#mini comp for now

[cluedoenthusiast]

[ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ]

[to-be-a-dreamer]

Yeah it's finals season of my senior year of undergrad but also I was watching MCC Party 2 vods for "background noise" and now it's midnight and I'm two hours deep into making Drop In a real-life board game because I'm obsessed with it and want to play.

Origami has become involved and I fear I may break and use the 3D printer

[idiot-mushroom]

lets hope for the best bc leo is defo gunna find some way to offend cerulean..

@v-albion @tmntaucompetition

You hear loud banging from the door

raph tries to be nice but her blunt words don’t seem to offer much comfort, sorry

[if-whats-new]

What's New In IF? Issue 32 (2024)

By Aj, Dion, Briar, Jen and Peter

Now Available!

Itch.io - Keep Reading below

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~ EDITORIAL ~

Two Issues in one week?!

Yes, it’s us again!

Since Issue 31 came out on Wednesday instead of the regular Saturday and we tried really hard to make this one on time, we’re back once more, just a few days apart.

We sincerely hope you’re not getting sick of us yet!

We want some feedback!

As we’re starting to get a hand of things, we would love some feedback from you guys! What you enjoy, want more or less off, how we could improve... Anything goes! We even have a nifty form.

We hope you enjoy this new issue!

AJ, DION, BRIAR, JEN AND PETER

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~ EVENT SPOTLIGHT : IF Short Games Showcase 2024 ~

December 1st 2024 to January 1st 2025

Short games tend to get less love than longer games in general-purpose, non-speed-IF comps, while the ones released outside of a competition or jam may not get eyes on them at all. The IF Short Games Showcase 2024 aims to give the shorter works their very own place to shine!

The Short Games Showcase is an opportunity to show off shorter interactive fiction works made in the past year (Jan 1, 2024 to Dec 31, 2024), regardless of whether or not they were previously released.

Authors can submit up to three games - each of them should be completable in 30 minutes or less. The showcase has a broad view of IF. It will accept anything usually considered to fall under that umbrella, including parser games, choice-based/choose-your-own-adventure games, visual novels, point-and-clicks, and text-focused Bitsy games. In addition, a work must not have been submitted to more than three prior jams or competitions.

The SGS will have both a Best Overall winner and winners in several specific categories:

Best Use of Short Form

Best Use of Interactivity

Best Story-Focused Game

Best Puzzle-Focused Game

Most Replay Value

Best Previously Unawarded Game

There might be no prizes, but bragging rights are great too.

Do you have a short project that deserves it’s own moment in the spotlight? Then don’t hesitate and join too!

To read more about the rules and overall goal of the showcase, visit the Itch page.

~ ENDED ~

The voting for ECTOCOMP 2024 is officially over! Check out the results!

You can now check out all 16 entries to the Videotome Jam!

Disabled Rep VN Jam has a very simple premise but a very important message. Check out the submissions!

~ ONGOING (VOTING) ~

A Very Hallmark Game Jam has entered the voting phase. You can now vote for your favourite out of the five entries.

~ ONGOING (SUBMITTING) ~

Media depicting healthy examples of polyamory isn’t that common. The PolyJamorous 2024 is trying to break the status-quo!

This year’s Yuri Game Jam is in full progress. The devs have until December 2nd to submit their projects.

Once upon a time, a game jam was held to create stories around the theme of fairy tales… and that game jam is the Once Upon A Time VN Jam. It’s running from October 1st to January 31st.

Concours de Fiction Interactive Francophone 2025 is for all French-speaking enthusiasts. Submissions are accepted March 3rd 2025.

Are you perhaps a fan of more somber, melancholic themes? Then check out the Dying Year - Visual Novel Jam! You have until the end of the year to participate.

The Black Visual Novel Jam is all about working with creative professional developers who work in visual novels to bring more Black stories to life. The goal is to create a space where Black creators can show their unique storytelling through visual novels.

IF Short Games Showcase 2024 is a great way to shine some new light on your projects made in the past year (Jan 1, 2024 to Dec 31, 2024), regardless of whether or not they are previously released! You have until January 15th 2025 to join.

Winter Visual Novel Jam 2024 is here! You have until January 1st 2025 to submit your projects.

