#oh god nitw is. it’s 5 now?

[midnightclover]

4 11 and 15 for the ask game? :3

4... see, the most important part of a fishing minigame isnt the minigame itself, but the rest of the game around it. so this is kinda difficult. id mention a bunch of examples but.. it got kinda long, so lets skip to the punch, yah?

a short hike has the best fishing minigame ive seen. the minigame itself is simple, just mash a, and it's hard to fail, but the fun comes in with trying to find out where each type of fish lives.. you end up trying every little spot of water on the island, and finding rarer and rarer variants! its just a fun time (also once you find one of each fish you can talk to the fisherman on the boat and get a gold fishing rod which finds rare variants easier)

11. favourite berry? hm... raspberry. kinda close between raspberries and blackberries

15. a quote from a game that lives rent free in my head.. theres quite a few to pick from. i'm not sure what to choose.

ah how about this? even though it's been ages since i've played it, i still occasionally have himiko from fucking danganronpa v3 in my head going "Nyehh...."

[xxxnecrotica]

so excited for summer vacay bc i want to spend as much time as possible collecting achievements in my fav games >:3 i dream of being a completionist but unfortunately if i want to complete everything in all my games i have like... probably a thousand achievements to do

under the cut i talk about my progress in different games

in slay the princess i have 13/97 achievements collected with 4.4 hrs total (97 achievements is fucking CRAZY for me thats the most achievements ive seen in a game that i own)

in holocure i have 31/82 achievements (im scared of trying to get them... i suck at this game sometimes..........)

stardew valley - 27/49

va-11 hall-a - 10/34 (should be manageable)

papers please - 3/13 (should be manageable as well... i think?)

omori - 44/84 (halfway there! and oh wow the last time i played it was january?? anyway my progress in the game is kind of stalled bc im focusing on only getting one achievement rn, which is killing 100 squizzards. it takes a lot of time but at least i progressively get stronger and richer.)

yttd - 9/14 (yooo my bday in MM/DD form!! ... i should play the steam yttd version more. look okay i lived and breathed yttd for 2 years straight and im burnt out now.)

nitw - 13/31 (my progress has been stalled bc im trying to beat demontower. but im genuinely struggling with it and its ruining my fun so i might just... give up on demontower for now. but also at the same time im stubborn and i dont want to)

ace attorney trilogy - 3/30 (heavens i should play AA more)

NEVERMIND I JUST SAW HUMAN FALL FLAT HAS 123 ACHIEVEMENTS. THATS THE MOST ACHIEVEMENTS NOW IN A GAME THAT I HAVE. i dont play it a lot tho so i wont record my progress in it

nso - 18/33 (should be manageable!)

ddlc plus - 6/19 (manageable)

the rest are games i havent played much recently but i see myself definitely returning to collect the rest of the achievements that i havent gotten

unpacking - 21/25 (COME ON MOON YOU NEED TO FUCKING GET TO THIS.)

pikuniku - 5/14 (i havent played pikuniku in a year but this is a manageable one so i'll return to it)

stanley parable - 4/11 (wow thats less achievements than i thought?)

faith - 13/32

mazm jekyll and hyde - 9/25

sludge life - 0/14 (ik i played this already how come i dont have any achievements??)

okay thats all! as a bonus heres my top 5 most played games

dear god has it really been that long since i last played some of these games??

[adrianicsea]

it is absolutely insane how hard die anywhere else from night in the woods still goes all these years later

[extraneousdominomask]

Mae Borowski

kinda winding down on these, but Mae is a good and unexpected character, so

Why I like them:

Funny and hugely relatable (and ‘understandable’ when not relatable). NitW is able to go to some very dark places because it has Mae as its protagonist, a character who can keep audience sympathy even as she makes very questionable decisions

Why I don’t:

I think if Mae was a real-live person I knew, I would find her funny but hard to be around. Volatility makes for a compelling narrative, but she can be fucking scary at times, and not in a fun way

Favourite arc:

After a nightmarish week of losing her sanity to an eldritch abomination beyond mortal understanding… Mae looks it in the eye, tells it it ain’t shit, and gets it to fuck off. What a goddamn icon 

