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Stepnix ([personal profile] stepnix) wrote2025-09-26 01:52 pm
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that didn't take long

itch collection for character sims AKA "Life Simulation RPGs"

admittedly a lot of these already have the Life Simulation tag, but this is still helpful for picking out the ones with stat-and-schedule gameplay from the ones that want to be Spore

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yhlee ([personal profile] yhlee) wrote2025-09-24 09:32 pm
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Candle Arc #1: watercolor version (web)



Candle Arc #1, color version, at [community profile] candlearc just to keep it corralled. Note that it's viewer discretion advised on account of cuss words, violence, and hexarchate-typical awfulness.

UPDATED: Alternately: Candle Arc #1 on its own website at Candle Arc (candlearc.com).

I have the Ka-Blam setup in progress so fingers crossed I can make it available via print-on-demand at Indyplanet in the nebulous future, depending on how orchestration homework is going. /o\

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Stepnix ([personal profile] stepnix) wrote2025-09-24 12:37 am
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Character sim blasts from the pasts

My recent rabbit hole is researching the raising sims and dating sims in the Flash era. Not just Flash games themselves (although I have found an excellent starting point there) but it's good shorthand for the period and enthusiast scene I'm investigating here.

  • English Otome Games has a wealth of information collected in one place

  • Longtime developers like Hanako Games and Winter Wolves have also helped me gain a better picture of the era

  • ...and you can get solid results from restricting Google search results to "before September 2017"

I'm getting confident enough in my ability to identify and gather these that I might put together an Itch collection for them... but I'd need to come up with a good name for it, "character sims" is just my mental shorthand for them. "Character Sim RPGs?" "Life Sim RPGs?"

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dismallyOriented ([personal profile] dismallyoriented) wrote2025-09-21 10:24 pm

On reading diversely

Debuting a discourse tag for this one, readers. Short version is, there's some caucasity going down on Tumblr

CN: Racism, general White Evasion )
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a scintilla of time ([personal profile] scintilla10) wrote2025-09-22 05:38 pm
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Signal boost: Femslash fandoms in flux

[personal profile] letzan posted about recent "high velocity f/f fandoms":

I want to shine an occasional spotlight on fandoms that are in flux. There are two kinds of fandoms here:

  • Fandoms that are growing rapidly, which are typically not in the top 20 now, and may never get there, but might be interesting for F/F readers to check out and encourage.

  • Fandoms that are losing ground on the top 20, and seem to be "post-peak." They may well peak again in the future, but it's a good moment to look back at the impressive amount of F/F which has been written so far.


There were some real surprises (to me) in both the list of femslash fandoms that are growing over the last 3 months, and those "losing ground." [personal profile] letzan is also soliciting femslash recs for all of the fandoms listed in the post!

Take a peek for yourself.
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yhlee ([personal profile] yhlee) wrote2025-09-19 07:19 am
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latest spinning

Ah, the art yarn of it all. :3

handspun yarn

2-ply from these singles: