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A lil snack
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errajay · 10 months
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I love you because you make me whole, Noah.
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itlivesproject · 1 year
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That's right, folks, we finally have a date! Buckle up and prepare yourselves, because It Lives Within returns with its final three chapters the weekend of March 3!
Chapter 21: Vertigo Cave - Friday, March 3, 12 PM EST Chapter 22: Home At Last - Saturday, March 4, 12 PM EST Chapter 23: It Lives - Sunday, March 5, 12 PM EST
As part of the sendoff, the team has also decided to livestream a Q&A on our YouTube channel one week before release! That will be Saturday Feb 25 at 2 PM EST. We will post the link to the livestream when the time comes. You can start submitting questions HERE.
We can't wait to chat with you all, and we look forward to sharing the end of our journey with you. Thank you so much for your love and support along the way!
- The It Lives Project
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itlovesinthewoods · 4 months
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Noah/MC are like.... you will never understand what I've been through. You're the only person who can truly understand me. You've hurt me in the past. I've hurt you and I don't think that's something I can ever make up for. A part of me despises you. All of me loves you. You're the embodiment of everything I've lost, everything I could've had. Being near you is unbearable and seeing you brings back all all the hurt that I've tried to bury for years. Being with you slowly heals my fractured heart. We're stuck in our pasts. We'll never go back to the way we once were, to the people we once were. We're best friends and strangers. We're not lovers, we're more and less. You're my salvation. I don't want salvation, I just want you. I doomed you. I'll crawl through hell to save you. Guilt consumes you, for those you've been unable to save and I recognize myself in you, yet it was I, who couldn't save you in the end/who was but another person you weren't able to save. My fate is at your hands. You're my/I'm your judge, jury and executioner. You let me live and it was the most beautiful and precious thing to me. You took away my chance at death, and what it entailed, and it hurt more than anything I have ever experienced. Your selflessness borders on selfishness. You put me over yourself and I'll never be able to forgive myself for that. We've crossed the boundaries of life and death for each other. I find solace in you. You're made up broken pieces that could never be put together properly but so am I. The unmendable pieces that we're made of can never be fixed but maybe we can create something new with them together. I love you unconditionally. My love for you is heavily built upon my yearning for what I've lost. My love for you is ever-changing and ever-shifting and it has become something purely for you. I love you.
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abelflints · 19 days
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I forgot I made this 😅
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aces-and-angels · 8 months
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Lovely humans- the time has come for ILW to get its well deserved beach filler episode! I've been posting sneak peeks for a bit and I'm so happy that I can finally share the finished product with yall~
I would love to hear your thoughts (or concerns- there may be a few bugs/hiccups lol). This is a purely self-indulgent project that was fun to make and hopefully fun to read as well 🖤 and as always, a big thank you to @itlivesproject for creating such a wonderful story to begin with
Please read content warnings before proceeding to read the entire story
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Content warnings: this story takes place two years post-finale, following my Mixed Route with Rowan (F!MC) x Abel and contains NSFW material. Any ‘dirty thirty’ scenes are optional to read and can be skipped entirely/fade to black. That being said, Abel x Rowan are depicted to be in an established, long-distance relationship, and certain dialogue/references are made based on that.   
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oh-so-youre-a-nerd · 4 months
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Ilitw Mc Faye for @wordholic as part of the Gift Exchange!
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laylaisthename · 1 year
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ILW // Here they are! All 7 different end cards you can get in the many many more variations of the niche endings available in the game.
Google Drive Link to the cgs here
I am beyond honored to have been allowed to leave my own mark in the game like this, and honestly never in a million years expected to actually become involved with the game.
Everyone is fine to use these as phone backgrounds but if you do youre legally required to tell me which one is your favorite.
Putting it under the cut for length, but here's a breakdown of each card;
Starting with the Evil!MC end cards, that are lovingly dubbed Judas' Kiss if you stayed with Matty, or Scorched Earth for MC's solo end.
