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itlivesproject · 1 year

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That's right, folks, we finally have a date! Buckle up and prepare yourselves, because It Lives Within returns with its final three chapters the weekend of March 3!

Chapter 21: Vertigo Cave - Friday, March 3, 12 PM EST Chapter 22: Home At Last - Saturday, March 4, 12 PM EST Chapter 23: It Lives - Sunday, March 5, 12 PM EST

As part of the sendoff, the team has also decided to livestream a Q&A on our YouTube channel one week before release! That will be Saturday Feb 25 at 2 PM EST. We will post the link to the livestream when the time comes. You can start submitting questions HERE.

We can't wait to chat with you all, and we look forward to sharing the end of our journey with you. Thank you so much for your love and support along the way!

- The It Lives Project

#it lives within #playchoices #ilw #it lives in the woods #ilitw #it lives beneath #ilb #it lives anthology

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zoeywades-spouse · 1 year

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Can you imagine making a company that’s based around interactive and engaging books that were full of talking about serious issues (transphobia, trauma, mental health, misogyny, etc.) and that were truly immersive with complex characters and plots. And years later all those wonderful books have been pushed to the side and replaced with superficial, boring, and harmful books with the only goal to make money

The moment PB pushed away books like ILITW, TC&TF, ES and so forth and began writing books like Surrender, TNA, WB, etc., they lost their passion for writing complex and engaging books

#the majority of the newer books have no passion in them #you can tell the writers don’t really care #choices #playchoices #choices stories you play #the crown and the flame #tc&tf #it lives in the woods #ilitw #it lives beneath #ilb #endless summer #es #surrender #surrender 2 #the nanny affair #tna #wolf bride #wb

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mythris · 7 months

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blades 2 and cop 2 airing weekly is the closest we’ll ever get to perfect match, ilb, and acor at the same

time 😭

#playchoices #choices #ilb #it lives beneath #acor #a courtesan of rome #perfect match #blades of light and shadow #crimes of passion #choices cop

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narah-nightbloom · 24 days

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Okay so I only found out about ILW a few days ago somehow, and I literally finished it in two days and a half instead of doing uni work.

I need to scream a little bit now, sorry and thank you

THIS WAS SO GOOD I CAN’T EVEN-

*sobs*

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valkair · 1 year

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“Three shadows cast, three fates foretold. Yet at the end of the broken path lies death, and death alone.” Figured I could share my beloved MCs I say as I never really had a ILB MC <<; ehm So meet; Cennor Hunter - ILITW Harper Vance - ILB Aurora Wyrm - ILW

#this took far too long #yes thats a ffxiv quote #ilitw #ilitw mc #ilitw choices #it lives in the woods #it lives beneath #ilb #ilb mc #ILW #ILW art #ilw Mc #It Lives Within #it lives project #it lives choices #it lives #it lives anthology #it lives in my brain rent free #these are my babies

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itlovesinthewoods · 1 year

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These two excellent ILITW metas by @spacetravels really got me thinking about the 'Everyone Plays Together' scene in regards to Noah and MC. Regardless whether everyone else survives or dies, it is between them to take the place of the monster, in Jane's stead. Because, while everyone else was traumatized from what happened when they were kids, they were more-so stuck in their grief for Jane, the person they both loved so much, and their failure to have protected her. And by the end, they're the only ones who aren't to push past their respective traumas and insecurities. In the 'Everyone survives' ending, while everyone else is able to defend themselves and confront Jane when she taunts them about their insecurities, MC instead breaks down apologizing and never actually stands up for themselves.

(sorry for the shitty quality of the last one, I forgot to take my own screenshot and had to use a different one)

And Noah continues to blame himself for everything that had happened, instead of accepting that he was just an innocent kid who had no way of knowing what Redfield was capable and of stopping him from killing Jane. That he was not at fault for what had happened.

Noah and Devon's trauma and insecurities overlap (having been unable to save Jane when they felt they were the ones responsible for her protection) but manifest in different ways. MC feels like they need to save everyone, even at their own expense (like during the scene where they confronted Redfield, knowing that they could've died).

