#this isn't about time loop hamlet but also it is very much about time loop hamlet

[lamentable-comedy]

my castmate, getting emotional on closing night: do you ever think about how we might be in this play again... but this is still the last time we'll ever be in this production, with these people at this time? and even within that, each show is the last time we'll ever do that specific performance. even within a given unique production, there are a thousand little things that are different night to night. different performance choices, different audience, different thoughts in our heads and ways we play off each other. it's like. theatre is by its nature ephemeral and there's no way to ever go back and experience that specific version of a play ever again.

me, who's lived through the time loop of this night 300 times: y'know--

[aziraphales-library]

hello, i was wondering if you perhaps knew of any fics that involve crowley and anathema being friends? ive just always felt like they would get on well, they're both similarly odd and prone to ranting about the sizes of animals brains

thank you so much for all the work you all do btw!!

Hi! Here are some fics which feature a friendship between Crowley and Anathema...

You've Got a Funny Way of Making Friends by ellbie (T)

Anathema swirled her drink in her glass. “Then what?” “Er, then… I don’t know. I didn’t see him again until the Great Flood.” “Well, when did you start, y’know…” Anathema waggled her eyebrows. Crowley flustered. “Mind your own business, witch.” “Hey, you’re the one that agreed to talk to me about all this stuff. You can’t be mad that I’m asking questions.”

Friendship is Demonic Magic by Shadow0kana & whtbout2ndbrkfst (T)

After Crowley interrupts Aziraphale and Anathema’s phone conversations one too many times, Aziraphale suggests the two have their own meetups to discuss what they have in common. Cue monthly coffee dates between a witch and a demon who can passionately discuss (debate) anything from Halloween to Astronomy to Hamlet… while also conspiring to form a book swap aimed at getting Aziraphale to read anything written after 1950.

The Nice and Accurate wedding of Anathema Device, Witch, which went just as expected by Nenchen (G)

Wedding planner Anathema Device is the Number One. She can organize anything for a wedding, flower arrangements, catering, a marching band or an emu. The name Device is a guarantee for a picture perfect wedding - and the perfect pictures will be taken by her top wedding photographer, and best friend, Anthony J. Crowley.

Both of them see weddings mostly as business, until Anathema meets Newt, Love of her life, walking natural disaster extraordinaire, and very much not a person it’s possible to have a perfect wedding with.

Which is perfect since Anathema frankly never wanted one for herself. She just wants a fun party, good food, and all of her friends to attend - including Crowley. For whom this might just as well be the apocalypse because no, he is not allowed to work on her wedding. Strictly invited only as a guest, Crowley finds himself at a loss. What the hell do you do at weddings? Well, if you are Crowley, the answer is some James Bond-like action, some worrying about fly swarms and their sources, having a lot of emotions, drinking some very funny wine, putting your foot in your mouth and just maybe meeting someone to share all of that with. Oh, and there’s always cake, isn’t there?

Healing by AppleSeeds (M)

After Crowley sustains an injury, his friend Anathema persuades him to come with her to the spiritual centre she regularly attends so that he can receive some spiritual healing. Crowley doesn't expect the healer to be quite so attractive, and certainly not that he'll end up developing a crush on him. As their sessions together progress though, Crowley starts to wonder whether Aziraphale might actually have feelings for him too.

Thrown for a Loop by MickyRC (T)

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a large amount of yarn will be assumed to be a knitter.

It is a truth universally acknowledged among crocheters that this is annoying as hell.

In his many years crocheting, Aziraphale has never been one to let that assumption stand. But faced with an opportunity to join a knitting group run by a very sweet new shop owner, he decides to play along. Even if it means he has to pretend he wants to learn how to knit. Even if it means he has to hide his skill with a crochet hook.

It’ll be worth it to get to know Crowley better. Probably. Hopefully.

