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[fiftysevenacademics]

Television producer Norman Lear died today, which prompted me to put into words something I've had rattling around in my head for a long time now. I grew up in a very Republican family in the 70s-- communism = bad, welfare = bad, everyone but white people = lazy, hippies = bad, non-European immigrants = bad, you don't deserve anything if you can't work for it, etc. etc. I've often wondered how my sister and I turned far away from those views and became the bleeding heart liberals we are (and brought our mother along with us, thankfully). In an extended family that moved into crackpot conspiracy theory Reaganism (later, Trumpism) and/or morally bankrupt "libertarianism," we are the only ones who have moved farther to the left as they've moved farther right.

Speaking for myself (can't speak for my sis!), I can think of quite a few experiences I've had combined with a natural curiosity and sense of fairness but I've always felt like Norman Lear shows played some important, invisible part in this process.

My family watched All In The Family, Sanford and Son, Maude, the Jeffersons, and One Day At a Time religiously. Surrounded by conservative white people in the small, rural logging towns we lived in and in my own family, these shows were the main exposure I had to people who lived very different lives than my own: urban, multigenerational households, single women and single mothers, people of different races, different social classes, and so on. Just seeing someone live in an apartment in a city felt almost like seeing aliens on another planet!

On these shows I saw the kinds of people who were routinely referred to as "problems" or mentioned disparagingly in my little world, portrayed as interesting, full people with feelings and problems that from my sheltered perspective seemed strange and exotic but also, very human. They were cranky or funny or goofy or sassy, but all the characters on these shows were fun to watch and their struggles placed me in the midst of a world I knew reflected how people elsewhere must live. It allowed me to imagine myself as a person living in a world filled with racial, class, gender, and political diversity that was very different from how such a world was portrayed in my Cold War Era conservative family. 

How would I live in that kind of world? What kind of person would, or should, I be? Definitely not one like Archie Bunker.

All In The Family probably had the most influence. My grandfather adored Archie Bunker because, as the family joke went, they were basically the same person. By allowing me to see our family patriarch in this awful character who cannot accept how the world is changing, it gave me the critical distance to see myself as part of that changing world. I definitely know that this show also gave me my first inkling of what patriarchy was, though it would be a long time before I knew that word.

I was embarrassed to watch Sanford and Son with my grandpa because he watched it like he probably watched old timey minstrel shows back in the day: Sanford was an object of ridicule, entertaining because my grandpa could scorn him. Though it was obvious to everyone in my family but him, Sanford and Archie were similar characters and it was clear he loved the white one and looked down on the Black one solely because of their race. I remember him also refusing to even watch The Jeffersons, as if the existence of a Black man wealthier than him (he was a plumber) was a sheer impossibility. It's kind of funny how much he hated George Jefferson.

Then there was Maude and One Day At A Time. In my world, where women were primarily housewives, married mothers, still living a 1950s version of femininity, these shows were truly formative for me. I've always held, and still hold, Maude as a kind of role model for an older woman (even though she couldn't have been nearly as old as she seemed to me at the time). She was the only feminst I "knew!" She made feminism look so cool and I knew I was a feminist. Divorce was still kind of exotic and scary back then-- I didn't know anyone in a divorced family and certainly knew no single mothers. One Day At A Time normalized the single mom family just at a time when women were becoming more independent, and I thought about the show often, many years later, when I got divorced and became a single mom myself.

I wouldn't go so far as to say Norman Lear's shows made me turn out as I am. But they did offer a liberal interpretation of the changing world I was living in, and gave me the space to imagine possibilities, relationships, and ways of being in the world that were simply not present or actively despised in my everyday surroundings. 

Maybe these TV shows created a little empathetic space that grew as I continued to engage with new people, places, and ideas throughout adolescence until there was no room left for the stinginess, bigotry, cruelty, and paranoia of Republicans.

