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[bonelyheartsclub]

Howdy, everyone!

It’s been a while, hasn’t it! We apologize for the radio silence, as there’s been a lot of shuffling and getting things done behind the scenes. Rest assured; the game is still on its way toward completion!

To start things off, we’ve been in the process of getting things organized on our end. Our lovely coordinator has been hired and has been doing a lot of the back-end work to get us in shape and ready to finish the game. Unfortunately, our initial goal of all assets being completed by the end of 2024 is no longer a likely goal as a result, but things should be a lot faster going forward.

It’s not all bad news, though! With things well underway, we’ve got a few more surprises that we hope to release to you soon. The demo re-release will be on its way hopefully by early next year, with some updated art that we hope you’ll all enjoy! Plus, maybe some new dialogue, if you know where to find it ;)

As one last note, we’ll also be giving quarterly updates starting today! We want to keep our fans better informed, and we’re sorry for letting things fall by the wayside. Hopefully you’ll enjoy the content we bring you soon…with maybe some surprises in tow.

Thank you all for following our game, and we hope that you enjoy the final product on its release!

-The BHC Devs

[sexiest-scp-personnel]

🏳️‍⚧️Dr. Lillihammer has been voted the sexiest Foundation personnel!!!🏳️‍⚧️

Congratulation to our winner!!!

[bladeweaver-if]

Demo Update (21/09/24)

🎶Do you remember

The 21st night of September?🎶

Demo link

Well, at least it's the night here. The update has come!

This one, coming in at ~67,000 words, continues Chapter 2, taking us very close to the end--but not quite. If you play, you'll see why, and perhaps curse me for my tendency for cliffhangers haha.

If I'm right, this is the biggest update so far, and it's taken a whiiiiile. It shouldn't have taken as long as it did, and I'm confident my next updates won't take nearly as long.

Even still, I'm sorry to say this isn't a wholly complete update. There will be sections missing, such as much of Sam's gift-showing path when you visit his home (sorry! I just got too focused on other things and didn't want to half-implement the scenes. Next update, for sure!) and many of the fair events. I hope this at least encourages some replaying when the time comes, as you'll need to do with this update.

Also included are some small tweaks to the prologue (again, I love tweaking. It's a curse) and various grammar/writing tweaks to the rest of the game. Of course, bugs and other errors are liable to appear in the new content, and I'd really appreciate if you could point those out to me, either in DMs or by other means, such as in the Bladeweaver Discord in our bug reporting threads! The discord link is in my intro post, for anybody curious.

I'd also like to give myself a little round of applause for Bladeweaver hitting 20,000 plays on itch! That's 20,000 more plays than I was really hoping for haha.

I normally put a little summary of what you can expect to find in my updates, but have opted to leave that out for this one. You'll probably understand why soon enough.

I hope you enjoy reading. :)

[honeytonedhottie]

important announcement⋆.ೃ࿔*:･🍰🎀

hey guys 🙈 so im going to be taking a little break from posting. school is really picking up for me and i want to focus solely on getting ahead (im a junior) also im going to be taking some time to focus on my manifestations...

and preparing myself for some big things im going to be manifesting so i'll have LOTS to post about when i get back. you'll still get the it girls magazine on a monthly basis and i MAY or may not be active on my twitter, but i just need time to prepare myself and direct my focus. all the love in the world ~ honey

[rgu-zine]

Contributor Applications are now open!

Best of luck to all those who wish to apply! Applications will be open until October 26th.

🌹Page Artist🌹 🌹Writer🌹 🌹Merch Artist🌹

Reblogs appreciated! @anizines @all-zine-apps @zinefeed

[dc-aspec-week]

If you are a DC Creator who identifies on the a-spectrum, we would like to feature you and your work in a Highlight!

Highlights will be reblogged in the lead-up to and during DC Aspec Week, to boost creators in the DC Fandom who identify as asexual, aromantic, demisexual and/or gray-asexual. You do not need to be submitting a work to DC Aspec Week to be highlighted as an aspec creator.

If you are interested in being Highlighted, please download the Canva template. Fill in your username, download your highlight, create your post, and tag @dc-aspec-week. Feel free to check out last year’s highlights to get an idea of what to write in your blurb. We’ll reblog your post during the event week to boost our aspec creators! 

