#Sorry Dolores

[blankipur-blog]

I AM LA REVACHOLIÈRE.

I AM THE CITY.

BE VIGILANT.

I LOVE YOU.

[thepig]

(art by zeke @prozac)

[theanxiousbookdevourer]

Disco Elysium spoilers ahead.

One of the best things about Disco Elysium is the way in which it talks about having community, love, and support—or, perhaps more importantly, about not having it.

But you don't have to be alone. Not forever. Even we learn this, somewhere along the way. Take this interaction with The Pigs.

And then? What do we, a sad, lonely man, say to that?

I find myself thinking of our interaction with Tommy Le Homme…

… or even Idiot Doom Spiral.

What if you don’t have anyone, though? What if, rather than finding your way through your troubles, or making a family out of the people you have, you instead decide to turn away from the world?

That’s what happens with René.

It’s what happens with The Deserter too.

We see how that loneliness affected them. How it killed them, day by day. And how it doesn't have to be that way. How you can change.

This is a game about lonely people. Maybe one for lonely people too. And because of it, because of its community, we don't have to feel alone anymore.

[tomshivbaby]

don't we look a blur?

[the-diary-of-a-moody-teenager]

Characters who don't know each other, but would hate each other:

[viewfinder-chernobyl]

by time you get over her, she's forgotten about you.

[vorakh]

dolorian ideas

[jajatoc]

An attempt at a fem Harry design, but make her already wlw

Kim follow-up!

[pepa-brainrot]

Happy birthday Dolores 💛

[horrorlesbion]

lolita, my love || interview with the vampire 02x07 "i could not prevent it"

bonus:

[hels-world]

[theanxiousbookdevourer]

One of the most powerful parts of Disco Elysium is how constantly and urgently it portrays that feeling of grieving a relationship.

I mean, when you go through a major breakup, essentially everything reminds you of the person you lost. It's truly incessant.

(Disco Elysium spoilers incoming.)

Harry, for example, links his ex, Dora, to the smell of apricots. This comes up again and again, even before the official start of the game.

When we read the ledger, we smell that apricot chewing gum. We smell her.

In speaking to other people, we hear apricots come up again and again, usually in conjunction with the idea that we've lost something.

It even pops up unexpectedly, both with Esprit de Corps (in a way that really isn’t relevant at all) and Joyce, of all people.

And, well, when we get shot, we can mention it, thinking it may very well be the last thing we ever say.

And yet, despite all our hatred of apricots, the feeling that they have betrayed us—

We also say...

Because we still love it, in some way. When it's whole.

After all...

[victor-aguilar]

dolores scene redraw !!

[manderleyfire]

I will do all this, I will get all this blood on my hands, and you are able to plead naivety.

[saintsenara]

for the FANTASTIC cursed ship series -

Nearly Headless Nick/Dolores Umbridge

thank you very much for the ask, pal!

and i think we have to back this one...

while peeves really puts his pussy into tormenting umbridge once she becomes headmistress [and while the fat friar makes sure to tell champion gossiper ernie macmillan that umbridge was denied access to dumbledore's office, thus guaranteeing that it's round the whole school in minutes], the rest of the ghosts don't really do a massive amount to resist her regime.

on the surface, this might seem to be connected to the big deal nick makes about cooperation and bridging divides during the sorting feast when harry's kicking off about being nice to slytherins:

"Well, now, you shouldn't take that attitude," said Nick reprovingly. "Peaceful cooperation, that's the key. We ghosts, though we belong to separate Houses, maintain links of friendship."

but those of us who understand subtext properly are able to clearly identify that what nick's saying here is that while he's not going to criticise his girlfriend when she starts beef with/tortures children, he's also not going to start on those very same children in order to defend her.

he's choosing not to be involved, but in a way that allows umbridge to feel like he supports her evil and harry to feel like he can continue kicking off in lessons without receiving a supernatural smackdown, which also guarantees that umbridge remains happy to drain him of ectoplasm and nobody's writing to the minister asking for an educational decree which bans ghost/teacher relationships.

immaculate game-playing.

[seravph]

like the thing is that the only way to properly adapt Lolita without ‘romanticizing’ it is to not adapt it into a film… so like yeah say what u want about the film adaptations but they’re not ‘bad’ adaptations bc they’re not inaccurate to the book … they’re just uncomfortable. Bc the book is uncomfortable