#yonder

[fridayvelvet]

Happy birthday to my pookie babygirl beloved middle aged man of all time Shin Hakyun🎂🤍

[dudja]

Danny is off to the yonder #comedy #funny #memes #wildwest #thewildwest #west #cowboy #meme #dudja

[literalliterature]

Yonder in “Murder of crows” and blue in “statue”? If that’s too much, one or the other is fine.

Everybody's saying that

Hell's the hippest way to go

Well, I don't think so

But I'm gonna take a look around it, though

Blue, I love you

Probably not quite what you had in mind but I couldn't resist some moody symbolism lol

palette challenge by @ultrainfinitepit

[ID copied from alt: A lineless drawing in a limited palette of blacks, grays, whites, and blues. It shows an anthropomorphic, black-feathered corvid with half of their face turned into a skull. They wear a duster over a white collared shirt. Light shines down on them like a spotlight, and falling from above are a series of blue feathers. They face forward, and their face is turned solemnly down as they hold out their hand to catch one of the falling feathers. The palettes used, titled "Murder of Crows" and "Statue," are shown in the upper right corner. End ID.]

[pruneunfair]

I feel so bad for Layla.

Im not just talking about the fact that the entire story revolves around her being abused and getting Stockholm syndrome. It's a case of the fandom

Shes the FL, everyone almost always gets on their knees for the FL but then they go and romanticize her abuse, they act like her getting assaulted by Matthias was hot, there is multiple tiktok and Instagram edits thay portray the relationship as "cute" and "protective" and "Layla just doesn't know how much she loves him." A 18 year old girl being coerced into doing what a nobleman wants isn't cute and it sure as hell isn't justified because they misuse the dark romance term A LOT.

And if she wasn't the main character and Claudine was? The amount of people that would rope her in with the typical white lotus mistress type would be insane. She'd be called a slut for getting in the way between Matthias and Claudine, she'd be made fun of for being a commoner who dared to even look at the Duke and they'd belittle her trauma and call her "another trashta"

Theres no winning for Layla when it comes to the Cry or better yet beg stans, if she's the lead then her abuse is romanticized and on occasion people will claim it was Layla gaslighting the readers, if she isn't the lead then she'd likely be demonized as a slutty mistress thinking she can sleep her way to the top.

[70sscifiart]

Uncredited 1958 cover art for Charles Beaumont’s Yonder

[beezaartblog]

How I measure to draw beeza body type with her cloak/dress

[iridium-quality-salad]

Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles

[ID: Banner of the game Yonder. It shows an illustrated scene of a farm. In the foreground, a brown-haired player character and a small red fox are napping next to a big fluffy brown animal with huge horns. In the background are two wooden animal pens with red roofs and a pair of the same horned animal, on adult and a young one. The sky is blue and the grass green and dotted with flowers. The game logo is mostly golden, with the O being an illustration of big blue round sails. End ID]

I want to put this whole review under the fact that I bought this game on sale for less than 5 Euro. There will be a lot of bitching, and many things I would not accept with the non-sale price, but it was cheaper than a pizza and kept me busy for over 25 hours (though I admit, I am not the fastest, so I think <20h is realistic).

In Yonder, you are trying to find out about your past when your ship sinks and you end up stranded on an island threatened by the murk - some kind of dark fog blocking areas. Only you can see and befriend the small creatures called sprites which you need to clear the murk, progress the story, and finally discover the (very surprising! :o not) truth about your past.

On your way to do so, you have to gather resources, barter for goods, tame animals, catch fish, and discover secrets.

[ID: Screenshot of the game. The player character is overlooking a vast landscape with a huge mountain in the far background, surrounded by a pink forest. Trees closer to the player are green instead, and the landscape sports many cliffs and an ocean on the right side of the picutre. The sky is mostly blue, with a few pinkish-white clouds. Some kind of whale-shaped animal is floating in the distance between the clouds. End ID]

The positives:

Save whenever, good autosaves, multiple save slots.

