#i set myself the task

[hulloitsdani]

@moe-broey THANK YOU!!! AND IM GLAD THE RUFFLES ARE APPRECIATED!!!🎉🎉🎉

But seriously this is the highest compliment, because this is actively what I’m trying to do when it comes to how I draw Kiran! I really want to convey how unabashedly charming this silly little tactician is. It helps explain how they keep the order intact on a social level and also why this keeps happening:

In retrospect, Alfonse never really stood a chance, did he?

Anyway I won’t lie, I did all this for the Loki bit. Please imagine that she’s just off screen for all these outfits hitting that exact pose.

[ur-ghostgirl]

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[last-flight-of-fancy]

finally completed the common rarity cookie set!

[catnippackets]

I feel like 2023 has simultaneously been the best but also most panicky year I've had like...ever. I've never been so stressed and not stressed at the same time. everything is happening so much and everything includes nothing. I have experienced epic highs and lows this year like no other. I had a legitimate breakdown in January and cried myself to sleep more nights than I could count and then in mid April I felt unstoppable and was literally waking up every morning feeling like a kid on Christmas and then from that point on it's been an endless oscillation between "I have never felt better than I do right now in my whole life" and "my life is completely meaningless and I've never felt more trapped". my mental health has gotta be a completely even line at this point bc the extreme goodness and extreme sadness are cancelling each other out. things are just solidly OK right now. I'm doing a lot of things of varying importance and feeling really good about myself. it's more just like the state of existing right now is kind of difficult. but that's fine. I'm fine. everything is normal. my birthday is in three weeks and I'm not even excited about it what the heck (hell) is that about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sysig]

Moving out of concept art and into what’s Actually Done! Showcased here are a couple expressions for both pets so far with their dialogue balloons - mostly pulled from NPC references, but I did get a screenshot of my pet in-game using it in reply, not just in Kinzchat! So cute <3

They’re both introducing themselves here with the names I’ve given them, but I really wanted the process to be as Webkinz-like as possible, with a few extras :)

Which started with being able to pick pet pronouns! Thinking about it now, Webkinz doesn’t ask for player pronouns, does it? :0 But I wanted that to be an option too! It was...something of a process to go from one set of adjustable pronouns to three, especially as I haven’t played with any Ghosts that give you the option to assign both the character(s)’ and player’s pronouns! I had to give it a fair bit of thought of what to check against and how to not have them interfere with or overwrite each other (which did happen early on lol), but I got it! Only took a couple hours of frustrated-sleepily hammering away haha

These screenshots were taken pretty much back-to-back - the only thing changed here is what shell is being used, and shell-checking has come in soooo clutch here ahh, thank goodness ♥ Many and big thank-yous again to @cherryistired​​ for helping me troubleshoot menu shell-switching! Exactly what I needed, am very grateful :D

My original concept sketch of this process was perhaps a little overconfident in what I could accomplish for my first time playing in code lol; I have seen custom pronoun-setting though! And I think I probably could do that, but multiple pronouns... Again, I think I could, but... The name of the game was limiting my scope (lol) to see how many Different things I could implement in short order, so I’ll gladly take my three sets of pronouns and pet names vs. player name and go haha

It’s also a bit funny to look back on this little Diamond - I really haven’t drawn her much! Kind of loosely following Webkinz’ style, her face looks especially silly I think haha

I’ve also got my main menu balloon looking rather fabulous imo ✨ Technically there’s two - More and Back - and most of the features are Very Much in the Coming Soon To A Ghost Near You phase lol, but they’re all {bracketed} up to be filled in as I get their assets made :D There’s still a few placeholder pieces here and there - especially since I haven’t gotten to inter-Ghost communication just yet. Everything in its own time!

I ended up having a lot-a lot of fun with naming and renaming, I went a little silly with Just How Many reactions the pets could have to their names haha

They’ll refuse to be named after any of the Hosts directly, and they’ll give you a side-eye if the name is Close To but not Quite a match haha

The mischievous expression has gotten an awful lot of use already! Although I’ll probably change the “Nu-uh!” expression to something else once I have an alternative that fits better - I need that gradient-to-mad expression set so bad!

