#more like a wishlist

[deluweil]

All of you people saying that buddie will happen or be hinted at the end of the season,

I don't want that. I don't want buddie to become the season finale couple, it would be no different than the random woman hung on their arms like a handbag at the end of each season.

I want buddie to be hinted throughout season 7A, I want them to talk this out in the open with other people, I want them to be so close that we can see sparks fly.

Give me the pining, the yearning, the longing looks.

Give me THAT talk somewhere in the beginning of S7b. Give me the talk with Christopher.

Give me, the rest of the 118 exchanging money over a buddie bet.

Don't drag us out for another season, because A. S8 isn't promised if this season goes down the drain like it's last two.

B. We had enough build up for 6 seasons, don't you think?

Make this a love story we can appreciate!!

Just give us two idiots inlove already!!

[xmenwickedgame]

//probably not canon but it would be hilarious if Prime Universe Wolverine and the stable rock that he is had chaotic on-again, off-again boyfriend Wade that he visited when he needed to not be the dad for a while😆

Bonus points if this has been going on for decades as these two have known each other since the war and their warped healing factors keep them alive so they’re familiar and kind of a safe space despite Wade absolutely not having his act together 😆

Actually…if Origins takes place in WWII during the WG timeline then that’s probably when Wade is experimented on and while his mouth isn’t sewn shut this time, there’s probably a lot of trauma there that Logan just isn’t able to help him through at the time so when they reconnect he’s kind of like “…oh. Shit.” So I guess he would still feel guilty about what happened and try to be there for Wade but Wade is such a shithead there’s not a whole lot of healing that goes on. Mostly bickering and aggressive NSFW shenanigans😆

Wade: I’ll call you “ daddy” if you want���

Logan: 😓🙂‍↕️shut the fuck up

I do still think there are li’l soft feelings between Logan and Prime Universe Charles but Logan would probably maintain some kind of boundary because he’s very aware Charles is fragile and lonely and could be easily taken advantage of. Logan won’t be that person.

[heartorbit]

i'm sending this endless melody to a nameless you

[0ann3]

So I have to draw something from my surroundings as an activity, and the reversible octopus plush was next to me-

[weirdphilosopher]

a little signature-size drawing of Alpha and Gamma i made a while ago! my first aberration, and my first time drawing any of my own dragons :)

this is also the only thing we've drawn of one of our own dragons. tragic i know

[raayllum]

me every time i remember that callum's "i would do anything for you" assertion also makes it extremely textually evident that he sees her as his family

[kumquatqueenb]

What I really want out of Chaos Theory (amongst other things) is the return of Dave’s mixtapes.

Like it comes on while they’re travelling cause one of them put it on the roadtrip playlist and none of them even bat an eye when it starts playing because Dave’s mixtapes are just a part of the camp fam™️ culture at this point.

Or we find out that Dave is a quasi celebrity because he had a SoundCloud that the Nublar 6 all followed when they got back from the island. And for a while they were the only followers Dave had, but he still enthusiastically posted new music plenty and the Nublar 6 would get on Skype and have listening parties and would all comment stuff hyping Dave up on SoundCloud. Then at some point someone realized that all the Nublar 6 are following this one random guy on SoundCloud and Dave’s account blows up overnight with all these people trying to figure out what the deal is.

Or I need Brooklyn, alone after faking her death and missing the others, putting on one of Dave’s mixtapes to cheer her up and remind her of the others.

I just think Dave’s mixtape should make a comeback in chaos theory guys.

[appleciders]

BAD SISTERS + trios

[thanatika]

yeah i agree with your point about survival mechanics and i feel the same way about the lack of combat mechanics. "why would an educated city doctor need a weapon" because shit is hitting the fan in every way impossible and pretty much everyone is walking around armed... also why am i supposed to believe the the fact that he's a man of intellect will somehow provide him with food? i don't think anyone is going to be too eager to share food during an outbreak intellectual or not...

