#coaltown

[abalonetea]

Coaltown - Release Day !

Do you know what's out today? Coaltown!

It’s supposed to be the week of a life time: seven days spent in the heart of Alaska, at an old trapper cabin owned by Austin Fielder’s uncle. Austin, his best friend Andrew, and the rest of their motley crew are going to drink, play games, catch up, and film the whole thing! But two days in, they find the opening to an old, old gold mine and they decide that the only thing that could make their week better is exploring inside. No one’s expecting to find anything living within the tunnels, let alone demons with claws like knives and the ability to mimic anything they hear. But then, they aren’t expecting a lot of things that happen on their trip. As their Best Week Ever spirals out into a nightmare straight from the depths of Hell, they find themselves forced to confront the worst, and best, parts of themselves. Even if they make it out alive, they might all still be hell bound. The first entry into this Alaskan Horror trilogy is action packed from start to end, and filled with more mysteries, intrigue, and danger than anyone could expect. Join Andrew and Austin as they confront the worst that the world has to offer. Will they all make it back alive?

Which means you can check it out on Amazon... Right here!

And even if you don't check it out, maybe you can give this post a little boost and spread it around? I would love people to get a chance to check out Coaltown!

The more you know about it, the more fun you'll have hearing about the editing process for Gorehound later this year!

[ettawritesnstudies]

ARC Review: 4/5 🌟

@abalonetea gave me a copy of this book as an ARC and this is my voluntary honest review.

I'll stop reading Katie's work when she stops coming up with new horrifying ways to make werewolves into fucked up monstrosities that make you fear for your life at 10:18am on a bright Thursday morning. The depths of her imagination for these creatures is as deep as the mineshafts in this book, and she always surprises me with clever ways to explore the genre. My other favorite part of this book was the found footage letter records they found in the Foreman's cabin. The implication of horror and mystery left unsolved and covered up is a compelling one. If nothing else, read it for the atmosphere alone. It's worth it.

Coaltown follows Andrew and his gang of friends as they take a vacation trip to a cabin to get footage for his senior thesis film. The group is introduced in rapid succession at the beginning and I had trouble differentiating who was who at first, but about 1/3 of the way into the story, Andrew does interviews with them which helps solidify their personalities and goals. I really liked that format and it was fun to see their banter and interactions, especially towards the end as they each step up to help escape. I think my favorite was the grouchy nurse chick who liked poking at the weird skull and took care of keeping the others alive. Andrew himself is a pathetic coward at times but this book sets up a character arc for him to grow in the rest of the series and I'm looking forward to watching his development. It's clear that despite their bickering, they all care about each other and can put their problem solving skills together to (mostly) survive.

Overall I highly recommend this for anyone who's looking for a fast paced monster story to give you the chills this winter! Also, you should help out a local writeblr! It just released yesterday and so if you buy a copy and leave a review, now is a crucial time to tell Amazon it's worth promoting. Support Indie authors!

[nohara-misae]

When you found the secret ending as an anti pirating measurement of the Shinchan Coal Town game.

[writinginslowmotion]

I made this for Coaltown! Yay Coaltown vibes!

Community event! We had something like this earlier in the month, but we’re going to revisit the topic today. The writeblr community is large and vast. Sharing work is at the heart of it, our own and others. Today, I want you to make a moodboard for someone else’s story. Make it as a gift, inspired by another writeblr’s characters, wip, or general vibe aesthetics.

Let’s make each other smile, even if our characters are suffering!

[christhebrit2]

Coaltown sell the best coffee in the UK.

[0sbrain]

ah, yes the two genders: p2p and f2p

[duskgryphon]

if i can figure out how to record clips i should upload some of my mvm matches i think very very silly things happening in there

[fifeelectriciansuk]

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[edandstede]

btw speaking of yorkshire day there’s a game called Thank Goodness You’re Here that is released today and it may or may not be based on the gleaming coaltown of my youth. it’s northern, it’s from the makers of untitled goose game and matt berry is in it and doing a hilarious impression of my accent like hello??? 10/10 love it

anyway it’s on pc / switch / playstation

[tj99er]

TF2 MVM Tierlist but its based on if they can solo Coaltown on the easiest difficulty

[abalonetea]

Ignore how condensed this is due to Tumblr shenanigans and celebrate the fact that Coaltown's paperback and eBook (available for preorder now) go live on the 15th of this month!