While Noah blames himself and falls into self-hatred and depression, being unable and not allowing himself to move on.

In the end, only one of them is able to be saved. Like everyone else, they're both tested by Jane, to see if they are able to overcome their trauma or if they succumb to it.

Noah is put under Jane's control, which symbolizes how his entire life, Jane's death has had a hold over him. His lack of a support system and his mother constantly blaming him has led him to centre his entire self over what happened back then. If his nerve is high enough, he's able to break her hold over him. If not, he succumbs to her influence over him and kills MC.

If Noah is able to break through, their fates are in MC's hands, which is MC's test. It's established that MC has a saviour complex, stemming from their past inability to have protected Jane. That's why it's MC's choice, not Noah's, of who sacrifices themselves.

Should MC choose to let Noah take Jane's place, it shows they're putting themselves first for once, and breaking their cycle of trying to save everyone. But if they choose to save Jane themselves/give Noah another chance on their own expense, while it was a selfless move, stemming from their love for Jane and want to save Noah, it was one that showed they had yet to overcome their guilt (and now would no longer be able to) and still felt like saving others were their responsibility.

That's what makes this final choice so interesting because neither choices are wrong or right. Would it be better for MC to let Noah make up for his last mistake and die content after a life of loneliness and self-hatred, being stuck in his grief about Jane to never have amounted into anything else? Or if they sacrifice themselves, letting Noah a chance of redemption and recovery while also robbing him the one thing that would've allowed him to finally feel at peace? And what about themselves? Is it better to be selfless and putting others in front of themselves like they've always done? Is it selflessness when Noah didn't even want MC to sacrifice themselves? And would it be fair to themselves?

There's no better or worse choice. It's just whatever choice MC chooses and the both of them have to live with it.

(another thing worth noting is how whoever out of MC and Noah do survive are shown in ILB/ILW to still be stuck on their past, but now in regards to each other and their past choices (MC letting Noah sacrifice himself/not saving him that day or Noah's actions leading to MC being put in a position where they choose to sacrifice themselves) with MC obsessing over trying to save Noah or Noah trying to bring MC back and undo his mistake but that's a post for another day)

#shit this was supposed to be a small post how did it get so long?#ngl i will be so embarrassed if it turns out i was wrong in my analysis about them in anyway #but anyway #i love them so much #noah marshall #ilitw #ilitw!mc #ilw #noah/mc #it lives #it lives in the woods #it lives within #it lives beneath #ilb #playchoices #pixelberry #noah x mc #devon (ilitw)#jane marshall

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linkysmommy · 1 year

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“I’d take the hurt over and over again if it meant that someday, I’d get to meet you.”

Thank you so much @somewillwin for the gorgeous, stunning commission of Lincoln McQuoid and my ILW MC, Orion Murphy! It’s so beautiful, I’m so in love 🥰🥹💜

#ilw #it lives within #playchoices #lincoln mcquoid #oc orion murphy #lincoln x mc #ilw art #ilitw #ilb #it lives anthology

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gaiuskamilah · 1 year

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one of the reasons why it lives in the woods is better than it lives beneath is because of the catharsis it gives to arguably the ultimate victim of its story - jane. jane's spirit is kept on earth by the power, unable to rest after a sudden and violent death. she eventually comes to her senses and is "peacefully" set free by either mc or noah in the endings where noah does not kill mc. after years of being some shadow being in the woods, she is free. it's a sad ending because either mc or noah has to take her place, but it's ultimately still cathartic.

by contrast, josephine doesn't get that. sure, she's allowed the catharsis of fucking up pine springs and beating up arthur, but the casting aside of her soul isn't the same as it was with jane. she is forcibly removed by mc in the middle of her rage with no real comfort from mc for the decades she's had to relive her death. she gets no real moment of comfort before her soul is released - no "you can rest now" as it was with jane. and ultimately, that lack of catharsis and comfort for josephine is what makes ilitw as a story better than ilb.

