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hello artfight homestuck community i am doing TALKSPRITE ATTACKS against HOMESTUCK OCS. im on team mystery, but will likely do some friendly fire later in the month!

if youd like me to add you to my hit list...here is my talksprite resume of my and my friends fantrolls and fankids...

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VERY LATE BUT HELLO

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to the people on my revenge list I may have forgotten

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come follow me on artfight!!

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Drac and Reno by @ombresart. Very very happy with these I could dieeee.

No shades Reno under cut:

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andddd their mommy clemency, who im currently playing lol

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sequel campaigns about to start, so i did a nicer picture of my new pc temperance and their sibling callisto

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Hey everyone -- long time no posts, I know. I'm planning on getting a little more active on this blog in the near future, so I thought I'd post an update regarding The Unquiet Grave, other projects, and the blog in general.

Starting with The Unquiet Grave: to be totally transparent, I'm doing a graduate degree now, and that means I have a lot less time to work on longer term writing projects. I've also lost a lot of steam on working on a Wuthering Heights game in general, so while I hope to come back to the game at some point, I'm not going to promise it'll get done. The demo will stay up on itch.io though, and I'd be happy to talk about what the general plan was for the game overall if anyone is curious!

I am working on a shorter, sillier IF game that I'll hopefully be releasing at some point this summer while I'm off school though! It's about halfway done so far, and will probably end up somewhere around 30-40k words when it's totally done. I'll be dropping it all at once pretty much, but keep an eye out if you're interested in a weird Medievalish quest game.

This blog was originally sort of generally for my art, which I am going to start posting more regularly both on here and on Bluesky. I mostly do original work, and to be real it's going to be a lot of D&D and Homestuck OCs for the foreseeable future.

Working on an IF game and interacting with the broader community was a really awesome experience, and I'm looking forward to a time I have more ability to really focus on making more of them. Thank you to everyone who supported and enjoyed The Unquiet Grave!

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Are you okay??

Yes, so sorry for such late responses to asks!! Honestly I've been so swamped with school that it kept slipping my mind to post timeline updates here. Thank you for the concern though!

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Hey good luck with your thesis!!! Hope you nail it! Can't wait for you to have some free time, hope you can update the game when you can no pressure of course, but it's so so so good, I absolutely LOVE IT, it's great!

Hi!! Thank you!! So sorry for the radio silence everyone. This is more of a timeline update than anything else, but my thesis is going pretty well! I'm graduating next month, so I'll have a bunch of free time for the next year or so while I take a bit of a breather before grad school apps. I really appreciate people still checking in though! It makes me really happy to know people like the game enough to do that. I'm going to try to get through at least the childhood section of the game in an update in late May or June – until then though, I'm going to be buckling down to finish another 8,000 words or so for my thesis!

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Hi everyone! Thanks for playing and supporting my game still, and I'm sorry for the radio silence on my end for the past several months. I'm in my last year of college and working on a really long thesis right now that's been kicking my ass – I'll be working on the game a bit over the upcoming holiday breaks though, and will try to post updates on things more regularly!

In the meantime, feel free to send me asks about anything you have questions about! Whether they're about the game or the novel or anything else, it's super fun to get to talk to you all about things!

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Hello there dear author! I reeeaaally love the way you write in your wip. To be honest, I haven't read the book yet. I'm thinking of purchasing it once I finish my research. If you don't mind me asking, whose pov is heavily focused in the book? Is it Catherine's or Heathcliff's?

Hi! I'm really glad to hear you like my writing! It's totally fine that you haven't read the book yet lol. The answer to your question is a little complicated though!

Technically, it's from neither of their perspectives – the book pulls the extremely classic gothic move of having a narrative frame around it, and is also told in first person. So the narrator character for the "modern" (post-Catherine's death) section is actually a guy who won't be showing up in my game! He is literally just some guy who shows up to rent a place near Wuthering Heights. He is then told the story that makes up the bulk of Wuthering Heights the novel by Nelly! The portion of the storyline he directly experiences is also where we get the iconic ghost scenes (which I will be pulling from).

With this is mind though, I should also answer the spirit of the question: while the novel itself mainly follows Catherine narratively until her death and then the kids for the rest of the book, Healthcliff is the central figure of the story. The book is really about him and his actions, but it leaves almost all of his life and story out of the actual text. It's super interesting! My professor called him a "lacuna" – Heathcliff is a hole in the narrative, a blank space right in the middle of the book. So, long story short, the answer to your question is both and neither!

Fair warning to everyone who is thinking of or going to read the book by the way: obviously while I loved it, it definitely isn't for everyone and there's no shame in just not being into it. You can still come play my game (which is going to, if you play your cards right, fix things for everyone) without having read the source material! I'm taking necessary liberties to have a fun game while still maintaining the spirit of the text. Definitely check out content warnings if you need them before reading either my game or the original book though; both will deal with some pretty heavy topics, and basically every character is actually a pretty awful person. I still love them though, so mileage may vary significantly!

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This was my error, but I checked and it only happens on condition that I selected I resented Heathcliff but then we spent some time together on walks. Otherwise it doesn’t happen.

I see! I'll check this out and add some text for that situation. Thanks for letting me know!

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Hey! I loved your interactive game but I got an unexpected error. Should I message you the screenshot? 🧡

Sure! Thank you for letting me know! You can submit a screenshot, but if you got an error shortly after the hobby section, that might be the end of the current build anyways.

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Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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Illustration for Wuthering Heights by Felix Abel Klaer

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Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë