#Artyom

[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

[laukz]

The little happy life they deserve

[hearts4artyom]

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

[twelvegaugepump]

i wil pay you in liquid crhis gifs of u draw artyom in tyler mercj for me. i meed it sjo bad

yes, yes of course.... i hope you like it

i've seen that people usually draw characters in wolf merch or cmiygl merch so i wanted to do some cherry bomb merch. so here's THE cherry bomb merch ever.

[scifer]

Does anyone remember this old cartoon from the 60s?

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

[mcgriddly]

Old partyom simp art,,

[pedroam-bang]

Metro Exodus (2019)

[lytkinx3]

happy birthday artyom anoufriev they could never make me hate you

[deadflyyy]

I'VE GOT THE GRAPHIC NOVEL

[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.

[laukz]

MORE OF THEM BEING IN LOVE

[hangingoffence]

game artyom: single-handedly can take out whole reds and reich battalions and has visited the surface more than once and survived to tell the tale. master at stealth and in weapon handling

book artyom: escaped hanza bc got covered in human feces

[kiyosho-art]

I painted Artyom from Metro. I've been reading the book lately; it was hard to get a hold of in English, since it's a Russian book. I finally found a copy in England and bought it from the person who had it, importing it here.

[lvnesart]

The betrayal arc really transcends redesigns lol

[igimacigy]

surface