#those are my recommended tags

[kithj]

compiled a list of some of my favorite text-based games & VNs that are specifically wlw:

another round - You play as Maddie, a woman in love with a woman named Agnes. Actually, she hates her. Actually, it's complicated. You definitely broke things off with her. And you don't regret it. At least once. Yes. At least once per day, you don't regret ending it with Agnes. Except tonight. You definitely regret it tonight.

such, such were the joys - It is the year 19xx in England. You are returning to the town of Grayling after your first year at university to meet your old school friends: Cicily Thomas, Fatima Khan, and Susheela Rajaram. As the only Indian girls at Grayling Towers, the four of you quickly became close friends, but you haven't seen each other in a year. You're not sure what has changed since then, but this is your chance to find out.

florence - Florence lies in bed, cold and still. You watch over her and wait.

perseids, or, all this will go on forever - Four trans girlfriends go on a road trip to a dark sky park, to see the perseid meteor shower. 

winter - an interactive fiction about sex, trans insecurity, and a girl with a skull for a face.

butterfly soup 1 & 2 (VN) - A visual novel about gay Asian girls playing baseball and falling in love.

birdland - At night 14-year-old Bridget Leaside dreams of fantastic lands full of strange bird people. By day she's a miserable anxious summer camper, trying very hard not to think about her feelings for the mysterious girl detective in Cabin 22. And when her dream life starts bleeding into reality, things are going to get weird for her in a whole bunch of ways...

a summer's end: hong kong 1986 (VN) - Follow the story of Michelle and Sam, and how their chance meeting evolves into a deeper romantic relationship. Set in vibrant Hong Kong in the year 1986, it is an original story about love, family, and culture.

one day hike - You go on a hike in a familiar wood.

a year of springs (VN) - experience the stories of haru, erika, and manami in A YEAR OF SPRINGS, a visual novel trilogy about a trio of friends navigating their feelings of love, connection, and just wanting to belong.

pageant - Your name is Qiuyi (Karen?) Zhao, and you’ve just been signed up by your parents for a beauty pageant. You’re not ready, not even close, but you don’t have a choice. But perhaps you can make the best of it.

new year's eve, 2019 (sequel to pageant) - You are Karen Zhao, a senior in college who is home for winter break, and seeing your old high school friends for the first time in years. You are not ready, not even close, but perhaps you could make the best of it.

the revenant's lament - Way out west, in the most lonesome of reaches, strange things are afoot. Cowboys around campfires tell ghost stories and tall tales, speak of impossible, supernatural things. They say the devil walks amongst men. They say he'll grant you impossible wishes at the cost of your eternal soul. They say he can bring dead men back to life.

venus meets venus - Two women meet in a bar. This is not a love story.

#yes i put my own game on this list. sue me #anyways i know there are like a billion yuri games on itchio so this is a highly curated list #excluding dating sims and yuri VNs cus they're incredibly easy to find like just go in the yuri tag lmfao #interactive fiction #games #also most of the creators on this list have more games too that i recommend #draw everything here that's me and you (?) something like that by kaleidofish #anamika has quite a few games besides florence and such such were the joys #there's another sequel to pageant and new years 2019 & the archivist by autumn chen #npckc has a shit ton of games lmfao #there are some sequels to birdland too but ive never played any of those #communistsister has a massive catalogue of games and collabs with domino club #anyways. these are just some of my favorite creators #and some of their games that i really liked #i might add on to this but im having a hard time focusing to read games lately i only just finally read revenant's lament last night #so i could put it here. brigid your game will haunt me forever (affectionate)

[dizzybizz]

h,,,amsdpspdpetrrr 👍👍👍👍

#him. #pls appreciate him ok thats all #these r so cursed <333 #svsss #shang qinghua #sqh #mbj is there too but im not tagging him lol #svsss fanart #mxtx #my art #idk how many of my current followers are into svsss #but its one of those things u cant recommend to ppl lmao #i kept zooming out while working on this and cackling #hes just a silly little hamster #i dont have a solid design for any of them 😭😭😭😭😭

[shorthaltsjester]

if i ever have to see another thought piece on the description of the white picket fence outside of fjord and jester’s place in mighty nein reunited indicating jester’s unhappiness in the relationship i will burn the world to the ground.

a) heteronormativity doesn’t exist in exandria !