[ettawritesnstudies]

@abalonetea published Coaltown and I Drowned in the Summer of '85 last year, and I was so excited to talk with her about both of these stories! If you need a transcript there's one available here.

If you haven't read these books yet, you can check out my reviews here!

[scotianostra]

October 5th 1785 saw a spectacular balloon flight by Italian aeronaut Vincenzo Lunardi from Heriot's School, Edinburgh to Ceres in Fife, the first Scottish hydrogen-filled balloon take off.

The 46 mile flight over the Firth of Forth ended at Coaltown of Callange in the parish of Ceres, Fife. There is today a commemorative plaque nearby. At the time, The Scots Magazine reported:

'The beauty and grandeur of the spectacle could only be exceeded by the cool, intrepid manner in which the adventurer conducted himself; and indeed he seemed infinitely more at ease than the greater part of his spectators.'

The Glasgow Mercury newspaper ran adverts the following month announcing Lunardi's intention to 'gratify the curiosity of the public of Glasgow, by ascending in his Grand Air Balloon from a conspicuous place in the city'. Vincenzo made five flights in Scotland in his Grand Air Balloon—which was made of 140m2 of green, pink and yellow silk, and which was exhibited, 'suspended in its floating state' in the choir of St. Mungo's Cathedral in Glasgow for the admission charge of one shilling.

The weather was fine at about 14:00 on 23rd November 1785 when The Daredevil Aeronaut 'ascended into the atmosphere with majestic grandeur, to the astonishment and admiration of the spectators' from St. Andrew's Square in Glasgow. The two-hour flight covered 110 miles, and passed over Hamilton and Lanark before landing at the feet of 'trembling shepherds' in Hawick near the border.

A couple of weeks later, in early December, a local 'character' called Lothian Tam managed to get entangled in the ropes and as the balloon ascended—again from St. Andrew's Square in Glasgow, Tam was lifted 6 metres before being cut loose and falling—with apparently no serious injury. The weather was worse on this flight—which had to end after just 20 minutes, with the Grand Balloon landing in Campsie Glen in Milton of Campsie—just over 10 miles from Glasgow. His landing, on 5th December 1785, is commemorated by a small plaque in the village.

However, the next flight on 20 December 1785, was a disaster, though he survived. Seventy minutes after the ascent from the grounds of Heriot's Hospital in Edinburgh, Lunardi was forced down in the sea. He spent a long time in the North Sea until rescued by a passing fishing boat which docked at North Berwick. The diary of the Rev John Mill from Shetland states:

'A French man called Lunardi fled over the Firth of Forth in a Balloon, and lighted in Ceres parish, not far from Cupar, in Fife; and O! how much are the thoughtless multitude set on these and like foolish vanities to the neglect of the one thing needful. Afterwards, 'tis said, when soaring upwards in the foresaid machine, he was driven by the wind down the Firth of Forth, and tumbled down into the sea near the little Isle of May, where he had perished had not a boat been near who saved him and his machine.'

A short time later, in 1786, Lunardi published 'An Account of five Aerial Voyages in Scotland' in a series of letters to his guardian, Gherardo Campagni.

[wolfmage553]

SMG4/TF2 Analysis Anarchy Crossover Idea

You know how the TV Adware is able to hack machines to give information to people like how he told Marty about SMG3's secret pizza recipe and also how he seems to have entertaining the IRL audience as his motive?

What if he hacked the respawn generator and revived Axol and Desti in Coaltown for the purpose of entertaining the IRL audience with an impromptu crossover arc?

It could be possible and appealing to the IRL audience by reviving two fan favorite characters definitely seems like it'd be in TV Adware's bucket list of ways to entertain them.

[writinginslowmotion]

I'm so glad you liked it! It was a pleasure to make.

Here's a little gift I made for Coaltown, hope you enjoy!

Oh!!! This is absolutely AMAZING! I am so so glad that you enjoyed it, and so beyond touched that you made this! It absolutely perfectly fits the vibes for Coaltown and I’m just! I’m so excited and happy that you made this!

[tf2emporium]

New Unusual Effect, ★ Unusual: Coaltown Meltdown V2! Vote now on Steam Workshop This item was created by: Crimson Lightning (https://steamcommunity.com/id/CrimsonLightning1) Cipherlock (https://steamcommunity.com/id/cipherlock)