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Sorry guys I’m going down Aussie memory lane rn 😇😇
The first time Jake got into jail, it was in the alternate world where he got caught for stealing and his file didn't show up in the missing person's system. A social worker had come to take Jake away when Felix, Sam and Andy showed up. Andy then took a magnet and managed to erase all and any footage incriminating them. A while later he found out that Andy's magnet didn't do anything but his heart twitched at the thought that Andy still tried.
The first time Jake got accidentally sick, it was in the alternate world where he ate a pickle he wasn't supposed to eat. His face felt green and he was going to puke and he didn't know what to do so Andy ran after a Nainai who was increasingly suspicious of them to ask for her help. It was Andy who took a risk to save Jake and it was Andy who washed dishes for meagre wages just so Jake would eat proper food. No one had ever done that for him other than his mother. He never thought anyone would do that for him other than his mother. Jake, who had a history of not letting his friends into his house for fear of making fun of his home, now found home in a fifteen year old Chinese-Singaporean nerd washing dishes just to get him fed.
Anyways what I'm saying is that the next time Jake gets hurt or in trouble, his very body turning into the earth that was beneath his very feet, do you think he reached out for Andy subconsciously? He got so used to Andy with a solution, Andy with a plan, Andy trying, Andy just being here when Jake needed him that he felt that if he just reached out enough, Andy would meet him halfway. That when Jake fell, Andy would be there to catch him. Do you think when Jake opened his eyes as his body turned to rocks and stones and soil and earth, that he was expecting to see Andy there? Because I think the entire time his body froze, petrified, as he turned into a statue of himself, as he prepares to die and die scared he thinks silently: Andy is supposed to be here.
a nowhere boys interactive story!!
had the craziest idea today about an interactive story of nowhere boys except it's horror + the boys could die so it's up to you to save them (or not teehee) + alice is a tougher villain + alice doesn't cast the unmaking spell on her own so she enlists the unknowing help of other elementals à la Felix, except everything goes wrong and now they haunt the narrative + there are nerve scores for the boys to determine their fates + possible romance routes... maybe... 🤭
And this was just a hypothetical! Really!
Until I actually started working on it.
Can't send photos or videos rn because tumblr is a little BITCH but i have a main menu with the option to select the character to see his pov (only andy is available rn because there's a sequence)
I'm having a lot of fun working on it!!
What the main menu looks like rn!! (Joy!! I can upload photos after all!!)
a nowhere boys interactive story!!
had the craziest idea today about an interactive story of nowhere boys except it's horror + the boys could die so it's up to you to save them (or not teehee) + alice is a tougher villain + alice doesn't cast the unmaking spell on her own so she enlists the unknowing help of other elementals à la Felix, except everything goes wrong and now they haunt the narrative + there are nerve scores for the boys to determine their fates + possible romance routes... maybe... 🤭
And this was just a hypothetical! Really!
Until I actually started working on it.
Can't send photos or videos rn because tumblr is a little BITCH but i have a main menu with the option to select the character to see his pov (only andy is available rn because there's a sequence)
I'm having a lot of fun working on it!!
My silly billies 😻🤞🏻
Okay, so Alice cast the Unmaking Spell to try and give Phoebe powers, but instead of going to another universe like the Nowhere Boys did, she was sent to Negative Space… Does that imply that there’s no universe where Phoebe has powers, even in the ones where Alice doesn’t exist? Similarly, if Alternate Alice cast the spell to bring back their parents (according to the novel), then does that mean they’re doomed to lose them in every universe, even in the ones where she doesn’t exist? The thought is genuinely so interesting to me...
Or, if you consider the retcon where Real Alice was supposedly always the Restoring Demon, then what if Alternate Alice was sent to another universe, but Real Alice had to restore order and kill her before Alternate Alice could figure out a way to get home? Which is also part of the reason why Real Alice was so distraught about being the Restoring Demon and going back to Negative Space?
Maybe Alice being sent to Negative Space was a side-effect of doing the Unmaking Spell alone, without enough power? Since Felix's song couldn't unmake the original spell by itself, and all the Nowhere Boys had to recite it to go back to their universe, then maybe all the elementals' presence makes it stronger?
