#disco critique

[the-meme-monarch]

[zionmantis]

sneaky peek

sneaky peek

i started this project weeks ago as a collage (only showing this part) to get out some of my random sketches without taking so long to render (ha)

you can see how well that went.

experimenting with a lot of more traditional-style digital brushes like watercolors and whatnot (clip studio)

[time-woods]

hapy love day everybody!! (he dropped th flowers) (yall prob right- he did eat th flowers)

[wizardbait]

i was rewatching the first episode of season 2 so that i could read the newspaper milchick gives mark (please excuse the shitty photo of my laptop screen) and y’all…

ricken “at the center of industry is dust” hale singing lumon’s praises???? i don’t fucking think so.

[slurmpinheimer]

I commented “This is very Art Cop of you” and they blocked me lmao — also can someone enlighten me on what a cumpunk is

[koks-kino]

Chewing concrete

[take-care-of-it]

Getting real tired of some critics of Mouthwashing acting like Anya is the least fleshed out/least active character. Outside of Jimmy, she is the most active character. (and that's excluding how many of her ideas and actions directly influence Jimmy's, such as getting the extra painkillers.)

You can have your gripes and grievances abt how horror can overly rely on sexual violence in general, but I'm baffled that there seems to be some sort of consensus that there is no way you could ever do it well. That because it's overdone, no one can attempt to say something with these themes in the horror genre and it ever be meaningful. (DESPITE the fact that Mouthwashing is like, achingly aware of this. Half of the commentary in the game, the nail in the coffin, is peeling back the veneer of Jimmy's POV and assumed impartiality to show how his perception of the people around him don't fit into the boxes he's shoved them into.) That's not cope or making the game more complicated than it actually is (and even if it was, I kindly direct you to the actual definition of the concept of Death of the Author), the co-director basically says as much in an interview she did.

Also, I respect a take on Mouthwashing that claims general disinterest in seeing these themes trod out again in any context, infinitely more than one that claims the game just uncritically engages with these themes. And also takes that straight up lie about Anya as a character. Next you're going to be telling me you'd prefer if the game was about a young witch in the Alps.

[the-uncanny-dag]

Not the newbie DE fans in my recs with the fucking Harry Du Bois apologia again

[inbooyork]

Carl Gallagher: Is joining the cops “breaking the family curse” or continuing it?

Tiktok comments refer to Carl Gallagher, of the hit American spinoff series—Shameless, as the one who broke the curse. With a family of drug peddlers and users, Carl managed to create a stable career for himself. The issue is that career is that of a cop. An officer in an institution responsible for many of the going downs in his neighbourhood.

In the show, They frame his joining the force as a good thing; even celebrating his first arrest; while the Gallagher’s proclaim their family doesn’t snitch. They are adverse to authorities but celebrate when their family becomes one?

He went to jail and left with an admiration for the system that imprisoned him? So he can imprison children like him?

Hence why I believe Carl’s joining is a reinforcement of the cycle; albeit for another family. Sure he might have severed his relationship to drugs and criminals, but has he really.

Carl was a violent child. He stole, fought, took drugs and attended Juvie before turning the leaf. But I remember a YouTuber, Olay, saying mayor Eric Adams turned from one gang to a bigger one. Perhaps the same applies to Carl. He forwent illegal assault or carrying for its legal opposites. Therefore was there a change or did he switch to a legal version of what he already did?

Not to undermine the stability a career like that grants, but you can’t ignore the positions cops have in neighbourhoods like that.

It reminded me of Disco Elysium with Cuno and Harry. The fandom frames recruiting Cuno as a benefit; recruiting him to a career our protagonist despises, one where you are knowingly a lackey for an absent ruling class, and fail at maintaining stability (the hardy boys remarked on how cops had failed them over land disputes).

Hence to me, a “troubled” or poor boy joining the institution responsible for his and others instability will never be aspirational. And it reeks of military propaganda.

[knightjockey]

Please give me constructive criticism to make this art I’m making for my brother closer to the original. I’m thinking i need to rework the white closer to that off purple grey, I’m so proud of the face looking part but wish i could edit it further right and fix the “face” shape, the little octagon holes look a tad out of place.

While I’m proud of how close I’ve managed to get the painting my brother can be picky and i want this to be a good gift for him

Thanks y’all please i wont be offended if u point out what i need to fix (and if u can give me tips on how to make that happen thatd be sweet I’ve never had an art class)

And if anyone has tips for making the wispy bits around the figure thatd be cool I’m thinking thin painted line and making it wispy with a (dry or wet??) sponge brush ?

Also I’ve never played the game so please help me brain storm a funny letter to go with the gift!

Im assuming game play dialogue is like

>You receive a painting

-sell it for drug money

-thank your sister

Etc so something like that would be cool

[english-mace]

...okay which of you had 'forbes column on the efficacy of game mechanics in exploring moral complexity in 2019's Disco Elysium' on your apollo dodgeball list because,

[3diat]

New episode out! Check out as the Three detectives devise a complex system of nonsense!

Mwuahahahahahahahuħ

[effen-draws]

Can’t believe how upset I am over collage mode rn. I guess “capital subsumes all" really is fucking true.

[vanillalore]

the organ of love

just some painting practice to take my mind off my actual painting assignment

[whispering-rayn]

How does one find beta readers for fanfic?

[birdy-bird27]