Customize character with hair and eye colors, but also body shapes! Yay.

Lots of clothes to discover as well.

Cute animals to tame <3

If you have 2 of the same animal on a farm, there will be a third, baby version, it's so adorable.

Very relaxed, stress free gameplay. No combat, no death, drowning ports you back up on land.

The quest log is very detailed and works as a marker on the map, too.

Tons of things to discover, and very clear progression indicators.

I really liked the lighting in this game. Beautiful sunrises <3

Two modes of fast travel - from farm to farm for a (small) cost, and from one sage stone to any of the others once their quest is cleared.

Big inventory, early unlocked stash.

Some beautiful, diverse biomes.

Keyboard controls can be rebound.

Plays perfectly on the steam deck.

[ID: Another screenshot. The player character is gliding over a purple forest while hanging onto a rainbow colored umbrella. Underneath the character is a settlement with purple buildings, what looks to be an observatory and a giant planet model. The landscape in the distance is covered in fog and tinted with warm sunlight. End ID]

The neutral:

Short, lackluster story. This is not a game I bought for the story.

Farming is very basic. There's 4 different crops, a couple different animals to tame, and you can plant trees, which only give you the same wood you can find all over the place. It's not a farming game, though, so whatever.

The foxes are adorable but don't give anything unique. Some produce items that are harder to get, which is nice.

The game is a bit inconsistent whether a quest will use up your items or not. All the clothes you have to find for the scarecrow you get to keep, while other items get used up.

Hell, you can BUY tools, even though you get every single on for free and they cannot break, get lost, or get dropped. Why tf? I played the whole game having 2 sickles, unable to get rid of one of them.

Crafting is an over complicated, horrible UI, convoluted mess. Why is this in neutral?

Because you can buy pretty much everything. You can break rocks for days and then spend several minutes crafting ever increasing intermediate steps to get a bunch of stone pillars and arches - or you return for a few days and just buy them.

There is no money, so you barter with goods matching prices, which is a bit annoying. I ended up paying everything with potatoes and grass.

With a bit of patience and luck, you can even buy every fish, and it counts for the fishing collection, which, thank you, fishing is annoying.

Very short ingame calendar; a year is 30 days, so each season only lasts 7-8 days.

[ID: A screenshot of the game's crafting menu. It shows available recipes for the profession Constructor, with things such as stone arches and pillars, farm buildings made from stone, various metal ingots, and a set of profession specific clothes. End ID]

The negatives:

(Aka things that made me want to throw my deck at the wall.)

Jumping sucks. If you're standing wrong against a rock, jumping will make you jump back instead of up, which might lead to you falling off things. Luckily, very little jumping is actually required.

You can't select a hairstyle when creating the char, you find them all over the place. Default hair is ugly af. If I hadn't found a cute one pretty soon, it would have been WAY less fun staring at an ugly blob of polygons for 20 hours.

Similarly, you get some basic hair colors and can unlock super fancy ones in the game. Now why is this negative? Because not all default colors exist as shampoo, and I was so happy to find a perfect hair color when making my char, which I would have never gotten back, so I couldn't use any shampoo :(

The. Sounds. This game has some of the most grating, repetitive, ear-bleeding sounds I have ever had the displeasure of encountering in a game. Usually, I would turn off sounds nothing much lost, but:

The. Cats. There is a quest to find 55 cats in this game, and the only way to find them is to have sounds on, because they mew very loudly when you get close - or, I guess, seeing a blob of tiny pixels hidden away between rocks and trees 55 times.

Speaking of the cats. Some of them only appear at certain times, like winter, spring and summer nights, or even summer sunrise. In my opinion, this makes finding them without the wiki tedious; perhaps possible, definitely not worth it.

The only good point about the cats is that there's more cats in the game than you need, so there is a chance you find enough of one breed on your own.

