follow your heart (it's not here with me)

Like. I remember back in my grocery store cashier days I did so much crazy shit.

When WIC (Women, infants, and children voucher program to help low income mothers/families with children) people were in my line I would pretty much know who they were. Before the cards they had to tell us upfront they were WIC and show us their vouchers for what they were allowed to get (it was awful some times. Like. 2 gallons of milk. $4 worth of vegetables etc etc). They’d always have items hanging back, waiting to see what the total was and if they would have to take it off the belt.

I began to place the fruits/vegetables a certain way on the register scale so that like 1/2lbs of grapes read as like .28lbs or something. Then act shocked when I said that they still had X amount of lbs left. They got all their fruit and vegetables.

I think it started to kinda? Catch on to the women? Because I would have the same moms in my line month after month. And even after they switched to the cards (they worked like food stamp cards?) I’d still do the same thing. They were able to get more produce for whatever shitty max amount Indiana gave them.

“I don’t like…” no one asked go complain in dms

モニタリング 描改 original + best friend remix

JACKPOT CRASH COURSE CHAPTER 1 RELEASE MID-OCTOBER

The first chapter of 🎱🎲Jackpot Crash Course 🎰💥, an upcoming death game visual novel about crime, luck and spectacle, finally RELEASES MID OCTOBER 2025 (THIS MONTH) 😈

Against all odds, Eddie must take part in a gameshow starring criminals and gamble against rival players to entertain the audience and prove himself worthy of being pardoned for his wrong deeds.

We're right at the finish line! JCC Chapter 1 has a lot to offer- The STUDIO INVESTIGRAVE team hopes you're excited to play as much as we are to share!

Look forward to more detailed updates in the coming weeks but in the meantime, here are some sneak peeks from the chapter! ✨

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[I.D.: A five panel black and white digital comic with a supplicant and a sage. The supplicant on their knees says "Oh, all-knowing sage, grant me your wisdom!" The sage, floating ominously says "Stop taking twelve Advil a day"

"Boo!" replies the supplicant. Then the sage takes out a box of Advil and a ox of Tylenol and hands them to the supplicant. "Instead, alternate between Advil and Tylenol. They work through different mechanisms, so they are safe to take together."

Navigating gender dysphoria? Be heard and be counted in the science.

[pt: DO NOT TAKE THIS SURVEY]

Yes I had to start this post with no caps and an emoji so you know it's really me speaking and not "professional and yet completely out of their depth" Adrienne. Some stuff happened last week. Things were asked. I was away from social media. I am back. Let's talk about it.

The merch is colored lighter than it should. Why did that happen, and did you fix it?

For the why, it’s Printing Stuff. (See my original statement after I spoke with the Yetee for more details!)  Because the lighter coloring appeared on the entire items, not just skin, we didn’t dig deeper into it, and that's on us. The Yetee and I are working on fixing it, and the changes will appear on the next round of restocks! But you know this.

Why did you block Ocean, who only made a post bringing up the issue?

Ok so my original answer just ended up being “mental health”. Which was and still is true.

Over the last few months, Ocean (who asked to be named in this post) made some points on his Tumblr that I found hurtful, so I acted quickly and rashly in the moment. I regret the timing, and how this action deleted their post. (which, I didn't know it was gonna happen??? like legit. Tumblr this is a great feature for a lot of people im sure but you gotta tell me this shit) I honestly didn’t intend for the blocking to be public. I do want to stress this however: Ocean was never personally aggressive towards me. The block was purely from my own feelings on the issue, that are mine to deal with. I also want to say that any harassment Ocean has gotten was absolutely unwarranted and vile-- Do not do this. Not in my name. I've unblocked Ocean, and I will privately reach out to xem if xe agrees to it, to talk about how I regret everything that happened.

Saying “mental health reasons” probably sounded a little reductive and easy-to-throw, but, I do want to remind you: I am only one person. I am slowly surrounding myself with a team (working part-time!) who can help me with things, but I remain the one person who is taking care of communicating with merch, talking with fans, managing a team, and also, making a game. 

Someone else mentioned the issue to me a little before the posts went live: I again mentioned it was because of printing etc, but as the first posts started rolling, I did make a note to handle that at some point. And then, the massacre

I am always so happy to see people relate to the game. A lot of different people relate to it in a lot of different ways, and I love hearing about those, especially if it’s ways I never thought someone would see themselves in! But that doesn’t mean the game wasn’t, like, thought about. That I didn’t bring my own experiences into it. So when I see people say “why is the game about those themes, it should have been about this instead”, I’d like you to remember that I’m mixed. I’m light skinned. I’m from the French Carribean. I'm also a lot of other things that quite honestly, as an audience, you do not necessarily get to know. You can’t remove those facts from the game. They’re there forever

What about the socials for Truth Scrapper, and how the Marketing Intern treats Amour and Betz differently? It's iffy.

Yeah it is. I did realize how Iffy this could seem a couple months ago, and was on the way to slowly fix it, via the intern going "well amour IS kinda cute..." in an organic way, until that part of it was gone completely. But well, this whole thing happened, so we'll just stop that ASAP instead!

Why didn’t you make this post before?

People are not lying: being canceled DOES make you go fight or flight. In an effort to not make this blow up, and to make sure people knew I was taking this seriously, my posts were probably more professional sounding than I usually am, which read as insincere I think.