#slice of life indie

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★ # 𝐂𝐓𝐑𝐋𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐎𝐒 is an independent semi - selective multi - muse oc blog featuring ( mainly ) oc slice of life muses , and a few oc musician / actor muses with moderate activity , fandomless verse , adaptable verses , mature content present 21+ blog open for replies from mutuals and non - mutuals . . .

☰ 𝐀 𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐃𝐘 𝐈𝐍 : ☰ reckless hearts bleeding out , burning up under the 𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒 spotlight , 𝐈𝐓'𝐒 𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐋𝐘 𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐎𝐏 , kissing your next 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 , cherry red lipstick on a mouth saying all the wrong words , clumsy nights falling into the arms of THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY , dysfunctional relationships , searching for a purpose in life , desperation to be something worthwhile and the utter disappointment when you're not . . .

𝐒𝐋𝐄𝐄𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐒 ( oc slice of life verse )

𝐈𝐓'𝐒 𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐋𝐘 𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐎𝐏 ( oc fame verse )

― ★ ― review the  rules.  carrd.  ― ★ ― open starters.  muses. must be over 21 to interact. NO taboo.

penned by ꒰ 𝒋ess , 25 , she / they. ꒱

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Keyframes: First Summer Kickstarter is Live!

Finals are hell but some chance encounters might help smooth the stress over. Enjoy the last bit of Spring as a College Sophomore in this amare, slice-of-life visual novel!

💐 Keyframes: Summer Kickstarter Page 💐

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Hoooo boy! The kickstarter is finally live! Woo!

I've been trying to think of something sentimental to say since this is a bit of a monumental milestone-- even if it is just the start of the campaign ^^,-- but the nerves, haha they're making it really hard to wax poetics right now.

So I'll just say this straight up! On behalf of the team, thank you for being here with us! The fanarts, the love notes in our inboxes, the theories (oh my god the theories ahsdlkasdh)-- everything that came out of your sincere support and passion for Keyframes thus far has uplifted us like no other! So even if the next 30 days is unbeknownst to us all, thank you for giving us the energy to start this campaign optimistically.

Till the next post,

(BLANK) House

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Video credits goes to elliot*!

Play Keyframes: First Spring on itch!

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🐟✨SAKANA UPDATE✨🐟

Let's take a break from the busy fish market so I don't have to draw so many detailed backgro--oh uh…

Read SAKANA page 642 here!

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Made a new, more Webtoons-y thumbnail for SAKANA! Just hit 1000+ subscribers today, YEEHAW!! 🤠🐟

Please check it out! https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/sakana/list?title_no=934213

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Another one! This one's from 2021. Just corny vibes, no big story. : ) You can read Phrasebook vol 1 here, and vol 2 here. If you feel so inclined, you can buy digital PDFs of all of the comics on my web shop!

I'll get vol 4 done ... eventually... someday... hahahahahahah! It's been quite a while. Aiming for 5-6 in total i think. We'll see what happens!

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Interspecies adoption isn't easy....

In this slice-of-life fanime, Xiu Stein works hard as a single father for six unique feline children: the rambunctious tiger-cub Tantan, shy Russian blue Pavel, the rare and exceedingly needy tortoiseshell tom Sondy, the sweet amnesiac kitten Min, reliable big sister the four-eared Angel Ears, and Sy, who is an adult but for legal reasons cannot live alone. Join him as he cleans up hairballs, dead bird carcasses, and cat puke. And in this episode specifically, Angel Ears grapples with the monumental task of...getting through the morning!

sooooo dont ask where i've been I made a showwwwwwwww :3

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Do ya'll have any recs for school/slice of life ttrpgs with more in depth mechanics for grades, classes, and keeping a school life balance? We really like magic school and slice of life settings but very few ttrpgs we've found have any actual mechanics for the school side of things, rather than just flavor for the free-time portions. Any kinda school works. Thank you!

THEME: Slice of Life Schools

Hello there! I found more games that were closer to this request than I thought, but there's definitely a number that I'd say come with a Your Mileage May Vary caveat. I hope you still find something that works for you!

Academia Or Else!, by liberigothica.

You are students at a local school. Your grade and age do not matter. What does matter is you have no choice. You must go to your classes every weekday, for 8 hours, unless you are sick. But that doesn't mean you must do as you're told.

Academia Or Else is a one page tabletop RPG about playing as a group of students in school, dealing with day to day school troubles like finding a mysterious envelope full of money, or finding the principle's diary, or being sent to detention for one of those first two things.

Academia or Else is grounded in the mundane pieces of school life: bullies, tests, detention, and school events. Your characters are classified as a Goth, Jock, Nerd or Prep, and your skills are represented as letter grades in common classes (Gym, History, Language, Math, and Science). This is a game more about rebelling against some of the rules of academia than it is fitting in, and the game in general gives me some of the same vibes as Breakfast Club.