Are you familiar with Decker? Then why not take a part in the Deck-Month 2?

Another bitsy jam is here. This time with the theme "better late than never".

SeedComp! is a 2-round interactive fiction game jam, focusing on creativity and the growth of ideas and the Sprouting Round has just started! Check out the Planting round for inspiration.

~ OTHER ~

Intents to enter are open for Spring Thing 2025. To submit an intent to enter, you'll need a working title for the game and a few other pieces of information. Intents for the 2025 festival can be submitted any time between now and March 1st, 2025.

~ NEW RELEASE ~

You’re a promising officer in the Teranese military, a force which has not seen major engagement in decades but which holds vast influence. Thanks to the… complicated circumstances of an injury, you’ve been quietly reassigned. Now you’re to be the bodyguard to a child of a famous scientist who is attending a wilderness boarding school for the children of the richest and most powerful figures of Teran society. What could go wrong? Play Honor Bound (CScript) and find out! (There’s also a mini prequel game about the Honor Bound PC, aged 17 - Honor Bound: Recruitment Day (Twine).) @hpowellsmith

I Fell in Love with a Mailman (Godot) is set in the RADICAL 1980s with the rise of the claw machine industry, play as a girl boss big city girl who's grappling with the realization that her successful corporate life might not be as fulfilling as she imagined. Return home for the holidays and discover a new side of yourself: will you win a prize in the game of love, or is romance simply a rigged game of chance?

You are the Dark Queen—the most powerful being of your entire universe. Your lair is breached by an aspiring hero—a pitiful thing, easily crushed. Except they keep coming back. The Dark Queen of Morthlome is a 20 minute anti-game about an unconventional relationship and the capacity for change.

Two people show signs or attraction to you; however, only one truly loves you. "Eric or Alex?" The same question appears over and over again in your mind. Now it's time to really find out the answer! Go through different apps, discover and gather information in order to decide who is the true love in Attention (Unity)!

As always, don't forget to check out the submitted entries to the events mentioned in the previous pages. They deserve some love too!

~ NEW RELEASE (WIP) ~

In Swapped (Twine) you play as a 17 year old senior, anxiously awaiting the day you graduate, pack your bags, and ditch Sunnyview. But one day, all of that changes when filming for a movie is announced near your hometown. A chance encounter with the one and only Taylor Victory, famous actor with eerie facial similarities, leads to a deal. You will swap places—Taylor will experience a normal week of high school as you, and you will live the life of an actor in their place. @aurelim

In the grim remains of a shattered world, Voxhaven stands as the sole surviving city. The air, thick with pollution, carries the stench of decay and betrayal. The government’s watchful eyes are everywhere, controlling every move... every whisper. Survival means more than just enduring the endless haze—it's about navigating a city built on lies and deceit, where trust is scarce and death lingers in the shadows. In Voxhaven, freedom is a distant dream, and every breath you take is a reminder of the world’s broken past. - Requiem of the Fallen (Twine) @miss-briar-novels

This Too Shall Pass (CScript) delves into a reality in which you were once the Chosen One- Destined to save the world. But you had failed. You now navigate that same world 22 years later as it slowly succumbs to that fate you were supposed to save it from. @thistooshall-if

MEMORALYSIS (Ren’Py) follows the psychic detective Philon Delancy to a strange seaside town to solve the murder of one of its most notable public figures. What starts as a routine house call quickly reveals a tangle of messy relationships, local superstitions, and past unsolved mysteries — and at the center of it all is the victim’s enigmatic niece, Celosia James. But surely the rumors about the young heiress have been greatly exaggerated. After all, everyone knows demonic possession isn’t real.

To Allison, life is just an endless cycle of exhaustion with no escape route – wake up, study, work, fulfil family duties, sleep, rinse and repeat. But sometimes she can't help but wonder... Is that really all there is to life? Soon, Allison stumbles upon a group of people who may be just as lonely as she is, and little by little, their encounter returns colour to her world... - Re:Curse (Ren’Py).

In All the Way (CScript) you play as a young woman living in a time and place a little like the early 90’s in California that is about to have some serious run ins with the supernatural. Her life and that of her friends are quickly disrupted by beings that seem to have a bit of a vendetta for her - but what has she ever done to these creatures and why are they targeting her and her friends?

