Not a scholar at first, but the guy who wrote Jaws hated that people used it to justify hating sharks so much he dedicated the rest of his life to shark research and advocacy.
(afaik- the woman who popularized gender reveals did so because she had a long history of miscarriages. The reveal was a celebration of the fact that one of her pregnancies had gotten far enough that there WAS a physical sex to reveal. It was never intended to be like... *gestures at modern gender reveals* all that. That same kid later came out as trans and yes, the family had a second gender reveal for that lol.)
A murder investigation swallows your charming, east coast city of Norwich, Maine, when your best friend, along with three others, goes missing. You, a college junior at Neumann University, are the prime suspect. Even worse, you find yourself with the same, strange symptoms she had before she disappeared.
This game is intended for mature audiences (18+) and includes references to and interactions with darker subjects such as: racism, sexism, violence, body horror, etc.
Choose your gender and pronouns; Play as female, non-binary, or male -- cis or trans
Choose your appearance and style
Befriend, romance, or antagonize the cast. It's up to you.
4 romance options + 1 mystery RO
Make choices that will test your relationships and morality
Navigate a vampiric transformation
Investigate mysteries
Try not to drop out of college
More Detailed Character Profiles Coming Soon
Angelina Lecrone (she/her)
You've know her since the first grade, and have been inseperable ever since. She's rich, moody, and strong-willed, which makes her an expert at bossing you around.
She has long, slightly wavy dark brown hair, pale skin, and blue eyes. She's 6'2" ft tall.
romanceable by women.
Harrison Lee (he/him)
Your bestfriend's boyfriend, known to most as the school's star quarterback. Many are intimidated by his large stature, before he tells his first stupid joke and they realize he wouldn't hurt a fly--not unless it's in the way of his touchdown.
He has tan skin, curly, dirty blonde hair and hazel eyes. He's 6 ft tall.
romanceable by any gender.
Elizabeth (he/him)
A contractor of the Hounds, an influential and secretive organization of vampires. He is just as secretive as an individual, prefering to keep most forms of expression to a minimum.
He has brown skin, dark brown eyes, and short, coily black hair with a white streak in the front. He stands at 5'8".
romanceable by any gender.
Kitty (she/her)
Kitty is among the elite members of the Hounds. Self-assured and cunning, charming and dangerous in equal measure, she is not one to underestimate.
She has brown skin, black eyes, and short, wavy black hair. She is 5'3".
romanceable by any gender.
??? (??/???)
A secret ;)
from top to bottom, left to right: Elizabeth, Harrison, Kitty, Angelina
It's Juneteenth yall. And I'm not letting this day go unmarked.
Black people fight for everybody. We stand in solidarity with women, lgbt people, poor people all over the world of every skin color and background. Every religion and nationality.
Today, stand with us. Be with us. Tell a black person you love them. Hug a black person (with consent). Ask that hot black girl out today. Make a black person smile. Black lives matter to everybody and you matter to us.
Stand with us on Juneteenth like we stand with you all year round, and I hope a happy Pride month continues for all of us
And like I genuinely am loath to negatively discuss women’s bodies online and I think the way that famous women’s bodies are up for discussion online and in the press is upsetting and dehumanising and I feel a lot of compassion for women who are struggling with eating disorders and body image issues in the public eye however the fucking mass weight loss happening to all famous women either through eating disorders or weight loss medication cannot just go uncommented on. Nearly every single famous woman got skeletal overnight and it is so incredibly worrying both for them and for what it signals to other women and girls about how they should look.
Was driving with my grandmother and in broken English she says “no eyes… no nose… no face. Don’t trust.” To which I looked around wildly in search of this omen of ill portend.
... hey... y'all... hey </3
Originally wasn't going to post anything until I could update the main demo again but I've been getting a lot of messages so...
Speedrun Challenge:
No, the game is not abandoned!
