Round Up Continued, Or It’ll Be Too Long
Apr. 20th, 2026 05:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ripplestitchI’ve been writing so much! I can see that I’ve improved dramatically over time which I’m very chuffed about.
It started out as a very ambitious game of Apothecaria—which is still running, though I’ve put the writing part of it down a bit. It got TOO ambitious and I need to let it cool off before I get stuck back in.
In the last in-game month: Ivy’s odd acquaintance with the mildly terrifying Druid she keeps bumping into in the forest seems to have somehow turned into a situationship, to the horror of her familiar Nutkin. She lost her first patient. She’s been charged with the sacred duty of guiding lost souls back to the Land Beyond by the time the Autumn closes with Bogle’s Night (not a lot of time!). There’s a vampire preying on the young people of High Rannock and she’s got to find and stake him in his weird freakish heart before his games kill someone. Oh, also she saw her Fetch, and she can’t get an appointment with her solicitor in her home town to make her will without her mother finding out she’s in town, which is almost worse than seeing the omen of her imminent death, frankly.
It’s all very dramatic. And told through the POV of a squirrel, so also difficult.
Then I picked up an ancient fanfiction that I started when I was, like… 15? Messed about with it a bit but it was for a fandom that shall not be named so the fun wore off. Sigh. If you’ve been in a fandom and had to reckon with discovering that the author is even more… unsavoury… than you thought. Well. You know how it is.
I’m also playing (with various levels of seriousness) in no particular order:
I have a few original ideas that I’m letting marinate because they’re not ripe yet. I write romance, though, so they’ll be kissing books D:
It started out as a very ambitious game of Apothecaria—which is still running, though I’ve put the writing part of it down a bit. It got TOO ambitious and I need to let it cool off before I get stuck back in.
In the last in-game month: Ivy’s odd acquaintance with the mildly terrifying Druid she keeps bumping into in the forest seems to have somehow turned into a situationship, to the horror of her familiar Nutkin. She lost her first patient. She’s been charged with the sacred duty of guiding lost souls back to the Land Beyond by the time the Autumn closes with Bogle’s Night (not a lot of time!). There’s a vampire preying on the young people of High Rannock and she’s got to find and stake him in his weird freakish heart before his games kill someone. Oh, also she saw her Fetch, and she can’t get an appointment with her solicitor in her home town to make her will without her mother finding out she’s in town, which is almost worse than seeing the omen of her imminent death, frankly.
It’s all very dramatic. And told through the POV of a squirrel, so also difficult.
Then I picked up an ancient fanfiction that I started when I was, like… 15? Messed about with it a bit but it was for a fandom that shall not be named so the fun wore off. Sigh. If you’ve been in a fandom and had to reckon with discovering that the author is even more… unsavoury… than you thought. Well. You know how it is.
I’m also playing (with various levels of seriousness) in no particular order:
- For Small Creatures Such As We (resource management and journalling, in space! Also there’s a hex map!)
- Tangled Blessings (a solo or duet game, journalling in a magic university with a built in mechanic for rivalry and possibly romance <3 while you try not to die from all the eldritch horror going on.)
- 5’ Into Space (not too far into this one yet, but the story mechanics are interesting. It feels kind of like writing an episode of a sci show?)
- The Prize (solo writing prompts exploring the inherent misogyny in ‘save the kingdom, get the girl!’ You play as the Hero’s fellow adventurer until you are demoted to ‘Queen’.)
- Ironsworn (a very popular rpg system that I’m only just getting into.)
- Fox Curio’s Floating Bookshop (more resource management, kind of, and little stories about animals who own bookshops and stuff.)
- Ashes (a ‘Souls-like’ solo rpg)
- Drakonym (the solo version of a very interesting looking ttrpg which involves bonding with DRAGONS, hell yeah!)
- Brambletrek (adorable looking explore/adventure something something with little animal people)
- Wandering Bookshop
- Gossamer Frontier (a campaign of, as described by the author, a mass-effect like story. I’m a BioWare fan.)
- A lot of small indie games I got in various charity Itch.io bundles.
I have a few original ideas that I’m letting marinate because they’re not ripe yet. I write romance, though, so they’ll be kissing books D:
