Just two humans, writing Twisted Wonderland fanfics.
(Many of these started out as Discord conversations/role-play stories, and are reposted here, with minor edits to improve the flow of the narrative.)
Be my friend!
whimsey (Alise): cJ8taLsP Mouse (Mouse): GKKrUEsd
Links to fics posted here, organized by story thread, or if they’re just oneshots.
Beginning:
Alise shows up at Night Raven College at the beginning of the winter semester.
Chapter One: Arrival
Chapter Two: First Day of School
Chapter Three: First Period
Chapter Four: Mouse
Chapter Five: Alise
Chapter Six: Reunion
Chapter Seven: Well-Fed
Chapter Eight: A Short Walk
Chapter Nine: P.E.
Chapter Ten: Potions
Chapter Eleven: Of Pomegranates and Pink Things
Chapter Twelve: Going On A Leona Hunt
Chapter Thirteen: Spelldrive
Chapter Fourteen: Scarabia
Chapter Fifteen: Study Sesh
Harveston:
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Baby Panick!! :
Based on this comic from @waterthatsmoe.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Fishy Business:
Alise found a medieval bestiary in the library, the kind filled with pictures drawn by people who may have never seen an animal in their lives. But it is also in Latin. This one is full of pictures of fish and other aquatic animals. So, obviously, Floyd is the best person to identify them. An epistolary story in multiple parts.
Okay, it's not really a story, I just wanted to use the word "epistolary".
First Fish
Second Fish
Third Fish
Fourth Fish
Fifth Fish
Sixth Fish
Seventh Fish
Eighth Fish
Ninth Fish
Tenth Fish
Eleventh Fish
Twelfth Fish
Thirteenth Fish
Fourteenth Fish
Fifteenth Fish
Sixteenth Fish
Oneshots:
Headache
Sleeping Together
Right-Side Down
An Unacceptable Accessory
Ocean
Homesick
Mushroom Chowder
Cheese Fries
A Little Run-In
Poor Timing
A Little Light Reading
Maze
Happy? New Year
Bugs
Mouse Name Reveal: Idia
Mouse Name Reveal: Arlani (Arlani belongs to @sunnysidesevenup)
You may have won the battle but the war shall come 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜
sorry my calendar is booked can we schedule the ant war for march of next year
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A year ago, there were like four twst fan visual novels in production. What happened to them all?
I know what happened to the one I'm involved with - we all got super busy with life and college and work and shit, and development slowed down.
But what about everyone else? How are all y'all doing with that? Development completely stalled, just slowed, still super active but the posts aren't making it to me?
We here at Ramshackle Ramblings would like to propose a Crimmass Presents Exchange. A secret one. Almost like a Secret Santa.
Okay, exactly like a Secret Santa.
Here's how it will work:
* Interested Parties (you, we hope) join this Discord server: https://discord.gg/tvH3SmMB
* Interested Parties will make all the appropriate posts over there about wishlists, etc.
* In one week's time, on November 23rd, we will take everyone that is in the Discord and filled out the necessary forms (in triplicate (kidding, kidding)), and in a very secret manner (using a bot designed to do it) draw names.
* Santas will have about a month to put together a present for their, um, Santees? I don't know what the other half of a Secret Santa pair is called. Anyway, Santas have about a month to put together a gift:
* Art should be a flatcolor digital halfbody or a clean traditional fullbody
* Writing should be 1000+ word one-shot story
* Starting on December 24th (Crimmass Eve, for those keeping track) and running through December 31st, Santas will begin revealing themselves and posting their presents.
And that's pretty much it. Pretty classic Secret Santa stuff, I suppose.
In which Mouse makes some decisions, and Floyd makes a declaration
Sam had gotten in a new collection of articulated metal keychains, mostly of various animals, and Mouse was looking over the offerings. They were spinning the rack, watching the light reflect off the enameled metal, when one in particular caught their eye.
It was a red goldfish, fins hinged so they flapped lazily as the display spun. Mouse picked it up with a little giggle. Riddle might not be pleased with the thought, but it wasn’t his birthday coming up.
They spun the rack again, looking over the keychains more carefully this time.
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“I’m going into town for a bit, there’s a new little garden store I want to check out,” Mouse slid on their shoes and picked up their keys off the table by the door.
“Wait, I wanna come, too!” Alise cried, rolling off the couch and bouncing to the door, shoving her feet into her boots and jamming the laces into them.
“You can take the time to tie your shoes,” Mouse sighed.
---
“This place is cute,” Mouse said when they entered. “A little more ‘gift shop’ than ‘garden store’, though.”
The little shop was full of garden-themed things - lots of pretty glass vases, throw blankets with herbs and flowers printed on them, windchimes, books on the language of flowers - but very few actual gardening items. Mouse found a pretty pair of gloves, pink with a ditzy print of white flowers and green leaves, but nothing else of particular use.