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The images really mostly speaks for themselves; the flaming heart, hand in atrocious hand if you chose to share the power with Matthias, but then when you put it next to the solo end is where it got fun for me. The heart is broken, its just you now, but the glowing eyes are smiling. My first time testing the judas kiss route I did not hestiate for a second to hit "kill him"
Next is the death card
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I really liked the idea of (if your mc wasnt a huge dick anyway) that they give you a grave outside the cave, something for people to leave Rowan flowers and gifts. A classic grave didnt quite feel like it fit so I settled on a cairn. It felt very fitting with the Power being a respect for nature and such. I set it to be at night, with moonlight streaming down on the grave to give it a melancholic sort of feeling, with the sun charm sunny gives you strung off it, and then placed flowers at the grave to kinda show that people have come by because they care about Rowan. Meanings for the flowers are below and while not canon, I like to think each of the LI's left behind one of them; red roses from Abel, blue violets from Amalia, sunflowers from Lincoln and the marigolds from Joss, though really they were all chosen more generally.
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Onto the blood end card! Which I named New Horizons, and not because of animal crossing. A winding road in the mountains at sunset; the road has been long, it has been hard and now youre choosing to move on. Symbolically what i wanted this card to be is that feeling of leaving everything behind. The sun is setting on your old life as you go to embrace the normal life that Blood MC wants so much. Youre on the top road moving around the bend, not sure where life will take you but that's alright, you have the rest of your life to look forward to figure out where you'll go.
Onto my own canon end; the Mixed end!
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Lovingly called "Best of Both Worlds" because mixed rowan is playing that hannah montanna life. More seriously; this card in contrast to the blood end is not about leaving everything behind, but embracing what you are. The card itself is set at dawn to contrast this; soft yellows and pinks, morning dew and fog clinging to the forest floor with a streak of Power playfully dancing among the trees. Its the dawn of a new day, seeing everything in new light after the darkness of the past weeks/years rowan spent trying to understand themselves. It's my personal favorite end even if my mc and Linc gotta do long distance for a while. But to me its about accepting yourself; moving on from the grief of losing your family without alienating yourself from your memories of them and embracing that Power side of yourself without being changed by it. The life you built after being ressurected is your own and no one can take that from you.
Next up my almost canon end, that does live rent free in my mind because I love angst.
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Closed gate shadow end, Far, Far away (yes this is a shrek/starwars/nerd refrence); its a fairly straight forward card, thought it does have one of my personal favorite little details. This is the second draft I made of it after this scene from Lincoln's shadow goodbye stuck with me; looking up through the trees at the night sky.
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I really wanted to hide an eye shaped constellation in the stars but couldnt make it look good sadly :sob: But my favorite little detail are the fireflies and how some of them are cyan; touched by the power Rowan is now again a part of. Not canon, but I like to think these little cyan fireflies come to sit on the LI's heads next they wander too close to the woods (Fireflies by Owl City starts playing).
Shadow end is just. Its so beautiful really. From sharing your experiences with the wisps, how Rowan's wisp has been changed by their time as a person, how despite their grief they are not sad or unhappy, melancholic yes but this is where you want to be. Its a cosmic love, the joy of having lived, coming inside on a cold winter day to find your home warm and inviting, your family waiting for you to tell them about your day. The card itself is a little whimsical, hopeful despite the closed gate that the power will forever be part of the world, even if its been cut off. And this brings us to the other shadow ending card; the flower
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Eternal Bloom, a ghostly hand reaching out to hand this flower over to the world, a final gift, a final goodbye. Maybe a promise of "I'll see you soon" but first and foremost, it is a promise of love.
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Thats right babes. Its all about Love. Unfading Love.
symbolically there isnt anything hidden in the card, but thats also in part of it at face value telling you all you need to know; its about love! its a gift, for you, to remember me by. You have not forgotten me, and even changed as I am, I have not forgotten you. Rowan's change in personality after merging shadow was sooooo heart breaking tbh but ITS SO GOOD. You found joy in what you were, but its time to come home, take off your coat, hang it up, take off your shoes.