[pastelsilkmoth]

Is anyone willing to make an edit on the Rain world wiki for me? I'd do it myself but I don't want to share my IP address or make an account; it's the Italian translation of the Ashy Green pearl

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=== [[The Wall|L'Esterno]] - <span style="color:#7da47d">Verde Cinereo</span> [[File:Pearl_UW.png|Icon of The Wall ashy green pearl]] (UW) ===

<blockquote>Questa contiene del testo semplice. Permettimi di saltare l'introduzione...</p>

<p>"...noi non consideremo accettabile la situazione attuale. Sebbene la nostra comunità sia benedetta con una popolazione sempre più in diminuzione, e siamo quasi in grado di osservare il glorioso momento in cui l'ultimo di noi si è unito ai nostri simili ammirati, dobbiamo ancora (per sempre!) mantenere buone relazioni con il nostro ripetitore.</p>

<p>L'argomento morale: Cinque Sassolini è la nostra creazione e abbiamo dei doveri parentali nei suoi confronti. In quanto ripetitore, egli è anche un Dono di Carità nostro nei confronti del Mondo (impossibilitato a raggiungere l'illuminazione da solo - essendo composto per lo più da roccia, gas, insetti e microbi noiosi e arguti -, e verso cui noi abbiamo delle obbligazioni.</p>

<p>L'argomento pratico: sebbene tu appartenga alla famiglia, io devo implorare il perdono per la Volgarità Diretta, ma noi siamo (per quanto a lungo rimarremo) dipendenti di Cinque Sassolini in quanto a acqua, nettare, energia, Fluido Vuoto e tutte le altre risorse vitali. Ormai, vivere in superficie è ridicolo. Abbiamo attraversato il fiume e dato un calcio alla barca.</p>

<p>Di conseguenza, ti chiedo di fare qualunque cosa in tuo potere per fermare la Casa (sappiamo entrambi quale) da ulteriori ostruzioni! Essi hanno meno di quaranta membri nel Consiglio, ma continuano a spingere il discorso spirituale con il nostro ripetitore in una direzione che gli crea ovviamente displacere e con cui praticamente

nessuno nella comunità tiene In grande considerazione! Non possiamo correre questo rischio!"</p>

<p>E poi ci sono gli addii educati. A nessuno di noi mancano i tempi in cui le città erano popolate. Immaginarsi avere parassiti con la pelle che chiedono anche consigli e hanno delle opinioni.....</p>

<p>Mi displace, ho mancato di rispetto. Dopotutto erano i nostri genitori.</blockquote>

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[crossroad1960]

Ogni credente cristiano dovrebbe conoscere il celebre brano della genesi in cui Abramo concepisce Ismaele da Agar, schiava di sua moglie Sara. Si tratta in sostanza di maternità surrogata, o per usare un’espressione oggi abusata da alcuni politici, di utero in affitto. La parte migliore della storia narrata è la pietà che Dio manifesta nei confronti di Agar e di suo figlio, ben diversa dal rancore ottuso dei bigotti contemporanei.

[necromancercoding]

Buen día Necro! Me gustaría saber si es posible poner un campo de perfil que pueda verse desde todas las páginas del foro, por ejemplo quiero poner en un miniperfil personalizado el enlace a la ficha del personaje (o un acceso directo, no sé cómo explicarlo), y que ese miniperfil esté en la página principal por ejemplo. ��Podrías echarme una mano con eso si fuera posible hacerlo?

¡Hola anon! Puedes usar como ejemplo este código que di aquí. Aunque según tu mensaje, quieres traer los links de contacto, no los campos de perfil. Igualmente, funciona de manera similar, el JS sería un poco distinto:

$(function(){ var box = '.tucaja'; $.get('/u'+_userdata.user_id, function( data ) { var links = $(data).find('.pscontact a'); $(box).append(links); }); });

Si quisieses traer un solo link concreto, ponle una imagen de icono al campo de perfil (yo uso invisibles, tal que http://placehold.it/1/111.png) y la traeremos solo a ella, poniendo la parte del final en la variable de imagen:

$(function(){ var box = '.tucaja'; var imagen = '/1/111.png'; $.get('/u'+_userdata.user_id, function( data ) { var ficha = $(data).find('.pscontact a img[src*='+imagen+'"]').parents('a'); $(box).append(ficha); }); });

Y tu HTML en el template de profile_view_body:

<div class="pscontact"> <!-- BEGIN contact_field --> {contact_field.CONTENT} <!-- END contact_field --> </div>

(Recuerda cambiar las comillas en ambos códigos si están en cursiva). ¡Saludos!

