#.. future plans :)

[catt-nuevenor]

The Future

Time to establish what's going to happen from this point forwards.

The vast majority of you have been exceptionally patient this last year, and for that you have my deepest thanks. You've given me the time to not only write a book, but edit it, and send it off to literary agents, something I would have long given up on doing without the continued support of those who enjoy my writing.

Now that the book is off doing the rounds independently, it's time I got back to Myrk Mire.

Originally Myrk Mire was built in ChoiceScript, a scripting language created by the Choice of Games company. Choice of Games control what is done with their script, understandably, they own it. This does pose some restrictions. I can't, for example, release any paid material built using ChoiceScript unless it is directly through their publishing label. If I do publish under their label, I maintain IP or Intellectual Property Rights, however I also grant them the exclusive rights under perpetual license to publish the multiple choice game 'electronically'.

Source: Choice of Games.com

As you can see from the outline above, they do make exceptions for stories published in non-competing formats, and for sequels, prequels, and spin-offs. However, traditional publishing houses might require stricter control over IP, distribution, and exclusivity. It will only become more and more complicated as things progress, and being locked into a perpetual license agreement of any nature is not a decision to make lightly.

As some of you may be sensing from the tone of all this so far, I'm going to be moving Myrk Mire away from Choice of Games and ChoiceScript, and into a new medium/format.

After tinkering, and trialling with a few alternatives, I've decided to go with Renpy. Renpy, while largely used for visual novel style games and stories, provides a very workable framework for interactive fiction, and is an Open Source script, it isn't beholden to publishing contracts, licence cost, or exclusivity.

I'm not going to be diving into transferring Myrk Mire right away, it's a huge piece of writing, in an entirely different scripting language, and as previously stated, there are a lot of changes I want to implement with the cast. Instead, I'm creating a trial story: One Háḟest Day. My Patrons have been aware of all this for about a month or so, and have already seen some previews.

One Háḟest Day takes place in Aldmirham before the events of Myrk Mire, around the time the Main Character and the Wanderers first arrived in town. The reader will have the choice to follow one of the romanceable characters through a single day, with opportunities to explore their lives and relationships before the Main Character and Child come along. I hope it will provide a proving ground for the changes that previously caused debate, and an opportunity for people to try out the new format and interface.

My plan is to distribute One Háḟest Day through Itch.io, working with their early access framework and voluntary payments for such as soon as one of the character routes is ready to play from beginning to end, updating regularly with the other characters as they too are completed, and with additional features as required. Once the full game is complete, I will release a separate full build with a set minimum price that can be discussed with the community as we move forwards.

At the second, I'm aiming for a web hosted format and a desktop/laptop downloadable format, with phone compatibility to come later down the line once things are stable.

I will post production updates and info when I can to tumblr, though a lot of what I'm doing now is very python coding heavy, so perhaps not that interesting?

I've included some screenshots below of very early development, featuring a Character Log and Word Log that I hope will allow readers to more easily navigate the story. I'm toying with the idea of having a Mysteries Log as well that will keep track of snippets of information gleaned from each character's route, but that can be a tinkering feature for now.

Let me know your thoughts, concerns, or excitement, though do keep all messages objective and polite.

[collegetennisoriginstory]

I am loving this IF so much!!! Do you know if you'll make a 2nd book after this one? Or do something else when you're done?

Ahhh... plans... "when you're done", you say...

Let's see...

Just kidding. I had plans for a sequel for sure, hence the colon in college tennis: origin story (e.g. paving the way for other college tennis editions) but the more I think about it, the more I feel like a sequel where MC (and friends/ROs) are already in their mid 20s would be even more interesting.

I'd love to write a continuation where MC's already a pro tennis player on tour and maybe even having more slice-of-life elements (rent an apartment, sponsorship struggles etc.) Something like, Pro Tennis: Rising Star (idk I'm terrible at coming up with names).

