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Our newest visual novel, Memory: UNLOCKED, is now available on Itch.io! 🗝️

In this game, not everything is as it seems...

Memory: UNLOCKED is a short otome visual novel with one key choice and a tragic mystery at its heart.

It's free to play and was made as part of Velox Fabula 2023, a ranked jam about crafting a complete visual novel in 10 days, based on a community-determined theme.

Moreover, once voting for the jam has concluded, we intend to bring an updated version to Itch.io, with full voice acting, more art, more music and a whole lotta polish~ 😊

Play it here and leave us a comment if you liked it—we would love to hear from you 😊As always, shares on Tumblr are *hugely* appreciated.

Lots of love,

The Fable & Clover Team 🍀

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(spoilers for both knives out movies ahead)

i think what i really enjoy about knives out and glass onion is that they are, while not completely fair-play whodunnits, pretty close to it.

a fair-play whodunnit is a murder mystery which is entirely solvable by the viewer before the detective sums everything up at the end; the viewer is given the same information as the characters, and the same opportunity to figure everything out. this is a style some modern detective stories like to break to preserve the ability to catch the viewer off guard, as hbomberguy elaborates at some length in his sherlock is garbage and here's why video.

knives out gives you almost all the information you need. its possible to figure out on ransom's introduction that there is, at least, something missing from his story, that he returned to the house for some reason after leaving; the dogs were heard barking the night of harlan's death, and he is the only one they are seen reacting aggressively to. likewise, the audience hears nana saying 'ransom, are you back again already?' well before blanc learns about it and realizes its importance.

the only crucial piece of evidence any of the characters ever see that the audience doesn't is the toxicology report, which the audience doesn't get a chance to see before blanc's summation at the end revealing marta's innocence. but even with that omission, it's possible to guess harlan wasn't poisoned! marta lists off the symptoms of morphine poisoning at five and ten minutes on screen, and we see him exhibiting none of them, even after she's left and snuck back in, which must have been more than ten minutes after the initial injection. later we see fran suffering an overdose of the same drug, and she's far more debilitated than harlan was even in his last moments.

glass onion, of course, plays a lot more fast and loose with this concept, because it hides large swathes of the setup from the viewer until the halfway point. blanc actually has a lot more information than the viewer until we get the extended flashback in the middle of the movie.

however, after you know the circumstances of andi's death, like blanc says, you can completely guess that miles killed her! helen even suggests it during one of their first conversations, because it's obvious! of course he did! the only thing the movie does to delay this conclusion is throw out a swarm of red herrings in presenting motive and opportunity for everyone else, but the motive is obvious. the main thing both the audience and blanc need to realize is just that miles is stupid enough to do it. blanc uses his countless malapropisms as evidence when reaching this conclusion, but he doesn't even need to; it's absolutely obvious from the fact, readily available to the audience, that HE MADE HIS HOUSE INTO A BOMB.

likewise, the movie shows you that miles handed duke the drink that killed him, though this is later corrected during his self-serving flashback. you can see the outline of a phone in miles's back pocket after duke's murder even though miles doesn't own a phone, and even a brief shot of him sticking duke's gun in the ice bucket on the table.

additionally, putting a little bit of thought into miles's justification for the lights going out reveals it makes no sense. he was supposed to give a big speech as part of the murder mystery?? no he wasn't! he's dead at this point! he gets shot by the crossbow at dinner! why would he be giving a big speech at 10 pm? because he made up the lights going out on the fly based on blanc's earlier comment, and didn't think it through at all, like everything he does!

i'm not gonna pretend i figured either of these movies out ahead of time on the first viewing- i totally didn't! but i know when the next one comes out, i'm going to be watching very carefully, and probably doing a lot of rewinding.

i have witnessed unspeakable horrors . the horrors weren't undescribable or anything, i just had to sign an NDA

Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors                                        edited by Grist (2023)

Afterglow is a stunning collection of original short stories in which writers from many different backgrounds envision a radically different climate future. Published in collaboration with Grist, a nonprofit media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions, these stirring tales expand our ability to imagine a better world.

