#April releases

[theindieinformer]

This Week In Indies: April 15 - April 19

This Week in Indies: 4/15 - 4/19 Harold Halibut - April 16 Kill It With Fire 2 (EA) - April 16 Life Eater - April 16 Planet Of Lana - April 16 SolForge Fusion (EA) - April 16 Kingsgrave - April 17 No Rest For The Wicked (EA) - April 18

Welcome to This Week In Indies, a quick look at this week’s indie offerings, delivered in a bite-size serving you can enjoy now or save for a tasty treat later. Your choice! As always, you can always scope out our further-reaching 2024 release list to see what awaits in the impending weeks, months, and year. This Week In Indies took a short hiatus during the eventful spring convention season,…

[authorjacobfloyd]

HOUSE OF DARK FICTION PROMOPTIONS: SHEPHERD'S WARNING by Paul Melhuish from Vulpine Press

From Paul Melhuish, author of Necroforms, Fearworld, and High Cross comes a horrifying new tale about a cursed tradition coming back to claim the lives of anyone who partakes. Will You Dance With Death?Morris dancing; national joke or quaint historical tradition? There is nothing funny or quaint about Shepherd’s Warning, also known as the Dance of Death, the lost Morris dance from the Bracewell…

[un-pearable]

i don’t know if you heard the news….

[felassan]

context and explanation: EA's quarterly earnings conference call for Q4 and FY 2024 starts in just under 15 minutes at 2pm PT. before the calls start, some of the associated files/documents pertaining to the call get put up on EA's website. The "Core Business and FY25 Title Slate" image is from the Earnings Slides. the quote under the table reads "We have two unannounced titles in FY25: one partner title expected in Q4, and one owned IP title, which is not included in the above table. We expect to provide more details on timing at a later date." DA:D is an owned IP title of EA. The Twitter user asks Jeff Grubb (a games media person who revealed the title of DA:D) if the referenced "one owned IP title" is DA:D. Jeff confirms that this does indeed refer to Dragon Age: Dreadwolf, meaning that this slide confirms that DA:D is planned to release in FY25 (Financial Year 25). for info, I think FY25 runs from 1st April 2024 until 31st March 2025.

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[u3pxx]

you're telling me it's this apple juice guy's birthday .... i heard he was forced to eat cement at aged 15 .......

[christeli4]

Let's all admit that the November 2 is the 4th year of this wonderful rewrite by @fabuloustrash05 !

Here are all the sketches of Donnie and April's relationship from the season 1 when they started to get closer.

A new team name for them 💜💛

"Operation: break out"

It felt like even an ordinary hug always calmed him down. But at that time, he could count several times in his head how long he felt it had lasted long enough.

Or maybe he was just speechless from the hard weight of her hands on his neck.(?)

Fun fact: I decided that the colors around him would mean that he would have a spark instead of inserting banal hearts. This is most likely a new feeling of being needed by your best friend.

[quackycookies]

I swear we're gonna have to wait for a special edition of the new anime just for Vergil

[jamieedlund]

May thesis wip & sketch dump —

Failing tasks and kicking ass ✊🤛👊🤜

[shocotate]

鋼の錬金術師　版権　直筆画

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST Blu-ray Disc Box Main Visual

[officialshojobeat]

New Shojo Beat Releases for April 2024

These volumes will be in bookstores this month.

Kimi ni Todoke: Soulmate vol. 1 by Karuho Shiina **New Series**

Neighborhood Story vol. 2 by Ai Yazawa (creator of Nana)

Rainbow Days vol. 9 by Minami Mizuno

Tamon’s B-Side vol. 3 by Yuki Shiwasu

Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits vol. 9 by Waco Ioka Midori Yuma, and Laruha

Skip Beat! vol. 49 by Yoshiki Nakamura

[that-was-a-bit-stupid-of-you]

ttpd review: thoughts (and prayers)

cuz wtf was that. (also providing my two cents that no one gives a shit about)

Is the promotion in the room with us?

Not going to lie, this part pissed me off. As a post evermore release swiftie, the first album release I got was midnights. And while the promotion for midnights wasn't astoundingly genius, the track list release (midnights mayhem with me) was smart. Everyday, there would be chaos all over social media of taylor taking out a number and releasing the track name. The excitement over YOYOK was to die for. But after reaching peak fame, girlie just decided shit wasn't necessary anymore. Absolutely no promotion for ttpd, except a few lyrics that provided no context (or excitement) whatsoever. That, and the very non subtle "hinting" of some big reveal of what went down between her and joe, by making some playlists, that not only ruined the perspective of many of her fans and the relationship they had with her previous songs, but ALSO. THE ALBUM HAD BARELY ANYTHING ABOUT JOE. (Not that i personally care about what happened, but it was so unnecessary to center the ONLY promotion done around someone who was barely a part of the album). Swifties went on the internet to harass joe alwyn (and his female coworkers) who might as well be called a special mention on a matty healy album. Why even do all that then? We will never know.