[hatchingphoenix]

Everyday Drabbles #1076: Betrothal

When the king offered the princess’s hand to anyone who could prove his worth she was furious. All of her training to make an advantageous political match had been wasted. The crowd vying for the engagement quickly grew to the hundreds thanks word of her beauty, wit, and charm. She had to do something. Disguising herself as a boy, she moved among the social climbers, ‘heroes,’ and gadabout noblemen, taking their stock. She devised some tests of her own to winnow them down. The princess had plans of her own, and she’d need an accomplice as much as a husband.

“<div class=’fn’> Ingena Rotterdam (died 1704), Betrothed of Admiral Jacob Binkes</div>” by Nicolaes Maes is marked with CC0 1.0.

My first very short story collection, The Mountain’s Shadow is available now from Amazon and Smashwords!

Everyday Drabbles © 2024 by Hugh J. O’Donnell is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 

Have a fabulous day!

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Je voulais raconter une histoire, un moyen de me faire entendre, ou seulement vider l'air dans la pièce. Hier je me suis dis que tout était important pour moi, mais j'ai jamais su comment le montrer.

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Combien de temps faut-il au silence pour qu'il se mette à fleurir?

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J'ai jamais su par où commencer non plus, et c'est peut-être ça qui rend tout compliqué. J'ai tout étalé par terre, en espérant y voir plus clair, mais maintenant je sais juste plus où marcher.

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Même si Dieu me l'avait demandé, je ne saurais décrire le son de ma voix.

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Je sais que tout se joue dans ma tête, je suis pas capable autrement. Les mots j'en ai déjà plein, pour d'autres jamais assez. Je pense que mon cœur est bon, je pense qu'il vaut la peine d'essayer de l'écouter.

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[karpad]

Akira Toriyama has died

He was 68. Blood Clot. He's been the idea guy while someone else did the actual writing and art on Dragon Ball for a while now, so the series will continue.

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(… i tuoi occhi come colombe su ruscelli d’acqua

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[taylahhowie4145]

Entry 3: Exploration of a negative situation of a sports venue

When I think of negative situations that have occurred at sport venues my attention goes straight to the Hillsborough disaster. It took place on April 15, 1989, at Hillsborough Stadium Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, and is widely known as the fatal human crush (Day, 2019). The unforgettable tragedy happened during a FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham in the first five minutes of the game. A disturbing 96 people who were all Liverpool fans died which included men, women and children and hundreds were injured (Scraton, 2013). Historically, it has been considered the deadliest stadium disaster (Gopalan, 2020). 

Image source: memorial of people who died in the disaster

In order to prevent hooliganism, fans of both teams entered the stadium through opposite sides as there were more than 53,000 fans expected (Tikkanen, 2023). There were 24,000 Liverpool fans ordered to enter only through one entrance, Leppings Lane (Tikkanen, 2023). With 10,000 people of those fans having tickets for the standing terraces only able to enter through 7 turnstiles (Tikkanen, 2023). With 15 minutes until kickoff there were still more than 4,000 fans needing to enter through the turnstiles. A decision was then made to open another gate which saw another 2,000 enter through to the already full standing terraces (Day, 2019). The barrier broke in terrace three which then created the crush as people kept falling forward which applied extra pressure on the people at the front. Some fans escaped by climbing the fence at the front of the terrace (Day, 2019).

Image source: barriers that broke during the crush 

All these facts and issues have been examined thoroughly and the findings of the disaster were unfortunate. Firstly, the people who died from the disaster were considered ‘unlawfully killed’ by the jury's verdict (Dickie, 2018).  Although crowd management on the day of the event wasn���t considered the immediate cause of the incident it is obvious with the facts above that it was poorly handled and should be considered a serious issue (Dickie, 2018). According to the ‘Guide to Safety at Sports grounds’ also referred to as the Green Guide which was applicable at the time of the disaster shows how the layout, design and construction of the venues terrace stand 3 and 4 were found not fully compliant with the guide (Sports Grounds Safety Authority (Great Britain, 2018). For example, based on the Green Guide, the height of the barrier in the two terraces did not meet protocol, and crowd capacity exceeded (Dickie, 2018).  Another venue misjudgement was having no ambulances on sight. The disaster wasn't declared a major incident until 3.22pm, which was too late, and ambulance control was not informed of the severity of the crisis (Conn, 2014). Therefore, only one ambulance was on the pitch at 3:14pm. If the incident was reported a lot earlier, it's undeniably that more people would have survived.

