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my shitty elbow is flaring up rn because of the cold/some personal mistakes, and i can only do one handed tasks, so here's another list of resources. for a while now i've wanted to have something to send to people i drag into the ren'py pit with me, so here is my curated list. the selling point here is that i am an empty headed ADHD disaster who is not very good at coding and i personally have successfully used all of these. i'll probs update this list in the future.

comments are open (even to people without a dreamwidth account) if you wanna suggest stuff but im keeping the post itself to stuff i have personally used. ;D

🎺 = Trumpet of MOST FERVENT EVANGELISM
💰 = costs a lil money (worth it)

VSCODE EXTENSIONS
Official Ren'py Language Extension 🎺 - highlights your code to make it way, WAY easier to read and edit.
Ren'py Launch and Sync 🎺 - launch Ren'py straight to the line you're looking at in the code!! no more fast forward or typing in labels. (Kayin showed me this one and i screamed)
Ren'py Text Analyzer - tells you all sorts of interesting info/stats about your game

HANDY UTILITIES
Ren'Edit - makes beta testing, proofreading, note-taking and corrections much easier.
Ren'py Action Editor - helps a lot with image positioning and ATL by providing a gui you can mess around in + code output to clipboard
Layered Image Visualizer 🎺💰 - INVALUABLE if you are using layeredimages as sprites.
Intro To Positioning In Ren'py - shows you how image positioning works via interactive tutorial.
Ren'py Hotspot Tool - make imagemap hotspots easy. it has a thread on the Lemmasoft forums.
Ren'py Visual Novel Viewer - if you're a "learn by picking apart someone else's code" kinda person this will help. please do not look at my code from my games though because it's bad DONTLOOKATME... OTL

FEATURE EXPANSIONS
Easy Ren'py Gallery 🎺 - unlock images as the game progresses. very clear and easy to set up w/demo game
Controller Support Expansion 🎺 - rocks ass. works right outta the box

VISUAL EFFECTS
Ren'py Auto Highlight - highlights and focuses sprite of talking character
Frost Breath & Snow - works great out of the box, dead simple to use and modify for other purposes
MVN Action Effects 💰 - some really neat vfx!!
Point Emitter - rocks ass. i used this for some of the fireworks in Potion Stand Story. good instructions.
Transitions & Dissolves - biiiiiig pack. also good for looking at and learning to make your own.
MVN Ren'py Shader Pack - lots of fun shaders to play with
Wave Shader - very flexible tool for wiggling stuff. wiggle your game. WIGGLE IT

TEXT EFFECTS
Kinetic Text Tags 🎺 - i use this extensively for the shaky text (great for drama OR comedy, tbh)
MVN Text Effects & Shader Pack - LOTS of fun text effects like pulsing gradients and glowing letters

TUTORIALS ETC.
Screen Language For Dummies - 🎺 unfinished atm but already so much good info for newbies. read it!! REEEEAD ITTTT
LayeredImage Tutorial - 🎺 learn how to set up layered sprites. real nice tutorial, easy to follow
NomNomNami's tips - 🎺 a LOT of "things i wish i knew earlier" content here
VNDev Wiki - exactly what it says on the tin
Zeil Learnings - some great video tutorials with downloadables so you can play along
Visual Novel Design 🎺 - really great ren'py videos. i'm honestly so mad that video tutorials are good sometimes
FeniksDev's site 🎺 - LOTS of good ren'py info for devs of all skill levels

🎺🎺🎺 MORE GREAT STUFF (TOOT TOOT) 🎺🎺🎺
FeniksDev on itch - so many more tools i haven't even gotten around to testing yet (some free, some is 💰)
Make Visual Novels on itch - Stella is a genius, just go browse (some free, some is 💰)
official Ren'py discord - i know we're tired of joining discords but it is useful for real
r/Ren'py - a real good subreddit, i've learned a lot just searching here

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Current Location: elbow hell
Current Music: Frieren OST

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По словам Ууноны, сам он не поддерживает нацистскую идеологию и "не стремится к мировому господству".

runpunkrun

A post-Earth society ruled by giant corporations called Concerns whose only goal is to spread vat-grown wage slaves out across the galaxy to exploit resources for profit.

