#exquisite cadaver

[manonamora-if]

Happy October!

This was planned for yesterday, but comp opening and I had bugs to fix.

I managed to "finish" the game and submitted it just on time!

The current build (playable on the IF Comp website starting yesterday lol!) is about 40-50k words long, including all variation (excluding: "codex", "player page", the arcade mode" and some text widgets). While the cap to reach an end is 14 in-game days, the game can be completed around day 5-6 if you only serve perfect drinks. Also, you can just skip that and play the Arcade for lulz.

This has been super nerve-wracking, submitting something to the big league of comps for IF, and it is about to be even more nerve-wracking having people not only play but judging it. It's exciting, but I am a bit anxious about it. And now judging has started...

BUT: my goal was to submit a working project with more than just making random drinks (so a minimum of a story) and place in the top half of the ranking. I've achieved the first, hopefully, the second will be true too :D

Still, I have learned A LOT working on this project: making special widgets, optimizing my code, editing some JavaScript, including more accessibility (key biding, animation-blocker), creating a more interactive game for the player than just choice lists, mastering flex boxes, using the memorize() function (which I had to remove at the end cause it was creating bugs...), using more custom animations in CSS, etc...

I am quite proud of having done all of that in like 3 months or so. Probably not the best timeframe to upload a comp game but eh, I did it anyways :P

I have a bunch of ideas on what to add, but I'll think about that in November. Expect a "post-mortem"/roadmap coming before the Comp Result.

In the meantime, play TTTT on the IF Comp website, as well as the other amazing entries there! Give all participants some love <3 We all worked really hard for it.

Since the last update (only UI x, x) back last February, I've received a handful of reports of bugs in some paths and other issues (typos, colour contrast, etc..). I started looking into it, hoping this would just that, and... there will be quite a bit more to fix on top of those. (It's real rough... I feel very ashamed)

I have learned A LOT about coding since I first made this project public last year. Not only that, but also about formatting text on the screen.

I know full well I should keep the project shelved and leave it be. I've worked enough on it. It showed what I could do at that point in time and is a great point of reference to see how far I've gone.

And yet, looking into the code just made me wince a bit... Especially when I know I could improve it and actually try to make it more accessible in general.

So yeah... Update incoming.

Lol, I already added 1k of words for the English version bc proofreading/editing.

MelS had been writing a few hundred words here and there, pretty much when he gets a chance to write (he's been super busy). He promised me to try to finish the missing Scene of Chapter 2 so I can code them in for the end of the month release. I have a backup planned if this doesn't work out.

Currently not much on that front. But further updates will be planned throughout the month!

OTHER PROJECTS/NOTES:

I will be uploading 3 more rounds of Exquisite Cadaver sometime this month and add another theme! You will see another theme form passing by to choose the next one :)

I am also bringing Crimson Rose & White Lily out of official Hiatus. The writing of the next scene has technically started, but it won't be full steam ahead for another week or two.

I am taking SugarCube coding questions again! If you need an explanation about the use of a certain macro, or how to do a certain thing in CSS, etc...

Will I manage doing everything this month? Probably not :P

[nitramarchive]

[warningsine]

Good post op.

For those interested, here are some such films to know herstory:

"Mädchen in Uniform" (1931)

"Anna and Elizabeth" (1933)

"All about Eve" (1950)

"Olivia" (1951)

"Mädchen in Uniform" (1951), dir. Géza von Radványi

"Girls in Uniform" (1951), dir. Alfredo B. Crevenna

"No Exit" (1954)

"The Girl with the Golden Eyes" (1961)

"Walk on the Wild Side" (1962)

"The Nun" (1966)

"Persona" (1966) (yes, I'm including it)

"Belle de Jour" (1967)

"Les Biches" (1968)

"The Killing of Sister George" (1968)

"Baby Love" (1969)"

"The Exquisite Cadaver" (1969)

"The Vampire Lovers" (1970)

"Daughters of Darkness" (1971)

"The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant" (1972)

"The Beguines" (1972)

"Successive Slidings of Pleasure" (1974)

"Twice a Woman" (1979)

"Desert Hearts" (1985)

"I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing" (1987)

"Betty" (1992)

"Les Voleurs" (1996)

"8 Women" (2002)

"Nathalie…" (2003)

"Night Fangs" (2005)

"Backstage" (2005)

"Pretty Persuasion" (2005)

"Loving Annabelle" (2006)

"The Page Turner" (2006)

"Notes on a Scandal" (2006)

"Bandaged" (2009)

"Chloe" (2009), American remake of "Nathalie…"

"Cracks" (2009)

"Gigola" (2010)

