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Burn the Midnight Oil is a supernatural neon-noir romance visual novel starring dual protagonists: the flirtatious vampire Circe and the brash half-hellhound Dante. Both have their own story, as well as three different romanceable characters available to them. 🦇❤️‍🔥

Burn the Midnight Oil is coming to Kickstarter (alongside our very first demo!) in the second half of 2025.

Please consider signing up to our pre-launch page and helping spread the word to your friends so we can make this project happen together!

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Resist or embrace the darkness in Burn the Midnight Oil, a supernatural neon-noir romance visual novel coming to Kickstarter later this year! 🦇❤️‍🔥

In the neon-soaked streets of eighties North Haven, supernaturals hide in plain sight amongst the ceaseless nightlife.

Playing as the flirtatious vampire detective Circe or the brash half-hellhound cop Dante, you must solve strange cases that threaten to unveil your own dangerous secrets.

This visual novel also features six romanceable characters, two queer protagonists, and the occasional murder. 🩸🔪

Sign up to our crowdfunding pre-launch page to get notified when the campaign drops in Q3/Q4 of 2025! ✨

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Meet Edgar, Circe's final romance option! 🕵️

A sleep-deprived detective with a bleeding heart.

Despite his aversion to vampires, Edgar has been Circe's devoted sidekick (and primary target of never-ending teasing) for twenty years now.

Burn the Midnight Oil is a supernatural neon-noir romance visual novel about monsters, love, and other horrors. Set in eighties North Haven, where supernaturals hide in plain sight amongst the endless crime and parties, our protagonists Circe and Dante must solve strange cases that threaten to reveal their own dangerous secrets.

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Meet Iridis, Dante's final romance option! 💎

A mystical being of unknown origins.

Anyone who meets Iridis is paralyzed by fear, but he doesn't seem to want any trouble. For now, at least.

Burn the Midnight Oil is a supernatural neon-noir romance visual novel about monsters, love, and other horrors. Set in eighties North Haven, where supernaturals hide in plain sight amongst the endless crime and parties, our protagonists Circe and Dante must solve strange cases that threaten to reveal their own dangerous secrets.

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Meet Nocturne, Circe's second romance option! 🔮

A silver-tongued witch with dangerous ambitions and questionable morals.

Whether she's friend or foe remains uncertain.

Burn the Midnight Oil is a supernatural neon-noir romance visual novel about monsters, love, and other horrors. Set in eighties North Haven, where supernaturals hide in plain sight amongst the endless crime and parties, our protagonists Circe and Dante must solve strange cases that threaten to reveal their own dangerous secrets.

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Meet Zeno, Dante's second romance option! ✨

A self-taught wizard with a flair for theatrics.

Zeno cares very little for laws and other pesky social rules. As far as he's concerned, life should always be fun and fantastical.

Burn the Midnight Oil is a supernatural neon-noir romance visual novel about monsters, love, and other horrors. Set in eighties North Haven, where supernaturals hide in plain sight amongst the endless crime and parties, our protagonists Circe and Dante must solve strange cases that threaten to reveal their own dangerous secrets.

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Meet Abraxas, Circe's first romance option! 🩸

The brooding and uptight captain of North Haven's Supernatural Secrecy Force.

Beneath the aloof facade Abraxas has clung to for the past two centuries, repressed desires fester.

Burn the Midnight Oil is a supernatural neon-noir romance visual novel about monsters, love, and other horrors. Set in eighties North Haven, where supernaturals hide in plain sight amongst the endless crime and parties, our protagonists Circe and Dante must solve strange cases that threaten to reveal their own dangerous secrets.

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Meet Raoul, Dante's first romance option! 🚓

One of the few humans working in North Haven's Supernatural Crime Division, Raoul is Dante’s cool and pragmatic police partner.

It’s part of his job description to keep Dante’s temper in check, but the two still butt heads every time they work together.

Burn the Midnight Oil is a supernatural neon-noir romance visual novel about monsters, love, and other horrors. Set in eighties North Haven, where supernaturals hide in plain sight amongst the endless crime and parties, our protagonists Circe and Dante must solve strange cases that threaten to reveal their own dangerous secrets.

