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thank you for the kind words :))

i'm glad that the subtext of the story bleeds through. the sadness is laced in subtlety and both tska and i wanted the story to be told this way. it's a pleasure that you can have such an amazing takeaway from it c': 

thank you :)) we did our best...

thank you for the read :))

i've already talked about most of what i wanted to say on da fluxer already, but i'm glad that you could find yourself in both of the characters. they are reflections of all of us, there's a galia and a nita in all our hearts c': 

OWWWW

genuinely awesome gameplay loop. nukes anyone who's into card-based roguelikes (me as fuck). cute ghost girl in screen is +1000 points. thank you for the awesome game i will be playing it more 

thank you for playing ! 

i want the characters to stay with you for a long long long time. i really do feel the same way with galia and nita. i find myself thinking about them often, ,

aah!!!! both tska and i were floored by your comment. it really is a beautiful description of what we were trying to talk about. being consumed by grief. being consumed by love. it is part of life and part of loving. and as you change, sometimes you see your own love changing too. it's a scary thought

wow. just. wow 

genuinely sublime insight that gave me a deeper appreciation for the story. how do you two even come up with these things man. thank you for the awesome postmortem, i learnt so much 🥹 

thank you !  i do my best. shakespeare is not my muse. merchant of venice sucked balls. in a way, ripping the fungi was an act akin to shylock taking a pound of flesh from antonio. except that never really happened in MoV. but it happens here? but also it doesn't? it's awesome

it do be like that. hindsight is always much clearer 

but thank you regardless for the amazing read :)) and for a first try it's crazy good ! and i'll definitely take a look at the readings you recommend when i have the time to do so ^^

there are conversations that you can have with strangers that you can't have with friends around you. and i think that this is what i felt after understanding the context of summersound and the article by cravens ties into it. it's really grueling knowing that this is how it Is for queer people (i.e. so much is unsaid inbetween lines with those that know us, but so much is said to those that Know us), and to read such a sincere piece of poetry. aah man.  [waves hands] thank you!!!! 

really interesting how different the plaintext ver reads. affects pacing so much more. feels like i'm going to die from the heat of southeast asia

sublime. every scene feels like a finger curling at my throat, trying to induce vomit. never thought i'd scream when i saw fungi unfurling from someone's crotch but god does it sting

amanita as a name works really well it's true
thank you for playing!!!  

love is part of life. and to live is to accept that ebb and flow 

really glad that this work managed to reach you like that. it's a very vulnerable piece that both tska and i are proud to put out into the world ^^

thank you! ! love is transcendent ... it really is

tysm :))

thank you so much for playing ^^

i've already said a lot of what i wanted to say on fluxer already so i'll keep it extra brief here, but, i'm really glad that we were able to write nita and galia in a way that's relatable. and the thing about love is that it's really difficult to love someone correctly and over time you'll just watch it be crushed by either yourself or someone else. and it takes so much to try and maintain it. because if your love is maintainable, was it truly perfect in the first place? 

even mushrooms wilt. and love may, and it does, too. but it is never too late to tend to it 

i've been chewing on this comment a bunch and thinking about it. because it definitely is a really interesting approach from what we started from (i.e. galia being the main perpetrator for why nita Is the way she is, and how galia worsened her fears and anxieties). and even so, love is about knowing how to accept someone despite their flaws. and that gets suffocating in of itself when you do not realise you want to communicate that struggle but don't have it in you to do so. it's really terrifying to think about and i'm glad you mentioned this even if it wasn't our explicit focus ^^

felt so terrible when the controller sound kept popping up. everything definitely sped up towards the end and i felt like i was going to throw up much in the same way esther was going to

! ! ! thank you ! ! !

sublime photography too. it really just feels like earnest, sincere photos from a teen. and that adds onto the horror of mundanity. short and simple and just, so so horrid all around 

the sydney opera house effect at the start was so amazing.

really poignant writing with little to no sugarcoating. just a gut punch over and over. i have no words, thank you..

thank you :)) 
i'd be lying if i said that the horror didn't lie in how mundane it was. really wanted to make something that looks tame on the label but just gets worse and worse. and then you don't realise how bad its gotten ! 

again, thank you for playing c':     

we are all shroomers in this house!!!!!!!! thank you!!!!!!!!!

so it's about baseball. and you realise it's not about baseball anymore. and you realise it's everything to do inbetween and also baseball and more. and you realise that things are going to shit because of baseball. but it was never about baseball? but you think it was / and you think it is / and it gets worse.

what a fucking masterclass in storytelling. if i had a fucking dime for every time i was floored by your writing wrt the indomitable american/canadian dream i'd have two dimes. which is crazy. the environment in which this takes place in is sublime and there's always such a heavy, heavy weight to your writing that compels me in ways few other works can compare up to. and again, the way baseball is used to illustrate ys and yamos and everything else. it's so insane. it's so genius. nobody does it like you and pilot and i will keep looking forward to more of the stuff you make. WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!

i hope you may be greeted by warm drinks and comfy blankets soon...

oops! i was one number off! 

but yeah, thank you for the vn... it's beautiful. i've heard time and time again about how horridly asian women are treated in western countries (in person) and also online! so thank you for not sugarcoating it ^^

take care!!! and no problem for reading 

i am reminded of another vn (96 theses) but this hits so much harder because of its brevity

short, but so, so haunting 

southeast asian tgirl here. there's definitely a huge racism issue in online queer spaces that are left unreckoned with by white tgirls  specifically because there is a subconscious premise that due to their own oppression, they are unable to inflict that same oppression onto other people, yet this is very much not the case. it's so fucking jarring whenever i see people say "i'm in a chinese time of my life right now" unironically because it goes to show just how Dense people can be especially while thinking that the culture and lived experiences of a marginalised demographic (like themselves!) are simply traits or quirks they can co-opt. which is insane, especially with regards to just how alienated and idealised asian culture has been made in recent times. what a fucking gut punch. today i will celebrate by not drying my hair, and getting a cold, like usual

it's the first time ever in my life that i have hair this long! time to get sick to a no longer false premise!

kai!!!!! i already replied to what you said on fluxer but thank you c': tysm!!! have a meemaw as my thanks...

i'm!!! super glad!!! we will soon have a shroomer nation

this is genuinely haunting

the setting hits really close to home as well. in a time where everything is trying to burn you alive and consume you, the worst thing is having the comforting warmth of someone you trust end up becoming worse than the blazing sun

or colder than the darkest winters. it's terrible

thank you for this ! 

beautiful beautiful visual aesthetic and really trippy writing are the first two things that come to mind. everyone in the story feels strained and terrible in ways that i never thought were possible. minus the nematodes (they keep dying) and the slug empress (thank you for the hug) but genuinely even with a hard to follow story i think that it just feels like having a punch to the gut over and over visualised and verbalised through such a raw presentation. enjoyed it a lot, even though there were some parts in the writing that i couldn't understand as well, and the text would blend into the background at times

thank you 

beautifully earnest, sincere and vulnerable

it's a glimpse into the fleeting moments of someone's life. and that in itself is so perfect in all of its imperfections