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obviously not stating you are supporting this notion and that it is obvious to anyone with the capacity for thought that human writing does indeed utilize various punctuation marks

this is just so incredibly ludicrous I can only gesture tiredly at every published work that's ever used an em dash.😩

The notion that a punctuation mark with roots in ancient Greece, that has been utilized by countless critically acclaimed authors, and is a part of numerous style guides

to be in any way, shape, or form anything other than a punctuation mark

is utterly absurd. utterly
utterly
utterly absurd

Em dashes my beloved. Interjections, pauses, optional clauses—they're extremely versatile and my favorite punctuation mark!

Here's a few script excerpts from my dark fantasy and #horror visual novel's script for some fun with them!🩸✍️

#writing #writingcommunity #writesky #vndev #indiegamedev

Buff tailed bumblebee on echinacea purpurea

Good morning sky-folk, have a great #InsectThursday 🌱🐝📷

#Bloomscrolling #BugSky #Nature #UKWildlife #EeastCoastKin

we could always pump those numbers but I respect it

Choose Wisely Festival 2025 The stakes are high and everlasting. Welcome to the Choose Wisely Festival, a choice-based games celebration! Focused on featuring the delightful craft of branching narratives, open to developers wor...

Do your choices truly matter?

Sign ups for the first Choose Wisely Steam Festival have opened! The event, hosted by Studio Ephua, celebrates the delightful craft of branching narratives and is open to developers worldwide.

Submissions close August 24th.

More info below.
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Daily cuteness for today... 😊

A 2 panel comic summarizing how it feels to get your art like, commented and shared on a platform. The top panel shows a notification feed of a user liking, sharing and commenting on an artpiece. Comment: OMG sooo pretty!!! (3 Heart emojis) Second panel shows personified user admiring the artwork in a frame and talking to the artist with excitement. The panel is full of hearts and sparkles.

Ty to anyone that likes my art online cause this is what it feels like 💖🖌️🎨 #art #comic

July Devlog - Art and Excellent News Everyone | Alaric Get more from Alaric on Patreon

🗣️🔥 New devlog!
🖌️ Truckload of #art
🍝 Peer into the #narrativedesign flowchart spaghetti vortex 👁️
💖 Thank you for the support! Out today for free for everybody!

(psst the $1 tier unlocks all posts and helps my goal of going goblin mode on soup while healing tho🍜)

www.patreon.com/posts/july-d...

🙏hard agree it is seriously so lovely❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

The way to mitigate violence isn't through suppression, but through education and free expression. Games are a way for people to explore various themes (even darker ones) in a safe environment, and it nurtures discussion in a way that's accessible to vulnerable folks.

PSA: there are only 7 days left to submit your #indiegame to these 2 Steam festivals I'll be running in 2026 (submissions due by 7/31)

❤️Love, Romance, and Heartbreak Debutante Ball
🔔Let Freedom Ring Jubilee

Please repost 🔄 for visibility among #indiedevs

#gamedev #indiedev #Steam #indiegames

THANK YOU I AM SO GLAD TO SHARE THIS MOMENT 💪🤡

Analytics on an itch.io game. The dev has obnoxiously put a calculator over the majority of the screen, to demonstrate that the ratio of collections the game has been added to and the number of downloads overall is at 69%. Having the humor of a teenager, laboriously explaining this in alt text makes it doubly funny to the indie dev.

LADIES, GENTLEMEN, NONBINARY LEGENDS, AND MEMERS OF [MATURE AUDIENCE ONLY #horror], WE DID IT

as promised, I would like to inform you all:

we hit the funny number in collections to downloads for the early demo of Catalyst: Blind Faith on itch!! 🤡

✨🎉 thank you all for the support!!

Artfight attack from @notdax.bsky.social‬ on Father Richard Anscham, the antiheroic MC of the dark fantasy and horror visual novel Catalyst: Blind Faith. A bold, neon-green palette is used for lighting on a tarot-card styled digital art piece. Dark swords point towards Richard on an asymmetric and geometric background, with motifs of pillars or bars. The tall and lanky center figure is a young and broad-shouldered male, dressed in simple long-sleeved clothing and thin suspenders, with mussed hair and a scarred face like broken pottery. He's standing tall and confidently, holding a sword in one hand, as a white substance like sand pours over his palm. His opposite hand is raised upwards, nearly touching a feminine hand from a source above him. The same eerie, deep green light that fills his eyes is magnified over his raised hand, like a spotlight bringing the focus of the image to the figure he's reaching towards and who is reaching for him in return.

not being normal about this gorgeous attack from @notdax.bsky.social! 💚🖤💚

dax is huge inspo and such a good artist, did some serious 😉justice😉 to my boi. pls go share some love on the attack's page!!

⚔️ artfight.net/attack/11913...