I have been avoiding social media for various reasons
The Chapter 2 Twine Version has been out for a while. I forgot to announce it here, but it's on Patreon for free. You can play it here. There's a bug w/ meeting Amilia where info gets mixed, so warning for that.
It's not on the main demo b/c the interlude in-between Chapter 1 + Chapter 2 is unfinished.
Chapter 3 is nearing 50% completion.
The next update on the main demo will include the interlude and add Chapter 2 to be properly added.
Bi-weekly to weekly word counts are resuming from today, whether it's a lot or a little. 🧎🏻 And thank you to everyone who sent kind wishes! Ngl life was beating me up pretty consistently for a long while but I finally have some stability going on again.
(Spoilers beneath. Shows Scene Breakdown from old Demo and where scenes are at progress wise for Twine. It has spoilers for anything past Chapter 1. Red is not worked on, yellow is in progress, green is finished.)
my fellow queers. happy pride month. Past 2 years ive made pride headers for diff flags but i didnt have time this year (due to recent news) so i made one big flag à la NASA. Tried to cover most destinations in D2!
I see so many arguments over what is and isn't "good queer representation" that really just boil down to "y'all are actually arguing over matters of taste and genre preference, which is incredibly subjective and personal."
Worldbuilding where being queer is normalized and queerphobia has no impact on the plot? THAT'S FINE. Worldbuilding that includes queerphobia and tackles the effects of it as part of the story? THAT'S ALSO FINE.
Low-stakes queer romcom where the characters are fluffy and cute? THAT'S COOL. Messy queer drama with toxic people who fuck each other over and clash repeatedly? THAT'S ALSO COOL.
Stories that center the characters' queerness, show a trans character's transition, and are about the queerness as much as the rest of the plot? AWESOME. Stories where the characters' queerness isn't treated as a big deal, and have trans characters whose transition happened before the story entirely? ALSO AWESOME.
You may PREFER one thing or another, but it is actually good to have all these things. It's about variety. It's about queer characters being allowed to exist without censorship. It's about queer artists getting to make things without being told we're a "niche issue" or "adult content." It's about having as many goddamn cakes as the bakery can produce.
At the end of the day, I'd prefer a media landscape with fifty pieces of problematic queer representation over a media landscape with one single piece of queer representation that's trying (and usually failing) to be 100% perfect for everything and everyone.
For a specific example I have very strong opinions about: nonbinary shapeshifters. As a nonbinary person, I LOVE shapeshifters. I am also very aware of the fact that it can be a stereotype. Nonbinary people have a very wide range of opinions on this, because we aren't a monolith.
The solution is not to ban nonbinary shapeshifters from ever appearing in anything ever. The solution is to have MORE NONBINARY CHARACTERS ACROSS THE BOARD.
You can bet your sweet candy ass that I’ll play the fuck out of the update come June 9th. If this is the end, I’m gonna spend it with one last hurrah.
Fuck if I’m gonna miss it though. This game (and the first one) pulled my ass out of the fire in high school. Kept me sane and, more importantly, alive. Helped me meet one of my closest friends (may he rest in peace) and gave me so many memories.
Nothing will fill this hole in my heart, and I’m so goddamn lost without it. I can already feel it.
In my experience, horror fans are by and large lovely people with a very healthy relationship to their genre of choice, but sometimes they fuck up and say something that in their ears sounds very affirmative of the movie of discussion and to everyone else sounds like the most sinister shit.
I mean the line that I think of first is “A kid dies in this movie.”
Which I suspect to horror fans is shorthand for “The director of this movie subverts horror tropes (wherein kids are usually immune to the monster/slasher/source of terror) to make something that is deliberately shocking. Seeing a child character die in this story is not a happy thing or a good thing, but for a horror story emphasizes that nobody is immune to the source of the terror, which makes the horror more serious and scarier.”
And to everybody else just sounds like “Oh this movie’s great! A kid dies in it!”
