#Update 1

[tellioari]

Sneak peek at the stuff coming in the first update of the dye mod!! The mod will be available incredibly soon.

We've been working hard for a year and 3 months to get a whole bunch of the content into the mod! We still plan on adding some things soon, join our discord server for more updates :>

[tangledstrings-if]

——Tangled Strings——

Demo: TBA

Current TWs: Violence, Falling from heights, graphic content (gore, sex, etc.) 17+

You fell from the heavens and hit the ground hard.

Your home, a series of islands in the sky far above the snowy clouds that cover the human kingdom of Yalkasana, was paradise to you. The sun shone, the wind always blew, oh, and you still had your wings. Big fluffy things that were once taller than you, emerging from between your shoulder blades.

Paradise it might have been, utopia it was not. Cut- throat (or in your case cut-wing) politics are just part of life. Everyone must play the game, and you were a poor player. Or maybe you were just unlucky.

Some artifacts should stay dusty, and weapons with enough power to level the planet’s surface are definitely one of such things. When the artifact was revealed, a key to the island’s mythologized past of victory and conquest, of course someone would want to use it. To relive the glory days of your people and bring the surface world below to its knees once more like in the ancient scripture.

The thing is, the artifact? A piece of junk more likely to explode and crash the islands out of the sky than to actually aim at the ground and destroy some kingdom or city there.

You spoke out. It was only right. You had to protect your people, your friends, your home. But you failed, miserably. Labeled a traitor to your history and islands, they ripped out your wings, cauterized, and sewed the wounds shut before they threw you from the islands with one objective. If you survive the fall and you still want to stop the restoration of the artifact? Destroy the kingdoms below before it’s done.

Welcome to the human Kingdom of Yalkasana. Your home awaits.

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Tangled Strings is an Interactive Fiction game made in Twine. You follow a cast of unlikely friends, who all want the same thing as you. To save their home.

Meet the ROs. Your friends. Your victims.

The Princess (She/Her):

- Maira Yalkansanas is the darling of the court, her place secured by being the second of the dead King and Queen’s children. With a noble heart and gentle air, people part like the sea before her path. Her grey eyes mirror the clouds above her beloved kingdom, with a sharpness that glints like a knife in the dark. She has everything she never wanted, and three people who allow her to call Yalkasana her home, her twin brother, her falcon, and her life long friend.

The Prince (He/Him):

- Hylens Yalkansanas is the people’s sword and shield, his place secured by being the first born of the dead King and Queen’s children. He is valiant and brave, an aspiration for every guard and soldier in the kingdom. His grey eyes mirror the cold metal of his father’s sword, with a softness of the clouds above them all. He cradles his duty with the awkwardness of someone being handed a babe as the parent walks away without a word. But still, he holds it steady, there is no one else to hand it off to anymore.

The Diplomat (They/Them):

- Morn Lyfes is the first, and youngest, Elven diplomat to walk in Yalkasana in over a century. What an honor. What a burden. A clear-sighted and fire-eyed beauty with a light footstep. They were born in bloodshed, raised in ruin, and came of age in the restoration of their kingdom. They are the closest anyone in Yalkasana will ever get to seeing a star.

The Healer (He/She/They):

- Rhayen Thurm is a steady and well reputable healer in the castle. One of a dozen, almost completely interchangeable with the rest, aside from their close relationship to the princess. With hair as white as their gloves and eyes red like rubies, they stand out with their mediocre skills and status. Their smile is soft, despite having a twist like they know what kind of stuff your spirit is made of before you even speak.

The Baker (He/She/They):

- Gullen Wasy is a cook in the castle. Their mother was incredibly skilled, but died with the plague before she had the chance to teach them her secrets. Now they feed the servants of the castle, and occasionally get to help with feasts or parties when any extra pair of hands with even half a wit will do. They are stubbornly kind and well-meaning despite how much trouble it always gets them in.

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[[Build the story with a multitude of choices ranging from who to murder to who to date. There will be choices in sex, gender, sexuality, background, morals, skills, and personality.

I am working on: Chapter One as of 10/19/24 and plan to have it published before 01/01/25 as the demo.