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced Saturday morning that state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband are dead, and state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife are wounded following a politically motivated shooting overnight. Hortman and her husband were shot in Brooklyn Park, while Hoffman and his wife were shot in Champlin. At a Saturday morning press conference, Walz called the deaths of Hortman and her husband "a political assassination." "Hortman was someone who served the people of Minnesota with grace, compassion, humor, and a sense of service," Walz said. "She was a formidable public servant. A fixture and a giant in Minnesota." Walz said Hoffman and his wife were each shot multiple times. "We are cautiously optimistic they will survive this assassination attempt," Walz said. The governor highlighted how these acts of violence occurred following a special session where both sides compromised for the good of Minnesota. "We don't settle our differences with violence or at gunpoint," Walz said. "In the state of Minnesota, and as recently as last week, in the most closely divided state legislature in the country, we sat down, shook hands and compromised, and we served the state of Minnesota together. It's possible in politically charged times to find compromise, democracy and civil discourse. I, Minnesota and across the country, stand against all forms of political violence."

There may end up being a lot of political theater in the U.S. today. I think this is the news to focus on.

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Something caught my attention on TV, so I went and found the full press conference: how bold and well-planned the Minnesota assassinations were. In the middle of the night (2 am), a man convincingly impersonated a police officer, complete with badge and taser, in order to deceive his way into the homes. His car "looked like an SUV squad car," equipped with lights and sirens. "There was no question that if they were in this room, you would assume that they are a police officer." When real officers arrived at Melissa Hortman's house, they found a "cop" already there with the "emergency lights" on, coming out of the house, and exchanged fire. As of right now, he's still at large, on foot. A manifesto found in the car listed other political targets. Police are searching for him in pairs, and citizens should call 911 and not open the door if a lone "officer" shows up. My eight news apps will probably light my phone up when they find him.

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All Eyes on the Sumoud Convoy

Eyes on the road people. Eyes on the thousands of people on their way to the Gaza border to break the siege.

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Grave Seasons

After a treacherous escape from jail, you’ve made it to your new home in Ashenridge, an idyllic town with some seriously unsettling vibes. While trying to establish your new farming life and embed yourself in the neighborhood, murders start to occur in the town, putting your new peaceful life at risk.  Grave Seasons is a narrative led farming sim with a terrifying twist – someone in the town is a supernatural serial killer.  

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Hello. New Devlog? Yes! New Devlog!

In this one Taylor goes over his process for designing the two new characters and also reminds you to vote, if you still haven't! It's got sketches, really good words, and explicit pornography of a hot milf!

Join the patreon today to get access to this delightful read, the poll, and the latest build!

-LG

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I am begging the FDA to require that companies CANNOT just put "spices" as an ingredient but have to label the spices.

"Spices" can mean "this has some oregano and black pepper in it" or it can mean "this has cumin cayenne and paprika and if you eat this you will be sick in bed in pain for a week" for me.

Seriously, this is an allergy issue and a huge oversight on the part of corporations.

Require detailed labeling of spices used in packaged foods NOW.

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‘The Evening Star’. Caspar David Friedrich. 1830.

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I'm already seeing advice from people in the US to purchase queer books and other banned or "controversial" books on paper as a way to combat the wave of government censorship that is coming. While this is a good idea (it is! absolutely!), it's not accessible to everyone, and truly, we're not going to be able to consumerism our way out of this one.

If you can buy the books, do. Whether you can buy the books or not, borrow them from your library.

Borrow the paper versions. Borrow the ebook or audiobook versions. Request the titles you want that your library doesn't have. The more a title circulates or is requested, the better librarians are going to be able to defend keeping it if and when it's ever challenged.

Use libraries like @queerliblib too. The more members they have, the better they'll be able to fundraise.

Your community resources depend on you using them. Borrow the books before they go away.

InB4: Piracy is not the solution here. We're trying to keep community resources available, not make sure individual people can read individual books. Different problems.

The books are still available. Borrowing them from your library and returning them on time and in good condition will help keep them that way.