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Hi everyone!

In the spirit of celebrating things that spark joy and build community^, @interact-if will be running a mini-series “Writing Spotlight”, which will feature beloved IFs in 6 main categories:

Best story/narrative (Epic/Exciting)

Best story/narrative (Cozy/contemplative)

Best world/setting

Best character

Most memorable choice/branch

How this works

Under each of these categories, vote for an IF (can be completed/WIP), either by: leaving a comment on this post, sending in an ask, or filling out this form.*

*Do include at least a sentence on why you’re voting for that IF / things you loved that made you vote for it). These lines will be compiled and I’m sure they’ll bring a little ray of sunshine to these authors.

If you’re leaving a comment or ask, do clearly state which category you’re casting a vote for (you can vote in multiple categories, but try to stick to 1-2 IFs in each category if possible)!

Do refrain from voting twice in the same category please, this is done in good fun :)

After voting closes

Do send in your by 27 April, and will be tallying the votes and reaching out to winning authors** in each category to do a small interview feature, in the hopes of uncovering some tips/tricks/advice on their techniques and writing process (especially in relation to their strengths e.g. world-building, character arcs etc.)

**I might have to see how this works out, some authors are a little more difficult to contact, but I’ll try.

Again, I hope this will all generate some positivity and love, plus maybe uncover some of the behind-the-scenes techniques/process behind the wonderful IFs that we love and talk about a lot! <3

^Especially in this turbulent time of Trump fuckery…

Last but not least, if you’d like to see any other categories featured in the next iteration, or if you have ideas for specific questions to include in the interviews with these authors, feel free to drop a message or a comment!

Looking forward to the responses, and hopefully this will be fun for everyone! :)

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if you do make that graphic novel id love to read it! <3 love an evil yaoi situationship. i was curious if he was in the same universe cause i noticed he has lines tattooed on the back of his neck and i was wondering if that could be connected to the tracker having those tally mark scars on the back of their neck :o

Different reasons! (also i think the tracker's tally marks are on their lower back? in my mind that's how i wrote it out. might not have been clear)

Cyrus' tattoos are essentially a barcode. Whenever he enters buildings that have certain scanners built in they flag him as being a mutant -- and an especially powerful one. It's a way the government keeps tabs on people they've forcibly sent through their Academy system. Cops can also scan one or both tattoos to bring up his Academy file and personal information. It's also a visual indicator that Cyrus is a mutant. The lines and bands indicate his power level (level 6 -- which is the highest anyone's ever been ranked and so far in the story he's the only 6 the Academy system has seen) to normies which is why he tries to keep them covered by growing his hair out and wearing long sleeves.

The Tracker's tally marks are something entirely different that will eventually get explained, but the Tracker doesn't even know where they got them in the first place.

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ive seen him occasionally in your art on discord but is your oc cyrus in the same universe as greenwarden or is he separate like tlk?

I think putting Cyrus in the Greenwardenverse would be like the Chicxulub Impactor hitting the dinosaurs.

But no! Cyrus is part of his own thing called the Tetheredverse, content of which is mostly me screaming at my friends about him and his evil yaoi situationship. It might be a graphic novel at some point but I'm already juggling a lot of chainsaws.

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look behind you! haha there's nothing there April fools!

in honor of the greatest holiday in the world, how do the guys from your games celebrate? who's the pranker (is it trace. it's trace right) and who's the prankee? who goes way too far? who will actually kill you if you even think about doing anything? who is normal about it?who doesn't believe anyone about anything the entire day? so many wonderful options.

HU WAH???

Trace is a prank nightmare and Devin is a straight-faced liar. This is their favorite holiday. Everyone else is suffering terribly.

Sibir’s autism means they take everything at face value if they trust you enough, so today is a nightmare for them. They’d prefer pranks because then they can just walk through them brick wall style, but April Fool’s jokes are going to go right over their head. Lisandro likes this holiday because he can be silly. :) Idali and Teslas are both Machiavellian plotters anyway so — Idali sees April Fools as childish, Teslas is curled up in a paranoia ball in the corner.