Thinking about this makes my head hurt...
ngl i think the movie should've been used to expand and clarify the hartley sisters' stories instead of having felix explore some fuckass lair... like yeah he's a curious witch who likes learning more about magic but he only got into magic, not just because he loves oscar, but because he felt GUILTY for being indirectly responsible for his accident. having felix try to rope the other boys into going to the other universe again to find alternate alice out of guilt that they didn't do it the first time made more sense imo
Thinking about the reason why they probably never brought back Alternate Phoebe after looking for Andy in the Alternate World was because they realised they made a plot hole by not implying what happened to Alternate Alice, and that haunts me
fr bro omg phoebe and alice hartley my beloveds... you deserved so much better... but like, how did alice fuck up the unmaking spell to begin with?? i'm assuming it went wrong because there were no other elements (fire, earth, air) to perform the spell with her but that's such basic knowledge that felix, a BEGINNER witch, knew about it?? and if she DID perform the spell with other elementals, surely THEY would also be missing right?? they'd have also been mentioned?? someone help i am confused
One thing I love about Nowhere Boys is that what happened wasn’t a mistake. Them getting transported was entirely an impulsive decision based off of a period of emotional repression and it’s such a good reveal. It also shows Felix’s character flaws straight out the gate and explains his rashness in conversation.
If it wasn’t that way, the four getting along later wouldn’t hit the same.
The foreshadowing was so awesome too! Felix refusing to let Andy see the map, why magic was his first explanation for this, Felix automatically latching onto the idea that Phoebe was responsible for them being in the alternate universe at first... the details... the signs were all there...
Tired of only smart characters getting asexual/aromatic headcannons, what about dumbass who are asexual >:(
"dumbass who is asexual" okay so Sam Conte from Nowhere Boys lmao
i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.
there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.
anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.
A Better World - create an alternate history timeline
Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game
Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet
Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games
Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones
Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy
ZenGM - simulate sports
Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi
IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)
Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface
The Cafe & Diner - mystery game
The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game
Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions
Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game
Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game
Miniconomy - player driven economy game
Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes
BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators
Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil
Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.
if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.
since this post blew up, i've been wanting to do an addition with all of the recommendations from the comments and tags. but there's a lot of them. some people might be crazy enough to sit down and seriously put them all in one post with descriptions. those people are honestly sick in the head.
anyway, here's all of the recommendations from the reblogs. not all of them are text-based, but it's a great mixture of styles. also don't forget the links in the second paragraph of the OP which will take you to FMHY where there are a bunch more games listed.
Games
A Dark Room - text-based science fiction role-playing game.
corru.observer - science fiction adventure web game.
Improbable Island - old-school text adventure game.
Candy Box 2 - incremental clicker game that evolves into RPG.
Arcanum - open source wizard clicker game.
sandspiel, Powder Game, Powder Game 2, The Powder Toy - more sand physics games.
Orb.Farm - fishtank simulator.
Façade - experimental game with a real-time interactive narrative where you try to fix a failing marriage.
The Catacombs of Solaris - trippy art game.
Yume Nikki Online - online version of the surreal classic plus fangames.
The Barncle Goose Experiment - combine element/alchemy game based on antique theories of abiogenesis.
Fallen London - free-to-play text-based open world RPG.
Nested - very unique text-based universe expanding game. described as possibly @orteil42's favorite thing he's ever made.
The Process of Elimination - interactive web novel (by @hypertextdog)
Discworld MUD - multiplayer, text-based, online game (a MUD, or text MMORPG) based on the Discworld books.
Horse Master - surreal text game about training a horse.
EYEZMAZE - flash (RIP) or HTML5-based puzzle games.
You Are Jeff Bezos - text game. spend Jeff Bezos' fortune.
The Password Game - challenging puzzle game where you have to meet password requirements (by neal)
Universal Paperclips - incremental paperclip making game.
Half-Earth - planetary disaster planning game where you try to save the world using socialism.
ChooseYourStory - community-driven website centered on CYOA style story games.
PhD Simulator - random event based text game. make your choice each month and see if you can graduate on time.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - open source roguelike.
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - turn-based survival roguelike set in the modern day.
Nethack - open source roguelike originally released in 1987.
FarmRPG - simple, mobile-friendly, text-based farming RPG.
Kingdom of Loathing - browser-based community MMORPG.
PokeRogue - browser-based Pokemon roguelike
Tools
Text Game Builder - works in your browser, with just a little bit of Python (by @grumpygandalf)
Twine - great (free!) tool for making text-based games quickly.