A frozen moon shrouded in eternal darkness and heavy gravity populated by sightless creatures who evolved to live in both.

Like many of Tchaikovsky's novels, this is a story told from two perspectives: the humans whose pod has crashed on a hostile alien planet they can barely make sense of, and the locals who encounter a seemingly idiotic Stranger (a "savant clown beast") that bumbles around, communicates in grunts, and doesn't know enough to come out of the ammonia-methane rain.

The world building and the alien design are, of course, meticulous. The interaction and cobbled together understanding between the humans and the aliens was my favorite part because only the reader knows the full story. Unfortunately the humans, in their duress, aren't all that interesting. The middle sections that focus on them in their pod feel the weakest and, because of that, overlong, but the story picks up again in the last third.

I spent most of the middle in mild agony, thinking there was only one way this story could end, but then I remembered this is Adrian Tchaikovsky, and he doesn't write those kind of stories.

Contains: blood, violence, threat of genocide; no work-life balance.

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tyger

Nothing huge today, which honestly was kind of nice.

Did some washing! Moved at least two thirds of the stuff in the display cabinet - need to find some more boxes for the last of it; most of the ones we have aren't quite tall enough to fit the bigger dragons. Still, most of them are done now, so that's something! The shells are also going to be annoying, but I already tipped over the bigger dish by accident when trying to get something else out, so I can just put them in a small box or something, will have to rearrange them all anyway.

Tomorrow will probably be my desk drawers, which are... very full. I REALLY need to rearrange the top two, and go through the bottom one looking for shit I can throw out. (Also file more things. It's my filing cabinet drawer, but it's unfortunately in a difficult position to get at most of the time, since the bin lives in front of it, as well as often the heater. I don't really have a lot of stuff I need to file, though, so it's really fine for my use case. I just get lazy, so I've got a small stack of medical receipts and tax stuff to file.)

Sushi is more or less fine in himself, though the wound is uh. Not looking any better. But his biggest complaint is that he is not allowed outside at all, not even into the run, and how! dare!!! Sigh. Anyway as it turns out it's good I couldn't make the appointment for tomorrow, because my father has one of his cancer check-up scans and that might've gotten awkward scheduling-wise. And, you know, Sushi isn't suffering, so...

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Current Location: Birthplace

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— О, не продолжай, — сказал мне на это Розанов, —и перестань нести околесицу...
— Если я замолчу и перестану нести околесицу, — отвечал я, — тогда заговорят камни. И начнут нести околесицу. Да. Я высморкался и продолжал: — Они в полном неведении. “Чудовищное неведение Эдипа”, только совсем наоборот. Эдип прирезал отца и женился на матери по неведению, он не знал, что это его отец и его мать, он не стал бы этого делать, если бы знал. А у них — нет, у них не так. Они женятся на матерях и режут отцов, не ведая, что это по меньшей мере некрасиво.
И знал бы ты, какие они все крепыши, все теперешние русские. Никто в России не боится щекотки, я один только во всей России хохочу, когда меня щекочут. Я сам щекотал трех девок и с десяток мужиков — никто не отозвался ни ужимкой, ни смехом. Я ребром ладони лупил им всем под коленку — никаких сухожильных рефлексов. Зрачки на свет, правда, реагируют, но слабо. Ни у кого ни одного камня в почках, никакой дрожи в членах, ни истомы в сердце, ни белка в моче. Из всех людей моего поколения одного только меня не взяли в Красную Армию, и то только потому, что у меня была изжога и на спине два пупырышка...

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weedpizza

Questions are from thefridayfive.

1. What's your favourite TV network?
I'm not sure I have one.

2. If you could create your own channel, what would it be?
A music channel featuring obscure music videos.

3. What TV show did you watch as a child that you wish they would bring back?
None of them, please! I generally hate reboots.

4. What show have you always hated, and wonder why they ever made such a dumb show?
There are plenty of dumb TV shows, but the first one that comes to mind is Two and a Half Men; I don't know why. But it fits the bill!

5. What TV show's seasons would you buy on DVD?
Anything! I like owning physical media.

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Current Music: The Muffs

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tyger

So, Sushi's probably going to have to get half his tail amputated.