Lane and Mattie are engaged in some kind of thermonuclear prank war that goes waaaay too far and results in at least one serious injury and a lot of hurt feelings.

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DUDEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! the side stories are so fire!!!!!!!!! i fucking love the one from amir’s perspective they are so interesting the carefully crafted facade of humanity goes hard bro. also marianna the love of my life hi there batting my eyelashes and such things. overall 10/10 i like how all the hunters sit like dogs proving that tracker is the alpha hunter boom game solved. keep going you funky little man! love you don’t explode

Can't wait for people who liked Crush to read Shaitan so they can get a real taste of how deeply unhinged Nazeri can become.

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NEW ANNOUNCEMENT: Side Stories is live! Greenwarden: Side Stories is a collection of short stories (including former Patreon shorts) set in the Greenwarden universe and various AUs. Fullscreen recommended!

In the demo:

Graverobbing and Necromancy for Dummies

Operation Heartbreak

Crush

Possession

Future updates:

Adding accessibility options (OpenDyslexic, font scaling, color blind mode, high contrast mode)

Next story: Campfire (18+!)

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i dont think you guys are ready for the asiyeh/tracker/f!trace threesome short.

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‼️🚨Urgent appeal, very IMPORTANT 🚨‼️

The crossings are closed again‼️

We need your help, the situation is unsuitable and dangerous, we need your help, you are our last hope... Food, clothes, milk, and everything else has become expensive, and we are in the holy month of Ramadan...😭😔🤲

We want food to eat after fasting for 15 hours, nothing is like before... The prices are very expensive...😞

The elderly, our children, us... we all need food, drink, medicine, milk and winter clothes... We live in tents that do not protect us from the cold of winter. 🥶

Please help us... Any donation will save our lives and the lives of our children.🙏😭👶

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Dont skip 🔴

I am Falestine, Jad Al-Haq, I am 37 years old, married, and I have a eight-month-old child named Youssef. I gave birth to him during the war during very harsh conditions that no human being can bear. I moved from the hospital immediately after giving birth to the tent in which we were staying after we were displaced to it after the Israeli bulldozers completely bulldozed my house. and my suffering did not start from here. Rather, it began since the beginning of the war, and I am still suffering. I cannot provide enough milk for my baby or diapers. Even medicines and vitamins are not available.

I ask you for your urgent help in disseminating the link to my family and communicating it to people interested and able to help us.  I didn't want to do it, but the tragic situation we are living in is what pushed me to do it.  I feel sad and helpless, after we had everything, we are now homeless on the streets, living in a tent next to a dilapidated public toilet and there is sewage, dirt and waste everywhere, we sleep on it!  We suffer from terrible heat, insects, scorpions, the danger of death, bombs and missiles, in addition to hunger of course, the danger of pollution and terrible diseases, especially the digestive, respiratory and reproductive systems!

.  My father and mother could not bear it any longer. My father had a stroke after losing his home and his place of work, and my mother suffers from chronic diseases and needs treatment.

  Do you have the right to imagine that when you spend your life building for yourself and your children to live a decent life, all of this disappears in the blink of an eye, and now when you reach the age where you should rest, you are forced to start again!!?  But the most important thing now is to try to survive and protect your children from all the factors of death that surround us!  I ask everyone who has humanity or conscience to feel our situation and put themselves in our place.  How can someone who has lived with dignity all his life accept this?  We are slowly dying every day.

Your donation, no matter how small, can have a big impact.  It can provide a meal for my little one, a clean bottle of water, or a moment of safety under these difficult circumstances.  Every donation brings with it a ray of hope, alleviating our suffering and giving us the strength to face a new day.

I ask you to donate and support the steadfastness of the Gazan people, and share this campaign with your friends and families.  Together, we can make a difference and help my family get through this ordeal.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your generosity and support.