And although they won’t accept NPC names, you can name yourself after a Host, and they’ll react! :D There really is so much flexibility for Easter Eggs like this ahh, it’s fun!

All told, I ended up playing the most in Bootend, Menu, Nameteach (hgh), and String, although I’m realizing now that maybe a lot of the stuff I put in String belongs in Word...? It’s all been OnFunctions anyhow, and it’s organized in a way that makes sense to me but is perhaps not as intended lol - nothing says I can’t go back in and move some stuff around, as long as it continues to function properly haha. I’ve kept my error log neat and tidy!! As many times as I’ve broken something, I’ve fixed it thereafter! :D It’s a very satisfying process ♪

[n3ongold3n]

Ever since i saw the thongTM i could not stop thinking about this 🐳

[la-galaxie-langblr]

what is going on w my brain

[lemonhemlock]

lemon i’m sorry to complain to you but what the fuck happened to this fandom??? this is worse than the two year hiatus, because at least then people were writing and drawing. now the only engagement anyone gets is running a ship poll or posting bait (character A sucks and if you like them you’re a pervert!!) i can’t believe i’m saying this but i miss the driftmark discourse or the arguments about how old aemond actually is. the only people left talking about this canon (book OR show) are the ones who want to be so loud they drown out everybody else

yeah, it's been pretty bleak around these parts ☠️ S2 was just so bad that no one has much interest in even riffing off the 2.3 ideas that would have been interesting had they been developed by someone with actual writing ability

i think we're just gonna have to wait it out until the dunk & egg show tbh 🤷‍♀️i'm fairly certain that the fandom wars will be ignited dramatically when the blackfyre rebellions are brought up and bloodraven makes an appearance.... the fandom will be back to being absolutely insufferable

so idek which is better: having a quiet time to re-engage with the current material at one's own pace or going through rabid brain-melting discourse again

[actuallylorelaigilmore]

the deeply dispiriting feeling of being told that a handful of friendly strangers in a shared community would like to be part of a group you've proposed, only to hear from none of them and still be the only person in the discord you created when invites are about to expire almost a week later, leaving you paranoid and wondering whether you set it up wrong or just haven't received any kind of acknowledgement because they saw the work you put in setting it up and all realized you are way too much

[ps1demodisk]

this is mister john whimper

also the exact same fox from the other meme

[illusorybread]

「Mizuchi Takeover」, a puzzle game I made for the Touhou Station Jam 2024, is out now! It's a pathfinding puzzle game that challenges you to find the best path to possess Reimu. Play it on the link above and don't forget to check out the other games too.

[gifti3]

its been a long time since i found a game that had me excited for whats to come

this is a me thing that im talking about below... usually when i play games, its mainly about it preoccupying my brian with tasks and goals. this is why i gravitate towards sim and management games! to me thats whats enjoyable

i feel like its rare that i just play something just cause its fun to me if that makes sense. and i think infinity nikki is managing to do that like im not progressing through the story super quickly and kind of just letting myself explore, dress up and take pictures at my own pace and im really hoping it stays like this for me for a long time

[caterpillarinacave]

So I haven’t written anything in a month

[ambersky0319]

why do i get the productivity and organizational motivations at night when i should be getting the sleep motivation

[godsfavoritescientist]

How do I explain the ways in which the bill origins fic 'A Romance of Many Dimensions' by haley3 rewired my brain without needing to give paragraphs upon paragraphs of context. The fic is something like 200,000 words long. Almost every single good moment calls back to things that are set up earlier in the fic

[darkseldarine]

I wish I'd actually internalized this about ttrpgs when I was younger (especially in regards to d&d) but I think you should never be expected to make your own campaign setting. You're no more Morally Pure or Righteous for making your own setting than just running in one that already exists. If you otherwise like an existing setting but don't vibe with some parts then you can just tweak it and make your own spin. You don't have to build everything from ground up.

Don't be like me and abandon 5 different half-baked settings I didn't have fun making over the course of ~7 years, all of which were never played in. When I could've used all that time I spent to just run in the forgotten realms lmao.