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I am upset about this! Also kicking myself, because maybe I should've called the vet as soon as I noticed the wound or something?? But I'll try and wait to hear what the root cause is before going down that spiral.

Part of my problem is also that I haven't fucking eaten properly today, like a moron. I mean, I'd be upset anyway of course, but the level of volatility in my upset is not usual for me, so yeah I'm pretty sure it's the food thing. (I accidentally about 14 hours without a meal. Which included all of the furniture moving I did, and also it was very humid.) Ate a bowl full of green beans when I realised at like. 1am. But that's still A Little Fucking Long, and I doubt it was enough. Didn't want to eat too much at that time of night either, though... (Or cook. Cooking also not a good idea after midnight.)

However, for good things about today... I survived driving to and from the vet! It wasn't as bad as I feared; turns out a lot of the parts of driving I've kept some muscle memory for. I mean. I'm still not a good driver, and I was definitely worse than I have been, but it wasn't too horrible.

I also got myself a bahn mi while I was out to reward myself for Doing A Scary Thing, and it was pretty good! Not the best bahn mi around, but the best I could get near the vet's!

And in moving news, I moved both of my under-desk chests of drawers. ( Ramble )

And now I go to bed. Hopefully tomorrow will be better! I should make egg-pea-mushroom-tuna noodles for lunch, that's a good solid meal...

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Current Location: Birthplace

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Last week I spent all five days out of the house, 9 am to 3 pm, at a course designed to help job seekers. I was hoping for this to be more immediately helpful to me than it was; the last one I went to had time blocks for comparing positives and negatives to decide what kind of places to apply, compiling a list, and creating separate cover letters and CVs, all with counselor feedback; but it lasted longer. These are all things that I know how to do but which are much easier to do with external structure because of executive dysfunction! ( Read more... ) I did not learn much last week, though I did get a few tips about modifying my CV. I found the week surprisingly nice, though - way too draining (I didn't have the energy to do anything else all week), but it was pretty comfortable. I liked the other people and would have been happy to keep seeing them.

After one week where I was too exhausted to do anything, after having been in the habit of near-daily sweeping and vacuuming of the kitchen/dining Sipuli enclosure where I spend the day and Wax sleeps at night, there were a staggering amount of dust bunnies today. I spent a long time sweeping and vacuumed a bit (until the vacuum needed charging). Then I took the rinsed recycling from the draining cupboard where it drips dry, because it was starting to leap out whenever you opened the cabinet door, and I also washed the counters and the sink. That was extremely fun and exciting for Sipuli. She got the zoomies and zipped around sniffing things and warbling at me and playing for a couple of hours. (She is back inside the duvet tent against the radiator now, though.)

A week ago we also finally gave up on the triplets telling us what kind of sweaters they would like (these are their 18th birthday present from last summer: Sweater of Your Choice. I tried spamming them with pictures and suggestions for months. Ciara picked a mariniere and a color combination, but the others didn't even make a peep). We also could not get a response on 'When can we come to your house and measure your teenagers' or 'Could you measure the length and width of a sweatshirt from each of them' from Wax's brother, so we finally just asked for generic size class (M for all three) and then decided to guess. Wax and I picked the patterns and the colors for the two remaining sweaters. She is working on Ciara's sweater and I have started one of the others, and already managed to knit too many hours in a row (in spite of not even having made it down from the neck opening to the underarms yet) so my right shoulder was feeling stiff. So now I'm trying to knit for shorter blocks of time and do other things in between, to avoid hurting myself so badly that I have to stop knitting entirely again.

Due to the aforementioned exhaustion we've only gone out for me to practice driving our car once so far, and I was disconcerted that it was pitch black and I couldn't see the inside of the car. Everything's different, including the gear shift! Driving in daylight in this season will require a little more work though, since the sun is up from about 8-16:30. Wax is working too late this week.

