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Eva, 36, Italian, translator, she/her. Commissions open!Myst, Myst and some more Myst, Twin Peaks, Pyre, Kentucky Route Zero, assorted surrealism, excited indie games blogging, FFX and JRPGs, occasional Ueda, #sworcery, Journey. Aesthetic: road cones lined up along luminescent subterranean lakes GHOST TRICK GOES ALL ON THE SIDEBLOG: LAUGHINGMANGO Shorahtee, ciao, hello!

[laughingpinecone]

DEATH TO VENICE by lichene, laughingpineapple, McKid

Come die in the sinking city and negotiate your dream

part of the BRIEFS 2024 DEATH COLLECTION free bundle

Take part in a collective rite of putrefaction. The world is dying, and you with it. Venice - frail, alien, abandoned - welcomes you in your last moments. Experience memories of death in Venice's past through six game poems across the city's sestiere districts: a death of biodiversity, a death of institutions, of community... then ponder your feelings on endings and change, talk it out with the city herself. It's all either of you has left. Venice is dying. This game is for her, and for the Venetians who resist.

Experience six different kinds of puzzles-less, frictionless interaction

All dialogue choices steer you toward one of three endings

Informed by global+hyperlocal social and environmental issues

Enriched by more than a hundred photos taken in and around Venice

Fullscreen recommended! Optimized for laptops; playable on anything bigger than 1000x550

Approximately one hour long

CW: terminal illness, death, environmental catastrophe

By far my most ambitious IF piece yet, both in scope and presentation!

[laughingpinecone]

Surreal Visions Tarot

A hand‑drawn surrealist tarot & oracle art deck (78 cards) born from an artist’s sketchbook.

I think this is nice...

[berlogauwu]

little red riding hood

[memesonthehour]

new favorite meme

[miragefannumber3]

creates a porn sideblog and you look in there and its just pictures of fucked up stairs leading nowhere

[renmorris]

beloved band the mountain goats did unspeakable things to the twin peaks fandom by dropping a song with the lyrics 'no one broke DB Cooper's fall, no one hopes to hear the bagman's call' like right before the third season aired

[gordoncoleofficial-deactivated2]

“I go back and I hire them and I save their lives. Their names are Cooper, Chet, Sam, Windom, and Jeffries and they were my boys and they were in my office. They were my dear friends for a while but certain traits started coming out and they became not so nice.” Looking straight ahead, he says with a grim finality: “They are not in my life anymore.”

[yellow-yarrow]

How to not make a "disco-like"

Just copy the dialogue system and game play

Only take inspiration from DE and one other thing

Try to make similar jokes

Put "politics" in it (=have a dialogue option like "yes I am a massive communist/I don't have an opinion/I am a nationalist"

Make the protagonist quirky and take drugs

Congrats on making the most derivative thing ever

How to make a disco-like:

Read a lot of different things. Random Wikipedia pages. Niche eastern European literature from the 50s. Niche philosophy

Make the world building make sense

Come up with a premise that's different from DE

And with a different tone

Invent new tropes

Write good

In conclusion have only as much connection to DE as DE had to Planescape Torment and Fallout

[laughingpinecone]

Installing Uru on my new laptop and the screenshots showcase in the current installer is so cute :)

[stevienick]

Thank you for this journey, no matter how it ends.

— QUEEN & SLIM dir. Melina Matsoukas

[stephanisoejono]

Recently finished a commission from The Story Seed Library where they hosted various Solarpunk future visions. As I have mentioned in the notes I wanted a vision that is specific to South East Asia. A hawker stall filled with my favourite snacks, with their own home-grown produce growing on-site. Also focused on a single disabled mom and her daughter and Kanekes people for a few reasons. We have often failed disabled people and i want to imagine a future where disabled people can live with dignity. The Kanekes are indigenous people living in the Banten, mostly off-grid. I want to imagine a future where we adopt some of their earth-caring ways but with some techonological amenities still available. I hope I get to see more culture-specific Solarpunk soon!