Ink - scripting language for interactive fiction (also free)
Flashpoint Archive - a community effort to preserve games and animations from the web.
PICO-8 - fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs.
Non-Games
Library of Babel - interactive illustration which attempts to simulate what it might be like to browse The Library of Babel.
Superbad - technically not a game, sprawling website full of secrets.
17776 - serialized speculative fiction multimedia narrative about football in the far-future. beautiful, creative, legendary. created by Jon Bois, a legend and one of my favorite writers of all time.
Choice of Games - text-based, choose-your-own-adventure games (interactive fiction). some free-to-play, others can be bought like an ebook.
The Deep Sea - scroll to the bottom of the ocean. encounter the humble squid and his friends (by neal)
Space Elevator - like The Deep Sea, but up instead of down. you can equip your avatar with a scarf (by neal)
Internet Artifacts - an interactive history of the early internet (by neal)
If The Moon Were Only One Pixel - scroll through an accurately scaled model of the universe.
r/incremental_games - reddit community for incremental games.
r/WebGames - reddit community for web games in general.
thank you to everyone who contributed and the creators. please be sure to show them some love where possible.
I really like Nicky cases!
We become what we behold and adventures with anxiety are genuinely some of the best I've seen
A story-game about a human and their anxiety. You play as the anxiety.
a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles
We become what we behold is on itch.io but I promise you it is actually amazing. And I've been needing a reason to ramble about some of this meaning so you might see me talk about these on my profile
Please check out some of his stuff! He had a bunch of other really neat and meaningful projects, the evolution of trust is another pretty cool one.
I also really like his articles about AI, pretty cool stuff!
i make shtuff for curious & playful peeps
I need more stuff from Nicky case
Jake Riles was really just out here living a whole arse Greek Tragedy™ back in 2013, huh.
THIS IS SO EPIC OMG????
Has anyone else noticed how in the alternative universe jake’s mum is the worst affected when near her son and Felix’s mum only sneezes? And Sam and andy’s mums are in the middle? Well in the original universe, jake and his mum are the closest and Felix’s and his mum don’t have the strongest bond and this is reflected in the alt universe
This thread pisses me off for so many reasons. Firstly this has nothing to do with Clash of the Titans, it simply reads: “My brother’s friend suggested we ‘draw Medusa as the protagonist’”.
In the original ancient Greek mythology Medusa by was already a monster who had gorgon sisters, who were called Sthenno and Euryale. They unlike her, were immortal.
Secondly and I will stress this clearly: Ovid (43 BCE-18 AD, A Roman author) is the only person who says that Medusa was raped. The most well-known story about Medusa comes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses where it is said that she was “violated in Minerva’s shrine by the Lord of the Sea”. But Ovid also says Athena metamorphosed Medusa, not because she was raped, but because of her hubris. Hmmm…
Hesiod, a contemporary of Homer, who lived between 750-650 BCE states that Medusa did indeed have sexual relations with Poseidon but they were consensual in nature.
In the Theogony, it says that “dark-maned Poseidon lay with one of these (the Gorgons), Medousa, on a soft meadow strewn with spring flowers”.
The mere fact that it occurs in a meadow is a clear indication that this is a consensual seduction rather than rape. The literary device used by ancient authors was to show gods using seduction instead of force. Sexual encounters between gods and mortal women usually took place in beautiful settings and the consequences were positive for women and the civilization they lived in, because they gave birth to heroes or important characters. Sexual encounters between gods and goddesses was meant to create new gods or natural forces. There was a purpose for the unions. And usually there a lot of erotic and relaxing elements in those stories like fields of flowers, amazing perfumes, imitation of weddings, etc. It is also important to make the difference between the mythology field and Ancient Greek daily life. For Ancient Greeks seduction and rape were punishable crimes. Many philosophers complained against Homer and Hesiod tales because for them it was not right to show the gods and goddesses doing actions that were unlawful to human standards. It was especially dangerous because uneducated people could fail to distinguish between the tale and the reality and get false notions of divine nature. The image of gods in religious worshipping sometimes was very different from what myths could say.
A 2nd Century AD Greek author tells us that Medusa was cursed because she claimed that she was greater in beauty than Athena (Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca).“It is affirmed by some that Medousa was beheaded because of Athene, for they say the Gorgon had been willing to be compared with Athene in beauty.”
