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"No." Says the tuna, "Do you?"

"I have never seen it." Says the whale, "but deep in my body, I remember it."

"Why do you care," says the tuna, "if you will never see it."

"There are bones in my body built to walk through the forests and the mountains." Says the whale.

"They will disappear." Says the tuna, "one day, your body will forget the forests and the mountains."

"Maybe I don't want to forget," Says the whale, "The forests were once my home."

"I have seen the forests." Whispers the salmon, almost to itself.

"Tell me what you have seen," says the whale.

"The forests spawned me." Says the salmon. "They sent me to the ocean to grow. When I am fat with the bounty of the ocean, I will bring it home."

"Why would the forests seek the bounty of the oceans?" Asks the whale. "They have bounty of their own."

Last year I finally had an excuse to illustrate this simple little Tumblr story I've had bookmarked forever for class.

Here look

It's been a few years now. I am impatient so I went past the scans to try to read the webnovel. Many ideas I want to steal, but my main problem stays the same as when I wrote a small article about it : How do I play a TTRPG of this?

I thought about .Dungeon, a game happening in a mmo. I thought about Break, Cloudbreaker Alliance, Fabula Ultima, games inspired by JRPG. But the system of Shangri La Frontier is too...on the fly and endless with its skills that develop depending on the player's playstyle. The build is a big part of the Manga. I thought about Thorn with its tactics and talents that can be created by the player. But something is missing. To use a webnovel skill as an example, which game would have a "get a buff for every critical strikes hit during the combat". And then a lightbulb struck like a fridge door opening in the night.

Which sort of games has also made the build its center point? Collectible Card Games. This is actually Magic and Yu-Gi-Oh

I really really really really didn’t want to go back to doing this as regularly, but A.N.I.M. really needs money. The past few months for us have been pretty bad, and I’ve been making less than minimum wage with my cut of the profits for a while.

We make sure not to paywall the majority of our project so as not to bar them from people who can’t afford them, but that means we’re reliant on the good will of those who can afford them to choose to pay.

If you like what we do, want us to keep doing it, an want to keep a disabled game designer who can’t do other work able to pay their medical and food bills, please consider paying for one of our games on itchio, and/or subscribing to our patreon for more regularly updated versions of all our projects.

If you can’t do that, rating them 5-stars on itchio, downloading them, and playing them/talking about them/sharing them is a huge help too. Like, it really can’t be overstated how reliant we are on word-of-mouth.

I am going to have to reinstate the Income Goals to make sure we make an income of at least $2,000 every month across both itchio and patreon, gradually increasing that goal probably until we are making at least $3,000 every month.

I have [2] commission slots available to anyone interested in pencil sketches

Half Body Pencil Sketch $20

Full Body Pencil Sketch $30

*Any more than 1 character per picture are 40% off

*Must provide references

*Exceptionally complex poses or designs add 25%

*Not limited to strictly sfw

*Not open to mecha or furry designs at this time but I'm practicing!

DM me here or Kofi if interested!

In TWO WEEKS, Moonshot is streaming to raise funds for Advocates for Trans Equality! From a mayoral debate to a table read to FIVE original game shows, we've got a completely stacked schedule that you can check out right here!

take this test (https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/), then come back here:

it doesnt have to be a good score, you dont have to take it multiple times, you dont have to get on a good screen, etcetera. just gimme your score please this is my final project grade :)

April showers bring May submissions for The Awards 2026! Until May 31, you can submit anything TTRPG-related for consideration that meets the following criteria:

Material was released between June 1, 2024 and May 31, 2025

No AI used in any way for any part of the submission

Submission did not raise more than US$100,000 as part of a crowdfunding campaign

Written/recorded in English

Submitters must be a primary contributor to the submission (i.e. a lead designer or publisher) and are limited to submitting 2 items or 50 pages of material, whichever limit is hit first. Judges are only obligated to read 50 pages’ worth of material per submitter.