b) fjord isn’t your Typical Male Love Interest Guy. if i ever have to read someone say that shit again i’m gonna (correctly) assume they haven’t paid attention at all to campaign 2 and any of fjord’s character arc.

c) perhaps, jester lavorre, woman who was raised on the ideology of romance novels and sexuality as exchange, might just find it uh… not a terrible thing that the white picket fence is falling apart outside since… fjord explicitly does Not feel like those romance novels to her, instead he feels comfortable. the way that a brightly painted but rarely used house might, especially when the couple in question spends most of their time adventuring together… which is an essential part of jester’s motivations throughout the campaign.

d) the reason fjord and jester seem unhappy in the reunion might be because, well, uh, whereas everyone else was getting a “vacation”, jester and fjord’s life together (specifically the fact that Fjord Loves Jester Enough To Risk The World (Momentarily) To Save Her) was the inciting action for an apocalyptic demigod being released - they Were unhappy. who wouldn’t be given those circumstances. jester nearly died, and fjord felt like the god that once saved him had now abandoned him, i am so truly sorry that their romance was not satisfactory for your vision of atypical romance (which, by the way, is literally reinforcing the restrictive romantic tropes you think you’re criticizing, so good job i guess). i would be much, much more concerned if jester and fjord Weren’t clearly dismayed.

e) both fjord and jester are individuals whose entire lives and character are defined by the expectation (both external and internal) that they behave and emote a certain way. that they’re in a relationship with someone who they feel that they can show that they are frustrated with or disagree on the layout of their house with or have different ideas on how to deal with the looming threat of a demigod is incredible. jester and fjord are emblematic of a relationship in which the characters Aren’t meant to be, but they Want to be together and they want to understand and support the other person so they work at it. we wouldn’t have conversations like “you seem disheartened..” “i am very disheartened! you almost died!” if they didn’t take the time and care to communicate with one another.

f) if you want a honeymoon era joyful queer romance, yasha and beau are right there! they are explicitly horny and in love and bright about it! if queerness is your measure of “trope breaking” i am very sorry to tell you that queer people partake in white picket fences, and i’d actually argue that in terms of Lifestyle Metaphor, beauyasha are more adherent to the whitepicket fence, nuclear familyism. this isn’t a detriment to them, just, very literally, beau works a 9-5 where she comes back to her housewife who gardens and cooks dinner and their future includes explicit reference to children. comparatively, fjord wants to address some issues in his past, jester is an artist, and both of them are interested in adventure for the foreseeable future.

g) if you truly think that a single part of laura’s description of the part-time abode of fjord and jester overrides every interaction and choice that both laura and travis make towards fjord and jester caring for each other in a deep and meaningful way that goes beyond the weird fandom constructed Man/Woman characters being portrayed by a married couple i truly, Truly have no idea why you even watch the many hours of content that cr is when you could… play/write your own shit.

#usually i would simply block and ignore but! i got one of those weird twitter recommended tweet notifs #and there were far too many likes #also like. ppl talk about that home as if it is where fjord and jester are living their everyday life #they are on the ship most of the time. of course it’s downtrodden and illlooked after. they are adventuring. they’re writing their own story #fjord #fjord stone #jester lavorre #fjord + jester #fjorester #critical role #cr2 #mighty nein #cr meta #kinda #i’m not tagging this discourse because it’s stupid and against my principles if u don’t like this block me :) #the mighty nein

[maomango-doodle]

I've been reading Bartender, so ofc I did a crossover with my current obsession

AU where Sasakura is a bartender on Gunsmoke

#trigun #midvalley the hornfreak #bartender manga #<- bringing that tag back from the dead with my bs🕺 #sasakura ryuu #kurushima miwa #kawakami kyouko #wakui tsubasa #shinxo art #it's a guilty pleasure crossover ok? cut me some slack /j #midvalley likes to drink and sasakura likes to make drinks. boom! bffs #smth smth midvalley hides away in sasakura's saloon when he wants a break from ghg gigs. he gets to relax and play the sax for the bar #sasakura knows he's not a normal guy but he doesnt judge. as long as he doesnt kill anyone #this lil guy gives me SO MUCH cuteness aggression it's so unfair 😩 #i HIGHLY recommend Bartender for iyashikei fans or those who like liquors cocktails and such. it's nothing short of amazing. a true gem

[loadinghellsing]

small anderson and one miffed cat

#i contribute #doodle #alexander anderson #child au #--- #i'm doodling #i'm doomed #Love the fact those tags show up back to back on recommended tags #my irl cat was trying to eat my piano??? #While I was working on this???