Rayyan could be a rival (and teammate if they're competing for team USA), G would be a sports journalist(?), Sam would be a commentator + casual exhibition match player, with a successful vlog(?) on the side, Tobin would maybe be MC's profesh doubles partner (or maybe someone else's? Ooh drama 👀) or maybe training to be a coach?

And of course, everything in the WIP CLOSET I'd want to write one day, possibly even before I get around to CT:OS 2 (the fantasy elf izakaya/midnight diner + stardew valley-esque thing is something that has been knocking around my head for a long time, and same for the soccer game).

[chiko-akihari]

How do we feel about this

[cawfeecakes]

I MAKE ONE POST ABOUT THE SILLAY RACCOON GAME AND Y’ALL MASS LIKE IT!?

You’ll be happy to know that rambley is a part of this years upcoming “Plum O Ween” event starting in October of this year.

So be Patient until then!~

[simulation-machine]

SIMS RELATED PROJECTS/UPDATES

My spring break is coming up in a week and holy crap do I have plans on plans on plans, especially since my summer is gonna be full of school + internship + HOPEFULLY friggin' graduating with a BA in Psychology so that I can start applying to grad schools.

Read more iffin' you'd like! It's long! Here's a picture of my golden retriever napping on her brother's food bowl to entice/entertain you:

god she is so precious i would literally kill for her

GOAL 1: MASTER GSHADE/ReSHADE

I know that some people are sticklers for this but my thing is that I had no gee-dee clue what I was doing with ReShade, whereas Gshade just kinda clicked and worked for me? That said I have a bunch of resources for learning ReShade so I might end up moving back to it at some point.

My main issue is figuring out the order of all the different effects. It obviously matters, I'm sure people smarter than me have tried to use presets only to be like "why tf does this look absolutely nothing like the baller screenshots this one cool Simblr has?" Annnd it turns out it's order + remembering to turn off certain graphic settings. Also photoshop, but that's gonna take a lot longer for me to figure out lol.

Like I'd been struggling to figure out why @gunthermunch's gorgeous Lithium preset wasn't looking as sexy as it did before annnnd it's because I forgot to turn Edge Smoothing off when switching to it. Jesus wept at how dippy I am sometimes.

Eventually, what I would like to do is maybe make my own preset at some point? I would be kind enough to show the effect order too if I did so. But this requires so, so much more shader knowledge than I currently have.

FUN FACT: My first ever degree was in art, I even went to a very fancy and private art school (School of the Art Institute of Chicago if you're curious)- I dropped out after one semester because uhhh that shit is expensive. Ended up finishing my degree at a much cheaper location in MN. That said, my art was 100% analog and 2D, and it turns out it did not translate super well into trying my hand at graphic art.

It's funny because I've been gifted really neat stuff for graphic art (like a really nice Wacom tablet and Adobe subscriptions), like people just expected my mixed-media ass would know what to do with it. NOPE! But yeah, Sims is sort of my excuse to try my hand at this stuff again, especially since I have a bit more energy now that my soul is not regularly being drained out of my body by customer service and tech support jobs.

GOAL 2: GET CRACKIN' ON ANOTHER DOOR

This one is hard because I am only on Gen 2 of the Orsons and it's sort of hard to justify starting up another story while that one is less than 1/5 of the way done.

THAT SAID, I don't plan on posting Another Door until I have a decent chunk of it done. Since it's not a casual gameplay story nor a legacy challenge, I plan on editing the bajeez out of the screenshots for it, really honing in on the aesthetic. I want it to look and feel very different from my random legacy challenge.

Fortunately, this story has been fucking up my sleep schedule for *months* now and I have a lot of the writing for it done. The hard part is translating that into the Sims, making sure I get the right poses and stuff, maybe even learning how to make some super easy CC (like, posters and stuff), and stuff related to GOAL 1 above.

What I'm saying is that it's going to take a bit. But I'm super serious about sharing it because it's my obsession and honestly the first time a story of my own design has possessed me in literal years.

