#does this count as a review?

[weak-password-haver]

I've just finished beating Solar Ash

like right now... two minutes ago even.

BOOOY was it a great game!

Visuals, sounds, music, voice acting: BEAUTIFUL! STUNNING!

LOVED the story!!

Unlike in hyper-light drifter, I could actually understand it! -This is not a criticism of hyper-light drifter (which is peak), this is just me admitting to be stoopid-

Side-note why is it that all the games I've been playing deal with grief?

Anyways...

game play was

like the level design, OH MY! the level design! As soon as I got the hang of the game, I found all the secrets like they were right behind every corner!!! GOOD DESIGN AAAAAA

the time-slip mechanic was fun as hell and I think I might just yoink that for future games -TRULY dastardly, I know- but I do think it would be fun to have a suit that allows you to chain grapples between enemies...

also... I caught two typos... can't believe they'd do that to me personally

Conclusion: GO PLAY SOLAR ASH RIGHT THE FUCK NOW!

[tectco]

Some forehead kisses and a couple redraws for season four!

[oatmealcrisp-freak]

more phanart for more phanfic that ive recently read and enjoyed quq I Do Not Trust the World With You by @too-much-tma-stuff is a very interesting fun-to-me romp through action scenes and boundaries and ghost culture and this is one of my fave scenes from it

presenting your BF with the decapitated head of his killer is peak romance okay

author, tysm for sharing your work w/us!!!

halftone, gradient, blood spatter

Jason's flowery BG is from ibispaintx. City BG is also traced/referenced from ibispaintx bg stock :3

[originalartblog]

Tumblr Year in Review (knockoff edition because they didn't do it this year and I still want to track my stuff)

I posted 251 times in 2023

That's 141 more posts than 2022!

My Top Posts in 2023:

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[occidentaltourist]

bbc: Some sweet #Silvacre content for your FYP ❤️

[agonizingdespair]

Just came back from a completely blind viewing of Venom 3. Not going to spoil anything (like at all, even which characters were the villains because I have no idea what things were in the trailers as I didn't see them) but as a near lifelong Venom fan this was so good! I actually felt a bit emotional at the end. I was also the only one who stayed long enough to see the final post credits scene, which felt cool.

I liked how they adapted the villains in this one, which is an improvement from the previous two. Riot was a blank slate who looked enough like Venom to be a physical mirror so that they could play out the "villain having the heroes exact powers in a superhero movie" trope, and Carnage was hindered by the lack of an R rating, and being a bit ooc in general especially in regards to Cletus not being very close to his own symbiote, when in the comics those two are closer than any other symbiote host combo which is part of why they are so dangerous. As well as the fact that he just died unceremoniously in a way he wouldn't come back from, when, as essentially a slasher movie villain with a symbiote, he should've been allowed to survive.

But enough about the previous movies, point is they made the antagonists work this time in a really clever way, taking previously unrelated concepts and syncretizing aspects to better adapt those ideas in a way that wasn't disappointing to me as a comics fan.

I will say that there is a bit less explicit symbrock content than some might've been hoping for. There's subtle signs of it but I might not be the best at detecting that, actually.

To end on a positive note, the soundtrack slaps as always with these movies.

[tinkerbitch69]

Just watched Abigail and it’s kind of a sleeper hit. At least for me. The movie manages to combine the best kinds of suspense you get in both horror and heist films and even manages to flesh out a surprisingly likeable main cast to get munched on. Seriously builds a great atmosphere of paranoia, suspicion and mistrust all through the film. If it sounds like you’re thing I’d highly recommend checking it out. Was not expecting it to have such a good time and I’ll sing this film’s praise if no one else will lol.

[alwri-tes]

Hi so I decided to read @inkcurlsandknives book Saints of Storm and Sorrow and I'm seriously not okay.

The premise of this book intrigued me immensely, and when I eagerly started reading it, I kept a notebook next to me so I could write down any quotes that stood out to me or thoughts I had along the way. But this notebook was quickly forgotten as I was completely swept up in this book, and my desire to know what happens next? While reading, I had to fight from stimming, gasping, and otherwise loudly reacting in public. When I continued reading in private, tears started dripping from my eyes at some point around the climax, from a combination of emotion and the fact that I had been so desperate to keep reading that I had strained my eyes until they watered.

This book is incredible. It is gorgeously, evocatively written in a way that inspires me to add even more detail into my own writing. The world created in this book is heavily drawn from our own, and is as deep as the ocean itself. Saints is also unafraid to dive into the darkest depths of humanity, and explore the complexities of pain. Seriously, I can’t state enough how morally gray everything and everyone is, making for a wildly compelling and thought-provoking cast. If anyone wants to gush about this book more in depth, I’d be happy to.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Mirrored Heavens

conclusion to a high fantasy trilogy set in a world inspired by pre-colonial america

Serapio, the newly crowned Carrion King, rules Tova, and tries to keep his power as enemies try to destroy him

Xiala is back among her people on the island of Teek - tries to learn about her newfound powers, and survive the violent occupation of her people

Naranpa is on a journey to control her Sun God powers to save Tova, while Iktan searches for her

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

John: *is trying to think of an anime to watch with his friends*

Kanaya: Are There Any Anime With Vampires In Them?

John: vampires? oh yeah kanaya! hundreds!

Kanaya: Hundreds You Say?

John: oh yeah, japan loves their vampire lore! you know, that’s actually a pretty good-

Kanaya: I Must Go And Dive Into This Wonderful New World At Once! 

Kanaya: *Leaves*

John: aaaaand she’s gone.

[riddlerosehearts]

gelphie and wicked constantly trending on this site is INSANE because that's exactly what i dreamed of ever since it was announced that we were getting a movie, which was so long ago that i wasn't even on tumblr yet (movie was announced in 2012 and i joined in 2013). back then i thought it probably wouldn't even be all that good but i just hoped that people who were unfamiliar with the stage musical would like the movie enough to make gelphie a bit more popular, and look where we are now!! i hope next we can make gelphie hit the top 10 ships in 2025's year in review. it probably won't happen but it's what they deserve.

[psychesscribblings]

hi im reading the transcripts of The Magnus Archives rn and im gonna use this post as my ratings/reviews

1. The Anglerfish - 10/10

This definitely may change as I read more, but it was such a lovely first read, and SO creepy and disturbing. Loved it.

[theshakespearetrash]

20, 38

20. favorite lyric(s)

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The words that come out don't say what's on my mind

"What I'm feeling, I just can't express

... I try not to spend all night Overthinking what was said As the words spin in my head Yeah, I try with all my might To get my sentences just right So I say just what I meant But it gets all fucked up instead It's like words are broken again

... Sounded better in my head."

-- "Broken Words" by Less Than Jake

38. favorite quote(s)

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"It's hard to look up when you're always looking in. Makes you feel small, and then it's just easier to look down, isn't it?" - from Matteo by Michael Leali

"He tasted these strange victories that left him empty and wishing for nothing more than endless sleep, like the last man on a battlefield where even the blades of grass were dead." &

"Every breath was a labour now, because he was afraid of the silence. He was too afraid even to feel contempt for himself." &

"...she said, without looking up, I hate the world you live in. He had wanted to say, it's your world, also, but...I live in the parts you don't want to see. I live there for you." - from Love and Longing in Bombay by Vikram Chandra

"I'm monstrous, he thought, not this and not that." & "He was small and nondescript, a man who had spent a lifetime effacing himself." - from Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra

[nimwenthevampire]

Nosferatu 2024 Review From A Real Vampire

I feel like I did not get what I was promised with this movie. The tagline is "Succumb to the darkness" and YET the vampire dies at the end? Frankly, if the movie were actually committed to succumbing to the darkness, Count Orvock would have WON and killed everyone in the town. I'm not sure how the plague is even relevent considering the vampire there. Surely he could just drink all their mortal blood by himself? Did the rats even serve a purpose except to be ~scary~? Rats aren't even scary.

And speaking of scary, I am horrified by how gross the vampire was. Literally the point of vampires is to be hot and sexy and drink pathetic mortal blood, so why was this UGGO what we got? I'm so fucking offended. This is an insult to vampires. We are not uggos.

That being said, there wasn't enough of him. There was way too much focus on the human characters and their petty little problems. Mortal problems could never live up to the complexity of a vampire's twisted mind. What a waste.

2/10 - the aesthetics were cool and everything but Count Orgock was ugly and the movie spent way too much time focusing on things that weren't him.

[keelanrosa]

terfs when a study shows literally anything positive about trans people/transitioning: 'hm i think this requires some fact-checking. Were those researchers REALLY unbiased? Because if they were biased this doesn't count and if they weren't knowingly biased they probably were unconsciously biased, woke media affects so much these days. Have there been any other studies on this? Because if there haven't been this could be an outlier and if there have been and they all agree that's a bit odd, why aren't there any outliers, and if there have been and any disagree we really won't know the truth until we very thoroughly analyze them all, will we? Were there enough subjects for a good sample size? Did every single subject involved stay involved through the whole study because if they didn't we should be sure nothing shady was going on resulting in people dropping out. Are we 110% sure all the subjects were fully honest and at no point were embarrassed or afraid to admit they didn't love transitioning to the people in charge of their transition? Are we 110% sure none of the subjects were manipulated into thinking they were happy with their transition? In fact we should double-check what they think with their parents, because if the subjects and their parents disagree it's probably because they've been manipulated but their cis parents have not and are very unbiased. How many autistic subjects were there because if there weren't enough then this doesn't really study the overlap between autistic and trans and if there were too many then we just don't know enough about what causes that overlap to be sure this study really explains being trans and isn't just about being autistic. How many AFAB subjects were there because if there weren't enough this is just another example of prioritizing AMAB people and ignoring the different struggles of girls and women and if there were too many how do we know sexism didn't affect the results. Was the study double-blinded? We all know double-blinded is the most reliable so if this one wasn't that's a point against it even if the thesis literally physically could not be double-blinded. Look i'm not being transphobic, i want what's best for trans people! Really! But as a person who is not trans and therefore objective in a way they cannot possibly be, i just think we should only take into account Good Science here. You want to be following science and not being manipulated or experimented upon by something unscientific, right?'

terfs when they see a study of 45 subjects so old it predates modern criteria for gender dysphoria and basically uses 'idk her parents think she's too butch', run by a guy who practiced conversion therapy, 'confirmed' by a guy who treated the significant portion of subjects who didn't follow up as all desisting, definitely in the category of 'physically cannot double-blind this', completely contradicted by multiple other studies done on actual transgender subjects, but can be kinda cited as evidence against transitioning if you ignore everything else about it: 'oOOH SEE THIS IS WHAT WE'RE TALKIN BOUT. SCIENCE. Just good ol' unbiased thorough analysis. I see absolutely no reason to dig any deeper on this and if you think it's wrong you're the one being unscientific. It's really a shame you've been so thoroughly brainwashed by the trans agenda and can't even accept science when you see it. Maybe now that someone has finally uncovered this long-lost study from 1985, we can make some actual progress on the whole trans problem.'

[vampiredungeon]

Finally stopped procrastinating and made a letterboxd account and am now going through the painstaking process of trying to remember every movie I’ve ever seen before to mark it as watched