#coop local

[gamereporter]

Anima Flux estreia hoje na Steam e promete agitar a comunidade gamer

O aguardado jogo cooperativo de ação e exploração Anima Flux, desenvolvido pela JollyCo, foi lançado oficialmente nesta segunda-feira (7) na plataforma Steam. O game, que já figura entre os três títulos mais seguidos do gênero Metroidvania, chega cercado de expectativas e promete uma experiência inovadora para os fãs. A estreia mundial atrai olhares não só pela jogabilidade envolvente, mas também…

[arthursfuckinghat]

Lakay - Bayou Nwa

[whilereadingandwalking]

Walking through the maze of Seminary Coop Bookstore is always my favorite thing to do.

[ohhgingersnaps]

Stars The Same As Ever (Hallmark AU)

Ch. 3/32 — When I Said, "Leave Me Alone," This Isn't Quite What I Meant T+ | Sebastian/Farmer

“Not important?” Sebastian asks, raising an eyebrow. “It’s not,” Ava insists, but the way her eyes shift and the pause before she says it tells him she’s lying through her teeth. Badly. He wonders whether she’ll fess up about the nature of her not-important emergency if he pushes her on it. He raises his eyebrows. Makes eye contact. Holds it. I can do this longer than you can, he thinks as she wavers, feeling more than a little smug. “Okay, it’s maybe a little important,” she finally admits, cringing. “There’s kind of, uh… A hole. In my chicken coop.” “There’s a hole in your chicken coop,” he repeats slowly. “A pretty big one. Anyway, I can figure it out! I think it’s not structural? Probably? And, you know, even if I can’t figure it out on my own, it’s fine for now, because I moved them into—” She cuts herself off mid-sentence, her eyes going even wider, and there’s a full two-second pause before she continues. “I… Moved them. Yes.” He narrows his eyes. “Moved them where?” She grimaces. “Into my house? Maybe a little bit?” “Into your house? Why?” He feels the corner of his mouth twitch upwards, and he takes another bite of green bean casserole to cover it. “How are they a little bit in your house?”

(Read the rest on AO3!)

[kingofanemptyworld]

Choji’s Team:

Cinderace (Partner Pokemon)

Monferno

Torracat

Castform (Sunny Day Form)

Litleo

Charcadet

Yes, Choji has three starter pokemon evolutions on his team. I couldn’t help myself and neither could he, apparently. Choji’s definitely been abroad a fair few times, both before and after becoming his town’s gym leader, and it’s like he’s got a sixth sense for finding the pokemon in each region that are going to give him the biggest challenge. The rarest and most difficult to catch have all been starter pokemon so far (and Castform, which he may or may not have stolen/liberated from a weather research facility in Hoenn). Cinderace is his ace (ha) pokemon, and it’s… totally because he’s got the kanji for rabbit in his name (correct me if I’m wrong but that’s why everyone uses the rabbit emoji for him, right?). Also fire types just felt fitting for Choji. Bright and burning like the sun, just like him! Hence why Castform is perpetually in its Sunny Day form. Monferno matches his acrobatics in a fight and Torracat is for Shishitoren!

As for Litleo… gonna be totally honest here, I briefly forgot Torracat existed and thought this was the closest I was going to get to a tiger. And then I did find Torracat, and I thought about dropping Litleo from the line-up. The eyes, though. Litleo’s damn eyes reminded me too much of Choji, so I kept it. Also it’s cute and I can very vividly imagine Choji play-wrestling with it. And probably playing soccer/football with Cinderace. Choji would dominate in a lot of sports but I’m partial to soccer, so. Might as well tack that headcanon on.

(Also, hey. If my very tired brain is misfiring at the moment and shishitoren’s animal is a lion, not a tiger? I did Litleo on purpose)

Last but not least, Charcadet. I said this in another post but I literally have no idea what goes on in Scarlet and Violet. I don’t know if this is a rare pokemon, or one Choji could feasibly have without completing some plot-relevant quest. But we’re throwing logic out the window for this one because I took one look at Charcadet and said, yeah, that’s Choji’s. No need to look for a backup sixth pokemon, that’s him all over. Tiny fire child warrior!! No regrets.

[galasgamingcorner]

Trine 5 by Frozenbyte (2023)

[kingworm]

like yeah it’s so much fucking money to buy a coffee & a sweet treat but it’s about the ritual. it’s the ritual. it’s going outside of your house, meeting the familiar barista, chatting idly & waiting for a hot beverage you can carry around - you just don’t get that at home

[ada2987-art]

Misty day with butterflies...

