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An absolutely fantastic collection of works and the prompts that inspired them! Thank you for putting the author's other sites on there, these are excellent reads! I wonder if there's more prompt archives out there somewhere.

Are there plans for more community copies? It looks quite fun.

Adorable!

Extremely evocative prose in such a short word-count. Would love to read more about this world, but this glimpse alone is fantastic!

It seems like -1 and 1 got swapped on the Heart meter description?
I'm really looking forward to playing this!

I stumbled upon this story by pure chance four years ago, and the writing still has my heart in a vice. Absolutely fantastic metafiction.

Stumbled upon this zine and I've been reading it over and over again. Your art is lovely, the characters have so much personality, and I'm captivated by your region concept. Thank you for sharing this!

I think about your comics a great deal, your art and music are a beautiful duo; and I really am fascinated by the world and characters you've crafted. They have a beautiful, deep sincerity that makes me tear up every time. Your dialogue is realistic, and your characters feel so lifelike, it's fantastic.

This was a lovely read, thank you for sharing your character and design process!

A really transcendent and trippy puzzle game, absolutely fantastic complimentary sound track and pixel art and it's full of mushrooms! Didn't expect the ending and yet it made perfect sense and was totally foreshadowed the entire time. Fantastic work!

A lovely use of Bitsy, and the writing is fantastic and goes so well with the pixel art. A fantastic little experience.

I think about this game a lot, years later. "A Host of Gentle Terrors" and "A Moth Batters Against Glass" make a excellent duology, and I love the worldbuilding and sense of exploration when wandering. Fantastic game!

Beautiful.

Masterfully done world-building, masterfully done tension, masterfully done horror truly feels like sinking into the black depths of the ocean. The subtle visuals and haunting music went so well with it, fantastic work!

AAAA What cute ocs, and the music and graphics have such a fun feel!

Looking foreward to trying this, thank you!

I have fond memories of the Liar Liar series, glad to see you are ending it with such a great farewell! It's always so cool to see behind the scenes stuff!

Excellent narrative.

What a beautiful and creative game, I love the pixel art!

What a lovely story! The art was beautiful!

A well-written tragedy, beautifully done.

A absolutely beautiful snippet- the colors, the pictures, slowly picking through the text's bight spots to get to the truth... A mystery without end.

I'm feeling Shrimp Emotions after playing through this, beautifully done!

Never realized how much I needed this. Thank you for making it!

I've never heard of XAVINETICA or XAVINENCE LABS before (and google is not helping me there), but I was captivated with this VN from the title.
Very fascinating world and characters, and excellent mingling of poetry and prose! Really glad I played this!

Oh my god, this is absolutely amazing. I can't wait to open it up! Fantastic work!

I bought a physical copy and I need to say how much of a awe-inspiring thing it is to be able to hold in my hands my personal best contender for the best queer microfiction I've lead in my life. It's all about the mixing of genres and tones, and how each author has their own take on the collective universe makes Empty Spaces a truly unique entity.
It's priceless compared to the $7 I spent, it's absolutely one of the best things that came from twitter.
That space may be empty but so much can be gleamed from what surrounds it.

Glad to see this is still getting updates! I really love this world you've made.

I love this so much, its a fun a beautiful experience! Your art is a fantastic fit!

This is absolutely beautifully put together, from the graphics to the fragmented narrative itself. It's transcendent and I cried while playing it.
Thank you for sharing your ghosts with the world.

A friend bought me this series for Christmas and I can't say how glad I am to have this be the first thing I read in 2021- the paneling is phenominal, the use of black and white vs color to represent state of mind is absolutely stunning, I was absolutely fascinated with the cast and how real they seem (I made some absolutely horrible noises regarding S&S and Malik's plots and how they unfolded), and good fucking god the plot is so tightly paced and well done. Bog seemed like the inevitable culimation of what everyone has done- all building up to this, all becoming this and it couldn't have gone any other way. I had to keep putting it down and picking it right back up because "oh god oh god are they really gonna? Oh SHIT", absolute adrenaline rush. The black and white gore vs the colorful daily life getting swapped around got me right in the heart, as soon as I saw it I shuddered. I didn't even question some of the things [Spoiler] brought up during my first reading and yet it was always there, the clues were always there. It was brilliantly done and I still think about it.

And the endpages. 

I had to sit down at the twist on the Killer/Victim endpage in Bog and it absolutely made me re-evaulate the prior issues, you really succeeded in making everyone feel "like a Whole person going through SAW shit". I cried re-reading it. I absolutely can wait for Sortie because I really love speculating about whats going to happen after Bog. I know whatever you make will crush my heart into pulp. Part of me wants to make fanart, but it almost seems..... This story is so well crafted that I would feel wrong messing with it. Bravo!

Also might just name my next cat Eggplant.

I think about this game quite often- it's absolutely beautiful with phenomenal worldbuilding and mood. Absolutely one of my favorite Bitsy games, bought a Host of Gentle Terrors immediately after playing it for the first time years ago.

this is a absolutely awesome game premise but I have a quick question: wheres how do you find teranova after the opening chat with EphemeralSmile666? I'm clicking on everything and I cant figure out how to proceed! (I made the first limejournal post, so that aint it?)

I've enjoyed this game for a while on steam, and seeing it in this bundle reminded me how much I appreciate it and want others to see it for how wonderful it is too.
Iasmin/DELTAHEAD's wonderful art really brings the characters to life! And the writing hits even harder these days. It really goes the extra mile where each country feels like its own place.Its really interesting to me how even a fail state like "you don't have enough materials for a event you were planning on having because the dump didn't have what you need and you spent all your money on snacks" or "the same person robbed you three times on three different trips to the hardware store despite your best efforts at not engaging and arguing back" becomes richer with characterization. 
Sometimes I reread the Kickstarter pages and wonder about things that could have been, but that just makes me all the more satisfied this tale got to be told.

(PS- does Eris only unlock on a playthrough when you've reached a ending in all of the main four's routes or do you have to go through all the possiblities? I can't seem to get her to pop up.)

Absolutely delicious history!

This is extremely cool and the exact type of metafiction I adore. I wish it was a actual game now.

Please make more "reviews" for the rest of the triology!!

thank you so much for zipping them all together! I'm looking forward to reading them- I've been captivated by the stellar writing in your Bitsy games so this will be a welcome treat!

Yes slime queen!