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My silly little queer game about lesbians getting involved in ancient feuds between old gods is finally launching! On the 24th!

It's really REALLY choice driven - multiple endings and paths through the story, if you get into the lore you'll be playing it again and again.

AND it's super queer!

You can wishlist it here and there's a intro demo for it there too :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3100650/Quantum_Witch/

edit: WOW FOLKS! You have made an INCREDIBLE difference over the past few days!! We have a real chance of hitting the magic 7500 wishlists that it takes for steam to actually care about showing the game to people!

So if that happens before launch, I'll donate the first £1000 of sales to Mermaids, a charity here in the UK that helps trans kids.

Seriously, you've made this big ol' gay gal making this from her back bedroom do a little happy cry.

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Well, now that you've played Undertale... What did you think of the game forcing you to befriend Undyne to get the best ending? I know she was raised that way in her culture to think it was the right thing, but I think it's a poor message to state that you have to extend an olive branch to someone who tried to kill you.

Okay, well, we have to unpack these things:

Extending an olive branch to someone who tried to kill you is what real mercy is all about. The cycle of violence has to end somewhere, and expecting them to end it instead of ending it yourself might not accomplish anything. You have to be the change you want to see in the world. If you really want peace, prove it at the risk of your own life. That's what makes the gesture important.

It is weird to immediately be hanging out at Undyne's house maybe 30 minutes after she attempted murder on you, but I'm 99% sure that's the joke. Especially given the whole interaction is Undyne getting her "revenge" by basically killing you with kindness.

I don't find the message weird at all. It's a story about how there are no monsters except for the ones you make in your head. That everyone can be saved, even the worst of us. And I generally agree with that, though obviously certain aspects of the real world complicate that goal a fair amount. But that's why Undertale is a story. It's not real life. Just like the fact that the Grinch isn't real and his heart wouldn't really grow three sizes. You just have to believe that a better world is possible.

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Heya! Back from a small break and ready to show some pride!

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The Cavemanon Files

This documentation is regarding Cavemanon. They are an independent development team that created Snoot Game (the parody of proudly LGBT indie game Goodbye Volcano High) and its spiritual successor, I Wani Hug That Gator!, which released on Steam February 14th, 2024.

The vast majority of this information had been compiled over the past few months by an independent team, and Caliber (ex-Cavemanon developer who worked on Snoot Game, credited as “Spigot The Bear Anon”), has volunteered to be the primary contact regarding this documentation.

Regarding the company’s newest game, I Wani Hug That Gator!, Cavemanon failed to pay wages towards many members of the development team, with the few members who did get paid being forced to sign a potentially fraudulent NDA contract and being offered as little as $50 for their work on a game that is estimated to have made $15k-$20k within a week of its launch. Among the people not paid – wages, royalties or otherwise – includes the creator of the concept, Loanshark, who had begun it as a passion project with his friends before Cavemanon took it over.

Additionally, “Nerd”, the head of Cavemanon and the originator of the Snoot Game idea, is openly anti-LGBT; he has admitted that anti-LGBT messages were fundamental to Snoot Game (and he’s upset more people don’t see it that way), and he has attempted to impose his personal views on the fandom. This has included attempting to assert control over moderation teams of an art server, sabotaging a gay mod for Snoot Game and accusing its creator of being a pedo, and having a Wani character be hastily redesigned a week before the game’s launch after finding out the artist had designed her as a transgender woman.

There’s a whole lot more, linked below, with citations in both links and screenshots. Some names and personal info are redacted for people’s safety.

[ download link ] [ backup link 1 ] [ backup link 2 ]

[ Internet Archive ]

(On a personal note: it’s cold comfort to me that I got doxed for calling Snoot Game transphobic, only to find out later that the guy behind it admitted that was the goal all along.)

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Happy Mother's Day

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All my major Sonic The Hedgehog work over the years, including both IP classics and OC commissions.