Inspired by cutting-edge literary movements, such as Afrofuturism, hopepunk, and solarpunk, Afterglow imagines intersectional worlds in which no one is left behind—where humanity prioritizes equitable climate solutions and continued service to one’s community. Whether through abundance or adaptation, reform, or a new understanding of survival, these stories offer flickers of hope, even joy, as they provide a springboard for exploring how fiction can help create a better reality.

Afterglow welcomes a diverse range of new voices into the climate conversation to envision the next 180 years of equitable climate progress. A creative work rooted in the realities of our present crisis, Afterglow presents a new way to think about the climate emergency—one that blazes a path to a clean, green, and more just future.

Magazine: https://grist.org/fix/arts-culture/imagine-2200-climate-fiction-afterglow/

Economic Science Fictions  https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781906897734/economic-science-fictions/

Edited by William Davies (2018)

An innovative new anthology exploring how science fiction can motivate new approaches to economics.

From the libertarian economics of Ayn Rand to Aldous Huxley’s consumerist dystopias, economics and science fiction have often orbited each other. In Economic Science Fictions, editor William Davies has deliberately merged the two worlds, asking how we might harness the power of the utopian imagination to revitalize economic thinking.

Rooted in the sense that our current economic reality is no longer credible or viable, this collection treats our economy as a series of fictions and science fiction as a means of anticipating different economic futures. It asks how science fiction can motivate new approaches to economics and provides surprising new syntheses, merging social science with fiction, design with politics, scholarship with experimental forms.

With an opening chapter from Ha-Joon Chang as well as theory, short stories, and reflections on design, this book from Goldsmiths Press challenges and changes the notion that economics and science fiction are worlds apart. The result is a wealth of fresh and unusual perspectives for anyone who believes the economy is too important to be left solely to economists.

Drowned Worlds

edited by Jonathan Strahan (2016)

Review: “The title and the editor both pay tribute to the inspiration of J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World, that prescient piece of nascent cli-fi first published in 1962. Strahan lauds this “lush, powerful book that tells of a post-apocalyptic world … seen through a romantic haze that hangs over the flooded, inundated ruins of a world laid waste by rising oceans.” Many of the stories in the collection, indeed almost all, share a similar dreamlike or fantastic Ballardian ambience of a world long past the climate change, where remnants of our current civilization often persist just as fantastic fragments.“

Futures From Nature: 100 Speculative Fictions from the pages of the leading science journal

by Henry Gee (2008)

Are aliens really not interested in us at all? Is there a significant health benefit from drinking your own urine? Is loading your personality into a computer the best way to survive the death of the body? Is the death of the body really necessary? Here are a very large number of very small fictions on the subject of the future and what it might be like. The authors include scientists, journalists, and many of the most famous SF writers in the world. Futures from Nature includes everything from satires and vignettes to compressed stories and fictional book reviews, science articles, and journalism, in eight-hundred-word modules. These pieces were originally published in the science journal Nature between 1999 and 2006.

Tiny tidbits of lore! Do these match your dragons at all? 

Arcane: [item=Pink Chalcedony]

Earth [item=Banded Sardonyx]

Fire [item=Jasper]

Ice  [item=blue quartz]

Light  [item=Sacridite]

Lightning [item=Prehnite]

Nature [item=Amber-trapped Mosquito]

Plague [item=Eye Agate]

Shadow [item=amethyst geode]

Water [item=Raw Lapis Lazuli]

Wind  [item=Jade]

beastclans [item=banded ironstone]

Free to use shade tainted banners.

I’m working on bios today and I haven’t found anything I liked for shade tainted stuff so I made my own banner using the banner shape under our avatars + art from the shade vs. diety fight. 

I just made a bunch of colors so they’re under a cut. Resizing is ok!

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This turned out more horrify then I planned. Emperors are scary.

Went a little overboard with this but hey. hey. emperors. zombie dragons.

Because my heart dances for anything evil, dark and just generally broken. And I’d like to believe they not only have multiple heads, but wings, arms, or tails too and their bodies are a mess of dislocated bones, ripped skin and dirt when the dead bodies fused together and the sounds they make are gross bubbly gurgles because their throats just aren’t the same anymore.

zombie dragons man. 

Where’s the comic about eating people but it’s a metaphor about love? Please I need it

Do you like speculative evolution and/or designing creatures? Are you fascinated by ancient communities on the internet, and/or does the idea of permanently contributing something to one appeal to you? Because if so, dear Tumblr, do I have a recommendation for you.

