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such an adorable fluffy moth plushie! The plushie in the foreground is cute as well.

I leave the game open in the background sometimes for the same reason :3

Kyou's music is actually released as an album on its own. buuuuut if you check the game/audio/bgm folder that has the full ost. Take it and run, you have my blessing.

i really enjoy how your prose lingers and loops and lingers and swims into itself and back into itself. really cool visual design! the baseball card aspect ratio let me have another window open next to it for drawing along.

What a fun read :D I love the low stakes of the whole thing. Both these girls just fighting over the game as  poor sports. The music was *groovy*! I liked the patterned backgrounds, and the girls had fun designs :3

I knew nothing about mahjong going into this, but wanted to learn how to play, so most of my doodles I made while playing was notes on the rules of the game. Really fun intro to mahjong!! :D

i love when the video games is sex.

[THIS USER WAS BANNED FOR HAVING TOO MUCH FUN AT LOCALS]

The "Christ, i lost to someone like you?" part sort of scenario happened to me minus the toxic yuri... Playing low-tier characters because I like them, and winning through reads rather than obsessive practice and tech-intensive gameplay that will break your wrist by age 28. I stopped going to locals because of that.

Carla's memory problems came across just fine! While I was reading it, I was speculating if the trip to the airport might have actually taken place. I was imagining Frank and Carla being the only ones who were there for such a trip. If Frank had made that trip to have an affair or something, and wanted to keep carla from accidentally revealing the secret to his wife, he could easily use carla's failing memory as a cover for it.

Really nicely done! I love the art of the houses in the background.

spoilery speculation below

I wonder if they really did go to the airport. Was that a trip the wife wasn't supposed to know about? Or else just a little memory blip? Who knows!

I unzipped the folder, then ran "Mystic Manor.exe" and it gave me an error reading "extract failed." It made a mystic manor folder with the audio folder with 3 songs in it.

I redownloaded, and retried with the same results.

I'm using windows 11.

Ah, I see. I *was* reading the dialogues, but I didn't know that i could use other keys to advance.

your prose is delicious. I love these two creatures, they suck so much.

I like the presentation and writing! 
The descriptions of being cooked are fun, but i'd love for there to be more descriptive scenes of the sensations of being eaten. The tension of having an arm or a leg in your boyfriend's mouth; his gaze turning more and more animal as his saliva dribbles out from between his teeth. The scene of looking through the cookbook together on his lap is a great example of this, and really cute to visualize. <3

Does the game close if you win the encounter? In that case I think I won on my fourth attempt, and several times after that, but didn't know.

I think it would be helpful to have some kind of user feedback when they enter a "bad end" or beat a scenario. A bad end is a perfect scenario to get indulgent and gratuitous with a pre-written sexual encounter. 

The game immediately closing without warning or feedback upon win or loss is super annoying, especially when it means you have to click through the scenario again to get back to where you were.

Not a huge issue with just having the one encounter, as you can just spam 1 and Enter, but still a bit frustrating.

Still, I enjoyed the game, and I like the way that submissiveness works in it as a combat mechanic.

spoilers below

I liked the part with the gay sex (the entire comic)

the post hit collapse was really cute

the mechanic of "you must satisfy your partner adequately before the scene ends" is kinda killing me lmao

*is

it's the right thing to be

this churned my gut.

i learned so many fun new words!

mamelons...

I genuinely tried over 10 times and I can't beat the first encounter >,<
Really fun and hot concept! I just can't figure out the mechanics before i gameover

wait till Hill finds out about what the B stands for in lgbt

aaauuugh lillia sure does remind me of a certain me that I know...

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fantastic job showing the feelings of realizing that you and someone else are agreeing with each other, but interpreting the conversation completely differently.

I liked how adam talks right past lillia as she pushes back, how lillia was conversing with adam, but not the other way around.

The whole time I was reading adam talk about how hard men have things, I was screaming internally that lillia needs to read some goddamn transfeminist writings!!! The dworkin mention certainly influenced this. Everything adam was complaining about wrt fear of being labelled as a sex pest for being a man and how lillia has it so easy as a (trans) woman to not have to worry about that, made my head want to explode. Which I imagine is the intended reading, so bravo.

I'm just now putting together that adam was the source of the book in lillia's bag, which is a nauseating thought that has me going back and questioning everything else going on in the narrative. It's fascinating how lillia's anti-victim complex that she develops partly as a survival trait is something that makes her more prone to further victimization.

The monochromey color with sparse details works so well! I love the palettes you chose. The up-close shot where "Margot froze" is delicious.

I think the flavor profile of the nasty gin + energy drink concoction jess made is a fun way to think of it. Sour and sharp and sweet. (though not very sober)

I like the sound of it being tangible! That's a nice way to put it. Yes, the acoustic covers and physical sprites created a lot more work for us. Re-recording covers, re-drawing + shooting + digitizing sprites definitely would have been easier if we did things all digitally.

Yay! Balancing Jess and Alice's relationship was a huge source of edits and rewrites to get it there.

