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>like if Poe or the Bronte sisters had come up with Gundam while also being neck deep in some of the filthiest yuri I've seen in this jam
I'm framing this and hanging it on my wall :D

im now thinking if paptimus scirocco would be a tenderqueer. sunny is so good at being disgusting and revolting in every way

edit: to sunny, she kinda what is so disgusting about 'cozy and wholesome only yuri', 'ethical romantasy', and earlier than those discourses 'cozy horror', a person who believes in an acceptable set of story elements from which there is no true harm (her kissing rule among them) and that the world should exist for her comfort and affirmation of her self-importance as a 'fan (consumer)' (e.g. pushing for big breasted drawings and the parasocial sexual harassment of this demand). her kissing rule is really egregious, being one of those mild romantic drama devices which is only not 'noncon' [genre] (and thus yucky) by the mainstreaming of certain het-palatable mild BDSM dynamics, but is most certainly noncon. even worse, it is part of the meaningful steps building up to her actual sexual assault.

I love gothic sci-fi <333333

Hell yeah! Thank you for the high praises!

bunny earjob please

evil solipsistic cat

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I did not play loner dog beforehand, I saw the pistol get pulled out and moved on with my friends to this because I was not having it. Will be back to it though, promise, just needed a breather!

Strangely, I was really happy for Harsh Noise. It seemed so happy looking upon Roaches on its final day. If I were terminal, and knowing I'd be demyelinated and half-dead soon, I'd probably want to be put down and embalmed by my friends as part of one last grand work of art and perfect embrace I can feel in every last fiber of my being before the ability to feel that is taken away. If there is one thing I grieve for Harsh Noise, it is that that the inescapabilty of the suffering, confusion, disassociation, dysphoria and depression that paved its road color the presentation of its happiest day. I know it wanted that, wanted to be presented to rbv as the transfeminized victim and fetish object of transfeminine suffering, but Harsh Noise was beloved in a way few people ever get to be and I wish its end where the zenith of that undeniable truth, not the moment that proved it. We must believe there is a another possibility where the eventuality of Harsh Noise's death was still met with such love, but there was no mourning or grief for it being a triumph over Harsh Noise's inability to love itself that comes too late for it to see.

There is that other haunting question though, could Harsh Noise ever had this without being fucked up in the ways it did? I hope that it could be, I hope there exists a world where we are all completed.

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she so real for that

i played this in the middle of my finals and i think its time to recollect and reflect 
Odessa and Fabiane's final moment makes me think of the missing stair problem.
Dog Days Dog Daze's cast is defined by their relationships to the alienation from polite society facing a perpetual transfeminine underclass. Whereas Faye, the tragic backbone, provides the material aid of a well-to-do outsider to Lee that always gives her security and leads to her sister becoming a place of healing for other girls, her lover in Odessa by contrast shoulders a realist sense about the preservation of her community, being the one who calls others out on their shit (mostly Faye), who doesnt want to just play tetris and become desensitized to trauma, and can't forget the psychedelic visions that might lead to the 'right future' for her friends. Their femme provider and butch hardliner casting did help solidify this impression in me.
Then, there is Fabiane, as unfair her circumstances, who is to be the cause of others' addictions, relapses, and perhaps in the future something worse. Her life is inescapably miserable, but she continues to drag (much younger and naive) girls into the same issues that face her. Her attitude built up by her unfortunate circumstances may make prevent her from accessing structures of recovery and even positive friend groups, but in the end it creates a lonesomeness from which she cannot escape from without sharing a high with someone who should know better or sweeting on a girl with such a weak bond that she flees at the sight of Odessa's rage. Her love is toxic and 'all [she] touches withers and dies'.
So, Fabiane dies because its the end of the line for her, there is no future where she does not hurt more people. Fabiane dies because she is beyond healing and she has reached that point without intervention. Fabiane dies so that people who matter can live without her dragging them off their proper course. Fabiane dies for 'intracommunity health', an almost fascistic impulse in its nature, but what else is there. The missing stair can still break someone's leg as long as it remains, and there is no better way provide to Odessa to deal with the consequences of Fabiane's continued course of action.
Shit sucks. Dog Days Dog Daze is a tragedy probably playing out in queer communities everywhere while nobody cares.

