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I hope you finish mirror mine, genuinely one of my favorite games that I found and has inspired me to want to learn how to make games like this! I was just wondering if you had any updates? :3 Ily please don't explode

that's so sweet thank you bestie! ive got a couple more scenes to write of the next chapter but im currently on a trip so it'll be awhile before ill be able to get back and finish. i know it's been literally forever since the last update but i am trying i swear!!

anyway gotta go cancel my tour of the dynamite factory brb

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I'm so happy to see you back to the IF community I've been following your story since the start! & I can't wait for the demo! Now that you've returned, are there any IFs you are looking forward to personally? Thank youx

Dear anon, thank you so much for the welcome back and for keeping our story in your heart all this time, we're working hard on the demo and bringing our intro back to life! There're so many new IFs we came back to it's hard to name them all, but there's some we're looking forward to as well: @evertidings — When we received a similar ask back in 2021, we mentioned 'When Twilight Strikes', and it's still one of our favorites! An amazing author. @guardian-of-time-if — A super hooking demo, we love Tzesar, highly rec! @neondreams-if — A very new IF, amazing concept and we couldn't wait to play the demo. Big congrats on the well deserved mile stone<3 @suevi-if — Their demo weaves together such a beautifully intricate world and story, always excited to read more! @bloodlines-if — Extremely compelling ROs, can't wait for more! @fateunwritten-if — Unique premise and excellent writing, an all-in-1 @cosmic-writes-if — Incredible customization and exciting plot @if-mirrormine — Beautiful aesthetic and a haunting story, what more can we ask for @woesoftheirwretched-if — So dark and REAL, an amazing cast and concept @spoiledblogif — HYPE WITH EVERY LORE DROP, THANK YOU FOR FEEDING US @night-market-if — Characters have so much LIFE in them, and we love Gabriel @ri-writes-if — Heart wrenching, their words convey MC's turmoil so well incredible @debauchery-if — Tackle a very real concept with a riveting cast and writing! @if-underourskins — MORE RO PROPAGANDA PLEASE WE LOVE YOUR WORK @acatslifeif — On hiatus but super excited for whats in store! @featherofdarkness-if — On hiatus but an incredibly unique mix of concepts & style @oneshot-if — Loved the prologue and looking forward to more! @leoneliterary — An addicting read and an equally addicting playlist, love love love @ataleofcrowns — We've been keeping up for years now, for good reason! @whentherewasatime-if — Very recent discovery, GOLDMINE, you will prevail @bloodandiron-if — Incredibly hyped for the demo, hooking plot, we want to interact with the ROs so badly (EYEING YOU D-6) There's so many more we'd like to mention because all these authors are such inspirations and have amazing talent. The community is seriously thriving, so we'd love to reconnect with the community and support them!

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If you take the game off then they can try and claim it's theirs and you don't have it on itch as proof against that. Saw something similar happening with AO3.

i think that's the only bit of consolation i can see rn, like that pop up that says the link has been stolen so ill leave it online until it can get taken down but it still something i gotta think about ig

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what the actual fuck

HEY important, but there's a site called Citron Games which have been taking games off itch.io and uploading it to their site and claiming they're the publisher/copyright holder of them!

I've seen a lot of vns on there from devs I know/follow, but I've also seen some IFs on there as well.

I'd recommend checking the site to make sure your game isn't on there and if it is, issuing a DMCA takedown!

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it's pride month ROs. you know what that means.

can't believe i missed all of pride because i was too busy being a priss about coming back. so lame. 😔

anyway happy last day of gay.

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hi hello i know its been a hot second since ive posted anything but im still alive!! and currently writing, which i think is more important. im SO close to finishing chapter 4 but speaking of the demo -

ive been trying to play test the demo to make sure all the links work and what do you know, IT DOESNT. so to all of my twine coding pro besties, how do i fix this error????

it keeps popping up and idk what im doing wrong 😭😭😭 HELP

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Uhhhh is there possibly a way to name saves? I have a save for the Grayson route and the Gralex route and I can't tell them apart because literally everything about them is the same (stats and everything) except the route 🧍‍♀️

Also I have little teensy weensy asks both pertaining to and not pertaining to MM!

1. How was your vacation?

2. You might've answered this already, and I'm sorry if you have!! Anywho, what are the RO's/Gralex route fav cuddling positions? I can imagine my tall ass MC acting as pretty much a human blanket to any of them lol.

