#i'm like so nervous lmfao

[queenofbaws]

there are already roughly a million posts like this already circulating, but man. just. sometimes you really do have to step away from something you're working on and come back to it later.

creative buds, please. please. no one is worse at taking my advice than i am, believe me, but seriously, if you've been feeling down or frustrated or stumped with something you've been working on lately, take this as your sign to maybe take a little break. a week, a month, whatever. you've been looking at it too long, you've read it too many times, you've erased that same line so many times you've lost count - you need to come back to it with a rested brain and fresh eyes.

however rough it feels to you now, i promise, promise, promise that it'll feel so much better after a little distance. <3

[damnation-if]

Hi, I just played the demo and I loved it! I was wondering if you could give us an estimate of when the next update is coming?👉👈 (Or link a relevant post, if you already talked about and I just didn't scroll down far enough to see it 😆)

Also, I wanted to check, can you be in a romantic relationship with more than one character, and not just a sexual one? Because I might be in love with every single character in this game 🤭

hi, thank you! i'm glad you're enjoying the game :) i've answered the question about romancing multiple characters a couple of times in a couple of different asks but the posts all kind of link back to each other so you should be able to find all the info by. following the various links in each ask i think, starting here XD

i'm going to put the answer to your other question under a cut because some of it is quite emotional for me

i did Sort Of talk about this at the time when it happened, by which i mean that rather than making a post, i talked about it in the tags of an unrelated post i was using to distract myself (i think it was character playlists and how i'm not sure if it's a good idea to do them or not if i recall), but earlier this year while i was already going through a really rough time, my laptop died and i lost a lot of work on the game.

i knew my laptop was old and that this was possibly approaching so i made regular backups and the good news is that because i write in a separate word document and keep backups of those also i didn't actually lose any Writing. however. my twine has a problem in that every second or third game file that i publish from the build is Haunted - it contains passages i removed weeks ago, or writing that i deleted long before publishing it, that kind of weird annoying shit. (other authors have seen my files do this lmfao) and i just have to hope that the backups i make either won't be needed or aren't haunted. anyway... because hope is futile, the last backup i made was indeed haunted, and utterly useless to me as a recovery file. because it's just twine, i still have all the writing, as i mentioned... but i would have to re-code the entire chapter and put it all back together again because of how much the file did not export, which is a complicated and daunting process.

so i made a rambling explanation of this in the tags of a post and decided to take maybe a couple of days off and cool down from this specific disaster before getting into it.

i wake up the next morning to find the IF community absolutely plastered all over with Helpful Informative PSA posts about how Silly it is not to make backups and how if you just make backups you'll never have problems again and you should know better than to not make backups.

now. i'm not a catastrophist. i know for a fact that nobody was making or spreading these posts out of cruelty or a desire to make me feel bad. i also know that it's not particularly realistic to expect people who don't even know me to hunt down the source of a piece of hearsay that's like "i heard from someone that someone said that an author lost a bunch of their files and is really upset about it" to find out what the situation is and whether or not it's what they imagine. i don't even think the vast majority of people knew who it was that was the author involved, or who i am either.

but to already be going through an extremely stressful time and then lose my laptop on top of that and then be obliquely referenced by people i thought of as my peers as kind of just a big silly bumbling goose who didn't know how to manage my files and a "don't be like this person" attitude really, really hurt me. i can't express just how deeply it hurt me. one particular author was openly laughing at me and saying it was my own fault for being too stupid to make backups using a certain twine peripheral program.

so. there was a period of time where i could have found the motivation to just restart the whole chapter myself and re-code it in a frenzy because i wanted to get right back into writing it because. like a lot of authors, i LOVE writing. that's why i do this even when it's difficult. but that potential recovery was sandblasted away by the reactions of people that i thought of as my colleagues in some sense (even though i understand that they didn't do it with bad intentions, in most cases). and i hope people can understand that it greatly lengthened the amount of time i needed to spend away from the game recovering emotionally, despite being a Very Small issue to most people. i'm literally upset again just typing out this answer lmfao