Also, I want to make sure I have a significant backlog of the Orsons before I start seriously simming for it, because I don't want to screw over my favorite little pixel babies. This legacy challenge is going to be the one, I have done so much to keep my save files to keep it safe from harm (ask me how many backups I have of the save files. JK don't, the number is frankly silly).

GOAL 3: START YET ANOTHER MASSIVE CC PURGE

Y'all, my CC folder for this game is honestly an embarrassment. I go so hard on CC shopping because this community is stupid-talented and I like giving my pixel babies nice things and cool looks. When I'm bored and not quite in the mood for gameplay, I just like making neat-looking sims that I do absolutely nothing with because I love fucking around in CAS.

I have built my own PCs since I was 17 years old, and when I first built COMPUTERMACHINE (current rig) back in the autumn of 2018, it was with the goal that it would run Sims 4 flawlessly no matter what I did to it. It's got ridiculous amounts of RAM, I religiously update parts for it. And to be fair, even with the current 6,907,907,890 TB of CC I have atm it runs better than Sims 3 ever had with a measly 50 GB of CC.

But for me, it comes down to finding all the stuff I wanna use. Making myself get rid of the stuff I don't wanna use. Straight up yeeting the CC that I thought was going to look incredible that uh, didn't deliver.

I do CAS CC purges about once a year but have literally never done it for Build & Buy stuff, because OMG some of this shit I've had since 2014. Like when Sims 4 first came out. YIKES. My CAS CC obsession is notable but it's honestly nothing compared to my Build & Buy. Even before For Rent made building lots slow af, my PC was starting to take a solid minute to switch to different buy categories.

It would take a long af time so I want to make sure I have a bunch of content in the queue before I do it. It's gonna be a whole ass thing and be so, so boring to do. So I'm putting it off for when I have a ton of time to do it. Like, oh, my entire Spring Break?

GOAL 4: MAKE A FRIGGIN' RESOURCES LIST ALREADY

This would obviously need to wait until after GOAL 3 is completed, but I wanna make sure the awesome creators whose stuff I use get credit, and that people know where they can grab neat stuff. It would include not only CC but mods, Gshade/ReShade presets, and maybe even lots and sims I've downloaded from the gallery?

(Since I am super anti-paywall and very unapologetic and rude about it, I will also share where one could perhaps get some of these CCs without paying some dip a Trenta Starbucks Unicorn Frappucino amount of $$$)

It's ambitious as hell because *gestures vaguely at GOAL 3* but it would make things like doing WCIF asks and lookbooks so much easier.

Somewhat relatedly, I wanna make a navigation post, especially once Another Door starts getting posted. That story is gonna be a bit huge with multiple arcs that take place over the course of like, 14 years. Plus once the Orsons get to the 4th+ generation, it would be easier to track things down.

IN CONCLUSION...

I have been having so much fun sharing my silly little Sim adventures on Tumblr, so much more than I ever thought I would! You all have been so great to me, and all of this stuff is sort of a way for me to repay that. Ever since I stopped being able to be artistically creative ever since a really nasty depressive spell in 2017, Sims has been my #1 artistic outlet. And having people who are even somewhat entertained by my pixels is incredibly motivating.

Basically, if you read all of this, DAMN would you have been a rad livejournal follower of mine circa 2007. On the seriousness, however, thank you all so much for being rad and encouraging and sweet. I promise to do you all, if not proud, then at the very least not disappointed.

Time to hit the bong and take some pictures of Lou and Tatertot before taking my IRL doggos on a walk~

[rearranged-fanfic]

Planned Stories for REALIGNED

Note:

So, I had a pretty interesting question pertaining to REARRANGED's sister series REALIGNED. I was asked if I could separate out the book into individual short stories instead of having them all collected under one name. If they were separate, I could tag each individually to make them easier to search for; they could be individually bookmarked for reader convenience; I could gift people stories that they've requested. With all of this in mind, I've split up the short stories into their own little booklets.

REALIGNED is now its own series, though both it and REARRANGED are in the same Collection.

