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THANKS FOR READING AND QUOTING!!! i felt strongly about the last part because idk lol I sort of hear people Wish for rep all the time especially in queer spaces but it's all there if you read indie work!! and if you give indie devs money THEN THEY  MAKE EVEN MORE!!! but people want to give their money to Netflix i guess LOL

thank you so much!!

yes ^^ the sanitization of minorities is such a bore!!! i was even talking about it with lesbians recently amongst friends!!

thank you for reading!!

Yay! It was delightful to see this worked on. This is the most detailed I've seen your art be to date!! There are so many CGs too. It really surprised me! Yummy Kyou art.

The music is good and I've always liked how you write tense settings ^^ It has been so long since I've been able to consume your projects.. It is nice to again ^^ You write in a way that feels like home to me!!

I'm always happy to peak into your world.. It was nice seeing a world outside of the setting I'm already (somewhat) familiar with ^^ !!!

this looks amazing. shading, the colors, and the final pages. awesome that you managed to keep it so visually beautiful within the jam timeframe!

i read it twice actually. i was unsure of the direction on my first read only to adore it. the ending gutted me.

i enjoy this connection between a pilot and their vehicle quite a bit… so this really scratches an itch in my brain!! thank you for joining!!

Lower commenter saying this felt like a headache is right- a migraine in particular. The layout of this is interesting. I didn’t know Twine could make ereaders like this. It’s very lovely… 

Writers looking for answers via creation of art is something I always enjoy. The worldbuilding and description of “Perpetua” in fiction was really interesting. I like how the maid’s thought processes and how she came to create her work is developed.

Thank you for joining the jam!!

This is soo lovely. I was very engaged the entire time. The description of combat is really good, honestly crazy good to me. 

The characters are also very strong. Kail described this better than I could so I won’t repeat too much, but their dynamic is quite pleasant. I had a moment when reading this where I went “oh yeah the romance!!” and got super excited ^^ I already liked the two of them.

You don’t have to say you’re not good at art and coding also ^^ Your writing is strong enough without all of that. I hope to see your work more!!!

I read this over and over and it meant a lot to me.. Thank you.. ^^ I want more soulful depictions of SH because there aren't... many depictions I care for, so I'd like to write more T_T

Thank you so much for reading  ^^!

Thank you.. I keep reading comments and treasuring them only to forget to respond. This means the world to me!

thank you for reading c:

c: https://ophanimkei.itch.io/girlfriend-dressup

i really love this game, and it's something i've been looking for as a big dressup games fan. i saw you below say that you are not sure if you will release it on steam or not but please do not be discouraged by the lack of popularity- really i think people just don't go to itchio for dress up games first a lot of the time because they can be hard to find here!

also this game was on my to play list for quite some time but i admittedly was confused and overwhelmed. it is easiest enough to figure out but instructions and an explanation of what is and isn't finished would help a lot! ie customers asking for things that don't exist made me feel like i was missing something! ^^;

some word choices confuse me like "neckle" and "mix" the font also sometimes makes it difficult to differentiate certain numbers which can be a bit confusing with some of the number issues that exist! this does not ruin the fun but it did put me off of playing at first!!

the timed shop is fun!! it'd be super fun if it worked consistently (i just kept refreshing) i love customers coming and choosing from what you've bought from. it's really fantastic. thank you for making this!!!

that’s crazy cause you’re also someone i look up to in making egl media!!!!

So cute oh my god! This is so so cute. The dolls are already cute then I SAW THE LITTLE POMERANIAN WAAAH. Really charming. You have to make more cute things now. 

The mushroom legs.. Oh my god.

ee tysm!! and i’m happy you like that scene!! it’s nice to capture.. the speedy pacing!! it’s always nice go hear emma is understood..  since sm of the vn is dedicated towards her progression.. she is special to me!!! 

Thank you so much Eyelette! All-of this means a lot to me. I wanted to make a proper response- especially since I find myself rereading this over and over again. I really really appreciate it!!

The robot sounds are really cute. Your art is spectacular also good god. The animations.. the cgs.. the UI... It's all so cute and cohesive. (Your textures are awesome)

The sound design is really good. It is pleasant to hear and warms me up. The fade outs during the fanfiction explanations were really good too. This entire things gives me a lot of nostalgia.. not that it feels old (though it certainly reminds me of retro games I used to play) but it is nice and familiar.

