Does Anyone Have A Link To A Back-to-basics Article About Good Fanfic Practices, Like Standards Of Content

choking on water is the worst because how do you stop choking? drink something? well ive got some bad news for you

Something that I first applied to working with children, and have applied in a limited form to working with adults: you don't need to tell someone when they read your instructions wrong. Sometimes it's enough to point out what they did right and then whatever they didn't do? You ask them to do it in more precise words, and you make it sound like it's a new request. Remarkable how fast things get done this way.

So, I love looking through your game recs, and all of them look so interesting!

The only problem is that I have zero money at the moment, or at least zero that can be spent of games.

I don’t suppose you know any good/enjoyable games that are free or have a demo?

(There is only so much time you can spend doing housework or looking for work and I’ve replayed and replayed the games I’ve already got so many times)

It’s funny you should ask. Folks often ask me how the hell I have thousands of games in my Steam library, and the answer is, well, a substantial chunk of them are free to play. Many of them are very, very bad, but there are exceptions – I’ve placed links to the 120 or so that I’d actually recommend to other people under the cut.

A lot of these games are quite short (i.e., average playing time in the five to fifteen minute range), but they're free, so really that's good value for your money! Note: owing to the length of this list, I will not be including descriptions or content warnings – be sure to check the writeups and reviews.

I’ve marked my personal top dozen with asterisks (*). These aren’t necessarily the most approachable or well-constructed titles on this list, mind – just the ones I had the most fun with.

Agent-00

Alien Squatter

Arc Apellago

Atma

Aurora: A Child's Journey

Becalm

Beneath a Steel Sky

BirdGut

Camp W

Cloud Climber

Court of Ashes

Dead Horizon*

Deepest Sword

Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure

Doki Doki Literature Club!

Down Ward

Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald

Emily is Away

ERROR: Human Not Found

Estigma

Faefever

First Snow

Flicker of Hope

Frame of Mind

Frog Fractions

From the Shadows

GET OUT!

GNRBLEX

Grace

Gravitas*

Grimm’s Hollow

Hare Apparent

Heart of Enya

Helltaker

Heroine’s Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok*

Himno

Honey Rose: Underdog Fighter Extraordinaire

Hopebringers

HorrorVale

If On A Winter’s Night, Four Travellers

Janosik - Highlander Precision Platformer

K Station

Kari

Karisvale

Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls*

Kidz

Lake of Voices

Last Slice

Loading Story

Lockheart Indigo*

LunarLux - Chapter 1

Mandagon

MetaWare HIgh School (Demo)

Miksa’s Cave

The Mirror Lied

missed messages

Mission Zigloton

Mission: It’s Complicated

Mitoza

Monolight

Mushroom Cats

NaissanceE

The Night Fisherman

Nocturne: Prelude

The Odyssey of the Mammoth

one night, hot springs

One Ping Only

Overclocked*

Perfect Vermin*

Perspective

The Pilgrim

Pink Heaven

Placement

Planetary Planter

Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt*

Project Exhibited

Prologue for a Vacant Kingdom

Quest 4 Papa: Reloaded

A Raven Monologue*

Red Planet Farming

Relic Hunter Zero: Remix

Return.

Roller Riot

Saira*

Senna and the Forest

Shine Within

Shotgun Witch

SKYE

Slay the Dragon!

A Small Robot Story

Soma Spirits: Rebalance

Soma Union

Sono

Soulspace

Space Choice: Data Analyser

Star Apprentice: Magical Murder Mystery*

STAY

Stealthscape

Stones of Solace

Super Crate Box

Super Raft Boat

The Supper

Swallow the Sea

Swarm

Tadpole Tales

TAKANARIA

Tiny Bunny: Prologue

Tori

Tree Trunk Brook

Tukoni

UNBEATABLE

We Went Back

We Were Here

What Never Was

Wienne*

The Wild Eternal

With You

You Have to Win the Game

You Will (Not) Remain

Yume Nikki

April Fool’s Day is in a few days, and I just wanted to make this clear. This blog is safe, and I can promise you no screamers, nothing emotionally abusive, no fake posts, and nothing to intentionally trigger dissociation. You are safe here.

Genuinely wish we could go back to that time in fandom where creators and fandoms just left each other alone. Please. For the love of god.

I’m sick of people demanding constant answers and information from creators about things that don’t need answers or further information. I’m sick of people using fucking Word of God tweets in their shitty fandom discourse as an excuse to call someone a sexual predator. I’m sick of creators going onto fandom posts and basically telling fans that they’re wrong for interpreting/interacting with content in a certain way. I’m sick of creators giving any opinions on fandom ships at all.

I’m just tired of it. I’m done. We need those boundaries back.

when i go in a room and forget what i needed i become a point and click protagonist. [water bottle?] that’s not helpful right now. [socks?] i don’t know what to do with that. [charger?] that’s not helpful right now. [scissors?] i can’t do anything with that. [water bottle?] that’s not helpful right now. [lone paperclip?] that’s not helpful right now. [water bottle?]

“This site unusable when you dont care about the new joke” that’s great honestly. I like when people here suffer over inane stuff, it’s funnier than the original joke, let’s keep it going

for like a decade I kept getting the advice of "don't ruminate" but also "sit with your emotions" and I was like What The Fuck Does That Even Mean. until someone finally explained it in a way that makes sense:

so there's the emotional part of your brain ("I'm embarrased") and then there's the storytelling part ("all my friends hate me and I'm a piece of shit"). when people say "don't ruminate" what they mean is don't feed the storytelling part

you tend to the emotion ("I'm feeling x. why am I feeling that? how do I move forward given that information? what's something nice I can do for myself right now to cope with this?") but you treat the storytelling part like a little goblin that's trying to be as unhelpful to this whole process as possible. this doesn't shut the storytelling goblin up completely, but it keeps it from causing so much chaos and over time it stops talking so damn much

it's basically like if you were trying to comfort a friend. you'd validate their emotions, but you wouldn't sit there and let them call themself a piece of shit. do that for yourself

sharing this in case someone else is also like Why Didn't Someone Just Say That

UM GUYS. I JUST NOTICED A CRAZY ISSUE W THE TUMBLR UPDATE.

In case anyone is having a bad night:

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*tucks you in with fuzzy blanket* *pats your head*

You’ll be okay, friend <3