3. Have Alex or Grayson (ya know, working in rather public environments/situations) ever dealt with anyone they genuinely thought was MC at first glance? I work in an ICU, and it genuinely catches me off guard sometimes if I see someone that's like a doppelganger or looks really similar to someone I know.

I HOPE YOU'RE DOING SPLENDID!!

im gonna be honest team, ive only touched the saves coding once and that was to change the colour and the font and it got so messed up ive been scared to go back. so... ill have to get back to you on that.

1. vacation was awesome. too short tho. on my first flight home i was surrounded by crying babies. in my layover in dubai i was being stalked by crying babies. i was followed onto my connecting flight by crying babies. but it was sunny when i reached the motherland and that really just makes life worth living again.

2. grayson needs to be wrapped around you entirely like he is a koala and you are a very huggable tree. kennedy likes to spoon for five minutes before it's time to go to sleep, after she needs her space and she will build pillow wall if she has to. alex is happy any position until they fall asleep and then theyre gonna starfish out, not caring who's in the way and who's getting an elbow to the face. the dynamics do not change with gralex, though you might want to upgrade to a king size bed.

3. id definitely say it happens, maybe not often, but sometimes sure. once upon a time I wrote a very short drabble about grayson having to ID a dead body thought to be the mc and it went about as well as you'd expect. i think alex would handle it a lot better than gray depending on the resemblance but its never easy for sure.

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Re the tumblr thing: Short version is that a lot of the old staff got laid off, and so people are speculating that if all the people who used to work for tumblr are gone then the site will disappear with them.

Especially since I think it's at least half confirmed that tumblr might now be on a skeleton crew, ie things are much slower and only kept up but not maintained as a priority. Worry? No one's really certain. But it's still a good idea to back up your blog, make sure you have a second line of contact with the people you absolutely do not want to lose contact with, and optionally a second source for people who follow you to find you. But no alarm bells yet, because this is at least the fourth time we've heard this same thing in the last two years and people love to sound the alarm (understandable since lots of us only have contact with people here).

hmm. much to think about indeed.

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is tumblr being discontinued a real thing i need to worry about be srs

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also im actively working on ch4. i have proof!!

"Can we get back to me please?" You beg, desperate for feedback as you stand awkwardly in the middle of the dressing room. You hate to interrupt when this is the first time you've seen Callie well and truly happy since your return but the feeling of helplessness overrides everything else. Your arms dangle uselessly at your sides as your shift your weight between your feet. When did this become so difficult? The two of them look at you as if only just remembering your presence. Shin sets his phone aside and gives you his undivided attention, hands clasps together and pressed to his mouth as he appraises you from head to toe. "It's not slutty enough," he finally concludes after several beats of silence and you feel as though your eyes might pop right out of your head as you gape at him. Callie snorts out a bout of laughter that they try and fail to conceal.

this scene is in the "hang out with callie and their best friend and let them dress you up for a rave" route. the horrors follow afterward.

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hi im glad you also saw my dream Ask i sent to the scapegoated blog. i was really hoping my tag would work (ive never used it before within an Ask) bc i didnt wanna copy-paste but i did want you to also see it

also, yes, it is the same Eartha Kitt anon as always. one day, i will see a different anon bring up Eartha Kitt on an i.f. blog but that was not today. glad my legacy lives on in your specific heart and mind, being so intertwined with Eartha Kitt is A++ to me, i love being associated with her and i love that my knowledge about her helped you with your Eartha Kitt/Yzma nickname needs lol

also, yes, glad i could introduce you two to each other's games 🫡 lol i was unaware gou two didnt know each other. glad my odd dream could facilitate that interaction, what a meet-cute lmao

eartha kitt anon: bringing together authors since 2025 😌

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Im going to remove gravity o you cant be horizontal anymore.

Or... you'll always be horizontal?

Hm.

ill be something, thats for sure

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im HOME. from VACATION.

