#a/pi month

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May is Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

During the next following weeks, we will feature interviews of Asian and Pacific Islander creators. Discussing their inspirations for their projects and experience as IF creators, we want to shed a light on their journey.

Here are our month’s featured authors, please check out their works and join us in supporting them.

Nacre, Author of Joint Venture.

Five years have passed since Eric died in the hands of the Agency. All this time you’ve been on the run with your brother’s murderers on your heels.

One day, during a mission on your own, you meet some mysterious strangers who intervene with your plans.

Although they turn out to be old friends with your brother, you’re not sure whether you can trust them. Nevertheless you share the same goal: earning back your freedom by taking down the Agency.

You play as an ex-agent trying to solve the murder of your brother while you are hiding from your former employers who, unfortunately, want to see you dead too.

Read more about Joint Venture here.

Play the Demo here.

Tags: Crime, spy-fi, romance, action, conspiracy, bromance

Nacre is also the author of Morning Star, a dark fantasy game where you play as Lucifer. You can play that demo here.

Ze, one of authors of Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Remainder

(VN)

This is a story of two magi, Vyn and Ilar, who find themselves trapped in a collapsing tower with their only hope for salvation being a difficult ritual. Or at least that is what Ilar tells you. The thing is - you don’t remember anything, and Ilar’s story makes less and less sense the closer you are to the ritual. Are they hiding things to protect you from the bitter truth, or are they deceiving you for some more nefarious reason?

Guide Vyn’s actions to death and beyond and uncover Ilar’s truth. Are they your colleague, lover or something completely different? Read between the lines of what they are telling you, explore your surroundings for clues and use hands-on deduction to break the viscious circle and set them free.

Read more about Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Remainder here.

Play the Game on Steam or Itch.

Tags: Fantasy, Mystery.

Allie, author of College Tennis: Origin Story

Will the once-great Cargill Coyotes succeed in reclaiming the NCAA Div I championship title for the first time since the 90s? Will you succeed in making a name for yourself, both on and off the tennis court? And perhaps more importantly…how much are you willing to sacrifice in pursuit of these dreams?

Start at the bottom as a newly-recruited freshman at Cargill university, and claw your way to the championships. Forge lifelong friendships, pursue budding romances, attend classes, and rush term papers -or party- till the sun comes up.

Read more about College Tennis: Origin Story here.

Play the Demo here.

Tags: Sport, Slice-of-life.

Allie is also the author of Merry Crisis.

Zico, author of The Night Abridged

You were supposed to be a sacrifice but instead of dying, you find yourself being the new vessel of an old Eldritch Horror who offers you power that no other could have for a little taste of freedom. Unfortunately for you, your captors had other plans for you and decided to utilise your newly given abilities as their own personal puppet.

After being sent out to hunt down a traitor of The Court of Night, a series of unfortunate events sends you off the intended path and onto another where you then find yourself fighting an evil greater than the ones you know.

Will you remain a puppet of The Court or will you cut the strings that tie you to them?

Read more about The Night Abridged here.

DEMO: TBA.

Tags: Fantasy.

Zico is also the author of Exurgo. a fantasy project where you play as a newly awaken immortal being. For more information, click here.

Mouse and Ram, authors of Beau Ideals

Merchants stare up and out, some advertising their goods, yelling, others perched, confident that the outward quality of their wares is enough to draw customers in: rubble arranged on tables, mageware scattered in between with display lights illuminating milky crystals; the fruit of their ventures into the Expanse, the hope that it was worth their sacrifice. It all passes in a blur and I feel the press of time. One of these items will be worth the risk of stealing. It will be my last act as a free citizen before disappearing into the Southern Expanse.

A low-level criminal on the run for the crime of the century, the end of your journey approaches as you arrive in Lau Lyssa, the Kingdom’s southernmost city. Resigned to your fate of living as a fugitive in the wilds of the Southern Expanse, you know you only have so much time before word of your misdeed sweeps the land.

Read more about Beau Ideals here.

Play the Demo Here.

Tags: Fantasy.

Jinx author of Elsinore: After Hamlet

Once upon a time, a prince avenged his father’s death. If only he could have foreseen his own.

The year is 2021—or maybe 1602? Hamlet the Younger has just tragically died and Fortinbras the Younger, King of Norway and newly-conquered Denmark, has a lot of cleaning up to do. Elsinore: After Hamlet is a text-based interactive fiction exploration of William Shakespeare's Hamlet as a plague text and a reckoning of Asian American identity during these trying times. Also contains bad puns and glowing text.