When it comes to rolling dice, your skills and archetypes are represented by different sided dice: a d10 for an A-level, l, a D4 for an F-level, and so on and so forth. You roll two dice for any given problem, one for your archetype and one for your skills. You are trying to gain a total of 4 or higher on each dice. This means that there are three possible results: success, success with a penalty, and a total penalty. If you want a game that’s quick to learn, you might like this game.

Brit School Hijinks, by Librarians and Leviathans.

You're pupils at a British secondary school, trying to keep life at least a bit interesting and make your own entertainment. Build a den in the rafters of the gym. Raise terrapins in the third-floor bathroom. Brew moonshine with the long-banned solvents in the arts room. Arrange charity concerts. Steal test answers from the Head's safe while disguised as a Swedish piano-tuner. Stage a rebellion against school dinners. Find buried treasure under the rugby pitch. Arrest your physics teacher as a spy. Hide sickly aliens in the lockers. Plot bank robberies. Concoct elaborate schemes to bump into your crush. Bend, not break, the rules. Try different ways to make a difference to the days.

Much of the creation of the school in Brit School Hijinks does a very good job of reminding you that this is a run-of-the-mill school, with problems like needing to borrow money for something important, humorous misunderstandings with your crush, or setting up an elaborate scheme at school to get out of one of your classes. There doesn't need to be magic, monsters, or big world-ending event (although there can be if you want it). As a group, you’ll also decide whether your teachers are hostile, mundane, forgiving, or something else, as well as where you school gets its funding, and what kinds of programs it focuses on. There’s also a quick primer on British high schools in general, for folks who are unfamiliar with what that kind of school life looks like.

When it comes to how the game is run, there’s a focus on your relationships with each-other. How much do your peers trust you? Do the adults approve of you? How cool do other students think you are? You’ll also have a number of skills related to academic classes, which you’ll use when consulting how many dice you can roll for different tasks. From the role-play side of things, your characters also come with motivations - maybe they need to pass chemistry, or they want to ask out their crush. I think there’s the opportunity to make this game very fantastical, but you certainly don’t have to.

Dusk Academy, by Skullery Maids.

Dusk Academy is a spinoff of Blades in the Dark. It uses much of the same systems and mechanics, deviating slightly to fit the setting.

It is set in the hallowed halls of, well, Dusk Academy — a private school on an English island, far away from society. This school caters to girls fresh out of school, unsure of what to do in their futures. Dusk Academy helps these girls sort out their interests and passions, but it is special in its own way. The school is home to magic — and teaches it as part of its curriculum. This fact must remain secret from the rest of the world, but the school aims to provide a healthy environment for students to unleash their mystical potential.

More importantly, the school encourages students to form clubs, to provide a support network of friends throughout their time there. From sports to calligraphy, the world is your oyster.

Forged in the Dark games are very very good at providing you with tools to help you track long term consequences, typically in the form of clocks. You can use clocks to track how close you are to finishing a school project, how much time you have left to study, how long before the school dance, how much stress you’re under, and how far you can push a teacher before they blow their top.

Dusk Academy also uses the faction mechanic from original blades and re-skins them as clubs, creating the clique-ish social organization of a school hierarchy. The phases of the game also map out to the different parts of a school week - lessons during the week, club activities on Wednesdays, free play in the evenings, and extra downtime over the weekends.

If you like working with a bunch of different systems that synchronize kind of like clockwork - then you might want to check out Dusk Academy.

Alchemical Romance, by TrueFeyQueen888.

Alchemical Romance is a TTRPG powered by Caltrop Core. It is a game about young love, teen angst, lo-fi study groups, alchemy, friendship, and magic. Alchemical Romance is about a group of young alchemists getting together to study for their Alchemy Finals, but it is also about what goes on behind the scenes. Alchemical Romance is a game of unexpected friends and being true to yourself.

The characters in Alchemical Romance are different school tropes, such as Athlete, Bookworm, Goth, and Headphones Kid. Part of the game will revolve around maintaining relationships with your classmates, but the other part is focused on preparing for your Alchemy final. The game can be played in a single session “Study Sesh”, a multiple-campaign“Diploma” series, or somewhere in between. There’s a couple of neat tools in here to play around with, including a Burnout track to help you monitor how much stress your character is under, and both relationships and special skills to track how what resources your character has.

Overall the game is rather rules-lite: this is a game for folks who really like social roleplay, first and foremost. I think that it definitely fits the “slice of life” part of your request, but if you pick up Alchemical Romance for your group, you’ll probably want to be putting a number of other rules in to make the game feel more like an engine.

Last Hope, by Wendigo Workshop.

