#the second stranger

Two years ago, we streamed the final episode of The Second Stranger. It was closure on 3+ years of work, artistry, growth, and storytelling. A small thread. 🧵

The Second Stranger was Connie’s first crack at an AP and already incredibly ambitious. We didn’t know anything about streaming (our overlays and mics were GOD AWFUL) but we walked into the ecosystem with Arc 1, Episode 1 and a dream.

We knew there needed to be a story like ours, and we were ready.

From there, we embarked on a 3 year long Journey™️. We built a fan community, we made connections with other creators, we got our first sponsorships, and we hosted 60+ trans performers of color in our non-colonial, anti-orientalist world.

We also got a lot of transphobic and racist hate comments and harassment… but we kept going.

Our story grew — in size and quality. We ended The Second Stranger with eight players, to mirror the eight deities of Andake.

We found hope. We found the power of queer, trans love. We cried about soup. We brought the stars home. We mourned our losses and celebrated the future that we created.

That’s what the end of The Second Stranger means to us — hope. Hope in love, in grief, in a poem, and in the beautiful and inevitable End Of All Things™️.

If you’re trans, especially a trans person of color, your stories are needed. Your voice is needed in this space and every other.

We belong.

To the incredible players of The Second Stranger — Austin Taylor, Sea Thomas, quinn b. rodriguez, Max Guo, Dare Hickman, Valiant Dorian, Erica Fladeland, and Hamnah Shahid — thank you for sharing your hearts with Andake.

We hope you’ll join us for a rerun of 8, Episode 8 — the FINALE of The Second Stranger — TONIGHT (3/1) at 8pm ET on Twitch. There’s no better way to celebrate than to spend ~3 hours sobbing in chat together.

Fate and Doom & Magic and Muse

(designs are based only on the tcp recap doc and some of my own additions, not sure if it holds up with their descriptions on the show because I haven't gone back to listen for this)

Slowly working on my Artfight attacks so here is @agaybloodhunter's wonderful Øka, bloodhunter and now demigod of change and transformation! 🗡️

An electric, locked-room suspense thriller set in the remote Scottish Highlands, where icy temperatures and a terrible blizzard prevent any ideas of escape--from a brilliant new voice in crime fiction.

One bitterly cold February night at the remote MacKinnon Hotel, Remie Yorke begins her last shift at the front desk as the snow begins to fall. She has booked a one-way flight for the next day--and she's never coming back to Scotland. Or so she thinks.

As the storm quickly invades the surrounding Highlands, the roads become impassable and the phone lines fall dead. When the icy temperatures plummet further, an injured man stumbles into the hotel lobby from the blizzard. Police Constable Don Gaines has been in a car accident on the mountain road, and Remie welcomes him to safety. Gaines tells her that the other survivor of the accident is a dangerous prisoner who is now at-large; and Gaines is sure he is heading their way.

Then a second injured visitor arrives--also introducing himself as Constable Don Gaines. Both claim to want to protect Remie and the hotel's remaining guests. Both are convincing. Remie doesn't know who to trust.

But she must endure a deadly night before dawn breaks, and if she doesn't succumb to the cold, one of these men will surely kill her first. And she has no idea why they have chosen to come to the MacKinnon Hotel . . .