[mocha-tapioca]

genshin oc redesign !! (2023 edition)

behold! an updated design of amika haider, my hijabi genshin oc from sumeru! it was almost two years ago that i sat down and went “hey wouldn’t it be fun to have a character with a hijab be from sumeru because of the cultural ties?” only to make this character, and though we did not end up getting a sumeru oc with a hijab, i find the sumeru cast to have a special place in my heart (and take up about 80% of it)

here’s her lore and old redesign!! if you’d like to check out the character blog, the url is @rainlight-oasis <3

for those who’d prefer to see the old art, they’re utc right here :)

2022 redesign (november)

the original (also in 2022 but back in january)

#♡ amare’s art!! #going thru my old art is such a nostalgia kick u can tell i switched art programs and the brushes i use #okay well actually idk if u can but im proud of myself nonetheless!!! #amika my skrunklybunkly oh how i wish to pinch ur cheeks like a good natured grandmother #tag time tag time!!!! boutta go insane w/o going into chara tags #amika haider #oc #genshin oc #genshin impact #genshin impact oc #oc art #genshin fanart #genshin impact fanart #my art #sumeru #genshin #original character #yes i grabbed the bg off of google light rays r SO good for bgs and i cannot draw them well #for those wondering what program i use: adobe fresco!! i dont recommend it too much actually but also it has brushes i like #if u want a symmetry tool uh. dont go to adobe fresco theyre still working on that #SORRY I GOT DISTRACTED BACK TO MY DESIGN THOUGHTS #this is the first time ive designed a weapon!!! this is what amika’s sig weapon looks like she gets to ride it like a scoot-skate-thing #also i like how the designs go from pre-sumeru ac to sumeru ac to post-sumeru ac teehee #unfortunately the tiara is gone but maybe it will return someday……… #it got switched out for a weapon in return tho so i think we’re good

[katkat030]

I used to watch Grian way back in Hermitcraft S1 so seeing you post about it actually makes me insanely nostalgic lmao. Nice to hear about people I haven’t watched in years :)

I can only imagine the nostalgia you must be feeling, omw - S1 was over a decade ago, from what I gather Hermitcraft has changed soo much since then

Thanks for sharing that nugget of information, my mind is genuinely blown

#I hope you don't mind me adding tags to this? <3 #hermitcraft #hermitcraft smp #hermitcraft season 10 #hermitblr #asks #I picked up HC around the very start of season 7 (the season after Grian joined) when my sister recommended his and mumbo's channels to me #I guess you would have watched Grian's building content then and/or early hermitcraft? #I wonder if you ever watched Evo actually it'd be interesting to know about how long ago you stopped watching those kinda creators #thanks for sending in the ask btw! I really enjoy answering them #Oh yeah forgot to add #Grian #idk if it’s even worth adding hermitcraft season one lol

[b4kuch1n]

frog documentation. frogcumentation

I think I mentioned a while back I'd post nibling frog momence after the gift's done given. which happened on the 2nd this month I just forgot lmao. anyways we can do it now. I used the boigameista pattern scaled up to four pieces of A4 print paper and decided to double deck it to a two layer thing, not unlike a pillow, for ease of washin. because it was gonna be gifted to a one year old child

took a long time and made a number of mistakes bc hand sewing makes me worse as a person but this guy was done in time for the birthday occasion and that's what matters. chose non-fuzzy fabrics for it because we live in a dense city in the tropics and from personal experience if I hug something made of fur I would explode. the original plan included felt patterns on its back for bonus textures for baby but that wouldn't stretch well along with the rest of the thing so had to hold that back. eventually we got this

zipper across its ass, the coat type of zipper bc I miscalculated when ordering. but it did have a shape and that's all that matters to me. will be a fun game for the baby to grow up and be severely misinformed about what a frog looks like

