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do you see this shit my liege

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A little oil portrait of my friend’s cat in a thrifted frame 🐈

The toasted marshmallow boy gave his approval.

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Hello, I'm Phen (phenanthreneblue) and I'm participating (for the first time ever!) in Fandom Trumps Hate as a contributor this year! The world's in really rough shape right now, so let's put our money where our mouths are - FTH is supporting some excellent causes/charities this year that advocate for literacy and education, reproductive justice, LGBTQ+ and immigrant rights, support for folks in Ukraine, Congo, and the Middle East, and others!

I have one auction for fan fiction (one work of 5-10k words) for Control or Disco Elysium. My listing and a link to my AO3 page can be found here. Bidding begins tomorrow, February 25th, 2025! Please reach out to me if there are any questions!

(Please, while you're browsing, feel free to check out the other talented creators in the Control and DE tags!)

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I stg I could come on here and be like “everyone should try to be nice” and somebody I the notes would be like op you don’t understand I have Terminal Meanie Disorder and this hurt my feelings 🥺

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Just a reminder that it doesn't matter how famous you are or how rich you are, transphobia is trash.

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first of all if you want to create anything with an ounce of feeling you have to feel it. then you create it like a possessed person attempting to expel the demons from within your soul, except you are also feeding the demons at the same time because the material they're giving you is really fucking good. if you're lucky you and the demons will have a symbiotic relationship out of which comes Creation. this is how good art is made. ai notoriously do not have souls that can be possessed and that is why their attempts at "creation" are unfeeling, uninspired and also evil.

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Total Eclipse of the Chart

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It's here.

The Shepherds of Haven Twine alpha build is live on Patreon!

What's New:

UI! A new UI for the game awaits you, including a range of visual themes to switch between light and dark mode, each with its own ‘minimalist’ version for those who favor strict readability! Stat screens, achievements, notifications, codex entries, newspaper articles, journal entries, storefronts, the day off hub, relationships, the character guide, the inventory, your room, trading cards, gambling, and so much more have been redesigned from the ground-up!

Miss the old look? Switch the font to Georgia and use the "Scholar" theme in your settings. You can even toggle "prioritize stat bars" if you want to change everything back to just stat bars!

A vast range of settings to customize your game! Includes several fonts and ways to read the text, including OpenDyslexic font, as well as toggles to disable or enable visual effects, music, and character art. 

Robust save system! Now, you can not only use 10 different save slots on your browser (including autosaves), you can also download saves directly to your device, arrange and rename them as you like, and even use them to play the game between different devices and browsers!

Interactive maps! Explore and learn about the world of Blest like never before!

Music! A gorgeous custom soundtrack for the game was designed and composed by Ivan Duch and will play at key moments in the story.

Art! New character art, character cards, collectible trading cards, background art, codex documents, bestiary notes, and so much more have now been integrated into the game. Don’t miss the absolutely gorgeous cover designed by Angela Wang!

Fully mobile compatible! Though desktop is strongly recommended for the best gameplay experience, Shepherds is mobile-compatible and feature-rich regardless of what device you play it on.

Other gameplay improvements:

Trouble and Briony are now romanceable by players of all genders.

All players can change their pronouns at any times. Pronouns do not affect romances.

Gambling is now unlocked earlier.

Two day offs is now unlocked earlier.

You can now allocate different points in magic and weaponry training to different skills, not just one at a time.

For now, the new alpha build is only available on Patreon, primarily because this is all new to me and I was working under a severe crunch after the abrupt closure of Dashingdon. Once all the bugs have been ironed out, I feel less nervy, and the dust has settled down some--and I get some semblance of a functional daily life back again--I'll get to work making a public demo available to everyone. It shouldn't be too long of a wait!

In the meantime, please consider signing up for the Shepherds of Haven newsletter: you'll be notified of only the most important announcements--including the release of the public demo, beta-testing opportunities, DLC announcements, and more. Plus, you'll get a free exclusive digital wallpaper based on Shepherds of Haven! :)

Other new links:

manifold-studios.com - official website for my games

@manifoldstudios - this (shepherds-of-haven) is still my main account, but you can follow this one for a cleaner way to receive just announcements as well!

linktree

newsletter

And, of course, if you want to give the new Twine build a try, you'll want to...

Play here!

I sincerely hope you enjoy! ✨

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I was only planning to draw a sketch of Kaneeka's new outfit, but I kinda just kept going.

Sketch under cut

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YOU can write whatever you want whenever however forevrr. i have to write something perfect and earth shattering and i have to do it perfectly the first time or else

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is it wrong to say you can headcanon anything you want about any character forever? y/n/nuance

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authors!!

quick question...

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It wasn’t that funny. And there are plenty of free seats.

@shepherds-of-haven

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This is an interesting thing. Looks like testimonies of people who left the MAGA movement- how they got into it and why.

Leaving a cult is really hard, so I really respect the people who are speaking from this place.

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As tiring as all this shit is, I can't in good faith continue to use spotify.

For anyone else jumping ship, I used to exportify.app to save my favorite playlists.