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harpers_child

Got my flu and covid shots today. Turns out LA took away the need for a prescription sometime in October. Shout out to the pharmacist who told us.

edit: Having some kind of reaction to one of the shots. I can feel The Flush in my face. Can't tell if I'm pinker because I both took a shower and walked around a store today both of which make me get pinker. Arm sore. No symptoms in mouth/throat and no hives on hands (early symptom places). I have a sharp building migraine, but that could be weather. Currently trying to decide if I'll take my planned single Benedryl or the suggested two (taking two sometimes gives me muscle twitches in my legs). Have phantom pain in shoulder that didn't get shots.

lumemiruuuuuuuuuuu

regarding my life so far…nothing has been really happening, aside from the fact i got my first job :D!! i admit i did got it by nepotism, but eh, is a minimum wage job just for christmas season, so is fine ig. im a bit nervous as is client service focused, and i fear i might be too autistic for the job, but ig i’ll just though out my way there. BESIDES I’LL GET MONEY, AND I WANT MONEY. i want to go to the cinema by myself, watch a movie and buy caramel popcorn, then commission an artist i like + thats affordable (for some reason ALL commissions are in dollars, and even though dollars have been awfully cheap recently due to the political instability there, it isnt cheap AT ALL, so yeah ;-;), then donate some money (i found an website that verifies accs of palestinians looking for donations, which is great, as in the 84594 messages i receive daily in tumblr, i have found a fair deal of bots and i dont trust anyone anymore/hj, so im happy there’s this resource), and save up lol.

tomorrow i’ll go to an illit listening party, and i think i’ll see the mama awards this week as well :3. PRAY FOR KIIIKIII TO WIN BEST NEW ARTIST, THE GIRLS DESERVE IT!!! they have such a unique sound in k-pop rn and executed well a sort of “aesthetic-teen-girl-silly-youthful-experiences” concept, which is very cool!!! only wish is that artms had gotten a nomination (how come the mv for icarus didnt get a nomination but the mv for JUMP did???)

now, here is my review for wicked: for good, as always spoilers for the film here:

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Current Location: room
Current Music: playing with fire - blackpink

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tyger

So vet again for Sushi tomorrow! This is fine. I am fine with that. I am not fine with the fact that my parents are away, and thus I need. To drive. The car. To get him there. :( :( :( I think I've successfully avoided driving at all since like. 2016? 2015 maybe? Maybe not an entire decade but A LONG ASS TIME, and even that last time was literally just driving the car back from the airport, which is. Not a lot of driving, comparatively.

So yeah, that's gonna. Be a thing. :| Also it's at 11am which is not THAT early really but I should uh. Really be in bed so I have a chance of being Alert for non-adrenaline reasons. Yes. >>;;

Other than that, have now moved most of the big stuff on my desk, other than the electronics. (There are. Um. Four computers on here. So there's still quite a bit of stuff. And a couple of piles of little things, which will take a while to sort through... which is why I haven't done it yet.) Also moved my little shelf, and started emptying out the desk cupboard! Mostly the stationary, but also some other random stuff. Still more in there, but it's a start!

Anyway now I am stopping procrastinating, going to bed, and hoping I don't have another nightmare, bleh. My brain was a BASTARD last night...

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doodlemancy - ren'py resources
piyavking - Ээээ... Нуууу... Спасибо огромное!
runpunkrun - Shroud, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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weedpizza - The Friday Five for November 21, 2025: TV Time
raisedbymoogles - just finished Z-A main game and
piyavking - Пора падать в тряпки. Чао-какао.
digthewriter - Mercy Me, Chapter 3: Convinced.
tyger - Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
cimorene - Last week, playing catch-up, driving practice
piyavking - ещё парочку (с)
piyavking - донт ворри, юзернейм, би хеппи
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Shroud, by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Tuesday.

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Высочайший, непревзойдённый В.Е. Каждая буква по сто карат! А то и по сто пятьдесят (с)...

лаек есле жызо бггг. тибе маи хордлинки вапще видно, юзернейм?

The Friday Five for November 21, 2025: TV Time

just finished Z-A main game and

Пора падать в тряпки. Чао-какао.

Mercy Me, Chapter 3: Convinced.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

Last week, playing catch-up, driving practice

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wicked review + life updates

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бгагагагагага))))))) у мене ровно такая ж хуйня, но с наркотиками бггг)))))

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