(It will.)

secondhand smoke by PaintedVanilla (T)

you're second hand smoke, second hand smoke i breathe you in, but, honey, i don't know what you're doing to me mon chéri

the year is 1990, and anthony crowley is looking for a church in london that might be tolerable. the one he winds up attending isn't exactly such, but he decides to stick around for one reason. said reason happens to own a bookshop that crowley begins to frequent, much to the surprise and delight of anathema device and newton pulsifer, who seem quite convinced that crowley could use something else to focus on besides gardening, their campaigns, and visits to tadfield.

- Mod D

[infiniteorangethethird]

(kskdkrkekd ignore my ask before i sent it on accident before i could finish it)

hiiii we haven't talked in a bit so this is me popping by

how have you been doing? :)

i have finished reading hamlet so i am going to reread i fell in love with hope any day now and give you your promised highly detailed essay. yay? also i have been seeing a therapist, idk if i told you about that and i'm pretty sure that's a yay!! she's very nice

question time!! i miss your aro fic so i decided to ask something regarding that. firstly, can i ask why are there different mating systems? like, what is the in-world explanation and/or what is the narrative purpose? (idk if that's too much spoiler, you can just answer in private if you want or not answer at all, whatever you seem fit)

other question is about björn bc i love him. does he like musicals too?? i know you said you, yourself are not that into theatre but if yes, do you have an idea what types of musicals would be his fav?

that's all for now i think. you answer when you answer, if you want to at all - as always. no pressure!!

bye-bye (´^_^)ノ

hiiiii sorry this took me so long to get around to, I've finally started on my summer job and I can count my free seconds on just one hand 😭 otherwise I'm mostly fine, bit preoccupied with getting obsessed over various crochet projects and trying not to lose my sanity over them lmao

oh I am so looking forward to that essay of yours, it's been a hot moment since I read I fell in love with hope so perhaps this is a call for me to reread it as well. I'd say we should do a race to see who can finish sooner but I get the feeling neither of us needs any kind of extra stress right now, lol. And I'm glad to hear you found a good therapist! I remember you mentioned you were looking for one, so happy to hear that turned out nicely!

Imma be honest, it's been a hot moment since I thought abt my aro fic 😅 other projects came up and then I started working on Absolutely Nothing At All, so that one has been kinda put on the backburner lately - it's probably a good thing you're reminding me of it, then. Tbh I don't remember if I had any specific reason for multiple mating systems, I think I just wanted to represent many of them to say: no, the problem isn't with one specific system, the problem is with the idea itself. Then again I have been considering going through every idea I had thus far again and sort of "restarting" bc I wasn't entirely happy with what I came up with thus far, so who knows. Maybe next time you ask I will stick with just one system lol.

Oh yeah Björn is a really funny guy I love him too, for some reason I imagine he would be the type of person who loves musicals but purely for their music, and otherwise has zero clue as to what the musical is actually about. He would listen to the soundtrack on 24/7 loop but if someone came up to him like "actually this musical is about [plot]" he would give you the most confused surprised pikachu face. (What kind would be his favorite, I am honestly not sure)

man I really should think about getting back to writing this Thang I have been putting it off for so long I'm already forgetting things about it 😭

Anyway, how are you doing? I hope everything's going fine with you this summer break and that ur resting at least a little bit (and that your brain hasn't boiled yet in the heat lmao). Doing anything interesting lately?

[sleepdepravity]

visual/sound novel games list from that obscure games list i made earlier

i was contemplating whether i should just reblog the "mystery games" list post instead of making these their individual posts, but then i realized, i think reblogs with read mores will just uncollapse all the read mores in the entirep ost, so that would make the posts super long. here are the visual/sound novel games.

uhhhhh this one may not actually be a visual novel. I think i put it there initially because there's a lot of chatting with people and relationships, but actually, there's also a lot of walking and looking at stuff (my favorite) anyways, the ending made me super cry a lot. I lvoe AIs. there's a very good AI in this game and it makes me super sad, i cried a lot at the ending choice. i love the AI.