In the Halls of Asgard (CScript) you play a Norse God trying to survive in Asgard, and preparing for Ragnarök.

You play as the amnesiac protagonist, trapped in a mysterious house with two other captives. You quickly learn that the only way to escape is to have one of the three of you die. Will you kill or be killed? Who is the mastermind? Is there no way for all of you to survive? The mystery deepens as you find that no matter who dies, the killing game begins anew in Yet Another Killing Game (Ren’Py).

The Corpse Road (Twine) is an explorable fiction about death.

~ UPDATES ~

Ashenmaw - Dragons of Marrowoods (CScript) updated their demo. @ashenmaw-if

Fellow Traveler (Twine) released Episode 3 “tease” and Act 1. @robotvampire

The Soulforge Order (Twine) released Chapter 1. @thesoulforgeorder

The Sword of Rhivenia (CScript) released Chapter 5.

The Thousand Of Us (CScript) added new content to their public demo. @ivanwm-05

We Wretched Creatures (Twine) released Episode 6. @darkfictionjude

Azrael (CScript) updated their demo.

Drink Your Villain Juice (CScript) updated their Patreon demo. @drinkyourvillainjuice

New Era (CScript) updated their demo. @newera-interactiveif

Starways Saga (CScript) added new content to the Navy Path.

After Dark (CScript) updated their Patreon demo. @dalekowrites

Exit Through the Gift Shop (CScript) updated their demo.

Haunted (Twine) added a “Side Story” to their demo. @hauntedif

Meteoric (CScript) released Chapter 5.

The Unwilling Sword of Lamenthria (CScript) released Part 1 of Chapter 3. @lamenthria-if

Trouble Brewing (Twine) released Chapter 5. @troublebrewing-if

~ OTHER ~

Thom Baylay’s Kitsune (CScript) is now in Open Beta.

Issue 29 of the Amare Fortnightly Bulletin is out now! @amaregames

The Twine Cookbook is now available in print and through December 2024 it's 25% off! All proceeds from sales go toward the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation and its support of Twine.

~

As always, we apologize in advance for missing any update or release from the past week. We are only volunteers using their limited free time to find as much as we can - but sometimes things pass through the cracks.

If you think something should have been included in this week's zine but did not appear, please shoot us a message! We'll do our best to add it next week! And if you know oncoming news, add it here!

~ MAYBE YOU NEXT? ~

We did not get a submission this week. But if you have an idea for a short essay, or would like a special space to share your thoughts about IF and the community...

Shoot us an email!

~ HIGHLIGHT ON ~

A couple of games that we thought were cool.

Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom by S. John Ross (Inform 7)

Comes with a fake manual for the 1979 TTRPG it's purportedly "adapting". Well-crafted, sincere, and really funny.

//submitted by Carter X.//

Your favourite game here?

Do you have a favourite game that deserves some highlighting?

An old or recent game that wowed you so much you spam it to everyone?

Tell us about it! And it might appear here!

WE LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU ALL! WHETHER IT'S GOOD OR BAD, OR EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN...

Have something to say? Send us a message titled: Zine Letter!

As we end this issue, we would like to thank:

Carter X.

For sending us a Highlight!!

And as always, huge thanks to all you readers who liked, shared, and commented on last week's issue!

What might be tiny actions are huge support and motivators to us!

Thank you for cheering us on this journey!

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Thank you for reading and see you next week!

AJ, DION, BRIAR, JEN AND PETER

WHAT'S NEW IN IF? 2024-ISSUE 32

[lovlidollie]

GURL… ok. Let’s just picture that you blessed feyd w/ a daughter. PLS JUST IMAGINE HIM DOING HER HAIR AND WATCHING HER BALLET PRACTICES 😭

STOP THIS IS SO CUTE. he’s already fascinated by your hair, and now he has this little angel who also has hair !!!! he would practise for hours on you, learning how to do different braids. feyd wants to make sure he’s comfortable with the movements on you before he tries on his daughter, because he doesn’t want to accidentally pull on her hair and hurt her little head :( feyd-rautha is a girldad and nothing will change my mind. anyone that tries to get close to her automatically disappears off of the face of the planet. he’d be the best dad to her, partly because he doesn’t want her treated the way the baron treated him, mostly because she was a part of both him and you. you were everything to him, and blessing him with a daughter (while not politically useful) just made him so much more enamoured with you.

he’d take her to every single dance recital, and would always, always show up to her shows. he wants to be so present in her life, feyd would give her the world if he could. if her comp clashed with one of his arena fights, he would literally put the arena on hold, show up for his daughter, bring her candies and congratulate her, and then go slaughter his opponent as fast as possible so he can get back to the loves of his life (you and mini you).

