#lots of triggering stuff

[mewmewdoppio]

A sma𝗹l billf𝗼rd c𝗼mic that too𝗸 me a few days to make with my take on a human bill design.

𝗖ouple more sketches + f𝗹at/alt c𝗼lor𝘀 of pag𝗲 four.

[starfall-isle]

Soo so funny that Sonic didn’t talk about Rouge or Shadow once but brought up Omega multiple times

[marty--party]

not only am i late to upload this i’m also exactly as late as i was last time a full year ago. anyways happy late gamer girl birthday

also a little doodle. for no particular reason or anything.

[illithiddies]

This interaction from before everyone finds out Astarion is a vampire is actually so insane to me. What do you mean the monster hunter from Baldur's Gate doesn't know about Cazador, but the archmage in Waterdeep who reads a lot of historical texts does?

Is it just an open secret everywhere except in Baldur's Gate, where people just don't really notice or pay attention to it? Like this shit is in books, apparently, if it made it's way to Gale. It's a published thing. It's known.

Astarion didn't even mention his last name.

[hyper-cryptic]

Do u know when wolves do THAT face when another wolf snaps at them. okay now do u understand why Shade's cringefailing

(Warning, ooc. This is an AU.)

[arrayoflightarchives]

System: *puts 2 separate reminders a day on sp notifs to make sure that we talk to people and don't self isolate*

Me: *ignoring both of them*

[dizzybevvie]

"Kingdom Hearts is so complicated" "Nomura made it up as he went along" "KH makes no sense" Have you considered that Riku is 15 and autistic and gay bc if you do I think itll change things

[itsbebebe]

what i took from tallulahs book is that she actually rlly does need to spend more time w/ the other eggs/parents cuz she doesn't realise that they all fucking adore her and are clamouring to look after her and think shes amazing but just dont know her well enough. Its not that they have misconceptions about her, its not that bbh forgot her birthday, its not that dapper and pomme purposefully triggered her abandonment issues. its that they dont know/remember cuz they never see her and thats why its actually kind of important that her and chayanne get to hang out with ppl like forever and stuff more regularly ("if they are actually willing to" she mutters, eyes trained on chayanne).

[once-in-a-half-life]

Buckshot Roulette but with G-Man!

[leconcombrerit]

I'm pretty sure Non was at least partially present in those nightmares (more for Phee and New, then Tee, absent in Jin's and less so for Fluke and Top who therefore might be actually dead but I have a longer post planned for this, I noticed things about Non's appearance and the masks and stuff).

Remember that last scene in Phee's nightmare? He kept on repeating the person in front of him wasn't Non, in a desperate attempt to convince himself. "You're not Non", over and over. "Non wouldn't say that", over and again.

But we as the audience have our doubts regarding that last statement. Maybe Non would. Maybe it does sound like him. We've seen him much more than Phee has. We know him better.

After repeating it enough, Phee finally lets Non die. Ironically enough from a suicide he'd previously saved him from.

Then the scene ends in a fast series of flashbacks rewinding all the way back to their first meeting, with this one last soft spoken word over a tender kiss, the only memory placed out of order :

While I think it's supposed to show Phee making peace with Non's death for good, letting go of the straws he'd been grasping at to save someone who was already long gone and, at last, remembering their love and the good moments they had (have you noticed how I loved Phee's nightmare ? Cause I love it man I do), I also think it serves another purpose. Which is to establish that, yes :

It is Non.

The scene straight up says it. I'm taking it at face value because it's thrown right at my face with the subtlety of a tungsten brick. Phee needs to convince himself because failing to do so would mean he's doomed and deserves everything that's coming to him. But what do we see ? Every event rewinding from nightmare Non to sweet Non, establishing continuity between the two. Until finally it's all laid out in clear words. Are you Non ?

Fucking yes.

Fluke, Por, White and Top might be dead, New might be allowed to rest or watch over his brother, but Phee, Tee and Jin can die all they want, they won't ever leave. It's an illusion created by drugs, but at the same time, it's Non.

It could also be a metaphorical Non that would actually be the real Non in the sense that he would or could have turned out this way and that Phee needs to accept it but I don't like this version as much. Also it wouldn't explain the ghost hand on Tee's johnson.

[tastycitrus]

the flora discuss conductors

[svartalfhild]

Delighted to report that the Fallout show fucks severely.