References

Conn, D. (2014). Hillsborough inquest: better ambulance response could have saved lives. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/dec/04/hillsborough-inquest-ambulance-service-response

Day, A. (2019). What Happened At Hillsborough? How The Disaster Unfolded. HuffPost UK; HuffPost UK. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/what-happened-hillsborough-disaster-explained-timeline_uk_5c9a548ce4b049d4aba68244

Dickie, J. (2018). Critical assessment of evidence related to the 1989 Hillsborough Stadium disaster, UK. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Forensic Engineering, 171(2), 58–69. https://doi.org/10.1680/jfoen.18.00007

Gopalan, S. (2020). The Hillsborough Disaster: A Bundle of Errors. Global Sports Policy Review, 1(2), 84. https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/gblspr1&div=23&id=&page=

Scraton, P. (2013). The legacy of Hillsborough: liberating truth, challenging power. Race & Class, 55(2), 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396813499488

Sports Grounds Safety Authority (Great Britain. (2018). Guide to safety at sports grounds. Sports Grounds Safety Authority.

Tikkanen, A. (2023). disaster | Description & Types | Britannica. Www.britannica.com. https://www.britannica.com/science/disaster

[bluefulgensita]

Frey Kan è un bambino curioso

Frey Kan è un bambino curioso.

I genitori sono sempre molto fieri di lui. Rispetta tutte le regole, senza mai fare i capricci. Specialmente quando si tratta di andare a letto: sempre alle nove, anche se il resto dei bambini della sua classe sono svegli fino alle dieci per guardare i cartoni. Lui non si lamenta, anche se l'indomani non è un giorno di scuola. In fondo, gli piace.

Frey sa dormire. Sembra tutto al contrario quando si dorme. Di giorno lavora, studia e si stanca a compiere tutte le sue faccende; di notte si riposa, come il papà quando lascia perdere il lavoro e parla di leggi fisiche. Di giorno c'è tanto chiasso a cui badare attenzione, tutt'attorno a lui; di notte è tutto calmo e silenzioso, come la domenica in chiesa subito dopo la comunione. Di giorno deve mantenere gli occhi bene aperti e, se proprio necessario, usare la sua mano per coprirli dalla luce fastidiosa del sole; di notte può chiudere gli occhi, ed è il turno della mano di nascondersi sotto le coperte.

Frey sa fare sogni lucidi. Lo ha imparato tanto tempo fa, così tanto che neanche si ricorda di alcunissimo sogno non lucido. Ma non fa niente, perché non serve a nulla ricordare quando puoi creare tutto quello che vuoi. A dire il vero la base è già tutta pronta quando Frey capisce di essere in un sogno. Un villaggio medievaleggiante, con bastoncini di zucchero al posto di alberi e strade di carbone edibile...

«Sì,» dichiara ad alta voce Frey, «è già successo questo dicembre. Sono in un sogno a tema Natale. Forse perché abbiamo fatto altri lavoretti a scuola stamattina.»

«Che bel bambino, vuoi forse una caramella all'arancia? Ha tanta vitamina C!», gli chiede un torreggiante elfo verde abbassandosi alla sua altezza, imperturbato, come se non avesse sentito le precedenti parole di Frey.

Frey sa parlare. Molto bene, a dirla tutta. Una volta inciampava tra le parole perché doveva essere il più veloce di tutti, ma da quando ha scoperto la dizione ha capito che è più veloce se cerca di fare, molto lentamente, attenzione ad ogni sillaba. Sa anche essere molto molto educato. A scuola gli fanno sempre i complimenti, a parte i compagni invidiosi ovviamente. Le sue maestre gli hanno fatto fare bella figura coi genitori all'incontro scuola-famiglia del primo quadrimestre, e per questo gli hanno regalato un farfallino del suo colore preferito, giallo. Frey nota di averlo addosso proprio in quel momento. Gonfia le sue guance, poi cammina via.

Frey sa andare in bici. Non ha mai imparato, perché non può sporcarsi o sbucciarsi le ginocchia, farsi male è sbagliato perché fa la bua e fa preoccupare la mamma. Quindi non può assolutamente provare, perché se prova rischia di sbagliare. Però sa andarci lo stesso, nei sogni. Frey non fa mai rumore perché non è giusto disturbare i vicini anziani che dormono o la maestra che spiega. Stacca il suo farfallino blu e lo attacca alla bici a mo' di clacson, e con un "poti poti", attraversa la parete di una casa come se non ci fosse, uscendo così dai confini del sogno così com'era.