“There is a world, much like our own, where darkness lives. Its influence seeps into our world, corrupting those with a weak soul. That is why The Gift exists. Those with The Gift must travel to The Beyond and free the world from Shadows. But The Gift always comes with a price…

We never know the price, it is never said… we always understand too late. Do not accept The Gift. It is tempting, it seems beautiful, but when something appears too good to be true, it usually is…”Last Hope is a tabletop roleplaying game within which you play as a teenage character trying to fight evil corruption in an alternate version of the world, while also living your daily life as a student. Through a strange contract, you were given The Gift, transforming you into a Magical girl and giving you special powers.

As magical girls, you’ll be juggling school in between missions during a session of Last Hope. However, there are rules in this game for tracking a school day, as well as a roll table to determine whether or not you can stay awake in class, or pass your exams. There’s also downtime rules, which includes taking time out of your precious free hours to work on your schoolwork - rewarding you with a better chance of succeeding at Wit rolls. Since Last Hope is also Caltrop Core, I’m curious as to whether or not you could take a few pieces of this game and combine them with Alchemical Romance to make a more robust game.

Public Wizard High School Teens, by Rexatron Games.

It’s senior year at Wolfboil High… 

A public high school for urban and suburban kids who want to do wizard stuff but can’t afford the snooty private school up the hill, on the lake, in the woods. As usual, yet another life-threatening problem has emerged that the highly qualified and experienced (but apathetic) adult staff of wizards is ill equipped to deal with. That leaves you, a scrappy band of dramatic libidinous teenagers to save the day. But there’s also crazy important school stuff to think about AND your life sucks hard because you have your own even more important problems to deal with.

This is a one-page rpg with two different sets of rules, so you can choose which set works best for you. The premise of the game is that there is a villain with an evil plan, but even as your students are trying to stop them, they’ll also have to deal with personal stress and a big event coming up - an event, that if cancelled, could severely effect the staff and/or students of the school. It’s a small inclusion, but the constant reminder of a normal part of school life that your characters care about is a nice reminder that this is in fact, a school.

You Can Also Check Out…

My Spooky Dark Boarding School Recommendation post has a lot of games in it that fit this request to some extent, in particular Precarious Prep and St. Hornbeck’s.

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Holly & Macy and Everyone Else

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IT SURE IS A COMIC UPDATE

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WORLD PREMIERE

Good morning.

I've released a game once more. And once more it has charming as hell illustrations from @supersappho. As well as great stock images from very cool photographers (who are credited in the doc).

Eternal reminder: when I work with an artist they are paid fully out of pocket at the rate they request. Any money I make goes into the next game. Paying for Adobe InDesign, and the resources I use.

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muse a buys and renovates the town's rundown café, a place filled with memories of their late mother. muse b, a chef who's returned home after a failed stint in the city, joins the project. together, they try to revive the café and their own fortunes, finding that their collaborative sparks may kindle more than just business success.

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WE'RE FUNDED!

Keyframes: First Summer is officially funded and on the start of our fourth day campaigning too!

THERE ARE NO WORDS IN THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY THAT CAN ACCURATELY EXPRESS OUR EXCITEMENT RIGHT NOW!

There's so much more we haven't shared with you guys yet, community goals we were planning on releasing, beautiful art from incredible artists, and even more collaborative pieces--

Yet here we are, and we couldn't have done it without you all. So from the residents in the house:

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

We'll have more to say in the morning, but tonight we celebrate! Go crazy! Or finally get that rest haha. Either way, thank you thank you thank youuuu! MWAH! (BLANK) House

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🐟✨SAKANA UPDATE✨🐟

Back to regular updates after this behemoth of a page! You wanted MORE backgrounds, huh? No? Nobody's forcing me to make pages like this?? Hold on. Wait. Hold o

Read SAKANA pages 647-648 here!

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A selection of funnie panels from pages 604-609 of SAKANA, my long-running webcomic about guys who work in a fish market who are EXTREMELY bad at romance.

Jiro wants the deets on Yuudai's "definitely not a date" dinner, but Yuudai is unfriendly. It's his charm point.

You can read the whole thing for free here!

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Essay/Blurb on Enhancing Fantasy Stories Through Slice of Life Writing

Fantasy thrives on spectacle—the clash of swords, the weight of prophecies, the kind of magic that cracks mountains and reshapes worlds. It’s exciting, sure, but what keeps me coming back to a story isn’t the grandeur. It’s the small things. The quiet moments. The way a warrior looks at their battered boots after a day of marching through wet fields, or how a mage sighs in frustration as their spell fails for the fourth time that morning. These aren’t the moments most people come to fantasy for, but for me, they’re the ones that stay.

