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[salty-stories]

If you don't mind me asking, what program do you use to make your game?

I use Twine! It’s a free to use engine that uses scripting languages you can use to write interactive fiction or other projects! Here's a really good explanation by @idrellegames

It's a bit intimidating but once you figure your footing and ignore the over-complicated stuff in the documentation, you can make anything your heart desires!

There's a few different language variations within Twine; Harlowe(which got a very user/beginner friendly update a little while ago), Sugarcube 2(which is what Love and Friendship uses), Chapman, and Snowman(both of which I heard good things about but not touched before)

Here's a really good tutorial of navigating Sugarcube's documentation by @townofcrosshollow that I really recommend looking at before diving into the documentation

Here's another good resource by @iorifd about how choices look in different scripting programs, including Twine!

Sorry about the info dump but I hope the links are useful and I'm always happy to talk about any twine questions!

[salty-stories]

Are you friends with any other IF writers? Do you talk about your IFs?

no😞 they’ve all blocked me, so now I stand outside and peer through the glass and yearn....😞😞😞😞

[salty-stories]

Here's a bouquet of flowers for being an amazing human being: 💐. You'll get where you're wanting to go, enchanting person~

ilysm<3<3<3 you’re a sweetheart and I wish the best for you<3<3<3

[salty-stories]

Thank you for answering my question about what program you use.

You're welcome, Anon! I hope the links and info were useful! I love talking about that kind of stuff, so thank you for giving me a chance to gush about twine^^

[salty-stories]

wait wait wait wait are you the blog that posted about all the things you can hear with your hearing aids now like the sound of a brook and your best friends laughter? if not, disregard, but if so, your post is literally my favorite post on tumblr

Afraid not, anon, but that post does sound very lovely!

[salty-stories]

saltyyyy!!! looking through your tags and i saw u liked sappho?? 🥺 queen, what's your fave sappho poem? (sorry if this is a weird q, i just LOVE sappho!!)

Oh Anon, can anyone have just one fav sappho poem? I’m a big sappho stan, too! I almost did my senior thesis last year about her resurgence in modern queer wlw spaces, but that’s a tangent for another day!

I can’t pick a favorite, I love them all for different reasons! So, I’ll give you two^^ Also under the cut! Cuz she’s a long post!

Midnight Poem! (Even tho we don’t really know that Sappho wrote this. The devices used and meter suggests it was probably her! It’s also just a beautiful poem!)

The moon and the Pleiades have set, it is midnight, and the time is passing, but I sleep alone.

Also! Fragment 94! Cuz of the gay and the angst!

“I'm not pretending; I wish I were dead.” 

She was leaving me in tears,

and over and over she said to me: 

“Sappho, it hurts; what's happened to us is just so grim;

it isn't my choice, I swear it, to leave like this.”

These were the words that I answered her:

“Go and be happy; remember me, 

for you know how we have paid court to you:

and if not, then I want to remind you ... and the good things we have enjoyed:

for at my side, many the crowns of violets and roses ... you have put on yourself,

and many the garlands woven from flowers you have cast round your delicate neck,

and with quantities of ... flowery perfume ... fit for a queen even, you anointed yourself all over,

and on soft beds ...  delicate ... you have satisfied desire ...”

Everytime I read it, I yearn, dude! This is only a bit of the original poem, only a tiny piece and it fucking wrecks my shriveled up corpse of a heart. I can only imagine what the full ten stanzas must have read like. 

Thank you so much for the question! I love talking about sappho and other writers^^ It lets me actually use for my english degree for something that isn’t writing ads for soulless corps<3

[salty-stories]

I sent the passion ask and that's actually the type of passion I meant^^ I did have a thought about how passion can be interpreted in different ways but I figured whichever meaning spoke to you more would be fun^^ ty for all your hard work :D

Oh, I’m glad hehe! Passion is def one of those funny words that encompasses a lot of different stuff. And Thank you nonny for all the support<3 <3 <3 It makes all the work worth it!!

[shipless-lesbian]

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.