Hey Instead Of Bullying Or Scaring You Into Switching To Firefox, Let Me Tell You Why I LOVE Firefox

When I tell you I am SO excited to romance Jost😩 My commander's about to lose it for this angry snake lady. She wants to stab me? Totally Acceptable!! Where would you like to hit first, take your PICK madame! You like to write and document your travels?? Ohoho excuse me while I PURCHASE EVERY NICE JOURNAL IN PRYTHIAN.🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️ Darlin has a big storm coming for her in the shape of a 👏🏼 very👏🏼 huggable👏🏼 and👏🏼 loving 👏🏼 Gorgon Commander Thank You Very Much

Every Jost romancer has this energy and I can't even pretend I'm any different when I'm the exact same in any IF that is not my own 😔 Scary women with hidden, soft depths are a universal weakness. And they do deserve a bit of stabbing... as a treat <3

Nobody:

Particle Physics: “hey what if we made up words that made it read like you were having a stroke at first glance”

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Libraries with a sense of humour.

god i love reading about stupid drama in ancient greece. like there was an athlete named theagenes who was so good at every kind of athletic contest that when he died, one of his opponents would go to beat the shit out of a statue of him out of spite, but then one day the statue fell on the guy and killed him so the greeks took the statue to court for murder, convicted it, and threw it into the sea

hey! it may not be a halloween update you’re looking for, but i’m excited to announce that chapter eight of When Twilight Strikes will (finally, finally!!) go live on november 4th at 12pm EST. the password is already up for those of you in the midnight tier on patreon, and will be released for the twilight tier this sunday.

in this chapter…

ro povs? rov povs.

experience the consequences angst of being injured (or one of the ros being injured)

develop some theories (while K loses all their brain cells)

find out what Rylan named your group chat

have a little chitchat with Sebastian (someone send him some help for real)

oh, and did i mention angst?

i know i’ve made and broken several promises on when this is coming out, but i assure you, it’s real this time. it’s the biggest chapter i’ve ever written and one that i struggled through immensely, though one i am also very proud of. i sincerely hope you enjoy <3

The Patreon demo has been updated with over 40k words.

In this new update, you can see what the ROs do in their free time. The said free time might include:

smutty poetry

prostitutes

plenty of cookies

Also, try to remain calm and stay alive.

Public update is coming on 19th of November. Thank you for your patience!

Welcome to The Rosebush

Welcome! We’re very happy to announce the preliminary launch of The Rosebush, a new online magazine for interactive fiction theory and criticism. The purpose of this preliminary launch is to let the interactive fiction community know that we exist, and to invite submissions. We hope to begin publishing early this summer, perhaps in June.

Learn more below, or you can also read this post on our website.

What is The Rosebush?

The Rosebush will be a free online magazine dedicated to publishing longer form articles about interactive fiction. The interactive fiction community already has well-established channels for reviews of individual games, and several people have well-read blogs, but we’ve been lacking a good platform for in-depth analyses, theory articles, discussions of craft, interviews, historical pieces, and so on. The Rosebush aims to be this platform. It will publish substantial articles that increase our understanding of interactive fiction, from individual works to design patterns, community structures and historical trends. The intended audience consists of both players and authors of IF.

What is the scope of the magazine?

Interactive fiction is a term with many uses. The focus of The Rosebush lies on digital works in which a player interacts with a pre-written story where text is the main medium. In particular, The Rosebush will publish about both parser-based and choice-based interactive fiction. While tabletop role playing games, computer role playing games, visual novels, and choose-your-own-adventure books are also interactive fictions in a sense of that term, they are not our primary topic.

Most of the organisers of The Rosebush come from the communities around the Interactive Fiction Competition, the Spring Thing, the IFDB, and so on; but we explicitly also intend to publish about the works of adjacent communities, such as the ChoiceScript community and the retro text adventure community.

What is the magazine looking for?

Articles! See the submissions page for the detailed call for articles. It is possible to either submit a pitch, which we will check to see whether the topic is suitable for The Rosebush, or an article. Links to submission forms can also be found on the submissions page.

What does The Rosebush offer authors?

Most importantly, a place for disseminating your articles. The Rosebush will maintain its website and ensure that all articles are also stored on the IF Archive, the best guarantee for perpetual availability in the current world of interactive fiction. In addition, the editorial team will work with you on your article, which can range from simple spelling/grammar editing to more substantial ideas and feedback on improving your piece.

The Rosebush is an entirely volunteer effort. There are no plans to offer a monetary compensation to authors of articles.

Who are we?

The editorial team currently consists of:

Aster Fialla (se/er)

Benjamin Slade (he/they)

Daniel Stelzer (they/them)

Drew Cook (he/him)

Josh Grams (he/him)

Kiana Lee (she/her)

Lisa Fox (she/her)

Mike Preston (he/him)

Mike Russo (he/him)

Victor Gijsbers (he/him)

Zee (they/them)

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