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anathemafiction · 1 day

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Celeste dos Cravos

An illustration commemorating the 50 years of the Carnation Revolution that took place in Portugal on the 25th of April of 1974, and the woman, Celeste Caeiro, who gave the revolution its name with a simple gesture :)

25 de Abril sempre! Fascismo nunca mais! ✊

Art Prints: inprnt & Redbubble

#a day late but want to celebrate here too #50 years of freedom #fascismo nunca mais #personal

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anathemafiction · 5 days

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Lemmings don’t jump off of cliffs unless they’re being chased. Frogs don’t stay in boiling water unless they’ve been lobotomized first. Crabs don’t pull each other back into the bucket unless they are desperately and randomly grabbing for anything to try to get themselves out, out of fear for their lives.

Actions taken in specific, negative conditions don’t exemplify the nature of all beings.

Before you mock a sheep for staying with the flock, ask what dogs nip at its heels when it strays too far, and what wolves wait just beyond the edge of the pasture.

#beautiful #inspiration #this concept fits perfectly within two of the ROs religious views

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anathemafiction · 12 days

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Yes, baby, Reyner and the gang are back.

#omg I missed your art so much #It's so chaotic 😂 and so expressive #LOVE Reyner as always #LOVe Hadrian praying while Alessa beats the shit out of Reyner #It's just so good 😭♡#fanart #Alessa #Hadrian #MC #The Golden Rose

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anathemafiction · 13 days

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OMFG HER?.?? AS A (minor) ROMANCE OPTION????? ANA YOU’VE JUST KILLED ME OMGAHSHDHDHSHSHSBSHSAB

😄 She's actually one of the oldest developed characters of the Rose. I came up with her when I created her father and his dynamic with Alessa.

I really, really like her. I'll be very nervous when I write her introduction — as I am with all the characters that have existed for years in my mind and it's time to pluck them from thought to paper.

All I'm saying is that she's tied to two of your companions. The past Company gang...

#Idk why I'm revealing so much #I just want to talk about her!!!#but no more #Leona #the golden rose

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anathemafiction · 13 days

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Any chance we could use, "Ysa," as a little term of endearment for a romanced Ysabella?

No doubt her brother has used that before on many occassions, from praise to teasing telling offs, but imagine her hearing that from Romanus... an individual that has come crashing into her life like a storm...

You'll call her Bella (Bela in Portuguese) which means beautiful in Italian and Spanish. Romanus, as a Latin speaker, would naturally go for Bella, whereas 'Ysa' doesn't really sound very good in Romance languages xD

But Alain does call her that, and she'll be struck when you first say the endearment. 😊

#Ysabella #the golden rose

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anathemafiction · 13 days

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Can I just say I love how nerdy for a lack of better word Romanus can be? Having my sarcastic MC genuinely get excited asking Rafael about the maps was one of my favorite moments in the game.

I love that scene too 🤭

#thank you!!#the golden rose #mc

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anathemafiction · 13 days

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I've been thinking, can we later on have a platonic relationship/friendship with Vallen? 🤔 And by that I mean the "true" Vallen

Yup! You just need high Corruption.

#Vallen #the golden rose

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anathemafiction · 13 days

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Hypothetically, if our dear mother were to take the place of Romanus, would she get along with our companions?

Surprisingly, she'd get along with Alessa swimmingly.

#the golden rose

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anathemafiction · 13 days

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If we loose a finger can we at least joke about it with The Pirate afterward ? XD

Absolutely. You'll bond over it.

"The Nine-fingers mates. We have length where it really matters," the Pirates quips, looping an arm around your shoulders.

*if Romanus is female "That doesn't make any sense," you protest, trying to shake his arm off.

"Shh. Just go along with it."

*if male "Little bit on the nose, don't you think?" you ask.

"Don't pretend you have class now."

#the pirate king #the golden rose

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anathemafiction · 13 days

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If you kiss hadrian at the end of book 1 does that mean romanus has now entered a relationship with him?

You're actively romancing Hadrian but you haven't made anything official. There hasn't been any talk, after all, so you're not in a relationship. Although, at this point, Hadrian feels a kind of… possession over you.

This shows when others blatantly make passes at you right in his face.

He has never been in a romantic relationship before, so his mind is racing and he may be getting ahead of himself. If before he saw you with another, his heart would break, now confusion and resentment would also be a part of it.

With that said, no, it won't lock you from any other romance other than Alessa. It wouldn't be fair or, most importantly, it wouldn't be fun at all. 😋

#confused Hadrian doesn't understand when you tell him it was just a kiss #But... it wasn't to me #Hadrian #the golden rose

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anathemafiction · 13 days

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this is probably never gonna happen but i still wanna ask, if we don't romance alessa and raphael can we matchmake them? i kinda ship them ngl

The disgust on their faces reading this would look so similar, you'd gather these two probably spend a lot of time around each other - and who would've thought? They have.

