#YAY ISAT DAY

[playtheshadw]

You dreamt of stars, stars, stars.

(Still Versions)

Happy anniversary to In Stars and Time!

[tawnysoup]

two new critters just dropped

[dreamdripdistance]

"I touched the other side of the cracked mirror, screaming "why", but you never paid me any mind" (HAPPY ISATVERSARY)

[lonesomenecromancer]

more isat drawings yay

[buttercupshands]

Day 29 - Stolen

Isatober again yayyy

Took a long break between those

[jchorsky]

Celestial eyes i don't really think their eyes look like this - this was just a fun experiment for me !! i learned some stuff about painting and making stuff look like it's glowing so. yay yippie!!

(OH YEAH BEFORE I FORGET I HAVE ART REQEUSTS AND MY ASK BOX OPEN PLEASE GIVE ME ART REQUESTS PLEASE PLEASE PLEA )

[daily-isat]

day 5. funny shirt fthursday

sketch version under the cut. because i think it looks funny.

i did this with my finger on my ipad screen (with really high stabilization on accident) because my pen died. kind of love how silly it looks

[daily-qpr-miraloop]

I like to imagine that when the group is between towns that they take night watch shifts and this piece was born from it egowihoigehoiweg

[sysig]

Having fun, more and more! (Patreon)

[moonscape]

i fucking love pokemon man

[brokenstarwishes]

I found my Isa!!! I just need to find everyone else now, and I'm!!! hopeful!

[llilyrose]

llilyrose spends her time analyzing aroace stuff. yay.

isat spoilers afoot

what i especially like about the way adrienne wrote mira's orientation is the lack of room for interpretation. yes they snuck aroace talk into fantasy france, but just stop and think for a minute. what would happen if mira just said "i'm aroace" or "i don't feel love the same way" instead of all the nuance we got to her character in the friend quest convo?

we know she's sex repulsed, we know she's romance repulsed. we know she loves fiction that has those things in it, loves interpreting fictional characters that way, but can't bare to see herself in that situation. it makes a lot of sense with regards to her location (vaugarde, a very sex-positive and romance-adamant country) and also with regards to herself (the way she feels about her environment). Of course she wouldn't blame other folk around her for engaging with their religion the "correct" way, of course she'd internalize all her feelings of being outcast and turn it back on herself.

The fandom respects this! Nobody ships her romantically, or sexually, because we know she's not into that. We know she would never and i know a bunch of people who would punch you for even thinking it!

Now what if Adrienne hadn't put this in the game? What if they had just said on their tumblr one day, "mira's aroace," or something. where would we be now? aspec shipping discourse would definitely take the reins. we'd have people shipping her in all kinds of different ways, bending the aroace character to the best of their ability because they could still be into sex, or romance, or whatever. this is TRUE, it's POSSIBLE, but there's no nuance. We wouldn't know the way Mira really feels about these things unless Adrienne told us, so a lot of people would either ignore/"work around" her identity or just wouldn't even know about it to begin with!

Introducing mira's orientation in the way adrienne did leaves no room for discourse. we know if she's sex-positive, sex-negative, how she reacted to finding out she was, etc. It provides so much more representation than a simple "I'm aroace" ever could. It's such a wide label, so finally having CONCRETE information about a canonical aroace's experiences with their orientation is so, so freeing and honestly quite refreshing. and it's worked into the story seamlessly!!!

She's not an emotionless carcass with no capacity for love, she's not outwardly detesting sex or romance at every possible moment, she's simply a well-rounded character who happens to be aroace. You have time to warm up to her before ever even finding out about her orientation! Or having any clue at all (barring maybe the suspicious sketches)!!!!! Aroace people are real!!! We're so real!!!!

Speaking of the suspicious sketches! We know siffrin's alloace (from, like, one line of dialogue), but we don't know if he's sex-repulsed. Adrienne's gone on record to say "aces can still have sex" in reference to siffrin, so I'm inclined to believe he has at least some sort of libido.

When looking at the sketches, both him and mira have a repulsed reaction. I think there are three possible reasons for Siffrin here!

Siffrin is sex-repulsed and has a visceral reaction to them because he thinks it's gross.

Siffrin has no libido because the stress overrides everything in his system. That combined with his ace identity would probably lead to a distaste for the papers.

Some people would NOT GET THE MEMO from the act 3 friendquest. Sometimes when you're writing you have to account for the gamers being really really dense. Some people didn't even understand the Isa friendquest was him coming out as trans basically. Since Ace characters are hard to "prove" unless they explicitly state they dislike sex, this line of dialogue might've just been there to drill it in that Siffrin is ace because the only other place we see that implication is one line in the friendquest. It could even have no tie to his relationship with sex, who knows?

one of these options is not like the others! /silly

I couldn't tell you which one of those it is, but i think at least one of them had to have hit the mark. It's a lot harder to decode siffrin's sexuality when we only get like 5 lines of dialogue total that vaguely even reference it

With this we come back to the issue from earlier: He could be demi, he could be ace, he could be sex-repulsed, he could not! Most people write them sex-repulsed and I'm personally on that bandwagon, but interpreting them a different way isn't any less correct unless you completely ignore the fact they're ace in the first place.