happy extremely late birthday to this thing also

#bakuspecial #uhhhh. whats my craft tag. I forgor. update this later #frog plush babeyyyy #I want this thing to last until the heat death of the universe so I felled all the seams down. dont recommend doing this by hand #Im so stubborn lmao I refuse to get a serger I will simply get better at hand sewing instead. damn its taking kinda long #there used to be a Lot more frogs around hanoi. but the lack of clean water ponds and lakes have driven down the population #I live like right at the edge of the city rn tho (will no longer be the case in five years) so there are still a lot of aminals #house robins. skinks. fireflies (!!!!). praying mantises. tree frogs #they love to hang out at the fountain inside the complex right across the street. had to pick em up to return to the fountain #from the hot brick tiled ground a few times #theyre so small. theyre so small.... #I miss house geckos they dont show up a lot in our apartment. I wish they would they would love the cockroaches around here #and of course. bc the kind of rice we eat is more short-grained and thus usually not all the way dried like the longer-grained type we have #so many rice weevils. do u know those little fucks do not drown for a Long time #do u know they lay eggs inside the rice grains and that's how u find out ur rice about to become the weevil beverly hill #by washing the rice and seeing hollowed out grains float up. I have become an expert at this. #but I get to see skinks in random bushes so who am I to be pissed about that. skinks rule #this has been baku talks about animals for a mile of tags. thank u for listening #well. its evening and the family wants to go out so that's what we're doin. hope u have a good time too wherever u are #see u this midnight when I reblog every new posts I've made in the last week or so lmao

[polarpanda73]

uty fandom i got a question that's been bothering me

how the hell does starlo's brother like. look down without impaling himself

#undertale yellow #uty #ut yellow #starlo #starlo uty #uty starlo #uty orion #orion uty #are those the tags for the bro it doesnt recommend anything #its just really funny to me #hell actually how does starlo wear his hat without his point impaling his hat #is it flexible??? #rigid???? #idk man #this post was in my drafts for like a month im releasing it to the masses

[ashironie]

guys… guys the withdrawals…. they’re bad…… i’m starting to.. to really feel it now……. there’s not enough fic… not enough fanart…. i have resorted to sustaining myself by listening to the same five songs over and over again and imagining the same three situations

#tmagp #the magnus protocol #those are my first two recommended tags

[junkjounral]

June 6, 2023

“There is no difference between trying to love and loving” —Joy Ladin

#joy Ladin #junk journal #junkjournal #journal #art journal #gluebook #quote #bujo #aesthetic #bullet journal #scrapbooking #bird aesthetic #nature aesthetic #ion normally say what these are abt in the tags but this one was abt my mom #v messy and not one of my favorite pieces but it was honest and I did what I could which I think sums up where she and I are too #the partial quote from joy ladin’s book had me sobbing when I read it #I was feeling it on so many levels. being trans and Jewish and how do those fit together. having family problems. going thru change that #strikes u to ur core and u would die without but also not wanting to do it. so uh anyway she’s incredible #and I recommend her to anyone for any reason just read her shit it’s so fucking good

[brehaaorgana]

i’m making you know this knowledge in your brain now so that i’m not the only one

i was dealt psychic damage when my brain decided to realize this, but i would say that dragon riders of pern are easily definable as a (the?) proto-a/b/o [omegaverse] verse trope and now i can’t be the only one knowing this in my brain

a/b/o is literally just pern dragon mating with simplified “secondary genders” and mating bonds that aren’t guaranteed to be lifelong. 

and wikipedia hasn’t even pointed this out, so this is my groundbreaking contribution to literature/pop culture history because they only mention pon farr mating cycles 

actually POINT IN FACT they city the 1967 episode Amok Time ran in September of 1967, but the first dragonriders of pern book was actually comprised of 

Two components of Dragonflight were award-winning novellas published by Analog science fiction magazine. The first segment, "Weyr Search", illustrated by John Schoenherr, had been the cover story for the October 1967 issue.[3] The second segment, "Dragonrider", appeared in two parts, beginning in December 1967, and was also a cover story illustrated by Schoenherr.[4]

so obviously these works were more or less written simultaneously -- anne macaffrey couldn’t have possibly been influenced by  seeing Amok Time, since we can assume she had submitted her first draft before the october issue of Analog was published, meaning it was almost certainly already written, planned,  and edited for publication by the time the ST episode aired in september. and ursula k leguin didn’t publish the left hand of darkness until 1969. 

 i think i found a copy of the original 67 weyr search novella, as opposed to just my copy of the bundled publication dragonflight. 

this whole mates/unique people stuff is established here: 

“News travels fast,” F’nor chuckled, nodding at a hurrying craftsman, in the smock of a baker, who gave them a mumbled good day. “Not a female in sight.”