[frasohei]

I’m debating starting a Battletech army… I was awarded some money, not a lot, for a thing, and while the responsible adult thing to do is not spend the money, because Christmas is next, and everything costs more, but I’ve made a bit of a dive into the setting, and it doesn’t need Choas or aliens or anything because Mankind IS THE PROBLEM… I mean, I’d love to play Adeptus Titanicus, but fuck GW, not for anything in particular, but mostly for how they handle (or don’t) things… not any culture war bullshit (they’re your minis) but the move away from the kind of game you play with your friends, to the kind of game you play in tournaments… and yes, I know, nobody is forcing me to play comp rules, but the sad truth is, yeah they are… matched play or campaign, and how are you going to run a campaign while playing randoms? All that accumulated valor and stuff? No place for that in matched play rules… sorry for the rant, lots of shit going on irl and this happens to be the hill I’m dying on right now…

And speaking of dying on hills … Battletech, should I do it? I have a full company of mech with a detached command lance in the shopping cart, but haven’t pulled the trigger, so to speak… so should I do it?

[jovial-thunder]

More IRL Lego Lancer!

We played the Tomb of Delios one-shot by Katherine Stark. Some NPC comp / sitrep spoilers ahead.

I used the backs of old trivial pursuit boards for grids, egg cartons, poster tubes, and a big Roomba box + insert for terrain.

I coated the cardboard with this flour and glue paste recipe I found on youtube.

I found a bunch of cheap-ish large lego octogons and walls online for the modular buildings, then greebled them with misc urban details I collected from my local bricks & minifigs bulk by-volume bins.

Our PCs were a Swallowtail artillery (callsign Bandit; an SSC plant in the union auxilliaries), Störtebeker striker (callsign Roadkill, silver-nanite kintsugi'd mechromancer), and Black Witch support (callsign Egret, disgraced princess (gotta be one of my favorite genders)).

The elite cataphract ended up playing trapdoor spider for most of the game; hiding in a magical healing forest (thank u support o7) and grappling PCs back into the forest with it.

Its scariest turn was popping out, structuring the Bandit and destroying his siege stabilizers, and lassoing it back into the forest. Egret came to the rescue and finally did the cataphract in with perimeter command plate/impact lance/crit thrown tactical knife overwatch combo.

The Swallowtail never took any voluntary movement after deploying its siege stab round 1, but between rainmaker knockback, the aforementioned trapdoor spider incident, and allied ferrous lashes, and a few rams, it was pingponged around the map pretty significantly.

"Come out Rainmaker, I just want to talk."

The final threat to the objective was when a bastion clambered up onto the pipeline to contest them. The Störtebeker (whose mini was having trouble standing up on the pipeline) pulled an indiana jones and just shot it down.

For the pre-battle narrative section, I made two 4-step clocks out of lego and a minimap as the party visited various districts of the city. Both were totally unnecessary but I think added a lot to the IRL experience.

All in all, it was a lot of fun! Things that worked well/could be improved on:

The aforementioned mini stability. I should add more baseplates to the minis to making moving and standing them up less finicky.

As cool as the egg carton bottoms are, having flat surfaces is just better. Going to stick with the tops going forward.

The grid ground floor worked great. I should trace more grids onto the egg cartons and larger boxes. I also made a few measuring sticks out of dowels and that was super handy.

Witchdice on phones continues to work well for PC character sheets.

I made a handful of status tokens that we could put next to mechs. They were handy for consumable statuses like lock-on, but less so for memorable ones like exposed and hidden.

We needed more little indicators for misc systems like Javelin Rockets and Iceout Drone.

It was fun to be able to follow up "how do you want to do this" with "you may now destroy the mini".

[katlandry]

I love the idea that Nancy would be so accepting of herself and she’d have like a mini gay crisis for like 0.2 seconds, I do personally think she would bc that’s just the kind of person she is. HOWEVER there is something so funny about Nancy being so comp het that she thinks she’s homophobic, because every time she sees Robin with Vickie it makes her want to rip her own hair out but she tries so HARD to be okay with it and she just doesn’t understand why she’s feeling this way about Robin & Vickie when she’s so happy for Steve & Eddie?

and everyone, even MIKE, is hinting at her that it’s because she is literally in love with Robin but Nancy just never picks up on it until one day Jonathan (or Steve or Eddie, I picked Jonathan bc he knows her the best but honestly it works with any of them or maybe it’s all three of them that sit her down 😭) literally spells it out for her and she has a classic *oh* moment. And she’s so glad she isn’t homophobic, except now she has to deal with the fact she’s in love with Robin and Robin’s dating someone else.

Except Robin isn’t dating anyone, she and Vickie are just really good friends after being able to bond over their similarities and of course Robin is in love with Nancy too because who isn’t? She’s Nancy Wheeler. And now everyone has to suffer through watching these two mutually pine for each other and being disgustingly in love without the other knowing.

and Mike is just slowly but surely losing his mind…

[the-dumpster-fire-of-life]

Heyyyy me again so I had requested the mini Thems right for Tom and bill and I love reading dance mom bill so how bout dance mom bill and dance mom Tom???!!! So like the girls are always on the same team always having duets messing with eachother while getting ready for comps help ing eachother get ready ? I LOVE THAT IDEA!!! So you don’t have to do it but I think it’s a cool idea 😎

(Hello! Glad to see your back and of course! This is very cute and all and I love it!)

Dance!Moms!Bill & Tom

Bill is obviously very good at this shit

He's been at it for a very long time

But Tom somehow manages to be even better

He had no clue what he was doing half the time and somehow ended up doing hair better than Bill

You guys were raised like twins just as Bill and Tom were raised

So it's very much given that both you and your cousin do almost everything the other does

Including dance!

When you guys got invited to be on the show Dance Moms, you were very excited and so was your cousin

Mainly for the friends and just the dancing

You and your cousin loved competitions

You guys are always each other's duet partner

You both look very similar, due to your dad's being identical twins so you guys have a lot of the same features

You guys compliment one another so well on stage and the chemistry (platonic, weirdos) is very natural

And there is already that level of trust within one another they makes it very easier

Tom didn't think he would be very much in dance or be the father to spend money, time and tears on watching his daughter on stage

But now he is in the crowd every time, getting you the best costume along with Bill, song both of your hair and him and Bill giving the best pep talks

Tom has definitely shed some tears and Bill never lets it go even if he was also crying

They love the fact that y'all have that one specific thing just for the two of you

It sorta reminds them of themselves as they grew up in the band

The fact that you both share that and grow up together with it just gives them that extra bit of comfort

[idk-im-just-here-now]

WELCOME TO THE MIRROR MAZE!

IVE MADE A ROTTMNT AU LESGO

Summary

During the events of Evil League of Mutants, the boys accidentally gleam a piece of information that turns their world sideways - that they have 4 other siblings, all of them somewhere in the Hidden City.

With the information acquired, cue a ridiculous arc of the boys doing their best to find their missing siblings, and shenanigans ensue!

Art

Height Comparison

Mirror Maze poster - TMNT AU COMP???

Comics

Mini-comics and shenanigans

ARC 1

Discovery: P1, P2, P3, P4

Debates and Decisions: P1

MISC

April Fools - Shit, She’s a Dragon Now: P1, P2, P3, P4

Oneshots

Short stories on AO3

Refs

All the ref sheets for the characters!

The Missing

Venus de Milo

Jennika

Artemisia

Lita

The Extras

M

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[cspasfan15]

Today’s 2014 Best Dancer is Brady Farrar from Stars Dance Studio. He was the mini male winner from New York. He would go into win 2 more titles (junior male 2017 and teen male 2021) and he was also teen male 1st runner up in 2020. He ended up graduating early in 2022 and is now part of the ABT Company. He has also been choreographing a lot of ballet and contemporary routines for current comp dancers.

[nights-flying-fox]

☆ DIMENSION HOPPER LEO AU MASTERPOST ☆

💙 What is this au? It is an alternative universe/timeline where Leo manages to teleport out of Prison Dimension using his portals. Except he ends up in the wrong timeline somehow and has to find a way to get back to his own timeline. Meanwhile, his family is searching for a way to find him.

The story mainly includes the different timelines/worlds/dimensions Leo travels, with some more plot related stuff :] it is always open for collabs too, since every au can be considered canon here hehe

☀️ To not be confused with other Leos, he has many nicknames through the story. But the name I use to call him is Hop!Leo, or shortly Hop. ♡

💠 Click here for the fanfiction!! Currently on ARC 1 (Recovery).

🌠 Click here for the tag OR use #dimension-hopper-leo-au

🌌 Click here for the playlist ♡

✨️

° The first doodles

° There are two of them now

° LGAST crossover comic: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 + 11 | 12 | 13 |

° TMNT AU Summit Propaganda 1

° Screenshot Redraw: Happy!!

° Meme redraw

° Rounds

° Leo drawing. Idk it's just him. The silly.

° ITS DECEMBER 10TH!!

° Merry Christmas!!

° "you aren't hopping. you are lying."

° change [lgast crossover mini comic]

° Hop pmv wip

° Mini One-shot about Hop's memories and notebook

🌙

☆ Check out the art Nox did of Hop & Null here!!

☆ Hop & Null interacting after Null's "recovery"

☆ Colored panels from the previous comic

☆ More of Hop and Null!!

☆ Hop drawn by honey-rye : D

☆ Null got dragged into the TMNT Siblings AU Comp by Hop!!

☆ Hop and Twin-Sync Leo [collab]

☆ Hop introduces Null to Twin-Sync Twins

☆ Twin-Sync Twins are cheering for Hop!!

☆ Portal Trio Pokedance!!

☆ Portal Trio styling their masks

💫

° Hop in Comp!! Saga:

Hop in Comp Tag!!

- flowers || - he got in... || - he got lost || - a Donnie approaches 1 ~ 2 ~ 3 || - *points* It is him, Gary! 1 ~ 2 || - Hop is a lil brat || - Where are we?? 1 ~ 2 ~ 3 ~ 4 ~ 5 || - AAAAA || - Water. It is water. || - mushrooms are evil, kids || [tba] || - Hop Comp ID Card

- Twin-Sync twins cheering for Hop!!

《 poll 1 》

─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ────── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ───

[thewertsearch]

(Mini) Ask Comp 11/10

I talked a bit about this during Hivebent. In summary, my predictions were:

Sollux is guaranteed to die.

Vriska and the Guardians are likely to die.

The four humans will probably make it to the comic's endgame, as will Karkat, Kanaya and Terezi.

Gamzee, Nepeta, and other secondary trolls could potentially die.

Aradia will remain 'alive', and might move to a biomechanical body in the future.

I couldn't tell you when these deaths will happen, but I stand by each of these predictions - including Aradia's.

The explosion may have destroyed her body, but the ghost within was incorporeal. She'll be back.

Yup. I knew almost nothing about Bec at the time, but it was easy to pick up on the aura of danger he exudes.

Just based on vibes, I'm going with 'a Time Player who was almost a Life Player'. Who knows if that's consistent with the comic's lore.

This idiot thinks his special oven transports him into the future by the amount he sets on the timer. Well, he's sort of right. But in reality, all that's happening is that he's hiding in there until the timer's up, then pops out. [...] The oven doesn't really have any magical time properties to be negated. It just travels into the future at a rate of one second per second, like everyone else.

I suppose it's not explicitly stated that the oven is mundane - just that it doesn't have any powers relating to time.

You set the bomb to go off in a few seconds, when both it and Biscuits are released from it in a few hours.

As you pointed out, this is pretty obviously false - although I actually think it was intentional. The Intermission's time shenanigans were deliberately written to be confusing, and I think the oven's properties were designed to muddy the waters even more.

