I'm WEEPING OH MY FROG

A wings of fire (?) AU/ og story/??? Snippet. Verglas is an icewing. And newly queen at this point, though her troops don't now that. What more Context couldya want?

Several years ago

The sounds of battle beat against her ears like waves on the shore, metal scraping metal and scales and leather and fur.

The blunt spiked metal mass crashed through armor, scale, and bone alike.

That was the beauty of brute force weaponry, wasn't it? Swords, axes, arrows, and claws could be stopped by enough layers, but the iron and steel plates of the Nightwing's armor turned against them, shards piercing their sides as their protection crumples under the crushing weight of her mace.

Her vision blurs with pain as something slides between her scales near her shoulder blades- she hadn't been quite careful enough, swept up in the rush of combat.

Wings flared for balance, she turns, face to face with a deep green nightwing snarling from under their helmet, the force of her full body behind her swing. Her weapon connects cleanly into the jaw of her assailant, her own blue blood splattering outward in an arc, right alongside the nightwing's teeth. Her icy blue companion finishes the job with a sharp jab of her spear directly downward, splitting their sternum, and letting the fresh red life drain out of them.

And moments later, the battle field is quiet, the enemy having retreated, leaving their dead. Reaching up with  purple stained talons, she tugs her own helmet from her brow, the stumps of her antlers exposed to the icy air, piercing yellow eyes followed the faint dark mass of nightwings fleeing between into the valley.

A useless endeavor, unfortunately for them. Nightwings were terribly obvious in the white landscape, and thus very easy to track.

She knew exactly who was waiting on the other side- they were as good as dead, once cornered between them.

Verglas replaces her helm, pulling her mace out from the snow and resting it on her shoulder.

"Forward! The fight does not end here- were you given serrated claws for nothing? Do not let your prey escape. Forward!"

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.

dont you just love narrative parallels because i sure do

In celebration of Brightshine Jubilee, I thought it would be fun to give away a copy of every main Brightshine apparel from 2013 through 2022, including Sunchaser Jewelry, which is now so rare that it sells for over twenty thousand gems on the auction house!

Entering is simple—reblog this post once with your username and number in the tags. Likes and follows are appreciated, but not necessary. Duplicate entries will be deleted. The giveaway will close on Friday, July 8, 2022 at 8 PM EST, and a winner will be drawn shortly afterward.

The winner will receive ten items: Sunchaser Jewelry, Sunguard Chest, Solar Blades, Luminous Legguards, Hewn Philosopher’s Veil, Luminous Sundrapes, Brightshine Raiments, Daybreak Decorations, Lustrous Mantle, and Gilded Compass.

Good luck and happy Brightshine!

CAT

Look what you've done!

@epicmothgirl42069 this one's on you /j

Note: @/pigeonbits is not the authors user anymore

Supernatural Lesbian Comics

So, inspired by this post, I’m making a masterlist of tumblr comics falling under the category of “Girl meets supernatural lady and they fall in love”. Enjoy and feel free to add more!

Cornerwitches, by @charminglyantiquated

Selich, by @jellydraws 

The Dwarf Bride, by @sammymontoya 

The Fish Wife, by @pigeonbits

HSTHETE, by @pigeonbits

Sweetrock, by @pigeonbits

Bride of the Rose Beast, by @mishacakes

Unnamed Rusalka comic, by @amarcia

Unnamed curse comic, by @charminglyantiquated

Unnamed mermaid comic, by @charminglyantiquated

Unnamed banshee comic, by @charminglyantiquated

Unnamed selkie comic, by @mollyostertag

Jelly fish leviathans......

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

HEY YOU

Do you possibly like Wings of Fire? And pirates??

Yes? Then I think it would be in your best interest to keep reading.

My friend, I would very much like to tel you about my silly little WoF story called The Fools Gold Pirates.

There are 10 main characters that make up the crew.

Its mainly about them going on silly adventures to retrieve these ancient artifacts, or keys, and uncovering the secrets of Pterygota archipelago, which is where this story takes place.

At this point I’m probably just going to make silly posts about them, but if this gets popular enough I might end up writing chapters for it.

If you have any questions regarding the story or the characters I will gladly answer them!