Read more about Elsinore: After Hamlet here.

Play the Game Here.

Tags: Fantasy.

Jinx is also the author of The Harrowed and the Hushed and Rougi.

Shan, author of Deliverance

You are the Messenger. Your job is to deliver messages. Get in, get out. Simple, really.

Now, it’s time to put your life on the line to deliver the most important and dangerous message yet. A bad omen has driven the lands into a frenzy, and the Prophecy foretells that the Chosen One needs to be found and awoken to bring peace back to the lands.

Embark on a quest to seek the Chosen One to help restore balance to the world, or witness the world succumb to chaos and catastrophe..

Read more about Deliverance here.

Play the Demo Here.

Tags: Fantasy.

Sou, author of Cherry Soda

As children, an accident between you and your friend Ryan changed the course of your life forever. Since then, you have transversed the boundary of life and death: your waking moments are haunted by memories of the living and the remnants of the deceased.

The two of you diverged; Ryan began attending elite private academy, and you summarily moved across the country. A phone call years later between the two of ends with you promising to come visit her, a throwaway sentence you thought to be nothing more than a platitude.

Following six months of radio silence, you sense her death before the search team even finds her body. And suddenly, the phone call may have been part of something a lot larger.

Swept up in a whirlwind of the horrific inheritance she left behind for you to uncover, the more you investigate, the deeper the lies and secrets go. A reckless desperation to break the fate that threatened to overtake the both of you had led Ryan down a path of no return. The same path you now find yourself on.

Read more about Cherry Soda here.

Play the Demo here.

Tags: Fantasy.

Neha, author of Demurela.

DEMURELA is a dark fantasy interactive fiction. You, a former witch, now a night-hunter (people prefer to call you The Seeker) are seeking revenge for your dead lover, and your dead father, along with your siblings, from the millennial old eidolon who has been after the witches of your blood line for centuries.

Along the way, you find the lives at stake because of your journey. Will you protect them or let them fall as collateral damage? What makes you think you have the power of choice when you land in thr capital city of Demurela? The capital visited only by the most superior of the courts? The capital where The Undead Queen and The Lupine Leader dominate?

What will you choose to do when the rulers’ adopted child nears to be the collateral damage of your rage? Will you protect the little one while fulfilling your oath, or will you give into the feeling of the world being nothing but selfish?

Read more about Demurela here.

Demo TBA.

Tags: Dark fantasy.

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[my-autism-adhd-blog]

What Is Masking?

Mrs Speechie Pi

#autism #actually autistic #autism awareness month #autism acceptence month #masking #why we mask #examples of masking #masking affects both children AND adults #making can be exhausting #I’ve masked for so long that I don’t even know who I am #I’m sure some of you can relate #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #actually neurodivergent #feel free to share/reblog #Mrs Speechie Pi (Facebook)

[smashpages]

Coming in June is DC Pride: Through the Years #1, a collection of four stories — three out-of-print stories, plus a new Alan Scott story. The 80-page collection features a cover by Derek Charm.

Read more

#pride month #dc comics #dc #comics #comic books #derek charm #alan scott #green lantern #batwoman #supergirl #pied piper #dc pride #dc pride: through the years #lee serano

[trekkele]

For the batfam discord servers valentine's exchange! Cass and Duke being cute and cupid-y

#trekkele tries to art #cassandra cain #duke thomas #fun fact I keep typing dyke Thomas. so. #this isn't a month late it's an entire eleven months early! #maybe ill do other months if I figure out who to put where #jason should be Easter month. as he is risen. #dick should be march for pi day

[iaminfiniteus]

Magnum S1Ep15 Appreciation post

#vintage #tom selleck #magnum pi #80s films #80s fashion #daddy #gay #pride month #happy pride 🌈 #outfit inspo #zaddy #damn zaddy #hottie #gay tumblr #men's shirt #sexy jeans #serving #80s series #nostalgia #throwback

[norstrum-art]

[Image description from alt: A colored, half body digital drawing of @arytha 's OC Yuri. He is dressed in his usual green turtleneck and white lab coat. He is holding a clipboard to his chest with one arm and holding a pen to his face in the other hand with a contemplative expression. Behind him is a red circle made up of many numbers, and each zero is differentiated in a pinkish color. The background is a gradient of a deep mauve on the top descending to a dull light blue on the bottom. End image description.]