Here are the current published and planned short stories for REALIGNED:

Cat-Tastrophe (Here)

Summary: Satoru comes home from Jujutsu Tech a little.. different. It's a good thing Reader-chan likes cat's, isn't it? Rating: T Warnings: None Pairing: Established Gojo Satoru/Reader (AFAB original Character) Additional Notes: Fluff. That's all. Final Chapter Count: 1

Godhead (Here)

Summary: What can one do when faced with the love of a god? Reader-chan is an inhabitant of a tiny, remote mountain village. When she's three, she attracts the attention of the local god, O-Satoru-sama. The rest, as they say, is history. Rating: High M, Low E Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence, Rape/Non-Con Pairing: Slow burn Gojo Satoru/Reader (AFAB Original Character) Additional Notes: A hint of sexual content. Violent. Yandere Gojo in spades. Horror elements. Final Chapter Count: 2, plus maybe an epilogue someday?

Contrite (Here)

Summary: Every now and then, Satoru has to apologize for his behavior. So he does what he does best, and gets on his knees. Too bad he's a brat. Rating: E Warnings: None Pairing: Established Gojo Satoru/Reader (AFAB Original Character) Additional Notes: Smut, smut, smut. Final Chapter Count: 1

Crimson (Here)

Summary: Sometimes, blood is the strongest of ties. When Reader-chan trades away her life for something precious, she fully expects the prince of vampires, Gojo Satoru, to kill her or drain her blood. Instead, he has her cook for him and his temperamental boyfriend. And wash their sheets. And schedule their meetings. Weird, but it sure beats dying. A Vampire Knight Fusion AU. Rating: Hight T, Low M Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence Pairing: Established Gojo Satoru/Geto Suguru, Slow Burn Gojo Satoru/Geto Suguru/Reader (AFAB Orignal Character), Pre-Polyamory Additional Notes: Implied sexual content. Violent. SatoSugu fluff. Final Chapter Count: Not finished. 3, plus maybe an epilogue someday?

Knotted

Summary: Alphas are known for only one thing... Good thing Reader-chan is a Beta with no hope of ever bedding one - let alone her Sorcerer boss, who's the most intimidating Alpha of all. Alpha/Beta/Omega AU. Rating: E Warnings: Rape/Non-Con Pairing: Gojo Satoru/Reader (AFAB Original Character) Additional Notes: 25K hit celebration. Two different endings, depending on reader taste. Good ending or bad ending; you decide. Smut, smut, smut. Dirty, nasty smut. Final Chapter Count: Not finished. 4?

Hanahaki

Summary: A flower blooms, then withers. It's the first of Spring when Reader-chan starts coughing. Her Cursed Technique starts backfiring on her, and the results could be deadly. Rating: T Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence Pairing: Geto Suguru/Reader (AFAB Original Character) Additional Notes: Angst. Then fluff :P Final Chapter Count: Not finished. 2?

Absolution

Summary: The rain washes all sins clean. A nice, quiet moment in a storm. Rating: T Warnings: None Pairing: Established Gojo Satoru/Reader (AFAB Original Character) Additional Notes: Fluff. A gift for Amurla on AO3 Final Chapter Count: Not finished. 1?

Nyctophilia

Summary: I was always afraid of the dark. Reader-chan is a Curse User, and Gojo Satoru is the man who's going to kill her. Or so it seems. Rating: M Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence Pairing: Gojo Satoru/Reader (AFAB Original Character) Additional Notes: Violent. Horror elements. Yandere Gojo. Dark Reader-chan. A gift for Citrullus on AO3. Final Chapter Count: Not finished. 3?

Sandcastles

Summary: There's something beneath the waves... When reader-chan inherits her grandmother's old seaside cottage, she'd never have guessed what awaited her in the water below. A merman AU. For Mermay, or whenever it gets posted. Rating: E Warnings: None Pairing: Established Gojo Satoru/Geto Suguru, Slow Burn Gojo Satoru/Geto Suguru/Reader (AFAB Original Character), Pre-Polyamory Additional Notes: Fluffy. Smut, smut, smut. Final Chapter Count: Not finished. 4, plus an epilogue?

