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games in order: message in a haunted mansion (2000)

#nancy drew #message in a haunted mansion

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artisimpossible

I genuinely wonder if people realize how many projects get abandoned because the readership "wasn't there", when in reality, the readership just stayed silent. It's a big thing in trad pub that book series get discontinued because readers pirate the books or wait until the series is finished to buy a copy, leading the publisher to think that nobody actually wants the book enough to continue the series, but it happens with indie creators too.

I've discontinued a lot of free, online series because it's not worth putting 3-5 hours a week into posting a project for no readers. Sometimes I finish the series for me but just never post it again, other times I don't finish it at all because it feels more worthwhile to put my time into other things. Sometimes I hear from readers who are sad or upset that I didn't finish something they were liking, but the *reason* it never got finished is because I didn't know anyone liked it. If you like something, tell the creator, tell your friends, make some noise about it. If you would be sad if a story never finished, make that interest known because one of my biggest considerations before discontinuing a series is "will people miss this? Will I be letting people down" and 9/10 times, I come to the conclusion of "no, it doesn't even seem like anyone's reading this" only to learn after I've moved on that apparently someone was.

healerqueen

I've said this before in a different way, and this post said it so well. With real examples. If you like something, tell people.

If you want more content from an artist or author, if you like their stuff, tell them. It will give them creative fuel to keep going. And often it gives them other resources as well. Recommend a work to other people. Leave a comment or a review. It doesn't have to be long, just genuine, a sentence or two. Not many people know that a book's success is judged by book reviews as well as sales. Review the book on Amazon or another site to help it pass the metric of success and be recognized by publishers and retailers.

darkcomedies-deactivated2022042

girl what the fuck is even the theme of a midsummer night’s dream. is there even a lesson to be learned. is it just vibes or what

darkcomedies-deactivated2022042

puck at the end of the play: god did you see that shit? insane, right? haha alright take it easy

theanxiousbookdevourer

I love how Thanzag interactions are always like:

Zag: (says something sappy) Than: (says the weirdest, most morbid thing you can possibly imagine)

Example:

helmetonbot

See, your problems of self-esteem

Could be self-fulfilling prophecies

So probably your best policy is to talk to me

#hades supergiant

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I am actually desperate for an Importance of Being Earnest adaptation where Jack and Gwendolyn are played by women and Algernon and Cecily are men (or visa-versa) without changing anything in the script. And Lady Bracknell is a nonbinary actor.

#oscar wilde #the importance of being earnest #this to me would be a genuinely interesting way to Queer the text #not to shade the national theater but 5 seconds of drag does not a queer text make #also I'm sorry the play is not about secretly queer people the play is about the intricate and performative rituals of heterosexuality #and yes there is some room to play with the concept of secret lives and bunburying #but it always felt way more to me like Wilde was making fun of the straights for doing codedly what Queer people must do directly #And not admitting or even realizing how arbitrary and performative those rituals are #A meaningful queer pov on the play to me is not 'gwendolyn and cecily randomly check each other out'#so evoking queerness through casting really troubles the boundaries and binaries of cisgender heteronormativity #anyway theaters please get on this!!!!

midomochitea

I loveeee Persephone's overworld garden and it always made me so sad that you couldn't go back to visit it TT This moment captures what it must of been like when Zagreus first finds the garden- him just standing at the edge, watching Persephone tend to her plants. She notices a man she's never seen before, but there is a sense of familiarity when their eyes meet.

I also tried to capture the super bright lighting that's super blinding after starring at a dark screen for so long

signoreratto

Just have to try again~

#hades

wolfythewitch

that one au where patroclus is the champion of elysium

#hades

t00thpasteface

i was talking about this on my server earlier but i really think "cozy" is one of the worst genre labels out there in the gaming space. like people dunk on the terms "metroidvania" and "first person shooter" a lot for being uncreative or limiting but at least those are like... falsifiable descriptors. you can look at a game and go "yeah this game's mechanics and core gameplay loop generally operate like metroid/castlevania" or "yeah this game primarily uses a first person camera paired with some sort of projectile weapon" so i don't think they're completely useless. but "cozy" is just nonsense. fully subjective. i see a lot of games popularly labeled as "cozy" that share almost zero mechanical features between them and don't even always match in tone or aesthetic. hearing a game described as "cozy" doesn't tell you anything about what to expect as a player beyond maybe giving you a sort of forewarning about the fanbase and their discomfort tolerance. "cozy" is not a quantifiable metric. like imagine if someone offered to buy you takeout and asked you what kind of food you'd like and you told them fully unironically, and with no further elaboration, "i want to get yummy food." that's what hearing "cozy games" sounds like to me

t00thpasteface

i especially chafe at the way "cozy games" just seems like a "woke" way to say "girl games" and conflate certain game mechanics or aesthetics with a non-cis/het/male identity (to equally useless effect from a buyer's pov). gender stereotyping by any other name is still gender stereotyping. i'm not cis het or male, but i've spent decades enjoying pvp shooters and feel bored to tears by cutesy cottagecore farming sims. and i find those pvp shooters very "cozy" to play, too! @_@;

beekeeperspicnic

Agree with this. I've ended up using the term to describe my games on occasion because I have to begrudgingly admit that at the moment it can be a good way to get The Algorithm on places like Insta and YouTube to show my games to people who might like them, but I have to grit my teeth every time.