#playchoices #it lives in the woods #ilitw #it lives beneath #ilb #it lives anthology #jane marshall #josephine vance

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saibug1022 · 6 months

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ILB Outfits

I completely forgot that back in the days of ILW's release that in addition to the ILITW cast I also made new post-book outfits for the ILB cast!

#playchoices #choices #pixelberry #it lives beneath #ilb #it lives anthology #ilw

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itlivesproject · 1 year

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One year ago today, we released the first three chapters of ILW and began the amazing journey of weekly sharing this game with the world ❤️

Thank you to everyone who supported us along the way, who shared their love for the game with us, who recommended the game to their friends, to everyone who wrote fics and drew art and made edits, who shared analyses and discussed the game here or on other websites.

The journey may be done, but it will live on forever in our hearts. We are so honored to have helped create one of the best small fandoms I’ve ever had the pleasure of being a part of, and looking back, I wouldn’t trade this experience for the world ❤️

#it lives within #ilw #playchoices #ilitw #ilb #mod win

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cadybear420 · 3 months

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Tom Sato but I yassified his swimsuit, edit by me

He's precious, it's what he deserves

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celestiachan · 2 months

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mango tango's dead kid not eating normally compilation

#xenon screams #animation vs minecraft #animator vs animation #avm #ava #alan becker #writing #my writing #fanfic #it isn't out yet #but i have been making progress on it recently #ilb #ilb au #i lived bitch

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sapphoschoices · 8 months

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In the whole 'It Lives' anthology, there is no more underrated line than this from Richard

"WHAT ARE YOU?!"

Tbf, completely normal reaction, the ilb MC was absolutely mental, especially in this scene, they literally broke out of a coffin which had beem dropped in a lake and swam to the surface to attack the person who dropped them down there

What a badass really

#it lives beneath #ilb #ilb mc #choices stories you play #choices it lives beneath #it lives anthology

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valkair · 2 years

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Noah Marshall aka beanie boy

#ilitw #ilitw choices #playchoices #play choices #it lives anthology #it lives in the woods #ilw #it lives within #it lives #it lives series #noah marshall #ilb #it lives beneath

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ila-appreciationweek · 1 year

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In the wake of the It Lives Within finale, we are hosting an It Lives Anthology Appreciation Week 2023, scheduled for March 26 - April 1! We're excited to share our love for the series in what we hope is a flurry of creativity and fun.

Schedule and prompts:

March 26: The MCs

March 27: Favorite character(s)

March 28: Villains and monsters

March 29: Favorite ship(s)

March 30: Family and friendship

March 31: Favorite scene

April 1: Wildcard

If you're having trouble coming up with ideas, feel free to consult our prompts list!

Use the hashtag #ilaw (for it lives appreciation week) and tag us, @ila-appreciationweek, to make sure that we can find and reblog your contributions. We can't wait to see what the fandom creates!

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alltimefail-sims · 2 years

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We are FINALLY here! Today I present the final part of my ongoing It Lives Anthology project (all my previous posts HERE). I started from the first book, but honestly these LIs are what inspired the idea in the first place because they are so well written and beautiful in their own unique ways. I have been itching to remake them in the sims...and I gotta admit that I'm sooooooooo happy with how they turned out.

Thank you to the @itlivesproject for making this story and these characters. Frankly, I think you guys did better with this final installment than PB would have done anyway! I hope I did your pixel angels justice! If you haven't played through the first half of this story yet, don't walk...RUN to download and play the first 11 chapters before it returns on the 29th with weekly posts!

And a special thanks to all of you guys who have stuck with me through this highly self-indulgent little project (lol). I'll be tweaking a few things and then releasing all 16 sims (for free, as always) over the next two-three weeks... so stay tuned for that if you're interested!

In order: Abel Flint, Amalia de León, Jocelyn Wu, and Lincoln McQuoid.

Alright, I'm done talking now. Fully body shots/height comparison below the cut <3

NOTE: All heights are canon! Also I know you can't see the scars on Abel's hands because of his long sleeves, but I promise they're there!

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