"I'd have a better time gettin' hanged," Rafael would sneer.

Alessa would not speak. Her frozen disdain would do all the talking.

#Never xD #Rafael #Alessa #The Golden Rose

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anathemafiction · 13 days

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Can a Romanus with high corruption try and redeem themselves? Maybe cut their hand/arm off? 🤔🤔🤔

You can. But, at a certain point, redemption can only come in the form of self-destruction.

#MC #The Golden Rose

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anathemafiction · 13 days

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Asking this trying to not spoil the alpha and the characters too much lol but will we learn and see more about the daughter of that certain character?

You'll meet her in the second half of Book Two.

#The Golden Rose #Leona #alpha spoilers

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anathemafiction · 13 days

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Hi Ana :D

I remember seeing on patreon a few posts about the ros reacting to Romanus almost dying and then the ros taking care of them (I think these posts were divided by the elements? Fire, wind, water and I can't remember the last one I'm so sorry)

I was wondering if you ever plan to write a reverse scenario? The ro almost dying and then Romanus' reaction and how they would take care of the ro?

No pressure of course! I'm really just curious but if you ever decide to do this I'd love to read them, your writing and characters are my favorites from all the IF's I've ever read <3

Hello!

I'll have to check to see if I haven't written something like this before (I have a vague recollection that I have? At least, for Hadrian and Alessa) but, if not, then I'll write it for sure!!

If not this month, then the next ♡

#we all love to be pampered once in a while #the golden rose

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anathemafiction · 13 days

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Hi, hope you're doing well! Just wondering, will there be flings?

Right now, I have two flings planned — one that is definitely happening because I've written the beginning of it in the Alpha and the other which is, for now, hypothetical.

I'm thinking of another but, to be honest, this one wouldn't so much as be a fling as it would be a minor romance. This character won't be able to accompany you in your adventures, but, if you don't romance anyone else, and you're invested in them, they'll appear in the epilogue by your side.

#to my patreons darlings the minor romance is the daughter of a certain someone #The Golden Rose

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anathemafiction · 13 days

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Hello! I've been a fan of you for some time now, and I've grown to be interested in writing an interactive novel myself! Problem is, I have no idea how to start. How did you get into writing interactive fiction and how is the process different than writing a regular novel? What do you like most about it? Thanks and have a great day!

Hello!! I got into Interactive Fiction when I first read Choice of the Dragon and Heroes Rise all those years back. From there, I read more and more games and, eventually, found the Cog forum full of WIPS— at the time, Tumblr IF culture didn't exist.

The big game changers, however, were Choice of Rebels and Zombie Exodus: Safe Heaven. When I read those games, I was blasted with the full potential of this medium. Like a great, blazing wind hitting me in the face, I understood we can create worlds, weave narratives, and write characters as layered as the ones we read about in a traditional book.

Plus, you get a say in what happens!

I can't say exactly how different it is to write traditional novels because I never wrote a full book. Before the Rose, I wrote a lot of short stories. But, IF is extremely different from traditional writing because, most of all, the protagonist doesn't belong to you. The characters, even, don't belong to you. It's a two-way street of creating a story with strangers you'll never meet.

So, you must consider, always, the reader. Whether in traditional writing, my advice is that you shouldn't. Write for yourself, yes, but in IF, you can't do it 100%. Writing is a dialogue between myself and this metaphorical, all-encompassing reader.

The best thing is that in collaborative writing you'll come up with phrases, situations, and even characters you never planned. Beka, the Goliath, and even, to some degree, Lance, are all characters that would have been tiny footnotes if not for this internal reader that demanded: "Wait, but I want to know more about this person."

It's a lot of work. Right now, I'm in a bit of a slog where I have to write different conversations and, even, different start of scenes based on previous choices. It has made me slow down my writing speed considerably. Is it fun to go over a scene two, three, sometimes even four times? No. It's tedious. IF writing will have a lot of times where you'll just have to do something even when you don't particularly enjoy it.

But, when you do get to the parts you enjoy? When the text comes alive and the protagonist goes from this vague, silhouette-like blob in your mind to a fully-formed, distinct person? When the MC turned into Romanus and a city I saw on the map into Tarragona, or a bard who is secretly a spy deepened into one of my favorite characters I've ever written? Those moments make all the tedious ones worth it.

You gotta love it, that's my advice. If you don't, you'll never finish the project. No matter how many likes, asks, and fanart you get.

#have a great day too!#the golden rose #personal

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anathemafiction · 14 days

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After re-reading the IF The Golden Rose (by @anathemafiction) couldn't help doing a fanart with the trio

#omg Alessa's face 😂#and Hadrian's blush awww #love your romanus too!!#just so cute 😭#fanart #Alessa #Hadrian #MC #the golden rose

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