I’m talking about slice-of-life writing. The parts of a story where the world slows down and the characters just exist. No urgent plot points, no apocalyptic stakes—just people living their lives in a world that feels real because it’s full of those tiny, human details. Slice-of-life writing isn’t about undercutting the epic. It’s about making it matter. If I don’t care about a character during their quiet moments, why would I care about them when they’re in the middle of a fight for their life?

Take the image of a sorceress kneeling on the floor of her workshop, scrubbing soot off the wood after a spell went sideways. Her cat, impervious to the chaos she’s created, bats at a stray piece of parchment. She’s muttering to herself, not in ancient, arcane tongues, but in frustration because she’s ruined another expensive candle and the stain won’t come out of the floorboards. That’s the moment I want to see—not just because it’s relatable, but because it gives me a reason to see her as more than her title or her power.

For me, slice-of-life writing is where a world stops being a backdrop and starts becoming a place. A marketplace isn’t just “bustling.” It’s full of mismatched voices yelling over each other, the smell of something spiced and slightly burnt wafting from a stall, and the metallic clang of someone hammering out horseshoes nearby. It’s a child tugging on their parent’s hand, begging for something shiny that they’ll probably lose by the end of the day. I don’t want a world that feels polished and pristine—I want one where I can practically feel the grime under my fingernails and hear the complaints of the merchant who’s been on their feet since dawn.

These small details are what ground a story. They don’t slow it down; they give it weight. A warrior isn’t just a weapon—he’s someone who spends fifteen minutes trying to scrape mud off his boots so he doesn’t track it into the inn. A healer isn’t just a symbol of kindness—they’re someone who stares at their herb supply, calculating whether they can afford to save another life without losing their own. These aren’t plot points—they’re anchors. They give the extraordinary a foundation, something to stand on when the story starts to tip toward the unbelievable.

There’s a scene I’ve imagined more than once: a mage crouched over a torn robe, trying to stitch it back together. Their hands aren’t steady—magic has never required precision, not like this. The needle pricks their thumb, and they swear quietly, not because of the pain but because the thread has slipped loose again. There’s a pile of spell components shoved to the side of the table, forgotten for now, because even the most powerful magic-user has to fix their own clothes sometimes. It’s such a small thing, but it tells me everything I need to know about who they are.

I don’t need every moment in a story to be this slow, quiet thing. Big battles, high stakes, massive consequences—I love those, too. But when everything is dialed up to eleven, I start to feel numb. I lose my connection to the characters, to the stakes, to the world itself. Slice-of-life writing is what keeps me tethered. It’s the chance to pause, to breathe, to see the people behind the actions.

Even in the most fantastical settings, slice-of-life makes the world feel lived in. A healer crouching in a hidden garden, tending to plants that glow faintly in the dark, isn’t just performing a task. She’s inhabiting the world, shaping it with her small rituals. I can feel the damp soil against her hands, hear the soft hum of an insect passing by, see the way the leaves shift as she moves. It’s these details that make me believe in the world, that make me want to stay in it just a little longer.

And slice-of-life isn’t just for worldbuilding—it’s for the characters, too. A protagonist at a village festival, standing just outside the crowd, drink in hand, is a different person than the one charging into battle. Maybe they notice the blacksmith wiping soot-streaked hands on her apron before joining a group of friends. Maybe they overhear a merchant arguing over a charm’s price, both of them pretending not to laugh. These moments tell me about who the protagonist is when they’re not “the hero.” They give me a reason to care.

Writing slice-of-life is also where I feel most free to explore my characters. What do they do when no one is watching? How do they hold themselves in the quiet moments, when they don’t have an audience? A young apprentice practicing spells late into the night, their breath fogging in the cold air, tells me more about their courage than any grand speech ever could. These scenes aren’t distractions—they’re where the heart of the story lives.

It’s not just about what happens in these moments—it’s about how they happen. Slice-of-life thrives on specificity. It’s not “a bustling inn”; it’s the creak of floorboards under a barmaid’s hurried steps, the faint smell of spilled ale clinging to the air, the muttered complaint of someone who’s been nursing the same drink for hours. It’s not “a lone traveler at dawn”; it’s the way the frost clings to the edges of their cloak, the crackle of the fire they’re trying to rekindle, the hissed curse as they burn their fingers on the kettle. These details make the world tangible.

Fantasy doesn’t have to be all or nothing. There’s room for both the epic and the intimate. The key is knowing when to let the world slow down, when to let the characters breathe. Slice-of-life isn’t about filling time—it’s about filling the world. It’s about giving every sword swing, every spell, every desperate act of heroism something to stand on.

The moments that stick with me aren’t always the big ones. It’s the sorceress scrubbing soot off the floor. The warrior muttering about damp boots. The healer brushing dirt from their hands after an hour in the garden. These are the moments that make the extraordinary feel worth it. These are the moments that remind me why I fell in love with fantasy in the first place.

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