Favorite line:

The first line that made me laugh out loud in my empty bedroom was when she’s examining herself in the mirror, and I chose the less critical option:“I’m being body positive! Just like the Internet told me to.”The second line to do that, and the one I constantly bring up to people as proof that NitW is that rare, rare story that can accurately portray current slang:“The dudes!!!!! Somebody hecked up the dudes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Favorite outfit:

Orange t-shirt with a zero on it, faded pants, and big stompy boots are an honestly great outfit imocomplete the look with a baseball bat

OTP:

Like a lot of people, I think her and Bea would make a good couple. Curse you, heterosexuality.Maybe with Bombshell? Who knows? We don’t!

BroTP:

Oh man, it’s a game about friendship. Any of her relationships within the main cast are great. As much as I like her friendships with Bea and with Angus, it was the Gregg dynamic that got me the most. (“Crimes?” “Crimes.”)I also really like her friendship with Lori. Having your weird interests validated is a really, really big pickup if you don’t get that from anywhere else. Mae absolutely does not have her own life together, but she was able to make Lori’s tangibly better just by showing interest

Headcanon:

“Go Get Dead, Angel Face” - Mae’s ballad to her ill-fated crush on Cole - is, like, not even music. It’s just the same note over and over on the bass as Mae screams wordlessly.She’d quip it was an ‘avant-garde piece’ if she ever spoke of it, which she does not.

Unpopular opinion:

There’s a lot of great fanart of NitW out there, but too much of it gives Mae a conventionally skinny frame. No! Bea is the skinny one! Mae is round! I want more recognition of her canonical body type, that is to say, quote, “sturdy”.RESPECT THE CHONK

A wish:

i just want the cat to be happyFinds a supportive gf and a tolerable dayjob and some sense of peace. 🅱ls

An oh-god-please-don’t-ever-happen:

Y’know how sometimes an (unwanted) sequel will check back in on a character after several years, and despite the journey you went on with them, they are now worse off than they were before?That. If there’s a direct follow-up - and I kinda hope there isn’t - I want to see some tiny sliver of progress, dammit

5 words to best describe them:

Sassy cat with nightmare eyes

My nickname for them:

Brrrrrrrrrrrowski.

[gamesception]

Night in the Woods, part 33

I mean... have you met me?  I mean, have you met Mae?

Jackie’s a good friend.

Ouch.

Can’t argue with her, though.

I’m... I’m not sure why the roofs would be faster than just running down the street, but w/e.

After threatening some random strangers into walking away, Mae uses their car to reach the rooftops

and we get a fun little platforming segment

with some dramatic music

And like a steeple?  Kind of reminds me of the music ghosts in the dreamscape.

Anyway, I fall of the steeple, and find Bea.

My guess is no, she’s not really alright, and hasn’t been alright since her mom died.

Yeah, that’s about what I thought.

oh my god mae no

I’ve been, like, abridging this conversation, but...

but I’m having as hard cutting that bit at all.  It’s just so heartbreaking.

I’ve said multiple times that Bea’s whole life situation is the most gut wrentching, brutal aspect of this entire game, and yeah, it really is.

I mean, on the one hand, yeah, how could she not know this?  Bea hasn’t exactly been subtle about it.  Then again, Mae’s been wrapped up in her own shit, and Bea knows that too, so it shouldn’t be all that surprising to her that Mae hasn’t picked up on it.

And, I know Bea’s talking about her whole deal here, and not just Mae not Mae outing her as a non-student at the party, but honestly, they had like a 90 minute drive to get here.  As embarrassing as it might have been, Bea know’s Mae’s a blabbermouth, she probably should have been explicit about pretending to be a college student, like that that’s what she was doing here.

I know what doomed feels like.

I work really hard stuffing that feeling down, bottling it up, and hiding it from myself.  One of those bottles of poison in the back cupboard of my soul that this game seems to take such delight in pulling out and uncorking, but I’ve learned not to drink the poison this game pulls out.  Just put the cork back in and put it back.  Because the game won’t sit and drink the poison with me, it just gets the poison out and leaves.

There it is.  They’re friends, maybe the best friends either of them have, but that resentment isn’t going to go away.

