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There has been a lot of Faux/Pass activity out in the Industrial Sector, so it's time for Klo and Gabe to head to the Broadcast Bazaar and see if they can chase up any leads.

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Magic Trickery! 🐇🐇🐇🐇 Debuffs! ACHOO!!!

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My spooky shopkeeper game is coming along! Been so fun to work on this this month! 👻

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one the danchi days sensing mini games where you collect the scent orbs from trees. 🌳💛🫧

you can wishlist our game now on steam!

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Got my copy in the mail of my pirate themed look-and-find spread I did for last month's Highlights magazine! This was a dream gig for me as someone who grew up loving highlights magazine! ♥️♥️

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UH OH I'M MAKING A SCARY GAME!

I'm describing it as a morally opposite Weapon Shop De Omasse where you play as a shopkeep that is giving adventurers items that do them more harm then good. Yesterday I challenged myself to see how much I could build in a day and here it is! It'll be a small game even when it's done but it's fun to work on something small and quick that's captured my imagination!

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Had an idea for a small spooky game yesterday that I think I'm gonna have to make...👀

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Had absolutely nothing left in the mind or tank after an eventful weekend and just drew this little freak.

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90% of the microplastics in my blood are from chewing the pokemon out of the bouncy balls in '98

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5/10 sold! Still some real cuties left! 👀👀

🧙‍♂️FLASH SALE!🧙‍♂️

I've got 10 new original paintings for sale in the shop! If you see one you like, go nab it now! https://marlowedobbe.com/store

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🧙‍♂️FLASH SALE!🧙‍♂️

I've got 10 new original paintings for sale in the shop! If you see one you like, go nab it now! https://marlowedobbe.com/store

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I made this for the Harvest Moon Enjoyers out there.

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Hello everyone, I have made a GB studio game about my cat, Hank Stuart Bastard.

It takes 5 minutes to play. Please enjoy 👩‍💻 https://marlowedobbe.itch.io/dungeon-of-hank

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FINALLY I am able to talk about what I've been working on for the last 2.5 years. I have been Art Directing for SLAY THE SPIRE 2!

So very excited about this game and the team! Especially stoked to share more of what our talented art team has been putting together!

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Happy April Fool's from the best one who's ever done it (it's their favorite holiday)

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We were able to raise $450 for Landback! Thanks so much to everyone who purchased an adoptable!

We still have one left on the shop if anyone wants to bring this donation to an even $500! :) https://marlowedobbe.com/store

ADOPTABLES FOR SALE!

YO! Doing something a little different here for me! Will Lewis and I collaborated on some adoptables which are now LIVE for sale on my website! All profits benefit the Landback Foundation! GO GET YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTER WHILE THEY'RE STILL AVAILABLE! 🧙‍♂️ https://marlowedobbe.com/store

[marlowedobbeart]

hey. i (disabled trans femme person) need urgent help escaping abuse.

i come to you with some very bad news and a long story, i guess. it's a story of financial abuse and years and year of my life in vain.

snippets of this were things ive talked about before, but theyve been intensifying recently to a point that i can't ignore them anymore. they dont blend into the background anymore. figurateively, im being poisoned, and im feeling it.

look below the cut for further details of what's happening. i wish i could've been more concise, but the ongoing situation is convoluted and its hard to wrap my whole head around it sometimes.

ive had my patreon for around 7 years, now. since the beginning, i wanted it to become sizable and to earn me a living eventually; it never did.

ive also released several games, which, again, didnt earn me a living. ive done a lot of work on projects under nda, which didnt earn me a living either.

none of it came together.

as a result of this, i have spent that past while being strongly supported through donations from people like you on tumblr and discord (thank you ;;) and... from my parents.

the latter is the crux of this. their control over my finances lends them a very strong influence over what i am allowed to do and what im not allowed to do in my life.

as a result of this, they have essentially kept me from pursuing the jobs and the life ive wanted to pursue for the past 7 years. anything i was able to come up with wasn't good enough. game development is an "expensive hobby". "an outcrys" nomination was a "costly adventure that didn't retain value". my art is "sad and depressing, no one wants to see it". video games are "not real, you need a second foot to stand on".

so ive been toiling away, trying to please their whims of what im "supposed to be doing", using precious time i couldve used entering the industry i actually wanted to enter learning skills i didnt want for jobs i didnt want, applying and being denied. for a brief while, between 2020 and 2023, i was allowed to do my game development thing, finally, because of covid and such. that grace period is now over.

they have also been strongly controlling my bodily autonomy as it relates to choices im allowed to make without having to suffer emotional damage from them, which has been paranoia-inducing to say the least.

at this moment, i am at a crossroads.

either, i take on a job that pays whatever my parents think is enough for a living and is the "right kind of job" (with my lack of education outside of artistic fields: close to impossible); or i find a well-paying high-profile job in the video game industry (with my qualifications and the state of the industry: close to impossible); or i enter my country's disability pay system.

i have a disability diagnosis, so this would be within reach. it would also be a good deal more money than my parents are keeping me drowning with. to succeed with my application however, id need to:

close my patreon

stop developing games (not enough resources, mental or financial)

be at the whims of this country's political situation and how it relates to welfare, which is in sharp decline

im asking you all for help choosing none of the above.

i want to be free from their financial influence. i want to be able to instantly send them back their "alimony" and know that they can no longer direct my life according to any whim they may have. i want more time to be allowed to stand on my own two feet without being emotionally hurt and financially controlled - because it is nothing short of killing me.

i've started goal on ko-fi - 6000 $. i need a buffer like that in order to be able to have a bargaining chip in this arrangement, at least for half a year.

i need that money to be able to refuse the money my parents only use to have power over me and my life choices, to be able to consistently emotionally harm me and my prospects to become independent in the way i want to.

thank you for reading. even just talking about this makes me feel a little better. please help, and donate if you are able.