[ #art | #artfight | #artfight2025 | #horror | #fantasy | #tarot ]

we all need a little bit of help sometimes

#writing a dark fantasy and #horror visual novel about compassion.❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Catalyst: Blind Faith is a big branching #indiegame where the choices you make shape your 💖relationships💖 with the Gods and the fate of our troubled antihero!

Free Early Demo: just-write-studios.itch.io/catalyst-bli...

WIP screen for a chapter in the dark fantasy and horror visual novel Catalyst: Blind Faith. A bizarre, photobashed, torn up, and burning pile of papers is nestled in charcoal. Drawn on both the pages are several goofy stick figures for composition placeholders. Front and center is an emaciated man, with jet-black skin that's breaking apart from heat. Gold runs through the cracks in his body like kintsugi. A halo of bile surrounds him, spreading from his outstretched hands. Chunks of geometric light run along the halo. Bits of colorful glass fill his eyes. He's backed by glowing wings, made up of many golden hands. The page is very smudged, putting a visual akin to darkened clouds behind the main figure's gaudy wings without reaching the center mass of his body.

Mood board for a demon of faith. Many images of stained glass, color palettes for bile, men with horrified facial expressions, obsidian, kintsugi, glowing hands, bleeding hands, large wings, and gothic Renaissance art is predominant. Many of the art pieces show fallen angels or other figures posed dramatically and/or in flight.

The concept #art / #WIP and its #moodboard!🖌️

Please enjoy the silly sketches for composition.🖼️

Basically pixel art at this size for a weird and experimental scene in my dark fantasy and #horror VN lol, can't WAIT to draw more for it throughout the full game! 🔥💝

Composing 93 pieces of music (so far!!!) is a serious achievement. Very nice to hear about how things are coming along!

I hereby declare an emergency devlog! It’s been way too long, and I kinda want to talk to you about my game a little again. TLDR: I hope to launch the steam site in late summer, I tortured myself with UI, and track number 74 of my soundtrack is called "Phlonky". 🤷
midipotion.com/stories/blog...

Post a pic you took (please include alt text!) to bring some zen 🌈

Grayscale drawing of two OCs, created by mewt (@mewtelier.bsky.social‬) and drawn by Alaric for artfight. Leo is a smug, humanoid trainer character with spiky, fluffy hair. On his head, worn like a plushie hat, is Ruby. Ruby is a plushie monster character, who has long ears like a rabbit, stubby limbs, and big shiny eyes. Dark patterns on Ruby's face are evocative of blush marks. An abstract pattern of cartoonish, light stars are in the background.

Second artfight attack/revenge for this year!

Leo & Ruby are @mewtelier.bsky.social's very cute OCs, I loved drawing them together💚⭐

#artfight #artfight2025

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

We do a little commentary regarding life with chronic illness and disability in my dark fantasy and #horror visual novel. Sharing a script excerpt! ✍️

Choosing to stay with well-intentioned *potential* allies is entirely optional for this mission. 💀🔥

I’m sorry in advance for Endvasion’s lack of being nice and cosy… but being the bad guy is gonna be fun as F***!

#gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #Endvasion #solodev

An infographic that shows the text "solarProtag's Summer Sale July 10-24!" The five items in the on-site bundle are shown on the left, and on the right is a chibi of the developer holding a hand fan that's blowing on them. They're saying "It's hot as heck, so stay inside and cool off with all of my paid goodies!"

Because itch hasn't had it's own summer sale I decided to take things into my own hands!

From now until the 24th you can get all my paid goodies on itchio for 20% off! (Or together in a discounted bundle)
Find out more here ⬇️
itch.io/s/156729/sol...

Grayscale drawing of "Gebo," a personified rune with long straight hair and speckles of light in their skin and hair. They are holding a grungy rectangular 'x'. Their crossed forearms and hands mimic the same shape. Grungy streaks of color, matching the rune, surrounds them like a morbid halo.

First drawing for this year!! Artfight attack (revenge) for Purplepirate!

#artfight #artfight2025

Meme parody sketch of Tommy Lee Jones with a newspaper, but it's a wrinkly English mastiff instead. The dog is wearing the same glasses and looks mildly amused.

when the dog is the only responsible adult in the party

#meme #indiegamedev #vndev #art #holdingontomylastthreadofsanityonweek3ofstoryboarding

Low saturation card for artfight 2025. The artist, palaric, is sketched as a petite skeleton with a large quill that is writing fire onto a few pieces of tattered paper. She is attacking with friendly fire and doing revenges. Her featured characters (from left to right) are a scruffy, heavily scarred, young priest in gothic clothing; a gigantic English mastiff with a spiked collar; a smug young woman with very fluffy hair and a blue cloak; an elf with very long ears, asymmetrical hair and many piercings; and a skeletal demon lord with neon green orbs of light in his eye sockets. The characters palaric has are described as "human, monster, elves, halflings" and "doggo."

artfight.net/~palaric

it's time to join the fight!!!💪

thank you to all of my friends who encouraged me to participate this year!!

#art #artfight #artfight2025 #teamfossils #horror #fantasy