[aire1111]

Palestine Action for aid to overseas supporters

Hind Rajab Foundation against legal impunity

Gaza Medical Tent Project

One Heart Volunteer Team Drop of Life Water Campaign

Dahnoun Mutual Aid

Mawasi al-Qarara Mutual Aid

The Sameer Project for North Gaza Aid

Sameer Project's South Gaza Aid

Medical Campaign x Sameer Project

Team Hussain's Grassroots Aid Campaign

The Mohammed Project's Aid Campaign

Abu Hureirah Aid Network for Sudan and Palestine

Ihyaa's Mission for Students in Gaza

Official Gaza City Water Fund

Official Gaza City Campaign for Prosthetic Limbs for the Children of Gaza

Emergency Water Relief for Gaza City

Ele Elna Enak Emergency Water Food and Hygiene Relief

Water Fund for Khan Younis Camp

Revive Gaza's Farmland Initiative

Ihyaa Initiative: Support Students in Gaza

People's Front For The Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Fundraiser

Lifeline4Gaza - vetted family fundraisers

Help this pharmacist dispense life-saving medicine

Build the first new library in Gaza

Handala Relief Project

Donate to direct action and gaza municipality and watch your money go to the best cause - if we can be anything we should be efficient. The most effective money you can give is to direct action, to group movements to protect our insurgents from adventurism, to Gazan medical tent for emergency medical relief, to providing water and food for Gaza through grassroots campaigns such as the PFLP's and mutual aid projects, and to Gaza municipality for their infrastructure. These crucial resources for maintaining life remain underfunded. Support BDS however you can against Carrefour, HP, Puma and Siemens. Share the following toolkit with your union and movement:

https://www.workersinpalestine.org/who-arms-israel

[aire1111]

share this frequently, please. or include these into other compilations. these are crucial and don't get as much attention. these are resources that benefit everyone. Look for these resources in other websites with greater traction. Please do your best as you can.

[mindblownie2]

I screech on the brakes, I do a U-turn, go back and I buy them and I save their lives. I named them Chucko, Buster, Pete, Bob and Dan and they were my boys and they were in my office. They were my dear friends for a while but certain traits started coming out and they became not so nice.

They are not in my life anymore.

portfolio / instagram / commissions

[super493x]

I hate to get all high and mighty about what games people should and shouldn't interact with, but seeing some gaming journalists witlessly talk about Zero Parades without engaging with the fact that the primary creatives behind Disco Elysium had their work and ZA/UM in general stolen from them by capital is infuriating. They were fucked over so bad that one of the writers had to open a GoFundMe just to ensure his family could survive the winter in 2025! This shit is well known for anyone who was even remotely invested in the game! Don't engage with the machine that fucked over the creatives behind one of the most impactful games of the past 10 years!! Fuck!!!!

[redwoodrroad]

would you take a sip? 🦴

[insertdisc5]

what was her name again?

[turquoisedata]

How very depressing that Neil Gaiman had trended not even a tiny bit for demonstrating what a fucking horrific person he is.

As a reminder, he's suing Caroline Wallner, one of his accusers, for breaking her NDA. Not for libel. He's saying she shouldn't have told anyone about it, not that she lied.

Neil Gaiman Seeks $500,000 From Accuser Caroline Wallner

The author says Wallner broke her NDA by sharing her story with the media, including with New York Magazine.

He doesn't need the money. He's risking the Streisand effect. He is punishing Caroline, he's trying to intimidate other victims who have signed NDAs to scare them into continued silence.

He is no friend to women, to the LGBTQIA+ community, to anyone quite frankly unless he thinks they are of value to him.

Share the story. Put it on Facebook and bluesky and whatever else you're on. Make it clear what a horrifying person he is. Tell your friends. He's paying Edendale a fortune to try and cover this up. Make this hard for him. Make it cost him money.