“Oh, this is neat,” Alise said, taking a hanging glass ball off its hook. It was a little terrarium, with some kind of moss with the tiniest of purple flowers. “I’m gonna get it.”
“You’re getting a living thing?” Mouse asked with disbelief.
“Not for me,” Alise assured them. “For Jade.”
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“Why are we in this toy store again?” Mouse asked. Not that they minded, really. They were currently hugging their way through a wall of stuffed animals.
“Floyd,” Alise answered simply, clacking a magnetic building toy together and shaking her head.
“Ah, of course,” Mouse said like that made sense, picking up a stuffed broccoli wearing a chef’s hat.
Alise gave up on toys and wandered over to the books. Maybe there would be something interesting on the shelves.
A book with a plain brown cover caught her eye. It said “My Adventure Book” in a curly type, and every letter was a different color. The copies of the books on the shelf all had a ribbon around them to keep them closed, but the display copy was open.
She picked it up and paged through it. Every pair of pages was a picture and some lines for taking notes on one side, and the other side was a scratch off. Some of the ones in the display copy had been scratched off, and each one was some kind of “adventure”, things like challenging the reader to learn card tricks, or building a pillow fort. Yeah, this was perfect.
Alise picked up a copy of the book, and found Mouse with several plush mushrooms arranged in front of them, looking at each one thoughtfully. They eventually decided on the one with white spots on its red cap.
---
The Mostro Lounge was festive, but tasteful. Swags of tulle and twinkling strings of lights decorated the room for the tweels birthday.
“Happy birthday!” Mouse cried, handing each of them a box.
Floyd immediately shook his, and the clinking, rattling sound that came from it stopped him almost as fast. “Did I just break it?” he asked, starting to look upset.
“Open it and see!” Mouse urged him. “You, too,” they said to Jade.
Floyd made quick work of the wrapping paper, and tore the tape holding the cardboard box inside open. He looked into the box, worried that it was just going to be pieces of whatever Mouse had bought him. It wasn’t broken, it was just a box of keychains.
He pulled out the first one, an enameled crocodile whose legs wiggled when you shook it. Then a sea turtle, with floppy fins. A crab who’s claws waggled. A slow smile started on Floyd’s face. An otter whose head and tail waggled. A seagull with flapping wings.
“Sweetfish, you got me everyone!”
“Everyone I could find,” they told him.
Hands full of small metal friends, Floyd wrapped one arm around Mouse in a sideways hug.
“What’d you get?” he asked Jade. “It won’t be as good.”
“Indeed,” Jade chuckled. “I got a fly agaric. A very squishy fly agaric.”
“Do you like it?” Mouse asked.
“I do,” he answered sincerely. “It will take pride of place on my bed.”
They smiled, extricating themselves from Floyd to give him a quick hug.
“New Shrimoy, look!” Floyd said, jiggling a keychain up and down. “It’s you!”
Alise laughed, setting her presents for the boys down on the table, to admire the wriggling keychain collection with Floyd.
“Is one of those for me?” Jade asked her with a sly smile.
“One is,” she agreed. “Don’t shake it.”
He chuckled and checked the tags on both presents before asking, “Am I the ‘Left Twin’ or the ‘Right Twin’?”
She grinned at him as his hand hovered over first one box and then the other, looking for some sign from her.
“You’re the Right Twin,” she said finally.
“I see,” he said, picking up his present.
“Oh, Alise, it’s lovely!” He held the terrarium ball up, turning it around and admiring the tiny world within.
Floyd slid his present over and tore the paper off. He looked at the book, and then looked at Alise curiously. He flipped it open halfway, and flipped through a few pages, then went back to the beginning to read the first few pages that explained how to use the book.
Steam, Itch.io and the banning of explicit and LGBT+ Content. What can we do?
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With no warning, Itch.io, a site where many host their indie games, comics, books and more, has started purging and shadowbanning explicit and LGBT+ works. Creators got no warning. And if they were still owed payouts from these works, Itch.io is saying they won't give them their money as they 'broke the rules'. Rules that were only just set in place, with no warning, and therefore no way for creators to try and draw out their money or delete these 'offending' works before they got banned under the new rules.
So Itch.io has been the most recent to fall to the demands of a group that's been contacting Visa and Mastercard and convincing them to threaten sites/businesses with 'stop selling what we consider to be explicit content on your sites of we'll stop allowing your site to have transactions with Visa and Mastercard'. Steam folded, and now Itchio has too. And a reminder earlier this year Gumroad also stopped allowing explicit content, further back than that Patreon banned some kinks and fetishes even if it's depicted in fiction not real life, and I don't have to explain to you guys the great Tumblr explicit content ban of 2018.
And as always remember this doesn't stop with sexually explicit work as LGBT+ stories and people are often labelled as explicit and already we're seeing works being taken off Itch.io that are about LGBT+ and especially trans stories. Other non-sexually explicit works I've seen already getting shadowbanned, delisted or deleted are SFW games featuring furries/anthros, SFW dress up games (because when you take the clothes the model is nude), and the aforementioned SFW games that include LGBT+ characters and stories.
