I Am Dog(s) by SoftAnnaLee

[lb_lee]

Hey guys, check out this Twine game about discovering you're plural and therian! It's cute and shamelessly wades into territory that's hard for a lot of plurals to touch! And it also does some interesting things involving how inner dialogue and voice are shown!

Comments

[stealthsystem]

Oooh sweet! *Click*
Awww. I don't think the game's accessible. I couldn't find the choices to click for the next page after the first.

[lb_lee]

Oh no! I'm so sorry guys, they thanked someone for accessibility in the credits, so I assumed it was! D: I'm gonna go ask the maker if they can make it reader accessible!

[stealthsystem]

OH! Twine has a problem where it sometimes doesn't work on our computer. I'm gonna try it on our phone in a minute. :D
-Jeriko

[stealthsystem]

Eta: It didn’t work on our phone either.

[lb_lee]

Another blind user helped me out: https://itch.io/post/4516390 Quoth they:

"Hey there, fellow blind person here! Tell your friends to just press enter on the last visible line to get new ones. The scrolling is a little slow sometimes (just one sentence at a time), but it does work with a little patience! At least over here, with NVDA and both Firefox and Brave."

[wispfox]

That was _adorable_. :)

[beepbird]

Good find! Always good to see more people's stories and experiences. Funny enough, differences in phantoms and perceived species are something we use to differentiate if it's otherwise hard to tell. A lashing tail narrows it down quite a bit, wings even more so. Easier than playing name roulette when it works.

We might need to look into Twine, looks like a good way to share these kinds of things.

[lb_lee]

Sneak: I've been considering making a walking simulator of our headspace in RPGmaker! So folks can wander around and interact in it a little!

A lot of cool medium-blurring is going on at itch.io!

[packbat]

Saw this linked on fedi via here, and wanted to comment to say it was really good and say thanks! We haven't had a lot of phantom sensations lately but they're really memorable and important, and our nonhuman stuff was how we figured out our plurality too.

We haven't tried to create an inner space at all and maybe we ought to see if we can. It might be worthwhile.

[lb_lee]

Sneak: Packbat! I didn't know y'all were on DW! :D Headspaces definitely aren't for everybody, but ours has been invaluable! If you're curious, here are a couple things about building them safely, if you want to check them out later!

On Building Headspace ( https://lb-lee.dreamwidth.org/763283.html ) and Headspace Discovery and Defense ( https://lb-lee.dreamwidth.org/1049746.html) What are inner worlds good for? Do you want one? Here's a start, including dealing with volatile or hostile inner spaces. Comes from the framework of headspace as a subconscious construct, so definitely not for everybody.

Small Worlds, Contained Inside: Visualization Guide, by Hidden Storys of the Metallic System ( http://healthymultiplicity.com/loonybrain/Info/Small%20Worlds%20Contained%20Inside.html ) A more in-depth primer to making an inner world, presuming said world will not be hostile.

[packbat]

We are on here, yeah - we felt way too awkward to respond here to y'all's link to Driftself but it made us really happy seeing people engaging with it.

Thanks for the links about headspace, Sneak! We'll see if we can look at them later - anxiety makes doing things for ourselves hard, but we want to.

(- Packmantis maybe?)

[lb_lee]

I had no idea! It's exciting to meet you. :D And no worries, the links are for if and whenever!

Sneak

[runeroot]

Omg this is so good! Thanks for sharing--the idea of phantoms was honestly a little bit of a lightbulb "Oh!" moment because we definitely have at least one person in here who feels wings on the back and one who has a prehensile tail. That... probably deserves more exploration and we should have an internal Time about it. XD

[lb_lee]

It's a weird contrast for me, since I have busted wings now (does it count as phantoms when you have them internally?) but it has no bearing on my species or how I feel about it. (Plus, it's a culture I'm a total rube in, it's not my world at all!)

Rogan

[sanctuarycamp]

Ooooh that was really cool! Thanks for sharing it, we really enjoyed reading through it! It's always interesting to see other peoples' journeys of discovering parts of their identity, and there are definitely parts we related to a lot.

I don't think we're ready to share our full story of self-discovery just yet (and even if we were, it wouldn't be fully public, our trauma holder would be absolutely terrified of putting it all out there) but it's reassuring to see that other people are.

-Erwin

[lb_lee]

No one should feel pressured to share themselves if they don't want to! It's also fine to keep it private if you like!

Sneak

[pilotsofanewsky]

This was so good and made us very happy!!