Mild frustration how often people comment about Zorana "This dropped out of nowhere!" "I had no idea this was coming?" "Why didn't I ever hear about this?" and just, like... I WOULD LOVE TO TELL MORE PEOPLE BUT I DO NOT KNOW HOW 99% of journalists ignore my emails completely

It does not compute for me that some people want to stream my silly and slightly cursed game. If I'd known rhat at the time..! Go watch!

People are actually enjoying and appreciating my silly game and I'm so thankful. 🥹

Just wanted to thank everyone again for all the support and feedback I've received since completion and release! I'm currently fighting the urge to do another jam just like this next month, but we'll definitely be at it again sometime!

Turns out playtesting is important or something *grumbles*. Version 1.1 is up now!

I have never felt this kind of satisfaction. Two weeks of daily effort resulted in this. Footbox is now LIVE!! melaniebell.itch.io/footbox-used... #gamedev #indiedev #gamejam #visualnovel

I sprained my ankle. I caught a cold. I still streamed every day. My body will never be the same. Original art. 6.5k word script. Unbalanced minigame. Licenced music. No AI. FREE. Come watch the final 10 HOUR sprint where it all comes together! Starting 1200 UTC on Saturday!! #gamejam #indiedev

Now live for day 5!!

[0028] magical::[fragile]::cuteness #VTuber #YuriLife

You might think a sprained ankle and the onset of a full body cold would be enough to put a pause on this project. But I can still move my fingers, and problem solving is relaxation for me! Now live!! twitch.tv/melaniebellch www.youtube.com/@melaniebellch

SHOES STOLEN ANKLE SWOLLEN I DON'T WANT SYMPATHY I JUST WANT TO MAKE YOU A FREE GAME NOW LIVE!! twitch.tv/melaniebellch youtube.com/@melaniebellch #indiegame #indiedev #gamejam #solojam

Just horribly sprained my ankle but that isn't stopping me!! More time to rest means more time for GAME JAM!! Streaming at 1900 UTC tonight, and every night this week! (In all seriousness though, I'm resting as much as I can. This is an owie.) #gamejam #solojam #indiegame

After distracting myself with friends (and tummy ache) and a weekend of fantastic movies, I feel totally inspired to start hitting out this insane project of mine! Looking forward to seeing you all for the inaugural stream tomorrow at 1700 UTC!! #indiedev #gamejam #indiegame #solojam

I just had the honour of watching the UK premiere of Shiori's Labyrinth #迷宮のしおり at Scotland Loves Anime @lovesanimation.bsky.social. Hands down the most fun movie of the weekend. Multiple rounds of applause from the audience throughout. When it's available in your area, you MUST go see it!!

Doing my best not to do too much prep work beforehand, to avoid burning out too early... Buuut I am cooking a truly cursed elevator pitch that I'll be unveiling on Monday's inaugural development stream! 😈 #gamejam #gamedev #indiegame

I'm doing a two-week solo Game Jam starting Monday the 3rd of November! I'll be streaming my progress every day on my Twitch and new YouTube channel, links below! Also, the completed(?) game will be listed free on itch.io on the 16th of November!! Come watch me slowly descend further into madness! 🤣

"If you’re amused by the concept of several hapless doofuses from 21st century Earth bumbling around in a medieval fantasy world with cheat powers, this might be the diversion you didn’t know you were looking for." Thanks to Chris Casey for the review! ccxp.info/game-review-...

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

A problem I know she has! (that I also relate too ... >.>) #vtuber #vsky #meme @melanie.melbell.uk

My fortune cookie was scarily accurate last night! 👻 Fortune cookie technology has become SCARILY powerful; we may even be approaching General Cookie Intelligence! We should add fortune cookies to every industry and government service to improve efficiency

I READ THE QUEER UTOPIAN ISEKAI STORY FROM 1909. Ten out of ten, no notes. Recommended reading for everyone with a love for yuri and adventure. Also it's public domain and recently back in print, so go get it!!

I'd rather have it than not, but for goodness' sake the NHR is an archaic system not fit for purpose. So it out it's completely impossible for me to receive the blood tests I've requested until some reference number gets updated, and I've been waiting a week to even begin the process.

Y'all I think there's something wrong with my Wii #stardustsquidart #wii #ouija #ouijaboard

In a twist that should surprise literally no-one, it turns out the way to make me hyperfixate for twelve hours more or less nonstop is to give me an interesting maths problem and watch me go.

Lesbians can't just say "I love you", they have to recreate the cycle of Samsara so they can reincarnate together forever.

I am under personal attack.

Brainworms being pretty voracious today.

"...we almost invariably didn't have gender affirming care before puberty and we are loved and beautiful and happy."

Ran out of time to put makeup on before running out of the house this morning. Planned to do it at work but I left my foundation brush at home! Had to make do with my fingers to apply it - all in all it went better than it had any right to!

New Crow Time update [1/3]

I know it's incredibly healthy and emotionally mature to be willing to interrogate things that make me uncomfortable and cause irrational responses, but I'm not sure I should be doing it multiple times per day?? Mel!! Give yourself a break!!

Realising that I have an extended goodbye ritual, and that it feels like I'm being rude if I don't do it, and that it's a learned behaviour from being emotionally held hostage,

Catching myself wondering, at 4am, where I find my strength. Mostly, I think I just have nothing to prove to anyone except myself. And I already think I'm great sooo Time to keep staring back until everyone else either blinks first or boops me on the nose or something. A snoot-booping would be nice.

one year

Guess who's in LONDON Seeing Babymetal!!

UN experts are calling on politicians and lawmakers to protect the human rights of trans+ people in the UK, let’s make them listen! WRITE TO YOUR MP. Find a tempate here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... @nancymk.bsky.social @jessothomson.co.uk

Hiiiii I'm bringing it back GAYMERS my funny gay lil podcast/talk show thing i did for pride (+a lil longer) last year AND IM LOOKING FOR GUESTS if ur queer and like viddy games and wanna talk about it go fill in the form and i will get back to u as soon as i can :3 IM SO EXCITED AAAA share pls

I have to say, stacking books in my hallway looks a hell of a lot better than stacking bags of books in my hallway! I've only been here nearly four months now, it's about time I put some of the clutter away!

The disgraceful EHRC misconduct is now drawing fire from the United Nations. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Wow, sneaky and nasty.

An excerpt from my video script that is deeply relevant today…

So I actually got a response from my email to my MP about the Supreme Court ruling. Following the pattern we've come to expect, the "guidance" offered is severely flawed and fails to recognise the real challenges we are facing. Big rant/🧵 #transgender #ECHR #UKSupremeCourt

The Parliamentary debate on the self-ID petition showed us that MPs CAN use the right language, up to talking about how outdated and pathologizing gender dysphoria diagnoses are. They are capable of comprehending our issues! Applauding for buzzword-laden PR statements accomplishes nothing.

I tried to read and parse and come up with a response to the consultation. It hurt too much to see how little agency we had to influence anything it has to say. Better to spend my precious energy on anger than despair.

Please share 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ ##TransRightsAreHumanRights

So you know how I was struggling to write last week because I had two sets of notes for the same project in two different notebooks and I didn't have one of them? Guess who forgot the notebook she's been using for her latest project?

Please sign and share 🏳️‍⚧️ Non UK residents can sign too! 🏳️‍⚧️✊️ www.change.org/p/overturn-t...

Can I have more of this in Parliament and the news, please, and less of the other stuff? Cheers.