An alignment chart meme, entitled "who is the 'woman in a white coat?' referring to the woman in the white coat from the s.f. route of the hundred line last defense academy. The squares reads as follows: lawful good: an older hiruko who went back in time neutral good: nozomi's mom seeking to aid her daughter and her friends chaotic good: hiruko with a fish head lawful neutral: an older nozomi who went back in time true neutral: she remains a mystery chaotic neutral: eito took estrogen but kept the white jacket lawful evil: norirou inone or an associate of theirs neutral evil: quite literally just some random 50 year old woman in a white coat chaotic evil: tokiko shigure (referring to the character from ai the somnium files nirvana initiative)

MAJOR HUNDRED LINE SPOILERS (and some aitsf nirvana initiative spoilers if you squint)

inb4 they possibly announce dlc on the 26th related to this character

83 unread work emails also

*breaks through a wall with a chainsaw* SIX WEEKS OF FREEDOM

the reasons you should play this game are too plentiful to contain in one tweet, but the biggest is the sheer contrast between the two routes where the protagonist *doesn't* see all the red flags, and the one route where they *very much do*. it's a rather interesting direction for this narrative.

i'm highly dependent on music to write fanfiction. good music -> brain amv -> scene. this helps me with pacing too. but this also goes in reverse. now i can't listen to this one song without imagining takumi sumino and yugamu omokage hundred line fighting to the death. help.

if i may shill a game demo:

knee deep in love is a vn where the protagonist is well aware they are being pursued by the horrors (three yandere lis) and it's honestly so much fun watching them deal with it. lis are great too. gorgeous artwork, interesting plot devices. very scary. highly recommend.

summer just hit where i am and suddenly i don't want to do anything

reminded of when my high school senior gym class got taken out on a happy day and it just killed my desire to do anything at all ever for the rest of the school year

Is it ethical to livetweet an indie otome / visual novel demo? On bluesky? If you think you're going to enjoy it? Staying in your lane re: comparisons? Following streaming guidelines? Extremely genuine question.

What a day to not be in [city i normally live in]. I'm out here agonizing over potentially missing the greatest party on Earth, and everyone's got woodcock fever.

I've got Obligations. So, of course, I do my best to focus on my Obligations. But my brain does not want the Obligations. It wants one thing only, and that is to write fanfiction.

post my hot takes and learn they're lukewarm at best

maybe i should make a hundred line side account or something

Keeping up with geopolitical events is actually the biggest time sink. It's worse than everything else.

Nothing else I can say that hasn't been said already. Our generation will never get that time back. It hurts.

I'm both a writer and a programmer. I've debugged AI-generated code and it was an honest-to-god headache, when I could have written something that worked even better myself.

Now they're telling me people enjoy "debugging" AI-generated stories? Get outta here.

Unironically the reason I began creating much older OCs is because League of Legends didn't want the Ruined King story to be the love story of two old people and I was like "Fuck that! I would kill for a story where a 50 year old man ruins the world just to be with his wife for even one day longer!"

there is a horrible contradiction between the fact that i think we need to abolish our societal systems of punitive justice and the fact that i just can't get enough of writing torture and saw traps and revenge plots and punishment as a narrative tool

I don't have a good read on her personality but please let her be a complete failgirl villain. Like I know she's one of the most powerful people in the ffxiv universe but please let her be silly

Setsu from the Gnosia Anime episode 21. They are lying on the ground.

Yuri from the Gnosia Anime episode 21. They are lying on the ground, with Setsu's hand on their cheek.

Setsu from the Gnosia Anime episode 21. They are lying on the ground, reaching their hand out towards the camera to stroke Yuri's cheek.

Setsu and Yuri from the Gnosia Anime episode 21. They are lying on the ground, with Setsu's hand on Yuri's cheek.

they are so fucking tender i think i am going to melt into a puddle and die

okay i haven't touched ffxiv in a bit who the fuck is halmarut and is it finally au ra fans' time to shine again

HAPPY "THE WHOLE PLOT OF THE ZERO ESCAPE GAMES STARTS TODAY" DAY

the one and only that will be

watch out for snails

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BE NORMAL ABOUT SETSU AND YURI AFTER THE GNOSIA FINALE

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Been on the web essay grind lately...

Paranormasight's Fantastic Writing Lies In Its Profound Understanding of the Human Condition: saltydracon.neocities.org/writing/file...

The Hundred Line Breaks one of Science Fiction's Longstanding Taboos: saltydracon.neocities.org/writing/file...

screenshot of a bluesky notification saying "chiitan liked your post" with the post being "we need more trans people doing this heavily stylized eyestrainy loud 'fuck you i'm happy i'm trans' type shit. with murder metaphors. because it rocks."

happened to me too lol

so apparently i got like 1000 clicks on an article about paranormasight i wrote yesterday but i have no idea if anyone liked it or not and it's haunting me

i know it's not a writer's place to be looking through ao3 bookmarks, but shoutout to the bookmarker whose other bookmarks are quotes they liked from the fics, while for my 800 word comedy fic they just repeated a relevant meme HAHAAAAAA

thank you that's the greatest compliment in the world

one time I spoiler tagged "shuten order science route/ace attorney 5/ai nirvana initiative/astral chain/honkai star rail"

Me before starting Paranormasight 2: I want Yumeko Shiki and Harue Shigima to kiss.

Me after finishing Paranormasight 2: I want Yumeko Shiki and Boss AITSF to kiss.

It honestly is a curse that I have so many web essays I want to write but I just hate the idea of *pointlessly gushing* on the Internet when I could be trying to make an argument, but who wants to be that guy? *bonks self* You can do whatever the hell you want, man. Stop being so uptight.

I FOUND IT!!! (IT WAS TWITTER)

A screenshot of a short review of Paranormasight: The Mermaid's Curse. The review reads as follows: A heart-pumping mystery and a tear-jerking coming-of-age story both, Paranormasight: File 38 continues the trend of letting the humanity of its characters shine forth in a tale about the supernatural. While I can definitely say I preferred the first game, File 23/tSMoH, Paranormasight: File 38/tMC is an equally unforgettable story. It's incredibly satisfying to keep your ears open for anything and anyone that can solve the predicaments that characters in other paths are facing, yet the inescapable dread of knowing where the answer lies is all the more gripping when you know. Even so, the game throws twists both expected and unexpected, that change the nature of the story completely when they are revealed. The Paranormasight games are suspenseful horror stories, but they never forget the people that fill their worlds, never reducing its main characters to plot devices, and even taking care to flesh out the side characters when they can. Every single character feels so whole, in such a satisfying way, whatever their roots or their motivations. Everyone feels complicated. Unlike some other high-concept games that project realism but fail to deliver satisfaction, this game presents realism through its characters, and hope through its plot - a perfect recipe for a story that grips you and subverts your expectations. Unsurprisingly, a hardcore Harue Shigima PNS1 fan is a hardcore Yumeko Shiki PNS2 fan, lol. And Arnav Barnum is going to be an incredible source of reaction images for me. But some of the most loving writing in this story goes to Sato Shiranami, who is a wonderful heroine from start to finish. Achieving the true ending may take some thinking outside the box, but you'll have earned it, by the end of it all.

Finished Paranormasight File 38: The Mermaid's Curse.

What an incredible game! The series continues its hallmark of being a story about people in situations that affect them in profound ways. Everyone is so ordinary, and so complicated, at the same time. An emotional story told with love.