Ovid is the only mention of Medusa’s rape and cursing by Minerva. And he really shouldn’t be quoted for several reasons. His greatest surviving book, the Metamorphoses, was basically propaganda to explain and justify why Julius Caesar and his descendants were deified and that his rule over Rome was divinely sanctioned by the fact that he was a descendant of the Goddess Venus. Ovid basically re-wrote and changed the ancient myths so that they’d match with the Roman gods; i.e. Mars (Ares) and Venus’ (Aphrodite) roles were increased, whereas chthonic gods roles were reduced.
Why is it, among all those different versions of the story I mentioned, that Ovid’s telling is the most popular? Easy, he wrote in Latin and he was insanely popular during his lifetime. Many copies of his works were made, read, circulated, re-copied, read more, etc. Since, unlike the Greeks, Rome was an empire that stretched far and wide and had a single language uniting it, he had a big audience. It means that a lot of people preserved those copies, which meant that the stories survived better.
But the original mythology of Medusa reads as thus:
Hesiod, Theogony (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.): And to Phorkys (Phorcys) Keto (Ceto) bore… …the Gorgones (Gorgons) who, beyond the famous stream of Okeanos (Oceanus), live in the utmost place toward night, by the singing Hesperides : they are Sthenno, Euryale, and Medousa (Medusa), whose fate is a sad one, for she was mortal, but the other two immortal and ageless both alike. Poseidon, he of the dark hair, lay with one of these (Medusa), in a soft meadow and among spring flowers. But when Perseus had cut off the head of Medousa there sprang from her blood great Khrysaor (Chrysaor) and the horse Pegasos (Pegasus) so named from the springs (pegai) of Okeanos, where she was born.“
Stasinus of Cyprus (Greek epic C7th or C6th B.C.): “By him [Phorkys (Phorcys)] she [Keto (Ceto)] conceived and bare the Gorgones (Gorgons), fearful monsters who lived in Sarpedon, a rocky island in deep-eddying Okeanos (Oceanus).”
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.) : And near them are their three winged sisters, the snake-haired (drakontomalloi) Gorgones (Gorgons), loathed of mankind, whom no one of mortal kind shall look upon and still draw breath.
Furthermore, I hate how this reflects on Perseus. I mean, the only reason why he was willing to kill Medusa was because he was trying to help his mother, Danaë. Perseus believed Polydectes was less than honourable, and protected his mother from him, so Polydectes sent him away under the hopes that Medusa would kill the adolescent boy, thus allowing him to marry Danaë.
Perseus also didn’t use the Pegasus, he belonged to another hero named Bellerophontes (Bellerophon), as he relied on flying sandals given to him by Hermes.
Perseus never intended to “Use the head to get a wife” that was an afterthought when he found the Palestinian Princess Andromeda chained to rocks on the coastline of Joppa.
Medusa was also not being “protected” by Athena; Athena never wanted to protect Medusa. Ever.
Athena gave a mirror shield to Perseus, and told him where to find her and go kill her so that Athena could adorn Medusa’s head on her own shield. In every twist of the tale, Athena HATED Medusa. She had no desire to protect her and always wanted her dead.
As for the claims of her head being used as a symbol to mark women’s shelters, there are no sources/historical references pointing to this actually being done unfortunately. It would definitely be a solid symbol to use as it speaks loads to the tragedy of a woman being punished for something out of her control, but there’s unfortunately no historical reference to back the claim up.
You should watch this video on Perseus, it’s funny, accurate and combines the original consensual nature of Poseidon’s affair with Medusa with Ovid’s “sex in Athena’s temple so she cracked the shits and curses Medusa”.
Urgent treatment appeal please stop
My sister suffers from advanced fibropulmonary disease, which makes breathing difficult without an oxygen device in light of the lack of electricity and equipment, which makes her suffer from the scourges...
Since her displacement, she left the oxygen machine in her home in the north, and since that day her eyes have not been able to sleep because of the pain she suffers from this dreaded disease.
The least this disease causes
It makes shortness of breath and suffocation ...
I have attached a copy of the report for you. Medical treatment that explains my sister’s condition and suffering
Misa's Treatment My name is Marcus, from North Carolina in the US… Marcus Miller needs your support for Help Maysaa Evacuate and Secure
The suffering of living in a tent in the absence of all necessities of life has an impact and other aspects ....