Featured insect is Vanessa atalanta - The Red Admiral

[emmathompsonegot]

The other thing about the Boston area (including Camberville etc) is that it’s a great example of medium density urban planning with mixed use neighborhoods and access to yards and green space, BUT it’s nearly impossible to find a one bedroom apartment for less than 2.5k/month, so you turn 30, and your options are basically to find a partner to move in with, or to be a 30 year old professional with a reasonably well paying job and 3 roommates, which is why the city has such a bad retention problem despite being so young overall. Or you move to Rhode Island

[holydongbird]

fuck it. they go on my tumblr too. MOCK FLOCK!!!

leftmost chicken is from @dragonbma :-))

[acelessthan3]

Any of you got something better I can put in my mouth?

[strawbeb]

in 2023 we are saying NO to giant spiders in fantasy media.

[heckaroniandcheese]

tip me $9000000 to start my off grid zero waste permaculture food forest homestead right now !!! right now!!!! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[caelcstis]

i somehow pulled smthn in my shoulder/arm and i am gonna yell

[foldingfittedsheets]

There was this park near where I grew up. I remember we’d just moved to the area so I was around six and we drove past and saw this waterfront area. My parents decided to check it out so we went for a walk. It was a lovely park, there’s a lazy slough, lots of trees, extremely picturesque. My parents ambled along the trail enjoying the nature while my siblings and I ranged around in their orbit like excitable moons.

Then I saw something odd. Something vibrantly alive down by the water that was entirely the wrong color. I called back my vital scouting info and my family gathered around me. We looked down the steep verge toward the slough, screened by underbrush. We couldn’t quite make out what it was. The only thing we could agree was that it certainly wasn’t a duck. However it was about duck sized and roughly duck shaped. It just wasn’t a duck.

This led to some heated debate amongst my siblings and I but we were forbidden to scramble down the muddy hill to harass the mystery animal. Reluctantly we continued down the trail, speculating wildly when a chicken popped out of a bush in front of us with a train of several chicks.

We froze. The chicken did not. She placidly herded her little puffs across the trail, pecking happily for seeds, unbothered by our proximity. My family had not yet delved into farming and this was the first time any of us kids had seen a chicken up close. It was like a fairytale thing, a creature we had seen over and over in books was suddenly here in the wilderness of the park. We all realized the mystery creature had likewise been a chicken.

Another couple came up the trail and saw us staring.

“Is this your first time at the park?” They asked?

We nodded.

They informed us that this park had become a dumping ground for unwanted chickens. Once the chickens were dumped they were park property and the locals didn’t mind the eccentric additions at all. No one looked after the chickens, but they got on surprisingly well.

As the years went by we visited the park regularly. Signs were added to warn people not to dump off chickens or they’d be fined. They were also excluded from snatching the existing chickens. The hope was that the chickens would eventually run their course and the park would go back to normal.

It did not.

Instead the menagerie grew. Peacocks cropped up occasionally, turkeys; and one visit we saw guinea fowl. But there were always chickens. Eventually feed dispenser were installed so park goers could pay a quarter to enjoy the motley flocks.

Because we’d moved into a house with land my mom started up a chicken coop and we got our very own chickens at the feed store like proper folks. The first rooster we had was a gentleman, politely clucking at us when came into the coop, but the second proved troublesome a year later. He either adored or hated me. Every time I entered the coop he’d dance and flounce and brandish his spurs.

My mom didn’t want to off him frankly she didn’t know how at that point but his fascination ended with him flying at me and the rooster was sentenced to banishment.

We drove to the park.

We saw him there for years afterward, clucking dutifully around a small flock of hens. He did pretty well in exile.

Anyone who’s kept chickens knows that eventually there’s always a tragedy. Ours happened when a neighbors dog broke into our coop and slaughtered the flock. I was absolutely distraught, my lovingly hand reared chicks all decimated in a flurry of senseless bloodlust. I have not loved a chicken since. They are too fragile to bear it.

After a few days of mourning my mom offered that she knew where to find some more chickens. To make up for the massacre she planned a night raid with us. We stayed up past our bedtime and drove to the park with tarp covered kennels in the back of the truck.

We crept down along the gravel parking lot, looking up into the trees, spotting the telltale lumps of shadows that meant chickens. We quickly developed a strategy. We picked a chicken branch, creeping close underneath. Then we reached the end of the branch and gave it a good shake until the roosting chicken glided down to the ground in confusion. It was easy to scoop them up and we went home the proud new owner of a handsome flock of chickens.

The Take a Chicken Leave a Chicken park is still a beloved feature of its neighborhood to this day.

[yusuke-of-valla]

Fantasy Life has local co-op I'm so fucking ready