Heyo, helpful humans!
As I do, I've been teasing this new piece of merch for literal ever.
But at last, by the grace whatever gods are watching over me as I type this inside of a Korean bakery cafe at 10:30pm, the time has come. With several days to spare before the promo video drops, I present you...
THE CUTENESS 2019-12-10 06:44:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Heyo, helpful humans!
This week's prompt was The Sky Blinked, and shockingly, many of them were far less world-warpingly bizarre than expected! In fact, the majority were real tear jerkers. We did a lot of sad, melancholy claps in chat this evening, and it was lovely.
What'll it be next week? Something equally bizarre, or something a little more grouned? And in any case, how are we going to turn it deliciously saaaaad?
After three long months of waiting, I present you with the first ever Tale Foundry novella! Clocking in at two hours, this is the longest (and strangest) thing we've ever made. We'll never do it again, so treat this as a send-off to a more experimental, less reliable period of the show.
In a harebrained scheme to humiliate two sprawling internet communities, a forgotten machine and a sinister stranger don their disguises and begin a doomed show.
Introducing her loveli...
2019-11-30 18:27:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Heyo, helpful humans!
This week's prompt was Eat, Drink, and Be Merry! and again, we did some reveling in a very warm and pleasant place. But this week we wanted to change things up. Instead of a list of prompts to do with a single theme or season, we just shot in the dark!
So, discard any pretense and select what you'd most like to write about with reckless abandon below!
—Benji
2019-11-30 08:54:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Heyo, helpful humans!
This week's prompt was A Kindness, and it yielded perhaps some of the tenderest, sweetest, cockle-warmingest submissions of all our prompts so far! If you wanna feel good, definitely have a look back at that footage when it goes live.
For now though, let's turn our attention the Turkeytide as it flows forth. We've got a vote that's all kinds of foody. Go ahead and pick the most decadent morsel you can find, and get ready...
2019-11-23 03:55:32 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo, helpful humans!
This week's prompt was The Lengthening Night, and it was officially the end of our kinda-spooky prompt imperative from October. Now we're into the comfortably goldening age of autumn, and looking forward to thanksgiving, we have slew of decidedly more pleasant options for y'all.
I present, all things to do with gratitudinosity and thankfulations:
So here's your sample platter. Choose what you'd like to write about most (o...
2019-11-16 04:37:14 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo, all y'all helpful humans!
So we've finished the vote for the week, and y'all decided that the Writing Group prompt for this week is gonna be:
The Lengthening Night
Come submit a piece of microfiction for a chance to have it read live on stream this Friday!
Can't wa...
2019-11-11 02:09:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Heyo, helpful humans!
This week's prompt was The Harvest, and we had a great assortment of spooky, somber, and lovely pieces. Now, however, we're starting to shift away from the darkness of the Halloween season and into autumn proper.
So, let's write something to match the new mood, shall we?
2019-11-09 03:04:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Heyo, helpful humans!
This week's prompt was They All Came Back, and it would be the last of the spooky prompts, but we decided during the stream we wanted to transition a little more slowly into the new season.
So, instead of something that's just spooky, we want something ominous for fall. Something that fits the slow-wilt feel of autumn.
So here's your sample platter. Choose what you'd like to writ...
2019-11-02 02:35:02 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo, all y'all helpful humans!
This week's vote was no competition at all. Y'all knew exactly what you wanted, and I don't blame you! I think this is one of the most interesting of the batch, with a whole slew of possibilities tied to it.
This week's Writing Group prompt will be:
They All Came Back
Heyo, helpful humans!
Alright, last week's prompt was The shadows are watching, and THAT turned out to be an absolute blast, with a colorful variety of voices and genres submitted, all under that warm blanket of spook.
This week, we want to stay nice and toasty under that blanket, so we have an arrangement of spooky, gross, or otherwise unpleasant materials for your perusal.
Take your pick!
—Benji
Heyo, all y'all helpful humans!
So we've finished the vote for the week, and y'all decided that the Writing Group prompt for this week is gonna be:
The Shadows are Watching
Come submit a piece of microfiction and have it read live on stream this Friday!
Can't wait to ...
2019-10-21 07:04:14 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo, helpful humans!
Working hard to finish up this Novella right now! We're in final revisions at the moment, but in the mean time, we've got writing groups every Friday until then! Of course, we need something to write about for the writing group, and that's where y'all come in.
Choose which topic you want the humans of the TF community to write about for next week's session! All spooky this time, in the spirit of the season~
—Benji
Hey, all you helpful humans!
Just a reminder that there are only three days left 'till the first official Tale Foundry writing group stream. If you wanna have your flash fiction read on stream, now's the time to submit!
You can find all the details here!
—Benji
Heyo, helpful humans!
Normally we'll do a vote here to decide the prompt for the writing group, but since the last one didn't fire, we're defaulting to what you voted for last time!
Check out the new writing group here: https://thetalefoundry.com/category/writing-group/
Can't wait to see what y'all come up with!
