#hes just croissants

[gunnslaughter]

Chief make a pastry beast like full free reign on sourcing for inspo on it

I just enjoy being normal, so much

[a2zillustration]

Tragically the in-game tone for this scene was way more serious, Gale got SO UPSET and I felt SO BAD. I hope he doesn't hold it against Croissant.

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[pastasilly]

maybe kissing frogs isn’t so bad..

[isuggestwishcraft]

WERE BACK TO CROISSANTS DILEMMA

[finifugue]

u can always tell if a landoscar fic writer is american bc they'll say "omg oscar loves how lando pronounces his name like 'os-cuh'" as if that isn't the bog-standard way of pronouncing it

[slimey-wallz]

What if Melly was more. . .grown up?

Aw man, teeth are so fun to draw 💕

[roughentumble]

logan moves in with wade and althea and instead of getting better his nightmares start getting worse. to distract himself, he stays awake, gets up and putters around the apartment quietly, slowly taking up a habit to fill his twilight hours-- midnight baking

[lupins-hehim-pussy]

I wanna know ur Fontaine msq criticisms 👁️👁️👂I’m all ears

I'm not sure if you wanted me to talk about this secretly or publicly but! Here I go!

The TLDR: Fontaine MSQ aestheticised prison, poverty, child abuse, the justice system/court and didn't properly address any of it.

More:

Focalors/Furina has way too much of a sympathetic angle for a dictator who's lets people drown with her inaction.

Neuvillette feels Bad for sentencing some people to death/prison, but that's it. He's one of the most powerful people in Fontaine. If he felt like there are systemic injustices, I.E sending an abused Child to prison, he should be the first person to DO something about it, not just cry and be sad so the audience can be like aw, that's complex character writing isn't it? No it's not! And guilt doesn't absolve you!!!!!!! (These are stuff we deal with in OTCOJ read my fic now /j)

Meropide has children in it, both Sentenced there (Wriothesley) and BORN THERE (Lanoire), and this is just a quirk of the place. Not only that, Meropide accepts prisoners of all genders and crimes. There are abusers and abuse victims in one place. Do you know how bad that is? How much potential for crimes to happen in a place like that— oh wait, Meropide isn't under Fontaine's jurisdiction. If you are assaulted as an inmate it literally means nothing to the court.

Wriothesley had no qualifications when he took over. Depending on how long he lived on the streets, how old he was when he killed his parents, how old he was when he was first taken in by the orphanage, etc, the man might never have more than 4–5 years of formal education. Sigewinne probably had to teach him how to write reports. And do Meropide's spreadsheets. Edit because I forgot to elaborate on this one: This isn't a point brought up anywhere, which is bad, because when poverty and incarceration robs you of a proper education (and the rights to vote in many places too, too, by the way), it reduces your prospects for jobs, reduces many people's ability to get a home etc etc. Wriothesley was just, narratively, Given his position.

Meropide is an industrialized prison, and they portray this as a good thing. Prisoners are paid in coupons for their labour, and this is also portrayed as a good thing.

The One-Meal-A-Day reform was something Paimon gushed about being so great of a perk, that people might want to go to jail for food (could be interesting and reflective of systemic poverty if MHY had brains, but they don't, so I was just Pissed because essentially all Paimon wanted to say was "Prison isn't so bad, but still don't go to prison guys! Prison labour is really hard!"). By the way, in most real-world prisons they are obligated to feed you three meals a day. Because that's how much food a human needs. MHY went with one meal just so they can say "if you want to eat more, you have to work." And then the welfare meal is a goddamn gacha. So imagine you're a starving child who's too weak to work in the fucking robot assembly line, and you wander up for your first meal in 24 hours, only to luck in with a shit one. I'd kill myself.

They wrote Wriothesley, who's a victim of the system, into a guy who's say shit like "I'm the Duke I can do whatever I want" for a cool moment where he choke-slams an inmate (I know he was a bad guy. But also, in copaganda when cops are violent/disregarding protocols, they are always only portrayed to do that against bad guys, so what does our critical thinking tells us about this one?) They wrote Wriothesley, who was an inmate of a prison so bad, so notorious that it is the literal boogeyman of Fontaine, that has a legal (???) fighting pit, with an administrator who abuses his position to be unreasonable, to willingly stay in the place and become an Administrator who would choke-slam an inmate while saying a cool line about how he has the power to do whatever he wants. They wrote him, the guy who had to be fed on the streets by melusines, to think one-meal-a-day was a good enough reform (while he spends god-knows how much on his boat). This wasn't a victim-turns-into-abuser narrative either, they want all this to be seen as positive character growth.

And then, the final kicker is, they gloss over his entire abuse. You can only read about these shit in his profile, which most people don't because they don't Have Him or doesn't care to unlock it/read it online, and they jammed his entire backstory into a flaccid info-dump at the end of his character story quest. This man isn't Allowed to feel abused and neglected and show any reaction to it within the narrative of Fontaine itself, because if they actually Gave Weight to what happened to him, they'd have to confront THE FUCKING JUSTICE SYSTEM they had NO PLANS on criticising. I don't think they ever explicitly said the fucking Crime-Theatre nonsense was Bad either.

I could go on, but this is already so long. But yeah, I hope this gave you an idea.

[r-aindr0p]

Pardon the spam reblogging just now, i tend to go ham by accident because I'm easily excited and also distractible. I love your art but i tend to get lost in most of my social media existences so i couldn't find it. I was struck with the need to see your art again because it is amazing and good and it makes me so happy cause they are shaped like friends and they're lovely and i want hug them all. I couldn't remember what your blog name was tho cause i follow too many people because there's so much talent everywhere and i do not have enough eyes or time for them all and my memory is bad. So i took forever to look and now i am binging. I no not the word but it's basically momentarily fixating and ravenously going through media.

Also saw this tiktok and thought it'd be a funny dynamic for your blorbos/ faves (I'm not sure which but i thought it was funny and also cause the mess up matches the characters chosen for the audio)

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8XWTuGw/

Aww I'm happy you feel that way about the lil' guys I scribble I've been having a lot of fun drawing lately ! thanks ! And lmao that audio is so dumb(positive) like, so dumb it only felt like a Crowley thing to do.

The headmaster requests your help once again with problems that he created. You complain but still begrudgingly accept. He clears his throat, trying to look as credible and serious as he can and :

[iamsweden]

WOW COOL GLAD I BEAT THE KING AND OUR FUN ADVENTURE IS OVER NOW AND EVERYTHING CAN BACK TO NOR--

Very good question, Sif! Why are we back?

I'm so invested in this story now. (As if I wasn't already.) But I'm so excited to see where this goes. My working theory so far is that Sif is definitely from this country whose whole existence everyone forgot, and that's why his memory is so faulty too. But I think the loops themselves started literally right before the game began with that opening cutscene where Siffrin eats the star (very Howl's Moving Castle of him). Did he make a deal and promptly forget about it? Or is any of this real?

There was a chat with Loop where they said they don't care about any other characters in a sort of fourth wall breaking way, as if viewing them just as mindless characters. What if maybe they kind of are? At least in the grand scheme of things?

I don't know. My roommate is playing this now too, but he went and read the story breakdown before hand and said it's not nearly as convoluted as I'm making it out to be. BUT, I'm still holding out home it's going to be a little convoluted. As a treat.

[a2zillustration]

Part 2 of 2

Thanks for tossing me the ball on this one Larian I am now running with it at mach speeds.

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[skittykitty300]

Don't pet someone else's pokemon without asking first challenge! Who has the common sense to win??

[blamemma]

heart warmed by the amount of videos I’ve seen of Daniel eating multiple different waffles over the weekend 😌

[spideyhexx]

i miss tom’s silly posts on his instagram but i get that he wants to be professional and such :(

yeah same :( but we’ll get to see him in promo stuff where he’ll inevitably be goofy because he just is so 🫶 things to look forward too!!

[raffcomix]

Meet my lil OC :)

[pretendthisisaname]

I love all the little details in In Stars and Time so much

(Just as a note, I am currently in (the beginning? of) act 3)

The way that after a few loops the excited "It's my allies!" turns into a less enthusiastic "It's my allies." (And I think it used to be "it's my friends!" but I'm not entirely sure)

The first time Siffrin knocks into the counter and gets embarrassed, and then another (the next?) time it's frustrated, and then playful, and then frustrated again but this time refusing to show it.

The little remarks that become "..." in later loops

I'm pretty sure the descriptions of the deaths got a little more graphic? I think when he slipped on the banana peel it said that he tripped or that he fell. In a later loop it said something about cracking their head open on a rock or something.

Their wish for victory became a wish for rest

It's just so interesting to me. For some reason, this game almost makes me feel like I'm reading a book. But also not really? I think it's because of how the details are laid out. My favorite stories to read have almost always been the ones that I can pick apart, and this game is very much like that.