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Op stop calling out everyone

Nobody:

Trans people: *playing dress up on picrew*

hope isn’t something you just have, it’s something you sink your teeth into like an animal so it doesn’t get away

Rule

Hush, my brave knight, and go to sleep. The grief is real, the sadness is real, and it's alright to feel the creeping edge of despair. Go to sleep, my brave knight. Let your heavy heart rest. We can mourn for the world and then move on to saving it. Kindness still remains, and there are soft fields yet full of yellow flowers that are still unmarred. Sleep soft, brave knight. Let your wounds ache as the flesh starts to knit itself back together. Sadness is real, but so is hope.

Did a compulsion

Aint feeling that good or satisfactory but I gotta move on ig..

[ SOFT DAISY ]

My current main project is Soft Daisy, a first person RPG in the vein of System Shock and Fallout with an emphasis on non traditional interaction and post-human weirdness. You play as a baby-tapeworm-shrimp CPU thing that becomes sentient and steals a "commercial corpse" to escape/conquer a corporate Dyson sphere, all the while battling privatized security forces, a rampant AI, and struggling corporate factions in a stagnating, abandoned mining outpost.

Working on this with @mpwgamedev (on Twitter). I do writing, assets, and sounds while he does programming (the important stuff, ehe) and a good bit of similar things as well. A very WIP project right now.

I had the weird concept to call my ocd Voices Morro lately, since I realized it’s pretty comparable to the fandom perception of how Morro inside Lloyd’s head was like.

So I’ve just been going “shut up, Morro” when the Voices say something mean

I’ve got a 50% success rate so far, I’d say