—Benji
Alright y'all, things have been really interesting on the back end for the last few weeks, and I wanna fill you in. Two things I've gotta tell you about real quick...
Chapter Ends: The Pratchett Story
Man.
This has been a trip. Longest thing I've ever written, and easily the most ambitious. I've never quite had a piece take on a life of its own in this way, and as much as it's cost me (this Terry Pratchett series has been in progress for the...
2019-10-02 01:31:57 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo, helpful humans!
Let's spiral into horror and dementia together! I'm gonna be streaming The Sinking City in about 30 minutes over on Twitch!
—Benji
2019-09-13 23:41:35 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo, Helpful humans!
So a little context: last Wednesday we officially doomed Fresh Connor (the latest save file) by overwriting our only save in a position of imminent death. So no matter what, if I try to load that save, I'll die.
So! We have a few options this week, not all of them 1,000,000% SCP-centered
2019-09-11 01:18:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Heyo, helpful humans!
As I continue to chew through the final draft of this novella I never planned to write, I’ve got a little something to share with you!
This is a rough draft of the art that’ll appear in the video’s background when this story finally goes up. It’s stylized in a really interesting, becoming way, that I never would have thought to request. Felipe absolutely killed it with this one, and I can’t wait to see it at home...
2019-09-06 18:04:22 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo, helpful humans!
So it's been a little while since I've posted one of these, and I think you're all due an update. This short story's been in the works for a long, long time at this point, and honestly, if I were in your shoes I'd be starting to wonder how a single story can even take so long.
Well, the truth is a bit unfortunate, but also kinda cool.
Let me tell you about it.
Where are we now?
About a sixth of t...
2019-09-04 19:59:32 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo everybody!
Sorry to say TF just doesn't have the presence on social media that it does on Youtube for now, so until I get the Writing Group promoted on the show proper, I'm gonna have to put it on hold. There just aren't enough participants to make it work for now.
But, that doesn't mean we're not doing anything!
Instead of the planned writing group session tomorrow, we'll be continuing our playthrough of SCP: Containment Breach in a Foundry Free Time Stream, s...
2019-09-04 02:21:49 +0000 UTC View PostWholesome, loving parents, but they're also eldritch horrors
Submit in the comments below!
Read the rules for submission here!
Can't wait to see where you guys take this one! Remember, it's pretty comedic at the outset, but there are plenty of other directions you can take this!...
2019-09-01 22:22:52 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo, helpful humans!
This is the first time we're officially doing this, and rules for submission will go up tomorrow. For now, though, choose which prompt you want to write about for our first Twitch writing group session!
I'm eager to see what you guys are gonna choose, cause I might very well end up writing about this as well...
—Benji
2019-08-30 04:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo, helpful humans!
Going live to play some SCP: Containment Breach in about 30 minutes! Get your hazmat suit ready and join me here: https://www.twitch.tv/talefoundry
While you're waiting, there's a nice fanart show playing, so chill and enjoy for now~
—Benji
2019-08-28 23:39:07 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo, helpful humans!
Just a quick update on this week's Free Time stream: I'm gonna be out of town from Friday 'till Sunday, so I won't be able to make that magic happen. Instead, we're just gonna move it up two days and have it on Wednesday at 7:00pm CST!
That is all. Looking forward to getting my neck broken with all y'all!
—Benji
2019-08-27 05:58:39 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo, helpful humans!
So this week we've got another stream coming up, and I'm wondering what y'all wanna do while we chill. We made some headway in SCP: Containment Breach last time, although I did die like, 50,000 times. Maybe we could get closer to escaping the facility this week, and break our collective necks several hundred more times in the process?
Or maybe we could try a different take on SCP games and play SCP: Blackout?
Or, if you'd rather, we can watch SCP: Confi...
2019-08-25 20:06:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, helpful humans!
If you've looked at the rewards sidebar on the right side of the Patreon page recently, you may have noticed some subtle changes. We've added a bunch of stuff, and removed a few things. I'll go over these changes explicitly in just a moment, but first I'd like to explain they're being implemented
Why the Changes?
It takes a while to make any one video. I try to make them highly-polished in every capacity, but wi...
2019-08-21 19:33:51 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo, helpful humans!
After the test stream, I feel a lot more equipped to try again. I've upgraded my internet, and it should be ready for use before Friday. Failing that, we can always move our next stream to the following Friday.
But before then, I need to know: which of these would you rather do with me on the next stream?
—Benji
2019-08-19 18:43:57 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo, Helpful humans!
I have a little something to share with you, hot off the press!
This is before any editing, just the revision from the rough, but I think it's a fun little snippet and a good way to get your bearings on the story. Consume it, mull it over, share your thoughts!
Also, keep in mind there are already a lot of small changes I want to make to this stylistically, but this is a start.
For all of its powers of observation a... 2019-08-18 00:56:51 +0000 UTC View Post