kalloway @kalloway@fedibird.com

Square Enix Unveils Ember Storia Strategy RPG for Smartphones, PC

🔗 https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-10-09/square-enix-unveils-ember-storia-strategy-rpg-for-smartphones-pc/.216553

享保三年(西暦1718年)。
ここにあるお墓の1つに。

1718 (Japanese calendar: Kyoho 3)
One of the graves in this area.

#お墓 #grave #graves #墓地 #cemetery #奄美 #amami #奄美大島 #amamiisland #マストドン写真部 #photography

It's Feast Week, fam!

Use the prompts to create something and tag me, use the tags #feastweek and #promptober or drop it in the collection on ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Grims_2024_Promptober_Challenge

I also have a tumblr blog dedicated to this challenge if you'd like to see some of what has already been done: https://www.tumblr.com/promptober?source=share

#writingprompts #prompts #artprompts #challenges

It’s officially the year of the anthology

https://fungus.zone/posts/2024-10-08-Year-Of-The-Anthology

I updated my tiny little handheld-emulation-box website with a tiny little post about how Game Dads can create time for you to play games that you wouldn't have otherwise had time to play:

https://gamedad.club/meta_timecondenser.php

Sometimes we think "I don't have time to do fun stuff," when the reality is even sadder; we DO have time, we have LOTS of time, but our time is all chopped up, like bits of string too short to be of any use, so it gets eaten up by the doomscrolling anxiety rectangle. This little post is about letting the Game Dad act as a time condenser, rescuing those useless seconds from the Feel Bad Machine and turning them into fun minutes filled with good stuff instead.

D'you remember having a good time in a mechanic's waiting room? I do, because last time I spent it playing Final Fantasy Tactics! Anyway have a gander at my silly little website lol

sweet dreams💖

When it’s October and you get to finally show off that Halloween body you’ve been working on all summer.

hi! here's a collection of 85 halloween-y little games: some horror, some witchy, some monster dating. a handful are secretly full length games. many playable in the browser, many free (but please pay if you enjoy them!)

#games #indieGames #microIndieGames #halloween #horror

https://itch.io/c/4865730/halloween-y-little-games

なにゃ⁉️

#CatsOfMastodon

Anyone can start their own server on the Fediverse. It's much cheaper and easier than people realise.

You don't need to be a technical nerd, you don't need to install anything or update anything or own any equipment.

Non-technical people can use a "managed hosting" service which means you pay a small monthly fee (usually 5 to 10 euros a month) which includes the cost of the hosting and the hosting company does all the tech stuff for you.

More info at:

➡️ https://growyourown.services/grow-your-own-social-network/

#Fediverse

Son 2 was on a bday party yesterday and came back with a #batman facepainting.
I was wondering of my wife would manage to get it off before dropping him at preschool.

Turns out she didn't.

Instead he decided to wear black and also a pair of bat wings we had lying around from some children's costume.

As the saying goes: "be yourself. If you can't do that, be Batman."

#parenting

Wanna know something sweet?

My mum, who passed away earlier this year, was part of a Thursday coffee group. Her and her ladies would alternate between each others houses every week. They had done this for 30+ years.

Anyway, the ladies were quick to “offer” her spot to my dad when she was no longer around to take it, and he accepted. So for the last few months he’s been part of the Thursday coffee group, getting all the gossip and generally hanging out with the crew.

When I spoke to my mum and dad every weekend on FaceTime, I’d get the latest gossip from coffee time from my mum, and now I get it from my dad instead.

So just know, although there is a lot of horrific crap that goes on in this world, there are plenty of sweet human moments as well. They just don’t make for good headlines.

A bizarre legend is associated with a tomb in Paris's Pere La Chaise Cemetery. In a mausoleum decorated with occult numbers and strange symbols, a 19th-century Russian aristocrat is said to lie in a glass coffin. A clause in her will apparently stated that anyone who could live alongside her in the tomb for a year would receive a payout of up to five million francs ($1 million in modern money). The contender was allowed to leave their gloomy lodgings just once a day 'to stroll among the tombs for an hour'. All who attempted the challenge were soon begging to be let out, claiming the 'vampire princess' was sucking away their lifeforce. My article: https://www.davidcastleton.net/baroness-demidoff-pere-lachaise-cemetery-paris-glass-coffin-vampire-russian-princess-will/ #Gothic #Halloween #Folklore #graveyard #death #vampires #Paris #weird #paranormal

All set up at Indie Comics Fest Mumbai! Stop by if you're in town! There's an ever-growing crew of amazing artists at these things!