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homosexualasstransbian · 3 months

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northern-passage · 2 years

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Yelling and screaming about the TNP snippets bc this chapter gonna be CRASEE. Also, Siren’s Call for the WIP ask 💗 how is beloved Rome are they well

hmmm... doing better than the mc

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Another pair of hands grab you this time, and Rome hauls you to your feet, slinging your arm across their shoulders.

"Come on, $name," they say, squeezing your wrist, and you lean into them, your feet dragging as they tow you towards the stairs. Morgan steps ahead of you, swearing and shoving people out of your way, the parlor devolving into chaos in the aftermath.

Even in your state, you're still hyper-aware of everyone staring at you - //glaring// at you. Reed is gone, and so are his people, but the threat still lingers. If you had been in anyone else's parlor, if Alessa hadn't been here - Reed would have killed you.

Your arm tightens around Rome, and you turn your head towards them, hiding your face in their sleeve.

"I've got you," they say, and they lead you up the stairs, out of the parlor.

#text editor isn't working either so lol #tumblr is such a good website <3 #siren's call #ask #vakarians-babe

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interact-if · 2 years

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Day 4 of our Pride Month Event, with Kit!

Kit, Author of The Northern Passage

It’s cold, so cold, and your head aches, your ears pop, water choking your throat and nose, all you can do is watch as the sky gets farther and farther away from you. Clawed hands grab at your ankles, your legs, your arms, pulling you down, tearing at your clothes and piercing your skin.

You convulse violently, your body struggling to expel the water from your lungs as more floods in.

Staring up into the fading light, you feel your body grow weak, giving in, sinking now, your blood churning all around you in the water. A hand grabs at your throat, caressing a thumb over your skin, pulling you down as the dark water turns red.

The Northern Passage is an 18+ horror fantasy CYOA, where you play as a hunter sent up north to investigate a series of missing people along the border of your home country and in the port cities of the Blackwater. Working with your handler, Lea, you will travel north and discover that things are far worse than you ever could have imagined, and that there is something powerful lurking out in the deep, dark sea…

Read more about The Northern Passage here. Play the Demo here. Kit's Patreon. Kit is also the author of Siren’s Call.

EDIT: TNP and SC are on a temporary pause until further notice.

[INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT UNDER THE CUT!]

Q1 - Please, introduce yourself and tell us a bit about your project(s)!

I'm Kit, and The Northern Passage is an interactive fantasy horror novel, where you play as a beast hunter tasked with uncovering the source of a string of disappearances in the small and isolated city of Highfell.

The Northern Passage is, at its core, a story about humanity. Humanity being all the ways in which we are different, and all the ways in which we are the same. Humanity being both savagely brutal and incredibly kind. Humanity in the face of loss and violence and unimaginable horrors, and all the quiet little moments in between.

In my work, I want to challenge the idea of what is really good or bad, what is really human or monstrous - both in The Northern Passage and in my side project, Siren's Call. How far is too far? And who is the person that gets to draw that line to begin with? Humanity isn't just being kind, it's also being angry, it's holding grudges, it's holding hate and regret and grief close to your chest just as much as it is being kind and compassionate and forgiving.

Q2 - What or who are some of your biggest inspirations?

I don't know that there's any one thing that inspires me, really. I grew up reading and watching Lord of the Rings, and I would be remiss not to say that it had a big influence on me and my love for the fantasy genre. Ursula K. Le Guin is someone I didn't start reading until later in life, and a lot of her work really resonates with me. I also read and watch a lot of horror; the Southern Reach trilogy is one of my favorites. Otherwise, as corny as it sounds, I'm inspired a lot by the work of my friends, and I'm grateful for all of the people that share their process and their stories with me.

Q3- What excites you most about IF? What drew you to the medium?

I really favor character-driven stories, both as a writer and a reader, and one of the things I really like about IF is the way the medium allows for character exploration. Different players who make different choices are going to potentially see vastly different sides of a character throughout the story, as they react to your decisions and struggle to deal with the consequences of the player's actions.

