#Lovelandisle

[im-a-fan-of-things]

BTW DID YOU NOTICE THE HAZEL THUMBNAIL ON HBOMB’S SHOUTOUT SCREEN?

You should watch her stuff!!! She’s an amazing thing-about-things maker who legit changed my life and helped me feel joy in the mundane again.

And so is her wife Alyssa!!! And her friends Thor, Coffee Cakes, Mae, and Geno!!!

Go check ‘em out and have a good time! Give them your moneys too!

[blerdyotome]

Elan Festival 2023 Brings Some Exciting Yuri Announcements

This past Sunday, yuri game development team, Studio Élan announced some exciting upcoming Sapphic visual novels during Élan Festival 2023 hosted by their adorable mascot, Melanie (voiced by Madeline Dorroh)! This is an annual showcase current and upcoming projects from Élan and their publishing wing Bellhouse and trust there is a lot to talk about! So, let’s check out all the announcements from…

[olibheare]

misc warmups for buddies @/kailysander, @/Kaiden_Jane (twt), @/lovelandisle, @/_inuden Ankora is the main character of Lovelandisle's new Yuri visnovel demo on Steam!!! LOVE IN A BOTTLE is really good if you like cute girls!

[averagetransman]

Made some minor adjustments to her birth certificate :3 I still need to accessorize her-

Original by @lovelandisle

[dandyliondreamer]

Fanart Commission of @/lovelandisle 's on twitter, Sonic OC! Elfen lied and Shadow Alien Gun included :3 Done for my partner: https://bsky.app/profile/wychwi.ch

[playtwewy]

you tagging that with sam and max is so ascended

THANKS LOL

I know and perceive only the truth

[thejazzdesign]

im terrible and dont remember your ocs' names off the top of my head SO DEALERS CHOICE in which character - tell me about their temper and what kinda drunk they are

🍺 - What kind of drunk are they? (e.g. talkative, sleepy, flirty etc.) 

🌋 - What’s your OCs temper like? Are they a slow boil, or an instant explosion?

If we’re going with Blue, he’s an affectionate drunk, he’ll just end up complimenting you and telling you how great you are (but he’ll be doing this in Fantasy Egyptian or Infernal so you won’t know what he’s saying lol). 

For his temper, Blue likes to think he is calm and collective, but his experiences adventuring have proved that is nooooot the case. It’s a slow boil, but he can literally set people on fire with his mind, so that happens sometimes too. 

WILDCARD: I would go with my super hero (anti-hero??) Scryer. They can’t drink because they don’t have a mouth (since they may or may not be made of extra-dimensional mirror energy) but they are not above holding a glass of champagne or wine while they monologue at you. Sometimes they even swirl the wine in the glass~ 

For their temper, Scryer is often sarcastic and acerbic but they don’t get angry. Getting too angry makes their form destabilize so they generally stay calm. Also if Scryer does get mad at you, it means you have fucked up BIG TIME. <3

[jamboreeofsurprises]

as a brief return from the misery aether lOOK AT THE BEAUTIFUL BABIES MY SISTER DREW FOR ME.

[yurimother]

Yuri Game Studio Élan Hosts Online Festival; Announce New LGBT+ Games and Updates

On Saturday, Yuri visual novel studio and publisher Studio Élan hosted an online live stream, Élan Festival 2022, where it announced new LGBT+ games, updates, and merchandise. The stream, presented by the studio's VTuber Mascot, Melanie (Kalyn McCabe) is available to view on the studio's YouTube page.

Studio Élan announced that it would be publishing three new games from other studios under its publishing arm, Bellhouse:

Who is the Red Queen?

Who is the Red Queen is a Yuri horror game initially released as part of the Spooktober 3rd Annual Visual Novel Jam. Bellhouse will be helping release an expanded version on Steam this year. The creators describe the game:

Alice falls down the rabbit hole into a Wonderland not quite right. Meeting an eclectic collection of people, animals, and some things in between, she sets out on an adventure in this odd new place to find the missing Red Queen. Or, more specifically, to find the pieces of the dismembered queen whose body has been strewn across the land.

Love in a Bottle

Love in a Bottle is a point-and-click adventure romance game by solo developer lovelandisle with music by Hazel. The game follows a love demon trying to love in an undersea town. It features a texting system, four different romance options, and over 30 CGs. An optional R18 patch will also be available. The creator describes the game:

Ankora the Love Demon is tired of living underground in the shadows of her successful siblings, so she's decided to move up in the world and get an apartment in the Coral Sea Vivariums, an underwater series of domes populated by creatures of all kinds. She has a limited amount of time to prove she's able to make it on her own, but more importantly, there are HOT SINGLE WOMEN all over town and she wants to make her presence (and availability) known to them. Can she adjust to a new place and find love before time is up?!

Love in a Bottle has a tentative release date of Winter 2022.

Twofold

The follow-up to another Bellhouse release, First Snow, Twofold, by Salty Salty Studios and Studio Coattails, takes place one year after the original. It follows new and returning characters. Newcomer Olive, an outsider, works to fully understand the situation threatening to undo a close-knit group of friends. The creators describe the game:

Olive’s situation is dire. They're on the verge of being thrown out of college unless they can salvage their GPA, and their only chance rests on classes they know next to nothing about.

Their lifeline: two club leaders who are more than willing to help them succeed. However, no solution is that easy. Olive soon finds themself in the middle of a conflict between these two friends that threatens to undo their long-standing love for each other.

Twofold will be released in 2022.

