#v: private

[alwaysaqueene]

@blackarrcw // Elyssa & Relta — Private Verse

Crown Princess of Lunaruz, Princess Relta, was being shown to her chambers in Nottingham Castle by her fleet of ladies-in-waiting. She was there to marry Prince John, much as she loathed her father for forcing this union. She was disgusted by what she knew the Prince had done to England, and its people, and found him repugnant as a person.

Upon opening the door to her chambers, Relta’s eyes widened in surprise when she saw a beautiful brunette hanging up some of the “more English” dresses she’d been gifted by the Prince. “Hello,” she said after clearing her throat to announce her presence, giving a curtesy of respect to the woman as she respected those of all classes.

There was no denying who Relta was by how she held herself and dressed, so she didn’t introduce herself quite yet. It could be that this woman was in fact there to kill her or something else nefarious, but Relta didn’t get that inclination from the woman. She simply always had to be wary. Plus, her portrait had been sent to the castle — eliciting crude comments from Vaisey about her beauty and ‘innocent look’.

“May I help you with my wardrobe?” She offered, walking over to Elyssa and dismissing her other ladies-in-waiting. “The dresses look rather…heavy,” she observed, then noticed Elyssa’s slightly pointed ears. An elf! Or at least part elf. Elves had lived on Lunaruz in the past, but had left due to avoiding a war ancient Lunaruz had been roped into, so they were now things of legend.

[14dayswithyou]

💖 Day 3.5 is now available! 💖

For the last couple of months, only Server Boosters had access to the 3.5 update... Buuuuut now it's available for everyone to play in the 14DWY Discord — and soon itch.io once I'm happy with the QA and state of the game — so please don't feel pressured to join unless you want to!!

The full devlog + even more screenshots are under the cut ^^

What's been added to the 3.5 version?

📺 Streamer Mode!

I've been told that it's difficult to stream and monetise age-restricted videos on YouTube and Twitch, so I added an option to remove the sexual content and strong language used in the demo.

Now y'all can invite Ren into your bed for cuddles without putting your streamer career on the line /silly /lh

This won't affect the 18+ rating or dark themes/elements of the game, however! Although Streamer Mode will prevent you from seeing any "gruesome" CGs in the future, most of the core elements of the game will still be tied to the choices and decisions you make. So you won't miss out on the overall experience by using streamer mode!!

⚙️ Custom Pronouns!

It only took me one entire year to get around to it, but you can finally choose your own preferred pronouns (or use a set of pronouns instead)... At the cost of being able to change them mid-game ^^;

Since the original pronoun screen wouldn't update until a new scene was displayed, I temporarily disabled the feature. But once I find a workaround, I'll bring it back!

💗 Choose how others perceive you!

You can now choose how the cast and narration perceive you! Originally, the narration was kept strictly gender-neutral (outside of pronouns and genitalia picked by the player), but this will soon change in future updates.

For more clarity: you don't get to choose the words specifically, but you can choose between masculine, feminine, and androgynous terms!

📋 Separate top and bottom genitalia!

You can now choose your tatas and pps separately! >:3

Alongside that, you can also choose your preferred body type!

I removed the "both" genitalia option because a few players still assumed it was an obscure version of "intersex". That wasn't my intention and I don't want to mislead anyone, so I took it out for now ^^;

I also didn't want to include a screenshot of the new genitalia choices in action (because it's NSFW), so y'all get the same character menu screen for the nth time instead lmao

📱 Relationship Screen Overhaul!

You can now change your own status for more immersion, and long-term Server Boosters will eventually be able to submit and use their own icon within the game as well!

Stalking finding your friends has now become easier by using "Buddy Maps"; a new app that allows you to see the location of all the cast members!

I want to offer players more incentive to check the relationship screen since they tend to miss the status updates, so hopefully this might help ;v;

It also says it "updates every few hours" so folks don't go overboard and check every 5 seconds to see where Ren is gdsghf (also keep in mind that he's a hacker lol)

🖤 Additional Scenes Update!

Day 2 received a brand new CG!!!!! Originally, I planned on only adding a few CGs sporadically throughout the game, but it didn't feel right to leave Day 2 so... empty... so I added a brand new CG to (hopefully) make things feel more balanced and natural!

If you decline Teo's offer on Day 3, Leon will now call and try to convince you to reconsider. However, players are still allowed to decline, and if they do, they'll reach a dead end.

After listening to feedback on itch, I changed some of the dialogue during Days 1-3 to make it seem more consistent! They're only small changes though, so it's honestly not worth looking for sdgjssga

🎶 Updated BGM and SFX!

I wanted to try out a different style of music to see if it fits the vibe of 14DWY more! The BGM features more acoustics to suit the "beachy" theme of Corland Bay, though I made a conscious effort to include piano elements as well to stay true to the original!!

I figured it'd be better to give players a live example before I make a poll (to see if they prefer the change or not) and publish it to Itch.

Some new SFX have also been added, though it's very minimal and honestly not that noticeable.

How to download and play the update?

(warning: clicking on the following links will open Discord!!) To download the Day 3.5 update, simply join the 14DWY Discord server, verify your age, and visit the "14dwy-updates" channel!

Alternatively, you can also wait until the update is publicly released on Itch to play it as well!! (It normally gets released shortly after a round of QA testing/getting feedback from the server, though I may release it earlier if I feel like it hehe ^^)

Enjoy!!

[pencilscratchins]

i have reached the part of the steddie hyperfixation where i make them domesticated men in their 50s. having a blast! (twitter) [ID in ALT text]

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

Bettie Page

Private Peeks V.1

[cor-lapis]

Boycotting Genshin

I don't feel comfortable playing through Natlan and doing quest summaries + other fanart for the region. Unless something changes, I will be boycotting the game, since I don't want to support this level of insensitivity. I would encourage anyone reading this to do the same/go F2P/sign the below petition.

Here's all the designs/edits I've found for the Natlan characters so far which aim to portray the characters more accurately to their inspirations, along with other resources:

Mauvika: xxxiiv (Tumblr)

Chasca: artbymanyy (Twitter) NGreentail (Twitter) Fanart of NGreentail's design by FantaMiix (Twitter)

Xilonen: idkwhatevs1 (Twitter) inebyoonei (Twitter)

Kinich: chururira2da3 (Twitter) pam0537 (Twitter)

Mualani: mikrys_art (Twitter) fremelleCEO (Twitter)

Kachina: With Mualani and Kinich by kattkeyy (Twitter) With Mualani and Kinich by TioFarofeiro (Twitter) With Mualani and Kinich by foogie_boogie (Twitter) With Mualani and Kinich by eleiwitch (Tumblr) fruberry01 (Twitter)

Olorun: foogie_boogie (Twitter)

Citlali: NGreentail (Twitter) beubeubbu (Twitter)

OC: keadeharaaa (Twitter)

Notes on inspirations for in-game designs: DailyNatlanBR (Twitter)

Guide to complaint emails to Hoyoverse: sakura_branches (Twitter)

[vkookthingsposts]

[aristoteliancomplacency]

I present to you the work of another painter of fish plates. Y’know how you use ‘scare quotes’ for various purposes, including indicating that you’re not actually sure about The Thing?

Well, this guy was so bad at whatever he was painting that we call him…

The ‘tadpole’ painter:

Here’s another example:

This one was sold as part of the Graham Geddes collection at Bonham’s auction house in 2008 for £2,040.

They describe it as ‘three fish including a wrasse with dorsal spines, an angler-fish, the rounded body with multiple black dots, two large round eyes with pupils, an open mouth with teeth bared, and a ray with pointed face, the body with multiple black dots’.

Which like… bold fucking move missing out the fact that they have legs. Though I can’t say I envy whoever had to write the description.

[theragamuffininitiative]

I don't need a vacation, I need a sabbatical, where I go live in an abbey in switzerland for six months where I read and garden and study and stare at the sky and learn about birds and make some art and write a lot and help feed the nearby village with the garden crops and there are no ads or algorithms or tv shows or fastfood restaurants and I walk into town once a week for phone and internet to check on friends and family and then I go away again and preferably there are cats and goats and those soft brown cows and one shaggy dog and I learn I have a new favorite constellation and type of flower and shade of green.

[millenniallust4death]

On April 22, the Supreme Court is set to hear the case of Johnson v. Grants Pass, the most significant case in decades about homeless people’s rights. The case will determine whether cities can arrest or fine the homeless — even if there’s no other shelter. As the homeless plaintiffs wrote, this would be “punishing the city’s involuntarily homeless residents for their existence.”

Mark Horvath, Adam Westbrook, and Lindsay Crous in "Criminalizing Homelessness Won’t Make It Go Away". The New York Times (16 April 2024). Link here.

The city of Grants Pass in Oregon wants to make being homeless a crime in order to drive the homeless into other areas. I am so tired.

[bisthefairy]

The average Mario Kart character owns 35 shitty businesses

[breezypunk]

All my babies and their babies! :3

[elvenbeard]

You're my World

Doesn't matter where we are as long as we're together.

New Pride Flags Makeup (AXL Edition) by @pinkyjulien 💛

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

Bettie Page

Private Peeks V.1

[loveletterworm]

pictures I drew for the video of the synthv cover I made. These were my first time drawing Teto's synthv design properly at all...It's really complicated compared to her utau one...

The pictures don't really have anything in specific to do with the song she's just kind of standing around so that I could have something to put on screen. But I might as well put the video here though anyway:

This song was in Fortnite, for a brief period of time late last year. It used to play on the car radios. That's how I found it. I just felt like telling you this.

[satans-knitwear]

today's look was sweet af but i was too tired to take more pics 😭

Treat me ~ Tip me ~ More of me

[x-heesy]

𝙻 𝚘 𝚟 𝚎 🌈

Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix photographed by Abigayle Tarsches on the set of "My Own Private Idaho" (1991).

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