[tales-of-wocdes]

Tales of Wocdes: The Silver Protector Demo update 20.9.2024

First new content update has been released!

After some consideration I decided to release the next interlude, taking place the same day MC wakes up in Chapter 1. The new interlude introduces the twins and shows a bit of insight into Lexia. Therefore, there are three POV and I believe it is about 12 k words. Chapter 2 will take some time still. 

I was hesitating with releasing this, as it does not contain active choices, though the Lexia part of the interlude is somewhat affected by the player choices in Chapter 1!  However, since it has been ~one month since the release of the original demo, I thought I should do something nice :D 

I fear I may have broken saved games, trying to figure out why it said “undefined” in every save name. You will probably need to start a new game. You can skip to Chapter 1 from the main menu, but have to replay that one at least.

Other things:

Minor typo and bug fixes to Chapter 1

Fixes missing text due to a coding mistake

Deleted some stat changes accidentally showing in a choice

Some consistency editing

Edits to appearances of MC name choices using the same boxed choice look as everything else instead of just text. 

[sim-songs]

Hey guys,

I haven't booted up my computer in over a week, and don't plan to either for now. I am fine, just working through some stuff atm, and I don't know when I'll be back to my blog and side blogs, but this is just a hiatus, so I'll be back

💕

[anormalgrocerystore]

Announcement

"Good morning shoppers! Thanks to the dedicated efforts of our honorable employees we've been able to reopen aisle 5 after it's closure. Please be aware that there may be residuals effects such as thinking politicians are good people, a love of technology companies, and a strange obsessive love of people named Bill. If you experience any of this symptoms please leave aisle 5 immediately and tell an honorable employee as soon as possible. Thank you and happy shopping!"

[greater-than-the-sword]

Crab Day!!!

Where:

Here on Tumblr!!

What:

Buy crabs!

Why:

As we now know, Tumblr is $30 million dollars in debt. Oops. Tumblr has announced some major (and unpopular) changes to the site in their attempt to get back above water. The alternative is that Tumblr ceases to exist. But maybe we can change that...

How:

There are 327 million unique tumblr visits per month, and almost 500 million active accounts. If 10 million unique users (or less, if we bought more than one) bought or gifted Crabs from the Tumblr store, we could knock out Tumblr's debt easily. Buy crabs!

When:

July 29, 2023 is Crab Day, running through August 5 (for anyone who can't log on that day) as Crab Week!

Who:

Everyone!! If you truly can't afford to participate with a $3 crab, (or other item from the shop) post crab memes!

Time for Tumblr users to rise again and surprise everyone...

[bixels]

I'll be participating in a charity livestream with other storyboard artists to raise money for careforgaza and e-sims! @tulliok and I will be live on the 4th, 5PM PST (8PM EST). Check the list above; artists such as @kianamaiart and @mak-to-the-future will be participating as well on either the 3rd or 4th.

Now's your chance to make me sketch a 1920s AU design of an MLP character I would have otherwise never designed!

Like this guy.

🇵🇸🕊️

[ao3topshipsbracket]

Congratulations to Suletta and Miorine on their victory!

[shadowandbone]

no mourners, no funerals. [source]

[mortalityplays]

You need more free art.

I quit my job yesterday. Well, actually I quit my job eight weeks ago, but they finally released me yesterday for good behaviour. Don't get me wrong, I love what I do - but I do it for the wrong reasons. Working for major charities, you learn very fast that 'I want to make the world a better place' is a phrase you use to ask people for money, not to give them things. I was an ass-backwards fit for that world.

You need more free art. I need more free art. Everyone has felt the shift in our media landscape over the last ten years, away from access and towards nickel-and-diming the human experience. That lack of access is making life and culture worse for all of us, across the board. Paywalled news sites leave us less informed, attacks on the Internet Archive leave us less capable of research. Algorithmic social feeds and streaming walled gardens trap us inside smaller and smaller demographic bubbles, where we are increasingly only likely to encounter ideas that have been curated for us by marketing departments. Hasty efforts to resist AI commodification have only led to more artists locking their work away and calling for even more onerous systems of copyright law. This is not good for us.

We all need more free art.

So what am I going to do about it?

This is a question I have been asking myself for years. It's easy to sit here feeilng frustrated and thinking 'boy I hope SOMEONE does SOMETHING'. It's harder to take action in a world where I still have rent to pay. But hard doesn't mean impossible. Sometimes hard just means time-consuming, frustrating and slow. And sometimes it's worth doing something time-consuming, frustrating and slow because...I want to make the world a better place.

I'm going to do this:

1. From April 1st, I am relaunching as a freelance writer and editor.

This is the one that will (hopefully) help to pay the bills. I am a very good and experienced editor. I've worked on hollywood movies, I'm a member of the Chartered Institute of Editors and Proofreaders, I have clients who have been coming to me exclusively for more than 10 years.

Alongside bigger contract jobs, I am going to refocus on offering my services to small-press creators at a reduced rate. That means you, graphic novelists. That means you, itch and amazon writers. I want to help you develop your work, the same way I help large organisations. You can learn more about what an editor even does and what kind of pricing you can expect here.

2. I'm also going to start giving shit away. Like, constantly.

Next week I'm going to launch a new free shop. If you're unfamiliar, a free shop, giveaway shop, swap shop, etc. is an anarchist tradition of setting up a storefront where anyone can take what they like for no cost. Offline, this often means second-hand clothes, tools, furniture, food etc. Online, I am going to be giving away digital art. Copyright-free, no strings attached. It will (eventually) feature everything from print-res posters to zines, poems, tattoo flash, t-shirt designs and anything else we come up with.

Yes, I said 'we' - while this is a curated collection, it will feature work from a variety of credited and anonymous artists and activists, all of whom have agreed to give their work away to the public domain. Some of it will be practical, some of it will be political, but a lot of it will be decorative or personal. This is, in part, a response to recent difficulty I had finding somewhere that would print a one-off joke poster for a friend that featured the word 'faggot'. Enough. No middlemen - no explaining ourselves. Just print our shit and enjoy it.

I'm very, very excited about this project. I'll have more to say about it closer to the launch, but you can expect it to go live on March 27th.

2.2 I forgot to mention the ACTUAL LAUNCH GIVEAWAY

To celebrate my launch, I am going to be giving away a ton of physical prints. When I went looking for my old stock to see if it was worth setting a new (paid) storefront up, I realised I had way more old work in storage than I thought. This will be announced in its own right on Monday, but this is why I've been hinting you should go follow my Patreon.

On April 1st, I will pick 8 random patrons (from across all tiers including non-paying followers!) and mail them a bundle of assorted prints and postcards. The prize pool includes A3 and A4 posters, packs of A6 postcards, and printed minicomics that I've previously sold for up to £12 each.

You don't have to be a paying subscriber to enter - this is strictly no-purchase necessary. It is purely and entirely a celebration of the concept of GIVING ART AWAY FOR FREE.

3. PORN, YOU PERVERTS

Because I still have to pay to stay alive, I am going to be subsidising all this free art with the introduction of Fuck You Fridays. Starting from March 29th, I will drop a new 18+ short story on the last Friday of every month, over on itch.io (yes I know my page is desolate right now, don't worry I'll get there).

The first edition, Go Fuck Yourself, is about, well - telling your boss where to stick it. Julia has had it with her millionaire man-child manager, and is just about ready to let him know what she really thinks. It's a short and steamy 5k words, with a gorgeous cover illustration by @taylor-titmouse, and you can pick it up for $3 starting from March 29th.

4. ANOTHER BIG SURPRISE

I'm keeping this one under wraps for now, but April 1st will also play host to one more (FREE) launch. If you've been following me for a long time, you might remember the other significance of this date (no not April Fool's day, though that is certainly thematically relevant to this entire effort). That's all I'll say right now. Watch this space.

tl;dr: I'm sick of paywalls and career ladders. I'm literally putting my money where my mouth is. More free art for everyone and I'm not kidding around!!!

[scarland-artbook]

You've heard hints here and there, a couple leaks or two, so:

Yes! the physical print of the Scarland artbook is arriving sooner than you expect it, so follow us as we'll be sharing details these following days ✨

[shopwitchvamp]

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