You know, the game is eventually going to give the reason.  Like the actual reason Mae left school.  And it it isn’t going to be ‘because she couldn’t hack it’ or ‘because she just didn’t do the work’ or ‘because she got homesick’ or ‘because she didn’t take it or anything seriously’ or ‘because she wasn’t ever actually as smart as everyone told her she was when she was little’ or ‘because her girlfriend broke up with her and she decided she would rather sit around sulking about it for a year than get on with life or make even the barest effort to win her back or even salvage their friendship that she always told herself meant so much to her but when it came down to it apparently not.’

No, it will be, like, an actual reason.  Like something serious happened, or something’s seriously wrong with her mentally, or maybe ghosts or gods or curses or something else fake and supernatural was involved, but regardless it will be something nobody would ever mistake for ‘just being lazy’.

Which is why I had to take a break from this game to find some distance.  Because NitW was dredging up every terrible memory and feeling about myself from basically the worst time in my life by dangling this character in front of me who i could relate them to, who could embody my failings in a sympathetic, external form that I could learn to forgive or at least to accept without hatred, and maybe learn to hate myself less in the process.

But I can see now that I was playing a trick on myself, that this whole time the game was actually gearing up for an eventual reveal that will tie everything together while explaining Mae’s character, and as long as I’m approaching Mae as just a character in a story that will be neat and cathartic.  But if I were still approaching her as some sort of window into my own soul, it would have felt like the game was snapping her away, like ‘nope, sorry, she’s not like you at all, she’s a good person with an actual excuse, she’s not like you, she’s not just shit for no reason.

No.  You already know that.  Because as soon as you weren’t in scouts together you basically stopped being friends for like 5 or 10 years, and you didn’t start being friends again until the band stuck the two of you together.

It’s just...

Proximity.

When you don’t have much, and what you do have is slipping through your fingers like sand, you learn to appreciate the things you can’t get rid of.

I don’t know, Mae.  I think you might have ruined it.

Yeah, seriously, even apart from everything else, that was some seriously inadequate wingsmanship.

yeah.  Still, though, she had to have know Mae would ruin things if she didn’t know what was going on.  I wonder if there might have been some deliberate if subconscious self-sabotage going on here.

...

It wasn’t until here that I realized the party girl was a girl, or that Mae was into them, and I immediately regretted giving them the wrong name and not trying to act a little cooler around them.

It seems the real wingsfailure was my own.

ok.

Everything, basically.

ok, we can?

Everyone except Bea, who’s as trapped as you are.

God, don’t they?  Like, I have so many problems, but if money wasn’t one of them none of the rest would even fucking matter.

This poor cat.  God, I just... I do feel for her.  Like Bea, I think she really is a good person, but I have no idea how she’s going to survive if and when she can’t just rely on her parents and friends anymore.

I have no idea how I’ll manage, either.

She really does know how to get in that soul cupboard, doesn’t she?  I keep being like, ‘no, you don’t belong in there, get out of there’ and she keeps finding her way back in.

Unfortunately, Dad doesn’t really have any answers for her.

I feel for the both of them.

;_;

This show is so dumb.  :p

At least she has friends.

Having friends helps.

Goodnight, Mae.  You put me through a lot of heartache, but I forgive you.

[teascarfgay]

The Ten Song Shuffle Challenge

I was tagged by @engineerasami to do the thing bc she probably knows I’m gonna end up w weird shit and I’ll end up flailing over at least one or two songs at length because I *miiiiight* really love music.

RULES: PUT YOUR ITUNES/MP3/SPOTIFY ON SHUFFLE AND LIST THE FIRST 10 SONGS THEN TAG 10 PEOPLE (and tag whoever tagged you too!)

