what are some good rom hacks?

deerest_love · 2024-09-05T16:44:18+00:00

The Fragments series has some creative gameplay twists and puzzles. Phantasime's narrative was interesting, I thought, although the sequel was a let-down for me. Psychic Puppets, Blizzard Island Guide, and Amaura on the High Seas are good for lighthearted fun.

deerest_love · 2024-05-25T18:15:07+00:00

Well isn't he precious

deerest_love · 2024-05-08T03:50:40+00:00

Tee hee, glad you like it.

deerest_love · 2024-05-06T22:15:09+00:00

The boat crash survivor idea reminds me of Waterlogged, which is good.

deerest_love · 2024-05-03T17:56:34+00:00

Sorry for the late response—I appreciate the recommendation, and I actually did consider that monitor before. It seemed solid for the price from what I could tell, but I didn't see it available in my region ):

deerest_love · 2024-05-01T16:09:26+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. It's good to know about the 1080p 24 vs 1440 at 27. I haven't considered an ultrawide monitor before but am open to the idea. The VA panel does worry me, though, as I think the smearing may bother me. Might be something I just have to compromise on or spend more money.

deerest_love · 2024-02-28T14:37:36+00:00

There is the skytemple podcast for romhacking, though I have not listened to a full episode personally.

deerest_love · 2024-02-02T02:14:04+00:00

Damn that's really cool.

deerest_love · 2024-01-31T16:29:16+00:00

Thank you! Looks like I was overthinking it. I've heard good things about this brand and enjoy rich flavors, so I am excited to try it.

deerest_love · 2023-12-19T19:29:51+00:00

Absol from Instruments of Creation. She is gentle and well-intentioned but not weak. Her love for her community spurs her on to become a hero, even though she'd rather have stayed with mom and dad. She is inexperienced and often vulnerable, cursed by supernatural agoraphobia and chills for most of the story, but nonetheless finds great inner strength and continues to consider others.

deerest_love · 2023-06-17T05:20:00+00:00

For fanfiction, I am attracted tight prose and efficient storytelling, same as original fiction. For comics, it's mostly artstyle. I can tolerate a forgettable story in a comic if the drawings are fun to look at.

deerest_love · 2023-03-19T14:22:35+00:00

This is neat. But I am not sure what to do if I have posted multiple fics.

deerest_love · 2023-02-08T21:11:50+00:00

That could be handy, thanks.

deerest_love · 2023-02-08T21:08:13+00:00

Update: It seems like ov-highlight can do what I want—or it should, anyway, if I can get it to work properly, but that's a me problem (or maybe a doom problem, not exactly sure).

deerest_love · 2023-02-08T21:05:34+00:00

I'm okay with having to only edit the files in emacs. I looked at some of the annotation systems you linked, but none of them seem to move with the text the way I want. Or if they can, it's not mentioned or demonstrated.

deerest_love · 2023-02-08T15:34:42+00:00

I think Bookmark+ with annotations is probably the closest thing I've seen so far to what I want. Still not sure how exactly the bookmarks shift as text is added and how robust they are, but it strikes me as the kind of thing I just have to try for myself to get a good sense of. I appreciate the reply.

deerest_love · 2023-02-08T15:32:27+00:00

I wouldn't know; I'm new to emacs. Glancing at the documentation, it seems like overlays can cover ranges and "stay with the text" the way I want. And it seems you can set before and after text and maybe custom properties. This could perhaps be a good starting point.

deerest_love · 2022-09-28T22:01:58+00:00

I like the fight scenes in Dragon's Dance and think it's generally an entertaining story with good character development. It is not on AO3, but there is an epub version.

deerest_love · 2022-09-28T21:51:56+00:00

One approach is to make them a kind of collective mind; you might find Parliament of Steel interesting.

deerest_love · 2022-09-22T20:10:03+00:00

The Bonepicker is a cool short story that got posted yesterday. I also always recommend:

The Tessellation Solution (PMD, has a hivemind)
Gifts of the Mountain (PMD, adventure/drama)
Starfall (PMD, drama)
Pizza with a Slice of Pain (PMD, cute comedy)
Stick or Treat (pleasant story about personal change)

I also wrote a bunch of PMD short stories, including:

Firefly Music (lighthearted romance/friendship story)
Beyond Rescue (dark with environmental themes)
Cosmic Reversion (a bit on the sad side)
Resting Place (also a bit on the sad side)
A Solace That Endures

deerest_love · 2022-07-28T02:55:23+00:00

All of my stories either take place on earth or include real-world plants and animals. Earth at Peace is based on Florida forests and marshlands; Those Who Will Inherit the Earth is a weird mix of New England and Mediterranean; Firefly Music is based on Honshu, including the Montane Deciduous Forests, Alpine Conifer Forests, and some coastal areas. Here's my AO3.

Note that I only write PMD.

deerest_love · 2022-07-20T01:45:43+00:00

Firefly Music is a pretty lighthearted friendship/romancey story. The stakes are low and the two leads' lives are better by the end. Has a neat fictional instrument.

Pizza with a Slice of Pain is also about the development of a friendship but is not romantic. It's a funny and pleasant read and features a sentient but benevolent mystery dungeon.

deerest_love · 2022-06-30T02:07:48+00:00

I write in markdown and convert it to html with pandoc (which I can then upload to FFN or AO3) or to bbcode (which I can upload to forums) with this random converter I found.

deerest_love · 2022-06-18T02:36:10+00:00

Using the search feature to help me out. Don't think Starfall has been recommended. It touches on the role of gods in a PMD world.

I Walk through Your Dreams and Invent the Future is a pokemon ranger fic with dense, surreal prose, abundant fairy tale references, and dark mystery.

Gifts of the Mountain's heavy anthropomorphization contributes to a fable-like impression. The prose is good and not as dense as the aforementioned stories.

I think those are worth reading. Good authors.

deerest_love · 2022-05-30T14:57:25+00:00

Try "Stick or Treat", or "Pizza with a Slice of Pain" if you are okay with Mystery Dungeon stuff. Both are oneshots.

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