It's almost three dimensional, the way you can flesh out a character in these branching narratives, revealing certain secrets and quirks in one variation that you may never have learned about in another. Even just the most subtle of differences can have a heavy weight behind them, in my opinion. This all goes for the player character, as well; different personality types, different relationships, different choices - it all allows you to explore so much more about what type of person this character is, and just how different of a person they will be by the end of this story.

Q4 - Are your characters influenced by your identity? How?

Definitely. I think my identity both influences & drives a lot of my work. I started working on both of my projects because I enjoy dark fantasy and historical fantasy, but it's a genre that can be hard to stomach most of the time due to the way it treats people like me - as well as other marginalized groups - for the sake of "realism" or "historical accuracy." I wanted a story with trans characters, characters that I could share my experiences with and see myself in, characters that I knew weren't there just to be set up for some terrible stereotypical storyline of suffering and misery. My characters are complex and reckless and silly and good and bad and they're trans, too. And maybe they'll suffer a bit and be miserable for a while but it's not going to be because they're trans - it's going to be a part of their experiences that happen alongside their transness - but never because of their transness.

Q5 - What are you most excited about sharing related to your project?

I can't wait to introduce more of the main characters. I'm really excited for people to meet the younger cast in the upcoming chapter, and to see how the relationship between them and the older main cast develops as the game progresses. And of course, there are more than a few narrative reveals that I've been scheming about for quite some time and am really excited for.....

Q6 - What would you like to see more of in LGBT+ fiction/IF community?

Well... a lot, to be honest. I feel like we've definitely made a lot of improvements since I started, but sometimes it feels like we take one step forward and two steps back. I don't mean to imply that it needs to be perfect, that's simply not possible! And it's really great now seeing so many trans characters, especially as desirable love interests. When I started two years ago that was almost unheard of in this particular space. But I really wish both readers and authors would be more mindful in the way they talk about trans characters - and by extension, real trans people.

One thing I always keep in mind is that these characters are fictional, and I am the author - I am the one making the decisions. How do my decisions read to someone on the outside, what kind of implications can these choices have beyond my story? What am I really saying when I do this or that with this particular character? How does this reflect on the real people in this marginalized group? Some early criticism I received pointed out to me the importance of character agency - I am the author, but I can write it in a way that gives the character some agency over their situation; and I find that especially important when it comes to gender identity and sexuality, particularly with the way the gender-selectable mechanic works in IF.

Along that line, I also want to see more gay characters that exist outside of the player. I want more genderlocked gay romance, characters that have agency over their stories, that have a history and experiences beyond the player character, and I want it all to be acknowledged and respected.

#if: events #Pride 2022 #Pride Month #The Northern Passage #Siren's call

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nandivina · 2 years

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My @the-siren-call’s OC, Sula 🏴‍☠️

Apparently I only do full body references for my pirate OCs lol no bias there, I sure…

Also I hope tumblr doesn’t get too offended by the fact Sula likes to let the girls live freely. She’s too occupied planning her revenge to wear a bra, I’m sorry

#my girl might be small and not so strong and she might not make the best decisions but she makes up for it with vengeful rage lol #my art #sula #oc #my oc #original character #Character Design #siren's call #sc mc #pirate #pirates #interactive fiction #gay pirates

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sollyalbaphotography · 2 years

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The Hives at the Siren's Call Festival, Luxembourg - 25/06/2022

#The Hives #Siren's Call #Festival #luxembourg

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neobuny · 2 years

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Sometimes you need to literally jump into action.

#risk of rain 2 #siren's call

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x--daughters-of-darkness--x · 5 months

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Alterium ► Siren's Call (official video)

#alterium #siren's call #Youtube

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cemyafilmarsiv · 8 months

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Siren's Call [Ramin Matin]

#Ramin Matin #Türk Sineması #cemya:movie #film tavsiye #Son Çıkış #Siren's call #2

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lesbiciousbeginnings · 2 months

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Just spent $100 on painting of a woman with a full bush. Living my best life as a dyke.

#mine #should I have spent that much? probs not. and yet I could not resist the siren call of body hair.