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this was wild to read from start to finish and honestly im obsessed

i had a dream that my MC from this game got Mirror-Mine'd (it's another i.f., @if-mirrormine) except went missing for waaaayyyy longer

like it went: MC got to live past Scapegoated's plot and be in one more movie after to completion, and then just kinda.. blipped. and then came back into the world, as if nothing had happened, MC is still in their early 20s, but she looks up and she's now in 2024. she was a missing person's case, a True Crime podcast's favorite subject, they already threw her a funeral, the rights to her music and image and royalties and house and all their possessions have been divided up, her bank account is well defunct by now, her friends that'd been her 20-something age back in the 70s are now all in THEIR 70s as a whole 50-something hears have past or otherwise are fucking dead

and the dream, for whatever reason, focused on her being interviewed by Stephen Colbert. who, apparently, i remember vividly said in my dream "You were always my answer to the question 'if you could have dinner with someone, living or dead'."

and also the US Government was trying to get involved in an E.T. movie way, so the MC was on the tv to announce that they were moving to France and if anything happened to them before then or on the way or someone tried to frame shit as a suicide: it wasnt an accident. something like that

and also the person's face kept shifting bc i guess my brain couldnt decide on who it was, but it was generally either Vince or Penn out of all the ROs (but Shiloh and Leon were thrown in too?), had aged like fine wine and had never re-married or dated after the MC went missing, and was waiting backstage, watching the interview, with their own luggage packed too. i hope they both landed safely, i woke up before they got on the plane. bc the dream stayed on/off at the Colbert interview with? flashbacks?? idk what the other stuff was. but i hope the happy couple made it out of the USA okay

(idk why France of all places would be the move to go to. im obsessed with Eartha Kitt, and she had escape the US government blacklisting her by moving to France for a long time, so i think thats where that came from?)

also i remember Colbert showing the MC all these memes about her re-appearance, but the only one i remember vaguely was about "i dont support celebrities with massive age-gaps. it's weird and creepy/but what about MC and [the being that embodied all ROs and then some at once]'s 50 year age-gap???/tHAT DOESN'T COUNT, IT WASNT THEIR FAULT THEY DEVELOPED AN AGE-GAP, THEYRE SOULMATES ACROSS SPACE AND TIME WHO ARE FINALLY REUNITED BY THE WHIMS OF FATE" and similar type of stuff of people who didnt know anything about the 70s getting obsessed with the MC's lore bc of this time-warp fuckery that Might As Well Happen, might as well be invested in this, like people doing a tiktok trend of "me before i started reading about what happened to this MC person that's in the news now: 😋✌️/me after: 😢💀 mC, MY SHAAYLAAAA"

also the MC was asked about what was their favorite stuff to learn that'd happened since they went missing, like any movie or music, and MC was like "Probably that people like me now?" (icon). also the MC talked about one of "the most horrific things" they had learned: and lectured their generation for being hypocrites and not standing by the principles they had in the 70s (aka: bigots and people who had been disingenuous, like they parroted "Free love" back then and now hated queer people, or protested that there was never any reason for war then yet now supported Isreal), and that the person they were in the 70s would hate and rally protests against the person they had become. that "the only good ones still left from back then, either are now too weak to help rally major change sustainably or had been amongst those whose funerals I missed. I don't understand why the spiteful are the only ones who made it out unscathed and are still full of energy from back then". Colbert was so charmed the whole time, he didnt mind an angry speech featured mid-interview, he was having a great time meeting his idol and she was not disappointing him

idk, man, it was a very disorienting dream. im just telling you the parts that made narrative sense (i think?? i think the MC killed Ronald Reagan? i donT FUCKING KNOW)

anyway Scapegoated × Mirror Mine collab when (im kidding, i swear lol)

this is better than anything that’s going to happen in this IF even though this is basically a timeline in which MC is essentially steve rogers? give me five more

ps. the best promo ive ever seen for an IF and i now will most certainly be reading @if-mirrormine, thanks!

mc in your dream btw:

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You can't say Grayson looks the oldest and then compare him to Danny Gonzalez, a man famous for his young face

(/j/j I know what you meant re: the gray in his hair, i just thought it was funny)

me when i contradict myself

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Hi! I'm new in this whole thing but I really do love your game! The idea behind and the whole reappearance of the mc is just really good!

Anyway! I hope that you are doing well and that you are healthy 😊

I don't know what else to write... but yeah!

thank youuu!!!!!!!

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the goods have been secured.

today while at work i kept getting random bursts of inspiration for dialogue and certain scenes so i wrote down what i could on some scrap paper, shoved it in the pockets of my work jacket before continuing with what i was supposed to be doing, telling myself not to forget to take the notes home with me.

can you guess who got hot and took off their jacket, putting it in their locker, completely out of sight and mind? can you guess who forgot the notes? can you guess??🙃