The writing is good. The music is good (the leitmotifs!!!). The lore and the vibes are on point. The references are not too many, not too few. I can actually say this sincerely for once: thanks, Todd.

[northern-passage]

Do you have any favorite horror book recommendations?

hhng... well i did a lot of reading like a month ago but i can't say much of it was very good.... otherwise im in a perpetual state of reading many books at once that i have still not finished... but from what i've read recently:

fluids & girl flesh by may leitz - these are both extreme horror novels and i actually still haven't finished girl flesh yet. fluids is about two women who meet on tinder during the pandemic and spend a few fucked up days together in a hotel where they hurt each other (and others) very badly.

girl flesh is about two (different) women who are both "famous" in different ways and find themselves kidnapped in the middle of nowhere together and it follows them as they try to escape through the texas mesa.

to be devoured by sara tantlinger - this is a novella and it's one of my top reads. about a woman who really really really wants to know what it's like to be a vulture and eat carrion. (apocalypse party who published the newest edition have quite a few interesting horror books/novellas. i have more from them on my to read list)

death in the mouth: original horror by people of color - this has been my "work read" for a while now which means i read it when i'm on break at work (this also means it's taking me forever to read it) it's an anthology of short horror stories and i've read four of them so far and have really enjoyed every single one.

not read recently but that i remember fondly:

annihilation by jeff vandermeer - i do recommend the entire southern reach trilogy but annihilation is the first one and also my favorite. you follow the biologist and the rest of her team into area x. weird stuff happens.

the luminous dead by caitlin starling - one woman in a high tech suit going on a solo caving expedition. she is guided (and sometimes controlled) by another woman who is able to talk through and manipulate the suit to get her to do what she wants.

bonus round two good horror stories i've read on itch.io lately:

childhood homes (and why we hate them) and gutless

[bitchwholikesshitposting]

Fucking love the idea of the chassis being an amplifier because you kinda get the best of both worlds from the whole chassis theory argument where wheatley's still being influenced but you keep the complexity of his character intact, plus you get the double whammy existential crisis of being driven to do horrible things but still having to deal with the fact after you come to your senses that no matter which way you look at it was still all you. In this essay I will

Ignore the giant rant in the tags its 1 AM

[marc--chilton]

Providing enrichment to your enclosure by asking you what Saw is about, where to watch it, and any major trigger warnings in it (obviously violence, but like needles? sa? etc) (please and thank you)

oh thank god i needed this

saw is about human perseverance and flawed philosophy (it gets overshadowed by sensationalism that comes with creative traps that have the explicit purpose of Fucking People Up). jigsaw, the killer, does what he does because "people don't appreciate their lives until it hangs in the balance", hence the catchphrase at the end of nearly all tapes given to the victims at the start of their torment, "live or die, make your choice." you could lay down and die, or you could fight to survive.

it's INCREDIBLY flawed, of course, because jigsaw can justify putting anyone in a trap. "not appreciating your life" can mean anything from being a rapist, to a drug addict, to lying to your boss that you're sick so you won't be coming in to work today.

i don't want to spoil anything in case you DO want to watch it so i'll just leave it there for now. you can find them all on 9movies dot top, i recommend just watching them in order of release (movies 1 to 6 are listed in roman numerals, saw the final chapter/3D is 7, jigsaw is 8, spiral is 9, then X for 10)

as for trigger warnings...... fuck dude uh. uhhhhh. well there's definitely needles in 2, i think 4? has a rapist for a victim but his crimes aren't explicitly shown, 10 has an attempted assault (foiled).... actually i think nearly all of them sort of have needles since when someone is chosen to be put into the torment nexus they're typically drugged with a syringe to the neck.

and wrt to violence i'd put the gore about level with final destination personally (though saw has much more of it, of course) so if you can handle final destination you can probably handle saw in that regard!

there is as far as i can remember no explicit nudity of female characters though. which fucking rocks if you know anything about women in horror movies

if you have any other questions plsplsplspls ask i love talking about sawww

[bitchthefuck1]

Not an "art with Bad Things in it is Bad" person or a "the more Bad Things a work has the better it is, actually" person, but a secret third thing (the quality of a work is determined not by what topics or ideas it contains but by whether/how it engages with and examines those ideas)