Sagan 4 is a really old forum community worldbuilding project–dating back to 2006, having been made in the hype of Spore as basically a way of playing it manually before the game actually came out. Miraculously, the project actually kept going after that–even after Spore came out, it continued on and even gained new members, producing over 5000 unique species made by over 100 contributors over its several hundred million year in-universe history and still going to this day nearly 16 years later.

And ANYONE can join and submit their own species.

As a collaborative project, Sagan 4 has a myriad of species ranging from realistic to frightening to whimsical and made by creators of all skill levels, all of which can be found on the Sagan 4 Wiki. Though it can be a little intimidating for newcomers (and even just readers), I’ve found as someone who only joined 3 years ago that it’s something you learn more about as you go along–I’m still discovering new things even after contributing well over 100 species, and not even veteran members know everything about what the project contains.

Even if you are not an artist, Sagan 4 might still interest you if you enjoy reading worldbuilding or, perhaps even more so, if you have an interest in old forum communities and lost media–because boy does Sagan 4 have some community history and even ancient drama, much of which is lost or fragmented.

If Sagan 4 interests you, here are the links:

Forum

Wiki

Discord

I'm ecstatic to announce that my third poetry collection, Love is the Sweetest Blasphemy, a confessional of unrequited queer love and lost friends, is up and ready on my gumroad site.

She's name your price again. The collection is in pdf form and easily my densest body of work to date. If you'd like to support me alternatively or later while choosing the book for free, my c@shapp and p@ypal are both Forwardalways21. I could use all the support I can get during this time.

I'm so happy to finally share this with you all.

Gumroad

Love is The Sweetest Blasphemy

That part 🤬🤬🤬

Hey so I still see people utterly baffled by how religious fundies (still a majority in America and moreso its senate) react on certain issues so uhhh is it actually not common knowledge what the antichrist is all about? You guys know his defining characteristic is ending war, right? That he’s foretold to unite the world under his leadership by preaching global peace and solving basically every single problem in the world? So you know when you try to talk to these people about equality and togetherness they literally believe that’s what makes you an agent of the devil right???

i learned of Shi Pei Pu, a Chinese Opera Singer turned spy who obtained secrets from a French embassy worker for twenty years by masquerading as a woman during their sexual affair. He even took a child and pretended it was theirs (x)

Gee Gamefreak, how come your mom lets you have TWO weed starters?

ok fill in the blank yo mama is so _____ she _____

It’s funny that he mentions GPS to try to put down Maori people as if it isn’t a supported historical theory that Maori people found Antarctica way before Europeans did

Matauranga Maori, Indigenous knowledge, science, academia:

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Only on tumblr can you try to say “maybe not all addicts are bad” and get hit with the idea that you’re minimizing the harsh reality of addiction and being condescending 🥰

thank you for taking on that migraine inducing person taking my post extremely bad faith you’re a godsend lol. hating addicts in the notes today are we tumblr…… :^) i had no idea how to address them without being like rude and using half my weekly allotment of emotional energy 🙃 i really appreciate you taking them in good faith and taking the time to share your experience and honestly answer their points ✌🏻

No problem! I really didn’t mean to derail your post or anything but I don’t think that they were examining this problem in the context that you and I were tbh. I obviously have a LOT of experience with addicts and, being that POC are more likely to succumb to addiction because of the toll that racism takes on the mind, I didn’t want their slightly ableist post to become an all out ableist and racist hatemongering train wreck like so often happens on tumblr lmao.

I feel you on the being rude thing though - it sucks ASS to be Susie Sunshine when responding to people, especially when you get passive aggressive responses back, but I only reblog or respond to things once every few months so I won’t get so tired of the emotional labor that I snap.

Thank you for sharing your experience though, it really opened my eyes up on adoption and obviously did so for many other people ❤️

The nature of social media is simply that anyone at any point in time can join the conversation if they’d like to, which is what I’m doing. You aren’t technically entitled to a direct response from the OP, but I thought that I could share a different perspective on the situation, especially in the context of parents with addictions. I fully didn’t intend to make you feel invalidated and I’m sorry if that was the effect that my words had, but my opinion is just as valid as yours is, so I will state it.