There are twenty chapters planned, but they'll be separated into three arcs to make the game load easier on Twine as I write them.

I might have a second book/sections of arcs, but I'll cross the bridge when I get to it.

Any questions or suggestions are welcome, most of my posts until I drop the demo will be art of the ROs/Friends and world building history/tidbits that I think is cool but cannot find a way to fit into the story organically. Full disclosure, I am a senior in college right now and work a part time job while also doing research, so while I have full plans to finish this book/game, it will be slow going on progress until I graduate. Most deadlines will be tentative, but I fully intend to meet them.]]

[aoitakumi8148]

...𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓮𝓶𝓸𝓻𝔂, 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓛𝓸𝓼𝓼 & 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓶𝓮 𝓓𝓸𝓷’𝓽 𝓓𝓮𝓯𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓜𝓮 ~ 𝓑𝓾𝓽 𝓘 𝓕𝓮𝓪𝓻 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓘𝓼 𝓐 𝓛𝓲𝓮...

[frizzyanya]

Editing update:

So I'm editing my epistolary regency romance novel, and I have made at least 5 mins effort (but often more) every day this week. I'm proud of that!

I have re-outlined the first 23 chapters (52%) of the book. I have summarized the themes of the first 24 letters (in spreadsheet form).

All of this was in my original outline and notes, but I'm re-creating the outline for two reasons:

I want to make sure my outline has only what's actually in the book, not anything I skipped including from the book's original plans

I want to refamiliarize myself with not only the story's details but the timing.

It's been interesting to go through it on this level.

I'm catching inconsistencies that I didn't catch any of the last 13 times I read it. (In my defense I wrote 100,000 words in two months, there wasn't all that much re-reading going on.)

Beyond small grammar and name errors, I'm realizing that certain characters know things they shouldn't or vice versa. Also one plotline that could have been bigger got mostly dropped with just a small reference here or there, and that seems very out of character for several of the girls.

I noted that my visual descriptions of both characters and setting were lacking. I opened the book with the main family getting described, but I don't know that their friends ever were. Both FMC and MMC's houses have absolutely no descriptive language. I included it when they went new places and remarked on things, but not for what they saw as mundane.

Last thing: I started this process with plans to cut one entire arc (keep only what was necessary, but move it to a different setting) and several characters who appear only in that arc.

Well I got to it and I found that that setting has the most vivid setting descriptions and some of the most endearing interactions. So I can't cut it, I'll have to find something else.

[mortalmab]

Here we go

Terran cracked an eye open. Morning again. By far, the worst part of being an itinerant scholar was waking up stiff on the road. Late spring was a better time to be sleeping rough than some others, but this far north the ground still remembered winter. Terran pulled their bedroll more tightly around themselves for a moment, willing sleep to return. It did not. The persistent ache in their bladder, combined with the root they seem to have rolled onto in the night, made Terran climb out of last night’s bed and crack their back. Their breath made ghosts in the chill dawn air as they took care of their morning routine, packed up the bedroll, and continued down the road.

Hurstley, the eastern-most holding in the county of Valareth, was big enough that it took several days to cross on foot. It had been a long journey north and Terran’s purse was feeling the effects. Their feet were feeling it even harder.

The clop-clop of hooves and the creaking of a wagon brought relief. Terran turned and coming up the road was a hay wagon pulled by a braw farm horse. The old man on top looked like a peeled apple left in the sun for too long. Terran waited for the cart to catch up with them. They began to walk alongside.

“Good morning!” they called. The farmer nodded at them.

“Good morning young master.”

“Where are you headed, Grandfather?”

“On up to Hurstley Manor, young…ster.” Terran was used to the hesitation. They had been told several times that it was hard to determine exactly what they looked like and honestly Terran enjoyed it that way. Jaw just a little too strong to be comfortably feminine, chest just slightly too big to be comfortably masculine, Terran rested in a comfortable androgyny. The old man shook his head but continued, “are you looking for a lift?”

Terran offered him a brilliant smile. “If there’s room on your cart, Grandfather, I’d love nothing more.”

The old man was an amiable travel companion. He talked with pride about his farm and his home and his family.

“We’ve lived in Hurstley since the War of the Gods, it seems. Bora’s Body, but there isn’t a more beautiful place in all the world, seems to me. And Lirburn is a good master. My boys and I, we grow the hay that supplies the castle and the town below it.”

“You must have a big farm then?”

“Oh aye. And times must be good because Sir Lirburn has been ordering more of our hay than he used to, seems like! If this keeps up, we’ll need to till even the fallow field next year! I’d warn him though, you can’t keep using up the fallow field year in and out. Fields got to go fallow for a reason!”

He continued speaking but Terran stopped listening. Sometimes a Knight or Lord might have need of a few extra supplies if he was expecting a party or some such, but to make continued increases in supplies sounded to Terran less like times were good and more like times were about to get bad.

“So whereabouts are you from then?”

Terran jumped at the question. They took a second to bring themselves present.

“Uh, most recently from Tonbridge, but originally Tyr’s Reach.”

“Oh that right? You’re a long ways from the capitol, youngster.”

Terran shrugged. “Gotta go where there’s work.”

The old man laughed. “Too right, too right.” He seemed content to leave it at that. Terran was relieved. Truthfully, as a master in the Scribal Guild, Terran could have gotten work just about anywhere. The book in their pack burned in the back of their mind. Afar as Terran’s studies had taken them, their final destination was somewhere in the Duchy of Norfolk. Either County Valareth or County Cheshire, if Terran was right. Terran was unlikely to find a very lucrative contract out here but work was work and Terran would take whatever paved their way to their final destination. Wherever that ended up being.

The town of Hurstley had a relaxed atmosphere about it, being in the shadow of the manor house. The house was a stone manor surrounded by a wooden palisade at the top of a hill with a rocky bluff down one side. No way to bring a large force there without being noticed. The manor, the town, the holding of this size were all far more than most knights had. Sir Lirburn must have the good graces of someone.

Catch you in the next update!

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[barabones]

I forget exactly where I saw the initial post asking for volunteers, but on July 10th, I reached out to the listed email. Jane, the organizer, got back to me right away and within an hour I was added in their discord.

Up until this point, I had been maintaining an average 8 ESims myself, so I already had experience checking in on them on a daily basis. The folks there helped me onboard with the spreadsheets for keeping track, and now it's very easy for me to catalog new ones I buy and record daily data usage. The whole process takes me maybe 20-40 minutes a day depending now on how many ESims actually need to be topped off.

Jane has been very up front with lots of the group's information, with frequent announcements about the groups current funds and amounts of daily ESims sent out. She and the others have been super helpful with getting funds to us when needed, and I've almost never had to actually spend any of my own money for any of this.

In the time that I've been volunteering, they figured out how to run a Business account with the Nomad ESim company. Which means that now and then they can just send 15 or so ESims my way, and I just catalog them and send the QRcodes towards Mirna and the Connecting Gaza folks. No more wasting time with the purchasing process, while getting a bit of a bulk discount on top of that.

We also share updates on whatever brand of ESims are most needed. When folks on the ground tell us that one network doesn't seem reliable, we are able to switch over for a while until either the networking issue is fixed, or we all pressure customer service enough to replace them for us.

There's also lots of complaining about new UI updates an general website bugs. There's surprisingly a lot of them and it's good to know other folks are getting info from customer service when things go wrong.

In August they made a meme channel

Anyways....

Lets get into some stats for myself. In 2 months (July 10- Sept12) I have:

Send off 171 ESims

Maintained around 60 active ones

Topped up these active ESims 139 times

Spend over $6400 donated dollars

I have multiple power users who have burned through close to 100GB. 2 of them have broken 200GB. These are most likely being used as hot spots.

Why am I sharing all of this? Mostly to show how easy it has been to make a marginal difference. I have helped at least 60 people stay connected with the outside world in just 2 months. Probably more if we assume some of the power users becoming hotspots for other folks. This is 20-40 minutes of my time a day, and I honestly regret not signing up to do this sooner.

