#waves hand

[sinningtamer]

the rare softcore spirit porn

[plum-petals]

playing a game called "how far can I get into my new WIP without looking up a single thing about hockey?"

[doubledeadstudio]

Answering two asks in one posts because they're both related.

There will be no cheating subplots in the RH base game. (And it won't be the LI who starts it.)

No, and I'm deeply uninterested in the concept.

I feel like there's already a plethora of games out there with rejection and friendship-focused elements. I think a lot of "romances" center around this concept of anxiety around being devalued, having loose relationships, not caring as much, either by the LI or the player.

I'm much more interested in themes of co-dependence, the storminess of being too emotionally involved and invested with people, how people turn into monsters the more you get to know them. All the LIs will love the MC very deeply, in a way that becomes irrational and suffocating, and I don't... want to write an MC that just kinda strings them along and plays with their feelings? Not because that's unrealistic, but just because I think it's narratively unsatisfying, idk. I mean, you can have a messy play style, have your MC be unsure/afraid/act out/cry/be angry/have complicated feelings and such, but there's still always going to be an element of yearning from them (from both parties, honestly).

I think the horror part isn't about being hurt/manipulated by a cruel, uncaring force, but loving and being loved by someone you feel is so irreplaceable to you that you'd embrace torment and monstrosity over losing them.

I've always wanted to structure RH in a way where emotionally it's more reminiscent of 18th century Romantic novels, Gothic Romance, etc. Very intense, sincere, and gratingly vulnerable to contrast against the artificial, irony-poisoned internet culture, where everything is very easily discarded and nothing means anything. (When I originally made RH, I kinda designed in to become antithetical to everything I despised in the modern world, you know?)

[rivangel]

🥺

[rawmato]

what if we played gay chicken between the church pews

[multiplikitties]

a cleaner and slightly nicer version of my 'understanding that all your alters are understandable, have valid existences and needs, and deserve to feel like they belong' DID worksheet has been finalized

(i've also updated my self-help neocities page to finally have proper PDF summaries to help those longer resources be more accessible. pwDID i cannot recommend CwTRD enough)

[postillfastill]

psych and animorphs are set in the same city. good job solving that murder shawn spencer. too bad you'll also have to deal with the alien brain slugs too.

[hearteris-a]

ok! >< i think im gonna slowly begin to move to a new blog but itll take me like 2 wks or so....... im gonna attempt to finish all the starters here, empty the queue and chip away at stuff before i make the move so i can start pretty fresh over there :)