Good coping mechanisms 101: Begin and devote yourself to an experiment that lasts thousands and thousands of years so you can never address your traumas properly!!!!

#guy ever of all time!! #now for behind the scenes tags #apparently it is not easy to get text in a circle #so it's actually digits of pi bc i needed lots of numbers -> put into word do word art to make it a circle #-> save screenshot of it -> put screenshot thru website that makes the white bg transparent that doesn't give viruses -> circle text pic!! #also I like my newly (as of a few months ago) coloring style of adding fun colors in shading + lighting :3 #i was scared of gradients before but now I'm like woah.... sick... #anyways. thank u mara for making yuri he is so cool!! #and your other ocs too which I will draw at some point :o #norstrume art #norstrum art

[louwhose]

Happy Pi Day! Or... is it pie day? White day?

Whatever, today is something and I'm celebrating whatever it is with this ship I'm far too obsessed with for how little screentime they have.

#dwight in shining armor #disa #chlodwig #phoebe #....STILL need to figure out a good ship name for them #phoewig? chloebe? #the “oe” in both of those is the long e sound in my head. for clarity #well then just in case I will tag this post with both of those options #phoewig #chloebe #okay maybe that second one could be more of a. chlO-E-be #idk its an incredibly made up ship name why am I stressing over it so much #also if you are reading this far I shall serenade you with some history about this piece #it took me months and several iterations of this piece to finally finish it #which was incredibly frustrating because it felt for a while that everytime I came back my art had leveled up enough that I had to restart #from scratch because the different components simply would not work together #but finally I finished it. #...over a month before posting it BUT DANG IT PI DAY WAS WORTH WAITING FOR #also pretty sure that this is the last thing I completed before my friend forced me to figure out the pressure sensitivity in my tablet #and that changed my art style completely again it feels like but. alas. this is definitely the last of its kind #lou draws #WOWWWWWWW forgetting my own art tag #at least it's impossible to forget about this piece with how much I went through for it

[missholoska]

Is it just me or does almost every outfit in the sims 4 cottage living just seems like something Toriel would wear?

yeah that's just objectively correct tbh

pretty goat mum 💜✨

#holoskart asks #I gotta draw at least one of these outfits next soriel week for sure :'> #also speaking of cottage living. I swear that pack had something against my toriel sim for the longest time #bc the pack introduced a bunch of new pie recipes and a pie competition every few weeks. so Obviously toriel needed to win that #except the game absolutely refused to let her win for real life months on end #I have a screenshot where all 3 pies entered one time were the same type. toriel's was excellent quality vs 2 townies' normal quality pies #she still lost to them. and then when she finally Did win first place several tries later it happened in the dumbest way possible #she entered a pie. waited for hours until the competition ended. no result appeared so I gave up and sent her home #two in-game weeks pass. frisk is hanging out at their high school's football event. a notification pops up as the event ends #the result from the pie competition finally appears. during the wrong event and two entire weeks late. and then my game crashed #luckily everything turned out the same way and she still got the first place result but god. it was So Much #anyway this kind of nonsense is why I love the sims gjhdsfjgh

[perdvivly]

Waiting patiently for pi month in 7 years. I will not be swayed by ridiculous date formatting. I will not.

#or pi day in April also works #you know April… that month that famously has 31 days

[tvnacity]

I GOT INTO A PHD PROGRAM

#SCREAM #I haven’t accepted bc they said they’re still figuring out funding stuff and they gotta pay me if I’m moving my ass >1000 miles #I CANT EVEN DESCRIBE #the amount of work that went into all of this #like I have a big weakness on my application. I thought for sure I’d never get in anywhere #like #the sheer multitude of applications I did at all #so much extra work getting in contact with PIs and such too #literally I was doing nothing but grad school apps for MONTHS #literally like I #omg #I’ll probs make a big emo post abt this too but I #AAAAAH #lucy speaks

[better-call-mau1]

sooo i'm curious about Nephews (And Nieces) Of Inexplicable Origin.... (Is it possibly what I think it is?? 😆)

Thanks for the ask! It most certainly is!!! 🤪😁 I had to go back and find our reblog chain with @that-one-loth-cat which started with your “Bo-Katan’s Obitine Flashbacks” (and this Satine & Sabine incorrect quote)…but yeah, the ‘nephew’ in question is Korkie, and the ‘niece’ is a Sabezra kiddo. 😉 The fic chronicles Bo’s saltiness over Satine passing off Korkie as her nephew, and she eventually gets to hit Ursa with an I told you so! that’s about 20-25 years in the making.