I also have to navigate the fact that 'cosy mystery' could be used to describe the genre of my games (ie. it's not focussing on realistic depiction of crimes, there's no blood or violence, there's no hardcore sleuthing or deduction), which makes the phrase 'cosy mystery game' very ambiguous.

I mean a (cosy mystery) game, but it can be read just as easily as a mystery (cosy game).

violinsolos

I have a book coming out that both publisher and agent suggested should be marketed as cozy and I have to admit I'm nervous about how other people perceive that term. I pitched it as a comedic ghostly scifi noir with Queer themes which obviously involves things like death, and I think the "cozy" label is being applied largely because it's funny. I signed off on it ultimately so no shade whatsoever to my amazing team who have been great and passionate and totally get the book--but even though I am being marketed this way I have to admit that I don't fully understand what that term may be conjuring re: what my book is about to other people. Or what expectations a reader will bring in. If those expectations will be upended in ways the reader won't like. It's a confusing term and so this is a really interesting and relevant discussion to me!

#dead new world #the cozy debate #i'm trying to be upfront by saying it's cozy if to you beetlejuice is a comfort movie

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groundivy

charles my love that is not the excitement he was referring to he is not flirting with death he is flirting with YOU

#new year's day podcast #the slow burn on this one fellas #mwah

etgulock

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#death by dying podcast #really enjoying this one!#a really fun blend of horror and humour and bisexuality #my review (?)

bestiolin

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cosmicyeehaws

my close personal friends john fogg and charles chambers from the new year's day podcast by @atypicalartists @thelaurenshippen

#new year's day podcast #can this podcast about gay immortal magicians pining after one another blow up already??

shaderunnerscomic

Hi everyone! Swinging by here during our hiatus for an exciting development: my first traditionally published novel has been announced and will be out November 2026. It's a book about holographically-resurrected ghosts with a lot of similar themes to Shaderunners and lots of romance and mystery, something I've been pitching as Murderbot meets Beetlejuice in a Queer blender. Please spread the word if you know anyone who would be interested! Thanks so much!

--Lin

Pre-Order Info Here for ebooks!

Pre-Order Info Here for audio/paperback!

Or order through your local retailer! Preordering especially really helps out new authors, so if you're interested, I'd appreciate it! No pressure, of course.

Plot Summary

Hildy Doval is dead—and still unemployed.

Humanity wasn't quite ready for immortality, even in 3025. Ever since the Flicker/Helix company "cured" death with technologically advanced holographic hardware, flicker ghosts have been secondary citizens, lacking purpose and agency.

Spending her afterlife in a boarding house in Hypatia City, Hildy is the least-requested flicker-ghost at Carlotta Sun's Purgatory House for Spectral Services. At Carlotta Sun's, Hildy competes daily for ghost gigs against her more marketable housemates: the flighty musician Eyvind, desperate to compose the masterpiece he never got to in life, and Anjali, an imperious silent-film extra whose single surviving motion picture shot her to post-mortem stardom despite it being based on a lie.

Meanwhile, a shadowy, headless ghost called the Graverobber has been spotted emerging from holographic billboards, snatching the resurrected from their so-called lives and sowing chaos throughout the city. When one of their fellow boarders goes missing, Hildy and her friends find themselves at the center of a highly publicized mystery. With only two months to go before a crucial election that'll decide the future of all specters, they must determine who the Graverobber is―and, more importantly, where they belong in this dead new world.

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alexassan

ever since you posted those ezra and easton doodles all the way back from 2018 in the shaderunners comment section and they've been living in my mind for 1 MILLION years, i was wondering if there are more posts like this on your blog or anywhere else? And if you could share them? I miss scruffy easton so bad you have no idea. you have no idea. god. WOW.

(Also cause I've been scrolling for like 10 minutes and I'm only slightly worried that I'm searching for, like, the One Piece or something LOL)

I'm guessing you mean this one?

There is more Shaderunners art on @shaderunnerscomic, tagged as 'Alex's art' and with whatever character is in the pic. Here are a couple more Ezra/Easton sketches that I don't think I've ever posted there, though:

Enjoy!

#shaderunners #comics

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