I am attaching a picture of Mesa's children for you
They collect firewood
Firewood is used instead of gas
To cook food through it
Please do not pass the post on without circulating it
I am Ahmed Al-Nabih from Gaza, and this is my twin brother Abdul Rahman. I am 30 years old. I used to live a beautiful life with my family and my brother. The idea of marriage was on the table and we were going to continue our lives in our beautiful house, but something happened like a nightmare. The war came and took all our dreams and destroyed our house. Our lives became very difficult and arduous. We lived in tents. In the extreme heat, my mother suffers from chronic diseases, heart disease, blood pressure, and diabetes. Please help me save my family and my elderly mother. I ask for your support and participation. A small donation makes a difference. I have only collected 1,60euros in about five months! Thank you all!❤️🙏
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Hello everyone, My name is Ziad Okasha, and I'm from Gaza,… Ziad Okasha needs your support for Help Ahmed, Abedelrahman, and
Pictures of me and my twin brother before the war!
Pictures of us with my mother before the war, when our lives were beautiful and stable!☹️
A picture in the war of my mother, who is 62 years old, due to the lack of medicine because she suffers from chronic diseases, blood pressure, heart, and diabetes. Her health condition deteriorated due to the difficult life in Gaza and famine, and because we live in tents in the extreme heat.!🥹
I am during the war and my life has become arduous and tiring!😌
Now we live here, it is a terrifying life, more like a nightmare!☹️
Our beautiful house has become rubble!😢
We were never like this..we had a life💔😣
The interesting thing is that we have never needed anything other than donations or sharing,but circumstances have made us wise to these requests..we ask for donations, sharing, help and support ,and this is not an easy thing to ask for with a heavy heart, so I will rely on you in the last attempt to participate ,knowing that my campaign is very slow, and we can ,hand by hand,reach 20000$ 'our survive cost '..My way to reach my goal is so long ..I only have 1,538$/20,000$..I need about 18,500$ to complete my campaign.. what remains which I saw it so much,is a small amount for those with compassionate heart ♥
If we work together we can collect it in a few days ..🫂🥺
Thank you to everyone who will contribute. I am very shy about this request, but please everyone participate and donate..😔😥
I will attach some pictures from our life 😭😫
We got l,538$ from 79 donors...which means that we need about 1000 donor to complete our camping ..❤️🫂
I am Rajaa from Gaza , I am 26 My husband "Khaled" is 30,and we have a one… Ahmed Aburakhia needs your support for Please save Rajaa and he
You can donate via PayPal link ,where I can withdraw some money from to buy life supplies for my little Karam and my family ..the prices are exaggerated 😣😓
Go to paypal.me/WalidAburakhia and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
It’s actually disgusting me that people are choosing to forget about Palestine not even a full year into this ongoing genocide. Nothing is better. Nothing has slowed down. It’s just underreported. It’s just that western media outlets aren’t pretending to care. The iof is still targeting aid distribution centers, it’s still killing hundreds of Palestinians a day, it’s still preventing medical aid from entering North Gaza. So many diseases are robbing families of their loved ones. It is worse than it has ever been. Less people are talking about it now because they no longer want to be bothered to care
Guys please keep donating to and boosting Hazem’s campaign. Suppprt for this campaign has slowed down so drastically, even though Hazem’s family is currently trying to survive in North Gaza and comprises his parents and 5 siblings, all of whom are literally just kids. Not only that, but they’re also all unvaccinated / unprotected against polio. Combine that w malnourishment and you get a very weak immune system. They quite literally need these funds to come in asap. To ignore this fundraiser is to condemn these children to death due to disease and starvation.
Please donate as much as you can, however little it is, to help this family escape their unforgiving conditions. Please share this so more people have the chance to donate. They have been displaced for months on end and still are nowhere near their goal
Hazem's family has only been getting about €200 a day for the past two weeks. Rainfall will cause the polio-infected sewage to swell in the coming days. Hazem's parents need to reinforce their tent and move to higher ground FAST.. all of the young children in the family are not vaccinated for polio and at extreme danger of contracting the virus because of the iof medical siege in place for 11.5 months now. PLEASE CONTINUE TO HELP THE FAMILY
€53,683 / €54,000 daily goal. Help the family raise €317 more by end of day!!! every single donation makes a huge difference