I didn’t have too much of this written when you sent the ask a few days ago, but I couldn’t help myself, so I finished the whole first scene. 😅

And fair warning, this snippet is from the POV of young Death Watch Bo-Katan, so there’s a fair amount of Star Wars cursing, i.e. variations of ‘kark’ and ‘kriff’. (Also, I gave Korkie a real name since ‘Korkie’ feels like a nickname. I’m not sold on it, though…might post a poll with a bunch of different candidates for what ‘Korkie’ could be short for.)

(Link to the WIP list for the ask game.)

“And then she had the audacity to call him her nephew! Her nephew! That’s how she decided to explain the baby she brought back with her! It doesn’t make any kriffing sense. I’m her only sister — her only sibling — so how do you think that made me look?”

Bo growled into her cup of tihaar and, rather brashly, swallowed down the rest in three fierce gulps. Her throat ached and eyes threatened to water, but not so badly that it blunted her ire over the red-haired little karker Satine introduced to her years ago.

Not that he was such a little karker anymore — Korkelan would be twelve now, and Bo wondered if he’d managed to connect the dots (of which there were only two, his ‘aunt’ and her Jedi protector), that had taken her all of five seconds to connect herself. The whole affair was more suspicious than a Jawa in a droid bar, and she had no doubt that it would explode in Clan Kryze’s face someday.

Glancing up, Bo found that her friend didn’t seem to be all that concerned with the not-so-inexplicable origins of her nephew.

Handle pinched between forefinger and thumb, Ursa bent her spoon back, preparing to catapult a red lentil across the banquet table. “One moment,” she murmured, squinting in the dim lighting of the tent. Slumped low in her chair to remain inconspicuous, she waited for the Saxon brothers to take their seats at the other end, each with a fresh cup of tihaar — one of the few tastes of Mandalore they still enjoyed on Carlac.

The head of the spoon sprang from her fingers, sending the lentil hurling across the table, soaring over Pre Vizsla’s bald head, and plunging right into Gar Saxon’s drink with a PLOP!

For a few long seconds, he stared down at the floaty in his cup. Stunned confusion morphed into disgust (as if a mynok had flown into the tent and taken a kriff on his plate), which simmered into a blind rage directed at the most likely culprit:

Skinny, slimy, pretentious Tiber.

“Aruetyc upstart,” Gar growled — and before the younger Saxon could utter a word of self-defense, his arm shot across the table and grabbed him by the collar of his bodyglove, lifting him off his feet and heaving him to the other side of the tent like a sack of joguns.

Ursa snickered in delight, sinking back and crossing her arms while watching the Brawn of Clan Saxon march over to the Brains and clobber him like a rabid rancor.

“I’m sure Count Saxon sleeps well at night knowing his clan’s future is in the hands of those two kriffhead di’kuts.”

Twirling her dinner knife, Bo leaned forward, planting her elbows on the table.

“Well, if you don’t want the future of Clan Wren to be in even worse shape, you should take my story as a warning. Anywhere you go in the galaxy these days, there are philanderering Jedi Knights preying on honest, Forge-going Mando girls. They whip out their lightsabers and put on a show with their perverse telekinetic shenanigans, and next thing you know, your sister is carrying around a ‘nephew.’ All it takes is one romantic jetpack ride. Mark my words.”

Ursa pried her attention away from the one-sided brawl to give Bo a flat, unconvinced look.

“Right. I’ll start worrying about Sab’ika going on romantic jetpack rides with unscrupulous Jedi boys when she can chew solid food.”

#hehehehehehe #this was really fun to write lol #it’s easy to forget that Bo-Katan and Ursa and Gar Saxon were all in Death Watch together #and I just threw in Tiber too because he’s such a sleemo #at least Gar was an evil himbo #anyway anyway the whole idea here is that Bo is all “PSA: hide your sisters/daughters from Jedi boys!!!!” #and Ursa is like “whatever my two month old infant would NEVER grow up to fall in love with some padawan” #and then that two month old infant DOES grow up #and she DOES meet a Jedi padawan #and she DOES fall in love with him and have an inexplicable little niece #and then Bo gets to drop an ‘I told you so’ that she’s been sitting on for decades #and she also shares a moment of solidarity with Tristan #jessicas-pi #thanks for the ask! #sabezra #obitine #bo katan kryze #ursa wren #sabezra fanfiction

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Common Autistic Strengths

Excellent memory skills

Can teach self difficult skills, like how things work

May have extensive knowledge in certain topics

Hyperlexia: may read words at a younger age

May excel in music, art, science, math, computer

Can hyperfocus on areas of interests

May know letters, numbers, shapes, and colors early

Mrs Speechie Pi

#autism #actually autistic #autism strengths #hyperlexia #hyperfocus #special interests #autism awareness month #autism acceptence month #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #actually neurodivergent #feel free to share/reblog #Mrs Speeechie Pi (Facebook)

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

Tagged by @3cosmicfrogs ! The game is to share 9 of my favorite books from the last 12 months, or 9 books on my TBR list for this year.

