#I WILL JUST GIVE YOU A SCENE I SWEAR

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hello Madam. Sorry Madam.

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[kakusu-shipping]

I'M SO SORRY I KEEP JUST HANDING YOU FULL COMICS BUT IT'S!!!!! SO GOOD!!!!!

Jade's big wet eye in the first panel is getting to me little sibling I could never say no to. You did all the expressions amazingly and LUNA!!!!!! GIRL I DID YOU SO DIRTY, so glad Devin could fir you <3

(a few bonuses sketches, warmups, and the original sketch below the cut)

^Original Sketch

^Warmup sketches for get re-use to drawing Jade

The original version of this comic was Jade pulling Emile through the multiverse to see if he'd look different than other Emile's in different worlds, for funsies.

This was scrapped when it got to long, but I still have the multi-dimensional Dragon Emile sketch designs, for funsies.

^Multi-Dimensional Emile concepts

YET ANOTHER LEGENDARY COLLAB WITH @kakusu-shipping !!!! He did the sketch and I did the lines and color!!

Litol big bro who is also Celestia’s babygirl <3

[wildsaltair]

the man who can light my torch any day

[evocatiio]

if chibnall was the one writing this season you lot would be talking VERY differently

[lupins-hehim-pussy]

I wanna know ur Fontaine msq criticisms 👁️👁️👂I’m all ears

I'm not sure if you wanted me to talk about this secretly or publicly but! Here I go!

The TLDR: Fontaine MSQ aestheticised prison, poverty, child abuse, the justice system/court and didn't properly address any of it.

More:

Focalors/Furina has way too much of a sympathetic angle for a dictator who's lets people drown with her inaction.

Neuvillette feels Bad for sentencing some people to death/prison, but that's it. He's one of the most powerful people in Fontaine. If he felt like there are systemic injustices, I.E sending an abused Child to prison, he should be the first person to DO something about it, not just cry and be sad so the audience can be like aw, that's complex character writing isn't it? No it's not! And guilt doesn't absolve you!!!!!!! (These are stuff we deal with in OTCOJ read my fic now /j)

Meropide has children in it, both Sentenced there (Wriothesley) and BORN THERE (Lanoire), and this is just a quirk of the place. Not only that, Meropide accepts prisoners of all genders and crimes. There are abusers and abuse victims in one place. Do you know how bad that is? How much potential for crimes to happen in a place like that— oh wait, Meropide isn't under Fontaine's jurisdiction. If you are assaulted as an inmate it literally means nothing to the court.

Wriothesley had no qualifications when he took over. Depending on how long he lived on the streets, how old he was when he killed his parents, how old he was when he was first taken in by the orphanage, etc, the man might never have more than 4–5 years of formal education. Sigewinne probably had to teach him how to write reports. And do Meropide's spreadsheets. Edit because I forgot to elaborate on this one: This isn't a point brought up anywhere, which is bad, because when poverty and incarceration robs you of a proper education (and the rights to vote in many places too, too, by the way), it reduces your prospects for jobs, reduces many people's ability to get a home etc etc. Wriothesley was just, narratively, Given his position.

Meropide is an industrialized prison, and they portray this as a good thing. Prisoners are paid in coupons for their labour, and this is also portrayed as a good thing.

The One-Meal-A-Day reform was something Paimon gushed about being so great of a perk, that people might want to go to jail for food (could be interesting and reflective of systemic poverty if MHY had brains, but they don't, so I was just Pissed because essentially all Paimon wanted to say was "Prison isn't so bad, but still don't go to prison guys! Prison labour is really hard!"). By the way, in most real-world prisons they are obligated to feed you three meals a day. Because that's how much food a human needs. MHY went with one meal just so they can say "if you want to eat more, you have to work." And then the welfare meal is a goddamn gacha. So imagine you're a starving child who's too weak to work in the fucking robot assembly line, and you wander up for your first meal in 24 hours, only to luck in with a shit one. I'd kill myself.