Frey sa orientarsi. Sa seguire le indicazioni, sa leggere una bussola, sa tradurre una mappa. Conosce il significato di tutti i cartelli stradali, anche se è piccolo. Sa dettagliarti come arrivare ad ogni via della sua città, una volta con un turista ha persino fatto stupire il papà. Chiedigli una nazione, lui ti saprà dire la capitale. Sarà per questo, forse, che quel nero era per Frey una strada. È circondato di stelle mentre corre veloce con la sua bici. Riconosce la Stella Polare, ma non è nella sua direzione che sta andando- no, è altrove. Il villaggio del Natale si fa sempre più piccolo, fino a diventare un'altra stella tra le tante. Frey sa di aver già oltrepassato il confine quando vede, piccola, una figura incappucciata con degli strani baffi a forma di freccia. Non è lui ad averla creata. Farà parte della base?

Frey sa. Sa fare tante, tante cose. Non sa, però, non fare le cose.

«Ciao, Frey. Il mio nome è Uber.»

Il mondo tutto a sinistra di Frey diventa, all'improvviso, un verde sentiero, tutto prato e lontane foreste di frutti. Nel cielo c'è un coloratissimo sole, e si respira una deliziosa aria di campagna, come un misto tra erba spezzata e pecorino appena tagliato dalla forma. A destra, la notte rimane tale.

«Uber, sei parte del sogno?»

«So esserlo.»

«Che intendi?», chiede Frey, un po' spaventato.

«Io sono qui per insegnarti a scegliere, Frey.» La figura alza il suo braccio sinistro, e seguendo la sua mano, ora libera dalle lunghe maniche grigie di Uber, lo sguardo di Frey si ferma sullo spazio dietro di lei. «Per guidarti verso la scelta giusta.»

«Di quale scelta si tratta, Uber?»

Frey sa desiderare.

All'improvviso, alla sinistra di Frey brillano tra le stelle centinaia di fotogrammi in successione. Frey non ha nemmeno il tempo di percepirli, ma sa capirli. Sa pesarne il significato, sa apprezzarne il valore.

«Questa è la tua vita futura, Frey, se sceglierai questa strada. Ti ricordi cos'hai chiesto a Babbo Natale quest'anno che i tuoi genitori ti hanno rivelato che non esiste?, un nuovo robot da cucina, così che la mamma ti possa cucinare la tua torta preferita, la crostata ai frutti di bosco. Qui te l'ha fatta. Vedi?, ha tanta crema, come piace a te. Ti ha anche dato la fetta più grande.

«E la bambina di cui ti sei innamorato, che abita vicino la scuola? Eccovi lì, con i vostri tre figli - oh, eccovi lì di nuovo, anziani, con i vostri nipoti. La mamma e il papà sono così felici con i tuoi figli. Tutti sorridono. È un ritratto davvero idilliaco, ti ricordi la parola?, in questo contesto significa più o meno "senza pensieri".

«E cos'è quello in secondo piano?, ah, già, un pianoforte a mezza coda. Ti è stato comprato in sostituzione della tastiera. Hai continuato a suonare, perché ti piace tanto suonare, giusto?, e allora il papà ha pensato di comprarti un pianoforte a parete per praticare un po' e entrare in conservatorio, poi a mezza coda per continuare. La casa è grande e spaziosa e per gli anni del liceo ci hai invitato gli amici per suonare assieme o discutere di matematica.

«Ecco, la matematica. Ti sei trasferito a Roma per il liceo, giusto per fare qualcosa che sia più alla tua altezza. Hai studiato tanto e ti sei diplomato a pieni voti. In realtà, nel mentre, ti sei anche divertito molto vincendo alcune gare di matematica. Alcuni erano invidiosi di te, ma sei riuscito a trasformarla in ispirazione con le tue parole gentili. Specialmente dopo la tua laurea, quando sei diventato un ricercatore e hai dato il nome a ben tre diversi teoremi. Alcuni giornali ti hanno chiamato il nuovo Einstein.

«In poche parole,» termina Uber, «scegli la strada a sinistra e otterrai tutto quello che hai sempre desiderato.»

