the theme is cunty lesbian scientists stuck in stories that don't deserve them. fuck capcut for LAGGING so much during this edit so if it's offbeat it's capcut's fault
I have a headcanon for the Tiffany route that Declan probably had a shock, disbelief then disappointment look when he read Riley's love poem about Tiffany. Like imagine seeing your friend fight with your sister every time they are in the same vicinity. You even defend your friend when your sister insults her. But then find out your friend is a masochist who actually likes it when your sister makes her life harder. All her insults and everything💀 ksjsksj
Adrian is soooo boring looking. He has a side character face. Not worthy to be a Li. If it wasn't for the 3 layered outfit he wouldn't be seen as important. I swear straight people have such low standards when it comes to men. They just have to be white and look at least a little masculine.
WLBE writer suddenly remembered that she has to make progress on the F!Lis routes too. So she just fast forward and did both a Rea and Isabelle/Magdalene kiss in the same episode 💀 I don't think there was even 3-4 scenes with modern day Magdalene or Isabelle how did they kiss so fast??? Kind of funny how they're kissing in the church.
Mind you that guy and Miranda were only a a date but they didn't even explicitly call it that. Rudy is like the school's hearthrobe so it's natural almost everybody has a crush on him. She did NOT deserve to die bc of it. If he was dating MC from the beginning I'm sure Miranda would have been supportive and stopped having a crush over him. Some people are really so insecure 💀
18+ interactive fiction story dealing with sensitive topics like abuse, self-harm and addiction (plus future optional sexual content). Read at your own discretion.
One of the major themes for this story is identity vs. conformity. As such it is not possible to play as anything other than male or female at the start with he/him and she/her pronouns. There will be opportunities later in the story to identify as trans or non-binary and adjust your body, name and pronouns accordingly. Be warned that such changes and queer relationships will elicit a reaction from characters in the story, but don't let that stop you from being yourself.
Love is the greatest weapon of all, but its absence is not peace.
At the age of twelve, your parents’ abuse couldn’t be concealed any longer. Now—a year later—you’re in a new home, still reeling from the unfairness of it all. A nasty habit that destroys delicate skin helps, but so does playing your well-loved guitar to escape a world that scares you. Exceptional talent, but an inability to fit in, you're left instilled with mistrust beneath a layer of yearning for something you’ve never had. Taking a desperate approach to change your life, you sign up for Stagebound; Britain's largest singing competition.
Young and scared, you reveal something you can’t take back, only to deal with the aftermath your whole career. An outstanding career as a guitarist in a band consisting of people you didn't know before the competition; people your age who will struggle alongside you as you navigate the music industry for many years. The strongest bonds break the loudest... can you really trust the people you didn't get to choose?
Consists of III acts spanning 3 chapters each.
Act I: The Stagebound competition and the aftermath spanning a year later.
Act II: The band breaking into the US market and dealing with all things Hollywood.
Act III: Reunion album and tour years down the line.
Customise your MC! From looks to personality to behaviours, make a character with a predetermined backstory your own.
Struggle with all aspects of fame, or embrace the rockstar lifestyle and shower in the attention.
Keep the peace or stir the drama! With bandmates like these things are sure to stay interesting.
Fight against the constraints of the industry. Queer or otherwise unconventional? Your path to self-expression won't be easy but no less worthwhile.
Your horrific public past haunts you. Will you fall into a rabbit-hole of vices or find healthier ways to cope?
Greylin/Greyson 'Grey' Charter [f/m]
"They told me I couldn’t, so I did it twice and took pics."
Outgoing and confident, Grey doesn't allow themself to go unnoticed. They chase good times unapologetically, but remain ambitious in all their pursuits. They're charismatic despite how stubborn they tend to be, and they work hard to conceal their unpleasant tendencies. They idolise performers who dominate the scene—wild, eccentric, impossible to ignore. Getting them on stage is easy. Getting them off, however…
As the lead singer and you as the guitarist, you could be a powerful duo—be it forged in friendship or rivalry. Either way, Grey can take you to the highest peaks, and the lowest valleys. The journey won't be easy, but if you make it you'd have someone that would believe in you till the end of time.
Finley Beckham-Barlowe [f/m]
"Music unlocks the soul; that's why it's called a key."
Closed-off and understated, Finley is used to getting overlooked. They fit the image of the cool bassist on stage, though the same easy-going attitude doesn’t quite carry off of it. Quiet by nature, they still voice their opinions without hesitation. They're also not one to conceal their emotions intentionally, and love music that convey feelings in a raw manner. Getting them on stage is of little issue, it’s the spectacle beyond performing that leaves them weary.
As the bassist they could be the rhythm to your melody or the chain to your freedom. They can guide as easily as they obstruct, and the dynamic between you would be a constant push and pull. Finding balance won't be easy, but if established, you'd have an anchor for life.