"Bloomington" (2010)

"A Perfect Ending" (2012)

"Concussion" (2013)

"Nymphomaniac: Vol. II" (2013) (going controversial with this one)

"Tru Love" (2013)

"Clouds of Sils Maria" (2014)

"Sand Dollars" (2014)

"The Duke of Burgundy" (2014)

"Unexpected" (2014)

"4.48" (2014)

"Carol" (2015)

"Freeheld" (2015)

"Summertime" (2015)

"AWOL" (2016), dir. Deb Shoval

"Bird of Prey" (2016)

"Foreign Body" (2016)

"Allure" (2017)

"Atomic Blonde" (2017)

"Daphne du Maurier: In Rebecca’s Footsteps" (2017)

"The Party" (2017)

"You, Me and Him" (2017)

"Lizzie" (2018)

"The Favourite" (2018)

"Suspiria" (2018)

"The Bisexual" (2018)

"Clementine" (2019)

"Greta" (2019) (anon's* choice ❤️)

"Saint Maud" (2019)

"Ammonite" (2020)

"I Care a Lot" (2020)

"T11 Incomplete" (2020)

"Take Me Home" (2020)

"Parallel Mothers" (2021)

"Vigil" (2021)

"Benedetta" (2021)

"Anaïs in love" (2021)

"Eileen" (2023)

"May December" (2023)

Some of them are subtextual, some of them explicit, some--to use Tumblr's favorite word--problematique, some do not revolve around romance, some are cinematic masterpieces, some utter trash.

*Edit:

Ok, I laughed out loud, but on second thought? #valid

[notchainedtotrauma]

I've written a public essay in which I'm working out the way Black women and Black girls perform their sexuality in public landscapes. This essay references Megan Thee Stallion and her orchestrated abuse, Delainey Hayles as Claudia Du Lac in the TV series Interview with the Vampire and the Black woman as jezebel, amongst other points. Since this essay is public, to profit from it, I would appreciate anybody this essay deeply exalted to tip. Pp: ccd4t@virginia.edu

The moving gifs above best visually sum up the essay. Here are some excerpts to whet your appetite:

To be overdetermined by their flesh is a narrative running through Black women and Black girls. The gaze is othering, glassy and blotting. Many a day Black girlhood and womanhood appears a ghostly dot of excessive meat, a haunting blotted carcass. It strains towards the biblical Jezebel, the queen mother whose cruel sinfulness had her cadaver crushed up by wild dogs, as was prophesied by Elijah. Insofar as biblical Jezebel goes, she is murderous, sly and luxurious.

and

But Megan Thee Stallion floats through the world of anime and video games, with cosplay, references, and player technology soaking through her aural and visual performances. The rapper manages to insert within the playful and fantastic universe of the gamer a sexuality that is at once theatrical, hilarious, and self-referencing. Megan Thee Stallion isn't Jezebel, but Menat. What's more exquisite than two bad bitches ?

and

On stage, she becomes sexless and almost genderless, the little girl she is registering more as a an impossible child than as a gendered character; she is funny at the expense of herself. Lulu is scripted within the grotesque of the minstrel show; a high uppity Black girl that must be subdued with the violence of the hammer and the nail. She doesn't exude the menacing sexuality of the Black woman, as she's punished before growing into it. Claudia Du Lac's subsequent speech brings forth the misuse of the signifiers that burrow her flesh, and the constant vertigo to which she is therefore exposed as she must celebrate her pain.

[desigrrrl]

Hii! I am an English Major too so I'm really curious about 📁 and 📖 \○v0/

hi milk! love ur acc <3 thanks for the ask.

📁 what is a project/assignment you’re really proud of?

I did my undergrad thesis on dark academia and its demerits actually! So I’m pretty proud of that one, even though it near killed me. I also did a seminar for subaltern studies parelleling Portrait de la jeune fille en feu and Kumbalangi nights which I am so proud of but I and my partner both lost all files of that. There are a few more niche ones like these that I did and am proud of, but I’ll stop here.

📖 a book/reading from your field you’d recommend/really enjoyed?

I read Essential Sufism by James Fadiman and Robert Frager for my undergrad and it was the first nonfiction book i read cover to cover multiple times. It’s really good.

I read quite a few books from my degrees that I loved, but most of them are ones I knew I’d love going in like Pride and Prejudice, This Is How You Lose the Time War, Jane Eyre, Exquisite Cadavers, etc.

