Imagine If You Walked Into Someone Else's Mind. Imagine If They Walked Into Yours. Imagine That You Couldn't

Winter’s Solstice (Animated Short) My first animated short! It was meant for around the winter solstice but some stuff got in the way. Hope you enjoy!

People, especially games, get eldritch madness wrong a lot and it’s really such a shame.

An ant doesn’t start babbling when they see a circuit board. They find it strange, to them it is a landscape of strange angles and humming monoliths. They may be scared, but that is not madness.

Madness comes when the ant, for a moment, can see as a human does.

It understands those markings are words, symbols with meaning, like a pheromone but infinitely more complex. It can travel unimaginable distances, to lands unlike anything it has seen before. It knows of mirth, embarrassment, love, concepts unimaginable before this moment, and then…

It’s an ant again.

Echoes of things it cannot comprehend swirl around its mind. It cannot make use of this knowledge, but it still remembers. How is it supposed to return to its life? The more the ant saw the harder it is for it to forget. It needs to see it again, understand again. It will do anything to show others, to show itself, nothing else in this tiny world matters.

This is madness.

Stay?

an interactive fiction game from E. Jade Lomax (ink-splotch / dirgewithoutmusic), the writer who brought you Beanstalk & the @sortinghatchats quiz

Come explore the magical valley of Elaia through a choose-your-own-adventure game. It's got dangers to circumvent, morality to ponder, and folks of all sorts of genders for you to befriend and fall in love with.

What is Stay?

An interactive fiction story

A dating sim wrapped up in a fantasy adventure puzzle

A quest to find your own happy ending in a world where you always get a second chance

How to play?

It's free to play and doesn't require any downloads. Just go to ejadelomax.itch.io/stay on your mobile device or browser & hit "Run Game."

the Wasteland Gospel mascs are getting a little update 😳

If you wanna catch a glimpse of the lineup, follow me on Twitch, I stream every Thursday at 7PM (BST) :3

it’s just one of those croissant days

what if every Tumblr user suddenly looses their mouse?

Hanif Abdurraqib, On Seatbelts and Sunsets

https://www.triangle.house/hanif-abdurraqib-on-seatbelts-and-sunsets

laudna: how can we make this mind-reading experience more comfortable for you ashton? should i make you a yarn circle?

ashton, sarcastically: yeah maybe we should just hold hands

imogen: oh yeah that could be a good idea! let's hold hands!

ashton: I Was Joking But Now I Have No Choice But To Hold Your Hands, I Guess

here’s a list of books that have lgbtqa main characters that weren’t killed for shock value :)))) (bc we’ve all been disappointed enough this year)

* = adult or new adult lit

the engelsfors trilogy by sara elfgren and mats strandberg (the lgbtqa witches trilogy we all deserve)

more than this by patrick ness

the foxhole court by nora sakavic*

everything leads to you by nina lacour

the rest of us just live here by patrick ness

proxy by alex london

fan art by sarah tregay

aristotle and dante discover the secrets of universe by benjamin alire saenz

the mortal instruments by cassandra clare

unspoken by sarah rees brennan

the turn of the story by sarah rees brennan

i’ll give you the sun by jandy nelson

carry on by rainbow rowell

the darkest part of the forest by holly black

how to repair a mechanical heart by j.c lillis

simon vs the homosapiens agenda by becky albertalli

far from you by tess sharpe (lesbian character dies before the book which sets the plot in motion, bi mc)

captive prince by cs pacat*

know not why by hannah johnson*

the gods of gotham by lyndsay faye*

him by elle kennedy and sarina bowen*

the understatement of the year by sarina bowen*

the nightrunner series by lynn flewelling*