#gerard eilander

[labyrinth-guard]

Insert witty joke about anthropomorphic animal games here

[escapetothelake]

rusty lake: paradise spoilers!!!

[pelyach]

wip mr. boar keychain <33

[rustylakeappreciation]

Eilander & Paradise Appreciation Month Starts MAY 1ST!!

May 2024 is Eilander/Paradise Appreciation Month! The prompt list is dropping tomorrow, April 21st at 5:00 PM EST. Feel free to check out my blog or hit up my ask box if you have questions!!

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Cheers, and I hope to see you there!

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[lordboomslang]

Can we talk about how in Rusty Lake Hotel, Mr. Owl invites Mr. Deer, Mr. Boar, Ms. Pheasant, Mr. Rabbit, and Mrs. Pigeon to the hotel and has them systematically murdered to eat.

And then in Rusty Lake Paradise, we find out that Jakob Eilander, who is ritualistically murdered by his family, is Mr. Owl.

We also find out that his father is Mr. Deer, his brother David is Mr. Rabbit, his sister Elizabeth is Ms. Pheasant, his uncle Gerard is Mr. Boar, and is grandmother Margaret is Mrs. Pigeon.

Interesting that those are the people he chose to murder, eat, and keep their skulls as trophies.

[soline70]

This is lit the coolest art I've ever seen

Guests

[pattonvirglsanders]

This idea came to me while I was half asleep lmao

[clemisnotanorange]

i actually fucking love Rusty Lake Paradise, like everything eventually makes so much sense and connects with each other and all the metaphors and stuff

tws for character death and religion(?) and spoilers for Rusty Lake: Paradise, Cube Escape: Samasara Room, and Rusty Lake: Roots below read more

if i need to tag anything else just let me know

like how people continue their behaviour even after they’re given a second chance

and how Jakob helps his family despite the fact that they tried to sacrifice him a few years ago, and they ended sacrificing him to the lake for immortality anyways

and just the whole concept of an island who messed up really badly was striken with the 10 plagues. i just love religious themes in general though so that might just be me

it’s quite obvious through out the game that no one except for Elizabeth actually learns from their mistakes, gerard continuing to eat despite the fact that he literally died and came back to life after eating diseased meat, Nicholas who continued to search for immortality after his wife died and the lake cursed him for it, and David who became a fly creature after being a cocky bitch, and continued to be a cocky bitch. even Jakob, who doesn’t learn from his previous mistake and falls right into the trap his family set to kill him

the fact that the island is name “Paradise” obviously shows that it may have been paradise before when Caroline was still around, but now that she’s dead makes the name a paradox, since 10 plagues can’t possibly be paradise

how the lake is sentient and essentially is a god, requiring memories to sustain itself and feeding on people, turning them into corrupted souls and making them immortal, but likely in constant pain.

how some people were lucky enough to get the formula and achieve immortality, like the Eilander family, but others like William Vanderboom were trapped as a corrupted soul (before he got Rose to resurrect him)

down to the fact that the last name Eilander literally means “Islander” in dutch and they live on an island

i love the funny little horror puzzle game so much

[callmegaith]

Do we know who the animals in hotel are past mr rabbit? Also which one (except for mr rabbit) is your favourite? (feel free to elaborate!)

Yeah, they are the Eilanders reincarnated/Reborn.

Mr. Rabbit > David

Pheasant > Elizabeth

Boar > Gerard

Deer > Nicholas

Pigeon > Margert

basically, the ones who wore the masks in Paradise are their assigned animal in Hotel

I like Elizabeth/Pheasant. She, like David and Jakob is just a product of the cultist life she was born into. A victim of it. I like her for the same reasons I like Jakob and David. They are doomed by the narrative. But also because she's a cool goth chick and I think they massacred her redesign as lady of the lake. GIRL IS SO BADASS THO!

[seagullcharmer]

rusty lake posting (again)

this is really just a little thing but i keep thinking abt it. i've seen people talk abt how horrible nicholas is (he is!) but thru the lens of his marriage to caroline and how he's completely grey by the time david is born ('ewwww he must be soooo old!') and while i do believe he's older than caroline, i don't think it's as awful as people make it out to be. sure, we don't know for certain the age difference between him and caroline, nor between him and gerard, or his age in general really, but i do believe he went prematurely grey. this is entirely because when we see david (canonically somewhere between 15-17, due to him being Very Small in the family portrait where jakob says 'my family, 15 years ago' or whatever) without his hat, guess what! his hair's turning grey!

idk if i had a point with this. i just like thinking abt the eilanders.

[escapetothelake]

RUSTY LAKE + NAME MEANINGS └ the eilander family

[pelyach]

this bro literally is 🐗

[rustylakeappreciation]

Rusty Lake Appreciation presents...

Eilander & Paradise Month (May '24)

(Please tag all posts with #rustylakeappreciation and #eilandermonth2024, and please be sure to spell them as i have spelled them). feel free to @ me on your posts.

Week 1 — Younger Generation Week

May 1-2: Jakob "Day"

May 3-4: Elizabeth "Day"

May 5-6: David "Day"

May 7: Eilander Children Day (all three siblings)

Week 2 — Older Generation Week

May 8-9: Caroline "Day"

May 10-11: Nicholas "Day"

May 12-13: Gerard "Day"

May 14-15: Margaret "Day"

Week 3 — Plague Week

May 16: Plague One — Water turns to blood

May 17: Plague Two — Frogs

May 18: Plague Three — Gnats & Lice

May 19: Plague Four — Flies

May 20: Plague Five — Diseased Livestock

May 21: Plague Six — Boils

May 22: Plague Seven — Hail

Week 4 — Plagues Cont. and Misc Week

May 23: Plague Eight — Locusts

May 24: Plague Nine — Darkness

May 25: Plague Ten — Death of the firstborn

May 26: Favorite Eilander

May 27: Favorite Quote

May 28-29: Favorite Moment

May 30-31: AU idea

[utter-queer-nightmare]

I kept getting confused keeping the Rusty Lake time line in my head, so I've written it down. All dates were taken from Rusty Lake Wiki, and all facts were taken from the games, except for a few leaps in logic implied by the games or developers.

1796 - JACOB EILANDER returns to his childhood home after being told that his mother, CAROLINE, is dead and his home is cursed. While undoing the curse, he finds his mother's memories of his own childhood. From being raised as a sacrifice, to his mother saving him by taking his place. He realises that the Lake rejected the sacrifice of his mother, and responded by cursing the rest of the family instead of enlightening them. JACOB learns that the only way to truly undo the curse is for him to be sacrificed, the way it was originally planned. Just before being sacrificed, JACOB finds CAROLINE's research on the Elixir of Life and Death. Once the family sacrifices JACOB, his soul merges with CAROLINE's, and they become MR OWL. With the sacrifice accepted, the EILANDERS become enlightened. DAVID, the father, becomes MR DEER. GERARD, the uncle, becomes MR BOAR. MARGARET, the grandmother, becomes MRS PIGEON. ELIZABETH, the sister, becomes MS PHEASANT. DAVID, the brother, becomes MR RABBIT.

1859: Winter - ALDOUS and WILLIAM VANDERBOOM find CAROLINE's research on the Elixir and make it together. WILLIAM drinks it first and dies, becoming a Corrupted Soul. ALDOUS then drinks it, becoming MR CROW.

1860: Spring - JAMES VANDERBOOM inherits and moves into his ancestral home after his uncle WILLIAM dies. He plants a tree seed in the garden and brings his dog.

1860: Summer - WILLIAM's Corrupted Soul begins collecting sacrifices in order to be reborn, starting with his own heart after finding his corpse in an old clock.

1865: Summer - JAMES meets and proposes to MARY.

1867: Spring - MARY gives birth to ALBERT, EMMA and SAMUEL. ALBERT is born with a birthmark covering most of his face.

1870: Summer - JAMES finds ALDOUS and WILLIAM's research on the Elixir, and makes it himself. He feeds it to his dog to check if it's safe, then drinks it himself. This kills him. At the wake, WILLIAM removes JAMES' tounge as the 2nd sacrifice.

1876: Spring - While playing in the garden, SAMUEL knocks a beehive onto ALBERT's head, leaving him with significant facial scarring. MR CROW watches this happen, then directly addresses WILLIAM, telling him the children's lives would be miserable but important.

1884: Spring - While painting in the garden, EMMA is impregnated by a flower, and later gives birth to FRANK.

1885: Spring - ALBERT begins wearing masks, and performs his first sacrifice to the Lake, a butterfly from his youth.

1888 - VINCENT VAN GOGH kills himself via gun to the head, becoming a Corrupted Soul before finding peace.

1889: Spring - SAMUEL fixes the family clock, which broke when WILLIAM's corpse fell out of it.

1889: Summer - The fortune teller IDA visits the house, giving predictions of the family's future.

1891: Autumn - While playing in the garden, ALBERT pushes FRANK into the empty well. EMMA, unable to find FRANK, attaches a letter to her parrot HARVEY's neck, hoping he will find FRANK.

1893 - MR OWL invites the EILANDER family to the Rusty Lake Hotel, turning HARVEY human to kill them as sacrifices to the Lake. Once HARVEY successfully completes this task, MR OWL shows him the Corrupted Souls they've become, and gives him a vision of the future.

1894 - The Corrupted Souls of the EILANDER family escape the Rusty Lake Hotel, attacking HARVEY in the process. MR OWL turns HARVEY back into a parrot to save him.

1895: Winter - IDA and SAMUEL get married and take a photo with all their present family, including their son, LEONARD.

1896: Summer - Overcome with grief, EMMA paints herself as a corpse before committing suicide. WILLIAM collects her tears as the 3rd sacrifice.

1896: Winter - While playing the lying game, ALBERT reveals that he is in love with IDA.

1904: Summer - While playing in a family band, ALBERT kidnaps SAMUEL and IDA, giving MARY a heart attack and leaving LEONARD scared and alone. WILLIAM takes MARY's teeth as the 4th sacrifice. ALBERT uses voodoo to kill SAMUEL and IDA, removing their eyes, which WILLIAM takes as the 5th and 6th sacrifices.

1909: Summer - Using his own sperm and an egg he took from IDA, ALBERT creates a child, ROSE.

1914: Spring - LEONARD leaves home to fight in WW1.

1918: Winter - LEONARD is caught in an explosion, causing his leg to be amputated and leaving him with PTSD. WILLIAM takes the amputated foot as the 7th sacrifice.

1919: Autumn - ROSE gets in contact with WILLIAM through a Ouiji board. He tells her that he wants to live again, and needs 10 sacrifices and three timepieces. She agrees to help him.

1924: Autumn - ROSE finds FRANK in the well, gives him food, water and a walking stick, and helps him climb out.

1926: Autumn - FRANK and ALBERT play an emotional game of chess that ends with FRANK killing ALBERT and cutting his head open. WILLIAM takes ALBERT's brain as the 8th sacrifice.

1927: Winter - FRANK washes and cuts the hair and beard he grew during his years in the well. WILLIAM takes the hair as the 9th sacrifice.

1929: Autumn - LEONARD finds the first timepiece, buried near the family tree.

1930: Winter - HARVEY finally finds FRANK and delivers EMMA's letter. In it, FRANK finds instructions to finding the second timepiece. Far away, DALE VANDAMERE is born.

1931: ROBERT HILL is born

1932: Autumn - ROSE spends a night in the family graveyard, digging up her family's graves to find the third timepiece.

1933: Spring - FRANK and ROSE dance together, and ROSE pricks her finger on the grammaphone. WILLIAM takes her blood as the 10th sacrifice.

1935: Spring - ROSE, LEONARD and FRANK meet at the roots of the family tree. They use the timepieces to enter the resurrection room. The sacrifices are absorbed by the roots and WILLIAM is reborn as LAURA, ROSE's daughter.

1939: Winter - DALE's family is murdered by MR RABBIT's Corrupted Soul on his 9th birthday.

1964: Spring - LAURA's mental health begins to deteriorate as she is assaulted by memories from her past life. This worsens when she attempts to cook and eat an egg from her pet parrot, HARVEY.

1969 - LAURA breaks up with her boyfriend, ROBERT, because of her worsening mental health, and visits Rusty Lake in an attempt to get better. Soon after arriving, HARVEY is attacked by a Corrupted Soul, but he fights it off. LAURA is also attacked by a Corrupted Soul at the Lake, but survives and goes home.

1971: Summer - LAURA continues to get worse, having visions of the lake and of her own suicide.

1971: Autumn - LAURA kills herself, unable to endure her memories and visions. DALE begins investigating LAURA's death. MR CROW takes LAURA's body and begins extracting her memories to feed to the Lake. This process turns LAURA into a Corrupted Soul and she escapes.

1972: Summer - DALE obsessively researches Rusty Lake and LAURA. He takes ROBERT in for questioning, but he becomes a Corrupted Soul. DALE faints and wakes up in a Chapel at the edge of the Lake. MR CROW takes him to the cabin LAURA stayed at in 1969. He is attacked by a Corrupted Soul, but escapes via an elevator into the Lake. Inside the Lake, he sees his past memories, and is able to go back in time and enter them. In this way, he prevents his family's murders by knowing what would happen and giving his grandfather a gun to shoot MR RABBIT before he can kill the family. He also goes back to the night he met and arrested ROBERT.

1972: Autumn - ROBERT wakes up in a mental health facility with no memories. He has dreams of his breakup with LAURA, of being fired shortly after, and of learning LAURA was dead. He begins to act out, and is sedated. He dreams of his own suicide attempt, the night he was arrested. He becomes a Corrupted Soul, and remembers checking himself into the facility. Now that he has his memories back, he stops being a Corrupted Soul. That night, he dreams of the day he met LAURA.

1972: Winter - MR CROW and MR OWL travel through the Lake, collecting memory cubes. They eventually find the golden cube and give it to DALE, who takes the elevator to exit the Lake. DALE wakes up in a room he doesn't recognise with no memories. He makes and drinks the immortality Elixir, and escapes safely with his memories.

1981: Winter - LAURA's Corrupted Soul manages to go back in time, in an effort to prevent her own suicide.

Please let me know if I've got anything wrong!

[peterpijls1965]

João Guimarães Rosa bereist de Braziliaanse sertão, 1952.

ARBITRAIR LIJSTJE MET BESTE BOEKEN

V.S. Naipaul – Het raadsel van de aankomst.

Michel Houellebecq – Mogelijkheid van een eiland.

Heinrich Boll – Wiedersehn mit Drung/Lohengrins Tod/Damals in Odessa.

Lev Tolstoi – Verhalen.

Gerard Reve – De Ondergang van de familie Boslowitz/Werther Nieland.

Kostantin Paustovski – Verhaal van een leven.

Isaac Babel – Rode ruiterij.

Graciliano Ramos – Dorre levens.

João Guimarães Rosa – Diepe wildernis, de wegen.

Louis Ferdinand Celine – Reis naar het einde van de nacht.

Gustave Flaubert – Salammbo.

Lord Byron – Brieven en dagboeken.

John Fante – Wait until spring, Bandini.

John Cheever – Verscheurde stilte.

Jan Hanlo – Zonder geluk valt niemand van het dak.

Louis-Paul Boon - De voorstad groeit.

Gao Xingjian - Berg van de ziel.

Junichiro Tanizaki - Kinderjaren.

J.M. Coetzee - Wachten op de barbaren.

Theresia van Avila - Innerlijke burcht.

Kristien Hemmerechts - Taal zonder mij.

Antjie Krog - Relaas van een moord.

Etty Hillesum - Het verstoorde leven.

Franz Kafka - Het proces.

Thoman Mann - Dagboeken.

Knut Hamsun - Langs overwoekerde paden.

Nicolas Gogol - Dode zielen.

Gunther de Bruyn - Veertig jaar.

Fernando Pessoa - Het boek der rusteloosheid.

Hugo Claus - De Metsiers.

Tonke Dragt - De torens van februari.

Douglas Coupland - Generation X.

Tip Marugg - De morgen loeit weer aan.

[cubecrack]

Paradise: attacked by locusts

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