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sooo about that inhibitor ring rouge kept (🤔💍😏💕🙊)

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A boy can dream, can't he?

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Sally Acorn is an amazing character (alongside Whisper she's my fav) but she's also had a lot of crap put on her...

And sadly she's ignored :(

my lifelong special interest in sonic the hedgehog has both a very sincere side (those little animal characters are so cute! these games are fun! yay bright colors and the power of friendship!) and a side I can only describe as "morbid fascination with all the ways a long-running franchise can try to do a million different things and none of them are good or right or nourishing to the human spirit"

today, I would like to take you all on a special journey through the latter !

did you know that, at a conservative estimate, there have been attempts to create a recurring love interest for the blue man himself no less than FIVE SEPARATE TIMES. MORE IF YOU COUNT THE ONES THAT WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO LAST

below is Madonna (left) and Breezie (right). Madonna was a damsel in distress type character Sonic would've been saving in an early draft of the OG 1991 game. Breezie was a temporary love interest in the 90's cartoon, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, who seems to be inspired by the scrapped Madonna concept.

another scrapped love interest was Tiara Boobowski, who was at one point in development going to be a playable character in Sonic X-treme, a game intended for release in the 90's, though it never materialized. it seems her story went through a few different iterations before development ceased. she has the dubious honor of being the first "princess" character created for the purpose of being Sonic's love interest, which would be revisited at least two more times in other contexts.

the first love interest to stick around for a while was Princess Sally Acorn, developed from the squirrel critter design in the early games into a major supporting character in the 90's cartoon Sonic SatAM (left), then kept around in various iterations in the comic book spin-off series published by Archie Comics (middle + right) until the series' end in the mid-10's. she was in an on-and-off relationship with Sonic over those decades, for better or for worse, and they had by far the longest running romance arc out of all of Sonic's love interests to date. after suffering every romantic melodrama plotline imaginable, she was unceremoniously booted from the franchise when the rights to Sonic comic books were moved over to IDW Publishing. rest in peace, Sally, you didn't deserve any of that. at the very least for five minutes towards the end, she stopped dating Sonic and it was implied she started dating her long-time gal pal, Nicole, so she had that going for her for a little bit. counting our blessings

speaking of romantic melodrama, the Archie comics also gave Sonic a temporary love interest in Mina Mongoose because they wanted to write in a love triangle. there was a "main characters all grown up and starting nuclear families" future story at one point where they married Mina off to Tails instead, which somehow felt deeply cruel to both Mina and Tails. "hand-me-down love interest" is a bad, bad vibe for everyone involved

a few years on, in the mid 00's, the games were having their own weird little time giving Sonic a short-lived romance arc with new addition to the cast, Princess Elise the Third, who only showed up in the game Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) and managed to lay one singular smooch on Sonic's corpse to bring him back from the dead, disney style, before she was banished from the franchise due to a monumental amount of backlash (against both her character and the game as a whole). I'm beaming hostile psychic waves into sega's headquarters until they bring her back with better writing and none of that stupid shit. they did it with Silver, they have no excuse

and of course we finally have the one. the only. the most persistent girly of all time who's been trying to marry Sonic since 1993 and is still truckin' on in the year of our lord 2025 even though he's slippery as an eel and he "don't wanna" and there's kind of an uncomfortable age difference and reciprocated romance has over time become more or less outlawed by Sega because it never really pans out for them for some inexplicable mysterious reason. everybody's favorite hyper violent child psychic AMY ROSE !!!!

great character!! has always had so much potential to do her own cool thing if only they'd let her!! if they don't drop the stupid "kinda love interest, kinda not" aspect of her character soon, I'm going to start CRYING BLOOD!! FREE HER <3

anyway honorary mention also goes to Blaze the Cat (left, game continuity, still active), Bunnie Rabbot (center, Sonic SatAM + Archie comics, goners with the Archie series cancellation) and Fiona Fox (right, Archie comics, also goners, same deal), who, while not introduced as love interests, have all been put into some kind of romantic context with Sonic at one point or another just because

