#Artyom

[robertarthurhawkins]

cN tou draw nikittom goonjgn

haha.

[laukz]

The little happy life they deserve

[lvnesart]

oc-themed christmas art like last year!

[gusujay]

I kinda love that in the game the dark ones help Artyom pretty early on in metro 2033, however it takes over 11 chapters in the book for us to get some sort of narrative indication that the dark ones aren’t evil. But the way the dark one helps Artyom is the most unnerving fucking shit I swear it’s the first time I’ve felt properly unsettled by the novel.

I love how it’s written, because it’s only after the “horror” part of the scene is over that we realise the creature that was mimicking Artyom’s footsteps and repeating his words back to him in the tunnel was probably trying to communicate with him. Trying to help him. He hears a whisper right by his ear telling him to wait before he goes to the next station, and artyom just fucking runs, but he does stop for a minute, and it’s a damn good thing he did or he would’ve been gunned down in an ambush, but because something whispered for him to wait and he listened he arrived after the danger had passed.

And to be fair to Artyom, if I was alone and lost in a dark tunnel where I couldn’t see my hand in front of my face and I started to realize that the footsteps I was hearing were actually just a second out of sync with mine, only to realise that they were actually not my footsteps at all but were something coming towards me, and then I yelled who’s there only for it to echo “there there there” back at me, and then heard a voice whisper right in my ear telling me to wait I probably would’ve ran as fast as I could too.

Whatever was in that tunnel with him saved his life, but the chapter describing how it attempts to communicate with him is the creepiest shit I’ve read in a while. Artyom is so so scared, and he’s right to be, but he also listened, which saved his life.

I can clearly see the plot points the games took from the book regarding the dark ones. But the book does it so well because in the game the dark one physically saves us (that scene with bourbon) and the player might realise it’s trying to help artyom and that there might be more going on that what they originally expected. But the book dials the spook factor up to 11, so while whatever the creature is is trying to help artyom, all artyom feels while he’s in its presence is fear, and he only realises in hindsight that if he hadn’t followed some deep rooted instinct to trust what the voice said he might’ve died only one station away from Polis.

I’m so glad I discovered these games and subsequently this book, I never expected to become so invested but here we are

[radiationhorn]

shitty nikita and artyom edit😢

[mvskhio]

[hearts4artyom]

Flopping on tiktok, so why not post it here. Tiktok is @selectingwrath (( edit; my username is now 1999tapes. ))

[snytte]

Req from tik Tok oomfie

Artyom and Nikita headcannons!!! (FLUFF)

Nikita is extremely jealous of artyoms other friends and will pout to him about it when they are gone

When nikita's not over Artyom cuddles a pillow with his cologne on it and wears his purgen hoodie

They like to write each other letters even tho they can just text because they want that "old fashion love"

Artyom and Nikita write songs for eachother that they don't release beacuse it's "just for them"

Before they met when they were kids, Nikita allways saw him in the halls and had a hugee crush on him

They have a shared playlist

They used to have matching friendship bracelets and now they have rings (dw they kept the bracelets),

They argue over who's gonna be the little spoon

They wear those cringy couple shirts,

Matching holoween costumes DUH

They sing together, allways have duets

They have nicknames for each other artyoms are arty yom and nikitas are just Niki

Artyom isint too into pet names but Nikita is, Nikita calls him sweetie and honey some times, Artyom pretends to hate it but really loves it

[scifer]

Does anyone remember this old cartoon from the 60s?

Artfight attack on @redrumrose ! Had a lot of fun drawing this one :D

[laukz]

MORE OF THEM BEING IN LOVE

[pedroam-bang]

Metro Exodus (2019)

[igimacigy]

surface

[gusujay]

I don’t need to babygirlify Artyom because he does it to himself in the book. The main character interaction of chapter 10 is him being adopted by revolutionaries and going: umm you guys are really cool but I have to go 🥺

I’m not even trying to read him as gay, in fact, I’m making a conscious effort to not project, and to read him as a straight character, but my boy keeps describing men and how handsome they are and how broad their shoulders are for like 5 paragraphs every time he meets someone who’s nice to him, and even the ones who are mean to him. Why are so many men winking at him? It’s like they’re trying to communicate that they See Him and he’s just trying to get to Polis.

I thought the 2 pages describing Artyom’s puppy crush on Hunter would be a one time thing just to show how much Artyom admired the guy. But my boy meets an older man and immediately he’s like “his eyes were the blue green of a stormy ocean, his voice was deep and smooth, he was taller than me, I felt safe with him, his shoulders were so strong, I could fix him”

There’s even one part where he’s talking to a guy who always goes deep into the tunnels, who’s always surrounded by women but none of them will follow him on his journey, and my boy literally thinks “idk what’s wrong with those women but I’d follow you anywhere”

My beloved you’re really making it difficult to read you as a 100% straight man. I would say he’s bisexual, but he literally has no interest in woman. But the second a man is kind to him he would kill for them. What a funny little guy.

I’m sure it wasn’t intentional on the author’s part, but good god it’s so hilarious when an author’s misogyny makes their character read like a gay man who thinks women are equal to men but has no interest in them whatsoever.

[lytkinx3]

happy birthday artyom anoufriev they could never make me hate you

[deadflyyy]

I'VE GOT THE GRAPHIC NOVEL

[partyomsno1fan]

hello cha

made a tumblr for a dead fandom

metro fans pls interact i beg

https://sammymonty.straw.page/