however one other small piece of good news is that my laptop seemingly just lost the ability to turn itself on (because of its age) so i Think the hard drive is intact. meaning that i think i can get someone to pull all the files off it and just have them back fine once i do. the other piece of bad news is that my life is a trainwreck! and i cannot afford that right now. which is why i sort of pivoted to writing the 2000 follower celebration sidegame as a way to enjoy myself while i hurtle through hell sdjgbdfhfdgh

shortly after this thing with the laptop the house i was living in was sold out from underneath me, even though it wasn't supposed to be, and i had to find somewhere to live with my 18 year old cat, but the city i lived in had zero places that would allow cats (they're totally fine with Dogs though of course) so i had to move to an entirely new city on my own while worrying about her health. and right now i spend every fortnight desperately trying to scrape together enough to survive the next fortnight. there were entire months where i had no access to internet! it's been pretty Bad!!

so i get that people really want updates, and i'm really flattered that people do and it makes me happy that people like the game so much. but i am currently expending so much time and energy trying not to die lmfao, and i need to save up the money to get my files back around that. i truly cannot tell you when the next update will be, but i promise you that it Haunts me, probably more than you can imagine XD the sidegame will Definitely come out before it though, if that's something you're looking forward to.

thank you again for your message, and i'm sorry that i don't have good news for you. but i am trying, constantly. every day.

[sunsetzer]

On one hand, I want a final fantasy 6 remake, because the game is criminally underrated and the amount of fan content (which is all absolutely fantastic btw) is Not Enough for my neurodivergent, hyperfixating brain.

On the other hand, that would inevitably encourage more people to join the fandom, which would be great, except it seems these days the bigger a fandom gets the more toxic it becomes, and I really like what we have going on over here in our little corner. We all just love the game and its characters and nobody fights about who should and shouldn't date who or who you shouldn't like because they're ~problematique~. Nobody's trying to make one ship morally better than another, nobody's calling anyone names or threatening to doxx people who don't agree with their opinions. It's so peaceful and I love that for us. We're just vibing. Moisturized. Unbothered. In our lane. Flourishing.

[deadn30n]

TEMP HIATUS NOTICE

DEC 18th - JAN 3rd I will be on vacation. I'm flying out to meet my boyfriend today for the first time and to spend the holidays with his family! As such, there will probably be little to no writing done during the period of time I'll be gone. I might hop on now and then to answer something, but I expect because his family is eager to meet me, I'm going to be bun-napped lmao. this also means i'll probably be pretty radio silent on discord too sdflkjghd

my queue will be running in my absence, 2 posts per day. this is everything up until last night, so if I somehow missed our thread and you don't see it post, just lmk i'm sorry AAAA

also i stole this idea from @vulpesse but i made a tree you can leave cute messages for me on in my absence if you like!

happy holidays everyone! i'll try to pop in and check on everyone now and then ♡ until then, see you next year :>

[niallandtommo]

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[moe-broey]

ROSADO IN FEH. ASKR SIBLINGS FOR FORGING BONDS. RED ALERT RED ALERT HUGE EVENT INCOMING

[autobot-ratchet]

I've got the first expression challenge sketched out and lemme tell y'all

I still fuckin got it lmAO

[xannerz]

going to a wedding tonight and i'm a little HMMM b/c i'm pretty sure it's outdoors and uhhh 🌩

[svtskneecaps]

ayo shoutout to revali for being the champion whose ability i have used the least since obtaining

[prophecyofgray]

sometimes i'm like hmmm idk if my anxiety meds are working i kinda just feel normal :/ and then i realize yes i Do feel normal but i did Not feel normal BEFORE startign the meds. audie from less than a year ago didnt know what normal Was. this is GOOD normal.

[queenofbaws]

Hi Queenie - can I ask for some Diane...um again? 😁

She looked up when her door slammed open, but one look at the expression on Kaylee's face and she knew better than to start throwing questions out every which-a-way; people talked all the time about how it was Caleb who looked so much like Chris, Caleb who could be his twin if given a haircut and a khaki shirt, and still, for her money, she thought it was Kaylee who took after him most.

And boy, she'd known Chris long enough to know exactly what that expression meant on him - so she had a pretty good notion what it meant on her.