Bem Adeleke [f/m]
"There is strength in crying and in numbers… so crying about maths is the epitome of strength!"
Friendly and eager, Bem sets out to win people over. They're a natural mediator functioning as the backbone of the band, yet unfamiliar with the drums, they constantly scramble to keep up with the rest of you. They live in constant movement, much like the dance music they're drawn to, rarely slowing down to think about themself. Getting them on stage is the hard part; everything after is what they live for.
As your drummer they sit at your centre without meaning to, trying to be a steady baseline without matching the tempo required. When the beat does drop however, you know who'll break their back trying to catch it. But heartbeats are tricky and synchronization can't be forced. If developed naturally, it would mean two lives equally intertwined by the pace you've set.
Irene Svetla
Pop-star phenomenon and Britain's sweetheart, Irene was a contestant on Stagebound a decade before you. Winning the competition meant skyrocketing to fame in an event that still leaves her reeling. She's your self-imposed protector and can be your greatest ally as well as your biggest obstacle.
Zakari 'Zak' Hakim
Underground artist turned mainstream as hip-hop exploded in popularity and carried overseas. He knows the industry well and bears it with a grin. Zak grants you the most freedom but the least guidance, focused solely on increasing your reach even if it means stretching you thin in the process.
Chris Feldman
Veteran from the glory days of the seventies and eighties music scene, Feldman carries the scars of a rockstar with understated pride. When music shifted and his band became obsolete he took a backseat as a producer and manager instead. Feldman knows all about the hidden corners of the industry and the danger of vices. He's there to toughen you up, and give you the reality check you didn't ask for but might have needed.
Stagebound is a WIP slice-of-life/fame IF story with optional romance. Things are liable to change, bugs are likely to occur and typos will slip through. Feedback is always appreciated. Your thoughts matter. It helps me shape this story into the best it can be!
As an author I do not use, nor support the use of generative AI. I do not consent for my work to be used to train these models (though I doubt that matters).
For nearly three years, a mysterious creature has terrorised the region of Gévaudan. Described by survivors as wolf-like and relentless, it kills indiscriminately, taking men, women and children alike, leaving behind only what the strongest could stomach. Many have taken up arms, from simple farmers and hunters to soldiers and even nobles hungry for glory.
None have succeeded.
To this day the mystery remains. Is it a wolf? A hyena? A werewolf? A wizard, or simply a human murderer? Somewhere between folklore and nightmare, between cautionary tale and genuine terror, the Beast of Gévaudan still eludes all.
Only one person knows the truth.
You.
Why?
Because you are the Beast of Gévaudan.
An 18th century interactive fiction set in rural France, while inspired by the real historical legend it is not an accurate historical one.
Play as a werewolf navigating grief, secrets, and survival in a world that would destroy you if it knew what you were. The Church and the Third Estate cast long shadows here, but misogyny, homophobia, racism and transphobia, while rooted in that history, have been deliberately pushed to the back. The fights were fought but the scars remain.
Play as a werewolf who is struggling with control over its form.
Full character customisation: pronouns & gender, hair color and texture, height, skin color, personality (between 4 possible), your job (between Blacksmith and Doctor), and more...
A reverse thriller at its core: you are the killer. You are what everyone is hunting. How long can you keep this up?
Navigate the politics of 18th century France: the Church, the Nobility, the Tiers État, and what it means to survive in a country on a verge of revolution, that was never built for people like you in the first place.
Branching narrative shaped by your choices: what you do, who you trust, what you hide.
Themes of grief, identity, redemption, found family, social and economical class, faith, and the particular terror of being known.
Four romanceable characters all with their own secrets, or, if that’s not your thing, play the friend route
Louisette "Lou" Valet
she/her | the innkeeper
(Lou is a trans woman and a lesbian)
Description: rozy skin often sunburnt, green-blue eyes, red curly hair, and freckles. She has the brightest smile in all the village.
Vibes: Your closest friend, your steadiest constant, the person who stayed when everyone else stopped trying. A friends-to-lovers romance for those who believe that the most terrifying thing in the world is letting someone who already loves you, sees all of you.
Camille Antoine
they/them | the king’s hunter,
(Camille is Non-Binary and Demi)
Description: warm black skin, tall, dark eyes and long eyelashes, with long locs tied in an intricate ponytail, broad shoulders. They're quite strong but in a slender way.
Vibes: they were sent by the king himself to do one thing: kill the Beast of Gévaudan. They don't know they've already met it. Warm, composed, and irritatingly good at everything. They try to hide the weight of expectation on their shoulders. A romance for those who like the workaholic golden one; who wish to see the person behind the veneer.
