[SIDEBLOG] Hi there! I'm Octo, also known as Octofan or Attica Kish. Lyricist and *cough* indie game developer *cough*. This is a personal blog where I post all of my unofficial translyrics. I also occasionally blog about the games I'm making. Or playing I guess.
The demo for Silence to the Eyes is now available for download!
I’ve finished at literally the last minute, considering that I said I would try to get it out in June and as of this writing it is... June 30th...
HOWEVER
I’ve uploaded windows and mac builds of the demo for Silence to the Eyes on itch.io. The full game will require payment, but the demos are free for anyone who wants to check them out and get a taste of what I’m trying to do.
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I hope you guys like it, I’m very happy I was able to finish it despite the setbacks I’ve been having. I will go back to prioritizing the full game now and hopefully I can release that this year or early next year (I’ll continue to make progress updates as I go.) For everyone who followed me for translyrics, sorry this isn’t a translyric post, I’ll try to get back to those too probably.
So we're all pissed at the new update as we should be and I've been seeing many people proposing blackouts, which is amazing! But all the dates are different and people might get confused at what's happening when, so I just want to organize every blackout (at least that I saw) in one place.
So far I saw six people with dates.
The earliest one, organized by @yourlocalfandomfriendo begins on March 18th and will last 48 hours.
This overlaps with a second proposed blackout by @veejiez for March 19th.
There is also one on the 20th proposed by @daysleftofsecondterm and another one on the same day from 6AM UTC to 6AM UTC on the 21st by @everythingwsnormalhere.
These three days are all very soon so not everyone may see them in time to participate, but if you are able to participate for any or all of these days, I highly encourage you do. Otherwise there are two more blackouts coming up:
The next one after these will be on March 24th as organized by @aroacesafeplaceforall who suggested doing 12 hours.
And the last one, which I personally have a lot of hope for as it's a major day for activity on Tumblr and a blackout then could be especially impactful: April 1st, as proposed by @darkwood-sleddog
There is also a discord set up by @yourlocalfandomfriendo and @aroacesafeplaceforall for anyone interested in joining in!
SO OVERALL, it may sound like a lot, but no one expects everyone to participate to every date here. But PLEASE try to participate in at least one or two of these, even if you feel it may not do much.
Typical strikes, the ones we hear about all the time, win by withholding their labour for consistent periods of time; that's the power people have at work because that's what's exploited.
For blackout strikes, we need to withhold our attention; the resource we own which is exploited through the selling of both advertisements and data.
My comparison of blackout strikes with regular strikes will be for a whole other post, but for the time being, just know that
withholding our attention is our digital bargaining weapon
Tumblr literally lost 63% of its monthly traffic from 2024 to 2025; they are not in a position to play around with those of us still here.
So PLEASE try participating. We cannot let every decent online space get enshittified with no care or consideration for the communities using those spaces.
And where labour strikers risk losing incomes and jobs, all blackout strikers risk is... gaining some of their attention back for a little bit.
any plans on doing a self cover of ur black coffee lyrics? Trying to sing along but it's hard w/o a ref but i've never been good at fast paced songs lol
Unfortunately I have no plans of ever making a self-cover of anything, because I am not a good singer.
I recall that, in addition to the pacing guide at the bottom, I attempted to make a Vocaloid cover for reference because someone asked me for one. But couldn't find a working UST or vsq(x) to make it with 😔 sorry,
if ur still doing translyrics, any plans on doing idola circus? :)
Man I'd like to say yes because I can still see myself doing dub lyrics for songs that get really stuck in my head, but in general I've just been feeling so burnt out on doing more. Even some of the ones I did plan to do just mock me in my drafts. So I will have to say no, I am sorry.
fdgksdfk also watching my old Black Licorice game page get so many views every day has been surreal.
it's mostly coming from google so I think what's happening is that people are trying to find the Nickelodeon Black Licorice halloween game and getting mine instead? for which I apologize if so,
