#indie game: dash games

[rosecartridge]

What tragic horror trope are you?

the witch

people need to find blame wherever they can; it makes the bad things in their life feel just a touch more bearable. the witches are so often blamed for the curses others are under that no one even questions it anymore. you point to a supposed witch and everyone else prepares the stake, no matter their innocence. to be born and believed a witch is one of the worst curses of them all- you can have friends and family, but there's always a dread that someday, someone will point to you, and everyone you once trusted will throw you into the pyre. if you're here, reading this, you've probably been burned before. and i don't blame you for wanting to hide away, to really become the witch they all say you are, to curse them. but to be a witch is to brush your fingertips over the bark of a tree and watch it grow a touch stronger. keep that in mind.

the werewolf

there's something inside a werewolf that's sharp, thorns and barbs coiling up in tight knots of vine even on their best days. halfway through a conversation, you'll forget your happiness and the pain comes back in a flash. you never meant to, but the sharpness has done harm on your behalf. it's defensive. it's leftover artillery from a battle you spent so long fighting that it still doesn't feel like it's truly over, does it? you want so badly to be soft. to take the hand that you are offered instead of baring your teeth. and it might be hard to believe, but you are soft. you're the softest one out there. it'll just take a while to untangle those vines enough to know that very little is often life-or-death, and not everything touches to hurt.

frankenstein's monster

this plight is the simplest of them all: you did not ask for this. you were never given a choice. no part of yourself feels human, just a collection of traits you've picked up from mirroring anyone you could, even the people you meet through a television screen. it's alienating to live that way- yet someone has called you the alienating one. maybe too many people to count. maybe they treated you so uncomfortably inhuman that it's all you can understand now, or you've dug yourself into such a deep hole in an attempt to keep safe that you can't remember a person living in the home of your body at all. being alive is confusing and painful and lonely and loud but living is all there is to being human- you're already there. just take air into your lungs and breathe. close your eyes and picture a beautiful sky. you made that. you painted that yourself.

the mummy

here's the thing about mummies- why the hell is anyone opening up their tombs? you were resting. you were peaceful. but someone intruded, barged in and broke down your walls and stole all the parts of yourself that you cherished, and then blamed you for being angry. blamed you for chasing them down no matter how fast they ran and how many obstacles they put in your path. and you know what? they deserve your rage. they destroyed something sacred. they didn't give a shit, and they wouldn't ever have lamented their actions had it not been for you- the real hero- getting up and showing them that they don't have the right to destroy and pillage as they please. that is your home. that is your body. nothing they do can take that from you. if not for you, they probably would've kept breaking into tombs and disturbing restful lives without a second thought. you won't be repayed for your good, but i hope you know you are a saviour in your own right.

[oh2bloved]

im so late to this

[moonchild-in-blue]

Put your music library on shuffle, then list the first five songs that come up in a poll to let people vote for which one they like the most!

Thank you for the tag babe @hookedhobbies 💫 I'm doing my YTM Supermix cus that's the most accurate one rn 🎧

Kinda love the specificity of being the Location Sessions version of The Hype. I lowkey like it more than the album version haha

No pressure tags (sorry if you're tagged twice) - @aquareegia @polteergeistt @foundationsofdecay @eepymonstrr @missilesilo @fivewholeminutes @thejawsoffate

[c1tyhaunts]

WELCOME TO THE DCC: c1tyhaunts is an 18+ fandomless, selective/private indie multi-muse hosting a variety of individuals undergoing their own character derailment stories, either via discord or tumblr. while we have the original characters likes of lilah lyons, who continues to make the same mistakes, we also have canonical figures like jacket of hotline miami fame who is the mistake. neither character have correlation to one another. stories conducted & covered by xera. // carrd. blog.

[retro-gaming-times]

Pulled a few consoles out for a group pic. Need a couple of accomodating box shelves really for better pics.

[dailylowqualitycats]

Day 67

Geometry Dash cat

His name is Rob

[eltipouy]

Mayo 2024 || Pokémon Dash || Nintendo DS

[lalondine]

We do be vibin'.

[ellraiser]

this is my new game pls play it

[rosecartridge]

what soft romance cliché are you?

love at first sight

let's be real, only children believe in "love at first sight." but you're a hopeless romantic probably sitting around in coffee shops waiting to meet "the one." and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. infatuation at first sight is more accurate. you are the moment when two people lock eyes, and the whole world stills. nothing is there but you and them. and there is suddenly a strong sense of longing. you love love, don't deny it. flowers, chocolates, the whole nine yards. because of this you are loved by many. hopefully you know it too: you are loved.