i am so surprised about how few reviews there are of this game??? like less than 2k. I'm very surprised because, like, this is a major player in the history of sound novels, isn't it????? like! a big name guy!!! it's very fun. There are mulitple characters, you can hop around to all of them as they do their concurrent things, and it's very fun and funny to see how each of their lives intertwine. And also it's fun to see how some of these people end up being a lot more connected than you think. also, choices you make as other people will affect what happens to other people. also, there are many bad ends. actually....i think the creators of this game is somehow tied to kamaitachi no yoru??? which was also fun and good.

i count this as a visual novel because the only gameplay is sorting food. It's a papers please-esque game. Anywyas, i am "bad" at dystopia games because no matter what, i always play my character as "guy who keeps their head down and doesn't rebel." like, i don't even replay to try other endings. i just tend to play a game once, and the ending i get is the ending i get. i feel like when you play dystopia games you're "supposed" to try to fight the system or something, but, like. i don't want to stick out, guys. i truly don't. I won't report people, i won't snitch, but i also won't. like. disobey the system outright. Sorting food was interesting, though.

this one i remember being a visual novel about AIs or robots or something. also another dystopian thing. uhhhhhh. i sort of forget what happens, but you do fortune-telling shit with these people, and you can affect what these people do based on what order you place the divination sigils, and i think that's neat. fun visuals too. I really like how people are shaded and colored.

TIME LOOP HAMLET TIME LOOP HAMLET YOU PLAY AS OPHELIA AND YOU'RE IN A TIME LOOP IT'S HAMLET TIME LOOP TIME I AM IN SUCH FUCKIN AWE THAT, LIKE, THIS GAME DOESN'T AHVE MORE REVIEWS OR ATTENTION? YOU!!! PLAY AS OHPELIA!!! IN A TIME LOOP!!!!!! therea re multipel endings. it's fun. i think it's fun. i'm not sure that this should be in this category now that i think about it, but oh well.

i, honestly kinda don't really know how to describe this game. it's definitely visual novel. it has good vibes and music, dynamic camera work. it's interesting. there are multiple side stories as well. it's a story about death and the afterlife and passing on and clinging to life.

I think some of the most interesting games are when you're just some guy encountering multiple people just going about their lives, but also sometimes the people are very much connected to each other in neat ways. This is another one of those cyberpunk type stories that explore tech and privacy and all that jazz. y'know?

I played this on mobile previously. I'm a little surprised that it doesn't have more attention on steam, but maybe it got most of its audience on mobile? i dunno. I think this one is fun in terms of the different ways you have to try to get away with murder, managing time and different people and trying to hide evidence or trying to find out dirt on other people and planting evidence on them and such.

I really like the art style on this, and i think the "conversation through cards" mechanic is interesting. this is the sort of game where you drive around to places and talk to people. vroom vroom. i like journeying around sometimes. i like collecting junk to put in a shop. the art style is very much neat, though. i really enjoyed the art style.

There's five parts to this, i believe. I think this actually is based off an actual choose your own adventure book? I'm not sure how closely it follows the book, but i think i found it quite fun, actually. just in terms of the different paths you can take, and what things you can find and pick up and the different ways you can use them. also, the art is nice! The sound design was nice. Ambient sounds got used a lot for this one to good effect. the sound that happens when you start a spell is very nice.

i believe i played this one on mobile too? i think it's possible this one might be better played on mobile, potentially. unsure. but 1. i remember thinking that this one did some very fun things with text and playing around with the way you read, metatext, puzzles, etc. Also, at the end of it, there's a thing you can do where you. email, the developers? i guess? and you get to do a shrot little roleplay with them about the ending of the game. i remember sending them the email and wondering if, like, too much time had passed for them to even respond, because i think it had been at least a year since the release? and i was like "nahhh...they wouldn't just keep monitoring that email forever, right?" but then they responded. i don't know if they will still respond. i don't think it's automated. the person who responded to me seemed very nice.