In honor of the Nil server's one year anniversary, we're having a Nil celebration week! Any Nil pairing! Whatever catches your fancy! The tropes will be celebrated as follows:
Sunday (Aug 6):
"Who did this to you?" / "They hurt you"
Seasonal/Tribal Festivals
Monday (Aug 7):
-I'm sorry your honor, they're both idiots
-Omegaverse
Tuesday (Aug 8):
-One Bed
-Weddings
Wednesday (Aug 9):
-Touch-starved Nil
-Falling Asleep Together
Thursday (Aug 10):
-"Why did you take that hit for me"
-Slowdancing
Friday (Aug 11):
-Finding an endless number of knives underneath the bathroom sink/on a person
-Soulmates
Saturday (Aug 12):
-"I didn't have anywhere else to go"
-Makeup Sex (or cuddles)
If you're interested in celebrating the best boy with us, you're welcome to join the server HERE
We are very happy to present to you: Focus on the Heart - A Visual Novel Fangame!
💘 A game made by fans, for fans.💘
Focus on the Heart is a CYOA-style Visual Novel fangame project featuring 8 characters for Aloy to romance! This game is the combined community efforts of 40+ fans, with unique art styles for every character route, narratives crafted with love, and smooches for all.
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💜Focus on the Heart is NOW AVAILABLE to download FOR FREE at the above link on itch.io!
💜FOR PC & MAC
💜Please follow the instructions HERE to download the game and unpack the files
💜You can watch the trailer HERE
💜If you want to tag our socials with your hype, please use #FOTHreact and #FOTHcharactername (i.e. #FOTHErend, #FOTHTalanah, etc.) for the respective routes to prevent spoilers for other players.
We wish you happy playing, and thank you very much for your support!! 💘
I'm so excited to play the entirely fan-made game Focus On The Heart! Congrats to all of the @focusontheheart team for working so hard on this game! To celebrate its upcoming release, here is some silliness (affectionate) with the eight eager love interests and the Savior of their hearts, Aloy.
Can't wait to see every character! Gotta woo them all!
It's Ko-tallloooooooo *but its in the voice of WWE announcing John Cena*
The results of my poll, “who would win in a fight”, are in and Kotallo won by a landslide. Its only fair he gets his victory embellished by my dumb art.
For the longest time I’ve only shipped Aloy with Erend but after playing a few hours of Horizon Forbidden West I really ship her with a lot of these characters. I hope for third game they take a page out of mass effect’s book & allow the player to chose their romantic partner. (or not at all cuz some people don’t want romance in their game) it would give me a reason to play the game over and over just to see the different options. 💕🫡
Words written: As of today, December 29, 2022, I have published a total of 666,541 words this year. All of which has been in the Horizon Zero Dawn fandom.
Smut scenes: So, so many. I couldn't possibly count them. It would be easier to count the fics that have smut, and even then, it's... many. Almost all.
New things I tried: Well, I started writing in the HZD fandom, which I'd never done before. I also wrote my first threesome smut and first OT3 fic.
Fic I spent the most time on: This one is probably Where the Wanderer Goes, my OT4 Nil/Fashav/Aloy/Kotallo longfic. I spent weeks outlining and although I'm on Chapter 12, it's only a fraction of the way done.
Fic I spent the least time on: Most likely Common Ground, the Nil/Hekarro fic I wrote in a couple of hours while drunk (and enabled by a bunch of hyenas).
Favourite thing I wrote: Toward the Sun, my first OT3 longfic, which is a soulmate AU about Nil/Kotallo/Aloy.
Favourite thing I read: Oh, man, so many.
On Dawn's Silent Wings by @wandereringray
Bad Company by @nyxianthe
Saturated by @darkonyxdream
Fire and Steel by @thatgothwriter
Scraped from Salt and Rust series by @cthu-boo
People Like Us by tciddaemina (sorry, I don't know if this one is on tumblr)
Some more faves this year:
A Song of Love and Fury series by @nyxianthe
Demons and Disasters by @darkonyxdream
A Little Tenderness by @trisshawkeye (at least I think this is the right handle, please let me know if it's not)
I'm probably leaving some out! But these are the first ones I thought of off the top of my head. There have been So Many! We're truly fortunate to have so many fantastic writers in the HZD fandom.
Writing goals for next year: Finish some of my many WIPs, start some more, maybe get back to some of my original works, too.
Follow Aloy on this new adventure, unlike any she's experienced before!
8 love interests await 7 different Aloys, with a plethora of side characters, 25+ backgrounds, 40+ original songs and 45+ full illustrations that feature in this adventure. Crafted by 30+ fans, this labor of love boasts over 20 different endings for you to explore and experience alongside Aloy.