Confusion?

taylor released 31 songs, and while a double album theory coming true would be a dream come true for any swiftie, it just... wasn't. Out of 31 songs, barely 10 stood out. Some of it just didn't make sense, in any way. "Why is this on the album?" "This sounds like a midnights vault track." "No issues, maybe this is just a skip. I'll listen to the next. Oh wait nvm. Um." Like girl what. It just feels like a giant vault album of synth pop music.

Also, it's called the tortured poets department. There is barely anything poetic or tortured about the album aesthetic. Except maybe it's torturing me, but I'm as much of a poet as she is, which basically means I'm not one.

The album just feels so different than the other albums, in the sense that they followed an aesthetic, a certain style of music and lyrics, and created some sort of story. This one just feels like she wrote many songs and put them all on an album, picked whatever track name seemed interesting enough as the album name, and called it a day. Some of the songs are gems, some create a confusion as to why they are on this album, and some just make you cringe- or atleast go "wtf". Which is fine, but if not even half the songs fall under the first category out of 30 songs, then it's a problem.

These were written by... taylor?

The lyrics omfg. I'm not going to be one of those ppl who go around saying that the lyrics sounded like an emo middle schooler (I've heard this take) BUT again, some songs have lyrics that make you question how taylor, someone who wrote the albums folklore and evermore, and many great songs like would've, could've, should've, story of us, all too well, fearless, white horse, dbatc, daylight, red... I could keep going tbh, produced...this.

It was very weird to listen to the words "tattooed golden retriever" from someone who wrote "handsome, you're a mansion with a view" (also who the FUCK is calling matty healy that??)

A very important part of taylor's music is how it is focused on the lyrics. The music itself isn't the most special, or different, in most of her songs, but what makes them (and her) special is her songwriting. However, from her songwriting going from commonly used phrases and idioms to make them tell a story, use a wide range of vocabulary, heavily using personification, allusion, transferred epithet, and a few other figures of speech that she uses in her songs to make elements such as colours, for example, tell a story, in a way it seemed effortless and fit perfectly, to this... now it feels like she's trying to do that, but that's it. She's TRYING, and it's not yielding results, and seems more like a try hard "poet" rather than... whatever she was going for. The songs are filled with self-satisfied "clever" metaphors that are being reused and recycled over and over. This is not what ppl meant when they asked you to be more environmentally friendly, taylor.

Final thoughts I guess?

While the songs are basically only an empty shell of something that taylor used to make, the album isn't all bad. Some of the songs do sound good and go well with taylor's voice (aaron dessner, the fucking legend you are) and are quite enjoyable, if not as memorable as her other songs.

There are songs such as the prophecy, clara bow, so long, london, loml, guilty as sin?, etc., that really do come through and honestly I really like them.

I do feel that the album can grow on people, but it's just... not the best. Like she says so much, and not to quote taylor swift, but genuinely the only thing in my head right now is "the more you say, the less I know".

Overall, the album is fine, but not in taylor swift standards. It's just... not bad, with some exceptions.

[theindieinformer]

This Week In Indies: April 29 - May 3

This Week In Indies: April 2 - May 3 May 2 - Indika May 2 - Surmount: A Mountain Climbing Adventure

Welcome to This Week In Indies! It’s is a peek at the week’s indie offerings on Console and PC for you to plan around in the coming days. As always, you can always scope out our further-reaching 2024 release list to see what awaits in the impending weeks, months, and year. It’s been a little bit since we’ve given a short update on the goings-on with the staff of The Indie Informer, so this week…

[dailysayakamiki]

Sayaka fights herself

[nightmarereverie]

“Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls Servant L Size” by Pop Up Parade, Good Smile Company

[pleasantlyinsincere]

George had the album sleeve from John and Yoko's Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With The Lions pinned on his kitchen wall. 👏

[laluxea]

Led Zeppelin Live Montreal Forum February 6 1975 - YouTube

Keep your eyes peeled for no less than 51 minutes of live uninterrupted footage from Led Zeppelin's Montreal Forum concert on February 6th 1975, courtesy of Speedy's Films! 😍 The footage will be posted on Sunday 7th April 2024.

If you click on the Play button, YouTube will show you what time the footage premieres in your country or region; for example, it shows 17:30pm for me in the UK, but shows 12:30pm for New York.

This is a HUGE deal for Zep fans - please reblog and spread the word to ensure as many people as possible see it!