1. Cycles by Alec Holowka (from the Night in the Woods score): welp I knew I would end up with at least one song from a video game score haha I fucking love NitW, the music, the characters, the gay, the story.... so so good 2. Flaws (Acoustic & Live) by Bastille: god I love this song so much, and I'm always huge suckers for acoustic versions of songs. Plus this song got me through a lot of personal struggles, and I got to hear it live recently and I cried like a baby whoops 3. Up 2 U by Walk the Moon: oh man what a band 👌🏻 I've loved them since their Anna Sun days, I was so proud of them when Shut Up and Dance blew up everywhere. They're also like the sweetest band ever. Had the pleasure of seeing them live bc Saint Motel opened for them in SF like two-ish years ago, A+ performance and concert energy 4. A Historic Love by Trevor Morris (from The Tudors score (season one)): oh god Trevor Morris.... this man is truly magical, his scores are flawless. Adore his work on The Tudors, Vikings, Gotham, and Dragon Age: Inquistion. And I could cry forever about The Tudors forever, it's my soft spot in history haha 5. Of the Night by Bastille: see #2 for Bastille flails, but this is definitely one of my fave upbeat dancey songs, super great for being profuctive 6. My Eyes have Seen You by The Doors: well I should have known I'd get a Doors song. I grew up w my grandparents and I happen to adore a lot of 60s music because of it. But by and far my favorite "oldies" band is these guys. Morrison is truly a gift and taken too soon from this world ❤️ I may or may not have shed a tear at his grave in Paris when I went 7. The Circle of Life by The Lion King OBC Ensemble: Lion King is definitely one of my favorite movies and the Broadway translation is absolute gold, I've seen it twice. And I'm absolute garbage for musicals so I knew there'd be at least one musical song on here haha 8. As Long As You're Mine by Wicked OBC: speaking of musicals 😂😂 god damn, I could talk all day about why Wicked is absolutely amazing. The book is also equally great 10/10 would recommend. Wicked is also one of the musicals I've seen most at 4 times haha my grandma and I have a pact to see it every time it tours near us haha 9. Immortals by Fall Out Boy: oh boy, hitting my middle school heart rn.... I'm definitely one of those FBR kids who grew up over the last decade listening to FOB, MCR, and P!atD. I may or may not still be that person (fun fact: I was watching Big Hero Six for the first time w all my little cousins (they're like 7-9yo) and the look of shock on their faces when I started singing this song word for word haha) 10. Someone New by Hozier: *cries and screms incoherently about Hozier for 5 minutes* One of the things I regret most in this life is missing his concert when he was playing at my uni because I could afford to go to Florence + the Machine, Hozier & Saint Motel/WtM. Now I'm just waiting forever for a new album bc all I do is listen to this album (and vinyl) on repeat

And I’m not really going to tag anyone bc I don’t really have tumblr friends per-se (let alone ten) but I will tag @trenthart3696 and @koffeecc bc I love their taste in music and it’d be neat if they did the thing

[mangosteen]

tag game oh dang

Oh daaaang I was tagged by @vodka-aunt-coran thank u emma ily

Nickname: Fi is my nickname!!! I’m also called Fififwekjgsssdfsdfeswahfkwfhkfawk, Lance, Finn, Fi... fi... fuh...... (how do you pronounce that name? sorry. alright), Slut Queen, Princess Fiona from Shrek, etc. etc.

Zodiac sign: Virgo

Height: 5′2″ d-d-d-d-dang I’m tiny

Last thing you googled: two point perspective photography (i was lookin for references bc I’m a busy art student I’m so tired help me)

Favorite music artist: (there’s a BUNCH of different ones holy fuck) Shawn Wasabi, Anamanaguchi, K.Flay, Kero Kero Bonito, she, The Orion Experience, Lullatone, Porter Robinson, Madeon, etc. BASICALLY anything that keeps me dancing and keeps my energy up

Song stuck in my head: Spicy Boyfriend by Shawn Wasabi??? I’m still not over it??? it’s STILL SO GOOD??

Last movie you watched: fuckin......... i can’t remember??? I’m gonna see Power Rangers later on tho.... because its the holidays and i have SOME free time (I say with a sketchbook in front of me ehehehehhhheeghhh)

What are you wearing right now: A hogwarts pyjama vest, leggings, and a bathrobe

Why did you choose your URL: fuck if i know, my friend my buddy my pal... I’ve had this url for like 3 or 4 years... I guess its bc its my name??? and it sounded ok???

Do you have any other blogs: I mean I have a couple of saved urls, which i MIGHT do something with if I have free time... I have my bismuth blog @relatablepicturesof-bismuth which i basically dont use rn because I barely have the time to keep up with SU, my aesthetic blog @mangosteen which I’ll probably change the url for bc ITS A GOOD URL AND DESERVES BETTER... i’ll use it for another blog ig its just too good. AND MY ART BLOG @fi-kelly

What did your last relationship teach you? i’ve never been in a serious relationship lmfao I mean I’ve had a thousand other things to deal with and a LOT of emotional growing to do back then, so i guess I was never ready and didnt really know the right people I wanted to date??? shruggo lmfao Ive HAD crushes and stuff but I always knew better bc I’d either be outed if I dated a girl and all the guys are assholes in my old college lmao but I GUESS in previous friendships? it’s okay to stand your ground and if you think someone is fucking you over chances are THEY DEFINITELY ARE AND YOU SHOULD PUNCH THEM IN THE FACE

religious or spiritual: I mean I’m kinda chill on the whole... that... I was raised as a Buddhist and the values that I were taught were GENERALLY... just be a nice person???..... I say.... literally talking about punching someone in the face....... above...... uhhhh.... I mean.... the whole be aware of you place in life and be aware of how you act towards others and understanding balance and stuff like just generally being a nice person, those values stayed w/ me? But I really dont practice so uh

Favorite color: I love ALL colours theyre ALL SO GOOD.... but if I had to choose one I’d have to default with blue because my entire goddamn room is so fucking blue. Like a... turquoise or a somewhat aqua blue

Average hours of sleep: It’s been fluctuating like hell... When I’m super busy I have to sleep like 5 hours a night but NOW ITS THE HOLIDAYS I pass out for like 10 hours of sweet unbroken sleep

Lucky number: I hate maths I’m an art student what the fuck is an algebra

Favorite characters: *THAT ONE RIHANNA GIF* (ill just do one from each series I mention bc if not i’ll be here forever) MY ORIGINAL BOY FINN....... GOD.... HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ANYTHING SO GOOD IN YOUR LIFE??? All the characters in AT are SO good tho.... I love..... There’s also Lance (wow.... I think I just have a thing abt characters being voiced by Jeremy Shada huh) I mean I gotta say Bismuth from SU because my side blog is ALL HER (even like a year prior to her reveal), Seven from Mystic Messenger, SOKKA!!!! is my BIGGEST fave from the ATLA/LOK series (tho I LOVE all of those characters tbh) ok and also he gets NO love but GERM from NITW??? is great!!! he’s kinda an outsider but he’s super chill and great.... but MAE??? AND GREGG??? AND BEA AND ANGUS AND EVERYONE FROM NITW??? SO GOOD... and if we’re gonna bring video games into it MARU FROM STARDEW VALLEY;;; my WIFE!!! I LOVE HER!!! and from TAZ recently I LOVE all the NPCs (but REN has won me over..... in the 11th hour arc.... roswell is good too..... SLOANE AND HURLEY.......) but my FAVE from the recurring tres horny boys is TAACO... and my fave recurring npc is probably carey fangbattle.... shes badass and loves her geef so much (god i wish that were me) AND I WATCHED A PLAYTHRU OF THE FIRST PHOENIX WRIGHT GAME..... i would DIE for the skye sisters...... also gumshoe,, hes gr9

ok im gonna stop bc I have like a thousand different shows and video games in my head and Im gonna.... .stop... ive typed out too much already hrhrghghhgrh

How many blankets do you sleep with: one thick af duvet and one tiny throw, im content w/ that amount of blankets (tho.... i need more pillows.....I could always use more pillows)

Dream job: *SMASHES THE WINDOW AND RUNS OUT* okay... idk... I really wanna hone my animation skills bc in many aspects im SO bad at it... but I love either writing, directing, or character designing. yeah. its a LOT of work. I know. but I am so fucking prepared my dude. I aint gonna fail this time around lmfao

Ok I am meant.... to tag...... people........ uhhhhh.... my mind is like.... super blank rn........ bc Im still so hungry.... but if anyone wants to do it, just say I tagged you!!!