[jazleighwrites]

My MLitt Creative Writing Reading List (so far)

With inductions over, classes will be starting next week! We received a partial reading list for one of my first-year modules (Craft & Experimentation), so I thought I'd share it with you and add to it when more is added:

No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

Ghost Of by Diana Khoi Nguyen

Heavy by Kiese Laymon

Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe

Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy

Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung

In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson

The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos by Anne Carson

Indeterminate Inflorescence: Lectures on Poetry by Lee Seong-bok

[osidius-el-enfatico]

went to a friends new place yesterday and after a couple of beers and a full bottle of red wine, her girlfriend asked us to do an exquisite cadaver, which is just the most extra thing. it ended up sucking, but at least i got this pic of their doggy

[interact-if]

Hi, do you have any recs for ifs where you get to set a nickname for the mc along with their given name?

Hi Anon,

You can set a nickname in the following games:

Completed:

Totem Force by @parrotwatcher

Demos:

A Comedy of Manors by @sviyaginthegreat

Advenio by @adveniogame

Dear Diary, We Created a Plot Hole! by @ddwcaph-game

Exquisite Cadaver by @manonamora-if

Hollowed Minds by @shai-manahan

Speaker by @speakergame

The King’s Hound by @the-kingshound

When It Hungers by @roast-ifs

Vendetta by @vendetta-if

[waybackwanderer]

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The Graphically Exquisite Cadaver Nov 1996 Archived Web Page

[quiet-in-the-wild]

I was pretty shaken up this morning with the whole bday presents from my parents

But the rest of the day went great. I tried out my new colored pencils- they’re so smooth, I took a walk outside a couple times today. I found my dog’s daycare’s instagram & found some photos of him🧡

Tomorrow’s my bday- & I already opened all the presents I got this year early. So it will be different.

But we’re going to my favorite dessert place it’s so cute.

(I’ve been trying to figure out what that second cloud looked like- it was so odd in the sky I had to take a picture of it. & I just realized it looks an exquisite cadaver to me, a dog head with arms & a torso, a rat, and bird legs)

[manonamora-if]

So... replaying the Exquisite Cadaver again, and I noticed there is no achievement for the number of sentences the player creates e.g. "You are a Sentence Master for creating 50 sentences" (or something similar). There could be an achievement for every milestone we achieve (20,50,70,100 or 200 sentences) in Endless Mode.

Hi Anon!

While there is already one secret achievement for the Endless Mode (you need a play A LOT to reach it), adding milestones is not a bad idea....

Adding this to the todo list.

Hope you had fun replaying!

[impressivehistory]

Capucine in Exquisite Cadaver (1969)

[if-confessions]

Have you ever tried making self-contained ifs but by accident you make it an over branching narrative game instead? Or has anyone tried making a normal side character but you're now to invested in a storyline you created as a joke ? 😭

Oh Anon...

Are you having fun though? If yes, then... who cares :P Have fun creating huge stories and dumb plots !

Also... Yes. To answer your question: SPS Iron Hammer (it will be the new version) and P-Rix - Space Traveller (lol they are both sci-fi) for the first, Goncharov Escapes! and Exquisite Cadaver for the second (maybe P-Rix would also fit).

[eurosleazarchive]

i...would luv a movie that reminds u of bel if u dont mind<3

let me use my film knowledge! / @cloistress

the exquisite cadaver (1969, dir. vincente aranda)

a publisher starts receiving packages that contain something incredibly macabre-- pieces of a female corpse. to be fair, i haven't seen this one yet but a cursory glance at the reviews really makes me think of bel (bc apparently the female mc steals a dude's wife? so like...hello!).

[romiesays]

Fantastic Cadaver

Earlier this month, I wrote and co-directed a one-minute segment of a Surrealist film project for Butthead Films, called Fantastic Cadaver. I'm not allowed to say or show much about it, because the film is an exquisite corpse—a style of art or writing wherein a series of creators adds to it without knowing much about what has come before. I created minute 22 having seen only minute 21. Since the project is still in progress, I can't show things that would tell filmmakers for minutes 24 and beyond anything consequential about what I did.

Someday it will be revealed.

However, I can disclose that I wrote an original song as part of the soundtrack; expect Stopwalk to release a variation sometime in the next six months. It's beautifully sleazy triphop.

[edmund-k-edmonds]

In my closet the exquisite cadavers of the girls I were before with pretenses, with gaping hearts with heavy make-up hiding their insecurities behind pink and purple poetically wrapped a real bouquet

These girls wore these dresses in front of which I shrink I cannot get rid of them But can't wear them either

anymore

These girls in my family pictures I would have liked to be them but they are not real

They were never real

I opened my closet and sadly I laughed I sincerely thought about wearing them again ignoring the pain to finally honor those who say they love me by keeping me in chains