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kinda love plot twists where the twist is that there.. isn’t exactly a twist technically. like the narrative was openly telling you all along it’s thing A! thing A is true! but all the subtext and suspicious evidence was making you think oh come on it’s obviously thing B this is the most obvious twist in the world i can see it coming a mile away. so you think you’re cleverly keeping up with the narrative’s game, and maybe it pretends to reveal B for half a second to make you feel satisfied or maybe it completely ignores B, before blindsiding you like surprise surprise A was in fact true all along! like the plot twist is based not on a contradiction within the story but a contradiction between the story and what it knew its viewers’ expectations would be. outsmarting the people who were trying to outsmart it. and it’s really good bc like then you’re left reeling with that knowledge like oh snap i cannot believe i was wrong when they’ve been telling me since the beginning. like this strictly speaking should not be a shock at all but it is. now i actually have to process the uncomfortable implications of this being true instead of handwaving it in favor of my theory

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fun fact. everyone knows Siffrin loves their plays and such and a lot of his breakdown terminology in-game derives from theater, but as someone who’s currently learning game development in RPGMaker MV (the engine ISAT was made in), I’ve realized that it’s also very delightfully meta.

RPGMaker internally calls the player character / party members ‘actors’. Like. That is actually what it calls them. So Siffrin is not only alluding to theater, but on a meta level, the literal game engine that they are all made in. He and his family are *literally* actors.

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Dear Adrienne Insertdisc5 she/they cartoonist 2D animator game dev savior of worlds the one who made In Stars and Time,

Please share a speedpaint. love, dumass fan

ya sure. i turned on auto-timelapse save for csp years ago and never used it. thank you for reminding me

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More scribbles of them bc I’m Soft

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I'm such a huge fan of the "[...]" at the start of In Stars and Time because it's such an utterly meaningless text when you first see it, then you replay it and you can suddenly feel the utter stress coming from that single ellipsis

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my work on the ISAT Telephone Games! by @chipper-smol !

if you want to read other's works in order check out this link!

its been very fun being a part of this project, idk how to explain seeing or reading others works it is beautiful you guys have no idea-

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here's another speedpaint

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I just think they're neat

the Vaporeon was a christmas gift from the other year.

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the post-isat experience of talking yourself out of a thought process because you realize "that sounds like something siffrin would think"

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Babygirl my minecraft house is fucked up in ways you couldnt even imagine

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「 SYS.FILE // MILKY WAY 」

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(act 3/4 vs act 6) they really don't wanna fight loop.... augh....

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clearly y'all arent giving this cute indie game enough attention so im going to spam u with the art ive made so far (yes even tho its messy bc im learning how to draw the characters. and also ive only been brave enough to draw oliver and ángel so far) go play detective beebo rn its only 6 hours long and its free at https://bwobbers.itch.io/detective-beebo-night-at-the-mansion

plus bonus beebo mirabelle clothes swap at the prompting of friends. beebs n meebs. this is detective meebo and housemaiden beebelle

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Paper flowers seem beyond you now but you can always go back to the basics, paper cranes are easy enough...

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You’ve heard of “don’t monetize your hobbies”; get ready for "don’t master your hobbies".

Your hobbies are here to help you decompress and have fun. They do not have to be disciplines you toil over for expertise, unless that is something you genuinely enjoy doing.

It’s okay to enjoy language-learning without ever becoming fluent, or even conversational. It’s okay to like playing guitar even if you only know a few clumsy songs. You can read books and never finish them, bowl without ever scoring even halfway to perfect. We’re here to explore and play, and we cannot do that if we’re chasing perfection in everything we do.