ADORE Birb Dragons. Humbly Suggesting The Bearded Vulture! They Eat Bones.

Another design for a dragon species in the book i hope to write!

Nocturnal, rather small, fleet footed and fox-faced. With crescent horns! Bonus, furry tail n neck.

I am simply unable to can with this

Ancient traditional art of mine!

(AKA: 2 years old)

This is Clickbeetle! One wildly autistic coded hivewing, the mad scientist arctype for lack of a better descriptor. Currently dating Longhorn, another hivewing and his boyfriend

More Hibernal and Verglas! I adore them.

Maybe it started last year

It was my birthday, i picked up 2 half gallons of ice cream (i had a coupon for two) for the little celebration just after my actual birthday. We were busy earlier.

I got to the register with my selection, and several people made small talk with me, mostly older folk. Not many others are out on a thursday at four. They wanted to know the name, i told em it was grasshopper. It was, mint ice cream and chocolate cookie bits. The other was Neapolitan. (I chose quickly, i was nervous)

And i get back to my car, a little surprised at how others treated me. As i approached the corner i crashed at last week, and look at the plastic bag beside me i realize something

I don't really like these flavors.

(like two weeks late) quangle 4! this just turned into the cody compilation sorry

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i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

This is how my brain works constantly-

Credit To: GrantBeans on TikTok!

Letters between General V.M. Aquilo and Priest of the Sanctum Hibernal Middlemist during the war of silver and stars.

Part one

It was wonderfully cold out, dead of winter and just past dusk. Outside the deer hide tent, the wind whipped through the quickly assembled military camp. Her makeshift desk was, in fact, a crate within which was grain if she wasn't mistaken. It didn't truly matter- quiet moments were hard to come by. Still, even when she had them, there was work to be done.

"Dear Hibernal Mid Aquilo,"

Was it appropriate to refer to him only by name? They had been married only a few moons- It might be tactical, at least. It wasn't like she could share any important information lest this be intercepted- if she were being strictly war-minded, she wouldn't write at all for that same concern.

"It's dusk as I write this, and the weather looks as though it will allow us safe passage. Morale remains high, and the enemy forces have struggled to pass through the mountains due to their low tolerance of high altitudes."

Allmother above, it sounds like a military report- Come on Verglas, he's a priest, not a soldier. Reflection always said she couldn't take anything lightly..

"I have sustained no significant injuries, and expect this conflict to be shorter than previously reported- I apologize for my continued absence, and look forward to seeing you again."

"- Verglas M. Aquilo"