april 👻
@aprilghost.net
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weird videogame enthusiast transfem girlthing who writes sometimes.
check out https://aprilghost.net
weird videogame enthusiast transfem girlthing who writes sometimes.
check out https://aprilghost.net
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april 👻
@aprilghost.net
· Mar 19
The Lost Art of the Internet
or, "We Live In the World, So Let's Understand It".
On the format, soundscape, and communities in Hypnospace Outlaw.
(blog post, ~13k words)
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THE LOST ART OF THE INTERNET
My new blog post on Hypnospace Outlaw, hypertext fiction, art on the internet, audio compression, mentorship, community, choosing for yourself, existing in the world, and why I wrote all this in the first place.
Read it here:
aprilghost.net/blog/hyperte...
My new blog post on Hypnospace Outlaw, hypertext fiction, art on the internet, audio compression, mentorship, community, choosing for yourself, existing in the world, and why I wrote all this in the first place.
Read it here:
aprilghost.net/blog/hyperte...
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Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love.
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love.
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read soulsov and experience this emotion
November 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
read soulsov and experience this emotion
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I think I'm going to try to get back into learning Japanese again. just for the sake of having something to do that's less hard on my hands and whatnot. I wonder how long I can stick with it this time...
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I think I'm going to try to get back into learning Japanese again. just for the sake of having something to do that's less hard on my hands and whatnot. I wonder how long I can stick with it this time...
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Wednesdays is free to own on Steam (offer ends on Nov 21st) buff.ly/YEptYxS
November 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Wednesdays is free to own on Steam (offer ends on Nov 21st) buff.ly/YEptYxS
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We Made a New Mission with Previously Unused Assets so Now They Need to Update the TCRF Page
November 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
We Made a New Mission with Previously Unused Assets so Now They Need to Update the TCRF Page
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cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
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new post: Wednesdays is a game for survivors of sexual abuse and those who want to listen to them.
mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/2...
i tried to write as honestly as i could about the whole experience because it made me rethink how to listen to survivors. i hope more people play this game.
mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/2...
i tried to write as honestly as i could about the whole experience because it made me rethink how to listen to survivors. i hope more people play this game.
Mimidoshima
Wednesdays is a game for survivors of sexual abuse and those who want to listen to them.
mimidoshima.neocities.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
new post: Wednesdays is a game for survivors of sexual abuse and those who want to listen to them.
mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/2...
i tried to write as honestly as i could about the whole experience because it made me rethink how to listen to survivors. i hope more people play this game.
mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/2...
i tried to write as honestly as i could about the whole experience because it made me rethink how to listen to survivors. i hope more people play this game.
Nevermind, its getting worse, so I guess I'm just going to have to learn how to reuse the computer instead
i think things will eventually get better and i am going to try to make a twine or something with speech to text but its still not a great way to be feeling
November 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Nevermind, its getting worse, so I guess I'm just going to have to learn how to reuse the computer instead
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A write up on why reading other critics is worthwhile in all instances, with extensive quoting from others works I have read, and publicly sharing the very large games writing resource document I've been slowly accumulating links for these past months (years)
open.substack.com/pub/breaking...
open.substack.com/pub/breaking...
A Reading Manifesto
or a theory on how to break through circuitous discourse
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A write up on why reading other critics is worthwhile in all instances, with extensive quoting from others works I have read, and publicly sharing the very large games writing resource document I've been slowly accumulating links for these past months (years)
open.substack.com/pub/breaking...
open.substack.com/pub/breaking...
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I encourage everyone to poke around the document I've been working on attempting to compile and sort a body of links on worthwhile game writing. I'll likely create a thread of some of the most interesting ones I have found, and feel free to share additions to be made!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
November 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I encourage everyone to poke around the document I've been working on attempting to compile and sort a body of links on worthwhile game writing. I'll likely create a thread of some of the most interesting ones I have found, and feel free to share additions to be made!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
ohhhh. i get it now! kingdom hearts fans call it "osaka team" because osaka azumangadaioh made them!!! ok yay
November 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
ohhhh. i get it now! kingdom hearts fans call it "osaka team" because osaka azumangadaioh made them!!! ok yay
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How would we describe this? It's basically AWESOME.
December 1, 2024 at 5:39 PM
How would we describe this? It's basically AWESOME.
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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
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August 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
imagining a reckless australian schoolkid who dismisses all sun protection messaging because they consider all of it "slip slap slop"
November 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
imagining a reckless australian schoolkid who dismisses all sun protection messaging because they consider all of it "slip slap slop"
its hard for me to have hope or get excited about anything involving computers, including most tech stuff but also stuff like games and other art shared online, when the pain im experiencing means computers are becoming more and more physically painful for me to use
October 31, 2025 at 8:53 AM
its hard for me to have hope or get excited about anything involving computers, including most tech stuff but also stuff like games and other art shared online, when the pain im experiencing means computers are becoming more and more physically painful for me to use
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43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
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Getting close to Halloween again so check out this series of screenshots that tell a story about a really scary screensaver program.
"3D Workers Island", a short horror story about a screensaver: yes-thread.com/3dwiscr
Also on Itch: mryes.itch.io/3dwiscr
Also on Itch: mryes.itch.io/3dwiscr
October 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Getting close to Halloween again so check out this series of screenshots that tell a story about a really scary screensaver program.
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my strongest political conviction is that pica is my god-given right as a living creature. i made this image about it
October 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
my strongest political conviction is that pica is my god-given right as a living creature. i made this image about it
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Anyway this is my appeal, once again, that if you ever have an interesting take or critique of a trans book you read, WRITE IT DOWN. Make a free blog and publish it!
It's a desert out here, and the only way to become a critic is to just start doing it. Start now. Start yesterday.
It's a desert out here, and the only way to become a critic is to just start doing it. Start now. Start yesterday.
Aside from the obvious factor of our (uneven) material oppression, hostility to criticism remains the biggest stumbling block to the development of a real trans creative and intellectual scene. Until we develop a robust critical apparatus, it seems like we'll just keep playing pretend.
October 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Anyway this is my appeal, once again, that if you ever have an interesting take or critique of a trans book you read, WRITE IT DOWN. Make a free blog and publish it!
It's a desert out here, and the only way to become a critic is to just start doing it. Start now. Start yesterday.
It's a desert out here, and the only way to become a critic is to just start doing it. Start now. Start yesterday.