And it is all about love! All these cards (well, not all of them) were for me made from the heart, trying to keep in line for the different themes each end resolves to give the players something to remember each route by.
To anyone that made it this far, let me know which one is your canon card/which card you like best! And im kissing you on the lips I love rambling about my thoughts and if you got to here then you deserve a reward. So.
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wordholic · 5 months
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some aerin x aria art that i commissioned 。◕‿◕。 (no reposts please, i just wanted to share because they are amazing <3)
i really like the second one because i commissioned it with this quote by christa wolf in mind:
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i just love the angst that comes with loving a hero who would be all too willing to sacrifice themselves for the world… and i love statues, how they almost seem real with all their rich expressions, but are ultimately only marble and stone… they are more like vessels of memories. and when it comes to statues of heroes, they always depict strength and determination and whatnot, but never the tenderness and weakness they only show in the presence of a lover… etc
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also a noahmc art by the same artist that i commissioned months ago :3 i headcanon that my mc (faye) and him got a border collie after moving in together (a reference to hilda, of course)
i absolutely adore this art🥺
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valkair · 5 months
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"I have dwelled here for over two hundred years. I have watched history unfold and the land change. Yet theres one thing that never changes. That is Human greed" - Kuro
Commission by @oh-so-youre-a-nerd
Blessed my ILW boi with this master piece, literally sobbing
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saibug1022 · 4 months
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My friends, today i bring you my first piece of art
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A bunch of people were talking about the similarities between the river scenes in bolas 2 and ilw then @oh-so-youre-a-nerd mentioned the spiderman meme and i knew what i had to do
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storyofmychoices · 1 month
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SpreadJoy #860 spreading positivity with quotes and featuring an @itlivesproject character.
Quote by Em Manuel
For @choicespride Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week
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valgreaves · 1 year
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itlivesproject · 8 months
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This is far from the end for us...
Throughout the course of the project, people have asked us time and time again if we plan to continue making games after It Lives Within was finished. The answer to that question is:
YES!!
Various members of our team have embarked on various projects. Some are further along in development, some are still in the pre-production stages, and many may take years to complete. That being said, we're not sure how many people will remain active on Tumblr, and of those people, how many will actually see any updates we may post on this blog. For this reason, we've decided to collect emails for a mailing list, where we will update our followers on our future endeavors! 🎉
➡️ Click here to join the mailing list!! ⬅️
We look forward to sharing our new projects with you. If you enjoyed It Lives Within, we promise you'll LOVE what our team members are cooking up now.
And as always, thank you so much for the love and support! We appreciate each and every one of our fans, followers, and players. ❤️
Edited to add: Whatever we do next will not be fangames of other choices books. All future projects will fully original stories created and written from scratch by our team ❤️
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itlovesinthewoods · 5 months
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Thinking about how the one who chooses to take Jane's place as Redfield admits to her that they're scared.
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And how the other is never asked the question because since the former had taken Jane's place, there was no need to continue the game, no need for them to answer. But the truth is that they're still scared, both of them, the one who sacrifices themselves and the one who has to watch them do so.
And the game is symbolism of their trauma and by playing it, they all have to face and confront their trauma and issues head-on. And by saying that you're not 'scared', they're finally able to accept and move on from it. But being 'scared' is a metaphor for still being stuck in your trauma and unable to move on from it. Like Jane is. And to let Jane move on, Noah or MC have to take her place as the new monster, becoming the one stuck in the past, while everyone else moves on.
But Noah and MC, the one who remains, don't move on. They never say it but they're still 'scared', still stuck on what happened that day, when they were unable to save the other. And so in ILB and ILW, we see they're still working on saving the other, their determination bordering on obsessive.
And that's what makes Noah and MC's relationship so, so, so important. The only way they can move on, the only way they can stop being 'scared' is by saving the other. They understand each other in a way no one else can because they're both still 'scared', arguably even during the epilogue of ILW. But they know that with the other by their side, they'll be okay, that someday they'll be able to stop being scared.
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abelflints · 27 days
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My ILW MC done for me by @bunmellos 😊
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