His observation was accurate. Women should be abroad at this hour, bringing in supplies from the storehouses, washing in the river on such a bright warm day, or going out to the farmholds to help with planting. Not a gowned figure in sight.

‘We used to be preferred mates,“ F’nor remarked caustically.

and

But she would have to be extraordinarily wary. Dragonriders were men apart. Anger did not cloud their intelligence. Greed did not sully their judgment. Fear did not dull their reactions. Let the dense-witted believe human sacrifice, unnatural lusts, insane revel. She was not so gullible. And those stories went against her grain. Dragonmen were still human and there was Weyr blood in her veins. It was the same color as that of anyone else; enough of hers had been spilled to prove that.

so we know that ‘dragonmen’ are different than other people, rumored to have ‘unnatural lusts’, talk about the status of being ‘mates’, and have an internal hierarchy [queen/gold, bronze, green, brown...]. 

my point here is like, yes pon farr is similar also, butI

dragonriders have:

secondary social “genders” and/or sexualities based on color of dragon 

secondarily the whole concept of green dragons being sterile females with usually gay male riders 

one specific dragon color that is like, the “one who can mate” and then lay eggs [the gold] is also more rare and highly coveted

the bronze riders are usually the big/powerful/strong personalities or w/e 

mating ritual chases [the mating flight lasting longer is supposed to be a good thing] and mating bonds

have the concept of the female rising [for the flight] which is just a dragon heat

have telepathy that may influence sex

the whole animal instinct thing/animal nature of people

dubious consent or rape is built into the structure of the whole...premise as a possibility aka “the dragon decides, the rider complies...” 

omegaverse is literally just simplified dragonriders of pern with less categories of “presentation” but with similar ritualization of status within society and sex/heats and instead of dragons, people use like, werewolves or wolves or whatever for the sake of knotting trope. the mating bite mark thing is unique from pern but the rest is pretty much the same

why does no on cite anne mccafrey’s weird dragon sex as an influence here like it’s so obvious and pern fans have a shitton of fanfic and text rp where they explore this whole.... *gestures* thing 

do you know i read those books in elementary school and i think they were even available in my school library??? weird dragon sex and all??? 

they were definitely on the list of possible book quizzes i could take for reading points or whatever the hell 

i don’t even read this genre but i do have pern books and now i can’t unthink this connection so there you go. 

#i can't believe my own mother not only LET me read pern books but recommended them to me #pern #omegaverse #well those are things i just tagged #i cant believe i read pern in elementary school tag

[vampiricsheep]

my only explanation is that i was getting silly with it when trying to plan a new transmute set

#i draw the line at the raven leggings though. it's a goddamned miracle those bottoms cover asura junk at all with how low it is on their- #-model #but the corset and the sanctified or whatever it's called bottoms? reasonably within the realm of silly #my art #my characters #soft sheep #hey tumblr? never recommend the tag 'so fuckable' again ever thanks. #i have literally never typed that for a post and never will and i ESPECIALLY won't about sheep

[bitchthefuck1]

Every time I see a Kaz x y/n fic all I can think is

#in what world is he dating literally anyone else #you're not inej ghafa you will never be Inej ghafa #so many of those fics have popped into my recommended tab lately I'm just gonna have to block the tag #kanej #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #six of crows

[ghoul--doodle]

Bramble png.tuber

#I did mean to say that in the video but I guess my mind just nerfed the ‘g’ #made this because sometimes I like to record myself playing games! and sometimes I like to share those videos with my partner #or my friends/mutuals but mostly my partner #and I played through trolls rescue remix! #all. 6 hours. one sitting. #wouldn’t recommend #art tag #oc tag #oc: bramble #to be clear: mutuals can ask for the video once its done! just PLEASE do not share it with anyone else #i wanna talk about this game so bad it. it sure is a game.

[natestars-corner-of-curiosities]

You know the characters you like are unpopular when you struggle to find stuff about them in a 13 year old fandom

#please #my boys #flim and flam #flim flam brothers #I love them and their scheming scammy con ways #they suck so much and I think that’s great #I want to find more about those bastards #any recommendations at all very appreciated #I’m trying to figure out how fimfiction works but I’ve been pampered by the ao3 tagging system and am Stuggling #mlp