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my commissions are open!

after some revamping im reopening my commissions! and also...

the 🐟FISHING TIER🐟is also officially online. i will send your character to have a relaxing afternoon on the lake/ocean. or maybe they hate fishing/relaxing and this is actually really miserable for them. it's your call.

if interested, please refer to my commissions form!

for the full list of example pieces and tos, please refer to my carrd

check in on the commissions status here

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i graduated 🙂‍↕️

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changed url from c-orgiis to corgifish... end of an era

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its just so beautiful

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some old stuff from my priv twitter

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island named finger:

teacher: ok kids today we're going to be making fingers

finger named mii:

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oh how topical

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sometimes i have to go back to the comic to cross reference dates and shit and im always surprised by how much i managed to write and release LMFAO. and there's so much more i had drafted out that just never made it out of google docs. free time in high school is a really scary thing

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i think nowadays i also just feel a lot less hostile about the idea of homestuck being such a big part of uas' beginnings because regardless of my personal feelings about homestuck it is still the reason why these characters exist at all so in some part i am thankful for that

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sometimes i have to go back to the comic to cross reference dates and shit and im always surprised by how much i managed to write and release LMFAO. and there's so much more i had drafted out that just never made it out of google docs. free time in high school is a really scary thing

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I was in the Made of Blood server for a brief moment while that was a thing! I've looked at your art stuff ever since those days and I'm looking forward to the new shiny different story unshackled from the webcomic that shan't be named!! looking So so very Forward!!! you're awesome. and very correct and right also about being more offline in general

ahhh that's such a callback 😭 i really appreciate that there's still people from the comic sticking around for this, thank you for your support!! i'd like to think my writing has improved a lot since then so i hope untitled adventure story can live up to everyone's expectations :')

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so does cody like orange juice

thank you for your inquiry! the answer is no

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unfortunately once i finish uas and get it uploaded for real im going to become even more offline than i already am unless you want to ask me whether or not cody likes orange juice or something

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jesus christ

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you are 100% correct and when i was playing through i immediately recognized the reason: it absolutely stemmed from persona 5 fan fiction, specifically of the time loop variety. (this is a what were you doing at the devil's sacrament moment but you know how it is.) the themes and the way siffrin (& loop) are written are identical. i connected the dots when i saw the creator's p5 comics. the reason it's like that is it never really grew past its fan fiction roots, and it never developed a real sense of confidence in itself. it's too focused on using its tropes as building blocks for itself to form an actual structure. it got caught up in the "time loop found family video game" and forgot that those are terms that should only come about after the fact, not as a basis.

i'm a time loop enthusiast so i have read a lot of time loop things and have opinions on what makes them work and what makes them compelling. isat manages to check a lot of those boxes, but it still falls short by being unable to fully commit to its own characters and story. i think it's self-evident in how the creator initially marketed the game as "a timeloop rpg about a depressed white haired prettyperson being stuck in a timeloop" where "every single party member is queer" before someone pointed out that sounds like a booktok blurb. the story has no real interest in itself beyond its tropes, and it fails to truly grow beyond that. again, the fan fiction roots are palpable. (i don't mean to say that that's necessarily a bad thing on its own, but it does not make for an engaging original story.)

pause. actually you know what if isat was genuinely originally fanfiction for something else that explains a lot about why playing it felt so much like i was reading a fic that i didnt know the source material of LMAO

i have a lot to say about the actual timeloop part because narrative wise it was terrible and gameplay wise it was even worse but i wont get into all of them here otherwise this post will be way too long LOL. but i agree with you a lot that this game seems way too scared to actually stand on its own as an original piece of work as opposed to like. fanfiction with the names and settings changed. all of the main party members maybe barring siffrin have almost nothing going for them beyond their most basic tropes (isabeau is the Himbo, bonnie is the Gremlin Child, etc) which acts as such a major detriment to the game's storytelling because these dont feel like actual characters lol. despite the game's best efforts to make them seem more developed (through siffrin's therapy chapter mind you, so all of this information was just being dumped on you all at once for siffrin's sake and then never properly explored again) it's just not enough to make them seem like actual characters and not a tvtropes page. 'found family' as a concept only works if i actually know who these characters are as people and what they mean to each other but i just didnt get any of that from this game in the slightest beyond the game straight up telling me that they're found family. it's such a shame

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it’s interesting to see someone else discussing isat with mixed or negative feelings!!

i liked some of what it was doing but would never recommend it to anyone i think! and i’ve said so on many occasions because i just find myself very frustrated with it!!! the writing oftentimes felt juvenile and catering, like none of the characters were allowed to be genuinely reactive to the protagonist’s harmful behaviors in service of fulfilling that “fix-it ending,” as you describe. like they largely existed just to forgive him and never abandon him rather than as people who may react badly to being treated badly and could possibly even be justified in doing so… it felt like it was everyone else’s responsibility to handle their emotions rather than their own, if that makes sense. the “family” misunderstanding in particular felt so juvenile i wanted to tear my hair out…

i guess i just felt like it was a story that flinched. it was uninterested in its own themes or maybe afraid of portraying them complicatedly, so everything has to end well… genuinely so strange. i’m glad i played it, but like you, it made me very frustrated. sorry to spam your inbox discussing it! i just always feel like nobody else has been interested in discussing the game critically so it was exciting to see someone else who seemed to have similar feelings to me

YES EXACTLY! isat as a whole just felt like it was written by someone who has zero faith in their audience to come to any conclusions on their own so literally everything has to be carefully spoonfed to them which ultimately just comes off as really childish and condescending. like do i really need siffrin to explain to me every single thing hes feeling every time literally any plot point happens? i have a functioning brain that is capable of reading between the lines lol. like its almost a bit insulting how little this creator trusts their players

and yes absolutely agree about the rest of the cast being way too flat and one dimensional in comparison to siffrin. like im sorry but this whole found family schtick just does not work in the slightest when i... dont know these people lol. conceptually i think the game taking place at the end of the party's journey is interesting but with the way it was executed ingame it just feels so unbelievably lazy. like you are assuming i should already know everything about these characters and how their dynamics mesh with each other and now i just need to sit my ass down and read this fic about tying up all the loose ends in their story but like... not once have i been given an actual reason for why i should care about their relationship with siffrin (or each other) beyond 'theyre found family just trust me bro'. its such insanely lazy writing! it's even more insane after finding out this creator had ZERO ideas or concepts for their dynamics during their actual journey (like ok yeah. i can tell lol). as a player, i should not have to do all the heavy lifting of developing these characters for you, the creator. thats literally your job!

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ill be going into my thoughts on this more in my review but i think the best way i can explain a lot of my grievances with the writing and why i think it falls so flat is that isat feels less like an actual game and more like fix-it fanfiction for a story that doesnt exist

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I was going to play isat because I saw so many people liked it! def interested if you go more in depth on ur thoughts on it.

unsure if u ever played omori but I recall having a similar feeling, the game was just too drawn out and didn't land how it was intended to for me

ill definitely post a review for it on backloggd once im finished! though ill probably crosspost it to here too.

ill be honest i was extremely hateful of the game for most of my 40 hour playtime LMAO. none of the writing was vibing with me in the slightest. but there was a good solid hour during the final stretch of my playthrough where i managed to catch a glimpse into a world where this couldve been a well written game and now instead of leaving me hateful i mostly just feel really disappointed. i think there were some genuinely interesting ideas in this game that i wouldve loved to see more fleshed out but the execution of those ideas was just so exhausting i legit dont think i can recommend it to literally anyone