#The Waking Cloak

[thewakingcloak]

ProtoDungeon: Episode I is finally coming to Steam AHHHHHHHHH

Please go wishlist, reblog, etc. etc.! Every little bit helps!

Wishlist ProtoDungeon: Episode I on Steam

[hootyhoowoo]

It is I again! :>

May I request a sleepy Shang Qinghua? He works very hard, he must get very sleepy!

Everyone on An Ding Peak: shhh!! quiet! Shizun is sleeping…!

[just-null]

Yknow that pic where that drunk lady kissed lipstick marks all over her cat? All I can imagine is doing this to the clones each time I get home

POINTS AT MY PET AU

[the pic in question!]

[saltylovesvessels]

based on this post, I present:

DOOMED BUG YURI

[hanzajesthanza]

~a vampire at dawn~

excuse the quick sketch, for this post is less about the art and more about the idea behind it... i have this headcanon from when geralt's company was trekking with the beekeepers through the wilderness:

although they were initially very grateful to have three meals a day prepared for them, they quickly got sick of having honeyed porridge served for all three of them. "Everything was sticky from the honey, even the young women." milva began to get nauseous at mealtimes, and cahir, usually ravenous at mealtimes as befits a strapping young lad such as he, even turned down a few bowls.

regis, however, was quite happy with it.

because, as is mentioned later in the book, about saovine traditions: "The spirits of the dead (...) should be given honey and groats, all sprinkled with vodka…" i imagine some confusing night where he went into a villager's hut to drink blood, but, it was around saovine, so they were even expecting someone like him to arrive and to even be looking for such a thing. prepared for such a situation, they handed him some kasza with honey. he didn't really know what to do with it, but they instructed him on how to eat... it was surprisingly pretty good, so he started pulling this on all the other villages, like hey i;m "undead" (whatever that means) do you have any "porridge" with "honey." yeah also put a little vodka on it while you're at it.

so honeyed groats turned out to be the first human food he ate, and over time, became like a comfort food to him. now he has it without the vodka though

[bitchfitch]

sometimes when you're working on a project that involves child characters you have to do something to remind yourself of the whole "This is a Child in this situation, not a short adult" part of things. just to keep it all in perspective.

[friendshipisaddiction]

friends stupid idiot dumb medic fankid (and one of my ocs) ingeborg pls dont die

@damnwtfisgoingon i want her publically exicuted

[queerestqueertoeverqueer]

i listen to the DW + GO soundtracks when i'm reading, and let me tell you, having god of akhaten/the long song playing over the end of reaper man was devastatingly beautiful

[thewakingcloak]

the shadow is back!!! (you probably didn't even know it was gone)

it's a small detail but should help pretty significantly with figuring out where you are when you're jumping or falling off a cliff!

[aetherixart]

Iris - Wake of Tartarus

Commission status: Waitlist open! vgen.co/aetherix

[spikeoshields]

I was today days old when I realized the deathly hallows was just dramatic rock paper scissors.

Cloak > stone- better not to die at all by avoiding danger rather than to die and come back, especially since it risks you changing in the process or being hunted for the stone.

Wand > Cloak- cloak grants, you no defense against the raw power of the wand. Harry had that thing for all the movies, but still got literally killed by the wand cause all you have to do is create a situation where he couldn’t run or hide.

Stone > wand- this is just a plot point. If you possess the stone, you can come back even when the wand kills you. Though you might have to play possum so they don’t just keep killing you repeatedly

[au-drayton-shenanigans]

See fish gets me, anyways I’m plenty good at being random I just gotta think of the funniest way. Hmmmm, I have an idea :)

"That's going to have to wait until that freak wakes up." -🐛

[fox9165]

I don't know about anyone else but I'm hoping mysterious cloaked figure is Jesse because there needs to be more people in games/movies who are wearing some type of long coat, a cloak, or a poncho. Yes I have feelings about the mentioned types of outerwear. And leather jackets but there's enough people wearing leather jackets

ALAN WAKE 2: The Lake House DLC

[thewakingcloak]

Trying Some Stuff

So I said I would Try Some Stuff last time, and the most valuable thing I've been trying is talking with friends about all this stuff. Who knew?

In review: I need some kind of sustainable, healthy way to communicate online about the stuff I'm making. That is how I want to connect with people, via my games.

But in talking with my friends, I realized it had to be more than just "sustainable," it has to actually drive the engine forward. It has to be fun. Whatever this ends up being, I have to look forward to working on it, and working on it has to push forward the game development, which will fuel the devlog, which will fuel the game development.

So if you caught that, I'm just going with calling this future strategy thing a "devlog". Not "marketing," not "engaging on social media," not "feeding the algorithm beast." I don't know what form a devlog will take. I mean it could just be this, what I’m doing right now (and this will certainly continue). One friend suggested doing devlog videos. A long time ago I did gamedev streams, and that was fun, and I also cut together little highlight reels, and that was fun. So that may be A Thing. It may not, too, because I don't know if I can actually consistently do something like that. Editing videos is a lot of work. Streaming is, too, especially with our baby's feeding/sleeping schedule. But I'm enjoying thinking about it.

And that's really good, because every time I've thought about online presence recently, I've just wanted to shrivel up and die. Maintaining social media, to me, is misery, is bowing before an algorithm, sacrificing my wellbeing to a human-made god that doesn't care. "If you're Really Lucky, I might show your sacrifice to the other sacrifices, and if you're Astronomically Lucky, a few might like it. Now let me drink your blood and fill your veins with toxic liquid instead via my evil ritual. Also, you have to post all your stuff in gifs, the worst image format known to humankind, but not that way, this way. No not like that, like this."

