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again.

redrew a piece from 2021

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dandelions are magic. literally tiny suns in the grass that turn into the moon and then the stars when you blow on them. fucking insane.

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Golden and Sunflower ☀️🌻

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If you're using gen AI because "you want to make art but don't know how/can't learn/it's easier/whatever"

You don't want to make art.

You want someone to make art for you, but you don't want to pay or exchange anything of equal value for it, and also you want it right now, in whatever style you fancy that moment, and in whatever quantity you want. You're greedy and entitled and it is just that simple. You don't want to make anything.

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Them <3

Zoom Ins on their faces under the cut

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the frog council is gonna get you 🐸

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Read Legends and Lattes

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If you can’t reblog this, unfollow me now.

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i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

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does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

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I love that thing when people get a little bit tongue-tied and garble what they’re trying to say so they make a little “blegh” 👅 noise and start over. verbal reset button. hitting the top of the tv to unscramble the signal

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does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

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PSA for leftists who drive

As much as I appreciate the sentiment and boldness, you should NOT under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES put blatant ACAB (and general far left) bumper stickers on your car. You WILL be pulled over for a bullshit reason, and if you are pulled over for a legitimate reason you'll likely be arrested OR WORSE instead of just being written a ticket or a warning. Doubly so if you're a poc and/or visibly queer (ESPECIALLY transfems & people read as transfems).

I've been victim to police brutality on two separate occasions, in one of which I was nearly shot because my car window was broken and couldn't roll down. For your safety, you should do everything in your power to avoid provoking cops when you are in a situation where you are alone with them.

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🪄✨wrong magic academia

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Everyone look at the cat blanket I made like .. 3 years ago