alright where's the weepy guy

There's a cool Undertale SOUL trait quiz going around, I'm Undertale Yellow.

Here's the link to help out.

An old, decrepit laundromat gets replaced by an upscale bakery? And people are mad? It’s not that the poor hate organic vegan cupcakes, it’s that most of us don’t have a way to do laundry in our own home.

Run-down corner stores replaced by hand-made designer clothing boutiques? We don’t hate your eco-fabric shawl, but I can’t eat that for dinner after work like I could have a can of beans I grabbed from that corner store when I don’t have time to take the bus to the real grocery store after work.

What gentrification brings in and of itself is not typically bad, it’s that gentrification brings institutions of leisure and pleasure and makes it so that the poor have to go farther out of their way for basic necessities. It turns low-income living spaces into local tourist attractions. It can even create food deserts by putting restaurants, grocery stores, etc. in that the majority of the lower class cannot afford.

All pairs of characters can be the same if you squint hard enough

sleep in/take a nap

eat something delicious

draw something for fun

The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya Volume 1 rerun Book Two Update 8 of ??? (READ the Latest Update, starting from this page)

I am back from the convention rush... with TWO devastating scenes: Zeynel's bargain with God, and his failed attempt to leave Ayse.

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If you can believe it, the very first draft of TCM ended at the point where Zeynel successfully leaves. This was before I committed to expanding Book 1, and then suddenly, his departure no longer made sense. It became obvious that Zeynel would struggle to leave, despite his self-sacrificial nature, because of his overwhelming love to Ayse. That was an interesting psychological conundrum to me to explore. So it was to be, even if it meant a hundred more pages.

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The other outcome of following the "maybe Zeynel doesn't leave successfully the first time" narrative is the opportunity to follow Ayse's reaction to the reality of her husband's murder and his becoming a potentially dangerous revenant.

I really liked the idea of exploring the POV of the loved one who has to comprehend the return/transformation of their beloved in a human-but-inhuman form (The Summer Hikaru Died, which I haven't read but should, comes to mind as an example).

With Zeynel specifically, the entirety of his personhood persists, it's just that he's no longer of human blood or flesh - but a shadow capable of annihilation.

Is your husband of 25 years a shadow....or is that a shadow posing as your husband of 25 years?

Ayse has the same sort of affliction as Zeynel where she'd struggle to leave him behind… the difference is that she's hard-headed, and that will be both Zeynel's saving grace and point of conflict.

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anyway, you should read soulsov, my visual novel about the world's most sweetest nicest dad and the world's most problemest woman getting slammed into each other at 5000 mph. there's a free demo. 😇

every once in a while you will come across a designer who really runs with it, makes it their mission to showcase exactly what one can do with knitting

Scalindra

Sun King

Fairly Squarely

Thrills with Frills

Da Vinci Wings

Tassel Dazzle

Helix Felicis

Batman & Robin

Wizard Lizard

Lindworm

That's not even all of them. I'm not a huge fan of the term fibre art but this really is it. Wearable art. Look at the geometry of it all! The structure, the chaos, the whimsy! God I love modular knitting

I played 30 hours of In Stars and Time in like 3 days and beat the game. It is immediately one of my favorite games ever and I want to immediately replay it, but I’m holding off so I don’t burn myself out or something

Siffrin is literally me for real, I felt what he was feeling the whole way through it was awesome. I played blind so I didn’t find every event, but I was so driven to see what would happen. My favorite thing was giving the flower to The King