Frey sa brillare. I suoi occhi sicuramente scintillano più di tutte le miriadi di stelle sotto e dietro di lui.

«E per quanto riguarda la strada a destra?», chiede.

«Non lo so.» risponde Uber, riponendo le sue mani nelle maniche.

Frey Kan è un bambino curioso.

[vermouth1991-blog]

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I think the biggest egg-on-face red flag is, American Slavery wasn't even close to being solved until 1865, however everyone not communists (seemingly) would tell you that USA is Land Of De free since 1776. Not only was that a big ol' lie, but it was a big ol' lie that hamstrung the abolitionists at every turn. It is like how so many socialist countries fizzled and died partially because "Socialism Is good therefore any reform is basically satanic." How could ANY land be land of the free opportunity, when half of it has chattel slavery? The slaves need not even be physically abused as such, just the fact that they lack all political rights by definition, was enough. "Whiteys" went to war over No Taxation w/o Representation FCS and they were never whipped.

Developing a deep antipathy for the way people go 'slavery in the antebellum USA was uniquely bad! Don't you know in the classical world masters were expected to take care of their slaves? People could even be given their freedom!"

Like I can see the game of telephone from a valid point to the popular discourse but, like, I feel like I should go start a fight to defend the memory of people who died in Roman mines here.

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May is Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

During the next following weeks, we will feature interviews of Asian and Pacific Islander creators. Discussing their inspirations for their projects and experience as IF creators, we want to shed a light on their journey.

Here are our month’s featured authors, please check out their works and join us in supporting them.

Nacre, Author of Joint Venture.

Five years have passed since Eric died in the hands of the Agency. All this time you’ve been on the run with your brother’s murderers on your heels.

One day, during a mission on your own, you meet some mysterious strangers who intervene with your plans.

Although they turn out to be old friends with your brother, you’re not sure whether you can trust them. Nevertheless you share the same goal: earning back your freedom by taking down the Agency.

You play as an ex-agent trying to solve the murder of your brother while you are hiding from your former employers who, unfortunately, want to see you dead too.

Read more about Joint Venture here.

Play the Demo here.

Tags: Crime, spy-fi, romance, action, conspiracy, bromance

Nacre is also the author of Morning Star, a dark fantasy game where you play as Lucifer. You can play that demo here.

Ze, one of authors of Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Remainder

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This is a story of two magi, Vyn and Ilar, who find themselves trapped in a collapsing tower with their only hope for salvation being a difficult ritual. Or at least that is what Ilar tells you. The thing is - you don’t remember anything, and Ilar’s story makes less and less sense the closer you are to the ritual. Are they hiding things to protect you from the bitter truth, or are they deceiving you for some more nefarious reason?

Guide Vyn’s actions to death and beyond and uncover Ilar’s truth. Are they your colleague, lover or something completely different? Read between the lines of what they are telling you, explore your surroundings for clues and use hands-on deduction to break the viscious circle and set them free.

Read more about Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Remainder here.

Play the Game on Steam or Itch.

Tags: Fantasy, Mystery.

Allie, author of College Tennis: Origin Story

Will the once-great Cargill Coyotes succeed in reclaiming the NCAA Div I championship title for the first time since the 90s? Will you succeed in making a name for yourself, both on and off the tennis court? And perhaps more importantly…how much are you willing to sacrifice in pursuit of these dreams?

Start at the bottom as a newly-recruited freshman at Cargill university, and claw your way to the championships. Forge lifelong friendships, pursue budding romances, attend classes, and rush term papers -or party- till the sun comes up.

Read more about College Tennis: Origin Story here.

Play the Demo here.

Tags: Sport, Slice-of-life.

Allie is also the author of Merry Crisis.

Zico, author of The Night Abridged

You were supposed to be a sacrifice but instead of dying, you find yourself being the new vessel of an old Eldritch Horror who offers you power that no other could have for a little taste of freedom. Unfortunately for you, your captors had other plans for you and decided to utilise your newly given abilities as their own personal puppet.

After being sent out to hunt down a traitor of The Court of Night, a series of unfortunate events sends you off the intended path and onto another where you then find yourself fighting an evil greater than the ones you know.

Will you remain a puppet of The Court or will you cut the strings that tie you to them?

Read more about The Night Abridged here.

DEMO: TBA.

Tags: Fantasy.