Alexis Chastel
she/her or he/him | the gamekeeper
(While Alexis gender is selectable, they are more of a "masc" person)
Description: Tall and strong in a heavy way, Tan skin, littered in scars, hazel eyes and a brown buzzcut.
Vibes: more comfortable in the forest than in any room with people in it. Alexis knows this land better than anyone. They know every trail, every creature, every hiding place. Quiet, but not unkind. The kind of person who shows up rather than speaks up. A romance for those who like gentle giants and Strong Silent types.
Hyacinthe
she/her or he/him | the bard
(While Hyacinthe gender is selectable, they are more of a "fem" person)
Description: French-born and Indian-descend, brown skin, dark hair, deep brown eyes, hair tied in a ponytail and a crooked nose. They are on the smaller side of average.
Vibes: Passing through, as always, and armed with a smirk that suggests they know something you don't. Hyacinthe arrives with a song, stays for reasons they won't admit, and leaves before things get complicated. A push-and-pull romance for those who like a reformed rake
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Content warnings: violence, gore, death (including animal and human death), themes of grief and loss, religion and class as sources of conflict, body horror (transformation), strong language.
Riley going through the wlw experience of falling for your friend who has a bf ksjkhkfs
Emma looks so beautiful with that hair. Would have fallen in love if we were in medieval era and I was a young lad passing by her house then saw her at the window.
do you have recommendations for like a school setting kinda vibe tysm
Hello! Here are some IFs with a school/academic setting, various genres included. Also, some of these are not exactly school settings but instead set in university/college so I hope that's alright!
Completed
Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance by Rocket Adrift Games
Honor Bound by @hpowellsmith (you get to be a bodyguard for a student at an elite school)
Blackstone Academy for the Magical Arts by Alana Joli Abbot
Changeling by Steamberry Studio
Community College Hero by Eric Moser
Creme de la Creme by @hpowellsmith
Grand Academy for Future Villains by Katherine Nehring
Keeper of the Sun and Moon (and the rest of the Keeper series) by @keeperofthesunandmoon
Known Unknowns by @brendanpatrickhennessy
Monster Prom by Beautiful Glitch
Psy High by Rebecca Slitt
Way Walkers: University by J. Leigh with Mac J Rea
XOXO Droplets by @gb-patch
Royal Affairs by @hpowellsmith
Through The Panels by Yam Harvest Games
Help! I Can't Find My Glasses! by @lacewing-if
Pageant by @cyberpunklesbian
Hanna, We're Going to School by Kastel
Totem Force by @parrotwatcher
Professor of Magical Studies by Stephen Granade
Sixth Grade Detective by Logan Hughes
Works-in-Progress
Anti-Mutant Academy by @antimutantcog
On The Scene by @onthescene-if (no demo yet)
Romantic Comedy of the Damned by @artwoo1
When The Beast Sings by @abeastlysong (no demo yet)
High School Revenge by @high-school-revenge
College Tennis: Origin Story by @collegetennisoriginstory
Berry Thief by @missfruitbud
The Marked by @peonyb
False Grace by @raddixie (possible hiatus, last active in november 2025)
The Muse by @themuse-if
Burning Academia by @burning-academia-if
Golden by @milaswriting (possible hiatus, last active in august 2025)
Lovecraft Academy & The One Chosen by @parrotwatcher (confirmed hiatus)
Powered by @powered-if (confirmed hiatus)
Houkago by @houkago-if
In All My Dreams I Choke on Invisible Smoke by @kanderwund
Painted Devils by @painted-devils-if (possible hiatus)
What Awaits Us by @whatawaitsus (likely abandoned)
Triaina Academy by @leo-interactive-fiction (possible hiatus)
College Heist by @collegeheist (possible hiatus)
A Tale of Heroes by @juantheashura
Severance by @severance-if (no demo yet)
Pactbinder by @pactbinder-if
The In-Between by @dalekowrites
Text Your Life by @pizzawriters
The Ballad of the Young Gods by @childrenofcain-if
CELESTIAL LEGEND is a browser-playable interactive fantasy romance about four young adults who discover they’re the reincarnated cast of an ancient alien myth... including you, their princess.
The Moon is falling out of the sky, a little more every year, and the four of you are the only ones alive who can stop it. How exactly? Tough to say. No one remembers your myth in full, and the only records that survive gloss or lie. What begins as déjà vu and bad dreams turns into a hunt across a kingdom that isn't totally sure it wants to be saved: a massive government cover-up, high-speed car chases, feats of spectacular magic, and the World's clock ticking overhead.
Public demo (prologue + episode 1, ~200k words) coming soon this summer 2026. Follow @celestiallegend-if for updates.
DEMO (TBA) ☆ CHARACTERS ☆ FAQ
Rated 18+ for sexual content, violence, negative coping; full CW (read: spoilers) TBA.