They wrote Wriothesley, who's a victim of the system, into a guy who's say shit like "I'm the Duke I can do whatever I want" for a cool moment where he choke-slams an inmate (I know he was a bad guy. But also, in copaganda when cops are violent/disregarding protocols, they are always only portrayed to do that against bad guys, so what does our critical thinking tells us about this one?) They wrote Wriothesley, who was an inmate of a prison so bad, so notorious that it is the literal boogeyman of Fontaine, that has a legal (???) fighting pit, with an administrator who abuses his position to be unreasonable, to willingly stay in the place and become an Administrator who would choke-slam an inmate while saying a cool line about how he has the power to do whatever he wants. They wrote him, the guy who had to be fed on the streets by melusines, to think one-meal-a-day was a good enough reform (while he spends god-knows how much on his boat). This wasn't a victim-turns-into-abuser narrative either, they want all this to be seen as positive character growth.

And then, the final kicker is, they gloss over his entire abuse. You can only read about these shit in his profile, which most people don't because they don't Have Him or doesn't care to unlock it/read it online, and they jammed his entire backstory into a flaccid info-dump at the end of his character story quest. This man isn't Allowed to feel abused and neglected and show any reaction to it within the narrative of Fontaine itself, because if they actually Gave Weight to what happened to him, they'd have to confront THE FUCKING JUSTICE SYSTEM they had NO PLANS on criticising. I don't think they ever explicitly said the fucking Crime-Theatre nonsense was Bad either.

I could go on, but this is already so long. But yeah, I hope this gave you an idea.

[langfield]

my hot take is that one of double exposure’s strengths was it’s characters, actually! i think people tend to forget how little the characters in lis:1 mattered tbh? they barely had relationships outside of max ( kate and warren are the biggest offenders of this, with kate’s other friends, stella and alyssa, being shown in one photo and warren’s only relationships being with brooke, a girl he never interacts with on screen, and stella, a girl he gets with at random in the vortex timeline ) and would cease to exist once they served their intended purpose to the plot, like nathan, who’s killed off screen after inherently giving max and chloe everything they needed to find the dark room. victoria, bless her heart, is so inconsistently written and suffers hard from the plot manipulating her character to fit whatever role the other characters aren’t filling … etc etc. don’t get me wrong! they’re still good characters! in fact, i love them thoroughly. but you can tell pretty quickly that lis:1 is a plot over characters sort of game -- and that people’s praise for the well written cast of lis:1 is mostly founded in nostalgia and hcs they’ve been personally making for the past nine years. a lot of the dynamics are shallow, nonexistent, or entirely made up from the first game … meanwhile double exposure, with it’s more condensed cast and social media element, was able to do a lot more despite the shakier plot writing.

safi and moses? best friends with actual lore and screentime. safi and vinh? were once in the same friend group, have slept together, he’s in love with her but she doesn’t care for him at all and, if forced to have an opinion, dislikes him greatly. safi and gwen? mentor and mentee, you see how much safi trusts gwen with how she comes out of her shell around her during her experimental writing years, and gwen takes safi hating her to heart because she cared for her too, and ( as heard in a voicemail from vinh ) likely blames herself for safi’s death in the dead world timeline. lucas and safi? former student and teacher, now coworkers, heavily implied safi used to admire lucas before he fucked maya over and now loathes him so fiercely she’s willing to hurt his kid to get back at him, and he’s legitimately scared of her. and that’s just safi’s relationships! a character who the game barely shows on screen in ep2 and ep3. vinh’s relationships are vast and complex, raging from his situationship with reggie ( a dynamic that has a long history that takes multiple playthroughs to understand ) to his intense and bitter rivalry with diamond to his silly, lowstakes attraction to moses to his ‘forged in secrecy and pain’ relationship with yasmin to �� so on so forth. moses and diamond have an entire bittersweet dynamic where diamond has found herself loving someone for the first time but not only is moses taken, he also sisterzones her at the end of the game. diamond and reggie are close friends despite their different views and bond over their unrequited love and undergrad struggles. loretta has a crush on reggie! etc etc.

and that’s just the relationships between the characters. the characters themselves are rather distinct from each other -- but that’s a whole other post entirely. are there flaws with the character writing in double exposure? naturally! there are some that aren’t as fleshed out as they could be ( like the lis:1 crew ) and some relationships go nowhere or are inconsistent at best. i could harp on lis:de’s flaws all day, really, because the plot writing after ep3 was rather atrocious tbh!! though i still think people are rather unfair about the pros of the game itself, and the stuff that was genuinely improved upon to a degree such as having the supporting characters exist and interact without max’s input.