OP put incompetent in quotes for a reason, which is a reason I elaborate on in my tags. I apologize if you didn’t see those - I should’ve included them in my first response - but I can restate the gist of them now and their importance to this argument. I said that the adoptive system oftentimes is extra detrimental to parents of color and, being a system dominated by white leaders, it doesn’t take an intersectional approach to understanding a child’s psychology and circumstances. This quoted incompetent in OP’s post, in conjunction with the overall theming of racism and colonialism that the original post had, can be surmised to mean that those parents aren’t truly harmful, but their methods of parenting are foreign, and therefore deemed dangerous, to an outside audience, which is something that white foster care workers would be a part of. Typically when someone uses an otherwise ordinary word in quotes, they’re being sarcastic or using words that would be used be others in that context but that they disagree with.

You also didn’t clarify whether all addicts or just some are dangerous for children which, in your words, is also extremely poor phrasing. I don’t think we need to debate the logistics of parenting underneath the post of someone who’s been through hell in a system that was never built to help people like them, but I find it insulting that you use the children of addicts as a way to counter one of OP’s statements (one that is barely relevant to the overall message of OP’s post anyways) and then negate the experience of a child of an addict. Yes, it can be harmful but acting like addict parents being abusive is a universal truth, a standard, or a rule with very few exceptions undermines how nuanced and different addicts are, just as all people are.

This othering of people with addictions can EASILY lead to a slippery slope in which suburban soccer moms with alcohol addictions are left alone by law enforcement while poor parents of color with addictions are demonized. I don’t want to have to reiterate to anyone living in 2021 that hyper-policing happens in certain communities more than others, which would take your seemingly nice ideology and pervert it into a reason to continue stripping these communities of autonomy and human rights. Addicts are NOT a random group of people with a pre-disposition to hurt children, they’re people like you and me and OP and my parents and in the same way a completely sober parent can be horrible, parents with addictions can be great to their kids. Addictions, like any other mental health issue, are oftentimes hidden from family and worked through alone, a method that wouldn’t harm a child. You already understand that not all addicts will be bad parents, but the phrasing of your original comment grouped addicts into a dangerous and possibly abusive monolith, which is what made me personally respond.

I think this is more of an issue of different perspectives and life experiences than an argument, to be honest. Acknowledging that adoption can be used as a tool to perpetuate cultural destruction, colonialism, classism, ableism, and racism is not endorsing mentally ill parents harming children - it is simply accepting that problems like parents with addictions aren’t simple and don’t have easy solutions like putting a kid into the foster care system because that can have just as much, if not more, harm on the child’s psyche when the system that is in place has little to no oversight and can perpetuate mental health and poverty cycles in the children and families it claims to serve.

Out of respect for OP, I’ll try to stop this back and forth here because the entire main point is being derailed by us, but I truly think that you can understand where I come from if you realize that I’m not attacking you or your view, but stating mine to help you acknowledge that there are other lived experiences than yours.

wait in confused by ur dni. the pro adoption thing...What Do You Mean By That...

hi! thanks for asking! i really need to like have a tag or a link or something but my adoption tag only has one thing in it rn so Oof............

i'll try and keep this fairly short and concise!

so, i'm adopted and i can say it's a racist, colonialist, multi-billion dollar industry, very popular with evangelicals (always a good sign), and propagated almost entirely on inflicting trauma on marginalized families and vulnerable woman. the industry also has little to no oversight.

all adoption starts with trauma for the child, like a baby being separated from their mother at birth cannot be explained to or consent to that happening and actually affects the brain structure of the child as any trauma will. adoptees have 4x the rate of suicide as the general population.

in addition, there is this popular fantasy of adoption being "saving a child" from being an orphan, having some Nasty Abusive CrackWhore (TM) as a parent, or giving them a Better Life.

addressing those in order, almost no adoptees are true orphans, almost all of them have a living parent, and even more have a living relative, and this narrative actually creates more "orphans" for orphan tourism. Secondly, just because someone is an addict or even an "incompetent" parent doesn't mean they should have their children taken away, they deserve the supportive services they need to let them and their child thrive. thirdly, adoption does NOT guarantee a child a better life, only a different one. incidents like these are not unusual and neither are the social media "stars" who send their children back after the traumatized child doesn't meet their starry-eyed expectations.

