#khafka

[lavisiondefranjogutierrez]

Blood Lines - Khafka by FranjoGutierrez

[thevideogameartarchive]

Khafka 'Blood Lines' PlayStation

[judeharoldvich]

tfw you come up with a BANGER story only to realise you have once again just reinvented the wheel (franz khafka’s metamorphosis)

[circlehymn]

tuesdays with morrie - mitch albom // franz khafka // the little prince - antoine de saint-exupéry // neon genesis evangelion episode 24: the final messenger // static - godspeed you! black emperor // dietrich bonhoeffer

[weevilgxth]

something something the metamorphosis by franz khafka could be interpreted through a queer lens. how his family views his transformation as grotesque, refusing to address him as family. how Gregor simply doesn't acknowledge this change at first- he's just worried about work, about being A Proper Businessman. how he watches his room, his life change as His change impacts his family. the way he's hidden. how at first his sister's care is a hesitant kind of hopeful, almost like he's still her brother, before the band-aid is ripped off. how he dies- starving, with infected wounds, rotten fruit buried in his flesh. how they block his existence from their minds after his death/"death." it could very much be seen as a monument to the bleakness and misery and alienation that often comes along with being trans, but what's more important to me is the eerily cheerful ending. how without gregor, his family simply knit together as if he were never there. but what if it was a happy ending for him, too? it could be bittersweet story of rebirth. How it all has to fall apart before a new life can begin. His family left his roach-corpse in his room, presumably to be forgotten about; would they notice if it was gone when they returned? They certainly noticed when "He" was gone. Anyways I'll have a #1 classic with mac n' cheese and a large dr. pepper and some honey packets. thanks

[khafkadi]

KHAFKA's BIOGRAPHY.

> Khafkadi Nourien

> You can call me Khafka or Afka or anything

> Bogor, 16 Juli 2001

> I'm pretty sure it's 180 cm :)

> Identify as O (blood type)

> Likes to sleep. Who doesn't?

> Khaiara Nourien is my twin sister (y)

[c64screengrabs]

RETRO REWIND - Re-featuring games from the very beginning of this blog in 2015, with additional screens & info!

Caverns of Khafka was another Paul Norman game, this one a remake of an 8-bit Atari game of the same name. Norman’s games all seem to have a kind of morbid/dark tone and Caverns of Khafka is no exception with a dark colour palette and moody music. The objective of the game is to find 5 seals which you must then apply to the gate of the temple of the Pharaoh Khafka deep within the caverns. Once all 5 are in place, the gate opens, revealing treasure.

The seals appear randomly as flashing cubes scattered throughout the caverns. You have a rope and what I think is a gun (you never actually see a weapon but a flash-bang effect comes out of your character). The rope is needed for scaling the rock walls, and your gun for shooting the creepy crawlies throughout the cavern that occasionally cross your path. Flame traps, boulders and falls are other hazards throughout the game. You are given a generous “drift” time when stepping off a ledge before you actually fall, and the bugs and bats have the chance to only knock you down/stun you before you’re actually killed from contact with them. Upon dying you immediately skeletonize with lots of tragic music to emphasize what a terrible mistake you’ve made.

My only misgivings about this game are the somewhat slow character movement and the fact that you start right back at the beginning every time you lose a life. Otherwise it’s a decently challenging, unique game with excellent replayability that I go back to every now and then.

Paul Norman is still active and you can find his personal website here along with some more current work: http://www.digittarius.com/online.htm

[retrocgads]

USA 1992

[mendelpalace]

Paul Norman seems like he was a pioneer in creepy sound design in video games. His stuff for the Commodore 64 has a slightly unsettling vibe to it. and you have The Trivia Monster which, silly though it is, kinda feels like someone’s Creepypasta game (i.e. a silly trivia game with increasingly creepy sound effects and death for the losers): 

Even his games that weren’t trying to have a horror vibe still managed a creepy atmosphere at times, such as the underwater segments and some of the sound design for his game Navy Seal:

[thedarkacademiastuff]

I do not speak as I think, do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

- Franz Khafka

[thevideogameartarchive]

Khafka 'Blood Lines' PlayStation

[poesisposts]

“Y formas parte de mí aunque nunca vuelva a verte”

Frank Khafka

[circlehymn]

neon genesis evangelion, episode 26 [take care of yourself] - hideaki anno ; franz khafka

[awwsocuteanimals]

He’s only been at home with me for two days, but Khafka already follows my hand for more warmth and cuddles ☺️

[grumfield]

As a Hannibal fan I’m what ways is that dentist guy similar to the cannibal bitch himself?

Moon Jo the dentist from Strangers from Hell has an obsession with making the main protagonist into a Khafkaesque work of art by unearthing the main character’s innate dark desires via coercion, psychological manipulation, and also cannibalism at one point. Like Hannibal, he also gives the main character a gift of human remains (in this case Moon Jo gifts the main character a bracelet made of human teeth) to show adoration, and even goes as far as killing some of his own compatriots for the main character’s sake.

There’s also a very distinct vibe to the show...While I’d say Hannibal as a show falls more on the side of “Gothic/Baroque/Romantic/Grecian”, the “classic arts” in terms of styling and references, Strangers from Hell really heavily emulated Khafka’s general atmosphere and references his novel Metamorphosis—which, while heavy-handed, works to its favor.

There’s some suspension of disbelief necessary (why doesnt the main character just leave) and some necessary forgiveness of cheesiness at times, but, is still fun! The blocking and overall scene choreography is really quite good as well.

[time-sponges]

Reverse khafkas “metamorphosis “ where a roach slowly becomes human and has to wrestle with the insufferable reality that he can’t eat trash anymore and has to do taxes