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Really really loved this one, I was watching for a bit on tumblr waiting for it to come out and im so glad I did. Im really enamored specifically by the use of swirling lines and loose curvy shapes through/across the pages and leading up to the eventual reveal at the end of what the protag is doing. Huge fan of the use of youtube/video player/social media visuals throughout panels, it all comes together in a very distinct visual language. Definitely gonna be a reread!

played this twice back to back. i wasnt sure how it was making me feel until the tails doll. i had one as a kid too, considered him my best friend for a time--i was a lot like sonia, honestly, obsessed with sonic, talking to people i shouldnt have been online, engaging in sexual content in a way i found shameful and secretive, and now as an adult sometimes feeling like these experiences may have stunted me.

Ive never seen a piece of media so perfectly express how it felt to be a hyper-paranoid, anxious, suicidal kid during that time, being terrorized by stories of creepypastas, finding solace in an online life that brings back memories of both shame and nostalgia as an adult. I dont have a zip folder--i nuked most of my online presence off the internet and my own pc in my mid teens in a fit of paranoia. this game almost made me wish i hadnt, just so id have that secret still on my desktop, unopened. 

i fear im being a bit too rambly. this game brought up a lot of feelings id like to sit with for a while (in a good, cathartic way). id like to dish some of your own optimism back to you; i hope you keep making things. im going to go play some of your other VNs now. the voice you gave this game is one i think we could all use a lot more of--genuinely exploring the dark shameful secretive corners of the internet-addled brain.

thank you so much!! hoping to have more to share this year :)

This is my first actual review published on this site because this comic is so astoundingly good I couldn't not encourage more to read it. CPTSD and other forms of extended trauma (how im reading plover, as someone who has it) is a very difficult thing to depict accurately and with tact, but this comic absolutely does it,
while also providing a genuinely fascinating world AND relationship to be explored.

The art style is also genuinely one of the most interesting and gorgeous I've seen, especially for the tone of this story. The combination of relatively simple characters with dramatic, deep shading and what appear to be real life photos sprinkled in lend very well to the often disconcerting tone, especially when one of our main characters is having a Very Bad Time--I couldn't stop reading 'til I'd finished Vol2.

Truly I don't think I can express how much I love this comic, and I will be eagerly rereading as I patiently await Vol3. Amazing this is all being done by one person, even the music videos?!??!