You're meant to read the line above, and be like: "Wait, what? But I thought it was just an oven! Does it have time powers or not? This was hard enough to follow already, and now the narrator is basically lying about the Felt's abilities. Am I being fucked with?" (Yes.)

[crazylittlejester]

I had cheer tonight and yesterday and tomorrow so my brain has figured out what type of position in stunts the LU boys would be if they were cheerleaders :)

also for the sake of this, I'm saying that Wind is on a junior(U16) team, and the others are senior(U18(like me)) or open

(Also this is not just them on a team as athlete wise their'd be only seven of them, and the minimum amount of athletes on a team is twelve)

Time: Man's the stricter coach. You drop a stunt, the entire team does bear crawls or burpees. If it's only him coaching that day, you can bet your ass that you're running stairs or doing a snake for warmup(I couldn't breath and then my chest hurt for the rest of that practice oof). Although he can be fun on travel comps and otherwise.

Warriors: The fun coach. He definitely makes his athletes run lines for warmup and is the one to threaten with jump conditioning(ugh, my legs). He definitely has some of the athletes on instagram. He makes jokes and sarcastic comments while coaching, but can still be serious.

Twilight: The rancher is 100% a backspot(like meeeee). He's tall, and he can easily catch his flyer if they fall. He's be really nice about it all. I can also see him being a CIT(Coach in Training) for a mini(U8) or youth(U12) team. He's the favorite 'coach'.

Sky: I would make a joke about him being a flyer, but man's defo a base. I can see him pulling two mans or one mans easily. He definitely has jerked away from his flyer in a stunt multiple times in order to avoid being stepped on by accident though.

Legend: There is bothing stopping me from throwing this man in the air. He's a flyer, change my mind. He's literally got a fucking cheerleader outfit, he's the star flyer of the team. Man's got the best facials and has amazing air positions with no sweat.

Four: Despite his height, there is no way I am throwing him in the air. He's to strong and sturdy to be a flyer. Man's 100% a base. He doesn't break a sweat.

Wild: Genuinely rotates between all three positions. One stunt he's flying in the three mans, one stunt he's backspotting the elites, and the next thing you know is that he's basing in the pyramid. He's a jack of all trades

Wind: My boy's a base or backspot. Or both. He's just got that 'tall for a teen' vibe to him that makes me want him to backspot cause I'm the same way, but he could probably base as well. He has definitely already had a flyer fall on him from extension at least once though.

Hyrule: My man's a frontspot. He's too short to backspot, doesn't understand the bases grips, and of you put him in the air he's immediately fall out of the stunt. Or he's doing a tumbling pass in the front or doing motions or smth. I dunno either works

Also before you ask, I know all this because I've been doing competetive cheerleading for 11 years now :)

ooooh okay, interesting! (i know nothin about cheer but this is cool and all of these make sense)

[krowsindulgences]

MINI-PSA!

Regarding the list on who’s who, I feel like it is alright to post it now, along with a preview of the script. Art may or may not come soon, but I do want to try it.

But everyone welcome…

THE RECREYO ROLLERCOASTER PSA/RIDE THE CYCLONE AU!!

(Yea it was guessable)

Okay, now here’s the cast below!

Character - Role (Song)

Chilly - Ocean (What The World Needs)

Christian - Noel (Noels Lament)

Den - Constance (Sugar Cloud(2011/2015 ver.))

Ivan - Mischa (This Song Is Awesome/Talia)

Kristine - Ricky (Space Age Bachelor Man(sorry))

And that’s it for this mini-psa, I will see you in some other time!

Edit: edited to specify on what year would be sang!

[two-reflections]

WIP Wednesday ✨

Minis

Very little progress this week, only managed to paint for like an hour on Monday, but some of these guys have eyes now.

Writing

The Bad News: Though it hasn't been formally announced, the votes are visible and I seem to have lost the writing competition on the Salamander discord pretty hard lol. [EDIT - SO ACTUALLY I came joint second place with like 4 other people!? I guess some votes shifted after I last checked. Weird, because votes seemed to be closed when I checked, but I'll take it lol.] Still enjoyed myself, and will participate again!

The Good News: Now the competition is over, I can share my kroot fic with you all! I need to edit it a bit since it's currently a bit too reliant on the weekly prompts in the comp, but it should be out soon. 😁