#It's mostly about Slay the Princess

[sorry-not-feeling-it-right-now]

Thinking about writing shenanigans with Smitten and Cold

Smitten would write the most sappy and fluffy romance stories with happy endings every time. Cold would say that it’s getting predictable of how the story ends every time.

Smitten gets peeved and told Cold to write a romance story himself. Cold takes the challenge.

Smitten reads what Cold has written and lo and behold it’s the most heart wrenching, most antsy love story with pinning and longing that can never be filled.

Smitten cried reading it. He hated admitting that.

[arimiadev]

this month I got to sit down with @blacktabbygames to talk about their approach to developing Slay the Princess and how they market visual novels!

read it here:

[whatudottu]

Something something Cold's boredom activates when things happen the same way, yada yada Cheated gets fucked over more often than not, so... :P

[turtleplushi]

A few narrators. Some of them are even in color (kind of)

[voiceofthe]

princess concept i've been thinking about is like. let's just go all in on those options that are like "no i'm fine with the world ending." you go down to the basement and tell her that you were sent to kill her because she's going to end the world, and that's why you're going to get her out of there. the princess, momentarily shocked and wanting to protest, quickly readjusts to the idea. the narrator completely flips out and tries to take over as quickly as possible. i'm tentatively calling the chapter 2 of this the harbinger with a chapter 3 being the dawn

[pixiefeatherkw3]

To hell with being scared of talking about the princesses because of what other people think or in fear I'll do it badly

I KNOW WHAT THEY THINK, I AM THEM AND I KNOW ALL THOSE WOMEN

I am not confident in creating too much content, but I'm confident in that more people want more of them by numbers alone and you know? I do like talking about and drawing them

[snowdinstars]

i am curious about the 11/20 slay the princess au, yap all you want my friend

HELL YEAH!!! thank you anon OKAY. slay the princess spoilers. be warned. also persona 5 spoilers but i feel like thats obvious

slay the princess is a game where you. slay the princess.

[SPOILER TERRITORY!!]

for those who have not beaten stp. you are the long quiet, a god of stillness and unchanging eternity. the princess is the vessel of the shifting mound, a god of endless change who contains death within her multitudes. both of you have been created and placed within a reality called the construct by the game's narrator, who attempts to guide you to slay the princess in order to rid the world of death and change. (to varying degrees of success. most of the time you die horribly in one way or another)

the game tells you from the very beginning that it is a love story, and it's true. you can only break the endless cycle of violence and death together

its complicated and im bad at explaining it

SO. with that VERY VERY CONDENSED summary of stp out of the way.

THEMATIC PARALLELS! (im going somewhere with this. maybe.)

god of stillness sent to kill god of change / puppet of the god of control sent to kill (in essence) the chosen champion of human rebellion. i have something here. i promise it makes more sense in my head

the whole deal with the princess is that she changes depending on how you perceive her. the metaverse is all about cognition and perception. this might be something.

something something duality... something something hegel said both thesis and antithesis... [EXPLODES]

its mostly vibes rn. and its really hard to explain without going super in depth about my thoughts on both games. but i DO have the sketch of a fanfic outline in my head. timeloop shenanigans with metaverse weirdness or something. idk if ill ever write it because it would be so unbelievably niche and also i suck

none of this makes sense probably but thank you for letting me infodump. colon three

[determinedowl23]

Being in the Slay the Princess and Les Mis fandoms are surprisingly similar experiences.

One half is dedicated to the two central characters who have an intense rivalry but are also weirdly drawn to each other. These characters are simultaneously very similar and very different and have a very complex relationship that fans love to explore.

The other half is dedicated to a large group of characters that aren’t the main focus of the story but still play a really significant part. These groups both have a designated leader who sticks for his cause until the very end as well as a wide variety of other members that fans love to put in more casual situations. (also the yaoi there’s a lot of yaoi)

[mantisgodsdomain]

Finished Slay The Princess.

Final order of princesses: The Stranger, The Damsel, The Moment of Clarity, The Prisoner, The Wounded Wild

Final number of princesses killed: Somewhere between 0 and 0.5

Final number of princesses slain: 0

Out of all of the Princesses, The Beast ranked at #1 enthusiasm from the liveblog chat and #7 (out of 7) at amount of coherent commentary made. #1 comment across all routes was "women" from all members of chat. Had a lot of fun doing it. We are really, really bad at slaying princesses.

[letardoursprout]

if we were in the timeloop together would you kill me homoerotically over and over again

[the-voldsoy]

yall i reallyyy want to play Slay The Princess, however the only video game ive ever played is tetris and mario kart for the wii. is this a bad idea

[privilegedjester]

started watching a playthrough of slay the princess and I'm already writing essays to my friends just fawning over it

[sage3m5]

I've been watching this let's play channel Euro Brady lately, his thing is he's a Therapist so he brings Therapy Talk into his gameplay and really psychoanalyses the characters.

You'd think Stanley Parable wouldn't be a very good game for this format but actually I'm starting to believe that spending 5 straight minutes standing in front of the two doors explaining a psychological framing technique every time you get to the the two doors choice is The Correct Way to play this game.

[righteousdelusions]

Got omori and Cuphead AMONOOOOOOS

[everestgale]

Happy Valentine's Day, Slay the Princess Community!

My heart will always be a chorus that sings of our love.

I made a whole lot of valentines! Vessels, voices, human voices, you name it! I didn't draw every single voice or vessel (that would've been entirely too much even for an overachiever that is Everest), so I mostly just drew characters that I like, my friends like, or both :]

Special thanks to my friend Griese, who helped me with about half of these cheesy valentine lines, and to @/coldranger for writing the line for ShiftyQuiet card! It's genuinely so sweet, and I don't think I could've come up with a better one myself <3

Vessels first! We've got two valentines for Spectre, and then one each for Thorn, Nightmare, and Den!

Voices next! Two different cheesy lines for @itsonlypolite's Opportunist, and then it's Smitten, Cold, Skeptic, Cheated, and Paranoid!

Finally, some of my human voices, just for the fun of it! We have more Cold, more Smitten, and then fem!Oppy and fem!Skeptic <3

Happy Valentine's Day! Hope you might enjoy these silly valentine cards <3 If you'd like any of these without the wonderfully cheesy pickup lines, I put them under the cut :]

(I forgot about Tumblr's 30-image limit. So, uh, if you'd like the valentine card without the text for fem!Oppy, fem!Skeptic, or Den [her regular card has almost no text but still], let me know <3)

[cognitiveafflatus]

i find it uniquely incredible that recently, somehow, the only posts i ever see from following the tag "slay the princess" are about the voices, and sometimes even shipping the voices, and seemingly focusing almost exclusively on them.

like i never really got it before until i saw this trend, and maybe tumblr is just giving me consistently dogshit posts in term of variety but it's incredible how a game who's titular character is a princess. who is the only character you can physically see in the game for almost 99% of the time. is somehow being made exclusively about male characters. who are also all one guy technically but talking in different voices.

like i just never fucking interact with people on this site besides via art or other mostly irrelevant comments so i didnt get it but wow yeah okay yall were right about the female character erasure in fandom spaces thing holy shit. like i thought it was an exaggeration but there are three fucking characters total in stp and i havent seen the one woman actually show up when tumblr suggests me a post with the tag in like a month. im sure if i go look id probably find her right now easily but it's insane how consistently the new stuff i was getting was only about the male voices. god.