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"You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me"

The asylum they raised me in:

#truly #playchoices

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Hey everyone, please consider buying the 2024 itch.io Palestinian Relief Bundle- it's 373 games, game-making assets, tabletop roleplaying games, zines, and comics for a minimum of just 8 USD! They have a goal of 100,000 USD, and as of the time I'm writing this post, they have 8 more days to reach it.

Link will be in the reblog!

#sb

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btw the H in hpowellsmith stands for Harris these days! My pronouns are still they/them as usual.

...and it's starting to get updated in some places which I'm very excited about. If you see my old name in official-looking places please let me know once we're past 6th May (timing because it takes time for various storefronts/apps/websites to fully update).

It feels good to finally take the plunge and share this more widely!

#wooo 💖💖💖💖 #sb

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We know mages were expelled from plaithus but before they were were they allowed to serve in the army? Considering that plaithus is v military focused but simultaneously harbored a growing fear of mages I was just wondering what that looked like in practice :P also if they were what happened to the ones in the army when the mages were expelled? It’s sort of similar to what is present day happening w general distain for mythosi however there are some differences for sure re: cultural beliefs about mages v mythosi, Just thought I’d ask! I hope you have a lovely day

CW: Bias

There were some mages + sorcerers who were allowed into the army, yes, but the only ones that were of any use magically are those who specialize in elemental magic. This is because A.) it's the most obviously offensive form of magic and B.) Any other form of magic that could be used "offensively" would be done so in a way that Plaithus frowned upon, even back then.

For example, Vethna can perform pretty much every form of Illusory and Pathomancy magic, but the method of using that in a way that's combative is morally questionable to Plaithus as it involves invading someone's literal mind to warp them into doing what you want (yes... we all see the irony and hypocrisy).

So only a small percentage of the mages + sorcerers were really in the military and using their magic. The rest who might join strictly could only use physical combat, but the problem with that is when one is in a life/death situation, they'll do anything to save their life, including using questionable magic. This did result in some very questionable things happening in war. Like magic-users being forced to use the blood of their fallen peers to strengthen their own magic to survive, which the media and military of Plaithus did not like.

It's one of those things were people started pointing at Plaithian magic-users and saying, "Look, they're just like the blood-magic users in Vygrand. They're all the same," and implying things about the "inherent" violent and bloody nature of magic and magic-users. When an actual war broke out with Vygrand, that bias and judgment was just strengthened in tenfold, and tensions were so high it really didn't take much swaying from the military to encourage the general public to be complacent with the magic-users removal.

So, by the time magic-users were kicked out of Plaithus "entirely", there were already banned from being in the military, and any that were in it were discharged

Plaithus wasn't always a magic-fearing country. It was a pretty recent development that happened in the last 100 years, give or take, maybe even less than. And yes, what's happening with natural-born mythosi in-game is pretty much just an exact repeat of what happened with the magic-users, which is why Trystan is so unsettled by it. This has happened before, and it's happening again, and everyone knows exactly what road it's heading down.

#✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️ #i actually need this lore for Reasons #:)) #the exile #exile txt

[sysba]

Thicker Than - Public Demo Update

Happy full moon everyone! I’ve had a really good month and got a ton of writing done (almost 50k!) which you can read right now for free here:

Thicker Than - Updated Demo

I really hope you like it.

Side note: I also announced a book deal for a not-interactive novel I wrote back in 2022 this month. Of Monsters and Mainframes is going to be published with Bindary in 2025!

I'm ridiculously excited. I'm also going to be a bit busy next month editing that, so the vampires are going to have to take a bit of a back seat. I hope that's okay.

In regards to Thicker Than, I have finished Chapters Eight, Nine, and have started Chapter Ten. Chapter Ten and Eleven are both much branchier chapters, so may take a little longer to write than Chapters Eight and Nine did.

There’s a few fairly major plot points/twists in this update, and I’m a wee bit terrified to hear your reaction to those.

In Chapter Ten, the romance scenes are mostly unfinished with the exception of Marcel’s (totally finished) and Tracy’s (half finished).

As always, thanks for your passion and enthusiasm (and fanart! It's been so motivating to see so much love for these characters!).

Double thank you to the people who've supported me over on Kofi. I couldn't do this without you. I couldn't do this without you. 💙

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Thicker Than as of the 23d of April 2024

Chapter Eight and Nine are complete

I’ve begun work on Chapter Ten

Additional Words: 48,897 (excluding commands)

Current Word Count: 294,010 (excluding commands)

#WOOO #thicker than #sb

[sysba]

The Beyond the Bet Kickstarter will be LIVE on May 15th!

We're going to have new merch, the options to design new clothes/accessories, and even… a one person tier to design an ending? 👀

Plus lots more, of course, so don't forget to follow the page now! ⤵️

If our Kickstarter is funded, we'll be making a brand new DLC that adds 5 additional days to A Date with Death, new CGs, and optional NSFW scenes!

If the Kickstarter does REALLY well, then we may even add English and Japanese voice acting 🥰

#a date with death #sb

[sysba]

Some doodles from chapter 5 of @exilethegame! (100% accurate, nothing left out, definitely no painful experiences this time around)

#the exile #exile art

[sysba]

I had to do a long drive yesterday and I'm js but after my experience I think Operator, Vasilisa, and Suha would use a turn signal, Pariah's the one using it for 2 seconds while weaving between lanes at a speed well over the legal limit, DW is the passanger seat driver telling everyone to use it, and Sysba is the 5x suspended license who should not legally be operating a vehicle

#🫡 now this is the kind of important lore we all need #attollo #attollo txt

[sysba]

This commission was done by the incredible @rosefuckinggenius to illustrate the last moments between Eli Sipes and his brother, David. It was for my The End of the World Series, and it's part of the header there, but this art is just too wonderful to not be shared on its own as well. Thank you, Rose, you captured this just perfectly!

#wake the dead #eli sipes

[sysba]

Tumblr will probably eat the quality of this but, have a v self indulgent @exilethegame verse Didi (@sysba’s baby) I’ve been working on on this on and off for a while lolll

#SHEEE #edith blake #ocs #judie tag

[sysba]

these are some of my fave bloomic doodles I ever drew

lotta others too tbh

#still not normal about toasty they're the loml #all of these are so cute eye 😭🥺🥹 #blooming panic #bloomic art #quest #xyx #nightowl #nakedtoaster

[sysba]

plz tell quest i wanna breed him (so bad)

"What does that even mean..."

#so true tho #blooming panic #quest

[sysba]

summer 2011 was a good one :)

#dammit now i miss them #our life: beginnings & always #our life art

[sysba]

my lil guy that i carry around

#touchstarved

[sysba]

Do you think Nat ever manages to talk Ava into dancing

#the wayhaven chronicles #twc art #a du mortain #n sewell

[sysba]

🦊 hey everyone! quick announcement! 🦊

Child Of Ruin, a narrative RPG created for the Ludum Dare 55 Game Jam, is finally out to play on itch.io! We worked tirelessly to develop this game in under 72 hours and our programmers finally just got done squashing major bugs so... yay! You can play it now from start to finish and let us know how you feel about it! I worked very hard over the weekend to make concept art, character UIs and illustrations, all under 72 hours and I'd love it if you checked it out!✨

psst... here's also the link to all the concept art i did, and I really hope you enjoy it! Thanks! 💚

#sb #to play

[sysba]

microdosing on being horny for rhaxa projecthadea by falling in love with beru sololeveling–

#i cannot stand bugs normally but.......... these 2 kinda Fine yk.......... c: #tbd