SKETCHING VISIONS IN OUR HEADS

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Beneath the Plum Tree 李下之歌 - DEMO I

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First Demo Out Now!

I am very happy to announce that today, the first demo of Beneath the Plum Tree 李下之歌 has been officially released!

Demo I consists of the first three chapters of the book, and hopes to introduce you to the setting and some of the major characters. It is now available for you to read on the COGdemos website! You can find it using the following link:

I genuinely hope you enjoy this first demo, and do not hesitate to let me know your thoughts and your questions here on this Tumblr blog!

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Premise

The Emperor is dead, and the Lands Under Heaven are torn asunder by corruption and turmoil. As the dynasty erodes from within and virtue is forgotten, the time has now come for you to carve your own way through the brittle late Han Dynasty.

Beneath the Plum Tree 李下之歌 is an interactive novel of historical fiction, inspired by the famous Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It has:

◇ Complex characters

◇ An immersive, historically authentic setting

◇ Deep themes and symbolism

◇ Customisation based on the Five Elements

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[lunarwednesday]

Redrew a screenshot of his tiny smile that absolutely broke me -- maybe everything he did wasn't in vain...

[aoikiyo]

Jiang Yan / Jiang Wulang / Uncle Jiang

is this our uncle…. like fr wow…

[snowthornes]

「 ✦ TAG 9 PEOPLE YOU WANT TO GET TO KNOW BETTER ✦ 」

tagged by @keeperofsecretsunderthehill divider by @isisjupiter

READING: What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo. I'm hoping it'll give me something. I'm not sure what.

LAST SERIES: Medalist, the anime! It's so good, I adore it...

LAST FILM: Honestly, it's been a good while... I really can't remember. I'm not really big on films. OOHH WAIT I went to watch the latest Avatar movie with my parents in the cinemas last December. I was pretty locked in watching, but it didn't really leave a mark on me.

LAST SONG: MirroR, produced by STUDIO LICO, sung by Rubyeye.

SALTY OR SWEET: Salty! What I'd give to have scrambled eggs rn...

COFFEE OR TEA: Neither really, but if I had to choose, coffee 😭😭😭 due to previous events I now unironically enjoy unsweetened un-anything'ed cacao (the drink). Yeah that wasn't on my 2026 bingo board either.

WORKING ON: My IF! Ideally, anyway. I'm... trying to figure out how to write again...

Thank you so much for the tag, Amaranth !! :D I love these games. tagging: @sass-sage @diebischesther @louroth @i-mybrunettelady @nevira-names @mustardd @kris-mage-fics @capricule @aylaaescar

[penny-anna]

The problem w writing fiction is that you'll be like tee-hee I'm going to write a story about a fucked up little scenario that's got nothing to do with anything in real life, just some pure messed up nonsense, and then you finish it and take a step back and go aw rats I made a metaphor again

[sapphofinch]

[letsoulswander]

[ID: A meme of a cat screaming "WHY IS IT ALWAYS ABOUT GRIEF"]

[havingapoemwithyou]

Beyond Harm by Sharon Olds

[sviteer]

Beware of yourself

[nightkorio]

A Story of Killerblade/Yi Dao and A Young Master

This is in the compendium if you pick up the books in Qinghe

[shizunitis]

playing where winds meet feels like babysitting a 16-year old while he's going on baby's first adventure. i watched him get carried in the rain as a little infant swaddled to his uncle's chest. i know how he got that tiny scar. i saw him fight and lose to multiple angry geese. his handwriting is as bad as a little girl's. he's getting scammed left and right because he's stupid. he's part of Scammers Sect and has also sworn to destroy them (they scammed him). i love my stupid son

[seharuuchan]

Shàodōngjia's little adventure

[hanashiz]

Unfated Tian seeking for advice

from the infamous Uncle Jiang what could've gone wrong, right?

[great-gatsby]

every reread kills me a little bit more

[great-gatsby]

reread and enjoy <3

[shizuart]

[elljayvee]

Happy ten years to god fucking up a perfectly good monkey

[ex-riddlecats]

has anybody else noticed how weird it is that psychology courses assume all of their students are 100% neurotypical and cannot possibly be diagnosed with any of the disorders they describe and by "weird" i mean extremely telling of the way the mentally ill are categorized as the other

[narisawr]

finish the heart...?

[yukinayee]

A cure for insomnia 💤

Hc that Phainon has trouble sleeping bc he's afraid he will wake up to another loop