Vainglory

Summary: There's a difference between pride and vanity. Reader-chan is an undefeated arena fighter. When the emporer's son challenges her for her freedom, she scoffs at the idea of some pampered boy beating her. She's wrong. Gladiator AU. Rating: M Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence Pairing: Gojo Satoru/Reader (AFAB Original Character) Additional Notes: Violent. Discussions of slavery. Angst. Final Chapter Count: 2?

Monkshood

Summary: The howling is growing louder. Reader-chan's village rests at the edge of a large, dense wood. Though wolves haven't been seen in the area in nearly a century, livestock starts to drop dead. and the howling starts. Werewolf AU. Rating: M Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence Pairing: Geto Suguru/Reader (AFAB Original Character) Additional Notes: Horror elements. Final Chapter Count: Not finished. 3, plus an epilogue?

[pleasanttaleswithkaityb]

Get attacked!! ✨🌈SEND THIS TO OTHER BLOGGERS YOU THINK ARE WONDERFUL. KEEP THE GAME GOING🌈✨

Thanks for the encouragement! I’m slowly coming back from a hiatus after the crystal pack released. It just wrecked my motivation when basically the whole game was bugged and every mod broke and I just felt so defeated and depressed.

To be honest I’m still feeling this way. I’ve made a deal with myself to finish posting the current narratives in my save file since I played quite a bit ahead of where the current stories are. I love writing stories and I’ve really missed sharing and writing. Once I post all the narratives of my current save hopefully Life By You will be out for early access.

As more life simulators come out (Paralives and inZoi) I plan on finding which one jives with my play style and art style (*cough cough* Paralives *cough cough*) the best and fully ditching EA and the sims all together.

What I’ll likely do is recreate the households and storylines from this save file and continue their stories in one of the other life simulators. 🥰

I’m really really grateful that we have some new life simulators coming to the market. And I’m so excited. It’s long over due that sims is finally unseated.

[lilaclisianthus]

Vampire Sebastian and Werewolf Sam Notice (Future SDV Mods)

Hey, guys! Just wanted to say that right now, I'm currently working on a Werewolf Sam NPC Overhaul mod to fit with my Werewolf Sam Sprite!

I will definitely try to release his werewolf portraits before making this huge overhaul. But I just wanted to let you know that I'm in the middle of changing his dialogue. Then, I'll move on to custom heart events!

I've had this vision of Sam being a werewolf for the past year, so I'm excited to finally start working on it! And I'll definitely post pictures as I go.

Basically, I was thinking of also turning Kent and Vincent into werewolves to fit with the story. Sam is hiding out in Stardew Valley as a werewolf since most "humans" wouldn't understand him.

I plan to also add suspense and mystery to the mod.

Thank you for all of the support, and I hope you have a wonderful day!

P.S. My teammate SebbyIsAVampire is currently working on a Vampire Sebastian NPC Overhaul mod. We plan to make these two mods compatible. So, if you want to add a little fantasy to your game, stay tuned! <3

[katykatyykaty]

When someone asks what my plans are.

(this is a joke)

[endreal]

New life gila goal (I liked that typo too much to remove it)

- Become pro musician

- Get famous enough for radio play

- Create only lyrics with non-FCC language, requiring censorship for every track (F the CC, amirite?)

- Adamantly insist on a contract clause with my studio that radio edits be bowdlerised differently based on region

- Don't tell anyone; let fans figure out how deep the rabbit hole goes on their own

- During live shows, get audience to sing along w/their local edit for maximum chaos

- Peace and **** on planet earth <3

[clownbearsodashop]

Shop News!!

Howdy hey, Shiroki here!

New things are coming to the shop on November 5th! 

Keychains for preorder! Along with cute sticker for the Christmas season!