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kithj · 8 months

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your writing never disappoints its always so toothsome (i am gnawing on it like some beast). always a pleasure to read. there’s a sort of rhythm to the words and the weave of more literary versus matter of fact writing,,, you have a v distinctive voice as well. feel like i could read an excerpt and be like i know that guy!! BIG love as always 🫶

also a question bc im curious, feel free to not answer. does this current version of siren’s call have a lot of similarities w the IF version? plot wise i meant, beside all the narsty tasty bits

hehehe thank you!!! and i'd definitely be lying if i said the jibaro didn't give me a little bit of inspiration with the golden siren, i was definitely picturing all the jewelry that she wears when i was writing her description in the water, and the similar vibes of a dangerous "romance" between them. i also really wanted her appearance to contrast dramatically with Rome's completely unadorned snake siren.

as for your question, a little bit of yes and no. while i did want to play with sirens a little bit in the original story, it wasn't something i had planned to be as big of a narrative piece as it ended up being in the short story.

obviously Swaine isn't present in the short story, nor any of the other characters aside from Rome & the mention of Reed. i'm honestly not sure if i'm going to do more with siren's call just yet, so i don't want to share too much.... but the mc was always intended to have the scarred map from their father, though originally it was on their back. Rome & Alessa both knew about it, but Swaine was the only one that could potentially read it, since he knew the mc's father & was familiar with his code. it was what he was originally looking for when he killed their father and ransacked their house, but he failed to find it since... the mc was the map.

i did have similar themes planned for the longer story, the idea of a "cycle" and the mc being trapped inside it (and dragging Rome along with them) and i imagine this short story being one of the various outcomes of a more vengeful mc that perhaps killed Swaine on sight, unknowingly trapping themselves in the cycle without ever learning about the scars on their arm and thus never finding real closure with the loss of their father. of course this context is missing from the short story; it's all meant to be very... speculative.

i like keeping things vague and unexplained and letting the reader interpret what it could mean. were the scars ever even a map at all or was it meaningless? does the siren know what the scars really are? is she trapping the mc or is the mc trapping her? is the mc really reliving this experience over and over again? is that really Rome in bed with them in the end? are they really going to do it differently this time...? we just don't know, and that's the fun of it ;-)

#THANK YOUUUU..... mwah #i love talking abt The Process TM #part of it was also me just wanting to write pirate/mermaid evil sex also. to be clear LOL #but yeah idk if this is the 'end' of siren's call im not shelfing it completely like some people seem to think #i simply just don't quite think the long form version of it is suited for IF anymore #the map never came up in the original demo tho mc's codebreaking skills did irt the schedule #since they had spent a lot of time studying ciphers if they had the full schedule from morgan they knew they could break the code #anyways. i enjoyed writing a little glimpse into that world again and maybe we will see her another time too #they are all rotating in my mind as well. at dangerous speeds #ask #fat-rolls-frictions #siren's call

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ash-and-starlight · 1 year

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hades atla bisexual simulator

#id in alt text #hadesgame artstyle is the most poggers thing on this fucking earth let me just YOINK steal it #i haven’t played a single minute of hades in my life btw #but i’m familiar with its bisexuality #it calls to mine like a siren’s song #i wanted to add lil dialogue options to them but my brain farted before it got done so. this is what u get :3 #zuko #sokka #suki #yue #pondering the orb #my art #also: LAST ART OF THE YEAR BESTIE BELOVEDS THANK U FOR MAKING THE MORTIFYING ORDEAL OF SHARING ART SO MUCH FUN #KISSES FOR ALL

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prettybearbutch · 1 year

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dating apps aren't working. I need to go look confused at a Home Depot

#butch4butch #sends out a siren call to the hot home improvement butches in my area #bear thoughts

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inlumenhq · 1 year

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Siren’s Call

A strip club in Knockturn Alley. Rabastan Lestrange went for the first time because he wanted a good story, but he realized the people working there are down to earth in a way he hadn’t gotten to experience since school. Now he relishes in the knowledge that his occupation causes disapproving whispers and flustered avoidance in “polite” society.

#worldbuilding #locations #siren's call

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chrissy-kaos · 29 days

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