Warm greetings,

Falestine

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‼️Helping me means helping 5 members of my family..‼️

🥶We're freezing🥶

Hello, I'm Wasim from Gaza, in Al-Mawasi specifically... My family and I were displaced from Rafah after hardship, bombing, displacement, and hunger.😭😔

Now we have been away from our city and our beautiful home for 9 months. We have lost our house that my father built stone by stone and he worked 24/7 to build this house. But the occupation destroyed it, and no house remained in my beautiful city remained intact.😭💔💔

We are now living in a tent or semi-tent, which does not protect us from the cold of winter or the rain. Our lives are very difficult.😔😭

Thanks to your donations, we have been able to buy food and flour, and now I am asking you for help to buy a tent that will protect us from the cold of winter. We do not know what it means to sleep because of the extreme cold.🥶

This is our tent made of fabric and some nylon, not closed on one side. We are freezing from the cold. Help us to buy a new tent. You are our last hope.😭🥶🥶🙏

I also want to ask for help for my mother, who is the most precious thing in my life. Without her, I am nothing...

She has a back cartilage disease and is in great pain. She needs physical therapy, medicine, and vitamins, and I am unable to provide them. Help my mother receive treatment.🙏🙏😭

Campaign Link⬇️⬇️⬇️

@gazavetters

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Save my children from life's danger 🇵🇸💔

I am the mother of a family consisting of 8 people. I have a little girl who is 14 years old, her name is Farah. Help her to escape from death. She suffers from kidney failure and autism. She is a person with special needs. She has a motor and mental disability. I ask you to contribute to alleviating my suffering. Have a good night’s sleep, as she does not know how to sleep. I live in Palestine. In Gaza City, amidst the horrors of destruction and hunger that are tearing us apart, and the mysterious and terrifying anxiety, there is a lot of sadness and pain in my country, and fear restricts our thoughts every hour. We wonder: Will we die? Will we live? Will my child die from her chronic illness? Are we all going to die? We are truly suffering. Winter will come, and I will not have a shelter to protect my family

I am a patient with autism and chronic kidney failure. Please, you are my only hope.

I hope to live a decent life and enjoy support and help. The inevitable death befalls me, my family, and my little girl every time and day. She needs permanent treatment, medicines, detergents, diapers, and special food. Kidney disease is a chronic disease to escape dialysis. I have no ability to buy her needs. I am tormented by staying in the hospital permanently. The kidneys evade potassium and air. A dangerous element that leads to death and cardiac arrest

I have been living with an early awareness since her birth of the inevitability of death from this disease, accompanied by the fear of waking up to losing her and losing her life. My little girl is certain that she is heading towards death in the absence of treatment possibilities and the availability of her requirements and that the expected end of her illness journey. I ask God for everyone who helps me not to complain of pain. Sickness, you do not know it. When sickness visits you, the world becomes smaller before your eyes, and all your wishes become insignificant in the face of health, and to see your child playing and enjoying good health. I am looking for someone to help me to alleviate the painful reality. We are suffering from my heartbreak for my sick child. She is lost before my eyes, and my homeland is devastated.

My life before the war was more beautiful. I hope that this pain and injustice that we are exposed to will end. I have the right to live in safety.

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Please Read

I am speaking on behalf of @eslamfa1, who has her own campaign for her and her family so they may survive under the harsh conditions in Gaza. She is very thankful for all the support she's had, but she needs more help.

She has asked me to host a fundraiser for more of her family, namely for her parents and siblings who desperately need funds for food, water, and medical treatment. They have been displaced multiple times and have only been able to contact Eslam through an unreliable internet connection.

Here is their story as written by her sister, Aya:

"Hello friends, we will tell you our sad story

I am Aya, an outstanding high school student. I was very happy to be on the verge of achieving my dream of finishing my school studies and achieving what I aspired to, which is to become a doctor.

My family of 8 and a beautiful cat named Katie were living a beautiful and peaceful life, each of us striving to achieve our dreams.