It didn't fit into the story, but Ellie absolutely puts a drink on her head and tells people "for you, it's on the mouse!"

my voice kinda quavers at the start of autumn leaves, but listening back to it I actually fell in love with that :)

I'm glad you were able to figure out your plurality! I don't even touch on the external scaries when it comes to that. When I realized I was plural, it felt so isolating how often people would just treat me as delusional. :(

It's a tough cross to bear, but it is so so so worth it.

Yeah! it was very different to write than what I'm used to. I realized I have a ton of phrases I use in first person that just don't work in 2nd person, so it was fun getting to build new kinds of sentences.

together we can get hashtag moth plushie moment trending

Thank you, it annoys me when a tf story skips the tf part!

That's the best part!! (for me anyway)

Thank you! The trans rage and trans love is from the heart. It is unbearably cruel, and yet we persist in spite of it.

Alice appreciates the hug, she needs it.

thank youuuu! Im glad you liked the music :) im really proud of the acoustic covers i did

let's all use the library computer together :)

ah i understand

I am sooooo excited to read this once I can block out a day or two for it!

yes miss nadia, right away miss nadia

This was the first of over 50 vns i've read this past month that made me cry.

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The turns the story takes are so insidious and breath-catching. So eye opening to see witness the ways both characters covet Chrys. 

In spite of the circumstances, Stephanie and Chrys's relationship came across to me as genuinely sweet. It first soured to me when she saw through Hellen's ruse; the way she degraded Hellen's femininity, her dress, her makeup, everything she had previously internally praised under the guise of it being directed at a trans woman was suddenly regarded with disdain. The line where she asked if the friend was envious or jealous was so haunting in retrospect.

Such a fantastic job portraying trans women as the women of women; targets for both disdain as lesser or imitations of the feminine, of women, and sex objects to be possessed and owned. Finally, someone I, as a woman, can treat like men treat me.

I've been coveted in this way most notably by a former partner, and my father. The partner was bisexual, but lamented that she went from dating "one of the good ones (men)" to just dating a woman. She was affirming, but still expected things of me as though I was a man, and made my life a living hell when we split. Stephanie's cancellation of Hellen following her discovery stung; I wonder how she might have behaved if Chrys had rejected her. My dad's coveting of me manifested as a sudden shift to try to control me; to possess what he felt he was losing. My (his) agency over me (his son); things like my (his) masculinity being threatened, my shirking of my expected duties as the only vector of paternal lineage on his side of the family.

The ending fucked me up so much because I came close killing myself as Chrys did, and would have if I had been a bit younger, a bit less independent, a bit more vulnerable. It's so fucked that it's the cis women who get to persist; who get to have this bitter "happy ending," who get to keep raping Chrys's memory after she died by their hands, after she died for their sins.

Absolutely blood curdling that we will never know what Chrys was actually like. We only have the self-serving accounts of people who coveted her, envied her, were jealous of her too much to ever love her. We only hear Chrys's story from the people with her blood on their hands.

i'm glad it was impactful :,)

here are some plural games you could check out: https://itch.io/c/7869576/plural

i didn't piece together that the quilts littering Ys's apartment were likely AIDS quilt panels for her friends. 

That adds so much more depth to Yamos using them as a blanket during her visit; the only physical warmth and comfort Ys being able to provide for her being remnants from her time committed to care for others; before growing cold from the cruelty of it all.

astoundingly gorgeous work. I learn so much when I read visual novels by kazehai and ppilotco. I would absolutely recommend playing with a web browser open, and going down rabbit holes whenever anything is mentioned that piques your interest.

Fantastic use of parallel dialogue. It's so fun reading between the lines; the things unsaid conveying more than words ever could. The girls are so perfectly fucked up by everything going on in their lives outside of baseball that it's the only thing their relationship can withstand being about.

here's my scorecard for this game

This performance absolutely blew me away.

The parallax of the theater seats is so cool! The myriad ways we are signalled as to which character is speaking was so natural and at the same time so mesmerizing. The art direction is so focused and well-defined and PRETTY! I love all the little details, the text imperfectly printed on theater pamphlets, the ways the stage dances around itself, the overwhelming amount of beautiful setpieces that y'all made for this, sometimes to only be seen for the blink of an eye.

Just before playing this, I was actually thinking a lot about set design for my next game, specifically on how The Adolescence of Utena, as well as the full series moves things around. This performance confirmed for me that all those things and more can be done with renpy, and I'm looking forward to digging through this thing's guts to see how it was all done. 

I barely think I'll be able to scratch the surface on how much I loved the writing. To start, the wordplay is out of this world. The title alone, "Moth X Flame," being the roles of the characters AND descriptive of the the theming and narrative is genius. I loved the monologues exploring plurality, gender, sexuality, aberration-as-disease, medicalization of the human experience, interpersonal relations as related to blood, conformity, monogamy, and rejection of the self. I was especially impacted by the scene about the self-pruning bonsai, due to my own experiences of being coerced into trimming away parts of myself for others.

I have a penchant for speaking and writing in an odd theatric fashion, and often suppress it for the sake of being treated as human. This play opened my eyes to how much of myself I am discarding by denying myself the bacchanal ecstasy of theatrics.

wow! Wowwowowowowowowowowowowoowowowowowowowowowowoowwoowowowowowowowowowow!

wow!!

i'm glad that you enjoyed it :) every time someone compliments the sprites, i tell my friends who drew them <3