(and also while not really relevant to the topic at hand, I would be remiss not to give a special shout-out to the multitude of male characters who were most likely never intended to have any romantic connection to Sonic, but because this series is shonen anime inspired and the rivalries get crazy, our boy still has to hear shit like this on the regular)

and like, you know I've probably forgotten some more girlies out there, too. Sonic the Hedgehog has been pelted with potential romance arcs since the day he was created, and I'm sure there are more out there lost to time/my shoddy memory.

and it's just ... so profoundly morbidly funny to me. unstoppable force (heteronormativity) VS immovable object (misogyny). countless futile attempts to convince kids across the world that a cool guy like Sonic TOTALLY GETS GIRLS, DAMN IT, HE IS FULFILLING HIS HETEROSEXUALITY QUOTA, WE PROMISE, combined with this utter disinterest in sufficiently developing female characters who can effectively fill that role. even Sally Acorn, who was put through hell in the spin-off comics for DECADES serving as the designated narrative romantic punching bag, would eventually go gentle into that good night without fanfare because porting her into a new continuity would just be so much worrrrrk ughhh she's not even Sonic's girlfriend anymore so whateverrrrr

though as much as a massive L as this is for women, at the very least these poor girls are taking the obligatory main character romantic subplot down with them. taking one for the team here. Sonic is so fast and so smooth, those cringey romance plots just slide right off the wind screen of his character and I at least love that part. I love that it never works out and our protagonist remains utterly unpairable. and I hope nothing ever sticks. and I hope the current staff continue to get better at writing female characters just for the sake of having some cool girls around who are interesting in their own right. and may a thousand more cynical, sexist, half-assed attempts to awkwardly shoehorn romance into stories where it doesn't belong wither and die just as spectacularly, booyah

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I love them ✨

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Sally Acorn haters stop to come up with the shittiest takes challenge: impossible

Imagine seeing a female character that had to become a leader at the age of five, kept all her emotions inside, was sexually assaulted by a pedo and then mentally and emotionally abused by her dad. That she blamed herself by mistakes caused by her abuse and decided to sacrifice herself to save everyone. That in the reboot she basically didn't consider her own life important and just wanted to protect others to the point of blaming herself when she couldn't. Imagine looking at this character and then saying that she is " a nothing character " or " just a girl " .

No seriously never cook again if you even remotely think that .

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Also!!! Almond doodle for Trans visibility day!

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Exciting news! ASO is now officially partnered with our longtime friends, "Sonic: Blue Streak" and "Tangle and Whisper: New Roads"! If you want even more Sonic comic goodness, be sure to follow them at @sonicbluestreak and @avaarctic for updates and releases!

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Mega blaster action! A panel from Archie’s ‘Sonic The Hedgehog’ comic #39, from the story “Rage Against the Machine”. From the story “Rage Against the Machine”, drawn by Patrick Spaziante. Support us on Patreon

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What is your favorite artwork you did in your mew&mewtwo arc?

I genuinely don't know XD it changes a lot, though this one is still up there

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And then Ken Penders goes like he is a feminist when he writed and treated Sally so badly... Well, Sally and any female character he wrote.

Fucking dick

Archie Sonic is one hell of a ride. If you haven't seen the blog 'Thanks Ken Penders' I'd recommend it. Basically an abridged read through of the entire Ken Penders era of the comic. Let me tell you, stuff like Titan Tails is only scratching the surface of the insanity of that era.

Titan Tails, Sally running away crying any chance she gets, echidnas competing for first place Mary Sue position, Sonic having parents with Girl Sonic with Blonde Hair, Robot Dad Sonic, Old Man Sonic and Sonic Junior clone in the 30 years later saga, Tails screaming at Sonic because he as a child can't date a teenage girl

this is a good summary of the Adventures saga