I'm over that.

If a social media platform doesn't fit what I want to do, I'm going to cut it.

(wow that gif is old… nice to see Tav though, right?)

I'm starting with Twitter (I'm not going to call it X). Twitter is not fun for me and never has been. So I'm actually, 100% for real, deprecating my Twitter account. Do you know how much pleasure I get from this idea? Do you have any idea how much lighter I feel, having decided to get rid of it? Twitter has given me a few dear friends (whom I now talk to via routes other than Twitter anyway), but also nearly ten years of grief, and this platform is not getting better. Oh, the algorithm actively suppresses my posts now? Fine. Let it die. I'm not carrying that burden anymore.

(just constantly bashing my head against social media)

And I don't want a Twitter-like. If that format works for y'all, great, please keep doing what you like to do, but I'm not going to spend my time trying to recreate the evil rituals somewhere else (I've never enjoyed evil rituals). (To be clear, I'm not calling you evil if you engage on social media. I am calling social media algorithms evil.) My time on any remaining microblogging sites, if I even continue those, will now be devoted to simply directing people to the devlog, the thing I actually like and want to do. Does that mean just like a static post on each of them that has a few (shudder) gifs and some links? Maybe! Maybe!!

I'm not going to make any sweeping declarations of The Plan, partly because there isn't a firm one yet, and partly because I've done that before to little success or consistency. However, I know I want to do stuff that makes me want to make stuff, and I'm excited for that. I think it's gonna be fun. I think it may also be sort of a return to form, at least in ways that I can now that I've got my family. So stay tuned…

Oh! Don't forget to wishlist ProtoDungeon: Episode I and ProtoDungeon: Episode III on Steam! (II is in progress!)

[review-anon]

Also Nikei, while I do understand that you all were seriously desperate to get your Divine Luck back and decided to go through with Mikado's plan to revive Utsuro; that still doesn't excuse the fact that a lot of people got hurt or worse and while sure, it's easy to blame Kokoro for keeping AI Mikado alive; remember that you all still went along with say plan he came up with.

Hell, the fact that Utsuro (who's likely on the ship) has not appeared in front of any of you Voids or Mikado and has actively avoided you all proves that he would never give you back your Divine luck nor do you deserve it.

It's easy to say that now, when we know how badly that plan will go and that we should have never agreed to it in the first place.

Especially since while our Divine Luck is still present, any sort of decay or reversal seems to have stopped, which means at the very least, we don't THAT to worry about.

But clearly you have never been in a life-or-death situation before. When survival is the only thing on your mind, you don't think about the long term consequences. And since time was REALLY running out for us, our backs were against the wall.

We had no options, no choices left, and then Mikado came to us with his plan. Sure it was, and we know now it was sketchy and too extreme for our liking, but ask yourself this; if you had less then a year to live and you were gonna die painfully, and then someone came to you with a offer to save your life, would you take it?

And what's even worse is when we wake up, we will go straight back to Mikado's plan and it will carry out its dreadful consquences.

Also Master Utsuro is not on this ship. Other Divine Luck holders are, but he is nowhere to be found, so quit spreading lies.

[prlssprfctn]

No matter if you choose to consider that Jason had the worst time ever in the League of Assassins or that, quite opposite, it was more or less okay, I think we all should unite and agree that Jason would be Ra's bane of existence. This boy is a brat. A certificated one, even. He is not an easy boy to handle, never and ever.

Ra's, after locking Jason up away from the society for a few days: Now. Do you realise what I am trying to say to you? You should focus on your studies. On your trainings. Forget about easy, normal life, about teenage shenanigans. Find peace. Throw unnecessary thoughts away.

Jason, yawning: Yeah, okay. Sure.

Ra's waking up in the 5am because someone is blasting NSYNC's Bye Bye Bye on the whole castle: Talia. What is this?

Talia, shrugging: Jason found old music speakers. He says he is... focusing like this. Just like you advised him to.

Ra's with his eye twitching: Is. he. Now.

Ra's: (accidentally trips on his cloak)

One of the Assassins, in their local comms: Chat, clip that

Ra's, frowning: What is that? What had you said? What is this nonsense?

Assasin: Uh, general had taught us—

Ra's: STOP LISTENING TO HIM, FOR GOD'S SAKE

Ra's: Talia, we need to send the boy to All-Caste. I think he needs some time away. From us. From me. Specifically.

(A certain amount time later)

Ra's, sighing in relief: Finally, peace—

Jason, spawning behind his back: Hi.

Ra's, groaning: YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO SURVIVE THE CLEANSING CEREMONY, OH MY GOD

Jason: Wanna check All Blade? It is kinda cool.

Ra's, pausing: ...Yeah.

Ra's farewelling Jason, who returns to Gotham: I have nothing to wish upon you. Be as annoying to Batman as you were to me.

Jason, smirking: Aw-w, I barely unleashed my annoyingness with you, Ra's. Bruce is going to suffer more.

Ra's: ...Good.

Ra's, closing the door behind him: Barricade the castle. Set bombs. I DON'T WANT TO SEE HIM HERE EVER AGAIN!!!

Also Ra's a half of a year later, watching footage of Jason terrorising everyone's life in Gotham, with tears in his eyes: That's my grandson. I am so proud of him.

Talia, raising her eyebrows: You tried to drown him in the Lazarus Pit. Twice.

Ra's: Shhh.

Talia: Then I'll invite him on holidays this year.

Ra's: NO.