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eudaemaniacal:

i can bake bread now without having to look at a recipe– i know the proportions for how i like a loaf, and i can do it by feel. i made a very good wheat/mixed loaf just tonight and i had several slices with loads of butter and the peach spread i made. i am feeling extremely happy about it that’s all

peach butter

get 5 or 6 ripe peaches & peel. (easiest way is to bring a pot of water to a rolling boil; boil peaches for 30 sec; plunge them into cold water. should come off pretty easy.) pit them. stew in slow cooker or maybe roast at a low temperature for about two hours. let them cool a bit and puree. add cloves, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, cardamom, vanilla, however much you’d like, also sugar to taste, probably some lemon juice. slow cook again, 3 or so hours, or simmer on your stovetop until reduced. very very good

twine question

garden-ghoul:

unopenablebox:

uhh @garden-ghoul (& @cinquespotted maybe? am i right that you do/did twine things??) &also at other mutuals im forgetting and/or the General Public– is there a good place to look at a lot of example syntax for twine?

i am extremely a novice and trying to teach it to myself off of the harlowe manual, but there’s a lot of basic-but-cool stuff (lots of them things i saw in some of the twines in the list-of-good-twines in ghoul’s game about games, which i am not far into but enjoyed btw!) which i understand in theory the syntax for, but am actually struggling with– like literally just how to connect variable value changes with clicks and/or ifs, which is the Most Basic, but none of the sample code in the manual actually shows how to stick macros together like that really, and all my educated guesses have not panned out

i’m trying to write a poem in it for a class, mostly, so it doesn’t have to do a lot of actual game stuff and can be heavily weighted toward stupid flashy text tricks (just like, replacers etc), and it will not be tragic if this is not a readily available resource, but if there’s a good body of existing work i could just sift through when i wanted to see how to actually put the macros into practice, that would be wildly helpful, so i didn’t get bogged down in the really basic shit so much.

as may be very transparent i know literally nothing about this, or the ~community, or whatever, so um– h elp?

Hmm, well, I managed to get where I got by reading the twine wiki, but it’s true that it does kind of suck a lot! Unfortunately I don’t have any resources with lots of good sample code so I’m gonna try and be a sample code resource. The bread and butter of my game was clickreplace, which I used like so:

At the end of the paragraph, some text I want to replace.
(clickreplace: “some text I want to replace.”)[What I want to replace it with.]

Macros in general will be formatted like (macroname: function parameters)[what the function is going to do]. Another example you’ll probably want is set and if statements:

(set: $something=2)
(if: $something is 2)[Success]

Prints “Success”. APPARENTLY you cannot use “if: $something=2″ because twine is stupid. you have to use its dumb natural language.

A tip is that if you want to check variables somewhere in a page, you must set them to some default value before this, otherwise your program will throw errors, and Twine’s debugging is totally useless.

If you want an event to change the value of the variable… the way I normally did that was I would put it inside the brackets of the function that had just activated, so that when the function activated I could set the variable to a new value.

Another fancy thing I like but haven’t used much is link-repeat, which is used a lot in 208 feet up the ruin wall. An example:

(set: $person to (a: “mother”, “son”, “brother”, “best friend”))
Your (link-repeat: “[(print: $person’s 1st)]<family|”)[(replace: ?family)[(set: $person to (rotated: -1, …$person))(print: $person’s 1st)]] has been kidnapped.