Diane waited until she heard the familiar thwump of a body hitting her sickbed and only moved then, peeking her head around the privacy screen to ask the gentlest question she could: "You good, Kay?"

She didn't see any blood, didn't see welts or hives or the line of a sunburn, but again, this wasn't her first time working the camp through the summer, and she knew the things that sent most of the campers and counselors running to her office with tears in their eyes rolled off the Hacketts' backs like water off a duck; the Hacketts, she knew, were survivalists in the truest form, born and bred to withstand anything - everything - and so the things that ailed them were usually much, much worse.

From the bed, Kaylee huffed, the very picture of agony with her arms crisscrossed over her face and her grass-stained shoes dangling over the edge. "How do you get a boy to like you?" she asked, the weight of the world in her voice, and yup, uh huh, got it in one - the Hacketts could bleed, and the Hacketts could burn, the Hacketts could itch, the Hacketts could freeze, but affection, well...that was a slightly different story, wasn't it.

six sentence sat(or)sunday!!!

[narasnooze]

Anonymous asked:

00/00. 0. What I would choose? Frankly, my mind is too active. My thoughts never stop racing. If I were in your position, I would be too curious for my own good. And since we are quite the same, in a lot of ways... I have anticipated on your hesitance. How? It's because I know you. I understand you better than anyone else. I understand deeply what you've been going through. The neglect, the boredom, his passing, the restraint, the depression, and weight of the days of waiting and waiting until others catch up... I anticipated on your hesitance. I suspected your next step would be asking for guidance. I think your next step is a request for information. Thus I have already provided you with clues to my identity. Maybe once you put the clues together, you will be able to make the decision yourself. Now, be a good soldier boy and puzzle this out. You can do this, Shikamaru. You've cracked codes before. You have never failed to impress me when it mattered. Here is the decryption tool: Each message contains one puzzle piece. Ten messages. Ten puzzle pieces. 1=A, 2=B. Once you pierce the puzzle together, you will whisper the code and get an understanding of the span of my influence. Then, you will decide. I will not decide for you. I cannot free your mind for you. You must do that yourself. I will only say this. I do look forward to meeting you… even if you decide that this will be a goodbye.

It was absolutely IDIOTIC of him to stand there with his eyes closed. He was well aware of it, and yet still he felt no particular fear of being so vulnerable at that very moment.

Was it that he trusted this unknown person? This mysterious observer and guide, who had slithered into his life in the most peculiar way, which Shikamaru had kept secret from everyone. Even from Asuma. ...Just as this person had told him.

Or... did his depression play part in his carelessness? Perhaps he, deep down, didn't care if he was a lone deer walking in– and lying down encircled by a wolf pack.

Shikamaru didn't dwell on it too much, and slowly lifted his eyelids to find, as he had thought, a new note. They were there. His brown eyes scanned his surroundings carefully while picking up the note to read it. He actually chuckled once he'd reached the finish. He knew it. Those numbers had played an important part, after all. He had tried to figured out their meaning earlier, but hadn't quite managed. Now, however, it all made sense.

Of course. The numbers represented romaji. The 26 letters in the alphabet. How could he not have seen that? Now, they surely had to reconsider their view of him. He wasn't a genius, he felt more stupid than a rock. Hopefully they wouldn't be too disappointed in him... Their praise and encouragement did mean a lot to him. Especially now, with only Kakashi left to truly talk to. He, understood Shikamaru very well, too. But apparently this mysterious person claim to know him better than anyone.

"Right..." Shikamaru took a seat under a nearby tree and leaned back against the trunk, gazing up at the passing clouds. "15, 18, 15, 3..." He had memorised the numbers when spending some quiet evenings trying to work them out before. Now, he'd gotten a very generous hint and it didn't take long before his calm expression had changed.

He stared at the sky, then slowly lowered his gaze back down at the note and read the words again, heart racing.

"...Orochimaru."

[lightningfilledsaber]

speaking of new icon... 6 mo voice update for my fellow tumblrinas <3

[ilostyou]

lallaaalalala just some things on my mind

[crows-murder]

editing

[mikazeliscious]

do you ever just struggle w/ social anxiety and sit there staring blankly into the void?