#impossible decision

[astrid-beck]

Okay I'm only 15 seconds in and I'm wondering if I should actually not watch this so I can be not spoiled for campaign 3. Like I know they said this can stand alone but maybe the Mystery is worth preserving. The joy of discovery if you will.

[skyward-floored]

I've got an ask sitting in my askbox asking what my favorite whumptober is that I've ever written and... I honestly have no clue. I've got 70+ whumptober fics man. I can't pick just one T^T

[teacupsandcyanide]

Something I miss from earlier eras of the creative side of the internet was things just being unabashedly low-budget. Just all unashamedly amateur, unprofessional, ‘I don’t own a good camera but I have a story to tell you’, ‘I can’t afford a good mic but I have a song to sing for you,’ ‘I don’t have any kind of background in editing or lighting and I only just picked up this guitar last Tuesday but here’s an entire musical me and my friends wrote about our favourite book, we filmed it on a potato and put it up on YouTube in ten minute segments because we thought it was pretty funny.’

[haze-of-hyperfixations]

wait, hold on.

"i need you to always be devout, and comply with this, or we'll all die in this, okay?" was right before Eurylochus went against orders to open the bag. and Odysseus was right, people died for it.

and Eurylochus doesn't go against a direct order after that. because he's learned what happens when he does.

but then Odysseus orders him to light up six torches, and he does it without question. because why would he question it? Odysseus knows what he's doing, of course he does.

then six men die. and Eurylochus is faced with the truth that there is no way to avoid tragedy. all paths lead to the same end. rebel against your captain, your friends die because of you. follow orders, your friends die because of you. there's no escaping the death that follows them, and Eurylochus always ends up with unintentional blood on his hands. he's exhausted.

"Ody, we're never gonna get to make it home, you know it's true."

[pjotrio]

Why was Annabeth so uncomfortable with what Percy did to Akhlys? What's so different about using poison instead of a sword?

Well to be honest it was probably less so the poison and more so what he was doing with said poison; because it wasn't fighting, nor was it a quick kill with a slash of the sword.

It was torture.

Which is a terrifying act to see your partner commit, even if you have a history of fighting together on the battlefield. It's not something she's used to seeing from him and neither is poison-bending, so in that moment of terror I can see why she would latch onto the poison in fear.

[uncanny-tranny]

Your fears that you don't have a body that will transition "well" are, sure, understandable, but there isn't truly such thing as a body that's unworthy of transition. Perhaps your changing body won't suit everybody's taste, but would you rather live for yourself or for the whims of random people who don't care about your happiness as long as they're attracted to what they see?

Transition is for anybody who wants it. It's okay to be fearful. It's okay to be uncertain. But it isn't the end of the world. You are in control, and if you choose to transition to any capacity, it should be at your behest. You and your body are worthy of transition. I hope you are able to seize transition and do what you truly want for yourself.

[geodesick]

[ID: a drawing of pye from outer wilds, standing with her writing staff. she's wearing an orange nomai space suit without the helmet, and she has a light brown face with curly darker brown fur. end ID]

figuring out how i want to draw the nomai, so here's a pye since i am obsessed with her !!!

[abby-howard]

Scarlet Hollow decision tree

People occasionally ask to see a decision tree for Scarlet Hollow, so a while back I put one together for episodes 1-4! It’s not comprehensive, as most scenes at this point have at least some variation due to any number of tracked variables, but it accounts for most of the really major deviations.

For those who don’t want spoilers but would like to hear about how we kinda structure the game: I like to talk about it as more of a braid than a tree, which is not a new concept or anything, but I feel like it helps other narrative designers understand how to limit the absolute vastness that you can get with branching structures. The narrative branches off at decision nodes, but instead of continuing down significantly different routes, it comes back together at key moments. So there’s a single narrative throughline to the game-- events unfold in the town and you witness them in some capacity, but your perspective on them, who you’re with, the options available to you, all these are impacted by other choices you’ve made along the way, including the character traits you chose at the start of the game.

It’s not necessarily easier than doing routes, since it means Tony and I have to keep track of a ridiculous number of little variations including one-off dialogue choices players have made AND steering players to the important narrative moments can be tricky, but I think it makes for an interesting player experience! People get so excited when, say, a line at the end of Episode 4 calls back to something they said when they first met Tabitha at the beginning of Episode 1.

ANYWAY, HUGE SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT, do not proceed if you don’t want to know about basically everything that’s currently in the game!

Things start to get a little hard to read from here on out....

Episode four had to be broken into four images and looks like spaghetti

I’ll make another one of these for Episode 5 after it comes out sometime next year! (I know that’s a bit of a wait but it’ll be worth it >:D)

[l3irdl3rain]

found some amazing deals on my favorite social media website, petfinder dot com. im not in the market but you know it never hurts to fill out an application and go meet a cat

[ckret2]

Bill saying shoelaces are fascist bc he (very probably) can't tie them is such a good summary for bill's denial. The problem isn't him! It's everything else! He doesn't even want what he can't do/have

And he was already like that before he was even sixteen, which gives a hint at just how early he developed that personality. Importantly, it seems it was before Euclydia's destruction

[frenchiefitzhere]

This is the meanest thing you have ever done to me:

/lh /nm

Happy MerMay ;) from (my version of) Randi’s Sweet Neighbor, Eliza. @frenchiefitzhere

[this-acuteneurosis]

D'etat

Anakin is barely holding it together. Obi-Wan isn't going much better.

[d3rpydoods]

Once again I try to perfect how I color (and draw) these boyos. I swear I can't commit for shit, I change up their colors from drawing to drawing and am still not satisfied BUT I'll try and see how long these palettes last (the smaller versions are the previous color schemes btw)

Either way, I still think they look good in this doodle, enjoy!

[invinciblerodent]

i see many people worried because their inquisitors drank from the Well of Sorrows, and they don't know what's gonna happen to them because of it, meanwhile I, an intellectual, listened to Dorian (as I'd argue everyone well should), didn't drink from it, and now am stuck worrying myself sick over Morrigan, and what's gonna happen to her instead because of it

bioware please, don't let any more shitty things happen to my origins friends

if this has any adverse effects on her, i am going to cry, and scream, and possibly throw up, i haven't decided yet

[normalbrothers]

TOMMY: Arthur, Frances was right. Linda was here today.