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Handsome

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My coworker said he was having a bad day and I said 'it can't be that bad you haven't started howling like a sad dog yet' and he let out the saddest most pathetic little howl I've ever heard and I was like 'damn ok do you need to have a break?'

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Ready to time travel to 2021 Hermitblr/Trafficblr?

Bogwaters Demo out now on itch.io!

A hand to hold until the end. A hand to hold because we're friends.

A hand to hold until the end. A hand to hold because we're friends.

June 2021. The experimental Minecraft series Triple Life SMP has just aired its finale and you're obsessed with the dynamic between the Minecraft YouTubers Benbog and Mars OfTheBigWaters.

Problem? The fandom still hates shipping. Solution? Start an underground Discord server to quarantine your shipping activities. To avoid being cancelled, you'd have to scour your social media to find potential members who are secretly open to shipping.

ABOUT

Bogwaters is a free, text-based, interactive fiction browser game. The game is a parody of the Third Life SMP fandom in mid 2021 that is focused on Treebark (the romantic ship between Rendog/Martyn InTheLittleWood) and its fandom relevance.

This is a demo version (prototype) meant to test the limits and feasibility of this game.

You play as the owner of a Discord server named Bogwaters. Your goal is to invite 4 people within 7 days, from June 1 to June 7.

Full "how to play" guide can be found within the game.

This is the author's first interactive fiction game so it may be wonky. Constructive feedback is appreciated!

Word count: ~10k

Estimated play time: 30 to 45 minutes

FEATURES

3 endings

5 NPCs you can attempt to invite

Friendship levels for NPCs

Fandom enjoyment meter that can increase or decrease based on your actions

New Tumblr dashboard for each of the seven days

Tumblr, Discord, Ao3, DMs

Special events on certain days

Light/dark mode

CONTENT WARNINGS

MCYTshipping (hermit and traffic)

2019-2021 type ship discourse

2019 Hermitblr

2021 Hermittwt/Traffictwt

Canon-typical innuendos

Swearing

Written in Ink by Inkle Studios.

Original inspiration post here (May 13, 2025) (Yes I wrote this in less than two weeks)

I had a lot of fun making this and I hope you enjoy it too if you play it! Please talk to me if you have any thoughts and opinions, I'd love to ramble :D

<3

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peer reviewed rpf (treebark)

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saw a birch tree and thought of treebark. fuck

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ren is the type of guy to go “i love men because men love women and i love women ❤️” with zero thought of what’s going on

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they’re doing the bachelor in that hermit lake house

why does it sound like everyone just knows ren loves martyn and has a crush on him and is obsessed with the way he swims. everyone saw something happened in the hermit lake house. “you love him”. ren picking treebark qs on purpose and mentioning it to martyn afterwards.

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put ren in a house full of friends for one week and everyone emerges giggling about yaoi and how handsome he is. he’s got that rpf touch for real

why does it sound like everyone just knows ren loves martyn and has a crush on him and is obsessed with the way he swims. everyone saw something happened in the hermit lake house. “you love him”. ren picking treebark qs on purpose and mentioning it to martyn afterwards.

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why does it sound like everyone just knows ren loves martyn and has a crush on him and is obsessed with the way he swims. everyone saw something happened in the hermit lake house. “you love him”. ren picking treebark qs on purpose and mentioning it to martyn afterwards.

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idea: your-fave-ships-treebark blog and its just the entire cast of their friend group rotated

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you are martyn and you wake up next to your wife and kids and it’s going to be springtime soon which reminds you of that one deranged roleplay from three years ago now. traffic fandom is screaming about new life series but you check discord and nothing has been announced, no new red dm notification, nothing new from ren as per usual. you wonder if it’s just you so you log on twitter and you realise ren genuinely replies to no one, not doc (the guy you stole a diamond from) and his increasingly desperate simp tweets. but ren replied to this fanartist from your tumblr tags that you call king. whatever. so you go on youtube to see what this guy is doing and you scroll past enough wither farm thumbnails to find his stuff from last season and you see the thumbnails of him and false at blue river raceway and something bittersweet and sour rises up in your chest, something that’s not jealousy, and you think of that ice boat race again, think about the stab of guilt to feel towards tango that you remember the boat race more than the technological marvel that is decked out, but hey, you’re just biased for that old dog, okay? you can’t help it, no one can help it. thinking about decked out makes you think of that burning box again and how it’s been months since that electrifying exchange, you remember sitting there for forty minutes bullshitting about anything while ren diggity dog speaks in a cup, you remember the vinegar chips that you ate, you remember the slightly sour tang on your tongue, ren says your eyes sparkle in the flames and your neck is kissable and you feel like you’ll walk backwards in hell for him, you slowly let the chips in your mouth soften and disintegrate like it’s not the vinegar you want to savour

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Rendog's unrealized bisexuality haunts me but not nearly as much as it haunts him.

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gatekeeping treebark if you don’t care about falsesymmetry #evil #crashout #joke

again the easiest way to tell treebark twitter and treebark tumblr apart is to see if they have basic appreciation for false. like with decked out burning box and martyn jealous comment and charity stream 2025 you just kind of have to acknowledge her if you like those two men

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i think this is sort of because treebark tumblr began in 2021 and experienced mcc15 etc but i can’t really explain it otherwise like idk man she’s just always there…? even the saplings know of her…?

again the easiest way to tell treebark twitter and treebark tumblr apart is to see if they have basic appreciation for false. like with decked out burning box and martyn jealous comment and charity stream 2025 you just kind of have to acknowledge her if you like those two men

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again the easiest way to tell treebark twitter and treebark tumblr apart is to see if they have basic appreciation for false. like with decked out burning box and martyn jealous comment and charity stream 2025 you just kind of have to acknowledge her if you like those two men

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Gonna be so real i know its bad etiquette to ask ppl abt shipping like yes yes we know its bad practice and its cringe and whatever this is all true. That being said that dog is like. gay. Thats my dog who is gay. And every time i see yhat clip i am thinking abt the idea of him in his hotel room kicjing his feet and giggling at the prospect of kissing his coworker (Slash hetero slash rp ofc ofc ofc) and meanwhile like theres a dark empty pit in his stomach when he thinks abt how this event is gonna end and hes gonna have to go back to his empty house ok