/oh./

the italicized oh. often seen in romance novels and fanfics. when a character looks at someone, wondering why their chest tightens when they're near, why their heart beats quicken at the slightest touches, why they lose their breathe at the sight of them and suddenly realization dawns on them— oh. they've been in love for a long time now. you are soft and quiet, probably the most overlooked. though when you love, you fall deeply. i'm sure you have a lot of anxieties when it comes to love, and you're more inclined to fall in love with a longtime friend than a stranger. though, your love is pure. and maybe if you have someone in mind, this is your sign to tell them.

love at first sight

let's be real, only children believe in "love at first sight." but you're a hopeless romantic probably sitting around in coffee shops waiting to meet "the one." and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. infatuation at first sight is more accurate. you are the moment when two people lock eyes, and the whole world stills. nothing is there but you and them. and there is suddenly a strong sense of longing. you love love, don't deny it. flowers, chocolates, the whole nine yards. because of this you are loved by many. hopefully you know it too: you are loved.

[azrael-5]

There have only been two (2) major updates since Geometry Dash 2.0, but because of the huge gap in updates (thank you Mr. Robert Topala) if I ever started playing again I could reasonably call myself a Geometry Dash old head for getting serious about the game at the very tail end of 1.9.

[grapeagata]

I wanted to try out Geometry Dash but just watching videos of the gameplay makes my eyes hurt so I don't think it's for me

[shyroism]

I'm playing Your Turn To Die tonight!! I've been holding my self back from playing this until I could stream it, so I'm very excited!

[indiiglow]

I literally went 'is Hades trending yet?' as I refreshed my tab and oh would you look at that

[zettaflake]

•–< [ Retrospective #5 ] >–• The Inktober 2019 Pile!

Folks, I am pleased to introduce to y'all my proudest relic from my drawing days past... a celebration of my passions and the gateway to all my art going forward. This is my piece for Day 31 of Inktober 2019.

Before Inktober 2019, my first drawings were simply a way to express my growing love for indie games, and a means to make overly ambitious crossovers happen. OneShot, Freedom Planet, Meat Boy, and Hollow Knight, were all some of my biggest crazes at the time, and so was Super Smash Bros, the largest gaming crossover in history. Look at all of these great characters! Who's going to sing their songs overlooked and unite them for the fan service??

Then came Inktober, circling around on Instagram. Seeing the daily prompts, I suddenly thought of putting on a theme by featuring those same indie game characters, no ink required! What would happen? Sash Lilac would pose with a V-sign for her resemblance to a "Ring"-hoarding hedgehog, "Little Ghost" and its shade would "Mindless"ly toy around with a Rubik's Cube, Snatcher would "bait" Hat Kid into the classic bag tied to a tree branch, and Tim (Braid) would pull a matrix and "Freeze" bullets in place!

The doodles started small, but soon evolved to include up to eight characters at once as my creativity skyrocketed. Those doodles will be coming soon with their own Retrospectives :)

For now, I will channel my past giddy self, and test you all on your familiarity with the world of hidden gems.

How many characters from the pile can you recognize?

I still have my big sheet of data from 2019, and the highest score is 40/65! Additionally, 13/65 characters were never identified within the pile! Let me know how it goes, and I'll let you know if you've broken the longstanding records. Now... GO!

(oh, and if you look at the tags to identify the characters... I'll probably know >.>)

[omends]

𝒀𝑶𝑼𝑹 𝑪𝑯𝑨𝑹𝑨𝑪𝑻𝑬𝑹 𝑨𝑹𝑪

kaey - corruption arc ; so. you got worse. and i'm not entirely sure i can blame you for it. maybe it was in you all along, hidden and waiting, or maybe someone planted it in you and watched it grow. either way, it's there now and you hold it in your fist like a second heart - this blood, this hunger, this thrill of having teeth and using them. perhaps you are right to. you are a mirror for the hardness of the world, and a mirror that we could all stand to look in more often. it's hard to watch the bleeding bring about more blood, but it is undeniable that you are very good at wounding.

wystan - tragic hero arc ; we all know how this story goes. when it began, you were almost the perfect hero, but almost is never enough. you lacked introspection, or you were too stubborn or vengeful or reckless - as reckless as the world that helped to ruin you. you were not perfect, and that's okay. we knew the story ended in blood and we watched it anyway. we knew you would die in the end and we still couldn't help but love you, just a little bit. at the very least, you are more human than a hero could ever be.

indi - disillusionment arc ; it's hard to imagine yourself when you were young. maybe you were meant to be a hero; maybe you could have been, in another world, but this world only made you sad. there seemed to be too many problems to fix and too much cruelty and too many hard lines that you did not know how to soften. the world turns and it is bloody and hard and you sit on your bed, thinking about the blood and the hardness and all you failed to do. i know it feels like you could sleep until the end of time, but i hope you don't. i hope you lift yourself out of bed one day, not to save the world, but to peel an orange and to walk in a forest; to find all the softness you could not create.

chey - redemption arc ; your story had a pretty rough start and you did some things you're not proud of, but you made the choice to change. i won't go through how important it is to accept responsibility and keep striving to improve or whatever because you know that already. what i think you should know is that your fuel does not need to be shame. you don’t need to stand over the bathroom sink with your blood in your hands until you can no longer make out your reflection. you will look at your face and you will see the person you used to be, but that person no longer exists. today, you are looking, and that makes all the difference.

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