I'm compiling here information I've seen around various social medias, mostly Bluesky, because I haven't seen all these things shared over here.
I don't personally have explicit content on itch, but I had been considering one day selling things on there and I do currently have explicit content on my Patreon, my main source of income, and am terrified that Patreon is going to fold next (if anyone knows alterative for hosting audio content behind a paid subscription service please let me know so I can start maybe making a back-up in case the worst happens). Because for me personally if Patreon goes next, it's not like I can go out and easily get another job. Not only because in general finding and getting a job is difficult enough, but I'm autistic and have chronic pain and have been constantly getting sick or new pains over the last few years and don't feel safe being trans in the UK right now and all of that combined rules me out of a lot of jobs and makes me feel unsafe to apply to any. I'm so grateful I've been able to make a community around my work, but if Patreon caves next and I just leave my SFW posts on Patreon... 10% of my Patreons are signed up to the SFW tier, 90% are signed up to the explicit tier... I know if Patreon caves I will go from someone living comfortably who's searching to move out of my parents so I can live in a safer environment to someone who can no longer even afford the rent I pay to my parents. I'll try and get an alterative found and set up in case that happens and I can only hope you guys will follow me to whatever other site I have to set up... but it feels unlikely that people will get a whole new account on a whole new payment provider just to support me on a website they might never have heard of...
But what can we do right now?
A petition you can sign (international but you do have to give your name, email, and postal/zip code):
Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It mu
Get calling:
Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
MasterCard (UK): 0800 964 767
Mastercard (International.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911 / 1-800-VISA-911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
Visa (UK) : 0800 891 725 or use their international call collect +1 303 967 1096
Visa (International): (call collect - it costs them $): +1-303-967-1096
PayPal (US): 1-888-221-1161
PayPal (UK): 0800 358 7911 from landline, +44 203 901 7000 mobile
PayPal (International): 1-402-935-2050
(numbers gathered from these posts X X X )
Don't know what to say on the phone? Here's a script written by timidtanuki:
Creators have had their work removed off Itch.io with no warning and since it's been removed for 'breaking the rules' (rules that were suddenly in place with no warning) they aren't entitled to get their payouts. Just like other sites such as Youtube and Twitch and Etsy, Itch.io hold onto money from their users in a wallet and then give them payouts. So there is money creators have made, are owed, that Itch.io is not giving to them.
People are recommending that if you still have works on Itch.io to turn down the revenue sharing to 0% so that Itch.io no longer takes a cut or your money if you no longer want to support Itchi.io finically but don't want to remove your works from their platform. X
Other Bluesky posts and calls to action I've seen:
radiantg.bsky.social is asking for anyone on Itch.io who got their game deindexed, removed , or payouts turned off to reach out to them (espeically if you make explicit and/or LGBT+ games) for a piece of journalism about what is happening.
sleepyhart.bsky.social is making a thread of all the games that Itch.io has censored/removed from their site search function. Obviously be aware this will include 18+ only games, games with sexual content and other dark or heavy themes.
thetransfemininereview.com wants you to reach out to them if you're a trans creator on Itch.io who is being affected by this so they can make an accurate report. they say 'authors' in their post and I'm unsure if they also want game devs to reach out.
dropdownbear.bsky.com wants you to reach out if you have purchased things on Itch.io that you can now no longer access because of this ban. they can include them in a report being filed with the Australian Consumer Commission as this may be a violation of Australian Consumer rights. If you are Australian you can no longer access things you purchased of Itch.io you can report directly with this guide.
It's a scary time for adult creators and sex workers. It's a scary time to be trans. Support creators. And if anyone knows of any alternate payment providers that allow explicit work, and/or alternate websites to Itch (and in case things get worse, also give me Patreon alternates please) where people can host, sell and/or offer paid subscriptions to writing, images, videos, audios, games and more please leave them in the replies. And please help share this post, the posts I'm linking too, and any other resources you can find.
I don't have many followers, so I don't know if anyone will see this, but I would like to share regardless. I made a collection on Itch of all of the deindexed games I knew about, could find through people I follow, and things I've clicked on. I haven't played all of them, but I know that they can't be found easily. I don't know if it'll help, but I figured I would post it here, just in case. I cross-referenced on Itch's search engine to make sure they were shadowbanned. My hope is that it makes finding the Adult content a little easier for people without having to search for it for the time being.
My ask box is open if anyone wants to send anything I've overlooked or couldn't find. Here is the link to that, I also have the link on my blog.
I got mad, so I made a zine about it (it will be a printed zine available at the Panel One Comic Creator Festival and I might throw this up online so you can print and distribute them yourselves).
A great way to read lots banned books is with a library card. Support your local library! Get a library card! Support less local libraries, and get multiple library cards!
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