#go-go-devil

[silenthillmutual]

TRICK OR TREAT! 👻

you get: annihilation by jeff vandermeer! im hoping to read this soon :)

[rathologic]

1, 3, and 10 for the pathologic classic asks 🐀

1: favorite main character? ARTEMY PATHO1 no question about it. I know 2 wanted to create a choice for him about being able to assimilate into the Town, but the mission "what is my life worth if I don't take my father's inheritance" is so much more compelling to me... he IS worth nothing to the town and hated or disregarded until he takes the position of Warden, and the impossibility of doing that in the face of plague and the foreman and a route all about alienation from the major NPCs makes him reckless in a way that works ideally for a video game playable character. "why do you risk your life standing here before me? / because I don't value it" but through the magic of reloading saves he makes it through... the play about the "orphan-winner" as that one little boy npc calls it... and his explicit not minding being controlled by other forces encompassing not only the player, but justifying to the player the reliance on clara's miracle that you're required on day 11 to choose. there's kind of a closeness in the player's partnership with him that the other healers don't get. aglaya picks up on this as well :-)

3: dumbest way you've died so far? not a "death" so much as it was a "sent artemy to turbohell forever" but it was absolutely the time the patho2 alpha decided the ground did not have collision and caused him to fall into the void upon waking up and exiting his lair. mother boddho resigned

10: what about the game brings you the most comfort? WELL... comfort and enjoyment are very different things I'll say the part that makes me feel the most comforted is just logging into p1. walking out onto a street in the "morning" time period and hearing the little bird sound effects and utroba_main.ogg and seeing townsfolk slouching towards places & the faint patches of blue sky & knowing some of the most intricate dialogue in the world is out there to be interacted with & getting punched to death immediately. that's the pathy experience to make me smile

[ducktracy]

sharing a very sage bit of advice from The Simpsons' own John Swartzwelder that i've been trying to hamper down in my writing and drawing alike. let your inner crappy little elf do his worst

[hinamie]

trick or treat!

[gossippool]

*steeples hands under my chin like i'm sherlock* so you see,

[fascinationstreetmp3]

ARMAND and DANIEL + 😎

[lazylittledragon]

at the friday panel andrew wincott said raphael and astarion should go on holiday together and i can’t stop thinking about it

[if-i-look-straight-look-again]

Daniel Molloy, 70 year old baby vampire: you know what would piss off both Louis and Armand and be very funny simultaneously?

Lestat de Lioncourt, queen of drama and biggest bitch in any room he walks into: what?

Daniel: if you and I fucked.

Lestat:

Lestat: tell me more.

[cherierer]

i think lil nas x continuously doing blasphemy to christianity is really funny and correct actually he should do it more

[sarcastic-clapping]

“sad day for devil’s minion enjoyers” girl WHAT? armand turned that old man. he sucked him silly. do you really think nothing else went down or was said in that penthouse? on the unreliable narrator show where they love to breadcrumb pieces until you get the full truth? hello? i’m popping BOTTLES

[silenthillmutual]

What’s your favorite and least favorite tropes in fan fiction (broadly speaking, but you can go for specific fandoms too if you wish)

fave:

epistolary & other uniqe format/framing (stories told through text messages, letters, comment threads, etc etc i find enjoyable bc you dont get to know more about the story than the characters do)

slow burn (horror and romance both work best as slow burns imo)

missing scene

achronological (my favorite to write, actually)

character study / introspective (my favorite to both write & read)

platonic relationships & platonic soulmates (not to be aro on main but i would love to see more fics exploring how characters interact with each other outside of romantic contexts)

hurt/comfort (sometimes i like to write hurt/no comfort, whump, and major character death, but i don't tend to read them)

least fave:

love triangles (i often find these aren't written with the kind of will-they-wont-they i find interesting and usually are just kind of flat)

refusal to communicate (miscommunication can be funny but when two characters flat out refuse to communicate i just find it irritating. i get enough of that in real life.)

crack (to each their own but it's rarely funny to me)

high school aus (i'm in my 30s i do not want to revisit the nightmare that was high school. put those guys in a community college.)

cisswaps (always seems to be men getting cisswaped so people can avoid talking about the canon women. i'd be way more interested in trans hcs/aus/etc)

i've also been getting more into ocs lately :)

[erebus0dora]

let's just say that's one of the things i would like to see one day, but so far i just had to get it out of my head

(i caught a cold, i can't do complex stuff)

[wishfulsketching]

The monsters are out and proud

[obiwhat]

continuing the armand-eats-cigarettes discourse. for no reason. besides that he would.

[sylvies-chen]

I’ve been seeing that couples paint each other challenge where couples will spend a night in with a canvas and some cheap paints and give each other 30 minutes to try and paint each other, and now I can’t stop thinking about armandaniel doing that one night and armand’s is yeah it’s good okay like it’s not great because of the whole vampire art struggles but he was around renaissance painters for a long time so he does a pretty good job of getting daniel’s minute features and shading and whatnot but daniel’s is just. lord it’s so bad. it’s like the most primal kindergarten painting you’ve ever seen but dammit all the right ingredients are there!! he got the orange eyes and the curls and he very proudly points out that he gave armand a little ipad in his painting like his fake rashid era which he cracks himself up with but he looks over and armand is in tears because not only is he looking at the first painting of himself in over 400 years but he’s also looking at the most non sexual artistic interpretation of him he’s ever seen. like it’s just. him. he’s just existing. he’s there. on the canvas. with literally no background. not a meadow or even a grassline or anything. all this blank white liminal space around his (horrendously drawn) likeness as if nothing else is needed. no body contortions, eyes too one dimensional to even hold all his pain. daniel is just kind of chuckling and bashfully being all “ah fuck it’s pretty bad isn’t it I mean there’s a reason I stick to words, I drew your nose all lopsided on that one side and—” cut to armand literally welling up and whispering like “no. it’s beautiful.” daniel doesn’t get it. this is a liberation.