
Until then, the hiatus continues. I apologize. Thank you for following and sticking along this far.
I just wanted to post again, since it's been a minute, although I don't have any updates. My personal situation has gotten to a point where I can't really write as I'd like? Depression is SO fun, guys! (That was sarcasm, I promise.)
I almost debated just putting everything I've written and thought of for everyone to see because I genuinely don't know when I'll be writing and uploading again. I'm scared it'll be, idk, like literal years. Which may be dramatic but it's a fear nonetheless. I have been writing to a point, then got stuck, tried other things, but none of it sticks. I don't know if it's the perfectionist talking or my god awful mental health. I just know that I don't really "feel" any of it. I think part of it comes from, real talk, the pressure I put on myself to make it "absolutely amazing because I've been gone and I'm not posting regularly like other authors so I gotta show up and prove I'm not a flake" or something like that. Does any of that make sense???
Anywho, if it comes to it, I will actually put it all out there and ya'll can do whatever you want with it. I'd probably put it on AO3 or somethin. Ideally, I DON'T do that and I have a ton of inspiration and everything going on right now smooths out and we're back to uploading with much wow and success.
Until then, the hiatus continues. I apologize. Thank you for following and sticking along this far.