We had our beautiful house in Khan Yunis. Recently, we were celebrating my sister Heba’s fourth place in the Gaza Strip in the Arabic language recruitment exam. Our life was like material and emotional perfection. We did not feel deprived or lacking anything.

My sister Lina is a university student. Her dream was to become a psychologist to help mentally ill people in the Strip.

My brother Ahmed was the most beautiful gift from God. He came after 20 years of being deprived of male siblings. After completing his studies, he became a water carrier and took on a great responsibility beyond his capacity.

We also had two little butterflies, the apple of the house, and Jana, the favorites of their teachers and friends at school.

Then the war broke out and everything was turned upside down. We were forced to leave the house after quadcopters surrounded us, tanks surrounded us, and we saw death right in front of our eyes, but we miraculously escaped.

We were displaced several times on foot. Feet, then our end was in a tent that did not protect us from the cold of winter or the heat of summer, and there were poisonous insects and scorpions around us, there was no clean water or healthy food, so my family and I got hepatitis and a lot of intestinal infections.

We were shocked that our house was bombed and destroyed and the features of the house disappeared from the face of the earth, so we felt very sad and despair took over us.

Life here in Gaza is expensive, we cannot buy the minimum necessities of life, imagine that the price of a kilo of tomatoes is $50, and the price of a bag of flour is $200, life here is like a famine! My father is a nervous patient and my mother suffers from chronic pressure and they need continuous treatment and medications. We suffer from bringing water from long distances, and from the high prices of food and cleaning materials and water pollution. What we have suffered most in this war is the loss of members of our family, and this is the hardest thing we have been through. We have lost 20 members of our family. Please help us bear the very high cost of living until we evacuate from Gaza and save our lives. The cost per person is $5,000. Help us, you are the only hope left."

These are some of the photos she's managed to receive of some of her family (Aya, Ahmed, Hala, Jana, and their cat) and of the conditions of the areas they've been displaced from and to:

Note: Due to mentioned lack of internet connection, Eslam has not been able to receive more photos yet. There will be more updates to come when, hopefully, more communications are made.

PLEASE DONATE !!!!! Aya, Lina, Ahmed, Hala, jana, and their parents' well beings are at stake! Starting goal is $10,000

@90-ghost @gaza-evacuation-funds @gazavetters

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is there a difference between choosing “youve always been this way” and “things get blurry when you look in the mirror” when choosing your gender in gw?

“Things get blurry when you look in the mirror” is for players who want to question their Tracker’s gender throughout the story!

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Was Greenwarden posted on another site years ago? Just played today, saw Bautista and Nazeri and my brain started shrieking and wailing about how "I've been here before!" like some sort of sleeper agent activation😭 Love your IF!❤️ I vaguely recall younger me being unable to choose between the ROs lmfao, just ended up making multiple playthroughs...

Thank you !! Greenwarden: Alpha was first posted on DashingDon as a ChoiceScript game. I've since split from Choice of Games over creative differences, so Greenwarden is an indie Twine game now. :]

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hey reminder that connecting humanity is extremely low on esims rn and desperately needs esim donations and also that there are a lot of cool things you can get in exchange for a donation

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Just found your story, and it’s lovely. Thank you for sharing it with the world. :D First time playing was a bit of a shock- I had no clue nb!Nazeri was named Amir! That’s my name!! I’m also a trans Muslim person! (who is, as you so wonderfully put it…loosey goosey about it) It’s amazing to see a character like that handled so respectfully, and I love that they wear hijab. <3

WAAAAAAAAUGH thank you. Extremely important to me that you felt Nazeri was handled with grace and respect.

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[ID: A dark, moody forest in reds and greens with a road running through it. A sign to the right warns the viewer that the road curves left. The arrow points to two glowing red eyes in the shadows. Over the background are the words "GREENWARDEN: BOOK ONE" in a white stenciled font. The font is slightly smudged. A stenciled canine mouth in halftoned white is closing around the title. /end ID]

New Greenwarden cover!! The old one just didn't have the correct vibes (understandable, as it was a placeholder). Really flexing those graphic design muscles from college.