Full display will be soon the 1st or 2nd of next month and I am excited! 

This will only be a Sunny Day Jack Shop update for now and once the preorder period is over, they will be gone until next Christmas uwu.

Ko-fi post here:

[unicornlovers10]

My dream PC that I'm going to eventually save up for, is a pastel pink gaming PC made specifically for art and video editing alongside gaming. It's also going to be LBP themed.

[collegetennisoriginstory]

do you still think that you would do a sequel for college tennis?

I have so many ideas for IFs I want to write that I'm leaving for after CT:OS and Merry Crisis are done... but a sequel for CT:OS where they're all adults and MC's trying to rise through the ranks as a professional tennis player is definitely on my bucket list for life.

It all depends on whether I actually eventually make the jump to writing (officially) part time or full time (which depends on whether I think I could make it work financially), in terms of how quickly I can complete games/stories...

But tldr; I'd love to, the when and "definiteness" of it though... I couldn't say until I have a better idea of what I'm doing with my life around 2 years down the road (I've arbitrarily set this as a deadline because I think by then I'd have saved up a bit to go on at least a 1-year hiatus from my full time job, and have a good enougb gauge of the viability of supporting myself through various channels!)

[eizzhah]

I HAD A THOUGHT. WHAT IF THEY MADE MEOWS PLUSHIE!!!!!!!

[alumiiinium]

My I’m-gonna-live-here-til-I-die-house-wishlist except it progressively gets insanely detailed:

• On the countryside of Sweden, Dalarna to be exact.

• Cats cats cats

• My record collection will be on display.

• An open field nearby where I can stand in a flowy dress and kiss my wife.

• If there’s no birches there, I won’t buy.

• Has to be a lake nearby, preferably in a 100m radius (where I can have a romantic movie-type kiss with my wife).

• I have to have some pet ducks to swim in said lake.

• A COW. I. want. a. cow.

• An old desk by a window in my bedroom with grape vines growing just outside said window.

Also I want a vintage wardrobe

[mikeydraws]

Pretty important news!!

I’m starting my 2 months long break/hiatus, main reason are for my exams, I really need to focus and pass these. And my phone and computer is a huge contribution to my distraction.

I also wanna experience what it’s like to not see anything like Tiktoks, Instagram reels etc for a long time of period, I might come back and make a post about it. It will be hard for me to not socialize though with the people I’ve met on here.

HOWEVER, I wanna announce some quick things that will come after my break, and I wanna get y’all hyped for this.

Things that will and might happen:

Fanfics, a shit ton of fanfics.

1 - Forest thorn. A Jondami fanfic

“A dark cloud forms over Gotham Palace, when leaving it took all the loyalty it could get its claw in, but one faithful bright knight from a foreign kingdom will bring Justice, to Gotham.”

2 - Leftover Light. Bluepulse fanfic (takes place before “YCTTWYSIM”)

“Blue beetle joins Teen titans in hopes of finding his path as a hero, but a danger is soon to approach and made the Teen titans and The Young Justice team up, and he has a certain banter with the ginger of the team. In his civilian form though Jaime has to deal with fitting into his new private school and getting his feelings sorted that he has towards over his ginger friend.”

3 - Who are you, really? Bluepulse fanfic set in a Cyberpunk future

“The reach has taken over the earth and uses the humans to exploit the goods of it. Jaime Reyes, desperate to not make his family fall into the fate of slavery makes a decision to become a secret agent for the Reach, and takes on the case to catch the last speedster alive.”

A YouTube channel, where I will start posting some funny stuff, art challenges maybe and start animating.

Works for my story, “Truth Hides Lies”. Super excited to actually start writing!

A start for my Analog Series. I haven’t actually set on a definite premise, but I do want it to be about medicine that turns people crazy or deranged. There will most likely be 3 story lines.

A duo project on comic books, me and my friend are still working on character designs and plots but I swear, it’s banger

Anyways that’s all. See you guys in 2 months, wish me luck for my exams!