Studio Élan also announced new merchandise for their celebrated 2019 fantasy Yuri visual novel Heart of the Woods. The studio will be collaborating with Limited Run Games to release physical editions of the visual novel for PS4 and Nintendo Switch. The physical releases will feature reversible cover art by Satchel (Doki Doki Literature Club). A collectors edition with a box case, soundtrack, artbook, and "extra goodies" will also be released.

Additionally, both of the game's soundtracks Moonlight and Snowfall, are being released on vinyl from Very Ok Vinyl, with new artwork by Adirosa.

The Studio also announced updates to its own games:

Please Be Happy

The Please be Happy demo was released last year. Although the game was stated to have a release date of 2021, it missed that goal. The stream addressed this, with Melanie saying, "this game ended up being as long as our two released games (Highway Blossoms and Heart of the Woods) combined. The studio is on track to release the game later this year but does not have an official date as of yet.

Born as a fox in the forest of Korea, Miho carries with her the memory of a traveler who showed her kindness and spoke of home. Now more human than fox, Miho has spent a long, long time searching for her person. She arrives by airship to Wellington Skyport, one of the jewels of the floating island of New Zealand.

Despite her years spent observing humans, she still has a lot to learn about their culture and society. She's made a living so far as a thief, her heightened senses allowing her to easily take advantage of people. She's also seen a lot of the worst of what mankind has to offer.

It's only after meeting Juliet, the owner of a small library, and Aspen, an aspiring novelist, that Miho starts to understand what kindness is, and that there's more than just the bad stuff when it comes to people.

Lock and Key: A Magical Girl Mystery

The studio announced that a demo for Lock and Key which it renamed to Lock and Key: A Magical Girl Mystery, will be released soon on Steam and itch.io.

What does it mean to be a magical girl?

This is the question at the heart of Lock and Key, a magical mystery set in a world shaped by your interpretation of the magical girl genre. 

Sherri and Kealey Cohen, now a married couple in their late 20s, left the title of magical girls behind them over a decade ago. Now on the verge of losing their powers and entering a life of true normalcy, a string of unexplainable murders forces them to come out of retirement for one last adventure. Together with Nina, their old friend, and Ruby, a new protege, Sherri and Kealey will have to face a mystery connected both to their past and future. In the world of Lock and Key, the player shapes their path...and more importantly, determines where that path will end.

Summer at the Edge of the Universe

Élan had relatively little to announce about solarpunk game Summer at the Edge of the Universe. The studio clarified that the game was not canceled but that most members of the team for it are busy working on Please Be Happy. They then apologized for announcing the game too early but reassured everyone that they are still very excited about it.

The studio also announced a new game, Our Home, My Keeper, which you can read more about here.

[fredbydawn]

Ludozoology Recommended Readings

As my Furby/Peepy evolution posts gain traction yet again and more of you good people become interested in the field of Ludozoology, I’d like to recommend some things to help newcomers get into the headspace of this made up area of science.

• ItemLabel’s official Cool Videos playlist has much interesting Peepy and general ItemLabel lore, especially itemlabel 2U and itemLabel AWR 2022.

• lovelandisle’s Weird and Hilarious Furby Fakes and Bootlegs! showcases some interesting Furby descendants, I encourage newcomers to imagine how these descendants may have evolved into some of the toys we know today.

• Museum of The Vanishing Dog Episode 4: Furby Flaying, a podcast episode less about the evolution of the Furby, but an interesting exploration of the idea of Furby as God conduit (similar to my own theory of the Furby as Horseman of climate death) I should also mention that the presenter of the episode, Sam Hensley, is on tumblr as samsketch book where they post drawings and customized animatronic sculptures very reminiscent of customized Furbies, and I high recommend following her.

• The Shelby Care and Training Guide a watershed moment in canon Furby lore.  Includes information about the eldritch creature who originally domesticated the Furby.

These recommendations are mostly based on my specialization in Furbies and Peepies, but I encourage newcomers to find their own niche of ludozoology if other toys call out to them :)

[bonnieventure]

felt like dippin my toes in the wild world of oc design adopts for fun…… a box of marble sodas fell into some magic sea foam and out popped these mermaids…!!! everything else is up 2 u :o) dm me to claim ! 🍇🍈🍓🥤🧜‍♀️

updates: -ORIGINAL has been claimed, thank you laserlime ! -STRAWBERRY has been claimed, thank you lovelandisle ! -MELON has been claimed, thank you nymjih !

[geno7art]

Ruth & Dianne finally have reference sheets!! featuring example palettes by @intraluna @g33x-animation @lovelandisle @scribblep @leirin @camiopaint and other people whose tumblrs i cant find just look them up on twitter

[taleofnine]

just wanted to let you know that your ferriswheel AU has me like (one million crying emotes with hearts) it's SO GOOD... it's such a vivid snippet, i can imagine all the surrounding scenes leading up to it so well, and i love a good 'feral child' N hahaha, not to mention your writing is beautiful! thank you for the ferriswheel food in 2022!!

oh thanks so much! I’m so glad you’re enjoying it, this AU has haunted my every waking hour for the last 2 weeks lmao am hoping to create some more content for it soon!!!

[playtwewy]

perchance can you recommend an oingo boingo album to me, i feel like we have similar tastes in music so i wanna finally give the old boing a try!!

Of course!!

I would say if you wanna go the route I did, start with Dead Man's Party and if you enjoy it, work your way back lol It has a few songs that I think are their most well known, but they are all still great!! And its still one of my fave Halloween albums.

Then if you want to continue Nothing to Fear and Good For Your Soul are tied at being my favorite albums rn

[playtwewy]

i just want you to know that i enjoy your blog so immensely, your tastes in fandom and memes are (chefs kiss)

Aww thank you sm!! 💖💖❤💖💖❤