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The fact that Io can puke on Klaus and on top of all the other weird outrageous blasphemous shit that is their entire existence an STILL be romanced is not my favorite thing about this IF. But it’s pretty close to it. Thats love baybeeeee!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Klaus needs to be humbled and that's a service I can provide ✨️

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hi it's Ira. plotting blasphemies as we speak.

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Now how the hell do you expect Io to solomance Connie when Ira is looking like THAT?? Io doesn't stand a chance. Ira is mogging them so hard, dude.

the competition is stiff. Io better get their act together

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GATDAMN this story is good. I just found it today and I'm already fully in here. Thank you <3

hello hello welcome in don't mind the mess

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hi it's Ira. plotting blasphemies as we speak.

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the weirdest thing about IF is that because of all the branching there are entire passages I dont remember writing lmfao

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I freaking love sentience and I stumbled upon it ereyesterday and ooghhh

this has changed me and I will be so normal about it

also I love and hate how this is seemingly the only interactive story that doesnt do the bare minimum on pronouns, either i havent noticed or something but Im not stuck with he/she/them, good pronouns dont get me wrong but, i love its/its but i dont think thats whats used, amazing third option that dances in the dark and avoids pronouns is much prefered if it isnt an option over they/them and I thank you for it

Now I feel like I have to double check.

thank you!

-Kel Io

(yes I shall leave multiple asks if that is ok and I hope me being totally normal about this story is ok too)

hello hello welcome to the rat cave please leave as many asks as you have in ur brain

It's actually been shocking to me how little I've had to code in pronouns for Io. I guess it's mostly a product of 2nd person POV but Io also has several moments of depersonalization so there's that I suppose

Pretty sure the only usage of it/its so far has been for Guinefort and the God Beneath, and Guine will switch to they/them once they're properly introduced. But I definitely want to include a moment in the future where Io can change pronouns, including to it/its. Just not sure where to place it just yet

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ngl, tend towards a Very Weird Io so I had trouble getting past Effie BUT finally managed to track down Val and omg, the option to lie that you understand their reasoning really itches my brain bc I've had this Angsty Loop going on in my head based waaaay back on the prologue basically of my Io having a very firm "good = correct" connotation that Val cannot break Which, given she's pretty damn weird and understands she's not fitting in Quite Right despite her best attempts, she's very certain she's doing something incorrect (bad). Val says otherwise, but Val's always very nice to her, and Val lies to people; sometimes people lie to be nice = Val is being nice (lying) when they tell Io she's good and now my baby is returning the favour (or not, it's probably more in character for this Io to cave like tissue paper in the face of Ira's insistence and stay at the Acropolis but still!!) It's good angst!!! Io is Going Through Things and I am happily piling on

Effie is the true final boss of the game lol

I keep finding myself stuck between wanting to give Io more time to dwell on the whole Val thing this chapter, and not wanting to make Val the center of it all. but anyway, I think you'll enjoy some of the many many combinations of Val flavor text in ch6

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hey! donate to uk trans charities today because it’s gonna be a rough one

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hey dont jack my style

Incorporating religion in an IF is fine as long as it's done well. But you literally mentioned romancing Jesus 💀 i mean some lines need to be drawn.

I mean that was a joke 😭

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Darkness as a corrupting horror: oh cool

Blinding light as a corrupting horror: OOOOOOGGGGGHOODSHITOOHOOHOOHOOHEHEHE

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top 3 places to bleed out:

1. the snow

2. your lover/best friend/homoerotic comrade’s arms

3. bathroom floor

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I followed them for a second because I thought they were just making fun of common tropes/patterns in IF, then I realized they're trying to be the moral judge of all freelance authors and calling out specific people and it just… stank

jokes about how a lot of IFs get stuck in RO react hell with no actual updates? valid, funny even. saying people are scum for daring to charge for their work? alright pack it up.

So there’s this blog getting popularity. Some people say it’s a IF writer hate blog others that it’s not. I don’t know I’m not informed. But I was sent something by one of my readers about one of my stories being mentioned there.

This anon said that I paywalled the rest of OYHS, leaving only the prologue. And to be honest it pissed me off. They made it sound as if I was this money-grubbing scammer who offered 5 pages of a game and then asked for money when I only ever update publicly if I have an entire chapter finished.

As a person in the world, you ask these things before speaking. That person is on tumblr so they could’ve come here to ask if the rest of OYHS is will be made public. They could’ve come and checked out the tag to see what I’ve said about it, they didn’t. I know another anon did set the facts straight and thank you to that anon.

At the end of the day because this niche is small compared to other internet groups, an author will likely see what you wrote about them. Before making assumptions, ask. It’s not that hard. You’re free to not like authors nor their practices but at least get the facts straight.

So to clarify my three current stories will be free until I finish them. Since I want to publish them officially the demos will likely be up to a certain chapter when I finally get to that point which is a few years from now.

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Authors will add 3.5 thousand words to a scene they thought they'd completed rather than writing a single transition scene. It's me. I'm authors.

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"but he can't kill the Joker because he knows the killing won't end with him!" I think the amount of people who have died, been injured, or been indirectly affected by Batman's inaction outweigh the amount of people he would theoretically kill himself. He should stop being a pussy and send that twink to hell.

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Nonono, they are right. Why should it be Batman responsibility to kill the guy??? They should just make a big event, a lottery or contest, and the winner gets to kill the Joker! Problem solved, Batman doesn’t get extra trauma or whatever is going with him and someone gets to kill the clown. Everyone is happy.

this is something the joker would come up with to delay his execution and plot an escape. nice try clown man

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PSA- this one's fake

Being on anon and deliberately cutting the link to gazavetters are the first red flags