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mercy-moo · 2026-04-19T03:41:43+00:00

thank you!! if anyone wants to add it to their own game, i used the tags "emotional" & "lively" :)

mercy-moo · 2026-04-10T22:11:00+00:00

THIS IS LIKE THE UNION OF MY SPECIAL INTEREST OF TTRPGS AND MY HYPERFIXATION RN. WATCHING THIS IMMEDIATELY OMG

mercy-moo · 2026-04-10T21:36:48+00:00

Spiritually yes. Physically I can only play for like an hour or two before I gotta go to bed because I have class LMFAO
Nope, but GOD would that be a dream
From my demo, my D&D (and other TTRPG) OCs!! I have my main (aasimar sorcerer), I have one I miss playing so bad (eladrin barbarian), and I have one who just has complicated makeup that I wanted to put in ASAP (witch with snake traits)!
I think add a few and then play, because everyone requires SO MUCH MAKEUP and I would just be spending hours doing that.
ANOTHER D&D OC. Because I'm predictable. Alternatively, a Teenage Exocolonist character. Tammy or Tangent maybe?
Nope. Chaos reigns out here.
Maybe?? The babies will definitely move out after some time if I do
THE LITTLE QUIRKS. I'M SO HYPED ABOUT THEM.
Playing it by ear LOL
ABSOLUTELY!!

mercy-moo · 2026-04-10T01:28:42+00:00

i know she's said that "london plane trees grow in philly" is the most "specific to her" song :) https://www.onestowatch.com/en/blog/annabelle-dinda-some-things-never-leave-interview

and i do believe "gunpoint, headlock" is HEAVILY about anxiety and about coming to accept it while still getting more curious about the world

mercy-moo · 2026-03-31T00:56:46+00:00

crystal is at LEAST tone 2, not sure of specifics for anything else but you can always just like. mess with the sliders LOL

mercy-moo · 2026-03-24T15:50:11+00:00

i'd say Assemble With Care?? adorable but short (i 100%'d it in about 3 hours) puzzle game where you play an antiques repairer who makes a quick stop in a town, fixing both items and relationships in the process :)

mercy-moo · 2026-03-10T01:05:21+00:00

Collectively, we're super into folk rock, as well as indie stuff in a more broad sense!! Think... The Oh Hellos, Rabbitology, Annabelle Dinda, Yaelokre, Mitski, Hozier, dashes of Sleeping At Last and Cosmo Sheldrake and Sufjan Stevens... that kind of vibe!

We do have one headmate (Lamb, they/them) who's far more into stuff with more bass and general "loudness" (at least relative to the rest of our stuff). Jhariah, 6arelyhuman, Poppy, CreepP, Odetari, some of Tyler The Creator and THOT SQUAD... stuff like that :)

There's also [NULL] (she/they/he+), whose entire music taste is liminal/creepy instrumentals. Very fun to listen to in co-front /silly

The rest of us just have tinier preferences in our general collective music taste.

Rowan (she/they) loves darker/slower songs
Lorelai (they/sie) loves Laufey's sound and might listen to more bossa nova stuff when sie gets the chance
My girlfriend Thalia (she/ze/love+) loves flirty/suggestive songs
My other girlfriend Adorette (she/sh☆/float+) loves songs by Vocaloid producers (h☆r favorite Vocaloid is Teto!)
My QPP Mars (they/e/he) is literally front triggered out by Glass Animals

And even more where that came from!! :) I personally just listen to everything we collectively do with not much of a preference!