I was specifically limiting myself to this workload because I wanted to test the waters. Those stats was me specifically not wanting to push myself and see what impact a normal person could make with 20 minutes a day. At this point I think I will be taking more advantage of Nomad's Tuesday discounts to really bulk up my numbers. It's pretty easy to buy 15 or so every Tuesday, and then send em over.

If you would like to join us in this endeavor, please reach out to Jane at cripsforesimsforgaza(at)gmail

We are specifically looking for people in European time zones, since a lot of us are in the Americas and that's quite a difference between us and Gaza. If not, that's no problem!

If you can't participate, that's totally fine, but please donate what you can! Folks like you are the ones who keep us going!

I hope this information has been useful in some way. Like I said, I wish I had heard about this group sooner, with how easy it has been to do. I can track my direct impact of what my daily time is doing for folks, and seeing the data be used up a little bit more day by day gives me hope for everyone in Gaza. Thank you for your time.

[cheezandthementalillnesbuds]

CHAMIF VOLUME 1: PAGE 2

[swampybogg]

[xtaleunderverse]

ENGLISH:

I’m just one file away from finishing the backgrounds of the entire animation. Together with Nyx and his colleague CyanWaves, we’ll start working on the sound effects and music.

I’ve had a bit of a delay because I’m dealing with some paperwork in my home country, but I’ve made as much progress as I could at night on my laptop with an old version of Animate (the recent version crashes for some reason).

Once I get back home, I’ll be able to progress faster with my PC.

Stay tuned!

ESPAÑOL:

Estoy a un archivo de terminar los fondos de toda animación. Junto con Nyx y su colega CyanWaves, comenzaremos a trabajar en efectos de sonido y música.

Me encuentro un poco atrasada debido a que estoy lidiando con unos trámites en mi país natal, pero he avanzado lo más que he podido en las noches con mi laptop en una versión antigua de Animate (la versión más reciente crashea por alguna razón).

Una vez regrese a casa, seré capaz de avanzar más rápido con mi PC.

¡Mant��nganse sintonizad@s!

[axoqiii]

shujin trio,,my babies..,.,

[yan-yn]

lol

[kyonshi-8610]

i'm going to kill both of you

(from this)

[lilybug-02]

Doomed by the Narrative.

Bug Fact: Each species of Firefly have their own pattern of light flashing.

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Masterpost

[thedarkangelpuppet]

g2 ponies . going by what my little wiki considers the core ponies of each gen

g3 and g3.5 Cheerilee is probally gonna be back to being Scootaloos sister. I made Toolaroola, Starsong and Sunnydaze all teens like scootaloo, applebloom and sweetiebelle. mostly because sunny daze as a babytoy in g4 but is an adult mare in g3. toolaroola is a filly in g4 while an adult mare in g3 (the same as scootaloo and sweetie belle)

my goal isn't to totally redesign them but keep the colorshemes of their toy forms and just combine them with previous versions of them.

g1 and g5 are the next ones that im gonna work on. I will also probally think in which kingdom their gonna be once i have the main ponies designed

Working sorta on a MLP AU. Because my recommended I seen some mlp infection AUs and reviews of MLP gen 5 I decided to come back to drawing ponies. These are kinda redesigns of my Gen mix AU sorta. Basically the plan was to combine generations of mlp but now it sorta became its own AU with Twillight being princesses of the Stars and Luna's wife not having met the rest of the main 6 and the world being split in half into day and night. next on my list to redesign are more main ponies first like the gen3, gen 2,gen 1 and gen 5 ponies aswell as starlight and sunset from g4

[northgazaupdates]

1 April 2024

Sources report the occupation has withdrawn from Al-Shifa Hospital complex and surrounding neighborhoods.

It is reported that over 50 martyrs have been founded in the streets outside the complex entrance. Hundreds more martyrs lie in the complex itself, we may not know an exact number for many hours.

Many buildings have been either bulldozed out of existence or burned and gutted so viciously as to be completely unusable. Many homes in the vicinity are in the same condition.

Check reblogs for updates

Sources: Anas Al-Sharif on Telegram, Resistance News Network on Telegram, Wadea Abu Alsaoud on Instagram, Abood Abu Salama on Instagram; Ahmad Ibraheem on Instagram, et al