Even sex-positive aces have complicated relationships with sex. Some do it for the gratification, some simply have higher libido and can't think of a different way to get it out, and others only do it to please their partner.

I think writing an ace character as sex-positive should be seen as a character study instead of an excuse to ship two characters together. Is this character the type to even enjoy it in the first place? How often? How do they interact with it? Etc. Which I think is what Adrienne was talking about when she said "aces can still have sex." We don't know about siffrin's identity, we don't have a grasp on the nuance, but we do know he's ace and that he experiences love differently from the way mirabelle does, and the way isabeau does, and the way odile does, and what have you.

I love love love the representation we get in isat. An aroace, an alloace, and someone that a lot of fans headcanon as aroallo though it's unconfirmed. Even if Odile's not aro, we still get that line of dialogue about not finding romance suitable for her at the moment, which speaks true to a different experience altogether. No two characters experience love, experience life the same in isat. That's why i get to make a tumblr text post that's a bit too long exploring the different avenues adrienne took when writing the characters lol :')

[naswoop]

After about a million drafts and over two years, this is finally done!

A couple things-- this animatic is very specific to the prologue, and I first started drafting it before In Stars and Time (the sequel/full game) was even announced, so there are some things that are noticeably different if you're coming from ISaT (the party's marching order, I didn't know what Sif's first death was at the time, Sif not knowing everyone's names...). This animatic is also suuuuuper Siffrin-centric. I love everyone else so much but this one's about the good ol' ~Time Loop Edginess~.

Maybe one day I'll actually make this into a proper video, but that day is not today. I just wanted to get this done before ISaT came out (and I've managed to do that! Yay me!!).

This was honestly such a delight to work on and I learned so much about digital art in the process (I finally found the "turn off anti-aliasing" button! Yay!). Please please please go check out @insertdisc5's games, they're so good!! I'm really looking forward to when In Stars and Time comes out!!

Here's a link to Sundial on YouTube.

[anch0-a]

2hats spoilers under the cut

Isat month day 30: loop

Yay i did the entire month!!!!!

[water-mellie-seeds]

YAY HELP!!!!

Although, i know this is a EXTREMELY evil and bad thing for me to say…..but I actually kinda hate how you get two hats sorrry

Like I love the coin scene, but it happening randomly, and it’s only active after act 3? Weird. There isn’t even a line or interaction that implies using the coin a bunch will get you anywhere. Like I don’t HATE it, but i ALWAYS tell people it exists just because it’s an extremely major scene that is locked by chance.

And I still like random scenes, bad touch is like, my favourite scene in isat, but hiding the literal most important scene in the epilogue behind randomly interacting with a item at a random point is annoying to me sorrryyyyyyy

Anyway that was my rant I hoped you liked it:)

NO I AGREE. If you hadnt told me it would have been something i put off for like, WEEKS maybe months because its tedious as all fucking helllllll. I can appreciate it, again it feels earned to me but its definitely something i assume a lot of people Didn't get on their first run. And something i Definitely would not have gotten without your hints (love you<3)

I honestly... cant recall another thing thats like this for whatever reason but ive definitely played games that do this. I was about to say omori true/secret ending but ehhhh even that one isnt As Bad, but its another chance based deal ouhh water all the flowers EVERY day!!!!! Ohhh you better water those flowers!!!! like not everyone is doing that more than once unless someone tells them they should. TBH. Like don't get me wrong i DO love a good secret fight or secret ending but sometimes its just so So annoying especially if the game is like, long. I mean this with all the love in the world too

[chronologically-challenged]

10, 25 for the isat ask game >:]

10. How does the universe fuck up your wish?

Okay, so my wish as per my previous ask was that we wouldn't die the next day (in a theoretical universe where I was a savior at the favor tree making a wish).

Yay! We're essentially immortal now!!! That doesn't mean we can't get fucking mangled!!! Or frozen!!! Basically!!! We're immortal!!!! But at what cost!!!! But if we say that this combines with the wish to save vaugarde... perhaps there's also reviving involved??? Who knows. We Cannot Die combining with Saving Vaugarde leaves us at a stalemate at the King where we just. Destroyed. Again and again. For until the wish breaks.

Awfully painful no matter what happens.

But if we can't get frozen due to this wish, at least the crew could bypass the frozen tears!!!! That's something!!!! I think!!!!

25. Which bird in Dormont is your favorite?

Bird right when you exit the meadow!!! They're my friend!!! I always talk to them even after Siffrin stops calling back.