#more or less disco

[gh0st-4ss]

[Authority - Medium 11]

[phantasymistart]

something about december has me thinking about the disco elysium old men again

[nthflower]

Cuno should join Hardie boys in the future not RCM btw my unpopular hot take opinion thingie.

[bubblybloob]

Fuck it, Disco Elysium’s your Scarlet Hollow traits.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

These FFS inner demons are very “disco elysium skills” reminiscent. I NEED to meet that cast! Also freaking awesome work to you and your buddy :]

May it be an open secret that one of my inspirations was Disco Elysium. I think they could party together.

[stressfulsloth]

I really do think it's interesting that the way DE discusses ableism gets ignored by a lot of the fanbase. Because Harry is undeniably disabled and that's a core conflict of the game. He's living in an impossible situation that so many disabled people get caught in; he's physically disabled, even more so by the end of the game after being shot, but even at the beginning of the game he struggles with nerve damage, post-polio syndrome, partial paralysis in his jaw, withdrawals, and that's not even starting on the mental illness. He is sick and cannot ever properly heal under these circumstances because he cannot stop moving forward or he will start to sink. He's living in poverty. He has no safety net. No way out of the RCM. That night in Martinaise before the beginning of the game, he tries to quit- throw everything away. He tries to end his own life and drive his car into the sea because he cannot fathom a future where he's able to get out of this alive when he's so intrinsically bound to this abusive institution that he can't escape from.

And then comes Jean, deliberately forbidding anyone from jogging Harry's memory out of spite and anger, refusing to allow anyone else to help, calling him a fucking idiot and a psychopath, asking if he can go to the toilet on his own, telling him that he doesn't deserve his disability pension because it should go to cops who gave a shit instead (nevermind that Harry has been working at burnout pace for years, he's an addict so his contributions are essentially worthless, right?). He has a conversation with Judit, right in front of Harry, on whether or not he has learning disabilities.

This guy is a very interesting character! And I'm not denying that he's likely dealt with consequences at work from Harry's illness. But he also fulfils the narrative role of being a mouthpiece for the suspicion and even outright aggression that addicts face even while trying to recover. He fulfils the role of a representative of the RCM, with the ability to approve or deny Harry’s return and in turn essentially sentence him to a slow death in the seaside village. He is not there to help; he is there to judge and observe, and then blame Harry when things go bad even though his inaction is at least in part responsible for the deaths during the tribunal. And this is all very deliberate! The RCM, and by extension the Coalition, as an organisation is failing both its officers and its citizens- Jean, by extension, is one of the officers being failed! They are underfunded, overstretched, overworked, and shouldn't even exist in the first place. The expectation on partnered officers to provide emotional support to each other is ridiculous. But instead of directing his anger upwards towards the Coalition airships or superiors at the RCM, he directs it outwards, towards 'the liberals' or towards Harry, who as a disabled addict is a pretty convenient punching bag.

His vitriol towards Harry is not supposed to be sympathetic! At least the way I read it, you're not meant to look at him and think 'oh wow Harry's struggle has been so hard for him.' You're meant to question his language, to think more deeply about how society treats addicts, how punitive measures are never going to help someone get sober, about the importance of safety nets.

[plasma-packin-mama]

COPOTYPE:

🌟SUPERSTAR🌟

Tiptop Kim and high femme Harry for @lifeless-discodancer :3 and some bonus doodles

[helios-two]

somebody on the disco elysium subreddit every three months: hey how is this game communist? i know this game was made by communists and is sympathetic towards communism and intensely critical of capitalism and is written from a communist perspective, but it also had two college students in a book club that it lightly pokes fun at? btw when someone will inevitably try to painstakingly explain this to me i’ll only read every third word of their reply and just reiterate what i said in the post but this time i’m also calling them a stupid commie liberal. thanks

[sydmarch]

sad wet beast painting practice masterpost

[feintenstein]

Crashed kineema scene in the swap!au

he needs a hug!

[kinokoshoujoart]

the coolest kids in forgotten valley!!☆

(…it seems there may have been a stretch of time where rock and lumina were the only kids in forgotten valley…🥲)

poseref

[volivolition]

AEROSTATIC PILOT JACKET +1 Volta do Mar: A feather on the wind

[57sfinest]

i think it's interesting how you only finally get to go into kim's room at the whirling after the tribunal (assuming you successfully warn kim). there's no reason for it, they could've left it unrendered and kept you locked out, but they made the decision to allow you to go in kim's room. which is an interesting way to highlight the shift in harry and kim's dynamic post-tribunal. the bond between them is solidified now that it's been confirmed that they really would die for each other, not in a theoretical "it's his duty" kind of way but in the very real "our blood is mixed out there on the flagstones" kind of way. they risked their lives together and both survived because of the other. so harry can go in kim's room. kim is finally letting harry in, in a small but significant way. kim *truly* trusts harry.

[sygneth]

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Changes go.

Yay, more controversial decisions! And yay, this comic is turning into a book!

[spilledkaleidoscope]

I like the idea of Fem!Kim being less controlled and a bit more playful than Canon EXCEPT when it comes to acknowledging any sort of connection with Harry

Then it's almost always denial that leans towards irritation or even anger

And Harriet on the other hand is much less oblivious in that but more directionless about everything else in turn. Gets cut back in the thing she's most certain of constantly but can't stop it bc what is there otherwise

[mikkeneko]

@capriceandwhimsy: *relates a funny, yet incomprehensible Disco Elysium meme to me*

me: The more I learn about Disco Elysium, the less I know.

CAW: It's a pretty cool murder mystery story.

me: See, I didn't even know it was a murder mystery story for like ages. I thought it was done by the same studio that did -- you know -- that one game about the cultists --

CAW: Cultist Simulator? That's someone else.

me: -- yes, but for some reason I thought it was the same studio, so I thought that Disco Elysium was, you know, like that. I figured that Harry DuBois and Kim Kitsuragi were, like, paranormal investigators in a Call of Cthulu-esque adventure where they attempt to unravel the dark schemes of eldritch monstrosities trying to intrude on our reality without going mad from the strands of their own reality unraveling in the process.

CAW: *stares into the distance for a full minute*

CAW: That's not... entirely inaccurate.....