This is very complicated. First you declare the variable $person, which is an array (you know because it says “a:”) of 4 strings. Then there’s text outside the link-repeat (”Your has been kidnapped”). Then there’s the link-repeat. FOR SOME AWFUL REASON you have to put the print command INSIDE A STRING… family is a sort of temporary variable that I don’t understand? Basically copy someone else’s code and fuck with it until it works… I’m so sorry

thank you!!!

theodoradove:

riverselkie:

i feel like there’s this huge unfulfilled niche in the Dark Academia thing (kill your darlings, the secret history, dead poets society etc) for stories about women???? like can we have rakish girls quoting sappho and anxious genius poet girls, bespectacled, frantically tapping away at typewriters? wild girls trying to start literary movements and being dragged down by their own hubris? innocent girls discovering love and sex and angela carter? cute girls in 60s looking school uniforms investigating ~mysterious happenings~? going to class the next day hungover and exchanging knowing glances? can we just have. the thing

I raided my bookshelves and came up with these:

The Chinese Garden (1962) by Rosemary Manning

“In a girls’ boarding school in the late 1920s, a world of iron-willed authority, frigid rooms, and forbidden friendships, sixteen-year-old Rachel struggles to find a place for herself. When a rebellious student introduces her to a mystical, secret part of the grounds, the ‘Chinese garden,’ Rachel becomes torn between this hidden world of sensuality and pleasure and the formidable, controlling headmistress who inspires Rachel’s intellectual growth.”

Miss Pym Disposes (1948) by Josephine Tey

“Miss Lucy Pym, a popular English psychologist, is guest lecturer at a physical training college. The year’s term is nearly over, and Miss Pym–inquisitive and observant–detects a furtiveness in the behavior of one student during a final exam. She prevents the girl from cheating by destroying her crib notes. But Miss Pym’s cover-up of one crime precipitates another–a fatal ‘accident’ that only her psychological theories can prove was really murder.”

Olivia (1949) by Olivia (aka Dorothy Strachey)

“Olivia is sixteen years old when she goes to Les Avons, a finishing school near Paris, run by two Mademoiselles. It is a place of few rules, of laughter and lively conversation–a welcome surprise for a reserved young English girl. But the gaiety and freedom of Les Avons is only surface deep and emotional liaisons and jealousies form the hidden curriculum. Very quickly Olivia too is caught up in its spell, overwhelmed by her increasing infatuation with Mademoiselle Julie. Here she describes the powerful allegiances and repressed desires which smoulder at this secluded school, and the intensity and desperation of adolescent love.”

Regiment of Women (1917) by Clemence Dane

“In a small English town, just before the Great War, battle rages over Alwynne Durand, an appealing but dangerously inexperienced young teacher. Two women struggle to win her love and loyalty: Elsbeth, her fiercely protective aunt, and the formidable Clare Hartill. A brilliantly charismatic teacher, feverishly adored, Clare’s power is great–her abuse of it greater. Greedy for love, but incapable of returning it, she compulsively destroys the affections of those she most needs.”

The Small Room (1961) by May Sarton

“Anxiously embarking on her first teaching job, Lucy Winter arrives at a New England women’s college and shortly finds herself in the thick of a crisis: she has discovered a dishonest act committed by a brilliant student who is the protegée of a powerful faculty member. How the central characters–students and teachers–react to the crisis, and what effect the scandal has on their personal and professional lives, are the central motifs of May Sarton’s sensitive, probing novel.”

Frost in May (1933) by Antonia White

“The Convent of the Five Wounds, where Nanda Grey is sent when she is nine, is on the edge of London–but in 1908 it is a world unto itself. For the young girls receiving a Catholic education behind its walls, religion is a nationality, conformity an entire way of life. In this intense, troubled atmosphere, passionate friendships are the only deviation. Nanda is thirteen, a normal, quick-witted, spirited girl, when, catastrophically, she breaks the rules and pays too large a price for her transgression.”

The Getting of Wisdom (1910) by Henry Handel Richardson (aka Ethel Richardson)

“Henry Handel Richardson’s novel is a coming-of-age story, set in turn-of-the-century Melbourne. When clever and imaginative Laura Rambotham leaves her home to attend a prestigious ladies’ college, she finds herself compromising her ideals in an effort to fit in. The Getting of Wisdom is a portrait of an artistic and unwieldy soul chafing against stuffy ordinariness, told with great empathy and passion.”