"I would've gladly provided the author with pirate history." I love you Lita.. sniffles.. and I loved every second of this. Thank you for submitting! If you ever go back to this.. Just know.. MY LIFE IS YOURS...

really cute. so green. i'm always fond of body discussions with robots and i'm also fond of talk about food consumption. seeing them combined like this is really based. to think someone achieved something via something that is impossible for you to only find out this assumption is incorrect.. it is good.

Togzhan is based and I can understand Rukimi's feelings. thanks for submitting to the jam!

The way this is depicted is lovely and not something I've seen before. It's unique to me though perhaps that is a sign of me not reading enough indie work haha! It's really inspiring. I like it a lot.

The art is really lovely.. The fanbook to a turn I certainly didn't expect though I found it really delightful. I was excited seeing Adachi Rei.. I am not as familiar with all of vocaloid as I should be but seeing Adachi Rei works is always a delight. They are always interesting, and this is no exception ^^

The fish and wires.. all really good.. I want to reread this until the entire thing is imprinted on my brain! 

I really adored this though I struggle to put into words what I adored. The living building, the music choices, the commentary on housing upper management, and I love.. Garcia. MES's own struggles felt like mine throughout in that I also struggled to differentiate what it was experiencing with the information given to me by the reports. Memory loss and being the reader made me feel kinship.

I at some point eventually had to play this without the videos though I'd hoped it'd just work eventually. I did play them separately though. Many were quite short. Perhaps stability in GameMaker can be achieved via frame switching or a large sprite sheet, but I am just guessing!

Thank you so much for submitting! It was so nice to consume another work by you! There are many more by you I should eat too.. Please make games forever!

Really lovely presentation. I liked the sound effects and the clicking around for the surroundings. The art is fantastic too. And the dentist(?) is really beautiful. Adored! I love teeth horror.

Yes it was interesting ^^ !

I see. Well, I don’t think fiction and reality have a 1:1 correlation which is why I think a lot of content has the right to exist.  Looking at something critically doesn’t mean it has a 1:1 correlation. To believe that is against looking at it critically- it is black and white thinking I am against hence my entire feelings about being anti-censorship.

Fetishization of minorities changes people’s thoughts about those minorities long term because of all of the other factors at play. This is something that is prevalent with discussions around Black men because so much content based around them is fetishistic in nature.

I can’t wrap my head around your fetishization statement. Fetishization is dehumanizing because to make something an object of desire is to objectify that thing or person. It’s not Just Attraction. People want to be viewed as desirable especially minorities with a history of not being viewed that way, but to only be viewed as an object of desire because of your ethnicity or disorder or other identity results in you not being viewed as a person.  I sometimes embrace these depictions but other times it is tiring.

To find black women beautiful means nothing because black women don’t look or act the same. To find a disorder attractive doesn’t mean much either because but all presents differently. In fiction, it’s a complex topic because fiction can humanize a character that was made for the purpose of fetish, but often it does not because so much of fetish is rooted in stereotypes or ignorance.

Thank you for reading. I won't lie- I would prefer if you explained your disagreements about minority and fetish to see if you misunderstood or actually disagree with me ^^ Because it's something I feel strongly about as a Black person, not just as a 'minority'. It was specifically in relation to my race, but I brought it up in case other minorities felt similarly about this and to have non-Black people think about fetishes that don't affect them.

I think the relationship between the being a minority and fetish-work itself is complicated, but the reason I mentioned it is because on SNS there are often rallying cries behind posts with big lists of fetishes that are viewed as 'weird' that people should support, but it just ends up bothering me because 'raceplay' and adjacent fetishes are never mentioned despite it being such a popular fetish and something I have to actively watch out for when interacting with others online- because it is so common but just not acknowledged at all. As a cis girl, it affects me differently from black men too, but it is much more defined and visible for them to the point where it's mentioned in casual conversations now.

Entire countries depictions of black people are often majority fetish related or show the consequences of fetish work (ie Japan/Korea) and it affects how we are viewed and interacted with by others.  In these large conversations, people love to pretend it doesn't exist or not discuss it which makes me very uncomfortable because we are often erased anyways, but at the same time, some of the fetishized depictions are very beautiful depictions, but they'll never be mainstream because the casual fetishization is what is in mainstream media and that stuff continues to result in us being viewed negatively. This I've seen happen with other minorities too, but the fetishization of us in particular is so mainstream and normalized that it the erasure isn't even questioned anymore.

Despite it being something no one talks about despite it's popularity, it's not affected by the Paypro stuff AT ALL which to me is significant, even if I left is as subtext in the zine itself. It's something a lot of people engage in, but because it's not queer, it's not being targeted which allows it to be left out of these convos.. You can't say words related to familial relations on a lot of Xvideo sites but you can say 'black slave' freely. The relationship queer people have with fetishization and Black people is different- hence I didn't go into it very much because it wasn't a Main point and this zine was focused on the disproportionate queer work being harmed that includes fetish and non-fetish work, but I mentioned it to bring this into the viewer's mind's eyes.