PSA: Please download the CURRENT BUILD, which fixes a bug which can cause the skipping of scene 6

Cast lineup doodle by Mooma
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i remembered that when I first began to write

I wanted to because I was hoping that the vomit which rose up in my throat would dry if artfully given a voice

the nausea and almost tears i feel now reminds me of that, perhaps it dwells in that this work is also about talking without talking through writing

thank you for reminding me of that

i feel insane, want to vomit, want to run into the woods. 10/10, amazing work tabbie and porksbun

Lia, of touching my thighs while I played Moonlight Duelists in front of her fame, described this VN as an excellent techno-rapemaxxing VN and very Baldr Sky

Somehow, this is the third personality quiz I've taken recently which has nailed my questionable taste in women!

Well, I'm jealous I can't get cut up in a dream duel officiated by a strange red-cloaked crone, in fairness! >w<

I'll speak of three beautiful things that happened while I was playing:
(spoilers below)

1. I fell in love with the mind of Bao. In Bao, there is that mousey girl that hides a beast, repressed to be overflowing with lustful, envious desires to conquer, dominate and violate, more than anything by the fact she's the small Bao, not the elegant showstopper, not the effortless charmer---and not for her skill, not that she's the second, but just that her nature is not that of the smiling sociable star. Her sword is her phallus, a tool of violence she can inflict herself on others with to get the satisfaction and recognition she knows she couldn't get others, both of which she is desperate to savor by the time of the duel. Her swordcatcher... well, no one suspects what lies in her really, she's reckless but people don't see monsters in people like Bao. There are many girls (lesbians) like this, and they are wild and terrifying sight baring down on you if you've learned to spot their type.
2. I fell in love with Jan, that perfectly refined champion whose sword is a tool of her hand and eye, her fighting style of blocking strikes and understanding their intent enough to punish. Maybe, that's how she's gone through life, a perfect control of herself that gives her that incredible incorruptible aura and social finesse, and which she now uses to stare down upon Bao, staring down a bestial nature and black heart which she may have lost a battle to but which she has won a war over within herself and in life. How she turned the tables in the dream just by seeing and naming the ugly in Bao, instead of being caught up in what the girl was doing to her was an incredible ryona dynamic.
3. I got my thighs caressed while I drooled over the sight of bouncing slashed up, bitten up and cut up tits. Yeah, that was awesome. I'm gonna remember that forever. I should do fencing.

Thanks Kayin for your hard work and having the mind pretty enough to make this!!

I'm glad cisbian rance resonated with you so much

awww thank you thank you for reading!! i really would like to revisit this soon, i really punched above my class in just wanting to show off all my lovely blorbos

at some point, i said ‘wouldnt it be funny if justicia had roman homosexual neurosis but for women’ and couldnt NOT include that in a scene

Hiya!

This is dianerds, writer and project lead.

So having recovered from the great marathon of art creation, and also coordinating something like this. I’d love to speak a few words on the development and future updates. 

First, probably sometime after this weekend the novel will be update with a number of polishes and fixes, along with the final set of artist sprites. Stuff even like proper talking/not-talking sprites are coming, which I’m excited about since I wrote the script with that in mind!

Second, someday soon rather than later, we will publish the second act. There’s much more I want to do with these characters, beyond the frantic chaos of this first half. There were many mysteries brought up, with answers I’m delighting to tell.

Third, I’m going to keep writing generally, and all of us will be keeping to a reduced but not nonexistent pace of creating things—music, more art and even silly things like more background minecraft builds. A big part of this project, through getting together to make something, was our means of challenging ourselves to produce for an end things we dabble with in our free time. Maybe, you’ll even get to see more of us make accounts or other venues to share more of what we like to do, you can see from that credit list we are all on the shyer and more private end st the moment.

Well, that covers my updates. To those who have downloaded this VN so far, thank you. I’m happy to see this have come together, and the promise of us embarking on future projects together excites me too.

Best wishes ✨

My friend who I've been watching play VOTV all week loves beavers, and with all the wooden scrap sitting in his scrap bucket, a beaver dam to make donations to would be a neat addition :)