Zico is also the author of Exurgo. a fantasy project where you play as a newly awaken immortal being. For more information, click here.

Mouse and Ram, authors of Beau Ideals

Merchants stare up and out, some advertising their goods, yelling, others perched, confident that the outward quality of their wares is enough to draw customers in: rubble arranged on tables, mageware scattered in between with display lights illuminating milky crystals; the fruit of their ventures into the Expanse, the hope that it was worth their sacrifice. It all passes in a blur and I feel the press of time. One of these items will be worth the risk of stealing. It will be my last act as a free citizen before disappearing into the Southern Expanse.

A low-level criminal on the run for the crime of the century, the end of your journey approaches as you arrive in Lau Lyssa, the Kingdom’s southernmost city. Resigned to your fate of living as a fugitive in the wilds of the Southern Expanse, you know you only have so much time before word of your misdeed sweeps the land.

Read more about Beau Ideals here.

Play the Demo Here.

Tags: Fantasy.

Jinx author of Elsinore: After Hamlet

Once upon a time, a prince avenged his father’s death. If only he could have foreseen his own.

The year is 2021—or maybe 1602? Hamlet the Younger has just tragically died and Fortinbras the Younger, King of Norway and newly-conquered Denmark, has a lot of cleaning up to do. Elsinore: After Hamlet is a text-based interactive fiction exploration of William Shakespeare's Hamlet as a plague text and a reckoning of Asian American identity during these trying times. Also contains bad puns and glowing text.

Read more about Elsinore: After Hamlet here.

Play the Game Here.

Tags: Fantasy.

Jinx is also the author of The Harrowed and the Hushed and Rougi.

Shan, author of Deliverance

You are the Messenger. Your job is to deliver messages. Get in, get out. Simple, really.

Now, it’s time to put your life on the line to deliver the most important and dangerous message yet. A bad omen has driven the lands into a frenzy, and the Prophecy foretells that the Chosen One needs to be found and awoken to bring peace back to the lands.

Embark on a quest to seek the Chosen One to help restore balance to the world, or witness the world succumb to chaos and catastrophe..

Read more about Deliverance here.

Play the Demo Here.

Tags: Fantasy.

Sou, author of Cherry Soda

As children, an accident between you and your friend Ryan changed the course of your life forever. Since then, you have transversed the boundary of life and death: your waking moments are haunted by memories of the living and the remnants of the deceased.

The two of you diverged; Ryan began attending elite private academy, and you summarily moved across the country. A phone call years later between the two of ends with you promising to come visit her, a throwaway sentence you thought to be nothing more than a platitude.

Following six months of radio silence, you sense her death before the search team even finds her body. And suddenly, the phone call may have been part of something a lot larger.

Swept up in a whirlwind of the horrific inheritance she left behind for you to uncover, the more you investigate, the deeper the lies and secrets go. A reckless desperation to break the fate that threatened to overtake the both of you had led Ryan down a path of no return. The same path you now find yourself on.

Read more about Cherry Soda here.

Play the Demo here.

Tags: Fantasy.

Neha, author of Demurela.

DEMURELA is a dark fantasy interactive fiction. You, a former witch, now a night-hunter (people prefer to call you The Seeker) are seeking revenge for your dead lover, and your dead father, along with your siblings, from the millennial old eidolon who has been after the witches of your blood line for centuries.

Along the way, you find the lives at stake because of your journey. Will you protect them or let them fall as collateral damage? What makes you think you have the power of choice when you land in thr capital city of Demurela? The capital visited only by the most superior of the courts? The capital where The Undead Queen and The Lupine Leader dominate?

What will you choose to do when the rulers’ adopted child nears to be the collateral damage of your rage? Will you protect the little one while fulfilling your oath, or will you give into the feeling of the world being nothing but selfish?

Read more about Demurela here.

Demo TBA.

Tags: Dark fantasy.