YOU are a rare bookseller in your mid-twenties. It’s a bit young to be a rare bookstore owner, but there’s no helping it. You’ve inherited the store from your late father, along with its sprawling inventory of tomes on magic, science, philosophy, and myth. You keep the place, buy new stock, catalog the old stock, answer the academics' emails, answer the phone. And you wait. Though you couldn't say for what? You've been on your phone too much. There's a suspicion in you that your 'real life' hasn't started yet, and a worse one right behind it: that maybe it already did, somewhere back there, and you weren't ready. Maybe you missed it.
You've been dreaming lately. There’s no sense to it, just murky fragments out of order… and yet the cast of your dreams keeps surfacing in your waking life: the hot grouch from the record store as a shining knight; the fast-talking PhD all but squatting in your back room as a powerful alien sorceress. A guy(?) with an obviously fake name who keeps coming back and looks at you like he's seen your face before... as an ancient prince?
No fucking way.
🌚 ISOLDE ALMERIS (she/her)
She’s here at least five times a month: a young arcane physicist with bleach-fried curls. It seems your late father purchased her late mentor’s personal library at an estate sale and well, jeez. You’re not gonna tell her to leave. Isolde is funny, and she talks fast and warm about things you find unreasonably cool: xenobiology, alchemy, black holes. That intensity is her best trait and probably her worst. She can't help poking the tender spot, shouting down the bad idea, naming what everyone else in the room is dancing around. You want to be her best friend. You want––
What do you want?
🌚 PRINCE ERAN DI GAIA (he/they)
A natural sweetheart who gets photographed more often than he gets to talk, Eran, the youngest prince of your country, is the modern definition of a social genius. Those smiling dark eyes and full lips run the room, but it's the conspiratorial tone that gets you: he can make a plain order off your catalog sound like he's cutting you in on a scheme. Superstitious, curious, easy to please, he'd seem deluded about his own luck if he weren't such a superb gambler. Good luck tearing him away from a winning streak. He's reckless, you figure, in the way only the very privileged ever get to be.
His faith in you is dizzying.
🌚 YVAINE SELWYN (they/them)
Reserved and a little grumpy, your neighbor Yvaine is an amateur boxer rumored to overdo it in the ring... and distractingly hot, which the record-store girls have never let them forget. Yvaine doesn't seem to have a customer-service face: the easy smile is real, and the flash of irritation is very fucking real. Somehow that's more charming? You think? You've been dropping music books at their counter every other week, making the kind of small talk that goes nowhere, so it throws you how little it takes to fold them into a plan. No hedging, no what's-in-it-for-me, just: "What do you need?"
They’re so easy to convince that it startles you.
FACE REFERENCES: Unnamed young woman from eBay lot of photobooth photos / A young Nouhad Wadie Haddad, aka the Lebanese singer and national treasure Fairuz, eating an apple / Yuki Amami, youngest to make top star otokoyaku (male lead) in the history of the Takarazuka Revue, in rehearsal
Once an alien princess of a dead kingdom, you've no clue about your past life as you live out quiet days in Gaia's capital city. Your life's slowed down since your father passed away, but a string of synchronicities from your dreams have been making you pause. None of it actually spooks you, of course. You live in the bohemian quarter. Naturally, you'd run into your neighbors, wizard scholars, and rich eccentrics. That's... that's the whole point. You've got books to sell. But there's one thing you can't quite... hm. That feeling again. Out of nowhere, a damn near supernatural certainty that no one loves you, gone again after a few blinks. You text a friend: "Hey, am I annoying?"
Celestial Legend is a text-only interactive science fantasy made in Twine where choices matter. It's updated in batches, seasonally. The summer 2026 release is on its way in August/early September. Free-to-play in the browser, with sneak peeks, early betas, and bonus content available through Patreon (coming soon).
Player customization is rich and consequential: you get to pick your protagonist's appearance, and express your personality and values through your choices. Expect both slow and fast burn romances, cosmic horror, a robust science fantasy magic system, and a satisfying ass 'found family' trope. The violence is violent, and the dark parts are dark: mind the CWs, updated every release.
Celestial Legend is a queer story, written in a lesbian and sapphic spirit. Monogamy/polyamory is on the table for all three of the ROs (special scenes in both modes), sexual content is optional, and while the ROs' genders are fixed, yours isn't. In your past life, you were an alien princess, but in your modern life, you can be cis or trans, with a gender expression entirely your own. Players can create their protagonist with any pronouns and any body type, and all ROs will still treat you as though you’re in explicitly lesbian/sapphic community with them. The gender options are meant to celebrate the diversity of genders inside lesbian identities.
Feeling bad for Tiffany. Alot of girls think forceful kiss is a normal experience that happens with their boyfriend :/
There is already more wlw writing in one season of waterlily than all the other books have in their entire story. I'm gonna wait till DR to play Emma's route
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