additionally, many relinquishments are coerced, and as i believe i mentioned earlier?, there is little to no oversight in this multi-billion dollar a year industry and much of it is done behind closed doors. so there's not nearly as much information as there needs to be out there.

finally, adoptees are subject to literal human rights violations beyond just the trauma, such as having no access to their medical records and family medical history and literally not having citizenship.

i think that covers the basics? if you have any more questions feel free to ask! :>

I’m not an adoptee but I am the child of two addicts so I thought I’d chime in! The OP wasn’t implying that children be kept in dangerous homes at all - not all addicts are abusers or dangerous and while it’s likely that media gave you that implication, it’s still an implication that harms addicts and addicts’ families far more than helping their children. The OP is advocating for systems that actually address the societal problems that cause an addict - problems that will likely plague that addict’s child as well - rather than taking a kid away from their parents and putting them in a system that’s seen as a bandaid for bad parenting instead of as the oftentimes pervasively harmful system it truly is.

I can only speak for myself but I have one abusive parent and one who is non-abusive. If I was taken away when my non-abusive parent was addicted to pain meds, I would have lost my best friend, confidante, and role model. Furthermore, being put up for adoption when my abusive alcoholic parent was at his worst wouldn’t have fixed my problems at all. Adoptees are not given adequate therapy and, if I had been adopted, the insurance of my adoptive parents likely would’ve been worse than the insurance of my abusive parent, meaning I’d be living with two strangers that I have no emotional connection to, forced to contend with my PTSD and other disorders by myself or at a higher price than staying at home.

No, abused kids shouldn’t have to stay with abusive parents, but adoption is also not a perfect fix and can lead to more harm than good, as OP was trying to say.

wait in confused by ur dni. the pro adoption thing...What Do You Mean By That...

hi! thanks for asking! i really need to like have a tag or a link or something but my adoption tag only has one thing in it rn so Oof............

i'll try and keep this fairly short and concise!

so, i'm adopted and i can say it's a racist, colonialist, multi-billion dollar industry, very popular with evangelicals (always a good sign), and propagated almost entirely on inflicting trauma on marginalized families and vulnerable woman. the industry also has little to no oversight.

all adoption starts with trauma for the child, like a baby being separated from their mother at birth cannot be explained to or consent to that happening and actually affects the brain structure of the child as any trauma will. adoptees have 4x the rate of suicide as the general population.

in addition, there is this popular fantasy of adoption being "saving a child" from being an orphan, having some Nasty Abusive CrackWhore (TM) as a parent, or giving them a Better Life.

addressing those in order, almost no adoptees are true orphans, almost all of them have a living parent, and even more have a living relative, and this narrative actually creates more "orphans" for orphan tourism. Secondly, just because someone is an addict or even an "incompetent" parent doesn't mean they should have their children taken away, they deserve the supportive services they need to let them and their child thrive. thirdly, adoption does NOT guarantee a child a better life, only a different one. incidents like these are not unusual and neither are the social media "stars" who send their children back after the traumatized child doesn't meet their starry-eyed expectations.

additionally, many relinquishments are coerced, and as i believe i mentioned earlier?, there is little to no oversight in this multi-billion dollar a year industry and much of it is done behind closed doors. so there's not nearly as much information as there needs to be out there.

finally, adoptees are subject to literal human rights violations beyond just the trauma, such as having no access to their medical records and family medical history and literally not having citizenship.

i think that covers the basics? if you have any more questions feel free to ask! :>

this is the money dog, repost in the next 24 hours and money will come your way!!

1. It’s the personality disorder and 2. each search is identical with one being incognito mode, meaning my own searches didn’t sway the results.

So if you ever used the word narcissist in an insulting way, ur a massive ableist. Sorry pals, I don't write the rules, but apparently 2woke4u anons do. If ur gonna tell people that certain words are off limits, at least don't be hypocrites. It's objectively incorrect to claim that any word in the Eng lang has a singular definition, like ?? HPD doesn't even make the top definitions upon searching for "histrionic" LMAO. I canNOT believe your fragility and willingness to deny facts.

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it’s the 21st day of the 21st year of the 21st century.

you can only reblog this today.