[kirider]

[24/02/2024]

Okay hear me out. If your main mechanic for telegraphing attacks is a red light on the floor, you can't give me a grate floor >:( (<-salty bc they're bad at the game)

[deepfriedpaddymayne]

I know I roast Augustin for this moment all the time but also the more I look at it the more I want to bang my head against the wall because like. my immediate reaction to this is "my man how touch starved do you have to be to enjoy yourself in this situation" but we KNOW he's not touch starved. we see him be very physically comfortable with his friends. which brings me to my other question which is HOW REPRESSED do you have to be to enjoy yourself in this situation

[aeriondripflame]

otto hightower is just so boring. imagine how cool the dance would be if he just allowed house hightower to go back to its roots in witchcraft and spells. give alicent a spell book. give it to her now.

[deus-ex-mona]

when freedom is in sight!!!!!!!!

[sagesolsticewrites]

okay question time:

what are your characters favorite colors?

do they have a secret celebrity crush they try to hide from their men?

what is their favorite soup?

if they could only use one swear word for the rest of their lives, which one would they pick?

oooh hi Nonnie! Thank you so much for these, I adore talking about my girlies and these were so incredibly fun to think about 🫶

what are your characters favorite colors?

Jules loves an emerald green 🥰 As well as it having sentimental value and happening to match her eyes perfectly, there’s a reason her engagement ring is what it is <3

Vika’s favorite is a sunset orange! Not too bright, but something soft that goes beautifully with her brown skin and gold jewelry.

do they have a secret celebrity crush they try to hide from their men?

Jules has a hopeless crush on Jimmy Stewart that she tries and utterly fails to hide from Johnny 🤭 she’s all heart eyes when he takes her out to see It’s A Wonderful Life, and he spends the whole car ride home good naturedly teasing her about it. Thanks to Olive, she and Helen bond over it eventually, much to Brady and [redacted bc spoilers]’s dismay lol

Vika totally has a thing for Gregory Peck (that she successfully hides from Benny until they see To Kill A Mockingbird lmao) and no I’m totally not projecting shhhhhh

what is their favorite soup?

Jules loves a tomato soup & grilled cheese! That cozy combo has been her favorite since she was little.

Vika loves her mom’s kadhi— a yogurt-based soup made with chickpea flour & spices! I imagine during the war the stateside girlies (Jo, Jean, Jules, & Vika) start trading cozy recipes when the weather gets cold and they need something to take their minds off worrying about their boys, and Vika can’t wait to introduce her friends to one of her favorite foods.

if they could only use one swear word for the rest of their lives, which one would they pick?

Jules: bitch (for Bitching With The Girlies Reasons lmao)

Vika: Vika actually doesn’t really swear, so this is an interesting thought experiment 🤔 maybe one of the more ✨versatile✨ ones? I can see her muttering a fuck or damn under her breath soooo so quietly and then glancing around to make sure her mother didn’t hear

[procrastinationaccount]

Production of American Psycho where all the instrumental tracks are just played from yt or spotify and Bateman goes on semi-scripted tangents about each product, and a few nonsensical ads for poisons industrial weapons etc are sprinkled in with increasing frequency as it goes on. Also all the songs are different because I fucking hate what they did with that show.

[galindatopland]

me realizing some people were emotionally hit by the twist that it's a dream sequence while i was watching it the whole time absolutely sure it wasn't real but still worried it might be and thinking about how the true horror was shauna being all touchy feely towards the baby

[jtownraindancer]

Ace's TURИ for Burn Rewatch: Blade on the Feather

[sskk-manifesto]

(*・ω・*)b♪

[edge-oftheworld]

help i'm listening to an orchestral arrangement of holiday by green day and i can't deal with it