Day/night cycle from 6am-6pm and vice versa, with no way to skip time. Which means for half of the game time, it's annoyingly dark. Makes it extremely hard to see anything, hey, at least you get a lantern. Which bugged once leaving me with a pitch black screen. Its just not fun. It would have been fine if nights weren't 12 hours long.

I would have turned my screen brighter, but days are extremely bright in comparison - even after turning down bloom.

Thunderstorms, especially at night. They just flash the whole screen white in irregular intervals, it's horrible. Once or twice, I had to put the deck down and wait until they were over. Luckily, they were rare.

[ID: A screenshot of the game, showing the player character in front of one of the sage stones; a giant face made out of stone, mouth wide open, mouth and eyes glowing brightly. It's sitting on an uphill slope on a snowy mountain with a huge cliff face to the left. End ID]

There were a few minor bugs; the aforementioned missing lamp during one night, I somehow completed a quest twice and got two badges, and the UI for board quests if you talk to the quest giver NPC without the items present is so bad I consider it a bug. Nothing gamebreaking.

Why do I still recommend it? Well, it was fun. Mostly. It was a real "couldn't put it down" game for a week or two, just one more quest, one more creature. It was less fun to have the game running for 2 real life hours waiting for next winter because I was missing one single cat and had nothing else left to do.

It's also a game I will happily uninstall and never touch again now that I 100% it, which, honestly, is nice, I have enough games to return to. Sadly, there doesn't seem to be a way to hide the interface for better screenshots (though you can try to catch the split second before opening inventory or compass.)

If you like low-stakes, cozy games, this one might be for you - but on sale. If you're sensitive to flashing lights, beware of the thunderstorms.

[btsicedtea]

This is the final boss of siblings or dating, at least for Kang Jiwon

[milosflaca]

I did this for author Ruby Dixon (author of Ice Planet Barbarians) for her book Bound to the Shadow Prince (in Yonder app).

Here is extra content: closeups and sketches I sent to Ruby when I was exploring Nemeth. It was tricky to drawn him sitting because his legs bended in a weird way.

I enjoyed this commission so much.

I was up for doing promotional work on my country for the IPB. In the end, nothing happened, so getting the commission from the author kind of rocked! You can follow me on IG and FB (milosflaca as well).

Please do not repost my work.

[squibblefall]

Nimblecloud and Lily! A clump of yonderoot is brought to life by a unicorn and sent on a mission to the terraworld to find something. They soon forget what that something is and go on adventures instead; hoping to end up running into it along the way.

[mossgloam]

🌲⏳🌒 🕯️

much thanks to anyone that gives my EP a listen or adds it to a playlist. new album on the way.

sincerely,

moss gloam

[fridayvelvet]

Shin Hakyun for Grazia 2017

[bloomingbutterflies]

I drew. @yonderstuff's oc Yonder corrupted !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yahahaha

2nd image is the original fella !!!!!!!!

[these-summer-nights-in-december]

My poem "Yonder" published online at The Cincinnati Review

"Yonder," the collaborative poem that I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson, just got published online at The Cincinnati Review, with accompanying audio of us 3 reading the poem (and some harmonica played by my darling Sarah)! Huge thanks to Kate Jayroe, Rebecca Lindenberg, Lisa Ampleman, and all at CR!

[literalliterature]

Another palette challenge from @theatricuddles ! I know this isn't precisely what you asked for the expression, but I saw a reference photo I liked a lot and got this idea, so I hope that's okay! Also tumble got mad when I tried to post this as a GIF but

[Description: The image is a drawing of a raven/kenku from the neck up, done entirely in a palette of green. Their head is tilted up and they look back at the viewer with open-mouthed terror. The palette, called "#4 Electric Feel," is shown at the top. The video initially shows the same image, but then glitches and is replaced by a raven skull also done almost entirely in green, but with a tiny pink glow in the eye socket. End description.]