But I can also have my opinion changed or altered, but well, I can't gleam anything from your comment ^^ I'd like to hear what your disagree with so I can think about it because we have been erased in these conversations, and you are the first person to bring it up in this comment section and I've been curious about how people would respond to it for a while!

Thank you for reading!

Yes the thing is I have friends who make NSFW games who didn't know about this because they're just not tuned in on SNS or to analyticsand the SFW developers who are aware tend to be involved in NSFW spaces.. IE devs like the Heavensent dev.

And yes, Itchio is so bad... at making minority content viewable. It's one thing I was getting at via the nature of tags. The ability to not exclude anything makes this problem worse. The fetish community and the LGBT community on Itch have a lot of tag overlap which makes things more difficult- especially since a lot of the time it is beneficial for people in the LGBT community to use fetish tags (or to embrace these tags wholeheartedly for a variety of reasons).  

A lot of queer people join game jams which helps a lot bit but maybe one day Itchio will make curated collections or the collections of users a core part of the site you can actually look at.. I sometimes find games via just looking at the analytics of collections my games are in haha.

i'm happy you were able to put things into words. i felt the need to explain it because on SNS people act like corporation and lawmakers just do things because 'they are evil' but just saying that gives them too much plausible deniability and even acts of 'evil,' have reasoning behind them. but at times i worried i was infantilizing the audience :"D

i think humans will make art forever.

yes c: i hope more people embrace more platforms someday

Smiles. I opened this then checked the character count on the game page.. The computer started singing to me, and it made me smile. It's always my favorite thing about computers- that they can sing to you.

This made me sad. I always get kind of sad at the pushing of desktop pets beyond what they are meant to be so the ending hit me even harder.

The art is really delightful, beautiful. I was surprised by parts of it. The main character really does scream ukagaka and the art direction itself is very solid and beautiful. Kleisinky LOOKS FANTASTIC. Truly adore it every CG and sprite in this work.

Thank you for creating a work for Roro Jam! A VN on this subject was not on my list of possibilities so it really surprised me (pleasantly!)

thank you!! i'm happy to provide catharsis. and honestly I WISH I HADN'T KNOWN. it would've made his human reveal really fucking funny and good for me. unfortunately i was introduced to HH via discourse and Alastor became object of fascination so i learned about him very quickly!!

so cute. i didn't realize how badly i needed a goblin cat dollmaker in my life (okay maybe it has crossed my mind a few times)

and it's always nice to see other lolitas making lolita media!!!

This came out so beautifully!! Seeing the entire story and everything come together ^^ It really makes me happy!! So sooo delightful!!!

so so lovely. thank you so much!!

Thank you ! I appreciate! I've seen a lot of people using it but wasn't sure if it was worth changing! I understand a lot more now ^^

Yeah honestly so much could've been handled with her better/more gracefully if she just hadn't been bubbled. In Future she still seems uncomfortable and her beliefs seem to never be proven wrong outside of the Diamonds changing their mind because Steven is literally Pink. If Steven and Rose weren't literally Diamonds, they likely would've only been stopped via shattering.

She is forced to be static while seeing change happen around her (which also happens to Jasper lmao). It's so weird considering Lapis and Peridot are added to the cast lineup yet Bismuth is just not.

I grew more fond of Bismuth's design post show's ending because she is beautiful giant lesbian. I disliked a lot of the sensibilities of SU's designs for black women but... lesbianism. She is the most butch design in the show and it sucks even more that she was gone because her presence made everyone feel so Lesbian.. Like it felt like Lesbian family culture then she was sent to Bubble Hell.

I admire your efforts. I'm curious. Why are you moving to Obsidian ^^

Yeah!! I raelly wanted to mention Ryu because even outside of Ciconia, so much of his characterization works well because of love- even the aspects of his work I dislike are overshadowed by the love he has for what he's writing.

And honestly yeah! The thing is that stuff was everywhere. I blamed Tumblr but a lot of it was proliferated elsewhere too (Buzzfeed was mainstream so). Tumblr discourse just affected the rest of the internet because of its dominance at the time. With Hispanic people, I don't even know if I Can wrap my head around the representation I've seen because even in black dominated media, you all are so prominent but.. How you are depicted varies so much!!

Thank you for reading!

Thank you!