+ follow up for the previous ask but actually my favorite quest from the original pathologic is the day 11 bachelor quest that involves shooting down soldiers. i think it really drives the point home about how this random fuckass guy who is supposed to be battling a plague doesn't even have the time to do that anymore because the people in charge are asking completely irrelevant things of him now and he's at a position where he cannot refuse what is being asked of him. like i think it was good storytelling that even as the guy who lowkey wants to deal with the plague and solve its mystery you still have other, more pressing, less interesting and or pleasant tasks to complete

i agree! honestly, i feel this way about the combat mechanics even more than i do about the physical survival (food, health, illness, sleep) mechanics. because sure, i can see how it makes sense for daniil's position of authority to mean that his basic needs are somewhat provided for -- although i don't think it makes more sense than what we got in the original game. i've never seen anyone bring up "isn't it kind of unrealistic that the bachelor isn't given lots of food during a massive food shortage?" as a plothole that needed to be resolved. the townspeople generally don't like him much, and most of the people with power don't either, except for the kains. sure, maybe it's kind of weird that you can go see the kains while broke and on the verge of keeling over from hunger, and they won't do anything to help you, but... the kains are pretty self-centered, and they're so goddamn weird that maybe they forget that you need to eat food to live anyway. and it's half-implied that the powers that be are ultimately giving daniil this role as a convenient way to kill him, so it makes sense that they would put no pressure on the town authorities to keep him alive.

(and honestly, artemy is taken under the olgimsky's auspices as much as the kains take daniil's under theirs! which is to say, selfishly, with ulterior motives that are more important to them than the well-being of their healer, but... the olgimskys are set up as the wealthiest of the 3 families financially, as well as the ones with the most access to food, given their control over the meat industry. so if anything it's "weirder" that artemy isn't more materially provided for, though to be clear i don't think there's an actual plothole there either way.)

but anyway, you could handwave it and say that daniil's position of privilege and authority gives him more perks than he got in the original game, but the amount of fighting you have to do to get through town is... kind of an unavoidable physical reality? like you're given so many sidequests that you often wind up walking around town after dark, and that's when the bandits come out. is the idea that the bandits would be too scared to attack him because he's so important? because that doesn't make a lot of sense to me, and even pathologic 2 establishes that he's seen as a valuable target by the bandits:

and then there's the quests where combat plays a more direct role in the story itself, like getting involved in saving andrey from the firing squad, or killing guards to break artemy out of prison, or the quest where you have to kill var in attempt to stop the arsonists (which i include on the same tier as the other ones because i really like the quest journal entry he has if you complete it where he blames himself for willow's death. it's a good character moment.)

hell, even in pathologic 2 itself, one of the biggest Bachelor Moments is on day 11, when you have that big dramatic convo with him after he killed a soldier for the papers he was delivering. plus one of bad grief's idle dialogues in patho 2 is commentary on the bachelor being "quick on the draw" and that he "already shot someone". like he just straight up is not living a combat-free existence. and overall, combat isn't just a good tool from a mechanical perspective, heightening the stakes and placing pressure on the player (though it is), it's also pretty important for him on a thematic level imo, almost as important as artemy and his "rivers of blood". in patho classic, daniil has this early interaction with the inquisitor:

which, thinking about it from a doylist perspective, was probably the writers' attempt to make it sound more plausible that this random medical researcher from the big city was competent with multiple types of guns. and i appreciate them coming up with that hint of backstory to cover their bases a bit, but with those bases covered, i think the fact that daniil ultimately spends more time shooting people than he does prescribing medicines for them actually does a lot for him thematically? i mean, if his whole thing is that he's this "tempted destroyer", someone who frames his career as a combative battle with death rather than a quest to save people's lives, whose "default" solution is to raze the town with artillery because he's too limited by his rationalist worldview and military upbringing (and bitterness over being manipulated and sabotaged) to come up with a solution that saves the any remaining infected survivors on his own. plus the way that clara frames artemy and daniil as two sides of the same coin in being violent destroyers and killers, who without player intervention will immediately devolve to running around chasing each other down in what's either an insanely dedicated tom and jerry LARP or some really elaborate foreplay. imo, that whole dichotomy (which is pretty core to the game, as the idea of dichotomies are core to it in general) works so much better with the way they're both presented in classic, stalking around with gun/scalpel in hand. hell, not to mention the effect that spending 12 in-game days trying not to starve and getting killed by bandits or guards or worms or soldiers every day would have on the player, and the way it would make them feel about the town and their natural projection of those feelings onto dankovsky, who is a perfectly fitting vessel for them as the avatar actually undergoing those virtual experiences.

ultimately i think they are mainly going this direction out of a desire to do something more creative and original, which is fine... it just seems a bit silly to me that they keep saying "well obviously that doesn't really work for the bachelor's scenario", when, well... even as recently as patho 2 in 2019, they seemed to think it fit his narrative pretty well! i'm also guessing that a lack of combat won't be that bandits are just no longer roaming the streets at night. it sounds more like pathologic 3 is set to be more of a nonlinear experience, where you'll probably fast travel from place to place instead of having to walk across town so much? so you'll be avoiding bandits just in the sense that the gameplay will be avoiding them. i guess i'm hoping that at the very least, there's still the implication of the crunch of not getting enough sleep or food and the threat of being stabbed to death while trying to get through town occurring to dankovsky in the background, even if those mechanics are deemphasized in favor of more macro-level town resource management, time control, and sherlock holmes fruit ninja or whatever the hell they were on about back in 2022 lmao.

[abovetherainandroses]

look at us. hey. look at us. look at us. huh? who would have thought? not me.

[svtskneecaps]

i should be sleeping but i do want to reiterate how much i love that our collective fan community and also the streamers are constantly like, so new members when? new language when? a teaser drops and we're all like germans???? german time????? asiatic language time??????? new faces??? new friends?? new communities????

i've said this before but it just constantly makes me feel all warm n fuzzy to see it. i'm really happy we're all so excited and united in this.

[zeldonovan]

@calamity-unlocked SO. i heard u like teen shenanigans (happy final stretch of @dndads-winter-gift-exchange !!)

[bonebabbles]

you should play Dredge

Played! I enjoyed it. I only have 7 hours in it, though.

In fact, my personal buddy is suuuuper into Dredge, it's his favorite game. We played it zealously together during a visit, during which I got absolutely mobbed by like every random monster ever at Gale Cliffs. The squid. The ray. The thing that rots your fish. The actual big mama monster who lives in the cliffs.

He remarked he had NEVER seen such bad luck before lmaoooo

Women want me but the fish do not fear me, sadly. The fish and I are engaged in mutually assured destruction.

[rysttle]

Next batch of artfight attacks!!!!!

For Survivian !! Evil women perhaps

For @marqkace (also Marqkace on artfight) loved drawing the arm on this piece

For chaskari little animation that i probably should make better sometimes xD

And lastly for @cryptixotic !!! Saying it again but this is one of the most fun pieces i made this artfight i think!!

Anyway, until next batch!!

[chrislaplante]

wanted plot. massive tour plot. I’m interested in having Séance (& Chris) tour with musician muses & their respective bands/projects. so far, I can list a few lineup candidates — if interested.

LAMIA ( @k4rlsson ),

THEOPHAGY ( @bornhngry ),

WASTRELS ( @wastrels ),

MIDHEAVENS ( @likeorpheus ),

DISAVOWED ( @stringmastery ),

CON[DAMN]NATION ( @metalliquor ),

NECROMUTILATION ( @daevilhorns ),

THY THRONE ( @daevilhorns ),

CORRODED COFFIN ( @freakarus ).

[raayllum]

and when arc 3 rayllum are in their 20s what then