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mackie | 25 | she/they my horror blog, expect to see a lot of vampire: the masquerade, interview with the vampire, yellowjackets, gravity falls, david lynch, and some other odds and ends. !!WILL REBLOG/POST 18+ CONTENT!!

[vileengine]

i actually did draft a bunch of abortion jokes but ultimately decided not to keep them

[jessaerys]

the mike flanaganization of gabriestat

[bowhaus]

The window within

[local--deer]

yeah our setting is called vampire: the masquerade. oh the vampires? we call them kindred.

[diidona]

THE LOST BOYS (1987) • dir. Joel Schumacher

[ispyspookymansion]

to be honest, kitten doesnt know how many more “ok 💗 yay 💗”s they have left in them

[technofeudalism]

i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

[witchscience-draw]

Made this meme because I love homosexuals: the masquerade

[swagvo1d]

doomed

[pocket-deer-belly]

stinking up the room with my amazing digital pit sweat

[pocket-deer-belly]

amazing digital website design

[men-iss-vess-ull-deactivated202]

a tired mime on break leaning against nothing and smoking an invisible cigarette

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

was your pet expensive to get?

yes

no

not the most expensive but not the cheapest either

for free

it was a gift

found it outside

traded for something

results

Remaining time: 8 hours 27 minutes

[dogpuppy]

[kink-tomato]

This zine, and I cannot over emphasize how funny this is, is for Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire

[getvalentined]

These people blocked me on both Twitter and Tumblr, and then someone used a burner account to go off on me on Twitter. This person insisted that I was singlehandedly responsible for the project falling.

I made one comment, and it was this:

No clue how my single comment did this. But okay.

[undeadhousewife]

[iphigeniacomplex]

mike flanagan’s hill house could have been the best show in the world and it would still be a profoundly misogynistic reimagining of its source. the process of adaptation simply cannot be ignored, regardless of the adaptation’s quality as a standalone work; to adapt anything is to converse with it, and mike flanagan’s conversation with shirley jackson looks like reminding her that her place is in the family. the show is not propaganda, but it is inarguable that as a man and a patriarch, mike flanagan does socially benefit from absolving the gendered family structure of its place in the horror. likewise, he benefits from a telling of carrie where margaret white is ultimately benevolent, if misguided, and any trauma she may have experienced has simply made her wiser about “this world and the dangers” of which her naïve young daughter lacks awareness. i am not suggesting consciously conservative beliefs; i am acknowledging that he is likely unconsciously drawn to “fix” stories in this way because it further reifies his social position.

[natalieironside]

Growing up, older folks would always get confused when I expressed familiarity with media from their childhoods and would act incredulous when I attempted to explain the concept of reruns. They'd be like "How do you, a child of this fallen era, know of Looney Tunes" and I'd be like "Because it has never not been playing on television" and this would seem to be brand new information to them

[reputayswift]

love the journey he goes on here