I'm going to do the books i read, books i started, and then my tbr because i have commitment issues!!!

books i read this year!

i finally got around to reading all of svsss!

books i started this year:

aaand my tbr:

tagging @queer-crusader @jaynovz @asterofthevoid @etoilesombre @somfte @mobydyke aaand @noknowshame

#i know i also read some of tgcf this year but i dont know which books or when i started them #i also started listening to the life of pi which i did not finish oops and also the emily wilson iliad/odyssey translations #and also also i stilm havent finished the king must die #and also also also there's les mis which i am reading so so so slowly #i did read all of svsss in like a week once i got into it it just took me like 8 months to get into it 😅 #i cycle through my hobbies including reading so who knows how long it'll take me to get through all these it could be a month it could be #never!!! #tagging you all so i can sneakily get book recs 😈

[celestie0]

yaaalllllll there’s this cute guy that might be starting at the place i work soon 🤭 i only saw him in passing cuz he was here for an interview but my PI said he will most likely hire him so 🌝

god pls make this man single n not a horrendous person🧎🏻‍♀️ for i may have to pursue

#is he cute or is he just TALL #nah he’s cute too he kinda looked like a puppy 😭🤌🏼 #also my PI lets me make the work schedule so 🤣 #u alr know what i’m bout to do #im getting ahead of myself lmao he hasn’t even started here yet #BUT I HAVEN’T HAD A WORK CRUSH IN SO LONG #WITHOUT A WORK CRUSH THERE’S NO WILL TO CARRY ON #i’m also leaving this job in a couple months anyway🧍🏻‍♀️i think that’s why my pi is hiring cuz he knows that lol #A FLING THEN #also he might be younger than me if he’s new grad/close to grad 😞 #which in case i will not pursue #unfortunately #im not a damn COUGAR #just joking lol but nah i just canttt when they’re younger than me 😭😞 #it’s a curse

[idk-iposteverythingiwant]

My friend bet me too coward to post shrek oc, and she lose.

#shrek fanart #shrek forever after #shrek pied piper #the pied piper #shrek oc #doodles #actually these doodles are been a while #i drew shrek oc three month and i didnt post her so...yep

[love-fireflysong]

Okay, so a couple of summers back both my PS4 controllers started getting the ever annoying stick drift (my silver on the left stick and blue on the right hilariously enough). And while I got a new controller in to replace it as a bday present, I never actually tossed either of them. Mostly because they were still usable as back ups in certain games. Like my blue was awful in any game that used camera controls, but in a game or platformer like crash it worked just fine, while the other was fine in any 3d game but in a 2d style then movement was almost impossible (like I still remember jumping over a gap only to lose my jump momentum half way through and falling to my death).

But that brings me to today. In my travels of trying to fix my PS2 controller hilariously enough, I found out that you can actually buy replacement joystick pieces and just replace them yourselves. Assuming you have a soldering gun and equipment of course.

So I got a couple of those parts and ordered a little soldering kit online, and I'm all ready to try and see i can't get my controllers working back at 100% again.

Wish me luck!

#im so excited you have no idea #in a high school computer class we had a small unit on soldering and i got to build a motherboard #and while its admittedly been like almost 15 years since then i loved that section so much #ive been wanting to do some raspberry pi stuff for a while #thought it would be fun #so this is just a great excuse to get soldering stuff and giving it a go! #if it doesnt work than im not too worried cause i have a fully usable controller anyways and i havent touched these ones in months #but if it does than instead of spending like $70 on a new controller it only cost me $16 to buy the two parts that i needed #later this afternoon my lens replacement for my ps2 should be arriving as well #though that will be a much easier install #just gotta desolder a piece on the new part than screw it in place lol #god i love fixing stuff like this on my own though #always makes me feel smart when all it takes to fix somethig is just taking it apart and cleaning a piece