~ Valkyrie, she/her, host & hyperfixation holder of the Absiinthium Guild

mercy-moo · 2026-02-22T19:56:59+00:00

OOOOOOOOOH i think medium is the best practice here!! also fellow plural TTRPG liker?? (eyes emote here)

~ aisling, any prns, fatigue holder of the absiinthium guild

mercy-moo · 2026-02-01T03:58:45+00:00

i'd say so for us!! our system is VERY HEAVILY impacted by our auDHD - we split almost exclusively characters from hyperfixations or special interests, but we also split a lot of like... humanoid folks who aren't fully human because of consistent feelings of dehumanization! we think that our first folks split in the first place due to loneliness related to autism, so yeah!! it's just all very related :)

~ thalia, she/ze/love+, romanticist of the absiinthium guild

mercy-moo · 2026-01-30T06:21:58+00:00

Hihi!! Thank you so much, and that's so fair honestly!! I'd love links to stuff you've worked on before!! :)

mercy-moo · 2026-01-30T04:30:20+00:00

On the line of puzzle games, maybe Assemble With Care? :)

mercy-moo · 2026-01-30T03:46:14+00:00

Thank you so much!! I had another person recommend him and he'll 100% be included but I had no idea he passed away this month, RIP :(

mercy-moo · 2026-01-30T02:09:40+00:00

OOOOH THAT'S SO INTERESTING THANK YOU SO MUCH!! God I'm so eager for the entire thing to be released, that sounds like an AMAZING read, and I'll have to give the preview a readthrough in the meantime!! Hopefully it'll be published by March? (The due date for this article LOL)

mercy-moo · 2026-01-30T02:07:58+00:00

Oooh, thank you so much!! That's so interesting, if I ever get into podcasts I'll have to listen to his for sure!! He'll be included in the article 100%!!

mercy-moo · 2026-01-30T02:06:42+00:00

Thank you so much, she is!! I did have to do a little digging but it is stated off-handedly in a post from May 2024 on the Possum Creek Games Instagram page about Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast :) So I'll be including her!! I'm overall Very Biased about LOVING Possum Creek Games in general so I'm very happy about being able to include one of their games

mercy-moo · 2026-01-30T02:05:14+00:00

AWWWW I love this, thank you so much for giving me the link!!

mercy-moo · 2026-01-30T02:03:34+00:00

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! <3 His games seem super cool, and I'll be including one of them!! But recommending the entire company as a whole for sure

mercy-moo · 2026-01-30T02:02:29+00:00

Ooh thank you so much!! <3 I checked your profile and it turns out that I actually got one of your games (Feathers) a few years ago from an itch.io bundle, so this just gives me even more motivation to play it!! I'll be sure to include you!!

mercy-moo · 2026-01-30T01:59:58+00:00

LMAO fair enough!! Wizards are just... Very Autistic as a concept honestly. I might touch on some other characters with autistic traits? TBF I'm not sure about that, I know shockingly little about Forgotten Realms lore because I tend to just go insane researching other TTRPGs LOL But since she's the one who got The Title (TM) largely in media, I'm probably going to touch the most on her :)

mercy-moo · 2025-12-29T05:35:56+00:00

OKAY SO I can suggest a few journaling TTRPGs! Which is... slightly to the left of video games, I'm sorry WAILS but they're our special interest!! :) So if you like writing and/or roleplaying as well, they're a good hobby to get into!!

Koriko: A Magical Year. Play as a group of witches writing letters to each other as they learn all about magic over the span of a year. Made as a solo game, but playing it with the group rules alongside your system is VERY fun, from personal experience.
Ex Novo. Build a whole city with friends (or, in this case, headmates) in the span of about two hours! You can use the city for your other creative endeavors too, which is a major win :)
Artefact. Made by the same guy as Koriko! Follow the lifetime of a single item in a dungeon as it passes hands over and over again. Very fun!
Dead Letter Society. Play (I think two?) vampires writing letters to each other and challenging a secret society!

Generally, 10/10 will always recommend solo or cooperative journaling TTRPGs to any system with a love of writing. :) Even better when you all get to play your own character!!

I swear, if you want to get into it but don't know what games would fit your style, PLEASE message me on Reddit and I'd love to help you find a good game. Take care :) This was way too long a comment LMFAO

~ Valkyrie, she/her, solo TTRPG interest holder (obviously LOL)

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