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Hi! I'm using your super cool Discord theme (v2) on a sideblog of mine. Is it possible to separate the custom links into categories (similar to how you can group text channels, if you know what I mean)? Thank you for your hard work!

hmm well it wouldn't be possible with the links as they are right now, unfortunately :( tumblr pages don't allow for grouping of links right now...

that being said.... if you're comfortable with editing the theme code itself, then yes, I could give you template code to fill in! the only limitation would be that you'd have to go and edit the HTML every time you wanted to change/add a link

template code and instructions under the cut. as always, if they're confusing or something isn't working right, feel free to DM me and we can figure out fixes

usage instructions

go to your Customize page

find the Edit HTML section, then ctrl+f to the {block:HasPages}...{/block:HasPages} part

delete that entire part. make sure you don't delete anything around it, like the Description block or the </div> tag!

replace it with the code from the "template code: HTML/JS" section below

go back to the main Customize menu and find the Advanced Options section

in the Add Custom CSS box, add the code from the "template code: CSS" section below

go back to the HTML and add links/sections - links can be added by copying over a single <a href="YOURLINK">...</a> tag. place it inside one of your <div class="category">...</div> tags - categories can be added by copying over one <span class="catlabel">...</span> and one <div class="category>...</div>, immediately after each other

for more specific instructions and a breakdown of the links/categories code, go to the "more specific guide" section at the bottom of this post

template code

HTML/JS

<nav id="channels"> <a href="YOURLINKHERE"> <svg width="1.5em" height="1.5em" viewBox="0 -3 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1" preserveAspectRatio="xMinYMin"><use href="#img-hash"></use></svg> <span>LINK DISPLAY TEXT HERE</span> </a> <span class="catlabel" tabindex="0"> <svg width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path fill="currentColor" fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M16.59 8.59004L12 13.17L7.41 8.59004L6 10L12 16L18 10L16.59 8.59004Z"></path></svg> <span>CATEGORY NAME HERE</span> </span> <div class="category"> <a href="YOURLINKHERE"> <svg width="1.5em" height="1.5em" viewBox="0 -3 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1" preserveAspectRatio="xMinYMin"><use href="#img-hash"></use></svg> <span>LINK DISPLAY TEXT HERE</span> </a> </div> </nav> <script> $(".catlabel").on("click keypress", function() { $(this).next(".category").slideToggle(0); $(this).toggleClass("inactive"); }) </script>

CSS

.catlabel { display: grid; align-items: center; grid-template-columns: auto 1fr; column-gap: 0.15em; color: var(--channels); position: relative; left: -.3em; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0.015625rem; font-weight: 600; font-family: Ginto, Whitney, 'Gibson', sans-serif, var(--font-normal); cursor: pointer; } .catlabel:not(:first-child) { margin-top: 1rem } .catlabel svg { --size: 0.75rem; width: var(--size); height: var(--size); transition: transform .2s ease-out,-webkit-transform .2s ease-out; } .catlabel.inactive svg { -webkit-transform: rotate(-90deg); transform: rotate(-90deg); } .catlabel span { overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; }

usage example

assuming you input the CSS correctly, this HTML:

should give you this:

more specific guide

editing links

in HTML, basic links look like this:

<a href="YOURLINKHERE">LINK DISPLAY TEXT HERE</a>

with the actual URL inside the href bit, and the text you read goes where "LINK DISPLAY TEXT HERE" is. for example, this link can be gotten from this code:

<a href="https://starlightpreviews.tumblr.com">this link</a>

"channel" links in the discord theme follow a similar pattern, with the addition of an <svg>...</svg> for the # icon, and putting the link display text inside a <span>...</span> to separate it from the #.

<a href="YOURLINKHERE"> <svg width="1.5em" height="1.5em" viewBox="0 -3 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1" preserveAspectRatio="xMinYMin"><use href="#img-hash"></use></svg> <span>LINK DISPLAY TEXT HERE</span> </a>

if you want to add a new link, copy this whole block of code over, then:

add the URL inside "YOURLINKHERE"

add the display label inside "LINK DISPLAY TEXT HERE"

adding/editing categories

each category has a label (<span class="catlabel">...</span>) and a group of links (<div class="category">...</div>)

<span class="catlabel" tabindex="0"> <svg width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path fill="currentColor" fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M16.59 8.59004L12 13.17L7.41 8.59004L6 10L12 16L18 10L16.59 8.59004Z"></path></svg> <span>CATEGORY NAME HERE</span> </span> <div class="category"> <a>...</a> </div>

category labels are super similar to links, just without the "href" URL portions. all you edit is the "CATEGORY NAME HERE" bit, which is the label for that entire category.

if you want to add a new category, copy this entire block of code, then:

edit the "CATEGORY NAME HERE" label

add new links inside the <div class="category">...</div> section